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)

You Only YOLO Once ist ein Reisebericht von Istanbul über, Alexandroupoli, Thessaloniki, Skopje, Pristina, Belgrad und Zagreb.

Wrapped leporello inside translucent sleeve (six b/w and two color sections).

The exhibition presented in this catalogue was inspired by an unexpected incident. A tree fell on the Finnish Aalto Pavillion in 2011 an the exhibition had to be closed. What was originally an inconvenience became a source of inspiration for three curators from Finnland.

Hinter dem Titel des neuesten Buches von Matthias Herrmann „270 West 17th Street # 20c NY NY 10011“ verbirgt sich die exakte Adresse des im Herzen von Chelsea liegenden Studios, das die Republik Österreich Fotokünstler zur Verfügung stellt.

François Girard-Meunier was born in 1990 in Montréal and works in Amsterdam.

A meditation on Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Bugge is interested in aggression as both a constructive and destructive force in society. Her practice incorporates a range of different mediums, in which video often plays an important part.

This double-reared, pocket-sized zine is a soy-based ink cmyk offset print on 50% recycled fiber paper in an edition of four 69.

Made of words and exchanges, with no images, "Drawing Room Confesstions" is open to diverse practices and voices.

What if time was an illusion and past, present and future would all exist simultaneously? According to a thesis by physicist Craig Callender, it only depends on which method we use to segment continuous space-time.

Made of words and exchanges, with no images, "Drawing Room Confesstions" is open to diverse practices and voices.

Polaroid is a beautiful small-format, two-volume set: one book is themed Exterior, the other is themed Interior. This 2018 reprinted edition also comes with a new booklet, Living The Light: A Visual Essay which was created by Müller himself.

By its very nature, graphic design is primarily concerned with giving shape to ideas and information generated by others. For the last decade, Markus Weisbeck has been redefining this prevailing client-designer relationship and subsequently challenging what constitutes a graphic design practice today.

Little Annie also known as Annie Anxiety, singer, writer, composer and against all odds, survivor, takes us on a crazy journey to Mexico to find something she lost in New York City - faith.

o.A.

Writing starts with an assumption.

This book is first in a series on critical spatial practice developed alongside the Städelschule program of the same name. Each edition includes work by invited artists—the first includes newly commissioned work by the photographer Armin Linke, who documented the Occupy camp around the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. (engl.)

Sullivan’s appropriated excerpt from Phil Andros’s short story collection $tud, first published in 1966, is titled Once in a Blue Moon.

“If there is “the world” on the opposite bank of the river,it is only adolescent youth and some madman to be going toswim across, the fucking others surely will not cross untilthe bridge is built.

Martin Arnold’s latest publication is the first comprehensive monograph to document his artistic development, focusing on the cartoon films created in recent years.

This publication is the result of the close collaboration between individuals and institutions from several European countries, with different historical, political as well as professional backgrounds but with common interests in the critical debate about the modernist heritage and its interpretation in the post-modern times, in different social and political systems.

Begleitbroschüre zur Ausstellung "Mutatis Mutandis" in der Secession 2012, in welcher Kunstwerke von Babak Afrassiabi, Edgar Arceneaux, Hany Armanious, Louidgi Beltrame, Elisabetta Benassi, Andrea Branzi, Luke Fowler und Suzanne Treister gezeigt wurden.

This issue comprises various outlooks on “perspective.” This might be taken to mean something as specific as a particular opinion or as general as an axonometric projection; in short, different ways and means of looking at the world.

Simona Koch spürt in »Organisms« den Strömen und Verbindungen des Lebendigen als Teil des großen Weltorganismus, des Weltganzen nach. Sie erforscht wissenschaftliche Fragen mit künstlerischen Strategien und kann – frei von den Zwängen wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens – Perspektiven erarbeiten, die das Spiel des Lebendigen in seinen immer wieder neuen Facetten und Verflechtungen zeigen.

In der Sprachwissenschaft bedeutet Idiom Sprechweise, Spracheigentümlichkeit oder besondere Ausdrucksweise.

„Identitätspolitiken“ waren einmal ein wichtiges Instrument für die Kritik von Strukturen der Exklusion.

In der Sprachwissenschaft bedeutet Idiom Sprechweise, Spracheigentümlichkeit oder besondere Ausdrucksweise.

The book "Furniture Music" is an instrument for research. The included essays and interviews investigate the sphere of cultural production in domestic space throughout a series of subjects: the relationship between art and domesticity, the modalities of contemporary inhabitation, the cultural and political status of furniture and design.

The book is a very intimate conversation where the two artists discuss various unexpected topics such as their respective views on art and life, as well as the memories of their coomon time in jail.

Biscotti di Vento is a research project by artist Vittoria Soddu in collaboration with authors Manlio Brigalia, Bianca Pitzorno and Celestino Tabasso. Their contributions to Biscotti di Vento have been inspired by conversations filmed by Soddu in 2010 with Antonella Baralla and Salvatorica Manca around the origins and secrets of a contended biscuit.
(english/italien)

'Everyday Is Like Sunday' is a novel about a young English student from the small Yorkshire market town of Thirsk.

The work of visual artist, photographer and film artist Peter Downsbrough (1940, New Bunswick, N.J.) has had a major impact on the perception of art. The varied work of the artist-ranging from sculpture and books to photography, video, and film-maintains a complex relationship with architecture and typography, while also drawing on the achievements of the early avant-garde (Bauhaus, De Stijl) and Minimal Art.

Hrsg. von Szacsva y Pál anlässlich der ersten Ausstellung "Empire in Different Colors" im Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, 2004, und "Another Finger Exercise" ein 7 Minuten langes Video, ausgeführt von Szacsva y Pál, 2005, mit Texten von Timothy Brennan, Szacsva y Pál (englisch/ungarisch)

By creating a series of eight Images that reveal Progression in time (six photos of the Moments Prior to shaving to fully shaven, and two photos of the Instruments used: shaving brush, razors, and scissors)

"A Brief History of Meteorite Falls" is a collection of 100 fragmentary accounts of meteorite impacts and fireball sightings.

Amar Kanwar's The Torn First Pages is an ode to the thousands engaged in the struggle for democracy in Burma. It is published in honor of the bookshop owner Ko Than Htay, who was imprisoned for removing the first pages of all books and journals that contained ideological propaganda from the military regime.

Im Zentrum des Katalogs steht die Zusammenarbeit zweier künstlerischer Positionen, deren Differenz produktiv wirksam wird.

When does a concrete act, endlessly repeated, acquire an inconceivable dimension, one that escapes our grasp and ultimately becomes abstract?

Art book by Maximilian Rossner, printed by Cosima Pitz in a limited, hand numbered edition of 300 in 2016.

With the American artist Avery Singer, the Secession presents a young painter who integrates references to art history and contemporaneity into her work as well as the media conditions and mechanisms of the digital.

3 Communiqués is a documentary fiction charting a journey through the marginal histories of communalism, self-presentation and collective agency. It forges a subjunctive archaeology that renegotiates utopian propositions as a way of both making art and as a tool for progressive thinking.

Three Views on Salto del Agua is a book of three insightful essays on the architecturally based film, Salto del Agua, a collaborative project by conceptual artist Anton Vidokle and sound engineer Cristian Manzutto. The 10-minute Super 8 film focuses its lens on the facade of an unremarkable building in Mexico City; a public transportation station that would otherwise go unnoticed in the urban sprawl.

Polder Cup is a sports and arts event organized by Maider Lopez, the Spanish artist who has established an international reputation with her unusual projects.

In parallel to BAK's acclaimed series of Critical Readers in Contemporary Art, the series Critical Readers in Artists' Practice examines the practice and body of work of artists who we believe manage to shift the understanding and the potential of art in the changing world of today, and of tomorrow.

This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition design is a state of mind ath he Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, in collaboration with Museion, Bolzano, Italy and Pinacoteca Giocanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy.

On the occasion of the exhibition "BABY. Picturing the ideal human, 1840-now", Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (22 March - 1 June 2008)

On the occasion of the exhibition "BABY. Picturing the ideal human, 1840-now", Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (22 March - 1 June 2008)

With contributions by Ross Birrell, Boris Buden, Jordan Crandall, Bregje van Eekelen, Boris Groys, Viktor Misiano, Irit Rogoff, Martha Rosler, Sean Snyder and Hito Steyerl.

Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction is an anthology of new texts by artists, curators, art historians and writers who are self-confessed science fiction fans.