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Shezad Dawood Kalimpong

Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792762 Acqn 26774
Hb 23x29cm 94pp 84ills 59col 27.50
Contributions by Tenzing Barshee, Shezad Dawood, Kai Friese, Alexander Keefe, Barbara
Sirieix, Rosie Thomas
Its 1912. We find ourselves in Kalimpong, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. We are in the
company of the eccentric Belgian-French explorer Alexandra David-Nel. She is planning a
secretive, forbidden journey into Tibet Fast forward to the 1960s. Kalimpong has become a
hotbed of espionage, denounced by the Chinese as a nest of spies after being used by
everyone from the Russians to the CIA, the nascent Indian secret service, some remaining British
colonial stalwarts, Tibetan Khamba guerillas, and the Chinese themselves, of course. There are
mountains, caves, and secret passages. Indeed, it has all the hallmarks of a remarkable
adventure
Kalimpong is an artist project in book form by the London-based artist Shezad Dawood. Set in
Kalimpong at various moments from 1912 to the present day, Dawoods project is part fact, part
fiction. There are explorers and spies, poets and travellers, lovers and strangers, princesses and
humanoids, all strangely connected across the globe through this curious Indian town.
To develop the story, Dawood invited a number of international writers and cultural commentators
to contribute texts, opting for an exquisite corpse method, whereby writers recommended or
responded to other writers, resulting in some surprising twists.
The publication accompanies an immersive virtual-reality work of the same name by the artist,
which premiered at Timothy Taylor gallery, London, in the fall of 2016.

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How to Know What's Really Happening

Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792724 Acqn 26775
Pb 10x15cm 56pp 5.25
Edited by Mai Abu ElDahab, Maha Maamoun, Ala Younis
In this post-truth era, how does one navigate the endless information available and choose a
viable narrative of reality? In How to Know Whats Really Happening Glasgow-based writer and
curator Francis McKee looks at various techniques for determining verity, from those of spy
agencies and whistle-blowers to mystics and scientists.
This is the third book in the Kayfa ta series, a publishing initiative of artists Maha Maamoun and
Ala Younis. Each book in the series is a monographic essay commissioned in the style of how-to
manuals that situate themselves in the space between the technical and the reflective, the
everyday and the speculative, the instructional and the intuitive, and the factual and the fictional.

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ARS VIVA 2017

Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792571 Acqn 26776
Pb 21x28cm 120pp 70ills 46col 21
Edited by Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e. V.
Texts by Burcu Dogramaci, Zita Cobb and Nicolaus Schafhausen, Florian Ebner, Annegret
Laabs, Anna Prizkau, Moritz Wesseler, Tirdad Zolghadr
The ars viva Prize has been awarded annually since 1953 to young artists living in Germany
whose work stands out for its innovative potential and high artistic quality. The recipients of this
years prize are Jan Paul Evers, Leon Kahane, and Jumana Manna.
In the work of Jan Paul Evers, both pre-existing and original motifs serve as the basis for blackand-white photographs made using a combination of digital and analogue processes. The images
have a visual effect that transcends the boundary between painting and photography, while
reflecting on the reproducibility of the medium itself. In his videos, photographs, and installations,
Leon Kahane addresses economic migration and the construction of territorial borders. The
politics of his images takes in medial upheaval and global developments. In her video and
sculptural work, Jumana Manna develops narratives that can be read as possible histories.
These histories, along with archaeological discoveries, interrogate the concept of national cultural
heritage.
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James Richards - Requests And Antisongs

Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792861 Acqn 26783
Pb 24x30cm 170pp 129ills 84col 19.95
Edited by Mason Leaver-Yap, James Richards
Contributions by Ed Atkins, Dan Fox, Fatima Hellberg, Chris McCormack, Steve Reinke
Requests and Antisongs is an artists book to accompany a sequence of exhibitions by James
Richards held at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; and the
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover. The book contains a series of visual essays by the artist,
documentation of recent exhibitions, as well as essays by Dan Fox, Ed Atkins, Steve Reinke,
Chris McCormack, and Fatima Hellberg.
In Richardss work, images and sounds are merged into highly affective videos that combine
footage from a wide range of sources to form elegant compositions. His recent projects separate
these elements out again, allowing space for multichannel audio installations that combine sound
in a way that is physical and spatial. The video works convene materials according to the silent
rhythms and movements of the footage they containfootage from newscasts, medical
documentaries, and French erotica as well as the institutions own archives of video
documentationcomposing a lyrical meditation on the body as a site for the flow of material and
sensation.
This book, the most significant publication on Richardss work to date, is an extension of the
shows, transposing the strategies of his exhibition making into the rhythm of printed matter. The
artist has developed a new series of collages specially for the book, comprising promiscuous
relations and dissonant juxtapositions between photographic documentation of the works in the
exhibitions, the artists personal photographs, and found images.

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Boris Groys - Particular Cases

Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792212 Acqn 26784
Pb 13x21cm 296pp 61ills 19.50
This collection of essays does not aim to illustrate a prefabricated theory of art, but rather follows
the impulses given by artworks themselves. Philosopher and art critic Boris Groys writes about
significant works and artists over the last century that have pushed his thinking in new directions.
His compelling arguments do not try to replace the singular content or message of an artwork.
Instead, his writings are inspired by art as a mind-changing practiceas if contemporary artists,
completely secularised, can still produce a kind of conversion within the spectator. Particular
Cases is an original exploration of pivotal concerns related to the development of contemporary
artoriginality and repetition, the valuation of artworks, materiality and production, historical and
personal archives, and the language of power.
Featuring essays on Pawe Althamer, Francis Als, Yael Bartana, Paul Chan, Olga Chernysheva,
Marcel Duchamp, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Martin Honert, Rebecca Horn, IRWIN, Wassily
Kandinsky, Piero Manzoni, Anri Sala, Thomas Schtte, Mladen Stilinovi, Inga Svala Thorsdottir
and Wu Shanzhuan, Jeff Wall, Andy Warhol.

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David Harvey - Abstract from the Concrete

Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792618 Acqn 26785
Pb 14x21cm 174pp 10.95
Featuring an interview with David Harvey by Mariano Gomez Luque and Daniel Ibaez
Marxist geographer David Harvey opened his lecture with a fact: between 2011 and 2013 China
consumed 50 percent more cement than the United States had in the entire twentieth century. In
Abstract from the Concrete, he asks why. Spiralling outwardgeographically and materially
Harvey travels from the building industry in China to the foreclosed housing market in the United
States to the automobile industry in So Paolo and back again. The why emerges as a direct
result of anti-value, of capital in crisisintrinsic, he contends, to capital and capital cities today.
The Incidents is a series of publications based on events that occurred at the Harvard University
Graduate School of Design between 1936 and tomorrow.

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EP Vol. 2 - Design Fiction

Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956790485 Acqn 26786
Pb 13x20cm ills 19.50
Contributions by Paola Antonelli, The Atlas Group (19892004), Alex Coles, Anthony Dunne,
James Dyer, Umberto Eco, Vilm Flusser, Verina Gfader, Huib Haye van der Werf, Will Holder,
Sophie Krier, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Lucas Maassen, Valle Medina, Philippe Morel, Rick Poynor,
Fiona Raby, Benjamin Reynolds, Hiroko Shiratori, Bruce Sterling
After the first EP volume on the activities of the early Italian avant-garde, the second volume in
the series identifies the current fascination with fiction across art, design, and architecture.
Practitioners and theorists explore this strategy by pushing the debate into both speculative and
real-fictitious terrains. Newly commissioned interviews, artist projects, and essays shed light on
topics such as parafiction and algorithmic ambiguity. Included in the volume is one of the final
interviews to be published with novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco; a conversation with Bruce
Sterling, in which the science-fiction author responds to designers who reference his writings; and
design theorist Vilm Flussers 1966 essay On Fiction, in its first English translation.
The EP series fluidly moves between art, design, and architecture, and introduces the notion of
the extended play into publishing, with thematically edited pocket books as median between
popular magazines (single play) and academic journals (long play).

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