World Food Books

Transparenzen/Transparencies : The Ambivalence of a New Visibility
Simone Neuenschwander, Thomas Thiel (Eds.)

2016, English / German
Softcover, 162 pages, 24 x 34 cm
Published by Bielefelder Kunstverein / Germany Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by Simone Neuenschwander, Thomas Thiel

With contributions by Emmanuel Alloa, Neïl Beloufa, Clare Birchall, Juliette Blightman, Ryan Gander, Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, David Horvitz, Metahaven, Simone Neuenschwander, Katja Novitskova, Yuri Pattison, Manfred Schneider, Thomas Thiel

The globalized world seems at once transparent and opaque. The exhibition project “Transparencies” examined the cultural facets and atmospheres of these (non-)transparencies. The two-part, joint exhibition project in Bielefeld and Nuremberg was dedicated to developments in “transparent society,” asking how these are reflected in the current work by contemporary artists. The paradigm of transparency and the ambivalence of the term was addressed by participating artists in multiple, diverse ways. This book documents both exhibitions and outlines all of the contributions to this substantial project. Conceptually designed by Metahaven, it contains artistic statements and scientific essays that encourage an ongoing discussion of the subject.

Copublished with Bielefelder Kunstverein and Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft

Design by Metahaven

File under: Calla Henkel Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff David Horvitz Juliette Blightman Katja Novitskova Max Pitegoff Metahaven Neïl Beloufa Ryan Gander Yuri Pattison Clare Birchall Emmanuel Alloa Manfred Schneider Simone Neuenschwander Thomas Thiel Bielefelder Kunstverein / Germany Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections SALE

Sculpture on the Move: 1946-2016
Kunstmuseum Basel

2016, English
Hardcover, 240 pages, 26.5 x 20 cm
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin Kunstmuseum Basel / Basel

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What new paths have sculptors opened up since the end of World War II? Based on late works by Constantin Brancusi and Alberto Giacometti, this comprehensive volume illustrates the exciting and multifaceted developments in this dynamic art form. The long list of the first-class artists presented ranges from Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, and Jean Tinguely to Franz West, Damien Hirst and Monika Sosnowska. Sculpture on the Move demonstrates how the classic notion of form and sculpture was set in motion, became more abstract, came closer to the ordinary everyday object, dissolved spatial or conceptual boundaries, and even reconstituted itself, returning to figurative traditions. On the basis of selected works from the Kunstmuseum Basel and from international museums and private collections, the book opens up a dense, extremely rich world of contrasts. Featured artists include Absalon, Carl Andre, Jean Arp, Max Bill, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Eduardo Chillida, Peter Fischli und David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Alberto Giacometti, Robert Gober, Duane Hanson, Eva Hesse, Damien Hirst, Donald Judd, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Mario Merz, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Gabriel Orozco, Pablo Picasso, Charles Ray, Richard Serra, Monika Sosnowska, David Smith, Jean Tinguely, Oscar Tuazon, Danh Vo and Franz West.

File under: Absalon Alberto Giacometti Alexander Calder Bruce Nauman Carl Andre Charles Ray Claes Oldenburg Constantin Brâncuși Damien Hirst Danh Vo David Smith Donald Judd Duane Hanson Eduardo Chillida Eva Hesse Franz West Gabriel Orozco Henry Moore Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Jean Tinguely Jeff Koons John Chamberlain Katharina Fritsch Louise Bourgeois Mario Merz Max Bill Mike Kelley Monika Sosnowska Oscar Tuazon Pablo Picasso Peter Fischli & David Weiss Richard Serra Robert Gober Hatje Cantz / Berlin Kunstmuseum Basel / Basel Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Technologism

2015, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 17 x 23 cm
Published by MUMA / Victoria

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Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition Technologism, at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) in Melbourne, 3 Oct - 12 Dec 2015, curated by Charlotte Day.

Artists: Cory Arcangel (US), Dara Birnbaum (US), Chris Burden (US), Ian Burn (AU), Antoinette J. Citizen (AU), Simon Denny (NZ), Jan Dibbets (NL), Aleksandra Domanović (SI/DE), Harun Farocki (DE), Benjamin Forster (AU), Isa Genzken (DE), Greatest Hits (AU), Martijn Hendriks (NL), Lynn Hershman Leeson (US), Matt Hinkley (AU), Jenny Holzer (US), Edward Kienholz & Nancy Reddin Kienholz (US), Oliver Laric (AT), Mark Leckey (UK), Scott Mitchell (AU), Rabih Mroué (LB), Henrik Olesen (DK), Nam June Paik (KR/US), Nam June Paik & John Godfrey (US), Joshua Petherick (AU), Matte Rochford (AU), Jill Scott (AU), Richard Serra (US), John F. Simon Jr. (US), Brian Springer (US), Hito Steyerl (DE), Ricky Swallow (AU), Jeff Thompson (US), Pia van Gelder (AU), Ulla Wiggen (US) and Dennis Wilcox (AU)

MUMA concludes its three-part series on watershed moments in art history — Reinventing the Wheel: the readymade century and Art as a Verb — with Technologism, a major group exhibition bringing together forty-three historical and contemporary artworks, including several new commissions from Australian practitioners. Technologism wrestles with the profound cultural, social and political impact technology has made on art since the 1960s.

Conservative cul-de-sac's of the community are often sceptical of technology and its ever increasing presence in our lives. However many artists — with a natural propensity for constant upheaval — have whole-heartedly embraced radical changes in technology over the last sixty years. Featuring artworks that engage both physically and conceptually with electronic systems — television, computers, the internet, smartphones — Technologism focuses on the ways artists critique and disrupt official uses of the media, or construct their own machines and data systems.

Riffing off both the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of technology, artists in Technologism document technology's advancement in a plethora of ways: Ulla Wiggen's intricate paintings of circuit boards from the mid 1960s, see the development of an aesthetic inspired by the complex intersection of electrical wires, connectors and components, working to manipulate and rewire the physicality of technology; some thirty years later, John F. Simon's Art Appliances series of the 1990s uses the circuitry of small LCD screens to disrupt pictures and patterns, recreating them over; in Matte Rochford's video Progressively Degrading Test Pattern 2013, humble VHS tapes are copied and recopied, in a process of metaphysical reduction; while in Joshua Petherick's new work, one technology is employed to record another soon to be superseded, revealing new visual dimensions and the 'ghosts in the machine'.

A story of advancement inevitably turns into obsolescence, and Technologism seeks to document the early use of broadcast technology as a way of bridging the gap (and finding a space) between the image on the screen, the physical presence of the viewer, and the broader community. Jan Dibbet's TV as a Fireplace 1968, documents television as a collective experience — even if viewers were separated physically, they were united through time and space like pre-historic cave-dwellers by a communal broadcast. However with the advent of the internet, personal computer devices and streaming services, technology has again changed the relationship we have with the world around us to a more singular yet proliferating existence.

A history of DIY jamming and hacking presents the way artists have continued to subvert conventional uses of technology and challenge the status-quo, from the internet as militarily-designed, to corporately-exploited, civilian-employed, artistically-manipulated, and back again. For instance, Lynn Hershman Leeson's work investigates how media is used as a tool for censorship and political repression, while Simon Denny's work co-opts the aesthetic and rhetoric of language of multinational corporations in order to question their power. In presenting these works and others, Technologism seeks to consider what is the value of such subversion, or is it merely a perpetuation of the problem?

Artist Hito Steyerl asks, 'is the internet dead?' Although, hyperbolic in its prognosis, Technologism recognises that sceptical questions such as this are an important part of how artistic practice negotiates technological advancement. Technologism proceeds from the idea that technology in all its forms, physical and immaterial, needs to be interrogated in order to be perpetually remade.

Technologism considers changes in infrastructure, such as telecommunication networks and the internet, and the cultural implications of technological innovation and considers from the position of the developers of these technologies as well as from the end user. Technologism asks 'how does technology effect artistic practice?' As well as, 'how can artistic practice effect technology?'

Fully illustrated catalogue features texts by Charlotte Day, Philip Brophy, Bridget Crone and Sean Dockray. Designed by Yanni Florence.

File under: Antoinette J. Citizen Benjamin Forster Brian Springer Chris Burden Cory Arcangel Dara Birnbaum Dennis Wilcox Edward Kienholz Greatest Hits Harun Farocki Henrik Olesen Hito Steyerl Ian Burn Isa Genzken Jan Dibbets Jeff Thompson Jenny Holzer Jill Scott John F. Simon Jr. John Godfrey Joshua Petherick Lynn Hershman Leeson Mark Leckey Martijn Hendriks Matt Hinkley Matte Rochford Nam June Paik Nancy Reddin Kienholz Oliver Laric Pia van Gelder Rabih Mroué Richard Serra Ricky Swallow Scott Mitchell Simon Denny Ulla Wiggen Aleksandra Domanović Bridget Crone Charlotte Day Philip Brophy Sean Dockray MUMA / Victoria Art Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

Tell it to My Heart Vol. 1
Collected by Julie Ault

2013, English
Hardcover, 160 pages, 21 x 29 cm
Published by Artists Space / New York Culturgest / Lisbon Hatje Cantz / Berlin Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Basel

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Julie Ault is an artist, curator, writer, and editor, whose work emphasizes and celebrates the complex interrelationships between cultural production and politics. Ault cofounded the New York artists' collaborative Group Material, which between 1979 and 1996 explored this relationship between art, activism and politics through socially themed exhibitions and publicly-sited projects. The collection of artworks Ault has assembled over the last 30 years speaks to her practice as one built on exchange, friendship and a critical notion of mutable histories.

Tell It To My Heart – Collected by Julie Ault is published by Hatje Cantz in collaboration with Artists Space, New York; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; and Culturgest, Lisbon, and accompanies a three-part exhibition staged around the artworks in Ault's possession. The exhibition was initiated by Nikola Dietrich and Scott Cameron Weaver at Museum für Gegenwartskunst, and was presented in Basel, Lisbon and New York between 2013 and 2014. The first volume of the publication was published to coincide with the exhibitions, and centers on an index of works along with detailed commentary on these works from the diverse voices of the book's editors – Julie Ault, Martin Beck, Nikola Dietrich, Heinz Peter Knes, Rasmus Røhling, Jason Simon, Scott Cameron Weaver, Danh Vo and Amy Zion. Over the course of her 35-plus years at the forefront of New York's art culture, Ault has amassed a superb collection of contemporary art, most of it given to her by artist friends and admirers. Almost more of an interiors book in the style of "Apartamento" magazine, "Tell It to My Heart" takes us through Ault's New York apartment, reproducing works by artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Andres Serrano, Nancy Spero and Danh Vo among many others. Together, and in situ, the artworks disclose a highly personal experience of an art community, initially centered in New York during Ault's formative years, but with a reach that has long since transcended regional classifications.

File under: Andres Serrano Danh Vo Felix Gonzalez-Torres Julie Ault Martin Wong Nancy Spero Roni Horn Tim Rollins & K.O.S. Amy Zion Danh Vo Heinz Peter Knes Jason Simon Julie Ault Martin Beck Nikola Dietrich Rasmus Røhling Scott Cameron Weaver Artists Space / New York Culturgest / Lisbon Hatje Cantz / Berlin Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Basel Art Photography Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Sculpture / Installation Painting

Tell it to My Heart Vol. 2
Collected by Julie Ault

2016, English
Hardcover, 156 pages, 21 x 29 cm
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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Julie Ault is an artist, curator, writer, and editor, whose work emphasizes and celebrates the complex interrelationships between cultural production and politics. Ault cofounded the New York artists' collaborative Group Material, which between 1979 and 1996 explored this relationship between art, activism and politics through socially themed exhibitions and publicly-sited projects. The collection of artworks Ault has assembled over the last 30 years speaks to her practice as one built on exchange, friendship and a critical notion of mutable histories.

Tell It To My Heart – Collected by Julie Ault is published by Hatje Cantz in collaboration with Artists Space, New York; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; and Culturgest, Lisbon, and accompanies a three-part exhibition staged around the artworks in Ault's possession. The exhibition was initiated by Nikola Dietrich and Scott Cameron Weaver at Museum für Gegenwartskunst, and was presented in Basel, Lisbon and New York between 2013 and 2014. Over the course of her 35-plus years at the forefront of New York's art culture, Ault has amassed a superb collection of contemporary art, most of it given to her by artist friends and admirers. The "Tell It to My Heart" books take us through Ault's collection in different contexts, reproducing works by artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Andres Serrano, Nancy Spero and Danh Vo among many others. Together, and in situ, the artworks disclose a highly personal experience of an art community, initially centered in New York during Ault's formative years, but with a reach that has long since transcended regional classifications.

Volume 2 follows a more reflective and distanced mode than its predecessor, including installation images of the exhibitions, and a series of essays from scholars and curators that respond to the overall character and process of Tell It To My Heart. The publication also includes a comprehensive checklist of artworks exhibited across the three venues, as well as those works included in the film programs accompanying each exhibition.

Tell It To My Heart – Collected by Julie Ault, Volume 2 is edited by Richard Birkett, Martin Beck and Julie Ault, and includes texts by curator Richard Birkett; art historian Patricia Falguières; writer Sarah Schulman; and archivist Marvin J. Taylor, with graphic design by Project Projects, New York.

File under: Andres Serrano Danh Vo Felix Gonzalez-Torres Julie Ault Martin Wong Nancy Spero Roni Horn Tim Rollins & K.O.S. Julie Ault Marvin J. Taylor Patricia Falguières Richard Birkett Sarah Schulman Hatje Cantz / Berlin Art Photography Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Painting Sculpture / Installation SALE LGBTQ+

k.m Exhibitions/Ausstellungen 2010-2015
Bart van der Heide, Manuel Raeder (Eds.)

2016, English / German
Softcover, 448 pages, 24 x 30.5 cm
Published by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite / Berlin K.M Kunstverein / Munich

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Edited by Bart van der Heide and Manuel Raeder.

This book is an overview of the exhibition program of Bart van der Heide from 2010 – 2015, which he realised as the director of Kunstverein München. This program includes exhibitions by Silke Otto-Knapp, Ian Kiaer, Tobias Madison, Keren Cytter, Cathy Wilkes, Group Affinity, Willem de Rooij, Trisha Baga, Richard Tuttle, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Simon Denny, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Ger van Elk, James Richards, and others. Each exhibition is presented by a corresponding booklet, containing all texts and images. These accompanying publications were designed individually for each exhibition in cooperation with Studio Manuel Raeder. The different designs play with various fonts, formats, and graphic elements. Together with these publications, a variety of coloured images of exhibition views conveys the curatorial direction as well as the identity of the Kunstverein in those years. A reflection by Bart van der Heide and all booklet texts are included in both German and English.

designed by Studio Manuel Raeder

File under: Carol Rama Cathy Wilkes Chris Kraus Ed Atkins Georgie Nettell Ger van Elk Gerda Scheepers Gili Tal Group Affinity Ian Kiaer James Richards Jana Euler Josephine Pryde Judith Hopf Keren Cytter Mark Leckey Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Nicolas Ceccaldi Oliver Laric Richard Tuttle Sean Snyder Silke Otto-Knapp Simon Denny Simon Martin Tobias Madison Trisha Baga Willem de Rooij Marlie Mul Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite / Berlin K.M Kunstverein / Munich Art Drawing Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

HYBRIDIZE OR DISAPPEAR
João Laia (Ed.)

2016, English / Portuguese
Softcover, 168 pages, 15,5 x 22 cm
Published by Mousse Publishing / Milan

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João Laia, ed.
Texts by Stephanie Bailey, Paulo Cunha E Silva, Attilia Fattori Franchini, João Laia, João Ribas, Alex Ross, David Santos, Andrey Shental, Eleanor Ivory Weber, Rósza Zita Farkas

This publication has been produced in the framework of “Hybridize or Disappear”, a group exhibition with works by Cécile B. Evans, Neïl Beloufa, Antoine Catala, Diogo Evangelista, Oliver Laric, Shana Moulton, Katja Novitskova, Laure Prouvost and Magali Reus at the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, and at the Paços do Concelho, Câmara Municipal do Porto. Edited by João Laia, this book aims to expand on the universe of the show, posing a wide set of questions that shape contemporary visual culture, rather than serving as a document or an archive. Through the lens of the “hybrid”, the commissioned texts look at different dimensions of our current condition, addressing ideas related to the circulation of identity and meaning in our mediated environments.

File under: Antoine Catala Cécile B. Evans Diogo Evangelista Katja Novitskova Laure Prouvost Magali Reus Neïl Beloufa Oliver Laric Shana Moulton Alex Ross Andrey Shental Attilia Fattori Franchini David Santos Eleanor Ivory Weber João Laia João Ribas Paulo Cunha E Silva Rósza Zita Farkas Stephanie Bailey Mousse Publishing / Milan Art Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation SALE

Ordinary Pictures

2016, English
Softcover (spiral-bound w. flexidisc), 208 pages, 20 x 31 cm
Published by Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis

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Despite its apparent throwaway status, the stock image comprises the primary commodity of a billion-dollar global industry with far-reaching effects in the marketplace and the public sphere. Taking this overlooked facet of contemporary life as a point of departure, "Ordinary Pictures" explores the photographic apparatuses and commercial interests that have given rise to our generic image culture through the conceptual image-based work of some 40 artists, including John Baldessari, Steven Baldi, Sarah Charlesworth, Anne Collier, Liz Deschenes, John Divola, Aleksandra Domanovi c, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Morgan Fisher, Hollis Frampton, Jack Goldstein, Rachel Harrison, Robert Heinecken, Leslie Hewitt, Elad Lassry, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Steve McQueen, Jack Pierson, Peter Piller, Seth Price, Amanda Rossotto, Ed Ruscha, Steven Shore, Sturtevant, Mungo Thomson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tseng Kwong Chi, Julia Wachtel and Christopher Williams. Spanning generations, movements and artistic strategies from the 1960s to the present day, this publication brings together works by artists who have probed, mimicked and critiqued this aspect of our visual environment as well as its industrial modes of production and distribution. Through the work of these artists and a series of scholarly essays, the catalogue aims to examine different operations of the generic image in culture, namely its anonymous circulation and editorial uses, its adaptability and reproducibility, its technical processes of production, its claim to copyright and artistic license and its tendency toward abstraction. Featuring a unique, coil-bound design reminiscent of stock photo catalogues and a flexidisc recording by the artist Jack Goldstein, this highly collectible book ultimately reflects on contemporary art's own complicit function as an expanding industrial image economy.

Edited by Eric Crosby, texts by Lane Relyea and Thomas Beard.

File under: Amanda Rossotto Anne Collier Christopher Williams Ed Ruscha Elad Lassry Hans-Peter Feldmann Hollis Frampton Jack Goldstein Jack Pierson John Baldessari John Divola Julia Wachtel Leslie Hewitt Liz Deschenes Louise Lawler Morgan Fisher Mungo Thomson Peter Piller Rachel Harrison Robert Heinecken Sarah Charlesworth Seth Price Sherrie Levine Steve McQueen Steven Baldi Steven Shore Sturtevant Tseng Kwong Chi Wolfgang Tillmans Aleksandra Domanović Eric Crosby Lane Relyea Thomas Beard Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis Art Photography Film / Video Group Shows / Collections Curatorial SALE

Life Itself
Edited by Daniel Birnbaum, Stefanie Hessler, Carsten Höller & Jo Widoff

2016, English
Hardcover (padded), 312 pages, 18.4 x 30 cm
Published by Moderna Museet / Stockholm Walther König / Köln

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Anyone undertaking a study of the concept of "life" in our culture will observe that it never gets defined as such, writes Giorgio Agamben. Instead, he claims, this indeterminate thing - life itself - gets articulated and divided time and again through a series of oppositions that give it a function in the sciences without ever being defined as such. These theoretical and literary articulations are what this book is about, and what the 173 texts by authors, scientists and philosophers from all times and all disciplines will try to answer.
Ernst Haeckel, speculative biologist and naturalist, coined key concepts as phylum and ecology. In the years 1899-1904 he published Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), one hundred prints depicting organisms many of which were first described by Haeckel himself, who with this project took an unusual step from science to art. His sketches thus create a bridge between this book and the exhibition at Moderna Museet, appearing in the margins of both. Otherwise there is no art in this publication and the division of labor strict: the exhibition is art?s chance to answer the topic spelled out in the subtitle to Life Itself: "On the question of what it essentially is; its materialities, its characteristics, considering that attempts to answer this question by occidental sciences and philosophies have proven unsatisfactory."

Exhibition featured the work of Giovanni Anselmo, Olga Balema, Hicham Berrada, Joseph Beuys, Karl Blossfeldt, Constantin Brancusi, Victor Brauner, Nina Canell, Lygia Clark, Trisha Donnelly, Monica Englund, Valia Fetisov, Dirk Fleischmann, Katharina Fritsch, Ernst Haeckel, Barbara Hauser, Tamara Henderson, Eva Hesse, Damien Hirst, Tehching Hsieh, Pierre Huyghe, Carsten Höller/Rosemarie Trockel, On Kawara, Josh Kline, Hilma af Klint, Edward Krasinski, Mark Leckey, Helen Marten, Henri Michaux, Barnett Newman, Otobong Nkanga, Katja Novitskova, Philippe Parreno, Giuseppe Penone, Leo Reis, Ulf Rollof, Rachel Rose, Anri Sala, Sebastian Stöhrer, Sturtevant, Paul Thek, Rosemarie Trockel, Rosemarie Trockel/Günter Weseler, Christine Ödlund.

File under: Anri Sala Barbara Hauser Barnett Newman Carsten Höller Christine Ödlund Constantin Brâncuși Damien Hirst Dirk Fleischmann Edward Krasiński Ernst Haeckel Eva Hesse Giovanni Anselmo Giuseppe Penone Günter Weseler Helen Marten Henri Michaux Hicham Berrada Hilma af Klint Joseph Beuys Josh Kline Karl Blossfeldt Katharina Fritsch Katja Novitskova Leo Reis Lygia Clark Mark Leckey Monica Englund Nina Canell Olga Balema On Kawara Otobong Nkanga Paul Thek Philippe Parreno Pierre Huyghe Rachel Rose Rosemarie Trockel Sebastian Stöhrer Sturtevant Tamara Henderson Tehching Hsieh Trisha Donnelly Ulf Rollof Valia Fetisov Victor Brauner Aristotle Carsten Höller Daniel Birnbaum Giorgio Agamben Jo Widoff Stefanie Hessler Moderna Museet / Stockholm Walther König / Köln Art Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Film / Video

Under the Clouds: from Paranoia to the Digital Sublime
João Ribas (ed.)

2015, English / Portuguese
Softcover (die-cut), 300 pages, 28.5 x 22.5 cm
Published by Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art / Porto

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Since the second half of the 20th century, we have lived under the shadow of two clouds: the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb, and the ‘cloud’ of distributed information networks. How did the central metaphor of cold war paranoia become the utopian metaphor of today? ‘Under the Clouds’ explores the contemporary sublime that has replaced the natural one, and the interrelated effects and affects of these two clouds on life and work, leisure and love, and on images, bodies, and minds.
The post-war technologies of the emergent third industrial revolution have now evolved to fit in the palm of our hand; we no longer merely look at images, we now touch, scroll, pinch, and drag them. Where is the border between the self and its data shadow, between information, matter, and affect? The biological, economic, aesthetic, and political effects of living under the clouds has taken the form of new relations between data and material, as well as increasing debt and abstract financialization; the changing nature of work and sex; and new relationships between screens, images, and things. As earlier forms of technologically inflected art sought to mitigate the effects of change — both on perception and society — many of today’s artistic practices confront the myriad interfaces and decentralized networks that continue to shape and transform daily life, forming new evolving connections between bits and atoms.

Texts by
Enrico Baj & Sergio Dangelo, Thomas Hirschhorn, Sean Landers, Metahaven, Seth Price, João Ribas, Frances Stark, Hito Steyerl, Stan VanDerBeek

Artists
Adel Abdessemed, Horst Ademeit, Cory Arcangel, Arte Nucleare, Darren Bader, Enrico Baj, Robert Barry, Eduardo Batarda, Thomas Bayrle, Neïl Beloufa, René Bertholo, Joseph Beuys, K.P. Brehmer, Bruce Conner, Kate Cooper, Gregory Corso, Guy Debord, Harun Farocki, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Carla Filipe, General Idea, Melanie Gilligan, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville, Peter Halley, Rachel Harrison, Mona Hatoum, Pedro Henriques, Thomas Hirschhorn, Yves Klein, Sean Landers, Elad Lassry, Mark Lombardi, Julie Mehretu, Katja Novitskova, Ken Okiishi, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Silvestre Pestana, Pratchaya Phinthong, Seth Price, Martha Rosler, Thomas Ruff, Jacolby Satterwhite, Ângelo de Sousa, Frances Stark, Haim Steinbach, Hito Steyerl, Jean Tinguely, Adelhyd van Bender, Stan VanDerBeek, Andy Warhol, Christopher Williams, Christopher Wool, Anicka Yi

File under: Adel Abdessemed Adelhyd van Bender Andy Warhol Ângelo de Sousa Anicka Yi Anne-Marie Miéville Arte Nucleare Bruce Conner Carla Filipe Christopher Williams Christopher Wool Cory Arcangel Darren Bader Eduardo Batarda Elad Lassry Enrico Baj Frances Stark General Idea Gregory Corso Guy Debord Haim Steinbach Hans-Peter Feldmann Harun Farocki Hito Steyerl Horst Ademeit Jacolby Satterwhite Jean-Luc Godard Jean Tinguely Joseph Beuys Julie Mehretu Kate Cooper Katja Novitskova Ken Okiishi Mark Lombardi Martha Rosler Melanie Gilligan Mona Hatoum Nam June Paik Neïl Beloufa Pedro Henriques Peter Halley Pratchaya Phinthong Rachel Harrison René Bertholo Robert Barry Sean Landers Seth Price Silvestre Pestana Stan VanDerBeek Thomas Bayrle Thomas Hirschhorn Thomas Ruff Trevor Paglen Yves Klein K. P. Brehmer Enrico Baj Frances Stark Hito Steyerl João Ribas Metahaven Sean Landers Sergio Dangelo Seth Price Stan VanDerBeek Thomas Hirschhorn Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art / Porto Art Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Film / Video SALE

Primary Views
Stephen Bram, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Juan Davila

2009, English
Softcover, 30 pages, 17 x 20 cm

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Catalogue produced on the occasion of the exhibition, "Primary Views" at MUMA, Monash University Museum of Art in 2008, curated by artists Stephen Bram, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, and Juan Davila, with co-ordinating curator Kirrily Hammond.
Primary Views invited the insights of four artists represented in the Monash University collection. Each has been invited to curate a self-contained exhibition from the Monash University collection, according to their own areas of interest, expertise and aesthetic/discursive predilections. Alternative to classical or canonical art-historical readings, Primary Views considers the role of the artist as curator, encouraging new readings of the collection, and more partial, polemical and aberrant artistic historiographies.
Features texts by the curating artists and Max Delany.

Artists featured in the exhibition were: Howard Arkley, Paul Bai, Chris Barry, Charles Blackman, Peter Booth, Arthur Boyd, Stephen Bram, Horace Brodzky, Janet Burchill & Jennifer Mccamley, Ian Burn, Jane Burton, Domenico De Clario, Clyde Clinton, Noel Counihan, Mutlu Cerkez, Juan Davila, John Dunkley-Smith, Richard Dunn, Louise Forthun, John Heartfield, Bill Henson, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ronnie Van Hout, Raafat Ishak, Rosemary Laing, Robert Macpherson, Tracey Moffatt, John Nixon, Jacky Redgate, William Robins, Paul Saint, Dada Samson, Jan Senbergs, Wolfgang Sievers

File under: Arthur Boyd Bill Henson Charles Blackman Chris Barry Clyde Clinton Dada Samson Domenico De Clario Horace Brodzky Howard Arkley Ian Burn Jacky Redgate Jan Senbergs Jane Burton Janet Burchill Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley Jennifer McCamley John Dunkley-Smith John Heartfield John Nixon Juan Davila Louise Forthun Lynn Hershman Leeson Mutlu Çerkez Noel Counihan Paul Bai Paul Saint Peter Booth Richard Dunn Robert Macpherson Ronnie Van Hout Rosemary Laing Stephen Bram Tracey Moffatt William Robins Wolfgang Sievers Raafat Ishak Max Delany Art Australian Art Curatorial Minimal Art Painting Group Shows / Collections Drawing Sculpture / Installation SALE

THE LULENNIAL: A SLIGHT GESTUARY

2015, English / Spanish
Softcover w. dustjacket, 144 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16 x 23 cm
Published by Mousse Publishing / Milan

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Fabiola Iza, Chris Sharp, eds.
Economy, “in the sense of doing a lot with a little or sometimes nothing at all,” is one of the founding principles of the Lulennial, a biennial organized by Fabiola Iza and Chris Sharp at Lulu, a 9-square meter independent space in Mexico City. The diminutive space is not necessarily a constraint if the works exhibited (and featured in this accompanying publication) are the startling outcome of slight gestures, like those created by Jirí Kovanda, Roman Ondák, Kirsten Pieroth, Wilfredo Prieto, and Martín Soto Climent, just to name some of the more than 25 participants in the exhibition. Other instigators of this peculiar attitude, the purpose of which is to achieve the maximum effect through the smallest of means, range from Billy Apple to Graciela Carnevale to Mierle Laderman Ukeles and La Monte Young, among others.

File under: Ana Roldán Ana Santos B. Wurtz Chantal Peñalosa Darren Bader Fernanda Gomes Francis Alÿs Gabriel Orozco Goran Petercol Goran Trbuljak Isaac Contreras Jenine Marsh Jiri Kovanda Karin Sander Kirsten Pieroth Lin Yilin Marie Cool Fabio Balducci Martin Soto Climent Matt Hinkley Paola de Anda Pierre Bal-Blanc Robert Barry Roman Ondák Simon Gabriel Greenberg Tania Pérez Córdova Wilfredo Prieto Yoko Ono Zarouhie Abdalian Chris Sharp Fabiola Iza Mousse Publishing / Milan Art Sculpture / Installation Fluxus Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections

Abstract Expressionist Ceramics
John Coplans (Ed.)

1966, English
Softcover, 54 pages, 21.5 x 24 cm
1st edition of 1000, Out of print title / used*,
Published by University of California Irvine / US

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This is the exhibition catalogue in which curator and editor John Coplans first coined the term "Abstract Expressionist Ceramics".

A very rare piece of West Coast ceramics history, this handsome catalogue, designed by James Turrell and printed in a once-only edition of 1000 copies, was published in conjunction with the seminal 1966 University of California, Irvine survey exhibition ("Abstract Expressionist Ceramics") of West Coast artists affiliated with Peter Voulkos and his pioneering work at the Ceramic Center at Otis Art Institute and the University of California, Berkeley.

Curated by John Coplans, the pivotal figure here is Peter Voulkos, but the catalogue also features incredible and rare photo documentation of the amazing early works of Billy Al Bengston, Michael Frimkess, John Mason, Malcolm McClain, James Melchert, Ron Nagle, Manuel Neri, Kenneth Price, and Henry Takemoto, presented in large colour and black and white photography alongside Coplans' exhibition essay.

A very special, and super scarce item in the history of West Coast ceramic art.

Condition: Very Good (only minor shelf wear/light creasing to back cover, internal pages/binding clean and tight)– All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Billy Al Bengston Henry Takemoto James Melchert John Mason Malcolm McClain Manuel Neri Michael Frimkess Peter Voulkos Ron Nagle Ken Price John Coplans University of California Irvine / US Art Ceramics / Glass Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Choice from America: Modern American Ceramics
Arthur C. Danto, Janet Koplos

1999, English
Hardcover, 135 pages, 29.5 x 23.7 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by The Kruithuis Museum Collection / Netherlands

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Published by the Kruithuis Museum Collection in The Netherlands in 1999, this large hard-cover volume profiles the important ad diverse ceramic work of American artists Robert Arneson, Ronald Baron, Christina Bertoni, Kathy Butterly, William Daley, Richard Devore, Robert Forman, Viola Frey, David Gilhooly, Andrea Gill, Wayne Higby, Graham Marks, James Melchert, Ron Nagle, George Ohr, Ken Price, Adrian Saxe, Rudolf Staffel, Robert Turner, Peter Voulkos, Betty Woodman, Rhonda Zwillinger. The work of this incredible grouping of artists is photographed in glorious detail and reproduced very large across the numerous page-spreads that profile each and every artist.
A very visual book!

Includes essays by Arthur C. Danto and Janet Koplos, and photographic portraits of all the artists alongside in-depth bibliographies. An incredible resource.

Condition: Very Good (only minor shelf wear, sticker on inside back end-paper)– All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Adrian Saxe Andrea Gill Betty Woodman Christina Bertoni David Gilhooly George Ohr Graham Marks James Melchert Kathy Butterly Ken Price Peter Voulkos Rhonda Zwillinger Richard Devore Robert Arneson Robert Forman Robert Turner Ron Nagle Ronald Baron Rudolf Staffel Viola Frey Wayne Higby William Daley Arthur C. Danto Janet Koplos The Kruithuis Museum Collection / Netherlands Art Out-of-print / Rare Ceramics / Glass Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

The &-Files: Art & Text 1981-2002
Rob McKenzie with Ross Chambers, Rex Butler, and Simon Rees

2009, English
Softcover, 116 pages, 21.5 x 17 cm
Published by IMA / Brisbane Whale & Star Press / Florida

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Modeled after the famed TV sci-fi series The X-Files, The &-Files gathers together a covert body of documents following the long and often controversial career of Art & Text, one of the landmark contemporary art magazines of the 1980s and 1990s. Founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 1981 by Paul Taylor (1957–92), who soon moved to New York City to make his mark as an art critic, the magazine went on to become one of a handful of international art magazines that succeeded in capturing the turmoil and passing brilliance of that period of postmodernism.

Perceived through the eyes and ears of its longtime publisher and editor Paul Foss, The &-Files is comprised of an open letter, a lengthy interview, two questionnaires, and other commentaries and bibliographies, offering a unique insider account of the extraordinary advantages and pitfalls of publishing an art magazine.

Paul Foss is the publishing editor of the art magazines Art & Text (Melbourne, Sydney, Los Angeles, 1981–2002) and artUS (Los Angeles, 2003-ongoing). He is a renowned translator, anthologist, and author, whose publications include Island in the Stream: Myths of Place in Australian Culture.

Robert McKenzie is an Australian artist currently based in New York.

Rex Butler teaches art history at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. His published work includes Jean Baudrillard: The Defense of the Real.

Ross Chambers is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. His many books include Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author.

Simon Rees is a former curator at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, and is currently curator at the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, Lithuania.

File under: Paul Foss Paul Taylor Rex Butler Robert McKenzie Ross Chambers Simon Rees IMA / Brisbane Whale & Star Press / Florida Art Theory / Essay Australian Art Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Pop Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

4,492,040
Lucy Lippard (1969-1974)

2013, English
460 individual cards in wrapper, 15.25 × 10.15 cm
Published by New Documents / New York

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Between 1969 and 1974, the influential curator Lucy Lippard (born 1937) curated four decisive Conceptual art exhibitions, and in doing so reinvented the exhibition catalogue. 4,492,040 is a facsimile reprint of the extremely scarce and hugely important catalogues produced for these hugely important “numbers shows” - 557,087 (the Seattle Art Museum), 955,000 (the Vancouver Art Gallery), 7,500 (the California Institute of Art) and 2,972,453 (the Centro de Arte y Comunicación). Titled after the populations of the cities in which the shows were held, each catalogue was an envelope of loose note cards containing statements, documentation and conceptual works by each artist, to be rearranged, filed or discarded at will. If Lippard described Conceptual art as the dematerialization of the art object, these catalogues effectively announced the dematerialization of the art exhibition. (One reviewer claimed Lippard had been the artist, and that her medium had been other artists.) 4,492,040 includes such iconic figures as Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Terry Atkinson, John Baldessari, Michael Baldwin, Robert Barry, Rick Barthelme, Daniel Buren, Rosemarie Castoro, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Christos Dikeakos, Eleanor Antin, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, On Kawara, Edward Kienholz Sol LeWitt, Roelof Louw, Duane Lundon, Bruce McLean, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co., Bruce Nauman, Adrian Piper, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Jeff Wall and Lawrence Weiner.

File under: Adrian Piper Allen Ruppersberg Bruce McLean Bruce Nauman Carl Andre Christos Dikeakos Dan Graham Daniel Buren Douglas Huebler Duane Lundon Ed Ruscha Edward Kienholz Eleanor Antin Eva Hesse Hanne Darboven Hans Haacke Jan Dibbets Jeff Wall John Baldessari Lawrence Weiner Michael Baldwin On Kawara Richard Serra Rick Barthelme Robert Barry Robert Morris Robert Smithson Roelof Louw Rosemarie Castoro Siah Armajani Sol Lewitt Terry Atkinson Vito Acconci Walter de Maria Jeff Khonsary Lucy R. Lippard New Documents / New York Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Photography Theory / Essay Curatorial Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections

Bookbook 2007-2011

2013, English
Softcover, 147 pages, 20.5 x 29 cm
Published by Städelschule / Frankfurt

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Bookbook is a project of the Simon Starling Class at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunst – Städelschule

List of Contents
Anonymous Stage I Contribution
Primary/Secondary (Information) by Benjamin Lobko
Donald Duck Hitler and the Chocolate Factory – a work in progress by Dan Starling
Anonymous Stage I Contributions
Stage II Contributions
Anonymous Stage I Contributions
The Hermit & The Sea by Michael Stevenson
Stage II Contributions
Before This (An Afterword) by Simon Starling
Unlrelated Things Related by Patrick Keaveney

Published by the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunst – Städelschule

File under: Benjamin Lobko Fredrik Værslev Michael Stevenson Patrick Keaveney Sarah Ortmeyer Simon Fujiwara Simon Starling Tris Vonna-Michell Städelschule / Frankfurt Art Group Shows / Collections

Reinventing The Wheel: The Readymade Century

2013, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 17 x 21 cm
Published by MUMA / Victoria

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Publication to accompany the exhibition "Reinventing The Wheel: The Readymade Century", 3 October – 14 December 2013, Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia.

Arguably the most influential development in art of the twentieth century, the use of the readymade was set in motion 100 years ago with Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel. Giving birth to an entire artistic language, Duchamp’s conversion of an unadorned, everyday object into a figure of high art completely inverted how people considered artistic practice. Suddenly, art was capable of being everywhere and in everything. It was a revolutionary moment in modern art, and the ripples from this epochal shift still resonate today.

Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century pays tribute to this seminal work and traces the subsequent elaboration of neo-dada practices, with a particular focus upon everyday and vernacular contexts; the mysterious and libidinous potential of sculptural objects; institutional critique and nominal modes of artistic value; pop, minimalism and industrial manufacture. These discursive contexts will also provide a foundation to explore more recent tendencies related to unmonumental and social sculpture, post-fordism and other concerns, particularly among contemporary Australian artists.

Bringing together works by over 50 artists – from Duchamp and Man Ray to Andy Warhol and Martin Creed, along with some of Australia’s leading practitioners – this is a one-of-a-kind salute to an idea that continues to define the very nature of contemporary art.
Artists:

Carl Andre, Hany Armanious, Nairy Baghramian, Ian Burn, John Cage, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Tony Cragg, Michael Craig-Martin, Martin Creed, Aleks Danko, Julian Dashper, Simon Denny, Marcel Duchamp, Sylvie Fleury, Ceal Floyer, Claire Fontaine, Gilbert & George, Félix González-Torres, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Greatest Hits, Matthew Griffin, Richard Hamilton, David Hammons, Matt Hinkley, Lou Hubbard, Barry Humphries, Jeff Koons, Joseph Kosuth, Louise Lawler, Klara Lidén, Andrew Liversidge, James Lynch, Robert MacPherson, Rob McKenzie, Callum Morton, John Nixon, Meret Oppenheim, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Rosslynd Piggott, Man Ray, Scott Redford, Stuart Ringholt, Peter Saville, Charlie Sofo, Haim Steinbach, Ricky Swallow, Masato Takasaka, Peter Tyndall, Alex Vivian, Danh Vo, Andy Warhol, and Heimo Zobernig.

Curatorial team:
Max Delany (former MUMA director), Charlotte Day, Francis E. Parker, and Patrice Sharkey.With texts by Rex Butler, Charlotte Day, Francis Parker, Patrice Sharkey, and a never before published text by Thierry de Duve.

File under: Agatha Gothe-Snape Aleks Danko Andrew Liversidge Andy Warhol Barry Humphries Callum Morton Carl Andre Ceal Floyer Charlie Sofo Christo & Jeanne-Claude Claire Fontaine Danh Vo David Hammons Felix Gonzalez-Torres Greatest Hits Haim Steinbach Hany Armanious Heimo Zobernig Ian Burn James Lynch Jeff Koons John Cage John Nixon Joseph Kosuth Joshua Petherick Julian Dashper Kain Picken Lou Hubbard Louise Lawler Man Ray Marcel Duchamp Martin Creed Masato Takasaka Matt Hinkley Matthew Griffin Meret Oppenheim Michael Craig-Martin Nairy Baghramian Peter Saville Peter Tyndall Richard Hamilton Ricky Swallow Rob McKenzie Robert Macpherson Rosslynd Piggott Scott Redford Simon Denny Stuart Ringholt Sylvie Fleury Tony Cragg Gilbert & George Klara Lidén Charlotte Day Francis Parker Patrice Sharkey Rex Butler Thierry de Duve MUMA / Victoria Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Dada Surrealism Arte Povera Conceptual Art Fluxus Group Shows / Collections

Pretty Air and Useful Things

2013, English
Softcover, 16 pages, 17 x 20 cm
Published by MUMA / Victoria

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Catalogue produced to accompany the exhibition "Pretty Air and Useful Things" , 19 July – 22 September 2012, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield Campus, curated by Rosemary Forde and featuring the work of Dan Bell, Sanne Mestrom, and Alex Vivian.
Focusing on the invisible forces, transgressive processes, and anarchic approaches to materials in sculptural practice, Pretty Air and Useful Things invokes the magnetism and friction of objects, and our relationship to them. Featuring artists Dan Bell, Sanné Mestrom and Alex Vivian, Pretty Air and Useful Things presents sculptural and installation works that reference the body through form, clothing, stains or scent; and the utilitarian via elements of design and commodity. In the spaces between are processes of speculation, transference, fermentation, connection, function and distortion. Using a combination of found, adapted and handmade materials, the intangible, perhaps mystical, qualities of objects are suggested.
Dan Bell's object and installation work is informed by an anarchic approach to materials and his parallel practice as a jewellery maker. His work conjures the unseen processes of magic, transformation and interstitial states. Referencing the visual language of commodified desire and lifestyle, Bell's work complicates notions of value.
Sanné Mestrom’s work with objects often involves invisible forces, references to art and cultural history, and explorations of the psychological or emotional significance attributed to objects. Her recent sculptural installations have included a mix of found objects, casts and copies, bringing the context and meaning of objects and materials into play.
Alex Vivian makes installation works that typically involve domestic objects and items of clothing that, having been altered via transgressive processes, are removed them from their original function. Whether installed in sprawling arrangements scattered throughout the exhibition space, or, as in more recent works, displayed as singular sculptural elements relying on the visual language of museum plinths, Vivian’s work is steeped in references to the body.

File under: Dan Bell Sanne Mestrom Rosemary Forde MUMA / Victoria Art Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Group Shows / Collections

Pitch Your Own Tent
Art Projects | Store 5 | 1st Floor

2005, English
Softcover, 126 pages (137 ill.), 17 x 20 cm
Published by MUMA / Victoria

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Extensive catalogue produced on the occasion of the exhibition "Pitch Your Own Tent: Art Projects | Store 5 | 1st Floor" curated by Max Delany, at Monash University Museum of Art, 23 June to 27 August 2005.
Featuring essays by Carolyn Barnes, Max Delany, Robyn McKenzie, Tessa Dwyer, Andrew Hurle, Danny Huppatz and Sarah Tutton.

Monash University Museum of Art presents Pitch Your Own Tent: Art Projects | Store 5 | 1st Floor, an exhibition and publication examining the recent history of contemporary Australian art from 1979-2002 through the activities and practices of three influential artist-run spaces: Art Projects, Melbourne 1979-1984, established by John Nixon; Store 5, Melbourne 1989-1993, established by Gary Wilson; 1st Floor, Melbourne 1994-2002, established by David Rosetzky.

The exhibition explores a strong lineage in the recent history of contemporary Australian art; of avant-garde, experimental and innovative practices and discourses developed by communities of artists through independent artist-run exhibition and publishing initiatives.

Each of the three respective artist-run spaces will be represented through one of MUMA's three galleries, which will provide the opportunity to represent each organisation in context, whilst also allowing a comparison of the ideas, modes of display, and material culture of each respective enterprise. One contention of the exhibition is the degree to which it is artists themselves who are responsible for the interpretation and writing of art history.

One important parameter that has been established within the curatorial framework is to involve only those works of art which were actually presented in the programs of the respective artist-run spaces, thereby invoking the forms, production values and materiality of the respective periods.

The title, Pitch Your Own Tent, makes reference to Gustave Courbet who pitched his own tent in front of the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris, to Ti Parks tents (one of which was exhibited at Art Projects and will be included in the exhibition), to Rikrit Taravanija's tent installed in front of the AGNSW, and to the perpetually provisional and itinerant nature of artist-run spaces generally.

Given that the programs of Art Projects, Store 5 and 1 st Floor were each ambitious, diverse and encompassed exhibition and publishing programs conducted over periods of 5-9 years, the exhibition will inevitably focus upon the principal artists, and selected works which have made influential and/or lasting contributions, or are strongly representative of innovative visual arts culture of the time.

Artists include:
Art Projects - Anti-Music, Tony Clark, Peter Cripps, John Davis, John Dunkley-Smith, Richard Dunn, Robert Jacks, Robert MacPherson, John Nixon, Imants Tillers, Ti Parks, Mike Parr, Peter Tyndall, Ania Walwicz, Jenny Watson.
Store 5 - Stephen Bram, Sandra Bridie, Tony Clark, Bronwyn Clark-Coolee, Marco Fusinato, Diena Georgetti, Melinda Harper, Gail Hastings, Anne-Marie May, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Kerrie Poliness, Kathy Temin, Gary Wilson, Constanze Zikos.

1st Floor Artists and Writers Space - Amanda Ahmed, Guy Benfield, Kate Beynon, Martine Corompt, Michael Delany, Kate Ellis, Mira Gojak, Eliza Hutchison, Raafat Ishak, Brendan Lee, Andrew McQualter, John Meade, Sean Meilak, Callum Morton, David Noonan, Alex Pittendrigh, David Rosetzky, Jacinta Schreuder, John Spiteri, Lyndal Walker.

Text: Carolyn Barnes, Max Delany, Tessa Dwyer, D.J Huppatz, Andrew Hurle, Robyn McKenzie, Sarah Tutton, edited by Max Delany.

File under: Alex Pittendrigh Amanda Ahmed Andrew McQualter Ania Walwicz Anne-Marie May Anti-Music Brendan Lee Bronwyn Clark-Coolee Callum Morton Constanze Zikos David Noonan David Rosetzky Diena Georgetti Eliza Hutchison Gail Hastings Gary Wilson Guy Benfield Imants Tillers Jacinta Schreuder Jenny Watson John Davis John Dunkley-Smith John Meade John Nixon John Spiteri Kate Beynon Kate Ellis Kathy Temin Kerrie Poliness Lyndal Walker Marco Fusinato Martine Corompt Melinda Harper Michael Delany Mike Parr Mira Gojak Peter Cripps Peter Tyndall Raafat Ishak Richard Dunn Robert Jacks Robert Macpherson Rose Nolan Sandra Bridie Sean Meilak Stephen Bram Ti Parks Tony Clark Andrew Hurle Carolyn Barnes Danny Huppatz Max Delany Robyn McKenzie Sarah Tutton Tessa Dwyer MUMA / Victoria Art Australian Art Painting Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

The Past and Present of Photography

1990, Japanese
Softcover, 192 pages, 30 × 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo

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Publication to accompany the exhibition "The Past and Present of Photography" that traveled between The National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo - Japan) and The National Museum of Modern Art (Kyoto - Japan) in 1990.
248 works of 42 internationally renowned photographers from the 1920s onwards are presented in this exhibition catalogue, with a number of pages dedicated to each artist. The works are further categorised into five sections: 'the Past and the Present of Photography,' 'Modernism / Asethetics of Photography,' 'Expression and Document,' 'Wavering Photography,' and 'Forms of Absense.'

Artists featured: Diane Arbus, Tina Barney, Bernhard & Hilla Becher, Bill Brandt, Brassaï, Arnaud Claass, Ei-Kyu, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Hamish Fulton, Andreas Gursky, Kambee Hanaya, Fuyuki Hattori, Lewis W. Hine, André Kertész, Ihee Kimura, William Klein, Kiyoshi Koishi, Josef Koudelka, Man Ray, Lisette Model, László Moholy-Nagy, Daido Moriyama, Martin Parr, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Alexander M. Rodchenko, Sebastião Salgado, August Sander, Michael Schimdt, Charles Sheeler, Toshio Shibata, Osamu Shiihara, W. Eugene Smith, Alfred Stieglitz, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Shomei Tomatsu, Shoji Ueda, Weegee, Tadasu Yamamoto, Nobou Yamanaka, Nakaji Yasui.

List of works, biographies and selected bibliographies of the participating artists, along with an introduction given by Tohru Matsumoto are included in the catalogue.

Condition: Very Good (clean and tight pages and binding, no noteable defects) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Albert Renger-Patzsch Alfred Stieglitz André Kertész Andreas Gursky Arnaud Claass August Sander Bill Brandt Brassaï Charles Sheeler Diane Arbus Ei Kyu Hamish Fulton Josef Koudelka Kambee Hanaya László Moholy-Nagy Lee Friedlander Lewis W. Hine Lisette Model Man Ray Martin Parr Michael Schmidt Nobou Yamanaka Robert Frank Sebastião Salgado Tina Barney W. Eugene Smith Walker Evans William Klein Bernd and Hilla Becher Alexander Rodchenko Kazuo Nakabayashi Koji Takahashi Masanori Ichikawa Tohru Matsumoto National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Japanese Photography Group Shows / Collections

Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists

1981, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 22 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Whitney Museum / New York University of Washington Press / Washington

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Out of print catalogue from the exhibition "Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists", Whitney Museum of American, 9 Dec 1981 - 7 Feb, 1982; SF MOMA, 8 Apr - 27 Jun 1982.

Features the great ceramic work of Peter Voulkos, John Mason, Kenneth Price, Robert Arneson, David Gilhooly and Richard Shaw.

Included the texts: "Ceramic Sculpture in California: An Overview" by Suzanne Foley and "Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists" by Richard Marshall.

Condition: Very Good (copy has sun tanning to spine and general light shelf wear) - All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: David Gilhooly John Mason Ken Price Peter Voulkos Richard Shaw Robert Arneson Richard Marshall Suzanne Foley Whitney Museum / New York University of Washington Press / Washington Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Sculpture / Installation Ceramics / Glass Group Shows / Collections

Utopie beginnt im Kleinen / Utopia starts small
12th Fellbach Triennial of Small Scale Sculpture

2013, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Utopie beginnt im Kleinen / Utopia starts small

Catalogue publication to accompany the 12th Fellbach Triennial of Small Scale Sculpture 2013, featuring the work of Armando Andrade Tudela, Leonor Antunes, Ei Arakawa & Nikolas Gambaroff, Anna Artaker, Vojin Bakic´, Neïl Beloufa, Bless, Arno Brandlhuber, Teresa Burga, Luis Camnitzer, Nina Canell, Lygia Clark, Nathan Coley, Thea Djordjadze, Maria Eichhorn, Michaela Eichwald, Felix Ensslin & Studierende, Geoffrey Farmer, Yona Friedman, Meschac Gaba, Carlos Garaicoa, Isa Genzken, Konstantin Grcic, Günter Haese, Diango Hernández, Judith Hopf, Iman Issa, Christian Jankowski & Studierende, Rachel Khedoori, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Jakob Kolding, Moshekwa Langa, Manuela Leinhoß, Anita Leisz, Anna Maria Maiolino, Victor Man, Cildo Meireles, Michaela Melián, Michele Di Menna, Charlotte Moth, Timo Nasseri, Manfred Pernice, Pratchaya Phinthong, Falke Pisano, Erwin Piscator, Rita Ponce de León, Vjenceslav Richter, Yorgos Sapountzis, Jochen Schmith, Nora Schultz, Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz, Yutaka Sone, Ettore Sottsass, Pascale, Marthine Tayou, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Danh Võ and Haegue Yang.

With contributions by Yilmaz Dziewior, Angelika Nollert, Dieter Roelstraete, Thomas Schölderle, Kerstin Stakemeier, et al.

Edited by Kulturamt der Stadt Fellbach, Angelika Nollert, Yilmaz Dziewior

240 pages with numerous colour illustrations

Beyond the bounds of the visual arts, this accompanying publication also examines approaches from architecture, theatre and design by means of examples. Alongside historical positions, the focus is placed in particular on contemporary, young artists, whose works has frequently been created in situations of radical change in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia. As well as texts on the exhibiting artists, the accompanying catalogue includes four academic essays that deal with the sociopolitical meaning of utopia through its historical development, the thematization and development of utopian models in art as well as the aesthetics of the small.

File under: Anita Leisz Anna Artaker Anna Maria Maiolino Armando Andrade Tudela Arno Brandlhuber Bless Bodys Isek Kingelez Carlos Garaicoa Charlotte Moth Christian Jankowski Cildo Meireles Danh Vo Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz Ei Arakawa Erwin Piscator Ettore Sottsass Falke Pisano Felix Ensslin Geoffrey Farmer Günter Haese Haegue Yang Iman Issa Isa Genzken Jakob Kolding Jochen Schmith Joëlle Tuerlinckx Judith Hopf Konstantin Grcic Leonor Antunes Luis Camnitzer Lygia Clark Manfred Pernice Manuela Leinhoß Maria Eichhorn Marthine Tayou Meschac Gaba Michaela Eichwald Michaela Melián Michele Di Menna Moshekwa Langa Nathan Coley Neïl Beloufa Nikolas Gambaroff Nina Canell Nora Schultz Pratchaya Phinthong Rachel Khedoori Rita Ponce de León Teresa Burga Thea Djordjadze Timo Nasseri Victor Man Vjenceslav Richter Vojin Bakic´ Yona Friedman Yorgos Sapountzis Yutaka Sone Diango Hernández Angelika Nollert Dieter Roelstraete Kerstin Stakemeier Thomas Schölderle Yilmaz Dziewior Walther König / Köln Architecture / Interior Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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