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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
mail@archivebooks.org
 
95 titles
 
Perverse Decolonization?
Perverse Decolonization?
2022
English edition
forthcoming
Conversations and essays that question the twisted and oppressive climate in a world where true decolonization has yet to begin.
The Otolith Group - Xenogenesis
The Otolith Group
Xenogenesis
2022
English edition
forthcoming
The publishing of the first catalogue raisonné on the work of the Otolith Group is timely and comes at a pivotal point in their practice.
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 and its Sonic Ecologies (catalogue)
Sonsbeck20→24 – Force Times Distance – On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies (catalogue)
2021
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
The catalogue of the 12th edition of Sonsbeek, centered around labour, and its sonicities, connects a millenary history crossing times and geographies to the present moment, through a multitude of voices, sounds, and ripples.
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.
Untranslatable Terms of Cultural Practices - Shared Vocabulary
Untranslatable Terms of Cultural Practices – Shared Vocabulary
2021
English edition
A collective reflection on the richness of the untranslatable.
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.
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.
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.
Ian Kiaer - Endnote, tooth
Ian Kiaer
Endnote, tooth
2020
English edition
Ian Kiaer's new monograph is based on a project that the artist began several years ago and whose configuration changes with the circumstances. Drawing on the notion of marginal endnotes in books, it references the utopian concepts of the Austrian American architect Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965).
Beyond Repair
Beyond Repair
2020
English edition
The account of a collective study around the question of the irreversibility of the damage caused by extractivism and accumulation for common spaces and living conditions, in their political, social and aesthetic dimensions.
Nicoline van Harskamp - My Name is Language
Nicoline van Harskamp
My Name is Language
2020
English edition
This publication explores the key tenets of artist Nicoline van Harskamp's research and practice, such as the contemporary use and modification of languages, a treatment of names as spoken language rather than spelled identity markers, and the practice of self-naming.
Not Working
Not Working
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
The interdependence of artistic production and social class.
Rehearsing Hospitalities - Companion 2
Rehearsing Hospitalities – Companion 2
2020
English edition
A series of essays and visual contributions critically reflecting on the current structures of knowledge within the art world.
Jane Jin Kaisen - Community of Parting
Jane Jin Kaisen
Community of Parting
2020
English edition
Reference monograph: the most comprehensive introduction to the Korean artist's postcolonial and feminist approach.
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