An early discussion at an Independent Space Index Stammtisch led to a proposal that Vienna’s independent scene could be considered a large and diverse intergenerational institution, presenting hundreds of exhibitions and projects per year, creating a responsive web of international networks.

Edited by Eric Troncy and Stéphanie Moisdon, Frog is an international art and architecture magazine. Published in October 2016 this issue features: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jim Shaw, Alex Israel / Bret Easton Ellis, Christian Rosa, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Sarah Lucas, Ugo

Herbert Fuchs macht aus seinen Künstlerfreunden Geiger, Zobernig und Kippenberger Kunstfiguren, die in seinen Textmontagen aus facts und fiction, aus Erinnerungen an gemeinsam verbrachte Tage und Nächte,

“Yves Klein by himself” is the intellectual biography of one of the most influential artists of the second half of the twentieth century.

Forked Apologies gathers twenty-five texts by Michael Van den Abeele, all but two written on invitation by fellow artists and architects in the course of the last ten years. Drawings by Michael Van den Abeele of the concerned works and exhibitions accompany the texts. In fiction or description,

The apparent primary goal of Eric’s treatise is to define something called ‘the Real’, with the help of a patchwork of theoretical materials drawn from contemporary mathematics, mathematical physics, ‘neurophysics’ and continental theory. Other topics in the text,

"In a house you wanted to intrude, searching for a narrative you've detected between a character, images and photographs. I remember bumping against a floor lamp, causing its glow to waver briefly. Trying to ascertain the transmissions while already standing in front of objects that demand to be looked at."

"If it is somehow identifiable as part of a referential system, we immediately understand the meaning of a line on a piece of paper. A horizontal line will be easily read as a minus, an em dash or a way on a map, no matter how sloppily it is written or drawn."

Texts by Hans Haacke that range from straightforward descriptions of his artworks to wide-ranging reflections on the relationship between art and politics.

Excerpts from the potential spaces of interaction, word-image miniatures.

You’ll Never Work Alone: Collective Infrastructures in Moving Images demonstrates the possibilities and challenges inherent in collective cinematic and artistic work by presenting international and local perspectives from academics and practitioners.

Wer cope im Internet nachschlägt, wird von einer Lawine sinnverwandter Formulierungsalternativen verschluckt. So ungefähr:

die publikation zeigt neue werkgruppen von g. b. in den love seats sitzen wir auf einem möbelobjekt & blicken aneinander vorbei. textilbilder & stickereien zeigen kisses in form von lippen ohne person.

In Hidden Histories – Secrets of the Land, artist and writer Fiona Heron provokes a deep sense of a shared human experience.

First published in 1961, Lorenza Mazzetti’s “The Sky is Falling” (“Il cielo cade”) is an impressionistic, idiosyncratic, and uniquely funny look at the writer’s childhood after she and her sister are sent to live with their Jewish relatives following the death of their parents. Bright and bucolic, vivid and mournful, and brimming with saints, martyrdom, ideals, wrong-doing and self-imposed torments,

Dear world you have made the persons slow uses the World Health Organization's collected 2020 press statements about COVID-19 as its source material. Composed using blackout poetry, the project casts light on the ongoing and mostly unconscious consumption of online information.

The 24th issue of zweikommasieben focuses on an aspect of experimental electronic music that might be rather obvious. Nevertheless, this aspect is integral to the type of discerning perspective adopted in the pages of this magazine:

CORNER football + society is a periodical publication that proposes a crossdisciplinary approach, taking football and its complex contemporary and historical context as a starting point.

Das plastische Werk von Ursula Burghardt (1928–2008) ist von einer fortwährenden Auseinandersetzung mit dem Alltäglichen geprägt. Mit unterschiedlichsten Materialien und Techniken formte, modifizierte und transformierte sie alltägliche Gegenstände zu überraschenden, die Sehgewohnheiten unterlaufenden Werken.

Das Operndorf Afrika ist zehn Jahre alt geworden. Was ist aus Schlingensiefs Vision, ein Operndorf im westafrikanischen Burkina Faso zu gründen, geworden? Werden dreißig Kilometer außerhalb der burkinischen Hauptstadt Ouagadougou nun Wagner-Opern inszeniert?

The book was solely designed by women, from cover to paper, from typeface to printing.

If the 1960s and 1970s were the heyday of artists books, the 2010s (and 1920s) strike us as the heyday of publishing as (artistic) practice. IDEA POLL collected ideas regarding publishing activities and beyond. IDEA POLL 2020/21 was created through an online query and features about 100 responses from diverse international networks. Historical Note: In 1976, the periodical Art-Rite already conducted and published an IDEA POLL, marking a seminal moment in the state of affairs in the field of art and publishing.

Forms of Migration explores the potential of literary and aesthetic forms of expression to shape our understanding of transnational migration processes. The volume emphasises form because it is often the compositional structure and rhetoric of texts and images – their literary nature and formal qualities – that impact readers and beholders, opening up new interpretations of im/migrant experiences and identities.

How can art and culture contribute to creating new imaginaries of the future within the current political and social discourse marked by misinformation, radicalization, populism, and a general crisis of representative democracy? Shaping Desired Futures draws the map of a changing Europe that can help contextualize today’s burning questions and trace still unknown narratives shared by Eastern and Central Europe. Through a series of interviews, essays, and artistic contributions, it proposes new means through which art can model alternative visions and help shaping different desirable futures.

The publication "Art Within Political Struggles. Solidary Artistic Practice at the Periphery:

The book is published in relation to the exhibition 1971 – Parallel Nonsychronism, a joint exhibition of Kiscell Museum – Municipal Gallery and tranzit.hu, which examined the parallel tendencies of art in state socialist Hungary, during the so-called Kádár era (1957–1989)

Unsorcery composes and explores ways of sorcery that can eventually surpass or undo some of the contemporary realities and subjectivities.

“Portraits by Robert” is a book of poems about people. Most of the poetry is in post-American English (our English). A handful of pieces are in other languages.

“Attached” is a collection of texts that document a diverse range of artworks made by Jessie Bullivant (AU/FI) over the past decade. By replacing the default photographic documentation with written accounts,

‘The persistence of thoughts of such a kind in individual memory is very rare. If they are not fixed by writing or other means, they tend to disappear in a short time. This process of erasure operates in a similar manner to what happens during the forgetting of dreams.

THE LINE – Atlas of Remoteness documents the exploration of contemporary landscapes by walking along a straight line around the Earth. This volume focuses on a segment that goes from the River Rhine to the High Alps extending through the territory of Liechtenstein. THE LINE is a project by the Institute for Linear Research, an independent research platform.

Spanning 500 years of colonial destruction, human trafficking and blood sucking, Nosferasta is a Rastafarian vampire film that reimagines Oba’s origin story in the late 15th century, when he is seduced by the vampire Christopher Columbus, ensuring his undying allegiance to the colonial project. Combining film forms and jumping across multiple timelines,

Including essays about Barbara Hammer, Agnès Varda, Camille Billops, Jane Arden, Penny Slinger, Ana Mendieta, Hito Steyerl, Mati Diop, Catherine Breillat, Carol Morley, Ulrike Ottinger, Charlotte Prodger, Charlotte Pryce, Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Gloria Camiruaga, Margarethe von Trotta, Astra Taylor, Lina Wertmüller. Interviews with Akosua Adoma Owusu, Astra Taylor, Ericka Beckman, Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer

STURM OF LOVE ist der Abdruck eines SMS-Austausches zwischen einem anonymen Paar. Dieser Austausch gibt sehr intime, voyeuristische Einblicke in eine Beziehung und beleuchtet die abgründigen Seiten von Kommunikation im postdigitalen Zeitalter. Der SMS-Austausch, läuft in zwei parallelen Spalten durch das ganze Buch, inklusive Cover. Das Impressum befindet sich auf einem Lesezeichen aus Neon-Papier.

"18 Autoren rätseln. Sie wundern sich über die Bedeutung eines Zeichens. In WHAT teilen sie in kurzen Stücken mit, was Ihnen durch den Kopf schwebt, in Hirnwindungen hängen bleibt und schreibend zu Blatt gelangt.

E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake (1861-1913) is a writer, poet and performer who drew upon her Canadian and Mohawk upbringing on the Six Nations of the Grand River and Brantford in Upper Canada/Ontario. Landon Mackenzie is a Canadian artist, living on the unceded traditional lands of the Coast Salish.

In 2022 the Niagara Region welcomes the Canada Games; 2022 also marks the reintroduction of the Indigenous game of lacrosse. By thematizing lacrosse, this book celebrates the role sport plays in promoting cultural diversity.

Frederick Weston and Samuel R. Delany come together for a wide-ranging dialogue, reflecting on their overlapping histories in Times Square, the deep impact of AIDS on their creative practices, and the ever-changing intersections of race, sex, language, and art.

Das materialreiche, mit zahlreichen Faksimiles und Abbildungen ausgestattete Katalogbuch widmet sich dem Theaterschaffen des Autors erstmals in großem Umfang.

The punk pulp love story by a post-post-modern dandy, boy-about-town, lost in the perverse underworld of sex & drugs & culture wars.

My Kingdom for a Title is a collection of writing by Chicago–based artist Pope.L documenting his use of language as a mode of visual, narrative, and performative story telling.

Small Sculptural Statements is a book of poetry and a book of sculpture. It is a book of poetic sculpture. It is the poetry of our time, one line at a time, one line a page. The text appears as though edited in a manuscript with words crossed out and the edits written above. It is a collection of Garnet’s small sculptural statements produced from 2004 to 2020.

On display forty Mongolfiere, made with recycled materials, objet trouvé and natural elements, each dedicated to a desire. The project was born in the spring of 2020 when, in response to the isolation imposed by the pandemic, the artist asked friends, family and colleagues to express a desire to be shaped, leaving all of them free to follow the flow of their thoughts and aspirations. This freedom gave birth to a choral discourse, made up of a set of desires all different from each other but united by the same strength and determination.

Published on the occasion of the collaboration between 3 137 and Ilaria Conti, within the framework of the sync Curatorial Fellowship (January – March 2020), Around Labor, Art, and the Auratic Condition (This is Not a Love Song), this non-linear

The research of Mariateresa Sartori revolves around three thematic fulcrums: empirical scientific method; behavioural dynamics, often in relation to neurosciences; music and sound in relation to language.

"of course blue affects my way of shitting” is a collection of prose and poetry by Petrit Halilaj written between 2007 and 2008. Many of the artist's titles for previous exhibitions and artworks have come from these texts, which have never been presented in their entirety until now.

Dissent Without Modification (Bergen Kunsthall), written by Grace Ndiritu, is a research book composed of interviews with radical and progressive artists and thinkers, who started their education and careers in the 1990s. Some are well-known, some are not. They are African, European, and American women working as painters, photographers, performers, hackers, activists and educators, among other roles such as Lisha Sterling, Monster Chetwynd and Kathrin Böhm.

As an independent art publisher, Lugemik has mapped a large part of the Estonian contemporary art and design landscape through numerous collaborations with artists, designers, theorists and cultural institutions, resulting in a variety of printed matter. The exhibition strives to talk about the aspect of translation in Lugemik’s practice, and will also reflect on topics related to book-making, such as graphic design, contemporary methods for art reproduction, and various forms of collaboration.

For the first time, this publication unites the English language work of Zampa di Leone with two sequences of comic strips and caricatures titled “Deep Europe” and “In the Arse of the Balkans”.

Mister Spare owns a pen that can write 320 miles. That's how the pen was sold to Mister Spare: as a 320-mile pen. But Mister Spare isn't going anywhere. Mister Spare writes in the same notebook every day.

Looking at cartographies through sexual dissidence facilitates a process of resignification that speaks in other terms,

In its obsession to classify and find an underlying order to nature, one of the objectives of science has been to develop a system of taxonomies for bodies. Through their representation systems and the devices used for their exhibition, cartographies of the

Lesen und Sehen (Reading and Watching) is Peter Nau’s fourth book of miniatures. “In reading a book, in watching and listening to films, we become the resonating body and screen for something outside ourselves. What it is about is the magic of regaining our participation in the totality of the world.

The Repetition Festival Show Tessa Giblin, Saskia Vermeulen, Rhea Gaardboe Dall, Andrea Viliani Parution date: 2011

Impulse Interviews consists of over 60 interviews with some of the 20th Century’s most engaging and important cultural creators.

Much is popularised of the Mafia in film, literature, music and urban legend. Some stories are inspired by and respectful of the facts, but many are presented through a creative lens distorting how organized crime began. References are often made to criminal activity in the infamous Prohibition Era, but few stories cover the preceding years, until now. This new book

We are on the verge of sharing our cities with autonomous vehicles. Recent developments in driverless technologies are having an impact on our urban environment, raising questions about how self-driving vehicles could be integrated into our daily lives.

In Noir – A Serendipitous Encyclopedia Inspired by 1001 Names for the Color Black graphic designer Sandra Praun takes on the color black and the language that charges it with a variety of characteristics. The book consists of three parts:

Window is Alexis's first full length novel in the form of a truelife vignetted memoire. Written from a swivel chair in Crown Heights, the stories meander through Alexis's surreal memories of growing up gay in Kansas, grasping for substance in fleeting hookups, gaining possessive rein on his powers of seduction (often via texting), and abusing them in San Francisco. Accompanied by photos from his voluminous archive, these stories are a full, and blurry, portrait of searching for "true love" in a multitude of disposable romances.