Sternberg Press

The publication brings together extensive material from Hamlet, mise-en-scène, an homage to Jack Smith presented at Portikus in 2012, along with recently restored and never-published stills, drawings, and writings by the American filmmaker related to his film Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment) (1970-73).

Musician Kamran Sadeghi took field recordings from an anthropological research on Tierra del Fuego as a starting point to compose his digital musical score for a video installation by Mario Pfeifer.

Chef Pierre Hermé's culinary performance at Harvard University.

After the infamous split in the Situationist International in 1962, the Danish artist J. V. Martin was unexpectedly put in charge of the group's Scandinavian section. This book is the first presentation of Martin's strange trajectory within the SI, in which he would remain a member until the group's dissolution in 1972.

A presentation of the key figures and the basic concepts of Lettrist cinema, which prefigured the breakthroughs of the nouvelle vague and the experiments of expanded cinema.

Before History catalogues the exhibition for the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2015, which includes a new body of work by Yto Barrada, the winner of the prize, and existing work by shortlisted artists Sarnath Banerjee, Setareh Shahbazi, and Mounira Al Solh.

Monograph / artist's book: a broad selection of Mirjam Thomann's work from 2006 to 2015.

The internet is an ever-growing storage space of information that we have come to rely on—but what does this thing called the internet really mean? (contributions by Julian Assange, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Diedrich Diederichsen, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Bruno Latour, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hito Steyerl...).

Produced under the auspices of the exhibition “Transmitting Andy Warhol” at Tate Liverpool, this issue includes a history of the relations between drugs and groups by Ian Svenonius, an e-mail exchange between Paul Elliman and pioneer of voice synthesis Richard T. Gagnon, a collage of voices that conjure Warhol's aura by Michael Bracewell...

A selection of texts by international artists, critics, and curators, which aims to renegotiate the relationship between centers and peripheries in contemporary art worlds.

A novel written orally by the artist Benjamin Seror.

New monograph.

Drawings.

Michael Tedja's Aquaholism is an exhibition catalogue, a published oeuvre, an artistic treatise, a poetry collection, a visual essay, an artist's book. It is a polyphonic collage of text and image. More than seventeen years of artistic output unfold between the first and last pages. With its thoroughness, density, and associative power, the book embodies Tedja's artistic essence: voluminous, interrelated, and in continuous motion.

Catalogue.

A novel.

A reader.

In the Holocene is based on a 2012 group exhibition of the same name at the MIT List Visual Arts Center that explored art as a speculative science, investigating principles more commonly associated with scientific or mathematical thought.

This publication examines the impact of Oskar Hansen within contemporary visual culture and the redefined role of the viewer since the 1960s.

An excursive analysis of the potential of narration within the paradoxes of cinematic representation.

The fourth issue in the “Poetic Series” is a seasonally themed special issue, a festive anthology composed of contributions from more than twenty writers and artists.

The question of the temporal politics in the field of art.

An introduction to Josef Bauer's oeuvre and practice.

First comprehensive monograph.

Liz Magic Laser's recent works.

First monograph, based on the texts of four writers (Agnieszka Gratza, Béatrice Gross, Chantal Pontbriand, and Allen S. Weiss) that each engage with a recent project by Ines Lechleitner.

A monograph / artists' book that engages with the recent film installations of Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz.

Catalogue.

The first survey of the Swiss and Danish duo's works from 2010 to 2014.

The possibility and power of art to imagine futures that are not irrevocably determined by the present, but are invested with struggles fought here and now.

The exchanges and transgressions between art and dance today.

An intertextual and interdisciplinary approach to exploring some contemporary cultural resonances with respect to gender and sexuality.

The Reluctant Narrator attempts to map the migration of narrative modes across several media, bringing together works that intertwine personal biography with historical events, or that deal with stories that fell through the crevices of history.

A catalogue / artist's book as puzzling and conceptually elaborate as the exhibition it accompanies.

An unique artist's book based on Paul Sietsema's 16 mm eponymous film, with laser-cut portals and transparent screenlike pages.

An exploration of the concept of the museum from an artistic and outside perspective.

This issue concerns itself with “numbers,” ranging from a brief note on “The Psychology of Number” by John Dewey and John McLellan, to Vincenzo Latronico'ss historical overview of the ongoing attempt to conjure “truths from thin air” (such as proof of the existence of god).

This catalogue-reader accompanies Armando Lulaj's project for the Albanian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. A time capsule of the country's past, presenting strange memorabilia and trophies that tread the line between fact and fiction.

Monograph / catalogue.

Katja Eydel's photographic body of work.

Catalogue.

Reference monograph.

The third issue in the Poetic Series takes its title Fear of Language from the work of emerging Slovenian poet Katja Perat, featured alongside poetry by Judith Goldman and excerpts from Eileen Myles's forthcoming memoir, Afterglow. Artwork is provided by Willem de Rooij.

The tenth volume in the Solution series edited by Ingo Niermann: a speculative novel that accompanies “Friday in Venice,” a transmedia storytelling project about a possible Europe.

Mark von Schlegell's fusion of theory and fiction puts the SF back in notions of “speculative aesthetics.”

The manifesto of the network of contemporary art centers.

The role of history and commemoration in Germany today.

This book traces the evolution of Ulrike Gossarth's practice, with a particular emphasis on her training as a dancer in the 1970s, to draw connections between the early years with her sculptural settings and actions and her most recent work, which engages with history more generally.

First monograph.