The collective trauma of the pandemic has become an excuse for global capital to accelerate the total commodification of everyday life. Everything is for sale. There is more merchandise than...
In a time of heightened global crisis, the systems that shape our world are becoming increasingly fragile. While ecosystems are being destroyed, political processes are being manipulated, economic structures exploited...
Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where...
Forces of Art investigates the way in which artists, artworks and cultural organisations affect people and their social environments, and explores how cases of creative practice have been operational in...
The pandemic has once again made us more aware of the fragility of life and the importance of being able to properly mourn the dead. Dramaturg Guy Cools has been...
Most of us live our lives in our clothes without realising their power. But in the hands of artists, garments reveal themselves. They are pure tools of expression, storytelling, resistance...
The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frédéric Gros explores the roots of political obedience,...
Chaque Mercredi Caracas presents a sequence of black and white images taken from the travel sections of the newspapers Le Monde and The New York Times, from the 1960s onwards....
Border thinking has become a defining feature of the global social order in the twenty-first century. In Being a Border, art historian, critic, and theorist Nuit Banai writes on the...
The term ‘foodscapes’—a combination of food and landscape—refers to the social and spatial organization of networks and systems of food provisioning. In other words, the physical places and social practices...
Rewriting Architecture explores and embraces the potential of place. The book claims that the idea of ‘tabula rasa’, or creating from scratch, is no longer a viable option. It considers...
Design Struggles critically assesses the ways in which the design field is involved in creating, perpetuating, promoting and reinforcing injustice and inequality in social, political, economic, cultural and ecological systems. This...
Despite decades of postcolonial, feminist, anti-racist and queer activism and theorizing, the art world continues to exclude ‘Other’ artists – those who are women, of colour and LGBTQ. Indeed, the...
Home Works – A Cooking Book: Recipes for Organising with Art and Domestic Work, expands on cooking with art and food as a process for coming together and building collectivity....
Art, Engagement, Economy: the Working Practice of Caroline Woolard proposes a politics of transparent production in the arts, whereby heated negotiations and mundane budgets are presented alongside documentation of finished...
A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo Women are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must...
In The Yak Dilemma, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal ventures out of the mountain ranges of Palampur and across vast distances of land and sea. From scenes playing out through Dublin windows...
This business book is aimed at early career artists and helps to equip them with the practical tools needed to approach their careers, shining light upon some things that are...
Curator Conversations is a collection of interviews with leading curators working within contemporary photography today. It offers precious insights into key modes of thinking behind the curatorial practices that have...
Sixteen culture-makers who are Zeitzeugen (contemporary witnesses) of the COVID-19 pandemic sketch how things can be different in the future. Their visions for the future came about as a reaction...
As museums shut worldwide in 2020 because of the novel coronavirus, New York-based cultural strategist András Szántó conducted a series of interviews with an international group of museum leaders. In...
The use of social media has become an everyday activity, one that established and young artists cannot, and indeed do not want to, do without. They work with it. They...
Food and urban farming as a source of spatial, social and economic renewal With 35 inspiring examples from Western Europe, North America, Japan and Australia Farming the City explores the...
A proposal to radically change education through creativity Explores core values and key concepts to create future-proof attitudes and perspectives No School Manifesto is a book that serves as a...
Sparks art practices, art education and creativity by setting inspiring frameworks and questions Stimulates cooperation and cross-disciplinary thinking and practising Funny, crazy, awe-inspiring, poetical, bold; in its bandwidth a truly...
Art Isn’t Fair is the title of the last video completed in 2012 by Allan Sekula (1951-2013), a work commenting on the rise of art fairs as yet another international...
A slipcased set of all three books in the Photofile Women Photographers series. Women have been pioneering photographers since the earliest days of the art form. This expertly curated set...
Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave...
Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell is a new manifesto for cyberfeminism. Simone de Beauvoir said, “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The glitch announces: One is not...
The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain, by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe, is a powerful document of the day-to-day realities of Black women in Britain....
From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad. Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them...
With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism. Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of...
Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are...
A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city...
A pocket colour manifesto for a new futuristic feminism. Injustice should not simply be accepted as “the way things are.” This is the starting point for The Xenofeminist Manifesto, a...
Girl on Girl looks at how women are using photography, the internet and the female gaze to explore self-image and female identity in contemporary art. A new generation of women...
Artist residencies provide space, time, and concentration for making art, doing research and for reflection. Residencies are crucial nodes in international circulation and career development, but also invaluable infrastructures for...
'Visual artist’ is a term with untold interpretations, nuances, variations and meanings. But how, as an artist (or designer, photographer, or other ‘independent creator’), do you become who you are...
‘Feminisms’ (as a plural) is widely used today to draw attention to inequalities and to critique the status quo in limiting women’s roles/ positions/ lives/ potential. Art can offer a...
A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s...
A founding text of transnational feminism. For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements...
“Courageous, outspoken, clear-eyed.”—Publishers Weekly. Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that...
An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilised in support of racist measures. Feminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions féministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the 1970s and became...
One of the fundamental events of modernity was the conquest of the world as picture, a process in which movies were essential. Cinema was the single medium capable of capturing...
“Dear Brian O’Doherty,Here is my article, short enough and I apologize; I hope you can accept him [sic] and it will be in a sufficient harmony with the issue you...
A Clinic for the Exhausted: In Search of an Antipodean Vitality - Edmond & Corrigan and an Itinerant Architecture commences from a vision of a landmark Australian architectural icon, RMIT University Building...
This collection of essays assembles investigations of Brian O’Doherty’s / Patrick Ireland’s seminal work: his visual art practice, art criticism, institutional leadership and critique, media work, and literary writing. The...
Bridging the gulf between aesthetics and politics, artist and film-maker Petra Bauer reflects on her own experience of making political films and launches a theoretical argument that uncovers the aesthetic...
In this first oeuvre overview, texts are featured on neutralised “white cube” pages while the visual is hidden yet assessable inside Japanese folded pages. In result it confronts the fast...
Hans Ulrich Obrist never looks back. For this book project he compiled a list of quotes on what the Future Will Be… by some of his encounters. Lawrence Weiner: "The future is...
Long out of print, this seminal collection of essays and photographs are by artist, theorist and filmmaker, Allan Sekula. Originally published by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design...
