SoCCAS Symposium Vol III. The Aesthetics of Risk is based on the third SoCCAS symposium which took place at the Getty Center with the collaboration of the Getty Research Institute, in April 2006.The event convened a lively and informed group of international scholars, artists and curators who discussed different ways that visual cultural production in the modern and recent periods has engaged ...

Born in Tehran in 1974, Shirana Shahbazi moved to Germany when she was a child. Today she is based in Zurich. Trained as a photographer, Shahbazi shoots images including portraits, still lifes and landscapes and often uses them as source material not only for photographs but also for paintings, billboards or handmade carpets. By altering the scale and transposing the imagery into a new medium or

This publication is a reprint of the first book realised by Wolfgang Tillmans in 1995. A very atmospheric, if measured, compilation of black and white images, it combines portraits of youth culture with landscape, city scenes with slogans, clippings from newspapers, and book illustrations. Released now into a different context from its first appearance, the book is emblematic of the new approach .

Twelve Step Program. Markus Uhr is driven to that which goes unnoticed, to the forsaken, self-descriptive instant. He is in search of non-moments or, as he puts it, the white spots that hold the world together. Always carrying his camera with him, hes finding images in his immediate environment which depict the gaps in our everyday lives. In this publication, the artist uncovers a melancholy ...

Luoghi darte e di artisti 1968 2008. Luoghi dartista artists places refers to the houses, studios and natural spaces where art is created. Paolo Mussat Sartor, the photographer and narrator of Arte Povera, captures artists in the places where they live and work, and reveals their intimate relationship with space, the environment and the objects they create. The Mussat Sartor archives provide a ...

This complete catalogue raisonn of Johannes Wohnseifer's work isalso an artists book. What makes the project uncommon is that its production was realised using a computer program, the Art-Butler, especially developed for museums and galleries in order to maintain their databases. To visualize the irony behind the idea of having a service which catalogues an artist's creative output using ...

Cover Art by H5. Since the mid-1990s, H5 have realized numerous record covers and visuals for small and major labels Sony, V2, BMG, Nave, Virgin Denote Ltd, Small, EMI, Prototyp Record, Diamond Traxx, Island, thus accompanying the development of French electronic music.

Works 1997 2007. While Ourslers position as a forerunner in video art is well established, his two-dimensional works have always been an essential part of his creative process. He describes his drawings and works on paper as a series of perceptions, scenes, delusions, and diagrams that are a free association of ideas and themes informing his work in video. A diary of his conceptualisation process,

A Film by Hila Peleg. A Crime Against Art is a film based on the trial staged at an art fair in Madrid in February 2007. Inspired by the mock trials organised by Andre Breton in the 1920s and 30s, it playfully raised a number of polemical issues in the world of contemporary art: collusion with the new bourgeoisie, instrumentalisation of art and its institutions, the future possibility of artistic

Selected Texts and Talks 1977 2007. A former anthropologist, Susan Hiller has been a pioneer in exploring the arena between the art domain and the world in general. Her involvement in art and feminism, her postcolonial analyses of cultural politics are foregrounded in this volume which brings together previously published texts and interviews, improvised talks, papers, invitational keynote ...

Desert Cities. Aglaia Konrad focuses a direct gaze on cities such as Cairo, Alexandria, and Anwar el Sadat. This is not classic architectural or documentary photography her way of seeing things is unadorned and draws our attention straight to the history of the real setting. The photographs show the application of modernist principles to architectural development in desert landscapes. They ...

Euan Macdonalds Selected Standards is an artists book that combines title pages from sheet music found in a second hand store in Los Angeles with drawings and aerial photographs of LA. The represented songs are hits from jazz musicals from the 1940s and 1950s and they range in theme from zany and wistful, to melancholic and existential. Some are well-known standards, while others are obscure. The