ART

Life on Sirius - The Situationist International and the Exhibition after Art
Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956791987 Acqn 27131
Pb 10x15cm 72pp 14ills 6.95
How did art escape the deadlock of the Situationists anti-art refusal? Did the relational artists,
with their repetitions of Situationist slogans and techniques, outline a sustainable, micro-political
alternative to Guy Debords dream of surpassing art and realizing philosophy? Looking back at
some of the Situationists confrontations with the museum, this book traces a path beyond the
tragedy of negativity and the litany of recuperation. At the center is the concept of play; originally
adopted as the principle of reconciled life, it returns as the lever of instrumentalization. But in the
extraterrestial wasteland of the present, spaces of ludic coexistence and experimentation may
remain possible, provided that pessimism can be adequately organized.
All the Kings Horses Series, edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Kim West.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ART

across & beyond - A Transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts, and

Institutions
Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956792892 Acqn 27130
Pb 14x21cm 352pp 52ills 12.95
Contributions by Moreshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke, Jamie Allen and David Gauthier,
Clemens Apprich and Ned Rossiter, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Benjamin Bratton, Florian Cramer, Dieter
Daniels, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Daphne Dragona, Keller Easterling, Olga Goriunova, Louis
Henderson, Geraldine Juarez, Olia Lialina, Alessandro Ludovico, Rosa Menkman, Julian Oliver
and Danja Vasiliev, Erica Scourti, Cornelia Sollfrank, Telekommunisten (Baruch Gottlieb and
Dmytri Kleiner), Tiziana Terranova, YoHa (Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji)
This collection of art and theory analyzes todays post-digital conditions for critical media
practicesacross and beyond the analog and the digital, the human and the nonhuman. The
contributions also look across and beyond the field of media art, staking out new paths for
understanding and working in the transversal territories between theory, technology, and art. The
concept of the post-digital is a way to critically take account of, contextualize, and shift the
coordinates of new technologies as part of contemporary culture. The post-digital condition is not
merely a theoretical issue but also a situation that affects conceptual and practice-based work.
The program of the transmediale festival in Berlin, celebrating its thirtieth year in 2017, has
reflected these changes, and this book gathers new contributions from leading international
theorists and artists of media and art who have taken part in the festival program over its past five
editions. Divided into the thematic sections Imaginaries, Interventions, and Ecologies, this
book is not a document of the festival itself, it is rather a stand-alone exploration of the ongoing
themes of transmediale in a book format.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ART

Victor Man - Luminary Petals On A Wet, Black Bough

Sternberg Press 2016 ISBN 9783956792427 Acqn 27088
Pb 19x26cm 92pp 27ills 17col 20
Edited by Victor Man, Mihai Pop. Contributions by Bogdan Ghiu, Mihnea Mircan, Laura Pavel
In Victor Mans installations and paintings, the copresence of text and image along with subtle
visual clues encourage the viewer to shed light on what might be happening. The subjects in the
paintings, emerging from semidarkness, quasi-invisible and fractured, are often reminiscent of
certain figures and archetypes found in works written by Shakespeare, Joyce, or Pound, among
others, and offer a dialogue between the pictorial and literary arts. Laura Pavel writes: In Victor
Mans self-contained paintings, which appear as metonymies of embodied meaning, there is no
ostentatious first-order visuality over second-order textuality. Sometimes, there is a circular
movement of what is readable and what is visible.
Luminary Petals on a Wet, Black Bough is an artists book focusing on Victor Mans series of
paintings that were first exhibited as part of All the Worlds Futures, 56th Venice Biennale
(2015), and later developed for a solo exhibition at Galeria Plan B, Berlin (April 29June 11,
2016). The book includes essays by poet and translator Bogdan Ghiu, curator Mihnea Mircan,
and literary critic Laura Pavel.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ART

Lydia Okumura Situations

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956792915 Acqn 27106
Pb 23x30cm 112pp col ills 20
Edited by Rachel Adams. Texts by Rachel Adams, Sandra H. Olsen, Mari Rodriguez Binnie;
interview with Lydia Okumura
For almost fifty years, Lydia Okumura has explored the realm of geometric abstraction. She
challenges our perception of space through sculptures, installations, and works on paper that blur
distinctions between dimensions. In the 1970s, a young artist in her native So Paulo, she
studied the Japanese art magazine Bijutsu Techou, which introduced her to Conceptual art,
Minimalism, Land art, and Arte Povera. These movements, along with Brazilian Concretism and
Neoconcretism, influenced Okumuras work. Using simple materials such as string, glass, and
paint, her dynamic work balances line, plane, and shadow.
Okumuras oeuvrealthough reminiscent of the work of Latin American artists such as Lygia
Pape and Carmen Herrera, as well as contemporaries such as Dorothea Rockburne and Robert
Irwinhas remained under-recognized. She has exhibited widely in So Paulo and is part of
multiple museum collections, but she is much less known in her adopted country, the United
States. Lydia Okumura: Situations (September 8, 2016January 8, 2017) is the artists first solo
exhibition in the United States. Through the exhibition and catalogue, the UB Art Galleries seek to
encourage a critical reassessment of Okumuras oeuvre within art history. The catalogue includes
an essay on Okumura and her work, by curator Rachel Adams; an account of vanguardism in
Brazilian art from 1960 to 1975, by art historian Mari Rodriguez Binnie; a conversation between
Adams and Okumura; and extensive photo documentation of Okumuras work from the 1970s
until today.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ART

Eberhard Havekost Inhalt

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956792922 Acqn 27107
Hb 17x24cm 124pp 23.50
Edited by Andreas Fiedler. Texts by Andreas Fiedler, Invar-Torre Hollaus
Inhalt concentrates on Eberhard Havekosts painting from the past ten years, focusing on work
first exhibited at KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (October 23, 2016February 19,
2017). The works heterogeneity is evident in the selection of subjects, as well as the styles
employed. This extreme range characterizes Havekosts artistic work as a whole. The artist
situates his paintings in complex interrelationships, where connections and relevancies are
constantly reconfigured, forming a continuously growing web.
The starting points for Havekosts painting are manifoldfrom his own photographs, an ad from a
fashion magazine, and an illustrated book that the artist received as a gift in his childhood, to
images from television, films, and the Internet. As he develops his subjects, he may digitally edit
the images and then use the techniques of painting to reflect on the function and role of pictures
as well as their authenticity. What do we actually see? How much reality is contained in the
surface of things and their depictions? Where do content (in German, Inhalt) and meaning exist,
and how do they get deformed into something different and new?
In addition to an essay by the Basel-based art historian Invar-Torre Hollaus and a preface by
Andreas Fiedler, the catalogue supplements the level of the picture with a level consisting of text
snippets and quotations. Contentthe individual image, the individual text fragmentcannot be
reduced to one context. Rather, it stands for a boundless network and radical relativity.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ART

Margit Busch - IF-THEN-ELSE. Welcome to Transciency. Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2016
Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956792939 Acqn 27123
Pb 13x19cm 54pp ills 11.25
Edited by Universitt fr angewandte Kunst Wien, Kunsthalle Wien
Contributions by Gerald Bast, Margit Busch, Lucas Gehrmann, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Roland
Schny
In cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Applied Arts, the Kunsthalle
Wien Prize is awarded for outstanding final projects at the two universities of art in Vienna.
Addressing possible configurations of art and nature, Margit Busch, corecipient of the Kunsthalle
Wien Prize 2016 and graduate of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, created a laboratory-cumexperiment that included mealworms and beetles that consume, and thus recycle, polystyrene
plastic. By generating insights into the discipline of transciencydevoted to perspectives,
research methods, and representations operating through and beyond scienceBuschs project
sheds light on the meeting points of scientific, philosophical, artistic, and practical discourses. The
catalogue contains an essay by art critic Roland Schny and a conversation between the artist,
curator Lucas Gehrmann, and Kunsthalle Wien director Nicolaus Schafhausen, along with
installation images and a supplemental transmap.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk

ART

Andrej Polukord - The Sarcophagus. Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2016

Sternberg Press 2017 ISBN 9783956792946 Acqn 27124
Pb 13x19cm 46pp ills 11.25
Edited by Akademie der bildenden Knste Wien, Kunsthalle Wien
Contributions by Eva Blimlinger, Lucas Gehrmann, Andrej Polukord, Nicolaus Schafhausen
In cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Applied Arts, the Kunsthalle
Wien Prize is awarded for outstanding final projects at the two universities of art in Vienna. Andrej
Polukord, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and corecipient of the 2016 prize, draws on
painting, installation, performance, and video art to create unpredictable environments and
absurd situations that produce double meanings and ambiguity. Polukord installed The
Sarcophagus at Kunsthalle Wien, an environment that takes the form of a cave. In this installation
mushrooms grow from the ceiling of the Kunsthalle, transforming the gallery into the space of an
inverted forest floor. This publication includes photo documentation of the project as well as a
poster supplement, along with a foreword by Eva Blimlinger, an essay by curator Lucas
Gehrmann, and a conversation between the artist, Lucas Gehrmann, and Kunsthalle Wien
director Nicolaus Schafhausen.

orders@artdata.co.uk
www.artdata.co.uk