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Jaap Scheeren And Hans Gremmen - Fake Flowers in Full Colour Fw 2009 ISBN 9789490119065 Acqn 19493 Pb 24x34cm 40pp 20col ills 12.95 While ignoring the ever-present argument that photography is in crisis, it is still important to address the function and definition of the medium and to consider photography as a unified idea. Rather than discussing the process of art, Vierkant, Antin, Gadonneix, and the collaborative works of Scheeren and Gremmen approach process (or work) as the work. These superdutch works revel in their simplicity and richness of reference by mirroring frenetic thought patterns evocative of an active message board. In order for these works to function, there must be a shared space, context, or point of reference.

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Olaf Nicolai - Innere Stimme ROMA Publications 2010 ISBN 9789077459539 Acqn 20049 Pb 24x34cm 16pp 11.25 Innere Stimme is the title of a notation used by Olaf Nicolai as instruction for a sound performance. In the empty space of the Vleeshal in Middelburg, formerly the site of the citys meat market until the end of the 19th century, the melody of the Innere Stimme is performed throughout the entire duration of the exhibition by several singers simultaneously at each time. The possibility of variations and improvisations is left up to the singers. Exhibition curated by Lorenzo Benedetti. With text by Jean-Luc Nancy.

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Surface Tension Supplement No. 5 - Beyond Utopia Errant Bodies 2012 ISBN 9780982743935 Acqn 20307 Pb 18x25cm 126pp 43ills 13col 13.95 A collaboration between artist Sophie Warren, architect Jonathan Mosley and writer Robin Wilson, Beyond Utopia looks at the practicalities of utopian thinking in urban planning and administrative culture. Submitting a utopian architectural proposal for a real site in London to city officials, the trio enacted a form of playful provocation as a basis for exploring the systems and languages of planning, architecture and city development. Though fictive, the utopian proposal gained credence as it was discussed and shared among planning officials and reviewers, ultimately becoming a springboard for dialogue about possibilities and even actualities in the sphere of public space. Centered on a screenplay for an unrealized film, which restages the process and exchanges of the original proposal, Surface Tension Supplement No. 5 also includes texts and projects by leading theorists, artists and academics who debate the roles of spatial practice and politics today.

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After Berkeley - Objectif Exhibitions 2010 2011 Sternberg Press 2011 ISBN 9781934105849 Acqn 20525 Pb 11x15cm 370pp 7ills 16.95 Interviews: Matias Faldbakken by Nikki Columbus, Will Holder by Richard Birkett, Sophie Nys by Dieter Roelstraete, Clifford Irving by Francis McKee, Patricia Esquivias by Jonas akaitis, Norma Jeane and Tim Etchells by Anna Colin, Michael Portnoy by Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy, Hassan Khan by Brian Kuan Wood, Barbara Visser by Malaauskas; and contributions by Mai Abu ElDahab and Dexter Sinister Following From Berkeley to Berkeley: Objectif Exhibitions, 20082010, this publication is the second in a two-part series of interviews with artists who exhibited at Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, between 2010 and 2011. The interviews are accompanied by a collection of secondary and parallel material produced in collaboration with each artist. After Berkeley opens with a letter from Mai Abu ElDahab addressed to the books designer, Will Holder, about parallels between their project and Roberto Bolanos book The Savage Detectives. It and proceeds through a series of conversations revealing the references, methods, and interests of the participants at Objectif Exhibitions ranging from reticence and possession in artistic production to a historical account of so-called carrot jokes.

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Frank O'Hara - Poems from the Tibor De Nagy Editions 1952-1966 Tibor De Nagy Gallery 2012 ISBN 9781891123702 Acqn 20820 Pb 17x21cm 72pp 11.50 In 1952, the New York gallery Tibor de Nagy published A City Winter, Frank OHaras first collection of poems, under the Tibor de Nagy Editions imprint, inaugurating the gallerys now longstanding association with what has come to be known as the New York School of poetry. OHara had been in the city for barely a year, but was already immersing himself in its art scenes, becoming especially close to Grace Hartigan, and collaborating on a series of poem-pictures which Tibor de Nagy exhibited in 1953. For this occasion, OHaras second book, Oranges, was published: a series of prose poems in the Rimbaud manner, printed in an edition of about 75. A third collection, Love Poems (Tentative Title), was published in 1965, as OHara was preparing the manuscript of Lunch Poems (often described wrongly as the poets first book). Poems from the Tibor de Nagy Editions collects these three volumes.

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Ellen Mandemaker - Monkey Playhouse Fw 2011 ISBN 9789490119126 Acqn 20838 Pb 23x33cm 56pp 37ills 30col 18.95 Monkey Playhouse is an ongoing project by Ellen Mandemaker and consists of many stories and chapters that all take place in a doll's house: The Monkey Playhouse. The work is already shown in exhibitions in the past, but this is the first time that parts of this project are published. For this publication three of the stories are combined: 'The Girl' (a photobook), 'Naughty Monkeys' (poster) and 'Dancing Couple' (card and online animation).

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Aftermath - Life beyond Crisis. Manuel Castells & Bregtje Van der Haak. 4 DVDs VPRO 2011 ISBN 9789067272179 Acqn 21040 DVD 14x19cm 29.16 +VAT The Aftermath Project by Manuel Castells and Bregtje van der Haak provides a social and cultural analysis of the current financial crisis, to add to the prevailing economic and financial arguments. It develops the idea that the crisis was the result of the same sources that led to the rise of global financial capitalism (deregulation of financial markets, greed and consumerism). These root causes have not been tackled and saving the banks with public money has induced a budget crisis, ultimately leading to a shrinking welfare state and a social crisis. As a result of growing insecurity and fear, people are reacting both with anger and with alternative projects of hope. This documentary provides a closer look at the social consequences of the crisis and wants to open up a space for dialogue and debate on life beyond the crisis.

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Soto - Paris and Beyond 1950-1970 Grey Art Gallery 2012 ISBN 9780934349161 Acqn 21165 Hb 28x31cm 144pp 89ills 74col 33.95 Soto: Paris and Beyond, 19501970 accompanies the first large-scale exhibition dedicated to Jess Soto to be held at a New York museum in more than 35 years. It highlights this major Venezuelan artists early career, following his relocation from Caracas to Paris in 1950, and offers a rare opportunity to trace Sotos visionary trajectory and his influence upon, and exchanges with, other members of the avant-garde. Sotos achievements in the field of interactive art established his reputation as both an international exponent of kinetic art and one of the most influential Latin American artists of the twentieth century. This fully illustrated catalogue includes essays by curator Estrellita B. Brodsky and art historian Sarah K. Rich.

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Blind Cut Marlborough 2012 ISBN 9780897974301 Acqn 21166 Pb 18x23cm 144pp 69ills 45col 33.95 Spanning several generations, from Dada to the present, Blind Cut explores notions surrounding the themes of fiction and deception. Questions regarding identity, authorship, originality and reality are posed in a range of methodologies, including depictions of fictional places, imagined personas, inaccurate histories and invented language. This book documents Marlborough Chelseas 2012 exhibition of the same name and expands upon its core themes with ancillary texts and ephemera, including interviews and other written works by Alex Waterman, J.G. Ballard, Richard Prince, James Frey, Pierre Huyge and Philippe Parreno, The John Fare Estate, The Anabel Vale Archive, J.T. LeRoy / Laura Albert, Kurt Schwitters, Franois Aubart, Raimundas Malasauskas, and Mark Flood. Also featured are works by over 50 artists, including Marcel Broodthaers, Guy de Cointet, Anne Collier, Der Dada, Ryan Gander, Mario Garcia Torres, George Grosz, Lothar Hempel, Elmyr de Hory, Asger Jorn, Mike Kelley,Robert Lazzarini, Adam McEwen, Francis Picabia, Eileen Quinlan, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Superstudio and Jeffrey Vallance.

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Barrao Mashups Aldrich Museum Of Contemporary Art 2012 ISBN 9781450797115 Acqn 21167 Pb 18x26cm 62pp 36col ills 15 Brazilian artist Barro (born 1959) is best known for his whimsical, somewhat bizarre sculptural clusters and mash-ups assembled from fragments of popular vitreous porcelain and ceramic objects. The artist acquires these fragments, once commonly cherished in Brazilian households, by scouting the secondhand stores, flea markets and dumpsters of Rio de Janeiro. When a sufficient quantity of materials has been accumulated, Barro sorts and classifies the ceramics in his studio, separating them by size, color, function, vessel or ornament. These fragments are then carefully fused into a single sculptural entity, each of which constitutes a sort of a mini-collection-a vibrant magma of explosive visual and tactile qualities. Published for Barros 2012 exhibition at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and with a foreword by Tunga, this volume offers a concise introduction to Barros free-flowing associative sculpture.

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American Exuberance Rubell Family Collection 2011 ISBN 9780982119570 Acqn 21169 Pb 23x28cm 244pp 200col ills 37.95 With this volume and its accompanying exhibition, the Rubell Family Collection set out to generate a portrait of what they call American Exuberance. The 64 artists selected, all citizens or residents of the United States, are or were particularly keen observers of American culture, economy and politics, regardless of their country of origin. Out of 190 total works, 40 were made in 2011, many specifically for this exhibition. Participating artists include Matthew Barney, Maurizio Cattelan, Felix Gonzles-Torres, Wade Guyton, Keith Haring, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Elizabeth Peyton, Richard Prince, Ryan Trecartin, Andy Warhol and Lisa Yuskavage. A number of the participating artists were asked to comment on the idea of American exuberance for the catalogue. Their responses took many forms, from Nate Lowmans handwritten missive about Coca-Cola to Rashid Johnsons statement in the form of a personal ad.

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Toxic Beauty - The Art Of Frank Moore Grey Art Gallery 2012 ISBN 9780934349178 Acqn 21441 Hb 22x28 216pp 150col ills 38 Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore is the most comprehensive presentation of work by a remarkable artist whose life was cut short by AIDS. Frank Moore (19532002) is best known for his large, highly detailed figurative paintings filled with fantastic and symbolic images. This catalogue includes a complete bibliography, chronology and excerpts from Moores own writings. It also features more than 50 color images of Moores paintings and works on paper, as well as approximately 40 reproductions of previously unpublished archival material--such as sketchbooks and documents--culled from the vast Frank Moore Papers housed at New York Universitys Fales Library. An essay by Klaus Kertess considers Moores recurrent themes, situating the artist within the vibrant downtown scene; a contribution by Gregg Bordowitz relates Moores works to his passionate AIDS activism; and a piece by Susan Harris addresses the artists working methods.

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Alice Neel - Late Portraits And Still Lifes Radius 2012 ISBN 9781934435557 Acqn 21442 Hb 26x28cm 72pp 25ills 24col 38 Alice Neel (19001984) is widely considered one of the greatest portraitists of the twentieth century. Published on the occasion of a solo exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, this beautifully designed book presents a selection of portraits and still lifes from the last two decades of the artists life. Called the pre-eminent painter-chronicler of New York bohemia by Deborah Solomon of The New York Times, Neel remains a hero to many of todays most influential figurative painters, including Eric Fischl, Elizabeth Peyton and Marlene Dumas--as much for the emotional and psychological intensity of her work as for her exemplary fearlessness.

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Poems By Yvonne Rainer Badlands Unlimited 2012 ISBN 9781936440108 Acqn 21444 Pb 15x23cm 80pp 7ills 9 From her work in dance and choreography to her films and writings, Yvonne Rainer (born 1934) has established herself as one of the Americas greatest living artists. This first collection of her poems, which were written from the late 1990s onwards and have never before been published, affirms her ability to endow words with corporeality, propulsion and swift-moving narrative. Full of wit and candor, Rainers poems evoke the rhythm of an urban landscape peopled with old friends and colleagues, trying to make art or simply trying to make ends meet. Memories entangle with news headlines and conversations overheard on the subway, making the poems feel both intimate yet social. Accompanying the poems is a selection of black-and-white images curated by Rainer, varying from news clippings to intimate photographs from Rainers personal archive. Poet and critic Tim Griffin contributes an introduction.

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Arcana VI - Musicians On Music Hips Road/Tzadik 2012 ISBN 9780978833756 Acqn 21445 Pb 17x25cm 316pp 73ills 27 A major resource for new music theory and practice in the twenty-first century, the acclaimed Arcana series looks at the inner workings of the artistic process through manifestoes, scores, interviews, notes and critical papers written by the practitioners themselves, providing insight into the work, mind and methodologies of some of the most remarkable creative minds of our time. Contributors to this volume include Duck Baker, Eve Beglarian, Karl Berger, Chuck Bettis, Claire Chase, Anna Clyne, John Corigliano, Jeremiah Cymerman, David Fulmer, Jeff Gauthier, Alan Gilbert, Judd Greenstein, Mary Halvorson, Hillary Hahn, Jesse Harris, David Lang, Mary Jane Leach, Steve Lehman, Steve Mackey, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Denman Maroney, Brad Mehldau, Jessica Pavone, Toby Picker, Gyan Riley, Jon Rose, Steve Schick, Jen Shyu, Dave Taylor, Richard Teitelbaum, Julia Wolfe, Kenny Wollesen, Nate Wooley and Charles Wuorinen.

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The Art Of Team Macho - The Merlin Years Narwal Projects 2012 ISBN 9780978356859 Acqn 21450 Pb 20x26cm 180pp 150col ills 22.95 Comprised of Nicholas Aoki, Stephen Appleby-Barr, Christopher Buchan, Lauchie Reid and Jacob Whibley, the Canadian collective Team Macho spans the worlds of both fine art and illustration, producing work for both audiences. Team Machos surreal, colorful and cartoonish drawings, paintings and installations playfully juxtapose styles and motifs with a strongly DIY flavor. The groups idiosyncratic approach to collaboration cultivates both competitiveness and cooperation, as they celebrate, thwart and subvert each others contributions. Needless to say, this approach results in often humorous, jarring conjunctions: two aliens dancing over an otherwise Hopperesque scene of houses in twilight; nuns mutilating monsters; a painting of some unspecified, hairy psychedelic lump with the caption and thus life became awesome. The Art of Team Macho: The Merlin Years compiles the groups output of the past five years, and includes texts and interviews.

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Marianne Vitale - What I Need To Do Is Lighten The Fuck Up About A Lot Of Shit Zach Feuer Gallery 2012 ISBN 9780976853398 Acqn 21472 Pb 25x30cm 120pp 62col ills 19 Moving between sculpture, video, theater and drawing, New Yorkbased artist Marianne Vitale (born 1973) cultivates an aesthetic of absurdity. This first monograph highlights reclaimed lumber sculptures that recall tombstones, outhouses and burned bridges, evoking the early American frontier days.

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Johanna Calle Abece S/W Ediciones 2012 ISBN 9780984450411 Acqn 21481 Hb 30x32cm 80pp 27ills 49.95 Abec is a facsimile reproduction of a suite of drawings by Columbian artist Johanna Calle. On antique paper, Calle made a drawing for each letter of the alphabet, repeating each letter across the page while making small variations in size and orientation--demonstrating how a sign can be manipulated without altering its linguistic meaning.

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Dexter Sinister - Bulletins of The Serving Library #3 Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365184 Acqn 21651 Pb 17x24cm 224pp 79ills 8.50 With contributions by Andrew Blum, Bruno Latour, Graham Meyer, Pierre-Andr Boutang, David Reinfurt, Chris Evans, Jessica Winter, Ian Svenonius, Angie Keefer, Francis McKee, Benjamin Tiven, Louis Lthi, Dexter Sinister, and Laura Hoptman This issue of Bulletins of the Serving Library doubles as a catalog of sorts to "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language," a group exhibition curated by Laura Hoptman at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from May 6 to August 27, 2012. It is a *pseudo*-catalog in the sense that, other than a section of images at the back, it bears no direct relation to the works in the exhibition. Instead, the bulletins extend in different directions from the same title, and could be collectively summarized as preoccupied with the more social aspects of Typography.

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Steve Rushton - Masters of Reality Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365221 Acqn 21750 Hb 12x18cm 192pp 20ills 14.50 Masters of Reality brings together the first collection of texts by Steve Rushton. Second in a series of publications on contemporary art inaugurated by the Piet Zwart Institute, the book explores the interrelations between art, anthropology, social sciences, psychology, media, politics, and economy. Central to Rushtons research is an investigation into the conception of feedback, social control, and the culture of self-performance. Through his writings and collaborative work with artists, he has developed and articulated a thorough analysis of the techniques and processes of information management and subjectivization in Western society since the second half of the twentieth century. The structure of this book articulates a clear relationship between diverse subjects and sources, drawing from archival materials produced within a broad range of discursive fields and practices: military experiments in social psychology, press statements by various politicians and governments, anthropological research data, theories of cybernetics, writings by thinkers such as Henri Bergson and Gregory Bateson, television culture, and work by artists and writers such as Ant Farm and Don DeLillo. These investigations take structural form through three strands: the first comprises texts on art and media linked to theories of cybernetics, the second thread shows texts that emerge from Rushtons collaborative projects with Rod Dickinson and Thomson & Craighead, and the third is a collection of fictional and allegorical texts, giving narrative form to the thinking, observations, and analysis found throughout the book.

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Omer Fast - 5,000 Feet Is The Best Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365146 Acqn 21751 Pb 13x20cm 128pp 27col ills 15.50 Edited by Milena Hoegsberg, Melanie OBrian Essays by T. J. Demos, Liz Kotz, David Rohde; further contributions by Jennifer Allen, Christoph Cox, Cline Condorelli, Simon Critchley, Am Johal, Tom McCarthy, Marit Paasche, Ed Steck, Karen Brown. This publication focuses on a single work of art: 5,000 Feet is the Best (2011) by artist Omer Fast. With this cinematic video work, Fast has entered into a discussion about one of the most pressing issues today, namely drone surveillance and warfarethat is, the use of unmanned planes operated by pilots on the ground. Produced to accompany exhibitions of Fasts work at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK) in Oslo (February 9May 6, 2012) and at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto (September 15November 25, 2012), this publication aims to bridge the gap between a critical reader and an artist book. Although the respective exhibitions include additional works by Fast, the examination of this single work allows not only for a consideration of his broader practice, but also an extensive examination of the subject of the work. Informed by Fasts layering of narrative and documentary material, this book compiles critical analyses of his film by art historians Liz Kotz and T. J. Demos, an article on drones reprinted from the journal Foreign Policy, as well as the artists research and script materials set alongside film stills. Additionally, an e-mail thread of responses from practitioners active in different fields engages a range of issues pertaining to drone warfare, opening the conversation into a forum on politics, ethics, aesthetics, and human experience.

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Thinking Through Painting - Reflexivity And Agency Beyond The Canvas Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365108 Acqn 21752 Pb 12x19cm 70pp 7ills 9.95 Painting has demonstrated remarkable perseverance in the expanding field of contemporary art and the surrounding ecology of media images. It appears, however, to have dispelled its own once-uncontested material basis: no longer confined to being synonymous with a flat picture plane hung on the wall, today, painting instead tends to emphasize the apparatus of its appearance and the conduits of its circulation. With contributions by Peter Geimer, Isabelle Graw, and Andr Rottmann, Thinking through Painting investigates paintings traits and reception in cultural and socioeconomic discourse. Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum, Nikolaus Hirsch (Eds.)

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Tirdad Zolghadr Plot Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365269 Acqn 21753 Hb 13x19cm 208pp 19.50 A speculative, existentialist fiction on the melancholia of revolutionary politics and good intentions, Tirdad Zolghadrs novel is composed of the logorrhea of online communication and unpublished manuscripts. At the start of the New Zion Empire in 2016a time of unprecedented dystopic stability with superpower coalitions, generous drone regiments, awesome capital investments, and more soft-power propaganda than ever employed in modern historySergeant Jim of the United States is taken hostage in Yazd, once the proud seat of the Persian Empire, and becomes a wildly popular mouthpiece for Third World rhetoric, postcolonial jingles, antiimperial anecdotes, and anti-Zionist mottos. The abductors (a ghostwriter, an aspiring self-help guru, and an academic) invite trusted celebrity blogger Claude Mann to their suburban compound to generate more hype for their cause and to possibly replace Jim as their new abductee. A few years later, the ex-terrorists reconnect when one of them decides to author a memoir of their exploits and gain fame; all the while, Sergeant Jim haunts them with cryptic, tender, frenzied emails. Plot is a paranoiac-futuristic novel and exercise in satire and ontology.

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The Mattering Of Matter - Documents From The Archive Of The International Necronautical Society Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365344 Acqn 21754 Pb 13x20cm 280pp 6ills 15.50 On August 7, 1999, Tom McCarthy founded the International Necronautical Society (INS) with a public presentation of the "Founding Manifesto," a touchstone that would inform the organizations proceedings for years to come. Composed of official committee members and illicit agents, the INS harks back to early twentieth-century avant-gardes, producing declarations, reports, public hearings, broadcasts, and research documents, as well as orchestrating more covert media infiltrations, all governed by the objective, set out in the "Founding Manifesto," of mapping, entering, and occupying the space of death through literature, philosophy, culture, and technology. The Mattering of Matter is a collection of INS documents produced between 1999 and 2010. This edited selection of texts reflects the INSs development, through both internal bureaucratic changes and its ever-growing repertoire of references, all of which work towards their ultimate goal of constructing a necronautical craft with which to propound and escalate the overall INS project.

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Invalid Format - An Anthology Of Triple Canopy, Vol. 2 Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365351 Acqn 21755 Pb 15x23cm 372pp 295ills 17.95 Contributions by Bidisha Banerjee, Anna Sperber & Peter Kerlin, Leslie Thornton, Ed Halter, Ben Tausig, Hassan Khan & Clare Davies, Ian Volner & Matico Josephson, Neil Greenberg, Jos Len Cerrillo, Joseph Clarke, Dan Torop, Gil Blank & Caleb Waldorf, Joshua Bauchner, Angie Waller, Lev Bratishenko, Lucy Raven, Nathan Schneider, Teddy Cruz & Caleb Waldorf, Zlatan Filipovic, Hovhanness Tumanyan & Vahram Aghasyan, Victoria Miguel, Molly Springfield, Joshua Cohen, Lucy Ives, Joe Milutis, Karthik Pandian, Sophia Al-Maria & Manal Al Dowayan, Rafil KrollZaidi Invalid Format is an archive of the widespread publishing activities of Triple Canopy, the editorial collective and online magazine based in New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin. The book translates into print work that originally appeared in other forms. The second volume of Invalid Format includes artist projects and literary work published in the second year of Triple Canopys existence, documentation of public programs, and a sampling of foundational correspondence. In form and content, the book explores how works produced for the screen might be transposed to the codex in a way that recalls that former context while also fully inhabiting the page.

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Simon Starling / Superflex - Reprototypes, Triangulations And Road Tests Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365238 Acqn 21756 Pb 24x30cm 144pp 66ills 33col 23.50 Contributions by Robin Mackay, Esther da Costa Meyer, Venugopal Maddipati, Mirjam Schaub, Birgit Schneider, Eva Wilson, Daniela Zyman Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests brings together seven seminal works by Simon Starling and Superflex in a dialogical settingamong them Exposition (2004), Three Birds, Seven Stories, Interpolation and Bifurcations (200708), D1 Z1(22,686,575:1) (2009), Black Out (2009), and Kuh (2012). These works collapse as unstable complexes around pertinent themes whose triangulated speculations are articulated by undisciplined objects, piercing through the layers of time and history and revisiting long-held certainties. Posited as reprototypes, they reveal various strategies for siting the contemporary within the modern, resuscitating objects and innovations out of obsolescence, testing their contemporary vitality and thus disrupting the selfsufficiency of the modernist canon. Accompanying the exhibition at the newly inaugurated Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary exhibition space at Augarten, the publication includes contributions from philosopher Robin Mackay, architectural historians Esther da Costa Meyer and Venugopal Maddipati, media and cultural historian Birgit Schneider, the exhibition curators Eva Wilson and Daniela Zyman, and philosopher Mirjam Schaub.

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Triin Tamm - A Stack Of Books As Well As It Is A Book Of Stacks Rollo Press 2011 ISBN 9789949215980 Acqn 21757 Pb 11x18cm 112pp 100ills 11.95 This pocket-sized book by young Estonian artist Triin Tamm was published as a contribution to the exhibition If its part broke, half fix it. at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, in 2011. Known for embracing simultaneity, incoherence, multiplicity, and clumsiness juxtaposed with perfection, Tamm participates in the production of small crafts, minute actions and simple writings to express a sense of freedom in both the mundane and the paths less travelled. Here she explores the contents of an eclectic selection of books encompassing an assortment of divergent but related themes, from typography to linguistics and from spirituality to symbolism.

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Erick Beltran - The World Explained. A Microhistorical Encyclopaedia ROMA Publications 2012 ISBN 9789077459805 Acqn 21759 Pb 19x27cm 240pp 150ills 29.95 Artist's book with a great variety of personal theories from ordinary people. Beltrn drew his inspiration from micro-history, a genre in cultural history that focuses on personal stories and apparently minor events, sketching a picture of a culture or mentality of a particular period. 'Our view of the world is determined not just by what we learned about the world or even what we have actually experienced', Beltrn explains. 'It consists to a large extent of suspicions, makeshift connections and personal interpretations'.

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