e-flux journal – What Is Contemporary Art?
Contributions by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Boris Groys, Raqs Media Collective, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hu Fang, Jörg Heiser, Martha Rosler, Zdenka Badovinac, Carol...
View ArticlePeacocks with Hiccups
The second issue in the “Poetic Series” takes its title Peacocks with Hiccups from the poetry of Berlin-based artist Karl Holmqvist, whose work is featured alongside American poet Catherine Wagner and...
View ArticleWords For Art – Barry Schwabsky
In this volume of short essays, Barry Schwabsky reveals himself to be a critic of uncommon range and erudition. Walter Benjamin’s views on color, E. H. Gombrich’s theory of perception, Mel Bochner’s...
View ArticleReturn To Sender – Sipke Visser
For two and a half years I picked addresses randomly from google maps. I sent to those addresses a handwritten letter like the one on the right here and a photograph I had taken. All in all I sent out...
View ArticleStray Warmings – Nina Canell
Testing the intimate intersection of audience, object, and event, Nina Canell’s work has been described by curator Fionn Meade as “tethered to fragmented and often partially withheld narratives [and]...
View ArticleSpeculative Drawing – Armen Avanessian, Andreas Töpfer
Speculative Drawing presents fifteen books—from monographs and translations to collections of essays—that emerged from the research platform Speculative Poetics, conceived by Armen Avanessian in 2011....
View ArticleSILBER – Peter Kaaden
“GOLD & SILBER” are Peter Kaaden’s first monographs, split in two books, the golden and the silver part. Both books feature the two sides of Kaaden’s work, the commercial and magazine work, as...
View ArticleGOLD – Peter Kaaden
“Raised in a small town in Germany and relocating to NY to work with the likes of Ryan McGinley the young photographer Peter Kaaden shoots strong, often provocative, graphic imagery, Inspired by...
View ArticleRob Hornstra: DIY Strategies
Rob Hornstra: DIY Strategies On Funding Streams and Growing Audiences Booking Deadline Friday 27 June Programmed as part of the Summer Campus 2014, PhotoIreland is delighted to present documentary...
View ArticleFrameworks – Sam Laughlin
About: Across Europe one finds buildings that lie unfinished, some are skeletal in form and purpose. These concrete forms represent a stage in the architectural process that, in their case, may never...
View ArticleClosed for Winter – Isidro Ramírez
About Closed for Winter: Southwest Spain is not as big a tourist spot as the nearby Costa del Sol. Over to the West, in the province of Cadiz, summer and tourism had a very different flavour during my...
View ArticleParis et la Banlieue –Éanna de Fréine
About Paris et la Banlieue: Paris is a city deeply divided between the immensly wealthy city itself and its often turbulent suburbs. Such a division has its origins in the 1860’s when Baron Haussmann...
View ArticleMonogram Logo
Following on from ‘Animal logo’, Counter-Print have released a new book, collecting categorised monograms and ciphers from around the world, called ‘Monogram logo’. The book is designed by Leterme...
View ArticleFour years, three deaths, sweaty armpits and a fetus – Sarah Carlier
Four years, three deaths, sweaty armpits and a fetus is a fragmented tale in a book from the life of the Romanian family Fuliash, who I became acquainted with fourteen years ago. The quick succession...
View ArticleLatex For Fun
Latex for Fun features a collection of characters made using balloons or other latex objects by 88 designers from around the world. Their work reflects various styles, personalities and cultures....
View ArticleWA: The Essence of Japanese Design
Through some 250 objects this book explores contemporary Japanese design: from everyday objects and packaging to interior design and lighting elements. Ultimately the book aims to explore the way in...
View ArticleAre You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art
With essays by Franco Berardi Bifo, Keti Chukhrov, Diedrich Diederichsen, Antke Engel, Liam Gillick, Tom Holert, Lars Bang Larsen, Marion von Osten, Precarious Workers Brigade, Irit Rogoff, and Hito...
View ArticleMousse #43
Mousse is a bimonthly magazine published in Italian and English. Established in 2006, Mousse contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international...
View ArticleIdN Magazine Vol.21 No.1
There are so many things that print can do that digital media can’t. Its tactile qualities, even the sound and smell of paper and ink, make printed matter unique and timeless. But whoever said that...
View ArticleThree Banquets for a Queen – Charlotte Birnbaum (Ed.)
In 1668, Queen Christina of Sweden was greeted in Rome with three spectacular banquets that surpass all historical precedents and successors in the register of extravagant gastronomy. As the first...
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