The recleaning of the Rietveld Pavilion
Alina Lupu
Published by Alina Lupu, Amsterdam, 2017, 24 pages + 8 page insert (colour & b/w), 40 × 40 cm, English
Price: €13.90 (the announced price of an hour of cleaning within the platform economy)

In 1992, Dutch artist Job Koelewijn directed a landmark intervention, The cleaning of the Rietveld pavilion, performed by three women of his family dressed in traditional attire.

25 years later, conceptual artist Alina Lupu has updated Koelewijn’s piece to a society reshaped by neoliberalism, and to the working conditions of cleaning personnel within the gig economy. The green-blue color of the publication’s cover references the cleaning platform Helpling. Designed by Till-Michael Hormann after an idea of Job Koelewijn.

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SOMEWHERE I'VE NEVER BEEN
Steph Kretowicz
Published by Pool, London, 2017, 189 pages, 18 × 10 cm, English
Price: €12

Pulling together field recordings from international soundscapes, Somewhere I’ve Never Been follows the author’s account of loss and being alone in a self-started journey through the US, Europe and the Middle East. One part of an expanded narrative on many platforms (more at: http://thepoweroflove.cz/), and against the grain of dominant visual narratives, the book is told through the sounds of corporate expansion and pop cultural hegemony heard in an ever-uneven era of globalisation and cultural mediation.

Drawn away from the music of loaded family pasts and brittle presents to the sprawling inertia of a US road trip, Kretowicz is hooked by Jason Derulo, Fairuz, Harry Partch, Lipgloss Twins, poorly pronounced Polskibus safety announcements, the crucial influence of Celine Dion; in the end pulled back to the jarring patter and endless shifts of London.

Editing: Tom Clark, Design: Maria Mitcheva, Additional editing: Aimee Cliff and Katie Lenanton.

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Desert Winds, Study for a sculpture
Daniel Gustav Cramer
Published by Daniel Gustav Cramer, Berlin, 2017, 16 pages, stapled, 12.5 × 18 cm, English
Price: €5

Published as part of the exhibition Sand as Grey Noise, Dubai. Printed in the UAE, edition of 250.

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Liepnitzsee
Daniel Gustav Cramer
Published by Daniel Gustav Cramer, Berlin, 2017, 5 pages, stapled w. insert, 14 × 22 cm
Price: €7

Published on the occasion of Habit-co-Habit (Pune Biennale) curated by Luca Cerizza and Zasha Colah. Daniel Gustav Cramer and Henry Andersen, Berlin, Brussels. Edition of 1000.

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Empty Room
Daniel Gustav Cramer
Published by Daniel Gustav Cramer, Berlin, 2017, 12 pages, stapled w. post card, 12.5 × 18 cm, English
Price: €5 (Out of stock)

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Fourteen Works at Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon. For the duration of the exhibition, a room has been emptied out at a farm (Quinta das Albergarias) in Campelos, Portugal. The window and the entrance have been shut. Includes a conversation between the artist and Lukas Töpfer.

Quinta das Albergarias, Campelos, Portugal, 4 May–25 June 2017.

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Roger Reeves
Published by Fivehundred places, Berlin, 2017, 15.1 × 11.2 cm, English
Price: €10

Roger Reeves’ work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Tin House, and The Paris American. His debut collection of poetry, King Me, was published in 2013 by Copper Canyon Press and was honored as a Library Journal “Best Poetry Book of 2013”. Reeves has been awarded a 2015 Whiting Award, a 2013 NEA Fellowship, a 2013 Pushcart Prize and a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, Reeves was the 2014-2015 Hodder Fellow of Princeton University, and is currently an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Published by Fivehundred places, founded in 2012 by Jason Dodge. On the cover of each book is a dead scissor by Paul Elliman.

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