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History, Criticism and Theory

 
Of(f) Our Times - Curatorial Anachronics
2020
English edition
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A collection of conversations, essays, artists' projects, and inserts, critically reflecting on the concept of “exhibition history”.
Jens Hoffmann - In the Meantime - Speculations on Art, Curating, and Exhibitions
2020
English edition
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An anthology of texts by the influential American critic and curator. The publication includes essays on artists, exhibitions, and curating, catalogue texts, and interviews.
Maria Lind - Seven Years - The Rematerialisation of Art from 2011 to 2017
2020
English edition
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An anthology of texts on contemporary art during the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Art, Self & System
2020
English edition
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Stemming from the Master Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts, this publication promotes the art school as a place for pedagogical, civic and political implications.
Jörg Heiser - Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
2020
English edition
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The relationships of art and pop music from the 1960s to the present.
Ana Ofak - Agents of Abstraction
2019
English edition
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This historical essay recounts the story of the EXAT 51 collective—the first Yugoslavian abstract art group—and how it shaped the idea of abstract socialism by associating socialist cultural politics and modernist artistic practice.
What about Activism?
2019
English edition
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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.
Jill Johnston - The Disintegration of a Critic
2019
English edition
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Thirty texts by cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon Jill Johnston.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - An Exhibition Always Hides Another Exhibition - Texts on Hans Ulrich Obrist
2019
English edition
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15.00 7.50 €
A collection of essays and portraits on one of the most influential art critic and curator of today.
The Place Is Here - The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain
2019
English edition
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The publication developed from the exhibition and research project The Place Is Here (2016–19), which traced the urgent and wide-ranging conversations taking place between black artists, writers, and thinkers in Britain during the 1980s.
Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi) - Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism
2019
English edition
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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.
Katarina Taikon - The Day I Am Free / Katitzi
2019
English edition
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The story of epoch-changing activist, prolific writer, and Swedish countercultural icon Katarina Taikon's life.
Ingo Niermann - Burial of the White Man
2019
English edition
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An autofiction by Erik Niedling, interpolated by manifestos and proposals by Ingo Niermann and expanded by Austrian-American poet Ann Cotten and German novelist Jakob Nolte.
Travis Jeppesen - Bad Writing
2019
English edition
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Travis Jeppesen's Bad Writing is a collection of interconnected essays and “fictocriticisms,” many appearing in print for the first time, that etches a pathway for a truly radical “bad” modernism in art and literature. Erudite, witty, and occasionally controversial, Bad Writing reinvigorates the too-often staid medium of art criticism as an iconoclastic and inventive literary art form.
Alexandra Midal - Design by Accident - For a New History of Design
2019
English edition
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currently out of stock
In Design by Accident, Alexandra Midal declares the autonomy of design—in and on its own terms. This meticulously researched work proposes not only a counterhistory but a new historiography of design, shedding light on overlooked historical landmarks and figures while reevaluating the legacies of design's established luminaries from the nineteenth century to the present (new edition).
Para-Platforms - On the Spatial Politics of Right-Wing Populism
2019
English edition
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Three cases studies on social, spatial, and material reality of right-wing populism. Issues tackled include Trump and Brexit; spaces of right-wing extremism in Germany; and a racist murder by a German far-right group in 2006. Other contributions includes an introduction by anthropologist Mahmoud Keshavarz, an interview with Wolfgang Tillmans, and a comic strip by Liam Gillick.
Melissa McCarthy - Sharks, Death, Surfers - An Illustrated Companion
2019
English edition
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An unprecedented transdisciplinary study dedicated to the deathly relationship between sharks and surfers, initiated from a thorough analysis of newspaper obituaries.
John C. Welchman - After the Wagnerian Bouillabaisse - Essays on European Avant-Garde Art – 
XX-XXI, Vol. 2
2019
English edition
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The ten essays in After the Wagnerian Bouillabaisse offer original critical discussions of some of the major European artists and movements of the twentieth century.
Herewith the Clues
2019
English edition
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Herewith the Clues continues Boy Vereecken's research into mass-market literary culture, which began with Signature Strengths (2016). The volume includes two text contributions: a contemporary take on the whodunit novel by Shumon Basar, followed by a tour of the history of the Crime Dossiers genre by Laura Herman. The book is illustrated with a photo series from Antoine Begon, who has unpacked and photographed the pieces of evidence that comprise Crime Dossiers such as File on Rufus Ray and Murder Off Miami.
Olga von Schubert - “100 Years of Now” and the Temporality of Curatorial Research
2019
English edition
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The temporality of curatorial processes and research practices.
Paul in Paris / Paris in Paul
2019
English edition
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A collective reflection on Paul McCarthy's polemical sculpture Tree installed at Place Vendôme in Paris in 2014, presenting a map of the city's intellectual debates.
Josephine Berry - Art and (Bare) Life - A Biopolitical Inquiry
2019
English edition
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How did autonomous art become such an effective tool of the capitalist state? A thorough analysis of the connection between contemporary art and modern biopower.
Hubert Fichte - The Black City - Glosses
2019
English edition
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The first English translation of Hubert Fichte's investigation on New York's African diaspora in the late 1970s. Contesting the stylistic norms of ethnographic studies, Fichte offers an experimental, poetic, and radical reflection on the living conditions, struggles and cultural heritage of New York Africans.
Intersubjectivity - Vol. 2 – Scripting the Human
2019
English edition
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Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: this second volume investigates the relationship between performance, subjectivity, and human agency within a more global reflection on transhumanism.
Elisabeth 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.
Guttu Ane Hjort - Writings, Conversations, Scripts
2018
English edition
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The first survey of text works by artist Ane Hjort Guttu. Written between 2003 and 2018, the texts range from public statements, poetic short prose, film scripts and reflections on the role of the artist to essays on art for children and the link between light and wealth.
Omar Kholeif - Goodbye, World! - Looking at Art in the Digital Age
2018
English edition
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This study traces the history of a cultural and artistic landscape that has taken shape since the year 2000, with the Internet. Omar Kholeif aims to put into context a new language for seeing, feeling, and being that has emerged through post-millennial technologies, and argues for a nuanced understanding of the post-digital condition.
Isabelle Graw - The Love of Painting - Genealogy of a Success Medium
2018
English edition
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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.
Profit over Peace in Western Sahara - How commercial interests undermine self-determination in the last colony in Africa
2018
bilingual edition (English / Arabic), German insert
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20.00 10.00 €
This publication examines the role of natural resources in the occupation of the Western Sahara, a territory considered by the United Nations to still be awaiting decolonization. Its liberation from colonial rule has come to a standstill due to Morocco's continued military occupation of a part of the territory. The protracted conflict has dramatic consequences for the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara.
Wolfgang Tillmans - What Is Different? - Jahresring #64
2018
English edition
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The 2018 edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.
Wolfgang Tillmans - Was ist anders? - Jahresring #64
2018
German edition
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The 2018 edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.
Botanical Drift - Protagonists of the Invasive Herbarium
2018
English edition
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currently out of stock
A global and transdiciplinary study on botanics.
Wolfgang Tillmans - Qu\'est-ce qui est différent ? - Jahresring #64
2018
French edition
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(last copies available!)
The 2018 edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.
Oraib Toukan - Sundry Modernism - Materials for a Study of Palestinian Modernism
2018
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
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Artist Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture—an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho.
Fiction as Method
2018
English edition
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Fiction as Method brings authors into dialogue with artists, technologists, theorists and filmmakers in order to examine the diverse ways in which fiction manifests. The aim is to explore the concept through direct and indirect means, ultimately considering how fictions proliferate, take on flesh and come to act in the world.
Armen Avanessian - Miamification
2018
English edition
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18.00 9.00 €
Armen Avanessian's Miami chronicles: An inventory of the self in the second person, intertwining thoughts on the art world and interrogations on our digital times.
 Studio for Propositional Cinema - In relation to a Spectator:
2018
English edition
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(last copies available!)
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.
Systemics (or, Exhibition as a Series) - Index of Exhibitions and Related Materials, 2013–14
2018
English edition
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A collection of new writing and curatorial projects stemming from the activities of the Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, from 2013 to 2014. These projects reflected on the conditions for making curatorial “events” that are extended over longer durations to connect their constituent elements—exhibitions, texts, projects—across space and time.
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.
Sam Thorne - School - A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education
2017
English edition
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A chronicle of self-organized art schools and artist-run education platforms that have emerged since 2000.
Mari Shaw - The Noble Art of Collecting #01 - Words, Books, and the Spaces They Inhabit
2017
English edition
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First in Mari Shaw's series “The Noble Art of Collecting,” this publication is dedicated to book collecting. With examples of unexpected collectors and serendipitous outcomes, Shaw investigates the obscure desires that shape art collecting and the public goodwill that results from it.
T. J. Demos - Against the Anthropocene - Visual Culture and Environment Today
2017
English edition
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Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, T. J. Demos critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations, trough a series of cases study taken from contemporary visual culture.
Hearings - A Reader
2017
English edition
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The Contour Biennale offers a platform to curators and artists working with different forms of moving image, from film and video to installation. This reader accompanies the 8th edition of the biennale, dedicated to the notions of evidence and testimony. It includes texts and illustrated contributions by international artists, writers, poets, anthropologists, and filmmakers.
I am built inside you
2017
English edition
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Since 2013, the art magazine Contemporary And (C&) has called attention to exhibitions, artists, and curators from diverse African perspectives while boosting new areas of debate. I am built inside you, C&'s first book, is a compilation of eighteen pieces published since the magazine was launched.
 Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d\'Uterpan) - Uchronia - duplicate > do not create, infiltrate > do not exhibit, exceed > do not belong, appear > do not claim, delegate > do not restrict
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
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Companion book to a project by the artists Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens d'Uterpan), which emanates from the analysis of individual or collective attitudes and behaviors produced in the public space of a given city.
Michael Taussig - Becoming Palm
2017
English edition
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currently out of stock
Becoming Palm is the outcome of a conversation between two friends, artist Simryn Gill and anthropologist Michael Taussig, addressing the complexities of palm oil and “the enormous transformations, human, and ecological, that this crop engenders” (Taussig) in two disparate geographical locations, Southeast Asia and South America.
Sven Lütticken - Cultural Revolution - Aesthetic Practice after Autonomy
2017
English edition
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An examination of various forms of aesthetic practice seen through the lens of the neoliberal cultural revolution.
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