A celebration of the visual artistry behind the evolution of sound recording with specially commissioned photography of iconic, rarely-seen artefacts from the collections of the EMI Archive Trust

Thomas Ruff is one of the most important contemporary German photographers living today. Studying under Bernd and Hilla Becher, Ruff experimented with large-format printing. This comprehensive book focuses on his photographic series from the past twenty years.

Anna Jermolaewa ist Preisträgerin des Otto-Breicha-Preises für Fotokunst 2021. Die Konzeptkünstlerin bezeichnet sich selbst als »Realistin« und ihre Auseinandersetzung mit der Wirklichkeit ist ebenso kritisch wie abgründig humorvoll.

Through a series of studio visits that culminated in an artist talk at Residency Unlimited, Dalton and I examined racism and the language systems that perpetuate it; the black body; silenced black people; the African diaspora and its religions; performance and rituals; nature and healing; black protagonism.

A collection of drawn proposals presenting an ongoing project between the artist and Tower Hamlets Community Housing. Focusing on our relationship with architecture and the history of ornamentation within public spaces, the drawings highlight the increasingly important role of communal and shared spaces to elicit social interaction. The publication details the artist’s plans for the redevelopment of the communal spaces within a housing estate in East London.

Idol Hands presents a wealth of source and visual references, alongside original drawings from the artist’s unique and expanded narrative of imagery stemming from alternative means of communication such as braille, morse code and sign language.

Books not only describe their own contents but also the eras in which they were created. Conceived as a color inventory, this publication gathers a selection of titles that I have dealt with, exhibited, and produced since the early 2000s.

»Die Dinge, die durch den Dunst von gestern so gewaltig erschienen – Eigentum, Klima, Erziehung, persönliche Schönheit und anderes mehr, haben ihre Verhältnisse merkwürdig verändert. Alles, was wir für fest hielten, schwankt u. klappert …«
“The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday,—property, climate, breeding, personal beauty, and the like, have strangely changed their proportions. All that we reckoned settled shakes and rattles …” Ralph Waldo Emerson (zitiert von / quoted by Robert Musil)

Die Untersuchung beginnt mit ethnografischen Erkundungen einer Kunsthochschule. Unter diesem Blickwinkel sind die 96 % derer, die freie Kunst studieren, ohne je von ihrem Metier leben zu können, genauso interessant wie die Stars des Kunstbetriebs.

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

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.

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

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

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

Bruno Flierl gehört zu den bedeutenden Architekturkritikern unserer Zeit. Diese Textsammlung umfasst eine Auslese seiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeit als Historiker, Theoretiker und Kritiker der Architektur und des Städtebaus seit den Sechzigerjahren des 20. Jahrhunderts.

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

My Letter Friends is a limited edition graphic design book by Amsterdam-based designer/illustrator Annabel Keijzer. Years of sketching, experimenting and tweaking were merged into this debut.

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.

Handmade is an ecstatic archive of synthetic handmade Artist’s books. Sequenced in no particular order, the project searches for meaning in the future tense through time, text, and touch.

"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

Edited by Eric Troncy and Stéphanie Moisdon, Frog is an international art and architecture magazine. Published in October 2016 this issue features: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jim Shaw, Alex Israel / Bret Easton Ellis, Christian Rosa, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Sarah Lucas, Ugo

Yves Klein (1928–62) first traveled to Japan as a young man in 1952, motivated primarily by his interest in judo. During his 15 months abroad, Klein had numerous important creative and philosophical revelations that culminated in the launch of his artistic career upon his return to Paris.

"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.

Stranger In Polaroid features exclusive images by Otto Grokenberger, which he took during the production of a landmark of art-house cinema, Stranger Than Paradise (1984), written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.

Patricia L. Boyd’s book “Ceiling Blues” borrows its format from fabric sample books. It contains photographed fragments of frottages,

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.

Markus Redl has been working on his library of stones, an open collection of bodies as saturations of space, since 2004.

The first English translation of Karel Teige’s “The Marketplace of Art“ in two volumes includes a critical introduction, inquiries, and extensive commentaries. Originally published in the Czech language in 1936, “The Marketplace of Art“ is the summation of Teige’s artistic, political, and theoretical work.

An extensive monograph/exhibition catalog on Stephane Couturier, who is undeniably one of the most important French contemporary photographers, an influential presence on the international exhibition scene since the mid-1990s with his large-format, brilliantly elaborated photographic tableaux.

Forms of Migration explores the potential of literary and aesthetic forms of expression to shape our understanding of transnational migration processes. The volume emphasises form because it is often the compositional structure and rhetoric of texts and images – their literary nature and formal qualities – that impact readers and beholders, opening up new interpretations of im/migrant experiences and identities.

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,

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

Ein Heft zur Entstehungsgeschichte von Harun Farockis Film Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (1988), der sich zwischen 1985 und 1988 in mehreren Etappen aus dem unverwirklichten Projekt „Zur Geschichte der Arbeit“ heraus entwickelte.

No Telos is a collaborative artistic research project for exploring the critical role of uncertainty, disorientation, not knowing and open-ended activity within creative practice and during uncertain times. The project considers different tactics for resisting the increasingly outcome-motivated or achievement-oriented tendencies of

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.

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.

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.

Begun on Instagram in 2017 as part of Bader’s exhibition at Museo Madre in Naples, @rt_rhyme is a series of photographs that pair artworks (identified by artist (sur)name) with various rhyming objects or actions: spoons in front of a Koons, cobble held next to a Schnabel, Sherman matched with some German and a crawl below a Saul.

The Repetition Festival Show Tessa Giblin, Saskia Vermeulen, Rhea Gaardboe Dall, Andrea Viliani Parution date: 2011
Publication at the occasion of the solo show of Clemens von Wedemeyer at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, March-May, 2011.
The exhibition was originally curated by Tessa Giblin for Project Art Center, Dublin, and will travel to Fondazione Galleria Civica, Trento.

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,

Edition of 12, Set of 18 screenprinted ceramic tiles (15 x 15 x 1 cm),
handmade box, book-binding linen, numbered, signed Edition.
Edition Salon für Kunstbuch 2021, in cooperation with Fiona Liewehr

Günther Selichar’s preferred thematic field of work, and his oeuvre has revolved around it since the early 1980s, is the media and mass media. this publication not only documents in its entirety what is probably his most extensive body of work who’s afraid of blue, red and green? (1990–2017),

A Small Retrospective From Three Decades

'An Archeology of Fear and Desire' is an attempt to recontextualise Israel as place and metaphor, exploring longing, belonging and exclusion. Frédéric Brenner follows up his opus Diaspora with a visual essay about Israel, a land of devouring myths in which constructs – social and religious – perpetuate a tyranny of roles, which render us strangers to what is most intimate in ourselves.

Zoe Leonard’s You see I am here after all brings together thousands of postcard images of the “great cataract,” Niagra Falls, from the early 1900s through the 1950s. This grand accumulation of viewpoints brings up issues as diverse as human interventions with nature and the function of landscape in inventing American historical narratives, as well as the technological evolution of image reproduction and dissemination.

Die Bedeutung des Ausnahmekünstlers Carl Andre zeigt sich in dieser umfassenden Publikation auf das Eindrücklichste. Die über 300 Objekte umfassende Retrospektive untersucht erstmalig das gesamte Oeuvre dieses wegweisenden Bildhauers des 20. Jahrhunderts und eröffnet somit die seltene Möglichkeit der gründlichen Rezeption seines vielfältigen Werks.

An immersive glimpse into the private, domestic world of one of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artists. Nestled in a leafy, residential section of Los Angeles is the house where Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920–1991) lived and worked during the last decade of his life.

The blue issue of the hinterlands magazine assembles rural realities in 17 contributions from European rural regions and villages. The magazine combines reports, essays and photographic series related to the colour blue.

Shows, Signals, Unvernehmen brings together fifteen years of art critic, curator, and artist Christian Egger’s writings, from 2005 to 2020. The texts include interviews

The fourth and final volume in Bill Owens' landmark Suburbia series [SUBURBIA (1973; revised edition 1999, Fotofolio), OUR KIND OF PEOPLE (1975), WORKING - I DO IT FOR THE MONEY (1977), and LEISURE (2004)].

Through drawing, text and photography this book describes places located at the peripheries of touristic centres.

Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty charts the career of twenty-four-year-old rock singer Neil Sky, who is elected President of the United States after instigating teenage riots to change the voting age to fourteen and putting LSD in the drinking water of the Congress. But once President Sky retires the over-thirty population in LSD re-conditioning camps, he faces his own unique demise. 

Eine Schlüsselfunktion hat dabei das Artists-and-Architects-in-Residence-Programm: Es setzt diese Ideen um, indem es internationale KünstlerInnen und ArchitektInnen am Anfang ihrer Karriere nach Los Angeles bringt. Um den kulturellen Austausch als zentrales Anliegen des Stipendienprogramms zu intensivieren, haben das Österreichische Bundesministerium für Unterricht,

Outside: Die Politik queerer Räume versammelt, zum ersten Mal in deutscher Übersetzung, klassische und jüngere Texte der angloamerikanischen Debatte über den komplexen Zusammenhang zwischen sexueller Identität und räumlicher Verortung.

Politik im Zeitalter entleerter Kategorien

Für unsere Zeit eine Philosophie zu artikulieren, die, das Denken des Seins betreffend, einen anderen Weg als den von Heidegger beschrittenen einschlägt (nämlich den des Mathems statt den des Gedichts), eine Philosophie, die zudem die Lehre vom Subjekt betreffend über Lacan hinausreicht: darum geht es.

Seit dem Aufkommen des Fortschrittsgedankens gilt Bewegung als positiver Wert. Stagnation, egal ob in technischer, politischer oder ökonomischer Hinsicht, wird in der Dynamik des Industriezeitalters zu einem Übel an sich, einer Vorform des Verfalls.

Die in diesem Band versammelten Texte kreisen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven um die philosophische Dimension der Globalisierung, der dominierenden geopolitischen Entwicklung unserer Zeit.