World Food Books

Parkett Vol. 31 (1992)
David Hammons / Mike Kelley issue (Candida Höfer insert)

1992, English / German
Softcover, 200 pages, 25.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Parkett / Zürich

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1992 issue of Parkett (Vol. 31), deluxe issue created in collaboration with artists David Hammons and Mike Kelley, lavishly illustrated with both artist's works alongside texts by with texts by Robert Farris Thompson, Iwona Blazwick & Emma Dexter, John Ffarris, Lynne Cooke, Louise Neri in conversation with David Hammons, Diedrich Diederichsen, Lane Relyea, Bernard Marcadé, Mike Kelley & Julie Sylvester talking about “Failure.” The Insert artist is Candida Höfer and the spine artist is Niele Toroni. Also in this issue: Vija Celmins by Sheena Wagstaff, Larry Clark, What is This? by Jim Lewis, Jean-Pierre Bordaz “Imi Knoebel, Isa Genzken, Gerhard Merz,” Claude Ritschard “Rémy Zaugg.” Imi Knoebel: Working With Success – Working With Unsucces by Rudolf Bumiller, Imi Knoebel and Grace Kelly, The High by Rainer Crone & David Moos, Imi Knoebel First Impressions by Lisa Liebmann, Sherrie Levine: The Transgressions of Sherrie Levine by Daniela Salvioni, Presence Withdrawn by Erich Franz, Looking After Sherrie Levine by Howard Singerman, Damien Hirst — Insert, Making Work and Turning Your Back on it : Bethan Huws by Liam Gillick, The Work of Art as the Ideal Center for Human Beings, Walter de Maria’s The 2000 Sculpture by Thomas Kellein, International Time Capsule Society, Les Infos du Paradis, Inside the White Cube, Cumulus from America by Ralph Rugoff, Cumulus from Europe by Robert Fleck, Talk o’ the Town by Jeanne Sliverthorn.

Founded in the early 1980s in Zurich, with an office also in New York City, Parkett was international art magazine that aimed to foster an open dialogue between the artistic communities of Europe and America, with the goal to actively and directly collaborate with important international artists whose oeuvre was explored in several essays by leading writers and critics in both German and English. By 2017, Parkett had published 100 volumes with some 180 monographs and over 1500 in-depth texts making it one of the most comprehensive libraries on contemporary art worldwide. Critics, curators, art historians, and other commentators join in the conversation contained within its pages. Many write on the collaborating artists; some write opinions under a variety of topic headings that recur issue to issue; others write on additional artists and ideas. The result is more of a curated event-between-covers than a typical art magazine with reviews and news items.

Average—Good copy with some marking and wear. Ex-sticker resudue to cover.

File under: David Hammons Mike Kelley Niele Toroni Liam Gillick Damien Hirst Imi Knoebel Larry Clark Sherrie Levine Vija Celmins Candida Höfer Walter de Maria Isa Genzken Rémy Zaugg Diedrich Diederichsen Lane Relyea Bernard Marcadé Julie Sylvester Thomas Kellein Hans Ulrich Obrist Sheena Wagstaff Robert Fleck Rudolf Bumiller Rainer Crone David Moos Lisa Liebmann Daniela Salvioni Erich Franz Howard Singerman Robert Farris Thompson Iwona Blazwick Emma Dexter John Ffarris Lynne Cooke Louise Neri Claude Ritschard Jean-Pierre Bordaz Kim Lewis Parkett / Zürich Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Minimal Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Art Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Photography

e-flux journal - Art without Death : Conversations on Russian Cosmism

2017, English
Softcover, 152 pages, 10.8 x 11.8 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Contributions by Bart De Baere, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Boris Groys, Elena Shaposhnikova, Marina Simakova, Hito Steyerl, Anton Vidokle, Brian Kuan Wood, Arseny Zhilyaev, Esther Zonsheim

According to the nineteenth-century teachings of Nikolai Fedorov—librarian, religious philosopher, and progenitor of Russian cosmism—our ethical obligation to use reason and knowledge to care for the sick extends to curing the dead of their terminal status. The dead must be brought back to life using means of advanced technology—resurrected not as souls in heaven, but in material form, in this world, with all their memories and knowledge.

Fedorov’s call to redistribute vital forces is wildly imaginative in emancipatory ambition. Today, it might appear arcane in its mystical panpsychism or eccentric in its embrace of realities that exist only in science fiction or certain diabolical strains of Silicon Valley techno-utopian ideology. It can be difficult to grasp how it ended up influencing the thinking behind a generation of young revolutionary anarchists and Marxists who incorporated Fedorov’s ideas under their own brand of biocosmism before the 1917 Russian Revolution, even giving rise to the origins of the Soviet space program.

This book of interviews and conversations with today’s most compelling living and resurrected artists and thinkers seeks to address the relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on the Russian artistic and political vanguard as well as on today’s art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics. This unprecedented collection of exchanges on cosmism asks how such an encompassing and imaginative, unapologetically humanist and anthropocentric strain of thinking could have been so historically and politically influential, especially when placed alongside the politically inconsequential—but in some sense equally encompassing—apocalypticism of contemporary realist imaginaries.

Published in parallel with the eponymous exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Kaye Cain-Nielsen, Stephen Squibb, Anton Vidokle
Design by Jeff Ramsey, front cover design by Liam Gillick

File under: Liam Gillick Hito Steyerl Bart De Baere Franco “Bifo” Berardi Boris Groys Elena Shaposhnikova Marina Simakova Hito Steyerl Anton Vidokle Brian Kuan Wood Arseny Zhilyaev Esther Zonsheim Julieta Aranda Kaye Cain-Nielsen Stephen Squibb Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay SALE

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 830 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

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First English edition of this monumental 830 page book for documenta X, the last documenta of the twentieth century and the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David, brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists in an extraordinary anthology of seminal texts and images of, on, and about the development of Western cultural and critical theory since 1945.

The book "seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopaedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavour which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity."—from the book jacket.

A comprehensive work in itself, rich with enmeshed texts and illustrations of artworks, film stills, historical documents throughout in colour and in black and white.

Writers include: Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Celan, Amílcar Cabral, Masao Miyoshi, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Tadao Sato, Youssef Ishaghpour, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rem Koolhaas, Sandra Álvarez de Toledo, Witold Gombrowicz, Herve Joubert-Laurencin, Jean-François Chevrier, Marguerite Duras, Edward Said, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Uwe Johnson, Jerzy Grotowski, James Clifford, Primo Levi, Pierre Clastres, Andrea Branzi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Gérard Chaliand, Stig Björkman, Daniel Defert, Saskia Sassen, Catherine David, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Virilio, Serge Daney, Étienne Balibar, Nadia Tazi, and many others.....

Artists include : Archigram, Martin Kippenberger, Archizoom Associati, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlström, Samuel Beckett, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, Nancy Spero, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Jörg Herold, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Robert Adams, Peter Friedl, Paweł Althamer, Liam Gillick, Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler & Diedrich Diederichsen, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Aldo van Eyck, Heiner Goebbels, William Kentridge, Ulrike Grossarth, Richard Hamilton, Vito Acconci, Raymond Hains, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Siobhán Hapaska, Ecke Bonk, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lois Weinberger, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Marc Pataut, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christian Philipp Müller, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reinhard Mucha, Álvaro Siza, Toyo Ito, John C. Portman Jr., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mariella Mosler, Josef Beuys, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean Dubuffet, Kerry James Marshall, Maria Lassnig, Rem Koolhaas, Joachim Koester, Suzanne Lafont, Sigalit Landau, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Brassaï, Le Corbusier, Antonin Artaud, and so many more...

Very Good coy, light wear. Good dust jacket with some creasing and edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Carsten Höller Rosemarie Trockel Archigram Martin Kippenberger Archizoom Associati Art & Language Hans Haacke Samuel Beckett Franz West Andrea Zittel Heimo Zobernig Jean-Luc Godard Marcel Broodthaers Lygia Clark Jörg Herold Fischli & Weiss Dan Graham Robert Adams Peter Friedl Öyvind Fahlström Paweł Althamer Liam Gillick Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Ed van der Elsken Walker Evans Aldo van Eyck Siobhán Hapaska Reinhard Mucha Mariella Mosler Steve McQueen Chris Marker Lothar Baumgarten Kerry James Marshall Maria Lassnig Rem Koolhaas Joachim Koester Suzanne Lafont Sigalit Landau Helen Levitt Garry Winogrand Jean-Luc Moulène Hélio Oiticica Thomas Schütte Christian Philip Muller Gabriel Orozco Olaf Nicolai Michelangelo Pistoletto Gerhard Richter Marc Pataut Gordon Matta-Clark Matt Mullican Antoni Muntadas Heiner Goebbels William Kentridge Ulrike Grossarth Richard Hamilton Vito Acconci Raymond Hains Ecke Bonk Carl Michael von Hausswolff Lois Weinberger Carsten Höller Pier Paolo Pasolini Joseph Beuys Nancy Spero Le Corbusier Brassaï Jean Dubuffet Alvaro Siza Toyo Ito Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paulo Mendes Da Rocha John C. Portman Jr. Antonin Artaud Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine David Yana Milev Klaus Biesenbach Nancy Spector Hans-Ulrich Obrist Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Celan Amílcar Cabral Masao Miyoshi Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Jacques Rancière Tadao Sato Youssef Ishaghpour Josef Beuys Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rem Koolhaas Sandra Álvarez de Toledo Witold Gombrowicz Herve Joubert-Laurencin Jean-François Chevrier Marguerite Duras Edward Said Henri Alleg Pierre Vidal-Naquet Uwe Johnson Jerzy Grotowski James Clifford Primo Levi Pierre Clastres Andrea Branzi Fabrizio Gallanti Gérard Chaliand Stig Björkman Daniel Defert Saskia Sassen Benjamin Buchloh Paul Virilio Serge Daney Étienne Balibar Nadia Tazi and many others documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Conceptual Art Film / Video Sound / Music Painting Photography Ecology

Isa Genzken

2010, English / Italian / German
Softcover (plastic printed cover, fluro hair-tie), 88 pages (w. 40 page inserts, 1 fold-out poster), 26.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Mousse / Milan Walther König / Köln Museion / Bolzano

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The very quickly out-of-print, first, only edition of this great Isa Genzken book, published on the occasion of the artist’s first survey exhibition in an Italian museum, at Museion, Bolzano, 11/09/2010 – 16/01/2011.

This volume takes a radical departure from the standardised format of the retrospective catalogue. While still being lavishly illustrated and offering an in-depth look at the quest for the modern which has informed the radical and diverse oeuvre of Genzken for four decades, it also gives a sense of the tremendous influence and inspiration of her body of work for three generations of artists. Profusely illustrated with Genzken's works in glossy colour, work sections spanning here entire career are puncuated by artist contribution inserts from Lawrence Weiner, Simon Denny, Nick Mauss, Monica Bonvicini, Jutta Koether, Mark Leckey, Elizabeth Peyton, and Cerith Wyn Evans. Comes in printed thick-plastic jacket with very Genzken fluro hair-tie "binding".

Fine, almost As New copy.

File under: Cerith Wyn Evans Elizabeth Peyton Isa Genzken Jutta Koether Lawrence Weiner Liam Gillick Mark Leckey Monica Bonvicini Nick Mauss Simon Denny Letizia Ragaglia Mousse / Milan Walther König / Köln Museion / Bolzano Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art

Magali Reus

2017, English
Hardcover, 144 pages, 20.5 x 25 cm
Published by JRP Ringier / Zürich

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Texts by Kirsty Bell, Andrew Bonacina, Leontine Coelewij, Andrew Durbin, Liam Gillick, Beatrix Ruf

Dutch-born, London-based artist Magali Reus (born 1981) is one of the most acclaimed new voices in contemporary sculpture. Published for her exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, this is the first monograph on her work. It features her recent series (Parking, Lukes, Dregs, In Place Of and Leaves) and new sculptures created for the Stedelijk, plus an interview with Reus by curators Leontine Coelewij and Andrew Bonacina, and contributions by Stedelijk director Beatrix Ruf, artist Liam Gillick, art critic Kirsty Bell and writer Andrew Durbin. Renowned for her interest in the relationship between mass-produced objects such as fridges, padlocks and seating, and the human body in the context of today's digital society, Reus draws on a vast range of influences and references, from the domestic to the industrial.

File under: Liam Gillick Magali Reus Kirsty Bell Andrew Bonacina Leontine Coelewij Andrew Durbin Liam Gillick Beatrix Ruf JRP Ringier / Zürich Art Sculpture / Installation

e-flux journal reader 2009
Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood and Anton Vidokle

2009, English
Softcover, 232 pages, 10.8 x 17.8 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood and Anton Vidokle.
Contributions by Michael Baers, Luis Camnitzer, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Tom Holert, Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza, Marion von Osten, Raqs Media Collective, Dieter Roelstraete, Irit Rogoff, Sean Snyder, Hito Steyerl, Monika Szewczyk

Since conceptualism, the field of art has become increasingly accustomed to playing host to its own critique, and recent decades have found institutions engaged in self-critique as if by mandate. Important notions of legibility, autonomy, and critical engagement that were once necessary to carve out a space for a critic or critical art publication have transposed themselves onto artistic production proper, and are now considered to be of equal importance to artist, curator, institution, and engaged audience member alike.

This climate of disciplinary reconfiguration and geographic dispersal has made the art world a highly complex place—the objective position that once defined the role of a critic has been effectively replaced by a need to understand just how large and varied the whole thing has become. The urgent task has now become to engage the new intellectual territories in a way that can revitalize the critical vocabulary of contemporary art. Perhaps the most productive way of doing this is through a fresh approach to the function of an art journal as something that situates the multitude of what is currently available, and makes that available back to the multitude. The selection of essays included in this book seeks to highlight an ongoing topical thread that ran throughout the first eight issues of e-flux journal—a sequence of overlapping concerns passed on from one contribution to the next.
e-flux journal Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Design by Jeff Ramsey, cover artwork by Liam Gillick

File under: Liam Gillick Luis Camnitzer Raqs Media Collective Hito Steyerl Boris Groys Tom Holert Gean Moreno Marion von Osten Dieter Roelstraete Irit Rogoff Monika Szewczyk Michael Baers Ernesto Oroza Sean Snyder Sternberg Press / Berlin Theory / Essay Art SALE

Parallel Structures
David Pestorius / Liam Gillick

2002, English
Folding card, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Gertrude Contemporary / Melbourne David Pestorius / Brisbane

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Exhibition card produced to accompany "Parallel Structures", organised by David Prestorius at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 5 April — 4 May, 2002. Folding card featuring text on the exhibition from gallerist/curator David Pestorius to Gertrude Contemporary director Max Delaney. Exhibition featured the work of Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Matthys Gerber, Liam Gillick, Elizabeth Newman, Jens Haaning, Jenny Watson. Designed by Liam Gillick.

File under: Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley Janet Burchill Jennifer McCamley Matthys Gerber Liam Gillick Elizabeth Newman Jens Haaning Jenny Watson Gertrude Contemporary / Melbourne David Pestorius / Brisbane Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Painting Art Group Shows / Collections Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Artists’ Cocktails
by Ryan Gander

2013, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 224 pages, 9 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition of 2000,
Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Dent De Leone / London

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Artists’ Cocktails by Ryan Gander - A compendium of artists’ cocktails

with Åbäke, Allora & Calzadilla, Spencer Anthony, Cory Arcangel, Art & Language, Jesse Ash, Mary Aurory, Fiona Banner, David Batchelor, Justin Beal, Jacqueline Bebb, Vanessa Billy, Pierre Bismuth, Martin Boyce, Pavel Büchler, Dinos Chapman, Steve Claydon, Keren Cytter, Jeremy Deller, Joseph del Pesco, Anthony Discenza, Rose Duvall, Sean Edwards, Vivi Enkyo, Aston Ernest, Winnie Ernest, Abbé Faria, Claire Fontaine, Simon Fujiwara, Michael Fullerton, Martino Gamper, Ryan Gander, Mario Garcia Torres, Tom Gidley, Liam Gillick, Matt Golden, Rodney Graham, Irwin Green, Joseph Grigely, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Drew Heitzler, Anton Henning, Mark Hix, The Hut Project, Pierre Huyghe, Taka Izumi, Christian Jankowski, Alan Kane, Jacob Kassay, Gabriel Kuri, Tim Lee, Gabriel Lester, Benoît Maire, Raimundas Malašauskas, Kris Martin, Christian Matthiessen, Alan Michael, Haroon Mirza, Jonathan Monk, Jody Monteith, Sarah Morris, Olivier Mosset, Shahryar Nashat, John Henry Newton, Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Nicolai, Nishikawa, David Noonan, Roman Ondák, Pratchaya Phinthong, Tobias Rehberger, David Renggli, Amanda Ross-Ho, Eran Schaerf, David Shrigley, Lucy Skaer, Bob and Roberta Smith, Nedko Solakov, Haim Steinbach, Santo Sterne, Jack Strange, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Mark Titchner, Santo Tolone, Simon Turnbull, Uri Tzaig, Francis Upritchard, Yonatan Vinitsky, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lawrence Weiner, Terrance E. White, Bedwyr Williams, Jesse Wine, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Cerith Wyn Evans...

“I have something for you, I’ll send it over. You know for four years now I have been trying to propagate shiso and it hasn’t grown. I tried everything: freezing and thawing the seeds, leaving them in the dark for a year, different temperatures and humidity… The seeds Taro sent me in February came up no problem, just in fine soil with a sheet of paper over the pot outside, no special equipment or lights. Crazy. The kitchen garden at home is now being taken over by green shiso plants with huge leaves everywhere. We have a glut, as the English call it. Fearful of it not reseeding and growing next year I’ve been stripping the leaves and producing shiso sugar syrup and shiso-infused vodka. The vodka is unbelievably good! I thought of proposing it to ABSOLUT as a new flavour. We’ll see. Anyway, I have a bottle for you! ”
Extract from: [Extracts from… ] A conversation between Ryan Gander and Masako Hosoi

Edited by Ryan Gander, Phil Mayer with editorial assistance by Holly Featherstone, Barnie Page and Anna Stoppa.
Design by Åbäke with Delphine Bourit.

Out of print.

File under: Åbäke Abbé Faria Alan Kane Alan Michael Allora & Calzadilla Amanda Ross-Ho Anthony Discenza Anton Henning Art & Language Aston Ernest Bedwyr Williams Benoît Maire Bob and Roberta Smith Carl Michael von Hausswolff Carsten Nicolai Cerith Wyn Evans Christian Jankowski Christian Matthiessen Claire Fontaine Cory Arcangel David Batchelor David Noonan David Renggli David Shrigley Dinos Chapman Drew Heitzler Eran Schaerf Fiona Banner Francis Upritchard Gabriel Kuri Gabriel Lester Haim Steinbach Haroon Mirza Irwin Green Jack Strange Jacob Kassay Jacqueline Bebb Jeremy Deller Jesse Ash Jesse Wine Jody Monteith John Henry Newton Jonathan Monk Joseph del Pesco Joseph Grigely Justin Beal Keren Cytter Kris Martin Lawrence Weiner Liam Gillick Lucy Skaer Mario Garcia-Torres Mark Hix Mark Titchner Martin Boyce Martino Gamper Mary Aurory Matt Golden Michael Fullerton Nedko Solakov Nishikawa Olaf Nicolai Olivier Mosset Pavel Büchler Pierre Bismuth Pierre Huyghe Pratchaya Phinthong Raimundas Malašauskas Rirkrit Tiravanija Rodney Graham Roman Ondák Rose Duvall Ryan Gander Santo Sterne Santo Tolone Sarah Morris Sean Edwards Shahryar Nashat Sigurdur Gudmundsson Simon Fujiwara Simon Turnbull Spencer Anthony Taka Izumi Terrance E. White The Hut Project Tim Lee Tobias Rehberger Tom Gidley Uri Tzaig Vanessa Billy Vivi Enkyo Winnie Ernest Yonatan Vinitsky Steven Claydon Raimundas Malašauskas Dent De Leone / London Art Out-of-print / Rare SALE Group Shows / Collections

Draw it with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment

2012, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 21.5 x 10.5 cm
Published by Paper Monument / New York

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Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: the Art of the Art Assignment is a unique and wide-ranging anthology featuring essays, drawings, and assignments from over one hundred contributors including John Baldessari, William Pope.L, Mira Schor, Rochelle Feinstein, Bob Nickas, Chris Kraus, Liam Gillick, Amy Sillman, James Benning, and Michelle Grabner. Bringing together assignments, anti-assignments, and artworks from both teachers and students from a broad range of institutions, we hope it simultaneously serves as an archive and an instigation, a teaching tool and a question mark, a critique and a tribute.

File under: John Baldessari William Pope.L Liam Gillick Amy Sillman James Benning Michelle Grabner Rochelle Feinstein Mira Schor Bob Nickas Chris Kraus Liam Gillick Paper Monument / New York Art Theory / Essay SALE

Para-Platforms : On the Spatial Politics of Right-Wing Populism
Markus Miessen, Zoë Ritts (Eds.)

2019, English
Softcover, 204 pages, 13.5 x 20.2 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Contributions by Benjamin H. Bratton, Liam Gillick, Hannes Grassegger, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Angela Nagle, Nina Power, Patricia Reed, Konrad Renner, Slavs & Tatars, Jonas Staal, Hito Steyerl, Wolfgang Tillmans, Stephan Trüby, Christina Varvia (Forensic Architecture)

Para-Platforms investigates the social, spatial, and material reality of right-wing populism. Three case studies—presented in a symposium organized by Markus Miessen at the Gothenburg Design Festival in November 2017—form the core of this collection of essays: journalist Hannes Grassegger on Trump and Brexit; architectural theorist Stephan Trüby on spaces of right-wing extremism in Germany; and Christina Varvia on Forensic Architecture’s investigation of the murder of Halit Yozgat, a young German man of Turkish descent, at the hands of a far-right group in 2006. The presentations are reproduced along with the ensuing conversations with Miessen and the audience members.

An essay by design scholar Mahmoud Keshavarz opening the book discusses the capacity of design to create conditions for certain politics to occur. Among the other theoretical, artistic, and historical contributions in the reader, editor Zoë Ritts interviews artist Wolfgang Tillmans regarding his pro-EU poster series, the ongoing project truth study centre, and guest-edited volume What Is Different? The volume concludes with a comic by artist Liam Gillick animating a block of granite—culled from the Swedish quarry responsible for extracting the red granite intended for the Third Reich’s architectural ambitions—as the messiah of spatial and material politics.

Design by Sean Yendrys

File under: Slavs and Tatars Wolfgang Tillmans Hito Steyerl Liam Gillick Benjamin H. Bratton Liam Gillick Hannes Grassegger Mahmoud Keshavarz Angela Nagle Nina Power Patricia Reed Konrad Renner Slavs & Tatars Jonas Staal Hito Steyerl Wolfgang Tillmans Stephan Trüby Christina Varvia Markus Miessen Zoë Ritts Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior

Grey Flags
Edited by Bettina Funcke; curated by Anthony Huberman and Paul Pfeiffer

2006, English
Softcover, 375 pages, 35 x 25.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by CAPC / Bordeaux Sculpture Centre / New York

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Over-sized, long out-of-print Grey Flags catalogue edited by Bettina Funcke, published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name curated by Anthony Huberman and Paul Pfeiffer. Comprised of nineteen artists with significant individual differences, Grey Flags assembles a group of works that not only resist categorical branding, but also go on in different ways to challenge the very terms of the "arts-apparatus." The exhibition featured the work of John Armleder, Lutz Bacher, Helen Chadwick, Tacita Dean, Claire Fontaine, Liam Gillick, Piero Golia, Michael Krebber, Jonathan Monk, Gabriel Orozco, The Atlas Group / Walid Raad, Allen Ruppersberg, Seth Price, Wilhelm Sasnal, Karin Schneider, Shirana Shahbazi, Kelley Walker, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mario Ybarra Jr. and the 375 page exhibition catalogue compiled a sort-of reader/scrap book of bootlegged pages from other catalogues and zines, artworks, text excerpts etc. contributed by all involved. A unique and fascinating catalogue.

"When you stop talking and doing, and close your eyes, what comes to mind? Voices? Images? Feelings? Like landscape seen from a plane, these phenomena hover on a sublime verge between fascinating and boring. Well, that might be true of anything viewed from a distance: the stars, the sea, mountains, the horizon. And what of social phenomena? Same. On any forgotten record, it's in the filler songs that you find the blank, thoughtless strivings laid bare, production patterns of another day, secrets of the ornaments. [...]" - Seth Price

Fine copy, with light shelf wear.

File under: John Armleder Lutz Bacher Helen Chadwick Tacita Dean Claire Fontaine Liam Gillick Piero Golia Michael Krebber Jonathan Monk Gabriel Orozco Seth Price Walid Raad Allen Ruppersberg Wilhelm Sasnal Karin Schneider Shirana Shahbazi Kelley Walker Apichatpong Weerasethakul Mario Ybarra Jr. Bettina Funcke Anthony Huberman Paul Pfeiffer CAPC / Bordeaux Sculpture Centre / New York Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Film / Video Curatorial

Rainer Ganahl
Manhattan Marxism

2018, English
Softcover, 768 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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The artist Rainer Ganahl has been creatively adapting the writings of Karl Marx to his own work since the 1990s. The German philosopher’s ideas have galvanized projects such as Ganahl’s irreverent fashion show Commes des Marxists, a series of obscene food sculptures inspired by the “credit crunch” of 2008, and a Karl Marx fire extinguisher, which allows the thinker’s wisdom to be sprayed onto any conflict. There has never been a more fitting time, however, for the release of this book, which appears on the 10th anniversary of the global financial crisis, and 200 years after Marx’s birth. In more than 700 pages, Manhattan Marxism assembles essays, photos, and other documentation from dozens of Ganahl’s Marx-themed projects from the past decade.

Edited by Rachel Corbett, Rainer Ganahl
Contributions by Arthur Fink, Rainer Ganahl, Liam Gillick, Johan Hartle, Steve Lyons, Antonio Negri, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Design by HuM-Collective

File under: Rainer Ganahl Liam Gillick Arthur Fink Rainer Ganahl Liam Gillick Johan Hartle Steve Lyons Antonio Negri Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Fashion Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay SALE

The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism Part Three

2017, English
Softcover, 512 pages, 11.5 x 18.5 cm
Published by Archive Books / Berlin

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Contributions by Meena Alexander, Amanda Beech, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Ray Brassier, David Burrows, Tyler Coburn, Jacquelene Drinkall, Mark Fisher, Bronac Ferran, Matthew Fuller, Liam Gillick, Melanie Gilligan, Scott Lash and Anthony Fung, Lambros Malafouris, Anna Munster, Warren Neidich, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Luciana Parisi, John L. Protevi, Howard Slater, Kerstin Stakemeier, Ryan Trecartin, Marina Vishmidt.

The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism is an ongoing event structure composed of symposia, workshops, and publications. Our intention is to raise consciousness by disseminating information about cognitive capitalism in general and its associated discourses.
This third volume of The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism emerges from deliberations that took place during two different symposia. The first was a collaboration between Warren Neidich and Mark Fisher at the Department of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, titled The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism Part Three: The Cognitive Turn, and the second was an event organized in conjunction with the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, Noise and the Possibility of a Future. This book combines elements of both programs.
The previous two books examined the imminent subsumption of the economy by information technologies, resulting in a mutation of forms of post-Fordist capitalist accumulation. “Flexploitation” of labor processes and flexible specialization resulting from the evolving relation between management and labor, just-in-time production and consumption, rapid acceleration in the pace of product innovation, faster product turnover times, computer and robotic interventions an increase in the complexity of supply chains – all these combined to form the special assemblage that would define what we can now regard as the early phase of Cognitive Capitalism. The second volume started to sketch out its transformation from a form of subsumption characterized by immateriality to one that is speculative and material. This latter phase is the focus of the present volume, which concentrates on the plastic material brain, its hardware constituted by neurons and glial cells as well as its software, the dynamic rhythmicities that integrate electro-magnetic discharges along its circuits in response to events occurring inside and outside the skull – the body and its world. In this phase, the material brain in conjunction with the accelerated world with which it is imbricated becomes the site of an ontogenic battle between the forces of normalization and governmentalization on the one hand, and emancipation on the other, with consequences for the processes of individuation and collectivization.

Edited by Warren Neidich
Design by Archive Appendix

File under: Liam Gillick Ryan Trecartin Franco Berardi Meena Alexander Amanda Beech Ray Brassier David Burrows Tyler Coburn Jacquelene Drinkall Mark Fisher Bronac Ferran Matthew Fuller Liam Gillick Melanie Gilligan Scott Lash Anthony Fung Lambros Malafouris Anna Munster Warren Neidich Dimitris Papadopoulos Luciana Parisi John L. Protevi Howard Slater Kerstin Stakemeier Ryan Trecartin Marina Vishmidt Archive Books / Berlin Art Theory / Essay SALE

The Artist as Curator - An Anthology
Edited by Elena Filipovic

2017, English
Softcover, 416 pages, 21 x 28 cm
Published by Mousse / Milan Walther König / Köln

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With texts by Alexander Alberro, Monica Amor and Carlos Basualdo, Biljana Ciric, Ekaterina Degot, Elena Filipovic, Claire Grace, Anthony Huberman, Dean Inkster, Alhena Katsof, William Krieger, Elisabeth Lebovici, Ana Longoni, James Meyer, Isabelle Moffat, Nina Möntmann, Natalie Musteata, Sandra Skurvida, Dirk Snauwaert, Lucy Steeds, Monika Szewczyk, and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Edited by Elena Filipovic.

Taking that ontologically ambiguous thing we call “the exhibition” as a critical medium, artists have often radically rethought conventional forms of exhibition making. This anthology surveys seminal examples of such exhibitions from the postwar to the present, including rare documents and illustrations. It includes an introduction and the twenty essays that first appeared in Mousse, a newly commissioned afterword by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and two additional essays that appear here for the first time.

The publication focuses on the following artists: Avant-Garde, the Argentinean artist group - Mel Bochner - Marcel Broodthaers - Hank Bull, Shen Fan, Zhou Tiehai, Shi Yong, and Ding Yi - John Cage - Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, and the CalArt's Feminist Art Program - Collaborative Projects Inc. (Colab) - Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann, and Max Jorge Hinderer - Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno - Group Material - Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore - David Hammons - Martin Kippenberger - Mark Leckey - Goshka Macuga - Lucy McKenzie and Paulina Olowska - Hélio Oiticica - Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari - Martha Rosler - Avdey Ter-Oganyan - Philippe Thomas - Andy Warhol.

File under: Cosima von Bonin Group Material Marcel Broodthaers Martin Kippenberger Faith Wilding Mladen Stilinovic Sandra Orgel Judy Chicago Miriam Schapiro CalArt's Feminist Art Program Mel Bochner Hank Bull Shen Fan Zhou Tiehai Shi Yong Ding Yi John Cage Collaborative Projects Inc. (Colab) Alice Creischer Andreas Siekmann Max Jorge Hinderer Liam Gillick Philippe Parreno Richard Hamilton Victor Pasmore David Hammons Mark Leckey Goshka Macuga Lucy McKenzie Paulina Olowska Hélio Oiticica Walid Raad Akram Zaatari Martha Rosler Avdey Ter-Oganyan Philippe Thomas Andy Warhol Hans Ulrich Obrist Alexander Alberro Biljana Ciric Ekaterina Degot Elena Filipovic Claire Grace Anthony Huberman Dean Inkster Alhena Katsof William Krieger Elisabeth Lebovici Ana Longoni James Meyer Isabelle Moffat Nina Möntmann Natalie Musteata Sandra Skurvida Dirk Snauwaert Lucy Steeds Monika Szewczyk Kaelen Wilson-Goldie Monica Amor Carlos Basualdo Mousse / Milan Walther König / Köln Art Curatorial Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Feminism Group Shows / Collections

Work
Edited by Friederike Sigler

2017, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 145 x 210 mm
Published by Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Warhol’s Factory of the 1960s, Minimalism’s assembly-line aesthetics, conceptual and feminist concern with workers’ conditions in the 1970s—these are among the antecedents of a renewed focus on the work of art: labor as artistic activity, as artistic method and as object of artistic engagement. In 2002, the “Work Ethic” exhibition curated by Helen Molesworth at the Baltimore Museum of Art took its cue from recent art to spotlight this earlier era of artistic practice in which activity became as valid as, and often dispensed with, object-production. Revealed through this prism was “dematerialized” art’s close and critical relation to the emergent information age’s criteria of management, production and skill.

By 2015, the Venice Biennale reflected artists’ wider concern with global economic and social crises, centered on exploitative and precarious worlds of employment. Yet while art increasingly engages with human travail, work’s significance in itself is seldom addressed by critics. This anthology explicitly investigates work in relation to contemporary art, surveying artistic strategies that grapple with the complexities of being an art worker in the new economy, a postproducer, a collaborator, a fabricator, a striker, an ethical campaigner, or would-be transformer of labor from oppression to liberation.

Artists surveyed include
Pawel Althamer, Francis Alÿs, Marwa Arsanios, Chto Delat, Alice Creischer, Ana de la Cueva, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jeremy Deller, Maria Eichhorn, Harun Farocki, Claire Fontaine, Andrea Fraser, Liam Gillick, Melanie Gilligan, Gulf Labour Coalition, Tehching Hsieh, Lamia Joreige, Lee Lozano, Goshka Macuga, Teresa Margolles, Adrian Melis, Annette Messager, Gustav Metzger, Jean-Luc Moulène, Ahmet Ögüt, Philip Rizk, Martha Rosler, Tino Sehgal, Santiago Sierra, Tamas St. Auby, Mladen Stilinovic, W.A.G.E., Artur Zmijewski

Writers include
Claire Bishop, Luc Boltanski, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Sabeth Buchmann, Ève Chiapello, Kodwo Eshun, Silvia Federici, Isabelle Graw, Maurizio Lazzarato, Achille Mbembe, Antonio Negri, Jacques Rancière, Gerald Raunig, Dietmar Rübel, Paolo Virno, Joseph Vogl

About the Editor
Friederike Sigler is a researcher and lecturer at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden. She is the author of Work/Strike.

File under: Francis Alÿs Marwa Arsanios Chto Delat Alice Creischer Ana de la Cueva Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Jeremy Deller Maria Eichhorn Harun Farocki Claire Fontaine Andrea Fraser Liam Gillick Melanie Gilligan Gulf Labour Coalition Tehching Hsieh Lamia Joreige Lee Lozano Goshka Macuga Teresa Margolles Adrian Melis Annette Messager Gustav Metzger Jean-Luc Moulène Ahmet Ögüt Philip Rizk Martha Rosler Tino Sehgal Santiago Sierra Tamas St. Auby Mladen Stilinovic W.A.G.E. Artur Zmijewski Paweł Althamer Claire Bishop Luc Boltanski Julia Bryan-Wilson Sabeth Buchmann Ève Chiapello Kodwo Eshun Silvia Federici Isabelle Graw Maurizio Lazzarato Achille Mbembe Antonio Negri Jacques Rancière Gerald Raunig Dietmar Rübel Paolo Virno Joseph Vogl Friederike Sigler Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Film / Video Theory / Essay

Beyond Objecthood : The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968
by James Voorhies

2017, English
Hardcover, 288 pages, 16.5 x 23.8 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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In 1968, Robert Smithson reacted to Michael Fried's influential essay "Art and Objecthood" with a series of works called non-sites. While Fried described the spectator's connection with a work of art as a momentary visual engagement, Smithson's non-sites asked spectators to do something more: to take time looking, walking, seeing, reading, and thinking about the combination of objects, images, and texts installed in a gallery. In Beyond Objecthood, James Voorhies traces a genealogy of spectatorship through the rise of the exhibition as a critical form -- and artistic medium. Artists like Smithson, Group Material, and Michael Asher sought to reconfigure and expand the exhibition and the museum into something more active, open, and democratic, by inviting spectators into new and unexpected encounters with works of art and institutions. This practice was sharply critical of the ingrained characteristics long associated with art institutions and conventional exhibition-making; and yet, Voorhies finds, over time the critique has been diluted by efforts of the very institutions that now gravitate to the "participatory." Beyond Objecthood focuses on innovative figures, artworks, and institutions that pioneered the exhibition as a critical form, tracing its evolution through the activities of curator Harald Szeemann, relational art, and New Institutionalism. Voorhies examines recent artistic and curatorial work by Liam Gillick, Thomas Hirschhorn, Carsten Holler, Maria Lind, Apolonija Sustersic, and others, at such institutions as Documenta, e-flux, Manifesta, and Office for Contemporary Art Norway, and he considers the continued potential of the exhibition as a critical form in a time when the differences between art and entertainment increasingly blur.

James Voorhies is a curator and art historian of modern and contemporary art. He is Dean of Fine Arts and Associate Professor at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

File under: Apolonija Šušteršič Ben Vautier Carsten Höller Daniel Buren Elmgreen & Dragset Group Material Haus-Rucker-Co James Lee Byars Joseph Beuys Josephine Meckseper Liam Gillick Maria Lind Martha Rosler Michael Asher Nils Bech Richard Serra Robert Smithson Simon Fujiwara Thomas Hirschhorn Walter de Maria Wolfgang Tillmans James Voorhies The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Mousse 56
2006-2016 A Small Anthology

2017, English / Italian
Softcover, 440 pages, 18.5 x 26.5 cm
Published by Mousse Publishing / Milan

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10-year anniversary special issue: a selection of essays, interviews, conversations, and projects appeared in the first ten years of Mousse.

Featuring: Chantal Akerman, Cecilia Alemani, Jennifer Allen, Kai Althoff, Bruce Altshuler, Ed Atkins, Lutz Bacher, Darren Bader, Alex Bag, John Baldessari, Phyllida Barlow, Kirsty Bell, Andrew Berardini, Jonathan Berger, Michael Bracewell, Tom Burr, Maurizio Cattelan, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Stuart Comer, Lauren Cornell, Nicholas Cullinan, Roberto Cuoghi, Nick Currie, Massimo De Carlo, Gino De Dominicis, Gigiotto Del Vecchio, Simon Denny, Brian Dillon, Jimmie Durham, Dominic Eichler, Peter Eleey, Matias Faldbakken, Luigi Fassi, Elena Filipovic, Morgan Fisher, Isa Genzken, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Liam Gillick, Massimiliano Gioni, Isabelle Graw, Ed Halter, Jens Hoffmann, Judith Hopf, William E. Jones, Omar Kholeif, Alexander Kluge, Jiří Kovanda, William Leavitt, Elisabeth Lebovici, Andrea Lissoni, Helen Marten, Chus Martínez, Nick Mauss, Lucy McKenzie, Fionn Meade, Simone Menegoi, John Menick, Ute Meta Bauer, Massimo Minini, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Trevor Paglen, Stefania Palumbo, Francesco Pedraglio, Otto Piene, Laura Poitras, Elizabeth Price, Seth Price, Laure Prouvost, Alessandro Rabottini, Carol Rama, Filipa Ramos, Jason Rhoades, Dieter Roelstraete, Esperanza Rosales, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Fender Schrade, Stuart Sherman, Frances Stark, Jamie Stevens, Hito Steyerl, Sturtevant, Sabrina Tarasoff, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Oscar Tuazon, Giorgio Verzotti, Jan Verwoert, Francesco Vezzoli, Adrián Villar Rojas, Peter Wächtler, Ian Wallace, Klaus Weber, Cathy Wilkes, Christopher Williams, Jordan Wolfson.

Mousse is a bimonthly magazine published in Italian and English. Established in 2006, Mousse contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism, visual arts, and curating today, alternated with a series of distinctive articles in a unique tabloid format. Mousse keeps tabs on international trends in contemporary culture thanks to its city editors in major art capitals such as Berlin, New York, London, Paris, and Los Angeles.
Mousse (Mousse Publishing) is also publisher of catalogues, essays and curatorial projects, artist books and editions.

File under: Alex Bag Carol Rama Cathy Wilkes Chantal Akerman Christopher Williams Darren Bader Ed Atkins Frances Stark Helen Marten Hito Steyerl Ian Wallace Isa Genzken Jason Rhoades Jimmie Durham Jiri Kovanda John Baldessari Jordan Wolfson Judith Hopf Kai Althoff Laure Prouvost Lauren Cornell Liam Gillick Lucy Mckenzie Lutz Bacher Marc Camille Chaimowicz Matias Faldbakken Maurizio Cattelan Morgan Fisher Nick Mauss Oscar Tuazon Peter Wächtler Phyllida Barlow Seth Price Simon Denny Stuart Sherman Sturtevant Tom Burr William E. Jones Brian Dillon Cecilia Alemani Chus Martínez Dieter Roelstraete Dominic Eichler Elena Filipovic Filipa Ramos Fionn Meade Frances Stark Hans Ulrich Obrist Hito Steyerl Isabelle Graw Jan Verwoert Jennifer Allen Jens Hoffmann Jimmie Durham Jonathan Berger Kirsty Bell Lauren Cornell Liam Gillick Michael Bracewell Nicolaus Schafhausen Peter Eleey Peter Wächtler Seth Price Ute Meta Bauer Mousse Publishing / Milan Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Invisible Adversaries
edited by Lauren Cornell

2016, English
Hardcover, 312 pages, 22 x 29 cm
Published by Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York

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'Invisible Adversaries' was a major exhibition curated by Lauren Cornell and Tom Eccles inspired by the 1976 feature film by the radical Austrian artist Valie Export. The film presents a woman’s struggle to retain her sense of self against hostile alien forces that appear increasingly ubiquitous, colonizing the minds of all those around her. Motifs from the film – among them, architecture’s influence on identity; feminist critique; and the power of political fantasy – operate as filters through which to consider significant pieces from the Marieluise Hessel Collection.

With works by over 50 artists including Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Kai Althoff, Janine Antoni, Ida Applebroog, Phyllida Barlow, Lynda Benglis, Barbara Bloom, Paul Chan, Patty Chang, Anne Collier, Rineke Dijkstra, Trisha Donnelly, VALIE EXPORT, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, K8 Hardy, Rachel Harrison, Mona Hatoum, Roni Horn, Emily Jacir, Annette Kelm, Leigh Ledare, Nikki S. Lee, Sarah Lucas, Tala Madani, Christian Marclay, Helen Marten, Ulrike Müller, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Philippe Parreno, William Pope.L, Seth Price, Magali Reus, Rachel Rose, Thomas Ruff, Ilene Segalove, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Diane Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Jo Spence, Hito Steyerl, Tunga, Gillian Wearing, Martha Wilson, and Krzysztof Wodiczko, amongst others.

This 300-page publication designed by Zak Group with original essays by nine influential writers, scholars and artists: Zach Blas, Johanna Fateman, Nav Haq, Vít Havránek, J. Hoberman, Alex Kitnick, Tavia Nyong’O, Lauren O’Neill-Butler, and Julian Rose. The catalogue also includes original interviews with VALIE EXPORT, Trevor Paglen, and Hito Steyerl.

File under: Anne Collier Annette Kelm Barbara Bloom Bruce Nauman Chantal Akerman Christian Marclay Cindy Sherman Diane Simpson Eija-Liisa Ahtila Emily Jacir Gillian Wearing Hans-Peter Feldmann Helen Marten Hito Steyerl Ida Applebroog Ilene Segalove Isa Genzken Janine Antoni Jo Spence K8 Hardy Kai Althoff Krzysztof Wodiczko Leigh Ledare Liam Gillick Lorna Simpson Lynda Benglis Magali Reus Martha Wilson Mona Hatoum Nikki S. Lee Patty Chang Paul Chan Philippe Parreno Phyllida Barlow Rachel Harrison Rachel Rose Rineke Dijkstra Roni Horn Sarah Lucas Seth Price Stephen Shore Tala Madani Thomas Ruff Tony Oursler Trisha Donnelly Tunga Ulrike Müller Valie Export William Pope.L Alex Kitnick J. Hoberman Johanna Fateman Julian Rose Lauren Cornell Lauren O’Neill-Butler Nav Haq Tavia Nyong’o Vit Havranek Zach Blas Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

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

The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present
Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Shumon Basar (Eds.)

2015, English
Softcover, 256 pages, 11 x 18 cm
Published by Blue Rider Press / New York

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A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era. 50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in "The Medium is the Massage," Basar, Coupland and Obrist extend the analysis to today, touring the world that's redefined by the Internet, decoding and explaining what they call the 'extreme present'. THE AGE OF EARTHQUAKES is a quick-fire paperback, harnessing the images, language and perceptions of our unfurling digital lives. The authors offer five characteristics of the Extreme Present (see below); invent a glossary of new words to describe how we are truly feeling today; and 'mindsource' images and illustrations from over 30 contemporary artists. Wayne Daly's striking graphic design imports the surreal, juxtaposed, mashed mannerisms of screen to page. It's like a culturally prescient, all-knowing email to the reader: possibly the best email they will ever read. Welcome to THE AGE OF EARTHQUAKES, a paper portrait of Now, where the Internet hasn't just changed the structure of our brains these past few years, it's also changing the structure of the planet. This is a new history of the world that fits perfectly in your back pocket. 30+ artists contributions: With contributions from Farah Al Qasimi, Ed Atkins, Alessandro Bavo, Gabriele Basilico, Josh Bitelli, James Bridle, Cao Fei, Alex Mackin Dolan, Thomas Dozol, Constant Dullaart, Cecile B Evans, Rami Farook, Hans-Peter Feldmann, GCC, K-Hole, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Eloise Hawser, Camille Henrot, Hu Fang, K-Hole, Koo Jeong-A, Katja Novitskova, Lara Ogel, Trevor Paglen, Yuri Patterson, Jon Rafman, Bunny Rogers, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, Taryn Simon, Hito Steyerl, Michael Stipe, Rosemarie Trockel, Amalia Ulman, David Weir, Trevor Yeung.

File under: Amalia Ulman Bunny Rogers Camille Henrot Constant Dullaart Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Ed Atkins Eloise Hawser Hans-Peter Feldmann Hito Steyerl Hu Fang Jon Rafman K-Hole Katja Novitskova Liam Gillick Rosemarie Trockel Taryn Simon Yuri Pattison Douglas Coupland Hans Ulrich Obrist Shumon Basar Blue Rider Press / New York Art Theory / Essay

Maria Lind
Selected Writing

2010, English
Softcover, 416 pages (150 b/w ill.), 140 x 215 mm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by Brian Kuan Wood
Selections and responses by Beatrice von Bismarck, Ana Paula Cohen, Liam Gillick, Brian Kuan Wood, and Tirdad Zolghadr

Working in a number of contexts and capacities has shown Maria Lind to be a curator who, over time, has engaged in a rethinking of the art institution and the formats and methodologies connected with it, taking art itself as a starting point. Following on the various endgames outlined by institutional critique, Lind has forged paths out of hegemonic institutional regimes precisely by identifying other ways of working through them, from both inside and outside.

For Lind, writing is integral to her curatorial work. It is where she accounts for her decisions, explains her intention, justifies her interest, toys with new possibilities and develops new ideas, and recognizes historical precedents. It is where the craft of curating, already pointed out towards a public, finds another channel of articulation.

Selected Maria Lind Writing brings together twenty-two essays selected by Beatrice von Bismarck, Ana Paula Cohen, Liam Gillick, Brian Kuan Wood, and Tirdad Zolghadr.

The collection of essays spanning from 1997 to 2010 forms a tapestry of Lind's own interweaving interests, but also of those of a panel of readers invited by Lind to project their own concerns onto her corpus of writing. Essays on individual artists, monographic and group exhibitions, funding structures, new contexts and spatial paradigms, together comprise a rare opportunity to swivel a spotlight on its axis back towards a figure who always tries to aim it at what really matters.

Maria Lind is a curator and writer based in Stockholm. She was the director of the graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2008 to 2010. She was director of Iaspis in Stockholm 2005 to 2007 and from 2002 to 2004 was the director of Kunstverein München. From 1997 to 2001, Lind was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, where she was responsible for Moderna Museet Projekt. She was co-curator of Manifesta 2 in 1998. Lind has contributed widely to magazines and other publications, as well as to numerous exhibition catalogues. She was the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.

Design by Liam Gillick

File under: Liam Gillick Ana Paula Cohen Beatrice von Bismarck Brian Kuan Wood Liam Gillick Maria Lind Tirdad Zolghadr Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Curatorial Theory / Essay

Ant Farm 1976–1978 Australia
David Pestorius (ed.)

2014, English
Softcover, 155 pages (b&w ill.), 23.5 x 18.5 cm
Published by Kann Verlag / Frankfurt

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The San Francisco conceptualists Ant Farm (1968–1978) are rightly famous for their radical architecture (The House of the Century, 1973), iconic land art (Cadillac Ranch, 1974), and pioneering video/performance (Media Burn, 1975).
Much less well-known are Ant Farm’s projects in Australia. Yet it is undeniable that their 10 week visit to Australia in mid 1976 turned the group upside down in more ways than one. Importantly, the focus of their work shifted, with Oceania not only becoming an important base, but also a critical concept for the group. Central to this shift was perhaps Ant Farm’s most ambitious project, the Dolphin Embassy (1974–1978), and in January 1977 the group’s co-founder Doug Michels relocated to Sydney to establish a consulate there.
Until now, the historical accounts of Ant Farm have misrepresented and misunderstood the nature and extent of the group’s work in Australia. Equally, Ant Farm’s projects are invisible in any account of Australian art.
Ant Farm 1976–1978 Australia (KANN-Verlag, Frankfurt, 2014, 23.5 x 18.5 cm, b&w, 155 pages, edited by David Pestorius, with cover by Liam Gillick), is the first book devoted to the activities and critical reception of Ant Farm in Australia. It adopts a form favoured by Ant Farm — the photo-collage — and critically builds upon their artist’s book Dolphin Embassy (Log: 1976–1978), Sydney, Australia.

File under: Ant Farm Liam Gillick David Pestorius Kann Verlag / Frankfurt Architecture / Interior Art

Isa Genzken
Oil (German Pavilion in Venice, 2007)

2010, English
Hardcover, 212 pages, 25 x 32 cm
Published by DuMont / Köln

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For more than 30 years, the German artist Isa Genzken (born 1948) has been amassing a body of work in sculpture, installation, photography, collage and film. As one of Germany's brightest stars in the art world, she was well suited to represent her country at the Venice Biennale in 2007, an occasion which this volume commemorates. The title of this book and of her installation at the German pavilion plays with the word's associations as a global and globally contested resource, through a series of sculptural installations invoking in particular America's dependence on oil. This heavy book colourfully documents this major body of new works from Venice in all their glory, through vast, glossy installation shots and abundant sculptural details.

Published by DuMont Buchverlag

Edited by Juliane Joan Rebentisch. Text by Vanessa J. Müller, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Liam Gillick.

"Anyone who has followed Isa Genzken's work over the last 15 years has faced a series of provocations. Provocation in this case flows in more than one direction. We are clearly faced with a form of art production over and above any other cultural commentary—a resolute art production. Yet through this very focus we are also forced away from art to reconsider our relationship with the way power structures evade "true" form in the world—the way insidious power structures leave misleading actual conglomerations of meaning. On top of this, when we skirmish with a work by Isa Genzken, we must think about all the other art being produced in the world. We must consider this while keeping in mind all her prodding and distracting of the complex layering within the contemporary cultural production. An unpeeling of visual form that takes place via an attack on the complex, contradictory melded forms, surfaces, and semiotic flows that result from Genzken's particular ungluing and re-lamination of potentials, signifiers, materials and modes of refusal."

Liam Gillick, excerpted from Isa Genzken: Oil.

File under: Isa Genzken Liam Gillick Liam Gillick Nicolaus Schafhausen Vanessa Joan Müller DuMont / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation

Memoirs of the Twentieth Century
Samuel Madden, Liam Gillick

2012, English
Softcover, 306 pages, 15.5 x 23 cm
Published by Halmos / New York

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Samuel Madden, presented with Liam Gillick's "Prevision. Should the Future Help the Past?"

Written in 1733, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century is widely regarded to contain the earliest known conception of time-travel and, in particular, the first cognitive leap that would allow for a historicized image of the present as seen from the point of view of a distant future. Intriguingly, it is the text itself which is claimed to have traveled back in time and Madden has used this conceit to satirize his own period – tracing out its bureaucratic absurdities into a strange yet pointed vision of the late 20th century: a world politically fraught, overwhelmed with corruption and struggling to reconcile religious faith with scientific discovery.

The mysterious publishing history of the book imparts a certain weight to its claims. Printed anonymously in an edition of 1000, all but 10 copies were immediately destroyed for unknown reasons. It would only be printed once more in 1972 and until now Memoirs... has been extremely scarce – resulting in disappointingly little scholarship. This new edition includes Liam Gillick's Prevision. Should the Future Help the Past first published in 1999, the very year when Memoirs... leaves off. Gillick explores the socio-political implications inherent in strategic attitudes towards the future with a critical eye to the 'scenario planning' of late capitalism. It provides a prescient framework for reconsidering Madden's text now, just over ten years on since its fictive origination and apocalyptic conclusion.

To encourage further study, the complete text will be freely distributed electronically in conjunction with the limited edition hard-cover and a mass-market paperback.

File under: Liam Gillick Liam Gillick Samuel Madden Halmos / New York Theory / Essay Art SALE