Our oceans are in an ecological crisis due to their contamination with millions of tons of toxic microplastic particles. In just a few years, the volume of microplastic particles will exceed that of plankton in our oceans and turn them into a huge sea of plastic.

All the cannons and artillery included in this survey are actual, historic weapons, located in Greater London and freely accessible to the public.

Im Auftrag von Salzburg Museum und der Stadt Salzburg, Abteilung Kultur, Bildung, Wissen Die Publikation widmet sich künstlerischen Arbeiten im öffentlichen Raum der Stadt Salzburg von den späten 1940er- bis zu den frühen 1970er-Jahren. Als vielgestaltige Beispiele von

Städtebau ist Kunst und Wissenschaft zugleich. Seine praktischen und theoretischen Grundlagen werden seit jeher gesammelt, artikuliert und systematisiert. Die großen Stadterweiterungen des 19. Jahrhunderts forcierten die Begründung des modernen Städtebaus als eigenständige Disziplin.

Why urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitioners
Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture—large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed; indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation.

Editorial
Rebuilding the Bog / Summer Islam
Oltre Terra / Formafantasma
Seeing the Landscape / Janna Bystrykh and Paul Overby
Watery Constellations / Sara Frikech
Public Works at the Periphery: AMLO and the Urban Improvement Program

Through exhibitions, public art projects, lectures, discussions, film evenings and publications, as well as cooperations with universities and other institutions,

In welchen Räumen lässt sich Migration verorten und welche Räume werden durch sie mitproduziert? Die Ausstellung nähert sich über ein Spektrum von Bildtypen - von traumartigen Sequenzen bis zur Re-Inszenierung früherer Erfahrungen -

The publication of The Against, the book that documents the process, development and results of the homonymous exhibitions that simultaneously took place last Spring at multiple sites in New York.
The book not only displays the uncontrollable compulsion of graffiti bombing by 21 artists from different parts of the US, Canada and Mexico. This remarkable book focuses on those who are the exceptional graffiti bombers in the last decade.

Undeniably one of the most influential innovations of the modern world, the car has changed not only the way we live, but also the way we look at the world around us. From formal, compositional device to highly desirable, photogenic object,

RESIST! sheds light on 500 years of anti-colonial resistance in the Global South and tells of colonial oppression and its effects to this day. The exhibition and the accompanying publication are a tribute to the people who resisted in the most diverse ways and whose stories are still rarely told or heard today.

Dia Art Foundation commissioned Thomas Hirschhorn to build Gramsci Monument, an excessive outdoor sculpture that measured 8,000 square feet and was located on the grounds of Forest Houses,in New York (Bronx). On display for 77 days, with daily and weekly events organized by the artist, Gramsci Monument concluded Hirschhorn’s series of “monuments” dedicated to philosophers, which began in 1999.

Die erste umfangreiche Präsentation von Andreas Slominskis gleichnamiger Werkgruppe von Fußballplakaten, die aus Anlass der Fußball EM 2024 in Essen präsentiert wird.Andreas Slominskis umfangreichste Fußball-Arbeit ist die Plakatserie "Wohnorte gegen Geburtsorte" (1986-1988).

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.

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.

2010. Atlas of Transformation is a sort of global guidebook of transformation processes. With structured entries, its goal is to create a tool for the intellectual grasping of the processes of social and political change in countries that call themselves "countries of transformation" or are described by this term. The Atlas of Transformation was first published in Czech and it contains more than 200 "entries" and key terms of transformation.

Keine weitere Jahresmonografie. Keine Großthesen über Zäsur und Neuanfang. Kein Versuch, sich der Gegenwart über den Weg einer ausgewählten Vergangenheit zu nähern. Stattdessen: Abschweifungen, Irrfahrten und Exkursionen am Rande der Geschichte. So verstanden ist „ca. 1972“ der Name eines Chronotopos im Schatten der politischen Prozesse und kulturellen Aufbrüche der langen 1960er Jahre. Dekolonisierung, Schwarze Bürgerrechtsbewegung, der Mai 1968, die sexuelle Revolution und andere emanzipatorische Projekte schienen „ca. 1972“ an ihren Widersprüchen gescheitert zu sein. Aber ist das schon die ganze Wahrheit?

The physical form of the book explored with photographs of reflections, that are positioned with the line of symmetry aligned with the pages binding. The turning of the pages echoes and adds depth to the two dimensional plane of each photo. (ref. the pealing apart of ink blot paintings, Rorschach test cards). The reader is goaded to put stress on the intersection of pages, generating a morphologic change in the shape of the book, producing creases on the spine.

Angelegt als »Emotional Catalog of Booths«, diskutiert das Buch anhand der vielfältigen Stimmen einer eklektischen Gruppe von Autorinnen die Typologie der Booth – Buden, Stände, Kabinen, Kapseln, Zellen – als Inbegriff (räumlicher) Intimität. Mit einer Reihe von ausführlichen Interviews sowie Beiträgen von Künstlerinnen, Architektinnen, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Schriftsteller*innen, bildet das Buch den Kern einer fortdauernden künstlerischen und architektonischen Forschung zur Verschränkung von Raum und Emotion.

Einerseits - jemand muss es tun. Dokumentarische Fotografie der ukrainischen Gegenwart - schwarz-weiss, mit journalistischem Gestus, Stadt, Fashion, Öffentlichkeit und Architektur. In Kiev scheint die Sonne, junge Leute sitzen auf den Stufen unter Monumenten aus einer anderen Zeit und blättern in Lifestyle-Magazinen.

Wien is a perennial calendar featuring twelve illustrated glimpses of contemporary Vienna. Francesco Ciccolella, born in Salzburg in 1990, is an illustrator and graphic artist living in Vienna. His award-winning illustration work regularly appears on the covers of international newspapers and magazines or on advertising billboards around the globe. And now, on a brand-new calendar. Limited edition of 500

Nations and states establish a strong collective image by disseminating symbols of their rulers and erecting monuments and temples. In public spaces, statues in particular are seen to represent systems of political rule. They mark squares, urban nexuses, and mountain ranges--visible from afar. Once erected, they serve as a timeless demonstration of authority, emphasising irrefutable legitimacy.But how is power depicted today? Are statues still a democratically tenable form?

Exploring African influences on modernist avant-gardes, Saâdane Afif (born 1970) riffs on André Breton's anthology of the same name for this catalogue accompanying his show at MMK Zollamt. For the show, Afif built a coffin based on a Ghanian memento mori, and invited artists and critics to respond.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles's manifesto ''Maintenance Art--Proposal for an Exhibition'' (1969) was a major intervention in feminist performance practices and public art. The proposal argued for an intimate relationship between creative production in the public sphere and domestic labor--a relationship whose intricacies Ukeles has been unraveling ever since. In 1977, she became the unsalaried Artist-in-Residence for the New York City Department of Sanitation, a position that enables her to introduce radical public art into an urban municipal infrastructure.

For the first time, this publication brings together the Mosaic works by the British artist Stephen Willats, which were created in Great Britain and Finland in the 1990s. In these works, Willats uses the medium of the book to enter into an exchange with people and to create a space in neighborhoods, museums, and bookstores where social bonds can be established. It is a collaborative process through which Willats redefines the web of relationships between artist, artwork, audience and society; a process of instituting in which the artwork becomes its own institution.

With contributions by Jamie Allen, Bernhard Garnicnig, Elsa Himmer, Lucie Kolb and Stephen Willats.

In Text und Fotografie hinterfragt das Buch von Claire Laude anhand von Beispielen aus zwei Mittelmeerländern, Italien und Griechenland, unsere Beziehung zur Erde und den Begriff der Spuren und ihrer Beständigkeit in der Landschaft. Welche Spuren können die Geschichte und die Aktivitäten der Menschen in einer ländlichen Landschaft hinterlassen?

Der österreichische Künstler Lois Weinberger, Teilnehmer bei der documenta 1997 und 2017 und der Biennale von Venedig 2009, hat für die Kunststiftung NOW Esterhazy Contemporary zwei große Installationen realisiert: Das Projekt FELDWEG, das zu einer Art poetischer Reise durch den Renaissancegarten von Schloss Lackenbach einlädt, und die Skulpturenausstellung BASICS,

Off-the-grid from commercial galleries – selling visuals – and canonical institutions – there to support the often static national or regional identities– artists instigate grass-roots cultural safe havens in order to deliver the progressive and the experimental. They are fundamentally vulnerable to public-policy cycles, in the voluntary effort that holds the initiative together, in their provision of opportunities, and more. Despite the precarity of such organising by these civil initiatives, and regardless of their promoting of a public cultural vitality beyond the demand of the public life, they are in poor public support and lack opportunities to gain public visibility.

Belgrade collective Škart has been operating within and around existing hierarchies of the art world and everyday life, working in collaboration with marginalized groups, NGOs, and anti-war movements. Škart ‘s understanding of the artwork is fluid and relationship based. No matter the medium —

In 1988, a seminar was held at the Bauhaus Dessau as part of the UN-HABITAT programme that dealt with questions of housing construction in 'developing countries'. A prefabricated building system developed by GDR architects was presented here, which was used for the first time in an education and development center of the African National Congress (ANC) in Dakawa, Tanzania. The educational

Im Frühjahr 2019 bereiste ich zum ersten Mal Japan. Ich blieb für zwei Monate. Meine Reisevorbereitungen starteten gewissenhaft: kurz vorher besuchte ich auf Empfehlung einen zweiwöchigen Japanisch-Intensivkurs für Anfänger*innen am Japonikum der Uni Bochum. Trotz ernsthafter Bemühungen gingen meine Sprachlernversuche komplett daneben. Mir fehlte

Supplement 7 traces Joar Nango's artistic process, mapping the development of his temporary installation and sculpture Uncle Doug’s Fishing Shack presented at Plug In ICA (Winnipeg) in 2019 as part of Stages. The publication features an interview between Nango and Indigenous architect David Thomas about an abandoned military barracks’ transformation into Canada’s largest urban reserve.

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

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?

Tagging has rarely been the subject of serious examination. The Tag Conference is a first attempt to conceptually frame contemporary tagging, and to study it alongside its abundant but largely ignored historical antecedents. Informal name writing in public spaces is

»Von wunderbarer Klarheit« – mit diesen Worten beschrieb Friedrich Simony die Aussicht vom Gipfel des Dachsteins im Jahr 1847. Diesen Pionier der Alpenforschung und Geografie faszinierte

Unbekannte Dame in der Strahlenschutzabteilung, Pfütze, tanzendes Paar im Kostüm, Beschädigung einer Mülltonne, Verabschiedung eines Rentners, Bleiabschirmung, ausgebranntes Handschuhfach, Skorpion mit Mikrochip – das sind alles

Intervention by the artists: Karrabing Film Collective has created a limited-edition series of four cards for the publication, one of which is enclosed with each copy. The faces of the cards show image-text collages in Karrabing’s characteristic technique of layering and

Between December 2022 and March 2023, Vivian Suter shared hundreds of photos, all taken with her mobile phone, with the designer and editor of this book. A selection of these snapshots, condensed, juxtaposed, complementing each other, now forms a kind of photographic journal. It offers insights into

An immaterial museum, a social sculpture, a laboratory for the museum of the future: this book is an exhibition filled with moments of inspiration on Vienna's legendary museum in progress.

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

An account of an album about Albania by British experimental musicians made in the eighties.

Die antikolonialen und antirassistischen Bewegungen des 20. Jahrhunderts gingen mit künstlerischen und theoretischen Gegenentwürfen zur Exklusivität der westlichen Moderne einher.

of cities and private living rooms is a semi-fictional multi-media installation that is composed of a two-channel film installation and a photo slide projection. The work questions the hidden biography of the artist’s great-grandmother.

Stijn van der Linden's photobook is an exploration of how spaces become spaces and how photography can influence this process, presenting a scientifically detailed, in-depth analysis of an urban feature seen in every city: the concave corner.

In art around 1990, an entire series of work forms indicates the existence of a broad spectrum of strategic shifts into other professional roles that are taken up on a fictional level by artists.

Im Zuge der Recherchen für die neue Ausstellung stieß das kuratorische und wissenschaftliche Team in den Sammlungen des Staatlichen Museums Auschwitz-Birkenau auf Ansichtskarten mit österreichischen Sehenswürdigkeiten. Auf deren Rückseiten zeichnete der polnische Auschwitzüberlebende Jan Kupiec nach seiner Befreiung 1945 in Mauthausen/Ebensee Szenen aus den Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagern Auschwitz und Birkenau.

The publication "Art Within Political Struggles. Solidary Artistic Practice at the Periphery: Tirana, Skopje" features reflections by Adela Demetja, Ivana Vaseva, Rena Rädle and Valentina Bonizzi on their socially engaged artistic and curatorial practice in Albania and North Macedonia.

More just spatial practices are to be found in the diversity and nuances of myriad space-making paradigms that tackle local challenges while providing credible responses to current global issues. In Radical Rituals, we collect spatial protocols following an imaginary line: the 45°N parallel.

Trance has been the flagship for electronic music across the globe during the nineties and early zeroes.

Over the last fifteen years, Istanbul has emerged as one of the principal megacities at the outset of the twenty-first century. The picturesque has given way to an unexpected boom of new, profit-driven urban development including high-rise, sterile gated communities and satellite cities to house a vastly expanding population — all at the expense of long-time residents and under the mantle of a self-confident and arbitrary government.

The Error is Regretted is the 20-year anniversary publication of Anita Di Bianco's project Corrections and Clarifications. Next to a new 96-page newspaper edition, that reflects the current news, the book contains text contributions by Anita Di Bianco, Anna Bromley, Francesco Gagliardi and Florian Wüst.

Independent art spaces on the African continent have flourished, particularly over the past twenty years in tandem with a youthful population in fast-urbanising cities.

“The Radiant City” is a series of faux-panorama photographs that document transgressions and anomalies within the planned space of the large socialist housing estates, in Budapest, Hungary.

Dénes Farkas’ personal exhibition focuses on issues of choice, uncertainty, insecurity and preparedness, highlighting the contingency of normality and casting doubt on the production of truth and scientific rationality.

The exhibition comprises

On the occasion of Monumenta 2012, Éditions Dilecta published the previously unseen sketches of Daniel Buren. His plans, drawings and collages document the genesis of the project. From the abandoned initial ideas to the final work, we follow the creation of this extraordinary installation.

Né en 1972, lauréat du prix Marcel Duchamp en 2008, Laurent Grasso est l'un des artistes français les plus présents sur la scène contemporaine internationale. Il est représenté par la Galerie Perrotin à Paris, où il vit et travaille. Son travail, délicat et très varié, utilisant aussi bien la vidéo que la peinture, le néon, la sculpture ou l'installation, joue des limites entre fiction et réalité et explore les notions d'espace et de temporalité.

For the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, the Lithuanian Space Agency and its founder Julijonas Urbonas present Planet of People, an artistic study into a hypothetical artificial planet made up of human bodies. Along with the exhibition in Venice, the LSA introduces its first annual report.

Osawatomie is a direct allusion to the eponymous battle waged by the abolitionist John Brown of whom Victor Hugo at the time of saving him from hanging says "Yes, let America know and think about it, there is something more frightening than Cain killing Abel, it is Washington killing Spartacus".