Moer, an artists’ book by Ana Jotta and Ricardo Valentim, was published in 2018 by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation as part of its renowned educational editions series. Initially conceived as a working dossier for an exhibition at the Gulbenkian Museum, this collection included materials, references, and proposals for a joint exhibition.

The title originates from one of the works in the book: Ana Jotta’s personal business card, which features the French word “Moi.” In Portuguese, the near-homonym moer (“to grind”) creates a layered pun that resonates throughout the project, representing the negotiations, pressures, and subtle abrasions that shaped the book’s development and the artists’ interaction with the museum.

Jokes is a crash course in psychic disintegration for the genocide generation. Ever wondered what a spoonbill thinks of peremptory norms? Or what a hippo can do with an egg-slice? What’s the secret of the success of men like David Papazian and Johnnie Moore, who get to run the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, while poetry-reading demographics, from the higher and intermediate managerial and professional occupations down to the footwells of unskilled manual self-erasure, lie around standing up for themselves and fornicating with the void? An Author’s a Joke, to all manner of Folk, wherever he pops up his Head, his Head, wherever he pops up his Head, according to Fielding. But why? The 27 jokes of Jokes unfold over the course of a duration-block, in an exclusive interior, under new management, in the capable trotters, paws, hooves, claws, tentacles, jaws, beaks, and blowholes of a fabulous parliament of beasts, some drunk, some dead, some leery, some high, some tender, in the tradition of Boccaccio or Isaiah. They are all funny.

Pure Fiction is a reader that examines how fiction-based writing and narrative building functions in contemporary artistic context. Edited by Lisa Lagova and Manon Fraser with contributions by Susan Finlay, Manon Lutanie, Kristina Stallvik, Jonathan Blaschke, Nadia de Vries, Lisa Lagova, Ivan Cheng, Fadi Houmani, Nour Ben Said, Chris Kraus and Manon Fraser. Edited by Lisa Lagova and Manon Fraser. Designed by Lisa Lagova.

Produced on the occasion of Alighiero Boetti’s exhibition ‘September 1986’ at Michael Klein. Inc, Amsterdam 27 November–22 December, 1986

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership. Address has been altered in documentation.

This first monograph on Italian artist Emilio Prini explores his radical approach to art across five decades of work through texts, archival research, and artist interventions. Structured chronologically from 1966 to 2016, it examines his work via a systematic iconographic and bibliographic analysis of Prini’s archives along with the institutions he exhibited at. As he considered the medium secondary to the concept, no distinction is made between installations, sculptures, invitations, posters, or documents; and by presenting the works first individually and then situated in different contexts, the book provides a unique insight into his particular methodology.

Edited by Luca Lo Pinto. Contributions by Alexander Alberro, Stefano Chiodi, Lara Favaretto, Adam Harrison, John Knight, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Luca Lo Pinto, Timotea Prini, Anri Sala, Andrea Viliani. Designed by Experimental Jetset.

Bladspiegel is a periodical poly-semi-facsimile. Each issue reproduces four books chosen by four invited artists and designers. Issue No.001 brings together selections by Jonathan Blaschke, Matas Buckus, Tato Greve, Valentina Stahnke. Assembled by Sanie Irsay. Edition of 50.