Die Untersuchung beginnt mit ethnografischen Erkundungen einer Kunsthochschule. Unter diesem Blickwinkel sind die 96 % derer, die freie Kunst studieren, ohne je von ihrem Metier leben zu können, genauso interessant wie die Stars des Kunstbetriebs.

“Saint Louis in his prison in Damietta”, “A house engulfed in flames ...”, “A snowman, such as children build ...”: The painter and illustrator Henri-Achille Zo (1873–1933) received a total of 59 instructions of this kind in the early 1930s.

To Perform a Ferry is a book that holds eight performance scripts and other material to be spoken. Inspired by the figure of the renegade who leaves land behind and crosses the sea or leaves civilization to take refuge in the vast desert, the eight scripts embody the state of migrating, through space but also through languages, bodies, and writing genres. Written in English by Mohamed Abdelkarim.

In 1972, Ulises Carrión produced his first artist’s book SONNET(S) which consists on 44 variations of a sonnet by Dante Gabriel Rosetti

X is an annual magazine focusing on visual culture and experimental literature: a collective artwork, a material flow of reality that eludes any prediction. X freezes on paper the power of contemporary art and writing, welcoming with joy the delirum of participating in such pursuits. Pain, battles, sequences of errors, vanished memories and unwanted prophecies; X is born because we can still be against everything and also against ourselves.

Los Angeles Studio Conversations ist der vierte Band einer laufenden Interviewserie, die 2013 von der Kunsthistorikerin Stephanie Buhmann in New York ins Leben gerufen wurde. Mit bislang siebzig bis publizierten Gesprächen zielt dieses Projekt darauf ab, ein permanentes und wachsendes Forum für internationale zeitgenössische Künstlerinnen zu schaffen.
Los Angeles Studio Conversations stellt die folgenden Künstlerinnen vor: Lita Albuquerque, Sarah Cain, Andrea Fraser, Liza Lou, Shana Lutker, Kristen Morgin, Catherine Opie, Silke Otto-Knapp, Monique Prieto, Alison Saar, Analia Saban, Fran Siegel, Lisa C. Soto, Despina Stokou, und Diana Thater.

Zur Ausstellung erscheint eine Publikation mit einem Essay von Stephen Ellcock, in dem er die spirituellen und mythologischen Bezüge in Delaine Le Bas’ Werk und insbesondere in der für die Secession konzipierten Installation exemplarisch anhand von Referenzen aus der griechischen Mythologie und altägyptischen Totenkulten darlegt.

From one of the most lauded artists of his generation comes a purging soliloquy: a profound nowt delivered in some spent afterwards.

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin tells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.

Julie Ault and David Deitcher illuminate the life and work of the influential art historian, New Museum curator, and Visual AIDS co-founder William Olander (1950–1989). Olander’s exhibitions challenged oppressive institutional boundaries, blew open dichotomies, and boldly confronted discrimination, sexual difference, and AIDS, shaping curatorial practice for decades to come.

To write about someone else means both to expose and transform them.

Rab-Rab Press announces the publication of “Free Jazz Communism“, a new book actualising Archie Shepp–Bill Dixon Quartet at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki 1962.

Next Spring is an occasional series of reviews that offers a different approach to the writing of art criticism. Focused on the reading of one film work, each book in the series presents a parallel text on the artwork as both a critical response and literary production. The film selected and the text produced consider ecological issues, environmental concerns, and systematic revisionings. The language of place is given priority and image reproductions used nominally. Paris, May 16, the pilot issue, includes writings by Clara Schulmann, Barbara Sirieix, and Jennifer Teets, as well as a visual essay by Scott Rogers on the invitation of Richard Frater.

In 1977 Ingemo Engström and Gerhard Theuring embark on a journey through France.

Square of Will in Square of Love gathers a selection of texts, notes and drawings by Alina Popa, edited by Florin Flueras. Most texts are more poetic and more personal than Alina’s previously published writing, “...a mixture of styles, subjects and mediums – theory, poetry, drawings, diary notes, it's unclassifiable, as she liked it.”
– Florin Flueras

The Disassembled Dictionary is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. “Portrait” consists of a glossary of synonyms and an essay by artist and poet Leif Holmstrand.

The Disassembled Dictionary is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. “Non-territorial” consists of texts by Yoko Andersson Yamano, Rachel Armstrong, Ylva Björnberg, Athena Farrokhzad, Jörg Heiser, Rolf Hughes, Ronald Jones, Lundahl & Seitl, Petra Malm, Aldy Milliken, David Neuman, Aleksander Perski, Tessa Praun, Theodor Ringborg, Robert Stasinski and Alessandra Di Pisa, and Liv Stoltz.

The Disassembled Dictionary is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. “Black” consists of the A–Z list and an adapted version of the essay by Oscar Guermouche from the book Noir – A Serendipitous Encyclopedia Inspired by 1001 Names for the Color Black by Sandra Praun, and a part of an interview with Pierre Soulages. Rotolito / Nava Press

Produced in partnership with the Office of the President of Ukraine and the PinchukArtCentre, this publication was released on the occasion of the 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition

Modern Animal by Yevgenia Belorusets is a book published in 2021 by ISOLARII Belorusets connects a series of different characters and ideas, making use of a Soviet-style lecture form.

The humanism of the past five hundred years is dead. Believing man was exceptional, it opened the abyss of extinction. A new approach is needed to re-enchant the world and establish the commonality of all life on Earth.

F LETTER assembles the feminist poets who have palpably changed the Russian language over the last decade.

Antny Kreeg 47 and his lady-friend Contruh Guerre (pronounced “Country Girl”) had a rent-controlled apartment on the 112th floor (where the players dwell) of the Empire World Trade Twin Towers and they were never heard of again after 9/11. The ideas in this book were buried under

Während sie Damwild in einem Gebiet verfolgt, in dem früher Tagebau betrieben wurde, entdeckt Kat Dogtok ein Zickzack-Symbol, das mit einer schmalen Stiftspitze in einer dunklen Unterführung für Wildtiere geschrieben wurde. Die anschließenden unheimlichen Begegnungen und der zeitliche sowie räumliche Zauber, den dieses Zeichen ausstrahlt, sind so beeindruckend, dass Dogtok ihnen nicht mehr entkommen kann. Was oder wer steckt hinter den Zickzack-Markierungen?

Für Hannah war der Schulweg eine elternfreie Zeit, über die kein Erwachsener bestimmte. So konnte sie täglich auf ihrem Weg viele Abenteuer erleben. Es gab schwierige Stel- len und brenzlige Situationen zu meistern. Für Hannah war es selbstverständlich, zu jeder Jahreszeit

Die Wiener Gruppe – Friedrich Achleitner, H. C. Artmann, Konrad Bayer, Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener – entstand zwischen 1952 und 1955 aus einem Kreis avantgardistischer Künstler, die dem Wiener „Art-Club“ verbunden waren. Bei aller Verschiedenartigkeit

Pollution Diaries is a collectively written text, based on a small corpus of authentic recordings from the WhatsApp group of the same name, intended to share daily experiences of life in one of the most polluted cities in the world - Delhi.

Artists’ Letters is a collection of intriguing, entertaining, moving, significant, surprising, witty and

Ein umfassendes Forschungsprojekt am Städel Museum untersucht derzeit die Kunstszene der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Zeitraum von 1960 bis 1989 aus der Perspektive von Zeitzeugen. In Gesprächen mit über 70 Künstlern, Galeristen, Sammlern, Ausstellungsmachern und Journalisten, die maßgeblich an der Entwicklung der westdeutschen Kunstszene mitgewirkt haben, werden wichtige Stationen der jüngsten deutschen Kunstgeschichte

The oceans are rising. On the rise are the metrics of accelerated human activities: sea level, water temperature, acidity, algal blooms, and the depletion of fish communities and marine life. The loss of abundance and diversity has devastating effects on the services the oceans render to the earth, exhausting their unrecognized labor of

A multimedia meditation on the many meanings of the ocean across history

"Type I enacts a hyperreality, in which the effects of climate change are damaging our world, and technological advances are held up as the key innovative tools for alleviating ecological collapse. Merging poetics, visuals, fiction and essaying to create a vivid, multi-layered novel, Max Parnell's debut offers up not only an

Anlässlich des 70. Geburttages von Günter Brus veranstaltete das BRUSEUM der Neuen Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum 2008 "Ein Fest für Günter Brus", das aus einem Symposium mit internationalen Referenten und Referentinnen,

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)