This first issue of II Magazine explores how publishing can become a performative act.

Neuware – In diesem Künstlerbuch erklärt Wilhelm Klotzek die Umschläge von Kunstbüchern kurzerhand zum eigenständigen Genre:

It’s a book, it’s fragmentary, together it’s a library ist eine vielschichtige Publikation, die das Denken, Arbeiten und Zusammenkommen unabhängiger Verlags- und Publikationsprojekte in den Mittelpunkt stellt.

This project explores the fluid strategies involved in contemporary publishing practices, focusing on texts that refuse to remain static.

Johanna Drucker’s Diagrammatic Writing is a poetic demonstration of the capacity of format to produce meaning. The articulation of the codex as a site for meaning-makinghas rarely (if ever) been subject to such highly focused and detailed study as in this volume,

Books are a meeting place. A sum of their many parts and artistic approaches. Form, concept, material and craft are bound together to create something rooted in its functionality, a process that often crosses over into the messier realm of art.

For their inaugural Venice edition, Index Art Book Fair will bring sixteen art book fairs from around the world presenting their personal selection of art and artists publications, accompanied by an exciting public program.

You ever read the back of a book and blah blah blah words and more words, and function. Poets depend on the emotional character of words. Manuals depend on the instructiveness of words. Yet words can be pronounced backwards or cut up and given new meaning, they can be looked at for their mathematical value, pondered over how they change in translation or seen as hiding messages within them.

The book is a compilation and an archive of press cuttings, consisting of more than two hundred articles, commentaries, reports, and advertisements that

Alexey Brodovitch's Ballet published in 1945 is one of the most legendary of photobook masterpieces. While already established as a leading influential art director and graphic designer, Brodovitch turned his photographic talents towards rehearsals and performances of ballet companies visiting New York stages.

The exhibition “The Promise of Total Automation” investigated our relationship to a world of machines, technological objects, and electronic devices.

End of Collecting! Mit dieser Situation ist irgendwann jeder Sammler, jeder Künstler konfrontiert. Es reift die Erkenntnis, dass jetzt langsam »Schluss« ist, dass die Anzahl der erworbenen resp. erschaffenen Kunstgüter nicht mehr weiter anwachsen sollen.

Was heißt es, ein Buch zu gestalten? In fiktiven Dialogen und in Gesprächsprotokollen, in denen Buchgestalterinnen detailliert über den Entstehungsprozess eines ihrer Bücher sprechen, geht »Liner Notes« dieser Frage nach.

This room is being constructed by its contributions, it is being modeled by the filling of its parameters. The hinges of this construction might be functions within it that become as yet unknown parameters by the very act of reading them. IT IS A STOPOVER. ...The room it offers is circumscribed and structured by the book’s parameters: format, binding, jacket, title page, layout, preface, postface, table of contents, captions, cross headings, intertitles, annotations, editorial notes, appendix, blurb, names and accessories. THIS BOOK IS A CLASSROOM. We invite you to

Die Anthologie stellt eine Sammlung von kurzen Texten, Konzepten Zeichnungen, Collagen und Fotografien von bildenden Künstlern_innen vor.