„Gagarin – The Artists in their own words“ is an artist’s magazine, entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by artists who are now working, anywhere in the world.

„Gagarin – The Artists in their own words“ is an artist’s magazine, entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by artists who are now working, anywhere in the world.

MAKE.A.MATCH gave artists Carte Blance to develop a project, but with one restriction: they have to collaborate with another artist, a stranger chosen by the curator.

Der österreichische Architekt Carl Pruscha war von 1964-74 Berater für Regionalplanung in Nepal im Auftrag der Vereinten Nationen.

The everyday connotations of the original, the real, sincere, valid, historical or deep are well-known, and the opposite of the authentic may then be the superficial, false, not-what-it-seems, or just new. Nonetheless 'the real thing’ is still a fruitful starting point to analyze changes in the post-digital society. Digital technology is embedded in almost every personal relationship, in labour conditions, and in aesthetic practices.

Archives are collections of records that are preserved for historical, cultural and evidentiary purposes. As such, archives are considered as sites of a past, places that contain traces of a collective memory of a nation, a people or a group.

Being Public investigates, from different perspectives, the notion of 'public'. 'Public' is one of the most issued categories in current debates on culture, yet the notion itself remains largely un-reflected.

This book investigates what space an artwork can occupy in the public domain, how it can draw attention to ethical issues in society, and how it can spur individuals and groups into action.

„Gagarin – The Artists in their own words“ is an artist’s magazine, entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by artists who are now working, anywhere in the world.

The letters permit us a glimpse of a space that contains many different reflections.

In seinem ersten Buch zeigt Fotograf Alexander Coggin eigenartige Momentaufnahmen aus den letzten Jahren.

A crossover zine between sex and art.

a crossover zine between sex and art

Montrage ist eine Ausstellung in Buchformat mit cinematografischen Projekten der Portugiesischen Künstlerin Filipa César.

There are 140 copies, which are signed and numbered.

a crossover zine between sex and art

basso magazin is edited by Yusuf Etiman. Yusuf was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1969 and lives and works in Berlin since 1989.

a crossover zine between sex and art

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This essay is an attempt to conceive a necessary step to be made by an emacipated “second generation” diaspora on its way to independence, no longer bound to the post-colonial and therefore not locality defined.

Die Forschung zu weiblichen/sapphischen Kollaborationen der Moderne deckt fortlaufende Prozesse der »Auslöschung« oder des »Aus-der-Kunstgeschichte-heraus-Schreibens« weiblicher Protagonistinnen auf.

Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi visited the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s. It was during the closing years of the Soviet Empire, and the words on everyone’s lips were glasnost and perestroika. They wanted to gather the memories of the cinematographic literary and artistic Russian avant-garde of the ’20s and ’30s, seeking out survivors and listening to their life stories.

Evolution (a collaboration with Håkan Jonson) is a Java-based AI application that emulates the writing and compositions of poet and artist Johannes Heldén.

A book of drawing experiments by Aaron Carpenter. Carpenter’s humble, humorous drawings often result from peculiar, self-inflicted constraints, as in “Calibrating of Left Arm as a Rule Edge” and “Self Portrait Drawn at Knife-point”.

The fifth issue of "FAQNP" looks at "visualizations" of queer nerds. The title of the publication is a recursive acronym (popular in programming communities). Design elements of the publication are intentional to the smallest detail - the font used is OCR-B, designed early in computer production to be easily read by both computers and the human eye.

„Gagarin – The Artists in their own words“ is an artist’s magazine, entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by artists who are now working, anywhere in the world.

Published in conjunction with Flaka Haliti’s solo presentation conceived for the Kosovo Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, this book continues the artist’s invitation to encounter a visual field in which territorial boundaries are referenced and mediated by the sensory.

Is it possible to understand graphic design as a practice beyond an object-centric approach, as a practice beyond the conception and production of well-designed and printed artifacts? Which other potentials to create a public should be considered integral to design as an activity?

Published for the first time in 1945, in the middle of Veronesi’s researches about abstract cinema and photography, the quality of its graphics and teaching aspects remains undimmed.

TIME NO TIME polarizes moving pictures in terms of speed, time and experience through parallelism and circulation.

The German word Handdruck means both ‘handshake’ as well as ‘hand printing’. Handdruck is also the name of the series of screen-printed textiles and objects produced in Bolzano by a collective of textile designers and artists between the 1970s and the early 1990s.

Aesthetic Politics in Fashion outlines critical studies in the present cross-sections of fashion, art, politics, and global capitalism.

This publication brings together papers from the 2012 conference and writing on artworks and art practices.

In the work A Silent Crazy Jungle Under Glass (2011 – 2014) Kriemann combines historical forms of abstraction with aspects of the archive, the latter being a topic that has been crucial for her for a long time.

Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday is the outcome of a research project pursued by a group of artists, architects, and social theorists.

MAPPING OUT UTOPIA is a three-part look at the Boston area's 1970s counterculture, based on listings found in old countercultural directories and magazines.

In this collection of essays, art historian and critic Sven Lütticken focuses on aesthetic practice in a rapidly expanding cultural sphere. He analyzes its transformation by the capitalist cultural revolution, whose reshaping of art’s autonomy has wrought a field of afters and posts.

Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: the Art of the Art Assignment, is a unique and wide-ranging anthology featuring essays, drawings, and assignments from over 100 contributors.

In an effort to add to the debate on contemporary art, Witte de With organized lectures and debates.

Grobisce is a book about the 580 mass graves in Slovenia. How did the killings happen, and why have only 1% of the graves been excavated?

Over the past two years, New York-based journalist Francesca Berardi has visited Detroit six times, compiling, as she puts it, "a resident-driven guide book to the new American frontier."

It's a research book handmade (totally) by A. Anghileri. The main focus of this book it's to create a sort of random visual poetry, and juxtapose different works (and events) in an unique publication to trace a kind of new experiential identity without a real personal experience.

Two stories, two visions of the city of Rome in an unstable balance between past, present and possible future, amorous dialogues and fragments of news that transform the L’Urbe in a place of transit and landing, a crossroads of cultures and experiences.

Titled "Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium," the eighth Contour Biennale in Mechelen, Belgium, addresses the nation-state system and the realm of justice today.

What happens to us and to our identity when we are forced into exile by hostility of any form, living conditions or armed conflict? Which psychosocial outcomes and cognitive dissonances are triggered by migration? What happens to us and to our identity when we are forced into exile by hostility of any form, living conditions or armed conflict? Which psychosocial outcomes and cognitive dissonances are triggered by migration?

In seinen Arbeiten untersucht Miklós Erhardt künstlerische Handlungsmöglichkeiten in Bezug auf gesellschaftspolitische und ökonomische Themen. Mit interventionistischen und dokumentarischen Methoden schafft er dabei soziale Situationen, die zum Ausgangspunkt für weitere Beobachtungen werden.

Give Up Art is a collection of critical writings by author Maria Fusco. Operating across fiction, criticism, and theory, Fusco’s work forges a contemporary space for critical art writing internationally. Give Up Art brings together nearly two dozen essays, reviews, and smaller pieces published between 2002 and 2017.

Maria Fusco is a Belfast-born writer based in Scotland. Her award-winning writing crosses the registers of criticism, ction, and theory. Her work has been translated into ten languages.

„Gagarin – The Artists in their own words“ is an artist’s magazine, entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by artists who are now working, anywhere in the world.

In the essay he wrote for the On Mobility catalogue Van Weelden re-enacts 16th century rascal Tyl Uilenspiegel like an artist whose work he encountered during his travels to the exhibitions in Amsterdam, Berlin, Vilnius and Budapest. Van Weelden questions their balancing between artistic, individual freedom and social engagement. In his search for playful metaphors he is the fellow traveller of the reader and hands the essential luggage on this ongoing mental journey in a 21st century parable. The On Mobility catalogue contains images of the work of all 21 participating artists.

'Dune' is an interactive landscape which reacts on the behavior of people. This hybrid of nature and technology exists out of large amounts of fibers which are brightened according to the sounds and motion of passing visitors. (Engl.)

* Features a discussion between Grayson Perry (Turner Prize winner 2003), Lionel Shriver (Orange Prize winner 2005), and Mark Lawson
* First book to go behind-the-scenes of celebrity art prize culture
* Leading writers, artists and critics investigate the impact of the Turner Prize on the British Art scene

The Miraculous Life of Claire C reveals a public secret, based on a human existence which cannot be traced in history books, because identity is a living thing, both effervescent, elusive and in continual transformation.

In Recent Works, his first solo show in Austria, Canadian artist Michael Snow shows photographic works and film installations from the past ten years.

Die Ausstellungsreihe fake or feint fand von Januar bis Juli 2009 in Projekträumen am Berliner Alexanderplatz sowie im Kino Arsenal statt. Im Mittelpunkt stand das Thema einer Politik der Oberfläche, verfolgt entlang von Konzepten wie Markierung, Maskerade, Inszenierung, Display, Störung, Devianz.

„Gagarin – The Artists in their own words“ is an artist’s magazine, entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by artists who are now working, anywhere in the world.

„Gagarin – The Artists in their own words“ is an artist’s magazine, entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by artists who are now working, anywhere in the world.

„Gagarin – The Artists in their own words“ is an artist’s magazine, entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by artists who are now working, anywhere in the world.

Art book by Sebastian Dacey, printed by Cosima Pitz in a limited, hand numbered edition of 300 in 2016.

"It happens, during the process of applying paint, perhaps in a particular yellow hue, to piece of wood, for example, that I can be stricken with a sudden sense of doubt about painting,by and large. When this happens, I like to go for a drive-sometimes I go really fast - giving myself the freedom to be challenged by the curves..."

The Swedish artist Saskia Holmkvist works with issues relating to communication, language and speech. How does language makes mutual understanding and interaction possible?