The poetic travelogue A Sixth Part of the World and the "visual symphony" The Eleventh Year mark the beginning of Dziga Vertov's most creative period, which peaked in the canonical film Man with the Movie Camera.
(Russ./Germ./Engl.)
(Subtitles Germ./Engl)

In 2008, Jamie Hilder, a Vancouver artist and critic became a "Downtown Ambassador" to make downtown public space more accommodating for commercial needs. Hilder soon quit the program and kept his uniform so he could assist people downtown in ways more to his liking, giving tourists information that the Business Improvement Association wouldn't want them to have and civic policies aimed at removing visible poverty from the downtown core.

Alison Knowles ist Gründungsmitglied der New Yorker Fluxus-Gruppe und seit den inauguralen Fluxuskonzerten von 1962 an deren Aktionen und Ausstellungen beteiligt.

A witty and elegant visual exchange around the uses and functions of chairs doubles as an excuse to address a number of the artists’ interests and working methodologies.

An essay on the forms or purposes of writing, books and libraries.

The film on this DVD explores the artist's experience of watching the attacks on the Twin Towers happen from his apartment window in New York.

Bowers and Opie reveal the many similarities in their backgrounds and discuss ideas concerning documentary methodologies and community based work. The conversation spans many of the topics they regard central to their practices and responsibilities as artists, from memories and community, to activism, documentary, feminism, war, and environmentalism.

Addressing a perceived gap in existing literature on the subject, the series focuses on three broad strands: the issue of temporality, the role of contemporary media and computational technologies, and how artistic practice makes epistemic claims.

The contemporary moment is comprised of many overlapping speeds, rhythms, and periods of time.

In the media theatre of contemporary culture, a drama unfolds: While the human sense of “the present” is challenged by the immediacy of analog signal transmission and the delays of digital data processing, a different (non-)sense of time unfolds within technologies themselves.

It is said that we know more about far-away galaxies than we do about the bottom of the oceans on earth.

Three interconnected palimpsest essays.

An endless bunk bed, resembling a stack of single beds.
Dimensions are reduced to child size.
Furnishings are identical.
Mattresses and duvets are covered with
white sheets.

Reviewing several bodies of work the two artists expose their working strategies, interests and inspirations. The conversation ranges from, among other topics, climate changes to personal ads, from Seth Siegelaub’s “Artist’s Contract” to Duchamp’s “Monte Carlo Bond,” and from the machinations of capital to American game shows

E.R.O.S. is the journal of Eros Press. It is published biannually, and dedicated to the subject of desire.

Death is the subject of this issue, yet we are not concerned with the crude materialism of the grave, the synaptic cease-fire or flat-line.

E.R.O.S. is the journal of Eros Press.

Daniela Comani’s project It Was Me. Diary 1900-1999 is a diary of 366 days (from January 1st to December 31st) on facts that really happened in the 20th Century.

Juvenile Record is the new poetry book wrote by the Texan singer and musician Christina Carter.

This publication is a travel journey written as a graphic novel.

15 images from a serie of photographs realized in Mexico during the Marcos' campaign in 2006, with two essays: a reflexion on contemporary photography

The starting point for the artist book was a series of existing photographic images that Hendrikse collected.

Evolving from his graduation project at the University of Applied Arts Vienna entitled The Creator Has a Master Plan, which was awarded the Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2014, Leander Schönweger developed an installation at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz that indicates mysteries, rather than offers solutions.

Artist Book by Stefan Klein

Analysis and comparison of selected works by Petra Maitz and Nicole Eisenman in one essay following a description of their career paths.

Sirio Luginbühl was an Italian underground film-maker, his film production beginning in 1967. With friends, filmmakers, and artists he experimented with innovative techniques and styles. He was also interested in art and literature and took part in various avant-garde projects in Italy.

The essay is joined by responses from Daniel Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw, followed by the author’s replies.

english/turkish fanzine

"It is very fragile, this discussion about graphic design ..."

Art for All' is the maxim of the celebrated artists Gilbert & George. Tate Media and the Arts Council are therefore delighted to be able to release their iconic feature length film, The World of Gilbert & George to a wider audience for the first time. A major work, written and directed by Gilbert & George, it is an extraordinary journey into the world of this influential and controversial duo.

"As a fanzine of insightful quotes, each publication seeks inspiration from a vividly depressive, deceased, literary genius."

F.R. DAVID focuses on the ‘status’ of writing in contemporary art practice. Writing as a mode that informs and feeds, supports and describes, back up and interprets, comments and reflects upon contemporary artistic production. Writing as ‘the core material’ of a number of artists but equally as a mode that exists parallel to or in service of the visual.

F.R. DAVID focuses on the ‘status’ of writing in contemporary art practice. Writing as a mode that informs and feeds, supports and describes, back up and interprets, comments and reflects upon contemporary artistic production. Writing as ‘the core material’ of a number of artists but equally as a mode that exists parallel to or in service of the visual

A CCTV sci-fi fairy-tale

In a society under the reformed 'Real-Time' Calendar, without history nor future, everybody is faceless. A woman panics when she wakes up one day with a face. With the help of the Spectral Children she slowly finds out more about the lost power and history of the human face and begins the search for its future.

Un-Necessary Knowledge is a form of academic research with each issue taking a single theme as a starting point from which to expand across different fields of knowledge.

The work of Nicolás Guagnini and John Kelsey manifests itself in distinctly different forms, yet the two share an affinity for playing with the roles and structures of the art world. The conversation includes discussions of some of their recurring topics and themes: gossip, the jeune-fille, institutional critique, the abject, humor and their participation in collaborative ventures.

Theater of Exhibitions analyzes “art after the end of art,” questioning whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing, and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice. The book also considers the current commodification of the art industry and the distribution of images in the digital age.

F.R. DAVID- a journal published twice- yearly by de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam- focuses on the "status" of writing in contemporary art practice. Writing as a mode that informs and feeds, supports and describes, back up and interprets, comments and reflects upon contemporary artistic production. Writing as ‘the core material’ of a number of artists but equally as a mode that exists parallel to or in service of the visual.

Die Internet-Arbeit "The Anthology of Art" von Jochen Gerz ist ein irritierendes, sperriges Werk – trotz aller scheinbaren Zugänglichkeit im Netz. Im Verlaufe eines Jahres (2001/02) haben 312 KünstlerInnen und KunsttheoretikerInnen aus der ganzen Welt, fast alle zum innersten Kreis des “Kunstsystems” gehörig, auf unterschiedlichste Weise reagiert auf Gerz’ immer gleiche Frage: “Was ist, im Kontext der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Ihre Vorstellung einer noch unbekannten Kunst?”.

1o question found in Athens by Stefan Klein, 10 answers by Thomas Geiger in Johannesburg.

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Published after the posthumous exhibition of Mark Morrisroe (1959-1989) "From this moment on".

Die Amerikanerin Martha Rosler ist eine scharfzüngige Kritikerin und Kommentatorin. Mit ihren engagierten und humorvollen Bestandesaufnahmen zur geopolitischen und soziokulturellen Lage wendet sie sich explizit an eine breite Öffentlichkeit.

After Venusia (2005) and Mercury Station (2009), both published by Semiotext(e), New Dystopia is Mark von Schlegell’s third novel.

(Engl./French)

Dealing with the Five Year Plan of the late 1920s, Dziga Vertov's Entuziazm was praised by artists like Charlie Chaplin and the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1960s.
(Russ./Engl.)
(Subtitles Germ./Engl.)

Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Ben Kinmont – Open by Chance & Appointment”, Cabinet du livre d'artiste, Université Rennes II, France, from March 10 to April 28, 2016

In the context of the international financial crisis in spring 2009 and the resulting rising unemployment rate, the students of the Estonian Academy of Arts came up with the idea of offering recently laid-off employees an opportunity to make art.

In texts by Christian Höller, Klaus Theweleit, Karen van den Berg, and Jan Verwoert the book illuminates the backgrounds of far-flung artistic conspiracy theories and celebrates the aesthetics of paranoia. A primer for the five latest films by Korpys/Löffler.

The Portikus is an exhibitions space that is associated with the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.

Lieven De Boeck, researcher Fine Art 2002–2003, put together a publication in which housing is considered as storage space for personal belongings, as a kind of camouflage of the inhabitant vis-a-vis his environment, and as a domicile.

French designer Pierre Charpin (b. 1962, lives in Paris) holds a singular position within his field. He became a designer after finishing his Visual Arts studies and started to gain recognition in the mid-1990s. Articulated with a strong and liberated use of colors and materials, his creations—objects, furniture and exhibition designs—deal with the notions of landscape and autonomy, humor and surprise, poetic presence and minimalism.

The work of Hans Schabus, who was born in Watschig in Carinthia in 1970 and who recently finished his studies at the Academy for Fine Arts, is characterised by the mutual interrelationships between interior and exterior, private and public life or furniture and human beings.

From the beginning in 1967 until 2002, Sol LeWitt’s artist books are collected in this volume.

Tommy Støckel's Art of Tomorrow. And Other Fictions. zeichnet eine Retrospektive seines Schaffens ab 2004. Neben Artikeln zu seinen Ausstellungen finden sich zahlreiche schwarzweiß und Farbabbildungen seiner Arbeiten.

Subtext: artists and writing was produced on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, presented by un Projects, at West Space, Melbourne, 4–19 February 2011.
(Engl.)

Toronto based Artist Chrysanne Stathacos meditates in this work on the fictional journal of her alter ego, a french artist living in paris in the 19th century.

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The main topic of Christoph Oraeger's film trilogy is the turbulent period of the late 1960's. My Generation (2007), Blow Up, Stroll On (2006) and Hippie Movie (2007) were based on three carefully chosen paradigmatic 'scenes' that symbolize the rise and fall of the Hippie era. Born in 1965, Oraeger chose to relive these moments in order to enjoy and ironically simulate events that he could not have been an active part of.

Der Amerikanerin Carolee Schneemann wurde in den frühen 1960er-Jahren die Leinwand zu eng. Sie begann die Malerei in den Raum auszudehen und ihren Körper als Material einzusetzen.

Becoming Palm is the outcome of a conversation between two friends, artist Simryn Gill and anthropologist Michael Taussig, addressing the complexities of palm oil and “the enormous transformations, human, and ecological, that this crop engenders” (Taussig) in two disparate geographical locations, Southeast Asia and South America.