The Imaginary Number
Published by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2005, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English
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Booklet produced on the occasion of The Imaginary Number, 5 June–11 September, 2005 at KW, Berlin. Curated by Anselm Franke and Hila Peleg and featuring the artists Edgar Arceneaux, Trisha Donnelly, Jimmie Durham, Omer Fast, Rodney Graham, David Maljkovic, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Valérie Mréjen, Klaus Weber.

The Imaginary Number is a collection of nine single projects and new groupings of works, including drawings, installations, sculptures and video and film installations. Not primarily a thematic exhibition, the independent works on display share some motifs on various levels, mainly their concern with the complex magic of the everyday – the role of the imaginary in the way we shape and make sense of the world.

#2005 #anselmfranke #jimmiedurham #studiomanuelraeder #trishadonnelly
Fabro, Kounellis, Merz, Paolini
Published by Kunsthalle Bern, 1980, 22 pages (b/w ill.), 15 × 21 cm, German
Price: €12 (Temporarily out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Fabro, Kounellis, Merz, Paolini at the Kunsthalle Bern, 29 February–7 March, 1980. With Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini and an illustration by A.R. Penck.

#1980 #arpenck #janniskounellis #lucianofabro #mariomerz
Playing Monogamy
Simon(E) van Saarloos
Published by Publication Studio, Rotterdam, 2019, 130 pages, 12 × 18.5 cm, English
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Through a contemporary rereading of the cult of monogamy, van Saarloos playfully queers the way in which the structure of monogamy is upheld through social convention within Western contexts. Written for more of a lay audience, the book proposes an expanded and polyamorous engagement with intimacy and sexuality as a possible alternative. Originally written in Dutch and published by De Bezige Bij, this new edition has been translated to English by Liz Waters.

#2019 #publicationstudio #simonevansaarloos #theory
Ding und Körper
Michaela Meise
Published by Walther König, Köln, 2012, 184 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21.2 × 27.2 cm, German / English
Price: €28 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Michaela Meise’s exhibition Ding und Körper 30 January–29 March, 2009 at the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.

Michaela Meise works in the formats of video, drawing, performance and sculpture. She investigates principles of sculptural and architectural arrangement, both in terms of their creative realization and in relation to their political and social contexts. Her works make reference to aspects of a Minimalist or Post-Minimalist art which she transfers onto everyday housing- and living-spaces. With this “applied Minimalism,” Meise is able to study structures of balance, movement, rhythm or design down to the smallest details, and to connect them to moments of private remembrance.—Badischer Kunstverein press release

Designed by Heimann und Schwantes.

#2012 #badischerkunstverein #michaelameise
Michael Krebber
Published by Villa Arson, Nice, 1997, 32 pages (b/w ill.), 21 × 26.5 cm, French
Price: €28

Catalogue produced on the occasion of Michael Krebber’s exhibition at the Villa Arson, Nice, 28 March–18 May, 1997.

#1997 #michaelkrebber
My Mother Laughs
Chantal Akerman
Published by Silver Press, London, 2019, 175 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 13 × 19.7 cm, English
Price: €16 (Temporarily out of stock)

In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s mother was dying. She flew back from New York to Brussels to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn’t talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she would do when her mother did die. Among these imperfectly perfect fragments of writing about her life, she placed stills from her films. My Mother Laughs is both the distillation of the themes Akerman pursued throughout her creative life, and a version of the simplest and most complicated love story of all: that between a mother and a daughter. With an introduction by Eileen Myles and an afterword by Frances Morgan.

#2019 #chantalakerman #eileenmyles #silverpress