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Sam Thorne - School: A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956791819 Acqn 27770
Pb 13x20cm 384pp 136ills 26col 21

Contributions by Bik Van der Pol, Bruce High Quality Foundation University, Tania Bruguera,
Chto Delat?, Sean Dockray, Olafur Eliasson, Ryan Gander, Piero Golia, Fritz Haeg, Pablo
Helguera, Jakob Jakobsen, Ahmet u t, Yoshua Okn, Open School East, Rupert, Wael
Shawky, Tina Sherwell, Bisi Silva, Christine Tohme, Anton Vidokle

Sam Thornes School: A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education is a chronicle of self-
organized art schools and artist-run education platforms that have emerged since 2000.
Comprising a series of twenty conversations conducted by Thorne with the artists, curators, and
educators behind these schools, the book maps a territory at once fertile and contested.
Spanning projects in London, Lagos, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Ramallah, Berlin, and Saint
Petersburg, among other locations, these critical dialogues respond to spiralling student debt, the
MFA system, and the pedagogical turn, while offering proposals for the future of art education.

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Theo Eshetu - The Body Electric

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793417 Acqn 27771
Pb 17x24cm 128pp 100col ills 22.50

Edited by Berliner Knstlerprogramm des DAAD, Ariane Beyn, Theo Eshetu

Contributions by Ariane Beyn, David Elliot, Okwui Enwezor, Theo Eshetu, Wulf Herzogenrath,
Monika Szewczyk

The Body Electric is the first comprehensive survey of video artist and filmmaker Theo Eshetus
extensive body of work. Eshetu examines the imagery of the collective unconscious, exploring
cultural identity and challenging official media narratives through a complex interplay of signs and
symbols. Throughout his prolific career, spanning over thirty-five years, he has created a
distinctive poetic visual vocabulary using abstract rhythmic montage and hypnotic syncopated
collages of images to create experimental films. Both philosophical and whimsically playful,
Eshetus videos possess a dreamlike quality in which gestures, fragmented actions, and the
mirroring and multiplying of images into kaleidoscopic patterns question the very reality of what
an image can reveal.

This publication provides an in-depth exploration of Eshetus engagement with a variety of genres
and media, including experimental cinema, essay and documentary films, large-scale video
installations, and live performances. Alongside documentation of his work, this book provides a
critical contextualization of Eshetus practice since the late 1970s: video-art historian Wulf
Herzogenrath engages with Eshetus early work in the context of experimental video making in
the 1980s; writer and curator David Elliot provides an in-depth analysis of three of Eshetus
feature-length films; curator Okwui Enwezor talks to Eshetu about the role of music, montage,
and the representation of Africa in his films; and Monika Szewczyk provides a commentary on his
work for documenta 14, Atlas Fractured (2017).

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Stephan Dillemuth - Sound and Smoke. A Revue in Pictures

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793394 Acqn 27800
Pb 21x28cm 144pp 81col ills 20

Edited by Sandro Droschl, Knstlerhaus, Halle fr Kunst & Medien, Graz

Texts by Kerstin Stakemeier, Helmut Draxler

This catalogue illustrates Stephan Dillemuths elaborate solo show at the Knstlerhaus, Halle fr
Kunst & Medien, Graz, through installation photographs as well as texts by art historian Kerstin
Stakemeier and theorist Helmut Draxler. The exhibition presented newly conceived works
alongside works from the 1980s exhibited for the first time. Dillemuths paintings, sculptures,
video projections, and assemblages are brought together as a theatrical social group. Plaster-
cast limbs appear unexpectedly from the ceiling, enmeshed within clock cogs or combined with
boars heads, cattle ears, and deer feet. Dillemuths Bayernbilder (1979) were inspired by
sentimental and trivial postcard motifs from Bavarian spa towns. In Schnheitsgalerie (1985),
featuring over fifty works, Dillemuth explores questions of representation. His gallery turns against
the idea of external beauty and how it is represented in art. The paintings, like the faces, develop
a life of their own through the process of painting, which makes it possible to see a new kind of
beauty. Works that Dillemuth produced in the late 1980s in Chicago, exhibited for the first time,
resemble disco decorations, and glitter in the light of a video projection. Is disco a theater of
crueltyan ecstatic place where all images, whether ugly or beautiful, mean or seductive, are
transcendent?

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Mari Shaw - Words, Books, and the Spaces They Inhabit. The Noble Art of Collecting, Book
One
Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793462 Acqn 27811
Pb 14x21cm 100pp 27ills 1col 15

Words, Books, and the Spaces They Inhabit is the first of Mari Shaws series The Noble Art of
Collecting. With examples of unexpected collectors and serendipitous outcomes, Shaw
investigates the obscure desires that shape art collecting and the public goodwill that results from
it. What was lost when the scrolls in the ancient library of Alexandria were destroyed? How did
Catherine the Greats collecting change the way we think? How do Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com
expand our appreciation of books as objects? Though the ways we communicate live and vary,
history has been created, recorded, and preserved in writing. Words and the spaces that contain
them are crucial to an empathetic understanding of our world.

Mari Shaw is an intellectual property lawyer, storyteller, and author of Painter and Pataphysician
Thomas Chimes (2015). She has organized projects with artists such as Candida Hfer and Anri
Sala; has taught a seminar on originality, art, law, and technology at the University of
Pennsylvania; and lectures at a number of universities and art schools. Shaw has served on
boards and advisory committees for documenta 12, The Galleries of the Moore College of Art and
Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin Law School, and the Wilma Theater.
She and her husband, Peter, live in Philadelphia and Berlin and have been collecting art for thirty-
five years.

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Charlotte Birnbaum - Bon! Bon! On the Charms of Sweet Cuisine. On the Table V
Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956792748 Acqn 27812
Hb 11x18cm 176pp 17ills 12col 16.50

People have used honey, dates, and fruits to sweeten their dishes since time immemorial, but
with the introduction of sugarwhite goldinto cooking and baking, a whole array of delightful
flavors and culinary possibilities was unearthed. Sugar was the building block for edible
sculptures and model palaces made for festivals and celebrations thousands of years ago, and
the main ingredient in lavish creations for Rococo and Baroque banquets. A life without cakes,
pastries, tarts, souffls, meringues, petits fours, or marzipan would be unimaginable! In Bon!
Bon!, Charlotte Birnbaum uncovers the wonderful world of all things sugary through surprising
anecdotes and historical accounts, each accompanied by delectable recipes that are sure to
satisfy any sweet tooth.

On the Table is a series of publications edited by Charlotte Birnbaum that explores the encounter
between food and art.

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School of Missing Studies

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793318 Acqn 27856
Pb 14x21cm 80pp 63ills 34col 13.25

Contributions by Liz Allan, Bik Van der Pol, Charles Esche, E. C. Feiss, Laymert Garcia dos
Santos, Sarah Pierce, Eloise Sweetman, Paulo Tavares, Nato Thompson

The School of Missing Studies started in 2003 as an initiative of artists and architects who
recognized the missing as a matter of urgency. Investigating what culture(s) laid the foundations
for the loss we are experiencing from modernization and how this loss can talk back to us as a
potential site of learning, the School of Missing Studies is calling for a space to turn existing
knowledge against itself to affect our capacity to see things otherwise, to trust that seeing, and to
set ones own pedagogical terms.

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Architectural Ethnography - Atelier Bow-Wow with K. Michael Hays

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956793486 Acqn 27858
Pb 14x21cm 80pp 15ills 10.50

When Yoshi Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima of the Tokyo-based firm Atelier Bow-Wow arrived
at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design as guest professors, in the winter of
2016, they challenged students to deeply consider their surroundings and record their reactions
as a large pencil drawing. In this public drawing time is suspended and expanded; futures,
presents, and pasts converge; and the act of drawing becomes an instrument of dialogue and
engagement.

Tsukamoto and Kaijima later spoke about the project with K. Michael Hays, Eliot Noyes Professor
of Architectural Theory at Harvards Graduate School of Design, and reflected on representation,
occupation, and the democracy of architecture. They unfolded their concept of an ecology of
livelihood, wherein shadowless figures, objects, and spaces coexist with construction details.
Explaining their belief in the behavioural capacities of humans, architecture, and nature,
Tsukamoto and Kaijima revealed the generosity of spirit in their work, and the importance of
pushing such capacities to their most yielding limits.

The Incidents is a series of publications based on events that occurred at the Harvard University
Graduate School of Design between 1936 and tomorrow.

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