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.
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 – Air Pressure – had explored the environmental stresses on a family of organic farmers living in the midst of Narita airport.
Prijenosi/Overføringer/Transmissions is Damir Avdagić´s first artist monograph. Avdagić´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 eröffnen, wenn man die Begrenzungen der gewohnten Umgebung verlässt. Sie sind musafiri, ein Wort, das von Arabisch über Rumänisch, Türkisch, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, bis zu Swahili, Kasachisch und Uigurisch den Reisenden bezeichnet, aber auch Gast bedeuten kann.