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Batia Suter - Exosphere
Isbn 9789464460476
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23537
€ 28.00
Swiss-born, Amsterdam-based artist Batia Suter presents a recent project in which she deals in a humorous and indirect way with the fundamentals of sculpture. The book is comprised of reproductions of protective packaging material for fruits, vegetables, and headphones, interspersed with collected images of armour. The sense of a fossilised present offers a new perspective on the artist’s phylogenetic approach to imagery and her appreciation of unintentional beauty.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Mark Manders - All Words and One
Isbn 9789464460438
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23557
€ 36.00
This is a book about a single word: skiapod. What began as a task to select a single word from among all existing words, and to expand upon and alter the meaning and mythology of that word, soon became a fascinating journey through our human history and the strange workings of our minds. Discover how a concept can appear through different periods, crystallise in different makers’ minds, and become recorded in various media: from cave drawings to a fax, and from Malevich to Guston. Arranged as a step-by-step process, the book raises questions as well. Why do we need to create images and meaning? What do we try to grasp by creating an image of a mythical figure?
208 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Anne Geene & Arjan De Nooy - Ornithology (new edition)
Isbn 9789083359694
Publisher Blind Finch Books
Idea code 23559
€ 37.50
Anne Geene and Arjan de Nooy combine visual tools from the science of birds with the specific characteristics of photography, thereby imparting a fresh look at both. Through their pseudoscientific approach, Geene and De Nooy explore the boundaries between the two disciplines, adding a layer that is usually absent in the representation and science of birds: humour. Their classifications form comical results through creative and associative thinking, and yet they use the scientific method to also create an artistic microcosm that seems far removed from its strictly ornithological counterpart. The authors depart from the “classic” aesthetic of bird representation. This is a new, expanded edition of the eponymous title published in 2016.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Embrujada – Charms for the Living
Isbn 9789083318899
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 23533
€ 30.00
The tenth instalment in the Set Margins' series introduces work by Karen Lofgren. Full of enigmatic illustrations and objects, the book combines notes, dialogues, and annotated works, inviting readers to interlace the Canadian-born, Los Angeles-based artist’s living field work into encounters that shape a feminist and decolonial perspective. The compendium considers works from Lofgren’s practice, largely inspired by natural and organic forms and involving sculpture, installation, and works on paper, in the process delivering sculptural charms that link scientific fields to the spirit realm, while leaving space for the unknown and the unknowable.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English/Spanish
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Enough: Artists and writers on gendered violence
Isbn 9781922545169
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 23536
€ 31.85
This publication was conceived on March 15, 2021, when more than one hundred thousand people marched across Australia in a series of March 4 Justice protests calling for gender equality and justice for victims of sexual assault. While these protests were motivated by anger at the lack of response by the Australian federal government to current and historic rape allegations, they were part a larger global movement that was gathering momentum. Edited by Vikki McInnes, 'Enough: Artists and writers on gendered violence' comprises creative responses to the issues highlighted in these protests. Responses are subjective, poetic, cathartic, and as fiercely political and deeply personal as the issues they address.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Whit Stillman: Not so long ago
Isbn 9780645454772
Publisher Fireflies Press
Idea code 23539
€ 17.35
In five films, from his debut ‘Metropolitan’ (1990) through to his “Jane Austen” film, ‘Love & Friendship’ (2015), Whit Stillman has established himself as the prince of contemporary American comedy. Betting on the elegance, intelligence, and love of his characters rather than their derision, Stillman’s comedic genius lies in his brilliant, snappy dialogue and clear-cut direction, which focuses on the lives of his characters, the speed of their thoughts, and the subtlety of their emotions. Offering a range of unique perspectives on Stillman’s oeuvre, this book brings together essays by critics and filmmakers, plus archival documents, a career-spanning interview, and personal writings.
176 p, ills bw, 11 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Francis Alÿs - La dépense
Isbn 9783956794391
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23512
€ 29.00
The catalogue for Francis Alÿs's first large-scale solo museum exhibition in China at the Rockbund Art Museum provides an insightful and critical look into Alÿs's practices. With his acute poetic and imaginative powers of perception, Alÿs raises questions about anthropology and geopolitics, creating works from his close observations of everyday life. The exhibition's title, "La dépense," which translates to "consumption," references French philosopher Georges Bataille's writings on the general economy and the "paradox of utility." As Yuko Hasegawa notes: "In a China transformed by a fast-paced transition to capitalism and the efficiencies of technology, excessively 'non-productive consumption' (dépense improductive) is just as important in human activity as productive consumption." La dépense presents close to 1300 works, including drafts, videos, sketches, paintings, drawings, and other preparatory works.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English/Chinese
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The Internet Does Not Exist (e-flux journal reprint)
Isbn 9783956791307
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23554
€ 12.00
The internet does not exist. Maybe it did exist only a short time ago, but now it only remains as a blur, a cloud, a friend, a deadline, a redirect, or a 404. If it ever existed, we couldn't see it. Because it has no shape. It has no face, just this name that describes everything and nothing at the same time. Yet we are still trying to climb onboard, to get inside, to be part of the network, to get in on the language game, to show up on searches, to appear to exist. But we will never get inside of something that isn’t there. All this time we’ve been bemoaning the death of any critical outside position, we should have taken a good look at information networks. Just try to get in. You can’t. Networks are all edges, as Bruno Latour points out. We thought there were windows but actually they’re mirrors. And in the meantime we are being faced with more and more—not just information, but the world itself.
316 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Navigation Beyond Vision
Isbn 9783956795657
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23552
€ 18.00
Only a few weeks prior to his untimely death in 2014, Harun Farocki briefly referred to navigation as a contemporary challenge to montage – editing distinct sections of film into a continuous sequence – as the dominant paradigm of techno-political visuality. For Farocki, the computer-animated, navigable images that constitute the 21st century’s “ruling class of images” call for new tools of analysis, prompting him to ask: How does the shift from montage to navigation alter the way images operate as models of political action and modes of political intervention? With contributions from Ramon Amaro, James Bridle, Maïté Chénière, Kodwo Eshun, Anselm Franke, Jennifer Gabrys, Tom Holert, Inhabitants, Doreen Mende, Matteo Pasquinelli, Laura Lo Presti, Patricia Reed, Nikolay Smirnov, Hito Steyerl, Oraib Toukan, and Brian Kuan Wood.
230 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Jenny Grettve - Abody Abode
Isbn 9789151990132
Publisher Plastic Letters Press
Idea code 23521
€ 22.00
Swedish architect, artist, and systems change designer Jenny Grettve’s ‘Abody Abode’ is a chronicle of modern womanhood, a collection of stories that are both memories of emotions and moments. It consists of numerous descriptive vignettes paired with architectural drawings that represent the spaces inside individuals. We are encouraged to consider how we as people construct them, move through them, and allow them to protect us. Grettve’s multidisciplinary practice focuses on care, feminism, and futures, and the ways these move creative fields like philosophy, shared spaces, rethinking object design, art installations, economic futures, and urban architecture.
104 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Drift: Art and Dark Matter
Isbn 9783947858149
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 23504
€ 31.90
What do we desire from the imperceptible? Four artists were invited to travel deep underground to SNOLAB to think with dark matter, an invisible phenomenon that has a gravitational effect on everything. Without this “dark” matter, galaxies would fly apart, according to observational data in astroparticle physics. Given the contours of such a “known unknown,” Nadia Lichtig, Josefa Ntjam, Anne Riley, and Jol Thoms reflect on the how and why of physics and art as interrelating practices. The artists’ widely varied and challenging responses include expressions of new kinds of sensitivity and poetic freedom, questions about the task of knowledge, and cartographies of entangled social and ecological relations.
240 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Is this the way the universe works? (555 Verses / 77 Verses)
Isbn 9789083318882
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 23508
€ 20.00
This book contains performative ‘tanrenga’ poems, intended to be read out loud. A ‘tanrenga’ appears similar to a ‘tanka’, a form of five-lined Japanese poetry, but there are some differences. The poem is a conversation between what is essentially a three-line haiku and a two-line verse written by another writer in response, in this case British artist and curator Gavin Wade and poet Paul Conneally. The ‘tanrenga’ form was popular in Japan from the start of the Heian period until the end of cloistered rule, and would sometimes appear in imperial anthologies of ‘waka’, which it closely resembles. This collection includes images by James Langdon, based on photographs by Gavin Wade.
400 p, ills colour & bw, 10 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Alexandra Leykauf - Alexandra Leykauf
Isbn 9789464460452
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23519
€ 30.00
Berlin-based artist Alexandra Leykauf appropriates the gender-oriented or feminine cultural gaze via the medium of photography, playing with varying degrees of appropriation in order to reveal the superficiality of images. She often deconstructs different aspects of photography and cinema, in turn exposing the complexity inherent to the construction of images. This book presents an overview of Leykauf’s practice through three exhibitions – Both Sides Now (2020), Animus (2021), What We Do in the Shadows (2022) – her series ‘Stick People’ and ‘Faces’, and a number of video works. Texts by the artist and Garance Chabert illuminate the connections between these works.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Tobias Rehberger - If You Don't Use Your Eyes to See, You Will Use Them to Cry
Isbn 9783956794407
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23513
€ 29.00
This publication features a rich display of Tobias Rehberger's works in the exhibition "I Don't Know the Mandate of Heaven" at the Rockbund Art Museum (RAM), taking the form of a fully functioning butcher shop serving food and drink, an assembly of ikebana-like flower arrangements, an inauthentic Japanese-style teahouse serving instant tea, a bar with irregular opening hours, subway posters across the city, malfunctioning signage, and a panoramic tableau of pixelated larger-than-life-sized popstars. This book can also capture the culinary lens conceived by Chef Blake Thornley of the OHA Group and mysterious images that float between fiction and reality created by Shanghai-based photographer Xiaopeng Yuan. Through an assortment of elements and visual transduction, the image and text in this book unravel from one another while dovetailing serendipitously elsewhere. In that case, this book extends the exhibition's original boundaries and offers different ways of viewing.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 25 cm, hb, English/Chinese
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Philippe Parreno - Synchronicity
Isbn 9783956794360
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code
€ 29.00
The exhibition "Synchronicity," Philippe Parreno's first solo show in mainland China, is dedicated to Xavier Douroux, director and co-founder of the art center Le Consortium in Dijon, whose influence on Parreno's career cannot be overstated. Over the past twenty years, Parreno has radically redefined the exhibition-visiting experience by exploring its possibilities as a medium in its own right. The exhibition has altered the building's current existence through an unexpected use of time, space, light, and sound to become a semi-automated puppet, a perpetual motion of events in which Parreno subverts the conventions of the gallery space. Parreno guides visitors through a constantly evolving area by manipulating light, shadow, and duration. The catalogue testifies, with a rich collection of photos, the involvement of visitors in this interaction between the artist's work and the architectural structure of the museum.
196 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English/Chinese
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Prem Sahib – That Fire Over There
Isbn 9781912570188
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 23527
€ 26.75
That Fire Over There takes fire as a metaphor for ideas around queer attachment, proximity, and personal and collective transformation. It also excavates the history of a real fire which in 1981 destroyed the Hambrough Tavern – a contested site symbolic of provocation and conflict against far-right groups in Southall, west London, where Prem Sahib grew up. A rich body of images – documenting artworks which explore gay cruising, selected from family photo collections, and displaying ephemera from the archive of Prem Sahib’s uncle Kamaljit Sahib, a notable activist in Southall of the 1980s and 90s – combines with extracts from a dream diary and exchanges with family members. Added to this are newly commissioned texts and correspondence by Sita Balani, Milovan Farronato, Reba Maybury and Ashkan Sepahvand, engaging with emotional themes such as grief, shame and loss. Prem Sahib’s own writing makes connections between interlocutors and carves out a space for otherwise disparate material to coexist, all in the pursuit of questioning ideas around freedom, sexuality, and intergenerational experiences of place and politics.
240 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Vampires in Space
Isbn 9783956796562
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23501
€ 26.00
Exhibition catalogue of Pedro Neves Marques‘s solo project ‘Vampires in Space’ at the Portuguese Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2022.“In space it’s always night.” A family of vampires travels through space, carrying life to a faraway planet. Alone, they recall their past, offering an open-ended narrative about the role of fiction in our lives, with a special care for transgender experiences. This book includes an interview, film scripts and poetry by Neves Marques, curatorial texts by João Mourão, Luís Silva, alongside visual documentation and other contributions by Manuela Moscoso and Filipa Ramos.
216 p, ills bw, 19 x 31 cm, hb, English/Portuguese
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Re: Natur
Isbn 9783907262429
Publisher Edition Clandestin
Idea code 23506
€ 37.65
‘Re:Natur’ is an interdisciplinary art project involving various artists, cultural workers, and scientists from Switzerland and Germany. Their contributions combine to form a kind of mycelium, or the entirety of the root-like structure of a fungus. In everyday language, only the fruiting body is referred to as a “mushroom”. But the actual fungus is this subterranean network of cells. In this project, a thought space with exchange potential is opened through photography, drawing, painting, nature, and science. Its aim is the formation of an unplanned symbiosis of the various disciplines (cultural anthropology, botany, microbiology, and fine arts) that address nature-human encounters.
146 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 28 cm, pb, German/English
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Theatre of the Street - Advertising and Window Display within the Context of Modernism, 1918-1938
Isbn 9788088308430
Publisher Artmap & Academy Arts, Arch. & Design Prague
Idea code 23495
€ 56.15
The metaphor “theatre of the street” was conceived by theoretician Karel Teige to describe the vivant and dynamic audio-visual hustle and bustle typical for city centres in 1920’s. He did not mean only the omnipresent traffic, but also the urban iconography, composed of shop signs and portals, illuminated window displays, façade advertisements, and flashing neon signs. The fleeting “theatre of the street” is a key theme for understanding the Modernist style of the Interwar period, yet it has rarely been explored in expert studies. This book searches for common aspects of commerce and art; the “low” and the “high”; the pop-culture, commercial advertisement, and independent artistic creation. The publication contains five expert studies, which present advertisement practices in the context of fine art, architecture, photography, film, and new technologies appearing with the electrification of towns and cities.
372 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Czech/English
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On Collecting Artists' Books | The Liliana Dematteis Collection at the Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Isbn 9788875708443
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 23496
€ 35.35
In 2018, the Turin gallerist Liliana Dematteis decided to entrust her precious collection of artists' books to the Thomas J. Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The volume 'On collecting artists' books' pays homage to this important collection, born from Dematteis' experience as a scholar, publisher, and director of the Martano Gallery. It proposes a comparison between Italian and American artists who were ingaged in this practice, between the 1960s and the '70s. Indeed, in both countries different artistic movements have seen in this commonly used object not only an alternative and effective vehicle of content, but also a stimulating ground for experimentation. This selection of volumes, which compares some of the most emblematic books of Arte Povera, Minimal art, Performance art, Fluxus and Visual Poetry, is edited by Melania Gazzotti, and is introduced by texts by Liliana Dematteis, Giorgio Di Domenico, Ken Soehner, and Tony White.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Walking in Cinematic Close-Ups
Isbn 9783947858491
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 23503
€ 30.80
DAF, which stands for Dynamische Akustische Forschung (Dynamic Acoustic Research), is a free collective that first emerged from a class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and Munich. Its members explore contemporary and historical sound practices that exist beyond purely musical contexts. For DAF, sound is an unstable material, which allows it to be as much sculptural as it is time-based. This book is a collection of previous projects as well as a composition in its own right. It was put together to encourage the appreciation of sound as an exploration of reality from various social, personal, and cultural perspectives. The reality of sound is, after all, everything that reflects and bounces off, and it is constructed and filtered by people and objects as well as by people in relation, both to each other as well as to objects. Thus, sound is not what we think it is, but what we live through and what lives through us.
234 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Reto Weber Drummin'
Isbn 9783907262412
Publisher Edition Clandestin
Idea code 23505
€ 52.70
Marking his 70th birthday, Swiss percussionist Reto Weber takes a look back at a career spanning five decades. Featuring more than 300 photographs and images of memorabilia and a foreword by prominent contemporaries, this retrospective volume also offers accounts of important events and anecdotes from Weber’s life as a musician in his own words. In addition, a biographical outline, complete discography, and an artistic intervention by the artist couple M.S. Bastian and Isabelle L. complete the textual and visual part of the book. Weber, who began drumming at age fourteen and went on to join various beat, blues, and jazz formations, studied contemporary percussion in Basel.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, hb, German/English
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