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How to Frame - On the Threshold of Performing and Visual Arts

Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792472 Acqn 26524
Pb 18x22cm 192pp 130ills 32col 13.50
With contributions by Claire Bishop, Ellen Blumenstein, Gabriele Brandstetter, Corpus-Network,
Franz Anton Cramer, Boris Charmatz, Tim Etchells, Christian Falsnaes, Barbara Gronau,
Dorothea von Hantelmann, Matthias von Hartz, Carolin Hochleichter, William Kentridge, Ragnar
Kjartansson, La Ribot, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Rabih Mrou, Jrn Schafaff, Shelley Senter, Stefan
Troebst, Katleen Van Langendonck, Catherine Wood, Adela Yawitz
From 2012 to 2016, Foreign Affairs, the international performing arts festival of Berliner
Festspiele, and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) have been investigating the relations
between the performing and visual arts. The festival has continuously produced projects with
international artists that experiment with various institutional frameworks. This book is both a
question and a manual, collecting ideas, knowledge and experiences that stem from the theory
and practices developed over the past few years.

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The Baltic Atlas - Venice Biennale 2016

Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792489 Acqn 26541
Hb 13x21cm 336pp 82ills 52col 25.50
Edited by Krlis Brzi, Jurga Daubarait, Petras Iora, Ona Lozuraityt, Niklvs Paegle,
Dagnija Smilga, Johan Tali, Laila Zaria, Jonas ukauskas
Contributions by bke, Indrek Allmann, Reinis zis, Viesturs Celmi, Nancy Couling, Tom
Crosshill, Muriz Djurdjevic, Leonidas Donskis, Jnis Dripe, Keller Easterling, David Grandorge,
Felix Hummel, Gustav Kalm, Karolis Kaupinis, Maro Krivy, Carl-Dag Lige, Laura Linsi, Jonathan
Lovekin, Agata Marzecova, Timothy Morton, Kaja Pae, Thomas Paturet, Ljeta Putne, Egl
Rindzeviit, Markus Schaefer, Jack Self, Nasrine Seraji, Tuomas Toivonen, Nomeda and
Gediminas Urbonas, Jnis Ua, Aro Velmet, Ines Weizman
The Baltic Atlas, published in conjunction with the exhibition of the Baltic States Pavilion at the
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016, is a gradient between two questions. The first: what is it
possible to imagine? focuses on interpretations, fictional stories, analyses, and reflections on the
ongoing processes, and proposes future projections. The second: what is possible? is an inquiry
into the methods, resources, and parameters that define space.

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Kate Cooper - Look Book

Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792250 Acqn 26516
Pb 24x33cm 80pp 45col ills 18.95
Edited by Ellen Blumenstein, Heike Catherina Mertens
Texts by Hannah Black, Ellen Blumenstein, Christina Weiss, Catherine Wood
This publication accompanies the first institutional solo show by Kate Cooper, winner of the 2014
Schering Stiftung Art Award. Exploring the format and presentation inherent to image production,
Cooper returns to the CGI female models used in her exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary
Art, Berlin, to create a new series of works situated with the fictional space of the lookbook.
Through her videos, exhibitions, and photographic works, Cooper explores the role of gender and
what agency images might possess in and of themselves. Producing images becomes akin to
building infrastructure; her computer-generated bodies are imbued with power and put to work.
The imagery of advertising is hacked. The female labor inherent in these modes of production
becomes refocused in an economy of withdrawal, enacting a refusal of representation.
Along with Coopers new series of images, LOOK BOOK includes a new short story by Hannah
Black titled Personal Trainer, appendices by KW curator Ellen Blumenstein, an introduction by
Christina Weiss, and subtitles and slogans (Is seeing everything? Are you all-unseeing?) by
Catherine Wood.
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Bulletins of The Serving Library 11

Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792540 Acqn 26574
Pb 12x17cm 176pp 64ills 54col 12.75
Edited by Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Angie Keefer, David Reinfurt
Contributions by Muhammad Ali, Lucas Benjamin, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Dexter Sinister,
Umberto Eco, Emily Gephart, James Langdon, Tamara Shopsin, Amy Sillman, T. E. White
Released to inaugurate The Serving Librarys new red, gold, and green space in Liverpool, this
issue is both printed in and concerned with colour. It includes Emily Gepharts account of the
Spectra Poetry Hoax of 1916, a truncated phone call from Dexter Sinister to Laszlo Moholy-Nagy,
the late, great Muhammad Ali discussing skin colour in a 1971 TV interview, reflections on the
history of Chroma-key green by Lucas Benjamin, a personal history of paint and painting by Amy
Sillman, and further contributions by T. E. White, Umberto Eco, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Tamara
Shopsin, and James Langdon.

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Dysfunctional Comedy - A Reader

Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792564 Acqn 26575
Pb 13x20cm 118pp 45ills 38col 15.25
Contributions by Aron Flam, Anna Kinbom, Lars-Erik Hjertstrm Lappalainen, Sally OReilly, Lvia
Pldi, Roee Rosen, Olav Westphalen
Dysfunctional Comedy documents a series of public events, performances, and workshops
conceptualized by German-American artist Olav Westphalen and organized with different
partners, mainly in Sweden, between 2012 and 2015. An intersection of practices, ideas, and
images, this artists book/catalogue engages with representatives of different traditions and
genres in comedic and cartoonist practices to reflect on the rich history of stand-up comedy and
political satire.
The publication features more than fifteen artists and writers who engage with a variety of
comedic techniques, often as a way to subvert the strategies and themes of stand-up comedy
and rethink artistic performativity and audience participation. Public speech and the ways of
addressing sensitive issues, stereotypes, taboos, and power relations are also examined, not
only to seek new modes of public address, but to look critically at the art world and culturalpolitical operations, conservatism, and inflexibility.

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