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A repository of nine years of drawing and collecting images. All Jacobs' journal drawings from 001 up to 666 are shown. For some of them, different stages of development are included. These stages reveal how a particular drawing evolved, and throughout the book, the evolution of Jacobs' drawing itself can be seen. A book with a huge number of images which, after(...)
Henri Jacobs: journal drawings
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A repository of nine years of drawing and collecting images. All Jacobs' journal drawings from 001 up to 666 are shown. For some of them, different stages of development are included. These stages reveal how a particular drawing evolved, and throughout the book, the evolution of Jacobs' drawing itself can be seen. A book with a huge number of images which, after painstaking labour, have received a place in which they can interact with each other through the eyes of the viewer.
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Filth : dirt, disgust, and modern life / William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson, editors.
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Radical Philosophy 148
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Commentaries: Looking back on May '68 Articles: Art and Immaterial Labour Maurizio Lazzarato: Art, Work and Politics in Societies of Security Judith Revel: Against Idealism and New Vitalisms Franco Berardi/Bifo: Conjunction/Connection Antonio Negri: Concerning Periodization in Art Review: Knox Peden on Bourg's May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought Peter(...)
Radical Philosophy 148
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Commentaries: Looking back on May '68 Articles: Art and Immaterial Labour Maurizio Lazzarato: Art, Work and Politics in Societies of Security Judith Revel: Against Idealism and New Vitalisms Franco Berardi/Bifo: Conjunction/Connection Antonio Negri: Concerning Periodization in Art Review: Knox Peden on Bourg's May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought Peter hallward on Alain Badiou on Sarkozy Gail Day on Marxism and the History of Art Steve Edwards on John Roberts's The Intangibilities of Form Andrew Chitty on David Leopold's The young Karl Marx Fabian Säfer on Re-politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy
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"The practice of dramaturgy" addresses dramaturgy as a shared, politicized and catalytic practice that sets actions into motion in a more speculative, rather than an instructive way. The first part of this publication is 'Dramaturgy as working on actions', explores three working principles that lie at the heart of the editors' propositions, and relates these to debates on(...)
The practice of dramaturgy: working on actions in performance
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"The practice of dramaturgy" addresses dramaturgy as a shared, politicized and catalytic practice that sets actions into motion in a more speculative, rather than an instructive way. The first part of this publication is 'Dramaturgy as working on actions', explores three working principles that lie at the heart of the editors' propositions, and relates these to debates on action, work and post-Fordist labour. The second part, 'Working on actions and beyond', opens up to different artistic, social and political perspectives that such understanding of dramaturgy may give rise to.
Art Theory
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After two decades of experimentation with the digital, the prevalent paradigm of formal continuity is being revised and questioned by an emerging generation of architects and theorists. While the world struggles with a global housing crisis and the impact of accelerated automation on labour, digital designers’ narrow focus on mere style and continuous differentiation(...)
AD Discrete: reappraising the digital in architecture
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After two decades of experimentation with the digital, the prevalent paradigm of formal continuity is being revised and questioned by an emerging generation of architects and theorists. While the world struggles with a global housing crisis and the impact of accelerated automation on labour, digital designers’ narrow focus on mere style and continuous differentiation seems increasingly out of touch. This issue charts an emerging body of work that is based on a computational understanding of the discrete part or building block – elements that are as scalable, accessible and versatile as digital data.
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Batia Suter: La nonpareille
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‘'La Nonpareille'’ expands on Batia Suter’s site-specific installation at TU Delft, in which she engaged with an archive of glass slides from its library. Originally used between 1900 and 1960 for lectures in Mechanical Technology, these visibly worn plates document machines, industrial materials, and production processes during a period of increasing mechanisation. Suter(...)
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‘'La Nonpareille'’ expands on Batia Suter’s site-specific installation at TU Delft, in which she engaged with an archive of glass slides from its library. Originally used between 1900 and 1960 for lectures in Mechanical Technology, these visibly worn plates document machines, industrial materials, and production processes during a period of increasing mechanisation. Suter reworks the material into a visual reflection on the entanglement of humans and machines – and how technology reshapes perception, labour, and everyday life. Many compositions in the book consist of layered montages, where multiple images are overlaid to create new, morphed forms and associations.
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5 Tableaux (It Bounces Back) documents the performance and installation by Chloe¨ Lum & Yannick Desranleau, presented at the Or Gallery (September 2016) and at La Fonderie Darling’s Place Publique) (August 2015, Montreal). Featuring essays by curators Joni Low and Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre, the publication explores ideas of performativity and labour, material resilience(...)
Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau: 5 tableaux (it bounces back)
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5 Tableaux (It Bounces Back) documents the performance and installation by Chloe¨ Lum & Yannick Desranleau, presented at the Or Gallery (September 2016) and at La Fonderie Darling’s Place Publique) (August 2015, Montreal). Featuring essays by curators Joni Low and Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre, the publication explores ideas of performativity and labour, material resilience and decay, the work’s presentation in both public and gallery space, and exchanges between humans and matter that prompt shifts in understandings of agency, causation and relations. A conversation with the artists expands on the deeper personal and political underpinnings in their engagements with entropy and colour.
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Based in Budapest, the Architecture Uncomfortable Workshop is an office that, in addition to planning small projects, always looks for ways to experiment. One of their biggest motivations is attempting to understand contemporary vernacular architecture as they continuously pursue situations where comfort meets real human needs. Their first monograph includes a(...)
Architecture Uncomfortable Workshop au muhely: Planning and building methods
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Based in Budapest, the Architecture Uncomfortable Workshop is an office that, in addition to planning small projects, always looks for ways to experiment. One of their biggest motivations is attempting to understand contemporary vernacular architecture as they continuously pursue situations where comfort meets real human needs. Their first monograph includes a conversation with founders Dénes Emil Ghyczy and Lukács Szederkényi, who began thinking and working together during their university days. The studio’s name refers to the fact that the spaces built by people are brought into being at the cost of significant physical labour, involving both sacrifice and conflict.
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This catalogue takes the reader on a remarkable journey via the legends, themes and worlds that have shaped Canada’s cultural heritage. One hundred and fifty works in all media and created from time immemorial to present day are featured in full page colour plates and foldouts. This range of works documents and celebrates the magnetic north, inhabited landscapes, the(...)
Art in Canada
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This catalogue takes the reader on a remarkable journey via the legends, themes and worlds that have shaped Canada’s cultural heritage. One hundred and fifty works in all media and created from time immemorial to present day are featured in full page colour plates and foldouts. This range of works documents and celebrates the magnetic north, inhabited landscapes, the dignity of labour, Canadians abroad, and the emergence of Inuit art. Central to the publication is a new approach to telling the history of Indigenous visual art with outstanding historical art objects by Indigenous artists, at times in dialogue with those by settler Canadians, while at others, reflecting a distinct Indigenous path.
Canadian art
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The relation between formal and informal may be changing due to the introduction of new technologies and the way these are used. Informality can be interpreted as a positive quality hinting at individual freedom, or even be romanticised as a bottom-up, empowering force. But informality as a safety valve for a system unable to adjust to changing conditions smoothly and(...)
Volume 52: the end of informality
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The relation between formal and informal may be changing due to the introduction of new technologies and the way these are used. Informality can be interpreted as a positive quality hinting at individual freedom, or even be romanticised as a bottom-up, empowering force. But informality as a safety valve for a system unable to adjust to changing conditions smoothly and quickly is another matter. Consider the mass migrations of people who must provide their own housing, or the vast numbers of unemployed who provide labour in a growing economy but are easily discarded later. With texts by Guus Beumer, René Boer, Keller Easterling, Jacqueline Hassink, and others.
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