Matthias Wermke is teaching a seminar (Zweckfreie Räume - Intervention und Performance) with four students at ETH Zurich (Department of Architecture and Art, Prof. Karin Sander) on the topic of "appropriation and theft in art". Later, this very technical title is changed to "Absenz – das Abwesendsein von einem Ort" (absence - being absent from a place ).

"body to book” is an upcycling project that explores the relationship between the human body and books. It comprises six sculptures assembled from coat fragments and books, each covering a naked body.

These creative spaces were incubators of radical thinking, in which artists could exchange provocative ideas. They were welcoming environments for artists, dancers, designers, writers, and musicians pushing the boundaries of cultural and social norms.

he mysterious interplay of light and shadow has fascinated humankind since time immemorial. In Asia in particular this led to the development of the lively traditions of shadow puppetry. The exquisitely aesthetic puppets in this volume will lure the viewer into the world of shadow puppetry, from China to south and southeast Asia and from the Orient to Europe.

Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings delves into the imaginative realm of books and libraries and the interpretive structures of subject bibliographies. It is the first monograph of its kind to historicize, theorize and survey two decades of

Neben der Realisierung von permanenten künstlerischen Gestaltungen in den öffentlichen Bereichen des Klagenfurter Lakeside Science & Technology Parks sowie der Umsetzung von temporären Projekten wurde der von Josef Dabernig entworfene und eingerichtete Kunstraum Lakeside zum Zentrum einer kontinuierlichen künstlerischen und diskursiven Programmierung. Das Buch „Kunstraum Lakeside – Format“ widmet sich dem Thema der künstlerischen Forschung, das aus den institutionellen Besonderheiten dieses Ausstellungs-, Performance- und Diskursraums hervorgeht.

Wien zählte bereits im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts zu den internationalen Zentren für modernen Tanz. Das Buch, das die groß angelegte Ausstellung des Theatermuseums in Wien begleitet, verweist auf die Vielfalt der brodelnden Tanzszene bis in die 1930er Jahre, stellt aber immer wieder Zusammenhänge mit der Gegenwart her.

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.

Movement Notation is considered the first publication of the "Eshkol- Wachman Movement Notation" (EWMN), developed by Noa Eshkol and Abraham Wachmann. With this polyphonic notation system, Eshkol and Wachmann centered dance on its basic

Rehearsal in Progress, a film made by René Scheibenbauer in collaboration with movement director and dancer Lydia Walker, showcases Scheibenbauer’s collection (in) Motion as well as embodying the essential vocabulary of the brand more broadly. Walker’s choreography introduces new inspirations, the work of Alexandra Bachzetsis and Vincent Dunoyer, whilst sharing in

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.

This groundbreaking account of postwar American art traces the profound influence of Antonin Artaud. Proposing an original reassessment of art from the 1950s to the 1970s, No More Masterpieces reveals how artistic practice in postwar America was profoundly shaped by the work of the rebellious French poet and dramatist Antonin Artaud (1896–1948).

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.

The book is the outcome of research on sex, sexuality, and performativity conducted between summer 2019 and autumn 2021.

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

"Healing The Museum" is a mid-career monograph looking at Grace Ndiritu’s diverse practice over the last twenty years, which encompasses performance, film, social actions, painting, publications, textile work, and collection research.

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

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.

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

The publication is an essay written by Kirsty Bell on “Help the Dead” by Every Ocean Hughes.

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

“Where Do You Draw The Line Between Art and Politics?” consists of a series of interviews with individuals who have been active in various capacities at the intersection of art and politics.

A groundbreaking new insight into a rich spectrum of early Soviet art and design and its spaces of display. Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art,

The renowned Polish contemporary artist is known for his participatory art projects, figurative sculptures and performative self-portraits.

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,

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.

Unsorcery composes and explores ways of sorcery that can eventually surpass or undo some of the contemporary realities and subjectivities.

“Dengler’s oeuvre is also about trauma, both personal and collective, and although it offers no consolation whatsoever, another place where it investigates the meanderings of the human psyche is the shrink’s—pop or not—sofa.

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

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.

What is the role of the curator when organizing digital art exhibitions in offline and online spaces?

Das materialreiche, mit zahlreichen Faksimiles und Abbildungen ausgestattete Katalogbuch widmet sich dem Theaterschaffen des Autors erstmals in großem Umfang.

Koloman Mosers: In diesem Band wird erstmals die Gesamtheit seiner Theaterarbeiten – von der intimen Kabarettbühne bis zur großen Opernausstattung – gezeigt, das bisher wenig beachtete Bühnenschaffen dieses vielseitigen „Tausendkünstlers“.

Hermann Nitsch (*1938 in Wien) ist ein bedeutender Wegbereiter des Wiener Aktionismus. Seit 1957 arbeitet er an der Verwirklichung seines zentralen Werkes: Das Orgien-Mysterien-Theater ist ein nonverbales,

First monograph devoted to the work of video artist and performer Wolfgang Stoerchle (1944-1976), an artistic figure of the Californian scene in the 1970s, based on extensive research and three international exhibitions.

Since 2001 Prinz Gholam have been dealing with the self and the body as cultural constructs in their performative work. In the actions they perform together, the two artists succeed in revealing and breaking through the postures of our iconographic heritage that are consciously or unconsciously inscribed in us.

A major figure of the French arts scene, Xavier Veilhan (born in 1963) lives and works in Paris. His work is the result of a plural practice, shared between sculpture, painting, environment, live performance, video, and photography.

'The book Public Sphere by Performance results from a two-year research project Performance and the Public that Ana Vujanović, Bojana Cvejić and Marta Popivoda carried out in 2011 and 2012, during the residency of TkH (Walking Theory) platform (Belgrade) at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervillier. The part of the research of Marta Popivoda gave rise to the documentary film Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body.

Read in the "Touch" issue: ­­A Singaporean artist connects with Hijikata Tatsumi from beyond the grave • A Lycanthrope turns into a Manta Ray, a story of metamorphosis • Connecting during quarantine, with TikTok • Touching Palestine in a contemporary art center in Dubai • A Norwegian cartel redefines modern-day manhood • Dr. Aline LePierre talks about the healing power of touch

Bodies are agents and products of history. Bodies are history made flesh, but they are also primary tools for understanding the past, present and future. History is a choreographed sequence of gestures that makes bodies intelligible to each other. Every gesture is a link in a chain binding us to gender, race and social class. Gestures solidify into identities. They enact identities that become natural through the systematic repetition of identical

Brice Dellsperger pushes the boundaries of genre and gender. In his multifaceted reprises of iconic film sequences—all assembled under the title Body Double—the cineast and artist reenacts selected scenes from well-known films frame for frame and lets his “body doubles” perform all of the roles, be they male or female

Alexey Brodovitch's Ballet published in 1945 is one of the most legendary of photobook masterpieces. While already established as a leading influential art director and graphic designer, Brodovitch turned his photographic talents towards rehearsals and performances of ballet companies visiting New York stages.

Barbara Hammer (1939–2019) is widely regarded as a pioneer of queer and feminist cinema and was among the first filmmakers to explicitly advocate for the visibility of lesbian realities.

Weiß bemalte, nackte Körper, die Gesichter vom Betrachter abgewendet, so fotografiert Nadav Kander (*1961 in Israel) die Modelle seiner jüngsten Serie. Die Accessoires sind spärlich, die Ästhetik ist reduziert, gleichwohl erscheint das Arrangement der meist üppigen Körper barock.

Die Reihe KUB Arena Publikationen, herausgegeben von Yilmaz Dziewior und Eva Birkenstock, begleitet ab Herbst 2012 regelmäßig die Ausstellungs- und Veranstaltungsprojekte der KUB Arena.

This book is the printed manifestation of Alfred Palestra.

This publication is conceived as a conceptual artist’s book and deliberately avoids a linear narrative or comprehensive overview.

Die Spanierin Esther Ferrer war 1967 erstmals an einer Performance beteiligt, einem Konzert der Künstlergruppe ZAJ. Seither hat sie eine ganz spezifische Art von Minimalismus entwickelt, in dem konzeptuelle Strenge und das Absurde Hand in Hand gehen.

Alberto García del Castillo writes genre fiction and nonfiction about communities and queer, performs his own and other people’s writings, and collaborates in multiple configurations.

WORK THE ROOM criss-crosses the field of contemporary performance art investigating critical actions and the forms they take: How can politics be performed when the public consists of those present and sharing a room?

Two actors – female and male – read sentences from different wrist watch advertisements from the 1970s and 1980s, and re-enact the compositions of hands used on these images.

The Édition Séparée is a series that aims to give female artists the opportunity to make authentic contributions to the tradition of artist books.

Specially produced supplement for issue No. 5 (2009) of the dutch contemporary art magazine "Metropolis M", in which artists created small games for the reader to play.

A project by LABO21, Troubleyn / Jan Fabre, University of Antwerp and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.

This publication includes photographs taken by Miguel Calderón of a Mexican police motorcycle squadron performing (and mostly failing) in creating The Human Pyramid or El Triángulo Perfecto and other stunts.

Memoirs of a Hypnotist: 100 Days, an intimate and hardly qualifiable document by Marcos Lutyens.

Thomas Desi kombiniert in diesem vom Film Noir inspirierten Melodrama die Gestapo Protokolle von Katalin Karády mit Texten aus dem historischen Umfeld und der Filmorchesterpartitur von Karádys erstem Film "Tödlicher Frühling" von Tibor Polgár.

"Es ist verboten zu träumen, und doch träume ich." - Die Journalistin Charlotte Beradt sammelte zwischen 1933 und 1939 Traumprotokolle von Menschen im Hitlerregime. Die Träume enthüllen Kräfte und Zwänge, es verwischen sich Grenzen von Tragik und Komik.

ZOON/ Thomas Desi erforscht mit einer Hommage an Frédéric Chopin seltsame Blüten im Umgang mit Genies, Reliquien und Meisterwerken unter der Devise "Comic ist Oper".