Most Ugandans are unable to take a holiday.
But it is possible for them to have photos taken with a better world in the background once a year.

William Cobbing’s solo exhibition ‘Gradiva Project’ at The Freud Museum incorporates new sculpture, installation and video related to the Gradiva bas-relief, a plaster cast of which Freud displayed in his study.

'I For Idiot’ functions as an extension of the film ‘Avenida Progreso’ in the sense that it assembles three different perspectives: a philosopher’s, an ethnologist’s and a film theorist’s, and juxtaposes these with some of the external layers of reality that have in one way or another informed the film.

Written by people who live well for people who live badly, mixture of the most serious and stupidest philosophical bullshit, vulgar and sober at the same time, PNB continues the tradition of fanzines, comics, counter-culture and the radical and rude criticism of the permanent order of things.

The publication is in part an archival document to a Situationist Intervention that took place sometime during the summer months of 1997, an intervention with specific interior / exterior locations within the centre of London.

(rrr) reproduces nine pages typewritten by Ulises Carrión in 1972

Decoys and Disruptions is the first comprehensive collection of writings by American artist and critic Martha Rosler. Best known for her videos and photography, Rosler has also been an original and influential cultural critic and theorist for over twenty-five years.

In 2008, an exhibition opened at the Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, Israel, that focused on the launching of a new on photographic archive: “Memories of a Place: The Photo-Archives graphic History of Wadi ‘Ara, 1903–2008.”

Counter-Signals is a periodically produced journal addressing, in variable iterations, convergent aspects of design, media, and politics.

Anu Vahtra’s artists’ book “Untitled” documents ten of her projects which by combining photography and large-scale spatial installation deal with space, awareness of space and its characteristics, the border between the second and the third dimension.

Poems in Farsi by Ali Mohammed Zahma. (Engl.)

2006 the Museu d`Art Contemporani, Barcelona, x and Kunsthaus Graz show a selection of x central works of Minimal and Conceptual art x from the renowned Collection Herbert. (Engl.)

Die burlesquen Geschichten erzählen sich einerseits über Filmstills, andererseits werden mittels Daumenkino-Effekt gestische Momente und performative Fragestellungen, die in der filmischen Umsetzung sichtbar sind, im Buchformat lesbar.

This book is published by Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain and Kunsthaus Graz, Austria on the occasion of two exhibitions: one at the Macba Barcelona from February - April 2006, and the other at the Kunsthaus Graz in June - September 2006.

(English)

Duet for Cannibals: Forms of Cultural Appropriation is a publication based on a screening and discussion program bringing together a selection of works by contemporary artists and filmmakers as well as footage from the archive of the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam.

The False Calculations Presidium questions the nature and role of the market economy in our lives, summing up the artists’ experience of themselves as economic entities.

In dieser Publikation werden reine Kreativitätstechniken am Beispiel zweck- und weitestgehend assoziationsfreier Artefakte erläutert.

Riccardo Benassi and Tomaso De Luca, the winners in the first year of the competition organized by Fondazione Pastificio Cerere and by Civita, were offered a period of residency at Pastificio Cerere in Rome, a place historically devoted to giving artists a home that fosters dialogue and a shared creative life.
(english/ italien)

An island is any piece of land surrounded by water. An island is an object lost in an endless extension of a uniform element. As such, the island is isolated. The island is by definition remote, separated, intimately alternative.

Max Sher's second book Palimpsests is a photographic exploration of post-Soviet built environment looked at from the perspective of the everyday and discarding the exoticizing visual tropes that dominate the narrative about this area.

A stunning, lively volume charting almost fifty years of an extraordinary artist's creativity across a range of media, Hockney's Pictures is the definitive retrospective of one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century.

From it’s beginnings in 1969, Goran Trbuljak’s engagement within the context of conceptual art practices, was focused on seeking of various means of making and representing the artwork.

This publication was produced to coincide with the exhibition Nancy Spero. L’image parlée / The Spoken Image, presented at the Galerie de l’UQAM from May 9 to June 23, 2001.
Français / English

With an introduction by the renowned architect Rem Koolhaas, this book gathers for the first time a selection of writings by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Pionier I was first presented in Spring 2011 as part of a solo exhibition of Nicolai’s work at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania.

This book explores each site in five chapters of photographic images, primarily by AA Bronson, together with a brilliant and often humorous reflection on queer animals, forest rangers, shamanism, and park sex by Peter Hobbs. A group of drawings by Chicago artist Elijah Bergher completes the volume.

Anabases is a project initiated by the artist Eric Baudelaire and conceived as a conversation between his own practice and the research of the philosopher Pierre Zaoui and the cinema theorist Jean-Pierre Rehm.

Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term is perhaps best understood as a metaphor. The book both lays the groundwork for a new field of study and serves as an act of resistance against the many forms of representation that break the Balkans into fragments. (English)

From the 1970s to the present, Cecilia Vicuña’s work has engaged with rituals from Aboriginal Australia, South Africa, Paleolithic Europe, and pre-Columbian America involving red-colored thread.

Caring Culture: Art, Architecture and the Politics of Public Health examines changing political uses of the concept of care in neoliberal democracies and asks how artists, architects, and designers both contribute to and attempt to critique its social manifestations.

Always Ready explores the disappearance of thousands of Chinese cardboard books used to form ideological imagery for the mass games (the Spartakiads) and the 1st of May events in Albania, both of which took place during the communist regime of Enver Hoxha. Enormous gatherings of students, arranged in a pattern, held these large cardboard books over their heads, thereby forming magnificent propaganda imagery, often of factories, or fists. These gatherings and images served a dual function of inspriing and also disciplining the citizens of a terrorized and isolated nation. The books were imported from China.

[Applied] Foreign Affairs is a trans-disciplinary lab investigating spatial, infrastructural, environmental and cultural phenomena in rural and urban Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East, established by Baerbel Mueller.

The exhibition "Archaeologies of the future" brings together some of the latest work by five artists - Martin Beck, Carol Bove, Dora García, Mathias Poledna, Pia Rönicke - who have adopted different angles of vision in their work but who share the same conceptual approach, the identification or recognition of the aesthetic of the just-past presented as a historicized advocation of time.

The book is an archive of the happenings during the last nine years

Berührendes Buch in dem sich Kader Attia hochsensibel dem Thema des verletzten menschlichen Körpers widmet.

Das Buch ist eine Publikation zur Videoinstallation des Kärntner Künstlers Ernst Logar

This issue doubles as a catalog-of-sorts to Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, a group exhibition curated by Laura Hoptman at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from May 6 to August 27, 2012.

Bulletins of The Serving Library #2 continues the trajectory begun by DOT DOT DOT. Dexter Sinister’s previous house journal which ran for ten years and twenty issues.

In the process of transferring analog material to digital data banks, small independent archives are often not able to keep up with bigger, economically driven archives, such as stock-image companies.

Film-maker Omer Fast explores narrative complexity through a practice that blurs the boundaries between reality and representations.

More than 400 drawings – most of them new pieces – in various media and formats make up this, the first major solo exhibition held so far of work by Azucena Vieites.

Das Künsterbuch stellt verschiedene seiner Projekte dar, die jeweils in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Leipziger Grafiker Till Gathman individuell und auf unterschiedlichem Papier gestaltet wurden. (German/English)

"This is an important book . . . [that] must be viewed as Cahun and Moore's crowning artistic achievement. . . . The feat of translation that brings Disavowals to English readers is worthy of respect and gratitude. The handsomely conceived publication advances a project of illumination that will permit Anglophones to better appreciate a figure Breton described as `one of the most curious spirits (among four or five) of our times´." (Tirza True Latimer, H-France Review)

“One comes home tired after having worked all day and finds an uncomfortable chair.” This is the start to Bruno Munari’s considerations on the choice between aesthetics and functionality when designing furniture. To support his thesis, Munari analyses the most obvious case of the armchair.
You must have been seated on countless types of chair: very low ones, ones with a deep seat, ones with sharp edges, and so on. “But be honest : what is more restful than a tuppenny deckchair.” In Munari’s typically engaging style the great designer reminds us how we could go on inventing furniture each time fashions change when actually all that is needed is to perfect the most comfortable of the existing models, not forgetting the real purpose: comfort and durability.
To corroborate the words of Bruno Munari are the 14 photographs which accompanied the 1944 text that appeared in issue n. 202 of the magazine Domus.

Counter-Signals is a bi-annual journal addressing, in variable iterations, different aspects of the intersection of design, media, and politics. The first issue — Militant Print / A Form Oriented to Its Own Circulation — documents and theorizes forms of militant aesthetics in the history of self-organized print publishing, among other things.

A collection of writings exploring the transgressive and transdisciplinary nature of Bill Burns’ practice, richly illustrated with material representing his work across photography, performance, writing and artists’ books.

Meet the Popular Republic of Photosynthesis; learn how thin and blurry the boundary between living and inanimate can be; read challenging reflections about our interpretation of the theory of evolution; discover how cleverly Queen Dido took advantage of the isoperimetric problem; watch gossip stars morphed into Poltergeist; download the second great selection of music compiled by Onga Boring Machines.

Counter-Signals, eine neue Zeitschrift aus Chicago

Counter-Signals, eine neue Zeitschrift aus Chicago

Die Geschichte von Schloss Buchberg bei Gars am Kamp reicht bis in das 12. Jahrhundert zurück. Seit 1979 beherbergt das Schloss zeitgenössische Kunst. Aus der Anregung Dóra Maurer, leer stehende Räume für permanente Kunstinstallationen zu nutzen, ist ein vielschichtiges Gefüge entstanden, das landschaftliche, architektonisch, geschichtliche und künstlerische bestimmte Räume einmalig ineinander verschränkt.

This book is designed to feel the strange and complex quality of the artist's sculptures, and at the same time proves the great unsuspected relation between his work and the public.

(Engl./Spanish)

The drawings engage with a corporate space of institutionalised observation and monitoring.

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.

Liquid Door is a project that grew out of the aquatic experiments of Jacques Cousteau, experiments that the Italian artistic duo of Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi (both born in Turin in 1976) took as a starting point for exploring the aquarium and the “underwater museum”.

Der Leser erfährt in diesem Buch mehr über die Funktion von Ideologie und den Abgrund des Humanen, als er sich zu erinnern wünscht.

This catalogue presents some of the most interesting characters on the north Italian art scene, focusing on the cities of Milan and Turin during the period 1958-1968, to give a rounded and extensive picture of the issues artists were working with at the time.

This publication was published on the ocassion of the solo exhibition "Constant Traveller" by Tina Gverović at BOP Gallery in Zagreb, March 2008.

In Hurting Horses, the artist uses a distinct literary style from one chapter to another, from autobiography to historical essay, from satirical parody to the fantastic, from letter to fiction, from detailed report to visionary daydream.

Clemens Marschall’s book "Avant-garde from Below: Transgressive Performance from Iggy Pop to Joe Coleman and GG Allin" is an account, through the 20th century and beyond, of a dangerous bastardisation of punk spirit and avant-garde theory.

Bruch is a nationally and internationally awarded design studio based in Graz. It develops visual design concepts and appropriate strategies for the fields of branding, editorial design, packaging and signage.