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The Earthly Community

V2_publishers 2022 ISBN 9789082893533 Acqn 32734
Pb 16x23cm 144pp col ills £15.75

Historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe explores what remains of the human subject in an
age when the instrumentality of reason is carried out by and through information machines and
technologies of calculation. In 'The Earthly Community' he discusses who will define the threshold
or set the boundary that distinguishes between the calculable and the incalculable, between that
which is deemed worthy and that which is deemed worthless, and therefore dispensable. Are we
capable of inventing different modes of measuring that might open up the possibility of a different
aesthetics, an alternative politics of inhabiting the Earth, of repairing and sharing the planet?

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C'e tempo per le nespole - New Stories from the First World War
Danilo Montanari Editore 2022 ISBN 9788885449831 Acqn 32725
Pb 21x28cm 320pp col ills £42.75

Exactly a century after the establishment of commemorative monuments and parks built in Italy in
the aftermath of the First World War to honour the fallen, the exhibition initiated by the ICCD in
Rome, curated by Francesca Fabiani and Alessandro Coco, raises questions around the theme
of the monument and memory by proposing a selection of contemporary works. These are the
result of heterogeneous projects ranging from performance to installation, and from documentary
photography to illustration. The eight participating artists, each through their own language, have
activated new narratives for exploring not only military but also cultural and social aspects of the
First World War.

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Fluxus, Again! A History of a Radical Experience 1952-1962-2022

Danilo Montanari Editore 2022 ISBN 9788885449992 Acqn 32732
Pb 21x21cm 108pp col ills £28.25

Fluxus was a cultural, visual, and social adventure that began in 1962. But the journey to that
point started a decade earlier, in 1952, thanks to John Cage at Black Mountain College. As the
1960s progressed, linguistic and formal experiments emerged between Europe, the United
States, and Japan that formed an innovative paradigm outside of the accepted aesthetic
conventions up until that time. Through narratives and detailed explorations, this volume tells the
story of this remarkable post-war period, bringing it into the present moment. The book relies on
iconographic and archival materials belonging to Luigi Bonotto, one of the most relevant Fluxus
collections in Europe.

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The Art of Critique

Lenz 2022 ISBN 9791280579102 Acqn 32733
Pb 21x30cm 288pp col ills £29.25

We live in a moment in which institutions, including those central to the art world, are facing a
surge of public scrutiny. Propelled by social media, profound questions about how institutions
operate-whether structurally, politically, or financially-have become an increasingly prominent part
of public life and discourse in recent years. In this context, The Art of Critique revisits the artistic
practice of institutional critique to ask what it means today, and to consider its ability to respond to
the urgent social, political, and economic issues of our time. Taking works by Tracey Emin,
Andrea Fraser, and Sarah Lucas in the collection of the Frans Hals Museum as a departure point,
The Art of Critique uses a feminist approach to broaden and challenge traditional art historical
definitions of institutional critique.

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Pati Hill - One Thing I Know

Daisy Editions 2022 ISBN 9782957661121 Acqn 32751
Pb 12x18cm 108pp col ills £11.95

One Thing I Know is Pati Hill's third novel, first published in 1962, when she was forty-one and
had just given birth to her first and only child. It is the last novel she wrote before claiming to "quit
writing in favor of housekeeping". Written in the purest tradition of American coming-of-age
stories, One Thing I Know follows a sixteen-year-old girl, Francesca Hollins, as she discovers an
unexpected taste for autonomy. The bravado of her affirmation cannot mask the seriousness of
her conviction: "One thing I know, I will never be in love again."

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Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi - Emmy Hennings

Lenz ISBN 9791280579362 Acqn 32753
Hb 17x24cm 128pp col ills £22.50

In the exhibitions held at Cabaret Voltaire and at the Swiss Institute in 2020, Sitara Abuzar
Ghaznawi made evocative displays that created space for a deeper engagement with Hennings's
life and art. For this publication, she has made new collages, combining found materials and
working tools suck as adhesive strips, supplemented by graphic gestures and subjective indexes
such as cigarette butts. By bringing the Hennings archive into dialogue with her own work,
Ghaznawi considers the manner in which an individual's multiple identities guide the
accumulation of personal experience, be they her own or those of a woman she never met.

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Mousse Magazine - Issue 80 Summer 2022

Mousse Publishing 2022 ISBN 9772035256103 Acqn 32754
Pb 24x32cm 264pp col ills £16.50

Established in Milan in 2006, 'Mousse' traces the currents of contemporary culture through
feature articles, interviews, and conversations among the most vivid voices in international
criticism, along with emerging talents and key figures in the cultural debate. In this issue, an
essay from Elvia Wilk's new book 'Death by Landscape'; a fictional piece by Lucy Ives; a dialogue
between Cory Archangel, Jordan Wolfson, and Bart van der Heide on the late Michel Majerus;
Saodat Ismailova talks with Andrea Lissoni; features on artists Niklas Taleb, Daniela Ortiz, and
Qualeasha Wood; Melanie Buhler's thoughts on vibe; Ufuoma Essi and Rhea Dillon reflect on the
diaspora; and much more.

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Javier Perez - Presence Absence

Ludion 2022 ISBN 9789493039742 Acqn 32755
Hb 24x29cm 268pp col ills £54

Javier Perez (Bilbao, 1968) is one of the best-known Spanish artists of his generation. His
international breakthrough came in 1996 with his first solo exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel in
Paris, followed a year later by his first museum exhibition at the Musee d'Art Moderne et
Contemporain in Strasbourg. Perez examines humankind through a visual language replete with
intense metaphors and symbolism. His work reveals how tenuous the dividing line can be
between apparent opposites such as nature and culture, inside and outside, life and death.

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Pilvi Takala - Close Watch

Serralves 2022 ISBN 9788867495290 Acqn 32769
Pb 23x30cm 112pp col ills £31.50

This publication is part of Close Watch, Pilvi Takala's new commission for the Pavilion of Finland
at the 59th Venice Biennale, 23 April - 27 November 2022. The multi-channel installation is based
on the artist's experience in the private security industry, where she worked as a fully qualified
security guard in one of Finland's largest shopping malls. During her six-month employment
period, Takala was interested in navigating the difficulties and ethical dilemmas she would
encounter on the job. Featuring notes, interviews and other materials, the publication
encapsulates the extensive preparation and field research that informed the work's development
to further open up the complexities around private security as both a concept and an industry.

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Parviz Tanavoli - A Life In Art

Nazar Publishing 2022 no ISBN 32770
Hb 296pp col ills £114

Often named the father of modern sculpture in Iran, Parviz Tanavoli is well-known for his
sculptures that evoke Persian history and poetry, but also the everyday. This book is an invitation
into his world and his extraordinarily consistent vision. A habitual collector from an early age,
Tanavoli is especially fascinated with objects that embody Persian traditions, things found in the
Tehran bazaar or on his journeys across Iran: locks, amulets, rugs, and much more. Another
facet of his collecting is his art collection, which has a very particular focus. Tanavoli's personal
connection to the artists, whether they are his contemporaries or his students, links all of these
pieces together.

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Joan Fontcuberta – Contravisiones

Ediciones Anomalas 2022 ISBN 9788409257355 Acqn 32797
Hb 21x28cm 108pp ills £42.75

Conceptual artist Joan Fontcuberta is known for works that examine the truthfulness of
photography. He first employed the term "countervision" in 1977 to suggest a creative practice
capable of breaking the mimetic pact with reality. He understood the critical importance of
photographs as documents and offered countervision as a way to incline our acceptance of them
towards scepticism. Four decades later, such premises have been fully accepted and seem
obvious to us. The works in this volume were made during a period marked by upheavals and
changes, but 1989 was also when Photoshop was developed, the harbinger of the impending
post-photographic phenomenon.

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Irene Zottola – Icaro

Ediciones Anomalas 2021 ISBN 9788409321575 Acqn 32798
Hb 16x22cm 108pp col ills £31.50

Over the course of history, a liaison has been forged between human beings and the sky;
between the desire to fly and the physical and symbolic meaning entailed by flying. Flight brings
together both complementary and contrary elements: the eternal and ascending as opposed to
the perishable and descending, the hope and distress in the act of learning to fly and thus rising
or plunging to the ground. In essence, life and death. Irene Zottola's 'Icaro' explores birds as
symbols of thought, of the imagination, and of connections with the spirit. Photographs of birds,
nests, and feathers are interwoven with snippets of text and redacted documents, a fragmented
tribute to the airborne.

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Breaking Strings
ArtEZ Press 2022 ISBN 9789491444777 Acqn 32802
Pb 15x22cm 416pp col ills £55.25

In this book, Avi Gilboa and Laurien Hakvoort and their many co-authors use the very con-crete
incident of breaking strings as a meta-phor to refer to those moments in music therapy when
something goes wrong. Because many things do not go as planned in music therapy, on many
levels and for many reasons. music therapists must deal with the consequences in different ways.
This book examines the theory but also presents wonderfully diverse case studies from mistakes
in music therapy. From experienced to beginner music therapists, various practitioners discuss
cases in thirteen different countries.

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Deen van Meer - We are such stuff

ArtEZ Press 2022 ISBN 9789462264397 Acqn 32803
Pb 24x34cm 168pp col ills £53.50

Stories are told in the theatre. Stories that touch us, confront us with ourselves, the other and
society. Stories that give meaning and hold up a mirror, always in a different way. In this way we,
the public, can reflect on ourselves and the world around us, with a smile or a tear.Van Meer finds
it fascinating to record these stories, to depict the magic of the theatre. It is always a challenge to
capture the power of a performance, the emotion of an actor, the beauty of a dancer in a stilled
image. An image that, apart from the performance, also has a right to exist and tells its own story.

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Public Memory, Public Art

Art And Theory Publishing 2022 ISBN 9789198672077 Acqn 32805
Hb 17x25cm 240pp col ills £33.25

What does it mean to remember through art? The anthology Public Memory, Public Art -
Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today presents 25 texts that explore and discuss
memorial art in our common spaces. The book includes texts on monuments, memorials,
memory, democracy, power, and oppression and have a Swedish focus with an international
perspective. With texts by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, Elin Haugdal, Sandi Hilal, Rossana
Mercado-Rojas, Robert Nilsson Mohammadi, Andrzej Tichy, Joanna Warsza and Michael K.
Wilson, among others.

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