We started making machines together in 2010. These machines consisted of a sensor and device couplet, by which a sensor would trigger a device to perform a simple task. We experimented with sensor inputs like passing cars and tasks like heat guns blowing up trash bags, or later we would connect the machines to trains and have them push little cardboard cars back and forth. Still triggered by trains, the machines now move clock parts.

We disassemble mechanical clocks, take their parts and combine them with L-brackets, screws, washers, nuts, motors, felt, rubber bands, fishing line, and heat shrink tubing. The characteristics of the clock parts constrain and guide our activities. As we reinvent their function, the parts become less and less recognizable, their movements more and more estranged.

—Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter, 2023

Produced on the occasion of the exhibitions held at Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 27 October, 2007–6 January 2008; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 14 February–25 May, 2008; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 2 March–1 June, 2008. With a foreword by Karola Grässlin. Designed by Yvonne Quirmbach.

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

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition continuity/discontinuity 1963–1979 at Moderna Museet Stockholm, 11 October–23 November, 1980.

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

Produced as part of a series highlighting the collection of the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt. With a text by René Denizot.

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

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition On Kawara: The ’90s at Art & Public, Geneva, 27 May–26 June, 2004. With a text by Thierry Davila.

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

This book presents previously unpublished work by George Tourkovasilis (1944–2021), a photographer and writer who lived between Paris, London, and Athens. Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, his images move between diaristic depictions of radically intimate moments and sociological chronicles, while his incisive writing on art, politics, and desire brings its own syncopated reflections. Following his death in 2021, Akwa Ibom, Radio Athènes, and Melas Martinos assumed stewardship of his archive – prints, negatives, manuscripts, correspondence, and digital files – and organized three exhibitions: Spent at Akwa Ibom, The Night, Sleep at Radio Athènes, and Strange Switch at Melas Martinos, which are documented here. Drawing on material unearthed from the archive over the past year, including previously unseen digital and phone photography, this book offers a new perspective on a practice that largely eluded the public eye yet remained prolific and generous in private. Edited by Helena Papadopoulos, Julie Peeters & Maya Tounta. Designed by Julie Peeters.