Archive Books

Archive is a platform for cultural research and debate. It brings together activists and cultural practitioners in an adaptable and non-hierarchal structure with the aim to foster a unique space for discussion and exchange. Archive is engaged in a wide range of activities including publishing and exhibition making.
Archive Books produces readers, monographs and artists' books as well as journals focusing on contemporary cultural production.
 
Berlin / Milan
www.archivebooks.org
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125 titles
 
Pandora\'s Box
Pandora's Box
2023
English edition
forthcoming
An exploration of the form of conversation as a method of aesthetic solidarity and empowerment.
Hannah Ryggen Triennale 2022
Hannah Ryggen Triennale 2022
2023
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
forthcoming
Hannah Ryggen Triennale 2022 presents artists and works that can varyingly be seen in the light of Swedish-born Norwegian feminist textile artist Hannah Ryggen's legacy (1894–1970).
Awkward Archives - Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum
Awkward Archives – Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum
2023
English edition
forthcoming
A manual for academic teaching and learning contexts.
The Wall Between Us - (Be)Longing, Repair and its Politics of Affects
The Wall Between Us – (Be)Longing, Repair and its Politics of Affects
2023
English edition
forthcoming
A collective project around the Vietnamese and Asian artistic diaspora, on the theme of cultural identity in the post-migration society.
Archives on Show - Revoicing, Shapeshifting, Displacing – A Curatorial Glossary
Archives on Show – Revoicing, Shapeshifting, Displacing – A Curatorial Glossary
2023
English edition
forthcoming
Archives on Show brings the potential of reformulating the social and political relevance of archives by curatorial means into focus.
Maa Ka Maaya Ka Ca A Yere Kono - 13th Edition of the Rencontres de Bamako - African Biennale of Photography
Maa Ka Maaya Ka Ca A Yere Kono – 13th Edition of the Rencontres de Bamako - African Biennale of Photography
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
forthcoming
The catalogue of the 13th edition of the Rencontres de Bamako - African Biennale of Photography, focusing on multiplicity, difference, becoming, and heritage.
Kerstin Schroedinger - DNCB - A History of Irritation
Oliver Husain, Kerstin Schroedinger
DNCB – A History of Irritation
2023
English edition
forthcoming
Part visual essay, oral history and artist book, DNCB – A History of Irritation is a companion to the multi-channel installation DNCB by Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger, around the history of the chemical substance DNCB, used both in film and photo labs to process color, and as a treatment in alternative AIDS clinics.
Emma Wolf-Haugh - Text in Public - Zine Performances and Rants
Emma Wolf-Haugh
Text in Public – Zine Performances and Rants
2023
English edition
forthcoming
The first monograph of writing by visual artist Emma Wolf-Haugh interconnecting performative works, performance scripts and assemblage texts.
An Activist Neuroaesthetics Reader
An Activist Neuroaesthetics Reader
2022
English edition
A manifesto for an activist neuroaesthetics, to make the processes of digital dominion and governmentalization—which are becoming more and more prominent in late-stage cognitive capitalism (or neural capitalism)—opaque, visible, and known (contributions by Franco Bifo Berardi, Yann Moulier Boutang, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Warren Neidich, Slavoj Žižek...).
How to Die - Inopiné
How to Die – Inopiné
2022
English edition
A transdisciplinary investigation and a choreographic performance, between Umeå and Oslo, about ecological grief, cultural panic, and a feeling of collapse.
Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju - Earnestly
Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju
Earnestly
2022
English edition
Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju's debut collection of writing.
Tehnica Schweiz - The Blue Room
Tehnica Schweiz
The Blue Room
2022
bilingual edition (English / Hungarian)
An installation by the artistic duo Tehnica Schweiz (Gergely László and Péter Rákosi) comprising a film and a porcelain sculpture collection: a re-examination of our relation to architectural and material cultural heritage.
The Vibration of Things / Die Vibration der Dinge
The Vibration of Things / Die Vibration der Dinge
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
The catalogue of the 15th Triennial of Small Sculpture Fellbach exhibition, curated by Elke aus dem Moore.
Sedje Hémon - Emotion of Spirits
Sedje Hémon
Emotion of Spirits
2022
English edition
A panorama of the multifaceted and transversal production of the Dutch-Jewish painter and composer Sedje Hémon (1923-2011), with fifteen essays.
Imran Mir - A World that is not entirely Reflective but Contemplative
Imran Mir
A World that is not entirely Reflective but Contemplative
2022
English edition
A survey of the abstract and contemplative work of Pakistani artist Imran Mir (1950-2014), with fifteen essays.
Abdias Nascimento - Being An Event of Love
Abdias Nascimento
Being An Event of Love
2022
English edition
A survey of the pictorial work of the Afro-Brazilian artist, writer and activist, with fifteen essays.
An Archaeology of Listening - Coming to Know
An Archaeology of Listening – Coming to Know
2022
English edition
Premodern acoustic traces as the basis for new communities of thought in the present (a project responding to the work of the self-taught acoustic archaeologist Umashankar Manthravadi).
Kal Rituals – The Many Headed Hydra Magazine
Kal Rituals – The Many Headed Hydra Magazine
2022
English edition
The first in a series of publications emerging from the transoceanic platform Kal, Kal Rituals proposes queer and trans feminist ecologies, embodiments and mythmaking.
Van Leo - Becoming Van Leo (3 volume box set)
Van Leo
Becoming Van Leo (3 volume box set)
2022
English edition
A monumental study of the life and times of the late Armenian-Egyptian photographer Van Leo (1921-2002), one of the most singular twentieth-century studio photographers in the Arab world.
Umashankar Manthravadi - An Archaeology of Listening - A Slightly Curving Place
Umashankar Manthravadi
An Archaeology of Listening – A Slightly Curving Place
2022
English edition
A proposition opened up by Umashankar Manthravadi in his practice as an acoustic archaeologist, bringing together writers, choreographers, composers, actors, dancers, musicians, field recordists and sound, light, and graphic designers who engage and transform each other's work.
Philip Rizk - On Trials - A manual for the theatre of law
Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk
On Trials – A manual for the theatre of law
2022
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
An exploration of the performativity of the law within Egypt's spectral legal reality.
Lerato Shadi -
Lerato Shadi
2022
trilingual edition (English / German / Setswana)
First monograph devoted to the postcolonial feminist approach of the Berlin-based South African artist.
Line Skywalker Karlström - Holes Dug, Rocks Thrown - Line Skywalker Karlström\'s Works Through the Prism of Queer and Feminist Art Practices
Line Skywalker Karlström
Holes Dug, Rocks Thrown – Line Skywalker Karlström's Works Through the Prism of Queer and Feminist Art Practices
2022
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
First comprehensive monograph of the Swedish queer and feminist performance artist.
Perverse Decolonization?
Perverse Decolonization?
2022
English edition
Conversations and essays that question the twisted and oppressive climate in a world where true decolonization has yet to begin.
Wicked Little Town
Wicked Little Town
2022
English edition
Wicked Little Town gathers more than fifty artists and critical thinkers traversing trans-temporal imaginations of resistance, unruliness, and non-compliance across genders, abilities and national borders.
Imagine something new, like justice
Imagine something new, like justice
2022
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / Turkish)
Transdisciplinary research on the theme of justice and the agency of imagination in the artistic, discursive and political realms.
Not fully human, Not human at all
Not fully human, Not human at all
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
An artistic project about the processes of dehumanization that are are taking place in Europe and possible ways for a re-humanization.
Free Home University - When the Roots Start Moving - First Mouvement – To Navigate Backward – Resonating with Zapatismo
Chto Delat, Free Home University
When the Roots Start Moving – First Mouvement – To Navigate Backward – Resonating with Zapatismo
2022
English edition
A collection of essays investigating predicaments of rootedness and rootlessness and notions of belonging and of displacement across different geographical and epistemological coordinates.
The Otolith Group - Xenogenesis
The Otolith Group
Xenogenesis
2022
English edition
An extensive and comprehensive polyphonic exploration of the work of The Otolith Group.
Anachoresis - Upon Inhabiting Distances
Anachoresis – Upon Inhabiting Distances
2021
English edition
Published on the occasion of Cyprus' participation at the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice, Anachoresis: Upon Inhabiting Distances gathers a collection of texts and visual material from a multidisciplinary group of Cypriot and international practitioners, including architects and designers, curators and writers, sound and movement artists.
Rehearsing Hospitalities - Companion 3
Rehearsing Hospitalities – Companion 3
2021
English edition
A series of essays and visual contributions critically reflecting on the questions of hospitality safety, security and care.
Silver Rights
Silver Rights
2021
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / Italian)
An in-depth research project by Elena Mazzi in dialogue with the Mapuche spiritual leader, silversmith and activist, Mauro Millán and Argentinean artist, Eduardo Molinari, about the cultural resistance of the Mapuche people to neo-colonialism in Chile.
Momentography of a failure - Addis Ababa
Momentography of a failure – Addis Ababa
2021
English edition
Momentography of a failurebrings essays, timelines, film, photography, and a series of conversations together to deal with Ethiopia's controversial urbanisation and the transformative space of the city.
Johanna Laakkonen - They Inhabit While Working
Johanna Laakkonen
They Inhabit While Working
2021
English edition
A collection of texts by the artist and quotations through which Jaana Laakkonen develops reflections on her own practice and on the challenges of her work.
Sonsbeck20→24 - Force Times Distance – On Labour (reader)
Sonsbeck20→24 – Force Times Distance – On Labour (reader)
2021
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
This reader is a culmination of direct and tangential deliberations on notions of labour, appreciated across geographies and mediums. Newly commissioned textual manifestations in a multilogue with historical positions.
School of Waters - Mediterranea 19 – Young Artists Biennale San Marino 2021
School of Waters – Mediterranea 19 – Young Artists Biennale San Marino 2021
2021
English edition
Mediterranea 19 – School of Waters imagines a Biennale as a temporary school inspired by radical and experimental pedagogies and the way they challenge artistic, curatorial, and research formats.
Laura Horelli - Changes in Direction - A Journal
Laura Horelli
Changes in Direction – A Journal
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Changes in Direction – A Journal provides multivocal and transnational African-European statements to current decoloniality debates from different perspectives.
Igor Zabel - Inexplicable Presence (Curator’s Working Place)
Igor Zabel
Inexplicable Presence (Curator’s Working Place)
2021
English edition
The posthumous catalogue of one of the most personal curatorial projects of Igor Zabel (1958-2005).
Stronger Than Bone - On Feminism(s)
Stronger Than Bone – On Feminism(s)
2021
English edition
Stronger than Bone draws upon the embodied strength, intuitive desires, and collective wisdom of feminists and non-binary protagonists to foreground the manifold dimensions of feminist politics and commitments.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - The Delusions of Care
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
The Delusions of Care
2021
English edition
The misappropriated notion of care and the paths for its rehabilitation.
How Does The World Breathe Now? - Film as Witness, Archive, and Political Tool
How Does The World Breathe Now? – Film as Witness, Archive, and Political Tool
2021
English edition
How film may be a constructive tool to examine the state of the world and its cruelties, and how to form a more stable and supportive culture of film production and distribution.
Why Call it Labor? - On Motherhood and Art Work
Why Call it Labor? – On Motherhood and Art Work
2021
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Four essays and one conversation with contemporary artists and curators from different backgrounds and origins (Jerusalem, Lebanon, Kuwait, USA, Egypt) discussing their experience of becoming mothers as professionals in the arts, its reality and effects.
Whose Land Have I Lit on Now? - Contemplations on the Notions of Hospitality
Whose Land Have I Lit on Now? – Contemplations on the Notions of Hospitality
2021
English edition
A curatorial project about concepts of hospitality and the triggers of hostility in hospitality.
Ultrasanity - On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry, and Resistance
Ultrasanity – On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry, and Resistance
2021
English edition
A curatorial and research project that aims to move beyond insanity as the opposite of sanity, and imagine a space beyond what is understood as sane, i.e. ultrasanity—not a romanticization of madness or mental illness, but an effort to reconsider and challenge the notion of madness and the stigmas labelled on the so-called mad.
Julius Eastman - We Have Delivered Ourselves From the Tonal - Of, Towards, On, For Julius Eastman
Julius Eastman
We Have Delivered Ourselves From the Tonal – Of, Towards, On, For Julius Eastman
2021
English edition
A collection of essays, librettos, lyrics, memories, photos, personal anecdotes by musicians, visual artists, researchers and archivers that pays homage to the work and life of African-American composer, musician, performer, activist Julius Eastman.
Med Hondo - On the Run - Perspectives on the Cinema of Med Hondo
Med Hondo
On the Run – Perspectives on the Cinema of Med Hondo
2020
English edition
A tribute.
Med Hondo - 1970—2018 - Interviews with Med Hondo
Med Hondo
1970—2018 – Interviews with Med Hondo
2020
English edition
Seventeen interviews conducted with Med Hondo over a period of almost half a century, most of the interviews originally published in French were translated into English.
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