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History, Criticism and Theory

 
The Populism Reader
2005
English edition
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The Populism Reader accompanies Populism, an exhibition project in four European cities exploring the relationships between contemporary art and current populist cultural and political trends.
Daniel Birnbaum - Chronology
2005
English edition
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A philosophical essay on time, phenomenology and beyond, Daniel Birnbaum's Chronology was presented in frieze as a “compelling and sophisticated take on the common theme of Deleuzian immanence."
Nicolas Bourriaud - Postproduction - Culture as screenplay: How art reprograms the world
2005
English edition
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The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age.
Fundamentalisms of the New Order
2004
English edition
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Conceived as a textbook with images rather than an exhibition catalogue, the book reflects on the diversity of fundamentalisms, a phenomenon that is not confined to particular cultures or modes of thought; its intention is to explore the concept in its many forms and multiple origins.
Jean-Charles Massera - Sex, Art, and the Dow Jones
2003
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How can the events in which we are supposed to participate be translated into experience? How can we represent ourselves in a History that is being written in terms of the economy and the stock market? Along these questions, French author Jean-Charles Massera discusses the works of various artists (Vito Acconci, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Pierre Huyghe, et al.) and film-makers (Jean-Luc Godard, Wong Kar-wai, Nanni Moretti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al.).
Liam Gillick - Five or six
2000
bilingual edition (English / German)
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Five or six contains texts selected from more than 100 reviews, articles, and catalogue essays published by Liam Gillick since 1989.
Anna Colin - Alternative Pedagogical Spaces - From Utopia to Institutionalization
2025
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A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.
Griselda Pollock - Feminism, Pedagogy, and the Studio - Reflections Across Four Decades
2025
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Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.
Meandering - Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics
2024
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Inspired by how rivers bend and curve connecting ecosystems, Meandering is a case study for community-oriented artistic research into the cultural, spiritual, and ecological trajectories of waterways.
Thus Waves Come in Pairs - Thinking with the Mediterraneans
2023
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By taking a conversation between Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal as a point of departure and inspiration, this publication intends to collect interdisciplinary reflections around/about the Mediterraneans through art, oceanic thinking, science, and activism.
Microbiopolitics of Milk
2023
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Milk as a bio-cultural substance (texts by Heather Paxson, Esther Leslie & Melanie Jackson, Harry G. West, Vinciane Despret, Chris Fite-Wassilak and Richie Nimmo).
What Makes an Assembly? - Stories, Experiments, and Inquiries
2022
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A crossdisciplinary inquiry into the practices and forms of assembly making, through multiple times and geographies.
Artistic Ecologies - New Compasses and Tools
2022
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Avenues for engaged pedagogies, collective learning, and artistic ecologies that can engender new institutionalities.
YWY, Searching for a Character between Future Worlds - Gender, Ecology, Science Fiction
2022
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A conversation about science fiction and robotics, ecology and gender, Indigenous Futurisms and what it means to be human.
Amazonia - Anthology as Cosmology
2021
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Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology is devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and present forms of resistance.
Non-Extractive Architecture Vol. 1 - On Designing without Depletion
2021
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The necessary new paradigms to invent in architecture and design in the context of the environmental crises.
Everything Passes Except the Past - Decolonizing Ethnographic Museums, Film Archives, and Public Space
2021
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Everything Passes Except the Past takes an artistic and discursive approach to coming to grips with a colonial past that remains present in ethnographic museums, public space, and image archives.
Cybernetics of the Poor
2021
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The relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections in the past and present.
The Wild Book of Inventions
2020
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Twenty authors and artists reinvent our relationship to nature.
Institution as Praxis - New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research
2020
English edition
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An overview of how creative practices are modifying the ways we think about both knowledge production and research in the cultural sector and in academia.
Red Love – A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai - Kollantai – A Play by Agneta Pleijel
2020
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This reader revisits the formidable legacy of Russian revolutionary,  feminist, political refugee and diplomat Alexandra Kollontaï (1872–1952) in light of current feminist struggles. Includes the first English translation of the 1977 biographical play Kollontai by Swedish writer Agneta Pleijel.
Creativity Exercises - Emancipatory Pedagogies in Art and Beyond
2020
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The book contextualizes the Creativity Exercises—an amateur art course led by neo-avant-garde artists Miklós Erdély and Dóra Maurer in Budapest from 1975 to 1977—within the postwar intellectual networks that connected artists, architects, educators, sociologists and other socially engaged professionals.
Politics of Food
2020
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This publication critically assesses and illuminates ways in which the arts can confront food-related issues, through the contributions of artists, anthropologists, activists, agronomists, and chefs.
The Museum Is Not Enough
2020
English edition
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The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the first volume of a periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.
Le musée ne suffit pas
2020
French edition
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The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the first volume of a periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.
Barry Schwabsky - The Observer Effect - On Contemporary Painting
2019
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A wide-ranging collection of texts on contemporary painting, by one of its most finest observer today.
What about Activism?
2019
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This reader gathers more than twenty leading curators and thinkers who present powerful case studies, historical analyses, and theoretical perspectives that address the dynamics of activism, protest, and advocacy in curatorial practice.
The Art of Direct Action - Social Sculpture and Beyond
2019
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This collective study examines the influence of Joseph Beuys's concept of social sculpture in the evolution of artistic practices from the 1970s to the present day.
Oliver Marchart - Conflictual Aesthetics - Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere
2019
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Oliver Marchart traces trajectories of artistic activism in theater, dance, performance, and public art, and investigates the political potential of urbanism, curating, and “biennials of resistance.”
Productive Universals – Specific Situations - Critical Engagements in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism
2019
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The contemporary return to universal claims and concepts in the fields of art, architecture, and urbanism.
Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi) - Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism
2019
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This publication brings together the work of five anthropologists and five artists/collectives researching and responding to the dramatic rise and fall of Mongolia's mineral economy. Drawing from ongoing fieldwork in Mongolia, the contributors conceptualise crisis as a space for the emergence of new possibilities.
Notes on Contemporary Art in Kosovo
2019
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The art scene of Kosovo.
Élisabeth Lebovici - The Name of Philippe Thomas / Philippe Thomas\' Name
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
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A study by Elisabeth Lebovici on the late contemporary artist and IFP co-founder Philippe Thomas. Lebovici's essay examines Thomas's strategy to cede and fictionalize authorship through the multiple lenses of gender, reproduction, subjects' multiplicity, and the artist's tragic disappearance.
The Artist As Producer, Quarry, Thread, Director, Writer, Orchestrator, Ethnographer, Choreographer, Poet, Archivist, Forger, Curator, and Many Other Things First
2018
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The contributions in this reader seek to understand how artists move through the world, and how that movement might necessitate other roles to pursue a project, a position, a politics, or a practice.
Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? - The New Performance Turn, Its Histories and Its Institutions
2018
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This collective publication discusses the renewed encounter between dance and performance and the institutions of global contemporary art, marking one of the most significant set of developments in the art field over the last decade.
Isabelle Graw - The Love of Painting - Genealogy of a Success Medium
2018
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American critic Isabelle Graw conducts an innovative genealogical study on the success of painting as a medium. Keeping a close eye on painting's fourteenth century theoretical foundations, Graw analyses the work of artists like Édouard Manet, Jutta Koether, Martin Kippenberger, Jana Euler, and Marcel Broodthaers. It also includes conversations with artists who confront their vision with that of the author.
Wolfgang Tillmans - Qu\'est-ce qui est différent ? - Jahresring #64
2018
French edition
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The 2018 edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.
 Studio for Propositional Cinema - In relation to a Spectator:
2018
English edition
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A compendium of essays, scripts, poems, and proposals compiled by the anonymous collective Studio for Propositional Cinema for their eponymous show at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. It investigates notions of script and staging in exhibition display. It features reknowned contributors such as Paul Chan, Keren Cytter, Irena Haiduk, John Miller, Cally Spooner, Lawrence Weiner et Christopher Williams.
Lori Waxman - Keep Walking Intently - The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus
2018
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An historical account of walking as an artistic practice inside Surrealism, the Situationist International, and Fluxus.
Annika Bender - Death of an Art Critic / Tod einer Kritikerin
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
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This publication is an adaptation of a public statement by art critic Annika Bender, the editor-in-chief of the Donnerstag-Blog, on why her blog was discontinued. Bender was in fact a fictitious character created by artists Dominic Osterried and Steffen Zillig. The two artists discuss why they deemed a certain form of masked critique important and necessary in our times.
Quinn Latimer - Like a Woman - Essays, Readings, Poems
2017
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Collection of recent essays and poems in which the American poet and critic examines issues of genealogy and influence, the poverty and privilege of place, architecture's relationship to language, and feminist economies of writing, reading, and art making.
Quand le numérique marque-t-il l\'architecture ?
2017
French edition
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The origins of the digital in architecture in 14 case studies from the late 1980s to the early 2000s.
Matter Fictions
2017
English edition
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Recounting a partial history of our relation with matter, this reader explores how the crossover between cosmological narratives, the spatial revolutions of concrete poetry, and hypertextual and territorial fictions might have an impact on the recognition of human agency in a time that calls for our action on environmental policies.
When Is the Digital in Architecture?
2017
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The origins of the digital in architecture in 14 case studies from the late 1980s to the early 2000s.
I Can\'t Work Like This – A Reader on Recent Boycotts and Contemporary Art
2017
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An examination of recent cases of boycotts by artists, presenting their political, ideological, and economic contexts, timelines, statements, as well as interviews.
On Things as Ideas
2017
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This collection of more than thirty texts, which were originally published between 1790 and the present day, explores man's rich relationship with material things. Devised largely in response to the gradual breakdown of the divide between art and design that began over a century ago, this book sheds light on the ways that the concept of the thing as idea has been considered over time.
Kim West - Life on Sirius - The Situationist International and the Exhibition after Art
2017
English edition
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Exploring the relationship between the Situationist International and the museum.
Publishing as Artistic Practice
2016
English edition
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An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene.
Frederick Kiesler - Function Follows Vision, Vision Follows Reality
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
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A collection of unpublished or rare texts by architect and theoretician Frederick Kiesler written between 1927 and 1957.
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