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Tan Lines - Fredrik Vaerslev

Lukas & Sternberg 2019 ISBN 9783956794308 Acqn 30149
Pb 20x30cm 72pp col ills £33

Fredrik Vaerslev's work has always been about expanding the possibilities and the field of
painting through the interlacing of technical experimentation and conceptual framing. Tan Lines
aims to do the same: to represent an artistic practice in the form of a book.

Displayed at three venues from 2017 to 2018, each of the thirty-two works from the series Sail
Paintings is presented here. Vaerslev's work brings together a wide range of elements, including
nautical symbols, stripes, vividly painted or silkscreened colours, oil drips from the studio floor,
art-historical and autobiographical references co-inhabiting the surface of each piece. In this
book, Vaerslev has placed transparent designs across every page, adding more forms onto the
already multilayered paintings, which are composed of painted canvasses folded and sewn
together into triangles. This gesture, imbuing the works with even more puzzle-like symbolism,
represents yet another step in a practice that is based on constant research and experimentation
with, but also within, his works.

Accompanying the monumental reproductions in this book are two essays, by Giovanni Carmine
and Michelle Cotton, which deconstruct the paintings' iconography and process, and an interview
with the artist by Adrienne Drake.

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Roee Rosen - Desire and Dust

Sternberg Press 2020 ISBN 9783956795459 Acqn 30481
Pb 13x27cm 160pp ills £17.50

Edited by Anne Mikel Jensen, Roee Rosen. Texts by Buried Alive Group, Maxim Komar-Myshkin,
Paul B. Preciado, Roee Rosen, Sergei Tretiakov.

"We're all like carpets, craving suction action-or dirty, dirty is the cleaning market!" - Maxim
Komar-Myshkin

In this book, the animation of commodity objects magically ties together erotic frolics and political
horrors: from a DC07 vacuum cleaner to a detention center for refugees, from little irons, socks
and sweaters, to the particulars of post-Soviet power, and Vladimir Putin.
Desire and Dust includes the newly commissioned text "The Dust Files" written by Paul B.
Preciado and the classic "The Biography of the Object" by Sergei Tretiakov as well as texts by
Roee Rosen and his fictive identities, Maxim Komar-Myshkin and the Buried Alive Group.

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Migration - Traces In An Art Collection

Sternberg Press 2020 ISBN 9783956795473 Acqn 30356
Pb 17x24cm 320pp col ills £21

Texts by Ernst Fischer, Lars-Erik Hjertstrom Lappalainen, Maria Lind, Lotte Lovholm, Joanna
Warsza, Cecilia Widenheim. Preface by Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg. Introduction by Maria Lind and
Cecilia Widenheim

How have artists over the past 150 years related to migration and exile? And what role can a
museum play in times of mass migration? Taking as its starting point the 2019 exhibition
Migration: Traces in an Art Collection, which featured more than a hundred works from Malmo
Konstmuseum made between 1880 and today, this publication brings to light the radical approach
of museum director Ernst Fischer, who in 1945 transformed the museum into a refugee shelter for
survivors of German concentration camps. It also highlights the museum's long-forgotten Latvian
Collection, comprised of art acquired in solidarity with the young Baltic nation and its exiles.
Contrasting works by exiled artists such as Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Lotte Laserstein, Endre Nemes,
and Peter Weiss further animate the discussion, as do the geopolitical concerns of Pia Arke,
Oyvind Fahlstrom, and Charlotte Johannesson. Correspondingly, a conversation with the
exhibition's curators foregrounds the ways in which today's artists reflect upon and articulate
experiences of migration. Together, these re-readings of the collection and its potential contribute
to an urgent debate on the role of museums in our time.

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Beatrice Gibson - Deux Soeurs

Sternberg Press 2020 ISBN 9783956795466 Acqn 30560
Pb 11x18cm 248pp col ills £13.95

Edited by Axel Wieder. Texts by Robert Gluck, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, Eileen Myles,
Alice Notley, Pauline Oliveros, Adrienne Rich, Robert Sanchez. Contributions by Basma Alsharif,
Erika Balsom, CAConrad, Adam Christensen, Beatrice Gibson, Mason Leaver-Yap, Eileen Myles,
Irene Revell. With an introduction by Axel Wieder.

From Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich to Basma Alsharif and Pauline Oliveros, Deux Soeurs
brings together a chorus of voices that explore representations of parenthood, friendship, and
disobedience. The book acts as a reader to artist Beatrice Gibson's films, I Hope I'm Loud When
I'm Dead (2018) and Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (2019), and includes material that
informed Gibson's working process, together with the artist's texts and notes used in both films.
Turning to the figure of the poet as a guide in times of chaos, Deux Soeurs presents a framework
for an ethics of artistic and social collaboration.

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Futurity Report - Counter-Histories Vol. 1

Sternberg Press 2020 ISBN 9783956794230 Acqn 30561
Pb 16x22cm 280pp ills £20.95

Texts by Eric C. H. de Bruyn, T. J. Demos, Haytham El-Wardany, Kodwo Eshun, Natascha Sadr
Haghighian, Sven Lu_tticken, Silvia Maglioni, Pedro Neves Marques, Achille Mbembe, Doreen
Mende, China Mieville, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Johannes Paul Raether, Felicity D. Scott, Kerstin
Stakemeier, Graeme Thomson, Marina Vishmidt, McKenzie Wark.

Not long ago, a melancholic left and a manic neoliberalism seemed to arrive at an awkward
consensus: the foreclosure of futurity. Whereas the former mourned the failure of its utopian
project, the latter celebrated the triumph of a global marketplace. The radical hope of realizing a
singularly different, more equitable future displaced by a belief that the future had already come
to pass, limiting post-historical society to an uneventful life of endless accumulation. Today,
amidst an abundance of neofuturisms, posthumanisms, futurologies, speculative philosophies
and accelerationist scenarios, there is as well an expanding awareness of a looming planetary
catastrophe driven by the extractionist logic of capitalism. Despite this return to the future, the
temporal horizon of our present moment is perhaps more aptly characterized by the "shrinking
future" of just-in-time production, risk management, high-frequency trading, and the futures
market. In Futurity Report, theorists, historians, and artists address the precarious futurity of the
notion of the future itself.

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