Borrowing its title from Forough Farrokhzadâs poem Only Voice Remains, Voice Seeping into Time asserts the power of the voice to claim not only space but also time. Through a selection of speeches held over the first two years as director and chief curator of Berlinâs Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) between March 2023 and April 2025, this volume expands on Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung's notion of the voice as a space of publication in itself.
Coinciding with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's exhibition, Serpentine and Archive Books have released the artist's first monograph, THE DELUSION. It imagines a 'new bible for emotional processing' and offers intimate insight into the project and the artist's wider practice, in a gamified, interactive style.
Victor Ballesteros' Chilean Garden turns a Vancouver botanical collection into a site of critical inquiry. Training his lens on the intimate details of plants and their accession tags, the work reveals a complex web of colonial exchange and scientific classification. This publication documents the project and, through an essay by Laurie White, explores the enduring connection between the cultivation of gardens, the discipline of art history, and the structures of imperial power.
Zawawa began on April 21, 2011 when acoustic scientist Kozo Hiramatsu, anthropologist Rupert Cox and artist Angus Carlyle met in Okinawa. A previous collaboration â Air Pressure â had explored the environmental stresses on a family of organic farmers living in the midst of Narita airport.
Prijenosi/Overføringer/Transmissions is Damir AvdagiÄ´s first artist monograph. AvdagiÄ´s practice examines the socio-political implications of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia (1991-95) through text, performance and video.
The importance that making music (as well as listening to it and thinking about it) had for Mark Tobey is well known. Reflections have been made on his being a painter and his sitting at the piano, the habit and pleasure of a lifetime.
The Musafiri: Travellers and Guests reader follows the entwined paths and encounters of those that embark on journeys, traversing the worlds that open up when the confines of familiar surroundings are left. They are musafiri, a word that denotes the traveller as well as the guest in a plethora of languages such as Arabic, Romanian, Turkish, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Swahili, Kazakh, and Uygur
Der Reader Musafiri: Von Reisenden und Gästen folgt den verschlungenen Pfaden und Begegnungen von Menschen, die sich auf den Weg machen und Welten durchqueren, die sich erÜffnen, wenn man die Begrenzungen der gewohnten Umgebung verlässt. Sie sind musafiri, ein Wort, das von Arabisch ßber Rumänisch, Tßrkisch, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, bis zu Swahili, Kasachisch und Uigurisch den Reisenden bezeichnet, aber auch Gast bedeuten kann.
LĂścher stopfen, schĂźrfen, Zeit retten, heulen. âAus der ersten Personâ ist eine persĂśnliche Erkundung filmischer Autobiografien / Autofiktion: ein freies Umherschweifen durch Räume und Leben, in und aus welchen im weitesten Sinn ein Ich spricht. Das Buch folgt Blicken nach innen, aus dem Fenster und ins Weite, vollzieht Passagen, Denkbewegungen und kĂśrperliche Erfahrungen nach, und tastet sich durch das unbefestigte Gelände von Erinnerungen. Im Zentrum stehen filmische Analogien zu Schreibakten wie Tagebuchfilm, Journal, Filmpoem und Travelogue sowie Reenactments.
Stretching the Archives Toward a Global Womenâs Film Heritage is the result of two years of networking, workshops, and conferences that aimed to bring together scholars, archivists, and filmmakers. The focus was on addressing gaps in our shared histories, with a particular emphasis on feminist cultural memory and film heritage in the Global South.
Who claims abstraction? What are the limits of abstraction? Are statelessness, dislocation and feelings of (un) belonging embodiments of an abstracted self that is in itself a work in progress? How could performance artâan artistic practice that places significant importance on presence and legibility of formâtransgress into the realm of the abstract and the illegible in an effort to protect the artistâs likeness while shedding light on what it means to be in their body in relation to this world?
Studies on Squats is an evocative exploration of embodied resistance and political movement that uses the multifaceted posture of the âAsian Squatâ as a lens through which broader concepts of migration, illness, and resilience are examined.
Metropolitan Voids Agency is the first monographic publication dedicated to the collected works of artist Margherita Moscardini. The book recounts the work carried out by Moscardini spanning seventeen years, between 2008 and 2024, inviting a reading of her practice in its entirety as an investigation into âurban voidsâ: those which Moscardini has recognized and designated as voids, or those she has herself invented in the urban fabric.
Afghanistan is my father's homeland. He was born in Kabul in 1945 and later moved first to France, then to Switzerland in the 1970s. In my mind, Afghanistan exists as a geography with blurred edges, something I feel the need to reconcile with. It's a place I've only ever known through stories, a source of memories that, over time, have shifted and become distorted.
Like Swarming Maggots: Confronting the Archive of Coloniality across Italy and Libya is Alessandra Ferriniâs first monograph. Featuring the artistâs long-term research on the colonial and neo-colonial relations between Italy and Libya through a critical engagement with the Italian âarchive of colonialityâ and its structural violence.
Art, Hope, Action: Creative Praxis in Pandemic Times brings together a diverse collection of artists, scholars, and activists to present an interdisciplinary and critical examination of hopeâs potential for form, method, and action. Drawing on materials from the exhibition After Hope: Videos of Resistance, the volume explores themes of solidarity, queer theory, environmental degradation, narratives of exile, resilience, resistance, and the possibility of escape â as well as return.