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Batia Suter – La Nonpareille / The Incomparable
Isbn 9789464460858
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 250610
€ 34.00
‘La Nonpareille’ expands on Batia Suter’s site-specific installation at TU Delft, in which she engaged with an archive of glass slides from its library. Originally used between 1900 and 1960 for lectures in Mechanical Technology, these visibly worn plates document machines, industrial materials, and production processes during a period of increasing mechanisation. Suter reworks the material into a visual reflection on the entanglement of humans and machines – and how technology reshapes perception, labour, and everyday life. Many compositions in the book consist of layered montages, where multiple images are overlaid to create new, morphed forms and associations.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Dafna Talmor - Constructed Landscapes: Addendum
Isbn 9789083519715
Publisher Fw: Books
Idea code 250539
€ 24.30
Dafna Talmor’s monograph ‘Constructed Landscapes’ (2020) served as a catalyst to produce new work that relies on the repurposing and reimagining of redundant source material, a process integral to her practice. It extends the artist’s exploration of voids and negative spaces through multiple transitions, reproductions, and analogue glitches. Colour photograms made with collaged book sheets of the monograph render the original source material invisible while retaining its indexical trace. Talmor seeks to playfully blur the often rigid boundaries and reductive relationship imposed on traditional photographic practices. Signed and numbered, the publication includes a risograph print.
40 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Maruja Mallo - Mask and Compass
Isbn 9788412993394
Publisher This Side Up
Idea code 250611
€ 40.85
This ambitious monograph on Spanish surrealist artist Maruja Mallo (1902–1995) appears with a retrospective exhibition organised by Museo Reina Sofía and Centro Botín. Through numerous paintings and drawings, plus texts and photographs by the artist, the book traces her entire career, from the new realism of her early years to the geometric and fantastical forms of her later works, highlighting how popular culture, performance, and magic permeated her early pieces and underscoring her connections to theatre. It also explores the transformations following the Spanish Civil War and her exile to Buenos Aires, where her portraits and still lifes reflected her new surroundings. Maruja Mallo (Viveiro, Galicia, 1902 – Madrid, 1995) was a leading artist of Spanish avant-garde and Surrealism, as well as one of the central figures of the "Generation of '27", an important group of artists and writers based in Madrid, which included Rafael Alberti, Salvador Dalí, Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis Buñuel. Her vibrant and diverse artistic output blurred the boundaries between the popular and the avant-garde, between aesthetics and politics, ultimately presenting a feminine worldview from the unprecedented perspective of the modern woman.
276 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, hb, Spanish/English
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Fleur van Dodewaard – BLACK GRASS / LOVE LETTERS
Isbn 9784907562564
Publisher Fleur van Dodewaard
Idea code 250612
€ 30.50
This publication accompanies the eponymous solo exhibition by Dutch artist Fleur van Dodewaard at the Kröller-Müller Museum. It shows a collection of swirling, abstract drawings, made in an attempt to catch life, love, and the line on the paper itself, in that fleeting moment before letting go again, sliding into the new present. The sculptures appearing in the exhibition, which are also documented here, were made with found material from behind the scenes at the museum. A balancing act, they are an exploration of what is possible. While working on this project, Dodewaard spent time as artist-in-residence at the galleries VAGUE KOBE in Japan and VAGUE ARLES in France.
96 p, ills colour, 24 x 27 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Bethan Hughes - Elastic Continuum
Isbn 9783947858644
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 250549
€ 31.90
'Elastic Continuum' explores the flexible connections between people, plants, politics, and power through the material and symbolic transformations of Taraxacum koksaghyz – a rubber-producing plant commonly known as the Kazakh or Russian dandelion. This new volume in the 'Processing Process' series unfolds along two interwoven trajectories. One traces the plant’s historical journey from East to West, examining its role within the political and economic imperialisms of the Soviet Union, Nazi-occupied Poland, wartime United States, and the European Union. The other follows artist Bethan Hughes’s own movement from West to East, as she encounters the plant and the people bound up in its story – across breeding stations, research laboratories, herbaria, mountain valleys, and national archives.
132 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Maurits de Bruijn – Private View
Isbn 9789493329478
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 250615
€ 34.00
‘Private View’ reveals a world that never seemed intended for other people’s eyes. Paper sculptures, cardboard models, garments, portraits, textile works, and photo collages are piled high within the walls of an apartment, a tangle of artistry contained in 45 square metres. At the centre is artist Cees de Rooij, whose way of living – where nothing is discarded and everything is marked by the love of making and remaking – is also a way to create without an audience. Through encounters, documentation, and conversations, this book examines not only the boundaries of what it means to be an artist but also queerness, visibility, care, and the transience of things and memories.
128 p, ills colour, 22 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Sexual Dissidences - Frau Diamanda's Catalan Scenes, Travesti Politics of Resistance, and Anti-canonical Knowledge
Isbn 9781915609786
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250604
€ 21.95
Despite its long history, the unique Latin American phenomenon of sexual identity, travesti, has been largely overlooked in Western European discourse. The development of long-term forms of ephemerality sheds light on processes of travesti anti-capitalist revolt, as well as the capacity of travesti to exploit and/or migrate themselves in order to make life possible and worth living, and the dynamics of practices and reflections to emerge anew. Despite the necropolitical grip on their lives, the swaying of travesti bodies is both witty and powerful. They themselves have taken detailed steps to find a way to exist and build communities. Drawing together numerous writers, voices, performers, artists, and historians, this book is not merely about travesti, it is travesti. The second part of the book is a translation of Frau Diamanda/Héctor Acuña’s book Escenas Catalana.
264 p, no ills, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Standpoint Autotheory - Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practices
Isbn 9781915609649
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250584
€ 21.95
Standpoint Autotheory encompasses a multitude of manifestations of radically self-reflexive research attitudes. It traces research based artistic practices through twelve contributions that propose a performative integration of the personal within the production of theory and explore the entanglements of subjectivity with criticality aimed at social transformation by questioning dominant epistemologies. The positions assembled in the book are permeated by different modes of thinking and practice such as autoethnography, practices of the self, auto-historia teoría, standpoint theories, strong objectivity and situated knowledge, self-authority, narrativity and storytelling, radical positioning, performative philosophy, autofiction, thinking-feeling, and other methods that, through the interrogation of embodied experiences, illuminate the connections between the personal and the political, as well as the individual and the communal.
392 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Kai Udema – Bird shaped vinyl
Isbn 9789083521107
Publisher Soft concern hard concern
Idea code 250605
€ 33.00
Presenting a compilation of nine exercises, Kai Udema’s ‘Bird shaped vinyl’ is based on a collection of shapes traced from the negative spaces of broken windows. Shifting between object, print, image, and page, the book attempts to visualise the metaphysical qualities of the hole through Udema’s own readings. Developed between 2021 and 2023 at the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem, the exercises were realised as studies for a series of sculptural works. Udema is an independent graphic designer based in Amsterdam who engages in bookmaking, exhibition design, visual research, and typography.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Keep Smiling! The Printed Universe of Pontus Hultén
Isbn 9782959884900
Publisher OUT SIDE IN
Idea code 250624
€ 55.00
'Keep Smiling! The Printed Universe of Pontus Hultén' is a portrait of the pioneering museum director Pontus Hultén (1924-2006) and his anarchistic approach to life, reflected through an archive of printed materials from his museum activities. This seemingly invisible thread - often overlooked or misunderstood - offers a different perspective on anarchism: one that is playful, positive, free, sarcastic, and inventive. The archive includes over 200 posters, exhibition catalogues, film programmes, and invitations, highlighting the creative collaborations Hultén fostered as a curator, editor, and museum director in partnership with artists and designers.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Sudah_ On heritage, art, cooking, and family
Isbn 9789493329416
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 250577
€ 38.85
‘Sudah’ evolved out of an exploration of Moluccan roots. Jessica Voorwinde discovered how little was actually known about her family’s story of migration, even within the family itself. The project focuses on her mother and aunts, who migrated with their parents from Dutch New Guinea to the Netherlands in 1960. While it is an attempt to preserve her family’s stories and recipes for future generations, it is equally intended to uncover a chapter of Dutch history that is virtually unknown to many. Voorwinde explores cooking as memory, silence as survival, and what gets lost when stories are never passed on – an affectionate invitation to listen, to recognise, and to hold on to things we value.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Arab Presences – Modern Art and Decolonisation – Paris 1908-1988
Isbn 9780201379624
Publisher Zaman Books
Idea code 250574
€ 43.00
Arab presences. Modern Art and Decolonisation. Paris 1908-1988 is part of a historical rehabilitation project. By means of a chronological and transnational circuit (from North Africa to West Asia), the book examines Paris' role in the development of modern Arab art, inviting us to explore the places where artists trained, exhibited, exchanged and met. The featured works have been sourced from the reserves of French museums and family archives, as well as from major foundations and museums in the Arab world. More than one hundred and thirty artists are presented against an historical backdrop of decolonisation divided into four chronological periods (1908-1988), all of whom studied, lived, exhibited or campaigned in Paris, either briefly or over a longer period. Beyond the artistic sphere, they embody a Paris that was both colonial and anticolonial, a cosmopolitan refuge and a place of solidarity.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Out of Theory - Relational Ecologies of Theory and Practice in the Arts
Isbn 9789491444951
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 250579
€ 29.15
Over the past 30 years, the rise of art as research has brought theory to the center of art education. Out of Theory: Relational Ecologies of Theory and Practice in the Arts explores how theory can be approached in the arts and its evolving connections with other disciplines. The first part examines the dynamic relationship between theory and practice; the second presents outcomes from Polyphonic Landscapes, an artistic research project that treats theory as practice. It asks: What is a landscape? How can sonic research reshape our understanding of the environment? And how can listening foster a more embodied and reciprocal connection with the world?
476 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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The Trained Experience
Isbn 9789491444845
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 250541
€ 19.40
This book explores the intersection of meditation, theatre practices, and pedagogies, tracing how twentieth-century theatre reformers incorporated meditative techniques into their work. By exploring the profound ways in which meditation and spirituality can enrich theatre pedagogies and actor training, Fabiola Camuti offers new perspectives on the evolving landscape of performance education. Bringing together cognitive neuroscience and the arts and humanities, Camuti examines the promises and the challenges of this merger. She asks whether scientific approaches risk overshadowing traditional artistic practices – or if they can instead help us better understand embodied learning and research.
256 p, ills bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Joost Rekveld - Liberate the Machines!
Isbn 9789491564185
Publisher KASK & Conservatorium Gent
Idea code 250540
€ 25.00
This publication came out of the artistic research project Dialogues With Machines and narrates Joost Rekveld’s personal experience of such a dialogue while making the experimental film Mechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena; #59. Historical analogue computing and simulation techniques were re-enacted, old electronic machines were sought out and cared for, and new devices were developed, based on principles that have long fallen out of use. During this process the dialogue changed, the notion of learning from machines changed, and Rekveld’s views on technology, mathematics, and media archaeology were also transformed as a result. This led to a perspective on the relation between humans and machines that is not predicated on control. Joost Rekveld is an experimental filmmaker and media artist based in Brussels.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Melon 1: On Foraging in Palestine, Japan & Maastricht (New edition)
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Publisher Limestone Books
Idea code 250518
€ 9.05
Melon #1: On Foraging in Palestine, Japan & Maastricht looks at foraging as more than a means of survival - it’s a quiet, everyday act of resistance. From occupied Palestine to rural Japan and urban Maastricht, foraging reveals how access to land, freedom of movement, and alternative ways of living are deeply entangled. In contested or urbanized landscapes, it becomes a way to reclaim connection - with nature, place, and one another.
32 p, ills colour & bw, 10 x 13 cm, pb, English
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Garrett Bradley - Revolutions
Isbn 9789462089327
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 250504
€ 24.25
Garrett Bradley explores how images help shape our view of the world. She is particularly interested in the ways America is represented through visual culture. Spanning narrative, documentary, and experimental forms of filmmaking, the publication 'Garrett Bradley' reflects the artist’s turn towards abstraction and the increasingly sculptural nature of her work. Her work invites us to take a step back and consider the question: what are we actually looking at? In doing so, Bradley makes the viewer aware of the pitfalls of representation and unpacks the mechanisms that influence how we perceive ourselves and others.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Mercado de Sonora
Isbn 9798991412803
Publisher Luhz Press
Idea code 250506
€ 40.90
Part book, part installation, ‘Mercado de Sonora’ is Tania Franco Klein’s exploration of the elixirs, curses, and cures found within the stalls of Mexico City’s famed public market. The interdisciplinary artist works primarily in photography, here lending her cinematic eye to a space where spiritual objects and desires transcend class barriers, where promises to bridge social divides are sold. The underground is brought to light in a marketplace where exotic animal sales are permissible and serums and soaps allege to exorcise societal ills. These proclaimed panaceas and illicit sales reflect the political corruption and structural faults of a consumerist society in need of quick fixes.
12 , ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, leporello, English
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Making Kin II: Plants
Isbn 9788409729067
Publisher Cthulhu Books
Idea code 250454
€ 19.35
The literary genre of xenofiction proposes an exercise of ethological research and imagination, placing our body inside another’s perspective. When we practice “becoming with” another’s experience, we practice empathy. At a time when our understanding of plant life and the vegetal world is being consistently and dramatically reshaped, this book extends an invitation to inhabit the world of these dynamic beings that surround us. Following the slightly defamiliarizing paths that plants and their rooted beings open for our mobile bodies, this anthology of twelve short stories and a visual essay becomes a space in which to exercise empathy with this other form of life.
114 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 19 cm, pb, English
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TOGETHER
Isbn 9780949004086
Publisher Open Editions
Idea code 250372
€ 23.40
Sixteen innovators from corresponding fields of practice speculate about the benefit of thinking and acting together, as opposed to solitarily. The resulting collection of texts overflows with fresh ideas and personal perspectives. Many chapters conjoin subjects that we’re not used to thinking of as allied to reveal that in combination they can amount to something greater than the sum of their individual parts: artist and gallerist, nature and mankind, heaven and earth, neurotypicality and neurodiversity, art and life, to name a few. Others take a more direct line to argue that our very future depends on developing more inclusive and collective responses to worldwide crises, as they progressively occur.
190 p, no ills, 16 x 22 cm, pb, English
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A Garden of Flowers
Isbn 9783910298323
Publisher Strzelecki Books
Idea code 250591
€ 26.60
This exhibition catalogue documents a dialogue between two exceptional talents: contemporary glass artist Lilla Tabasso draws inspiration from the botanical work ‘Hortus Floridus’ (1614) by Dutch engraver Crispijn de Passe the Younger (1594–1670) and creates a garden full of glass flowers. Tabasso translates De Passe’s detailed copperplate engravings into hyper-realistic, vibrant sculptural flowers made of Murano glass, illuminating the artistic bridge between nature, biology, and attention to detail. Two essays and an interview with the artist explain the background and connections behind the works, inviting readers to reconsider and better understand floral aesthetics.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, German/Dutch/English
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Eva Meyer - Remembering Forward
Isbn 9783947858705
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 250550
€ 24.20
'Remembering Forward' gathers writings by philosopher, author, and filmmaker Eva Meyer, tracing her intellectual and creative journey from 'Counting and Recounting: For a Semiotics of the Feminine' (1983) to 'Becoming Worldly' (2023). Meyer’s political theory of storytelling unfolds across her oeuvre, challenging ideological concepts and introducing cinematic writing modes that resist identitarian approaches to society, time, and femininity. Structured around recurring themes like love, worldliness, and memory, the book reflects her commitment to multiplicity and resistance to closure. Featuring an introduction by Vivian Liska, an afterword by Laurence A. Rickels, and a catalogue of Meyer’s works in English translation, this reader celebrates her groundbreaking legacy.
368 p, ills colour, 9 x 15 cm, pb, German/English
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Managing Displacement [2] Extraction
Isbn 9781068699016
Publisher System of Systems
Idea code 250565
€ 12.95
‘Managing Displacement’ explores the intricate web of migration management within and beyond Europe’s borders. Each book begins with a specific term in order to examine processes that restrict, surveil, or obscure displaced people. Displacement is deeply entangled with legacies of colonialism and ongoing planetary exploitation. Extraction is a process of enclosure and exploitation of resources. Financially driven, such practices are causes of human and non-human displacement, and also central to how migration management controls and extracts profit from people on the move. This second volume includes contributions by Ariana Dongus, Radha D’Souza, and Angela Melitopoulos.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Drowning Capitalism - three essays on what to do next
Isbn 9789083451510
Publisher V2_Publishing
Idea code 250521
€ 17.00
V2_ presented Jason W. Moore, David Whyte, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson with the question ‘How could a system emerge that ends capitalism? If that is at all possible, what would it take, and what might that system look like?’ The three essays that they wrote in reaction offer a relentless and detailed analysis of capitalism that clears the path towards imagining another society. With an introduction by Sjoerd van Tuinen and Ryan Kopaitich.
184 p, no ills, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Kathryn Scanlan Aug 9 – Fog
Isbn 9781912570362
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 250425
€ 20.75
Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan acquired a diary at a public estate auction. It was kept by Cora E. Lacy, an eighty-six-year-old woman living in a small Illinois town, from 1968 to 1972. Scanlan began to compulsively read and reread the stranger’s diary. In the years following she edited, arranged, and rearranged the diarists’ words into the composition that is 'Aug 9 – Fog'. First published in 2019, this is the book’s UK debut. Scanlan, also author of 'The Dominant Animal' and 'Kick the Latch', hails from Iowa and now lives in Los Angeles. 'Aug 9 – Fog' includes reflections on quiet resonance, poetic fragments, and tender, artfully crafted prose that captures the fleeting beauty of ordinary life.
122 p, no ills, 15 x 19 cm, pb, English
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