Art May 2014

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Cathy Pilkington - Thing-Soul Marlborough Fine Art 2014 ISBN 9781909707054 Acqn 23666 Pb 24x30cm 40pp 40col ills £12.50 This entirely new body of sculptures, prints and drawings asks the viewer to invent and to imagine. Drawing on work as diverse as Pierre Imans’ wax mannequins from the 1920’s, Henry Moore’s reclining nudes, Hans Bellmer’s tortured puppets, and Morton Bartlett’s strange retinue of love-surrogates, Pilkington’s work threatens to make itself available to the viewer on more intimate terms than the art-world’s customarily mediated object / viewer relation, more in the manner of a dolly than an artwork. This unusually embodied connection is troubled by a sense of doubt, a conceptual response that deals more in belief than reason. In this, her work approaches the immediacy of ordinary figurative playthings, while at the same time playing with an ambiguous, compound object-hood shared alike by religious statuary and a child’s favourite transitional object.

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Nina Murdoch – Enlightenment Marlborough Fine Art 2014 ISBN 9781909707061 Acqn 23667 Pb 30x24cm 28pp 11col ills £12.50 ‘Blakean outpourings of dazzling light rendered in colour that is subtle but also explosive, with a burnished patina of marks and sheens, characterize Nina Murdoch’s latest paintings. Sometimes, the paint seems to float, tied neither to the picture surface nor to any recognized distance within the image. She depicts what could be a flare path to an underground car park or bunker, the undramatic subject of corridor and underpass lit to an unearthly pitch. This might be underworld light yet it is celebratory, beneficent, not hellish and destructive. She returns again and again to the same places for inspiration: to the streets and buildings of south London, to a bunker in Devon, a car park in France. A painting may be sparked off by something as apparently simple as reflections on wet tarmac, but in other respects Murdoch’s gritty urban subjects are also an excuse to paint an ‘incredible ultramarine blue’ she has seen and marvelled at’ Andrew Lambirth

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Peacocks With Hiccups Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790560 Acqn 23670 Pb 14x22cm 144pp 21col ills £9.95 Edited by Fiona Bryson, Keren Cytter Contributions by Karl Holmqvist, Luna Miguel, Catherine Wagner; drawings by Koo Jeong-A 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 emerging Spanish writer Luna Miguel. Artwork is provided by Koo Jeong-A, whose simple line drawings were chosen from a series titled “Dr. Vogt.” Koo Jeong-A walks personal and cultural grounds to record relationships and comical encounters within landscapes and interiors. The “Poetic Series” brings together works of poetry and literature in combination with visual art, introducing young as well as established writers concerned with challenging the boundaries of traditional forms of narrative. Initiated by Keren Cytter and coedited with Fiona Bryson, the quarterly publications focus on three experimental writers or poets per issue—image content is supplied by one artist.

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Nanna Debois Buhl - Atlas of Anatomy Revolver Publishing by VVV 2013 ISBN 9783868952629 Acqn 22721 Hb 16x30cm 80pp 15ills £21 Atlas of Anatomy is a poetical interpretation of the historical anatomical reference book. The book contains 15 photographs of body parts belonging to people of different ages (5 - 87 years), and 133 footnotes all of which, concretely or metaphorically, describe a body part. The text fragments are collected from medical, literary, philosophical and pedagogical sources: a fragment from a children’s song, a description of a burial ritual and the treatment of a burn, for example. The photographs are narrowly cropped, so the body parts almost appear abstract. Like maps. The book borrows its format and typography from historical anatomical reference books. Atlas of Anatomy is a journey through a collective body composed of many bodies and voices.

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Christian Marclay - Fire & Water + CD Dis Voir 2014 ISBN 9782914563734 Acqn 23340 Pb 17x22cm 64pp 60col ills £27 In 2011 Christian Marclay was invited to create an artwork for ‘Mixed Bathing World’. A contemporary art festival held every three years in Beppu, one of Japan’s most famous hot spring resorts. Marclay designed a field of one hundred flags installed on a jetty near the harbour. Fifty flags represented water, and fifty fire. At the bottom corner of each flag he attached a small bell. Fire’s brass bell was heavier, needing more wind to chime but with a longer sustain, while Water’s stamped iron bell was lighter and had a short, dry and low ring. The enclosed CD documents these bells ringing in the changing wind, mixing with sounds from the harbour.

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Choreographing Exhibitions Les Presses Du Reel 2014 ISBN 9782840666820 Acqn 23623 Pb 17x24cm 416pp 5ills £33.95 An overview of the relation between choreography and exhibition, through the contributions of over thirty international visual artists, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, theorists, and curators. In 2008, the Contemporary art centre La Ferme du Buisson, invited the curator Mathieu Copeland to present his work, Choregraphed Exhibition, composed of movements executed by three dancers over two months. This exhibition nourished a multitude of questions that gave birth to a book, Choreograping Exhibitions, overview of the relation between choreography and exhibition. It brings together over thirty international visual artists, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, theorists, and curators. Contributions by Kenneth Anger, Fia Backström, Jérôme Bel, Julien Bismuth, Giovanni Carmine, Boris Charmatz, Mathieu Copeland, Tim Etchells, Barbara Formis, Maite Garbayo Maeztu, Kenneth Goldsmith, Amy Greenfield, Abbie Hoffman, Karl Holmqvist, Pierre Huyghe, Myriam Van Imschoot, Jennifer Lacey, LeClubdes5, Franck Leibovici, Pablo León de la Barra, André Lepecki, Alan Licht, Raimundas Malašauskas, Loreto Martínez Troncoso, Malcolm McLaren, Gustav Metzger, Lilo Nein, Phill Niblock, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Michael Parsons, Julie Pellegrin, Mickaël Phelippeau, Michael Portnoy, Claude Rutault, Irena Tomažin, Catherine Wood.

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Moyra Davey - I'm Your Fan Camden Arts Centre 2014 ISBN 9781907208492 Acqn 23630 Pb 14x21cm 48pp £7 I’m Your Fan contains six of Moyra Davey’s recent essays and transcripts, interspersed with excerpts lifted directly from working notebooks. Influences, affinities, internal concerns, the weather, and partners circulate among the texts. Despite following a gentle chronological pull I’m Your Fan persistently intercepts the biographies and methods of others, promiscuously re-grouping literary and critical territories, and effectively determining Davey’s own legacy. The essays consider the prohibitions and permissions of art theory, value and panic, the equipment of her process, the problematic relief of productivity, the explicit re-inclusion of the figure into her work, as well as death and expectations. Edited by Camilla Wills to accompany the exhibition life without sheets of paper to be scribbled on is masterpiece, from 11 April - 29 June 2014 at Camden Arts Centre.

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Trevor Brown - Drawing Book. Signed Editions Treville 2013 ISBN 9784309920047 Acqn 23676 Pb 19x23cm 112pp 100ills 92col £29.95

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Silke Otto-Knapp - Questions of Travel Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790522 Acqn 23677 Pb 15x21cm 100pp 20col ills £16.50 Edited by Rosemary Heather and Nicolaus Schafhausen Contributions by Elizabeth Bishop, Susan Morgan, Vanessa Joan Müller, Nicolaus Schafhausen This book is published on occasion of the parallel exhibitions Silke Otto-Knapp presented in two markedly different locations: on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, and at the Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna. The contrasting influences of place—between rural and urban, new and old world—is evident in the selection of works presented and compiled in this catalogue. The partnering of these exhibitions clearly brings into focus questions about art and its contexts. The tensions between nature and culture provide an appropriate figure for the artwork: a context imagined and devised for the circumstances of its own activation. Questions of Travel includes essays by Susan Morgan and Vanessa Joan Müller and a conversation between Otto-Knapp and Nicolaus Schafhausen. Müller reflects on how the tensions Otto-Knapp’s artwork engenders are the substance of its experience, while Morgan approaches the work via three significant influences: the cultural geographer J. B. Jackson; avant-garde dancer Anna Halprin and her husband, the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin; and the poems of Elizabeth Bishop. In the conversation with Schafhausen, Otto-Knapp likens the art exhibition to “a theatre situation that is both distinctly separate from reality and engaged with it at the same time.” As the activating element of an exhibition, the viewer could also be said to embody the reality of a work’s engagement. Otto-Knapp took the title for this project, “Questions of Travel,” from Bishop’s poem of the same name, which has been reprinted for this catalogue.

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J. Parker Valentine – Fiction Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790416 Acqn 23678 Pb 17x24cm 116pp 91ills 31col £18 Texts by Mary Ceruti, Suzanne Cotter, Christiane Maria Schneider Although deeply grounded in drawing, J. Parker Valentine’s diverse practice spans film, video, photography, collage, and sculpture. By pushing the limits of mark making, the many possibilities of narrative and image are encountered and explored. The drawn line exceeds its supports and materials, extending beyond the two-dimensional edges of material to something more sculptural. In the same way that Valentine uses erasure to create an image, the negative space or ephemeral material within a space, such as shadow and light, becomes part of the work. This artist book includes a selection of images—a documentation of exhibited works and those in process—that offer a sense of Valentine’s approach to working, which gestures toward abstraction and improvisation. For this book, many images have been adapted, reoriented, and/or manipulated. Also included are three essays that investigate Valentine’s process, considering work that has emerged from her previous projects, residencies, and exhibitions to date. Mary Ceruti’s essay describes Valentine’s lasso sculptures as oscillating between drawing and sculpture, and discusses the suggestive narratives that play out in sculptural space. Suzanne Cotter touches on Valentine’s interrogation of the integrity of the medium of drawing and its limits, as well as the transformative nature of her work, as eluding any static reading. Describing the development of Valentine’s work in situ, Christiane Maria Schneider considers how each of the works presented are affected by the relationships they enter into, continually moving between the material and immaterial. Valentine was born in Austin, Texas, in 1980. She was artist in residence at Artpace, San Antonio, in 2013. She has had solo shows at Supportico Lopez, Berlin (2010, 2012); Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf (2012); Taka Ishii, Kyoto (2010); Peep-Hole, Milan (2010); and Lisa Cooley, New York (2008, 2010). She lives and works in New York.

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Jalal Toufic - Forthcoming Second edition. e-flux journal Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790553 Acqn 23679 Pb 11x18cm 296pp £9.95 Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. This second edition of a collection of his essays whirls around the appearance of the unworldly in art, culture, history, and the present. On the first edition of Forthcoming published by Atelos in 2000: “Although sometimes couched in what looks like the language of critical theory, Toufic’s formal hybridity and poetic methods sharply distinguish Forthcoming from most other titles on those shelves labeled Cultural, Poststructuralist, or Postcolonial Studies.… In his insistence upon treating the dead as a great part of the potential force of this world, Toufic plumbs the poetics of disaster and recuperation in ways that remain both incredibly suggestive and relentlessly radical.” —Village Voice Literary Supplement, April 2001

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Armen Avanessian, Andreas Topfer - Speculative Drawing: 2011 – 2014 Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790447 Acqn 23680 Hb 15x21cm 320pp ills £15.95 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. This book gives a somewhat different introduction to contemporary speculative philosophy, raising questions on how thinking works and how thinking occurs in drawings or illustrations. How does a poetic thinking work that's not about but with art? Andreas Töpfer's drawings in this book are not illustrations of the texts. Rather it's the other way around: they need to be read so that the texts can start to refer to them. In this sense, Speculative Drawing does not provide a shortcut to the theories presented; it does not aim to build a representational relationship between a pictorially correct understanding and a correlative conceptual thought. Instead, the drawings provide an occasion to think about thinking—a speculative thinking and writing in concept and through images.

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Hito Steyerl - Too Much World. The Films Of Hito Steyerl Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790577 Acqn 23681 Pb 13x22cm 244pp 118ills 107col £15 Edited by Nick Aikens. Texts by Nick Aikens, Karen Archey, Thomas Elsaesser, Pablo Lafuente, Sven Lütticken, David Riff, Hito Steyerl, Ana Teixeira Pinto Hito Steyerl is rightly considered one of the most exciting artists working today who speculates on the impact of the Internet and digitization on the fabric of our everyday lives. Her films and writings offer an astute, provocative, and often funny analysis of the dizzying speed with which images and data are reconfigured, altered, and dispersed, many times over, accelerating into infinity or crashing into oblivion. Published to accompany the artist’s survey exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Too Much World gathers a series of essays and close readings of Steyerl’s films from the past ten years. Newly commissioned texts by Sven Lütticken, Karen Archey, Ana Teixeira Pinto, and Nick Aikens, alongside writings by Thomas Elsaesser, Pablo Lafuente, David Riff, and Steyerl, are spliced with over one hundred pages of color stills. This publication is a charged slideshow of the artist’s extraordinary investigations into the status, circulation, and materiality of images.

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David Hockney - The Arrival Of Spring Annely Juda Fine Art 2014 ISBN 9781904621584 Acqn 23684 Pb 25x27cm 96pp 54ills 23col £30 Annely Juda Fine Art presents David Hockney's series of 16 iPad drawings; The Arrival of Spring.

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Lisl Ponger - The Vanishing Middle Class. Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630087 Acqn 23685 Pb 16x22cm 192pp 39col ills £19.50 For many years Lisl Ponger has been concerned with the construction of (cultural) identity, with the often stereotypical imaginings and perceptions of the Other and the associated issues of pictorial representation. Her art frequently engages with the academic disciplines of ethnology and anthropology, whose methods and politics become manifest in the collection and exhibition practices of ethnographic museums. In order to take up and examine the disappearance of the middle class in her show, Ponger meticulously researched the structures and presentational conventions of ethnological collections. She also applies this principle of imitation to the conception and design of the exhibition and the accompanying “reader”. The articles by US American historian and ethnology critic James Clifford, art historian Yvette Mutumba, currently research curator at the Weltmuseum in Frankfurt am Main, and the Vienna-based artist and author Tim Sharp offer a wide-ranging survey of critical considerations relating to the function and operation of museums of ethnology in general and Lisl Ponger’s MuKul in particular as well as a comprehensive discussion of the history and present state of the so-called middle class. By treating the Western middle class as an object of study in the same way that, even today, exhibitions make a spectacle out of “exotic” peoples or ethnic groups in remote parts of the non-Western world, Ponger’s show strikingly illustrates how many museums operate; the resulting exercise in deconstruction invites critical engagement with these mechanisms.

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Brice Marden - Ru Ware, Marbles, Polke Matthew Marks 2014 ISBN 9781880146675 Acqn 23356 Hb 26x30cm 88pp 38ills 36col £24.95 Brice Marden: Ru Ware, Marbles, Polke features the most recent paintings from this towering figure in contemporary abstraction. The book’s title alludes to the breadth of Marden’s inspirations: rare Chinese pottery, coarse Greek marble and the late German artist Sigmar Polke. Each of the works or series in this volume stems from these sources: the Ru Ware Project (2007–2012), composed of nine small panels painted in pale blues and greens; 15 new paintings in oil on marble, which Marden completed on the Greek island of Hydra in 2012; and a large oil-on-linen painting, "Polke Letter" (2010–2011), a painterly homage to Marden’s contemporary. Helping to pinpoint Marden’s place in the flow of time is an essay by David Anfam, along with a statement written by the artist, an extended meditation on geometry, proportion and colour.

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Charles Ray - Young Man Matthew Marks 2014 ISBN 9781880146682 Acqn 23394 Pb 33x45cm 32pp 174col ills £32.95 This volume documents the stages of work and materials used to realize Charles Ray’s "Young Man" (2012), a 1,500-pound sculpture in solid stainless steel. Printed on unbound pages, this publication shows the development of Ray’s sculpture alongside a set of life-size details that can be reconfigured into two full-scale photographs of the work.

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Petr Nikl - The Game Of Time Arbor Vitae 2014 ISBN 9788074670411 Acqn 23402 Pb 23x27cm 328pp 240ills 100col £56.50 This book features the painting and printmaking work of Czech artist Petr Nikl (born 1964) from the last 30 years, including a series on the subject of hatching, embryos and the mythology of origins. Writing by the artist accompanies his visual works.

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David Shrigley - As Soon As Possible Caja De Burgos 2014 ISBN 9788496421561 Acqn 23525 Hb 29x26cm 76pp 53ills 35col £16.95 Published on the occasion of a solo exhibition of British visual artist David Shrigley at the Caja de Burgos in 2007, this catalogue provides a window into his peculiar oeuvre, ranging from drawings and paintings to sculptures and photographs. His deliberately limited technique is especially apparent in poorly executed drawings with often crude forms, while the disquieting and darkly humorous subject matter of his works surfaces in their giving place to the abnormal. Shrigley addresses the thin, permeable barrier between public and private realms, pointing out absurdities that others might overlook. It is a comprehensive introduction to his work, with an essay by Katrina M. Brown.

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Mark Manders - Cose In Corso ROMA Publications 2014 ISBN 9789491843006 Acqn 23605 Hb 22x29cm 126pp 63ills 1col £33.95 Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Collezione Maramotti centring on the installation piece ‘Isolated Bathroom / Composition with Four Colors’ by Dutch artist Mark Manders, this book comprises a lengthy series of black-and-white photographs from behind the scenes and of the artist’s working environment, together with his creative process. In a special insert, Manders explains his thoughts on the piece, which Mario Diacono then further analyses in detail, discussing the spatial and semantic hierarchy of elements, its triggering of multiple associations, and relationship with Manders’ entire body of work, extending from ‘Self-portrait as a building’, begun in 1986.

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Christoph Niemann at Galerie Max Hetzler Holzwarth Publications 2014 ISBN 9783935567701 Acqn 23656 Hb 24x31cm 64pp 37ills 34col £28.50 Art and soccer, these are the two great passions that unite illustrator Christoph Niemann and gallerist Max Hetzler. Both live and work in Berlin today, but as they were born in the region of Stuttgart, their hearts still belong to the VfB Stuttgart soccer club. So one thing led to another, and for his first solo exhibition on occasion of the 40-year anniversary of Galerie Max Hetzler, Niemann created 32 absurd silk-screen prints that pair off the gallerist and his roster of artists with imagery from the world of soccer. The series was presented under the fictional title Galerie Max Hetzler celebrates 40 years of VfB Stuttgart and is collected in complete form for this publication. Christoph Niemann was born 1970 and after completing his studies at the University of Fine Arts in Stuttgart he moved to New York, where he lived between 1997 and 2008. His illustrations were published on the covers of magazines like The New Yorker, Time Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Wired, and ZEITmagazin. In 2010 he was inducted to the Hall of Fame of the Art Directors Club, New York. Currently Niemann is writing and drawing the column “Abstract Sunday” for New York Times Magazine from his home in Berlin.

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Defying Stability - Artistic Processes In Mexico Between 1952-1967 Turner 2014 ISBN 9788415832393 Acqn 23665 Pb 22x28cm 620pp 485ills 185col £45 This publication, the second volume and exhibition to result from a multidisciplinary research project into contemporary Mexican art begun in 2008, attempts to link the diversity of visual arts with social and economic processes in the country during the 1950s and ‘60s. The time was characterised by accelerated modernisation, which reflected with great dynamism in the cultural field and saw the formation of new educational institutions, not to mention the emergence of alternative cultural spaces and events. Through various artworks and critical essays, the book aims to continue the investigation of artistic multiplicity in Mexican modernity.

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Lucy Williams – Pavillion Timothy Taylor Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780948835520 Acqn 23668 Hb 21x27cm 58pp 28ills 23col £18.75 British artist Lucy Williams is known for redefining the concept of collage through her intricate, mixed media bas-reliefs of unpopulated mid-century Modernist architecture. In a new departure for the artist, Pavilion presents 16 spectacular new works within a striking modular structure variously inspired by architects and designers such as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Manfred Lehmbruck. Williams has softened the original references by rendering the grid structure in soft wood with peg-board inserts, reminiscent of contemporary children’s furniture and suggesting a more homespun aesthetic. The centerpiece of the exhibition, and the work that most graphically describes the nature of Williams’s practice, is an almost three metre wide collage depicting Jean Dubuisson’s apartment complex in Maine-Montparnasse, turned into an intricately-woven frieze running the full width of the work. Using nothing more than thousands of individually cut fragments of paper and card, Williams has translated this iconic example of what many describe as brutalist architecture, into a delightful, colourful and ultimately celebratory object. Williams’s work has an almost redemptive quality – her painstaking and meticulous handiwork re-investing these often unloved structures with something of the idealism, freshness and beauty that the architects originally planned.

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Queer Zines - 2nd Edition Vol 2 Witte De With 2014 ISBN 9780894390708 Acqn 23686 Pb 19x27cm 264pp 220ills £21.50 The variegated output of zine makers past and present is collected in two volumes, from North America and Europe, listing them alphabetically. Across more than 350 pages are comprehensive bibliographies and synopses for more than 120 zines, excerpted illustrations and writings, reprints of notable articles and a list of zine outlets around the world. Also included, a 1980 interview with Boyd McDonald by Vince Aletti and Adam Block’s early writings on zines. Volume one updates and corrects the original edition, published in 2008, while volume two adds more than 30 recent titles and fourteen new essays by Bruce LaBruce, Scott Treleaven and Edie Fake, among others.

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Rene Zeh - 13 (2012-1999) Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630063 Acqn 23691 Pb 21x27cm 128pp 130ills 110col £17 In his installations, sculptures and collages, René Zeh examines the superficial perfection of our contemporary world, duly revealing the discrepancy between the designs for a better world and its actual implementation. In so doing, the coordinates of design, architecture and lifestyle shift in favour of a seemingly perfect but essentially flawed environment which has elevated living to become a social spectacle in which modern subjectivity must continually present itself. With texts by Marcus Lu ̈ tkemeyer, Dr. Vanessa Joan Müller and René Zechlin.

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Hannes Schupbach And Joel-Claude Meffre - Instants + DVD Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953411 Acqn 23692 Pb 21x30cm 68pp 3ills £17 Instants encompasses a new film by the Swiss artist Hannes Schüpbach and a literary text by the French archeologist and writer Joël-Claude Meffre. The artistic project and the publication that was created for it, with an essay by Marco Baschera (“Thinking in Images”), are devoted to a central point of convergence of the arts: the INSTANT. In photography, film, or literature, the instant in its “entrance” or “descent” signifies a performative opening in the sequence of time that radically breaks through any concept of linearity. Also available without the DVD: ISBN 9783868953404 Acqn 23694 £17.00

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