Filmmaker Chantal Akerman presents A Family in Brussels, a fictional stream-of-consciousness text encompassing multiple subjectivities and laced with autobiographical references.

This is the first English-language publication of the work, which Akerman wrote and first performed as a monologue in Paris and Brussels. The accompanying recording documents the theatrical reading that took place at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York, in October 2001. The listener can hear Akerman’s singular voice as she muses on familial relations, communication, closeness, and distance.

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

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Luft und Wasser at the Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2002. With a text by text by Isabel Podeschwa. Designed by Wolfgang Breuer and Achim Reichert (Vier5).

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

The first book by the artist Lucy McKenzie, published on the occasion of her exhibition at Galerie Buchholz, Köln, 7 September – 6 October, 2001. With various colour reproductions of paintings/works and reference material, foldout-pages, texts and interviews by the artist. Designed by Yvonne Quirmbach.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Ana Mendieta: Body Tracks at the Kunstmuseum Luzern, 19 October, 2002–23 February, 2003.

Considered a pioneer of performance art, land art and body art, Ana Mendieta left Cuba for exile in the US in her early youth and died under tragic circumstances in 1985. Linking avant-garde forms of expression with the spiritual mysticism of SanterÌa, a syncretistic religious movement, but also with issues of gender and questions of migration, her work is relevant still today.

With texts by Patrick Dondelinger and Laura Roulet.

1st edition of a facsimile reprint by Seth Sieglaub’s International General imprint, originally printed in Paris 1852-1854. A wide-ranging encyclopedic compilation containing thousands of detailled excerpts and scholarly references to the different types of luxury silk, gold and silver textiles and clothing used by the ruling classes during the middle ages. The descriptions are drawn from published and unpublished sources ranging from the sixth through the nineteenth century, and include excerpts from royal and church inventories, memoirs, literature and poetry, among other sources. Due to its scholarship & range of references it is still unsurpassed and remains an unrivalled source book for the study of the history of medieval fine textiles and clothing in Europe, the Islamic and Christian middle east, and especially, France.

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

Produced on the occasion of an exhibition held at Hôtel des arts, Toulon, 4 July–14 September, 2003.

Bernar Venet is a French Conceptual artist known for his curved, mathematically precise metal sculptures, and for his material exploration of coal, asphalt, and tar.