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Marlene Maier - Food Only Exists On Pictures

Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956793769 Acqn 28214
Pb 13x19cm 54pp 3col ills £8.95

Winner of the Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2017 this publication accompanies the exhibition by Marlene
Maier 'Food Only Exists On Pictures'. Published by Sternberg Press the book contains visual
documentation of the exhibition, a foreword by Eva Blimlinger and Nicolaus Schafhausen, a text
by Anne Faucheret and a conversation with the artist and Nicolaus Schafhausen.

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Ane Hjort Guttu - Writings Conversations Scripts

Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956794070 Acqn 28674
Pb 25x34cm 144pp 75ills 46col £21.75

Writings, Conversations, Scripts is the first survey of text works by Ane Hjort Guttu. Written
between 2003 and 2018, the texts range from public statements, poetic short prose, film scripts
and reflections on the role of the artist to essays on art for children and the link between light and
wealth.

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The Other Country

Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956794025 Acqn 28676
Pb 21x30cm 126pp 63ills 40col £22.95

This book was published following Vincent Meessen's solo exhibitions Sire, je suis de l'otre pays
at WIELS, Brussels (2016) and Omar en mai at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018). The fourth
volume in the artist's publication series Prospectus, it is structured around four major installations
that made up these shows (One.Two.Three, SIISIS, Wild Architect, and CinemaOmarx), which
are placed in parallel with newly commissioned essays by scholars Pedro Monaville, Stefano
Collicelli Cagol and Ruth Baumeister, and an in-depth conversation between Tom McDonough
and Vincent Meessen.

At the heart of these contributions are the untold histories and unexpected topicality of the
Situationist International, modernity's last international avant-garde, which reconsidered so
radically the relationships between art, politics and everyday life. Previously unpublished texts
and reprints by Guy Debord, Lungela Diangani and Omar Blondin Diop explore in particular the
Situationist International's influence in black African countries, such as the Democratic Republic
of Congo and Senegal. Installation views of the exhibitions show furthermore how Meessen uses
original documents in order to re-evaluate their political potential in the present. As such, the
publication generously reflects on the artist's discursive, collaborative and para-curatorial activity
of the past four years.

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Alex Cecchetti - Tamam Shud - An Artist's Novel

Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956793981 Acqn 28844
Pb 12x19cm 268pp £13.50

“I am dead. Homicide, assassination, accident, suicide, the detectives have come up with
nothing. The labels in my clothes, my fingerprints, my shoe size, everything has been unstitched,
erased, wiped away, blanched, bleached, and consigned to oblivion. As the only clue, in a secret
pocket sewn into my trousers, the detectives found a flimsy slip of paper torn from the pages of a
book. On that folded bit of paper just two words, Tamam Shud, ‘this is the end.’ Experts,
antiquarians, and opium smokers have been consulted, and all agree that these are the last two
words in the Rubaiyat, an ancient collection of esoteric poems written by a Persian poet named
Omar Khayyam. What the hell do I have to do with poetry, Persia, and hidden pockets? I can’t
even sew on a button. My identity is still unknown and not even I remember much. This is why I
have decided to investigate my own death.”

The Tamam Shud narrative emerged through a series of episodic performances and an exhibition
by Alex Cecchetti at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw. For two years
the writing process and the artistic process were interwoven, feeding each other as they evolved.
The art project and the artist’s novel are linked together as much as the life of the victim is
connected to the piece of paper found in his pocket.

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The Only Performance That Makes It All The Way...

Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956793967 Acqn 28875
Pb 17x23cm 184pp 79ills 57col £21.95

Edited by Sandro Droschl, Kunstlerhaus, Halle fur Kunst & Medien

Texts by Christian Egger, Sabine Weier, Tanja Widmann

This catalogue is published on the occasion of the two group exhibitions "The only performances
that make it all the way..." and "Yes, but is it performable? Investigations on the Performative
Paradox" which were shown at Kunstlerhaus, Halle fur Kunst & Medien in 2013 and 2016.

Both exhibitions are united by an activating dialogical confrontation of recent, performative

practices and performances dealing with the main works of historical forerunners. Throughout the
respective exhibition, two to three works were added, while also parts and objects of the
performances remained in the exhibition space, thus the exhibition set-up presented itself as
transparent and could be experienced by the audience.

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