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.

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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)

Bending and fusing different genres of music, Al Qadiri has released a handful of largely instrumental albums that often imply narratives wrapped in a dystopian atmosphere, evoking an uncanny imagery of our increasingly oversaturated and disorienting information age. It is a simple yet complicated sound that owes as much to electronic music and video game soundtracks as it does to Russian composers and Arab musical traditions.

Edmund de Waal is a potter. His pots, plates, and vessels are the result of craft and mastership, but they are also so much more than that: they are experiments in form and function, abstractions of thoughts on silence and space, on repetition and failure, on substance and fragility, on memory contained.

This book is a collection of drawings, poems & texts on the subject of Martian Gardening. (Engl.)

The John Huston film Freud the Secret Passion (1962) presented the discovery of psychoanalysis as a detective story in which Sigmund Freud, played by Montgomery Clift, descends into the darkest depths of the psyche. (Engl.)

Everything you ever wanted to know about Hans Ulrich Obrist but were afraid to ask has been asked by the sixteen practitioners in this book. Spanning the beginning of his “career” as a young curator in his Zurich kitchen to his time most recently as the Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programs, and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery in London, the book is a “production of reality conversations.” It undertakes the impossible: pinning down this peripatetic curator, attempting to map his psychogeography so that silences may be transcribed. In a sense, it organizes a “protest against forgetting” and affirms the sagacity of an artist who told this dontstop curator “don’t go” when he “contemplated leaving the art world” for other fields—“to go beyond the fear of pooling knowledge”—in lieu of bringing other fields into the (then) hermetic art world.

Smoke Screen is a subjective exploration into the condition of digital screenship.

In the spring of 2007, in New York, as part of an exhibition organized by Gavin Brown's enterprise, Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi produced One Season in Hell, an installation whose point of departure was Arthur Rimbaud’s famous extended poem Une saison en enfer.

Ähnlich Paul McCarthys berühmten »Trunks«, die ab 1982 mit den Props seiner Performances gefüllt wurden, sind die »Three Boxes« konzipiert, die Videofilme aus den Jahren 1970-75 enthalten und als geschlossene, aufeinander gestapelte Kisten ausgestellt werden. Ihr Inhalt wird in der vorliegenden Publikation erstmals und einzigartig öffentlich gemacht und dokumentiert.

In Playground Land has tried to create a scene of being trapped in an insubstantial reality.

"The photographs taken by Georg Philipp Pezold document the etsate of an Austrian family that was driven from Vienna in 1938. After theiremigration to Paris the tax authorities sold a large part of the possessions left behind by the journalist Berta Zuckerkandl, her son, her daughter-in-law and her grandson Emile. The four of them were able to escape from France to North Africa." (Forward: Ruth Pleyer)

Pamphlet on art and etiquette published by Paper Monument, with contributions from 38 artists, critics, curators, and dealers on the sometimes serious and sometimes ridiculous topic of manners in the art world.

Rules of Hypergraphy was an investigation into the concept of hypergraphy through an exhibition, a publication, a typeface, a workshop and an evening of performances.

The playful principles of the competition are supported by a text by Ian Borden (architectural historian) about how skateboarders adopt urban environments as concrete playground, and a chapter from Jocko Weylands The Answer is Never on the rise of skateboard culture in the eighties.

Margaret Salmon (1975, New York, USA) creates stylized portraits that weave together poetry and documentary.