Drafting futures, remembering a building
Rosa te Velde
Published by de Appel, Amsterdam, 2021, 288 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 12 × 17 cm, English / Dutch
Price: €15 (Temporarily out of stock)

Drafting futures, remembering a building explores, connects and recalls the many lives of one building in Amsterdam Nieuw-West over the span of more than sixty years. From when it was first built as ‘CSG Pascal’, a hypermodern school building; through its near demise when it was reformed as ‘Calvijn College’; then, its designation as a refugee shelter; and to its current, temporary status as a creative ‘hub’, known as ‘Broedplaats Lely’ and home to de Appel. Plans for the future are constantly made and unmade – what will this place become? How does this building help to understand the ideologies behind city planning, segregation and gentrification? How does this building reveal the different guises of the ‘politics of forgetting’ and how to work against them?

Edited by Hannah Cheney. Designed by Bardhi Haliti & Zuzana Kostelanská.

#2021 #bardhihaliti #deappel #hannahcheney #rosatevelde #zuzanakostelanska
Campaign
Pope.L
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2019, 167 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 14.5 × 21 cm, English
Price: €25 (Out of stock)

This book is a three-part report on the long-term collaboration between artist Pope.L and curator Dieter Roelstraete which revolves around issues of connectedness, home, and migration, while addressing art’s relationship to knowledge.

Begun in spring 2016 with an invitation, extended to the artist by Roelstraete and his colleagues Monika Szewczyk and Adam Szymczyk, to participate in the fourteenth edition of documenta, Pope.L’s contribution took on the guise of an immersive, seemingly omnipresent sound installation titled Whispering Campaign, consisting of thousands of hours of whispered content—addressing nationhood and borders—broadcast throughout Athens and Kassel using both speakers and live “whisperers.”

#2019 #adamszymczyk #dieterroelstraete #monikaszewczyk #moussepublishing #popel
Jannis Kounellis
Published by Ci-Gong Gallery, Taegu, 1996, leporello (colour ill.), 21 × 28 cm (folded) 62.5 × (unfolded) , Korean
Price: €22

Produced on the occasion of Jannis Kounellis’ exhibition at Ci-Gong Gallery, Taegu, 12 July–25 July, 1996.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

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JANNIS KOUNELLIS
Published by Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya, 1987, 24 pages (colour ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, Japanese/English
Price: €22

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Jannis Kounellis at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya, 6 June–31 July, 1987. With an essay by Germano Celant.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1987 #germanocelant #janniskounellis
Caring Together in Decolonial Healing
Lucie Draai
Published by Lucie Draai, Rotterdam, 2021, 66 pages, 11.8 × 17.5 cm, English
Price: €12

This thesis explores what it means to be human guided by Sylvia Wynter’s thought provoking trajectory “Towards the Human, after Man” and Denise Ferreira da Silva’s encompassing book Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007); and argues that at the core of contemporary humanness lies a struggle defined by a racialized order of human existence. This struggle informs not only those racialized Others but to varying degrees impacts all human beings on a global scale. As a form of tentacular thinking this thesis contributes in troubling the colonial category of the human by introducing the figure of the human adoptee of color in relation to a decolonial ethics of care and healing.

Designed by Christoph Clarijs.

#2021 #christopheclarijs #luciedraai
Vincent Fecteau
Published by Fridericianum, Kassel, 2021, 20 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 21 cm, English / German
Price: €4

Exhibition guide produced on the occasion of the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany dedicated to Vincent Fecteau, at Fridericianum, Kassel, 3 April–5 September, 2021. Encompassing more than sixty selected works created between 1993 and 2020, the show provided a comprehensive overview of Fecteau’s oeuvre.

#2021 #ephemera #fridericianumkassel #sculpture #vincentfecteau