C magazine 157 : Kink
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New issue now available at the bookstore! Kink gives us an opportunity to question the limits of convention as they meet with hierarchical systems. Taking kink as a shapeshifter—a conscious negotiation of desire and relations based on principles like consent—this issue embraces queerness, disobedience, disruption, and complex embodiment. Through artistic explorations(...)
C magazine 157 : Kink
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New issue now available at the bookstore! Kink gives us an opportunity to question the limits of convention as they meet with hierarchical systems. Taking kink as a shapeshifter—a conscious negotiation of desire and relations based on principles like consent—this issue embraces queerness, disobedience, disruption, and complex embodiment. Through artistic explorations of BDSM, impact play, subspace, fan fiction, eroticized debt, Indigenous-settler relations, and more, contributors dive into the fleshy and political consequences of desire as sites to reinvent our bonds to one another.
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Who are all these Evas? They puncture and disrupt the domestic space and equilibrium of the narrator, who alternately relies upon them or administers their care. Foam is the latest boundary-blurring, genre-resistant, strange and speculative new fiction from Kate Zambreno, the inimitable and relentless literary stylist and conceptualist. Inspired by the absurdities of Eva(...)
Foam
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Who are all these Evas? They puncture and disrupt the domestic space and equilibrium of the narrator, who alternately relies upon them or administers their care. Foam is the latest boundary-blurring, genre-resistant, strange and speculative new fiction from Kate Zambreno, the inimitable and relentless literary stylist and conceptualist. Inspired by the absurdities of Eva Hesse and other soft sculpture, these are speculative art essays and textures, a document of precarity and slippery time—mischievous, moody, estranged—a masterwork of tone and atmosphere.
Art Theory
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This book consists of twelve chapters written by leading scholars, each spotlighting ideas emanating from a particular field which helped to shape Modernism, including eugenics, primitivism, Freudianism, and Nietzscheanism. Each contributor goes into their topic in some depth, but also pays attention to the impact it had on overarching issues. At the same time, the(...)
A concise companion to modernism
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This book consists of twelve chapters written by leading scholars, each spotlighting ideas emanating from a particular field which helped to shape Modernism, including eugenics, primitivism, Freudianism, and Nietzscheanism. Each contributor goes into their topic in some depth, but also pays attention to the impact it had on overarching issues. At the same time, the contributors identify contemporary developments in other disciplines, especially art, architecture, music, film and philosophy, which paralleled developments in poetry, fiction and drama. Each chapter concludes with a brief guide to further reading.
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Space Fictions: Booklets on architecture and cinema (Being John Malkovich. Spike Jonze, 1999)
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This book, published by Circo de Ideias and edited by Francisco Ferreira, with an essay by Susana Ventura, presents a critical and visual approach to Spike Jonze’s 1999 film Being John Malkovich. "Space Fictions – Booklets on Architecture and Cinema (Being John Malkovich. Spike Jonze, 1999)" is part of a collection developed as a space for reflection on the relationship(...)
Space Fictions: Booklets on architecture and cinema (Being John Malkovich. Spike Jonze, 1999)
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This book, published by Circo de Ideias and edited by Francisco Ferreira, with an essay by Susana Ventura, presents a critical and visual approach to Spike Jonze’s 1999 film Being John Malkovich. "Space Fictions – Booklets on Architecture and Cinema (Being John Malkovich. Spike Jonze, 1999)" is part of a collection developed as a space for reflection on the relationship between architecture and cinema, in the sense that both disciplines recognise themselves as artificial devices that make it possible to reach and manipulate the senses of space.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Trajets explore les problématiques architecturales liées au phénomène mondial d’une mobilité grandissante. Sous forme de récits de fiction, différents auteurs nous présentent ici des concepts essentiels permettant d’appréhender les effets des déplacements de personnes, d’animaux, de biens et d’idées. Le vagabondage des noix, le transfert de compétences et de pratiques(...)
Trajets : comment la mobilité des fruits, des idées et des architectures recompose notre environnement
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Trajets explore les problématiques architecturales liées au phénomène mondial d’une mobilité grandissante. Sous forme de récits de fiction, différents auteurs nous présentent ici des concepts essentiels permettant d’appréhender les effets des déplacements de personnes, d’animaux, de biens et d’idées. Le vagabondage des noix, le transfert de compétences et de pratiques ou encore, la réorganisation physique de communautés, ne sont que quelques-uns parmi les divers sujets abordés. Trajets analyse et rend visible comment ces flux, ces rencontres et ces migrations transforment de manière surprenante nos sociétés et notre environnement bâti.
CCA Publications
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Depuis plus de 70 ans, les fanzines sont un terrain d'expression privilégié pour des cultures alternatives. Ils abordent des sujets aussi variés que la science-fiction, les comics, la musique, la politique, le féminisme... Avec plus de 750 illustrations, cet ouvrage présente des publications pertinentes de l'histoire du fanzine. Depuis les premiers fanzines faits à la(...)
Fanzines: la révolution du DIY
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Depuis plus de 70 ans, les fanzines sont un terrain d'expression privilégié pour des cultures alternatives. Ils abordent des sujets aussi variés que la science-fiction, les comics, la musique, la politique, le féminisme... Avec plus de 750 illustrations, cet ouvrage présente des publications pertinentes de l'histoire du fanzine. Depuis les premiers fanzines faits à la main jusqu'aux e-zines numériques contemporains. Des fanzines punk cultes jusqu'à des publications qui ont ensuite évolué en magazines renommés, les collections présentées au long des pages expriment toute la richesse d'un univers subversif et débordant d'énergie.
Printed Matter
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Travelling exhibition catalogue (Middelburg, Milan, Paris) of an exhibition project presenting 12 emerging young artists, providing a theoretical hypothesis on the use and manipulation of forms, images and texts, highlighting both their formal implications and their philosophical, political and social content.The artists will thus not only reflect on the potential themes(...)
Beyond the dust : artists' documents today
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Travelling exhibition catalogue (Middelburg, Milan, Paris) of an exhibition project presenting 12 emerging young artists, providing a theoretical hypothesis on the use and manipulation of forms, images and texts, highlighting both their formal implications and their philosophical, political and social content.The artists will thus not only reflect on the potential themes raised by the various components, but will offer a broader reflection on the contemporary meaning of memory, and hence authenticity, fiction and falsehood. Artists include Richard Sympson, Batia Suter, Irene Kopelman, Jeroen Kooijmans, Invernomuto, Mark Geffriaud, Linda Fregni Nagler, Diego Marcon and others.
Art Theory
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Science fiction has historically been seen as a masculine domain, but from the very beginning women have made their mark. To the ranks of Mary Shelley and C. L. Moore, we should add Clare Winger Harris, whose pulp stories in the early twentieth century influenced the boom of modern writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood. In this new collection, author and(...)
The artificial man and other stories
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Science fiction has historically been seen as a masculine domain, but from the very beginning women have made their mark. To the ranks of Mary Shelley and C. L. Moore, we should add Clare Winger Harris, whose pulp stories in the early twentieth century influenced the boom of modern writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood. In this new collection, author and scholar Brad Ricca assembles ten of Harris's greatest short stories, including "The Fifth Dimension," "The Fate of the Poseidonia," "The Menace of Mars," and "The Vibrometer."
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One of the giants of American art, Wayne Thiebaud was at first unappreciated because of the everyday subject matter of his paintings. His tasty hot dogs, delectable cakes, dizzy streets, and sleepy deltas have since become icons of twentieth century art. Now young readers have the chance to explore the development of a fascinating artist while delighting in the very(...)
Delicious: the life and art of Wayne Thiebaud
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One of the giants of American art, Wayne Thiebaud was at first unappreciated because of the everyday subject matter of his paintings. His tasty hot dogs, delectable cakes, dizzy streets, and sleepy deltas have since become icons of twentieth century art. Now young readers have the chance to explore the development of a fascinating artist while delighting in the very child-friendly art that has made him so acclaimed. With her deft touch, critically-acclaimed non-fiction author Susan Rubin tells the story of the man behind the masterpieces.
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October 2008
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In Ready Unmade, a piece commissioned by the frieze art fair, Kurant further explores the thin line between fiction and reality, purposelessness and function: the artist presents a trio of trained parrots that have been taught to use an alternative language. Both a reflection on nature behaving unnaturally and a caricature of the zoo-like atmosphere of the art fair and(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
October 2009
Agnieszka Kurant: unknown unknown
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In Ready Unmade, a piece commissioned by the frieze art fair, Kurant further explores the thin line between fiction and reality, purposelessness and function: the artist presents a trio of trained parrots that have been taught to use an alternative language. Both a reflection on nature behaving unnaturally and a caricature of the zoo-like atmosphere of the art fair and the self-reflexive communication of the art world. Referring to two similar but unrealized projects by other artists, Kurant also questions the notions of copyright and the marketplace.
Contemporary Art Monographs