World Food Books

Isa Genzken. 75/75
Edited by Daniel Buchholz and Christopher Müller

2024, English / German
Softcover, 330 pages, 30 x 22 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln Neue Nationalgalerie / Berlin

$90.00 - Out of stock

This comprehensive monograph is published in conjunction with Isa Genzken’s eponymous exhibition at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, gathering 75 sculptures by the artist, spanning all phases of her oeuvre from the 1970s to the present. Alongside many photographs of the works on display, the catalogue, edited by Daniel Buchholz and Christopher Müller, assembles texts by Dieter Schwarz, Sabine Breitwieser, Manfred Hermes, Tom McDonough, Juliane Rebentisch and Isa Genzken, a preface by curators Klaus Biesenbach and Lisa Botti, and a new essay by Diedrich Diederichsen, as well as two conversations of the artist with Wolfgang Tillmans and Diedrich Diederichsen.

Bilingual German / English.
Design by Julie Peeters

File under: Isa Genzken Julie Peeters Dieter Schwarz Sabine Breitwieser Manfred Hermes Tom McDonough Juliane Rebentisch Isa Genzken Daniel Buchholz Christopher Müller Klaus Biesenbach Lisa Botti Wolfgang Tillmans Diedrich Diederichsen Walther König / Köln Neue Nationalgalerie / Berlin Sculpture / Installation Art

Bill 5

2024, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 31 x 23 cm
Published by Bill / Brussels

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‘Bill’ is annual magazine that prioritises visual reading of its photographic stories without the distraction of text. This issue contains 192 offset pages printed in CMYK, silver, and black and white on a dozen different paper stocks, along with some Japanese bound signatures. Designed, edited, and produced by Julie Peeters and associate editor Elena Narbutaite.

Sand, wind, tide, bills, tulips, LA, parking lots, waves, thoughts, bagels, prints, Tokyo, orchids, horses, backs, balm, magazines, updates, shadows, Elena's shoe, two mudbaths and a garage door...

by Boyle Family, Jochen Lempert, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Gillian Garcia, Beat Streuli, Takashi Homma, JP, Adrianna Glaviano, Mimosa Echard, Rosalind Nashashibi, Gerald Domenig, Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham, Martiniano, Blommers Schumm

File under: Blommers/Schumm Julie Peeters Elena Narbutaite Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili Gillian Garcia Beat Streuli Takashi Homma Adrianna Glaviano Mimosa Echard Rosalind Nashashibi Martiniano Boyle Family Jochen Lempert JP Gerald Domenig Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham Blommers Schumm Bill / Brussels Periodicals Fashion Photography Art

Viscose 6
TEXT

2024, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 33 x 24.7 cm
Published by Viscose / Copenhagen

$55.00 - Out of stock

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The sixth issue of Viscose Journal focuses on fashion as constructed through words, language and writing. From the pens of fashion journalists and art critics to the conceptual wordplay of designers, the issue delves into the aesthetic and critical effects of “writing fashion” in and outside of fashion industries.

The fashion writer is a confidant, a storyteller, a forecaster, a mythmaker; they are evocative and poetic, forming words that shape, and in turn are shaped by, the latest fashions. From the salon shows to the pages of fashion magazines, their “expressions may be as ephemeral as the fashions they describe,” as Dorothy Hughes noted already in 1935. Early fashion writing played a key role in the transformation of clothes into fashion each season, and in igniting the machine of fashion itself. The historical roots of fashion writing— which was, at least in an industry context, a distinctly female practice— are grounded in the modernization and seasonalization of industrial fashion. And even today, in an age described by many as image-driven, this remains true: across various media platforms, language not only surrounds fashion but also continuously contributes to its creation.

The succinct, ephemeral poetry of the fashion writer still plays—nearly a century since Hughes’ observation—a transformative role in the seasonal turnover of fashion, but its role in the fashion industry remains seriously overlooked. Fashion invests substantially in seasonally refreshing the visual messaging accompanying its physical commodities, but language plays a similarly important support in this artful game of marketing. In this industrial context spanning from press releases to magazine production, writing is devoted to fashion promotion, prioritizing its fundamental traits of novelty, urgency, and semiotic complexity. In this context, fashion writing is a process of mystification, capable of revealing things that the image cannot. The material conditions of fashion writing—of being for fashion—generates a unique set of poetics and syntax. Fashion writing, or “written fashion,” as Roland Barthes asserts, is a form of signification that is simultaneously real and imaginary, connected to the real garment that it signifies, but largely unencumbered by its materiality. Given the constraints of economic, cultural, and political factors on fashion writing, it is perhaps more interesting to ask, what is fashion writing really encumbered by, and what would it mean to “unencumber” it?

Since Baudelaire, art critics have turned to fashion as source material for their practice, casting fashion in the role of art’s capitalist conspirator, temporal truth-sayer, or feminine alter-ego. This erratic history is one filled with both fraught politics (rooted in a gendered division of labor) as well as critical possibility: art writing gestures to a style of intellectualism and independence from industry that is largely foreign in fashion. Viscose Journal has, since its founding, aimed to detach fashion criticism from industrial frameworks that has historically premised it. At the same time, informed by a materialist politics of fashion labor, we wish to seriously level the largely female writing of commercial fashion publications with the masculine philosophical inquiries of fashion.

While “fashion writing” denotes a thematic category within the wider field of writing, our theme of “writing fashion” prompts an exploration of fashion writing as a mode of fashion production and critique. This issue aims to explore writing as a tool for shaping fashion and broaden its perspectives by presenting a survey of experimental, fictocritical, and poetic approaches to writing fashion. In this expanded field of writing, “fashion” unfolds as a ubiquitous and epistemologically complex phenomena of everyday life pertinent to all.

Accompanied by the exhibition “Writing Fashion“ at and published by the International Library for Fashion Research in Oslo, Norway, staged in June 2024, Viscose Journal 06 strives to be a thought-provoking journey into the captivating intersection of fashion and language. We are grateful to the library’s fantastic team and collaborators for their ongoing support and collaboration.

with works by: Osman Ahmed, Alba Aragón, Katherine Bernard, Ricarda Bigolin, Eileen Chang, Dal Chodha, Eduardo Costa, Jose Unzueta Criale, Femke De Vries, Becket Flannery, Kennedy Fraser, Laura Gardner, Patrick Greaney, Bruce Hainley, Elizabeth Hawes, Nakako Hayashi, Devin Hentz, Elaine Wing-Ah Ho, Juje Hsiung, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Jamaica Kinkaid, Chantal Kirby, Jeremy Lewis, Davora Lindner, Hanne Lippard, Shanzhai Lyric, Shizuang Magazine, Celine Mathieu, Derek Mccormack, H.B. Peace, Julie Peeters, John Perrault, Vogue Runway Rag, Rachel Tashjian, Jeppe Ugelvig, Elizabeth VR, Hanna Weiner, Elizabeth Wilson, Yohji Yamamoto, Bruno Zhu

File under: Osman Ahmed Alba Aragón Katherine Bernard Ricarda Bigolin Eileen Chang Dal Chodha Eduardo Costa Jose Unzueta Criale Femke De Vries Becket Flannery Kennedy Fraser Laura Gardner Patrick Greaney Bruce Hainley Elizabeth Hawes Nakako Hayashi Devin Hentz Elaine Wing-Ah Ho Juje Hsiung Olivia Kan-Sperling Jamaica Kinkaid Chantal Kirby Jeremy Lewis Davora Lindner Hanne Lippard Shanzhai Lyric Shizuang Magazine Celine Mathieu Derek Mccormack H.B. Peace Julie Peeters John Perrault Vogue Runway Rag Rachel Tashjian Jeppe Ugelvig Elizabeth VR Hanna Weiner Elizabeth Wilson Yohji Yamamoto Bruno Zhu Viscose / Copenhagen Periodicals Fashion Fiction / Poetry Textiles Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Bill 4

2023, English
Softcover, 184 pages, 23 x 31 cm
Published by Bill / Brussels

$92.00 - Out of stock

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‘Bill’ is annual magazine of photographic stories without any accompanying text to prioritise visual reading without distraction. Designed, edited, and produced by designer Julie Peeters and associate editor Elena Narbutaite, this issue contains 184 offset printed pages on thirteen different paper stocks. Contributions for this issue include George Tourkovasilis, Cinzia Ruggeri through the lenses of Ilvio Gallo and Occhiomagico, SC103’s first runway, Inge Grognard, Adrianna Glaviano, the contact sheets of Santi Caleca, Rosalind Nashashibi, as well as magazine spreads from Anders Edström, Curtis Cuffie, and Hans Hollein.

File under: Julie Peeters Rosalind Nashashibi Anders Edström Curtis Cuffie Hans Hollein Ilvio Gallo Occhiomagico Inge Grognard Adrianna Glaviano Elena Narbutaite Santi Caleca Bill / Brussels Periodicals Art Photography Textiles Fashion Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Graphic Design / Typography

Curtis Cuffie

2023, English
Softcover, 252 pages, 27.3 x 20.3 cm
Published by Blank Forms / New York

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Curtis Cuffie (1955–2002) was an artist who lived and worked in and around the East Village from the mid-1980s until his untimely death in the early 2000s. He moved to New York from Hartsville, South Carolina, as a teenager and lived unhoused for long stretches of his adult life. Cuffie found local notoriety for the way he adorned the streets of downtown New York, collecting what the city provided, often sifting trash to stage on-the-spot sculptures along the Bowery and Cooper Square. His arrangements took the form of impossibly balanced towers, delicate shrines, and unwieldy processions up to thirty-feet in length installed along the walls, fences, and sidewalks of the Lower East Side. Nearly without fail they were removed by the police, inclement weather, the department of sanitation, or the grounds team at Cooper Union, which would later employ him.

An enduring presence in the East Village, Cuffie staged sprawling tableaux outside the Village Voice offices that were admired by students and venerable artists alike. He was profiled by scene reporters, political writers, and folk-art journalists, all the while exhibiting in the neighborhood’s famed alternative art spaces. While few of his sculptures remain today, a trove of photographs from the 1990s taken by Cuffie and his companion Katy Abel preserve the work he made in the city. This photobook, the first publication about Cuffie, seeks to honor the artist by collecting the efforts of two of his partners: Carol Thompson, who lived with Cuffie from 1996 to 2001 and archived a great number of his 35mm photographs, and Abel, a Cooper Square resident who took hundreds of snapshots of his art. Curtis Cuffie is designed by Julie Peeters, edited by Scott Portnoy and Robert Snowden with Ciarán Finlayson, and additionally includes writing by the artist, Finlayson, and critic Alan Moore, and images taken by Tom Warren and Margaret Morton.

File under: Julie Peeters Curtis Cuffie Scott Portnoy Robert Snowden Ciarán Finlayson Alan Moore Tom Warren Margaret Morton Katy Abel Blank Forms / New York Sculpture / Installation Art Photography

Jason Dodge
Cut a Door in the Wolf

2022, English
Softcover, 68 pages, 30 x 21 cm
Published by Bill / Brussels

$68.00 - Out of stock

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‘Cut a Door in the Wolf’ is an exhibition in the form of a single, site-specific artwork by Jason Dodge. In exploring systems made up of organic and inorganic matter, he is interested in the refuse that humans shed every day: micro-and macro-landscapes made up of the familiar and often discarded things that result from our individual and collective habits. Dodge recognises this not as a singular artistic process, but rather as a shared landscape in which cause and effect are circular phenomena that belong to everyone. He therefore investigates the potential of his audience as producers of meaning. This publication documents the work through a series of photographs.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition by Jason Dodge at MACRO Museum for Contemporary Art of Rome. Photography Adrianna Glaviano. Book design Julie Peeters.

File under: Jason Dodge Julie Peeters Bill / Brussels Sculpture / Installation Art

Mechanisms

2017, English
Paperback, 288 pages, 22 x 21 cm
Published by Roma / Amsterdam

$75.00 - Out of stock

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This catalogue accompanies a major group show at CCA Wattis in San Francisco, curated by Anthony Huberman. It reflects on ways the “machine” determines how we live and what we believe in. A machine is also a mechanism, not just a physical object but also an abstract ideology. The artworks point to the forms and instruments that make up our technological infrastructure, as well as to the values they are designed to enforce. Contesting a world that rewards efficiency, speed, and productivity, the participating artists test existing systems with inefficient machines, impossible tools, wasted time, and elaborate protocols that misalign outputs and inputs.

Artists: Zarouhie Abdalian, Terry Atkinson, Lutz Bacher, Eva Barto, Neïl Beloufa, Patricia L. Boyd, Jay DeFeo, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Richard Hamilton, Aaron Flint Jamison, Jacob Kassay, Garry Neill Kennedy, Louise Lawler, Park McArthur, Jean-Luc Moulène, Pope.L, Charlotte Posenenske, Cameron Rowland, Danh Vo

Designed by Julie Peeters and Scott Ponik this catalogue accompanies the exhibition and includes an essay by the curator as well as sections created by each artist. It is co-published with Roma Publications (Amsterdam).

File under: Zarouhie Abdalian Terry Atkinson Lutz Bacher Eva Barto Neïl Beloufa Patricia L. Boyd Jay DeFeo Trisha Donnelly Harun Farocki Richard Hamilton Aaron Flint Jamison Jacob Kassay Garry Neill Kennedy Louise Lawler Park McArthur Jean-Luc Moulène Charlotte Posenenske Cameron Rowland Danh Vo Julie Peeters Scott Ponik William Pope.L Anthony Huberman Roma / Amsterdam Group Shows / Collections Art Photography Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

Bill 1
edited by Julie Peeters

2017, English
Softcover, 176 pages, 23 x 31 cm
Published by Roma / Amsterdam

$60.00 - Out of stock

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First issue of an annual magazine of photographic stories, edited and designed by Julie Peeters. Twelve contributors present new or previously unpublished work. BILL prioritizes visual reading without distraction, the images that appear in the magazine are printed without any accompanying text. Contributors to the first issue are: Jochen Lempert, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Katja Mater, Elena Narbutaite, Rosalind Nashashibi & Vivian Suter, Arthur Ou, Scott Ponik, Adam Putnam, Johannes Schwartz, Algirdas Šeškus, Linda Van Deursen, and Stand Up Comedy.

File under: Jochen Lempert Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili Katja Mater Elena Narbutaite Rosalind Nashashibi Vivian Suter Arthur Ou Scott Ponik Adam Putnam Johannes Schwartz Algirdas Šeškus Linda Van Deursen Julie Peeters Roma / Amsterdam Photography Periodicals Graphic Design / Typography Art

Bill 2
Julie Peeters (editor)

2019, English
Softcover, 184 pages, 23 x 31 cm
Published by Roma / Amsterdam

$50.00 - Out of stock

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Out of Print.

Bill 2 is the second issue of an annual magazine of photographic stories, edited and designed by Julie Peeters. Twelve contributors present new or previously unpublished work. The images in the magazine are printed without any accompanying text: Bill prioritizes visual reading without distraction. Contributors to the second issue are: Gintaras Didziapetris, Jason Dodge, Archiv Hans Hollein, Inge Ketelers, Tadashi Kurahashi by Tadanori Yokoo - Tadanori Yokoo by Tadashi Kurahashi, Jochen Lempert, Raimundas Malasauskas, Bart Julius Peters / T L P S, Reto Schmid, Megan Francis Sullivan, Linda van Deursen, Ann Woo, and Jiajia Zhang.

File under: Tadanori Yokoo Jochen Lempert Julie Peeters Jason Dodge Megan Francis Sullivan Raimundas Malašauskas Roma / Amsterdam Periodicals Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art Fashion

How to spell the fight
by Natascha Sadr Haghighian

2018, English
Softcover, 80 pages, 9.6 x 14.8 cm

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James R. Murphy, a math teacher in La Guardia, New York, regarded mathematics as the most powerful and manipulable abstract language available to humans. To acquaint students who don’t “like” math with abstract and systematical thinking, he put a piece of string in their hands and taught them to make string figures.

How to spell the fight follows a thread that has been running through our fingers from centuries past till the present day, morphing from the tangible string figures that join our hands in childhood to the more elusive computational algorithms that engage our fingers today. Following this line of inquiry through various twists and turns, a conversation about collective agency emerges with the aim of rethinking current paradigms of cognition, education, and power.

Natascha Sadr Haghighian is an artist living in Berlin. Her research-based practice encompasses a variety of forms and formats, among them video, performance, installations, text, and sound. She tries to learn how to make string figures.

This is the fifth book in the Kayfa ta series, a publishing initiative of Maha Maamoun and Ala Younis. Each book in the series is a monographic essay commissioned in the style of how-to manuals that situation themselves in the space between the technical and the reflective, the everyday and the speculative, the instructional and the intuitive, and the factual and the fictional.

Copublished with Kayfa ta
Design by Julie Peeters

File under: Julie Peeters Maha Maamoun Ala Younis Natascha Sadr Haghighian Theory / Essay Art SALE

SSS : How to imitate the sound of the shore using two hands and a carpet
by Cevdet Erek

2017, English
Softcover, 72 pages, 9.6 x 14.8 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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SSS: How to imitate the sound of the shore using two hands and a carpet is, at first glance, exactly what it claims to be: an in-depth manual for staging a private (or public) performance, in which one uses both hands and a carpet to imitate the sounds of water making contact with land. Istanbul-based artist Cevdet Erek’s book includes diagrams and photographs, which illustrate possible methods for producing this effect, while also addressing theoretical and methodological issues related to the representation of nature.

SSS is the second book in the Kayfa ta series, a publishing initiative of Maha Maamoun and Ala Younis. Each book in the series is a monographic essay commissioned in the style of how-to manuals that situation themselves in the space between the technical and the reflective, the everyday and the speculative, the instructional and the intuitive, and the factual and the fictional.

Copublished with Kayfa ta
Design by Julie Peeters

File under: Julie Peeters Maha Maamoun Ala Younis Cevdet Erek Sternberg Press / Berlin Theory / Essay Sound / Music Art SALE

Paul Elliman
Untitled (September Magazine)

2013, English
Softcover, 592 pages, 22 x 29 cm
Published by Roma / Amsterdam Vanity Press / London

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Artist's book by Paul Elliman. In a glossy volume approaching 600 pages, Elliman has collected images from a variety of sources – fashion magazines, glamour photography and pornography – cropping and arranging the clippings in a manner that especially emphasises the presence of hands, along with the many gestures of which they are capable. Also prevalent in the spectrum of clothed, semi-nude and nude human forms are limbs, feet, torsos and erogenous zones. Without any text or explanation, the series takes on a mesmerising aspect wherein the action of flipping through the pages becomes a kind of meditative contemplation of the fragmented human body.

Design: Julie Peters.

Roma Publication 210

File under: Paul Elliman Julie Peeters Roma / Amsterdam Vanity Press / London Art Graphic Design / Typography Photography Fashion

Ola Vasiljeva
You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know

2016, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 21 x 30 cm
Published by Roma / Amsterdam Kunstverein München / Münich

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This book is the fourth instalment in Kunstverein München’s ‘Companion’ series, and was released parallel to Ola Vasiljeva’s eponymous exhibition. The publication’s 100 full-colour and black-and-white pages combine facsimiles of zines, records, and posters Vasiljeva produced collaboratively as OAOA, intercut and overlaid with 35mm slides, drawings, and photographs taken by the artist during the production of previous exhibitions, as well as a manic letter to the artist by Chris Fitzpatrick.
Design by Julie Peeters.

File under: Ola Vasiljeva Julie Peeters Chris Fitzpatrick Roma / Amsterdam Kunstverein München / Münich Art Drawing Sculpture / Installation Ceramics / Glass

THESE ARE THE TOOLS OF THE PRESENT : BEIRUT CAIRO
Mai Abu ElDahab, November Paynter, Marnie Slater (Eds.)

2017, English
Softcover, 198 pages, 15 x 23 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

$29.00 - Out of stock

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Contributions by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Haig Aivazian, Mounira Al Solh, Doa Aly, Andeel, Mirene Arsanios, Malak Helmy, Iman Issa, Mahmoud Khaled, Maurice Louca, Jasmina Metwaly, Joe Namy, Nile Sunset Annex, November Paynter, Roy Samaha, Sharif Sehnaoui, Rania Stephan, Christophe Wavelet, Lauren Wetmore

This publication comprises a series of interviews with contemporary artists, musicians, and writers who are in dialogue with Beirut and Cairo. While not purporting to be an overview of the art scenes in these cities, this book begins to draw a picture of how artists think about what it means to be active in the contexts of these cities. It offers insight into the circumstances that structured these artists’ stories, and the often accidental influences that have shaped how their practices have developed.

These are the tools of the present is published on the occasion of Meeting Points 8, “Both Sides of the Curtain.” Meeting Points is an international multidisciplinary contemporary arts event that takes the Arab world as a starting point to pose questions about art. Meeting Points tries to imagine and interrogate models for the production and presentation of contemporary art, developed through curatorial research in the Arab world.

Copublished with Mophradat
Design by Julie Peeters

File under: Julie Peeters Lawrence Abu Hamdan Mai Abu ElDahab November Paynter Marnie Slater Sternberg Press / Berlin

Francis McKee
How to Know What’s Really Happening

2016, English
Softcover, 56 pages, 9.6 x 14.8 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Francis McKee
How to Know What’s Really Happening

Edited by Mai Abu ElDahab, Maha Maamoun, Ala Younis

In this post-truth era, how does one navigate the endless information available and choose a viable narrative of reality? In How to Know What’s Really Happening Glasgow-based writer and curator Francis McKee looks at various techniques for determining verity, from those of spy agencies and whistle-blowers to mystics and scientists.

This is the third book in the Kayfa ta series, a publishing initiative of artists Maha Maamoun and Ala Younis. Each book in the series is a monographic essay commissioned in the style of how-to manuals that situate themselves in the space between the technical and the reflective, the everyday and the speculative, the instructional and the intuitive, and the factual and the fictional.

Copublished with Kayfa ta and Mophradat
Design by Julie Peeters

File under: Ala Younis Julie Peeters Maha Maamoun Francis McKee Sternberg Press / Berlin Theory / Essay