Could it be that the Moscow Conceptualists were so elusive or saturated with the particularities of life in a specific economic and intellectual culture that they precluded integration into a broader art historical narrative?

French photographer Patrick Cariou accused Richard Prince of copying 41 images of rastafarians and landscapes from his book Yes Rasta, which Richard Prince was using for a series of paintings and collages called the Canal Zone. A deposition is the out-of-court oral testimony of a witness that is reduced to writing for later use in court. In such a scenario Richard Prince had to explain and defend his art, his career, and his decades-long practice of appropriating images made by others.

Communiqué § 4 is a political fiction drifting in and out of
material archives. Speculating about communitarian politics,
action and writing it descends into the underground to meet
the angry.
(Engl.)

"Around the World in Eighty Days" is a unique exhibition that takes Jules Verne’s popular novel "Around the World in Eighty Days" as a starting point to investigate the increasing internationalism of the London art world. "Around the World in Eighty Days" marks the first in a new series of exhibitions developed by the ICA that takes a novel, a short story or other written narrative as a point of departure.

‘The documentary photo project ‘We would come to doubt everything…’ deals with Juan (Jan), a Brabant dentist who thirty years ago left everything behind to start a new life in the remote mountain village of San Sebastian de Garabandal in Spain. Juan de la Torre leads the life of a hermit and has devoted himself to the ‘study of life’, immersing himself in books on religion, alternative philosophies, the falsification of history and conspiracy theories.

A tribute to Abbie Hoffmann’s pamphlet of the same name, Steal this Book documents eleven recent performative projects by Spanish artist Dora García.

In An Approach by Helmut Färber, an unpublished text written in 2007, documentary filmmaker Gerhard Friedl (Knittelfeld. A Town without a History, Wolff von Amerongen. Did He Commit Bankruptcy Offences?) describes his experience of Färber’s courses at film school – a method of scrupulous, close analysis at the editing table that also played a crucial role in Harun Farocki’s teaching.

Highschool is the first Nieves publication of Barber’s own photographs from his last few years at high-school in Amherst, Massachusetts, released in conjunction with the tinyvices.com show at colette. Tim Barber's photographs are simply straightforward, and naturally attract the eye of the viewer for their raw and detailed vision.

FUTURE PRACTICE DRAWINGS is a black-and-white book of new charcoal drawings by Jakob S. Boeskov.

The parked car project is a publication project containing works of eight different artist interpreting and illustrating the same object.

The parked car project is a publication project containing works of eight different artist interpreting and illustrating the same object.

The parked car project is a publication project containing works of eight different artist interpreting and illustrating the same object.

The parked car project is a publication project containing works of eight different artist interpreting and illustrating the same object.

The parked car project is a publication project containing works of eight different artist interpreting and illustrating the same object.

The parked car project is a publication project containing works of eight different artist interpreting and illustrating the same object.

Die Publikation INDUSTRIAL on Tour dokumentiert ein vom Hartware MedienKunstVerein organisiertes Filmprogramm zum Thema ‘Industrial’, das vom 27. Sept. - 9. Okt. 2011 durch fünf polnische Städte tourte (Gdańsk, Tarnów, Kraków, Bytom and Łódź).

Are we working or are we playing?
In the globalized and highly professionalized art world the distinction between work and play is increasingly unclear.

Erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung "Nach Kippenberger" im Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (11. Juni - 31. August 2003) und im Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven (22. November 2003 - 1. Februar 2004)

This publication contains texts about different kind of sticks.

Jason McLean's diverse practice includes drawing, sculpture, installation, sound performance and mail art. Much of his work contains collaborative elements. He was recently chosen by MacLean's magazine as one of the top ten visual artists to watch for in Canada. As an illustrator he has worked with Adbusters and Bananafish Magazine.

We encounter the world through surfaces: the screen, the page, our skin, the ocean’s swell. Here on the sea is the surfer, positioned at the edge of the collapsing wave. And lurking underneath in a monstrous mirroring is the shark. When the two meet, carving along the surface, breaking through the boundary, is when death appears.

Ernst Moiré was a mysterious Swiss photographer whose career has been obscured by silence, documentary voids, and misinformation. So much of his life is shrouded in speculation and half-truths that he sometimes seems more like a phantasm than the flesh-and-blood figure who will forever be remembered as the inadvertent inventor of the blur that bears his name.

This publication employs multiple textual forms – from semi-fiction to interview to theoretical historical examination.

The texts assembled in this book began their formation during Charlotte Moth’s residency in Bleckede in 2009. Founded on the basic principle to comment and react on events, images, or situations, different artists, writers, and curators have since then been invited to respond on material chosen by Charlotte Moth.

For the third volume of this ongoing series entitled New York Studio Conversations (Part II) art historian Stephanie Buhmann conducted interviews with twenty artists, whose ages range from early 41 to 96. While the featured genres, processes and aesthetic approaches vary decisively, all participants have one thing in common: they work and usually live in New York.

Paper Poems “started as a collection of new work made using paper, and gradually became a poem made using debris from workings of the booklet. There's a visual index/poem towards back pages, and the contents are visible working components. It's also an homage to paper, and a simpler, far less exhausting way of making a portable museum than before.”

This book is a coy black box, disclosing two distinctive layers of work: records of Endre Aalrust’s extensive non-painter painting practice juxtaposed with short, erratic notes documenting casual incidents.

The exhibition “The Promise of Total Automation” investigated our relationship to a world of machines, technological objects, and electronic devices.

The catalog for this exhibition contains essays by the curators relating to the exhibition project and presents short descriptions of the artists and their works.

Limited catalogue with a unique rice bag cover, documenting Barabara Anna Husar's 2010 exhibition at the Stageback Gallery in Shanghai.

The drawings were made during a three month residency in Moscow and during travels through the west of Russia.

“Drehbuch/Script” is the blueprint for a film which comes to life exclusively in the head of the reader: „Cinema doesn’t get more beautiful than this!“ (An enthusiastic reader)

A collection of 474 web pics.

Solution 214-238: The Book of Japans is part of the Solution series, edited by Ingo Niermann and designed by Zak Kyes.

Solution 9: The Great Pyramid is the first in the forthcoming Solution series where authors will be asked to develop an abundance of compact and original ideas for other countries and regions.
(Engl.)

"As an artist who is researching photography and photographing research, I am interested in photography as a tool of knowledge production and in the aesthetics of scientific imagery.

"Cabaret Crusades - Drawings" is a limited-edition pop-up book by Egyptian artist Wael Shawky, published by Kunsthaus Bregenz as part of an exhibition about the work of Wael Shawky.

Contemporary Archeology studies everyday phenomena around us, whose artistic, sociological, archeological aspects can be of equal significance.

Pictorial Propaganda is an artists's book that includes a critical essay on Mrs. Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe (1762-1850) by Denis Longchamps. (Engl./French.)

Memoirs of a Hypnotist: 100 Days, an intimate and hardly qualifiable document by Marcos Lutyens.

A revised version of a seminar given by Forbes Morlock at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, in June 2007.

An interactive book, designed in the attempt to preserve old shop signs from the Skopje Old Bazaar and reveal their important graphic design value for the local design community.

Dreaming the Mainstream: Tales of Yankee Power discusses the history of publishing and the "activist fiction" or "realometer" during the 20th century paperback revolution. Mark von Schlegell's essays and stories appear regularly in magazines and books the world over. His novels are published in English by M.I.T./Semiotext(e) and in German by Matthes & Seitz, Berlin. He currently teaches the Pure Fiction Seminar at Staedelschule, Frankfurt.

Each contributing writer's work appears in an individual book adjoining the other writer's books.

In 2006, Erik Benjamins, a Los Angeles-based artist, spent six months in Florence, Italy as an American student abroad. Eight years later, in 2014, he returned for six weeks to teach, walk, watch, think, eat, and learn.

The homes are eternally wounded, covering up their lesions with ever more drapes and veils.

The Forgotten Pioneer Movement Guidebook is a companion volume to the interdisciplinary performance and exhibition project of the same name that reconsiders perspectives on the (post)socialist experience.

»The tension between the first person view of the world and the third person is not one that can be easily diffused and pacified. It is rather a tension pregnant with possibilities, one that will unfold when it is good and ready«

Beilage zu der Ausgabe 5 (October/ November) im Jahr 2009 des niederländisch-englischen Magazins "Metropolis M", die sich schwerpunktmäßig mit Spielen beschäftigt.

Schick devoted a decade of his life (1969-1978) to observing, classifying and illustrating the wild vegetation that infests the grounds of the international railway marshalling yard in Chiasso.

A project by LABO21, Troubleyn / Jan Fabre, University of Antwerp and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.

The Camouflage Museum (short TCM) discusses a situation between the virtual and the existing. It holds neither a permanent location for its displays nor is it fixed to a certain field of subjects. Its architectural structure consists of spaces which have hosted, host and will host The Camouflage Museum for a period of time. The outlines of those spaces will be later used to construct TCM's architectural structure.

An artist book by belgian artist Reinaart Vanhoe

How to disappear in America without a trace. “There are many good reasons to disappear from society.

Der Ausstellungskatalog erschien anlässlich der Gruppenausstellung „Routes. Imagine travel an migration“, welche vom 27. Oktober bis 22. Dezember 2002 im Grazer Kunstverein stattfand.
(Engl.)

Specially produced supplement for issue No. 5 (2009) of the dutch contemporary art magazine "Metropolis M", in which artists created small games for the reader to play.

Stephan Lugbauers filmische Arbeiten sind grundsätzlich kritisch und analytisch: Sie hinterfragen die Rolle des künstlerischen Schaffens und re-evaluieren den Gehalt von Kunst, der durchdrungen ist von zeitgenössischer Politik und Ökonomie.

Texts by Karl Holmqvist, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Lars Bang Larsen & Marianne Torp

What’s the point of displays that are only displays of the fact of being displays? If that is art, then isn’t it proof that art itself has lost all content, become display for display’s sake?

In 1985, the body of Josef Mengele, one of the last Nazi war criminals still at large, was unearthed in Brazil.