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Bart Lodewijks New Neighbours / Nieuwe buren
Isbn 9789464460629
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 24316
€ 25.00
Two years ago, Dutch visual artist Bart Lodewijks received a curious phone call from someone wanting to know if he would be interested in making his signature chalk drawings in Belgium’s newest prison. He arrived to find it is nothing but a construction site, so the first drawings appeared along the street where the prison would be located. He got acquainted with the locals – a landlord, the parcel delivery guy, an orange tomcat – and spoke with residents about the imminent changes in their neighbourhood. More than a year later, the first inmates arrived and Lodewijks ventured inside the prison with them. This book documents the project in its strange and wonderful entirety.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Archival Textures - Amplifying
Isbn 9789083419428
Publisher Archival Textures
Idea code 24331
€ 18.00
The book 'Amplifying' brings together written manifestations that trace the beginnings of Black feminism in the Netherlands. Amplifying means giving credit to, mentioning, over and over, and supporting the circulation of sources and authors that are formative for our thinking and practices. In the early 1980s, the political term “black” (zwart in Dutch) was introduced in the Netherlands to build alliances between women from different diasporic communities, who were faced with racism in their everyday lives. Archival materials featured in this book include the original manuscript of the essay “Survivors: Portrait of the Group Sister Outsider” (1984), written by Gloria Wekker in collaboration with the Black lesbian literary group Sister Outsider, the seminal speech Statement of the Black Women’s Group (1983) by Julia da Lima, a contextualizing interview with Tineke E. Jansen and Mo Salomon (1984), excerpts from the book launch of Philomena Essed’s Everyday Racism (1984), and short texts authored by other Black feminist groups in the Netherlands, such as Zwarte Vrouwen & Racisme, Flamboyant, Ashanti, and Groep Zwarte Vrouwen Nijmegen.
208 p, ills bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Archival Textures - (Re)claiming
Isbn 9789083419435
Publisher Archival Textures
Idea code 24327
€ 18.00
The book (Re)claiming presents ways in which various queer and feminist communities and initiatives in the Netherlands have (re)claimed the triangle—along with other symbols, words and stories—and in doing so take up an empowering position in a hostile society. Besides a collection of buttons, archival materials featured in this book include short statements and flyers by queer groups such as SUHO, Sjalhomo, Roze Front, Roze Driehoek, Roze Gebaar, Van Doofpot tot Mankepoot, Interpot/ILIS, Lesbisch Archief Amsterdam, Strange Fruit Vrouwen and Groep Zwarte Vrouwen Nijmegen, as well as a text by Karin Daan, the designer of the Homomonument in Amsterdam. With this selection, this book brings together queer, trans, crip, feminist, Jewish and Black perspectives on (re)claiming as an activist strategy.Most of these materials were researched at IHLIA LGBTI Heritage in Amsterdam, with additions found at the International Institute of Social History and the International Archive for the Women’s Movement (IAV-Atria) in Amsterdam, and LAN Lesbisch Archief Nijmegen.
184 p, ills bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Archival Textures - Posting
Isbn 9789083419442
Publisher Archival Textures
Idea code 24328
€ 18.00
The book Posting brings together a selection of feminist posters from Dutch archives to reflect on posting as an activist strategy, holding the potential to create counter-publics to mainstream culture and to fight against the erasure, exoticization, or tokenism of bodies and experiences that deviate from normative preconceptions. As is the case for many professions, in the history of Dutch graphic design the absence of women, non-binary, queer, Black designers is striking. This doesn’t only point back to systematic processes of exclusion in the first place, but also to the biases at play regarding whose work is remembered and archived. While efforts have been made to add forgotten names to the existing canon, the many posters, flyers and other printed matter shelved in queer and feminist archives remind us to question the notion of single authorship altogether and instead study graphic design as a decisively collaborative and transdisciplinary practice, which is especially true for community-led and volunteer-based projects. The posters featured in this book point to this rich landscape of feminist organizing, and were found at the International Institute of Social History and the International Archive for the Women’s Movement (IAV-Atria) in Amsterdam.
144 p, ills bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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See All This 34: Lidewij Edelkoort - The Wardrobe as Art Collection
Isbn 24683981
Publisher See All This
Idea code 24334
€ 19.95
The provocative coat featured on the cover conceals a special issue about clothes, how they behave, and how they move us. Guest curator and trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort lends her visionary gaze to the issue’s content. Discover how being overdressed is a social dilemma and how moving from one colour to another is an almost geographical choice, how textiles need to be revitalised and venerated, and how 20th-century art is influencing 21st-century fashion design, with a focus on collage and sculptural shapes. Featured are trends researcher Meryem Laghmari, design consultant Philip Fimmano, interior designer Rozemarijn de Witte, artist Marisol, and more.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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What Can Theatre Do
Isbn 9788899058418
Publisher Bruno
Idea code 24369
€ 26.90
At a time when the relation between art and society is under permanent scrutiny, the utterance What can theatre do serves as an open invitation for artists and thinkers alike to reimagine the potential agency of the performing arts. The formulation of this sentence is both ambitious and ambiguous since the affirmative or interrogatory status remains undefined. The intonation of the sentence can provide both a sense of hope and belonging or a nihilist sensation of powerlessness. It could provide a resource for research development and analytic inquiries, but could also serve as a suggestion to trigger political action. What Can Theatre Do tries to explore the idea of a book as a complex performative apparatus that can generate a space within which art and theory, and therefore also strategies of reality-making and of fiction-making, can entangle and affect one another, creating possibilities for the emergence of the not yet imagined.
240 p, ills bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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If Need Be
Isbn 9789083375618
Publisher Building Fictions
Idea code 24354
€ 40.00
If Need Be presents a constellation of stories about water scarcity in the arid regions of Central Asia, ancient Persia, and the American Great Plains. Artist duo Pejvak strings together a series of hallucinatory events involving artificial glaciers, dams and other human attempts to bring water under control. Giving equal weight to gossip, legend and historical fact, Pejvak takes the role of an unreliable narrator, situating the struggle for water within the struggle for the historical record. This publication was made as a continuation of If Need Be, an exhibition by Pejvak at Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium (12.06. – 22.08.2021). The exhibition was curated by Tim Roerig. Pejvak is the long-term collaboration between Felix Kalmenson and Rouzbeh Akhbari since 2014. Through their multivalent, intuitive approach to research and living they find themselves in a convergence and entanglement with like-minded collaborators, histories and various geographies.
316 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn
Isbn 9781914236419
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 24264
€ 17.60
Contradictions (both real and apparent), oppositions, enigmas, provocations, challenges—this is the kind of material that makes a life, and is the kind of material that, in fiction, one is never quite sure of. With Pretty Ugly, Kirsty Gunn reminds us again that she is a master of just such material, presenting ambiguity and complication as the essence of the storyteller’s endeavour.The sheer force of life that Gunn is able to load these stories up with is both testament to her unrivalled skill and an exercise in what she describes as ‘reading and writing ugly’, in order to pursue the deeper truths that lie at the heart of both the human imagination and human rationality. So here we have all the strange and seemingly impossible dualities that make up real life—and pretty ugly it can be, as well as beautiful, hopeful, bleak, difficult, exhilarating. But never, ever dull.
218 p, no ills, 13 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Ella Frears - Goodlord, an email
Isbn 9781914236426
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code
€ 18.85
Taking the form of one long email addressed to an estate agent, Goodlord is a fictional memoir of habitation, a genre-defying novelistic text that beautifully evokes the people and places of our lives——the spaces of work, those that may or may not be ‘home’, sites of trauma and ecstasy. Showing all the control of voice one would expect from a poet of her rare skill, Ella Frears has created a book that is as funny as it is harrowing, and beautifully skewers the contemporary housing crisis while questioning the fundamental desires, drivers and disappointments that lie at the heart of our obsession with ‘property’. Ella Frears is a poet and artist based in London.
216 p, no ills, 15 x 22 cm, hb, English
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Rheim Alkadhi Majnoon Field Guide
Isbn 9783949973208
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 24336
€ 30.65
The Majnoon oil field lies in southern Iraq. It is one of the richest oil fields in the world. Majnoon also stands for the violence and the state of mind that survives the violence. Interdisciplinary artist Rheim Alkadhi’s examination of the area is not a field guide in any customary sense. Rather, this monograph of her project unfolds alongside a search for emancipatory practice across multiple mediums. The volume is divided into five parts, preceded by maps and legends. Just as any map is appended by its legends, Alkadhi rewrites them from the perspective of dismantling. Her work opens up diverse perspectives on borders, migration, gender, and intimacy in a poetic manner.
308 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Kehinde Wiley – A Maze of Power
Isbn 9782917515563
Publisher Templon
Idea code 24293
€ 30.10
Kehinde Wiley, whose work reinterprets pictorial representations of power and prestige through the tradition of portrait painting, began to question the meaning of presidential leadership after the election of Barack Obama. In 2012, he imagined an unprecedented series dedicated to African heads of state. For the next ten years, he travelled the continent to meet them. With each of them, he has explored the history of aristocratic, royal and military portraiture in 17th- 18th- and 19th-century Europe, to create a composition that illustrates each leader's singular view of what it means to be a contemporary African leader. In September 2023, the series A Maze of Power was exhibited for the first time at musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac.
82 p, ills colour, 30 x 30 cm, hb, French/English
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Marijn van Kreij - Pictorial Content?
Isbn 9789464460605
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 24323
€ 35.00
Appearing in conjunction with an exhibition at De Pont museum in Tilburg, this volume is somewhere between an artist’s book and an overview catalogue of recent work, bringing together paintings on paper, drawings, and collages from the past decade. Processes of appropriation and repetition characterise the oeuvre of Marijn van Kreij. He often combines manually copied artworks and illustrations from children’s books with cut-out snippets of text, or applies loosely painted brushstrokes to pages from art catalogues and magazines. Through this approach, the artist seeks to give iconic and lesser-known works of art from the 20th century a new place and form in the here and now.
204 p, ills colour, 21 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Thierry De Cordier – Passe-montagne
Isbn 9789491245350
Publisher Xavier Hufkens
Idea code 24239
€ 41.60
An exhibition catalogue showcasing previously unseen works spanning from 1983 to 2023, ‘Passe-montagne’ offers insight into the practice of Thierry De Cordier, who might best be described as a non-academic thinker who makes things. His oeuvre includes photographs, drawings, placards, paintings, sculptures, assemblages, and bricolages. These ‘objects’ and ‘non-objects’, as he calls them, can be viewed as representations of a philosophy expressed in images. De Cordier’s worldview leans heavily towards the concept of absurdism, which describes the futility of searching for significance in an incomprehensible universe, devoid of either God or meaning.
148 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Magali Reus – Red Roses
Isbn 9789462088511
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24227
€ 29.95
London-based artist Magali Reus, winner of the Prix de Rome 2015, has been creating hyper-realistic sculptures for more than a decade. She represents, redefines, enlarges, and deforms everyday objects in various materials and using surprising combinations of digital, manual, and industrial processes. Her work explores our relationship with utilitarian objects and the inextricable context of consumer society. The sculptures appear functional, yet avoid explicitly revealing what their function actually is. Through her artistic investigation into objects, Reus is seeking a strategy to critically interrogate the production and consumption processes of our society.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Archival Textures - Tuning In: Darimana?
Isbn 9789083419411
Publisher Archival Textures
Idea code 24329
€ 18.00
The book Tuning in: Darimana? revolves around a collection of 70 tapes with voices of Indonesian-Chinese women—an audio archive which finds its origins 40 years ago in Jakarta, Indonesia. When revisiting these tapes made by Tineke E. Jansen between 1980 and 1995, the act of attentive listening to the oral accounts of women’s experiences is central: Audio-recording allows “herstories” to be played back. On Tineke’s audio recordings, Indonesian-Chinese women talk about their migration to the Netherlands in the ’50s and ’60s, about family, upbringing, and their experience with racism. Tamara Hartman speaks with Tineke, who shares her views on oral history, Black feminism in the Netherlands, and migration. Their conversation is framed by two archival texts which draw on the recorded stories: A reprint of an article published in feminist magazine LOVER (1991) and a text that was once orally presented, but never published, titled “Herlina Yang Tercinta” (1994). Both texts derive from the collection of transcripts, notes, academic papers and pictures that are part of the archive. The book is a testament to one of the first attempts to tune in to Indonesian-Chinese women’s voices that rarely surface in public discourse.
120 p, ills bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Trevor Paglen Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations
Isbn 9783956795831
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24339
€ 15.00
How do machines look at images? To ask such a question is to observe the degree to which images today are increasingly produced by machines for machines. Taking Trevor Paglen's series “Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations” as a starting point for an analysis of this and other questions, this volume explores the role of algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in these processes. More specifically, it examines Paglen's research methods and the extent to which they encourage the viewer to think from within such apparatuses rather than merely reflect upon them. Can, we will ask, the black-box-like technologies that produce such images be negotiated with or, indeed, modulated by methods of envisioning/engaging with their operative logic? How can we, if at all, hold the post-digital, machine-produced image to account?
168 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Ola Vasiljeva - Ghost Town
Isbn 9789464460513
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 24275
€ 35.00
‘Ghost Town’ is the first comprehensive overview of Ola Vasiljeva's practice between 2008 and 2023, and (re)collects the fragments, shapes, and thoughts that have been (re)configured and (re)presented throughout the artist’s multifaceted constellations. It consists of three intertwined sections: exhibitions, projects by the Oceans Academy of Arts (OAOA, an art collective Vasiljeva founded in 2008), and “storage”. The latter is a cross between an index, an archive, and a collection, and reproduces some of the separate elements which have featured in the Amsterdam-based artist’s projects over the years, from installations to sculptural works and drawings. Co-published with Vleeshal, Middelburg.
324 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Switched On – The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women
Isbn 9783000777523
Publisher Contingent Sounds
Idea code 24241
€ 30.10
The official history of 20th-century avant-garde electronic music has been predominantly narrated from the point of view of Anglo-American and Western European experiences and largely remained focused on its male protagonists. To destabilize this history, this editorial project presents a collection of perspectives, essays, interviews, archival photos, and work reviews centered on the early electronic music production by Latin American female creators, who were active from the 1960s to the 1980s. The book also brings us closer to the work of a new generation of researchers who have focused on offering a non-canonical reading of the history of music and technology in Latin America. The publication is the record of a new vision, an account of the condition of being a woman in the field of music technology at a time when this was a predominantly masculine domain.
208 p, ills bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Dale Frank, Artist. Artworks 2006–2023
Isbn 9781922545275
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24619
€ 144.35
Dale Frank’s paintings are an experiment in raw chemistry, time, and motion. Perhaps the most prolific, radical, and singular Australian artist of his generation, Frank’s work – made by pouring and layering varnish over prolonged periods – embodies the transgressive power of art-making. It is alchemy and abstraction in one turbulent, bubbling, mirror-slick concoction; intensely deliberate, but searing with a kind of dirt under-your-fingernails psychedelic energy. The book Dale Frank, Artist. Artworks 2006–2023 features an immense selection of key works produced over the past seventeen years.
408 p, ills colour & bw, 28 x 37 cm, hb, English
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New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness
Isbn 9781953441102
Publisher New Documents
Idea code 24281
€ 35.00
Over the years 1919–20, the celebrated medical scientist and doctor Carl Julius Salomonsen began giving public lectures and publishing pamphlets regarding a new “epidemic” that had begun to affect the European populace: the increasing ubiquity of modernist art. In a 1919 pamphlet titled New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness, he wrote: “We stand, at this moment, before a movement in art which is psychopathic in character, and whose victorious journey through all countries is probably caused by the same spiritual disease that gave the older, religious spiritual epidemic such a powerful spread.” This pamphlet and the accompanying talks were countered by a retaliatory pamphlet published by members of Grønningen, a Copenhagen modernist painters group, to which Salomonsen responded with a further pamphlet. Translated into English for the first time by literary theorist Andrew Hodgson, the entire altercation is gathered in this book, documenting one of the earliest rejections of modernist art.
126 p, ills bw, 19 x 28 cm, hb, English
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The Infinite Library: Books 1–50
Isbn 9781953441010
Publisher New Documents
Idea code 24282
€ 55.00
Begun in 2007 by artists Daniel Gustav Cramer and Haris Epaminonda, The Infinite Library is composed of an archive of over 100 books made through the recombination of pages from one or more found publications. Each book is dismantled, modified, and reorganized. Pictures and pages—momentarily out of order—are brought together to shape yet another whole. The concept for each new volume develops gradually, starting from the content of the original book and the associations that unfold in the process of making. This publication fully catalogues the first 50 books in the series, and contains over 1600 photographic illustrations, 20 color inserted sheets, and a contextualizing essay by writer Brian Dillon presented in both English and German translations.
228 p, ills bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Lucy Lippard - I See / You Mean
Isbn 9781953441034
Publisher New Documents
Idea code 24280
€ 30.00
I See / You Mean is an experimental novel about mirrors, maps, relationships, the ocean, elusive success, and possible happiness. Through a collage of verbal photographs, overheard dialogue, sexual encounters, found material, and self identification devices (astrology, the I Ching, palmistry, Tarot), it charts from past to future the changing currents between two women and two men: a writer, a model/stockbroker/maybe dictator, a photographer, and an actor. A lot happens between the lines. Art critic Lucy Lippard wrote this novel in 1970 and became a feminist in the process: “I started writing and realized I was ashamed to be a woman. Then I had to find out why. Then I got very angry. The fragmented visual form came out of contemporary art and the conflicting emotions of 1960s political confrontation; they suggested a new way to put things back together—an open-ended, female way that didn’t pretend conclusions.”
222 p, no ills, 14 x 22 cm, hb, English
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Ayoung Kim - Synthetic Storyteller
Isbn 9791198561701
Publisher The Floorplan
Idea code 24268
€ 30.80
The first comprehensive monograph on the exploratory practice of visual and media artist Ayoung Kim presents a selection of artworks produced between 2007 and 2022 through images and installation views, together with contributions from critical voices. Kim weaves reality anew through hybrid narratives, integrating geopolitics, mythology, technology, and futuristic iconography. Her synthesised narratives trigger far-reaching and retroactive speculation, connecting biopolitics and border controls, geological and virtual memories, and ancestral origins and imminent futures in the forms of video, virtual reality (VR), game simulation, sonic fiction, diagrams, and texts.
442 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, Korean/English
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Ants walk two ways
Isbn 9783949973215
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 24305
€ 25.55
A collective publication resulting from a research project led by Sophie Orlando and Katrin Ströbel at the Villa Arson in Nice (2014–2023), this book takes as its starting point the way in which current geopolitical, economic, and social changes induce a renewal and adjustment of artistic strategies. By investing in an intersectional perspective, contextual thinking, and feminist, queer, and postcolonial thinking, it reveals how a body of collective, cross-disciplinary, and ephemeral practices that share collaborative and educational aspects was set in motion, giving rise to a prolific exchange between the textual and visual forms of the multiple authors and artists involved.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English/French
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But how does it change the price of tomatoes in the market?
Isbn 9783949973314
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 24314
€ 15.30
In 2021, seven fellows of the postgraduate programme at the Berlin University of the Arts gathered in despair over the institution’s failings. This book looks at what happens next. It emerges from an experimental process of dialogue and documentation, tackling questions about globalised art production and the dissemination of knowledge while contributing to the debate on socially engaged art. Moreover, it provides a point of reference for those artists who pursue their work in the face of deadlocked institutions which uphold the status quo despite claiming the opposite. While recognising that vulnerability and conflict accompany any such process, it charts possible paths beyond.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Christian Marclay – Telephones
Isbn 9788412749304
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 24261
€ 26.90
Christian Marclay’s ‘Telephones’ (1995) was a precursor to the video collages he would produce later, such as ‘Crossfire’ (2007), ‘The Clock’ (2010), and ‘Doors’ (2022). This publication takes the earlier moving image work – where scenes were sampled from movies in VHS format rented at video stores and edited into a seven-minute montage – and adapts it into book form. Based in our collective memory of cinema, the original video’s structure revealed a clash of technologies, behavioural patterns, sound effects, and cultural references associated with audio and visual communication. Almost 30 years later, its relevance seems to have grown rather than diminished.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 15 cm, hb, English
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Open Mouths by Sharan Hunjan
Isbn 9781914236402
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 24263
€ 13.80
In Open Mouths Sharan Hunjan presents a vision of a world simultaneously familiar and strikingly strange. The quotidian, the domestic, the commonplace are interrogated and manipulated through the poet’s eye for detail, linguistic sense of play and restless imaginative and philosophical impulses. The shortcomings of language, the gulf between words and meaning, between experience and description, the space between translation, between places, between generations—these are the problems with which Hunjan grapples.Full of seemingly quiet, yet startlingly profound thought, razor-sharp wordplay, raw emotion and dazzling image and phrase-making, Open Mouths marks the emergence of another stellar talent from the 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE stable.
68 p, no ills, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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A New Concise Reference Dictionary and Glossary of Usage Terms and Subjects in Contemporary Art
Isbn 9780957557338
Publisher Sorika
Idea code
€ 14.60
Between 2010, and 2013 ArtReview magazine published twenty-six columns of Brown’s Dictionary, an A-Z of art and the art world. Brown’s approach was to engage with contemporary art according to its own specifications: to be somewhat deranged, certainly excessive, and – very occasionally – meaningful.
122 p, ills colour & bw, 10 x 16 cm, pb, English
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The Aquarium is a Listening Glass
Isbn 9791280336187
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 24211
€ 19.35
When used as a listening instrument, a glass is no longer a mere container. By amplifying sounds and voices through a surface, it becomes a conduit between two seemingly distant environments. In 'The Aquarium is a Listening Glass', nine short, non-linear stories – set amid scientific archives, underwater research stations, natural history museums, national aquaria and oceanic infrastructure – evoke the glass as a listening device to present singular relationships between humans and fish that would otherwise go unheard.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 10 x 15 cm, pb, English
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The Pleasures We Choose
Isbn 9783947858590
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 24214
€ 24.70
The freedom to pursue pleasure is not afforded to all. Many are conditioned to labour on behalf of causes assumed to be more purposeful or fruitful than art in order to keep the world turning. Art is often called an act of indulgence, but never a matter of necessity; only if we work hard enough to afford these leisurely pursuits are we deserving of their affordances. But what if our bodies need art? This book leans into the concept of “access architecture”, presented in the eponymous exhibition in the Pavilion of Finland at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice. Like a handbook, it can be read in relation to the exhibition, but it also functions as an invitation for all those who are interested.
192 p, ills colour, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Mercedes Azpilicueta – Bestiary of Tonguelets | Processing Process
Isbn 9783947858521
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 24215
€ 31.90
Mercedes Azpilicueta’s expansive project, 'Bestiary of Tonguelets' was initiated with curator Virginie Bobi and unfolds as the artist’s yet largest ongoing endeavour. Rooted in a script for an unrealized performance, the project employs local, obsolete knowledges, “neobarroso” poems, and failed translations to craft a grotesque choir of characters honoring chaos and excess. Azpilicueta pays homage to pre-modern knowledge practices disseminated among women, preceding suppression by capitalism, religion, and modern medicine. Inspired by encounters in Paris, Madrid’s Botanical Garden, and Bolzano’s magical forests, the project weaves a new embodied cartography through storytelling, fables, and ancient rituals.
204 p, ills colour, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Alice Walter – The Medium
Isbn 9781912570218
Publisher Book Works
Idea code
€ 17.35
The Medium is an alchemical novel, shimmering with insight from the depths of a black lake. To read it is to be submerged in a stream of consciousness populated by uninvited voices from the underworld. Animated, urgent, and brutally propulsive, this cacophony of competing narratives begins to upset the boundary between the living and the dead. Alice Walter is an artist, writer and medium – living and working in the UK. Her practice combines collage, psychosexual sculpture, VHS and shamanism. Through these disciplines, Alice creates surreal and sensory spaces that open channels for the unseen.
128 p, no ills, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Roy Claire Potter – The Wastes
Isbn 9781912570201
Publisher Book Works
Idea code
€ 17.35
After the death of her mother a woman decides to visit a familiar strip of rural upland, darkly identified on the South Pennines Ordinance Survey map as: The Waste. As she moves between trains, shunted by public encounters and haunted by past bar jobs, damp bedsits and a press shot of Vanessa Redgrave smoking in the bath, found slipped between the pages of her mother’s diary, the threshold between her past, present and future self dissolves. Fringe images she has neither designed nor authored begin to steer her toward grid reference 3499, where underfoot the semi-solid mud turns with worms and ants.
178 p, ills bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Maaike Schoorel – Unsung Eve
Isbn 9789462088689
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code
€ 29.95
‘Unsung Eve’ documents Dutch artist Maaike Schoorel’s contemplation of her own work in relation to the historical collection of one of the oldest museums of the Netherlands: the Willet-Holthuysen House. Through paintings, collages, drawings, and objects, Schoorel explores and reimagines the old mansion’s history, its collection, and the story of its founder, Louisa Holthuysen. This book, designed by Goda Budvytytė, presents artworks created specifically within the context of the museum and includes a roundtable discussion which brings together a diverse, international group of critical thinkers to deliberate on feminism, historical collections, and their impact on art and society today.
86 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Caspar Berger – Likeness
Isbn 9789462088559
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code
€ 39.95
The work of Dutch visual artist Caspar Berger (b. 1965) idiosyncratically combines art historical aesthetics, traditional craftsmanship and advanced technology. Much of his visual language stems from the Italian Renaissance, inspired by Michelangelo and Cellini. Berger builds his oeuvre around the theme of identity and does not hesitate to question contemporary social and political issues. The resulting works of art evoke both recognition and wonder, and invite reflection.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, hb, English
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