Body Starting to Change is a conversation on music between two artists. When in 1960s despite the official ban foreign radio stations gained in availability within USSR, the newscasts and political comments broadcasted by them became an important part of alternative education. Musical programmes were of no less or perhaps of even more importance as they exposed the vitality of youth culture (or subculture) behind the Iron Curtain. Deimantas Narkevičius shares his musical experiences with Elena Narbutaitė, starting with this period of ‘catching waves’ and continuing until 1993, when the introduction to the London music scene became the turning-point (sooner or later experienced by many) in the artist’s relationship to the changing urban culture. The publication includes watercolours by Elena Narbutaitė, the reproduction of the cover of Satori, an album by Flower Travellin’ Band, stills from July 20, 2015, the (then) new film by Deimantas Narkevičius, and graphics by Mark Geffriaud.

Published as part of the XII Baltic Triennial. Designed by Julie Peeters.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Jack Smith at The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow, 24 January–24 March, 2015.

Jack Smith (1932–1989) is a central figure in the cultural history of downtown New York film, performance, and art. He began producing work in the late 1950s and became one of the most accomplished and influential artists working in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Inspired by 1960s subcultures of New York, underground film and experimental performance, Smith created a fantastical world fiction around his disgust with contemporary American consumer culture and a fascination with faux-Hollywood, as well as Orientalist exoticism. Through his own artistic and personal exploits, Smith developed a truly eccentric and captivating persona. Over the course of three decades, he transformed downtown New York into a theatrical environment for his ventures in film and photography.

Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum is the project on which the US artist and writer Allan Sekula worked during the last three years of his life. The work consists, first, of a corpus of thirty-three framed photographs and two slide projections of in total over one hundred images, all made by the artist (Ship of Fools); second, it contains a gigantic collection of various objects, graphic images, postcards, and prints which the artist purchased, mostly online (The Dockers’ Museum). Sekula dedicated this work to both historical and contemporary labor solidarity in and around the docks.

Documents more than seventy books and works on paper by the Belgian poet and conceptual artist Marcel Broodthaers from the Schmidt collection. With texts by Viola Hildebrandt-Schat and Anne Thurman-Jajes.

Marcel Broodthaers worked primarily as a poet until 1963, when for the last twelve years of his life he made a richly varied, elusive, and influential body of work. The work he created in this albeit too brief time period was enormously influential to future generations of artists. Known for his associations in which he explores the nature and meaning of language, word and image, and rhetoric, his work encompasses poetry, writing, books, film, photography, slides, drawing, painting, and sculpture.

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

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Marcel Broodthaers: Dichter en kunstenaar / Poet and artist at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 24 February–9 May, 2015. An exhibition of more than seventy books and works on paper by the Belgian poet and conceptual artist Marcel Broodthaers from the Schmidt collection, together with some of the works from the Van Abbemuseum collection.

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Petzel Gallery, New York, September 16–October 31, 2015. CvB Singles Uptown Remix presents a survey of work created since 2000—rags, mushrooms, a “soft” fence, an enormous octopus and other curious objects from Cosima’s diverse oeuvre.