Personal, but not a personal thing: affect is at the heart of some of the most pressing issues of social and political life.

The Summer 2023 explores themes of myth, memory, and folklore. Featuring Rasha Abdulhadi, Abdulkareem Abdulkareem, Lydia Abedeen, leena aboutaleb, Nyree Abrahamian, Maya Abu-AlHayyat, Yasmine Ameli, Aida Bardissi, Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan,

In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where l am. You know the way to the place where I am going." John 14:1-4

Elke Krystufek (* 1970 in Wien) ist eine vielfach ausgezeichnete bildende Künstlerin, Fotografin, Installationskünstlerin und Autorin, die sowohl in Wien als auch in Berlin lebt und arbeitet. Ihre Werke zeichnen sich durch eine innovative und oft provokante Auseinandersetzung mit sozialen, kulturellen und persönlichen Themen

‘Feminisms’ (as a plural) is widely used today to draw attention to inequalities and to critique the status quo in limiting women’s roles/ positions/ lives/ potential. Art can offer a vision of future worlds, manifesting a desire for projecting change, playing with existing realities and conventions. Feminist Art Artivism and Activism, two sides of the same coin,

Queer Exhibition Histories comprises case studies highlighting the countless efforts, both large and small, of LGBTQIA+ artists and curators, centring on queer art exhibitions and their modes of documentation and archiving. Often, the legacy of these projects largely depends on personal archives, memories, and

A Faggot is a Unit by Berlin-based artist, filmmaker, and writer Padraig Robinson, brings together two original screenplays for yet-realized video works by Robinson along with a collection of research material presented as a retrograde calendar. The screenplays, / Imagine Prompt: Catfish Monogamy and The Jealousy of Sagittarius A*, both deal with

“WHAT HAPPENS,” ASKS LUIS FELIPE FABRE, “TO THE BODY DRESSED IN SÁNCHEZ-KANE?” ITS LIMBS MUTATE. ITS ORGANS SWELL. IT SPROUTS AN EAR WHERE ONCE WAS AN ARM. THE BODY BECOMES MONSTROUS, VAMPIRIC. ITS IDENTITY IS SLURRED. ITS IMAGE STRIPPED. IT DISAPPEARS. NEW LEXICONS FOR EMBODIMENT CELEBRATES BÁRBARA SÁNCHEZ-KANE’S (1987, MÉRIDA, MEXICO) EPONYMOUS SARTORIO-SCULPTURAL EXHIBITION AT KURIMANZUTTO, NEW YORK, FROM SEPT. 14 THROUGH OCT. 21, 2023.

Entirely realized by the artists, and rich of more than 540 colour illustrations, this book is like a wide and coloured family album, illustrating almost all works created by Pierre et Gilles between 1976 and 2002.

These photos were either lost, forgotten or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them. "My Queer History " wants to be the home for lost photos – a resting place for the nameless and lost.

'Queer' is an inclusive term, encompassing the complex experiences of sexuality and gender diversity across history. In the past, 'queer' has been used as a term of derision, but many today have reclaimed the term to capture the complexity of gender and sexuality.

Ein umfangreicher Ausstellungskatalog, der gleichzeitig die erste umfassende Monographie zum Werk einer der wichtigsten Künstlerinnen ihrer Generation in Osteuropa darstellt. Seit den 1960er Jahren gehört Ana Lupaș zu den wichtigsten Künstlerinnen ihrer Generation in Osteuropa. In ihrem Werk finden sich zahlreiche

A multidisciplinary look at the foremost archive of Black American visual culture, as recast by Theaster Gates. This book features essays and other reflections commissioned in response to the Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories, a monumental participatory work by Theaster Gates (born 1973). The Cabinet includes nearly

Zero Waste Fashion Design combines research and practice to introduce a crucial sustainable fashion design approach. Written by two industry leading pioneers, Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan, the book offers flexible strategies and easy-to-master zero waste techniques to help you develop your own cutting edge fashion designs.

Wen oder was wir als liebens- und begehrenswert empfinden, hängt mit Vorstellungen eines idealen Körpers, unseren Bildern von Mann und Frau, mit unserem Sinn für Schönheit und "Normalität" und natürlich mit unserer Stellung in der Gesellschaft zusammen. Das Bild von Liebe und Begehren, Erotik und Sexualität hat sich im Laufe der Geschichte immer wieder verändert. Das ist nicht zuletzt an der Un-/Sichtbarkeit gleichgeschlechtlich l(i)ebender Menschen abzulesen.

Nicht irgendein – mein Warenhaus! ÷ So titelte die letzte Ausgabe der Centrum-Rundschau 1989, ein kleines Betriebsblatt für alle Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter des Leipziger Centrum Warenhauses, welches sich schon ein Jahr später in eine Karstadt-Filiale verwandeln sollte. 2019, dreißig Jahre danach, wurde es geschlossen. Den Verkäufer­innen hat man gekündigt. Ihr Kaufhaus steht leer, die Fontäne ist versiegt.

The Updated and Expanded edition of The Art of Feminism charts the birth of the feminist aesthetic and its development over two centuries that have seen profound and fast-paced change in women's lives across the globe. Including over 350 remarkable artworks, ranging from political posters and graphics to stunning and provocative pieces of painting, sculpture, textiles, craft, performance, digital and installation art, the book begins with poster images produced by the Suffrage Atelier in the nineteenth century, moving on to

Questioning the ephemeral quality of a performance, the artist published a documentation of an act he did in 2017. The textual score of the performance and the visual material became an independent art book. Suspended between a theoretical lecture and a personal diary style, the publication captures a subjective experience of non binary person who practices sex with gay men. The project poses questions on the place of body in our language, appropriation of sexuality by marketing and consumerism and problems in defining non-binary identity. Photographs and texts: Julek Malinowski, Book Design: Wikor Gromadzki

Fashion is often seen as an industry of eccentric personalities and unique, exceptional talents but it's the collaborators, rather than the individuals, who underpin the industry and inspire this book. This stylish volume, compiled by Lou Stoppard, editor-at-large of London's SHOWstudio, delves into the behind-the-scenes worlds of the fashion industry s most intriguing partnerships to explore what, exactly,

Uncovering the lost history of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender artists in New York City. Queer people have always flocked to New York seeking freedom, forging close-knit groups for support and inspiration. Gay Gotham brings to life the countercultural artistic communities that sprang up over the last hundred years, a creative class whose radical ideas would determine much of modern culture. More than 200 images—both works of art,

In this warm and soft book, covered by a blood red fabric, artist Rosana Paulino brings together for the first time the series of drawings that give their title to the publication: Buffalo and Lady of Plants. Both represent female archetypes related to the black psyche, and they go against the dominant European and colonial collective consciousness.

Subduing our bodies, in the sense of controlling our impulses and desires, is an aspiration which is older than Christianity. At that time, the dominant question was: how do you get good control over yourself? Christianity made women the symbol of possible loss of control over our bodies. Achieving our self-control turned into being able to control the woman, to avoid the temptation that she, malevolent, represents.

Wer war Sabina von Steinbach? Folgt man ihrer Darstellung auf dem Figurenfries im Treppenhaus der Alten Nationalgalerie in Berlin, war sie eine bedeutende mittelalterliche Bildhauerin. Jedoch, wahrscheinlich hat es sie nie gegeben. Warum ist sie dennoch, als einzige Künstlerin überhaupt, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts in jenen zentralen Fries berühmter Persönlichkeiten aufgenommen worden?

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.

The book is the outcome of research on the themes of sex, sexuality and performativity which started in summer 2019 and was concluded in autumn 2021. The investigation starts from a curatorial perspective, situated in the field of contemporary Italian visual and performing arts, and evolves by absorbing contents from a variety of disciplines (philosophy, literature, history and pornography). The research is based on the firm conviction – here turned into a method – that a critical theory able to go beyond the disciplinary compartments of knowledge is an important practical tool for facing the political challenges of our contemporary world.

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.

A multifaceted play with language and meaning can be grasped in their work and exhibition titles. In their practice, they have been working against the grain of some of the art world’s conventions, from medium specificity to questions of branding and commodification.

My Body is a Battlefield bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in das Werk der 1988 auf der Krim geborenen ukrainischen Künstlerin Maria Kulikovska. Bereits in frühen Arbeiten setzt sie sich mit patriarchalen Strukturen und der Abwesenheit weiblicher Subjektivität in der ukrainischen Kunst auseinander. Mit der Annexion

Selbstinszenierung, Selbstentblößung, Selbstauslöschung – das sind die Themen, die Michaela Moscouw (*1961) über drei Jahrzehnte kompromisslos, exzessiv und einprägsam bearbeitete. Bis Anfang der 1980er-Jahre malte die Wiener Künstlerin abstrakte Bilder, dann zerstörte sie ihr gesamtes Werk und filmte sich dabei. Damit wechselte sie das Medium und verwendete

On subjects including an interrogation on cinephilia and gender, surveillance, infant observation during the pandemic and the screen as psychic portal, Beirut on film, devotional labour, prisons during lockdown, the notion of solidarity, reproduction and futurity, and much more... Roundtables about Sarah Maldoror; hands and fate, work, pleasure, touch, and surveillance; early women's travel films…

They Will Say I Killed Them is the result of a one-year research marked by visits to public film archives, private foundations, and meetings with important testimonies of Italian cinema. The aim was to conduct an in-depth investigation on those Italian movies—from the 1950s to the 80s—that due to censorship have been left on the shelf in the form of a screenplay, or filed away

Queer Nursing offers an alternative, inclusive way for both performing and supporting nursing. Written as a human manual, it takes the reader through the nursing process from start to finish. Through easy, loving language it supports nursing parents, other parental figure(s) and friends in their journey of emotional and physical milestones as well as offering gentle ways to take care of each other.
The manual includes a new way of nursing by introducing the phasing system, which will aid the family in both starting and ending nursing in a calm, caring way. Queer Nursing is Gorilla Milk’s first release.

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.

Bandra Sentimental, the new photography book on the block, documents style on the streets of Mumbai.
With a cast chosen from the city’s streets, their flamboyant styles intact, the book aims to showcase everyday life in the city. Commonplace to the Indian, sometimes shocking to an outsider, the fearless amalgamation of colour, fabric, pattern, design and cut, worn by men out and about, comes not from wanting to make a statement but a natural sensibility within.

F LETTER assembles the feminist poets who have palpably changed the Russian language over the last decade.
Against the backdrop of state violence and oppression, this is electric dissent in pursuit of a democratic, egalitarian future. A lexicon for revolution worldwide. But this anthology's brilliance lies in its rhythm, energy, and depth of emotion - in its universal relevance rather than applied politics.
As Eileen Myles writes of its verse in a foreword to the work, "there are lines like a curse that yodel radiantly out of the toothy mouth of the curser...lines that are just so fucking metonymic in their grace...I've been invited to witness. To smell the crowd and be charged by history."

Conceived by artist and filmmaker Margaret Salmon, this publication is a tribute to a group of innovative sister cinematographas and to the analogue motion picture camera. The book pairs an enquiry into women’s filmmaking practice with a comprehensive survey of experimental analogue technique across generations.

Mizna: The Black SWANA Issue, guest-edited by Safia Elhillo and produced by an all-Black takeover team, explores the infinitely varied and kaleidoscopic nature of the Black SWANA experience.

In the book “I used to be a lovely boy but turned out queer,” the author Jovan Josifovski, through photos from family albums, home phone books, and personal belongings, interprets his experiences and the term queer.

In Fischerspooner's new project, two things remain constant: the physical space--Casey Spooner's apartment--and the cast--the artists

„Ich weiß nicht, ob du dich gerade für einen Mann oder eine Frau hältst, aber der Krieg ist aus.“ Der Gedichtband ‚In Frauenkleidung‘ verfolgt den Lebensweg intersexueller Sportlerinnen zu Beginn der 30er-Jahre.

QUEER TIME — ASYMPTOPES OF ARTICULATION is about moving through queer time and language, modular and folding, communities, communal, traces, memories, collapsing and building.

In his photo series, Asamoah shows us young men through time, finding contentment within the transitions of boyhood to adult-hood.

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.

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

The currently favored image of the Weimar Republic is constructed as a liberal one that emphasizes the individual freedom to shape one’s life. Meanwhile, the collectivist face of the workers’ movement and the artists inspired by it were and are mostly ignored.

The winter 2021 issue of Mizna, guest-edited by Tarik Dobbs, challenges conventional forms, language, and ideas within literary processes and traditions.

Mizna is a critical platform for contemporary SWANA literature, film, art, and cultural production centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. For more than twenty years, we have been creating a decolonized cultural space to reflect the expansiveness of our community and to foster exchange, examine ideas, and engage audiences in meaningful art.

The winter 2020 issue of Mizna is guest edited by Palestinian graphic novelist Leila Abdelrazaq and addresses prompt of A New World Order. These days, it seems as though revolutionary changes are happening daily.

The summer 2020 issue of Mizna is guest edited by Zeyn Joukhadar and speaks to bodily autonomy, embodiment, and self-determination within a queer, transgender, SWANA, and Muslim lens. Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices bears witness to our rich history, and imagines futures for ourselves.

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

In the book the mind is the body Lisa Gutscher journies into the body and presents a fantastic tapestry of stories and visuals. Like a children's science book, the artist reveals before us readers the magic of the body without confining it to machinic partitioning, binary oppositions or theory as such. It is stories, both visual and textual, that are the fuel and destination of this journey:

FAGS is a photo book by Jacopo Benassi. It brings together images in which the artist portrays and documents his own intimacy over a 25-year period, from the day he announced his homosexuality: a human journey comprising meetings that have left an indelible sign on his personal story as an artist.

Soggetto nomade (Nomadic Subject) gathers, for the first time in one volume, shots taken by five Italian photographers between the mid 60s to the 80s. The photographs are

This book is dedicated to the complex artistic trajectory of Chiara Fumai, who played a significant role in the development of performance and feminist aesthetics in the twenty-first century and who died prematurely in 2017, at the age of only thirty-nine.

This book is an extension and continuation of an artwork titled Proposal for a House Museum of an Unknown Crying Man by artist Mahmoud Khaled, in which he imagines a house museum for an anonymous person who has entered Egypt’s queer history as an „Unknown Crying Man“ and iconic image.

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.

Modefotografie existiert nur über das Frauenmagazin. Die Geschichte dieses fotografischen Genres ist daher mit der der Frauenpresse verbunden. Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, als die ersten Frauenzeitschriften erschienen, war die Fotografie noch immer nur eine Hilfsillustration.

Queer Formalism: The Return is the first installment in the Critic’s Essay Series published by Floating Opera Press. Comprising long-form essays, this series gives voice to critics who offer thought-provoking ways in which to subvert or replace normative modes of discussing culture.

Started as a xerox zine, a saturated compilation of drawings done by amateurs, musicians or comics authors, Nazi Knife explored, in its more recent issues, some more singular editorial approaches: the publication seen as a library, as a collection of motley elements, where raw materials, symbolic references or cultural products could be combined, or as the visual repetition of few fetishistic obsessions, modulated by an architecture of filters, quite opaque to say the least.