Art Law

Art Law

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Art Law draws on forty years of practice to empower and encourage creators, authors, and artists to understand, protect, and exercise their rights. It illustrates key aspects of art law by expanding on specific legal cases. Whenever an artist brings a case to court, that case has the potential to clarify and expand the rights of all artists.

Voice Seeping into Time

Voice Seeping into Time

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Borrowing its title from Forough Farrokhzad’s 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 Berlin’s 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.

THE DELUSION

THE DELUSION

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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.

Chilean Garden

Chilean Garden

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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: Listening to the Aftermaths of Conflicts in Okinawa

Zawawa: Listening to the Aftermaths of Conflicts in Okinawa

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Zawawa began on April 21, 2011 when acoustic scientist Kozo Hiramatsu, anthropologist Rupert Cox and artist Angus Carlyle met in Okinawa. A previous collaboration – Air Pressure – had explored the environmental stresses on a family of organic farmers living in the midst of Narita airport.

Mark Tobey and Music

Mark Tobey and Music

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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.

Musafiri: Of Travellers and Guests – Reader (en)

Musafiri: Of Travellers and Guests – Reader (en)

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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

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Musafiri: Von Reisenden und Gästen – Reader (de)

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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.

Aus der ersten Person. Filmische Autobiografien / Autofiktion

Aus der ersten Person. Filmische Autobiografien / Autofiktion

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Löcher stopfen, schürfen, Zeit retten, heulen. „Aus der ersten Person“ ist eine persönliche 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 körperliche 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 Women’s Film Heritage

Stretching the Archives Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage

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Stretching the Archives Toward a Global Women’s 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.

My Mother, My Home

My Mother, My Home

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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 art—an artistic practice that places significant importance on presence and legibility of form—transgress into the realm of the abstract and the illegible in an effort to protect the artist’s likeness while shedding light on what it means to be in their body in relation to this world?

Studies on Squats

Studies on Squats

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Studies on Squats is an evocative exploration of embodied resistance and political movement that uses the multifaceted posture of the “Asian Squat” as a lens through which broader concepts of migration, illness, and resilience are examined.

Metropolitan Voids Agency

Metropolitan Voids Agency

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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 ‘urban voids’: those which Moscardini has recognized and designated as voids, or those she has herself invented in the urban fabric.

Afghanistan

Afghanistan

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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

Like Swarming Maggots

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Like Swarming Maggots: Confronting the Archive of Coloniality across Italy and Libya is Alessandra Ferrini’s first monograph. Featuring the artist’s long-term research on the colonial and neo-colonial relations between Italy and Libya through a critical engagement with the Italian ‘archive of coloniality’ and its structural violence.

Art, Hope, Action

Art, Hope, Action

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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 hope’s 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 — as well as return.

Vlatka Horvat: By the Means at Hand 

Vlatka Horvat: By the Means at Hand 

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By the Means at Hand offers a look into Vlatka Horvat’s eponymous project, presented at the Pavilion of Croatia at the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia in 2024. Horvat invited some 200 international artists – friends and friends of friends, all living “as foreigners” in different countries around the world – to exchange small-scale artworks with her, all made for the occasion. For every work she received, Vlatka sent to each artist a collage from the series she was making while in residence in Venice, using images of the city she has taken on her daily walks. All the artworks travelled to Venice and back via informal transport networks; in bags and suitcases of friends, acquaintances, and sometimes strangers enlisted as couriers for the project. 

Beneath the Surface

Beneath the Surface

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In a world where noise and silence perpetuate cycles of oppression and ecological destruction, Beneath the Surface invites us to pause, listen deeply, and use our voices to reclaim buried stories.

Destination: Tashkent

Destination: Tashkent

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Between 1968 and 1988, the Tashkent Festival of Asian, African, and — from 1976 onwards — Latin American Cinema was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Instituting

Instituting

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This publication is the result of the Instituting edition of HKW’s New Alphabet School, Athens, June 2021, realized in cooperation between Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, EIGHT/TO ΟΧΤΩ—Critical institute for arts and politics Athens, and Goethe Institut Athens.

I Come from a Long Line of People Who Don’t Use Words

I Come from a Long Line of People Who Don’t Use Words

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The book I Come from a Long Line of People Who Don't Use Words is a collection of poems by artist Tiziana La Melia, translated into Italian. It includes a selection of poems from her first two books of poetry and a new body of work titled The Simple Life, which focuses on collective healing through food preparation and magic culinary therapies.

Gbegbetopia—Maison Gbegbe

Gbegbetopia—Maison Gbegbe

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Maison Gbegbe is a cultural center in Togo that aims to bring together different cultures, traditions, religions, and knowledge systems, and to create a space for exchange, reconcil- iation, and critical thinking. The project is a collaborative effort involving members of the Union des Cultes Traditionnels du Togo (UCTT) in Agouegan, L’Africaine d’Architecture, art&dialogue e.V., and a pre-configuration committee.

Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schuld – Reader (EN)

Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schuld – Reader (EN)

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The Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schuld Reader explores radical and emancipatory significations and fabulations of trespassing, turning towards practices that transgress and reshape the boundaries of, among other dimensions, currency, governance, religion, spirituality, language, and artificial intelligence.

Vergib uns unsere Schuld / Forgive Us Our Trespasses – Reader (DE)

Vergib uns unsere Schuld / Forgive Us Our Trespasses – Reader (DE)

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The Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schuld Reader explores radical and emancipatory significations and fabulations of trespassing, turning towards practices that transgress and reshape the boundaries of, among other dimensions, currency, governance, religion, spirituality, language, and artificial intelligence.

eBhish’

eBhish’

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eBhish’ presents a chorus of voices on notions of Black social life, public communion and humanities of the Indian Ocean.

Akinbode Akinbiyi

Akinbode Akinbiyi

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The photographer, the wanderer, glides softly in the crush of the everyday, stepping out onto awkwardly paved sidewalks, weaving through crowds, seeking out moments of quiet serendipity. It’s in happenstance, coincidence, that the magic becomes immanent, the constantly weaving, liminal threads taking shape, becoming momentarily visible, forming into occurrences that vibrate, are.

I Speak Radio

I Speak Radio

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Publication with radio texts by Anna Bromley. Reflections with invited artists, activists and researchers on language and voice in the context of sound, politics and everyday life.

Majnoon Filed Guide

Majnoon Filed Guide

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Majnoon is an oil field in the global south. Majnoon is also the violence, and the state of mind that survives the violence. How can this be a field guide in any customary sense? Latitudes have been taken. Words are written in disruptedor troubled syntax. Rather, this book proceeds alongsidea search for what many call emancipatory practice; to beenacted in the field, where we feel most alive.