World Food Books

Live In Your Head
'Curated by' Robert Nickas

1993, English / German
Softcover + invitation, unpaginated, 26.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst / Vienna

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Exceptionally rare, incredible 1993 catalogue for this elusive group exhibition 'curated by' Robert "Bob" Nickas, at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst and Galerie Metropol, Vienna, 1993, featuring the work of Vito Acconci, John Armleder, Robert Barry, Bill Bitting, Gudrun Wolfgruber, Laurie Parsons, Steve DiBenedetto, Gretchen Faust, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Scott Grodesky, Peter Halley, Jon Kessler, Jutta Koether, Louise Lawler, Ken Lum, John Miller, Olivier Mosset, Chuck Nanney, Cady Noland, Steven Parrino, Raymond Pettibon, David Robbins, Lisa Ruyter, Sam Samore, Michael Scott, Rudolf Stingel, Joan Wallace, Dan Walsh. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour, accompanied by Nickas' introduction (in bi-lingual English and German), which alone makes the catalogue special.

Exhibition invitation card inserted.
Very Good copy.

File under: ito Acconci John Armleder Robert Barry Bill Bitting Gudrun Wolfgruber Laurie Parsons Steve DiBenedetto Gretchen Faust Robert Gober Felix Gonzalez-Torres Scott Grodesky Peter Halley Jon Kessler Jutta Koether Louise Lawler Ken Lum John Miller Olivier Mosset Chuck Nanney Cady Noland Steven Parrino Raymond Pettibon David Robbins Lisa Ruyter Sam Samore Michael Scott Rudolf Stingel Joan Wallace Dan Walsh Bob Nickas Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst / Vienna Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare

The Uncanny
by Mike Kelley

1993, English
Softcover, 150 pages, 24 x 17 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sonsbeek / Arnhem

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First 1993 edition of one of the great art books, by one of the great artists. This provocative, copiously illustrated catalogue by renowned American artist Mike Kelley is a meditation on Sigmund Freud's "Uncanny", and its relation to the grotesque in art and everyday life. Published to accompany the exhibition curated by Kelley as part of the "Sonsbeek 93" exhibition in Arnhem, The Netherlands, June 5 - September 26, 1993, Kelley presents (like a photo scrapbook) an arresting mix of modern and contemporary artists alongside bizarre figurative, prosthesis, animatronic, and mannequin-related imagery throughout history. Artists included : Hans Bellmer, Robert Gober, Tetsumi Kudo, Zoe Leonard, Paul McCarthy, Nayland Blake, John Miller, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Duane Hanson, Man Ray, Guillaume Bijl, Dennis Oppenheim, Edgar Degas, Piero Manzoni, Marcel Broodthaers, Goya, Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Dorothea Lange, Thom Puckey, Charles Ray, Edward Kienholz, Martin Kippenberger, Laurie Simmons, Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, Paul Thek, Mike Kelley himself, and many more. Includes Kelley's accompanying essay, "Playing with Dead Things". The exhibition took on mythical status and was re-staged in Liverpool in 2004. The Uncanny has become one of the most desired of Kelley's books.

Very Good copy with only light cover wear.

File under: Hans Bellmer Robert Gober Tetsumi Kudo Zoe Leonard Paul McCarthy Nayland Blake Duane Hanson Edward Kienholz Martin Kippenberger Jeff Koons John Miller Bruce Nauman Tony Oursler Cindy Sherman Kiki Smith Paul Thek Mike Kelley Laurie Simmons Guillaume Bijl Thom Puckey Dennis Oppenheim Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Dorothea Lange Yayoi Kusama Francisco Goya Edgar Degas Nam June Paik Andy Warhol Mike Kelley Sonsbeek / Arnhem Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Pop Art Surrealism Theory / Essay

Mike Kelley
Foul Perfection : Essays and Criticism

2003, English
Softcover, 258 pages, 20.3 x 22.5 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Critical writings and commentary by the Los Angeles based artist Mike Kelley.

The work of artist Mike Kelley (b. 1954) embraces performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. Drawing distinctively on high art and vernacular traditions, including historical research, popular culture, and psychology, Kelley came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of sculptures composed of craft materials. His recent work offers dialogues with architecture and with repressed memory syndrome, and a sustained inquiry into his own aesthetic and social history. The subjects on which Kelley has written are as varied as his artistic media. They include the work of fellow artists, sound, caricature, the uncanny, UFOlogy, and gender-bending.

This book offers a diverse collection of Kelley's writings from the last twenty-five years. It contains major critical texts on art, film, and the wider culture, including his piece on the aesthetic he calls "urban Gothic." It also contains essays, mostly commissioned for exhibition catalogs and journals, on the artists and groups David Askevold, OEyvind Fahlstroem, Douglas Huebler, John Miller, Survival Research Laboratories, and Paul Thek, among others. Kelley's voices are passionate, analytic, and ironic, and his critical intelligence is leavened with touches of whimsy.

“This collection proves that [Kelley] has not only helped write history but has had an effect on it.” — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum

File under: David Askevold Douglas Huebler John Miller Mike Kelley Paul Thek Survival Research Laboratories Divine Öyvind Fahlström John C. Welchman Mike Kelley The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Film / Video Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

The Return of The Real
by Hal Foster

1996, English
Softcover, 328 pages, 18 x 22.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow belated, he argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative practice in the present. And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is pervasive today. After the models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the 1980s, Foster suggests that we are now witness to a return to the real -- to art and theory grounded in the materiality of actual bodies and social sites. If The Return of the Real begins with a new narrative of the historical avant-garde, it concludes with an original reading of this contemporary situation -- and what it portends for future practices of art and theory, culture and politics.

Includes the work of David Hammons, Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Jasper Johns, Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Michael Asher, Hans Haacke, Fred Wilson, Silvia Kolbowski, Larry Bell, Sol Lewitt, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Tony Smith, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, Peter Halley, Ashley Bickerton, Ross Bleckner, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Gordon Matta-Clark, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Allan McCollum, Gerhard Richter, Richard Estes, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, John Miller, Zoe Leonard, Gran Fury, Renée Green, Dan Graham, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Mary Kelly, Silvia Kolbowski, Lothar Baumgarten, Fred Wilson, Jimmie Durham, and many more.

File under: David Hammons Robert Gober Mike Kelley Marcel Duchamp Alexander Rodchenko Vladimir Tatlin Dan Flavin Carl Andre Jasper Johns Daniel Buren Marcel Broodthaers Michael Asher Hans Haacke Fred Wilson Silvia Kolbowski Larry Bell Sol Lewitt Richard Serra Eva Hesse Donald Judd Tony Smith Robert Morris Robert Smithson Jeff Koons Haim Steinbach Peter Halley Ashley Bickerton Ross Bleckner Barbara Kruger Sherrie Levine Vito Acconci Bruce Nauman Gordon Matta-Clark Frank Stella Robert Rauschenberg Andy Warhol Allan McCollum Gerhard Richter Richard Estes Richard Prince Cindy Sherman Kiki Smith John Miller Zoe Leonard Gran Fury Renée Green Dan Graham Martha Rosler Allan Sekula Mary Kelly Lothar Baumgarten Jimmie Durham Hal Foster The MIT Press / Massachusetts Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Photography Conceptual Art Minimal Art Pop Art Dada

Jessica Stockholder

1991, English / Dutch
Hardcover (cloth-bound), 47 pages, 24 x 34 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by The Renaissance Society / Chicago Witte de With / Rotterdam

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Approaching architectural space and scale with the formal inventiveness and speed common to gestural abstract painting, Stockholder took the art world by storm in the late 1980s.

The first half of the catalog chronicles Stockholder's installations from 1983–1991 in 35 beautiful color plates. Accompanying the reproductions are short descriptions, authored by the artist, addressing the architectural and material choices of each installation. The second half of the catalogue contains John Miller's essay "Formalism and Its Other", which keenly places Stockholder's activity somewhere between the rigorous formalism of Clement Greenberg's critical writing and the liberating potential of Allan Kaprow's Happenings.

Published in conjunction with the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; text in Dutch and English

File under: Jessica Stockholder John Miller John Miller The Renaissance Society / Chicago Witte de With / Rotterdam Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation

Painting 2.0
Expression in the Information Age

2016, English
Hardcover, 280 pages, 31.6 x 3.1 x 26 cm
Published by Prestel / Munich

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The resurgent interest in contemporary painting in recent years has coincided with an explosion of new digital media and technologies. Contrary to canonical accounts premised on medium-specificity, painting’s most advanced positions since the 1960s have developed in productive friction with contemporaneous forms of mass media and culture. From the rise of television and computers to the Internet revolution, painting has assimilated precisely those cultural and technological developments that were held responsible for its presumed “death.” Moving far beyond its technical definition as “oil on canvas,” painting during the information age has consistently offered a site for negotiating the challenges of a mediated life-world.

Featuring over 230 works by 107 artists, Painting 2.0 is one of the largest and most comprehensive exhibitions of contemporary painting in recent years.

Artists include:
Kai Althoff, Ei Arakawa/Shimon Minamikawa, Monika Baer, Nairy Baghramian, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lynda Benglis, Sadie Benning, Judith Bernstein, Joseph Beuys, Ashley Bickerton, Cosima von Bonin, KAYA (Debo Eilers & Kerstin Brätsch), Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Merlin Carpenter, Leidy Churchman, William Copley, René Daniëls, Guy Debord/Asger Jorn, Carroll Dunham, Mary Beth Edelson, Thomas Eggerer, Michaela Eichwald, Nicole Eisenman, Jana Euler, Louise Fishman, Andrea Fraser, Isa Genzken, Mary Grigoriadis, Philip Guston, Wade Guyton, Guyton/Walker, Raymond Hains, Harmony Hammond, David Hammons, Keith Haring, Rachel Harrison, Mary Heilmann, Eva Hesse, Charline von Heyl, Ull Hohn, Jacqueline Humphries, Jörg Immendorff, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Yves Klein, Jutta Koether, Michael Krebber, Manfred Kuttner, Maria Lassnig, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Lee Lozano, Konrad Lueg, Michel Majerus, Piero Manzoni, Kerry James Marshall, Hans-Jörg Mayer, John Miller, Joan Mitchell, Ree Morton, Ulrike Müller, Matt Mullican, Elisabeth Murray, Cady Noland, Hilka Nordhausen, Albert Oehlen, Laura Owens, Steven Parrino, Ed Paschke, Howardena Pindell, Sigmar Polke, Seth Price, Stephen Prina, R.H. Quaytman, Robert Rauschenberg, David Reed, Gerhard Richter, Mimmo Rotella, Niki de Saint Phalle, Mario Schifano, Amy Sillman, Sylvia Sleigh, Josh Smith, Joan Snyder, Reena Spaulings, Nancy Spero, Gruppe SPUR, Frank Stella, Walter Swennen, Paul Thek, Rosemarie Trockel, Cy Twombly, Jacques de la Villeglé, Kelley Walker, Andy Warhol, Sue Williams, Karl Wirsum, Martin Wong, Christopher Wool, Heimo Zobernig, u.a.

File under: Albert Oehlen Amy Sillman Andrea Fraser Andy Warhol Asger Jorn Ashley Bickerton Cady Noland Carroll Dunham Charline von Heyl Christopher Wool Cosima von Bonin Cy Twombly Daniel Buren David Hammons David Reed Ed Paschke Ei Arakawa Eva Hesse Frank Stella Georg Baselitz Gerhard Richter Glenn Ligon Gruppe SPUR Günter Brus Harmony Hammond Heimo Zobernig Hilka Nordhausen Howardena Pindell Isa Genzken Jacqueline Humphries Jacques de la Villeglé Jana Euler Jasper Johns Jean-Michel Basquiat Joan Jonas Joan Mitchell Joan Snyder John Miller Jörg Immendorff Joseph Beuys Josh Smith Judith Bernstein Jutta Koether Kai Althoff Karl Wirsum Keith Haring Kelley Walker Kerry James Marshall Konrad Lueg Laura Owens Lee Lozano Leidy Churchman Louise Fishman Lynda Benglis Manfred Kuttner Maria Lassnig Mario Schifano Martin Kippenberger Martin Wong Mary Beth Edelson Mary Grigoriadis Mary Heilmann Matt Mullican Merlin Carpenter Michael Krebber Michaela Eichwald Michel Majerus Mike Kelley Mimmo Rotella Monika Baer Nairy Baghramian Nancy Spero Nicole Eisenman Niki de Saint-Phalle Paul Thek Philip Guston Piero Manzoni R.H. Quaytman Rachel Harrison Raymond Hains Ree Morton Reena Spaulings René Daniëls Robert Rauschenberg Rosemarie Trockel Sadie Benning Seth Price Sherrie Levine Shimon Minamikawa Sigmar Polke Stephen Prina Steven Parrino Sue Williams Sylvia Sleigh Thomas Eggerer Ull Hohn Ulrike Müller Wade Guyton Walter Swennen William Copley Yves Klein Hansjörg Mayer Elizabeth Murray Achim Hochdörfer David Joselit Guy Debord Isabelle Graw John Kelsey Kerstin Stakemrich Lynne Coeier Manuela Ammer Wolfram Pichler Prestel / Munich Art Group Shows / Collections Painting Theory / Essay

Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015

2016, English
Softcover, 544 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
Published by Paper Monument / New York

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edited by Jennifer Liese

Since the turn of the millennium, artists have been writing, and circulating their writing, like never before. The seventy-five texts gathered here — essays, criticism, manifestos, fiction, diaries, scripts, blog posts, and tweets — chart a complex era in the art world and the world at large, weighing in on the exigencies of our times in unexpected and inventive ways.

With Contributions By:
Greg Allen, Rasheed Araeen, Tauba Auerbach, Fia Backström, Fiona Banner, Bill Beckley, Caroline Bergvall, Bernadette Corporation, Xu Bing, Gregg Bordowitz, James Bridle, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Tania Bruguera, Paul Chan, Mel Chin, Molly Crabapple, Critical Art Ensemble, Moyra Davey, Tacita Dean, David Diao, Jimmie Durham, Shannon Ebner, Harrell Fletcher, Andrea Fraser, Coco Fusco, Rainer Ganahl, Ryan Gander, Mariam Ghani, Renée Green, Deanna Havas, Pablo Helguera, Karl Holmqvist, Ashley Hunt, Juliana Huxtable, Emily Jacir, Helen Johnson, Ronald Jones, Nina Katchadourian, Mike Kelley, John Kelsey, Jutta Koether, Glenn Ligon, Yve Lomax, LTTR, Jill Magid, Josiah Mcelheny, John Miller, Naeem Mohaiemen, Nástio Mosquito, Takashi Murakami, Jayson Musson, Olu Oguibe, Marisa Olson, Şener Özmen, Katrina Palmer, Adam Pendleton, Mai-Thu Perret, Adrian Piper, Pope.L, Seth Price, Raqs Media Collective, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Kay Rosen, Peter Rostovsky/David Geers, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Mira Schor, Karin Schneider and Nicolás Guagnini, Michael Schwab, Gregory Sholette, Slavs And Tatars, Cally Spooner, Frances Stark, Hito Steyerl, Koki Tanaka, Ryan Trecartin, Suzanne Treister, Dmitry Vilensky, W.A.G.E., Mary Walling Blackburn, Ai Weiwei, The Yes Men, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, and Qiu Zhijie

Praise for Social Medium:

"A thoroughly engrossing read ... entertaining as well as intellectually stimulating."
—Oliver Basciano, ArtReview

"The distinct textures of these individual voices together produce a larger portrait – not of a collective, but of art with a capital A: something far from prescription or cohesion, unable to be contained, requiring the work and words of many."
— Jennifer Krasinski, Frieze

“As this indispensable anthology so engagingly demonstrates, legions of artists armed with laptops have for the past fifteen years brilliantly hacked the ways we think about 21st-century culture and politics. Full of imaginative texts and revolutionary ideas, this is a user’s guide to the postinternet era.”
—Brian Wallis, editor of Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists

“This is such a beautiful book because the real thought balloon of the art world is exactly these brainy and ecstatic citizens’ writings. Hang out a lot with them please — gain everything and miss nothing. Watch ‘democracy’ get palped and monitored, challenged and witnessed here. I’d call Social Medium a deep vacation into the present, which we totally need.”
— Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls

File under: Greg Allen Rasheed Araeen Tauba Auerbach Fia Backström Fiona Banner Bill Beckley Caroline Bergvall Bernadette Corporation Xu Bing Gregg Bordowitz James Bridle Bruce High Quality Foundation Tania Bruguera Paul Chan Mel Chin Molly Crabapple Critical Art Ensemble Moyra Davey Tacita Dean David Diao Jimmie Durham Shannon Ebner Harrell Fletcher Andrea Fraser Coco Fusco Rainer Ganahl Ryan Gander Mariam Ghani Renée Green Deanna Havas Pablo Helguera Karl Holmqvist Ashley Hunt Juliana Huxtable Emily Jacir Helen Johnson Ronald Jones Nina Katchadourian Mike Kelley John Kelsey Jutta Koether Glenn Ligon Yve Lomax LTTR Jill Magid Josiah Mcelheny John Miller Naeem Mohaiemen Nástio Mosquito Takashi Murakami Jayson Musson Olu Oguibe Marisa Olson Şener Özmen Katrina Palmer Adam Pendleton Mai-Thu Perret Adrian Piper Seth Price Raqs Media Collective Lili Reynaud-Dewar Kay Rosen Peter Rostovsky/David Geers Natascha Sadr Haghighian Mira Schor Karin Schneider and Nicolás Guagnini Michael Schwab Gregory Sholette Slavs And Tatars Cally Spooner Frances Stark Hito Steyerl Koki Tanaka Ryan Trecartin Suzanne Treister Dmitry Vilensky W.A.G.E. Mary Walling Blackburn Ai Weiwei The Yes Men Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Qiu Zhijie William Pope.L Paper Monument / New York Art Theory / Essay Painting Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry

PERIODICO #3

2019, English
Softcover,
Ed. of 500,
Published by Periodico / Zürich

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PERIODICO #3

Periodico is an independent magazine from Zürich, edited by Marc Asekhame and Teo Schifferli.

ISSUE 003 12 18

In this issue of Periodico, Mitchell Anderson looks at a history of Cindy Crawford Pepsi ads, 67 Anna-Sophie Berger reviews Norm Macdonald’s Net flix special, Anna Khachiyan considers Playboy’s backflip on nudity and Daniel Horn discusses New Models. Also featured is Kaspar Müller’s 2018 advertisement for the Swiss drop manufacturer Ricola and a suite of photographs of a work by the artist, commissioned for archival documentation in 2011. A comic strip by Bernhard Hegglin recounts a dream had on May 25th, 2018. With Chantal Kirby and Matthew Linde, Periodico produced a photoshoot of the Paul Poiret replica dresses featured in Linde’s curatorial project Passageways, recently shown at Kunsthalle Bern; as well as a series of scenographic images from the exhibition 陰府 (Shady Mansion) by Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho, recently shown at Kunstverein Freiburg.

Published in an edition 500 copies.

File under: Mitchell Anderson Anna-Sophie Berger Anna Khachiyan Daniel Horn Amy Lien Enzo Camacho Bernhard Hegglin Chantal Kirby Matthew Linde Heji Shin John Miller Emanuel Rossetti Calla Henkel Amy Lien and Enzo Camachof Kaspar Müller Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff Max Pitegoff Periodico / Zürich Photography Art Periodicals Fashion

Art and Subjecthood - The Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism
Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum, Nikolaus Hirsch (Eds.)

2011, English
Softcover with dustjacket, 98 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum, Nikolaus Hirsch (Eds.)

Texts by Ina Blom, Oliver Brokel, Caroline Busta, Stefan Deines, Hal Foster, Stefanie Heraeus, Jutta Koether, Magdalena Nieslony, Michael Sanchez

Many contemporary artworks evoke the human figure: consider the omnipresence of the mannequin in current installations of artists like John Miller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Heimo Zobernig, or David Lieske. Or consider the revival of a minimalist vocabulary, which embraces anthropomorphism as in the works of Isa Genzken and Rachel Harrison. This book brings together contributions from the eponymous conference, all of which seek to speculate on the reasons as to why, since the turn of the millennium, we have encountered so many artworks that tend to reconcile Minimalism with suggestions of the human figure. It proposes that this new artistic convention becomes rather questionable when discussed in the light of Franco Berardi’s theory of semiocapitalism—a power technology that aims squarely at our human resources. The participants of this conference were asked to offer possible explanations for this wide acceptance of anthropomorphism—could it be that this is a manifestation of the increasingly desperate desire for art to have agency?

File under: David Lieske Heimo Zobernig John Miller Jutta Koether Thomas Hirschhorn Michael Krebber Caroline Busta Daniel Birnbaum Hal Foster Ina Blom Isa Genzken Isabelle Graw Jutta Koether Magdalena Nieslony Michael Sanchez Nikolaus Hirsch Oliver Brokel Rachel Harrison Stefan Deines Stefanie Heraeus Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Painting

Periodico #2

2018, English
Softcover, 78 pages, 18 x 25.5 cm
Ed. of 600,
Published by Periodico / Zürich

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Periodico is a new independent magazine from Zürich, edited by Marc Asekhame and Teo Schifferli.

ISSUE 002 12 17
Contents:
Editorial
Marc Asekhame in conversation with Matthew Hanson
Heji Shin
Middle of the Day - John Miller interviewed by Ilya Lipkin
COSTUME - Anthony Symonds in conversation with Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff
RITORNELLO! - Emanuel Rossetti
Proposals for Future Covers

Printed in an edition of 600 copies.

File under: Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff Emanuel Rossetti Max Pitegoff Calla Henkel Anthony Symonds John Miller Ilya Lipkin Heji Shin Marc Asekhame Periodico / Zürich Photography Periodicals Art Fashion

Studio for Propositional Cinema
in relation to a Spectator:

2017, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 11.5 x 18 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin A.P.E (Art Projects Era) Kestner Gesellschaft / Hannover

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Contributions by Paul Chan, Keren Cytter, Nicolás Gaugnini, Irena Haiduk, Madeline Hollander, Sarah Kürten, Jordan Lord with Carissa Rodriguez, Luzie Meyer, John Miller, Rachel Rose, Karin Schneider, Cally Spooner, Studio for Propositional Cinema, Lawrence Weiner, Christopher Williams

A compendium of essays, scripts, poems, and proposals by various artists, in relation to a Spectator: was compiled by Studio for Propositional Cinema for their eponymous exhibition at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. In the opening text, Studio for Propositional Cinema—an artist collective founded in Düsseldorf in 2013—sets the context for the book’s investigations into notions of the script, staging, and the conditions of the exhibition itself. Other contributions include Keren Cytter’s rules and declarations for engaging life; Irena Haiduk and John Miller’s ruminations on the nature of the image and of the cinematic, respectively; a series of missives to Kevin Spacey from Cally Spooner; and an “open letter” by Christopher Williams detailing the labor and material conditions that have furnished the walls on which his exhibitions have hung.

This book is part of an ensemble of structures related to the nature of presentation in the Kestner Gesellschaft exhibition. Visually connected in their ultra-gloss white surfaces, they are meant to be seen as intertwined sites for the display of objects, the reproduction of images, the staging of performances, and the transmission language through talks and conversations.

Copublished with Kestner Gesellschaft and A.P.E. (Art Projects Era)

Design by Ronnie Fueglister

File under: Paul Chan Keren Cytter Nicolás Gaugnini Irena Haiduk Madeline Hollander Sarah Kürten Jordan Lord Carissa Rodriguez Luzie Meyer John Miller Rachel Rose Karin Schneider Cally Spooner Studio for Propositional Cinema Lawrence Weiner Christopher Williams Sternberg Press / Berlin A.P.E (Art Projects Era) Kestner Gesellschaft / Hannover Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Photography Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay

The Big Nothing

2004, English
Softcover, 87 pages, 18.5 x 12.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by ICA / Pennsylvania

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Conceptions of “nothing” are one of the driving themes of twentieth-century art. One thinks of Piet Mondrian's reductivist approach to abstraction, Marcel Duchamp's contention that art resides in ideas, not objects, Mark Rothko's painterly reach for the sublime, Andy Warhol's affirmations of the vacuity of Pop culture. The Big Nothing will focus on themes of nothing, nothingness and negation in contemporary art and culture, surveying the legacy of these and other manifestations of absence made manifest in contemporary art. Artist include Gareth James, Jutta Koether, Louise Lawler, Richard Prince, Yves Klein, Bernadette Corporation, John Miller and James Welling, among others. Given its broad connotations, “nothing” provides general audiences with immediate access to looking at and thinking about the art of today.

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held May 1 - August 1, 2004. Curated and with essays by Ingrid Schaffner, Bennett Simpson, and Tanya Leighton. Additional essay by Paula Marincola. Artists include: Bas Jan Ader, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, Michel Auder, Jo Baer, Robert Barry, Larry Bell, Bernadette Corporation, James Lee Byars, Maurizio Cattelan, Thomas Chimes, Bruce Conner, Day Without Art, Jessica Diamond, Roe Ethridge, Lili Fleury, Rene Gabri, Jack Goldstein, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Nicolas Guagnini, David Hammons, Heavy Industries, Nancy Holt, Richard Hoeck, Roni Horn, Pierre Huyghe, Gareth James, Ray Johnson, Yves Klein, Joachim Koester, Jutta Koether, Yayoi Kusama, Louise Lawler, Gordon Matta-Clark, Allan McCollum, Patrick McMullen, John Miller, Matt Mullican, Eileen Neff, Gabriel Orozco, Raphael Ortiz, Charlemagne Palestine, Philippe Parreno, William Pope.L, Doris Salcedo, Karin Schneider, Allan Sekula, Arlene Shechet, Santiago Sierra, John Smith, Robert Smithson, Paul Swenbeck, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Andy Warhol, James Welling, John Wesley, and Steve Wolfe. Includes checklist of the exhibition.

File under: Bas Jan Ader Richard Artschwager Michael Asher Michel Auder Jo Baer Robert Barry Larry Bell Bernadette Corporation James Lee Byars Maurizio Cattelan Thomas Chimes Bruce Conner Day Without Art Jessica Diamond Roe Ethridge Lili Fleury Rene Gabri Jack Goldstein Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster David Hammons Heavy Industries Nancy Holt Richard Hoeck Roni Horn Pierre Huyghe Gareth James Ray Johnson Yves Klein Joachim Koester Jutta Koether Yayoi Kusama Louise Lawler Gordon Matta-Clark Allan McCollum Patrick McMullen John Miller Matt Mullican Eileen Neff Gabriel Orozco Charlemagne Palestine Philippe Parreno William Pope.L Doris Salcedo Karin Schneider Allan Sekula Arlene Shechet Santiago Sierra John Smith Robert Smithson Paul Swenbeck Rirkrit Tiravanija Andy Warhol James Welling John Wesley Steve Wolfe Nicolás Gaugnini Raphael Montanez Ortiz Ingrid Schaffner Bennett Simpson Tanya Leighton Paula Marincola ICA / Pennsylvania Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Conceptual Art Minimal Art Pop Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare

REAL LIFE Magazine: Selected Writings and Projects 1979-1994

2007, English
Softcover, 21 x 28 cm, 320 pages
Published by Primary Information / New York

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REAL LIFE Magazine: Selected Writings and Projects 1979-1994 highlights a selection of writings and artists' projects from REAL LIFE magazine, which was originally edited by artist, writer, and curator, Thomas Lawson and writer, Susan Morgan. Published in twenty-three issues from 1979-1994 as an intermittent black and white magazine, REAL LIFE featured artists and art historians writing on art, media and popular culture interspersed with pictorial contributions. The development of the magazine through its 15 year history, traces the influences, development and transitions of artists through the 80s.

The anthology features writings by and about Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Rhys Chatham, Mark Dion, Jack Goldstein, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Kim Gordon, Dan Graham, Thomas Lawson, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Allan McCollum, John Miller, Dave Muller, Matt Mullican, Adrian Piper, Richard Prince, David Robbins, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Michael Smith, John Stezaker, Bernard Tschumi, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, and James Welling among others.
Table of Contents:
Thomas Lawson and Susan Morgan: Various Histories of REAL LIFE Magazine
Matthew Higgs: REAL LIFE

Susan Morgan: an interview with Robert Moskowitz, 1979
Valentin Tatransky: Collage And The Problem Of Representation: Sherrie Levine's new work, 1979
Grahame Shane: Crime as Function, 1979
Susan Morgan: an interview with Steve Gianakos, 1979
Barbara Kruger: Game Show, 1979
James Welling: Untitled, 1979
Thomas Lawson: Every Picture Tells A Story Don't It? 1979
Thomas Lawson: Fashion Moda, 1980
Richard Prince: Primary Transfers, 1980
Dan Graham: The Destroyed Room of Jeff Wall, 1980
Kim Gordon: Trash Drugs And Male Bonding, 1980
Thomas Lawson: Going Places, 1980
Susan Morgan: Michael Hurson, 1980
Barbara Kruger: Devils With Red Dresses On, 1980
Thomas Lawson: Long Distance Information, 1980
Joseph Bishop: Desperate Character, 1980
Richard Prince: Menthol Pictures, 1980
Laurie Simmons: Sam and Dottie Dance, 1980
Jim Bradley: Radical Genitalia, 1980
Allan McCollum: Matt Mullican's World, 1980
Michael Smith: Mike In... What Should I Do About The Car? 1980
Sherrie Levine: Two Photographs After Walker Evans, 1980
Kim Gordon: Honeymoon Habit, 1980
Post-Modernism: a symposium, 1981
Dan Graham: BOWWOWWOW (the Age of Piracy), 1981
Howard Singerman: The Artist as Adolescent, 1981
Elsa Bulgari: Your Everyday Critic, 1981
Thomas Lawson: Too Good to be True, 1981
Jenny Bolande: Elk Grazed as if Nothing Had Happened, 1981
David Robbins: Notes toward film, 1981
Eric Bogosian: Fascination, 1981
Fulton Ryder: Pissing on Ice, 1981
Joan Wallace and Geralyn Donohue: Edit deAk, 1982
Rex Reason: Democratism, 1982
The Holy Ghost Writers: Condensation and Dish-Placement, 1982-3
Howard Singerman: Paragraphs toward an essay entitled 'Restoration Comedies', 1982-3
John Roberts: Ruins in the Realm of Thought, 1983
Paul McMahon: From The Permanent Collection, 1983
Jo Baer and Bruce Robbins: Beyond the Pale, 1983
Kathi Norklun: Courage, 1983
Tim Rollins: Particles, 1980-1983, 1983-4
Doug Ashford: Kiss of Death, 1983-4
Thomas Lawson: Komar & Melamid, 1983-4
Robin Winters: The Secret Agent: an interview with Jacki Ochs , 1983-4
Robert C. Morgan: a conversation with Lawrence Weiner , 1983-4
Judith Kirshner: A Blinding Light , 1983-4
Rex Reason: Brie Popcorn: an interview with the directors of Nature Morte Gallery, 1983-4
John Miller: Morality and the Poetic, 1984
Susan Morgan: Portraits of the Artists/Composite Drawings, 1984
B.P. Gutfreund: Four Photographs, 1984
Susan Morgan: Each and Every One of You, 1985
Mark Dion: Tales From The Dark Side, 1985
Jeff Wall: Dan Graham's Kammerspiel Parts I and II, 1985
Jana Sterbak: Premeditated: an interview with Ed Ruscha, 1985
Walter Robinson: The Quest For Failure, 1985-6
Derek Boshier: John Dugger, 1985-6
John A.Walker: Unholy Alliance: Chairman Mao, Andy Warhol, and the Saatchis, 1985-6
Kellie Jones: David Hammons, 1986
John Miller: Swiss Family Robbins, 1986
Adrian Piper: An Open Letter to Donald Kuspit, 1987-8
Susan Morgan: when X does not equal Y , 1987-8
Thomas Lawson: Critical Art Ensemble, 1988-9
Christine N. Lea: Beyond Belief, 1988-9
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Untitled 1988: Detail of a Sculpture (Endless Copies), 1988-9
Thomas Lawson: No Bull, 1990
Allan McCollum: Photo from TV (with Paintings), 1990
Dara Birnbaum: The Wondering Of Context, 1990
James Welling: Corridors, 1989, 1990
Michael Smith and R. Sikoryak: Mike, 1990
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Untitled, 1990
Judith Barry: Drive-In or Walk-In Museum, 1990
Group Material: AIDS Timeline, 1990
David Robbins: Three Cancelled TV Families, 1990
Louise Lawler: Untitled 1988, 1990
Susan Morgan: Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, 1994
Josef Strau and Stephan Dillemuth: Friesenwall 120, 1994
David A. Muller: Three Day Weekend, 1994
Spencer Finch: Amnesia And Saying Nothing, 1994

File under: Adrian Piper Allan McCollum Andy Warhol Barbara Kruger Critical Art Ensemble Dan Graham Dara Birnbaum David Hammons Ed Ruscha Felix Gonzalez-Torres Group Material Jack Goldstein James Welling Jeff Wall Jo Baer John Miller Josef Strau Judith Barry Kim Gordon Lawrence Weiner Louise Lawler Matt Mullican Rhys Chatham Richard Prince Robin Winters Sherrie Levine Stephan Dillemuth Matthew Higgs Miriam Katzeff Susan Morgan Thomas Lawson Primary Information / New York Art Fiction / Poetry Photography Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Painting Periodicals

Mike Kelley
Educational Complex (Afterall Books: One Work)

2015, English
Softcover, 120 pages, 15 x 21.6 cm
Published by Afterall / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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One of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley (1954–2012) produced a body of innovative work mining American popular culture as well as modernist and postmodernist art—relentless examinations of subjectivity and of society that are both sinister and ecstatic. With a wide range of media, Kelley’s work explores themes as varied as post-punk politics, religious systems, social class, and repressed memory. Using architectural models to represent schools he attended, his 1995 work,Educational Complex, presents forgotten spaces as frames for private trauma, real or imagined. The work’s implications are at once miniature and massive. In this book, John Miller offers an illustrated examination of this milestone work that marked a significant change in Kelley’s practice.

A “complex” can mean an architectural configuration, a psychological syndrome, or a political apparatus, and Miller approaches Educational Complex through corresponding lines of inquiry, considering the making of the work, examining it in terms of education and trauma (sexual or otherwise), and investigating how it tests the ideological horizon of art as an institution. Miller shows that in Educational Complex, Kelley expands his political and aesthetic focus, including not only such artifacts as generic forms of architecture but (inspired by the infamous McMartin Preschool case) popular fantasies associated with ritual sex abuse and false memory syndrome. Through this archaeology of the contemporary, Miller argues, Kelley examines the mandate for education and the liberal democratic premises underpinning it.

Author John Miller, Professor of Professional Practice in the Department of Art History at Barnard College, is an artist and critic whose work has been exhibited internationally. He was Mike Kelley’s friend and colleague from 1978 until Kelley’s death in 2012.

File under: John Miller Mike Kelley John Miller Afterall / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

John Miller
I Stand, I Fall

2017, English
Hardcover, 216 pages, 29.5 x 23.5 cm
Published by ICA / Miami Koenig Books / London

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The publication I Stand, I Fall, a comprehensive survey of work by John Miller, coincides with the first American museum exhibition dedicated to the influential conceptual artist.

Through almost 150 images, this catalogue comprehensively traces Miller’s use of the figure throughout his career in order to incisively comment on the status of art and life in American culture.

The book features a range of media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, installation and video; never-before-seen works from the 1980s; new large-scale sculptures; and the artistʼs most ambitious architectural installation to date – a vast and immersive mirrored labyrinth that went on view at the ICA Miami’s Atrium Gallery.

I Stand, I Fall, surveys Miller’s use of the figure in order to examine themes of citizenship and politics, and the conventions of realism in contemporary art.

Organized chronologically, the exhibition begins with his drawings and paintings from 1982-1983, the majority of which have never been presented publicly.

Influenced by the pastoral genre of painting and American social realism of the 1920s and 30s, these deadpan, even grotesque, works explore issues of urban and suburban Americana, public space, and the human

Published retrospectively after the exhibition John Miller: I Stand, I Fall at Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, 18 February – 12 June 2016.

File under: John Miller Alex Gartenfeld Hal Forster Isabelle Graw ICA / Miami Koenig Books / London Art Conceptual Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

TEXTE ZUR KUNST #105
MARCH 2017 “THEY ARE US"

2017, English / German
Softcover, 248 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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ISSUE NO. 105 / MARCH 2017 “THEY ARE US / WIR SIND IHR”

With Issue #105, TZK considers the nationalist, conservative, and racist ideologies that have recently become more visible across Europe and the US, giving particular focus to questions of border politics and migration -- of humans, of data, of patrimony, of signs. Advised by Helmut Draxler, Isabelle Graw, and Susanne Leeb, this issue was conceived prior to the US presidential election as a cooler reflection on present political debates. And yet having been produced amid the chaos of the Trump administration's first weeks, it also necessarily stands as a reflection of political-aesthetic thinking during markedly volatile times: Wir sind Ihr? They are us? We are them?

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

FORWARD

PREFACE

ROUNDTABLE
BUT WHO IS “THEY”? / Roundtable discussion with Manuela Bojadžijev, Nikita Dhawan, and Christoph Menke, moderated by Helmut Draxler on Refugee and Migrant Flows as a Challenge for Political Thought

OVERCOMING MUTE RELATIONS, OR,  THINKING WITH YOUR FEET / Angela Melitopoulos in conversation with Susanne Leeb

Daniel Keller
NEW DEVELOPMENT
HALFTIME VIBES / John Kelsey on Meditations in an Emergency
WEDER WOHNUNG NOCH WÄHRUNG / Diedrich Diederichsen über den Intendantenwechsel an der Berliner Volksbühne
BEGEHREN IN BETON / Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer über die Feuerle -Collection

LIEBE ARBEIT KINO
OF DREAMS, LIES, AND WIRES / Tom McDonough on Adam Curtis’s “HyperNormalisation”
MEDIALER GESTUS / Rainer Bellenbaum über Douglas Gordons Film  „I Had Nowhere to Go“
EU DESESPERO E ABRAÇO A TUA AUSÊNCIA:  “AQUARIUS” OR CINEMA AFTER NEO-FASCISM / Daniel R. Quiles on Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “Aquarius”
FAST UNANGENEHM DEUTLICH / Anke Dyes und Anna Voswinckel über Jill Soloways  Fernsehserie „I love Dick“

ROTATION
MACH ES NICHT SELBST / Daniel Loick über „Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene“ von Donna Haraway
(POST-)EMPIRE STATE OF MIND / Emily Segal on Cat Marnell’s “How to Murder Your Life”
RELEVANTE UPDATES / Christian Egger über Raymond Pettibon im  Museum der Moderne Salzburg

SHORT WAVES
Micaela Durand on Heji Shin at Real Fine Arts, New York / Arne Schmitt über Candida Höfer im Neuen Berliner Kunstverein / Hans-Jürgen Hafner über Peter Duka bei Zwinger Galerie / Ana Finel Honigman on Dan Attoe at Peres Projects, Berlin / Tina Schulz über Willem Oorebeek im Magazin 4 in Bregenz

REVIEWS
ZUCKER UND SHAME / Ulrike Bergermann über „Deutscher Kolonialismus“  im Deutschen Historischen Museum, Berlin
MODELS AND AGENCIES / Ben Caton on “The Ulm Model” at Raven Row, London
ART HISTORY, REMASTERED / Abbe Schriber on Kerry James Marshall at the Met Breuer, New York
AESTHETICIZED PLAY / Stefaan Vervoort on Ludger Gerdes at the Museum Haus Lange,  Krefeld, Germany

NACHRUFE / OBITUARIES
BARBARA WEISS (1960–2016)
by Monika Baer and John Miller
by Andreas Siekmann
JOHN BERGER (1926–2017)
by Tom Holert
by Svetlana Alpers

File under: Adam Curtis Daniel Keller Douglas Gordon Heji Shin John Kelsey John Miller Kerry James Marshall Ludger Gerdes Monika Baer Candida Höfer Abbe Schriber Ana Finel Honigman Arne Schmitt Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer Brigitta Kuster Caroline Busta Daniel Loick Diedrich Diederichsen Emily Segal Hans-Jürgen Hafner Helmut Draxler Henrike Naumann John Kelsey John Miller Micaela Durand Rainer Bellenbaum Stefaan Vervoort Susanne Leeb Sven Lütticken Tina Schulz Tom McDonough Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Periodicals Theory / Essay SALE

Robert Nickas
Live Free or Die

2000, English
Softcover, 176 pages, 15 x 21 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

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Robert Nickas is a critic, freelance curator, and editor of the Index magazine (New York). He is also one of the free spirits who were nurtured by the libertarian punk slogan "do it yourself". In this collection, covering twenty years of activity, Nickas combines humour with intellectual rigor, as well as a reliable historical memory to broach works of personalities as diverse as Maurizio Cattelan, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cady Noland, John Miller, Haim Steinbach or Andy Warhol, by way of David Cronenberg, Melvins, Père Ubu and numerous others, also slipping in untimely observations on the alleged death of painting, the "Golden 80s" of New York art world, and the role of the exhibition curator.

Working independently, Robert Nickas has realized more than forty exhibitions for galleries and museums since 1984. He recently co-curated the Biennale of Lyon in France (with the Consortium team), is an editor of Artforum, and a Guest Curator at P.S.1 in New York.
His writings and interviews have appeared in Afterall and Sound Collector, as well as in numerous catalogues and monographs - Felix Gonzalez-Torres, On Kawara, Olivier Mosset, Cady Noland, Andy Wharol.

File under: Andy Warhol Cady Noland Felix Gonzalez-Torres Haim Steinbach John Miller Maurizio Cattelan Bob Nickas Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Art Theory / Essay

Texte Zur Kunst #103
SEPTEMBER 2016 “POETRY”

2016, English / German
Softcover, 264 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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TZK #103 addresses "poetry," a language form central to the recent shift toward affect in contemporary critical writing. Seeing the “artist-poet” as a vital site for the intersection of politics, affect, and digitality, we consider her voice and her currency from various perspectives, pro and con, across generations, analyzing her rising success, also asking what is gained and lost in this move from "rational" thought to what one feels? Scanning populist poetry, anarchist poetry, post-millennial net-poetry, the poetry of surplus-language and social media, the art historical poetic/poet-turned-object, and shades of fading Poesie, this issue, conceived by the editors with John Kelsey and Isabelle Graw explores how the seeming immediacy of #poetry and the suggestion of a hyper-personal voice correlates with current economic demand to claim visibility.

ISSUE NO. 103 / SEPTEMBER 2016 “POETRY”

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

TIM GRIFFIN
WHAT IS POETRY?

JOSHUA CLOVER
OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING / Remarks on Subjectivity and Poetry

ISABELLE GRAW
THE POET'S SEDUCTION / Six Theses on Marcel Broodthaers’s Contemporary Relevance

LIZ KOTZ
WORD PIECES, EVENT SCORES, COMPOSITIONS

MONIKA RINCK
THE PROMISE OF POETIC LANGUAGE

ADA O'HIGGINS
IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE REFLECTION. DON’T LOOK IN THE MIRROR. I DON’T CARE.

CHRIS KRAUS AND ARIANA REINES
THE FEELINGS I FAIL TO CAPITALIZE, I FAIL / Chris Kraus and Ariana Reines in conversation on auto-fiction and biography

FELIX BERNSTEIN
THE IRREPROACHABLE ESSAY / On the Amazon Discourse of Hybrid Literature

DANIELA SEEL
IMMEDIACY, I MEET WITH SKEPTICISM / Three questions for Daniela Seel

MICAELA DURAND
DEVIL SHIT

KAROLIN MEUNIER
HEARING VOICES / On the reading and performance of poetry

DENA YAGO
EMPIRE POETRY

SHORT CUT

FOUR THESES ON BRANDING / David Joselit on Berlin Biennale 9
MANTRAS DER GEGENWART / Hanna Magauer über die Berlin Biennale 9
ROTATION

SEHNSUCHT NACH DER VERLORENEN STADT / Johannes Paul Raether über "spiritus" von Honey-Suckle Company
BENJAMIN BUCHLOH, ART HISTORIAN / Christine Mehring on Benjamin H. D. Buchloh’s “Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art”
ES WAR ZWEIMAL SAGTE SIE / Vojin Sasa Vukadinovic über Eva Meyers „Legende sein“
LESS IS MORE? / John Miller on Justin Lieberman’s “The Corrector’s Custom Pre-Fab House”
SO MACHEN WIR'S / Eva Geulen über „The Use of Bodies“ (Homo Sacer IV.2) von Giorgio Agamben

SHORT WAVES

Gunter Reski über Victor Man bei MD 72, Berlin / Harry Burke on Dean Blunt at Arcadia Missa, London / Rhea Dall on Stephen G. Rhodes at Eden Eden, Berlin / Tobias Vogt über Thea Djordjadze bei Sprüth Magers, Berlin / Deanna Havas on Marc Kokopeli at Lomex, New York / Martin Herbert on Fredrik Værslev at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway

REVIEWS

HABEAS CORPUS / Simon Baier über Francis Picabia im Kunsthaus Zürich
MARCEL BROODTHAERS, ART HISTORIAN’S ARTIST / Trevor Stark on Marcel Broodthaers at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
MALEREI ALS SOZIALES HANDELN? / Christian Spies über Fernand Léger im Museum Ludwig, Köln
SIMULIERTE MUSEALISIERUNG / Philipp Kleinmichel über Isa Genzken im Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
ELEGANCE IS RESISTANCE / Stephanie LaCava on Lukas Duwenhögger at Artists Space, New York

NACHRUFE / OBITUARIES

TONY CONRAD (1940–2016)
by Diedrich Diederichsen
by Jay Sanders

EDITION
MARTHA ROSLER
AMY SILLMAN
AMY SILLMAN

File under: Amy Sillman Dean Blunt Eva Meyers Fernand Léger Francis Picabia Fredrik Værslev Honey-Suckle Company Isa Genzken John Miller Justin Lieberman Lukas Duwenhögger Marc Kokopeli Marcel Broodthaers Martha Rosler Thea Djordjadze Tony Conrad Victor Man Ada O'higgins Ariana Reines Chris Kraus Christian Spies Daniela Seel David Joselit Deanna Havas Dena Yago Diedrich Diederichsen Eva Geulen Felix Bernstein Giorgio Agamben Gunter Reski Hanna Magauer Harry Burke Isabelle Graw Jay Sanders Johannes Paul Raether John Miller Joshua Clover Karolin Meunier Liz Kotz Martin Herbert Micaela Durand Monika Rinck Philipp Kleinmichel Simon Baier Stephanie Lacava Tim Griffin Tobias Vogt Trevor Stark Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Dada Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Poetry Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

MOUSSE #54
Summer 2016

2016, English / Italian
Softcover (newspaper), 334 pages, 25 x 36 cm
Published by Mousse Publishing / Milan

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MOUSSE #54, Summer 2016

Contents:

IEVA MISEVIČIŪTĖ
Character Studies of Primeval Life Form
by Jacquelyn Ross

EXTEND, EXCEED, ENHANCE: PROSTHETICS AND SCULPTURE
by Lisa Le Feuvre

ANNE IMHOF
Choreographed layers
by Hans Ulrich Obrist

RAYMOND BOISJOLY, TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER, WALTER SCOTT
Native North America
by Andrew Berardini, Richard William Hill and Candice Hopkins

INSIDE TO OUTSIDE TO INSIDE
by Jens Hoffmann

NEW SCENARIO
Curating Holes
by Melanie Bühler

ROLE PLAY
by Maurizio Cattelan,
Liam Gillick,
Thomas Demand,
Barbara Bloom,
Christian Jankowski,
Elmgreen&Dragset,
Michelle Grabner,
Tobias Rehberger,
Ugo Rondinone,
Harrell Fletcher,
John Miller,
Paulina Olowska

RONALD JONES
What You See Is What You See
by Krist Gruijthuijsen

GARY INDIANA
I Can Give You Anything But Love
by Andrew Durbin

WILLA NASATIR
Psychic Junkyards
by Lauren Cornell

RAGNA BLEY
An Idiosyncratic Abecedary
by Filipa Ramos

NOAH BARKER
Projecting an Island from Another
by Mark Beasley

ISIAH MEDINA
The impossible is the only (no-)thing that ever happens
by Pia Bolognesi

ME
by Dieter Roelstraete

SHIFTING BACKGROUNDS
by Anselm Franke

NOBODY IS SLEEPING IN THE SKY
by Geoffrey Farmer and Dora García

NOW, I AM AFRAID...
by Chus Martínez

CECILIA BENGOLEA AND FRANÇOIS CHAIGNAUD
Emotional Aesthetics
by Kathy Noble

MORAG KEIL AND GEORGIE NETTELL
Domestic Battlegrounds
by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen

AN ESSAY ON DRESS-UP AND OTHER THINGS
by Sabrina Tarasoff

File under: Anne Imhof Barbara Bloom Cecilia Bengolea Christian Jankowski Dora García Elmgreen & Dragset François Chaignaud Gary Indiana Geoffrey Farmer Georgie Nettell Harrell Fletcher Ieva Misevičiūtė John Miller Liam Gillick Maurizio Cattelan Michelle Grabner Morag Keil Noah Barker Paulina Olowska Ragna Bley Raymond Boisjoly Ronald Jones Thomas Demand Tobias Rehberger Ugo Rondinone Willa Nasatir Andrew Durbin Anselm Franke Chus Martínez Dieter Roelstraete Filipa Ramos Fredi Fischli Hans Ulrich Obrist Jacquelyn Ross Jens Hoffmann Krist Gruijthuijsen Lauren Cornell Lisa Le Feuvre Mark Beasley Niels Olsen Tanya Lukin Linklater Mousse Publishing / Milan Art Curatorial Film / Video Periodicals Photography Sculpture / Installation SALE

Kim Gordon
Is It My Body?: Selected Texts

2014, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 182 pages (36 b/w ills.), 12 x 19 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by Branden W. Joseph

Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, Kim Gordon—widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth—produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to broader forms of cultural criticism, these rare texts are brought together in this volume for the first time, placing Gordon’s writing within the context of the artist-critics of her generation, including Mike Kelley, John Miller, and Dan Graham. In addressing key stakes within contemporary art, architecture, music, and the performance of male and female gender roles, Gordon provides a prescient analysis of such figures as Kelley, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Tony Oursler, and Raymond Pettibon, in addition to reflecting on her own position as a woman on stage. The result—Is It My Body?—is a collection that feels as timely now as when it was written. This volume additionally features a conversation between Gordon and Jutta Koether, in which they discuss their collaborations in art, music, and performance.

Institut für Kunstkritik series
Design by Surface

File under: Dan Graham Glenn Branca John Miller Jutta Koether Kim Gordon Mike Kelley Raymond Pettibon Rhys Chatham Tony Oursler Branden W. Joseph Kim Gordon Sternberg Press / Berlin Art

TEXTE ZUR KUNST #102
JUNE 2016 “FASHION”

2016, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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Art and fashion have always been interrelated. And it’s due to fashion’s ability to quickly capture social shifts that the art world has repeatedly turned to it. But as Texte zur Kunst No. 102 proposes, it is fashion’s protagonists, recently, that have been markedly drawing on art conceptual practices (e.g., parasitism, collective authorship, détournement, and forms of institutional critique) as they push back against the pressures of a hyper-accelerated fashion market. In this issue, TzK examines, also, how the industry’s current volume is a product of its late-'00s promise of online democratization; the changing function of such long-held value designations as “luxury,” “discount,” and “underground,” and the role of “real”-er bodies in a climate wherein models are preferably “nodels” or “othered” bodies, hyper-individualised to stand out in the stream.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

ROBERT KULISEK & DAVID LIESKE
FASHION PROFILES OF:
69 WORLDWIDE / NASIR MAZHAR / KYLE LUU / BERNADETTE VAN-HUY / LIAM HODGES / TELFAR / NIK KOSMAS & JEANNE-SALOMÉ ROCHAT / MARTINE ROSE / JULIANA HUXTABLE / ECKHAUS LATTA / DIS / NHU DUONG /
with texts by Harry Burke, Tess Edmonson, Jack Gross, and Bianca Heuser

INGEBORG HARMS  "CRYSTAL MESH / Existential imagery in current fashion"

COLLECTIVE SOUL / Jessica Gysel in conversation with Lotta Volkova Adam and Atelier E.B. (Beca Lipscombe & Lucy McKenzie)

CAROLINE BUSTA  "NEO-BODIES"

NATASHA STAGG  "ACCESS CODING"

PHILIPP EKARDT  "DRESSING AFTER THE GREAT DIVIDE / The emancipation of Jonathan Anderson"

CALLA HENKEL & MAX PITEGOFF  "LAST NIGHT"

ROTATION

IN DER FRÜHE / Peter Geimer über Friedrich Kittlers „Baggersee“

RETURNS OF THE STONE AGE / Sven Lütticken on the exhibition publications for “Kunst der Vorzeit” and “Allegory of the Cave Painting”

ZUR KULTURPOLITISCHEN BEKÄMPFUNG DER MODERNEN KUNST / Otto Karl Werckmeister über die neue Ausgabe von Hitlers „Mein Kampf“

LIEBE ARBEIT KINO

DURATIONAL FASHION / Sara Marcus on K8 Hardy’s “Outfitumentary”

KLANG KÖRPER

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO ELECTRIC LADYLAND / Barbara Vinken über Michaela Melián im Lenbachhaus, München

EINE KULTURGESCHICHTE DER ENTGRENZUNGEN / Daniel Martin Feige über „I Got Rhythm. Kunst und Jazz seit 1920“ im Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

SHORT WAVES
Jens Hoffmann on “Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible” at the Met Breuer, New York / Magdalena Nieslony über Agnes Martin im K20, Düsseldorf / Dena Yago on Ei Arakawa, Gela Patashuri, and Sergei Tcherepnin at Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis / Eva Wilson on Das Institut at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London / Julia Moritz on Tobias Madison at Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover

REVIEWS

MARIUS UND DIE INFORMATION / Hans-Christian Dany über „Nervöse Systeme. Quantifiziertes Leben und die soziale Frage“ im Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

DIE KUNST VERACHTEN, DEN REST DER WELT ANKLAGEN /Susanne von Falkenhausen über Boris Lurie im Jüdischen Museum Berlin

DEUTSCHES VITRINENGLAS / Steffen Zillig über Dierk Schmidt bei KOW, Berlin

NOTHING BUT KINDNESS / Verena Dengler über Lili Reynaud-Dewar in der Galerie Emanuel Layr, Wien

EARLY SYSTEMS ESTHETICS / Craig Buckley on Les Levine at Buell Hall, GSAPP, Columbia University, New York

WHAT A BODY CAN’T DO / Sophie Goltz über Regina José Galindo im Frankfurter Kunstverein und Maria José Arjona in der Kunsthalle Osnabrück

NACHRUFE / OBITUARIES

PIERRE BOULEZ (1925–2016)  by Björn Gottstein
ZAHA HADID (1950–2016)  by Than Hussein Clark

EDITION
JOHN MILLER
TORBJØRN RØDLAND

File under: Atelier E.B. Beca Lipscombe Bernadette Van-Huy Calla Henkel Das Institut David Lieske Dena Yago DIS Eckhaus Latta Ei Arakawa Gela Patashuri Jeanne-Salomé Rochat Jessica Gysel John Miller Juliana Huxtable K8 Hardy Kyle Luu Liam Hodges Lucy Mckenzie Martine Rose Max Pitegoff Nasir Mazhar Nhu Duong Nik Kosmas Pierre Boulez Sergei Tcherepnin Telfar Than Hussein Clark Tobias Madison Zaha Hadid Michaela Meise Torbjørn Rødland Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Fashion Painting Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay

Kaleidoscope 11
Summer 2011

2011, English
Softcover, 220 x 293 mm
Published by Kaleidoscope Press / Milan

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Kaleidoscope Issue #11 – Summer 2011

Kaleidoscope is an international quarterly of contemporary art and culture. Distributed worldwide on a seasonal basis, it offers a timely guide to the present (but also to the past and possible futures) with an interdisciplinary and unconventional approach.

HIGHLIGHTS: Steven Shearer by Dieter Roelstraete; Slavs & Tatars by Carson Chan; Kaari Upson by Quinn Latimer; Alina Szapocznikow by Chris Sharp; Greg Parma-Smith interview by Nicolas Guagnini.
MAIN THEME: POP RIGHT NOW: Roundtable with Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni, John Miller, moderated by Joanna Fiduccia, with a postscript by Boris Groys, and artworks by Darren Bader; Justin Bieber by Francesco Spampinato; Rashid Johnson interview by Alessio Ascari; The Dark Side of Hipness Mark Greif and Richard Lloyd in conversation.
MONO: MARK LECKEY: Lost in the Supermarket by Barbara Casavecchia; The Browser Is a Portal by Isobel Harbison; Special Project by Mark Leckey; Art Stigmergy interview by Mark Fisher.
COLUMNS: PIONEERS: Morgan Fisher by Simone Menegoi; FUTURA: Helen Marten interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist; MAPPING THE STUDIO: Simon Denny by Luca Cerizza; CRITICAL SPACE: Douglas Coupland interview by Markus Miessen; ON EXHIBITION: Jeff Koons’ “The New” by Paola Nicolin; LAST QUESTION: And What About Pop Music? answer by Scott King.

File under: Darren Bader Greg Parma-Smith Helen Marten Jeff Koons John Miller Kaari Upson Mark Leckey Massimiliano Gioni Morgan Fisher Rashid Johnson Simon Denny Slavs and Tatars Steven Shearer Barbara Casavecchia Bettina Funcke Boris Groys Carson Chan Chris Sharp Dieter Roelstraete Hans Ulrich Obrist Mark Fisher Markus Miessen Kaleidoscope Press / Milan Art Periodicals Photography

Mark von Schlegell
New Dystopia

2011, English/French
Softcover, 272 pages, 13 x 19 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
—Bernadette Devlin

A kulturnaut, a squid, a Shakespeare, a dog, an artist abstract, a chrononaut, a washerwoman, Tom Ripley and his bones all pass through New Dystopia. Their sped-up speculations lead to new models of deterritorialized life. Visionary and hallucinatory models. Through them, Mark von Schlegell “displays” some of the facets of the invisible catastrophe breaking up our world, which artists in particular are responding to.

Put together in the wings of the “Dystopia” exhibition at the CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, acting as a resonance chamber, this illustrated novel raises the issue of possible futures in the form of a critical fiction, and involves the outposts of the novel to come. About New Dystopia, the city in which the novel’s protagonists live, the narrator states: “As an American … one only came to New Dystopia City to become an artist. That only there was it a way of life.” According to von Schlegell, we are living in that new metropolis. He states, “Dystopia is today.”

After Venusia (2005) and Mercury Station (2009), both published by Semiotext(e), New Dystopia is Mark von Schlegell’s third novel.

Artists: Wallace Berman, Cosima von Bonin, Brian Calvin, Tony Carter, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Peter Coffin, Simon Denny, Andreas Dobler, Roe Ethridge, Keith Farquhar, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Aurélien Froment, Cyprien Gaillard, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Sebastian Hammwöhner, Roger Hiorns, Ull Hohn, Des Hughes, Peter Hutchinson, Eugene Isabey, Sergej Jensen, On Kawara, Michael Krebber, Jesus Mari Lazkano, Rita McBride, John Miller, Pathetic Sympathy Seekers, Manfred Pernice, Stephen G. Rhodes, Glen Rubsamen, Sterling Ruby, Julia Scher, Frances Scholz, Michael Scott, Markus Selg, Reena Spaulings, Michael Stevenson, Tommy Støckel, Josef Strau, Blair Thurman, Mathieu Tonetti, Oscar Tuazon, Franz West, Jordan Wolfson

Co-published with CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux

File under: Andreas Dobler Aurélien Froment Blair Thurman Brian Calvin Cosima von Bonin Cyprien Gaillard Dan Graham Des Hughes Eugene Isabey Frances Scholz Franz West Glen Rubsamen Hans-Peter Feldmann Isa Genzken Jesus Mari Lazkano John Miller Jordan Wolfson Josef Strau Julia Scher Keith Farquhar Manfred Pernice Marc Camille Chaimowicz Markus Selg Mathieu Tonetti Michael Krebber Michael Scott Michael Stevenson On Kawara Oscar Tuazon Peter Coffin Peter Hutchinson Reena Spaulings Rita McBride Robert Grosvenor Roe Ethridge Roger Hiorns Sebastian Hammwöhner Sergej Jensen Simon Denny Stephen G. Rhodes Sterling Ruby Tommy Støckel Tony Carter Ull Hohn Wallace Berman Mark Von Schlegell Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Fiction / Poetry

FR DAVID "Spin-cycle"
Summer 2011

2011, English
Softcover, 19.1 x 12 cm
Edition of 1500,
Published by De Appel / Amsterdam

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The eighth issue of F.R.DAVID, "Spin-cycle", is preoccupied with commentary: quite simply assuming that any form of production is commentary – the addition / subtraction of value – in one form or other.

Contributions from Cory Arcangel, G.K.Chesterton, Serge Daney, Susan Howe, Edward Johnston, Janice Kerbel, John Miller, Alice Notley, Francis Ponge, Ezra Pound, J.H.Prynne, Cally Spooner, Keston Sutherland, Ian White, Mas’ud Zavarzadeh and more. Including a 16-page colour contribution in by Franz Erhard Walter.

Edited by Will Holder & Mike Sperlinger.

File under: Cory Arcangel John Miller Alice Notley Cally Spooner Cory Arcangel Edward Johnston Ezra Pound Francis Ponge G.K.Chesterton Ian White J.H.Prynne Janice Kerbel John Miller Keston Sutherland Mas’ud Zavarzadeh Serge Daney Susan Howe Will Holder De Appel / Amsterdam Art Graphic Design / Typography Fiction / Poetry Periodicals Theory / Essay