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Kult Books Personalia
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Kult Books Noema
Book SynopsisIn 1961, in the small Spanish village of San Sebastian de Garabandal, four young girls had an apparition of the Virgin Mary. They entered a state of ecstasy in which they became completely unaware of their surroundings and sensory perceptions. Reportedly, witnesses would pinch the girls, pierce their skin with needles, lift them up and drop them onto rough rocks, and yet they remained entranced. The light and presence of the Virgin is all they claim to have experienced. Twenty years later, in the town of Medjugorje, in Bosnia & Herzegovina, six children also had simultaneous visions of the Virgin, with similar ecstatic qualities. In his debut book Noema Michael Swann investigates the aura of place and religious experience by searching for signs of the Virgin Mary's presence in these two locations. Alongside original photographs made at both sites, Noema also includes images that have been appropriated from video footage of the visionaries taken during their apparitions. These emphasi
£27.00
Kult Books The Perfect Crime Concerning the Murder of
Book SynopsisGermany is a crime fiction country. If wanted, fictional murder and manslaughter can be witnessed many times a day throughout the main television networks. There are more than 238 crime series available on Germany's six largest broadcasting channels. Based on the overrepresentation of fictional murder on German television, The Perfect Crime investigates the effect of crime series on our perception and behaviour. The work examines the use of imaging techniques within police work and its epistemic implications, as well as the question of how fictional narratives change our perception of reality. The work combines several photographic techniques and approaches: Staiger and Uchtmann have made photographs on the film sets of German crime series, overstaging scenes, leading to an abstraction of what is depicted contrasted with supposedly authentic imagery of corpses and crime scenes. In the portrait series various actors, who played victims and perpetrators in German crime series have been altered by artificial intelligence to create new possible versions of them, linked to the creation of phantom images in real police work. Furthermore, locations that have served as a movie set for a fictional crime scenes are documented as 3D reconstructions via photogrammetric methods, referring to the potential emergence of so-called 'fear spaces.
£28.05
Kult Books Reversed Surveillance
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£18.70
APE Bennie Julian Gay Expressions
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£23.40
Witte de with Center for Contemporary Art Erik Van Lieshout Home South
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£28.80
Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art Character is Fate: Piet Mondrian's Horoscope
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£27.00
Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art WdW Review: Arts, Culture, and Journalism in
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£13.12
Onomatopee The Economy Is Spinning
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£19.00
Onomatopee The Ghost of Weaving
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£17.10
Onomatopee The Standard Book of Noun-Verb Exhibition
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£16.15
Valiz Courageous Citizens: How Culture Contributes To
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If I Can't Dance I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution Black Revelry In Honor of The sugar Shack
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£17.10
Drake Shake Carl Goes Berlin
Book SynopsisBerlin is the first city we cover in our Carl Goes city guides series. Our Berlin city guide is the perfect travel companion for creatives traveling to Berlin somewhere between 3 days and 3 months. In the Berlin 2015 edition you will find:Essentials: getting there & getting around, Berlin's neighbourhoods and events. Work: working in Berlin, work essentials, finding a job, hiring staff, office space, coworking, startup funding, working lunch, incubators, how to learn German, networking events and business events. Live: places for breakfast, lunch and dinner, bars, late night snacks, clubs, cafés, shops and places to stay like hotels and city apartments. Interviews: with techno entrepreneur Dimitri Hegemann, violin maker Thilde van Norel and entrepreneur Aydo Schosswald.
£9.45
Drake Shake Carl Goes Kassel
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Oogachtend Re/collection: Impressions from the Road.
Book SynopsisThis new book gathers a selection of impressions from Ephameron's travel diaries. The artist uses observational drawing and painting as a way of engraving the memories and surroundings deeper into the brain. A compact but thick book, collecting 320 pages of recollections from 2011-2017. Ephameron's work explores a sensitive side of the world, where the small and intimate dramas of life are documented. Everyday feelings and thoughts are recreated with images and text, capturing moments in life. Ephameron has published her illustrations in De Standaard, De Tijd, Knack and The New York Times. She also curates and participates in group and solo shows all over the world.
£24.22
APE BIRDS OF A FEATHER
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£23.85
APE What is a good world?: Internationalisation in a
Book SynopsisThis essay series attempts to stimulate the debate about the moral challenges that internationalisation confronts us with, both in the Netherlands and abroad, and in particular for Artist-in-Residencies (AIRs). The publication is a reflection on how the crisis is reconsidering our international ambitions, starting from a post-COVID society. Internationalisation is an inevitable reality, inherent to the art landscape. The current time calls for a critical reflection on major issues such as climate inequality, plurality and the Western-dominant canon. With contributions and critical insights by Jeanne van Heeswijk, Jack Segbars, Erik Hagoort, Pascal Gielen, Cecilia Bengtsson, Merlijn Twaalfhoven, Hicham Khalidi, reinaart vanhoe and Suzanne van der Beek. Thanks to Jan van Eyck Academie, Mondriaan Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds en het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst for their support.
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APE The Situation As It Is
Book SynopsisAnd then, as if out of nowhere, everything built be-came HERITAGE. The regulation would be confirmed in writing shortly, but on the telephone the office clerk left no room for doubt. Every brick, every beam and pipe, every tile, faucet and roofline had to be preserved. THE SITUATION AS IT IS, WILL BE THE SITUATION AS IT IS. The administration chose a new approach: a radical shift from ambiguousat times obscuredecisions, procedures and decrees to an era of HYPER-REGULATION. Startled, THE ARCHITECT hung up. He looked at the list of construction sites he planned on visiting that day, grabbed his car keys and camera, and left. He wondered if, later on, his wife and kids would still be in the living room where he heard them playing now. THE SITUATION AS IT IS** is the story of an architect's ring binders, an archive filled with negatives and scattered subjects. THE PHOTOGRAPHS try to tell a story of an existing condition*: this is the state things are in. Within these binders buildings are perpetually unfinished. The dog keeps barking. It's our third birthday, again. Decades after they were exposed, these photographs appear to reveal the first traces of THE IMPASSE. **** Documenting the existing condition (de bestaande toestand) is a legally required aspect of a building application within the context of architecture and urban development: photographs describe a building, a landscape, infrastructure. in order for it to be demolished, adjusted, built. The existence of the image, the document that presents THE SITUATION AS IT IS, usually implies and initiates change. ** THE SITUATION AS IT IS unfolded in 15 episodes of three frames that revolved rhythmically on a billboard mounted onto 019's facade. *** Part of the research project Documenting Objects, conducted by Arnout and Michiel De Cleene at KASK, the school of arts of HOGENT and Howest.
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Onomatopee CriticALL!
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Onomatopee Detective Elchmanyahu’s auto-da-fe
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Onomatopee Shallow Waters: Shifting geographies of two
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Onomatopee Rights of Way, the body as witness in public
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Onomatopee Hollow
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Onomatopee Script for a Synthetic Play: On (Un)grounding
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Onomatopee Durable Discussions: Essays from the Disarming
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Onomatopee Unununimimimdededesign
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Onomatopee Incomplete Neighbor
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Onomatopee Sketches of Transition
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Rooftop Press Flashback Gordon
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Rooftop Press Letters and Banners
Book SynopsisLetters and Banners brings artist Dave McKenzie's recently commissioned body of work together with curator Bhavisha Panchia's writing. The book explores multiple forms of personal and public address, employing words as personal and political forms that continually shift emphasis betweendirect and ambiguous meanings. Co-published with PUBLICS and PALO, the book begins a new series of Coupling Words publications. The series is initiated by PUBLICS as part of their Couplings program. In these couplings two writers / artists / groups of practitioners are introduced to one another for the first time in print or in space because of some common concerns within their practices. Authors: Dave McKenzie & Bhavisha PanchiaDesigner: Emery Norton & Tuukka Kaila
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Rooftop Press Highway
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Rooftop Press Happy Hans
Book SynopsisA selection of Risograph printed reproductions of drawings by Barcelona based Canadian artist Michael Swaney. These drawings are a fast and direct approach to the hand motif, also known from Swaney's large scale paintings. I thought we could call it Happy Hans or Happy Hands. Happy Hans was a mascot for my home town in Kimberley Bc, and he was a beer yielding yodeler in liederhosen who would appear from some window doors on a giant cuckoo clock in town. You put coins in and he comes out and sings you a little yodel. I'm not the best writer but this could be a cool homage for the hand drawings maybe. what do you think?Author: Michael SwaneyDesigner: Timo Vaittinen
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Jen Cardona G Super Spirulina Seaweed: My first superfood book
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Artists in the University: Positioning Artistic Research in Higher Education
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the relationship between the university and a particular cohort of academic staff: those in visual and performing arts disciplines who joined the university sector in the 1990s. It explores how artistic researchers have been accommodated in the Australian university management framework and the impact that this has had on their careers, identities, approaches to their practice and the final works that they produce. The book provides the first analysis of this topic across the artistic disciplinary domain in Australia and updates the findings of Australia’s only comprehensive study of the position of research in the creative arts within the government funding policy setting reported in 1998 (The Strand Report).Using lived examples and a forensic approach to the research policy challenges, it shows that while limited progress has been made in the acceptance of artistic research as legitimate research, significant structural, cultural and practical challenges continue to undermine relationships between universities and their artistic staff and affect the nature and quality of artistic work.Table of ContentsForeword.- Artists in the University: An introduction.- Worlds colliding - the ongoing influence of amalgamation.- The University as a Site for Artistic Practice .- Is Artistic Practice Research?.- Artistic Research Within National Research Policy.- Artistic Research and university research management practices.- Institutional research management from the inside.- Beyond Equivalency: Repositioning Artistic Research Within higher education.- Appendix.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Social Impact of Creative Arts in Australian
Book SynopsisThis book brings together discussions about Australian arts policy and funding, outcomes of arts engagement in terms of social inclusion, well-being and education. It presents exemplars of creative programs or case studies that build capacity and lasting impact for communities in urban and regional Australia. This book describes the impact of the arts using narrative case studies. Through this, it develops conceptual understanding and frameworks that can be used to dynamically assess the value and impact of arts engagement across the three types of cultural value: intrinsic value, instrumental value and institutional value. It focuses on how arts engagement creates, supports and extends factors such as well-being, social inclusion and educational achievement. This book provides an innovative examination of the evidence from Australian projects depicting the impact of the arts on a range of indicators and sectors.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Evaluating Intangibles – Social Value, Impact and Notions of Place2 Understanding Social Value and Impact in the Australian Context 3 Building an Embedded Framework: Early Models 4 Nothing About Us Without Us: Co-Creation with Communities for Impact Assessment 5 Arts-based Methodologies for Fostering Inclusion and Understanding with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities 6 Co-creating Stories with Communities: Collaborative Art and Meaningful Participation 7 Creative Partnerships for Social Impact: Addressing Domestic Violence in Regional Queensland 8 Kindy Moves: Using Impact Narratives to Position Children as Stakeholders in Evaluation 9 Community Consultation Using Digital Engagement in the Time of COVID-19 10 Conclusion
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SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd BranD No.33: Typepro:Asia
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Sendpoints BranD No.39: Evolution of Materials
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Hong Kong University Press Chinese Opera The Actors Craft
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Lugemik Tanjas Gardens
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive monograph of Tanja Muravskaja presents her work from 20052022. Several works exhibited in the book have acquired a new dimension after the war started by Russia in Ukraine. Among other works the book also reproduces the video Three Sisters' (2015), one of the most recognized works by Muravskaja where two cousins, one from Ukraine and the other from Russia, express their views on the Maidan revolution and the annexation of Crimea. The third sister (the title refers to a play on words, as in Ukrainian and Russian cousins are also called sisters) in the artwork is the artist herself, hidden behind the camera. Based in Estonia, located on the border of Europe, the Muravskaja has always witnessed the constant feeling of danger in her society. She has photographed the soldiers of the allied forces of NATO who sometimes gather for practice nearby the Russian border. Alongside them are Estonian boys and girls: the youth corps of the Estonian Defence League. Tanja Muravs
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Lugemik Matching MotherDaughter Tattoos
Book SynopsisThe story was, me returning home from a trip to NY and showing her my new black star tattoo I got to match hers. She was busy cooking, as per, and turned to me with an eyebrow raised. In her kinda cutting sarcasm she said 'matching mother daughter tattoos? Charming.' She was half smiling and DEEPLY unimpressed. France-Lise McGurnPublished on the occasion of the exhibition Matching Mother/Daughter Tattoos' by France-Lise McGurn and Rita McGurn at Margot Samel, 295 Church Street, New York, September 5 October 14, 2023. Rita McGurn (19402015, Glasgow, UK) was an artist and set designer who worked with figuration, painting, and textiles. France-Lise McGurn (b. 1983, Glasgow, UK) is an artist based in London, UK.
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Lugemik Crystal Grid
Book Synopsis[...] How to give structure to something that itself is lacking one? How to present something like that? This is a question of visibility and making visible. What are the means for making visible something that always remains invisible? More precisely: the thing that remains invisible in real life, but of which we can get a glimpse in Crystal Grid, is the structure of capitalism. But how to display something like that?Neeme Lopp Paul Kuimet's new book presents two series by the artist Crystal Grid (20202023) and an ensuing series of assemblages What It Is to Be What You Are Not (2022). The works are connected by a set of geometric shapes from a grid that is based on the roof structure of the central transept of the Crystal Palace, erected for the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. While the photographic material of the Crystal Grid collages has been photographed in different botanical gardens around the world, the assemblages of the What It Is to Be What You Are Not series use images
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Lugemik Detours
Book SynopsisA board game-like object in a slipcase documenting a public installation by the German artist Erika Hock on the facade of the Institute for Urban History, Recklinghausen in Germany. Sometimes a detour is the better way to reach your destination. Unexpected vistas and unplanned encounters are possible on an unforeseen routesometimes the journey even ends somewhere completely different than expected. In any case, the detour has a worse reputation than it deserves. This can be seen impressively in Erika Hock's work Detours on the façade of the Institute for Urban History: powder-coated stainless-steel tubes in red, yellow, green and blue run across the outer walls of the building, each ending in round acrylic glass lights. Here, Hock explicitly proposes to question the linear progression of time and, through the exterior design, offers a historiography for the interior that does not always have to follow the usual paths. Formally important, although initially unnoticeable, Hock's concept also included the complete repainting of the façade in pure white, the closure of the clerestory windows and the accentuation of the remaining windows in blue-grey. During the day, the façade now appears in a color scheme reminiscent of the pictorial forms of 20th century classical modernism. At night, on the other hand, the façade is not illuminated as a whole by the end points of the chromatic lines, but is only visible at certain points due to Hock's light sources. With Erika Hock's work, an unexpected diversion can also become a rewarding event of nocturnal reorientation at night. Nico Anklam
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Worldmaking within Politics of Sights and Space
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Beyond the Chrysalis
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press The Distance between Yesterday and Tomorrow
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press A Story of Nothingness
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Split Infinity
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