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Mark Wigley - Konrad Wachsmann's Television - Post-architectural Transmissions

Sternberg Press 2020 ISBN 9783956795350 Acqn 30662
Pb 11x15cm 343pp ills £17.50

In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising
claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann's legendary projects was
dominated by the idea of television. While architecture is typically embarrassed by television,
preferring to act as if it never happened, Wachsmann fully embraced it. Investigating the archives
of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century, Wigley scrutinizes Wachsmann's
design, research, and teaching, closely reading a succession of unseen drawings, models,
photographs, correspondence, publications, syllabi, reports, and manuscripts to argue that
Wachsmann is an anti-architect-a student of some of the most influential designers of the 1920s
that dedicated thirty-five post-Second World War years to the disappearance of architecture.

Wachsmann turned architecture against itself. His hypnotic projects for a new kind of space were
organized around the thought that television liberates a different way of living together.
Wachsmann dissolved buildings into pulsating mirages that were a huge influence on the
experimental avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s. But Konrad Wachsmann's Television: Post-
architectural Transmissions demonstrates that this work was even more extreme than the
experiments it inspired. The book offers a forensic analysis of a career to show that Wachsmann
developed one of the most compelling manifestos of what architecture would need to become in
the age of ubiquitous electronics.

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Master of Voice
Sternberg Press 2020 ISBN 9783956795145 Acqn 30663
Pb 14x21cm 344pp ills £13.50

Contributions by Tyler Coburn, Angelo Custodio, Thom Driver, Paul Elliman, Amelia Groom,
Miyuki Inoue, Danae Io, Jamila Johnson-Small, Bin Koh, Snejanka Mihaylova, Maria Montesi,
MPA, Natasha Papadopoulou, Duncan Robertson, Marnie Slater, Cecile Tafanelli, Mavi Veloso,
Geo Wyeth, Eva Susova

The (non)human voice has always been part of modern art, notably within performance art, sound
art, and conceptual art. However, Master of Voice temporary master program at the Gerrit
Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, mutated from this history, examining the voice as a unique
"discipline." The graduate program's focus was on the (non)human voice as a means to an end or
an end in itself within artistic practice. A special orientation of the curriculum, co-developed with a
team of artists with a longstanding interest in the (non)human voice, is the voice in relation to
technology and gender. This book captures a two-year-long period of research-of thinking,
talking, sharing, learning, making, acting, and creating by students and teachers, artists, and
other practitioners-to find possible answers and approaches to the question of the voice and its
prominent role in our postindustrial society.

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Come Closer - The Biennale Reader

Sternberg Press 2020 ISBN 9783956795701 Acqn 30719
Pb 14x21cm 304pp col ills £16.50

Foreword by Vit Havranek, Tereza Stejskalova. Introduction by Veronika Janatkov

Contributions by Jerome Bazin, Heather Berg, Pavel Berky, Anna Daucikova, Patrick D. Flores,
Isabela Grosseova, Vit Havranek, Marie Iljasenko, Rado Istok, Barbora Kleinhamplova, Eva
Kotatkova, Katerina Liskova, Ewa Majewska, Tuan Mami, Alice Nikitinova, Alma Lily Rayner,
Sarah Sharma, Jirka Skala, Adela Souralova, Matej Spurny, Edita Stejskalova, Tereza
Stejskalova, Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, Simone Wille.

Come Closer: The Biennale Reader, published on the occasion of the inaugural Prague biennale,
considers the present via counter-hegemonic readings of the past. The book explores various
perspectives of class, race, and gender differences in post-socialist states, past and present. In
societies today that can seem fragmented, alienated, and sealed-off, a feeling of "us" and "them"
can potentially emerge. The reliance on a common language to bring people closer often does
the opposite, leading to feelings of contempt, anxiety, and fear. By drawing attention to themes of
intimacy, care, and empathy, the contributions in this book search for new types of
communication that can bring people together. Like language, art can be used to mediate these
differences, and to examine issues relating to how people coexist in society.

Come Closer comprises republished texts as well as newly commissioned contributions from both
emerging and established artists, social and political scientists, and art historians from Eastern
Europe, Asia, and the United States.

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