Open & sneller
Ilke Gers
Published by TENT, Rotterdam, 2022, 28 pages (b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, English
Price: €6

Studies for chalk drawings at TENT, Rotterdam, produced on the occasion of the solo exhibition Open & sneller, 27 May–12 June 2022.

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Spirits And Objects
Josef Strau
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2022, 198 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16 × 23 cm, English
Price: €22

This publication assembles a selection of texts produced between the years 2005 and 2020, starting with The Non- Productive Attitude (2005), his prominent reflections on the anti-productive attitude in the Cologne art scene of the time. The experience of having to write the essay overnight within a few hours, and without any time for revision, triggered his interest in exploring forms of unintentional writing, and consequently the replacement of the intentional author by an unconscious writer / producer. This mode of automatic writing has manifested itself until today, and has become the core of Strau’s artistic practice.

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Joan Jonas in Kyoto 2019-2020
Published by Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery, Kyoto, 2020, 160 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18.5 × 25.7 cm, Japanese / English
Price: €34

Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art, her early work from the 1960s and 1970s anticipated the following forty years of multimedia.

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The Letters of Rosemary & Bernadette Mayer, 1976–1980
Published by Lenbachhaus, München; Ludwig Forum, Aachen; Spike Island, Bristol & Swiss Institute, New York, 2022, 376 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 14 × 21 cm, English
Price: €24

This collection of the correspondence between artist Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014) and poet Bernadette Mayer (born 1945) occurs between the years of 1976 and 1980, a period of rich creativity in New York’s artistic avant-garde, and one which includes the development of major bodies of work by the two women. Rosemary Mayer was creating sculptures, watercolours, books and “temporary monuments” from weather balloons and snow, while Bernadette Mayer was working on some of her best-known publications, including the book-length poem Midwinter Day and the poetry collection The Golden Book of Words. Spanning the worlds of Conceptual art, Postminimalism, feminism, the New York School, Language poetry and more, these letters elucidate the bonds of sisterhood through intimate exchanges about art, relationships and everyday life.

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Dritte Ausstellung Fuer Photographische Arbeiten
David Lieske
Published by Bierke Verlag, Berlin, 2022, 42 pages (b/w ill.), 15 × 21 cm, English
Price: €18

Produced on the occasion of David Lieske’s exhibition Dritte Ausstellung Fuer Photographische Arbeiten at Galerie Karin Günther, Hamburg, 3 March–6 May, 2022. In addition to documentation of the exhibition it contains a conversation between the artist and Nicholas Tammens. Designed by Atelier Maève.

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Kop op Kop [Head to Head]
Moniek Toebosch
Published by Playbill, Amsterdam, 2022, 52 pages, 12.5 × 20 cm, English
Price: €3

Booklet of English translations produced on the occasion of Playbill Act II: Moniek Toebosch at Torpedo Theatre, Amsterdam June 24, 2022.

Directly engaging with the theatrical setting of Torpedo Theater, the forty-five short texts composing theater-maker, artist, educator and broadcaster Moniek Toebosch’s 1994 work Kop op Kop [Head to Head] were performed as a one-person play by television and radio presenter Adeline van Lier. First exhibited as part of the Stedelijk Museum’s 1994 exhibition Couplet 3, the work—for which Toebosch wrote monologues and poems to accompany a selection of portraits held in the Stedelijk Museum’s collection—is one of many pieces produced by Toesbosch that interweave text with performance and/or its implications.

Designed by Maud Vervenne.

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