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Oraib Toukan
Sundry Modernism
Materials for a Study of Palestinian Modernism

With Sundry Modernism, Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist
Palestinian architecture—an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013
to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Jericho.

€15.00


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Ina Blom
On the Style Site
Art, Sociality, and Media Culture

While style has all but disappeared from art historical and art critical
discourse, artistic practice since the 1960’s onwards has seemed increasingly
focused on the stylistics of the life-environment, the way in which everyday
life itself is formed, designed or stylized. This development calls for a new
reading of the relationship between art and the question of style.

€24.00
Erik Niedling, Ingo Niermann
The Future of Art
A Diary

Artist Erik Niedling would like to be buried in Pyramid Mountain, the largest
tomb of all time, an artwork conceived by writer Ingo Niermann. To make this
goal a reality, Niedling lives one year as though it were his last. The Future
of Art: A Diary recounts the joys and horrors of that year.

€19.00
Donatien Grau (Ed.)
Paul in Paris / Paris in Paul

In 2014, Paul McCarthy installed the massive inflatable sculpture Tree at Place
Vendôme in Paris. The sculpture’s shape was at once reminiscent of a sex toy, a
Christmas tree, and a Hans Arp artwork. It caused a public outcry, the artist
was attacked, and the work vandalized and ultimately removed. This book brings
together conversations with scholars, artists, curators, and writers, which
reflect on McCarthy’s work.

€20.00
Anton Vidokle
Produce, Distribute, Discuss, Repeat

Anton Vidokle is an artist who captures the attention of 70,000 people each day
through e-flux, as well as unitednationsplaza, Martha Rosler Library, and other
projects. The essays and interview in this book highlight how two threads in
Vidokle’s practice—unobtrusiveness and the freedom of self-sufficiency—are often
interwoven, and are at the center of an intellectual proposal that undermines
common assumptions about making art.

€15.00
Markus Weisbeck
Surface

For the last decade, Markus Weisbeck has been redefining the prevailing
client-designer relationship and subsequently challenging what constitutes a
graphic design practice today. This pocket book presents a selection of seminal
graphic design projects developed by Weisbeck and his firm, Surface, over the
last ten years.

€15.00
Simon Critchley, Tom McCarthy
The Mattering of Matter
Documents from the Archive of the International Necronautical Society

Composed of official committee members and illicit “agents,” the INS harks back
to early twentieth-century avant-gardes, producing declarations, reports, public
hearings, broadcasts, and research documents, as well as orchestrating more
covert media infiltrations, all governed by the objective, set out in the
“Founding Manifesto,” of mapping, entering, and occupying the space of death
through literature, philosophy, culture, and technology.

€19.00
Bernadette Corporation
Eine Pinot Grigio, Bitte

Eine Pinot Grigio, Bitte is a screenplay that cannot be a film; it is a film
that can only be on paper. If the property of a film producer, Bernadette
Corporation claims Eine Pinot Grigio, Bitte would be left derelict, abandoned to
vagabonds and squatters. It is intended as a narrative of messy revenge, ruined
by the screenplay form.

€19.00
Triple Canopy (Ed.)
Invalid Format
An Anthology of Triple Canopy, Vol. 2

Invalid Format is an archive of the widespread publishing activities of Triple
Canopy, the editorial collective and online magazine based in New York, Los
Angeles, and Berlin. The book explores how works produced for the screen might
be transposed to the codex in a way that recalls that former context while also
fully inhabiting the page.

€22.00
Olaf Holzapfel
The Rough Law of Gardens

The Rough Law of Gardens documents Olaf Holzapfel and Nahum Tevet’s eponymous
joint exhibition and explores the intergenerational differences between two
unique artists. Both artists’ work rejects the global logic of growth and
traverses the bounds of sculpture and painting: each of their practices involves
ideas to do with materiality, learning, and memory.

€15.00
Magnus af Petersens (Ed.)
Keren Cytter

This catalogue provides the reader with the opportunity to read six of Keren
Cytter’s scripts for films that are being shown in the exhibition at the Moderna
Museet, Stockholm, May 8 – August 15, 2010.

€18.00
Tom Nicholson
Lines towards Another

Lines towards Another is the first anthology on the work of Australian
contemporary artist Tom Nicholson. Spanning drawing, sculpture, public actions,
sound, installation, video, and performance, Nicholson’s work since the 1990s
has engaged with critical questions around history, politics, narrative, and
representation.

€35.00
Brigitte Oetker, Nicolaus Schafhausen (Eds.)
Attention Economy

The 60th Jahresring takes the form of a compilation of artist interviews and
offers a snapshot of a highly active art scene that stretches from Berlin, as a
new international center for art. Nicolaus Schafhausen put a series of questions
to thirty-one art practitioners, less geared toward the artists’ respective
praxis and more toward the conditions under which it arises.

€25.00
Wilfrid Almendra
Light Boiled like Liquid Soap

The seventh volume in the Fogo Island Arts publication series accompanies the
eponymous exhibition curated by Alexandra McIntosh and Nicolaus Schafhausen and
presented at the Fogo Island Art Gallery in 2016.

€20.00
Boy Vereecken (Ed.)
Signature Strengths

The No-Frills book series was developed in the early 1980s as a translation of
the non-branding strategy of supermarket staples to mass-market genre fiction.
The result of research into this experimental series, Signature Strengths also
includes complete reproductions of its books—Western, Mystery, Science Fiction,
and Romance.

€15.00
Lydia Okumura
Situations

For almost fifty years, Lydia Okumura has explored the realm of geometric
abstraction. She challenges our perception of space through sculptures,
installations, and works on paper that blur distinctions between dimensions.

€24.00
Nicholas Mangan
Limits to Growth

This publication accompanies Australian multidisciplinary artist Nicholas
Mangan’s survey exhibition “Limits to Growth.” The works in the show tackle
narratives from his own geographical region—Asia Pacific, in which his home
country of Australia plays a colonial role—and weaves them into a bigger picture
to take into account the global economy, resource extraction, and the ultimate
power of the sun.

€30.00
Verina Gfader et al.
The Last Resident

Hardly a gray matter of catching the spirit of our present. From the
sun-drenched-ness of the Dubaian atmosphere, to the feathery encounter in a
secret printing workshop, words and materials are discreetly—spectrally,
outspokenly—put forward: a bunch of residents cruising the seas of nine
temporary realities, the result of an ongoing swapping of facts and speculations
from the earthly realm.

€8.00
Ingo Niermann, Jens Thiel (Eds.)
Solution 9
The Great Pyramid

“German entrepreneurs are planning to outstrip the ancient Egyptians by building
the world’s largest pyramid on a derelict site in eastern Germany – which they
claim will eventually contain the remains of millions of people in concrete
burial blocks.”
—The Independent

€15.00
Tirdad Zolghadr
Solution 168–185
America

Solution 168-185: America is the fourth book in the Solution Series. Opting for
the United States of America—which the author says is “still the most
proficiently colonial place” [he knows]—Tirdad Zolghadr provides a compilation
of highly entertaining “solutions” for a nation suspicious of progressive
politics yet rich in its history of harboring and cultivating the avant-garde.

€15.00
Steve Bishop
Deliquescing

The publication Deliquescing accompanies Steve Bishop’s 2018–19 solo exhibition
at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Both the exhibition and
publication reflect a body of research that focuses on the fragility of memory
and the potential for its preservation, defying the gradual breakdown of matter
through the effects of time.

€20.00
Secret Modernity
€24.00
Olaf Holzapfel
die Technik des Landes
(The Technology of the Land)

Olaf Holzapfel explores the interstices between craft and art, and consequently,
between orality and literacy. Much of his work presented in this
catalogue—framework installations, hay images, and straw images are displayed in
this book—was made together with farmers and craftspeople; by transforming
age-old handiwork into contemporary art, Holzapfel unsettles the division
between nature and culture, and tradition and modernity.

€28.00
Julie Cirelli, Anna Lundh (Eds.)
Visions of the Now

Initiated by Swedish artist Anna Lundh, Visions of the Now is a reconsideration
of the 1966 Stockholm festival Visioner av Nuet (Visions of the Present), which
aimed to examine the impact of technology on humanity, society, and art; half a
century later, we are immersed in the technology that was still “new” in 1966.

€40.00
Olivia Plender
Rise Early, Be Industrious

As the first significant overview of the work by artist Olivia Plender, this
monograph navigates through the evolving attitudes to historical and
contemporary forms of communication and education that her research-based
practice has explored for the last ten years.

€28.00
Lou Cantor, Clemens Jahn (Eds.)
Turning Inward

Turning Inward comprises a selection of texts by international artists, critics,
and curators, which aims to renegotiate the relationship between centers and
peripheries in contemporary art worlds. If we are to turn our attention away
from geographical—that is, horizontal—relations, we can conceive of the central
and peripheral as vertical phenomena that can coexist spatially in the shapes of
social constructions, genealogies, or epistemic formations.

€15.00
Gonda
Maria Fusco, Ursula Mayer

Gonda, a new book by Ursula Mayer and Maria Fusco, experiments in cinematic and
linguistic registers through polyphonic monologue. Taking the form of a
ciné-roman, the book is based on Mayer’s 16mm film of the same name, with a
screenplay written by Maria Fusco and commissioned by Film London.

€22.00
Jesse Jones
The Other North

Jesse Jones’s 2013 film The Other North represents the culmination of her
research in South Korea and the Demilitarized Zone. It features Korean actors
reenacting The Steel Shutter, a little-known documentary of a “conflict
resolution therapy session” held by American psychologist Carl Rogers in the
early 1970s with a group of individuals from various political and socioeconomic
backgrounds in Northern Ireland.

€18.00
Mari Slaattelid
Templates

Templates is a new publication which accompanies Slaattelid’s exhibitions at
Bergen Kunsthall (2019) and Kunstnernes Hus (2020). In Kystverket Slaattelid
repeatedly depicts a prosaic yet charged motif, consisting of a coastal
landscape with a lantern (navigation marker) and—in silhouette against the
sky—an operator adjusting the light signal.

€32.00
Sophia Yadong Hao, Edgar Schmitz (Eds.)
Hubs and Fictions
On Current Art and Imported Remoteness

Hubs and Fictions, originally a touring forum, invited international curators,
writers, and producers to probe how fiction plays out in a globally distributed
art-world ecology, and how infrastructures are invented against its background.
The book functions as a deliberately discontinuous reader; it juxtaposes
documents, negotiations, and reflections from and on these conversations.

€19.00
Maria Loboda
Oh, Wilderness

“Verbal sculptures” and “strange archaeologies”—Maria Loboda’s recent works
expose prior events through sparse details of entangled secrets, material
contradictions, and masked collusions. Oh, Wilderness demonstrates the artist’s
aesthetic equation between language and materiality as it works the other way
around, translating materials expressive of a certain weak semiotics to
language.

€22.00
Benjamin Seror
Mime Radio

Mime Radio was performed and written orally by French artist Benjamin Seror at a
series of events over a two-year period, then transcribed and edited into a
novel. The story revolves around a cast of eccentric characters, who meet at the
Tiki Coco, a bar in Los Angeles that holds “Challenging Reality Open Mic” nights
for amateur inventors and performers.

€20.00
Alex Coles, Catharine Rossi (Eds.)
Post-craft
EP Vol. 3

The notion of the handmade has shifted from the margins to center stage. Craft’s
value is increasingly recognized across creative, economic, social, cultural,
and political contexts. Because of its widespread appropriation, and the
dissolution of disciplinary boundaries, the meaning of handicrafts is changing.

€22.00
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Unpayable Debt

Unpayable Debt offers a black feminist reading of the political architecture of
the global present. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred, the concept
of the unpayable debt relates post-Enlightenment versions of ethical and
economic value to colonial and racial subjugation.

€22.00
Terry Smith
Curating the Complex & The Open Strike

In this book, the renowned art historian and writer maps the institutional and
quasi-institutional framework for contemporary art that sprawls across the
globe. He then delves into a powerful form of curatorial activism rising up in
the exhibitionary complex: Open Strike.

€16.00
Daniela Zyman (Ed.)
Oceans Rising
A Companion to “Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation”

What ideas and memories do the oceans hold in their depth and reanimate in
response to the trembling of earth’s ecosystems? How to escape the silos of
research and inquiry that narrow and fragment the knowledge of the oceans?
Asking new questions and using multiple registers of sensing can lead to a
revitalization of the ways humans engage with the oceans at this precarious
moment and create new pathways for reparative justice.

€25.00
Isabelle Graw
Three Cases of Value Reflection
Ponge, Whitten, Banksy

In response to recent discussions about the value assigned to artworks, art
critic and theorist Isabelle Graw introduces the term “value reflection.” Rather
than an objective quality, value reflection is the potential for the specific
artistic labor expended for artworks to be found in them. This book focuses on
the artistic production of writer Francis Ponge and artists Jack Whitten and
Banksy, and engages with the different types of value reflection detected in
their work.

€12.00
Florian Malzacher, Jonas Staal (Eds.)
Training for the Future
Handbook

Training for the Future is a training camp where audiences are turned into
trainees to “pre-enact” alternative scenarios and reclaim the means of
production of the future. This handbook gathers training manuals, interviews and
documentation of the various training camps that took place from 2018 to 2021.

€15.00
Ina Blom
Houses to Die In
And Other Essays on Art

The essays assembled in this volume were all written during the past twenty
years or so—a period in which Ina Blom pursued art critical writing alongside
more academic work and when the boundaries between the two genres were at times
deliberately blurred.

€22.00
Alex Coles, Catharine Rossi (Eds.)
Post-craft
EP Vol. 3

The notion of the handmade has shifted from the margins to center stage. Craft’s
value is increasingly recognized across creative, economic, social, cultural,
and political contexts. Because of its widespread appropriation, and the
dissolution of disciplinary boundaries, the meaning of handicrafts is changing.

€22.00
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Unpayable Debt

Unpayable Debt offers a black feminist reading of the political architecture of
the global present. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred, the concept
of the unpayable debt relates post-Enlightenment versions of ethical and
economic value to colonial and racial subjugation.

€22.00
Terry Smith
Curating the Complex & The Open Strike

In this book, the renowned art historian and writer maps the institutional and
quasi-institutional framework for contemporary art that sprawls across the
globe. He then delves into a powerful form of curatorial activism rising up in
the exhibitionary complex: Open Strike.

€16.00
Daniela Zyman (Ed.)
Oceans Rising
A Companion to “Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation”

What ideas and memories do the oceans hold in their depth and reanimate in
response to the trembling of earth’s ecosystems? How to escape the silos of
research and inquiry that narrow and fragment the knowledge of the oceans?
Asking new questions and using multiple registers of sensing can lead to a
revitalization of the ways humans engage with the oceans at this precarious
moment and create new pathways for reparative justice.

€25.00
Isabelle Graw
Three Cases of Value Reflection
Ponge, Whitten, Banksy

In response to recent discussions about the value assigned to artworks, art
critic and theorist Isabelle Graw introduces the term “value reflection.” Rather
than an objective quality, value reflection is the potential for the specific
artistic labor expended for artworks to be found in them. This book focuses on
the artistic production of writer Francis Ponge and artists Jack Whitten and
Banksy, and engages with the different types of value reflection detected in
their work.

€12.00
Florian Malzacher, Jonas Staal (Eds.)
Training for the Future
Handbook

Training for the Future is a training camp where audiences are turned into
trainees to “pre-enact” alternative scenarios and reclaim the means of
production of the future. This handbook gathers training manuals, interviews and
documentation of the various training camps that took place from 2018 to 2021.

€15.00
Ina Blom
Houses to Die In
And Other Essays on Art

The essays assembled in this volume were all written during the past twenty
years or so—a period in which Ina Blom pursued art critical writing alongside
more academic work and when the boundaries between the two genres were at times
deliberately blurred.

€22.00
Alex Coles, Catharine Rossi (Eds.)
Post-craft
EP Vol. 3

The notion of the handmade has shifted from the margins to center stage. Craft’s
value is increasingly recognized across creative, economic, social, cultural,
and political contexts. Because of its widespread appropriation, and the
dissolution of disciplinary boundaries, the meaning of handicrafts is changing.

€22.00
New Releases
Chus Martínez
The Complex Answer
On Art as a Nonbinary Intelligence

Imagine art and contemporary as an organ. An organ that produces an experience
of inexpressible realities that are fundamental to understand life and its
processes.

€19.95
Hans-Christian Dany, Valérie Knoll
No Dandy, No Fun
Looking Good as Things Fall Apart

A cultural examination of the enigmatically iconic figure of the Dandy, both in
history and as a figure for the future.

€18.00
Kateryna Botanova, Yarri Kamara, Quinn Latimer (Eds.)
Sahara
A Thousand Paths Into the Future

Sahara. A Thousand Paths Into the Future is an anthology that accompanies
Culturescapes 2023 Sahara, the 17th edition of the Swiss multidisciplinary
festival.

€25.00
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
H(a)untings / Heim Suchungen

The artist’s catalogue deals with the hauntings and echoes of Austria’s colonial
past and opens a space for Black diasporan artistic practices.

€18.00
e-flux journal
Navigation Beyond Vision

For Farocki, the computer-animated, navigable images that constitute the
twenty-first century’s “ruling class of images” call for new tools of analysis,
prompting him to ask: How does the shift from montage to navigation alter the
way images—and art—operate as models of political action and modes of political
intervention?

€18.00
Series
This series of pocket-size books hones the format of the monograph and the
critical essay. The black volumes showcase projects by artists such as Isa
Genkzen, Cerith Wyn Evans, and Tue Greenfort, contextualizing them through the
writings of noted international critics and curators. The white volumes contain
essays by prominent critics and curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud, Daniel
Birnbaum, and Jean-Yves Leloup on urgent theoretical issues of the day.
Lukas & Sternberg
The Jahresring is an annual publication series—a “meeting point for creative and
critical forces,” as its inaugural issue stated in 1954—one of the longest
running in Germany for contemporary art and literature. In 1989, Brigitte Oetker
became the series editor and revamped the conceptual orientation of the content.
Each year, alternating guest editors—curators, artists, scientists—are invited
to reflect on current trends and issues in art and society.
Jahresring
Bulletins of The Serving Library is a composite printed/electronic publication
published by Dexter Sinister. Each of the twelve issues makes up a semester’s
worth of material—original writings, reprints, and artist contributions—on a
variety of themes such as libraries, media, and time; education; typography;
psychedelia; Germany; fashion; numbers; sports and games; and color. The
Bulletins ran from 2011 to 2017.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
A critical spatial practice is a means of rethinking one’s modes of action and
codes of conduct. Edited by architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen, this
series reinvents its internal structure according to the content of each volume:
a toolbox that ranges from single-authored essays to conversations, manifestos,
fiction, investigative journalism, historical studies, and artistic
interventions, each accompanied by an artist contribution. The series follows
the tradition of the discipline of architecture using the publication format as
a testing ground for ideas.
Critical Spatial Practice
Founded in 2003 by Isabelle Graw and Daniel Birnbaum, Institut für Kunstkritik
is a program that examines art criticism and connected disciplines. As well as
single-authored books, this series comprises volumes based on symposia and
lecture series, bringing together contributions by art historians, critics,
artists, and writers. The goal of the series is to provide insights into current
debates on the shifting relationship among criticism, art, and the market.
Institut für Kunstkritik
The Solution Series is a steadily growing collection of proposals related to
nation-specific issues as well as contemporary borderless crises. Edited by
writer Ingo Niermann, the series invites original and compact ideas from
writers, artists, and designers familiar with the issues at hand. These
solutions—which take the form of speculative essays, fiction, artistic
interventions, design, or a combination thereof—are as imaginative as they are
provocative, as unexpected as they are uncannily familiar.
Solution Series
imagine/otherwise presents critical biographies of underrepresented queer,
non-binary, or female-identifying artists. Edited by Dr. Omar Kholeif and
presented in collaboration with artPost21, the series emphasizes the concept of
“female worlding” with books that serve as field guides into previously
unexplored, overlooked, or inaccessible artistic lives. The overall proposition
of the series (to “imagine” a world “otherwise”) stems from the desire to find a
different way of writing and reading about art. Can art be examined
unreservedly, unburdened of the limits imposed by the dominant hand of hegemony?
Current editorial advisors for the series include Skye Arundhati Thomas, Zoe
Butt, Carla Chammas, Alison Hearst, and Sarah Perks.
Imagine Otherwise
This series stems from a discontent with the indictment of identity politics as
antithetical to “real” politics. The political, in this conception, is aligned
with the need to transcend markers of identity that are said to hinder class
solidarity and the potential for coalition building. Yet appeals to move beyond
identity tend to leave unexamined the gender and racial schemas that undergird
the notion of universalism, hence overlooking—and refracting—legacies of
violence and oppression. On the Antipolitical aims to confront capitalist
hegemony but does not aspire toward an abstract polity. Challenging the
persistence of colonial formations in contemporary theory, the series argues
that discussions of identity do not subtract or divert from political struggle,
but rather add to it. The series is edited by Ana Teixeira Pinto.
On the Antipolitical
This series of paperback readers collects essays and interviews from the orbit
of the monthly art publication edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and
Anton Vidokle. Focusing on anthologies and single-authored books that further
develop the journal’s investigation of cultural, political, and structural
paradigms, the series aims to spotlight the most original voices in contemporary
art and theory. Liam Gillick created the original cover design.
e-flux journal
Each book in the series takes the work of a single artist as its point of
departure, spiraling outward to create an expansive and carefully edited
ecosystem of ideas and voices. Each volume includes newly commissioned writing
as well a selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the
year-long research seasons at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.
A Series of Open Questions
The EP series fluidly moves between art, design, and architecture, and
introduces the notion of the “extended play” into publishing, with thematically
edited pocket books as median between popular magazines (“single play”) and
academic journals (“long play”).
EP
From an economic perspective, art has traditionally been regarded as an
instrument: artists and art are seen as an investment or factor of production
that can be exchanged for something else. This publication series begins by
exploring the intentional in art rather than the instrumental. How can we
account for art without reducing it to its components or effects? Without first
instrumentally embedding it in the traditional conversations, cultures, and
habits of the art world?
Experiments in Art and Capitalism
THE INCIDENTS is a book series based on events at the Harvard University
Graduate School of Design. The series is edited by Ken Stewart and Marielle Suba
and designed by ELLA.
The Incidents
Edited by culinary historian Charlotte Birnbaum, On the Table is a series of
publications exploring the encounter between food and art.
On the Table
Montana is a propositional series exploring the adjacencies of the literary and
the visual, the poetic and the political. Deeply invested in the production of a
radical present and future, the books of Montana form an ecology of thought that
is connected in spirit, practice, and language, yet distinct and diverse,
spanning geographies and time. Edited by Leah Whitman-Salkin.
Montana
Edited by Anthony Downey, Research/Practice focuses on artistic research and how
it contributes to the formation of experimental knowledge systems. Drawing on
preliminary material such as diaries, notebooks, audiovisual content, digital
and social media, informal communications, and abandoned drafts, the series
examines the interdisciplinary research methods that artists employ in their
practices. Each volume endeavors to ask: In their often speculative and yet
purposeful approach to generating research, what forms of knowledge do artists
produce?
Research/Practice
Visual culture is a cross-disciplinary site of encounter for divergent
perspectives, including competing attitudes toward the ethical status and
ideological functioning of the visual itself. Each volume in this series
investigates a single pertinent topic: two colleagues with shared interests—and
differing points of view—examine their chosen subject in a particularized and
probing manner. Within the format—two essays and a conversation—contents unfold
in their own way with respect to their positions, polemics, and poetics. The
series is edited by Jorella Andrews, professor in the Department of Visual
Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Visual Cultures as…
Edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund, the Contemporary Condition aims to question
the formation of subjectivity and the concept of temporality in the world now.
It begins from the assumption that art, with its ability to investigate the
present and make meaning from it, can lead to an understanding of wider
developments within culture and society. Addressing a perceived gap in existing
literature, this series focuses on three broad strands: the issue of
temporality, the role of contemporary media and computational technologies, and
how artistic practice makes epistemic claims.
The Contemporary Condition
Initiated by the Cultures of the Curatorial graduate program at the Academy of
Fine Arts Leipzig, this series assesses the curatorial turn in contemporary
cultural practice and discourse. The contributing authors, from a variety of
disciplines and professional backgrounds, consider recent developments within
the curatorial field, allow for self-reflexive analysis, and explore the
conditions—disciplinary, institutional, economic, political, and regional—under
which art and culture become public.
Cultures of the Curatorial
Thoughts on Curating presents a series of single-essay publications by some of
the world's leading voices in curatorial practice and theory today. Edited by
Steven Henry Madoff, founder of the master's program in Curatorial Practice at
the School of Visual Arts, New York.
Thoughts on Curating
The Sandberg Instituut at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, offers master
programs in fields of art and design. Working to align the institute with urgent
contemporary topics, director Jurgen Bey has introduced a series of one-off,
two-year master programs. The Sandberg Series is a record of these temporary
programs as well as a platform for critical reflection on this educational
model. Each volume delves into the insights and outcomes of the program it
covers and provides space for engagement with a broader public.
Sandberg Series
Fogo Island Arts’ monographic publication series accompanies major solo
exhibitions and commissions presented at the Fogo Island Gallery. The volumes
provide extended consideration of an artist’s work in formats including critical
essays, interviews, experimental writing and fiction. Combined with installation
views, process documentation and artist contributions, FIA publications serve as
a record of the artist’s time on Fogo Island and their creative contributions
that can be disseminated internationally.
Fogo Island Arts
This series stems from the research-driven program of the Academy of Fine Arts
Vienna. Each comprehensive volume is edited by members of the university and
comprises essays and artworks in an area of research related to art theory,
cultural studies, or art history. The discussions in each volume represent those
currently taking place in the university and elsewhere in academia and
contemporary art. International conferences and research projects organized at
the academy serve as the point of departure for the individual volumes.
Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
This series of pocket-size books hones the format of the monograph and the
critical essay. The black volumes showcase projects by artists such as Isa
Genkzen, Cerith Wyn Evans, and Tue Greenfort, contextualizing them through the
writings of noted international critics and curators. The white volumes contain
essays by prominent critics and curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud, Daniel
Birnbaum, and Jean-Yves Leloup on urgent theoretical issues of the day.
Lukas & Sternberg
The Jahresring is an annual publication series—a “meeting point for creative and
critical forces,” as its inaugural issue stated in 1954—one of the longest
running in Germany for contemporary art and literature. In 1989, Brigitte Oetker
became the series editor and revamped the conceptual orientation of the content.
Each year, alternating guest editors—curators, artists, scientists—are invited
to reflect on current trends and issues in art and society.
Jahresring
Bulletins of The Serving Library is a composite printed/electronic publication
published by Dexter Sinister. Each of the twelve issues makes up a semester’s
worth of material—original writings, reprints, and artist contributions—on a
variety of themes such as libraries, media, and time; education; typography;
psychedelia; Germany; fashion; numbers; sports and games; and color. The
Bulletins ran from 2011 to 2017.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
A critical spatial practice is a means of rethinking one’s modes of action and
codes of conduct. Edited by architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen, this
series reinvents its internal structure according to the content of each volume:
a toolbox that ranges from single-authored essays to conversations, manifestos,
fiction, investigative journalism, historical studies, and artistic
interventions, each accompanied by an artist contribution. The series follows
the tradition of the discipline of architecture using the publication format as
a testing ground for ideas.
Critical Spatial Practice
Founded in 2003 by Isabelle Graw and Daniel Birnbaum, Institut für Kunstkritik
is a program that examines art criticism and connected disciplines. As well as
single-authored books, this series comprises volumes based on symposia and
lecture series, bringing together contributions by art historians, critics,
artists, and writers. The goal of the series is to provide insights into current
debates on the shifting relationship among criticism, art, and the market.
Institut für Kunstkritik
The Solution Series is a steadily growing collection of proposals related to
nation-specific issues as well as contemporary borderless crises. Edited by
writer Ingo Niermann, the series invites original and compact ideas from
writers, artists, and designers familiar with the issues at hand. These
solutions—which take the form of speculative essays, fiction, artistic
interventions, design, or a combination thereof—are as imaginative as they are
provocative, as unexpected as they are uncannily familiar.
Solution Series
imagine/otherwise presents critical biographies of underrepresented queer,
non-binary, or female-identifying artists. Edited by Dr. Omar Kholeif and
presented in collaboration with artPost21, the series emphasizes the concept of
“female worlding” with books that serve as field guides into previously
unexplored, overlooked, or inaccessible artistic lives. The overall proposition
of the series (to “imagine” a world “otherwise”) stems from the desire to find a
different way of writing and reading about art. Can art be examined
unreservedly, unburdened of the limits imposed by the dominant hand of hegemony?
Current editorial advisors for the series include Skye Arundhati Thomas, Zoe
Butt, Carla Chammas, Alison Hearst, and Sarah Perks.
Imagine Otherwise
This series stems from a discontent with the indictment of identity politics as
antithetical to “real” politics. The political, in this conception, is aligned
with the need to transcend markers of identity that are said to hinder class
solidarity and the potential for coalition building. Yet appeals to move beyond
identity tend to leave unexamined the gender and racial schemas that undergird
the notion of universalism, hence overlooking—and refracting—legacies of
violence and oppression. On the Antipolitical aims to confront capitalist
hegemony but does not aspire toward an abstract polity. Challenging the
persistence of colonial formations in contemporary theory, the series argues
that discussions of identity do not subtract or divert from political struggle,
but rather add to it. The series is edited by Ana Teixeira Pinto.
On the Antipolitical
This series of paperback readers collects essays and interviews from the orbit
of the monthly art publication edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and
Anton Vidokle. Focusing on anthologies and single-authored books that further
develop the journal’s investigation of cultural, political, and structural
paradigms, the series aims to spotlight the most original voices in contemporary
art and theory. Liam Gillick created the original cover design.
e-flux journal
Each book in the series takes the work of a single artist as its point of
departure, spiraling outward to create an expansive and carefully edited
ecosystem of ideas and voices. Each volume includes newly commissioned writing
as well a selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the
year-long research seasons at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.
A Series of Open Questions
The EP series fluidly moves between art, design, and architecture, and
introduces the notion of the “extended play” into publishing, with thematically
edited pocket books as median between popular magazines (“single play”) and
academic journals (“long play”).
EP
From an economic perspective, art has traditionally been regarded as an
instrument: artists and art are seen as an investment or factor of production
that can be exchanged for something else. This publication series begins by
exploring the intentional in art rather than the instrumental. How can we
account for art without reducing it to its components or effects? Without first
instrumentally embedding it in the traditional conversations, cultures, and
habits of the art world?
Experiments in Art and Capitalism
THE INCIDENTS is a book series based on events at the Harvard University
Graduate School of Design. The series is edited by Ken Stewart and Marielle Suba
and designed by ELLA.
The Incidents
Edited by culinary historian Charlotte Birnbaum, On the Table is a series of
publications exploring the encounter between food and art.
On the Table
Montana is a propositional series exploring the adjacencies of the literary and
the visual, the poetic and the political. Deeply invested in the production of a
radical present and future, the books of Montana form an ecology of thought that
is connected in spirit, practice, and language, yet distinct and diverse,
spanning geographies and time. Edited by Leah Whitman-Salkin.
Montana
Edited by Anthony Downey, Research/Practice focuses on artistic research and how
it contributes to the formation of experimental knowledge systems. Drawing on
preliminary material such as diaries, notebooks, audiovisual content, digital
and social media, informal communications, and abandoned drafts, the series
examines the interdisciplinary research methods that artists employ in their
practices. Each volume endeavors to ask: In their often speculative and yet
purposeful approach to generating research, what forms of knowledge do artists
produce?
Research/Practice
Visual culture is a cross-disciplinary site of encounter for divergent
perspectives, including competing attitudes toward the ethical status and
ideological functioning of the visual itself. Each volume in this series
investigates a single pertinent topic: two colleagues with shared interests—and
differing points of view—examine their chosen subject in a particularized and
probing manner. Within the format—two essays and a conversation—contents unfold
in their own way with respect to their positions, polemics, and poetics. The
series is edited by Jorella Andrews, professor in the Department of Visual
Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Visual Cultures as…
Edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund, the Contemporary Condition aims to question
the formation of subjectivity and the concept of temporality in the world now.
It begins from the assumption that art, with its ability to investigate the
present and make meaning from it, can lead to an understanding of wider
developments within culture and society. Addressing a perceived gap in existing
literature, this series focuses on three broad strands: the issue of
temporality, the role of contemporary media and computational technologies, and
how artistic practice makes epistemic claims.
The Contemporary Condition
Initiated by the Cultures of the Curatorial graduate program at the Academy of
Fine Arts Leipzig, this series assesses the curatorial turn in contemporary
cultural practice and discourse. The contributing authors, from a variety of
disciplines and professional backgrounds, consider recent developments within
the curatorial field, allow for self-reflexive analysis, and explore the
conditions—disciplinary, institutional, economic, political, and regional—under
which art and culture become public.
Cultures of the Curatorial
Thoughts on Curating presents a series of single-essay publications by some of
the world's leading voices in curatorial practice and theory today. Edited by
Steven Henry Madoff, founder of the master's program in Curatorial Practice at
the School of Visual Arts, New York.
Thoughts on Curating
The Sandberg Instituut at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, offers master
programs in fields of art and design. Working to align the institute with urgent
contemporary topics, director Jurgen Bey has introduced a series of one-off,
two-year master programs. The Sandberg Series is a record of these temporary
programs as well as a platform for critical reflection on this educational
model. Each volume delves into the insights and outcomes of the program it
covers and provides space for engagement with a broader public.
Sandberg Series
Fogo Island Arts’ monographic publication series accompanies major solo
exhibitions and commissions presented at the Fogo Island Gallery. The volumes
provide extended consideration of an artist’s work in formats including critical
essays, interviews, experimental writing and fiction. Combined with installation
views, process documentation and artist contributions, FIA publications serve as
a record of the artist’s time on Fogo Island and their creative contributions
that can be disseminated internationally.
Fogo Island Arts
This series stems from the research-driven program of the Academy of Fine Arts
Vienna. Each comprehensive volume is edited by members of the university and
comprises essays and artworks in an area of research related to art theory,
cultural studies, or art history. The discussions in each volume represent those
currently taking place in the university and elsewhere in academia and
contemporary art. International conferences and research projects organized at
the academy serve as the point of departure for the individual volumes.
Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
This series of pocket-size books hones the format of the monograph and the
critical essay. The black volumes showcase projects by artists such as Isa
Genkzen, Cerith Wyn Evans, and Tue Greenfort, contextualizing them through the
writings of noted international critics and curators. The white volumes contain
essays by prominent critics and curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud, Daniel
Birnbaum, and Jean-Yves Leloup on urgent theoretical issues of the day.
Lukas & Sternberg
The Jahresring is an annual publication series—a “meeting point for creative and
critical forces,” as its inaugural issue stated in 1954—one of the longest
running in Germany for contemporary art and literature. In 1989, Brigitte Oetker
became the series editor and revamped the conceptual orientation of the content.
Each year, alternating guest editors—curators, artists, scientists—are invited
to reflect on current trends and issues in art and society.
Jahresring
Bulletins of The Serving Library is a composite printed/electronic publication
published by Dexter Sinister. Each of the twelve issues makes up a semester’s
worth of material—original writings, reprints, and artist contributions—on a
variety of themes such as libraries, media, and time; education; typography;
psychedelia; Germany; fashion; numbers; sports and games; and color. The
Bulletins ran from 2011 to 2017.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
News
TALK—LONDON


TAINTED LOVE




Join Alex Coles alongside special guests Hannah Catherine Jones, Fraser
Muggeridge and Savvy to discuss the key ideas from his latest book, Tainted
Love.

Titled after Soft Cell’s version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track,
Tainted Love is the first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted
romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency.
Sometimes extreme, this twist to the conventional romantic ballad spans across
gender and generational boundaries to subvert our understanding of both the
genre’s function and its behavior. Each chapter of Tainted Love takes a deep
dive into a single twisted ballad, examining both its inner workings—lyrics,
melody, and vocal approach—and its broader cultural resonance. 

Thursday 30 Nov, 7pm
Zilkha Auditorium
Whitechapel Gallery
London

This is a ticketed event. Book your ticket here.


READINGS & CONVERSATIONS—AMSTERDAM, LONDON, BERLIN


SOLITARY




To mark the publication of Solitary, Tyler Coburn will be in conversation at
three European events this October:

San Serriffe
Amsterdam
Thursday 5 October, 8pm
In conversation with Becket MWN

Tenderbooks
London
Tuesday 10 October, 6pm
In conversation with Cliff Lauson

Friday 13 October, 6pm
a.p.
Berlin
In conversation with In-Young Yeo


TALK & BOOK SIGNING—LONDON


ON THE BENEFITS OF FRIENDSHIP




Critic, author, and art historian Isabelle Graw will be in conversation with
curator Mark Godfrey on the occasion of the recent release of On the Benefits of
Friendship, Graw’s diaristic novel on the purposes and struggles of friendship
in competitive social milieus. The longtime friends will discuss how their
environments, interpersonal relationships, and questioning of normative
structures impact their work.

After the talk, Graw will sign copies of the book, which will be available for
purchase.

Wednesday 4 October, 7pm
Gagosian Shop
Burlington Arcade
London

Register to attend here.


IN CONVERSATION—BERLIN


OBJECTIONS: FORMS OF ABSTRACTION, VOLUME 1




Author Sven Lütticken will be in conversation with writer, editor and critic
Marina Vishmidt at Pro qm to discuss the themes of Objections: Forms of
Abstraction, Volume 1.

Forms of Abstraction engages with abstrac­tion not as a formal option in art, or
as an airy theoretical speculation, but as an operational force that has
redesigned our world and continues to do so. Read more about the book here.

Friday 10 November, 7:30pm
Pro qm
Berlin

Read more about the event here.


TALK—LONDON


TAINTED LOVE




Join Alex Coles alongside special guests Hannah Catherine Jones, Fraser
Muggeridge and Savvy to discuss the key ideas from his latest book, Tainted
Love.

Titled after Soft Cell’s version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track,
Tainted Love is the first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted
romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency.
Sometimes extreme, this twist to the conventional romantic ballad spans across
gender and generational boundaries to subvert our understanding of both the
genre’s function and its behavior. Each chapter of Tainted Love takes a deep
dive into a single twisted ballad, examining both its inner workings—lyrics,
melody, and vocal approach—and its broader cultural resonance. 

Thursday 30 Nov, 7pm
Zilkha Auditorium
Whitechapel Gallery
London

This is a ticketed event. Book your ticket here.


READINGS & CONVERSATIONS—AMSTERDAM, LONDON, BERLIN


SOLITARY




To mark the publication of Solitary, Tyler Coburn will be in conversation at
three European events this October:

San Serriffe
Amsterdam
Thursday 5 October, 8pm
In conversation with Becket MWN

Tenderbooks
London
Tuesday 10 October, 6pm
In conversation with Cliff Lauson

Friday 13 October, 6pm
a.p.
Berlin
In conversation with In-Young Yeo


TALK & BOOK SIGNING—LONDON


ON THE BENEFITS OF FRIENDSHIP




Critic, author, and art historian Isabelle Graw will be in conversation with
curator Mark Godfrey on the occasion of the recent release of On the Benefits of
Friendship, Graw’s diaristic novel on the purposes and struggles of friendship
in competitive social milieus. The longtime friends will discuss how their
environments, interpersonal relationships, and questioning of normative
structures impact their work.

After the talk, Graw will sign copies of the book, which will be available for
purchase.

Wednesday 4 October, 7pm
Gagosian Shop
Burlington Arcade
London

Register to attend here.


IN CONVERSATION—BERLIN


OBJECTIONS: FORMS OF ABSTRACTION, VOLUME 1




Author Sven Lütticken will be in conversation with writer, editor and critic
Marina Vishmidt at Pro qm to discuss the themes of Objections: Forms of
Abstraction, Volume 1.

Forms of Abstraction engages with abstrac­tion not as a formal option in art, or
as an airy theoretical speculation, but as an operational force that has
redesigned our world and continues to do so. Read more about the book here.

Friday 10 November, 7:30pm
Pro qm
Berlin

Read more about the event here.


TALK—LONDON


TAINTED LOVE




Join Alex Coles alongside special guests Hannah Catherine Jones, Fraser
Muggeridge and Savvy to discuss the key ideas from his latest book, Tainted
Love.

Titled after Soft Cell’s version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track,
Tainted Love is the first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted
romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency.
Sometimes extreme, this twist to the conventional romantic ballad spans across
gender and generational boundaries to subvert our understanding of both the
genre’s function and its behavior. Each chapter of Tainted Love takes a deep
dive into a single twisted ballad, examining both its inner workings—lyrics,
melody, and vocal approach—and its broader cultural resonance. 

Thursday 30 Nov, 7pm
Zilkha Auditorium
Whitechapel Gallery
London

This is a ticketed event. Book your ticket here.


READINGS & CONVERSATIONS—AMSTERDAM, LONDON, BERLIN


SOLITARY




To mark the publication of Solitary, Tyler Coburn will be in conversation at
three European events this October:

San Serriffe
Amsterdam
Thursday 5 October, 8pm
In conversation with Becket MWN

Tenderbooks
London
Tuesday 10 October, 6pm
In conversation with Cliff Lauson

Friday 13 October, 6pm
a.p.
Berlin
In conversation with In-Young Yeo


TALK & BOOK SIGNING—LONDON


ON THE BENEFITS OF FRIENDSHIP




Critic, author, and art historian Isabelle Graw will be in conversation with
curator Mark Godfrey on the occasion of the recent release of On the Benefits of
Friendship, Graw’s diaristic novel on the purposes and struggles of friendship
in competitive social milieus. The longtime friends will discuss how their
environments, interpersonal relationships, and questioning of normative
structures impact their work.

After the talk, Graw will sign copies of the book, which will be available for
purchase.

Wednesday 4 October, 7pm
Gagosian Shop
Burlington Arcade
London

Register to attend here.


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