World Food Books

Mike Kelley
Catholic Tastes

1993, English
Softcover, 256 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Whitney Museum / New York Harry N. Abrams / New York

$300.00 - Out of stock

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Still, and will probably always be, the best book on Mike Kelley. First edition, now very collectible. This definitive survey was published in 1993 in conjunction with "Mike Kelley", a travelling exhibition held at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, throughout 1994. Mike Kelley, one of the leading Californian artists of the 1990s, was a proponent of abject or pathetic art, an anti-aesthetic, anti-heroic movement, which criticized social and artistic issues through banality and humour. Exploring the work of this great and controversial performance artist and sculptor at the mid-way point in his career, this dense book presents thirteen essays, plus an introduction, discussing Kelley's projects, performances, and the ideas and diverse influences that motivate his work - contemporary art, rock and roll, social commentary and pop culture. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, with texts by Elizabeth Sussman, David Marsh, Richard Armstrong, Timothy Martin, Howard Singerman, Colin Gardner, Dennis Cooper & Casey McKinney, John Miller, Ralph Rugoff, Kim Gordon, Howard N. Fox, Diedrich Diederichsen, Jutta Koether, Martin Prinzhorn, Paul Schimmel, John G. Hanhardt. No less! Includes a bibliography and exhibition history. Catalogue designed by Lorraine Wild and ReVerb.

Highly recommended.

Very Good copy, tightly bound, no spine creases. Light cover edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Elizabeth Sussman David Marsh Richard Armstrong Timothy Martin Howard Singerman Colin Gardner Dennis Cooper & Casey McKinney John Miller Ralph Rugoff Kim Gordon Howard N. Fox Diedrich Diederichsen Jutta Koether Martin Prinzhorn Paul Schimmel John G. Hanhardt Whitney Museum / New York Harry N. Abrams / New York Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Film / Video

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

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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

Tony Conrad
Yellow Movies

2008, English / German
Softcover, 80 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 25 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln Greene Naftali / New York

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This now out-of-print Conrad catalogue was published on the occasion of two exhibitions, one at Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Cologne and the other at Greene Naftali in New York, that presented a group of works by artist, filmmaker and musician Tony Conrad entitled "Yellow Movies".
Alongside an introductory note by Tony Conrad that served as a press release for the two gallery exhibitions, the book contains a new text by Diedrich Diederichsen and a comprehensive documentation of all the "Yellow Movies" still in existence.

Designed by Yvonne Quirmbach, this wonderful catalogue was produced in collaboration with Galerie Daniel Buchholz and Greene Naftali, in an edition of 1,200 copies.

As new copy.

Anthony Schmalz "Tony" Conrad (March 7, 1940 – April 9, 2016) was an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer. Active in a variety of media since the early 1960s, he was a pioneer of both structural film and drone music. He performed and collaborated with a wide range of artists over the course of his career, most prominently the 1960s New York experimental music collective Theatre of Eternal Music, also known as The Dream Syndicate.

Yellow Movies was a project of Conrad's in 1973. It consists of 20 "movies," which are square frames painted in black house paint onto large pieces of photographer's paper. Conrad's concept came from a continued attempt at pushing the framework of film, and his interest in engaging the audience in long spaces of time. He wanted to make a film that would last 50 years, but knew that "normal materials" could not last that long, so he created a whole new conceptual stratagem for Yellow Movies. The "emulsion" is painted on, and the movies take their own course over time, changing very slowly.

File under: Tony Conrad Diedrich Diederichsen Galerie Buchholz / Köln Greene Naftali / New York Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Sound / Music

Parkett Vol. 19 (1989)
Martin Kippenberger / Jeff Koons issue

1989, English / German
Softcover, 200 pages, 25.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Parkett / Zürich

$100.00 - In stock -

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1989 issue of Parkett (Vol. 19), deluxe issue created in collaboration with artists Martin Kippenberger and Jeff Koons, lavishly illustrated with both artist's works alongside texts by with texts by Klaus Kertess, Burke & Hare, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Glenn O’Brien, Diedrich Diederichsen, Patrick Frey, Martin Prinzhorn, Bice Curiger. Anselm Stalder designed the insert. Also in this issue: exclusive Gerhard Richter interview, Annemarie Hürlimann “In Between,” Hanna Humeltenberg “The Magic of Reality,” on Thomas Ruff, Felix Philipp Ingold “The Speaking Image in Rémy Zaugg’s work.” Iwona Blazwick and Robert Gober are the authors of the Cumulus from Europe and America, in the Balkon Parkett celebrates its fifth anniversary.

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.

File under: Martin Kippenberger Jeff Koons Robert Gober Rémy Zaugg Gerhard Richter Thomas Ruff Klaus Kertess Glenn O'Brien Jean-Christophe Ammann Bice Curiger Diedrich Diederichsen Patrick Frey Martin Prinzhorn Anselm Stalder Felix Philipp Ingold Iwona Blazwick Parkett / Zürich Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Pop Art Conceptual Art Photography

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

$80.00 - Out of stock

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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

The Invention of the Neue Wilde
Painting and Subculture around 1980

2019, English / German
Softcover, 436 pages, 17 x 23.5 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln Ludwig Forum / Aachen

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The Invention of the Neue Wilde aims to put a new perspective on the phenomena of the so-called ‘Neue Wilde’ (new Fauves), which was a term used in Germany for neo-expressionism: a movement which saw the re-emergence of expressive painting in the late 1970s and 1980s. Its most famous protagonists include Martin Kippenberger, Werner Büttner, Salome and Walter Dahn.

Instead of focusing on the production of paintings by those involved – and a corresponding catalogue of these paintings – it is much more interested in the emergence of the painting boom out of potent interplay between artists, gallerists, collectors and art historians. Here the focus is especially on personal backgrounds and the context in which painters worked.

The argument shows that the artistic practices of the ‘Neuen Wilden’ had little to do with a generalised ‘return’ to panel painting and thus to a traditional concept of art. Painting was in fact embedded in an extended network of artistic production, which was particularly characterised by a destabilisation in the division between high and popular culture as well as by various media, genres and collaborative forms of praxis.

Hitherto neglected photographic and documentary material as well as artists’ posters, records, newspapers, video works and artists’ books testify to the artists’ experimental bent on one hand, their proximity to self-organised, subcultural phenomenon, such as the punk or new wave scenes of the 1980s on the other. On this basis, the much-described ‘return’ to painting can be exposed as a hugely simplified narrative, while sketching out a complex image of the situation around 1980.

Artists: Hans Peter Adamski, Peter Bömmels, Werner Büttner, Luciano Castelli, Walter Dahn, Jiÿí Georg Dokoupil, Rainer Fetting, G. L. Gabriel-Thieler, Anne Jud, Martin Kippenberger, Helmut Middendorf, Christa Näher, Hilka Nordhausen, Markus Oehlen, Brigitta Rohrbach, Salomé, Bettina Semmer, Bettina Sefkow, Claudia Skoda, Rolf von Bergmann, Bernd Zimmer, and others.

Includes texts by Thomas Bayrle, Andreas Beitin, Werner Büttner, Diedrich Diederichsen, Catherine Dossin, Brigitte Franzen, Ramona Heinlein, Christian Höller, Katrin Köpper

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, The Invention of the Neue Wilde: Painting and Subculture around 1980 at Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (12 October 2018 –10 March 2019).
English and German text.

File under: Martin Kippenberger Werner Büttner Salome Walter Dahn Hans Peter Adamski Peter Bömmels Luciano Castelli Jiří Georg Dokoupil Rainer Fetting G. L. Gabriel-Thieler Anne Jud Helmut Middendorf Christa Näher Hilka Nordhausen Markus Oehlen Brigitta Rohrbach Bettina Semmer Bettina Sefkow Claudia Skoda Rolf von Bergmann Bernd Zimmer Benjamin Dodenhoff Ramona Heinlein Thomas Bayrle Andreas Beitin Werner Büttner Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine Dossin Brigitte Franzen Christian Höller Katrin Köpper Walther König / Köln Ludwig Forum / Aachen Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections

Cosima von Bonin
Feelings

2024, English / German
Softcover, 224 pages, 28 x 22 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

$85.00 - Out of stock

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A richly illustrated catalogue, published on occasion of the exhibition ‘Cosima von Bonin: feelings’, 21 Mar – 9 Jun 2024, Schirn, Frankfurt, in which the artist juxtaposes recent works never shown in Germany before with familiar pieces. Works on view at Schirn include sculptures, installations, performances, and a selection of her characteristic ‘Lappen.’

Cosima von Bonin creates transformations of the everyday, drawing on numerous references from pop culture, film, fashion, music and art. In her installations, exhausted soft toys, soft fences, rockets and textile images or cartoon figures like Daffy Duck or Bambi populate the space.

For this catalogue, Katharina Dohm introduces the exhibition, Diedrich Diederichsen illuminates the toy with its various parameters, Clara Drechsler gets to the bottom of the figure of Daffy Duck and its connections to Cosima von Bonin.

English and German text.

File under: Cosima von Bonin Diedrich Diederichsen Katharina Dohm Clara Drechsler Walther König / Köln Sculpture / Installation Art Textiles

ECM - A CULTURAL ARCHAEOLOGY

2012, English
Hardcover (faux leather w. illustrated obi-strip), 304 pages, 23 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Prestel / Munich

$220.00 - Out of stock

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Rare English edition of the lavish hardcover catalogue to the critically-acclaimed ECM exhibition at Munich’s Haus der Kunst in 2012, and fast out-of-print. As stunning and complex as the music it celebrates, this book presents essays, rare photographs, archival material, film stills, original album artwork, and artworks that pay tribute to one of the world's most daring and innovative record labels. Founded by the legendary producer Manfred Eicher in 1969, a moment when contemporary music was being redefined across all genres, ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) aimed to bring jazz, improvised, and written music out of the studio and into living rooms around the world. ECM's productions set new standards in sonic complexity, recording some of the world's most extraordinary music and it's enormous stable of artists includes some of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, such as Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Steve Reich, Carla Bley, Meredith Monk, Marion Brown, Codona, and Art Ensemble of Chicago - along with music from the New Series that includes Arvo Part's choral work as well as works by Komitas Vardapet and George Gurdjieff. This comprehensive volume showcases ECM's cultural breadth, not just in the music world but also within the broader artistic universe. It highlights aspects of African-American music of the 1960s in Europe at the height of the American Civil Rights Era, as well as the changing relationships between musicians, music, and listeners. Lavishly illustrated with essays by Diedrich Diederichsen, Okwui Enwezor, Kodwo Eshun, Renée Green, Markus Müller, Wolfgang Sandner, and Jürg Stenzl, the book also contains a comprehensive chronology and discography of the ECM label, and biographies of artists and authors, as well as an extensive round-table talk with Manfred Eicher, Okwui Enwezor, Steve Lake, Karl Lippegaus, and Markus Müller. The most illuminating book ever published on the legendary label, and highly recommended.

Amongst the many artists included in the book are Jan Garbarek, Don Cherry, Nana Vasconcelos, Eberhard Weber, Gary Burton, Meredith Monk, Chick Corea, Wolfgang Dauner, Carla Bley, Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, Pat Metheny, John McLaughlin, Evan Parker, Annette Peacock, Gary Peacock, Terje Rypdal, Ralph Towner, and so many more.

Very Good-Fine copy with only light edge wear to heavy covers and light wear to obi-strip, depicting Don Cherry on the front and the Art Ensemble of Chicago on the verso.

File under: Renée Green Jan Garbarek Don Cherry Nana Vasconcelos Eberhard Weber Gary Burton Meredith Monk Chick Corea Wolfgang Dauner Carla Bley Keith Jarrett Paul Bley Pat Metheny John McLaughlin Evan Parker Annette Peacock Gary Peacock Terje Rypdal Ralph Towner Diedrich Diederichsen Okwui Enwezor Kodwo Eshun Renée Green Markus Müller Wolfgang Sandner Jürg Stenzl Prestel / Munich Art Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater

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

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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

Aesthetics of Pop Music
by Diedrich Diederichsen

2023, English
Softcover, 176 pages, 20.67 x 12.69 cm
Published by Polity / US

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In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that pop music is not so much a form of music but rather a constellation of different media channels, social spaces and behavoural systems, of which music is only part. As a constellation, pop music relates to other forms of music – popular, classical or folk – in the way that photography relates to painting, or cinema to theatre. Its own logic of attraction is based less on compositions and the expression of subjectivity and more on indexicality, real or pseudo-involuntary effects as recorded by sound technologies, and on studio discipline and staging, and hence on performance. Pop music came into existence when recipients became involved via a range of diverse and decentralized outlets like TV, transistor radio, 7"" singles, glossy magazines and jukeboxes in public spaces. They had to create a virtual unity out of these heterogeneous outputs in a process of active reception. Experiencing pop music is more than an act of listening: it is immersing oneself in an alternative ontological regime.

By elaborating his innovative account of pop music as a constellation, Diederichsen develops a theory of pop music that distinguishes itself from sociology, cultural studies, media studies and ethnography while at the same time drawing on and encompassing them all.

Diedrich Diederichsen is Professor of Theory, Practice and Communication of Contemporary Art at the Vienna Academy for Fine Arts.

‘Diedrich Diederichsen’s book presents itself as a rigorous study of pop music considered as a thing in itself. That it is. But then you turn what seems to be a predictable corner and find yourself ambushed by sly humour, playfulness, a willingness to place large analytical bets on what seem to be slim chances. The book is filled with trap doors which open up again and again.’—Greil Marcus, author of Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century

‘Diedrich Diederichsen is an always compelling analyst of pop and rock music across all its many genres, and Aesthetics of Pop Music sheds new light on the capacities, identities and meanings of the form.’—Michael Bracewell, author of England is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie

File under: Diedrich Diederichsen Polity / US Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Klangkunst

1996, English
Hardcover (w. CD), 304 pages, 31 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Prestel / Munich

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First 1996 hardcover edition (with CD) of Klangkunst, published by Prestel and edited by Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and Helga de la Motte-Haber. Catalogue for the landmark sound art festival, Sonambiente – Festival für Hören und Sehen, held in August—September 1996 in Berlin, curated by Matthias Osterwold, Georg Weckwerth, and Christian Kneisel and named after the American designer Harry Bertoia’s sound-sculpture studio. Part of the Akademie der Künste's tricentennial celebration, Sonambiente 1996 presented the most comprehensive survey to date of contemporary international sound art, with works by more than 100 participating artists at more than 20 venues in Berlin's Mitte district. For nearly one month the city of Berlin was overflowing with the sounds of sound art. This book accompanied this inaugural edition, heavily illustrated throughout and featuring chronology and texts by Helga de la Motte-Haber, Sabine Breitsameter, Volker Straebel, Michael Glasmeier, R. Murray Schafer, Douglas Kahn, Golo Föllmer, Gisela Baurmann, Georg Weckwerth, André Ruschkowski, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Paul DeMarinis, Dieter Daniels, Heiner Büld, Peter Roloff, Manfred Mixner, Gottfried Hattinger, Diedrich Diederichsen, and many more, plus illustrated chapter dedicated to the artists featured, including Henning Christiansen, Alvin Lucier, Christian Marclay, Achim Freyer Ensemble, Alvin Curran, Paul Fuchs, Brian Eno, Terry Fox, Zoro Babel, Matt Heckert, Fatima Miranda, David Moss, Wolfgang Rihm, Klaus Vom Bruch, Ensemble 13, Dieter Schnebel, Laetitia Sonami, Mark Trayle, Wada Junko, Hans Peter Khun, Laurie Anderson, Sam Auinger, Bruce Odland, Andres Boshard, Nicolas Collins, Paul De Marinis, Louis-Philippe Demers, Bill Vorn, Ulrich Eller, Paul Fuchs, Hans Gierschik, Gün, Josefine Günschel, Felix Hess, Gary Hill, Stephan Von Huene, Robert Jacobsen, Arsenije Jovanovic, Rolf Julius, Christina Kubisch, Hans Peter Kuhn, Ron Kuivila, Bernhard Leitner, Robin Minard, Gordon Monahan, Max Neuhaus, Ed Osborn, Roberto Paci Dalò, Isabella Bordoni, Nam June Paik, Paul Panhuysen, Yufen Qin, Martin Riches, Don Ritter, David Rokeby, Nicola Sani, Mario Sasso, Sarkis, Leo Schatzl, Kyra Stratmann, Suzuki Akio, Ana Torfs, Trimpin, Peter Vogel... and many more.

Fine—As New copy with CD present and unplayed (many of the first edition were not issued with the CD, available only as an additional purchase).

File under: Henning Christiansen Alvin Lucier Christian Marclay Achim Freyer Ensemble Alvin Curran Paul Fuchs Brian Eno Terry Fox Zoro Babel Matt Heckert Fatima Miranda David Moss Wolfgang Rihm Klaus Vom Bruch Ensemble 13 Dieter Schnebel Laetitia Sonami Mark Trayle Wada Junko Hans Peter Khun Laurie Anderson Sam Auinger Bruce Odland Andres Boshard Nicolas Collins Paul De Marinis Louis-Philippe Demers Bill Vorn Ulrich Eller Hans Gierschik Gün Josefine Günschel Felix Hess Gary Hill Stephan Von Huene Robert Jacobsen Arsenije Jovanovic Rolf Julius Christina Kubisch Hans Peter Kuhn Ron Kuivila Bernhard Leitner Robin Minard Gordon Monahan Max Neuhaus Ed Osborn Roberto Paci Dalò Isabella Bordoni Nam June Paik Paul Panhuysen Yufen Qin Martin Riches Don Ritter David Rokeby Nicola Sani Mario Sasso Sarkis Leo Schatzl Kyra Stratmann Suzuki Akio Ana Torfs Trimpin Peter Vogel Helga de la Motte-Haber Sabine Breitsameter Volker Straebel Michael Glasmeier R. Murray Schafer Douglas Kahn Golo Föllmer Gisela Baurmann Georg Weckwerth André Ruschkowski Jean-Yves Bosseur Paul DeMarinis Dieter Daniels Heiner Büld Peter Roloff Manfred Mixner Gottfried Hattinger Diedrich Diederichsen Matthias Osterwold Christian Kneisel Prestel / Munich Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Conceptual Art

Frequenzen (Hz) / Frequencies (Hz): Audiovisuelle Raume / Audio-Visual Spaces
Book + CD

2002, English / German
Softcover w. audio cd, 208 pages, 21.2 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Schirn Kunsthalle / Frankfurt Hatje Cantz / Berlin

$30.00 - Out of stock

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The fast out-of-print hardcover catalogue with CD published to accompany the unique exhibition Frequenzen (Hz) / Frequencies (Hz): Audiovisuelle Raume / Audio-Visual Spaces, at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main February 8—March 28, 2002. Edited by Max Hollein and Jesper N. Jørgensen, with texts by Daniel Birnbaum, Nicolas Bourriaud, Will Bradley, Diedrich Diederichsen, Jesper N. Jørgensen, Blazenka Perica, and Martin Pesch.

Frequencies [Hz] presents current positions of contemporary artists who work with sound within the context of visual art. The publication features works of sculptural and visual art alongside specific, often "minimalistic" installations and interventions in which employ sounds or electronic experiments with sound that impact upon the perception of architecture or otherwise influence the social components of individual experience. Beyond the scope of the defining non-material characteristics of sound, sound becomes a formal material, a kind of audible sculpture accompanied by discourse on its constructive, societal, philosophical, and emotional aspects. The use of sound in visual art is closely linked with the development of strategies involved in sculpture, installations, and interdisciplinary art forms. It profits from the technology of the new media. Thus the participating artists reflect not only upon the influence of new technological media on visual art and culture but upon the institutional context and the situation that evolves between the work of art and the viewer.

The artists: Knut Åsdam, Mark Bain, Angela Bulloch, Farmersmanual, Tommi Grönlund, Petteri Nisunen, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Ryoji Ikeda, Ann Lislegaard, Carsten Nicolai, Daniel Pflumm, Franz Pomassl, Ultra-red, Mika Vainio.

Texts in English and German.

File under: Knut Åsdam Mark Bain Angela Bulloch Farmersmanual Tommi Grönlund Petteri Nisunen Carl Michael von Hausswolff Ryoji Ikeda Ann Lislegaard Carsten Nicolai Daniel Pflumm Franz Pomassl Ultra-red Mika Vainio Nicolas Bourriaud Will Bradley Diedrich Diederichsen Jesper N. Jørgensen Blazenka Perica Martin Pesch Daniel Birnbaum Max Hollein Schirn Kunsthalle / Frankfurt Hatje Cantz / Berlin Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Conceptual Art

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

Christopher Williams
Program. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 10)

2010, English / Norwegian
Softcover, 80 pages, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Bergen Kunsthall / Norway

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For over 20 years Christopher Williams has worked in the field between photography as art and the application of the photographic medium to documentation, advertising, and journalism. The works involve volumes of such subtexts and themes, which are rarely fully apparent, but are concealed behind layer upon layer of circumstances and references, connotations, and background stories. Williams is a decided storyteller, and builds up his narratives by way of an almost essayistic juxtaposition of photographs that stand in relation – not directly obvious – with one another.

The exhibition in Bergen Kunsthall was the first solo presentation of Williams's work in Scandinavia and the title hints at a specific angle of approach to the complex network of connections. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle suggests a course of lessons that covers the industrial preconditions of the spread of photography, and which can in turn be applied to society in a larger perspective. The accumulation of loosely related events in European culture (decolonization, industrialization, the revolution of ‘68) is paralleled with inventions from the same era which have influenced photographic technology. The same title has been used for several exhibitions in recent years, but often with an addition that indicates that each new exhibition is a new experiment: a new revision. The way the titles begin with “For Example” also indicates the same experimental attitude.

The exhibition in Bergen Kunsthall was not a retrospective in the traditional sense, but brought out various aspects of the artistic oeuvre through a selection of both recent photographs and older works. The exhibition itself thus constituted a new revision of Williams’s ongoing project.

The exhibition catalogue collects, for the first time, a selection of Williams’s own writing in the form of press releases for recent exhibitions, each containing only minor changes from one exhibition to the next. The book also presents two new essays on the work of Christopher Williams by John Kelsey and Diedrich Diederichsen.

Designed by Christopher Williams and Petra Hollenbach.

In the 1970s, Christopher Williams studied at the California Institute of the Arts under the first wave of West Coast conceptual artists, including John Baldessari and Douglas Huebler, only to become one of his generation’s leading conceptualists. Williams’s work is a critical investigation of the medium of photography and more broadly the vicissitudes of industrial culture, in particular its structures of representation and classification. Using the process of reproduction as a point of entry, the artist manipulates the conventions of advertising, the superficiality of surface, and ultimately the history of Modernism. Deeply political, historical, and sometimes personal, the photographs are meant to evoke a subtle shift in our perception by questioning the communication mechanisms and aesthetic conventions that influence our understanding of reality.

Now out-of-print.

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The Black City
by Hubert Fichte

2018, English
Hardcover, 368 pages, 12.5 x 19 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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“Fichte did away with the opposition between objective and poetic writing—his heightened objectivity becomes poetic, his poetry journalistic. He wrote to fight against bigotry and provincialism, and developed approaches in the 1970s that are discussed today in queer studies and postcolonialism.”
—Diedrich Diederichsen

The Black City is a portrait of New York City written by Hubert Fichte between 1978 and 1980. One of Germany’s most important postwar authors, Fichte researched the city as the center of the African diaspora, conducting interviews and composing essays about syncretism in culture and the arts, material living conditions in the city, and political and individual struggles based on race, class, and sexuality. His interview partners include Michael Chisolm, arts educator and coordinator of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition; German émigré and artist Lil Picard; photographer Richard Avedon; Léopold Joseph, publisher of the exile newspaper Haiti Observateur; and Teiji Ito, composer and Vodou initiate. The book opens with notes on an exhibition of Haitian art at the Brooklyn Museum, and closes with a self-reflective literary analysis of Herodotus, the first white European to write extensively of his travels and (desirous) encounters in Africa.

Often compared to the work of Jean Genet and Kathy Acker, Fichte’s novels and nonfiction are exuberant and erudite, contesting the stylistic and ethnographic norms of the time to locate a “utopic potential” for poetic and political revolution in the cultural heritage and contemporary life of the African diaspora. Fichte’s writing in The Black City provocatively exposes the complexities of its author’s subjectivity in a manner that underscores the singularity of his writing, while prompting questions about how notions of exploitation, authority, and authenticity manifest themselves in pseudo-ethnographic practices. Translated into English for the first time, The Black City is part of Fichte's multivolume experimental literary cycle, The History of Sensitivity, which was left unfinished due to his untimely death in 1986.

Foreword by Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke
With photographs by Leonore Mau
Design by Ronnie Fueglister
Translated by Adam Siegel with Max Bach

Published in conjunction with the project “Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology,” a collaboration between the Goethe-Institut and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, supported by S. Fischer Stiftung and S. Fischer Verlag.

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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

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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

Cybernetics of The Poor
Edited by Diedrich Diederichsen and Oier Etxeberria

2021, English
Softcover, 264 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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An examination of the relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections, with works that uses the powerlessness of art.

Cybernetics of the Poor examines the relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections in the past and present. From the late 1940s on, the term cybernetics began to be used to describe self-regulating systems that measure, anticipate, and react in order to intervene in changing conditions. Initially relevant mostly in the fields of administration, planning, criminology, and early ecology, under digital capitalism cybernetics has since become an economic factor (particularly in the realm of big data). In such a cybernetic totality, art must respond to a new situation: a cybernetics of the poor.

Cybernetics of the Poor presents work that uses the powerlessness of art—its poverty—vis-à-vis the cybernetic machine to propose countermodels: work that is both recent and historical by artists who believed in cybernetics as a participatory, playful practice or were pioneers in delineating a counter-cybernetics. How much of what Thomas Pynchon termed “counterforce” exists within art when it is conceived as a cybernetics of the poor?

Texts by Sabeth Buchmann, Mercedes Bunz, Diedrich Diederichsen, Oier Etxeberria, Harun Farocki
With artistic contributions by Agency, Ana De Almeida, Alicja Rogalska & Vanja Smiljanić, Eleanor Antin, Cory Arcangel, Elena Asins, Paolo Cirio, Coleman Collins, Hanne Darboven, Jon Mikel Euba, Michael Hakimi, Douglas Huebler, Gema Intxausti, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Mike Kelley, Ferdinand Kriwet, Agnieszka Kurant, Mario Navarro, Adrian Piper, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Heinrich Riebesehl, Pedro G. Romero, Constanze Ruhm, Jörg Schlick, Camila Sposati, Kathrin Stumreich, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Tanja Widmann, Robert Adrian X

Diedrich Diederichsen
Diedrich Diederichsen is a German author, music journalist, and cultural critic. He is one of Germany's most renowned intellectual writers at the crossroads of the arts, politics, and pop culture.

Oier Etxeberria
Oier Etxeberria is a Basque visual artist and musician. He is head of the Visual Arts at CICC Tabakalera.

File under: Agency Ana De Almeida Alicja Rogalska Vanja Smiljanić Eleanor Antin Cory Arcangel Elena Asins Paolo Cirio Coleman Collins Hanne Darboven Jon Mikel Euba Michael Hakimi Douglas Huebler Gema Intxausti Kameelah Janan Rasheed Mike Kelley Ferdinand Kriwet Agnieszka Kurant Mario Navarro Adrian Piper Lili Reynaud-Dewar Heinrich Riebesehl Pedro G. Romero Constanze Ruhm Jörg Schlick Camila Sposati Kathrin Stumreich Isidoro Valcárcel Medina Tanja Widmann Robert Adrian X Diedrich Diederichsen Oier Etxeberria Sabeth Buchmann Mercedes Bunz Harun Farocki Sternberg Press / Berlin Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Sound / Music Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Art

Texte Zur Kunst #115
SEPTEMBER 2019 "LITERATURE"

2019, English / German
Softcover, 272 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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In the current issue of Texts on Art, "Literature," we explore the emergence of the genre of "autofiction": a field in literature that has been taken up between the formally distinct categories of fiction and autobiography. Annie Ernaux, Rachel Cusk, Deborah Levy, among others, whose works are exemplary in developing the form of writing in which the fictitious ego merges with the voices of others, where these voices are potentially in the social more generally.

ISSUE NO. 115 / SEPTEMBER 2019 "LITERATUR"
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 PREFACE
 BETWEEN YOU AND ME / A Correspondence on Autofiction in Contemporary Literature between Isabelle Graw and Brigitte Weingart
 WOMAN AS SUBJECT OR EXEMPLARY OF HER KIND / A Conversation between Maija Timonen and Rachel Cusk
 CLAUDE HAAS ON - THE DEMISE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN THE WHIRL OF AUTOFICTION. OR: REALITY TODAY
 SURRENDER AS FREEDOM / Interview with Enis Maci by Aram Lintzel
PETER REHBERG  - QUEER AUTOFICTION AS BODY PROTOCOL
DIRK VON LOWTZOW SOME QUESTIONS FOR LEÏLA SLIMANI
LEANDER SCHOLZ - LITERATURE OF WORKING-CLASS CHILDREN
JUTTA KOETHER -  WHEN YOU PAINT APPLES, DO YOU ALSO FEEL YOUR BREASTS AND KNEES BECOMING APPLES?
NEW DEVELOPMENT
EMPIRE OF ETHER / Colin Lang on the Advent of Drone Exhibitions
ROTATION
LIFE PRESERVER / Sven Lütticken on Alice Creischer’s “In the Stomach of the Predators: Writings and Collaborations”
KLANG KÖRPER
PROTO-WHATEVER-THIS-NEXT-PHASE-IS / Annika Haas über Holly Herndon in der Volksbühne Berlin und im Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel
REVIEWS
 BLUE CUBES: VOLLGELAUFENE VOLUMEN / Diedrich Diederichsen über die 58. Biennale in Venedig
 THE POWER OF NO / Eva Díaz on the Whitney Biennial 2019
 GLOBAL SALE / Simon Baier über El Anatsui im Haus der Kunst, München
 TO GIVE AND GIVE SUN / Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu on Cecilia Vicuña at Witte de With, Rotterdam
 FREE WILLY / Mikael Brkic on Jana Euler at Galerie Neu, Berlin
UNDERSTANDING THAT EVERYONE IS NOT UNDERSTANDING EVERYTHING / Gunter Reski über Heike-Karin Föll in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
 CONSIDER NOT THE BIRD’S, BUT THE WORM’S VIEW / Adam Kleinman on Cian Dayrit at Nome Gallery, Berlin
 KÜNSTLERIN SEIN / Georg Imdahl über Anna Oppermann in der Kunsthalle Bielefeld
 SETTING THE RECORD STRAY / Ana Teixeira Pinto on “Straying from the Line” at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
CHICAGO, NOW! / Hans-Jürgen Hafner über Gustave Caillebotte in der Alten Nationalgalerie, Berlin
 HIDE AND SEEK / Magnus Schaefer on Lydia Ourahmane at Bodega, New York
WE NEVER KNOW HOW HIGH WE ARE / Thomas Groetz über Mayo Thompson in der Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
 INVOLUNTARY TRACES / Daniel Ricardo Quiles on Jonathas de Andrade at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
 POETISCHE SEZIERUNGEN / Isabel Mehl über Cana Bilir-Meier im Hamburger Kunstverein
CAVEMAN BLUES / Saim Demircan on Edith Karlson and Dan Mitchell at Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn
 DIE MEISTERIN / Stefan Neuner über Lotte Laserstein in der Berlinischen Galerie
 STAGING FEMINISM / Luisa Lorenza Corna on “The Unexpected Subject: 1978 Art and Feminism in Italy” at FM Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, and “Doing Deculturalization” at Museion, Bolzano
 WAHRNEHMUNG IST VERSCHIEBBAR / Christina Irrgang über Bea Schlingelhoff in der Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf
GRIT AND VITALITY / Daniel Sturgis on Joan Snyder at Blain Southern, London
NACHRUFE
LINDA BILDA (1963−2019) by Silvia Eiblmayr
 AGNÈS VARDA (1928–2019) by Jennifer Stob
 MICHEL SERRES (1930−2019) by Lorenz Engell
 KLAUS BUSSMANN (1941–2019 by Ulrike Groos and Hans Haacke

EDITION
BIRGIT MEGERLE STERLING RUBY 

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Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective

2018, English
Softcover, 304 pages, 19.4 x 27.9 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London

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Edited with text by Cathleen Chaffee. Text by Rachel Adams, Vera Alemani, Constance DeJong, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anthony Elms, David Grubbs, Henriette Huldisch, Branden W. Joseph, Andrew Lampert, Christopher Müller, Annie Ochmanek, Tony Oursler, Tina Rivers Ryan, Jay Sanders, Paige Sarlin, Christopher Williams.

Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was a pioneering American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer.

Throughout his six-decade career he forged a unique path through numerous artistic movements and defined a vast range of culture, including rock music and public access television.

In music, Conrad was an early member of the Theatre of Eternal Music (The Dream Syndicate), which included John Cale and La Monte Young. In the early 1960s he was also influential in the origins of the iconic band, The Velvet Underground. In film, Conrad was associated with the Structuralist movement which included filmmakers such as Paul Sharits and Hollis Frampton.

This richly illustrated catalogue offers an in-depth introduction to Conrad’s life and career: presenting his early Structuralist films projects in which he treated film as a sculptural and performative material; his Invented Acoustical Tools which presented as sculptures themselves; the ambitious films about power relations, set in the military and in prison; and his final sculptures and installations, which evoke and critique what he perceived as an emerging culture of surveillance, control, and containment.

This book also includes Conrad’s own writings writings from 1966 to 2016, as well as texts by curators, theorists and notable artists such as Tony Oursler, Christopher Müller, and Christopher Williams.

Accompanying the exhibition, Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2018), MIT List Visual Arts Center and Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University (2018/2019), and ICA, University of Pennsylvania (2019).

File under: Tony Conrad Christopher Williams Tony Oursler Cathleen Chaffee Rachel Adams Vera Alemani Constance DeJong Diedrich Diederichsen Anthony Elms David Grubbs Henriette Huldisch Branden W. Joseph Andrew Lampert Christopher Müller Annie Ochmanek Tony Oursler Tina Rivers Ryan Jay Sanders Paige Sarlin Christopher Williams Koenig Books / London Art Sound / Music Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater

Judy Radul
This is Television

2018, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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This Is Television addresses the increasingly obsolete medium of television by way of the medium of the book—by extension commenting on media’s continuous changes of form and format. Through an interplay of theory and artistic research material, the book extends Judy Radul’s ongoing investigation of media with an idiosyncratic perspective on television—while still feeding off collective experience. The book thematizes television as a cultural container, both in its format as a “box” for content and as an ideologically saturated apparatus for reception. With sections titled Craig, Oral History, Moon, Display, Landing, End of Analog etc., the book charts our identification with specific media and a nostalgia connected with the obsolescence of technology. Springing from a desire to engage intermedia form by way of a book about television, and to commit to the ambiguity of its title’s announcement, This Is Television is organized around three central chapters: “This,” “Is,” and “Television” are individually interpreted in newly commissioned essays by Honor Gavin, Ana Teixeira Pinto, and Diedrich Diederichsen, with additional short texts by Judy Radul.

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Diedrich Diederichsen
(Over)production and Value / (Über)Produktion und Wert

2017, English / German
Softcover, 64 pages, 11.5 x 18 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin Kunsthalle Bern / Bern

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The “economization of art” began to take shape in the wake of the crisis of capital in 2009. The shifts that occurred in the art field during this time were accompanied by explicit critique and academic analysis that aimed to make the genesis of these transformations comprehensible. In this book, first delivered as a lecture at Kunsthalle Bern in April 2016, Diedrich Diederichsen follows Marx’s labor theory of value and counters the symbolic economies dominating the art field, as well as economic exceptionalism or calculation, with systems of recording and reading out. Expanded to include the sphere of individual aesthetic experience, these systems are not formulated as solipsism, or in terms of purposefulness, but as a means to compare relations within the productivity of open and incalculable connectivity, relations that allow aesthetic experience to be read out as the liquefied labor and lifetime of concrete others.

(Over)production and Value takes up considerations that connect Diederichsen’s previous writings, from On (Surplus) Value in Art (Sternberg Press, 2008) to Körpertreffer: Zur Ästhetik der nachpopulären Künste (Suhrkamp, 2017).

Publication series by Kunsthalle Bern, edited by Valérie Knoll and Hannes Loichinger
Design by HIT

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Thomas Eggerer
Atrium

2003, English / German
Softcover, 68 pages
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin Kunstverein Braunschweig / Germany

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Edited by Karola Grässlin, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Texts by Diedrich Diederichsen and David Joselit

“How can one make a work on canvas today without, in some way, addressing the mobility that now characterizes our most familiar sources of representational surfaces – the television or computer screen with their profusion of data, succeeding, interrupting and, through the hyperlink, opening gaps within one another? Thomas Eggerer’s anti-gravitational paintings address these conditions in a variety of ways, all of which cause a vertiginous loss of grounding.” David Joselit

German artist Thomas Eggerer (*1963) is based in Los Angeles since 1999. A former member of the collaborative Group Material in New York, he initiated conceptual projects in collaboration with Jochen Klein, focusing on identity and gender issues in public space. In his current paintings and drawings, Eggerer continues this discourse with other means. His enigmatic depictions of groups and collectives attempt less to portray the singularity of the individual than to explore the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion, conformity and hierarchy, as well as the potential of individual or collective utopia.

Numerous illustrations and two seminal essays make this the first major publication on the artist’s work.

File under: Thomas Eggerer Karola Grässlin Diedrich Diederichsen David Joselit Sternberg Press / Berlin Kunstverein Braunschweig / Germany Art Painting

Helen Marten
Parrot Problems

2016, English
Softcover, 236 pages, 23.5 x 30.5 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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In 2016 Helen Marten is shortlisted for both the Turner Prize and The Hepworth Sculpture Prize.

Parrot Problems was Turner Prize nominated British artist Helen Martenʼs first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. Close to an artist book, 40 pages within the catalogue are designed by Helen Marten herself, featuring unique collages.

In insightful and precise essays Diedrich Diederichsen and Johanna Burton focus on the ‘artist of the hour’, who through processes of manipulation, abstraction and shifting resembles recognisable elements anew; piercing the patina of familiarity covering the density and complexity of our everyday material lives.

Frozen at full speed in vibration between two and three dimensions, the objects and images by Marten proliferate with models and motifs, which define physical and linguistic limits of everyday life.

In acts of jigsaw and camouflage, the recognizable is often shifted into a sense of immediate fuzziness. Both delicate and programmatic, the relationship between image and concept is therefore dependent on a sense of unfolding logic.

Through this emulation and repetition of ubiquitous gestures, expressions and objects the resultant differences between mimicry and metaphor are made productive: as Parrot Problems. Whether composed of leaves, glazed ceramic, cast aluminium, coins or timber, Marten’s assemblages distill the customary order of things to arrange it afresh.

Published retrospectively after the exhibition Helen Marten: Parrot Problemsat Fridericianum, Kassel, 6 September – 2 November 2014.

Texts by Diedrich Diederichsen and Johanna Burton.

File under: Helen Marten Diedrich Diederichsen Johanna Burton Walther König / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation

Texte Zur Kunst No. 106
JUNE 2017 : "THE NEW NEW LEFT“

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

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The theme of this issue - The New New Left - is not entirely “new new,” as indeed it relates to the old anti-capitalist Left in its insistence on a theoretical analysis of capitalism and the price paid by many in such a system. But as the discourses and strategies long associated with the Left (workerism, identity politics, or the mode of the avant-gardist troll) have been adopted by anti-progressive outlets, it has become increasingly complex to locate a Left stance from which to effectively speak and act. This issue explores the affective mechanisms and media strategies – from the rise of viral content (memes) to the harvesting and right-wing politicization of emotions – that are producing our post-millennial, post-financial crisis, post-Brexit/Trump present.

Issue No. 106 / June 2017 "The New New Left“

Table Of Contents

Preface
Cultural Resources / Sabine Hark And Sighard Neckel In Conversation On Feelings Of Resentment And Revenge

Verena Dengler
Fake Left, Punch Right

Jaleh Mansoor
Unveiling And/Or Re-Masking / Notes On The Political Dialectics Of The Opacity Of The Sign

Seth Price
Wrong Seeing, Odd Thinking, Strange Action

Matt Goerzen
Notes Toward The Memes Of Production

Diedrich Diederichsen
The Tough Stuff / “Populism," "Political Correctness," And The Like

Simon Denny
Face The Market On Your Own

Klaus Walter
Liberté, Egalité, Beyoncé?

Dan Bodan
Europe, 2016-17 / Selected Status Updates Of Recent Months
Bildstrecke

Kayode Ojo
Become What You Fear

New Development
Ana Teixeira Pinto
Artwashing / Nrx And The Alt-Right

Rotation
Obsessive, Compulsive, Disorder / Johanna Burton On Douglas Crimp’s “Before Pictures”
Probing Attitudes / Philipp Ekardt On “Putting Rehearsals To The Test” (Buchmann, Lafer, Ruhm, Eds.)
In Experimenten Seine Vernunft Aufs Spiel Setzen / Stefan Römer Über Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, „Der Kupferstecher Und Der Philosoph. Albert Flocon Trifft Gaston Bachelard“

Reviews
Nachrichten Aus Der Ideologischen Antike / Georg Imdahl Über Wade Guyton Im Museum Brandhorst
Schwere Verspannungen Lösen / Eva Scharrer Über Nairy Baghramian Im S.M.A.K. In Gent
Deviant Art / Dena Yago On Danny Mcdonald At House Of Gaga, Los Angeles
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is / Tina Schulz Über Nora Schultz Bei Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Reverse Cubism Als Betrachtungsirrtum / Gunter Reski Über Pieter Schoolwerth Bei Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Mad World / Steven Warwick On Liz Craft & Pentti Monkkonen At Liszt, Berlin
Public Viewing / Moritz Scheper Über Sadie Benning In Der Kunsthalle Basel
Eye In The Sky / Ilya Lipkin On Ned Vena At Societé, Berlin
Kritische Stoffe, Shoppinglust Und Andere Ambivalenzen / Ines Kleesattel Über Ines Doujak (Und John Barker) Im Württembergischen Kunstverein
In Einem Anderem Land / Christian Kravagna Über „The Color Line“ Im Musée Du Quai Branly, Paris
Mehr Epistemischer Ungehorsam! / Susanne Witzgall Über „Postwar: Kunst Zwischen Pazifik Und Atlantik 1945–1965“ Im Haus Der Kunst, München
With Or Without / Christian Philipp Müller On Yuji Agematsu At Miguel Abreu Gallery, Nyc
Kommunikation Ist Kein Objekt / Fiona Geuß Über Ian Wilson In Den Kw Institute For Contemporary Art, Berlin

Nachruf
Gustav Metzger (1926–2017): Ein Nachruf Von Sabine Breitwieser

Edition

Anne Imhof
Sean Landers

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