K-Artists
Archive Books 2023 ISBN 9783949973369 Acqn 33710
Hb 20x27cm 338pp col ills £38.50
There has been a recent surge of global interest in Korean arts and popular culture, as evidenced
by neologisms such as K-pop, K-drama and K-classic. Korean contemporary art has also
captured the attention of a growing number of international biennales, exhibitions and fairs,
attracting an international audience to Korea's local artists and the scene they comprise. This is
where our questions begin: despite a growing sense of nationalism in the global political stage,
through a post-postmodernist lens, national categorization appears anachronistic. Is the prefix 'K'
then a mere political ploy and capitalist commodity? If 'K' were to be removed, on the other hand,
how else might we attempt at providing a portrait of the changing currents in Korea's art scene?
Is collective categorization or generalization ever worthwhile, and if so, to what extent can it be
done without reducing or marginalizing individuals?
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The Gun of Null Vier
Archive Books 2023 ISBN 9783949973123 Acqn 33711
Hb 22x32cm 320pp col ills £33.50
Genocide in Namibia is an especially sensitive matter-its history has at times been ignored,
underestimated, or even denied outright. In an artistic documentary Aguilar has worked in close
collaboration with Nama and OvaHerero people who vividly evoke memories and rituals of
mourning caused by human loss and land dispossession under Imperial Germany's violent
occupation. From these personal encounters emerge portraits, visuals and narratives as
documental fragments, consisting of living voices which insist on defending memory as an
invocation to witness and never to remain passive in the face of social injustice. Rather than a
linear collection of data referring to distant places and its distant past, this work engages with
stories as chronicles calling to be recognised as pieces of humanity and time. Alongside Aguilar's
portraits, this publication also contains contributions by human rights attorney Wolfgang Kaleck
and the curator of the work Tristan Pranyko, along with poetry by Namibian artists Nesindano
Namises, Fritz Isak Dirkse and Prince Kamaazegi, and narratives, testimonies, chants and
mourning rituals shared by OvaHerero and Nama people in present-day Namiba.
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Encounters - Embodied Practices
Archive Books 2023 ISBN 9783949973161 Acqn 33712
Pb 15x21cm 184pp £16.50
What potential do embodied practices offer for emancipatory movements? How can community
be created through these practices, and what responsibilities does this entail? What role does the
body play in the preservation and transmission of knowledge? In Encounters - Embodied
Practices Lukas Avendano, Wagner Carvalho, Sandhya Daemgen, Ismail Fayed, Alex Hennig,
Raphael Moussa Hillebrand, Martha Hincapie Charry, Isabel Lewis, Matthias Mohr, Prince Ofori,
Mother "Leo" Saint Laurent, Lena Szirmay-Kalos, Thiago Granato, and July Weber reflect on
these and other questions through their respective choreographic and curatorial practices. The
book is edited by the choreographers and curators Martha Hincapie Charry, Sandhya Daemgen,
Raphael Moussa Hillebrand and Matthias Mohr. It is published in collaboration with Radialsystem
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Christian Nyampeta – Togetherward
Archive Books 2023 ISBN 9783949973239 Acqn 33713
Pb 21x30cm 224pp col ills £24.25
Togetherward is a volume assembling new and existing documents that revisit, mix and remix
moments in the work of artist Christian Nyampeta. The volume is composed of affections,
alliances, appearances, material, and memories that exceed singular authorship, in the form of
dedications, documents, elegies, film stills, footnotes, photographs, poetry, presences, and
translations. Together they draw a biography of research: the journeys of engaging with art
learning and making in, with, and against the worlds of today. This stream of existing documents
is sequenced alongside new contributions by Omar Berrada, Binna Choi, Belinda Kazeem-
Kaminski, Natacha Nsabimana, and Isaie Nzeyimana.
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O Quilombismo Reader
Archive Books 2023 ISBN 9783949973260 Acqn 33714
Pb 16x24cm 224pp col ills £22.50
This reader, published on the occasion of the project 'O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting.
Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies', brings the themes of
the eponymous group exhibition to those interested in wider conceptual explorations around its
multifaceted curatorial threads: insurgence, resistance, liberation, spirituality, ecstasy, new
cultural forms and aesthetic paradigms, quilombo as queering, and the reimagination of
collectivity. Anchored by newly translated historical texts, poetry, essays, and conversations, the
publication engages with the founding figures and initial conceptual articulations of quilombismo
in detail, but also explores how it has found resonance in disparate practices globally.
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