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.

Dangerous Bodies brings together artist Barbara Kapusta’s recent writing. Designed by Sabo Day Font: Silom, Dangerous Bodies

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.

«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.

This project documents Sudan, the last white rhinoceros of North Africa. Sudan lived his life inside the Prague zoo, before being transferred to Kenya for reproduction and specie preservation. Sudan lives under armed protection.

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.

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.