This book is my contribution to the art section at Babel. Festival di letteratura e traduzione (Literature and translation festival) held in Bellinzona, Switzerland, September 22 to 24, 2006.

Comic book Meta 4.

cubic book – 2620 pages with 5x5 squares consisting of 4x4 squares with 65.536 different combinations of Black and No-Black.

Amanita's Colouring Book is part of a project for an exhibition held at Sound of Mu, Oslo (1-10 August 2009). (Engl.)

Die Spanierin Esther Ferrer war 1967 erstmals an einer Performance beteiligt, einem Konzert der Künstlergruppe ZAJ. Seither hat sie eine ganz spezifische Art von Minimalismus entwickelt, in dem konzeptuelle Strenge und das Absurde Hand in Hand gehen.

Why We Should Talk About ... is a series of irregularly published handmade zines. Each is dedicated to the work of one or two artists whose work the auhor Biran Sholis cares about but might not be able to consider in the larger publications he writes for.
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Im Jahre 2006 entwickelte die Gebert Stiftung für Kultur mit KURATOR ein für die Schweiz bisher einmaliges Programm zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunstvermittlung und ermöglicht einer jungen Kuratorin oder einem jungen Kurator ein Ausstellungsprogramm zu erarbeiten und umzusetzen.

For his first fanzine Cranico stole a Johnny Cash song title track and collected some "mug shots" of famous and historical musicians.

Das Künstlerbuch zu seinem Projekt »One Side of Broadway« (2005), einer Diainstallation mit Ton, evoziert die Zeit um 1910, in der New York zentraler Schauplatz der Entwicklung des Spielfilms und der Kinos war. Diese Zeit verbindet sich unmittelbar mit heute, wenn Buckinghams fotografische Aufnahmen vom Broadway von 1999 die Frage nach der Bedeutung dieser Geschichte zu unserem heutigen Wissen und Wahrnehmen stellen.

In this book of postcards, Peter Piller (Fritzlar, 1968) presents a collection
of photographs found on eBay using the search terms Deko + Munition (ammunition + decor).

Distance is the first ever monographic book by Zavialoff to come out after years of collaborations and editorial works with some of the finest magazines around, coinciding with his solo show at Belleville, Reykjavik, this July.

In diesem Buch befinden sich 9 schwarz-weiß Zeichnungen von Mirjam Schweiger.

"Herr Karl ist kein Fotograf. Er versucht sich auch gar nicht in kunstvollen Arragements von Licht- und Schattenspielen oder in der kalten Ästhetik modischer Hochglanzmagazine. Seine Bilder scheinen schnelle Schnappschüsse des Alltäglichen." (Christiane Lange)

Ein 12 seitiges schmales Künstlerbuch vom Künstler Robert Gfader gestaltet.

This book contains a series of aquarell drawings of beautiful people in poses of everydays life.

Das Buch beinhaltet Collagen der Künstlerin Chantal Rens.

In Los Angeles ...

Originally published in 1970, this facsimile edition presents Eugene M. Schwartz’s unconventional yet compelling guide to building an art collection with limited means.

As soon as the rock is put into the center of attention the pressing obviousness of its character handicaps the focus.

Die Publikation in Form eines Leporellos trägt dem Aspekt des Filmischen in Marc Brandenburgs Werk Rechnung, das er durch schmale aneinander gereihte »Breitwandformate« und angeschnittene Bildflächen erreicht.

Die vorliegende Publikation analysiert die vom Ideal einer heroischen Landschaft geprägten Kriegszeichnungen Goethes so wie die Arbeiten der ihn begleitenden Künstler vor dem Hintergrund barocker Ereignisgrafik...

San Rocco was the product of the collaboration of two young architects. San Rocco did not contribute to the later fame of its two designers. It is neither “standard Grassi” nor “standard Rossi”.
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Eloísa Cartonera is an Argentine cooperative publishing business of designers and writers. It publishes hand made books with extraordinary designs at a literary quality.

Crushed Stunned Cats Beheaded is a small, hand sewn book that documents this project, containing a CD with 12 tracks–16 minutes of sung, spoken, whispered, and screamed words with an occasional great rattling of pots and pans.

The graphic notation relies on the original text of “Die Sonate mit Urlauten”. It notates the length of the words in the text as they would be read naturally. (Engl.)

A Rumour of Reeds: a concertina of fine art prints.

Loss, lust, and erotic fantasies of possesion are the subjects of this artists' book.

Die Secession gibt eine CD-Rom heraus, die erstmals in einem zeitgemäßen Medium die Geschichte der Künstlervereinigung vermittelt.

A scroll book that seems to never end with lyrics

29 poems and 30 drawings/paintings created around the subject of my mother's illness and death from cancer.

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Ground threads together images of planting and harvesting, burying and unearthing, of fresh life and recent death.

Yosi Wanunu
Gründer und künstlerischer Leiter, toxicdreams

Keri Hulme’s novels, short stories and poems are widely published. Her novel, the bone people, gained global recognition, particularly when it won the 1984 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and the Booker Prize in 1985.

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Wolfgang Amadeo Capellari

Mystical Fortune Telling Cards and Historic Game, Featuring Todays Best Character Design.

Physical Product: Strategies International 2 is a book of words and images created in a limited edition of 25. It includes 14 photos and 2 reproductions of original drawings. All copies are handbound.

Das pakistanische Bilderbuch besteht aus 20 Kompaktfotos und Kompakttexten aus und zu einer Reise nach Lahore, Karachi u.a. Städten und Dörfern dieses Landes im Sommer 2008. Sowie je einer Diaspora Card aus Wien und London.

Der istrische Boškarin ist eine autochthone und vom Aussterben bedrohte Rinderart, die in direkter Abstammungslinie zum Bos primigenius steht.

In 2007 a video of a few second black and white film was uploaded to Youtube with the title, "Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film." The black and white film depicted a figure biking into the ocean.

Das Künstlerbuch "Versicherungsantrag" ist eine Broschur in japanischer Bindetechnik, handgebunden.

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Ein Mann und eine Frau streiten sich um die Beziehung, die sie beide nicht in der Lage sind, zueinander herzustellen.

"common indicators of UFO encounters or abductions by alien beings"

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Gebet, Belehrungs- und Erbauungsbuch mit Vorsätzen und Mitteln zu einem glücklichen Leben.

Girls topless. Little poster, foldable, with polkadots pixel frame.

one hundred seventy two photographs to tear off, look at, stimulate, hang up, stick on, tinker, paint, use, write on, sit in front of, frame, steal, enjoy, remember, giggle, think, be amazed, dream, turnthepage, entertain, miss, giveaway, beautivy, waste, scribble, wonder, show...

Hand painted silkscreen on paper, museum board, linen. 100% archival materials. (Engl.)

fanfold with the drawing of a girl, alternating blue and red pictures, with a board cover.

Collection of Works by the San Francisco based Street Photographer Dave Schubert. In the 90s, he moved out to San Francisco to go to school and returned to the art of street photography. In the 20 years since he’s been out west, he’s seen the city transform. Once upon a time, there were gun battles right outside his door; today, Silicon Valley computer nerds rock Star Wars t-shirts at the bar.

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Born in East Germany and having lived longer, by now, in the United States than in united Germany, the starting point for “Critical Distance – a perpetual absence of home” was my rather ambiguous relationship to any kind of geographically, emotionally or culturally definable home. (Engl.)

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Publication by Silvia Ungersböck.

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International, non-formulaized, anti-steretypical and unwilling to compromise for commercial value, Too Magazine is a brand new independent art & style magazine founded by 4 Chinese creatives living in 4 utterly different world-renowned cities - Beijing, Guangzhou (Canton), Taipei and London. The magazine, making its debut in July 2007, will introduce to the world new works of a new breed of creatives, most of which Chinese or Chinese by origin. The magazine's characters are, represented their contributors' own unique interpretation of style, literature, art and design.

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