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Intersubjectivity - Vol. 2 – Scripting the Human
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press
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
Sternberg Press
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
Sternberg Press
(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
Sternberg Press
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.
The Flood of Rights
2017
English edition
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How technologies of image-capture and the channels of communication have in recent years transformed the very terms of human rights.
Armen Avanessian - Overwrite - Ethics of Knowledge – Poetics of Existence
2017
English edition
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19.00 9.50 €
A critical essay on the state of the academic world, and a call for the development of an autonomous knowledge production.
 Goldin+Senneby - The Exquisite Corpse of August Nordenskiöld
2017
English edition
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A collection of multidisciplinary essays assembled as cadavres exquis and inspired by the magical-financial theories of Finnish-Swedish alchemist August Nordenskiöld (a project by Swedish artists' duo Goldin+Senneby).
Marcus Verhagen - Flows and Counterflows - Globalisation in Contemporary Art
2017
English edition
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20.00 10.00 €
An historical survey of globalization in contemporary art.
CATPC - Congolese Plantation Workers Art League
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
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This book offers a first report on the activities of the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League (CATPC), an association for the development of an independent thought on postcolonial power relations within the global art world.
Across & Beyond - A transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and Institutions
2017
English edition
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Published to celebrates the 30-year anniversary of transmediale, this reader aims to use the critical and artistic knowledge gained at the festival over the years to reframe the question of the role of media today. In a world where technology increasingly operates independently of humans, where does the power to act and mediate lie?
Beyond the Globe - 8th Triennial of Contemporary Art U3
2017
English edition
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20.00 15.00 €
Catalogue dedicated to the artistic exploration of the cosmic space (in the framework of the 8th edition of the Triennial of Contemporary Art U3 in Ljubljana).
Black Diamond Dust
2017
English edition
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A multidisciplinary investigation dedicated to the cultural representations of coal mining, gathering contemporary artworks, poetry, essays, literature, folk songs, and archival images.
SouthEastAsia – Spaces of the Curatorial – Räume des Kuratorischen - Jahresring #63
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
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The 63rd edition of the Jahresring series—one of the longest continually published annual journals for contemporary art in Germany—focuses on the practice of curating in Southeast Asia, a region experiencing a time of increased global visibility as well as nation and institution building.
Chus Martínez - Club Univers
2017
English edition
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A collection of notes written along the years by Spanish curator and Head of Institut Kunst in Basel Chus Martínez. Aimed at her students, this notebook gathers personal thoughts on artists who inspire Martínez's ongoing practice.
Tirdad Zolghadr - Traction
2016
English edition
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A polemical essay targeting the moral economy of indeterminacy in contemporary art.
Boris Groys - Particular Cases
2016
English edition
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New collection of essays by Boris Groys in which the philosopher discusses the works and artists that influenced his thinking, from Paweł Althamer to Andy Warhol.
T. J. Demos - Decolonizing Nature - Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
2016
English edition
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currently out of stock
T. J. Demos considers the creative proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a time when such creative proposals are urgently needed.
The Silent University - Towards a Transversal Pedagogy
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
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This first comprehensive publication about the Silent University introduces the initiative—a solidary school by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants—and contextualizes it in the wider framework of both radical pedagogy and socially engaged art projects.
Markus Miessen - Crossbenching - Toward Participation as Critical Spatial Practice
2016
English edition
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The limits of the participatory game in nowadays democracies.
Cave 1 - Territories
2016
English edition
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Cave is a series of publications dedicated to contemporary collecting. The first issue looks into the territory of the public collection considering it both a semantic ground for institutional collecting as well as political and cultural infrastructure.
Intersubjectivity - Vol. 1 – Language and Misunderstanding
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: the first volume makes a case in favor of concretism in contemporary artistic practices.
Dysfunctional Comedy - A Reader
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
This reader is the result of a series of public events, performances, and workshops which examined performative patterns and subvertive power in comedic and cartoonist practices.
Presence - A Conversation at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
2016
English edition
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Theatrical rendition of an experimental international symposium centered around the topic of “presence” in arts, humanities and social sciences at Cabaret Voltaire.
What Ever Happened to New Institutionalism?
2016
English edition
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26.00 19.50 €
A reader examining the curatorial approaches of New Institutionalism—which emerged in the 1990s to reshape the art institution into a more democratic and egalitarian public sphere.
John Douglas Millar - Brutalist Readings - Essays on Literature
2016
English edition
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A significant intervention into recent debates on the place of literature and writing in the context of contemporary art. Featuring essays on the highs and lows of the conceptual turn in poetics, avant-garde literary genealogies, and monographic pieces on Paul B. Preciado, Chris Kraus, and Pierre Guyotat, among others, Brutalist Readings explores the radical histories of writing, as well as its potential now.
Ina Blom - The Autobiography of Video - The Life and Times of a Memory Technology
2016
English edition
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The birth and life of video art.
Individual Stories - Collecting as Portrait and Methodology
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
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This catalogue compiles individual collections from artists and considers the act of collecting as a portrait of its collector and also as an artistic method—as a process rather than an end result.
Öffentliche Gestaltungsberatung - Public Design Support 2011-2016
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
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This publication chronicles the aspirations, methods, and projects of the first four years of Public Design Support—a joint venture between Goethe Institute's Urban Incubator and Hamburg University of Fine Arts established to offer free practical support to urban residents. It includes key project materials, scholarly essays, and significant historical texts.
John C. Welchman - Past Realization - Essays on Contemporary European Art – XX-XXI – Vol. 1
2016
English edition
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This volume is a collection of dynamic and engaged writings by art historian John C. Welchman on a range of contemporary European artists that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s. Welchman poses thoughtful and provocative questions about how artists receive and negotiate the social and aesthetic histories through which they live and work.
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