What is the lesson of the vine? I asked artists, writers and winegrowers the question and their responses, reflections and songs are gathered together in this publication. Textual images are roused and conjured up, such as the insatiable mouth of the winelouse devouring the language of the vine; or the surge and flow of the vine-triloquist speaking in intoxicated tongues; nocturnal fires in the vineyards; gardens of paradise and gardens of errors.

This small publication is an edited reprint of the essay ‘The Book in Intermediary Form’ written by Kasper Andreasen. It was originally published in 2011 by Wintertuin, Nijmegen as part of a compilation about the future of the book. The essay argues for a possible scenario leading up to a hypothesis about an audio­visual book. How can artists’ books be audio­visual objects?

In Klara Kayser's water-proof pocket book of poetry, Hygiene, the Düsseldorf-based artist nibbles at the surfaces of our bodies, desires, and ideas and through words constitutes what washes off and what sticks. Kayser's interest in the human body is a theology of slapstick, translating form into a poetic language that hums the dramatic rhythm of a pick-me-up-and-drop-me-low pop song.

Can an autobiographical tale tell the personal stories of many? This is what Rubén H. Bermúdez achieves through the pages of the photo book 'And you, why are you black?" where, starting from an investigation into the origins of black slavery in Spain, the author constructs an autobiographical tale that acts as a political essay, rescuing his memory captured in the images, conversations and symbols that marked his life and thus narrates the everyday and the extraordinary of a society seen from a black perspective.

A very personal choice of art, cinema and fashion. nspired by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc’s Blaue Reiter Almanac that, in 1912, brought together without hierarchy contemporary art works and works of folk art, Puits d’amour offers one possible vision of the best of 2016 in various creative fields. The affection I have for them is the only link between the collected works.

A number of contributions in the new issue of zweikommasieben relate to the past in some shape or form, and they conjure it in different ways. An approach that seems adequate, since the year 2020 might have given momentum to a nostalgic way of looking at the world. In an interview, the Australian duo CS + Kreme talks about how they still feed off the energy of an alchemic jam they had at the very beginning of their collaboration. Similarly, Johanna Hedva takes on the past in her artistic practice and speaks about how she understands performances as “the communion with the dead, with the past.”

«Lead Season» is the first thorough monographic catalog of Argentine artist Mauro Giaconi. Taking the drawing as a starting point, the texts address the multidisciplinarity that characterizes the artist's work, while also stressing the current socio-political context in Latin America based on the sense of impermanence, the presence of the body and a critical awareness of the matter.

Skinned and Detouched, by Alice Channer, are a pair of books about feelings. They are intended as portals to a single performative stage in the industrial production of two sculptures, and as an imaginative documentation of the multiple embodiments and disembodiments involved.

The blue issue of the hinterlands magazine assembles rural realities in 17 contributions from European rural regions and villages. The magazine combines reports, essays and photographic series related to the colour blue.

Can corporate history be art? This question can only be asked if one is not familiar with the fascinating long-term project by the Chinese artist Xiaowen Zhu. Anyone who has experienced Oriental Silk will answer this question with a clear “yes.” The project’s title is also the name of a company founded in Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

As we shift in and out of a fold in time on a global and local scale, we reflect upon community importance. To stay as a whole - we must look inwards and form external connections. CODE52 01 is titled A Fold In Time Here and Elsewhere as it refers to the state of conscious­ness during this time of uncertainty.

Marcel Broodthaers (Brussels, 1924-1976), a poet before becoming an artist in 1964, was a pioneer of intermedia and site-specific installation art but above all an in-depth theorist who ranged widely over the visual arts in his writings. Broodthaers’ work is widely recognized for its movement and combination of mediums: performance, film, text-based work, etc. Often overlooked, his artworks include genuine research into the nature of language, giving a conceptual continuity to all his practice.

Michael Snow is, without doubt, one of foremost living artist, and a central figure in North American art in the latter half of the Twentieth Century. Since the reception of the “Independent Film Award” (1968) from the journal Film Culture, his work was placing in the ranks of such major figures of avant-garde cinema as Stan Brakhage and Gregory Markopoulos as well as in the company of two other artists-turned-filmmakers: the photographer Robert Frank and the painter Andy Warhol.

The potential and the versatility of publishing open it to a diversity of practices and approaches in the arts, but as an eminently social form of art, a collective or micro-collective work with shared responsibilities, it is also a never-ending process of “crafting a variegated approach to how you create, publish, distribute, and build a social ecosystem around your efforts”, of trying to “build up and strengthen the community around these printed forms” (Temporary Services).

Andy Boots Werk überbrückt die schwierige Grauzone zwischen dem Fassbaren und dem Digitalen. In seinen gleichermaßen konzeptuellen wie poetischen Objekten und Gemälden gelingt es dem Künstler, Ideen, Orte und Prozesse zu verwirklichen, die sonst in einer Welt, die sich zu oft blind auf Technologie verlässt, verborgen geblieben wären. Wir unterhielten uns mit Andy Boot über seinen Umzug von Australien nach Österreich, seine Faszination für Blockchain und natürlich über das konzeptuelle Fundament seiner Arbeit.

In the 17th issue of zweikommasieben something that has been apparent from the beginning of the magazine—whose credo is to study the present—only seems increasingly true: in the supposed present, temporalities overlap and intersect. They burst out, reaching at once backwards and forwards.

Read in the "Touch" issue: ­­A Singaporean artist connects with Hijikata Tatsumi from beyond the grave • A Lycanthrope turns into a Manta Ray, a story of metamorphosis • Connecting during quarantine, with TikTok • Touching Palestine in a contemporary art center in Dubai • A Norwegian cartel redefines modern-day manhood • Dr. Aline LePierre talks about the healing power of touch

Alter Architecture Research Collective (AARC) is an interdisciplinary group of thinkers and practitioners that come together to observe, question, and distort existing strategies of cultural and spatial production.

Pupa Press’ Básicos is a collection that assembles unreleased content in an economical, easy to distribute archive format, with the intention of creating an agile way to publish contents that can generate networks and synergies between our contributors and followers.

Dedicated to his friend and mentor Peter Hujar, Salters Cottages is an artist’s book of stills from a short film Schneider made in 1981 at Salters Cottages, a summer seaside cottage community on Long Island, New York.

Walter Knoll gilt als Möbelmarke der Moderne, die Klassiker und Ikonen der Avantgarde geschaffen hat: Möbelstücke, die stilbildend wirken und unser Lebensgefühl nachhaltig prägen.

An immersive glimpse into the private, domestic world of one of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artists. Nestled in a leafy, residential section of Los Angeles is the house where Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920–1991) lived and worked during the last decade of his life.

Trained as an agronomic engineer, Carsten Höller (born 1961) is known for his frequent use of mushrooms as a motif and theme in his installations and projects.

Each drawing in the Codification of intimacy is based on a chapter, a passage or a key word that Voigt has chosen to distill from Niklas Luhmann's Love as Passion (1982). Voigt began her drawings by first marking those passages in the text that triggered intuitive associations.

The Mechanism is a melancholic series of black-and-white photographs that form a sci-fi story about contemporary life. Bringing together images made in multiple cities, the work deals with themes of technology, surveillance and urban society.

Während seiner 40-jährigen Karriere porträtierte der schottische Fotograf unzählige Film-, Rock- und Politstars für Magazine, schuf Reportagestrecken und fotografierte mehr als 250 Titel für die Mode-Bibel Vogue.

Zoe Leonard’s You see I am here after all brings together thousands of postcard images of the “great cataract,” Niagra Falls, from the early 1900s through the 1950s. This grand accumulation of viewpoints brings up issues as diverse as human interventions with nature and the function of landscape in inventing American historical narratives, as well as the technological evolution of image reproduction and dissemination.

Featuring a wealth of sketches, precision drawings, and computer-generated artwork, as well as a range of styles, concepts, languages, and alphabets, Free Hand illustrates the idiosyncratic creative processes behind the design of typefaces, logos, and word-images.

American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. "Vija Celmins:

Becoming Disfarmer uses a compelling sequence of over 100 images to tell the story of Mike Disfarmer's vernacular portraiture and its transformation into art. This monograph features his vintage prints along with a selection of enlargements made from his negatives in the 1970s, through which his work first became known.

'An Archeology of Fear and Desire' is an attempt to recontextualise Israel as place and metaphor, exploring longing, belonging and exclusion. Frédéric Brenner follows up his opus Diaspora with a visual essay about Israel, a land of devouring myths in which constructs – social and religious – perpetuate a tyranny of roles, which render us strangers to what is most intimate in ourselves.

Joachim Brohm (Jahrgang 1955) unternimmt ein foto-urbanistisches Projekt mit Langzeitbeoachtung. Von 1992 bis 2002 fotografiert er auf ein und demselben Areal, das - am Rande einer deutschen Großstadt gelegen

First book dedicated to Casilli's decade-defining entertainment portraits.

‘A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great or beautiful cathedral.’
Theodore Roosevelt

"Something So Clear" is Kapil Das’ patient look behind the visual clichés and stereotypes that have come to define India. Consisting of a tight edit from thousands of photos taken over a decade, the book shows the spectrum of India through land- and streetscapes, portraits and everyday happenings, some as deceptively simple as a man carrying a mattress or a beetle resting on a leaf.

Der Flughafen Roissy Charles de Gaulle war für JH Engström (Jahrgang 1969) schon immer ein besonderer Ort. Im Alter von zehn Jahren zog er mit seinen Eltern nach Paris. Charles de Gaulle war sein erster Kontakt mit der Welt außerhalb seines Heimatlandes Schweden. Engström verbindet ein intensives Verhältnis, nicht nur mit Paris, sondern auch mit Charles de Gaulle und Flughäfen im Allgemeinen.

American artist Roe Ethridge's latest book takes its title from the French "C'est pas du luxe", an ironic phrase which alludes to the superfluous nature of luxury whilst proclaiming how essential it is to existence.

Charles Fréger has photographed a series of portraits of Breton women wearing costumes and headdresses of endless variety: from high starched towers to elaborately pinned, tucked and embroidered confections of handmade lace, as delicate as they are distinctive.

This book offers a visually unique approach to Frank’s films: only new stills taken from videotapes have been used and they add up to a visual essay on Frank’s cinema that establishes an engaging dialogue with his photographic work.

Auf der Suche nach dem Verlorenen. Der international bekannte Modefotograf Alexander Gnädinger widmete sich in den letzten 2 Jahren einem freien Projekt, um ein Gegengewicht zu seiner kommerziellen Arbeit zu schaffen. Extrem stilisierte, ästhetisch verdichtete Bilder, wie sie z.B. seit Jahren für seinen Kunden Adidas entstehen, sind sein Markenzeichen.

"Her∂ubrei∂ at Home" is a collection of photographs of the landscape of home in Iceland. Her∂ubrei∂, Iceland’s much-loved mountain, and Stéfan V.

In 1994, after seeing photographs of the plastic sheets given to Rwandan refugees to live under, Shigeru Ban went to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to propose ideas for better shelters. Since then, Ban has been critically heralded for his innovative approaches to environmentally sound architecture and his devotion to humanitarian efforts in the wake of some of the most devastating natural and man-made disasters.

In the mid-seventies, the Viking Landers were the first to land on planet Mars. Though the alien landscape was magnificent, there were no canals or skeletons or wind-blown ruined dwellings. Today, not a single trace remains of Viking Landers 3 and 4. But myth (and conspiracy theories) have it that an alien survey was commissioned of planet Earth.

The publication is the first comprehensive documentation of the project White Space in White Space, which was initiated by Stano Filko, Miloš Laky, and Ján Zavarský in 1973 and evolved over the course of almost ten year. This book examines all the international exhibitions (Brno, Budapest, Paris, Warsaw, Beograd, Kassel), the collected manifestos, and the artists’ writings as well as the project’s further transformation in the practice of Stano Filko as a solo artist.

Ein präziser Blick auf das architektonische Umfeld, den sozialen Kontext und die geografischen Gegebenheiten wurde für die Projekte durchgehend vorausgesetzt, die im dritten Band der von András Pálffy edierten Reihe Konzept und Entwurf präsentiert werden.

Das Buch gibt einen umfassenden Einblick in das vielgestaltige Werk Ingrid Wieners, die die Gobelinweberei als zeitgenössisches Medium neu entdeckt hat.

his intimate book explores Broy Lim’s realization of his homosexuality in his hometown of Singapore, where it still remains illegal. Combining personal texts and photos, and now they know narrates Lim’s sexual identity and his nine-year relationship with his partner, while also representing the broader struggle of many youths who navigate their sense of self in conservative heteronormative societies.

Francesco Clemente wie man ihn kennt: eine Bildsprache, die aus einer Vielzahl von Symbolen, Mythen, Kulturen und Philosophien schöpft. Aufgeladen von Erotik seine Frauenporträts, die er in Pastelltechnik auf Rives Papier schuf.

Günther Selichar’s preferred thematic field of work, and his oeuvre has revolved around it since the early 1980s, is the media and mass media. this publication not only documents in its entirety what is probably his most extensive body of work who’s afraid of blue, red and green? (1990–2017),

A digest of magazines around the world edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin, Permanent Food is a cannibal magazine. Bound together in each issue of this periodical of pilfering from Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin is a thoroughly bewildering, amusing, grotesque, and blasé selection of images culled from anywhere, everywhere, and nowhere.

The photo of a woman’s leg stepping onto an open book when climbing out of bed served as inspiration.
I asked some of my friends to take a picture for me according to these guidelines. They should photograph themselves stepping on a book with their bare feet. It was agreed that the authors of the photos remain anonymous

“Arc” by award-winning author Paul Savoie is a poem which captures the pensive impressions of a moment and is suffused with a quiet musicality.

Dance and musical improvisation are ephemeral expressions urging us to embrace the moment in thoughtful joy. Devon Fornelli’s improvisations documented here are two performances:

Alejandro Cartagena’s photographs of recently built Mexican suburbs, ask us to look at this phenomenon of the suburban environs and how it has fueled variously the need for solutions to overcrowded cities, or the desire to form and incorporate community living where replication and anonymity are the rule rather than the exception.

On the occasion of the exhibition Die fünfte Säule [The fifth column], curated by Moritz Küng, Joëlle Tuerlinckx presents the lecture-performance Les moments d?espace ? lecture for YouTube in 591 panels (version 17.11.11) and the publication Moments d?espace.
On 591 PowerPoint pages the artist describes her subjective and partially autobiographical thoughts concerning the paradox of space in the form of ?textimages? in French with English subtitles. While these are projected uncommented, Tuerlinckx improvises a musicalpiece on a first-generation Casio synthesizer.

Edition of 12, Set of 18 screenprinted ceramic tiles (15 x 15 x 1 cm),
handmade box, book-binding linen, numbered, signed Edition.
Edition Salon für Kunstbuch 2021, in cooperation with Fiona Liewehr

NORMAL 2 - direkter Urbanismus x 4 zeigt die Realisierungen der 4 künstlerisch-urbanen Interventionen für NORMAL - ein Projekt für das Graz Kulturjahr 2020 und verortet diese im internationalen Diskurs, basierend auf transparadisos Methode des direkten Urbanismus.

The liberal capitalist world order that prevailed after 1989 is today in a stage of advanced disintegration. The collapse of this order exposes the illiberal core of its freedoms and forms of ownership shaped by the market: the violent unfreedoms of the dispossessed as well as the willingness of the propertied to use violence. Art, too, reveals itself as the venue of these forces and their exclusions: