Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie investigates the latent issue of class underlying the field of contemporary visual art.

Facing a mirror could be a displacing experience: symmetries and shades blur the reflected figure in a way that subverts the spatio-temporal relation of ‘what is reflected and when’.
(English)

Friday Morning Coffee first began publishing online in February 2012, and now available in print form as a newspaper.

This bulletin annotates a projected wall text (shown on the cover) that introduced the research program “Dexter Bang Sinister” at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.

In ten picnics, Futurefarmers journeys through fields of inquiry ranging from philosophy to ecology, microbiology, astrobiology, environmental science, geography, and urban studies. Comparing today’s practices with those in 1968, researchers discuss the changing landscape of their field and the tools they use or invent to gather, quantify, and measure their research. (engl.)

Over the last decade, art education has been confronted time and again with neoliberal thought and attitudes. As a result of this, art education has turned slowly but surely into a specific product focused on quantifiable and verifiable end results manifested and legitimized by the rhetoric of marketing and efficiency. (Englisch)

In (the point of) interviews, Roman fresco paintings, the book as an exhibition, zero gravity and outer space. Vivian Sky Rehberg in conversation with Melvin Moti in the first publication of Metropolis M Books. (Englisch, Niederländisch)

The book, The Exhibition of a Film, follows an eponymous exhibition that includes the work by forty-six international artists, and begun with a question: What would an exhibition be like if we changed the environment from the gallery, museum, or Kunsthalle, to that of the cinema?

"These drawings emerged from the immense pain I felt by the dying and death of my Grandfather. I began drawing constantly and kept on going till the book was almost complete.

–/–/– is about memory, fragmented memory and the use or misuse of images in a society flooded by images.

This cookbook consists of life stories and photo portraits where each recipe becomes a blind date – a culinary encounter with someone you don’t really know.

Over a period of eighteen months, a selected group of international artists and writers focused their attention on Tegel Airport in Berlin. They observed how it is used, they engaged in new activities and imagined how the building might function in the future.

"Far Too Close" is a visual meditation on distance, both physical and emotional, of closeness to a subject and remoteness from a place.

Voluspå marks the 100-year anniversary of the Norwegian suffrage movement. 2013 has been a year for celebrating women, feminism and equality, and through the book FRANK comments on the centennial and questions the established narration of feminist history. It serves as an exploration of this lineage in Norway and Sweden through the lives and works of artists and writers.

A reinterpretation of James Joyce's Ulysses rearranging all the words in the original book in alphabetical order.

Publication by Westphalie on the occasion of their eight year anniversary in 2014 in a first edition of 585.

For the exhibition Leila Topić selected ten artistic positions that examine the validity of “stable values,” explore what “reality” might actually be, and focus on the changing images of Croatia as seen from inside and from abroad.
(Croatian, English)

This book comprises the lecture, "Dialogues without frontiers" given by Juan Goytisolo in Barcelona, 28 November 2006, in the Library of Catalonia.

»trail« harks back to a path that Natascha Sadr Haghighian laid out at the Auehang in Kassel in 2012 as part of dOCUMENTA (13).

This publication expands a 2014 multisite contemporary art exhibition that took place in Nanaimo, British Columbia, a small city on the eastern edge of Vancouver Island.

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.