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.

o.A

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.

Mit der Publikation «Art Handling in Oblivion» von Rob van Leijsen eröffnet die edition fink eine Taschenbuchreihe mit Neuauflagen. Einfarbig auf einheitliches Papier gedruckt und in handlicher Form werden Kunstbücher – die nicht zwingend aus dem eigenen Verlagsprogramm stammen – formal reduziert und neu interpretiert wieder verfügbar gemacht.

An Ex-library book is the least desirable book in book collecting terms. The term is used for books that once belonged to a library. Ex-library books are generally unattractive, as they have usually been stamped, taped, glued or had a card pocket glued to them. The books have often been damaged by the patrons of the library themselves.

"Faggots: A PSBEUYS Workbook" of the Toronto based artist Andrew Zealley’s is the culmination of his 2012 work with sticks, or faggots, he had collected with his Lover in the David Balfour Park. Zealley uses the word faggot to imply both the gay slur and its original meaning: a bundle of sticks.

Stereopticon photos of Southern California waterfalls are juxtaposed with a text combining real and imagined history, geological phenomena and exploration, and a paradise inhabited only by women.

This Source Book is published on the occasion of Billy Apple's two-part exhibition at Witte de With: A History of the Brand and Revealed/Concealed.

Shooting Time is a collection of conversations with directors of photography (DP) from all over the world, who talk about their profession in the era of transition from analog to digital cinema. The conversations center around two main areas: film language and digital revolution.

Gedanken zur Ausstellung „Entartete Kunst“ von 1937.

Erstmals wird das farbenfrohe Dante-Universum nun in einer reich illustrierten Monografie erkundet: mit bisher unveröffentlichten Bilddokumenten, Essays von Michael Almereyda, Jim Hoberman, Christoph Huber, Gabe Klinger, Violeta Kovacsics, Bill Krohn, Dušan Rebolj, John Sayles und Mark Cotta Vaz – und einem großen Interview mit Joe Dante selbst, das seine gesamte Laufbahn abdeckt.

Within this quest to consider art differently, Jorella Andrews and Simon O’Sullivan pay attention to the asignifying character of art, or simply its affective qualities. Drawing on the work of key thinkers (for O’Sullivan, the writings of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Jean-François Lyotard) and turning to paradigmatic works of art (for Andrews, film and video pieces by Rosalind Nashashibi and Jayne Parker), they contextualize these art-related matters in relation to a significant recent rise in new thinking about objects, objectness, and objectivity within philosophy, critical theory, and ethics.

Astrid Schmetterling and Lynn Turner focus on distinct films—a series of short meditations on the September 11, 2001, attacks commissioned by Alain Brigand and collectively titled 11’09”01 – September 11 (2002), and Richard Linklater’s Tape (2001). Through the medium of these works they investigate contemporary questions regarding the ethics of recollection and memorialization within visual culture.

'It is enough to say that Ricardo Bofill is one of Europe’s most famous and prolific architects of the last century. To add any more is to inevitably leave out too much.' With these words we begin the journey of our new issue mono.kultur #36 into the mind and work of Spanish architect and enfant terrible Ricardo Bofill.

‘In relation to these larger dynamics, the music is pretty irrelevant,’ says Thaemlitz during our interview, ‘these larger dynamics’ referring to the political undertones of nightlife, as safe spaces for social interaction in general and gender and sexual variance in particular.

Book about the installation called 'Jesus Had A Sister Productions' presenting 'Pills and Powders' by Dana Wyse.

Our new issue with the legendary war photographer James Nachtwey has been a long time in the making – two and a half years in fact –

Alvaro Barrios is a Columbian conceptual artist and cartoonist.

Permafrost, the artist’s book by Mario Raparelli, is divided into four chapters in which texts and drawings dialogue with the reader ironically illustrating some rules related to the etiquette in social relationships, the dynamics, places and people of the art system, and the phases of an experiment concerning the use of LSD.

Petrov, who was born in the Ukraine and raised in Bulgaria, studied fashion at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and benefitted from the high profile roster of tutors including Viktor & Rolf and Raf Simons.

Roadworks are actions of temporary and unintentional public art.

Until I Gush Forth is a meditation on living with the unknown as a constant companion.

Aus Fassaden der Zukunft werden dreidimensionale Bildschirme, denn neue Entwicklungen in der Displaytechnologie, sogenannte Voxel, ermöglichen revolutionäre architektonische Ausdrucksformen.

Katarina Taikon was an epoch-changing activist, prolific writer, and countercultural icon in Sweden. Her activist work brought her face-to-face with the most marginalized communities in society as well as prime ministers.

This issue was a long process, so we are particularly proud to announce mono.kultur #23 featuring Norwegian scientist and artist Sissel Tolaas who has dedicated her life and work to the world of smells.

So here it comes: mono.editionen #03 with Taryn Simon.

"Now What? Artists Write" presents a collection of texts written by artists. Over twenty international artists have been invited to engage with the subjects they deal with in their artistic practice on one hand, and the themes that permeate the project "Now What? Dreaming a better world in six parts" (of which the book is part six) on the other.

Dialog der Künstler, in dem sie die Entwicklung ihres künstlerischen Werks in den Avantgarde-Szenen von Los Angeles und Wien seit den 70er Jahren reflektieren und Parallelen ziehen.

From moving images on the Internet to giant IMAX displays: The number of screens in the public and private sphere has increased significantly during the last two decades.
(Engl.)

Based on a symposium at the Department of Sculpture – Transmedial Space, University of Art and Design, Linz, Austria,Sculpture Unlimited captures the breadth of the contemporary discussion around sculpture.

In 1831 Honoré de Balzac wrote a short story, “The Unknown Masterpiece,” in which he invented the abstract painting.

A delightful typographic comedy, mocking the perverse fanaticism in design.

Autor: Zoran Pantelic, Kristian Lukic, Katherine Carl, Branka Curcic

(Engl./Serbisch)

Somewhere is a photography book that takes us on a journey in the most concrete and abstract sense of the word.

EDITION
2/20

Nummeriert. Datiert auf November 2009. Farbabbildungen.

EDITION
14/20

Nummeriert. Datiert auf November 2009. S/W-Abbildungen.

"Farmer explores the possibility of translating a literary fiction into his own visual art practice. In literature, Farmer seems to have found unique narrative structures that echo his obsession with the anti-hero, the double or the copy and his desire to unfold narratives in time, oscillating between movement and action, expression of emotions and depiction of landscapes."

Language and voice are the main tools used by Katarina Zdjelar in her work. They offer both a material for investigation and a means of orientation in her exploration of Contemporary society.

Taro Hirano (Tokyo, Japan)

Painting seems to have lost its dominant position in the field of the arts. However, looking more closely at exhibited photographs, assemblages, installations, or performances, it is evident how the rhetorics of painting still remain omnipresent.

"It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman's look, and the robust and manlike sea, heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson's chest in his sleep."

(Beginning of chapter 132)

OSSU is the first photo-zine to explore male sexuality in Japan. Every issue features new bodies of work by the OSSU photographers/artists and guest contributors. OSSU is a new attempt to redefine Japan’s representation of male.

In his book, Simon attempts to grasp the phenomenology of 4chan by combining analytic, associative and lyrical writing with threads cited directly from the board.

„M (Me)“ is the first part of a four-part publication project by the Czech artist Ján Mančuška.

andy warhol
from A to B and back again:

..." What else is new?"
"I don't know, " snapped B, who hates to be interrupted. "What are you doing?"
"Cleaning up."
"Cleaning is a thing that bugs me twenty-four hours a day, " B answered.

Kim experiments with narrative formats using video and performance, as well as installation. Collecting and collaging encounters, images, sounds, and objects from his changing domiciles of Seoul, Amsterdam and New York he portrays his world with lyric complexity.

Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces is a first of its kind -- an anthology of voices from the post-1968 squatting movement in Europe which is focused on creative production and cultural innovation.

"Avast!" cried a voice, whose owner at the same time coming close behind us, laid a hand upon both our shoulders, and then insinuating himself between us, stood stooping forward a little, in the uncertain twilight, strangely peering from Queequeg to me. It was Elijah.
"Going aboard?"

(Beginning of chapter 21)

"In the tumultuous business of cutting in and attending to a whale, there is much running backwards and forwards among the crew. Now hands are wanted here, and then again hands are wanted there. There is no staying in any one place; for at one and the same time everything has to be done everywhere."

(Beginning of chapter 72)