Contributions by Liz Allan, Bik Van der Pol, Charles Esche, E. C. Feiss, Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Sarah Pierce, Eloise Sweetman, Paulo Tavares, Nato Thompson. Design by Anja Groten.

The School of Missing Studies started in 2003 as an initiative of artists and architects who recognized “the missing” as a matter of urgency. Investigating what culture(s) laid the foundations for the loss we are experiencing from modernization and how this loss can talk back to us as a potential site of learning, the School of Missing Studies is calling for a space to turn existing knowledge against itself to affect our capacity to see things otherwise, to trust that seeing, and to set one’s own pedagogical terms.

Sandberg Series n°1. Copublished with Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.