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There are certain images that provoke us. Take, for example, the photograph of Jane Birkin, in which she stands leaning casually against a door with a cigarette in one hand and the other in her trousers--a detail that you don't see at first glance. A groundbreaking image that was seen in the 1970s as an act of female self-emancipation. Grit Hachmeister copied the pose in 2007 and its effect is just as startling as the original. The artist has a series of such pictures in her oeuvre: people dressed in nothing but a pair of shoes engaged in various sexual practices. There's plenty of fumbling around and coupling here--being human is a messy business. Hachmeister now presents her first monograph, a collection of drawings, self-portraits, visual narratives, and staged photographs that were produced over the last ten years and provide a showcase for the artist's humorous, gender-critical work.

German photographer Stephanie Kiwitt (born 1972) photographs contemporary life following the collapse of the communist regime in what is now the Czech Republic. The book brings together everyday observations and portraits of those who have come to terms with their new society.

American dancer and choreographer Richard Siegal created an artistic network called THE BAKERY in 2005 devoted to interdisciplinary research and production. Along with performing artists, Siegal works with architects, composers, new media experts, designers, and theoreticians. Together they explore new directions in performance related to technology and the other arts. The exploration of these relationships has resulted in interactive installations, such as IF / THEN INSTALLED or LOGIC GATE, which have been shown in various museums and exhibition halls, as well as dance performances and site-specific projects. THE BAKERY is a cross-disciplinary initiative, it invites others to partake in an ongoing discourse. This book presents contributions by internationally acknowledged artists, writers, and curators who look at performance-making from the points of view of their specific fields.

For more than 20 years, German photographer and filmmaker Armin Linke (born 1966) has been photographing the effects of globalization, the wholesale transformation of infrastructure and the networking of the post-industrial society via digital information and communication technologies.His photographs show that the modern world is a massive profusion of data, where the material infrastructures--consisting of computer centers, data highways and server rooms--are largely invisible.For The Appearance of That Which Cannot Be Seen, Linke invited scientists, philosophers and theoreticians to examine his picture archive. Ariella Azoulay, Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel, Mark Wigley, and Jan Zalasiewicz made a selection of images and in the process opened up Linke's photos to a variety of different readings.

Mario Pfeifer's book A Formal Film is a critical reader that is part of his film project of the same name--an innovative expansion of the genre. The complex exploration of the intercultural, film-historic, political and urban issues that are discussed in Pfeifer's film not only surface on the level of texts, they also become manifest in the materiality of the book itself and its production process. The artist's book was produced in Mumbai and created using six different local printing techniques. In March 2012 Mario Pfeifer and designer Markus Weisbeck set out the formal aspects of the publication in collaboration with local manufacturers and the authors of the texts.

On the emotional and social contradictions and conflicts of adolescenceFrench photographer Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques (born 1983) gathers photographs of young people talking, flirting, skating, kissing, smoking and otherwise navigating social dimensions of being a teenager at the Arco de la Victoria in Madrid.

In the early 1990s, various trips took South Korea-born, New York-based artist Jungjin Lee (born 1961) into the endless expanse of America, where she captured archaic, primal images of deserts, rocks, undergrowth and cacti. Drawing on her South Korean heritage, the artist developed a highly unique pictorial language in series such as Ocean, On Road, Pagodas, Things and Wind, series in which her fundamental interest in nature and culture is expressed in a poetic language of materiality, texture and craftsmanship that takes place in the field and in the darkroom. One of her signature materials is Liquid Light; she applies this photosensitive emulsion onto rice paper with a coarse brush.Jungjin Lee: Echo presents 11 groups of the photographer's works, explored and contextualized in new essays--providing, for the very first time, an overview of an oeuvre spanning two decades.

The Proletarian Building Exhibition took place in Berlin in 1931 and was developed by the Collective for a Socialist Architecture, who intended it to stand in opposition to the German Building Exhibition. Wohnungsfrage has revisited original historical documents and made them the focus of discussion in a conference run in conjunction with the project bauhaus. Research into individuals like Arthur Korn, Alexander Altberg, and Hermann Duncker and their links to projects like the CIAM, the Marxistische Arbeiterschule, and the Bauhaus, as well as their connections with the USSR, demonstrates the degree to which the networks and political attitudes of modernist architecture were interwoven with one another. The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) project Wohnungsfrage investigates the fraught relationship between architecture, housing, and social reality in an exhibition of experimental housing models, an international academy, and a publication series that examines various options for self-determined, social and affordable housing. This publication series presents key historical works accompanied by new commentaries, contemporary case studies from around the world, and publications by activists concerned with urban policy issues, architects, and artists.

In the late 1950s, German inventor and educator Karl-Heinz Adler (born 1927) reinvented himself as a concrete artist, creating fanned layerings of geometrically shaped paper elements and constructivist collages of interpenetrating rectangles. This gorgeously designed paperback surveys his career.

A cross-reference book of information on aesthetic boundaries, consisting of a bibliography into which inserted text, critical essays, art works, and documents, are arranged chronologically and focused on a selection of so-called greatest hits and conceptual poetics. It contains mentions of such vaguely designated areas as appropriation, postnaive, unboring boring, détournement, object perdu, and erasure poetry -- or writing through -- as they currently occur (with occasional political overtones) in the work of Michalis Pichler. This book is the first monograph focused on the practice of artist/author Michalis Pichler. Featuring eleven critical essays, an extensively illustrated catalogue, a conversation with John Stezaker, and selected writings by the artist, the book delivers a solid introduction into conceptual poetics.

Exposing the impact of uranium mining in the former GDRPhotographer Susanne Kriemann (born 1972) explores the impact of uranium mining in former East Germany. The publication includes her Héliogravures portraying plants that grow there.

A cross-reference book of information on aesthetic boundaries, consisting of a bibliography into which inserted text, critical essays, art works, and documents, are arranged chronologically and focused on a selection of so-called greatest hits and conceptual poetics. It contains mentions of such vaguely designated areas as appropriation, postnaive, unboring boring, détournement, object perdu, and erasure poetry as they occur (with occasional political overtones) in the work of Michalis Pichler. This book is the first monograph focused on the artist and writer's practice. Featuring eleven critical essays, an extensively illustrated catalogue, a conversation with John Stezaker, and selected writings by the artist, the book delivers a solid introduction into conceptual poetics.

Intersectional readings of the body as screen for interpretationInverting the notion of "body language," the essays in this volume draw attention to the process of "reading bodies," using the body as semiotic system, a fiction, an archive or alphabet.

An anthology on the politics of production in an age of global crisisConversations, essays and artist contributions focus on the practices and politics of production as a response to our contemporary processes of planetary transformation.