Togetherward - Archive Books

Togetherward is a volume assembling new and existing documents that revisit, mix and remix moments in the work of artist Christian Nyampeta. The volume is composed of material that exceed singular authorship, in the form of texts, images, film stills, footnotes, photographs, poetry, and translations. This stream of existing documents is sequenced alongside new contributions by Omar Berrada, Binna Choi, Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski, Natacha Nsabimana, and Isaïe Nzeyimana. The publication emerges from a longterm collaboration between the artist and GfZK – Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig and is part of the exhibition project Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.

Togetherward

Christian Nyampeta

Edited by

Vera Lauf, Christian Nyampeta on behalf of GfZK – Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig

Copyediting by

German texts: Tanja Milewsky, Bettina Reichmuth
English texts: Fleur Pozzi, the Kolenda Group

Proofreading

Savanna Morgan

Studio Pandan (Ann Richter, Pia Christmann, Riccardo Righi)

Printed by
Gutenberg Beuys Feindruckerei GmbH

English and German

224 pages

21 x 29.7 cm

ISBN 978-3-949973-23-9

Euros 22,00

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