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Paperback. Condition: New. With Postproduction, the third and final issue of In Medias Res, Fluentum's research project on the history of its premises concludes by literally taking stock of both the production of and productivity inherent in moving images. At the core of this publication are new essays on film shot in the building: beginning in the mid-1990s, mere months after the US abandoned its West Berlin headquarters, these films formed part of reunified Germany's nascent creative industry, and continued to be made throughout the 2000s. This chronology is speculatively extended by time-based artworks that were commissioned as part of Fluentum's multiyear program series In Medias Res: Media, (Still) Moving, which this publication both documents and further explores through artistic contributions. Though varying in their commerciality, audience, and aesthetic, they similarly employ the material and ideological architecture of the space as a matrix for creating history, allowing one to uniquely trace how the past becomes real through the present.

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Paperback. Condition: New. After a previous focus on questions of historiography and the archive, In Medias Res #2: Architecture in Motion continues Fluentum's ongoing investigation into the history of its grounds with a focus on its architecture and surrounding material culture, both past and present. It does so by combining formal surveys, critical essays, artist contributions, and visual collages, dissecting the manifold layers hiding in plain sight. Central for this investigation is the idea of the palimpsest, also referenced by architects Matthias Sauerbruch and David Wegener, who give insight into their process of remodeling the former military facility to become an exhibition space. With the fundamental overlapping of times, people, but also political ideologies--its palimpsestic quality, so to speak--, the former Luftgaukommando is an emblematic site for investigating the politicization of built forms, as contributions by architecture historian Petra Kind, artist and photographer Daniel Poller, and architecture theorist Stephan Trüby make apparent. Following these attempts to formalize and categorize, the contributions by artists Julian Irlinger and Anja Kirschner allow for a necessary interrogation of the methods at play when knowledge is generated. In Medias Res #2: Architecture in Motion not only attempts to historicize and record, but raises questions about the presence of ruinous, failed ideologies-their strategies of violence, aesthetic power, and propaganda, as well as contemporary debates about their (dis)continuities in the here and now.

Paperback. Condition: New. With Postproduction, the third and final issue of In Medias Res, Fluentum's research project on the history of its premises concludes by literally taking stock of both the production of and productivity inherent in moving images. At the core of this publication are new essays on film shot in the building: beginning in the mid-1990s, mere months after the US abandoned its West Berlin headquarters, these films formed part of reunified Germany's nascent creative industry, and continued to be made throughout the 2000s. This chronology is speculatively extended by time-based artworks that were commissioned as part of Fluentum's multiyear program series In Medias Res: Media, (Still) Moving, which this publication both documents and further explores through artistic contributions. Though varying in their commerciality, audience, and aesthetic, they similarly employ the material and ideological architecture of the space as a matrix for creating history, allowing one to uniquely trace how the past becomes real through the present.

Paperback. Condition: New. Katrin. The Tale of a Young Writer is a novel by the artist Unica Zürn (Berlin 1916-Paris 1970). It was written in 1953, although it would never be published in her lifetime. This is the first translation of the tale from German into English. Zürn tells the story of fifteen-year-old motherless Katrin, an aspiring writer, who lives with her father, also a writer. The novel is set in an imaginary world, a metropolis called Linit, split into three levels: Oberstadt (Hightown), Mittelstadt (Middletown) and Unterstadt (Lowtown), overlooked by a Volcano where the artists live and crossed by the river Emil. Presented as a book for children, apparently written for her own daughter (named Katrin), Katrin also draws on the personal biography of Zürn herself, in terms of her relationship with her father and the city of Berlin after WWII, and her experience with people on the margins of a society characterised by great tensions.

Paperback. Condition: New. Operating in multiple materials and arenas, interdisciplinary artist Cauleen Smith (b. 1967) roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, moving images, and science fiction, she makes things that deploy the tactics of these disciplines while offering a phenomenological experience for spectators and participants. The book Breaking Cinema. Experimental Film 2010-2023, adds to the growing scholarship on Cauleen Smith's work, as art historian Romi Crawford elucidates a critical phase of the artist's career and how Smith recasts film history in the context of the artistic and cultural ferment of Chicago's South Side.

Paperback. Condition: New. Baltic Triennial 14 focused on the geopolitical territory of Central and Eastern Europe, premised on the conviction that in a paradoxical time of fragmented integration, addressing the local is, simultaneously, to question the global. This reader contains a number of texts touching upon the definitions, histories, potentials, and futures of the region which is understood as having a composite, porous constitution and transnational connections. The region's gravitational pull is further highlighted by the introduction or anticipation of numerous tensions, such as disinformation, human-made industrial disasters, nativist nationalism, and the oppression of non normative identities. Staged before the eruption of Russia'a invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Triennial took its title from Vannevar Bush via Egl? Rindzevi?i?t?'s essay on cultural wars "Transforming Cultural Policy in Eastern Europe: The Endless Frontier" (2021). In addition to the texts, this reader includes photo documentation and information from exhibitions and events that were presented across the city of Vilnius: at the Contemporary Art Centre, Atletika, Autarkia, Editorial, Lithuanian Artistis' Association, Rupert (hosted by Tech Arts) and Swallow.

Paperback. Condition: New. Operating in multiple materials and arenas, interdisciplinary artist Cauleen Smith (b. 1967) roots her work firmly within the discourse of mid-twentieth-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, moving images, and science fiction, she makes things that deploy the tactics of these disciplines while offering a phenomenological experience for spectators and participants. The book Breaking Cinema. Experimental Film 2010-2023, adds to the growing scholarship on Cauleen Smith's work, as art historian Romi Crawford elucidates a critical phase of the artist's career and how Smith recasts film history in the context of the artistic and cultural ferment of Chicago's South Side.

Paperback. Condition: New. Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition curated by Paola Nicolin at XNL Piacenza, Michele Lombardelli: Piacenza - Los Angeles offers a literary bridge between these two very different cities through the art and poetry publications edited by Lombardelli between 1991 and 2008. Over the years, Lombardelli's work has facilitated artistic encounters with some of the most brilliant personalities from Emilia, such as William Xerra, Carlo Berté, Mauro Sargiani, Emilio Villa, and Aldo Tagliaferri, as well as with great US poets and artists like Robert Crosson, John Baldessari, Martha Ronk, Dennis Phillips, and Guy Bennett. This network of exchanges and friendships forms the basis of the volume, in which Lombardelli, together with his friend, the poet Paul Vangelisti, skillfully intertwine poetry, visual arts, music, and literature.

Paperback. Condition: New. Joshua Leon's first book accompanies his new commission at Chisenhale Gallery, London. The outcome of two years of writing and documenting his own research processes, the publication comprises original writing by Leon alongside archival imagery. Tracing history, memory and self across time and site, the text traverses locations including a synagogue in Bordeaux, an American bar in Vienna and a veneer factory in London's East End to reflect on the experiences of the Jewish diaspora in Europe and the formation of contemporary Jewish identity.Throughout, archival materials and images collected by Leon-architectural blueprints, immigration documents, musical scores and family photographs-visually trace slippages between personal and wider social histories. At once a fragment, a memoir and poetic prose, The Process details the varied ideas, intellectual figures and experiences that coalesce in Leon's work, whilst complicating the role of artistic production in acts of repair, restoration and remembrance.

Paperback. Condition: New. Grand Illusion is a photographic series of screenshots from Google Cultural Institute's "Museum View" of Baroque European palaces-objects of beauty and manifestations of power whose gold encrusted ornamentation points to the colonial activities abroad that made this kind of wealth possible. While the monarchies and empires of the past used beauty as an expression of their authority, technology, in its mediation of the world, often operates without an aesthetic agenda. Throughout this series, the covert power of technology makes itself visible only through accidents such as glitches, a glimpse of the machine in the mirror, the AI blurring the faces of statuary.

Paperback. Condition: New. In an extraordinary feat of endurance and intellectual curiosity, curator and art historian Charles Moore conducted twenty-four back-to-back interviews over twenty-four hours, weaving a tapestry of voices that define contemporary art today. From the incisive activism of Nadya Tolokonnikova to the material explorations of Miler Lagos and the cross-cultural storytelling of Azu Nwagbogu, this collection brings together leading artists, curators, musicians, and cultural thought leaders from around the world.Set against the backdrop of the Betsy Writers Room residency in Miami, 24-Hour Interview delves into the intersections of art, identity, activism, and social change, revealing how creativity navigates and challenges our complex world.

Paperback. Condition: New. Published on the occasion of the eponymous solo exhibition of the Greek artist Vasilis Papageorgiou at Salzburger Kunstverein, Sunseekers or Dimming the Sun or invites contemplation on capitalist systems of pleasure, their role in the cyclical depletion of planetary resources, and the loop these create in relation the need for rest and regeneration. Pitting the tourism industry against the ecological destruction it wreaks, Papageorgiou employs sunbeds, solar panels, and copper-plated beach towels to create a middle ground where pleasure meets preservation.

Paperback. Condition: New. "Masks have a long-standing place in the history of societies, having been used for everything from tools of control to protective gear. But they also have a subversive aspect capable of questioning the status quo. Often understood as representations of actual, desired, or imposed social personas, masks hold a special relation to identity, signaling specific attributes and capacities of a person-or the lack thereof. [. ] As a symptom of an era of extreme transformation, masking has gained renewed traction and urgency. From the online avatars used for activism, entertainment, or propaganda to the different dynamics either emptying or occupying our streets, practices of caricature, camouflaging, face swapping, masquerading, mimicry, protection, ridicule, social makeup, and transformation have become a staple of our everyday ritualized lives. Could we, therefore, speculate about an ongoing transformation from Macho's facial society into a mask(ed) society? Employing and underlining the subversive potential of masking, this exhibition looks into the ongoing radical reshaping of our multiple historical, sociopolitical, gendered, and transcendental identities, inquiring about current processes through which we shape-shift from one to the other. " -Valentinas Klimasauskas, João Laia.

Paperback. Condition: New. I have not loved (enough or worked) presents various accounts of love and longing, loneliness and loss, ranging from melancholic-sanguine email letters to case studies on cognitive labour within the Jogja art scene. It explores how our understanding of these tangled, at times tortuous notions shape out relationships to the world as a collective, as pairs and as other social assemblies. This publication accompanies the exhibition I have not loved (enough or worked) at The Art Gallery of Western Australia, which brings together video, photography, painting and sculpture by artists Hai-Hsin Huang, Daisuke Kosugi, Rinko Kawauchi, Sejin Kim, Pixy Liao, Lin Zhipeng (aka 223), Lieko Shiga and Tao Hui. Their works reveal how deeply enmeshed our bodies, and the subjective forces of love and desire, are within the fantasies of the "good life. " I have not loved (enough or worked) is the second title in the series Unclaimed Ideas. Created as a series of paperback readers, Unclaimed Ideas presents essays and interviews by leading voices and undiscovered talents who change the way we understand art and its relationship to the most critical issues in the world today.

Paperback. Condition: New. Fiction Non Fiction is a series of readers edited by Bruno Zhu that pairs voices in literary criticism with the material histories of labor, gender, and race. Each volume offers a close reading of fictional and theoretical works to explore how identity politics have been narrativized by liberal institutions across different times and spaces. Volume 1, published in conjunction with Bruno Zhu's commission License to Live at Chisenhale Gallery, London, delves into the concept of space. Spanning Martinique and colonial Algeria, Jamaican plantations, and 1970s Lisbon, the collection examines the enduring impact of colonial projects that continue to underpin extractive systems today.

Paperback. Condition: New. I have not loved (enough or worked) presents various accounts of love and longing, loneliness and loss, ranging from melancholic-sanguine email letters to case studies on cognitive labour within the Jogja art scene. It explores how our understanding of these tangled, at times tortuous notions shape out relationships to the world as a collective, as pairs and as other social assemblies. This publication accompanies the exhibition I have not loved (enough or worked) at The Art Gallery of Western Australia, which brings together video, photography, painting and sculpture by artists Hai-Hsin Huang, Daisuke Kosugi, Rinko Kawauchi, Sejin Kim, Pixy Liao, Lin Zhipeng (aka 223), Lieko Shiga and Tao Hui. Their works reveal how deeply enmeshed our bodies, and the subjective forces of love and desire, are within the fantasies of the "good life. " I have not loved (enough or worked) is the second title in the series Unclaimed Ideas. Created as a series of paperback readers, Unclaimed Ideas presents essays and interviews by leading voices and undiscovered talents who change the way we understand art and its relationship to the most critical issues in the world today.

Paperback. Condition: New. Compassion and Inconvenience combines artist Vika Kirchenbauer's 30-minute video work Compassion and Inconvenience (2024)-with its script reproduced alongside stills and audio descriptions-and her essay Instituting Inconvenience and Colonial Relations: The Genesis of European Contemporary Art Institutions in Mid-18th Century London (2025). Both these contributions engage with the historical context of the cultural scene in mid-18th-century London, when the first public presentation of contemporary art took place. In a setting inextricably entangled with early capitalism and British colonialism, an emergent artistic elite fundamentally influenced how, for whom, and under what conditions contemporary art entered the public sphere. As part of this genesis, moral philosophical concepts and artists' feelings-most distinctly around compassion and inconvenience-played important parts in inserting imaginings of superiority and constellations of dominance into the core of European notions of art and taste. By deepening into the historical roots of contemporary art exhibitions, this reader examines the conditions under which what we now consider self-evident came into being.

Paperback. Condition: New. The publication Farkhondeh Shahroudi marks the artist's US debut exhibition, of weeping trees (2024), at the Goethe-Institut New York. Rather than serving as an exhibition catalogue, it presents a retrospective glance at the pivotal moments and major series in Shahroudi's practice, stretching as far back as her figurative paintings from her time as a student and extending as recently as the 2024 works made during her residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York. In this publication, the authors dive into Shahroudi's rich practice, privileging the artwork and contextualizing her artmaking within a wider concept of worldbuilding.

Paperback. Condition: New. Compassion and Inconvenience combines artist Vika Kirchenbauer's 30-minute video work Compassion and Inconvenience (2024)-with its script reproduced alongside stills and audio descriptions-and her essay Instituting Inconvenience and Colonial Relations: The Genesis of European Contemporary Art Institutions in Mid-18th Century London (2025). Both these contributions engage with the historical context of the cultural scene in mid-18th-century London, when the first public presentation of contemporary art took place. In a setting inextricably entangled with early capitalism and British colonialism, an emergent artistic elite fundamentally influenced how, for whom, and under what conditions contemporary art entered the public sphere. As part of this genesis, moral philosophical concepts and artists' feelings-most distinctly around compassion and inconvenience-played important parts in inserting imaginings of superiority and constellations of dominance into the core of European notions of art and taste. By deepening into the historical roots of contemporary art exhibitions, this reader examines the conditions under which what we now consider self-evident came into being.

Paperback. Condition: New. Happily Ever After is a richly illustrated exhibition catalogue. Featuring newly written essays by the author Nina Björk and curators Julia Björnberg and Anna Johansson, as well as presentations of the works and the artists.Happily Ever After brings together artists and artist collectives whose practices explore what happens to us as individuals and collectives in a time cast in a haze of neoliberal optimization of the self, economic and political stakes in our emotions, and an increasing contempt for weakness. Through a range of artistic expression, topics such as mindfulness, welfare state profits, the tech industry, and social media are addressed. Together, the works point to how our mode of experiencing and expressing feelings is in flux and how these changes in turn affect how we see ourselves, each other, and society. Happily Ever After invites reflection on how emotions can open up futures by emphasizing the importance of resistance in the form of authenticity and community, and how we choose to act in relation to each other. The book is published in collaboration with Malmö Konstmuseum.Participating artists: Muhammad Ali, Anita Christoffersson, Markus Copper, Jeanne Dunning, Stina Ebers, Elis Eriksson, Helena Fernández-Cavada, Ester Fleckner, Jenny Grönvall, Ramón Guillén-Balmes, Sive Hamilton Helle, Leif Holmstrand, Adelita Husni-Bey, E.B. Itso, Jesper Just, Joachim Koester, Jukka Korkeila, Ellinor Lager, Gloria López Cleries, Truls Melin, Britt-Ingrid Persson BIP, Iris Smeds, Superflex, Hannah Toticki and Ulla Wiggen.

Paperback. Condition: New. This book is an extension of conversations began at Marfa Sounding, a three-year exploration into the acoustic processes of a specific place, which began as a 2015 curatorial residency with Fieldwork Marfa, an international program run by Beaux-Arts Nantes Saint-Nazaire, France; the University of Houston School of Art; and HEAD, Geneva. Focusing on "phase shifting" in music, particularly as it relates to early experiments in Minimalism and artists whose practices run from the 1960s into the present, Marfa Sounding hosted writers from many different backgrounds-composers, sound theorists, art critics, dance historians, filmmakers, educators, students, curators, and archivists-who treat performance as a point of departure for thinking through the intersection of music, minimalism, and the political. Marfa Sounding treated sound as a frame for understanding how art integrates with, invades, and is effectively produced by its context. The spaces of Marfa also became frames for sound as individual and collective experience, where people come together at a specific place and time, in a site that enfolds them. Edited by Jennifer Burris and Ida SoulardArtists: Alvin Lucier and Éliane Radigue with Charles Curtis; Anna Halprin with Phillip Greenlief, Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Riener, Nina Martin, and Stephen Petronio; Tarek Atoui with Amma Ateria, Jad Atoui, and Robert Aiki Aubrey LoweTexts by James Fei; Jennifer Burris; Erik DeLuca; Ida Soulard; Maria Chávez; Janice Ross; Andrew Abrahams in conversation with Cate Cole Schrim; Wendy Vogel; Claudia La Rocco; Ian Lewis; Amma Ateria in conversation with Caitlin Murray; Jad Atoui in conversation with Claire Amiot; Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe in conversation with Anthony Elms; Sabrina Tarasoff.

Paperback. Condition: New. "To expand is to reduce, to affirm is to negate; the problem is how not to let any of these moments crystallize into a position or a program via the fetishism that transforms relations into objects. "-Marina Vishmidt Autoreduction is a project initiated by Dora Budor at Progetto (Lecce, Italy) in the summer of 2021 that began with detouring a solo exhibition onto a collaborative course to traverse the itineraries of work, leisure, and consumption in southern Italy. Conceived as a companion to the exhibition, the book features commissioned texts by Noah Barker and Marina Vishmidt, with contributions by all the artists originally participating in the exhibition (Noah Barker, Dora Budor, Michèle Graf and Selina Grüter, Niloufar Emamifar, and Ser Serpas), together with an addendum by Stefano Faoro. In "Case of Enrichment" Noah Barker assesses how the exhibition and region of Puglia instantiate what Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre have called the enrichment economy - which is characterized by the enrichment of existing things and places and modelling of the consumer on the collector. In "Why Must You Reduce Everything to Money?" Marina Vishmidt casts reduction as a political and artistic strategy; from a form of resistance developed by Italian Autonomists to its aesthetic application as a mode of refusal. Informed by the industrial history of the Salento region, which once featured a heavily feminized and militant tobacco workforce and now sees this legacy sanitized as a heritage for luxury tourism, Autoreduction rides the carousel of capital's value-forms eliciting critique and complicity in tandem.

Paperback. Condition: New. Lisa Tan: Dodge and/or Burn is conceived as a continuation of the artist's eponymous solo exhibition at Accelerator gallery, Stockholm. Inspired by a drawing made by the famous neurologist Oliver Sacks representing the physiological organization of migraines, Tan created a system of "open walls" for viewers to navigate. Her attention to "the intersection between the nervous system and interior life as a way of examining how art operates, uncertainty, and the formation of the self" is deepened in the publication thanks to the essays of three authors whose work has affected Tan's thinking.Psychoanalyst Charlotta Björklind and artist Asier Mendizabal analyze the overlapping of inner and outer life, the misalignment of subjective experience from representations of it, and negotiations between mind and brain, while the narration of writer Haytham el-Wardany meditates on the breath between words.Throughout the book, at the top of the pages, runs a transcription of the voice-over monologue from Tan's video Dodge and Burn (2021-23).

Paperback. Condition: New. Martin Maeller: Nervous Dust is the artist's first monograph, published on the occasion of his 2022 solo exhibition at Kunstverein Göttingen. It offers the first comprehensive overview of Maeller's artistic work, and features contributions from writers and other artists providing deeper insights into its themes.Maeller's art combines personal experiences, text, and elements of pop culture and subculture to observe subjective and collective states of alienation and belonging. Spanning a diverse array of media, including printmaking, sculpture, and installation, his practice constructs inner worlds between melancholy and loss, affection and care. The visual and conceptual language questions the construction of identity and emphasizes the sensitivity and vulnerability inherent in it. It deciphers and maps the dark terrain of the unconscious and focuses on reclaiming personal agency.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Residencies Reflected looks at international artist residencies with a societal and ecological mind shift, treating both the productive experimentation and artistic freedom they enable and the information about places, environments, and communities that they produce as well as their artistic, poetic, psychological, social roles in the ecological crisis. When artworks are born out of a residency, that period is mostly invisible when the works are eventually presented, and another aim of this book is to unveil the creative process embedded in artist residencies. The nine essays and one interview contained herein examine the potentials of residencies as communities and environments for artistic work. The authors are curators, artists, and academics operating in the residency sector. The publication is edited by Irmeli Kokko, and it is published by Saari Residence in collaboration with Mousse Publishing.

Paperback. Condition: New. Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition curated by Paola Nicolin at XNL Piacenza, Michele Lombardelli: Piacenza - Los Angeles offers a literary bridge between these two very different cities through the art and poetry publications edited by Lombardelli between 1991 and 2008. Over the years, Lombardelli's work has facilitated artistic encounters with some of the most brilliant personalities from Emilia, such as William Xerra, Carlo Berté, Mauro Sargiani, Emilio Villa, and Aldo Tagliaferri, as well as with great US poets and artists like Robert Crosson, John Baldessari, Martha Ronk, Dennis Phillips, and Guy Bennett. This network of exchanges and friendships forms the basis of the volume, in which Lombardelli, together with his friend, the poet Paul Vangelisti, skillfully intertwine poetry, visual arts, music, and literature.

Paperback. Condition: New. Yuki Kimura's work exists both as an elegant, static, physical form with a calmly assertive presence in space, and as an immaterial, wandering, and vibrating force reflective of all that exists around and throughout it-in the negative, so to speak. It initiates processes of transformation and is transformative itself, which may at first appear counterintuitive to its static appearance. The passive, mute, and durable world of objects and physical matter that one encounters in Kimura's work becomes a place of dynamic processes and shapeshifting, where the stable appearance and order of things are profoundly transformed. Kimura's work operates beyond language, occupying an entirely visual sphere, but communicates at a highly visceral and embodied level of perception. Published on the occasion of Yuki Kimura's solo exhibition at the Kunstverein fu?r die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Du?sseldorf in 2022, this artist book designed by Benedikt Reichenbach includes texts by Kathrin Bentele and Jamie Stevens.

Paperback. Condition: New. Elizabeth Price SOUND OF THE BREAK accompanies the homonymous Turner Prize winner's extensive solo exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, presenting both new works and works shown in Germany for the first time. The publication, which was largely designed by the artist herself, takes a very unique approach. It presents the elements from which the videos on display are composed-photographs, animation frames, source materials-and at the same time discloses aspects of the artist's working process. As you flip through the book, you move through bodies of material dealing with different but related phenomena, as if following the timeline in one of Price's videos.