Diagrams: Images from Ten Films
Harun Farocki
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2014, 384 pages (colour & b/w ill), 24.4 × 16.8 cm, English
Price: €40 (Out of stock)

This publication attempts to map a visual approach to one of the world’s foremost documentary and essay filmmakers, Harun Farocki.

Unlike the many other, more theoretical publications about his work, this book operates with still images beyond an illustrative or documentary purpose.

By means of repetition, interruption and displacement, the configurations pursue specific movements within each film, taking into account mechanisms of order and open-endedness that are characteristic for Farocki’s work in general.

Diagrams traces the dynamics in ten of Farocki’s films and presents them along with each film’s complete commentaries, dialogues and intertitles, celebrating their major critical gesture: the exposition of mediality.

Edited by Benedikt Reichenbach. Text by Thomas Elsaesser, Maren Grimm, Jan Verwoert, Christa Blümlinger, Dietrich Leder, Ute Holl, Benedikt Reichenbach, Matthias Rajmann, Hila Peleg, Anselm Franke.

#2014 #benediktreichenbach #harunfarocki #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Giorgio Griffa
Published by Kunstraum Munchen, 1975, 96 pages (colour ill.), 27 x 28 cm, English/German
Price: €27 (Temporarily out of stock)

Printed on the occasion of Giorgio Griffa’s 1975 exhibition at Kunstraum Munchen. Actual size reproductions of 31 works on paper.

#1975 #giorgiogriffa
Tummy Rumble (To Me, Rubble)
Rudy Guedj and Will Pollard
Published by Building Fictions, Amsterdam, 2018, 52 pages (b/w ill.), screenprinted transparent PVC cover, 18 × 31 cm, English
Price: €18

Tummy Rumble (To Me, Rubble) was originally created for the exhibition Signals From The Periphery, held at the Tallinn Art Hall in July 2017. The installation consisted of a wall drawing and a video with sound and narration. The work is a collaboration between the designer and illustrator Rudy Guedj (installation, video, drawings, book design), and the writer Will Pollard (text, narration in the video).

The publication Tummy Rumble (To Me, Rubble) puts the original text and illustrations into a new dialogue, thus working both as a documentation and a final translation of the work.

#2018 #buildingfictions #rudyguedj
Seth Price
Published by 38th Street Publishers, New York, 73 pages (b/w ill.), stapled, 19.5 × 12.5 cm, English
Price: €60
Was Ist Los is a facsimile reproduction of a 2003 essay by Seth Price, bound within a one-of-a-kind spray-painted cover. Previously published as "Decor Holes," "Unique Source/All Natural Suicide Gang," "Akademische Graffiti," and "Depletion," it was first written to accompany Price's 2006 album Akademische Graffiti.
#2010 #sethprice
School of Missing Studies
Bik Van der Pol (Ed.)
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin and Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, 2017, 208 pages (colour ill.), 14 × 20.5 cm, English
Price: €15

Contributions by Liz Allan, Bik Van der Pol, Charles Esche, E. C. Feiss, Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Sarah Pierce, Eloise Sweetman, Paulo Tavares, Nato Thompson. Design by Anja Groten.

The School of Missing Studies started in 2003 as an initiative of artists and architects who recognized “the missing” as a matter of urgency. Investigating what culture(s) laid the foundations for the loss we are experiencing from modernization and how this loss can talk back to us as a potential site of learning, the School of Missing Studies is calling for a space to turn existing knowledge against itself to affect our capacity to see things otherwise, to trust that seeing, and to set one’s own pedagogical terms.

Sandberg Series n°1. Copublished with Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam.

#2017 #bikvanderpol #charlesesche #ecfeiss #eloisesweetman #sarahpierce #sternbergpress
Kinder dieser Welt
Hanne Darboven
Published by Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 1997, 184 pages (colour & b/will.), hardcover with CD insert, 21.5 × 30.3 cm, German
Price: €23

From 1990 to 1996, Hanne Darboven worked on Kinder dieser Welt, an extensive opus comprised of several books, toys, brown-paper tablets and 2202 musical “scores”. In a departure from previous practice, the artist employs coloration and a playful approach to modify the stringency of her concept involving the subjective rendering of calendar information to conjure up a cosmopolitan children’s world as a symbol for an optimistic new beginning.

This book reproduces the formally quite diverse and complex segments of the work in sections. An introductory essay explores the way in which the artist fundamentally recapitulates her entire concept of space and time in Kinder dieser Welt, shaping it into an appeal for the discovery of individual rules. An annotated works catalogue and a detailed biography document the life and work of the artist, the recipient of the 1995 International Prize of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

#1997 #hannedarboven