Anja Kirschner & David Panos
Ultimate Substance
ANJA KIRSCHNER & DAVID PANOS
Ultimate Substance
96 pages, dimension: 230x310mm
Texts by Anja Kirschner and Richard Seaford
English/German/Greek
Secession 2012
Distribution: Revolver Verlag
isbn 9783868952230
16,00€ + postage
Animismus
Moderne hinter den Spiegeln
Edited by Anselm Franke, Sabine Folie & Isabelle Stengers
ISBN: 978-3-86335-070-3
Verlag der Buchandlung Walther König, Köln
Animism. Modernity through the Looking Glass takes its cue from the ethnological concept of animism that emerged in the nineteenth century in the context of colonialism in search of a "primal" religion. The term was applied to cultures that view nature and objects as having a soul and a life of their own. This concept borrowed from ethnology also plays a key role in psychoanalysis, where it denotes a mental state in which the inner and outer worlds are not distinct from each other.The catalogue brings together artworks, documents, and artifacts to create an essayistic visual space that points to the need for a decolonialization and revision of this traditional understanding of animism. The show juxtaposes historical materials such as early attempts to animate technologically reproduced images with contemporary works addressing the line between life and non-life.
Artists: Agentur, Marcel Broodthaers, Adam Curtis, Didier Demorcy, Walt Disney, Jimmie Durham, Eric Duvivier / Henri Michaux, Thomas Alva Edison, León Ferrari, Walon Green, Victor Grippo, Candida Höfer, Luis Jacob, Ken Jacobs, Joachim Koester, Yayoi Kusama, Len Lye, Chris Marker / Alain Resnais, Daria Martin, Angela Melitopoulos & Maurizio Lazzarato, Ana Mendieta, Vincent Monnikendam, Jean Painlevé, Hans Richter, Roee Rosen und Natascha Sadr Haghighian
29,00€ + postage
Chasing Shadows: Santu Mofokeng
Thirty Years of Photographic Essays
Edited by Corinne Diserens. With contributions by Adam Ashforth, Okwui Enwezor, Patricia Hayes, Sarat Maharaj, Ivan Vladislavic and Sabine Vogel
Prestel Verlag, 2011
Design by Marc Touitou, Paris
Hardcover, 28 x 24 cm
259 pages, ISBN 978-7913-4585-7 (English edition)
€ 49.95 + postage
Art, Property of Politics III: Closed Architecture
Jonas Staal
Named after the 2004 graduation project of Partij voor de Vrijheid MP Fleur Agema, Closed Architecture comprises a sketch for a new prison model, which Agema has developed during her Master’s degree in Interior Design at the Utrecht School of the Arts. Jonas Staal expanded Agema’s texts and sketches into a fully developed models, visualizing her thoughts in detail, and thereby offering new insight into her ideas and concepts. Several architects and designers have assisted Staal during his research, which has resulted in a number of digital renderings, of which a video was on view in 1:1 at Extra City, and a scale model, also in 1:1.
Onomatopee 63: 2011
Design by Eric de Haas
Dutch/English, 112 pages, softcover, ISBN: 978-90-78454-75-5
€ 15 + postage
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Undone
Hans van Houwelingen
Undone presents three recent proposals by artist Hans van Houwelingen and, through their mediation, one of the most remarkable discourses on public art in the Netherlands. It initiates a reflective counterpart to Van Houwelingen's recent one-man exhibition Until it stops resembling itself at Stroom Den Haag and the exhibtion 1:1 at Extra City. Each of the three projects, What's Done... Can Be Undone!, A Secret Path Along Which Death Made Its Escape and National Monument to the Guest Worker, is discussed by three authors.
Edited by Mihnea Mircan. Contributors: Hans van Houwelingen, Mihnea Mircan, Arno van Roosmalen, John Heymans, Jonas Staal, Mark Jarzombek, David Riff, Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield, Gerald Raunig, Marina Vishmidt, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Brian Dillon, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei.
Jap Sam Books, 2011
Designed by Metahaven
English/Dutch, 352 pages, softcover, 20,5 x 12 cm
ISBN: 978-94-90322-34-2
€ 19,50 + postage
An Exhibition - Another Exhibition
Valérie Mannaerts
An exhibition - Another exhibition is the first monograph about the work of Belgian artist Valérie Mannaerts. The book catalogues two solo exhibitions that took place in 2010, Blood Flow at Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen, and Diamond Dancer at de Appel arts centre. In her work, Mannaerts extends the work of collage to spatial objects. She explores the physiognomic qualities of things, questioning the relation between organic and inorganic forms, the presence and autonomy of objects as well as the histories sedimented within them.
With an essay by Anselm Franke, a conversation between the artist and Ann Demeester, and photography by Kristien Daem.
A co-production of Sternberg Press with de Appel arts centre and Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen.
Design by Saskia Gevaert
February 2011, English
22 x 29 cm, 144 pages, hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-1-934105-36-8
€ 25.00 + postage
Secret Modernity: Selected Writings and Interviews 1981–2009
Peter Friedl
Peter Friedl
Secret Modernity: Selected Writings and Interviews 1981–2009
Die heimliche Moderne: Ausgewählte Texte und Interviews 1981–2009
Edited by Anselm Franke
Sternberg Press, March 2010
Design by NODE Berlin Oslo
Hardcover, 14.5 x 21.5 cm
272 pages, ISBN 978-1-933128-96-2 (English edition)
292 pages, ISBN 978-1-934105-00-9 (German edition)
€ 24.00 + postage
Animism (Volume I)
In conjunction with the exhibition Animism.
Contributions by:
Agency, Irene Albers, Oksana Bulgakowa, Edwin Carels, Bart De Baere, Didier Demorcy, Brigid Doherty, Sergei Eisenstein, Anselm Franke, Masato Fukushima, Avery F. Gordon, Richard William Hill, Darius James, Gertrud Koch, Joachim Koester, Bruno Latour, Maurizio Lazzarato and Angela Melitopoulos, Vivian Liska, Henri Michaux, Santu Mofokeng, Philippe Pirotte, Florian Schneider, Erhard Schüttpelz, Michael Taussig, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Martin Zillinger
Editor: Anselm Franke Co-published by Extra City, M HKA, Kunsthalle Bern and Sternberg Press
Design: NODE Berlin Oslo
2010, English, softcover
ISBN 978-1-933128-95-5
€ 32.00 + postage
Avenue Patrice Lumumba
Guy Tillim
In conjunction with the exhibition Guy Tillim: Avenue Patrice Lumumba.
Published by Prestel in association with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
2008, English, 128 pages, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-7913-4066-1
€ 75.00 + postage
Smadar Dreyfus
Prologue by David Neuman (director of Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall). Interview with the artist by Tessa Praun (exhibition curator and curator at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall). Essays by Mladen Dolar (Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist, film critic and expert in psychoanalysis) and Anselm Franke (former director of Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen)
Produced by Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Design: Sandra Praun, Designstudio S
2009, Swedish and English, 80 pages, hardcover
ISBN 978-91-976646-6-0
€ 27.00 + postage
No Matter How Bright the Light, the Crossing Occurs at Night
With contributions and dialogues by and with Ines Schaber, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Stefan Pente, and Judith Hopf, as well as Avery F. Gordon, Anselm Franke, Nicolas Siepen, Sladja Blazan, Thomas Keenan, and Michael Taussig.
Co-published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König and KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin
2006, English,
220 pages, softcover
ISBN-10 3865601510
€ 20.00 + postage
Working at Copan
Peter Friedl
Working at Copan collects interviews with workers and employees at Edifício Copan, a landmark modernist architecture in the center of São Paulo. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer and completed in 1966, it became the largest residential building in Latin America. As a historical building it embodies an era of radical political and economic changes within Brazilian society. In this book project, artist Peter Friedl deals with the work left over from the modern era.
Co-published by Kunsthalle Basel and Extra City, Antwerp, in collaboration with Exo experimental org., São Paulo.
December 2007, English/Portuguese
14 x 21 cm, 256 pages, 8 b/w ill., softcover
Sternberg Press in cooperation with Kunsthalle Basel and Extra City
ISBN 978-1-933128-37-5
$ 21.95 | € 19.00 + postage
Sweet Sweat
Justine Frank, Roee Rosen
The exhibition Justine Frank (1900-1943): A Retrospective was accompanied by the release of the English version of Roee Rosen's book Sweet Sweat, published by Sternberg Press (Berlin, NY) and co-produced by Extra City. Sweet Sweat is the title of Justine Frank's only book, a scandalous novel, now forgotten, written in 1931, in French. The heroine of the novel is a Jewish girl named Rachel, who reveals an outstanding talent for debauchery and crime. This edition of the book also contains Frank's biography as well as extensive commentary on the historical and cultural contexts of the novel, written by Rosen.
Co-published by Extra City and Sternberg Press with the support of the Brandes Collection, Tel Aviv.
Design by NODE Berlin / Oslo
January 2009, English
15 x 20 cm, 238 pages, 34 b/w ill., softcover
ISBN 978-1-933128-66-5
$ 24.95 | € 19.00 + postage