fanzine produced by La Rada in Locarno

The book combines the lyrics of Georg Altziebler, head and heart of the band SON OF THE VELVET RAT, with new drawings by the artist Gilbert Bretterbauer.

Mit der VIDEONALE.15 feiert die Videonale ihr 30-jähriges Jubiläum. Das Festival zählt zu einem der wichtigsten und renommiertesten Festivals für Videokunst in Deutschland und Europa.

Multiple Spirits is a "Bilingual Queer Art Zine from/within Japan".

Between 2008 and 2010 London based photographer Sipke Visser sent 500 handwritten letters to random addresses all over the United Kingdom.

EDITION
12/20

Nummeriert. Datiert auf November 2009.

WATW looks at various aspects of our, consumption driven world. It combines the works of Chinese and Dutch photographers and artists in a travelling exhibition and website watw.nu that can be defined as montages of artistic, journalistic, and scientific observations and aims to draw attention to our mutual responsibility for the globalising world we are living in.

The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge, 1987) is a thirty-minute film by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss featuring a series of chain reactions involving ordinary objects.

Welcome Disappointed Picnic Government is a new artist book dedicated to the reality of the political condition after the Cold War in former socialist states in Eastern Europe, especially in Romania, by Yoshinori Niwa.

As Lipman artist in residence at Newcastle University, William Cobbing has been developing new works featuring the imprint of letterpress blocks into malleable clay surfaces.

This publication is a record of Klütterkammer - An exhibition by John Bock at the Institute of contemporary Arts, London.

Multiple Spirits is a "Bilingual Queer Art Zine from/within Japan".

The Japanese garden is placed in other contexts: the arts, science, political history, cultural and social change, and religions.

Florian Hecker works with synthetic sound, which is made by processes of digital and electroacoustic signal processing.

Highly complex, thoroughly networked societies are so susceptible in some ‘neuralgic spots’ that a single pinprick is enough to trigger a catastrophic chain reaction. In this insecure situation, threats are being amplified by neoliberal restructuring in the form of privatization and technological rationalization.

No More Sleep No More neither poses nor answers questions about sleep, but rather aims to reframe sleep and wakefulness into the framework of chronopolitics together with aspect of our lives absorbed under the neoliberal condition.

Software art is a practice that regards software as a cultural phenomenon that defines one of the principal domains of our existence today.

Why, when we are desperately in love, do we continuously block union with our love object?

The Lives of the Unholy are a visual archaeology of the city of Warsaw, an attempt at looking closely at the phenomenon of the destruction of monuments in Poland in times of political transformation.

In 2010/11, a group of Vienna-based art practitioners (artists, art historians, and cultural theorists) embarked on a journey of experimental research, exploring the genealogical and political implications of the ways in which research rhetorics and policies are currently incorporated into the fields of contemporary art and art education. Troubling Research: Performing Knowledge in the Arts, a collection of “books” of essays and conversations, is the quirky and exhilarating outcome of this collaborative endeavor to render a “problematization” by interrogating the very conditions of the current upsurge of the art/research articulation.

This publication is a thorough anthology on Brazilian Antropofagia.

The initiative is centered around the gentrification that is/has been going on in the areas of Williamsburg & Greenpoint; where the artist lives, in Brooklyn, New York. (Engl.)

sono qui [un esercito di donnacce nude] is a book of drawings realized by Doris Maninger in 2013 during a residency at the European Ceramic Work Centre in s’Hertogenbosch (Netherlands).

This volume takes the speeches as an opportunity to ask what democracy means from the standpoint of a notorious political figure who was anything but democratic, and to reflect on how promises of freedom and security can mask the reality of repressive regimes.

This collection of essays does not aim to illustrate a prefabricated theory of art, but rather follows the impulses given by artworks themselves.

Dysfunctional Comedy documents a series of public events, performances, and workshops conceptualized by German-American artist Olav Westphalen and organized with different partners, mainly in Sweden, between 2012 and 2015.

In this volume, the fourth in the series Helge Mooshammer and Peter Mörtenböck analyze the networked spaces of global informal markets, the cultural frontiers of speculative investments, and recent urban protests, and discuss crucial shifts in the process of collective articulation within today’s “crowd economy.”

The book Iron Head is an essentially visual anthology about one of the most striking moments of the short Human history and the one that noisily announces our entrance in the Contemporary World: the Industrial Revolution.

A manic appropriation through erasement. (Engl.)

A Boulevard Called Sunset, Vol. I and Vol. II of a triology, is part of an ongoing photographic artist’s book-project I am working on since November 2008. (Engl.)

The photographs in this book are based on an european-japanese artist´s project in Sarajevo, called SICE-Sarajevo International Art Project.

Marije de Witt works in the fields of installation, sculpture and photography.

The reality of the U.S. American landscape can be found in pictures,thus turning the actual physical landscape into a mock up version of its version.

Das von Paolo Cherchi Usai, David Francis, Alexander Horwath und Michael Loebenstein herausgegebene Buch Film Curatorship offeriert eine grundsätzliche Diskussion über das Medium Film und seine Vermittlung im Kontext von Museen und Cinémathèquen.

This book brings together, for the first time in English, a selection of texts written about the work of German artist Peter Dreher.

In "Optics", illustrations from a variety of early photographic manuals and treaties have been juxtaposed, to present an analysis of the increasingly esoteric language of early photography and the form of “looking” it enabled.

This is a guide to Zagreb's contemporary art scene, which highlights some of the leading institutions and key figures, but also artists to watch and often overlooked points of interest that help contribute to the city’s character.

Cópia is a magazine that aims to reflect the mirror room that is contemporary life, the internet and the overwhelmingly easy access to content and references. It is forged using almost solely pre-existent content, both text and images, that is curated from various sources, and presented as snippets that are remixed with interventions from the three artist-editors.

»Darwin said the greatest live simulation is nature herself, who incessantly tries and fails aloud, never stopping at perfection. But nature is often too fast, too slow, too big, too small for us. We need live simulation at scale with human spacetime, but unending in its variety and blind to our barometers of quality." (Ian Cheng)

He book is published on the occasion of a solo show at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin in summer 2006.

Catalogue for touring exhibition curated by Paul Rooney.

Venturing into uncharted territory, Mapping Sitting explores 20th-century Arab portrait photography. Conceived by two contemporary artists, Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari, the mixed-media exhibition comprises four sections investigating how the portrait functioned in the Arab world not only to picture individuals and groups, but also as commodity, luxury item, and adornment.

"With a multitude of stylistic approaches, the volume is an ideal synopsis of Benning's exceptional career, which itself stands tall as a structuralist representation of the United States of America, and the American landscape in particular. From fellow traveller Sharon Lockhart's

The catalogue to the FV, Alternative Scene of the Eighties exhibition shows the life of underground culture and the alternative scene in Ljubljana during the 1980s.

After the first EP volume on the activities of the early Italian avant-garde, the second volume in the series identifies the current fascination with fiction across art, design, and architecture.

About Academia (Case Study: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC) extends from a larger project first produced in 2011, and exhibited at Audain Gallery in 2013.

London, Alexandra Road Estate is a photographic project by Craig Atkinson about a large building complex in North West London.

“While you are wondering if you know me , I am strolling through the city with a newspaper. Are you following? I am crossing the square, and turning the corner. I haven’t yet read the paper. I’ll propably use it this evening as a place-mat or else. I’ll swat mosquitoes with it. The newspaper gives me a refernce point. It’s a prop that gives me a role in a city fulll of passers-by. “ (Maria Barnas)

Mit welchen Subjekt-Modellen arbeitet der Kunstbetrieb? Welchen Normierungen und Funktionalisierungen unterliegen gegenwärtig Künstlerinnen und Künstler und wieweit wird deren Praxis und Selbstverständnis dadurch determiniert? Im Zentrum von The Artist As ... stehen Elemente und Effekte der Kategorie »Autorschaft«, eine der wesentlichen ideologischen Stützen des Kunstsystems.

Yael Bartana (born in 1970 in Israel) makes work largely about her conflicted homeland. She has an exceptionally sensitive eye for public ritual and ceremony, both organized and spontaneous.

In Conversation Pieces, twelve critical thinkers confront twelve artists from the perspective of historical and present-day feminism in art, drawing from the exhibitions and performances presented by If I Can’t Dance during Edition II.

Brian Wilson: An Art Book is a reader on Brian Wilson’s life and work written from a contemporary art perspective by artists and leading art writers.

Die Publikation erschien zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung „Vojin Bakic“, welche von 4. Juni bis zum 24. August 2008 im Grazer Kunstverein stattfand.
(Engl.)

A runner will speed through Tate Britain’s dramatic neo-classical sculpture galleries, again and again, running as if their life depended on it, every day for the next four months. The tightly choreographed live performance Work No. 850 has been specially devised by Martin Creed for the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2008 sponsored by Sotheby’s. Work No. 850 centres on a simple idea: that a person will sprint as fast as they can every 30 seconds through the 86 metre gallery at the heart of Tate Britain. Each run is followed by an equivalent pause, like a musical rest, during which the gallery is empty.

The symposium reflects on historical and actual models of art institutions and organisations that deal with production and circulation of art and ideas in an experimental and flexible way.

Décor (P, TG-AIH, TAHoS AE, PGaA ofUS, TF-OtHoJA, S:FaM) contains a collection of recent collages assembled from found book pages, in which the artists specifically seeks a relationship between the abstract and the figurative, and thereby creating new narratives.

An essay about an incident that took place at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv in September 2008.

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Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations.

After studying photography, art and art criticism, Marcelline Delbecq gradually moved away from the image as such and now concentrates on writing. Ellie Ga practises a blend of narrative genres – memoirs and travel diaries.