Telebodies:
Bleeding Subtitles for Postrobotic Scenes
Valentinas Klimašauskas
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2024, 198 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17.6 × 25 cm, English
Price: €18

A strange hybrid of Teletubbies and Videodrome in the age of algorithms, Telebodies is a techno-somatic, multifaceted endeavour referring to the ever-growing entanglement of our bodies with epistemic, cybernetic, and kinetic materialities.

The book offers an alternative art history in the near-present of automation and disinformation, portraying a Central Eastern Europe populated by speculative cultural producers.
Written in collaboration with a cloud-based typing assistant with “main character syndrome,” the text can also be interpreted as an academic novel about the doctoral research of an overcaffeinated generation with slight attention deficit disorder, or processed as a speculative script for (im)possible collaborations with AI or machine-based personalities to come. It is also an attempt to write a practice-based fine-arts PhD thesis at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.

Designed by Nerijus Rimkus.

#2024 #moussepublishing #nerijusrimkus #valentinasklimasauskas
Nihilism Is Love
Steven Parrino
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2020, 208 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 25 × 21 cm, English
Price: €58 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Steven Parrino: Nihilism Is Love at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, 21 February – 16 August, 2020. Predominantly a painter, in his oeuvre Parrino developed a unique visual idiom that, on the one hand, draws on various subcultural movements and, on the other, displays clear references to the history of visual art of the twentieth century and beyond. Parrino’s work is defined by an unconditional will to be free that stems from American biker culture and is also influenced by punk rock existentialism.

With texts by Konrad Bitterli, Catherine Dossin, Fabian Flückiger, Pierre Huber, Friedemann Malsch, Matthew McCaslin, Olivier Mosset, Bob Nickas, Amy O’Neill.

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

#2020 #stevenparrino
After Berkeley:
Objectif Exhibitions, 2010–2011
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2013, 264 pp. (b/w ill.), 10.5 × 14.9 cm, English
Price: €9

Edited by Mai Abu ElDahab. Following From Berkeley to Berkeley: Objectif Exhibitions, 2008–2010, this publication is the second in a two-part series of interviews with artists who exhibited at Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, between 2010 and 2011. The interviews are accompanied by a collection of secondary and parallel material produced in collaboration with each artist.

Interviews: Matias Faldbakken by Nikki Columbus, Will Holder by Richard Birkett, Sophie Nys by Dieter Roelstraete, Clifford Irving by Francis McKee, Patricia Esquivias by Jonas Žakaitis, Norma Jeane and Tim Etchells by Anna Colin, Michael Portnoy by Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Hassan Khan by Brian Kuan Wood, Barbara Visser by Raimundas Malašauskas; and contributions by Mai Abu ElDahab and Dexter Sinister.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership (missing dust jacket, some damage).

#2013 #barbaravisser #briankuanwood #dextersinister #dieterroelstraete #francismckee #maiabueldahab #michaelportnoy #raimundasmalasauskas #sophienys #sternbergpress #willholder
Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities
On Kawara
Published by Ludion, Brussels & David Zwirner, New York, 2012, 280 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 25 × 28 cm, English
Price: €85

This book contains more than 180 ‘date paintings’ (monochrome canvases painted with the date on which they were done). The first part of the catalogue contains the complete series of paintings On Kawara did in New York, while the second part shows the work he created in 136 other cities.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership (some damage to the dust jacket).

#2012 #onkawara #painting
Mühsam wachsen werdende Strukturen
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt
Published by Verlag Lutz Wohlrab, Berlin, 2015, 24 pp. (b/w ill.), 14.5 × 21 cm, German
Price: €5

Published here for the first time, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt’s little known poems which preceded her typewritings and participation in the international mail art network from East Berlin.

#2015 #concretepoetry #poetry #ruthwolfrehfeldt
konkretedichtung:
texte und theorien
Published by Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, Munich, 1972, 164 pp. (b/w ill.), 17 × 22 cm, German
Price: €11 (Out of stock)

Including the work of Jiří Kolář, Ferdinand Kriwet, Hansjörg Mayer, Maurizio Nannucci, Ito Motoyuki, Seicchi Niikuni, Timm Ulrichs, Jiří Valoch, Pedro Xisto, Claus Bremer, Augusto de Campos, Haraldo de Campos, Jochen Gerz, Eugen Gomringer, Bohumila Grögerová & Josef Hirsal, Gerhard Rühm, Herman de Vries, Emmett Williams, Ugo Carrega, Siegfried J. Schmidt.

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

#1972 #augustodecampos #bohumilagrogerova #clausbremer #concretepoetry #emmettwilliams #eugengomringer #ferdinandkriwet #gerhardruhm #hansjorgmayer #haraldodecampos #hermandevries #itomotoyuki #jirikolar #jirivaloch #jochengerz #josefhirsal #maurizionannucci #pedroxisto #seicchiniikuni #siegfriedjschmidt #timmulrichs #ugocarrega