French edition. The artist discusses his work with Bernard Cometti, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Jean de Loisy, and Eric Mangion's. Developed around narrative forms and with an improbable Gesamt-cosmology, Gilles Barbier's work borrows its structures and themes from numerous cultural spheres. The book is an invitation to follow the artists journey through a selection of works, sculptures, drawings, and ..

This catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2007, presents an overview of Thomas Demands current work in the form of 23 large-size photographs, a film project and an architectural installation specially prepared for the museum. Central themes are stairs, ladders, and lifts. The title refers to the so-called staircase wit remembered only when ...

Art of Negotiation explores eight artist-led projects in different sites across England. The case studies document how the projects were initiated and produced, and explore the negotiationsbetween artists, partners and participants, and audience through which the work took shape. The book presents multiple narratives, bringing in the voices of participants, partners and other stakeholders which .

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The Conquest of Imperfection. The Conquest of Imperfection is the first major UK exhibition of Japanese media artist Masaki Fujihatas acclaimed interactive work, featuring eight installations created by the artist between 1996 - 2008 and a new work specially created for the Manchester exhibition. Fujihata uses interactive art, virtual reality and networking to probe the fundamental questions of ..

German edition. This retrospective publication includes texts by Gianni Jetzer and Nicolas Schaffhausen, critics and curators, as well as an archive of texts on the past exhibitions and fon, the magazine published by the Kunsthalle. The book provides a fresh picture of two decades of experimentation with art and exhibition, and an exhaustive documentation of the activities of the Kunsthalle over 2

Graphit German edition. This publication brings together the large-size graphite drawings of the last decade by painter and graphic artist Thomas Mllenbach. From his engagement with popular culture and ongoing dialogue with the history of art, the artist has developed a language of directness and reduction by drawing life-size different subjects from reality. From everyday life in domestic ...

Dedicated to film and video, the BMI was the first European Biennial to focus on artists using these media. This edition includes retrospectives of filmmakers such as Pedro Costa, Robert Morin and Stavros Tornes, as well as artists such as Joan Jonas, accompanied by overview essays. A selection of works by Johanna Billing, Pierre Huyghe, Martha Rosler, Fiona Tann, David Claerbout and Beat Streuli

German edition. Philippe Decrauzat uses a variety of media for his work wall painting, shaped canvases, objects, installations and works on paper. He elaborates, in his voluntarily limited and thus flat chromatics, complex geometrical compositions. His abstract practice is first and foremost situated in the lineage of Op art of the 1960s, but running through the artist's fascination for optical ..

French edition. The anecdote is a marginalized form, a simple form, often scorned. Relevant to street culture and not to spaces of protected knowledge, the anecdote is a minor language, one could even say, as did Deleuze, with revolutionary potential. It is not a matter of telling stories, but of envisaging the anecdote as theoretical question and an object which engages a meaning and a relation .

Hello Spirale French edition. If Francis Baudevin is known especially for his pictorial reappropriation of the graphic insignia of modernism, this book also reveals a collector and fine musical connoisseur. Through a long interview with Valrie Mavridorakis, the artist provides analysis, references, and interpretations on contemporary music, from rock to experimental. His remarks recall that the ..

German edition. In the 1990s many art venues transformed themselves into forums of discussion of political and social themes. It shifted the Institutional Critique of the 1980s to the analysis of the influence of the mass media on public spaces more and more conditioned by economics. For a few years now this critique has brought the 'protected spaces' of the art world directly into the public ...

Full title: 'Networked Narrative Environments as Imaginary Spaces of Being'.