William Rauscher and John Moeller, On Acid
A Field Guide to Altered States
Softcover, 100 pp., offset 4/3, 200 x 265 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-615-53398-8
Published by CCC
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On Acid presents a radically subjective re-edit of the history of drug experience, following the emergence of drugs as a technology and modernity’s conflicted obsessions with altered states. Tracing a path beginning with philosopher Benjamin Blood’s 1874 pamphlet ‘The Anesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy’ which declares the existence of a ‘majesty and supremacy unspeakable’ observable only after being dosed by nitrous oxide, On Acid assembles texts and images that draw a line connecting archival works by William James, Antonin Artaud, Timothy Leary, and various modernist explorers, to the practice of contemporary artists such as Rodney Graham, Francis Alÿs, Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe. Removed from the familiar cultural contexts of Haight-Ashbury and Grateful Dead psychedelia, On Acid is in itself an experimental program, a recursive acidic process that mirrors the deconstructive relations to counterculture cultivated in contemporary art. The book concludes with a series of new conversations with Freeman and Lowe, Hamilton Morris and Arik Roper.
Antonin Artaud, Arik Roper, Art, Benjamin Blood, Brion Gysin, CCC, Criticism, Culture, Distribution, Francis Alys, Hamilton Morris, Henri Michaux, Jim Hogshire, John Moeller, Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe, Krystle Cole, Marcia Moore, Philip K Dick, Philosophy, Rodney Graham, Theory, Timothy Leary, William James, William Rauscher
Stephen Willats, The Artist as an Instigator of Changes in Social Cognition and Behaviour
Softcover, 96 pp., offset 2/1, 130 x 210 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-9562605-6-7
Published by Occasional Papers
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Stephen Willats’ major essay The Artist as an Instigator of Changes in Social Cognition and Behaviour is re-issued for the first time by Occasional Papers. Published in 1973 by Gallery House, London — where Willats was Director of the Centre for Behavioural Art — and long out of print, the paper includes rigorous analyses of social forms of artistic production and descriptions of a number of projects by the artist.
Art, Centre for Behavioural Art, Criticism, Culture, Distribution, Gallery House, Occasional Papers, Stephen Willats, Theory
Ein Magazin über Orte 8, Paradise
Softcover, 84 pp., offset 4/4, 210 x 270 mm
Edition of 1000
ISSN 1866-2331
Published by Ein Magazin über Orte
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Ein Magazin über Orte (A magazine about places) is published twice a year. It deals with a different location in every issue. The magazine collects works of various authors in the form of photographs, drawings and texts.
Agi Mishol, Art, Bela Pablo Janssen, Birgit Vogel, Brian Currid, Bruno Kurru, Bushra Rehman, Criticism, Culture, David Weiss, Distribution, Ein Magazin über Orte, Elmar Bambach, Gunter Kunert, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Ibrahim Samuel, Jana Gontscharuk, Jeff Wall, John Copeland, Julia Marquardt, Kevin Coyne, Lidwien Van De Ven, Luc Tuymans, Marc Hieronimus, Marcus Oakley, Mark Borthwick, Michael Borremans, Mike Pare, Miranda July, Noor Damen, Peter Fischli, Photography, Raymond Meeks, Raymond Pettibon, Ryan McGinley, Theory, Wilhelm Werthern, Wolf Seiler, Zoe Leonard
fillip 13, Intangible Economies
Softcover, 116 pp., offset 4/1, 170 x 245 mm
Edition of 2000
ISSN 1715-3212
Published by Fillip
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Fillip 13 introduces
Intangible Economies, a new, ongoing series broadening the notion of economy beyond its financial dimensions. The series focuses on the multifarious forms of exchange fuelled by affect and desire, speculatively investigating the fundamental role these affective transactions play in modes of representation and, accordingly, in cultural production.
This issue includes series texts by Candice Hopkins, Jan Verwoert, and series editor Antonia Hirsch. Forthcoming installments will include contributions by Hadley+Maxwell, Olaf Nicolai, and Monika Szewczyk, among others.
The issue also features a record of The AAAARG Library, a site-specific installation commissioned for Fillip 13 and the 2010 NY Art Book Fair. The Library, produced by artist Sean Dockray and curated by Jeff Khonsary, will be presented again this summer as part of Night Market, a Red76 project for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, MA.
AAAARG Library, Anthony Downey, Antonia Hirsch, Art, Candice Hopkins, Carson Chan, Claire Tancons, Criticism, Distribution, Fillip, Hadley+Maxwell, Haema Sivanesan, Jan Verwoert, Jeff Khonsary, Jesse McKee, Kristina Lee Podesva, Lisa Marshall, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Monika Szewczyk, Olaf Nicolai, Red76, Ryan Trecartin, Sean Dockray, Theory
Clément Rosset, Joyful Cruelty: Toward a Philosophy of the Real
Softcover, 160 pp., offset 2/2, 5 x 8 inches
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-9796121-1-4
Published by Free Association
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This classic collection of essays by French philosopher and essayist Clément Rosset follows another Free Association title in the same format, Werner Herzog’s travel journal, Of Walking on Ice. The publisher is dedicated to finding worthy essays and other texts that have either been out of print or were never made available in English — especially seeking out works that have remained popular, at least among a small, devoted group, over the years. This work, out of print for 20 years, is the first and only work by the Paris-based Rosset (born 1939) to be translated into English. Rosset has written some 30 short books, many of which reference his important influence, Schopenhauer. “Joy is the necessary condition,” writes Rosset, “if not of life in general at least of life lived consciously and with full awareness.”
Clement Rosset, Free Association, Harsh Patel, RAM, Theory
John Kelsey, Rich Texts: Selected Writing for Art
Softcover, 248 pp., offset 2/1, 120 x 190 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-934105-23-8
Published by Sternberg Press
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Compiled for the first time here, essays by American critic, artist, gallerist and dealer John Kelsey convey some of the most poignant challenges in the art world and in the many social roles it creates. “When the critic chooses to become a smuggler, a hack, a cook, or an artist,” Kelsey said, “it’s maybe because criticism as such remains tied to an outmoded social relation.” Kelsey’s “rich texts” play the double role of explaining the art world and actively participating in it; they close the distance between the work of art and how we talk about it. These playful, elegant writings — many originally published in Artforum — embody a timelessness that strikes at the core of the contemporary art world. The newest edition from the terrific Institut fur Kunstkritik series.
Criticism, Daniel Birnbaum, Isabelle Graw, John Kelsey, Markus Weisbeck, Matthew Evans, Miriam Rech, RAM, Sternberg Press, Theory
Boris Groys and Andro Wekua, Wait to Wait
Hardcover, 160 pp., offset 4/1, 135 x 196 mm
English and German
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-3-03764-021-0
Published by JRP|Ringier, CK editions
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An
unequal pair from the ranks of philosophy and contemporary art were brought to the table for debate. The celebrated Russian philosopher Boris Groys, and the young international artist from Georgia Andro Wekua, discussed their shared experiences in the Soviet system, the conditions governing production in contemporary art today, and the sensitivities of a generation of artists born in the 1970s, taking Wekua’s two large installations
Wait to Wait and
Get Out of My Room as examples.
Phenomena such as loneliness, doubles, repetitions, mirror images, and waiting are the central themes of this conversation, illustrated by pictures of the two installations and several collages by Wekua.
Andro Wekua, Art, Boris Groys, Christoph Keller, CK editions, Criticism, DAP, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Gladstone Gallery, Interviews, JRP|Ringier, Philosophy, Theory
Harald Szeemann, Individual Methodology
Softcover, 240 pp., offset 2/1, 160 x 230 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 9783905829099
Published by JRP|Ringier
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We owe our idea of the contemporary exhibition to Harald Szeemann — the first of the jet-setting international curators. From 1961 to 1969, he was Curator of the Kunsthalle Bern, where in 1968 he had the foresight to give Christo and Jeanne-Claude the opportunity to wrap the entire museum building. Szeemann’s groundbreaking 1969 exhibition When Attitudes Become Form, also at the Kunsthalle, introduced European audiences to artists like Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse, Richard Serra and Lawrence Weiner. It also introduced the now-commonplace practice of curating an exhibition around a theme. Since Szeemann’s death in 2005, there has been research underway at his archive in Tessin, Switzerland. An invaluable resource, this volume provides access to previously unpublished plans, documents and photographs from the archive, along with important essays by Hal Foster and Jean-Marc Poinsot. There is also an informative interview with Tobia Bezzola — curator at the Kunsthauz Zurich and Szeemann’s collaborator for many years. Two of Szeemann’s most ambitious exhibitions are presented as case studies: Documenta V (1972) and L’Autre, the 4th Lyon Biennial (1997). A biography, an illustrated chronology of Szeemann’s exhibitions and a selection of his writings complete this exhaustive survey.
Art, Criticism, DAP, Florence Derieux, Hal Foster, Harald Szeemann, Jean-Marc Poinsot, JRP|Ringier, Theory, Tobia Bezzola
Detlev Gretenkort and Karsten Schubert, Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews
Softcover, 300 pp., offset 4/1, 145 x 215 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-905464-23-4
Published by Ridinghouse
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The outstanding British publisher Ridinghouse brings out the most comprehensive look into the life and work of German abstract expressionist Georg Baselitz. The book is divided into four sections: personal images; a record of Baselitz’s artworks; the artist’s own writings (some published for the first time, many never before translated into English); and interviews with the artist by noted writers and art historians. Known for his rebellious approach to painting, Baselitz discusses the act of painting, his biography and much more. The artist’s writings cover topics from his first trip abroad to other painters he’s admired. Though not a catalogue raisonné, this copiously illustrated book gives the most complete picture ever of a seminal artist.
Art, Criticism, Detlev Gretenkort, Fiona Elliott, Georg Baselitz, Interviews, Jill Lloyd, Karsten Schubert, Louisa Green, Mark Thomson, RAM, Ridinghouse, Theory, Writings
Tirdad Zolghadr, Solution 168-185: America
Softcover, 112 pp., offset 2/1, 110 x 180 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-933128-90-0
Published by Sternberg Press
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Solution 168–185: America is the fourth book in the Solution series. Opting for the United States of America, “still the most proficiently colonial place I know,” Zolghadr provides a compilation of highly entertaining “solutions,” where the objective is not the education of America so much as the pleasure of a text that purports to be just that. Tirdad Zolghadr is a writer/curator based in Berlin. He is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine. He organized the United Arab Emirates pavilion, Venice Biennale 2009, and the long-term project Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie (with Nav Haq). Zolghadr teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
Art, Criticism, Ingo Niermann, Kari Rittenbach, Matthew Evans, RAM, Solution, Sternberg Press, Theory, Tirdad Zolghadr, Zak Kyes
Ingo Niermann, Solution 186-195: Dubai Democracy
Softcover, 128 pp., offset 3/1, 110 x 180 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-934105-17-7
Published by Sternberg Press
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Using Dubai as a sort of modernist blank slate for urban and social renewal, author Ingo Niermann — a relentlessly creative artist whose tongue is firmly jammed into his cheek — confronts today’s most relevant cultural and technological developments with elixirs that are as pertinent as they are unbelievable. In the fifth book in the Solution series, Niermann sees Dubai, a sparsely populated piece of desert, become specialized as housing the global center for treating diabetes, called
Sugar World. And the Gulf state will be Kumbaya-style universal, too, offering non-confrontational public spaces where both a state of total advertising and compulsive kindness, or what he calls a “personal humaneness account,” co-exist.
“Ingo Niermann is the author and brain behind some of the most intriguing and bizarre intellectual speculations of the last years.”
—Fabrizio Gallanti, Abitare
Architecture, Art, Criticism, Culture, Fabrizio Gallanti, Ingo Niermann, RAM, Solution, Sternberg Press, Theory, Zak Keyes
Bypass 2
Softcover, 352 pp., offset 4/1, 150 x 210 mm
English and Portuguese
Edition of 10,000
ISSN 1646-9011
Published by Bypass
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Bypass is a multidisciplinary publication on creation and theory. It is edited by Álvaro Seiça Neves and Gaëlle Silva Marques. It is annual and bilingual: English and Portuguese. It contains 352 pages on a contemporary theme, which is appropriated by authors of different disciplines: architecture, art theory, design, literature, music, performance arts, philosophy, visual arts. Theme: The infinitely small and the infinitely large.
Adrian Hornsby, Álvaro Seiça Neves, Ana Cardim, André Sier, Architecture, Bjørn Andreassen, Bypass, Catarina Alfaro, Claudio Silva, Distribution, Edwin Pickstone, Federico Pedrini, Francesco Scavetta, Francisco M Laranjo, Gaëlle Silva Marques, Goncalo Viegas, Isidro Paiva, Jeffrey Ladd, João Farelo, Nathan Boyer, Neville Mars, Pedro Russo, Rafael Gouveia, Ricardo Cabaça, Rute Cebola, Seth Cluett, Taylor Ho Bynum, Theory, Vasco Gato
Kerry Brougher and Philippe Vergne, Yves Klein: With The Void, Full Powers
Hardcover, 352 pp., offset 4/4, 8 x 10 inches
Edition of 5000
ISBN 978-0-935640-94-6
Published by Walker Art Center
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Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers is published to accompany the first major retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States in nearly 30 years. It includes examples from all of Klein’s major series, including his Anthropometries, Cosmogonies, fire paintings, planetary reliefs and blue monochromes, as well as selections of his lesser-known gold and pink monochromes, body and sponge reliefs, “air architecture” and immaterial works. Essays by curators Kerry Brougher and Philippe Vergne, Klein scholar Klaus Ottmann, art historian Kaira M. Cabañas and curatorial fellow Andria Hickey, as well as archival materials and translations of Klein’s published and unpublished writings, offer insights into the artist’s endeavors and process. Born in Nice, France, in 1928, Yves Klein created what he considered his first artwork when he signed the sky above Nice in 1947, making his earliest attempt to capture the immaterial. The artist carved out new aesthetic and theoretical territory based on his study of the mystical sect Rosicrucianism, philosophical and poetic investigations of space and science, and the practice of Judo, which he described as “the discovery of the human body in a spiritual space.”
Andrew Blauvelt, Andria Hickey, Architecture, Art, Dante Hong Carlos, DAP, Deborah Horowitz, Hatje Cantz, Hirshhorn Museum, Kaira M. Cabañas, Kerry Brougher, Klaus Ottmann, Lisa Middag, Philippe Vergne, Theory, Walker Art Center, Yves Klein
