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Josef Strau
Dear Little Tiger

2004, English / German
Softcover (stapled), 30 pages, 14.5 x 21cm
Published by Daniel Buchholz Galerie / Köln

$55.00 - In stock -

Xeroxed artist book by Josef Strau that was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Teil I: Müllberg" at Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Cologne. The brochure contains the second part of a narrative written by the artist under the title "Dear Little Tiger". The first part "White Nights" has been published in 2003 by the Danish publisher Pork Salad Press.

Out-of-print. As New.

File under: Josef Strau Josef Strau Daniel Buchholz Galerie / Köln Art Fiction / Poetry Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare

Isa Genzken
Catalogue Raisonné 1992-2003

2003, English / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 192 pages, 32 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Walther König / Köln Kunsthalle Zürich / Zürich Museum Abteiberg / Mönchengladbach

$600.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the mighty collectible catalogue raisonné of Isa Genzken, published by Walther Koenig in 2003 and very quickly out-of-print. Edited by Veit Loers and Beatrix Ruf, this over-sized hardcover volume is richly illustrated with Genzken's wide-ranging, multi-faceted body of work created over a ten year period, including large reproductions of her installations and a comprehensive chronological catalogue raisonné of work from 1992-2003. Includes texts by Diedrich Diederichsen, Vanessa Joan Müller and Josef Strau, and an interview between Genzken and artist Wolfgang Tillmans. An invaluable and rare resource on one of the greatest contemporary European artists. All texts in English and German.

Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based contemporary artist Isa Genzken (b. 1948) has produced a body of work that is remarkable for its formal and material inventiveness. In her sculptural practice, Genzken has developed an expanded material repertoire that includes plaster, concrete, epoxy resin, and mass-produced objects that range from action figures to discarded pizza boxes. Her heterogeneous assemblages, a New York Times critic observes, are “brash, improvisational, full of searing color and attitude.” Genzken offers a highly original interpretation of modernist, avant-garde, and post minimalist practices even as she engages pressing sociopolitics and economic issues of the present.

Very Good - Fine copy in VG-Fine dust jacket.

File under: Isa Genzken Wolfgang Tillmans Josef Strau Diedrich Diederichsen Vanessa Joan Müller Josef Strau Veit Loers Beatrix Ruf Walther König / Köln Kunsthalle Zürich / Zürich Museum Abteiberg / Mönchengladbach Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Painting

Josef Strau
Spirits and Objects

2022, English
Softcover, 198 pages, 16 x 23 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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This publication assembles a selection of texts produced between the years 2005 and 2020, starting with The Non- Productive Attitude (2005), his prominent reflections on the anti-productive attitude in the Cologne art scene of the time. The experience of having to write the essay overnight within a few hours, and without any time for revision, triggered his interest in exploring forms of unintentional writing, and consequently the replacement of the intentional author by an unconscious writer / producer. This mode of automatic writing has manifested itself until today, and has become the core of Strau’s artistic practice.

File under: Josef Strau Walther König / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry

MAY #21

2022, English / French
Softcover, 256 pages, 17.5 x 24 cm
Published by May Revue / Paris

$36.00 - In stock -

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Jay Chung, Claire Fontaine, Josef Strau, Alain Guiraudie, Bernadette Van-Huy, Helmut Draxler, Henrik Olesen by Thomas Duncan, Heji Shin by Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle, Marcel Proust by Yves-Noël Genod, Merlin Carpenter by Annie Ochmanek, Josephine Graf, Helmut Draxler, Megan Francis Sullivan and Nick Mauss, Dylan Byron and Isabelle Graw, Benjamin Lignel and Anne Dressen, Clément Rodzielski.

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, once a year, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.
Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

File under: Merlin Carpenter Jay Chung Claire Fontaine Josef Strau Alain Guiraudie Bernadette Van-Huy Henrik Olesen Heji Shin Megan Francis Sullivan Nick Mauss Benjamin Lignel Clément Rodzielski Helmut Draxler Thomas Duncan Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle Marcel Proust. Yves-Noël Genod Annie Ochmanek Josephine Graf Dylan Byron Isabelle Graw Anne Dressen May Revue / Paris Periodicals Art Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Photography Conceptual Art Curatorial Painting

The Atlantis Search Engine (Poetic Series #1)
Fiona Bryson, Keren Cytter, Roger Van Voorhees (Eds.)

2013, English
Softcover, 130 pages (17 color ills.), 14 x 21.6 cm
Published by A.P.E (Art Projects Era) Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by Fiona Bryson, Keren Cytter, Roger Van Voorhees
Contributions by Matthew Dickman, Roman Baembaev, Josef Strau; drawings by John Kelsey

The Atlantis Search Engine, the first edition in the Poetic Series, features a selection of poetry and prose by Matthew Dickman, Roman Baembaev, Josef Strau, and drawings produced specifically by John Kelsey based on the film The Canyons.

The Poetic Series brings together works of poetry and literature in combination with visual art, introducing young as well as established writers concerned with challenging the boundaries of traditional forms of narrative.

Initiated by Keren Cytter and co-edited by Fiona Bryson and Roger van Voorhees, the quarterly publication focuses on three experimental writers or poets per issue—image content is supplied by one artist.

Copublished with A.P.E (Art Projects Era)
Design by Keren Cytter

File under: John Kelsey Josef Strau Keren Cytter Fiona Bryson Josef Strau Keren Cytter Matthew Dickman Roger Van Voorhees Roman Baembaev A.P.E (Art Projects Era) Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry SALE Periodicals

Isa Genzken
October Files book — Edited by Lisa Lee

2015, English
Softcover, 216 pages, 15 x 22.6 cm
Published by October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based contemporary artist Isa Genzken (b. 1948) has produced a body of work that is remarkable for its formal and material inventiveness. In her sculptural practice, Genzken has developed an expanded material repertoire that includes plaster, concrete, epoxy resin, and mass-produced objects that range from action figures to discarded pizza boxes. Her heterogeneous assemblages, a New York Times critic observes, are “brash, improvisational, full of searing color and attitude.” Genzken, the recent subject of a major retrospective at MoMA, offers a highly original interpretation of modernist, avant-garde, and post minimalist practices even as she engages pressing sociopolitics and economic issues of the present.

These illustrated essays address the full span of Genzken’s work, from the elegant floor sculptures with which she began her career to the assemblages, bursting with color and bristling with bric-a-brac, that she has produced since the beginning of the millennium. The texts, by writers including Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, and the artist herself, consider her formation in the West German milieu; her critique of conventions of architecture, reconstruction, and memorialization; her sympathy with mass culture; and her ongoing interrogation of public and private spheres. Two texts appear in English for the first time, including a quasi-autobiographical screenplay written by Genzken in 1993.

Contributors: Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Diedrich Diederichsen, Hal Foster, Isa Genzken, Isabelle Graw, Lisa Lee, Pamela M. Lee, Birgit Pelzer, Juliane Rebentisch, Josef Strau, Wolfgang Tillmans, Lawrence Weiner.

Contents: Isa Genzken: Two Exercises (1974)
Birgit Pelzer: Axiomatics Subject to Withdrawal (1979)
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh: Isa Genzken: The Fragment as Model (1992)
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh: Isa Genzken: Fuck the Bauhaus. Architecture, Design, and Photography in Reverse (2014)
Isa Genzken: Sketches for a Feature Film (1993)
Isabelle Graw: Free to Be Dependent: Concessions in the Work of Isa Genzken (1996)
Diedrich Diederichsen: Subjects at the End of the Flagpole (2000)
Pamela M. Lee: The Skyscraper at Ear Level (2003)
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh: All Things Being Equal (2005)
Wolfgang Tillmans: Isa Genzken: A Conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans (2003)
Diedrich Diederichsen: Diedrich Diederichsen in Conversation with Isa Genzken (2006)
Lisa Lee: “Make Life Beautiful!” The Diabolic in the Work of Isa Genzken (A Tour Through Berlin, Paris, and New York) (2007)
Lawrence Weiner: Isa Genzken Again (2010)
Juliane Rebentisch: The Dialectic of Beauty: On the Work of Isa Genzken (2007)
Yve-Alain Bois: The Bum and the Architect (2007)
Josef Strau: Isa Genzken: Sculpture as Narrative Urbanism (2009)
Hal Foster: Fantastic Destruction (2014)

File under: Isa Genzken Josef Strau Lawrence Weiner Wolfgang Tillmans Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Birgit Pelzer Diedrich Diederichsen Hal Foster Isa Genzken Isabelle Graw Josef Strau Juliane Rebentisch Lawrence Weiner Lisa Lee Pamela M. Lee Yve-Alain Bois October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Helke Bayrle
Portikus Under Construction 1992–2016

2017, English / German
Softcover, 144 pages, 21 x 29.5 cm
Published by Portikus / Frankfurt Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by Fabian Schöneich
Texts by Helke Bayrle, Kirsty Bell, Daniel Birnbaum, Sunah Choi, Nikola Dietrich, Nikolaus Hirsch, Brigitte Kölle, Kasper König, Angelika Nollert, Melanie Ohnemus, Sophie von Olfers, Philippe Pirotte, Fabian Schöneich, Jochen Volz

In 1992, Helke Bayrle began videotaping the installation of each exhibition at the Portikus exhibition space. These videos form a remarkable and intimate archive of the storied Frankfurt contemporary art institution and the exceptional artists and personnel that have worked within it. Coinciding with the launch of a website containing all of Bayrle’s Portikus videos, this publication pays tribute to the artist’s extraordinary work, through a comprehensive timeline, video stills, and statements by past and current directors and curators. Art critic and historian Kirsty Bell writes about the history of Portikus and the meaning of Bayrle’s work. Also included in the book is a conversation with the artist and Sunah Choi, who, since 2001, has edited the videos that comprise Bayrle’s truly unique undertaking.

Copublished with Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
Design by Ronnie Fueglister

File under: Gareth James Isa Genzken Jana Euler John Armleder John Kelsey Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys Josef Strau Lutz Bacher Mark Leckey Michael Krebber Morgan Fisher Sigmar Polke Wolfgang Tillmans Angelika Nollert Brigitte Kölle Daniel Birnbaum Fabian Schöneich Helke Bayrle Jochen Volz Kasper König Kirsty Bell Melanie Ohnemus Nikola Dietrich Nikolaus Hirsch Philippe Pirotte Sophie von Olfers Sunah Choi Portikus / Frankfurt Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Photography Curatorial SALE

Noon on the Moon (Poetic Series #4)
Fiona Bryson, Keren Cytter (Eds.)

2014, English
Softcover, 100 pages, 14 x 21.6 cm
Published by A.P.E (Art Projects Era) Sternberg Press / Berlin

$38.00 $10.00 - Out of stock

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Noon on the Moon
Poetic Series #4

Edited by Fiona Bryson, Keren Cytter
Contributions by Luna Miguel, Dafna Maimon, Pablo Larios, Bernadette Van-Huy, Mark von Schlegell, Gerry Bibby, Natalie Häusler, Josef Strau, Judith Goldman, Andrew Kerton, Robert Dewhurst, Dena Yago, Kenneth Goldsmith, Karl Holmqvist, Alejandro Cesarco, Sophie Collins, Sarah Wang, Barry Schwabsky, Dorothea Lasky, Andreas Schlaegel, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Óscar Garcia Sierra, Matthew Dickman, Keith J Varadi, Jacob Wren, Madeline Gins, Charles Bernstein and Nora Schultz.

The fourth issue in the “Poetic Series” is a seasonally themed special issue, a festive anthology composed of contributions from more than twenty writers and artists. Each interpreting the theme in an unconventional and abstract sense, it is an alternative omnibus of everyone's favorite and most controversial holiday.Noon on the Moon's title comes from a poem by Barry Schwabsky, featured alongside poetry by Charles Bernstein, Judith Goldman and Dorothea Lasky, prose by Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Andreas Schlaegel and Sarah Wang, amongst others. Artwork is provided in the form of a colorful collection of romance covers illustrated by Vicki Khuzami.

The “Poetic Series” brings together works of poetry and literature in combination with visual art, introducing young as well as established writers concerned with challenging the boundaries of traditional forms of narrative. Initiated by Keren Cytter and coedited with Fiona Bryson.

Copublished with A.P.E (Art Projects Era)
Design by Keren Cytter

File under: Gerry Bibby Josef Strau Karl Holmqvist Nora Schultz Alejandro Cesarco Andreas Schlaegel Andrew Kerton Barry Schwabsky Bernadette Van-Huy Charles Bernstein Dafna Maimon Dena Yago Dorothea Lasky Gerry Bibby Jacob Wren Josef Strau Judith Goldman Karl Holmqvist Keith J Varadi Kenneth Goldsmith Luna Miguel Madeline Gins Mark Von Schlegell Matthew Dickman Natalie Häusler Nora Schultz Óscar Garcia Sierra Pablo Larios Robert Dewhurst Sarah Wang Sophie Collins Veronica Gonzalez Peña A.P.E (Art Projects Era) Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Fiction / Poetry Periodicals Poetry SALE

Dealing with - Some Texts, Images, and Thoughts Related to American Fine Arts, Co.
Valérie Knoll, Hannes Loichinger, Magnus Schäfer (Eds.)

2012, English
Softcover, 80 pages (18 b/w ill.), 21.5 x 28 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

$25.00 - Out of stock

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With contributions by Andrea Fraser, Manfred Hermes, Karl Holmqvist and Tobias Kaspar, Isla Leaver-Yap, Jackie McAllister, James Meyer and Christian Philipp Müller, Magnus Schäfer, Axel John Wieder, Phillip Zach; a conversation between Colin de Land, Josef Strau, and Stephan Dillemuth; and an introduction by Hannes Loichinger and Magnus Schäfer

The New York gallery American Fine Arts, Co.—whose name today is largely synonymous with that of its gallerist, Colin de Land (1955–2003)—represents a gallery practice in which a decided deviation from conventional models overlaps with successful activities within the framework of the art market. Today, American Fine Arts, Co. and de Land figure as uncontested projection screens for the desire for independence from or bohemian resistance against the dictate of the market. Particularly in retrospect, a consistent image of the gallery is not discernible. Faced with the obvious risk of romanticization, it appears all the more important to pursue an understanding of how American Fine Arts, Co. functioned as a gallery.

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition “Dealing with—Some Books, Visuals, and Works Related to American Fine Arts, Co.” at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg and Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Lüneburg (May 28–July 7, 2011), which was developed by Valérie Knoll, Hannes Loichinger, Julia Moritz, and Magnus Schäfer.

Design by HIT

File under: Andrea Fraser Josef Strau Karl Holmqvist Stephan Dillemuth Tobias Kaspar Hannes Loichinger Isla Leaver-Yap Jackie McAllister Josef Strau Magnus Schäfer Manfred Hermes Phillip Zach Valérie Knoll Axel Wieder Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay

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

Spike #51
Spring 2017 "Can Art Help?"

2017, English / German
Softcover, 180 pages, 21.7 x 28 cm
Published by Spike / Berlin

$20.00 - Out of stock

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Spike #51 raises the question of the social role of art, and many more, with: Grzegorz Kowalski; Bob Flanagan's Visiting Hours; Angela Bulloch on Damien Hirst; Cyprien Gaillard's Desniansky Raion; a roundtable with Chus Martínez, Michaela Meise and Dieter Lesage; Dorothea Von Hantelmann; Kenny Schachter; Daniel Baumann; the portraits of Dorothy Iannone, Tetsumi Kudo, and Marie Angeletti; an interview with Josef Strau; an essay by Jan Verwoert; the TV series The Crown; Andrew Berardini on Jimmie Durham's retrospective in LA…

The power of art and its social role are the subjects of a roundtable discussion with curator Chus Martínez, artist Michaela Meise and philosopher Dieter Lesage at Spike Berlin. Josef Strau talks about how art saved him, while Kenny Schachter finds it both a remedy and a defence. Daniel Baumann delves into the promise of form, and for the critic Jan Verwoert a key function of art is that it teaches forms of conduct. Profiles on the painter Dorothy Iannone and her connections to Fluxus, and the Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo and his “philosophy of impotence”, are joined by pieces taking on the decline of the supermodel, the Netflix series The Crown, Jimmie Durham's retrospective at the Hammer Museum, and much more.

Founded by the artist Rita Vitorelli in 2004, Spike Art Quarterly is a quarterly magazine on contemporary art published in English and German which aims at sustaining a vigorous, independent, and meaningful art criticism. At the heart of each issue are feature essays by leading critics and curators on artists making work that plays a significant role in current debates. Situated between art theory and practice and ranging far beyond its editorial base in Vienna and Berlin, Spike is both rigorously academic and stylishly essayistic. Spike's renowned pool of contributing writers, artists, collectors and gallerists observe and reflect on contemporary art and analyse international developments in contemporary culture, offering its readers both intimacy and immediacy through an unusually open editorial approach that is not afraid of controversy and provocation.

File under: Bob Flanagan Cyprien Gaillard Damien Hirst Dorothy Iannone Grzegorz Kowalski Jimmie Durham Josef Strau Marie Angeletti Michaela Meise Tetsumi Kudo Andrew Berardini Angela Bulloch Chus Martínez Daniel Baumann Dieter Lesage Dorothea von Hantelmann Jan Verwoert Kenny Schachter Spike / Berlin Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay

Michael Krebber, Gareth James, John Kelsey, Josef Strau
Ical Krbbr Prdly Prsnts Gart Jas, Jon Klsy, Josf Stra

2011, English/German
Softcover, 206 pages, 155 x 226 mm
1st Edition, Out of print title / As New,
Published by Portikus / Frankfurt Walther König / Köln

$75.00 - Out of stock

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The artist and professor Michael Krebber recently invited his colleagues Gareth James, John Kelsey and Josef Strau to participate in an exhibition with the title "Ical Krbbr Prdly Prsnts Gart Jas, Jon Klsy, Josf Stra." Minus a few of the necessary letters, the artists' names became a wall painting transformed into concrete poetry. As the exhibition freed itself from the curator's reins, the resulting exhibition catalogue also goes against conventional form and order. For example, a foreword by the editor turns out to be an artist's improvised speech on the topic of "Puberty in Painting" "Now I have written: I can't decide any longer for one of these points of views or non-points of views." Artworks are not presented in groups by artist, but rather by associative links of picture strips, found-object texts, prose, drawings and collages.

This title is now out of print.

File under: Gareth James John Kelsey Josef Strau Michael Krebber Portikus / Frankfurt Walther König / Köln Art Out-of-print / Rare

TEXTE ZUR KUNST #99
September 2015 "Phototgraphy"

2015, English / German
Softcover, 248 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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Decades following the rise of computer aided design and the aesthetic-theoretical debates that coincided, it might seem late, at this point, to place a spotlight on photography. After all, hardly anyone defends photography’s loyalty to the analog index anymore, or mourns the medium specificities of centuries past. And yet, who can dispute that the photograph has become the primary base for establishing identity now, for cohering a social body; one that, as the substrate across which today’s human subject is drawn, stands as, in a sense,our material support? As the image’s gaze has become omnipresent, it is perhaps prime time to ask how do we now understand photo-media to operate? What information do we expect it to carry? What facts do we trust it to convey?

ISSUE NO. 99 / SEPTEMBER 2015 “PHOTOGRAPHY”

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE
LOST TRACES OF LIFE / A conversation about indexicality in analog and digital photography between Isabelle Graw and Benjamin Buchloh

LORETTA FAHRENHOLZ
SCANNERS

ROBIN KELSEY
PHOTOGRAPHY, LACAN, AND THE GENIUS OF JEFF KOONS

PETER OSBORNE
THE DISTRIBUTED IMAGE

ANNA GASKELL
LIFE IN THE SYSTEM

TIMUR SI-QIN
TRUE LIES

MICHAEL HAGNER
THE PHOTOBOOK, POST-DIGITAL

CLEMENS JAHN
PHOTOGRAPHY AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY

SETH PRICE
LECTURE ON THE EXTRA PART
BILDSTRECKE

BENJAMIN ASAM KELLOGG
OCULUS DEMOS MAXIMUS
SHORT CUTS

FUTURE NOT PRESENT / Helmut Draxler, Susanne von Falkenhausen, Amy Sillman, and Hong Zeiss on the 56th Venice Biennale
NEW DEVELOPMENT

DREAMING IN TRENDS / Michael Wang on the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris
NO EXPO / Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho on the Fondazione Prada, Milan
OPEN SEASON / Nikoloz Japaridze with Natasha Randall on the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
ROTATION

HART SPRECHEN FÜR EINE GEMEINSAME WELT / Christian Kravagna über "Kritik der schwarzen Vernunft" von Achille Mbembe
GARY COOPER'S LIPSTICK / Thomas Beard on Boyd McDonald's "Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to 'Oldies' on TV"
LIEBE ARBEIT KINO

WETRANSFER: MEDIATING THE MEDIATED SELF / Carson Chan on Britta Thie's "Translantics"
KLANG KÖRPER

WIR SIND GAR NICHT HIER / Joy Kristin Kalu über Richard Maxwells "The Evening", The Kitchen, New York
SHORT WAVES

Megan Francis Sullivan on Birgit Megerle at Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna / Nuit Banai on Josef Strau at Secession, Vienna / Nina Franz über Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff in der Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
REVIEWS

BLAUE FLECKEN / Alexander García Düttmann über De La Fuente Oscar De Franco im Helmhaus, Zürich
HEARTS OF CONTROL / Dan Mitchell on Gili Tal at Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn
JEDERMANNS AUTOBIOGRAFIE / Kerstin Stakemeier über Mark Leckey im Haus der Kunst, München
MIT INDIEGOGO NACH PIONEERTOWN / Michael Kral über Pierre Bismuth in der Galerie Jan Mot, Brüssel
ALTE GEISTER / Philip Ursprung über Albert Oehlen in der Kunsthalle Zürich
OBITUARY

LAWRENCE WEINER
DOROTHEE FISCHER (1937-2015)

File under: Albert Oehlen Amy Lien Amy Sillman Birgit Megerle Calla Henkel Enzo Camacho Gili Tal Hito Steyerl Jeff Koons Josef Strau Loretta Fahrenholz Mark Leckey Max Pitegoff Pierre Bismuth Seth Price Sigmar Polke Simon Denny Timur Si-Qin Boyd McDonald Carson Chan Dan Mitchell Helmut Draxler Hong Zeiss Isabelle Graw Kerstin Stakemeier Megan Francis Sullivan Michael Hagner Michael Kral Peter Osborne Robert Kelsey Thomas Beard Timur Si-Qin Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay

Josef Strau
The New World 1, Application for Turtle Island

2015, English
Softcover, 108 pages, 15 x 21 cm
Published by The Renaissance Society / Chicago

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The first of two books published alongside Strau's Renaissance Society exhibition, The New World, Application for Turtle Island, this imagines itself as a more personal petition for immigrant status in lieu of formal legal paperwork.

Text has often played a role in Strau’s previous sculptural and installation-based work; however, here his writings for the first time take the form of an independent book (described by him as “a kind of treasure island adventure novel”) that serves a structuring function, determining the production and selection of objects on view in the exhibition.

File under: Josef Strau Josef Strau The Renaissance Society / Chicago Art Fiction / Poetry Sculpture / Installation Painting

Dysfyction II
Erika Landström, Aislinn McNamara (Eds.)

2015, English
Softcover, 161 pages, 15 x 21 cm
Ed. of 200 copies,
Published by Pure Fiction / Frankfurt Am Main

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Dysfyction II
Edited by Erika Landström, Aislinn McNamara.
With contributions by Josef Strau, Olga Pedan, Ellen Yeon Kim, Simon Spieser, Aislinn McNamara, Hilda Stammarnäs, Erika Landström, Dan Graham, Mariana Lopez, Anna Zacharoff, Reece York, Dan Kwon, Dario Wokurka, Magnus Andersen, Rosa Aiello, Elif Saydam, Lena Phillip, John Miller, Buck Ellison, Luzie Meyer, Suart Middleton, Ryan Karlsson, Franziska Wildt, Mahsa Saloor, J.s. Teixeira, Thy-Han Nguyen-Chi, George Rippon, Ian Edmonds, Mikhail Wassmer, John Ryan, Julien Nguyen, Yuki Kushino, Kitsum Cheng and Leda Bourgogne.
LAZY WRITING, NOT LONGER THAN DAN’S, REAL FICTION, SELF-CRYT (BACK SEAT), EXERPTS, UNRELATABLE NARRATOR
Published by Mark von Schlegell and the Pure Fiction seminar, February 2015, in an edition of 200 copies.

File under: Dan Graham Josef Strau Julien Nguyen Aislinn McNamara Anna Zacharoff Buck Ellison Dan Graham Dan Kwon Dario Wokurka Elif Saydam Ellen Yeon Kim Erika Landström Franziska Wildt George Rippon Hilda Stammarnäs Ian Edmonds J.s. Teixeira John Miller John Ryan Josef Strau Julien Nguyen Kitsum Cheng Leda Bourgogne Lena Phillip Luzie Meyer Magnus Andersen Mahsa Saloor Mariana Lopez Mikhail Wassmer Olga Pedan Reece York Rosa Aiello Ryan Karlsson Simon Spieser Suart Middleton Thy-Han Nguyen-Chi Yuki Kushino Pure Fiction / Frankfurt Am Main Art Fiction / Poetry Periodicals Poetry

OBJECT
Antony Hudek (Ed.) - Documents of Contemporary Art Series

2014, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 145 x 210 mm

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Edited by Antony Hudek

Artists increasingly refer to “post-object-based" work while theorists engage with material artifacts in culture. A focus on “object-based" learning treats objects as vectors for dialogue across disciplines. Virtual imaging enables the object to be abstracted or circumvented, while immaterial forms of labor challenge materialist theories. This anthology surveys such reappraisals of what constitutes the “objectness" of production, with art as its focus.

Among the topics it examines are the relation of the object to subjectivity; distinctions between objects and things; the significance of the object’s transition from inert mass to tool or artifact; and the meanings of the everyday in the found object, repetition in the replicated or multiple object, loss in the absent object, and abjection in the formless or degraded object. It also explores artistic positions that are anti-object; theories of the experimental, liminal or mental object; and the role of objects in performance. The object becomes a prism through which to reread contemporary art and better understand its recent past.

Artists surveyed include
Georges Adéagbo, Art in Ruins, Iain Baxter, Louise Bourgeois, Pavel Büchler, Lygia Clark, Claude Closky, Brian Collier, Jimmie Durham, Fischli & Weiss, Luca Frei, Meschac Gaba, Isa Genzken, Gruppe Geflecht, Eva Hesse, Mike Kelley, John Latham, Antje Majewski, Gustav Metzger, Cady Noland, Gabriel Orozco, Adrian Piper, Falke Pisano, Eva Rothschild, Aura Satz, Kenneth Snelson, Hito Steyerl, Josef Strau, Alina Szapocznikow, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Erwin Wurm

Writers include
Homi K. Bhabha, Jack Burnham, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Lynne Cooke, Gillo Dorfles, Jean Fisher, Ferreira Gullar, Charles Harrison, Paulo Herkenhoff, Julia Kristeva, Bruno Latour, Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger, Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, Lev Manovich, Ursula Meyer, Bruno Munari, Georges Perec, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Dieter Roelstraete, Howard Singerman, Nancy Spector, Marcus Steinweg, Anne Wagner, Gérard Wajcman, Slavoj Zizek

File under: Adrian Piper Alina Szapocznikow Antje Majewski Art in Ruins Aura Satz Brian Collier Cady Noland Claude Closky David Weiss Erwin Wurm Eva Hesse Eva Rothschild Falke Pisano Gabriel Orozco Gruppe Geflecht Gustav Metzger Hito Steyerl Iain Baxter Isa Genzken Jimmie Durham Joëlle Tuerlinckx John Latham Josef Strau Kenneth Snelson Louise Bourgeois Luca Frei Lygia Clark Meschac Gaba Mike Kelley Pavel Büchler Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss Georges Adéagbo Anne Wagner Antony Hudek Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger Bruno Latour Bruno Munari Charles Harrison Dieter Roelstraete Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Ferreira Gullar Georges Perec Gérard Wajcman Gillo Dorfles Hans-Jorg Rheinberger Homi K. Bhabha Howard Singerman Jack Burnham Jean Fisher Julia Kristeva Lev Manovich Lynne Cooke Marcus Steinweg Nancy Spector Paulo Herkenhoff Slavoj Zizek Ursula Meyer Jean-François Lyotard Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Nora Schultz
Avere Luogo

2011, English / Italian
Softcover, 112 pages (colour ill. throughout), 19 x 27 cm
Edition of 1000,
Published by Nero / Italy

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The catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition by Nora Schultz avere luogo, October 12 - December 31, 2010 at Fondazione Giuliani per l’arte contemporanea.

The final section of the catalogue is a special project carried out by the artist in collaboration with NERO. The 32 pages are part of a selection of over 2,000 70 x 100 cm test sheets originating from the Marchesi printing houses, used for the print machines’ start-up. The layouts of the books to be produced are printed on these sheets, one on top of another. This gives rise to a series of palimpsests, characterized by a stratification of levels which, randomly overlapped, create abstract images of an almost sculptural physicality. Given that this special project is composed of recycled material, each one of these catalogues, in a limited edition of 1,000 copies, is unique and original.

The catalogue includes includes a special project by Nora Schultz too.

Includes texts by Barbara Buchmaier, Adrienne Drake, Nora Schultz, Josef Strau

File under: Josef Strau Nora Schultz Adrienne Drake Barbara Buchmaier Josef Strau Nora Schultz Nero / Italy Art

The Whole Earth - California and the Disappearance of the Outside
Diedrich Diederichsen, Anselm Franke (Eds.)

2013, English
Softcover, 208 pages (350 color and b/w ills.), 26 x 35 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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With contributions by Sabeth Buchmann, Mercedes Bunz, Diedrich Diederichsen, Kodwo Eshun, Anselm Franke, Erich Hörl, Norman M. Klein, Maurizio Lazzarato, Flora Lysen, Eva Meyer, John Palmesino, Laurence Rickels, Bernd M. Scherer, Fred Turner

In the year 1966, a young man named Stewart Brand handed out buttons in San Francisco reading: “Why haven’t we seen a photograph of the whole Earth yet?” Two years later, the NASA photograph of the “blue planet” appeared on the cover of the Whole Earth Catalog. In creating the catalogue, frequently described as the analogue forerunner of Google, Brand had founded one of the most influential publications of recent decades. It mediated between cyberneticists and hippies, nature romantics and technology geeks, psychedelia and computer culture, and thus triggered defining impulses for the environmentalist movement and the rise of the digital network culture.

The photo of the blue planet developed a sphere of influence like almost no other image: it stands not only for ecological awareness and crisis but also for a new sense of unity and globalization. The universal picture of “One Earth” hence anticipated an image of the end of the Cold War, whose expansion into space it accompanied, and overwrote or neutralized political lines of conflict by transferring classical politics and criticism of it to other categories, such as cybernetic management or ecology.

The exhibition “The Whole Earth” is an essay composed of cultural-historical materials and artistic positions that critically address the rise of the image of “One Earth” and the ecological paradigm associated with it. The accompanying publication includes image-rich visual essays that explore key themes: “Universalism,” “Whole Systems,” “Boundless Interior,” and “Apocalypse, Babylon, Simulation,” among others. These are surrounded by critical essays that shed light onto 1960s California and the networked culture that emerged from it.

Artists: Nabil Ahmed, Ant Farm, Eleanor Antin, Martin Beck, Jordan Belson, Ashley Bickerton, Dara Birnbaum, Erik Bulatov, Angela Bulloch, Bruce Conner, Öyvind Fahlström, Robert Frank, Jack Goldstein, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Lawrence Jordan, Silvia Kolbowski, Philipp Lachenmann, David Lamelas, Sharon Lockhart, Piero Manzoni, Raymond Pettibon, Adrian Piper, Robert Rauschenberg, Ira Schneider, Richard Serra, Alex Slade, Jack Smith, Josef Strau, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, The Otolith Group, Suzanne Treister, Andy Warhol, Bruce Yonemoto, et al.

Copublished with Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Design by Studio Matthias Görlich

File under: Adrian Piper Alex Slade Andy Warhol Angela Bulloch Ant Farm Ashley Bickerton Bruce Conner Bruce Yonemoto Dara Birnbaum David Lamelas Eleanor Antin Erik Bulatov Ira Schneider Jack Goldstein Jack Smith Jordan Belson Josef Strau Lawrence Jordan Martin Beck Nabil Ahmed Nancy Holt Philipp Lachenmann Piero Manzoni Raymond Pettibon Richard Serra Robert Frank Robert Rauschenberg Robert Smithson Sharon Lockhart Silvia Kolbowski Suzanne Treister The Center for Land Use Interpretation The Otolith Group Öyvind Fahlström Anselm Franke Bernd M. Scherer Diedrich Diederichsen Erich Hörl Eva Meyer Flora Lysen Fred Turner John Palmesino Kodwo Eshun Laurence Rickels Maurizio Lazzarato Mercedes Bunz Norman M. Klein Sabeth Buchmann Sternberg Press / Berlin Architecture / Interior Art Theory / Essay Pop Art Group Shows / Collections Feminism Ecology Sculpture / Installation

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

MAY #8

2012, English/French
Softcover, 184 pages (b&w ill.), 240 x 175 mm
Published by May Revue / Paris

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In this issue:

"The Threat of The Provincial" by Ken Okiishi

"Detroit" by Jay Chung

"Radical Localism: Report from Mexicali" by Chris Kraus

"There is no Provicialism Solution" by Rex Butler and A.D.S. Donaldson

"Questions About 4 Taxis" by Thomas Lawson

"Insert Visuel/Visual Insert" by Henry Vessel

"Neon Venacular. On "Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1969-1980"" by Alex Kitnick

"Unearthing the Campesino. On "MEX/LA: Mexican Modernism(s) in Los Angeles 1930-1985"" by Kappy Mintie
"Archives With and Without Forms. On "Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D’Archangelo (1975-1979)" and "The Experimenal Impulse"" byCatherine Chevalier
"The Land Farms the Farmer and The Mind. On Peter Nadin's "First Mark"" by Mathieu Malouf

plus more... highly recommended!

about MAY Revue:

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, quaterly, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.

Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

File under: A.D.S. Donaldson Adriana Lara Henry Vessel Jay Chung Josef Strau Ken Okiishi Mathieu Malouf Peter Nadin A.D.S. Donaldson Alex Kitnick Benjamin Thorel Catherine Chevalier Chris Kraus Eva Svennung Henry Vessel Kappy Mintie Ken Okiishi Mathieu Malouf Miguel Calderon Rex Butler Thomas Lawson May Revue / Paris Art Periodicals Theory / Essay

Berlin - Los Angeles: A Tale of Two (Other) Cities

2009, English / Italian
Softcover, 80 pages (colour/bw ill.), offset, 13 x 20.5 cm
Published by Mousse / Milan

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Catalogue published on the occasion of the collective show Berlin - Los Angeles at Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan.

Features Simon Fujiwara, Klara Liden, Dan Rees, Nora Schulz, Josef Strau, Frank Benson, Aaron Curry, Elad Lassry, Kaari Upson, Scott Olson, Kirstine Roepstorff, Klaus Weber, and Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz.

File under: Aaron Curry Dan Rees Elad Lassry Frank Benson Josef Strau Kaari Upson Kirstine Roepstorff Klaus Weber Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz Nora Schultz Scott Olson Simon Fujiwara Klara Lidén Mousse / Milan Art

MAY #4

June 2010, English/French
Softcover, 210 pages,175 x 240 mm
Published by May Revue / Paris

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May Revue is a wonderful quarterly arts journal from Paris, edited by Catherine Chevalier and Eva Svennung.

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, quarterly, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.
Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

May #4 features "Entrée en matière" - Fulvia Carnevale; Sexual Difference: A Theory of Social Symbolic Practice (Chapter One) - The Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective; Nudity - La Nudité - Antonella Nappi; Autonomy and the Need for Love, Carla Lonzi, Vai Pure; Autonomie et besoin d’ amour : Carla Lonzi, Tu peux y aller, Lea Melandri; "The Ongoing Practice" - La pratique amorcée : le « groupe analyse » et le « groupe de l’inconscient » Lea Melandri; "Let’s Spit on Hegel" (Nous crachons sur Hegel) - Carla Lonzi; Sturtevant, “The Razzle Dazzle of Thinking” - David Lewis; "Why working together with an inner Voice" - Josef Strau; "Improvisation, Power, Cultural History-bending" - Tony Conrad; "In Fashion. On Josephine Pryde" - Alex Kitnick; Conversation avec Mathieu K.Abonnenc - Thomas Boutoux, François Piron et Benjamin Thorel; « Nothing rings a bell? », Brice Dellsperger, Body Double 22 - Clara Schulmann; D5 and the Gesture of Withdrawal - Jay Chung; "the spherical space of James Benning" - Leonor Antunes; and more!

File under: Josef Strau Josephine Pryde Tony Conrad Alex Kitnick Benjamin Thorel Brice Dellsperger Catherine Chevalier Eva Svennung Jay Chung Josef Strau May Revue / Paris Art Fiction / Poetry Periodicals Theory / Essay

MAY #1

2009, English/French
Softcover, 176 pages, 175 x 240 mm
Published by May Revue / Paris

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May Revue is a wonderful arts journal from Paris, edited by Catherine Chevalier and Eva Svennung.

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, quaterly, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.
Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.May #1 features texts and contributions by/on artists and critics, including Michael Krebber, Fulvia Carnevale, Catherine Chevalier, Jay Chung, Josef Strau, Grand Openings, Stefan Germer, Karl Holmqvist, Anne Marquez, René Magritte, Jean Pierre Rehm, Clément Rodzielski, Vincent Romagny, Benjamin Thorel, Oscar Tuazon, Antek Walczak, Haacke, Broodthaers, Beuys, and more!!!

File under: Antek Walczak Clément Rodzielski Hans Haacke Josef Strau Joseph Beuys Marcel Broodthaers Michael Krebber Oscar Tuazon René Magritte Antek Walczak Benjamin Thorel Catherine Chevalier Fulvia Carnevale Jay Chung Josef Strau Karl Holmqvist Stefan Germer May Revue / Paris Art Fiction / Poetry Periodicals Theory / Essay