Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie investigates the latent issue of class underlying the field of contemporary visual art. On the one hand, it raises the question of whether a given socioeconomic background still helps define your artistic career—and to which point the said career might reflect or consolidate the hierarchies in question. On the other hand, the project asks whether the traditional analytical tools at our disposal are helpful in such an examination of the art world today.

For Hegel, the very character and definition of art is anchored in the past. This is the case for many artist, including Dadaists, who declaired that art is „dead“ – that its time has passed. Even in Tristan Tzara’s New York Times obituary from December 25, 1963 the artist and poet is quoted as having declaired that „Dadaism as a movement was dead.“ obituaries!

Paul Gangloff designed this exhibition catalogue in the form of a diary for the year 2020. This diary is based on an eighteenth-century calendar from the French Revolution in which the names of animals, plants and tools replaced heroic religious feats. Gangloff distributed the artists’ specially developed contributions over specific days of the year.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris from 25 November 2011 to 7 January 2012

- signed copy

(English/French)

Sunday, June 21, 1964

“Studio—To date have again done mainly drawings. Coming along. Sometimes I feel they’re good, often I get discouraged. Staying at studio gets a little easier + more pleasant. I usually take break + come home. Tom stays.”---Eva Hesse

(English)

Fanzine, 2012

This book presents the winners of the Fernand Baudin Prize 2011 for the most beautiful books in Brussels and Wallonia.

Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) has been published following the exhibition of Mark Dion’s third collection of black-and-white photographs from his series called:

An artist pamphlet by Silvia Kolbowski that compliments the artist’s audio work of the same name commissioned by Fillip for the Living Clay Art Writing Readings series at Whitechapel, London, last Fall.

Masters of Reality brings together the first collection of texts by Steve Rushton. Second in a series of publications on contemporary art inaugurated by the Piet Zwart Institute, the book explores the interrelations between art, anthropology, social sciences, psychology, media, politics, and economy.

Alma Mathijsen is a writer and visual artist from the Netherlands.

W139 is a presentation and production space for contemporary art in the centre of Amsterdam. (Engl.)

In Hito Steyerl’s writing we begin to see how, even if the hopes and desires for coherent collective political projects have been displaced onto images and screens, it is precisely here that we must look frankly at the technology that seals them in. (engl.)

To accompany his exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, this book presents the work of the Swiss-American graphic designer Zak Kyes. In collaboration with the curator, Barbara Steiner, the exhibition and publication bring together a range of works by Kyes, as well as works by a host of collaborators that includes architects, artists, writers, curators, editors, and graphic designers, presenting contemporary graphic design as a practice that mediates, and is mediated by, its allied disciplines.

Four solo exhibitions with Natalie Czech, Bo Christian Larsson, Saâdane Afif, and Maria Loboda, as well as a collaborative project with A Dog Republic

170MB is an accumulation of images that combines personal practice with found material.

170MB is an accumulation of images that combines personal practice with found material.

Ingo Niermann’s provocative new novel imagines a Berlin alternative to the activist occupation of public spaces in 2011.

Series Series is a series of interviews between a contemporary artist and curator Jacob Fabricius.

Die abstrakten Skulpturen des amerikanischen Künstlers Vincent Fecteau widersetzen sich einer einfachen Beschreibung.

Beyond the view that multiple, globally dispersed conceptual art practices provide a heterogeneity of cultural references, Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions propose much more: other dimensions altogether, other spatiotemporal politics, other timescales, other understandings of matter, other forms of life—not only as works, but as a basic condition for being able to perceive artworks in the first place. (engl.)

This companion publication to Luke Fowler’s film of the same name features essays by architecture critic and cultural commentator Owen Hatherley and historian Tom Steele.

A project by Alfredo Jaar in homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini.

The writing and objects seen here in this book comprised part of the solo exhibition "The Making of the Means", which took place at Wiels in Bruessels during the Summer of 2009. This book is not a record of that exhibition, but rather intends to focus on representing the conversations and dialogues that were key components of this show.

The internet does not exist. Maybe it did exist only a short time ago, but now it only remains as a blur, a cloud, a friend, a deadline, a redirect, or a 404.

If all things in the world can be considered as sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Following his recent books Art Power and The Communist Postscript, in Going Public Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art—which always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.

With essays by Franco Berardi Bifo, Keti Chukhrov, Diedrich Diederichsen, Antke Engel, Liam Gillick, Tom Holert, Lars Bang Larsen, Marion von Osten, Precarious Workers Brigade, Irit Rogoff, and Hito Steyerl

Other People Think is a project by Alfredo Jaar in homage to John Cage on the occasion of the 2012 John Cage Centennial.

Series Series is a series of interviews between a contemporary artist and curator Jacob Fabricius.

THE MUSEUM TOOK A FEW MINUTES TO COLLECT ITSELF is a new book of short stories by Joseph del Pesco. Based in Baltimore, del Pesco is a curator, writer and publisher and is the International Director of KADIST.

Series Series is a series of interviews between a contemporary artist and curator Jacob Fabricius.

Solution 196–213: United States of Palestine-Israel is an anthology of texts proposing a doable solution for the region. With contributors based in Ramallah and Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Beirut and Jerusalem, New York and Bethlehem, Nazareth and Warsaw, the book offers solutions that will make life better, and proposes ways to do it.

With contributions by Etel Adnan, Douglas Coupland, Eva Illouz, Martti Kalliala, Ben Marcus, Chus Martínez, Momus, Eva Munz, Ingo Niermann, David Pearce, Beatriz Preciado, Emily Segal, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Ignacio Vidal-Folch

The Year we have been nowhere will have two parts. This is the first one.

This book is one out of an edition of 300 copies.

Championed by Dadaists and Surrealists as the first absurdist drama, the play features a main character that is cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque—the author's metaphor for modern man.

It is often said that we no longer have an addressee for our political demands. But that’s not true. We have each other.

Both an artist’s book and a would-be practical guide, this beautiful volume offers occult instructions for becoming invisible by meditating on the color spectrum.

Seventy years ago, the small island nation of Lavapolis was founded.

Solution 168-185: America is the fourth book in the Solution series.

Having furnished solutions for Germany and Dubai, Ingo Niermann takes a new look at what nationhood can mean and accomplish today, finding inspiration, of all places, in North Korea.

Solution 186–195: Dubai Democracy is the fifth book in the Solution series.

In Solution 1-10: Umbauland, Ingo Niermann devises ten provokingly simple ideas which would see Germany work it out after all, including a new grammar, a new political party, assigning allotment gardens to unemployed people and retirees, and the Great Pyramid, the tallest building of the world which would serve as a democratic tomb for millions of people.

A cycle of 24 poems, in which a melanoma-ridden nose embarks on a series of whimsical adventures.

This publication is a small pocket guide into the fringes of the urban landscape. Sections like Food, Shelter, Equipment and Dangers give you a wide variety of tips and tricks based on the daily survival techniques of homeless people.
(english/dutch)

Book published on the occasion of the exhibition at the AA Gallery, London from 15 January - 9 February 2011

(English)

Das Notizbuch ist auf Umweltpapier gedruckt. INDEX in englischer Sprache!

The series of seven books, plus two copies lettered A and B, form an edition with unique variants, as each copy has nine original watercolors of completely different subjects commissioned either by Aldrovandi or by Manfredo Settala (1600-1680) for their collections of curiosities.

Mit Beiträgen aus Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften, Philosophie, Soziologie und Kunst / With essays from the fields of cultural and media studies, philosophy, sociology and art: Olaf Arndt, Günter Burkart, Kenichi Fujimoto, Dominic Johnson, Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz, Sadie Plant, Paul Feigelfeld & Jan Wenzel, Miya Yoshida.
(English/German)

Andreas Sell developed the work that is presented at Platform China. In cooperation with four other people, he collected 6,380 personal resumes of passers-by in Beijing.

Researching invasive non-native species of plant and animal life, this collaborative project documents, through drawing and text, the discovery and history of selected alien species introduced to the British Isles, and the effect on native wildlife.

In 2012 Simon Starling presented Black Drop, a film about the transit of Venus observations and their relationship to early Cinema. Predicated on the idea that the 2012 transit may be the last to be recorded on celluloid (the next transit will occur in 2117), Black Droptracks the development of the French astronomer Jules César Janssen’s innovative “photographic revolver”, a device designed to counter human error in timing the crucial moments of Venus’ contact with the edge of the sun. The device was influential in the development of the Lumiére brothers’ cinematograph.Together with a small film crew, Starling travelled to Hawaii and Tahiti to observe and film the 2012 transit of Venus, and the sites of previous observations and photo-documentation (Point Venus, Tahiti and Honolulu). The recording of the event formed the basis for the production of a film about the relationship between the transit of Venus and the history of cinema, as framed by the parenthesis formed by the 1874 and 2012 transits.

“The Day My Mother Touched Robert Ryman” by Stefan Sulzer interweaves personal memory with art-historical reflection.

„Ancient Erotic“ initiates a dialogue between two works with corresponding aesthetic principles.

"how to make a delicious tea" reflects on artistic production in terms of subtle and layered processes; as well as methods of material accumulation and juxtapositions.

"how to make a delicious tea" reflects on artistic production in terms of subtle and layered processes; as well as methods of material accumulation and juxtapositions.

The Finnish artist Mikko Kuorinki interpreted Foucault`s The Order of Things literally and put all the words of the book in alphabetical order: From A to Zoophytorum.

The first English translation of a famous 1972 debate between Dutch graphic designers Wim Crouwel and Jan van Toorn.

A Brief History of the Future is a book born from a discursive collective will based around the notion of the future through a series of interviews with the participation of Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Iván Argote and Pauline Bastard, Lúa Coderch, Sonia Fernández Pan, Boris Groys, Cristina de Middel, Regina de Miguel, Raimunda Malašauskas, Agnieszka Polska and Jaron Rowan.

"Being at once a school and at the same time not a school, a workspace, the Werplaats Typografie tends to want to comment on its own distinctive form of academic pursuit ( by way of, amongst other outlets, these School Journals)." (Maxine Kopsa)