Why, when we are desperately in love, do we continuously block union with our love object?

If it was once God who pervaded and determined every last corner of human existence, it is now porn, the sibling of sex.

Taken at the height of the Assad days, the images of the photographer Giovanna Silva overlap in this publication with Syrian tourist guides’ images and texts, creating a net of intended and unintended relationships and time interconnections.

Paul Thek in Process. Commentaries on/of an Exhibition publiziert das gesamte Recherchematerial, das in unterschiedlicher Art und Weise in der Ausstellungsreihe Paul Thek in Process öffentlich gemacht wurde.

Ulay is one of the pioneers of performance art. His practice is not about human alienation, but rather the kind of alienation that captures art and then forms its own identity.

In Joan Jonas's 1976 video work I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances) the artist investigates a geography of displacement and irrefutable desires.

Fragt man nach einem verlässlichen Seismografen und obsessiven Forensiker unserer tiefsten menschlichen Abgründe, so führt an Gottfried Helnwein kein Weg vorbei. Wie kein Zweiter führt er uns in seinen Bildern seit mittlerweile fünf Jahrzehnten medienwirksam die Auswüchse menschlicher Gewalt vor Augen und konfrontiert uns mit unseren Trieben und Ängsten.

Martin Herbert’s The Uncertainty Principle is a collection of essays that reveals layers of unknowing and open-endedness within a diversity of contemporary art practices since the 1970s.

Herbert Fuchs’ künstlerisches Schaffen ist untrennbar mit dem Medium Buch und dem Text verbunden. Er arbeitet seit den 1980er-Jahren

The Age of Experience: Hong Kong, Vienna: Exhibition Strategy & Reflection : School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, in cooperation with AIL Angewandte Innovation Lab, University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

This volume is a collection of drawings and captions for “unshowable” photographs taken in Palestine in 1947–50,

Die Publikation begleitet die gleichnamige Ausstellung, die sich dem Verhältnis von Literatur, Philosophie und zeitgenössischer Kunst widmete. Zitate – aus literarischen, poetischen oder theoretischen Kontexten – bilden den Ausgangspunkt für künstlerische Auseinandersetzungen, in denen Sprache nicht bloß referenziert, sondern transformiert, überformt oder konfrontiert wird.

To him, a city is like a mountain range, but with one essential difference: there are always new skyscrapers under construction. Known as “the French Spider-Man”, Alain Robert is famous for his free solo climbing, scaling skyscrapers using no equipment except for a small bag of chalk and a pair of climbing shoes.

"'Academy' is an international series of exhibtions and projects initiated by Siemens Art Program and realized in cooperations with teh Kunsteverein in Hamburg, the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College in London, zhe Museum van Hedemdaagse Kunst Antwerpen, MuHKA, and the Van Abbemuseum in Endhoven."

Assign & Arrange: Methodologies of Presentation in Art and Dance aims to map the exchanges and transgressions between art and dance that characterize the manifold variety of relations between art and dance that can be observed today.

Raymond Pettibon first came to prominence during the late-seventies with his raw, literary-inflected imagery for Black Flag, Sonic Youth, and SST Records.

HER steht für Hermetic Experimental Research. Dabei handelt es sich um eine Raumforschung, die am eigenen Leib oder besser:

Ein Konzeptkünstler, der sich mit Fundstücken aus der Natur beschäftigt. Als Vertreter des Informell und der ZERO-Bewegung lebt der niederländische Künstler seit 1970 in Eschenau (Mittelfranken) und arbeitet praktisch vor der Haustür, in seinem 200 km² großen ›Atelier‹, dem Steigerwald.

Mit seinem Biennale-Beitrag reagiert Heimo Zobernig unmittelbar auf die Ausstellungssituation in dem 1934 nach Plänen von Josef Hoffmann und Robert Kramreiter gebauten Österreichischen Pavillon, der mit klassischen Rundbögen und hoheitsvoll anmutenden Blickachsen einerseits sowie streng rationalen Formen und modernen Baustoffen andererseits zwischen Historizität und Moderne laviert.

The “Poetic Series” brings together works of poetry and literature in combination with visual art, introducing young as well as established writers concerned with challenging the boundaries of traditional forms of narrative. Initiated by Keren Cytter and coedited with Fiona Bryson, the quarterly publications focus on three experimental writers or poets per issue—image content is supplied by one artist.

The work presented in this book is an invitation to undertake an urgent architectural and political thought experiment: to rethink today’s struggles for justice and equality not only from the historical perspective of revolution, but also from that of a continued struggle for decolonization; consequently, to rethink the problem of political subjectivity not from the point of view of a Western conception of a liberal citizen but rather from that of the displaced and extraterritorial refugee.

Initiated by Keren Cytter and co-edited by Fiona Bryson and Roger van Voorhees, the quarterly publication focuses on three experimental writers or poets per issue—image content is supplied by one artist.

Utopia of Sound explores the growing significance of sound as a distinct aesthetic and cultural phenomenon in contemporary art, film, and visual culture.

Contemporary art museums are building. In recent decades art museums and public galleries have extensively renovated, rebuilt and added structures to their premises. New museums have been commissioned and erected by private collectors and companies; existing public museums and art institutions have expanded through the opening of new ‘branches’ and franchises. But what should take place within these new premises?

The artist’s book Ki-da Rilke evolved in relation to the exhibition “Line Wall” by Sung Hwan Kim.

Aesthetic Politics in Fashion outlines critical studies in the present cross-sections of fashion, art, politics, and global capitalism.

The inaugural issue of Basso Magazine delves into the intricate interplay between art, identity, and corporeality.

basso magazin is edited by Yusuf Etiman. Yusuf was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1969 and lives and works in Berlin since 1989.

Basso #5 is the fifth issue of the independent art and culture magazine Basso, dedicated to contemporary discourses at the intersection of art, society, and theory.

#6

A crossover zine between sex and art.

a crossover zine between sex and art

Fashion and Postcolonial Critique outlines a critical global fashion theory from a postcolonial perspective. It investigates contemporary articulations of postcolonial fashion critique, and

Texts by Art & Language, Colectivo Situaciones, Charles Esche, Ljiljana Filipovi?, Jon Hendricks, Brian Holmes, Ana Longoni, Viktor Misiano, Angelika Nollert, Suely Rolnik, WHAT, HOW & FOR WHOM/WHW and Stephen Wright. Publisher: Kunsthalle Fridericianum (René Block), Siemens Arts Program (Angelika Nollert). Publishing company: Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt/Main.

a crossover zine between sex and art

In Danh Vos's installation arrangements of objects, photographs, documents, artifacts and souvenirs, the private meets the public, his own biography on political history, original on copy. This book accompanying Danh Vo’s solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz pays homage to the artist’s father, Phung Vo, and his contributions to his son’s projects. Together with “Dahn Vo 2004-2012,” this volume constitutes a Danh Vo catalogue raisonne.

This book is the result of intellectual and physical journeys that artists, scholars, teachers, and students from China and Germany have undertaken together, in order to gain a better understanding of the connections between old Chinese philosophy (with an emphasis on Daoist writings), traditional Chinese painting, and contemporary art practices.

There is plenty of bad architecture all over the place. Stupid, wrong architecture. Architecture that failed, and failed miserably. Architecture that is full of mistakes. (English)

SAN ROCCO is a magazine about architecture.

If you do dare to mention beauty, then some well-intentioned idiot says “beauty is subjective”, as if this in- disputable truth (given that beauty is, of course, subjective) would implicitly mean that nothing subjective and shared (or universal, or common, or whatever you’d like to call it) could possibly exist; as if subjects could never agree, or could never admit their shared nature and recognize themselves in what, in the end, is nothing more than this: the sudden appearance of something that we all like, something to which we would all like to surrender ourselves (i.e., the sudden appearance of beauty). So, yes: beauty is subjective. But this is no reason to stop worrying about beauty.

San Rocco is a magazine about architecture. It does not solve problems. It is not a useful magazine. It is neither serious nor friendly.

In his work, Terence Koh mobilizes seduction, lust and desire. These moments exemplify a strategy that integrates a queer, polymorphously perverse approach into art production. The meaning produced by his objects is tightly interwoven with both private narration and a wide range of subcultural fields of association. Koh frequently employs trivial materials, which are then transformed in the artistic process and transposed into an almost classical aesthetic.
Terence Koh generiert in seinen Arbeiten Momente der Versuchung, der Lust und des Begehrens. Sie stehen exemplarisch für die Strategie, queere, polymorph perverse Zugänge in die künstlerische Produktion einfließen zu lassen. Die Signifikanz seiner Objekte ist angebunden an private Narration und ein weites Spektrum subkultureller Assoziationsfelder. Dabei verwendet Koh oft triviale Materialien, die durch seinen transformativen Umgang einer nahezu klassischen Ästhetik wieder eingeschrieben werden.

Chartered as it has been that the work of Jonathan Monk reaches into the past, looking in particular at the strategies of artists synonymous with the birth of conceptual art, adopting the language of conceptualism and infusing it with references he makes to his own personal history [...]

Intro by Adam Carr

Udo Bohnenbergers künstlerische Praxis bewegt sich im Spannungsfeld zwischen Skulptur, Installation und performativer Geste.

Ist Heimat ein Ort, ein romantischer Raum oder ideologisches Instrument? In den Zeiten der Globalisierung und Weiterentwicklung multikultureller Gesellschaften wird der Begriff „Heimat“ wieder zumThema.

A copy of an original is a duplicate.

Dieser Band widmet sich dem Thema, ob die Verschiebungen und Öffnungen, die sich innerhalb der Arbeits- und Kompetenzbereiche des Kunstfeldes als Ergebnis der Dissemination kuratorischer Denk- und Handlungsweisen vollziehen, legitim oder illegitim sind.

SAN ROCCO is a magazine about architecture.
SAN ROCCO does not solve problems. It is not a useful magazine.
SAN ROCCO is neither serious nor friendly.
SAN ROCCO is written by architects. As such, SAN ROCCO is not particularly intelligent, or philologically accurate.
In SAN ROCCO, pictures are more important than texts.
SAN ROCCO is serious. It takes the risk of appearing naive.
SAN ROCCO will not last for ever.
There will be no more than 20 SAN ROCCOs for the single five-year plan.

SAN ROCCO is a magazine about architecture.
SAN ROCCO does not solve problems. It is not a useful magazine.
SAN ROCCO is neither serious nor friendly.
SAN ROCCO is written by architects. As such, SAN ROCCO is not particularly intelligent, or philologically accurate.
In SAN ROCCO, pictures are more important than texts.
SAN ROCCO is serious. It takes the risk of appearing naive.
SAN ROCCO will not last for ever.
There will be no more than 20 SAN ROCCOs for the single five-year plan.

Minimal Art seemed harmless: just a few hard-edged, greyish pieces of metal laid on the ground, some bricks aligned a certain way, heaps of logs. Minimal Art looked unnecessarily stubborn and a bit stupid, but nobody would ever have thought it could do any harm.

Fama & Fortune Fanzine

How can the housing question (Wohnungsfrage) be appropriately reformulated in an age in which the work / life distinction is becoming increasingly blurred?

SAN ROCCO is a magazine about architecture. It does not solve problems. It is not a useful magazine. It is neither serious nor friendly.(English)

SAN ROCCO is a magazine about architecture.
SAN ROCCO does not solve problems. It is not a useful magazine.
SAN ROCCO is neither serious nor friendly.
SAN ROCCO is written by architects. As such, SAN ROCCO is not particularly intelligent, or philologically accurate.
In SAN ROCCO, pictures are more important than texts.
SAN ROCCO is serious. It takes the risk of appearing naive.
SAN ROCCO will not last for ever.
There will be no more than 20 SAN ROCCOs for the single five-year plan.

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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.

This is a phosphorescently brilliant exploration of the birth and life of video. In the times when electronic media meant the flow of televisual signals, video became a uniquely glimmering force of idiosyncratic memory and the ordination of time.

Die Publikation hält sich an die Spielregeln des surrealistischen "cadavre exquis", jenes Spiels, bei dem jeder Mitspieler einen Teil seiner Figur beisteuert, ohne die vorherigen und nachfolgenden Teile zu kennen.

Im Sommer 2015 durchquerte Hans Schabus auf seinem Fahrrad die USA von West nach Ost. Täglich an high noon fotografierte er was ihn umgab und des Abends sandte er eine Postkarte an sich selbst.

OKEANOS includes a series of essays from scholars, historians, and thinkers, interspersed with a selection from Allan Sekula’s immense oeuvre of seminal texts, as well as parts of his private notebooks, which include critical and humorous personal notes, as well as sketches made and written across the decades and mostly focusing on the maritime space and the material, economic, and ecologic implications of globalization.