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.

This publication presents and contextualizes the current Austrian contribution to the most important of all international art exhibitions. In his work, Mathias Poledna deals with connections between art and entertainment culture, modernism in architecture and design, the language of cinema and the history of exhibiting. His works are characterized by a rigorous examination of the medium of film and the function of images in the present and past.

Archeology of the future or a prospective past? Future II, or, as this tense is also called: future perfect is a paradoxical grammatical construction. Those who use this tense to make a statement about the world create facts that do not exist yet.

This publication picks up on several of the themes which emerge conceptually and artistically in the Central Asian Pavilion project, and elaborates them in a philosophical, historical and poetic register within the specific materiality and temporality of a book—though the website as a repository and forum for these kinds of explorations should be mentioned as well—with its capacity to extend the time, space and context of

Canada 1: Gastone Monari / Ideato e curato da Conceived and edited by Roberto Canella, Achille Filipponi / Introduzione Preface Aldo Tagliaferri / Progetto grafico Graphic design Federico Antonini (superness.info) / Traduzioni Translations Karen Whittle / Postproduzione Postproduction Chiara Talacci / Ringraziamenti

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.

“Calls for more Blackness in architecture schools can be simplistic,” writes architect Darell Wayne Fields, guest editor of Log 57. Well-meaning equity and inclusion programs often simply “associate the mere presence of Black bodies with institutional change.” In Log 57, a 208-page thematic issue titled Black is . . . an’ Black ain’t . . ., 29 authors explore the complexities of Blackness as it relates to aesthetics and architectural pedagogy. As Fields notes, “In calling for more Blackness, I, for one, am calling for more Black methodology. An inherent characteristic of [which] is a measurement of difference.”

Heimo Zobernig’s contribution to the Venice Biennial responds directly to the existing exhibition situation in the Austrian Pavilion, built in 1934 based on plans by Josef Hoffmann and Robert Kramreiter. The Pavilion’s structure, with its rounded classical arches and majestic visual axes, on the one hand, and clear, rational forms and modern construction materials, on the other, moves between the poles of historicism and modernism. At the same time, Zobernig’s intervention connects inside and outside, to create an enclosed site where one can linger and reflect on human presence in space.

The catalog was developed in close collaboration with the artist. It examines Atkins' practice in the context of contemporary art, literature and digital representation, and explores how the artist uses the displacement of language and script as well as music, voice and sound. Through videos, texts and drawings, the artist develops a multi-layered and deeply figurative discourse. The impossibility of an adequate representation of the physical, especially the corporeal - from computer-generated visual vocabulary to the most hackneyed poetry - is

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Foreign words, paper, photos, colors, ashes, organic matter: two artists mix images and texts – shapes and words. Animals and humans meet, undergo metamorphoses and establish strange connections, as elastic and intimate as membranes.

An examination of a work that captures the spirit of the 1980s—commodification, seduction, and political inactivity.In Jeff Koons's One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (1985), a Spalding basketball floats in the center of a glass tank that stands on a four-legged black metal structure. It has been called one of the defining works of the 1980s—

Walker Evans’s Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama shows a painstakingly clean-swept corner in the house of a family of white sharecroppers.

1958 auf der Werkkunstschule in Offenbach entwickelte Franz Erhard Walther eine eigene Typographie, die ohne Diagonalen auskommt. Im vorliegenden Künstlerbuch bildet er mit ihnen so genannte »Werksätze« – auf jeder Seite ein Buchstabe, jeweils einer Szene aus seinem Leben aus den Jahren 1954 bis 1973 gegenübergestellt, beispielsweise einer

Hans G Helms hat zwischen 1959 und 1968 drei Sprachkunstwerke geschaf- fen, die zu den fortschrittlichsten ihrer Gattunggehören:

The book deals with the process of visualising music using the first movement of Mozart's Symphony in A major as an example.

„Sie lächelte mit einem anderen Ohr.“ / “And He smiled another ear.“ - Übersetzungsprogramme funktionieren mittels Datenbanken und algorithmischem Zugriff. Nebenbei produzieren sie semantische Fehler und ästhetische Extras, poetische Zufälle. …und diesen Einfall: das Kinderspiel „Stille Post“ mit google translate zu simulieren. Die Spielanleitung und eine Parole wieder und wieder per Rechner übersetzen: semantisch beschneiden und ästhetisch ausblühen lassen. Konkret:

Hermes erhält einen Anruf aus Rumänien: Das alte Haus in der strada Liviu Rebreanu ist verkauft worden. Warum hat er noch den Schlüssel zu dieser Wohnung in Sibiu? Vielleicht, weil sich das so ergeben hat. Vielleicht, weil diese Wohnung ein Treffpunkt ist am Anfang oder am Ende einer Reise. Vielleicht, weil er sich so einfacher auf den Weg machen kann zu den Orten, die Cluj heißen oder Chișinău, Odessa oder Gjumri, Iași, Šamorín oder Tampakika.

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.

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

Einsamkeit ist nicht Sache des isolierten Einen. Einsamkeit tritt ein, sobald die Andern wiederkehren, ob als Erinnerte, Vermisste oder Bedrohliche, ob als Lockende, Kämpfende oder Schwatzende. Einsamkeit ist ein Verhältnis. Ripplingers Essay betrachtet dieses Verhältnis an der Echo-Literatur von Gustave Flaubert und Uwe Nettelbeck, an Exil-Schriften von Victor Hugo, an Gedichten von Elizabeth Bishop und Emily Dickinson, an der Antipolitik von Maurice Blanchot, an Fabeln von Günther Anders und Ernst Bloch, aber auch an dem Melodram Portrait of Jennie von William Dieterle.

Bekannt ist Raymond Roussel als Ingenieur delirierend-phantastischer Wortwelten, bekannt sind seine Romane voller exotischer Rituale, theatraler Maschinen und blutiger Szenen. Ein anderer Roussel bleibt in seinen frühen Versdichtungen zu entdecken: ein Zeitgenosse Marcel Prousts, ein scharfer Beobachter der Gesellschaft, ein Meister der Ekphrasis und ein großer Humorist.

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.

Are you an artist? Are you interested in studying art? Do you want to know what drives the art market? Or do you simply want to know how to become a successful artist? From the first-hand experience of a world-renowned artist, this book gives you a deep insight into the art world and reveals how you can become successful yourself.

Dieses Buch existiert in einer maskulinen und einer femininen Sprachfassung. Inhalt identisch. Bist du Künstler? Interessierst du dich für ein Kunststudium? Willst du wissen, was den Kunstmarkt treibt? Oder ganz einfach, wie man als Künstler erfolgreich wird? Aus den Erfahrungen eines weltbekannten Künstlers gewährt dir dieses Buch aus erster Hand einen tiefen Einblick in die Kunstwelt und zeigt dir, wie du deine Kunst und Karriere professionell angehen musst und dadurch erfolgreich werden kannst.

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.

Following Institutions by Artists: Volume One and the eponymous convention from which both volumes take their name, this second anthology of texts continues the work of unpacking artists’ relationships to—and creation of—a larger set of structures that increasingly regulate, demarcate, and codify contemporary artistic practice: centres of economic and cultural capital; state and private apparatus; and sites of display, storage and production.

The monograph is based on studies of archive sources, interviews with artists, who cooperated with Valoch, as well as with himself, and on the research of current expert literature dealing with topics related to Central and Eastern Europe, and it represents the first summary of extensive activities of Jiří Valoch in the years 1965-1980.

Einhundert Zeichnungen in Graphit auf Büttenpapier, 85 x 58 cm, April 2020 bis Dezember 2022. Mit einer Vorbemerkung von Klaus Mosettig sowie einem Text von Ann Cotten. Gestaltet von Laurenz Feinig

Christian Jankowski ist mit seinem humorvollen Beitrag Telemistica zur Biennale Venedig 1999, bei dem er Wahrsager im italienischen Fernsehen zu seinem Erfolg bei der Kunstschau befragte, einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit bekannt geworden. "Alle hoffen", so DIE ZEIT, "

RAW Académie was developed in Dakar to create a space of experimental teaching and collaboration, of deconstruction and exposure, of knowledge and nourishment. Koyo Kouoh, founder of RAW Material Company, wished for curatorial inquiry and critical writing to join artistic thinking at this site of international encounters. During these two-month long sessions that take place twice a year, young artists and curators—the Académie fellows—come from all over the world to be accompanied by faculty members with

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,

A two-volume artist’s book highlighting the sculptor’s protracted career and stringent works
Designed by American conceptual sculptor Cady Noland (born 1956), The Clip-On Method’s two volumes can be picked up and read in any order: back to front, front to back, or started in the middle. Readers take it upon themselves to weave their way through Noland’s tangled oeuvre.

Raqs Media Collective wurde von der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien eingeladen, eine Ausstellung mit den Werken der kunsthistorischen Sammlung zu kuratieren. Das aus Indien stammende Kollektiv, das seine Arbeitsweise mit dem Begriff des „epistemischen Ungehorsams” umschreibt, hat Werke aus der Sammlung ausgewählt, um sie mit gegenwärtigen Positionen zu konfrontieren:

Die überarbeitete, aktualisierte und um fast 100 Projekte erweiterte Neuausgabe des Katalogs zur «a_schau», der Dauerausstellung über die österreichische Architektur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts im Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W), ist zu einem eigenständigen Werk geworden, das weit über die Ausstellung hinausweist.

The work of the sculptor Rachel Harrison is both the zeitgeist and the least digestible in contemporary art. It may also be the most important, owing to an originality that breaks a prevalent spell in an art world of recycled genres, styles, and ideas.&;&;Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker

The Secession Talks. Exhibitions in Conversation versammelt 46 Ausstellungsgespräche, die von 2011 bis 2022 in der Secession stattfanden. Die Gespräche spiegeln exemplarisch die Ausstellungsgeschichte der Secession in dieser Zeit wider. An ihnen waren Künstlerinnen mit ausgewählten Gesprächspartnerinnen beteiligt, unter ihnen auch

But, tell me, how did he feel about the book? Well, it was in it that an awareness came up, the awareness that the work spoke more about him than about the other. And why? Who knows?

Weaving as a Metaphor offers the intimate side of the artist's oeuvre. . . . Emulating a gallery setting, the catalog, itself a work of art, presents each weaving on a separate page. Trenchant information as well as thought-provoking essays--by Arthur C. Danto, Joan Simon and Nina Stritzler-Levine--archival photographs and notebooks round out this wonderful publication.

Im Januar 2019 veröffentlicht Michel Houellebecq "Serotonin". Im Jahr 2020, in einer poetischen, vielleicht sogar chemischen Geste, nimmt François Mangeol den Roman von Michel Houellebecq und reduziert den Text des Schriftstellers auf die alleinigen chemischen Symbole, die die Serotonin-Zusammensetzung bilden: C für Kohlenstoff, H für Wasserstoff, N für Stickstoff und O für Sauerstoff. Diese Symbole sind isoliert und über die gesamten 352 Seiten des Buches verteilt, als ein Echo zu dieser schwierigen Suche nach Glück.

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

Notes on Book Design is a collection of 50 texts written by designers Siri Lee Lindskrog and Amanda-Li Kollberg of graphic and type design studio Formal Settings, based on books from the collection of Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin.

1809 fand im Londoner Wirkwarengeschäft seines Bruders die erste und einzige Einzelausstellung des Maler-Dichters William Blake statt. Sie erwies sich als Reinfall. Kaum jemand sah sie. Die Kritiken waren verheerend, mit Ausnahme einer Rezension, die im Januar 1811 in einem patriotischen Hamburger Kulturmagazin erschien.

“Saint Louis in his prison in Damietta”, “A house engulfed in flames ...”, “A snowman, such as children build ...”: The painter and illustrator Henri-Achille Zo (1873–1933) received a total of 59 instructions of this kind in the early 1930s.

This publication summarizes the results of the 40th-Anniversary Symposium of the Austrian Ludwig Foundation, which was dedicated to examining current and future perspectives of museum collections. Considering the growing awareness—on an aesthetic as well as an institutional level—of the need to pursue a more inclusive

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

Alfredo Jaar
Weltanschauung, 1998
Offset color print (folded)
27-1/2” x 39-1/2” / 69.9 cm x 100.3 cm
Edition of 200 signed by Alfredo Jaar

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.

The work of the artist takes as its subject the current neoliberal system and its impact on the individual, as measured under Marxist analysis. It particularly approaches issues such as working conditions, school dropouts, stress-related illnesses, anxiety and loneliness, the housing crisis, and overpopulation as so many causes leading to alienation in our contemporary societies. Also at the heart of his questioning is the analysis of a sense of loss of points of reference, of a form of time distortion generated by these stress conditions. The artist seeks to extract the waking hallucination - the onirism - from these crisis situations

Next Spring is an occasional series of reviews that offers a different approach to the writing of art criticism. Focused on the reading of one film work, each book in the series presents a parallel text on the artwork as both a critical response and literary production. The film selected and the text produced consider ecological issues, environmental concerns, and systematic revisionings. The language of place is given priority and image reproductions used nominally. Paris, May 16, the pilot issue, includes writings by Clara Schulmann, Barbara Sirieix, and Jennifer Teets, as well as a visual essay by Scott Rogers on the invitation of Richard Frater.

Square of Will in Square of Love gathers a selection of texts, notes and drawings by Alina Popa, edited by Florin Flueras. Most texts are more poetic and more personal than Alina’s previously published writing, “...a mixture of styles, subjects and mediums – theory, poetry, drawings, diary notes, it's unclassifiable, as she liked it.”
– Florin Flueras

The Disassembled Dictionary is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. “Portrait” consists of a glossary of synonyms and an essay by artist and poet Leif Holmstrand.

The Disassembled Dictionary is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. “Non-territorial” consists of texts by Yoko Andersson Yamano, Rachel Armstrong, Ylva Björnberg, Athena Farrokhzad, Jörg Heiser, Rolf Hughes, Ronald Jones, Lundahl & Seitl, Petra Malm, Aldy Milliken, David Neuman, Aleksander Perski, Tessa Praun, Theodor Ringborg, Robert Stasinski and Alessandra Di Pisa, and Liv Stoltz.

The Disassembled Dictionary is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. “Black” consists of the A–Z list and an adapted version of the essay by Oscar Guermouche from the book Noir – A Serendipitous Encyclopedia Inspired by 1001 Names for the Color Black by Sandra Praun, and a part of an interview with Pierre Soulages. Rotolito / Nava Press

Afterwords by Timothy Snyder & Yuval Noah Harari and Nan Goldin. In partnership with the Office of the President of Ukraine and the PinchukArtCentre.
Published on the occasion of the 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom, issue seven is the culmination of Yevgenia's war diary, alongside monumental work by Kadan and Khomenko.

'The young artists in this book continue to live and work in wartime Ukraine. They confront the daily onslaught of death and its reckoning. But, in the face of war, they still preserve its unintelligibility. It is by such means that history might walk down another path than the one its perpetrators intend.'.

In 2018, the Museum Villa Stuck presented a comprehensive retrospective with works by the goldsmith and silversmith Rudolf Bott. The book accompanying the exhibition is a 672-page monumental work. Far from a usual catalog with colorful illustrations, it is "thought in black and white" like the entire exhibition. With a 340-page photo report by Jörg Koopmann and Lene Harbo Pedersen, who photographed the objects across Europe at the lenders and in Bott's studio.

You ever read the back of a book and blah blah blah words and more words, and function. Poets depend on the emotional character of words. Manuals depend on the instructiveness of words. Yet words can be pronounced backwards or cut up and given new meaning, they can be looked at for their mathematical value, pondered over how they change in translation or seen as hiding messages within them.

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

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.

Philatelic Items documents 220 works produced over the last ten years by Lolly Batty. It includes an index showing the envelopes followed by a selection printed at actual-size. ⁣