Virilio ist der Speedfreak unter den Denkern. Er unterscheidet drei Revolutionen der Geschwindigkeit.

In der Generation Berlin sieht Heinz Bude eine neue intellektuelle Generation verkörpert, die ein Gefühl von Jetztzeit vermittelt.

Mè mou haptou — Noli me tangere — Rühr mich nicht an: Berühre mich nicht. In der Szene aus dem Johannesevangelium ist dies der Satz, den der auferstandene Christus an Maria Magdalena richtet, um gleich darauf wieder zu verschwinden.

"Wie ist es möglich, einen Strich zu machen, der nicht dumm ist?"

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Vierzehn internationale Künstler – u. a. Hilton Als, Ida Ekblad, Glenn Ligon und Thomas Hirschhorn – schlüpfen in Rollen aus Film, TV, Literatur und Kunst, um William Blake (1757–1827) neu zu befragen.

Wie ist es möglich, dass das Religiöse in der öffentlichen Sphäre so hartnäckig verwurzelt ist, dass Religion und Politik bei aller seit der Aufklärung unternommenen säkularen Anstrengung derart miteinander vermengt sind?

Die »Poesien des Alltags« sind Liebeserklärungen an die unscheinbaren Dinge des täglichen Gebrauchs. Erzählt werden ihre Kultur-, Erfindungs- und Nutzungsgeschichte. Illustriert sind sie auch.

Riso printed photo book

«die belege/les quittances/the receipts» von RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co) ist eine Ausstellung im CentrePasquArt in Biel und ein Künstlerbuch. Beide beschäftigen sich mit der Tatsache, dass sich im zeitgenössischen Ausstellungsbetrieb vermehrt betriebswirtschaftliche Fragen vor die inhaltlichen Fragen der Kunst drängen.

»Der Dildo stiftet Unbehagen/ Lust. Und tatsächlich ist der Dildo das Stück, das fehlt, um das paranoide Rätsel zu lösen, das der lesbische Sex im sexuellen heterozentristischen Modell darstellt; als ermögliche er die Antwort auf jene drängende Frage: wie ficken Lesben ohne Penis?"

Narziß und Pygmalion, Sphinx und Labyrinth, die Kunst des Emblems, die Karikatur und die phantastischen Auswüchse in Kunst, Literatur und Architektur des 19. Jahrhunderts sind die Themen dieses bereits 1978 erschienenen Werks des großen italienischen Philosophen.

14 grundlegende Essays zum Wesen des Photographischen

Die ästhetischen Ausarbeitungen und Verschiebungen zwischen dem Poetischen und dem Argumentativen, jene Kategorien, die Bilder entweder in technisch oder ethisch bedingte Anordnungen einbinden: diese Fragen sind es, denen Jacques Rancière sich widmet.

One of the major characteristics of Rahbar’s work is to restore the dialogue between history and aesthetics. Her originality is in bringing art—not only in its new forms, such as video and performance, but also in traditional forms that have been reappraised today—onto social and political terrain.

What happens when viewers become listeners?

“Types of Assembly” is expanding the scope of typological investigations in order to detect the underlying mechanisms leading to assemblies in space—its collective rituals, political movements, spiritual dimensions, imaginary projections, everyday practices—and, it is suggesting that the performative quality of typological formation unfolds its true transformative potential within the timespan of hours, years and ages.

UN is a photographic diary by Giovanna Silva guiding us through the United Nations Office headquarters in Geneva. A chat-like narration unveils spaces, thoughts, eye catching details and is overlapped by images of halls, old phone booths filled with plastic wrap, textured walls, floors and ceilings, rows of tables and chairs, either straight or curving, like rollercoasters.

Significantly expanding the scope and functions of the HaFI pamphlet series, Ben Alper and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa present visual unknowns and forgotten gestures from the defunct archives of American mid-century news photography. Carefully curated and collated, their iconographic essay, a Bilderatlas of sorts, explores in depth the notion of “hide,” and of what forces normative relations to the visible serve to veil. How can, how should these images be looked at? And how do they unsettle the contemporary gaze?

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).

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

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

In its obsession to classify and find an underlying order to nature, one of the objectives of science has been to develop a system of taxonomies for bodies. Through their representation systems and the devices used for their exhibition, cartographies of the

There was a time when a person would pick up an instrument to compose yet another song for a loved one. A sad figure humming into a microphone, pronouncing the most basic words and forms to convey quantity, quality, fact,

Lewis Carroll began photographing children in the mid-nineteenth century, at a time when the young medium of photography was opening up new possibilities for visual representation and the notion of childhood itself was in transition. In this lavishly illustrated book, Diane Waggoner offers

Bringing forth the silent voices in the history of photography, this publication highlights key aspects of image production and representation by four ‘minute camera’ practitioners in India: Bharat Bhushan Mahajan (Delhi), Teekam Chand Pahari and Surendar Kumar Pahari (Jaipur); and Kinshan Chand Hemlani (Pushkar).

Julie Ault and David Deitcher illuminate the life and work of the influential art historian, New Museum curator, and Visual AIDS co-founder William Olander (1950–1989). Olander’s exhibitions challenged oppressive institutional boundaries, blew open dichotomies, and boldly confronted discrimination, sexual difference, and AIDS, shaping curatorial practice for decades to come.

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin tells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.

This book, a collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum and the University of Westminster, captures the British mosque at a pivotal moment in its history. There are 1,800 mosques in the UK today – mostly converted from terraced houses, libraries, cinemas and supermarkets. Now, these improvised spaces are beginning to disappear, as Muslim communities replace them with purpose-built structures.

Die Grenzen der Medien überwindet Ashley Hans Scheirl so mühelos wie die Beschränkungen durch geschlechtliche und kulturelle Normen. Die als Angela Scheirl geborene Künstler*in erlangte Ende der 1980er-Jahre durch ihre experimentellen Film- und

Due Magneti by artist A. Herms is a collection of day and dream texts that become interwoven into a narrative about the construction of roles. The banal is sacred, the dreams are treasures. Both the reflection of everyday occurrences and the ability to transform oneself in dreams offer possibilities to question and shape one's own biographical identity.

Am 25. September 1940 überquerte Walter Benjamin auf der Flucht vor den Nazis die Pyrenäen. Er hat das Tal auf der spanischen Seite bereits erreicht, hat ein Visum für die USA, die Transiterlaubnis durch Spanien nach Portugal hat er auch. Was er nicht hat, ist ein französisches Ausreisevisum. Die spanischen Grenzbeamten erlauben die Übernachtung in Port-Bou –

Our oceans are in an ecological crisis due to their contamination with millions of tons of toxic microplastic particles. In just a few years, the volume of microplastic particles will exceed that of plankton in our oceans and turn them into a huge sea of plastic.

Lecture on Nothing is a recording of John Cage’s original text (of the same title) as read by a deaf performer.

Indian stunt artists who hide their faces are paid more than those who show their faces, while Black women stunt artists are often cast for character types who don't even get a proper name in the script. Madhusree Dutta writes on hierarchy and exclusion in cinematic practices, with alternating chapters from the life stories of two female film students. Situated in a space between

John Newling is one of UK’s most important conceptual artists and the first Fulbright Fellow. Writings is the comprehensive collection of the artists essays from 1995-2005. Newling tackles themes such as ‘certainty and uncertainty’, ‘perception and cognition’,

This edition arises from a sustained dialogue between Franz West and psychoanalyst Georg Gröller, shaped by years of conversation, correspondence, and critical reflection on West’s writings.

The view outside is blocked. A window has broken away from the wall, taking its reveal with it—now suspended mid-air, held precariously by a latch.

Hasso Gehrmann (*1924 in Weißenfels, †2008 in Bregenz) war ein Pionier an der Schnittstelle von Kunst, Design und Lebensgestaltung.

Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019) was a groundbreaking artist whose work helped redefine the relationship between body, gender, and art.