Speechless, a new work by the Rotterdam-based artistic duo Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol), is a multilayered exploration of how we speak about the precarious state of the natural world. The work consists of a custom-built aviary, which houses four parrots taught to mimic phrases from T.S. Elliot’s seminal 1922 poem, The Waste Land, comparing landscape devastated by war to the ecological devastation of today. The aviary is furnished with a jumble of sculptural letters that spell out the terms “global warming,” “climate change,” and “sustainability.” Part poetic gesture and radical expression, Speechless addresses the power of language within political contexts, and our ability to understand and discuss environmental degradation. The work was inspired, in part, by recent debate in Florida’s state government regarding the use of controversial terms such as “climate change” and “global warming.”

You can see a video on the work here.

With the modular work documentation Folder, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud presents for the most  comprehensive publication on her artistic work to date. It is is preceded by the two sub-publications Mappe and Dossier. As catalogues for the solo exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen and the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, they contain different compilations of the artist’s works that are related to the respective exhibitions and thus illustrate the basic idea of the present modular documentation of works. Files on all the artist’s works are created according to a strict grid. Separated by type of content, titles, descriptions of works, notes, documentary images and texts are compiled. Reproductions of drawings and reprints of printed matter used in the exhibitions complete the collection.

With texts from Maziar Afrassiabi, Bethan Huws, Nicole Schweizer, Madeleine Amsler, Hans Rudolf Reust, Steve Van den Bosch, Barnaby Drabble, Marie-Eve Knoerle, Federica Martini, Nadia Veronese, Pavel Büchler.

Produced on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne.

The two publications Mappe and Dossier represent two different monographic compilations of works by the artist Annaïk Lou Pitteloud and appear as catalogues to the solo exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen and the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne. The concept for the two publications was developed with these exhibitions in mind, but will be continued in the third, comprehensive edition Folder. The basic idea of all three publications is that of a modular documentation of works. Dossiers on all of the artist’s works are created according to a strict grid. Separated by type of content, titles, descriptions of works, notes, documentary images and texts are compiled. Reproductions of drawings and reprints of printed matter used in the exhibitions complete the collection.

Produced on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.

The two publications Mappe and Dossier represent two different monographic compilations of works by the artist Annaïk Lou Pitteloud and appear as catalogues to the solo exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen and the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne. The concept for the two publications was developed with these exhibitions in mind, but will be continued in the third, comprehensive edition Folder. The basic idea of all three publications is that of a modular documentation of works. Dossiers on all of the artist’s works are created according to a strict grid. Separated by type of content, titles, descriptions of works, notes, documentary images and texts are compiled. Reproductions of drawings and reprints of printed matter used in the exhibitions complete the collection.

This volumnious book in a clinical white vinyl sleeve suggests high tech content, as if it belongs to a laboratory. Within a wide space of white and light grey pages—which could represent painted walls of a white cube—39 works by conceptual Belgium artist Steve Van den Bosch are exposed. The photographs are taken by a forensic photographer and the text, entitled Event reconstruction from trace images: an original methodology, comes from the Swiss Institute for Police Science. The book itself is #40 in the list of works and printed in a limited edition of 300 copies. Designed by Steve Van den Bosch and David van Mieghem.

Soleil Politique is a book conceived by curator Pierre-Bal Blanc, in dialogue with graphic designers Vier5 and Paraguay, the book dwells on the exhibition that he organized at Museion Bolzano in 2014. In Soleil Politique, Pierre Bal-Blanc examinines the exhibition starting points in the readings of a group of thinkers and artists, its methodology—inspired by the musical compositions of Cornelius Cardew.

Contributions by Robert Breer, K.P. Brehmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Giorgio De Chirico, Josef Dabernig, Félix González-Torres, Dan Graham, Sanja Ivekovic, Deimantas Narkevičius, Roman Ondák, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Pratchaya Phinthong, Carlo Scarpa, Allan Sekula, Sturtevant, Terre Thaemlitz, Philippe Thomas, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Lois Weinberger, Lawrence Weiner and others.