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Stephen Sutcliffe - At Fifty

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794049 Acqn 29664
Pb 21x30cm 90pp 130ills 100col £24.75

Edited by James Clegg

Contributions by Ilsa Colsell, Michelle Cotton, Dan Fox

at Fifty is the first catalogue dedicated to Stephen Sutcliffe. Both a microcosm and macrocosm of
the processes at play in his works, it is also something of an artist's book, one that, typical of the
artist's critical practice, formally addresses questions about the value of the monologue, the
archive, and the status of the artist.

at Fifty documents how Sutcliffe's work has developed and how the means for channeling his
deconstructive sensibility has been honed. It includes commissioned essays and an interview
with the artist. Dan Fox's essay, "Be In My Broadcast, When This Is Over," looks at television,
that one-time pillar of British culture that was as formative for him as it was for Sutcliffe. "Overlaid,
not removed," by Ilsa Colsell, focuses on Sutcliffe's use of collage for the deft yet deliberately
overt repurposing of signs and symbols. And an interview conducted by Michelle Cotton delves
into Sutcliffe's assimilation of interruptions, creative blocks, and anxiety. Taken together with the
artist's vision for this special publication, at Fifty brings to life, for the first time in book form, a
remarkable and distinctive practice that now spans over twenty years.

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Nina Canell – Reflexologies

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794827 Acqn 29674
Hb 17x24cm 384pp 200col ills £29.95

Texts by Martin Herbert, Jennifer Teets, and Robin Watkins

Conversation between Nicole Starosielski and Alexander R. Galloway

Cable cuts, energetics, and gunk: moving back and forth between a group of core subjects,
Reflexologies converts the past five years of Nina Canell's sculptural work into a 384-page book.
It is interrupted throughout by a lagged conversation and three new texts: Martin Herbert reflects
on subsea cable stumps and the generative potential of gaps; Jennifer Teets considers flexible
pneus and viscous processes; while Robin Watkins tackles a slow real-time collaboration. Images
have been grouped in a loosely chronological sequence, allowing exhibition views to fold out into
parallel trajectories that foreground Canell's ongoing preoccupation with the configuration and
breakdown of material relations.

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The Art of Direct Action - Social Sculpture and Beyond

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794858 Acqn 29689
Pb 14x21cm 308pp 55ills £18.95

Texts by Karen van den Berg, Mary Jane Jacob, Cara Jordan, Grant Kester, Philipp Kleinmichel,
Kuda Production, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Marina Naprushkina, Dan Peterman, Rainer
Rappmann, Pedro Reyes, John Roberts, Gregory Sholette, Caroline Tisdall, Anton Vidokle,
Caroline Woolard

One of the most significant shifts in contemporary art during the past two decades concerns
artists and collectives who have moved their artistic focus from representation to direct social
action. This publication shows why this transition might change our understanding of artistic
production at large and make us reconsider the role of art in society. The book gathers
internationally recognized artists, scholars, and experts in the field of socially engaged art to
reflect upon historical developments in this field and explore the role that German artist Joseph
Beuys's concept of social sculpture played in its evolution. The contributions provide theoretical
reflections, historical analysis, and frame critical debates about exemplary socially engaged art
projects since the 1970s in order to examine the strategies, opportunities, and failures of this
practice.

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Igor Grubic - Traces Of Disappearing (Venice Biennale 2019 Croatia)

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794926 Acqn 29672
Hb 17x23cm 432pp 500ills 350col £30

Igor Grubic has been actively working as a multimedia artist from the beginning of the 1990s. His
work includes photography, film, and site-specific interventions in public spaces. Since 2000 he is
also a producer and author of documentaries, TV reports, and socially committed commercials.

Grubic's project for the 58th Venice Biennale, Traces of Disappearing in Three Acts (2006-19), is
already thirteen years in the making. It consists of three interrelated photo essays and an
animated film, set in a specially designed mise-en-scene. The project began in 2006 when the
artist began documenting the transition Croatia was facing after the war, with a particular focus on
the shift from socialism to capitalism, from a central, stated-planned system to a free market
economy. It explores how this has affected changes in habitation, the urban fabric, public space,
and social relations.

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Art, Self & System

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794889 Acqn 29699
Pb 16x23cm 328pp 200ills 170col £19.50

Contributions by Jeremy Ayer, Velibor Barisic, Donatella Bernardi, Amos Bollag, Katharina
Brandl, Clifford E. Bruckmann, Gioia Dal Molin, Philip Frowein, Desiree Myriam Gnaba, Noelle
Guidon, Adrian Hanselmann, Vanessa Heer, Dijan Kahrimanovic, Maya Lama, Matthias Liechti,
Romain Mader, Marisa Meier, Javor Milanov, Fidel Morf, Angi Nend, Dominic Neuwirth, Leila
Peacock, Elodie Pong, Dorothee Richter, Nils Roller, Evan Ruetsch, Antonio Scarponi, Christoph
Schifferli, Claudia Stockli, Aurelie Strumans, Raphael Stucky, Jan Vorisek

The artist as entrepreneur has become a common topic of discussion. Here, however, we put
forward the notions of "self" and "system." First, every artistic practice is self-reflexive and self-
contextualizing. Second, each system an artist builds allows for innovation. Let's construct a
space where we inevitably find ourselves together with others, even if we feel lonely, like a witch
lost in a library of artists' books. Let's invent our right to do so. Let's enter the world of smell and
write about a megalomaniac art school while documenting a generation of art students and their
studios with analogue photography. How does anyone even manage-from making objects to
performing one's own existence? Device, organon, animal.

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Materialisation In Art & Design (MAD)

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794834 Acqn 29700
Pb 14x21cm 248pp 60ills 30col £13.25

Contributions by Carly Rose Bedford and Gabriel A. Maher, Koen Brams, Jeroen van den Eijnde,
Jens Pfeifer, Snejanka Mihaylova and Lisette Smits, Herman Verkerk and Maurizio Montalti, MAD
Alumni: Oliver Barstow, Carly Rose Bedford, Iris Box, Anne Buscher, Dominique Festa, Mio
Fujimaki, Thom van Hoek, Caroline Jacob, Julien Manaira, Johan Buskov Romme, Ellen Vartun

When making things without prior knowledge of "the material," how should such naive and
potentially brutal behavior be interpreted, and what does it represent and generate? The
temporary master Materialisation in Art & Design (MAD) investigated this question through
multiple ways of working, on a permanent quest to (re)establish our relationship with "material" on
both a personal and a societal level. This book reflects on the experiences generated through the
lens of MAD. With contributions from the program directors, MAD alumni, and experts in the field,
it examines the position of the workshop within the art academy. By implication, it also reflects on
the need for collective creative output in an increasingly individualized society, questioning the
traditional frameworks of art and design education.

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What about Activism?

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794728 Acqn 29736
Pb 12x19cm 272pp £16.50

Texts by Defne Ayas, Ute Meta Bauer, Nicolas Bourriaud, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Joshua
Decter, Clementine Deliss, Irmgard Emmelhainz, Boris Groys, Hou Hanru, Pi Li, Maria Lind,
Steven Henry Madoff, Antonia Majaca, Gabi Ngcobo, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jack Persekian with
Alison Carmel Ramer, Maria Belen Saez de Ibarra, Terry Smith, Nato Thompson, Mick Wilson,
Brian Kuan Wood, Tirdad Zolghadr

With the global rise of a politics of shock driven by authoritarian regimes that subvert the rule of
law and civil liberties, what paths to resistance, sanctuary, and change can cultural institutions
offer? What about activism in curatorial practice? In this book, more than twenty leading curators
and thinkers about contemporary art present powerful case studies, historical analyses, and
theoretical perspectives that address the dynamics of activism, protest, and advocacy. What
unfolds in these pages is a vast range of ideas-a tool kit for cultural producers everywhere to
engage audiences and face the fierce political challenges of today and tomorrow.

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Our Happy Life - Architecture And Well-Being In The Age Of Emotional Capitalism
Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794865 Acqn 29665
Pb 17x24cm 326pp 170ills 140col £18

Contributions by Will Davies, Daniel Fujiwara, Simon Fujiwara, Ingo Niermann, Deane Simpson,
Mirko Zardini

How do we design our cities when our most intimate experiences are incessantly tracked and our
feelings become the base of new modes of production that prioritize the immaterial over the
material? Since the 2008 financial crisis, lists of well-being indicators, happiness indexes, and
quality-of-life rankings have become viral. Concurrently, the emotional data presented in these
surveys-including perceptions on questions such as loneliness, friendship, and intimate fears-
feed an expanding political agenda of happiness and a new form of market whose most decisive
asset is "affect."

Our Happy Life investigates the architectural implications of this trend by dissecting and
questioning the political, economic, and emotional conditions that generate space today.
Organized as a visual narrative with critical readings by Will Davies, Daniel Fujiwara, Simon
Fujiwara, Ingo Niermann, Deane Simpson, and Mirko Zardini, the book reveals architecture, city,
and landscape as contested surfaces, caught between the intangible guidelines of happiness
indexes, the new marketplace of emotions, and the relentless ideology of positivity.

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Irma Blank - Eigenschriften, 1968-1973

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794209 Acqn 29716
Hb 22x31cm 406pp col ills £35

Linguistic and visual representation intersect in Irma Blank's pastel-colored, script-like

"Eigenschriften" (Self-Writings, 1968-73), a series of drawings considered the starting point of the
artist's mature work. The cycle stems from Blank's experience moving to Italy in the 1960s from
Germany, where she was born in 1934. No longer surrounded by her native language and unable
to express herself through words, this form of writing became a type of escape for Blank. The
slender lines of these works are reminiscent of writing, but one that is incomprehensible. Without
any specific meaning, the work is pure sensation transmitted from the hand to the surface of the
page, from the body to the work.

Alongside more than three hundred full-color reproductions of the "Eigenschriften" works, this
extensive monograph includes a text by Luca Lo Pinto examining the artistic and historical
influences on Blank's cycle of drawings, considered "an exercise of subtraction to reach a basic
form of writing," while Douglas Fogle's essay looks at Blank's work through the lens of artists
such as Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage, in terms of a shared practice of repetition, as well
as the work of the writers Robert Walser and W. G. Sebald.

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Design by Accident - For a New History of Design

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956791437 Acqn 29789
Pb 11x20cm 408pp £18.95

In Design by Accident, Alexandra Midal declares the autonomy of design-in and on its own terms.
This meticulously researched work proposes not only a counterhistory but a new historiography of
design, shedding light on overlooked historical landmarks and figures while reevaluating the
legacies of design's established luminaries from the nineteenth century to the present. Midal
rejects both linear narratives of progress and the long-held perception of design as a footnote to
the histories of fine art and architecture. By weaving together critical analysis of the canon of
design history and theory, with special attention to the writings of designers themselves, she
draws out the nuances and radical potentials of the discipline-from William Morris's ambivalence
toward industry, to Catharine Beecher's proto-feminist household appliances, to the Bauhaus's
Expressionist origins and the influence of Herbert Marcuse on Joe Colombo.

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Stop and Go - Nodes of Transformation and Transition

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794957 Acqn 29790
Pb 17x22cm 245pp 68ills 47col £18.95

With contributions by Johanna Kandl, Emiliya Karaboeva, Sonja Leimer, Juan Moreno, Katarzyna
Osiecka, Tarmo Pikner, Tatjana Vukosavljevic

Stop and Go: Nodes of Transformation and Transition is a research project by architect and artist
Michael Hieslmair and cultural historian Michael Zinganel that focuses on the transformation of
the informal hubs, terminals, and nodes along Pan-European transport corridors in Eastern
Europe and Vienna. Following the fall of the Iron Curtain, the expansion of the EU, and the need
to improve infrastructure and develop faster connections between places, the public realm at the
margins and even in the center of the cities were and continue to be affected.

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