Vertikal Klub. Willem Oorebeek. NN editions.

“Vertikal Klub” is a manual for future installations of the “Vertical Club”, a project launched by Willem Oorebeek in 1994 and which has been developing ever since.

The book not only compiles in an archaeological way present and (potential) future members of the “Vertical Club”, but also reflects on the use and representation of the human figure in print media. Text and image are connected in a radical way, pushing the idea of administrative visual statistics towards the absurd.

“Vertikal Klub” raises the question as to the admission policy and representational use of the human figure in dark times.

Edition of 500 numbered copies / 64 pages / 20.5 × 27cm.

55€

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The Artist’s House – From Workplace to Artwork. Kirsty Bell. Sternberg Press.

The artist’s house is a prism through which to view not only the artistic practice of its inhabitant, but also to apprehend broader developments in sculpture and contemporary art in relation to domestic architecture and interior space. Based on a series of interviews and site visits with living artists about the role of their home in relation to their work, Kirsty Bell looks at the house as receptacle, vehicle, model, theater, or dream space. In-depth analyses of these contemporary examples—including Jorge Pardo, Mirosław Bałka, Danh Vo, Gregor Schneider, Frances Stark, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Paweł Althamer, Mark Leckey, Monika Sosnowska, Gabriel Orozco, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Andrea Zittel—are contextualized by key artists of the twentieth century such as Kurt Schwitters, Alice Neel, Edward Krasiński, Carlo Mollino, and Louise Bourgeois. A two-way flow from the domestic arena to the exhibition space becomes apparent, in which the everyday has a significant role to play in the merging of such developments as installation art, relational aesthetics, expanded collage, and performance art.

Design by Joseph Logan

October 2013, English
17.5 x 23 cm, 328 pages, 183 color and 41 b/w ills., softcover

29 €

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Communicating the Archive: Physical Migration. Karl-Magnus Johansson, Gluey-C (Eds.). The Regional State Archives in Gothenburg.

Works and texts by Ida Lehtonen, Lisa Ehlin, Sandra Rafman, Kari Altmann, Jon rafman,
Michael Shanks, Artie Vierkant and Karl-Magnus Johansson (ed.).

There is no offline space. Or at least the experience of the Internet so deeply affects media users today that it influences their perspectives of the world outside the Web. This situation has been described as post-Internet, a term that has loosely emerged as an approach within contemporary art, defined by the social and technological conditions of networked society.

The Regional State Archives in Gothenburg invited the artist Ida Lehtonen to let her artistic practice encounter the archives. In Communicating the Archive: Physical Migration, Lehtonen’s work is presented and examined from an archival and media archaeological standpoint. Somewhat disregarding traditional archival values such as preservation, security and authenticity, this volume reconsiders the archive post-Internet through contributions from scholars and practitioners of diverse fields: art, psychology, digital culture, archaeology and fashion.

Contributors:

Ida Lehtonen is an artist and curator born in Turku, Finland. She holds a BFA from the School of Photography, University of Gothenburg. The main focus of her research is our relationships with machines; how new technology shapes us, our bodies and the outside world.

Lisa Ehlin is a PhD student in Fashion Studies, connected to a research school in Cultural History at Stockholm University. Her research centres on the process, practice and experience of the digital image in contemporary digital culture.

Sandra Rafman, PhD, is a developmental and clinical psychologist at the McGill University Health Centre and at l’Université du Québec à Montréal. She has a longstanding interest in the relation of psychology, philosophy and art. Her writings include narrative representations of the experience of loss, children’s notions of justice and forgiveness and the construction of self in complex political environments following trauma and moral disruption.

Kari Altmann is an American cloud-based artist currently stationed in New York with a BFA from MICA. She is an ongoing participant in both online and offline countercultures, and a consistently conceptual superuser of social media. Her work is often focused on cultural technology and the back-end processes that shape today’s meta awareness of content, brands, memes, and products.

Jon Rafman is an artist, filmmaker, and essayist born in Montreal. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited at the New Museum, the Palais de Tokyo, and the Saatchi Gallery. Rafman’s work, inspired by the rich contradictions that technology presents, has been featured in Modern Painters, Frieze, The New York Times, and Artforum.

Michael Shanks is a British archaeologist who has specialized in Classical archaeology and archaeological theory. He received his BA and PhD from Cambridge University, and was a lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter before moving to the US in 1999 to take up a Chair in Classics at Stanford University. He is director of the MetaMedia Lab and co-directs the Stanford Humanities Lab.

Artie Vierkant is an artist whose work concerns the role of image production and
dissemination in contemporary networked society. He received an MFA from the University of California San Diego. His work has been shown internationally and featured in Artforum, the UbuWeb archive, Reframing Photography (Routledge), and more. He is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He lives and works in New York.

Karl-Magnus Johansson is an archivist at the Regional State Archives in Gothenburg, and the editor of this book.

The book is designed and co-edited by Gluey-C, the collaborative practice of the designers Pascal Prošek and Jonas Fridén, and archivist Karl-Magnus Johansson.

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Artists’ Cocktails. Ryan Gander. Dent De Leone

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

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

Extract from: [Extracts from… ] A conversation between Ryan Gander and Masako Hosoi

Author / Editor: Ryan Gander, Phil Mayer with editorial assistance by Holly Featherstone, Barnie Page and Anna Stoppa
Design: Åbäke with Delphine Bourit
Year: 2013
Pages: 224
First Edition: 2000 copies
ISBN number: 978-1-907908-16-3

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Cause and Effect. Lucy Powell

Word pairs from various types of jargon (military, corporate, psychology, media) arranged rythmically into a catalogue of interchageable causes and effects.

Signed by the artist. 2012.

www.lucy-powell.com

Price: €35.00

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Short dream of a free life / Kurzer Traum vom freien Leben. Megan Francis Sullivan.

Artworks by Megan Francis Sullivan, 2010-2012. All source images found in “Boys, Kerle, Männer”, Issues 1 to 11, 1971.

Price: €5.00

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David Shrigley: I Am An Actor / A Toast. David Shrigley, Alig Fodder, Gavin Mitchell. BQ, Berlin.

7″ Picture Disc

Words: David Shrigley
Music: Alig Fodder
Voice: Gavin Mitchell

Published by BQ, Berlin on the occasion of the exhibition “David Shrigley. Big Shoes”, 2013.

Listen to the tunes: www.soundcloud.com/bq-gallery

Price: €15.00

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“Architecture is a collective knowledge produced through the efforts of a multitude.within their multitude, two forms of collaboration unfold: a synchronic one, and a diachronic one, which connects all design attempts in a multifaceted Architectura Universalis.

The Possibility of collaboration now relies upon a broader “agreement with” all previous architecture.To put it another way, collaboration today is based on collaborations of the past. Indeed, it is possible to collaborate precisely because there is a shared body of knowledge that provides the basis for agreement. Collaboration is possible because architectural knowledge is one and given, and thus inevitably shared”

SAN ROCCO is a magazine about architecture.
SAN ROCCO does not solve problems. It is not a useful magazine.
SAN ROCCO is neither serious nor friendly.
SAN ROCCO is written by architects. As such, SAN ROCCO is not particularly intelligent, or philologically accurate. In SAN ROCCO, pictures are more important than texts.
SAN ROCCO is serious. It takes the risk of appearing naive.
SAN ROCCO will not last for ever. There will be no more than 20 SAN ROCCOs for the single five-year plan.
San Rocco is the name of a place in Monza, not a nice place. Giorgio Grassi and Aldo Rossi engaged in a design competition for this place in 1971. The project was not built; ordinary housing blocks were built instead.

Language: English
Pages: 216
Size: 23 × 17
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9772038491006

Price: €15.00
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America – Live & Die. Mike Diana. Divus.

Two volumes in original cardboard box

Volume 1, LIVE, 400 pages
Volume 2, DIE, 128 pages

All together 528 pages in color of cartoons, drawings and paintings on fine paper.

55 €

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Inner Planets. Cameron Jamie. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.

Cameron Jamie has been working with different medias such as drawing, sculpture, film, photography, performance, music and painting. For over two decades one recurring theme in his work is the mask. The work “Inner Planets” is a group of 43 handcrafted masks sculpted in clay. The artist connotes it with the multilayered paradox of the mask. In so doing he sets in motion an interplay between inside and out, between being and seeming, between what is our own and what is of others. The publication shows the work of art in all its facettes including installation shots of its presentation at the Palmenhaus des Alten Botanischen Gartens in Zurich. The book is designed by the artist himself.

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Cameron Jamie arbeitet mit unterschiedlichen Medien wie Zeichnung, Skulptur, Film, Photographie, Performance, Musik und Malerei. Das Werk “Inner Planets” ist ein Ensemble von 43 Masken, die er aus Tonerde geformt hat. Der Künstler konnotiert das Werk mit der vielschichtigen Paradoxie der Maske. Dadurch setzt er das Spiel zwischen Innen und Außen, von Sein und Schein, vom Eigenen und Anderen usw. in Gang. Die Publikation zeigt das Werk in allen seinen Facetten inklusive Installationsphotos der Ausstellung im Palmenhaus des Alten Botanischen Gartens in Zürich und wurde vom Künstler selbst gestaltet.

19.80 €

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