A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.

Voice Over examines staging, theatricality, and performative strategies in contemporary art practices.

Nicolas Bourriaud's most recent essay: a radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

This book reexamines the legacies of modern theoretical and artistic iconoclasm in the context of the current religious-political image wars.

A critical review of the issues of the memorial for Track 17 at Berlin-Grunewald station by architects Nikolaus Hirsch, Wolfgang Lorch, and Andrea Wandel.

“East Coast Europe,” which took place during Spring 2008, is a project about the perceptions of contemporary European identity and its relation to spatial practices and international politics.

With its 100 questions and answers from major practitioners of the art world and beyond, this book helps to examine the various parameters for a new institutional model (contributions by Lars Bang Larsen, Charles Esche, Peter Friedl, Liam Gillick, Jörg Heiser, Tom Holert, Sarah Morris, Heike Munder, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Beatrix Ruf...).

Thinking Worlds brings together numerous essays addressing questions of the sense and purpose of the “event” in contemporary artistic culture, of the current status of philosophy and aesthetic theory, and of the political significance of artistic interventions.

A study of the concept of otherness in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology (with a special project by Olafur Eliasson).

Based on the curation of a space at the 2007 Lyon Biennial, architect and writer Markus Miessen has drawn together a group of people to lead conversations on the theme of Europe today.

A sharp summary of contemporary art since Marcel Duchamp.

The ongoing history of the experiment in film and art: this book describes and analyses the works of filmmakers and artists, defining two decades of experiments in Polish avant-garde film, and juxtaposes their work with contributions by international artists, who started to work during the last fifteen years.

Fully illustrated 2nd edition with a new introduction and afterword by the author, annotated artwork illustrations, a special insert by Paul Chan, and flip-book sequences from two films.

A new reading of the relationship between art and the "question of style", in a social perspective.

In several theoretical essays, dialogues on collaborative projects and reflections on his own work, the architect Nikolaus Hirsch explores the critical transformations of contemporary space and its effects on spatial practice.

This book provides a theoretical and critical framework to examine how contemporary art and cinema can still hold out against an experience of vision and of the “visual.”

An unique compilation of writing around art and cultural politics in America since 2000 (Giorgio Agamben, Bernadette Corporation, Trisha Donnelly, Isabelle Graw, Robert Morris, Seth Price...), as an addendum to the traveling exhibition curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar Kvaran and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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.

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."

The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age.

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.

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.).

Five or six contains texts selected from more than 100 reviews, articles, and catalogue essays published by Liam Gillick since 1989.

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).

A crossdisciplinary inquiry into the practices and forms of assembly making, through multiple times and geographies.

A conversation about science fiction and robotics, ecology and gender, Indigenous Futurisms and what it means to be human.

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.

The necessary new paradigms to invent in architecture and design in the context of the environmental crises.

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.

The relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections in the past and present.

Twenty authors and artists reinvent our relationship to nature.

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.

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.

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 result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the first volume of an annual periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the first volume of an annual periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

A wide-ranging collection of texts on contemporary painting, by one of its most finest observer today.

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 traces trajectories of artistic activism in theater, dance, performance, and public art, and investigates the political potential of urbanism, curating, and “biennials of resistance.”

The contemporary return to universal claims and concepts in the fields of art, architecture, and urbanism.

The art scene of Kosovo.

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.

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.

An historical account of walking as an artistic practice inside Surrealism, the Situationist International, and Fluxus.

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.

The origins of the digital in architecture in 14 case studies from the late 1980s to the early 2000s.

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.

The origins of the digital in architecture in 14 case studies from the late 1980s to the early 2000s.

An examination of recent cases of boycotts by artists, presenting their political, ideological, and economic contexts, timelines, statements, as well as interviews.

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.