Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange’s long-overlooked ‘Padonna’ pictures and proposes that ‘Migrant Mother’ should in fact be seen as a disruptive image of women’s conflictual relation to home, and the world.

Two Kids, One Grown-up is the newest artist's book from John Baldessari, a non-linear narrative based on

Midnight Deer Abstractions is a collaboration between artist Geoff Farnsworth and poet Erin Knight to produce limitless in-betweens and vast spaces where slight variations contain all the precisions of colour and diction, rendered immediately nebulous. Creating spectral selves, they invite us to look “between foreground and background” for the traces and sketches of identities, whose edits are vague, always disappearing to be retraced, resketched.

Here live the near-blind. In their eyes the city dwells like aureoles on suckling lips. Here they apprehend the city with knowledge viscous and immediate. And here they also live uneasily, for tranquillity is found only in pictures they are disinclined to make.
In essays, letters and aphorisms, this book makes near-blindness tangible as one condition of living in. protracted war.
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Ein Jahr lang bewegt sich der deutsche Forschungseisbrecher „Polarstern“, angefroren an einer Eisscholle, im arktischen Polarmeer. Seine Aufgabe: den Klimawandel und dessen Einwirkungen auf die Nordpolarregion zu erforschen. Das Expeditionsprojekt „MOSAiC“ – die Drift des Schiffes mit dem Meereis von Herbst 2019 bis Herbst 2020 – ist eines der größten und aufwändigsten Forschungsvorhaben der letzten Jahre.

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.

From one of the most lauded artists of his generation comes a purging soliloquy: a profound nowt delivered in some spent afterwards. Scorched by senility and nostalgia, and wracked by all kinds of hunger, Ed Atkins’ Old Food lurches from allegory to listicle, from lyric to menu, fetching up a plummeting, idiomatic and crabbed tableau from the cannibalised remains of each form in turn. Written in conjunction with Atkins’ exhibition of the same name, Old Food is a hard Brexit, wadded with historicity, melancholy and a bravura kind of stupidity. Ed Atkins is an artist who makes all kinds of convolutions of self-portraiture. He writes uncomfortably intimate, debunked prophesies; paints travesties; and makes realistic computer generated videos that often feature figures that resemble the artist in the throes of unaccountable psychical crises. Atkins’ artificial realism, whether written or animated, pastiches romanticism to get rendered down to a sentimental blubber – all the better to model those bleak feelings often so inexpressible in real life.

A performative reading of Old Food by Ed Atkins is available to listen to by clicking on this link:
https://soundcloud.com/ed-atkins-183631831/old-food-songs
Recorded at the theatre of Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki on 29 February 2020, with songs throughout. Thanks to Sanni Pajula, Patrik Nyberg, Sonya Merutka and all at Kiasma. Courtesy Ed Atkins and Fitzcarraldo Editions. Copyright © Ed Atkins, 2019 and 2020.

In 1977 Ingemo Engström and Gerhard Theuring embark on a journey through France. They trace the escape route of the German emigration in France 1940/41, documenting the places, talking to witnesses, relating the temporal layers. The film ESCAPE ROUTE TO MARSEILLES that was the result of this journey, carries the subtitle “Images from a working journal (1977) on the novel Transit (1941) by Anna Seghers”. Produced by the WDR, it premiered in Mannheim and had success at international festivals. Accompanying the film, Theuring and Engström conceived an issue of the journal Filmkritik that extends the movie, comments upon it, provides an insight into the research and production process. On the occasion of its theatrical release in Great Britain, Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media published the comprehensive essay by Engström and Theuring in English translation. HaFI 009 republishes the essay from Filmkritik and its English translation in facsimile. In addition to the essay by Theuring / Engström, the booklet contains two texts by Paul Willemen and Steve Neale, who contextualized the film in the UK for Framework, as well as a commentary by the Harun Farocki

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

"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

"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."

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

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,

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.

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.

Written in the 1950s and ’60s, the “action poems” comprising a A User’s Manual were published in their complete form in 1969 when they were paired with the 52 collages of Weekly 1967, the first of Kolář’s celebrated series in which he commented visually on a major event for each week of the year. Taking the form of directives,

Der Psychiater Ferdière, der Artaud aus dem besetzten Paris 1943 nach Rodez geholt hatte, im Gespräch mit dem Philosophen Sylvère Lotringer.

The English-language paperback selected by Wolfgang Tillmans contains transcriptions of lectures by the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti (1895-1986). The motif of the dust jacket designed by Wolfgang Tillmans

Trotz seiner Kürze verfolgt der Aufsatz in dieser Edition ein dreifaches Anliegen:

Das Zeitstück „Ludwig“ erzählt eine Geschichte über die Schwierigkeiten und Voraussetzungen des Erinnerns.

How to disappear in America without a trace. “There are many good reasons to disappear from society.

Wir berichten vom Anfangen. Von Ritualen und Methoden des Anfangens, von zufälligen Fängen. Von Beginnlosigkeit. Vom Stellenwert des Anfangs und von möglichen Definitionen.

What does it mean to publish today?

Anerkennung bekommt heute als Künstler, wer musikalisch virtuos, bildnerisch hermetisch, fragmentarisch und unbeholfen, konzeptuell jedenfalls strikt fern aller Rezepte sich behaupten kann. Es scheint sich als Versprechen eines unbedingt gegenakademischen Experimentierens - das Improvisatorische paradox zu einer neuen Doktrin des freien Kunstschaffens verfestigt zu haben.

Ein reich illustriertes Buch über Bücher, die aus der Reihe fallen und sich dem internationalen System des Warenaustauschs entziehen.Welche Rolle wird das Selbstverlegen im 21. Jahrhundert spielen? Kann der Druck auf Papier eine Alternative zum elektronischen Austausch darstellen? Wie lässt sich zwischen Subversionsgestus und Neuem Biedermeier unterscheiden?
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