Bibliotheek: nieuwe aanwinsten - augustus-december 2022

Alternative Iran : Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice / by Pamela Karimi. - Stanford (CA) : Stanford University, 2022. - 445 p. : ill. ; 25,5 cm
Includes notes, bibliography, index
ISBN: 9781503631809
Alternative Iran offers a unique contribution to the field of contemporary art, investigating how Iranian artists engage with space and site amid the pressures of the art market and the state's regulatory regimes. Since the 1980s, political, economic, and intellectual forces have driven Iran's creative class toward increasingly alternative forms of artmaking not meant for official venues. Instead, these art forms appear in private homes with "trusted" audiences, derelict buildings, leftover urban zones, and remote natural sites. While many of these venues operate independently, others are sanctioned by the state. Drawing on interviews with over a hundred artists, gallerists, theater experts, musicians, and designers, Pamela Karimi throws into sharp relief the extraordinary art and performance activities that have received little attention outside Iran. Attending to nonconforming curatorial projects, independent guerrilla installations, escapist practices, and tacitly subversive performances, Karimi discloses the push-and-pull between the art community and the authorities, and discusses myriad instances of tentative coalition as opposed to outright partnership or uncompromising resistance.

Caliban and the Witch : Women, The Body And Primitive Accumulation / by Silvia Federici. - London : Penguin, 2021 [2004]. - 385 p. : ill. ; 20 cm
Includes notes, bibliography, image sources, index
ISBN: 9780241532539
Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She tries to show how the battle against the rebel body and mind are essential conditions for the development of labor power and self-ownership, two central principles of modern social organization.

Performing Remains : Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment / by Rebecca Schneider. - New York ; London : Routledge, 2011. - 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Incl. Notes, Index, Bibliography
ISBN 9780415404426
‘Performing Remains' is a new study exploring the role of the fake, the false and the faux in contemporary performance. Across seven essays, Schneider, an authority in the field of theatre and performance studies, presents a forensic examination of both contemporary and historical performance, drawing on a variety of sources including the America plays of Linda Mussmann and Suzan-Lori Parks, performances of Marina Abramovic and Allison Smith, and the continued popular appeal of Civil War reenactments, while questioning the importance of representation throughout history and today. ‘Performing Remains is a rigorous investigation into the aesthetic and political potential of reenactments.

The Aesthetics of Risk / ed. by John C. Welchman. - Zurich : JRP Ringier, 2008. - 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Includes notes, list of contributors
ISBN: 9783905770551
Anthology of essays, images and dialogues exploring contemporary arts engagements with risk (physical social political) and aesthetics. The title comes from the similar named conference, the third annual collaboration between the Getty Research Institute and the Southern California Consortium of Art Schools SoCCAS. Some content there was so intense that it came with a warning label: "Contains graphic depictions of violence, nudity and bodily functions".

Potential History : Unlearning Imperialism / by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. - London ; New York : Verso, 2019. - 656 p. : ill. ; 23 cm  
Includes notes, bibliography, visual sources, index
ISBN: 9781788735711
The renowned scholar political theory and photography Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasized the possibility of progress while it tries to destroy what came before, and voraciously seeks out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass vitrines of museums. By practicing what she calls potential history, Azoulay argues that we can still refuse the original imperial violence that shattered communities, lives, and worlds, from native peoples in the Americas at the moment of conquest to the Congo ruled by Belgium's brutal King Léopold II, from dispossessed Palestinians in 1948 to displaced refugees in our own day.

Art as Activism : A Brief History of Protest Art / by Aindrea Emelife. - London : Tate, 2022. -160 p. : ill. ; 17,5 cm
Includes index, list for further reading
ISBN: 9781849767828
Beginning with Picasso's Guernica, the independent curator and art historian Emelife embarks on a visual journey across eight decades of artists' responses to the most vital political and social realities of their day. From global conflicts, inequality, the Aids epidemic, LGBTQ+ rights, the Black Lives Matter movement and the climate crisis, Emelife explores the work of over 50 artists whose art has spoken up for powerless minorities while speaking out against incursions into our human right.

Comradeship : Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe / by Zdenka Badovinac. - New York : Independent Curators International (ICI), 2019. - 336 p. : ill. ; 20,5 cm. - (Perspectives in Curating # 3)
Includes notes, essay and illustration credits
ISBN: 978-0-692-04225-0
A collection of essays by Slovenian curator, museum director, and scholar Zdenka Badovinac, who  has been an influential voice in international conversations rethinking the geopolitics of art after the fall of communism, a ferocious critic of unequal negotiations between East and West, and a historian of the avant-garde art that emerged in socialist and post-socialist countries in the last century. Badovinac has been, moreover, an advocate for radical institutional forms: museums responsive to the complexities of the past and commensurate to the demands of the present. Gathering writings from disparate and hard-to-find sources alongside new texts, this book offers a  portrait of a major thinker, and an interesting handbook of alternative approaches to curating and institution-building in the 21st century.

We Were Here : Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference / by Sunil Gupta. - New York : Aperture, 2018. - 192 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - (Aperture Ideas)
Includes notes, index
ISBN: 9781597115285
Newspaper articles, speeches, and essays show Gupta's crucial role at the center of grassroots queer and postcolonial organizing throughout an artistic career lived between Canada, the UK, and India. In his pieces about homosexuality in Indian cities, the AIDS crisis, the Black Arts Movement, or key figures including Joy Gregory and Robert Mapplethorpe, Gupta foregrounds the power of cultural activism in the politically fraught contexts of London and Delhi, and illuminates the essential connections between queer migration and self-discovery. Continually questioning given forms of identity, Gupta offers artists and curators multiple strategies of resistance, carving out space for new ways of imagining what it might mean to live, love, and create.
encounters and conversations with artists, art professionals, funding bodies and art institutions.

Queer Spaces : An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories
/ ed. by Adam Nathaniel Furman, Joshua Mardell, London : RIBA, 2022. - 240 p. : ill. ; 25,5 cm
Includes endnotes, index
ISBN: 9781914124211
Queer people have always found ways to exist and be together, and, according to the editors, there will always be a need for queer spaces. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell have gathered together a community of contributors to share stories of spaces that range from the educational to the institutional to the re-appropriated, and many more besides. With many unique historic, contemporary and speculative examples from around the world, Queer Spaces recognises LGBTQIA+ life past and present as strong, vibrant, vigorous, and worthy of its own place in history. Looking forward, it suggests visions of what form these spaces may take in the future to continue uplifting queer lives.

Godzilla : Asian American Arts Network 1990-2001 / ed. by Howie Chen. - New York : Primary Information, 2021. - 448 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
ISBN: 9781736534625
The trailblazing Asian artist collective known as Godzilla, Asian American Art Network was formed in 1990 to support the production of critical discourse around Asian American art and increase the visibility of Asian American artists, curators, and writers, who were negotiating a historically exclusionary society and art world. Founded by Ken Chu, Bing Lee, and Margo Machida, Godzilla produced exhibitions, publications, and community collaborations that sought to stimulate social change through art and advocacy, confronting  institutional racism, Western imperialism, anti-Asian violence, the AIDS crisis, and representations of Asian sexuality and gender, among other urgent issues. For more than a decade, having grown from a local organization into a nationwide network, created an important social space for diasporic Asian artists and art professionals.
This publication offers a comprehensive anthology of writings, art projects, publications, correspondence, organizational documents, and other archival ephemera from this collective.

Wolfgang Tillmans : A Reader / texts by Wolfgang Tillmans [et al. ; ed. by Roxana Marcoci and Phil Taylor. - New York : MOMA, 2021. - 352 p. : ill. ; 24,5 cm
Includes source notes, dates and places, index
ISBN: 9781633451124
A panoramic collection of interviews and writings from Wolfgang Tillmans, an artist for whom language has always been a significant means of creative expression. Arranged chronologically, the assembled texts reflect Tillmans's thinking on photography, music, politics, nightlife, astronomy, spirituality, and activism. Whether discussing his own work as a photographer or drawing out the thoughts of others, this publication tracks Tillmans's contributions to art and cultural criticism in tandem with the social and cultural shifts of the past thirty years. Published in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Wolfgang Tillmans : To look without fear', Museum of Modern Art, New York (Sep. 11 - Dec 31, 2022), Art Gallery Ontario, Toronto and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Take 'Em Down : Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting / by Simon(e) van Saarloos ; forew. by Pamela Sneed. - Guelph (CAN) : Publication Studio ; Musagetes, 2022. - 120 p. ; 24 cm
Includes notes, bibliography
ISBN: 9781989157152
Who determines what is remembered and commemorated, and why? How can we commemorate something that is both in the past and a daily reality? In ‘Take 'Em Down', Simon(e) van Saarloos is inspired by the historically almost invisible (made) existence of LGBT people and queers. They demonstrate the power of forgetting and wonder if and how it's possible to live without a past. At the same time, Van Saarloos criticizes the way that a ‘white memory'—including their own—treats some stories as self-evident while other histories are erased. Take 'Em Down was part of a project titled ‘the spread of a mo(nu)ment' in partnership with TAAK, Amsterdam. (also published in Dutch and available in this library under the title: ‘Herdenken Herdacht : een essay om te vergeten')

Women Looking at Women Looking at Women : Reclaiming Histories of Women in the Arts and Proposing Models to Facilitate Future Friendships / by Annemarie Wadlow ; design by Marijn van der Leeuw, Esther Vane, India Scrimgeour, Hannah Williams and Annemarie Wadlow. - The Hague : Page Not Found, 2022. -123 [34] p. : ill. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 978-90-832224-1-7
In what ways have women artists come together to investigate their own image? This publication delves into histories of feminist and queer collective practice, expanding on the various ways women claim agency of their identity, via collaborations that connect intergenerational and far-away friendships. In 2020 Wadlow won the first Page Not Found Thesis Award, celebrating this her thesis as a KABK graduate, which integrates most strongly its own dissemination. Each chapter features artistic and theoretical case studies that discuss images produced by women artists, about women artists; proposing that to gaze upon someone represented with care and autonomy provides more affirmative ways to relate to ourselves. According to the publisher: "Only by engaging in both roles can we unveil what is not taught in the mainstream and inspire a more inclusive, generous future.
Each aspect of the book's design is a collaborative endeavour, expanding the notion of individual authorship. It is with this sentiment that creating the publication became research in itself, via collaboration with both direct peers and an extended genealogy.

Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty : Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers / by Michelle Murphy. - Durham ; London : Duke University, 2006. - 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Includes notes, bibliography, index
ISBN: 978-0-8223-3671-6
Before 1980, ‘sick building syndrome' did not exist, but the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and immune system disorders, office workers - mostly women - protested that their workplaces were filled with toxic hazards; yet federal investigators could detect no chemical cause. ‘Sick building syndrome' embodied a politics of uncertainty that continues to characterize contemporary American environmental debates. Murphy explores the production of uncertainty by juxtaposing multiple histories, each of which explains how an expert or lay tradition made chemical exposures perceptible or imperceptible, existent or nonexistent. She shows how uncertainty emerged from a complex confluence of feminist activism, office worker protests, ventilation engineering, toxicology, popular epidemiology, corporate science, and ecology. Murphy brings all of these histories together in what is a thorough account of an environmental health problem and am even deeper exploration of the relationship between history, materiality, and uncertainty.

Feminism is for Everybody : Passionate Politics / by bell hooks. - London : Pluto Press, 2000. - 140 p. ; 21,5 cm
Includes index
ISBN: 9780745317335
"Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression." So begins ‘Feminism is for Everybody', the accessible introduction to feminist theory by one of its most influential practitioners who passed away in December 2021. Designed to be read by all genders, hooks provides a primer to the question 'what is feminism?' but also gives an argument for the enduring importance of the feminist movement. Beginning with a broad survey of feminism's most important themes and concerns, hooks demystifies contentious concepts and turns apparent ideology into common sense. Providing a critical evaluation of the successes and failures of contemporary feminism, she looks at a wide variety of topics including reproductive rights, sexual violence, race, class and work. hooks encourages her readers to demand alternatives to patriarchal, racist and homophobic culture and thereby to seek out a different future.

States of Statelessness
/ ed. by Irene de Craen ; contr  by Abdul Adan, Isshaq Albarbary, Nilüfer Koç ...[ et al.]. - Amsterdam : in house icw Framer Framed, 2022. - 128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - (Errant Journal # 4, 2022)
ISBN: 9789083079325
Errant's 4th issue tackles the imaginary nature of the nation state, and looks into alternative forms of
solidarity, community and belonging that are disconnected from or even antagonistic to this form of governance and in which a migrant or otherwise marginalized position can be seen as one of power and resistance. ‘States of Statelessness' delves into the diverse manners in which people respond to their precarious relations to nation and nationality in practical, poetic and community-based ways.

The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity  / by David Graeber, David Wengrow. - London : Penguin, 2022 [2011]. - 720 p. ; 19,5 cm
Includes list of maps and figures, notes, bibliography, index
ISBN: 9780141991061
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, was assumed, could only be achieved by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow describe how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a reaction to indigenous critiques of European society, and why they think they are wrong. In doing so, they try to overturn our view of human history, including the origins of farming, democracy, slavery and civilization itself.

Art and Solidarity Reader / ed. by Katya García-Antón ; with contr.by Reem Abbas, Lara Khaldi, farid rakun/ruangrupa, Alice Walker... [et al.]  ; design by Hans Gremmen. - Amsterdam ; Oslo : Valiz icw OCA, 2022. - 384 p. : ill ; 28 cm
ISBN 978-94-93246-02-7
Creating a fair and vital social fabric inspired by mutual dependencies between living beings and all entities including fauna, flora, air, land and water, is fundamental for our collective existence. This reader is meant as a critical toolbox with intersectional perspectives to examine and reveal meaningful and inspiring narratives that can guide our future. The publication considers the agency that artists, collectives and art institutions have generated from the 1970s to today to build the radical imaginaries of care and solidarity, needed to transform the conditions of our collective existence in the face of local and global crises. Presenting new and historical material, it tells a series of stories of solidarity across geographies in relation to emergencies connected to ecocide, femicide, genocide, migration, neocolonialism, inter-religious conflicts, class divisions and heteronormativity, amongst others.

Public After All : Manifesta 14 Prishtina Urban Vision / initiated by Hedwig Fijen ; ed. by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati (Carlo Ratti, Daniela Belleri, Erze Dinarama ... [et al.]).- Prishtina : Manifesta 14 Prishtina, 2022. - 304 p. : maps, ill. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 978-9951-9088-3-2
Publication accompanying Manifesta 14, held in Prishtina (Kosovo) July 22 - Oct. 30, 2022. One of the key pillars of all Manifesta editions is their strong focus on urban developments and interventions within its Host Cities, an integral part of the pre-biennial process. Public After All showcases this pre-biennial research and presents the urban vision, commissioned to the Turin-based office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati. The publication gives an analysis of, and a methodology for, portraying Prishtina in 2022 and beyond, and  serves as a tool for the citizens of Kosovo's capital to rethink the potential of their city and envision different possibilities to revitalise and reclaim Prishtina's public space.

Manifesta 14 Prishtina Guide Book / ed. by Emilia van Lynden ...[et al.] ; design by Studio Permanent. - Prishtina : Manifeta 14, 2022. - 224 p. : ill. ; 18 cm  
ISBN: 9789951908849
Published by and on the occasion of Manifesta 14 Prishtina. It guides to the over 100 works of art shown at 25 venues around the capital, and to all the different elements of the programme including largescale urban and artistic interventions, thematic exhibitions and performances, and all necessary practical information.

The Collective Eye in conversation with ruangrupa : Thoughts on collectivity / ed. by The Collective Eye (Emma Nilsson, Dominique Lucien Garaudel, Heinz-Norbert Jocks). - Berlin : Distanz, 2022. - 192 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Includes glossary
ISBN: 9783954764662
"Our curatorial approach strives for a different kind of collaborative model of resource use-in economic terms but also with regard to ideas, knowledge, programs and innovations." (ruangrupa) In 2022 ruangrupa curated documenta fifteen as its artistic director. ruangrupa`s work is based on a holistic social, spatial and personal practice that is strongly rooted in Indonesian culture, where friendship, solidarity and community are of central importance. In The Collective Eye, ruangrupa discuss their work and curatorial approach. The book is also the first to offer a comprehensive overview of selected projects, publications, and other media the collective employs in its visionary artistic as well as educational and political practice.

documenta fifteen Handbook / ed by ruangrupa ; text(s) by ruangrupa, A.K. Kaiza, Alvin Li, Andrew Maerkle, Ann Mbuti...[et al.]. - Berlin ; Hatje Cantz, 2022. - 304 p. : ill. ; 20,5 cm
Includes notes
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5282-4
Under the guiding principle of lumbung (see publication below), the Indonesian collective ruangrupa is less concerned with individual works than with forms of collaborative working. As a reference work, companion, and innovative art guide, this Handbook offers orientation for these comprehensive processes; it is aimed at visitors to the Kassel exhibition as well as those interested in collective practice. All the protagonists at documenta fifteen and their work are presented by international authors who are familiar with the respective artistic practice and cultural context. Entitled "lumbung," the book introduces the mindset and cultural background of documenta fifteen illustrating the artistic work processes with numerous drawings. A chapter on Kassel presents and explains all the locations of the show, including the artists and collectives represented here.

Lumbung Stories / ed. harriet c. brown ; contr. by  Panashe Chigumadzi,Yasnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, Uxue Alberdi ...[et al.]. - Abuja ; London : Cassava Republic, 2022. - 256 p. ; 21,5 cm
ISBN: 9781913175542
Tequio in Mexico, auzolan in Basque Country, lumbung in Indonesia, ubuntu in South Africa, mutirao in Brazil - all these terms, used around the world,  describe the concept of collective work. Bringing together 8 publishing houses and 7 writers, Lumbung Stories is a true product of communal action.
From speculative essays and experimental texts to intimate stories that portray collective work as something every day and habitual, each writer presents their unique take on what a "lumbung story" is. Blurring the lines between realism and fiction, past and future, the tales vary from stories on olive groves in Andalusia to tiger-filled forests in Indonesia to explorations of intergenerational and transhistorical struggle in South Africa and an academic text from a society rebuilding in a post-Capitalist, post-climate-crisis future. Published on the occasion of Documenta 15, 2022.

Entangled Species : Conversations on Contemporary Art in the Caribbean / by Sasha Dees .  Rotterdam : Art Agent Orange, 2021. - 272 : ill. ; 24 cm
ISBN : 9789083064864
‘Entangled Species' is the result of a research project by Sasha Dees (the Netherlands). Between November 2017 and May 2019, she visited 16 countries in the Caribbean (including Barbados, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the Virgin Islands). Decolonization discourse and international politics are reflected in her encounters and conversations with artists, art professionals, funding bodies and art institutions.

Abdias Nascimento : Being an Event of Love
/ ed. by Amal Alhaag, Aude Christel Mgba, Soh Ben Ndikung ...[et al.]. - Berlin ; Dakar ; Milan : Archive Books, 2021. - 144 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Includes notes, glossary, biographies
ISBN: 9783949973079
The life and work of the Afro-Brazilian writer, scholar, dramatist, artist, and activist Abdias Nascimento (1914-2011) is a testament to his active commitment to Black expression and solidarity, both artistically and politically. Nascimento was a Pan-African activist. He organized the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1946) and the 1st Congress of Brazilian Blacks four years later. During the same period, he founded the Black Experimental Theater (1944) and the Black Arts Museum project (1950), both in Rio de Janeiro. While curating the latter, he began to develop his own creative work.This publication is one out of three, accompanying the exhibition ‘Sedje Hémon / Imran Mir / Abdias Nascimento : Abstracting Parables' at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (1 Jul until 16 Oct 2022).

Michael Rakowitz : Backstroke of the West / by Omar Kholeif. - New York ; Chicago : Prestel ; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2017. - 144 p. : ill. ; 25,5 cm
Includes notes, biography, exhibition history, selected bibliography
ISBN: 978-3791357478
First monograph of the Iraqi-American Michael Rakowitz, accompanying his similar named exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Sep. 16, 2017 - March 4, 2018) on Rakowitz's provocative multimedia projects confronting American perceptions of Iraqi culture. Whether the artist is teaching students how to cook Iraqi food or recreating the thousands of items destroyed or stolen during the 2003 looting of the country's National Museum in Baghdad, Rakowitz is consistently working to address the trauma created by Saddam Hussein's regime and America's war on Iraq. This book explores eleven of Rakowitz's most renowned works. The accompanying texts, drawings, and personal commentary offer a multi-faceted view on the artist's entire oeuvre.

Doris Salcedo : The Materiality of Mourning / by Mary Schneider Enriquez ; with contr. by Doris Salcedo, Narayan Khandekar. - Cambridge (MA) : Harvard Art Museums, 2016. - 196 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
Includes notes, bibliography, index
ISBN: 978-0-300-22251-7
Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Salcedo (b. 1958) creates works that address political violence and oppression. This book, published accompanying the similar titled exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums (Nov. 4, 2016 - April 9, 2017), focuses on Salcedo's works from 2001 to 2016, examining the development and evolution of her approach. Salcedo continuously pushes her sculptures toward new extremes, incorporating organic materials in order to blur the line between the permanent and the ephemeral.

Gian Maria Tosatti : Storia della Notte e Destino delle Comete = History of Night and Destiny of Comets / by Eugenio Viola, Gian Maria Tosatti ; with contr. by Dario Franceschini, Roberto Cicutto,  Onofrio Cutaia ; phot. by Gian Maria Tosatti, Mimmo Jodice, Giulia Piscitelli. - Rome : Treccani, 2022. - 2 vol., 176 +  unp. [120] : ill. ; 30 cm. - (It. / Eng.)
ISBN: 9788812010080
Publication in cassette, consisting of 2 volumes ( I with texts,  interviews and photo's, and II showing installation views), accompanying the similar named installation by Gian Maria Tosatti in the Italian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennial, 2022. The installation was conceived as an intermediary device that contained and mixed a variety of languages, integrating literary references and visual art, with stimuli from theatre, music, and performance. The contributors introduce the complex imaginary that is revealed in the critical text by curator Eugenio Viola, in the texts by Tosatti, in their dialogue, but above all in The disappearance of fireflies (1975), the last article Pasolini wrote, shortly before he was assassinated. In the first volume ample space is dedicated to the photographs of factories by Mimmo Jodice and Giulia Piscitelli, which represent the perfect metaphor of the decline of the industrial dream between hope, misery, wealth. and cynicism.

Antony Gormley : Exposure / texts by Karel Ankerman, Christophe van Gerrewey [et al.]. - Lelystad : Municipality, 2010. - 78 p. : ill. ; 28,5 cm. - (Eng. /Ned.)
Includes biography
ISBN: 9789081598019
Publication dedicated to Gormley's famous work ‘Exposure' (squatting man, 2010), the 6th landscape artwork in Flevoland, located at the Markermeer, The Netherlands. The book contains the original proposal and an interview with the artist. The work's context  is described in an objective historical essay by Karel Ankerman and in a critical text by Christophe Van Gerrewey in which the Dutch desire ‘to design happiness' and the artist's conceptual roots are explored.

Bonies' klare taal / Michiel Morel. - Den Haag : De Zwaluw, 2022. - 248 p. : ill ; 24 cm
Bevat literatuurlijst
ISBN: 9789077794296
Publicatie waarin de artistieke ontwikkeling van de Haagse kunstenaar Bob Bonies wordt gespiegeld aan de ontwikkelingen in de beeldende kunst, en waarin zijn betekenis wordt geduid. Bonies is  bekend om zijn concrete kunst, een vorm waarvoor hij altijd een fel voorstander is geweest; hij heeft zich nooit iets van modes aangetrokken. Zo is een persoonlijk, sterk en consistent oeuvre ontstaan.
Bonies heeft zich ook altijd zeer maatschappelijk en politiek opgesteld. Ook voor het beeldende kunstbeleid is hij vanaf midden jaren zestig van bijzondere betekenis geweest. Zijn inbreng - onder meer als directeur van de Vrije Academie, was bepaald niet onomstreden.

This is the show and the show is many things / ed. by Bart De Baere, Karen Geurts, Bernadette Klein Douwel ; with contr. by Pierre Giquel, Dirk Pültau, Ronald van de Sompel ...[ et al.].  - Ghent : S.M.A.K, 1994. - [200] p. : ill. ; 35 cm. - (Ned. / Eng.)
ISBN: 1994034116
Catalogue accompanying the revolutionary exhibition ‘This is the show and the show is many things' curated by Bart de Baere at S.M.A.K., Ghent (Sep. 17 1994 - Nov. 27 1994), which one review described as "a fun palace, a rumpus room, a discount warehouse, a museum without walls, a wasteland and a Wunder-Kabinett of the marvellous and the inconsequential." Thirteen participating artists - Louise Bourgeois, Honoré d'O, Fabrice Hybert, Mark Manders, Jason Rhoades, Anne Decock, Suchan Kinoshita, Uri Tzaig, Henrietta Lehtonen (redesigned the museum café's mugs), Eran Schaerf (set up a work station in the space), Mark Manders and Maria Roosen - contributed physical works, ephemeral interventions, and installations, the presentation of which morphed and shifted throughout the duration of the exhibition. This show about process, collaboration, chance encounter, and whimsy was an exceptional example of a particularly intelligent and risky strain of experimentation exploring the limits of how the viewer - and artists themselves - might interact within an exhibition space.

Dreaming in the Museum : Potted Plants as Indicators of Trauma in Museological Settings / by Leonie Brandner. - The Hague - in house, 2021. - 124 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
Includes bibliography
ISBN: -
This master thesis Artistic Research Royal Academy The Hague (KABK) 2021 is "about the triangular history of potted plants, museum displays and trauma diagnosis. A collection of stories across time in different places [-] stories of peoples' lives, stories of potted plants and stories about the way we account for the fragmenting effects traumatic experiences can have. But more than anything else it is a story about hope, wonder, and joy[-]" (Brandner).

The Chain / ed. by Kirsten Algera and Ernst van der Hoeven. - Amsterdam : MacGuffin, 2022. - 192 p.  : ill. ; 27,5 cm. - (MacGuffin : The Life of Things nr. 11)
ISSN: 24058203
From charms and chokers to shackles and fetters, MacGuffin Nº11 explores the many manifestations of that most contradictory of objects: ‘The Chain'. Worn with love since time immemorial, it is also the ultimate symbol of slavery and suffering. Linking together royals and rappers, provocative punks and crashed cars, cycling skirts and classic scarfs, caged wrestlers and medieval warriors, hyperlinks and haunted houses, Baltic protestors and Cuban revolutionaries, ‘The Chain' features Inigo Laguda, Jacqueline de Jong, Harris Blondman, Scheltens & Abbenes, Olivia Ahmad, Rab Messina, Kai Lobjakas and many more.

Labour of Love / ed. by Anna Sejbaek Torp-Pedersen, Lisa Marie Sneijder ; with contr. by Hanna Heaf, nishiko, Rosa de Graaf, Joyce Poot ...[et al.]. - Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit, Faculteit der Letteren, 2022. - 72 p. : ills. ; 24 cm. - (Kunstlicht, Journal for Visual Art, Visual Culture and Architecture, Volume 43, 2022, no. 4)
Including notes and abstracts
ISBN: 9789083165745
What is ‘labour of love'? What drives us to accept jobs that forgo adequate monetary compensation for the work we do, only to be ‘paid' in exposure, experience, or emotional fulfilment? This issue focuses on labour and labourers of love; those whose jobs require the practice of care and compassion, those working fields that demand employing a repertoire of feelings, as well as those whose passion is also their job.

 

Alternative Iran : Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice
Caliban and the Witch : Women, The Body And Primitive Accumulation
Performing Remains : Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment
The Aesthetics of Risk
Potential History : Unlearning Imperialism
Art as Activism : A Brief History of Protest Art
Comradeship : Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-Socialist Europe
We Were Here : Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference
Queer Spaces : An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories
Godzilla : Asian American Arts Network 1990-2001
Wolfgang Tillmans : A Reader
Take 'Em Down : Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting
Women Looking at Women Looking at Women
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
Feminism is for Everybody : Passionate Politics
States of Statelessness
The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity
Art and Solidarity Reader
Public After All : Manifesta 14 Prishtina Urban Vision
Manifesta 14 Prishtina Guide Book
The Collective Eye in conversation with ruangrupa : Thoughts on collectivity
documenta fifteen Handbook
Lumbung Stories
Entangled Species : Conversations on Contemporary Art in the Caribbean
Abdias Nascimento : Being an Event of Love
Michael Rakowitz : Backstroke of the West
Doris Salcedo : The Materiality of Mourning
Gian Maria Tosatti : Storia della Notte e Destino delle Comete = History of Night and Destiny of Comets
Antony Gormley : Exposure
Bonies' klare taal
This is the show and the show is many things
Dreaming in the Museum : Potted Plants as Indicators of Trauma in Museological Settings
The Chain
Labour of Love