K. Verlag Publishing Program 2023

Advancing a novel approach to the book-asexhibition, the Berlin-based publishing atelier K. Verlag collaborates internationally with artists and institutions to develop publications whose conceptual rigor and experimental design create radical aesthetic and discursive spaces. K.’s editorial-design process insists on the mutuality of content and form, allowing the press to concurrently rethink and re-shape political, ecological, and theoretical ambitions and expectations. In May 2020, K. Verlag was named a recipient of the prestigious Deutscher Verlagspreis, which is awarded annually to honor outstanding independent publishers by the Federal Ministry of Culture. K. also received a special award on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Kurt Wolff Stiftung for independent publishers and has been recognized for various individual publications, including Dora García’s On Reconciliation/Über Versöhnung, named one of the Most Beautiful Books of 2018 by the German Stiftung Buchkunst, as well as The Work of Wind: Land, which won the 2019 Book Design Award of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. Over the last decade, K. Verlag has developed a series of publications exploring issues at the intersections of the current planetary crisis; together with their authors we see these endeavors as a way to build a more vibrant, feminist, and ecologically-responsible world.

Dear Reader,

As this troubling, uncanny winter finally turns toward the light of spring, we are in the K. studio delighted by hearing the songs and sounds of the birds. Since our last preview catalog, intercalations 06—These Birds of Temptation has been making the rounds and receiving a lot of love from folks all over the world. We’ve also been inspired and uplifted by the incredible film All That Breathes, directed by Shaunak Sen. The documentary features two brothers from the Chawri Bazar area of New Delhi, Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammad Saud, who rescue birds and care for them in their tiny basement bird hospital. Since 2003, they have saved the lives of over 20,000 black kites and other birds of prey and released them back into the urban wild; this, in itself, is absolutely remarkable, but the camera under Sen’s direction also allows the brothers and the birds to join a multitudinous chorus by situating their struggles within a city literally teeming with life—where all that breathes is indeed much more than first meets the eye. The shared rhythms of so many creatures, documented with such an overwhelming and poetic attentiveness, relays a commitment to amendatory practices that we also hold close to our hearts in these imperiled times.

We know for certain that other worlds are not only possible, but urgent and necessary. Their seeds are everywhere, but require nourishment and care. Our program for 2023 is an ambitious experiment with some of these emerging worlds. We are especially excited to share the news that Richard Pell’s first monograph, This Is Not An Artifact, received an incredible amount of support through its online fundraiser and is among the first books of 2023! As a little teaser for this momentous publication, this volume presents a wide-ranging conversation between Pell and K.’s general editor, Etienne Turpin, where white rats, model organisms, and many more specimens of postnatural history help to sketch some of the big questions addressed in more detail in the book. This exchange wormholes back into the now out-of-print second volume of intercalations—Land & Animal & Nonanimal, which featured Pell’s co-authored essay (with Lauren B. Allen), “Preface to a Genealogy of the PostNatural.”

As a final note of gratitude, dear reader, we want to thank everyone out there who has continued to support small press publications during (and “after”) the pandemic. We know why the giants are giant, and with an everincreasing concentration of ownership in both publishing and media, it is crucial to keep the radical vibrance of small publishers alive by buying, sharing, and recommending (especially to your favorite librarians) books from all the mighty small presses and publishers! As ever, we are so grateful for your continued support.

Take good care of each other, and of all that breathes,

Anna-Sophie Springer & the K. Verlag studio

CLIMATE: Our Right to Breathe

We are facing vast, mutually exacerbating planetary conditions: the accelerated collapse of the biosphere under climate change and the increasingly crushing dynamics of toxic politics. The reactionary, divisionary politics driven by ruthless forms of authoritarianism, denialism, nationalism, and other globalized forms of oppression and dispossession are also a call to action.

In CLIMATE: Our Right to Breathe, more than twenty-five voices from the arts and culture form an internationalist chorus that emphatically responds to a collective need to imagine common strategies for solidarity when many limits of the Earth system have already been surpassed. Because racialized capitalism cannot be separated from ecological disaster, vulnerable and often marginalized communities are forced to endure the worst effects of the climate crises. It is imperative to work in solidarity against the uneven violence of these times. Mobilized by diverse practices and backgrounds, the contributions in this book offer both speculative perspectives on and pragmatic relays from the intersectional fight for climate justice and multispecies survivance.

Hiuwai Chu, Meagan Down, Nkule Mabaso, Pablo Martínez, and Corina Oprea, eds.

CLIMATE: Our Right to Breathe. Edited by Hiuwai Chu, Meagan Down, Nkule Mabaso, Pablo Martínez, and Corina Oprea. With contributions by Maria Thereza Alves, Marwa Arsanios, Eduardo Carrera R, Sebastian Cichocki, Fernando García Dory, Léuli Eshrāghi, Ayesha Hameed, Mônica Hoff, bell hooks, Jagna Lewandowska, Nomusa Makhubu, Svitlana Matviyenko, Samaneh Moafi, Marina Naprushkina, May-Britt Öhman, Samanta Arango Orozco, Daniela Ortiz, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Peta Rake , Maristella Svampa, Françoise Vergès, Cecilia Vicuña, Jaime Vindel, and Munem Wasif. Cover image by Otobong Nkanga and book design by Christophe Clarijs.

Landscapes of Retreat

Landscapes of Retreat are portraits of climate adaptation. Retreat is found in the land that is left behind as settlement patterns shift due to a changing climate. The term landscape refers to the earth animated by the aliveness of creatures and organisms, and the term retreat suggests that human patterns are not fixed but might also be enlivened. Featuring in-depth field studies from Nijinomatsubara Forest, Japan; El Maule, Chile; Niugtaq, Alaska; Langtang, Nepal; and Gaspésie Peninsula, Québec, the stories in Landscapes of Retreat suggest that communities are more likely to adapt to change when the landscape is appreciated, so that retreat can be valued. The results cut across history, fieldwork, citizenship, and geography in order to rethink and rework “change” as a means toward shared climate futures.

Rosetta S. Elkin

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double-foldouts) 139 full color images

Landscapes of Retreat by Rosetta S. Elkin. With guest contributions by Mariel Collard Arias, John Koepke, Sara Pantuliano, and Bernardo Reyes. Edited by Etienne Turpin. Design by K. Verlag with Ginny Rose Davies.

The collective monograph Synthetic Becoming brings together research by artists, activists, and feminist technoscience practitioners concerned with sympoietic becoming with hormones and hormonallyactive chemicals. The contributors examine effects of industrial, pharmaceutical, and more-than-human production and interplay of hormonally active molecules, asking: What does life re-assembled by hormones and hormone-mimicking chemicals look and feel like? Who are we becoming with them and how can we possibly be with them otherwise? Adopting a decolonial feminist, posthumanist, and new materialist approach, the book embraces queer ecological sensibilities and responds with a series of critical but hopeful and playful provocations that embrace posthuman mutability and articulate our “synthetic becoming” in ways that facilitate caring relations and allow us to envision and enact hopeful futures with and despite these peculiar chemical agents.

Synthetic Becoming

Lenka Veselá et al., eds.

Synthetic Becoming. Edited by Lenka Veselá, with Malin

Ah-King and Eva Hayward; Aliens in Green (Léonore Bonaccini, Ewen Chardronnet, Xavier Fourt, Špela Petrič, Mary Tsang); Adham Faramawy; Feminist Technoscience

Governance Collaboratory; Annabel Guérédrat, Rian Ciela

Hammond and Krystal Tsosie; Franziska Klaas and Susanne Bauer; Marne Lucas; Mary Maggic; OBOT (Maddalena

Fragnito and Zoe Romano); Byron Rich; Mariana Rios

Sandoval and the Rosæ Canine Collective (Bethsabée

Elharar-Lemberg, Maïwenn Le Roux, Elena Souvannavong); Lenka Veselá; and, Ker Wallwork. Design by Day Shift Office (Bára Růžičková & Terezie Štindlová).

This Is Not An Artifact: Selections from the Center for PostNatural History

Founded in 2008, the Center for PostNatural History is an independent museum with a private collection in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the only museum of its kind in the world-collecting artifacts of the intentional and heritable changes humans make to the living world. Featuring hundreds of entries for collection specimens organized under the postnatural categorical matrix of Isolating, Breeding, Engineering, and Leaking, this book-as-exhibition This Is Not An Artifact makes the exceptional collection of the Center for PostNatural History available to a global audience for the first time.

Richard W. Pell, This Is Not An Artifact. With additional contributions by Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Terike Haapoja & Laura Gustofson, Steve Rowell, Nicholas Daly, Ian Nagoski, Roderick Williams, and Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr. Edited by Etienne Turpin. Design by K. Verlag with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.

Richard W. Pell

The Work of Wind: Sea

The Work of Wind: Sea takes

as its conceptual starting point the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force for “Use on Sea”—the index of thirteen levels measuring the effects of oceanic wind force published in 1807 by British sea admiral Sir Francis Beaufort. The companion to The Work of Wind: Land (2018), this new collection starts with a reflective essay by Françoise Vergès on cruise ships as neocolonial leisure and a visual “intermezzo” by Brazilian filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro. The wind scale’s thirteen distinct forces are then echoed by thirteen contributions that consider the ocean and its weathers as a field of tension characterized by structural violence and multispecies becoming.

The Work of Wind: Sea. Edited by Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin. With contributions by Ursula Biemann & Yvonne

Volkart, Christina Geros, Assaf Gruber, Stefan Helmreich, Heraclitus & Konstantina Koulouri, Anne Duk Hee Jordan & Pauline

Doutreluingne, Gabriel Mascaro, Renisa Mawani, Skye Moret, Arjuna

Neuman & Denise Feirreira da Silva, The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar & Kodwo Eshun), AbdouMaliq Simone, Jonas Staal, Etienne Turpin, and Françoise Vergès. Design by K. Verlag in collaboration with Katharina Tauer.

Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin. eds.

Inserts in Real Time:

Inserts in Real Time is the first monograph on the performance work developed by artist Dora García over the past twenty years. The book contains a conversation between the artist and curator Joanna Zielińska; a selection of her performance scripts; her performances to date, listed, illustrated, described, and contextualized; and three newly commissioned texts—by art historian Sven Lütticken, performance theorist Bojana Cvejić, and Dora García.

The publication is co-published with M HKA, Antwerp, and accompanies Dora García’s exhibition She Has Many Names, 10 February to 21 May 2023, curated by Joanna Zielińska. Both the exhibition and publication provide unique yet distinct overviews of the artist’s performance-based works and gestures, as well as new political, feminist, and queer readings of various artworks.

Dora García, Inserts in Real Time: Performance Work 2000–2023. With contributions by Dora García, Sven Lütticken, Bojana Cvejić, and Joanna Zielińska. Design by Alex Gifreu.

Dora García

5

intercalations 5—Decapitated Economies— is a book of provocations wherein the reader-as-exhibition-viewer learns that the “Head,” despite its interminable attempt to rule over the body, necessarily underestimates the sophistication of corporeal desire when such desire is unleashed in accord with the principles of a general economy. With contributions addressing a variety of acephalia and attendant operational deformations—from the invention of the guillotine to the maintenance of the museum repository, from annual shareholder reports to Indigenous sovereignty struggles, and from neuroscientific advancements to brain surgery narratives, as well as the housing crisis, ocean pollution, settlement and cerealization, wheat banks, political murder, human extinction, and much more.

Economies

Decapitated Economies

– intercalations 5. Edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin. With contributions by Maria Thereza Alves; Elisa Balmaceda & Yayo Herero (with translation by Christopher Winks); Priyanka Basu & Steve Rowell; Michaela Büsse; Ollie Cameron; Tatenda Chidora; Musquiqui Chihying & Gregor Kasper with Abdel Amine; DT Cochrane; Lucas Cormier-Affleck, Jimmy Ear & Laurie Malenfant; Duane Jethro & Jade Cheyenne Nair; Amanda de Lisio & Jason Cipparone; Karrabing Film Collective & Institute for Contemporary Art Shanghai; Todde Kemmerich with photos by Sophie Reuter, Matthias Jung, Thekla Ehling, Angie, Michael Goergens, Jennifer Lost, Daniel Chatard, and Hubert Perschke, and typography by Serve and Volley Studio; Armin Linke; Jonas Lüth; Nashin Mahtani & Junichi Ushiba; MAP Office (Laurent Gutierrez & Valérie Portefaix); Jeff Monaghan; Skye Moret; Thomas Moynihan; Jan Nikolai Nelles; Huiying Ng; Vincent Normand; Kim Stanley Robinson; James C. Scott; Joel Tauber; Etienne Turpin; and, Alfred Russel Wallace. Design in collaboration with Katharina Tauer.

Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin, eds.

Unfolding at the intersection of the artist monograph, aesthetic manifesto, and solo exhibition, the series celebrates artists’ pathbreaking forays into culture, history, technoscience, ecology, and narrative technique. While focusing on each artist’s singular sites, concerns, media, and practice, the series works to unpack and explore variously situated, site-sensitive, and processual methodologies. K. Verlag is committed to working closely with Processing Process contributors to develop and produce provocative, genre-defying research creations that experiment with the book-as-exhibition.

Footnotes to Triangular Cartographies

Veil of Nature

Reality Was Whatever Happened

Más bien sombra

Bestiary of Tonguelets

Processing Process

Footnotes to Triangular Cartographies

In Footnotes to Triangular Cartographies, the notes become the body of the text. A detail observed along a boulevard of imperial palms in Havana connects the gardens of the Portuguese court in colonial Brazil to an ancient currency in West Africa. In her travel writings, Ana Hupe maps historical relationships as she immerses herself in Yoruba philosophy. The book thus relays an intermittent incursion into the universe of invisible and poetic forces, which teach that some apparent coincidences can also be recognized as synchronicities that re-enchant worlds and increase speculative capacities. As an encounter between the visual arts and the disciplines of anthropology, art history, literature, and philosophy, the project also moves through Brazil, Cuba, and Nigeria on its way to other destinations, and other destinies.

Ana Hupe: Footnotes to Triangular Cartographies / Notas de Rodapé para Cartografias Triangulares— Processing Process. With texts and photography by Ana Hupe, reflective essays by anthropologist Moisés Lino e Silva, art historian Maykson Cardoso, and cultural producer Jumoke Sanwo, as well as a conversation between Ana Hupe and Anna-Sophie Springer. Design by Frendz.Club with K. in collaboration with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.

Ana Hupe

Veil of Nature

Endemic

to the Galapagos Islands, Sicyos villosus was collected by Charles Darwin during his journey on the Beagle between 1831 and 1836, but it is now extinct. Aftering reading that a group of contemporary scientists were hoping to de-extinct Sicyos villosus using biotechnologies, Justine Blau began to investigate what it means to bring a species back to life. She undertook a journey to understand the desire for de-extinction and just what it was that science was now trying to save. Through her encounters with researchers and scientists in herbaria and seed banks, as well as her travels to the Galapagos, she uncovered a matrix of contradictions that radically challenge the modern scientific conservation complex. As modern science projects its ambition for rationality onto the mysteries of life, nature itself withdraws. As Blau uncovers the conservation complex, she also discovers another potency of nature held in abeyance.

Justine Blau: Veil of Nature — Processing Process. With texts and photography by Justine Blau, reflective essays by Banu Subramaniam, Christina Harrison, and Pierre-Henry Gouyon as well as a conversation between Justine Blau and Etienne Turpin. Justine Blau. Design by K. Verlag with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.

The project and eponymous publication explore methods of “speculative AI,” staking a commitment to the experimental design of machine learning that departs from predictive applications that all too often reproduce the sociotechnological status quo (or worse) to move toward a generative aesthetic of other possible worlds. Through the Butler AI project, Beth Coleman creates a series of visual works inspired by the Xenogenesis trilogy of celebrated science fiction author Octavia Butler that describes a near future where humans have environmentally destroyed the earth and the genetic merger with an “alien” race is the only path to survival. In response to questions of human/alien boundaries posed by Butler, Coleman creates a visual world that plays with an aesthetics of drift along the designated lines of human-not-human. As Coleman writes, “this is a liberation project in all the complexity of such an endeavor, where transformation is what one becomes.” The publication features an introduction and extended conversation with the author-artist Beth Coleman, critical essays by Mitch McEwen and Michelle Murphy, as well as a selected images from the project—the Alice series, the BBP landscapes, and the Oceanic series—and additional commentary by an OpenAI on the history of aesthetics, race, science, and temporality.

Beth Coleman: Reality Was Whatever Happened. Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds — Processing Process. With contributions by Beth Coleman, Michelle Murphy, and Mitch McEwen, as well as a conversation between Beth Coleman and Etienne Turpin. Design by K. Verlag with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.

Full color images

around poster, open spine, € 27

thread sewn

ISBN 978-3-947858-50-7

While comparing magic and science in The Savage Mind, Claude Lévi-Strauss argued that the former was like a shadow (sombra) moving ahead of its origin, or a projection that anticipates the body that produces it. For the anthropologist, magic was a complete and well-articulated system—finished and coherent—rather than some earlier or more “primitive stage” of a subsequent scientific development. By both tracking and departing from these penumbral specters, Más bien sombra insists on a plurality of knowledge forms, thereby reevaluating the importance of ethical and aesthetic experience in the formation of social and political worlds. While taking up these questions, the book is no less an itinerary of the work and practice of artist Santiago Borja. Borja generates speculative analogies between the system of modern thought and other forms of knowledge that are alleged to be symptomatic of a certain malaise suffered under the weight of an imposed rationalism, when they are not definitely alien to such claims. The book includes visual essays of Borja’s site-specific work and is interspersed with texts by eight renowned authors. Through models, photographic techniques, graphic and textile designs, and site-specific interventions, Borja enters conversations about inherently tense topics past and present, embracing their complexity as a way to affirm the need to acknowledge a perspectival multiplicity that both pre-exists and resists all absolutist versions of reality.

Santiago Borja: Más bien sombra — Processing Process. With texts and photography by Santiago Borja, reflective texts by Michel Blancsubé, Clémentine Déliss, Philippe Descola, Corinne Diserens, Maria Antonia González Valerio, Catalina Lozano, Spyros Papapetros, and Marco Pasi as well as a conversation between Santiago Borja and Anna-Sophie Springer. Design by K. Verlag with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.

Mercedes

Bestiary

of Tonguelets / Bestiario de Lengüitas is Mercedes Azpilicueta’s so-far biggest—evolving—project which began in 2017 in Paris, in dialogue with curator Virginie Bobin. It follows the thread of a script written for a performance that has yet to take place. Using local obsolete knowledge systems, “neobarroso” poems, failed translations and ambiguous ingredients, Bestiario de Lengüitas stages a choir of grotesque characters who try to maintain chaos and excess in a world calling for order, efficiency and transparency.

Mercedes Azpilicueta pays a tribute to “proto-scientific” knowledge primarily disseminated among women—such as midwives and witches—before religion, capitalism and modern medicine silenced them. The uncanny contaminations that occur between plants and bodies were fed by several encounters in the streets of Paris, the Botanical garden of Madrid and the magical forests of Bolzano, thus generating—via storytelling, fables and the reactivation of ancient rituals—a new embodied cartography of knowledge that transpires through scripts, drawings and artworks.

Mercedes Azpilicueta: Bestiary of Tonguelets / Bestiario de Lengüitas — Processing Process. With contributions by Mercedes Azpilicueta, Virginie Bobin, Simone Frangi, Elena Lespes Muñoz, Vanina Scovilano as well as a conversation between Mercedes Azpilicueta and Anna-Sophie Springer. Design by K. Verlag with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.

English with French/ Italian/Spanish parts 14 × 21 cm 252 pages

Full color images

open spine, thread sewn ISBN 978-3-947858-52-1

Bestiary of Tonguelets

Azpilicueta Processing Process

Sunny Kerr, ed.

Drift: Art and Dark Matter

What do we desire from the imperceptible? Four artists were invited to travel deep underground to SNOLAB to think with dark matter, an invisible matter that is having a gravitational effect on everything. Without this “dark” matter, galaxies would fly apart, according to observational data in astroparticle physics. Given the contours of such a “known unknown,” Nadia Lichtig, Josefa Ntjam, Anne Riley, and Jol Thoms reflect on the how and why of physics and art as interrelating practices. The artists’ widely varied and challenging responses include expressions of new kinds of sensitivity and poetic freedom, questions about the task of knowledge, and cartographies of entangled social and ecological relations. Thinking across disciplines, they have created works that connect scientific ideas of dark matter with a far-reaching care for that which has not been sensed. Could this work excite stealthy solidarities of curiosity across (and despite) art and science?

Drift: Art & Dark Matter. Edited by Sunny Kerr. With contributions by Emily Changur, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Sunny Kerr, Nadia Lichtig, Art McDonald, Josefa Ntjam, Anne Riley, Jol Thoms, and others. Design by K. Verlag with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.

Productions of Nature gathers an extensive body of work from Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin’s exhibition-led inquiry Reassembling the Natural, convening together for the first time over a decade of collections research and fieldwork from all over the world. During the Reassembling the Natural project, the authors commissioned original artworks, produced a series of exhibitions, and developed extensive research partnerships; Productions of Nature brings together a selection of these materials to demonstrate how nature is always socially and culturally mediated—especially so in museums of natural history. By diversifying and denaturalizing the forms of mediation through which humans relate to the natural world, the authors, as well as the artists, cultural workers, and interlocutors they have assembled for this publication, address the crises of climate and biodiversity alongside those of aesthetics and politics.

Productions of Nature. Anthology by AnnaSophie Springer & Etienne Turpin, with artistic interventions by Armin Linke & Giulia Bruno, Barbara Marcel, Martina Pozzan, and Paulo Tavares. Design by K. Verlag with Katharina Tauer.

Productions of Nature

Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin

Dynamische

Akustische Forschung, Staatliche

Kunsthalle

München, eds.

Baden-Baden, Lenbachhaus

Close-Ups

As a class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and Munich and now a free collective, DAF explores contemporary and historical sound practices that emerge outside of purely musical contexts. For DAF, sound is an unstable material, which allows it to be as much sculptural as it is time based. This book is a collection of previous projects as well as a composition in its own right. It was put together to encourage the appreciation of sound as an exploration of reality from various social, personal, and cultural perspectives. The reality of sound is, after all, everything that reflects and bounces off, and is constructed and filtered by people and objects, and people in relation to each other and to objects. Thus sound is not what we think, but what we live through and what lives through us.

Walking in Cinematic Close-Ups. Edited by Dynamische Akustische Forschung, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Lenbachhaus München, With contributions by Dynamische Akustische Forschung, Jan St. Werner, Patricia Reed, Mary Stuart Hill, Andy Graydon, Thomas Raab, and Marc Matter. Design by Paul Wick.

Lutz Henke, Anna-Sophie Springer & Raul Walch, eds.

Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island

Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island is the published companion and continuation of a series of artistic interventions organized by the Berlin initiative Owned by Others on Museum Island. In autumn 2020, a temporarily rented travel agency specializing in Caribbean travel became a new collective meeting place, “Museum Tropicana.” It instantiated a critical and visionary counter-proposal to a reactionary urban planning that has cemented in the heart of Berlin. As a reflection on themes such as possession, appropriation, and belonging, the forthcoming book aims to address a broad readership and supports a collective and lively psychogeography and engagement with the past, present, and future of this urban island in the center of the city.

Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island. Edited by Lutz Henke, Raul Walch, and Anna-Sophie Springer. With contributions by Aïsha Ariella Azoulay, Melanie Garland, Nathaniel Flakin, Carla J. Maier, Nnenna Onuoha, Adela Taleb, Katharina Warda, and others. Design by Basics09.

eds. Can radical film practices help to understand the collapsing world? What is the healing effect of radical media? What does radical cultural practice look like when nearly everywhere we look there seems to lurk even more acute challenges?

Weltz-Rombach,

Ursula Böckler, Julia Lazarus & Alexandra

Radical Film at the Dawn of a New Society

In this collection, we investigate diverse cultural practices of audio-visual production that act on and struggle with the conditions of our time. The book introduces various radical media and audio-visual strategies that have been impactful and could further facilitate social and political transformations. While contributors include activist, artist, ethnographic, and film practitioners, as well as academics and critics, they all share a commitment to experiment with ways of thinking, knowing, doing, seeing, and valuing through film and media production. Through a wide variety of forms— interviews, essays, manifestos, photographs, poems, maps, and drawings—the contributions critically engage with issues of social transformation and insist on a pluriversal rethinking of the image, film, and media itself.

The collection was edited by members of the Berlin chapter of the Radical Film Network—an international group of activists, academics, filmmakers, and programmers involved in radical film culture.

Radical Film at the Dawn of a New Society. Edited by Ursula Böckler, Julia Lazarus, Alexandra Weltz-Rombach. With contributions by Kaveh Abbasian, John Akomfrah, Antoine Alesandrini, Alternative Fictions, Neil Mauricio Andrade, Kia Yee Ang, Hongwei Bao, Leenah Najeiah Bassouni, Ursula Biemann, Emre Birişmen, Bela Brillowska, Mariola Brillowska, Débora Butruce, Cinemateca Brasileira, Scott Caruth, Özge Çelikaslan, Gerone Centeno, Andrew Conio, Andrea Culkova, Owen Davey, Jaana Davidjants, Epoy Deyto, Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Ken Fero, Andrea Ancira

García, Marie Gavois , Jacob Geuder, Yulia Gillich, Tobias Gralke, Graw

Böckler, Gala Hernández López, Sohrab Hura, Magdalena Kallenberger, Keiken, Michel Klöfkorn, Laura Klöckner , Julia Lazarus, Achim Lengerer, Michelle-Marie Letelier, Kathryn Lofton, Chrystèle Nicot, Abhishek

Nilamber, Antje Majewski, Samira Makki, Magda Malinowska, Regina de Miguel, Ash Moniz, Meredith Morran, Marit Östberg, Volker Pantenburg, Michael Pierce, Judy Rabinowitz Price, The Radical Cinema Reading Collective , Monika Rodriguez, Joshua Sales, Juli Saragosa, Elsa de Seynes, Sikad, Rod Stoneman, Mario Pfeifer , Sandra Schäfer, Ujjwal Kanishka

Utkarsh, Vangjush Vellahu, Ina Wudtke, Hana Yoo, Dina El Zeneiny, Paul Khahliso Matela Zisiwe. Design by Katja Gretzinger.

Following upon the international exhibition series of the same title, the publication Portable Landscapes gathers contributions reflecting on processes of art and life within Latvian exile and emigrant communities from the beginning of the twentieth century until today. Tracing the lifelines of a number of artistic protagonists, this ambitious collection explores the major centers of the Latvian diaspora: Paris, New York, WestBerlin, Montreal, and the Swedish island of Gotland. Individual stories and chapters of migration are juxtaposed and map a common network situated within the broader context of twentieth-century art history and wider processes of migration and globalization. Combining diverse contributions by scholars, writers, artists, and contemporary witnesses, the project aims to enrich the understanding of our contemporary world as informed by locally and globally intersecting historical events.

Portable Landscapes: Art Histories of Latvian Exile. Edited by Inga Lāce & Andra Silapētere. With contributions by Mika Hannula, Ingela Johansson, Solvita Krese, Juris Kronbergs, Mart Kuldkepp, Inga Lāce, Elisabeth Lebovici, Marcus Lutyens, Thomas Nail, Marco Pasi, Diāna Popova, Antra Priede-Krievkalne, Bart Pushaw, Melissa Rachleff Burtt, Maruta Schmit, Andra Silapētere, and Jacob Wren. Design by Rudy Guedj.

Inga Lāce & Andra Silapētere, eds.

Replica Knowledge: An Archaeology of the Multiple Past is the second instantiation of a curatorial-archaeological research project, in which an archaeologist, a curator, and a designer worked together to explore the international networks of manufacture, distribution, and collection of archaeological replicas. Together with invited artists and crafts(wo)men, they took the Humboldt-University’s Minoan-Mycenaean collection as a starting point for gathering stories and histories about wood, gypsum, and marble; about museums in Europe and North America; the perception of ancient Greece and the role of archaeology in the age of early modernity; and, about the production and commercial distribution of copies reaching into popular culture. Following an exhibition at the Tieranatomisches Theater (TA T) in Berlin, this publication offers a space to re-engage with the vast material generated in the process of the collaboration. It offers insights into the unheeded potential and agency of replicas that is activated when these objects are considered in their own respect—departing from the aura of the original that they copy, replicas reveal the conspicuous inconsistencies that constitute our “multiple past.”

Replica Knowledge: An Archaeology of the Multiple Past. Edited by Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw, Felix Sattler, and Konrad Angermüller. With contributions by Katerina Athanasaki, Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Yannis Galanakis, Eirini Galli, Senta C. German, Tim Heilbronner, Seán Hemingway, Bernice R. Jones, Kenneth Lapatin, Christina Mitsopoulou, Céline Murphy, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Doniert Evely, Kostas Paschalidis, Vassiliki

Pliatsika, Vassilkis Politakis, Felix Sattler, Heinz Scheiffele, Jerolyn Morrison, Andrew Shapland, Susan Sherratt, Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw, Esther Solomon, Thanassis

Th. Sotiriou, Fay Stevens, Jan Stoewe, and René van Beek. Design by Konrad Angermüller.

Felix Sattler, Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw & Konrad

Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin, eds.

These Birds of Temptation intercalations

2022

English

436 pages

13 × 21 cm

Full color images

These Birds of Temptation

Softcover with flaps, thread sewn

ISBN

978-3-9818635-4-3

€ 27

Cuentos de Cuentas

2022

English /Spanish

216 pages

10.5 ×16.5 cm

Full color images

Hardcover

ISBN 978-3-947858-32-3

€ 24

Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide & Taylor Le Melle, eds.

A Lasting Truth Is Change

2022

English

128 pages

17 × 24 cm

Full color images

Softcover,thread sewn, and a hole

ISBN 978-3-947858-38-5

€ 19

Figure Against Form: The Dolls of Michel Nedjar

2021

English

136 pages

13 × 20 cm

Full color images

Softcover, thread sewn

ISBN 978-3-947858-31-6

€ 18

Carla Zaccagnini

Play-White

2021

English

152 pages

14 × 21 cm

Full color images

Softcover, metallic dust jacket, thread sewn

ISBN 978-3-947858-29-3

Nina Canell & Robin Watkins

Animalcules Colouring Book

Allen S. Weiss

Unpacking My Library, or, The Autobiography of Teddy

2020

English

116 pages

13 × 20 cm

Scores for Daily Living

2020

English/German

€ 24

2021

English

152 pages

21 × 28 cm

Full color images

Softcover with flap, Wire-O binding

ISBN 978-3-94858-21-7

€ 19

softcover with flaps, spot varnish, thread sewn

ISBN 978-3-947858-15-6

€ 15

176 pages

20 × 32 cm

Full color images

softcover with flaps, spot varnish, thread sewn

ISBN 978-3-947858-09-5

€ 32

Emma Waltraud Howes

Hanna Mattes

The Lunar System

2019 English

120 pages

20.4 × 33.3 cm

Full color images

Hardcover

ISBN 978-3-947858-08-8

€ 29

Martin Krenn & Aisling

O’Beirn, eds.

Restaging the Object A Participatory Exploration of Long Kesh / Maze Prison

2019

English

256 page

17 × 22.5 cm

Full color images

Softcover, thread sewn

ISBN 978-3-9818635-6-7

€ 18

Christine Shaw & Etienne Turpin, eds.

On Reconciliation / Über Versöhnung

2018

The Work of Wind: Land

2018

English

336 pages

19 × 24.5 cm

Full color images

Hardcover

ISBN 978-3-9818635-8-1

€ 28

English/German

256 pages

16.5 × 21.8 cm

Black/white images with silver and red Pantone spot color

Hardcover

ISBN 978-3-9818635-2-9

€ 24

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