Cahiers de l'Energumene, 1984 N°5
Published by Cahiers de l'Energumene, 1984, 186 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 19 × 26 cm, French
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(Autumn / Winter) Including the work of Ladislas Klima, Martin Munkasci, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Carlo Scarpa, Roberto Bazlen, Frantisek Drtikol, Joseph Roth, Herbert List, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Pierre Klossowski, Robert Walser, Josef Südek and Robert Musil.

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

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Where does my body belong? From institutional critique to infrastructural transformation Or Standards and Mothers
Ruth Buchanan
Published by Artspeak, Vancouver, 2021, 20 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 15.2 × 22.9 cm, English
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With texts from Ruth Buchanan, J.C. Sturm, Anne Boyer. The first instalment of BEACON, a pamphlet series in ten issues’ focusing on how the commitment of artists’ to wider social movements informs contemporary artistic practice. The series will feature texts by artists whose practices engage with language and visual arts.

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Open & sneller
Ilke Gers
Published by TENT, Rotterdam, 2022, 28 pages (b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, English
Price: €6

Studies for chalk drawings at TENT, Rotterdam, produced on the occasion of the solo exhibition Open & sneller, 27 May–12 June 2022.

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Spirits And Objects
Josef Strau
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2022, 198 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16 × 23 cm, English
Price: €22

This publication assembles a selection of texts produced between the years 2005 and 2020, starting with The Non- Productive Attitude (2005), his prominent reflections on the anti-productive attitude in the Cologne art scene of the time. The experience of having to write the essay overnight within a few hours, and without any time for revision, triggered his interest in exploring forms of unintentional writing, and consequently the replacement of the intentional author by an unconscious writer / producer. This mode of automatic writing has manifested itself until today, and has become the core of Strau’s artistic practice.

#2022 #josefstrau #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Joan Jonas in Kyoto 2019-2020
Published by Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery, Kyoto, 2020, 160 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18.5 × 25.7 cm, Japanese / English
Price: €34

Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art, her early work from the 1960s and 1970s anticipated the following forty years of multimedia.

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The Letters of Rosemary & Bernadette Mayer, 1976–1980
Published by Lenbachhaus, München; Ludwig Forum, Aachen; Spike Island, Bristol & Swiss Institute, New York, 2022, 376 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 14 × 21 cm, English
Price: €24

This collection of the correspondence between artist Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014) and poet Bernadette Mayer (born 1945) occurs between the years of 1976 and 1980, a period of rich creativity in New York’s artistic avant-garde, and one which includes the development of major bodies of work by the two women. Rosemary Mayer was creating sculptures, watercolours, books and “temporary monuments” from weather balloons and snow, while Bernadette Mayer was working on some of her best-known publications, including the book-length poem Midwinter Day and the poetry collection The Golden Book of Words. Spanning the worlds of Conceptual art, Postminimalism, feminism, the New York School, Language poetry and more, these letters elucidate the bonds of sisterhood through intimate exchanges about art, relationships and everyday life.

#2022 #bernadettemayer #rosemarymayer #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig