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Fotografien von Robert Hamacher

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Feministic approach to the aesthetics of selfdefense and staged violence

As an artist, Markus Bacher works with rare intensity and exclusively as a painter. Iti is through painting, and only through painting, that he communicates his artistic vision.

One of the fundamental points in critique of the archive is its seeming neutrality. Regarding photographic archives, artist Allan Sekula wrote that archives treat images as atomised entities, depriving them of any context. The Arsenal, by contrast, considers itself a place of production – a place, in which working with film acts on our perception of the present, understands itself as political, asks questions, and allows for incompleteness. (Englisch)

This book features the first curated selection of Austrian art books and artists' books produced over the last two years. Who publishes art books and artists' books today and what content do they articulate? This publication contains a synopsis of statements by the actors, their descriptions of themselves, and a brief introduction to each of the curated books.
Participants: Museums, firms, private foundations, small publishers, and individual artists. A snapshot of the art system using the book as a medium.

Hubert Schmalix (geboren 1952 in Graz) lebt und arbeitet in Los Angeles. Hubert ist ein wahrer Maler. Für dieses Buch hat er einen ausgefaserten Filzer genommen Sujets aus seinem Oeuvres gezeichnet. Die Abbildungen scheinen zu erzählen, jedoch Hubert erläutert nicht. Mit diesem Werkzeug, in den engen Rahmen dieses Formats entwickelt er eine betörende, weil so einfache Schönheit.

The URBAN GRIDDED NOTEBOOK by Walking-Chair Design Studio. A blank notebook that is lined with the street grids of 127 different cities from all over the world, which act as the backdrop to your notes, lists, and scribbles.

veil collates three case studies on implications of wearing veils in Indian context, from the perspective of a practicing women’s rights lawyer and in the context of the work of the Mumbai-based Majlis Litigation Unit, a centre for women’s rights discourse and litigation. (Deutsch)

EP is the first critically underpinned series of publications that fluidly move between art, design, and architecture. The series creates a discursive platform between popular magazines (“single play”) and academic journals (“long play”) by introducing the notion of the “extended play” into publishing: with thematically edited pocket books as median. (engl.)

This fanzine is an appendix to the seminar Female Soul at Work hosted by Mirjam Thomann* at the Academy of FIne Arts in Vienna in the winter semester of 2012/13.

"As time doesn't stop, we are proud to devote this second edition of BEK to EVIL's newest project: his alter-ego SUPER A. EVIL will be in Langenhagen (Germany) in March and April to give us guys an insight into his personal well being.

The Mülheimer Freiheit came together in Cologne, in 1980, on the street which gave the group its Name, they shared a studio where a dynamic interchange took place.

BUREAU FOR OPEN CULTURE

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Calling Beauty (February 17 - April 10, 2010) curated by James Voorhies, organized by Bureau for Open Culture with Columbus College of Art & Design.

BUREAU FOR OPEN CULTURE

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Consumption Junction, organized by Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art & Design, and on view from September 13 to December 8, 2007 at Canzani Center Gallery on the CCAD campus.

BUREAU FOR OPEN CULTURE

This catalogue is published in conjuction with the exhibition Descend to Revolution (September 10 - November 24, 2009) curated by James Voorhies, organized by Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art & Design

BUREAU FOR OPEN CULTURE

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Exact Imagination curated by James Voorhies. Organized by Columbus College of Art & Design, the exhibition was on view from February 13 to April 5, 2008 at Canzani Center Gallery on the CCAD campus.

Heather Guertin 4. April 2014

Das, seit 2010 von Ezara Spangl und Rainer Spangl kuratierte Kunstvermittlungsprogramm Artist Lecture Series Vienna, gibt Künstler_innen die Möglichkeit vor Kolleg_innen und anderen interessierten Personen über ihre Arbeit zu sprechen sowie die Gelegenheit zur Präsentation einer Originalarbeit.

Das, seit 2010 von Ezara Spangl und Rainer Spangl kuratierte Kunstvermittlungsprogramm Artist Lecture Series Vienna, gibt Künstler_innen die Möglichkeit vor Kolleg_innen und anderen interessierten Personen über ihre Arbeit zu sprechen sowie die Gelegenheit zur Präsentation einer Originalarbeit.

BUREAU FOR OPEN CULTURE

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Of Other Spaces curated by James Voorhies, organized by Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art & Design. The exhibition was on view from February 25 to April 25, 2009, at Canzani Center Gallery on the CCAD campus.

"Thoughtbook" is an artist book by Lena Lapschina.
With essays by Cathérine Hug and Matt Bowman. Includes 14 works by Lena Lapschina: Money Love, Void, Art is …, Paradise total, Do You Really Need It?, Art-Free Territory, Und plötzlich war es wieder da, C-Level, Stuff, Curators’ Water, Propaganda, Girls wanted, Yes/No, Back On Tuesday.

This work offers a broad view on media piracy as well as a variety of comparative perspectives on recent issues and historical facts regarding piracy.

After working together as a research group centering around the event that was Eyjafjallajökull in May 2010, ‘Correspondence from Eyjafjallajökull’ went about re-examining the idea of Europe.

Karesansui are japanese dry gardens that are made up of a few essential elements: rocks, gravel and moss. This gardens are organized as iteneraries through different scenes and are usually meant to be seen while seated from a viewpoint outside the garden.

The FUNDAMENTAL ACTS propose a collective reformulation of five great themes of the human existence – LIFE, EDUCATION, CEREMONY, LOVE and DEATH – based on a palimpsest provided by Superstudio in 1972.

This is the second edition of Gander’s popular children’s book 'The Boy Who Always Looked Up', with new illustrations by Alessandra Genualdo.

Alice Guareschi was born in 1976 in Parma (Italy), and currently lives and works in Paris. Her work includes a wide range of media, such as video, writing, sculpture and installation.

Another fantastic issue of Red76’s Journal of Radical Shimming.

The publication Finissage arrives after a residency at the Art Department of Subbacultcha, Da Costakade 150, Amsterdam, curated by Floor Kortman – December 2015 and January 2016.

Original Plumbing documents diversity within trans male lifestyles through photographic portraits and essays, personal narratives and interviews. We feel that there is no single way to sum up what it means to be a trans man because we each have different beliefs, life experiences and relationships to our own bodies.

Original Plumbing is a quarterly print magazine by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos, independently published and distributed out of Brooklyn, NY.

Original Plumbing documents diversity within trans male lifestyles through photographic portraits and essays, personal narratives and interviews. We feel that there is no single way to sum up what it means to be a trans man because we each have different beliefs, life experiences and relationships to our own bodies.

Original Plumbing is a quarterly print magazine by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos, independently published and distributed out of Brooklyn, NY.

AtomAge magazine was the underground bible of rubber, vinyl and leather fetish wear throughout the 1970s. (Engl.)

Drawings by Christopher Schulz, 2011

Megan Sullivan beauftragte ihren Vater, sich in einer Vorstadt in Connecticut, wo sie aufgewachsen ist, auf die Straße zu begeben und jedes einzelne Haus photographisch festzuhalten.

The project “Void in my eye Admires the lens.” depicts lenses in front of a black background and it highlights their function of distancing the subject wearing them from reality.

This publication contains poems and biographical information on the four female writers.

BLOOP - No fish story vernetzt Fiktion, Interview, Zeichnung und Fotografie, collagiert Projektion mit Dokumentarischem und ist Resultat der von Höhne & Gismarvik untersuchten Orte, Mythen, Literatur, Filme, Lokalhistorie und persönlichen Geschichten zum Thema Fisch, Fischfang und Fischindustrie.

The masters program Fashion Matters at the Sandberg Instituut takes the liberty of addressing some issues of the fast-changing system of the fashion industry.

Quinn Latimer’s arresting writings find expression in literature and theory as well as contemporary art and its history.

For the past forty-five years Charles Simonds has built dwelling places for an imaginary civilization of Little People in the streets of neighborhoods throughout the world.

This book of photography by French artist Daguin contains a selection of intimately documented acts. Simona Vladíková writes: "Pierre Daguin lets his sight naturally wash up a stream of images of girls, friends, private places, showcases, girls’ wombs, and portraits…. The black and white photography, including that which is said to be ‘low quality,’ is a raw record of moments of convergence of contextual flux." Designed by Markéta Othová, the book has a hard binding and cover.

The press photographs reproduced in this publication show the bombing of Bagdad.

The magazine PROFILE is an idea oriented publication devoted to an exploration of artists' ideas by the artists themselves.

Lost Art is a catalog of post-modern artworks that have suffered a material destruction, displacement, or disappearance.

This is the main editorial project of BOLO Paper. BOLO 2 includes the work of 45 contributors from all over the world. The main theme of the second issue is: "Dreams are indispensable".

pencil and watercolour on paper
25,3 mal 21,5cm (images printed here at 86% of original size)

Never to be able to see through the eyes of another, never to feel what another one feels, since every emotion that we can create necessarily remains our very own – this dilemma is the starting point of Wagner’s explorations and is examined throughout Poietry.

The Los Angeles based artist Shannon Ebner extends her exploration of photography, sculpture and language in this remarkable book, The Sun as Error. In collaboration with Dexter Sinister (design duo David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey),

The challenge was to make a temporary museum, which integrates into its surrounding site, adding value to it. Embedded in Lopud’s rich Renaissance heritage and preserved nature, Your black horizon Art Pavilion reveals new meanings of the landscape.

Channa Horwitz arbeitet seit Anfang der 1960er Jahre kontinuierlich mit Zahlen, Rhythmen, Bewegungen und an den Möglichkeiten diese Strukturen zu visualisieren. Die Publikation ist der erste Übersichtskatalog der Künstlerin und erscheint zur Ausstellung im Kunstverein Potsdam und in der Galerie Aanant & Zoo in Berlin. (English/German)

The Office of Culture and Design is an autonomous platform for artists, writers, designers and social practice projects in the developing world (primarily, the Philippines).

Artist book

ARTIUM Basque Center-Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition Of More than One Voice by Rotterdam-based Serbian artist Katarina Zdjelar (from 26 January to 28 April 2013).

In the slipstream of conceptual art, the intimate interweaving of meaning and materialization in art and design came to be discredited in the second half of the twentieth century.

The work in this book from 1977 is a graphic realization of the structure of a musical composition by famous minimalist musician Jon Gibson.

Ist ein Buch mit 544 Seiten, 17 Kapiteln, mehr als 1700 Fotos/Zeichnungen und Texten...

Ist ein Archiv das Geschichten erzählt.
Ist ein skulpturales Manifest.
Ist ein Modell der Realität.
Ist eine Serie von Orten und Ideen.

With texts by Benjamin Aranda, Bryce Dessner, Francesca von Habsburg, Florian Hecker, Caroline A. Jones, Chris Lasch, Tony Myatt, Matthew Ritchie, Mark Wasiuta, Peter Weibel. Photography by Todd Eberle.

In an unwitting collaboration with Weinmayr, Rosamund Felsen faxes copies of Bruce Nauman's Fingers and Holes etchings to Munich in anticipation for a sale and, subsequent to Weinmayr's response that she will not buy the etchings as she prefers the fax copies, faxes to inform Weinmayr that the fax copy is not art but “ an immediate means of communication.” (English)