With examples of unexpected collectors and serendipitous outcomes, Mari Shaw investigates the obscure desires that shape art collecting and the public goodwill that results from it.

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Published to accompany the artist’s survey exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Too Much World gathers a series of essays and close readings of Steyerl’s films from the past ten years.

If it was once God who pervaded and determined every last corner of human existence, it is now porn, the sibling of sex.

Taken at the height of the Assad days, the images of the photographer Giovanna Silva overlap in this publication

Contemporary art makes extensive use of photography. Photographs often form part of (multimedia) installations in which fascinating interactions are created. The remarkable thing about them is the way photography problematizes the concept of 'place'. The theme of place is self-evident. After all photographs are usually seen as referring to the place they were taken, but in many contemporary art installations this relationship is far more complex.

This catalogue accompanies Taylor’s exhibition “The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 5)” at Fogo Island Gallery

The Fall of the Studio - Artists at Work is an original collection of essays on the role and significance of the artist’s studio in the art and art criticism of the second half of the twentieth century and the early twentyfirst century.

The Mock and other superstition is a quarterly fanzine exploring the relation between artists writing and writing-as-art through a frontal confrontation of writers, curators and visual artists with the written word.
Basing each issue on a loose thematic title, The Mock creates a fluid space to research and experiment with writing as a parallel and yet autonomous art practice.

"THEY SOFT” is a collaboration between the artists Elke Auer and Toni Kochensparger, exploring femininity, fragility and queer feelings in New York, during the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency, through photographs, writing, collages and drawings.

This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition The New Administration of a Fine Arts Education (October 4, 2010-Feb. 2, 2011) curated by James Voorhies with Lisa Dent and organized by Bureau for Open Culture for Columbus College of Art & Design.

Trouble is a French magazine created in 2002; it publishes articles written by art critics, theoreticians, and artists.

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This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Taking Shelter curated by James Voorhies with Michele Snyder. Organized by Columbus College of Art & Design, the exhibition is on view from February 13 to April 5, 2008 at Canzani Center Gallery on the CCAD campus.

Sometimes we have ideas that we like but for rational, emotional or practical reasons we think they won’t work out or we aren’t able to develop them at that moment. Consequently we keep them apart, “hide” them somewhere in a peripheral and little attended side of the memory.

It was 4:56 (Italian time) of the summer morning of the 21th of July in 1969 (still the 20th in the USA) when Neil Armstrong was setting foot on the Moon.

This Book was published on the occasion of the Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.

This little booklet, containing the instructions for playing on the musical glasses, was originally published in 1970 in London.

This book combines short stories, quotes, images and poetic drifts about the Caribbean and life in islands. The publication marks the debut of the Caribbean Backbone Research Institute, dedicated to naming, sharing, confronting and relating underwater sociality.

To explore reality, Enric Farrés Duran sets out itineraries based on investigation, coincidences and chance meetings. Having organised real/fictitious itineraries around Poblenou and El Prat de Llobregat, this time he
focuses on Barcelona’s central District Five.

In the summer of 1970, Gabriele Basilico set off from Milan in a Fiat 124, nominally heading for Kabul. The journey towards India was a rite of passage for the flower children generation, and Basilico had plans to take a series of photos to then sell on to some magazine. The journey didn’t quite turn out as planned, but in his personal archive, those shots were carefully stored away, and on more than one occasion, the Milanese photographer thought about turning them into a book. As Luca Doninelli writes in the introduction, this is “Basilico pre-Basilico”, a reportage stretching from Yugoslavia through to Turkey and Iran – which turned out to be the final destination of the trip – in which we may note the inklings of his vocation-to-be. The afterword by Giovanna Calvenzi, Gabriele’s travelling companion on that journey, tells the story of that adventure in an era of unprecedented freedom.

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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.

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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)