Spike Art Quarterly , No. 34

Spike #34 takes on the concepts of collaboration, participation and collectivity and the way in which these concepts relate to their historical counterparts.
Contemporary life is largely shaped by capitalism, technological progress and a growing irritation with consciousness – what historically is conceived as ‘to be oneself’. We no longer invent, but we sample and catalogue; we no longer pursue utopian ideals but rather are bounded by existential necessities; today, we are keen of been reactionary much rather than critical.
How do contemporary forms of collaboration express, and respond to, the contemporary non-antagonism and political indifference? What is the shape and potential of the contemporary collectives who are ever more fluid and anti-utopian?

Including
Articles by Joanna Fiduccia and Carson Chan;,a potrait by Pablo Larios; an interview with the artist collective Am Nuden Da by Gil Leung; reviews, a 6-page image featuring classic artist collaborations, and columns by the Pfaff Brothers.

Language: German / English
Pages: 138
Size: 28 x 23 cm
Binding: Softcover
D 9,50€

Buy it

AZURAZIA, «Lowering the Mediterranean, irrigating the Sahara»: the first volume of “original soundtracks produced for film which doesn’t exist yet”. Produced in Morocco during the summer of 2011, this record contains tracks made out of local music in North Africa and field recordings, transformed and remixed. Welcome to the Azurazian world, along the lowered Mediterranea by the Gibraltar dam, and follow the adventures of Ghazi Van Keering, searching to learn the new Daseinphilosophy in wasted landscapes. A print art work is included with the record.

Pressed by: Grautag Records

D 20 €

Buy It

In this issue: A 60 page diary of the Venice Architecture Biennale by Juergen Teller, an interview and visual essay with Luc Tuymans, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Asad Raza on art, Andy Murray & the U.S. Open, an interview with ARS’ Gerfried Stocker, an essay by Joe Fyfe, menswear from Jil Sander, Issey Miyake, Louis Vuitton and Dries Van Noten.

Editor: Olu Michael Odukoya
Language: English
Pages: 189
Size: 27.5 x 21 cm
Binding: Softcover

Price: €10.00
Buy it

Ein neues Magazin aus der Schweiz, das sich theoretisch mit Gegenwart beschäftigt. Denn Vergangenheit ist nicht mehr und Zukunft gibt es nicht, «bis man sie als etwas Gegenwärtiges erlebt», so die Experimentalmusikerin Laurel Halo, die in der ersten Ausgabe im Kontext der Denkrichtung des Magazins zitiert wurde. Praktisch geht es vorrangig um die gegenwärtige Clubkultur in und um Luzern.

Inhaltsangaben zweikommasieben #5:

Derrick May – «It’s Love, Man!»
Warum Gibt Es So Wenig Weibliche Djs [Clubgeflüster]
Die Patchwork-Philosophie Der Solar Bears
Light Asylum [Einwegkamera]
Proto-House [Music Box]
Deetron 02:30 Uhr, Interview Auf Berndeutsch
Die Discokugel [Gegen:Stand]

Publisher: Zweikommasieben Magazin
Language: German
Pages: 38
Size: 23 x 15.5 cm
Binding: Softcover

Price: €8.00
Buy it

Problemata Physica One. ohja books

Problemata physica One is the first publication of ohja books. It includes works by some of the great photographers featured on the webblog Problemata physica over the past years, as well as an essay by Andy Adams of Flak Photo. The zine is as handcrafted as possible, featuring embossing and thread stitching. The edition is 200 and each issue will be hand-numbered.

Photographers: Collin Avery, Jordan Baumgarten, Miklos Boros, Karianne Bueno, Ricardo Cases, André Cepeda, Andres Gonzalez, Gregory Halpern, Cosima Hanebeck, Ben Huff, Ani Kington, You Li, Eamon Mac Mahon, Nina Poppe, William Rugen, Andy Sewell, Maurice Van Es.

Problemata physica is a webblog on photography founded by Michael Schröder and Stefan Steins in 2010.

D 13€

Buy it

〈cheap chics pack #1〉
suspicious fashion by Kiki Kudo
A small (2 3/4 in. x 4 3/4 in.) guide to clothing easily recognized and targeted by cops in Tokyo.
smiley sicks Tee designed by Keita Ishiguro
size:M.L.XL
A suggestive but not suspicious Tee from Tokyo.

Easily targeted for police searches in Tokyo

D 22€

Buy M size
Buy L size
Buy XL size

OE Magazine #4

Πis an independent fashion magazine from Berlin. Twice a year, it acts as a platform for the German, and particularly the Berlin fashion scene.

Œ largely refrains from ‘describing’ current trends and ideas in fashion, but instead concentrates on showing fashion by purely focusing on images. In every issue, 10 photo editorials reveal what keeps designers, photographers, stylists and hair & make-up artists moving these days.

When it comes to production Πstrives to maximise the potential of printed matter. Different paper qualities and special production features make Πan item that people like to hold, keep and collect.

Language: English
D 15€ EU 18€

Buy it

Glotzt nicht so romantisch! On Extralegal Space in Belgrade. Dubravka Sekulic

In the extra-territory of the Belgrade roof extensions, things are not quite what they appear to be at first glance. This book, which starts from the enigmatic extensions of the so-called Russian Pavilions, scrutinizes this extra-territory. Not only are the pavilions not Russian, but more importantly the act of extending them in the 2000s follows particular shady negotiations between inhabitants, developers and municipal authorities, which placed the extensions beyond simple (il)legality.
“Glotzt Nicht so Romantisch!” delves into the political and legal origins of this extra-territory, through which the housing policy of socialist Yugoslavia is traced, during the 1990s with property turning from “ours” into “mine”, and the 2000s when the attitude of transgressing urban regulations became the norm, which explains much of the vast extra-legal urban interventions that shape the city today.

Laguage: English

Price: 13.00€

Buy it

Parallel Presents – The Art of Pierre Huyghe. Amelia Barikin

Over the past two decades, French artist Pierre Huyghe has produced an extraordinary body of work in constant dialogue with temporality. Investigating the possibility of a hypothetical mode of timekeeping–“parallel presents”– Huyghe has researched the architecture of the incomplete, directed a puppet opera, founded a temporary school, established a pirate television station, staged celebrations, scripted scenarios, and journeyed to Antarctica in search of a mythological penguin. In this first book-length art historical examination of Huyghe and his work, Amelia Barikin traces the artist’s continual negotiation with the time codes of contemporary society. Offering detailed analyses of Huyghe’s works and drawing on extensive interviews with Huyghe and his associates, Barikin finds in Huyghe’s projects an alternate way of thinking about history–a “topological historicity” that deprograms (or reprograms) temporal formats.

Language: English
Pages: 280
D 35€
Buy it

This new publication documents an exhibition that took place in 2010 in the window of our antiquarian bookstore. Michael Krebber presented here in collaboration with Sebastian Höckelmann works by Antonius Höckelmann and Jack Smith.

Author: Jack Smith, Antonius Höckelmann
Publisher: Galerie Buchholz
Language: English / German
Pages: 48
Size: 22.5 x 21.5 cm
Binding: Softcover
D 18€
Buy it