Speculations on Anonymous Materials
Published by Fridericianum, Kassel, 2013, 64 pages, softcover (stapled), 12 × 20 cm, English/German
Price: €3

Produced on the occasion of Speculations on Anonymous Materials, September 29, 2013 – January 26, 2014. Curated by Susanne Pfeffer. Artists include: Michele Abeles, Ed Atkins, Trisha Baga & Jessie Stead, Alisa Baremboym, Kerstin Brätsch &, Debo Eilers, Antoine Catala, Simon Denny, Aleksandra Domanović, GCC, Yngve Holen, Sachin Kaeley, Daniel Keller, Josh Kline, Oliver Laric, Tobias Madison, Katja Novitskova, Ken Okiishi, Jon Rafman, James Richards, Pamela Rosenkranz, Avery Singer, Timur Si Quin, Ryan Trecartin. Designed by Zak Group, London.

#aleksandradomanovic #edatkins #fridericianumkassel #jamesrichards #katjanovitskova #kenokiishi #oliverlaric #pamelarosenkranz #simondenny #susannepfeffer #timursiquin #tobiasmadison #yngveholen #zakgroup
Isa Genzken
Published by Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1989, 24 pages (colour & b/w ill.), softcover, 24 × 30 cm, English
Price: €30 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Isa Genzken’s 1989 exhibition at Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam. With an essay by Peter Groot. Funded by Helge Achenbach Art Consulting, Düsseldorf and Daniel Buchholz, Köln.

#1989 #isagenzken
Anicka Yi
Published by Fridericianum, Kassel, 2016, 44 pages (colour ill.), stapled booklet, 18.5 × 29.5 cm, English/German
Price: €6 (Out of stock)
In her work, Anicka Yi explores life forms, organisms and microbiological processes with “multinatural perspectivism”. The exhibition booklet explores further the clashes and unions between natural and artificial bringing Yi’s work together with illustrations by British botanist Margaret Mee, a pioneer in environmental activism in the Amazon Basin. The double sided booklet which can be read in English or German contains the exhibition guide, the essay The Notion of Species in History and Anthropology by Eduardo Viveiros de Castello and the script of Yi’s film The Flavour Genome.
#2016 #anickayi #ephemera #fridericianumkassel #zakgroup
WORK
Zarouhie Abdalian
Published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam & LAXART, Los Angeles, 2018, 20 pages + 4 page foldout (colour ill.), 24 × 34 cm
Price: €17 (Out of stock)

Artist publication by Zarouhie Abdalian in collaboration with Julie Peeters detailing Abdalian’s solo exhibition at LAXART in 2017, curated by Micki Meng. The catalog centers around seven tools and tool heads (titled: brunt) and several casts of the worked surface of a long derelict chalk mine (titled: from chalk mine hollow). Tara McDowell in the accompanying text describes the work as “near-future monuments to our own self-made epoch, the Anthropocene.” With texts by Joseph Rosenzweig and Tara McDowell. Design: Julie Peeters.

#2018 #juliepeeters #romapublications #taramcdowell #zarouhieabdalian
Distributed
David Blamey & Brad Haylock (Eds.)
Published by Open Editions, London, 2018, 264 pages, 16 × 21 cm, English
Price: €23 (Out of stock)

This new volume in the Occasional Table series of critical anthologies focusses on the act of distribution as a subject for serious creative consideration and one of great social and economic importance. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds paint a picture that embraces the actions of the individual along-side the workings of global markets. From the attention-seeking impulse of the poseur to the democratisation of art and knowledge through books, digital networks, pop music, and self-organised libraries, and to the question of what can be known and by whom, the urge to disseminate is explored here as an elemental phenomenon of our time.

#2018 #occasionaltable #openeditions
*1977
Kateřina Šedá
Published by JRP Ringier, Zurich, 2007, 160 pages (colour & b/w ill.), hardcover, 21.9 x 32.2 cm, Czech / English
Price: €34 (out of stock)

This book brings together the first complete survey of projects by the young Czech artist Katerina Sedá (*1977). The artist’s book is in the form of a box containing 10 folders which document each project (diagrams, graphs, drawings, texts, photographs, questionnaires) that Sedá carried out from 1999–2007.

Katerina Sedá bases her work on the observation of “invisible” contexts and social relationships between individuals in her most immediate surroundings—within her family and her birthplace, Ponetovice, a village in the Moravian countryside. The observations she makes (in the form of drawings, texts, and diagrams) then prompt a series of assignments, tasks, and games which she carries out in those surroundings. For example, her “society game” called “Nic tam není” [There’s Nothing There] (2003), involved the participation of all the inhabitants of Ponetovice. Based on observations she made, she created a universal “Regime for a Day”—an ordinary Saturday in a Moravian village. After cajoling her fellow villagers for some time, she was able, one Saturday, to get them to synchronise all their activities according to the regime she devised for the day, doing all the same things at the same times throughout the day. Katerina Sedá also collaborated on several projects with her grandmother. In “It Doesn’t Matter” (2005), her grandmother created several hundred drawings from memory, documenting the objects she had sold at the household goods shop where she’d worked her whole life. Sedá’s latest project was exhibited at Documenta XII.

Fourth volume of the series “Tranzit,” edited by Vít Havránek and focusing on Central and Eastern European artists.

#2007 #jrpringier #katerinaseda