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This book chronicles a 10-year study conducted by architect, educator and urban planner Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti, in which she studies the informal settlements of underprivileged communities in Brazil by inhabiting the spaces herself. This research underscores labor as the key factor determining the nature of such spaces.
Housing shaped by labour: the architecture of scarcity in informal settlements
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This book chronicles a 10-year study conducted by architect, educator and urban planner Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti, in which she studies the informal settlements of underprivileged communities in Brazil by inhabiting the spaces herself. This research underscores labor as the key factor determining the nature of such spaces.
Collective Housing
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Using the case study of Moravia, Colombia, this book presents an alternative approach to urban planning for similar neighborhoods, focusing largely on the participation of local residents. Essays and international examples of this method contextualize the Moravia project.
Collective Housing
March 2019
Moravia manifesto: coding strategies for informal neighbourhoods
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Using the case study of Moravia, Colombia, this book presents an alternative approach to urban planning for similar neighborhoods, focusing largely on the participation of local residents. Essays and international examples of this method contextualize the Moravia project.
Collective Housing
Creative heritage
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"Creative Heritage" documents the ideas of urban planners, architects, artists and economic and ecological experts who have worked together to create the Hannover Creative Heritage Agenda. The book compiles contributions from 42 authors, including Filipe Barata, UNESCO Chair and sponsor of the Creative Heritage initiative.
April 2019
Creative heritage
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"Creative Heritage" documents the ideas of urban planners, architects, artists and economic and ecological experts who have worked together to create the Hannover Creative Heritage Agenda. The book compiles contributions from 42 authors, including Filipe Barata, UNESCO Chair and sponsor of the Creative Heritage initiative.
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The emergence of densely populated towns within extremely rural landscapes is the hallmark of urbanization in Ethiopia. This book examines one such town, Amdework. The authors construct a profile that reveals a broader geographic view of the processes that underpin the functioning, growth and development of this town.
Architecture since 1900, Africa
April 2019
Metabolism of an emerging town in Ethiopia: the case of Amdework
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The emergence of densely populated towns within extremely rural landscapes is the hallmark of urbanization in Ethiopia. This book examines one such town, Amdework. The authors construct a profile that reveals a broader geographic view of the processes that underpin the functioning, growth and development of this town.
Architecture since 1900, Africa
Endless shout
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"Endless Shout" asks how, why and where performance and improvisation can take place inside a museum. The book documents a six-month series of experimental performances organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, where five participants—Raúl de Nieves, Danielle Goldman, George Lewis, The Otolith Group and taisha paggett—collectively led a(...)
Endless shout
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"Endless Shout" asks how, why and where performance and improvisation can take place inside a museum. The book documents a six-month series of experimental performances organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, where five participants—Raúl de Nieves, Danielle Goldman, George Lewis, The Otolith Group and taisha paggett—collectively led a series of improvisation experiments.
Art Theory
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Stemming from the timely spring 2019 group exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ''Producing Futures: A Book on Post-Cyber-Feminisms'' focuses on feminist concerns in the post-internet era. While in the 1990s cyber-feminism—a term coined by artist collective VNS Matrix—celebrated the cyberspace as a place of liberation and empowerment, one is now confronted(...)
Producing futures: a book on post-cyber feminisms
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Stemming from the timely spring 2019 group exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ''Producing Futures: A Book on Post-Cyber-Feminisms'' focuses on feminist concerns in the post-internet era. While in the 1990s cyber-feminism—a term coined by artist collective VNS Matrix—celebrated the cyberspace as a place of liberation and empowerment, one is now confronted with the fact that, rather, it multiplied and enforced existing hierarchies and power structures. Thus the question remains of whether the cyberspace can be appropriated when striving for gender justice, emancipation and social equality. As the virtual world(s) and real life are increasingly merging, artists reflect on and productively alienate the tools and platforms on hand to produce a future that is worth living in—offline and online.
Art Theory
Grey Crawford: El Mirage
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Los Angeles–based Grey Crawford (born 1951) produced the photo series ''El Mirage'' in the southern Mojave Desert in 1975–78. Influenced early on by the forms of fellow artists Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella, and later by land artists such as Michael Heizer and Gordon Matta-Clark, Crawford's work features minimalist structures made of glass and steel. These abstract(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
April 2019
Grey Crawford: El Mirage
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Los Angeles–based Grey Crawford (born 1951) produced the photo series ''El Mirage'' in the southern Mojave Desert in 1975–78. Influenced early on by the forms of fellow artists Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella, and later by land artists such as Michael Heizer and Gordon Matta-Clark, Crawford's work features minimalist structures made of glass and steel. These abstract works focus on the artist's interventions in nature and architecture that seek to extend the limits of photography into land art and hard-edged abstraction. Crawford's day-to-day job working as a photographer for architects reveals its payoff in the work's smart presentation of its difficult subject. Besides the black-and-white photos that Crawford is famous for, this volume also contains Crawford's experiments in colour photography.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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"Marina Abramovic: Writings 1960–2014" compiles the artist's colossal archive of handwritten and typed notes, diary entries, poems, accounts of dreams, travel descriptions, letters, performance instructions, stories, concepts and various collections of documents all of these disparate materials have been collated, catalogued and contextualized for the first time in this(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
November 2019
Marina Abramovic: writings 1960-2014
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"Marina Abramovic: Writings 1960–2014" compiles the artist's colossal archive of handwritten and typed notes, diary entries, poems, accounts of dreams, travel descriptions, letters, performance instructions, stories, concepts and various collections of documents all of these disparate materials have been collated, catalogued and contextualized for the first time in this publication. Known primarily for her radical performances and for reaching a broad public with her immaterial art during her more than 50-year career, Abramovic (born 1946) offers a vast contextual backdrop for these works in this collection of writings.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Lee Lozano: language pieces
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In the late 1960s, Lee Lozano (1930–99) conceived of and executed a series of "language pieces," written in the pages of her notebooks, consisting of rules and parameters for the actions that would constitute a piece. From offering money to houseguests to smoking as much marijuana as possible, Lozano boldly tested social norms, culminating in two of her most famous works:(...)
Lee Lozano: language pieces
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In the late 1960s, Lee Lozano (1930–99) conceived of and executed a series of "language pieces," written in the pages of her notebooks, consisting of rules and parameters for the actions that would constitute a piece. From offering money to houseguests to smoking as much marijuana as possible, Lozano boldly tested social norms, culminating in two of her most famous works: ''General Strike Piece'' (1969), which saw her retreating from the art world completely, and ''Decide to Boycott Women'' (1971), in which she ceased engaging with all members of her own gender. ''Lee Lozano: Language Pieces'' presents 46 of these pieces, reproducing them at full scale. Nearly five decades later, these radical manifestations of 1960s and '70s conceptualism continue to exert their political and artistic influence.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Accompanied by a selection of some of David Goldblatt’s (1930–2018) lesser-known photographs, this distilled dialogue is drawn directly from the recordings of a roving conversation with the photographer conducted three months before his death in June 2018. Goldblatt was born in Randfontein—a mining town on the Witwatersrand gold reef—in 1930, the grandson of(...)
David Goldblatt: the last interview
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Accompanied by a selection of some of David Goldblatt’s (1930–2018) lesser-known photographs, this distilled dialogue is drawn directly from the recordings of a roving conversation with the photographer conducted three months before his death in June 2018. Goldblatt was born in Randfontein—a mining town on the Witwatersrand gold reef—in 1930, the grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish migrants who settled in South Africa after escaping persecution in Europe. After the death of his father in 1962, Goldblatt sold the family clothing business to become a full-time photographer. In this candid conversation with writer Alexandra Dodd, Goldblatt shares his views about land and landscape, the dangerous lure of repetition in portrait photography, Johannesburg, the solipsism of life as a photographer, staying sharp, his visceral intolerance of censorship, his abiding interest in structures and his observation of instances of dominion under democracy, among other key themes.
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