This series of pocket-size books hones the format of the monograph and the critical essay. The black volumes showcase projects by artists such as Isa Genkzen, Cerith Wyn Evans, and Tue Greenfort, contextualizing them through the writings of noted international critics and curators. The white volumes contain essays by prominent critics and curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud, Daniel Birnbaum, and Jean-Yves Leloup on urgent theoretical issues of the day.
Foreword by Maurizio Cattelan, Douglas Coupland and Carsten Höller
ISBN: 9783943365337
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: September 7, 2012
In the last two hundred years, “art” has become one of the most fetishized concepts in Western civilization. The idea according to which certain people—also known as artists—would provide the...
By its very nature, graphic design is primarily concerned with giving shape to ideas and information generated by others. For the last decade, Markus Weisbeck has been redefining this prevailing client-designer...
“In ordinary language, 'modernizing' has come to mean reducing cultural and social reality to Western formats. And today, modernism amounts to a form of complicity with colonialism and Eurocentrism....
The emergence of electronic music with its new generation of artists and digital technologies has disturbed the world music landscape. From the musicians' angle, since the end of the eighties, techno,...
Edited by Melik Ohanian and Jean-Christophe Royoux
ISBN: 9780974568867
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: September 5, 2008
“Often in a cosmogram there's an aim that goes beyond mere description or depiction: it's often a redescription, in the conditional or future tense: not the world as it is but the world as it could...
This book discusses Michael Sailstorfer's most recent work, with a special focus on issues of space and site specificity. Pieces such as Study for Breathing House (a detonation which causes a house...
Postproduction. Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World is the most recent essay by French writer and curator Nicolas Bourriaud. The author discusses how, since the early nineties, an ever...
“Is it the intentionality described by phenomenology and the ambiguous flesh of the active viewer who enters the work of art and fully explores its most extreme possibilities that determine the limits...
Edited by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Katja Schroeder and Frankfurter Kunstverein
ISBN: 9780974568850
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: September 3, 2004
Pecafil is named after the bright yellow, biodegradable building material which Michael Beutler used for a series of outdoor sculptures in the city of Frankfurt am Main. At stake in most of the German...
Edited by Christina Ritchie and Nicolaus Schafhausen
ISBN: 9780974568843
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: September 3, 2004
“I have always been interested in what forms radical or sub-cultural activities will inhabit once they eventually make their debut upon the greater cultural field. Perhaps, in these new forms, the...
