Co-Publications

Texturing Space. Towards an Exponential Cartography

Christoph Brunner & Amélie Brisson-Darveau (Eds.)

[Translate to English:] texturing space

With contributions by Amelie Brisson-Darveau, Christoph Brunner, Nicole De Brabandere, Sher Doruff, Rosamund Ender, Marius Förster, Karmen Franinovic, Diego Gil, Roman Kirschner, Nuria Krämer, Yanki Lee, Mariana Marcassa, Patrick Müller, Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Toni Pape, Peter Tränkle, Jana Vanecek.

Texture weaves and relates. It moves through things, holding them together, providing contours, shaping forms. This publication is an experimental and collaborative exploration of texture from an artistic, design and conceptual angle. Based on a year-long research process between Zürich and Hong Kong the book seeks to give an account of processes of texturing as practice and material effect in urban environments. Texture, we claim, is not a mere surface structure of built configurations but hints at the dynamic and processual nature of urban ecologies as expanded cartographies. As part of a research-creation seminar at Zurich University of the Arts a modular and mobile lab for engaging with urban textures was designed and used at different sites. These explorations are reflected upon from different perspectives such as philosophy, design, sociology, sound, media studies, and literature. Each of these encounters becomes a texturing of its own kind. The publication addresses researchers, artists and designers interested in artistic and design research practices and methods from a transdisciplinary and process-oriented point of view.

Language: Englisch
242 Pages
Size: 21 × 15 × 2 cm
ISBN: 9783943253320
Price:18,00 €

Drill Man

Ju Anqi - Films

Gitanjali Dang, Christoph Schenker, Barbara Preisig (Eds.), Zürich 2019

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Drill Man, a film by the well-known Beijing-based filmmaker Ju Anqi, tells the story of a man with a drill and his aimless journey through public space. The anonymous man repeatedly uses the electric tool to drill into various objects he finds along the way. These include a train, a cargo ship, a bus, a car, the Great Wall, a tree trunk, a flower and even the toilet seat in a five-star hotel room.... His behaviour depends on some kind of threatening and destructive action, and the drill undoubtedly has sexual and assaultive connotations. However, this absurd scenario also contains a strong poetic dimension. Ju Anqi's Drill Man creates holes in the world. He leaves a trace of his existence and provides an existential metaphor for contemporary Chinese society.

Drill Man was created as part of Draft, a long-term project by Khanabadosh, Mumbai, and the Institute for Ceontemporary Art Research (IFCAR) at Zurich University of the Arts. This DVD, realised exclusively for scholars and libraries, also includes Ju Anqi's early groundbreaking film There's a Strong Wind in Beijing from 1999 and a trailer of Anqi's A Missing Policeman from 2016. The DVD is part of the Draft publication initiative, which comprises nine volumes representing the individual projects within Draft. 

DVD
Published by Draft
ISBN 978-3-9525150-0-6

Teatro Ojo: At Night, Lightning

Helena Chavez Mac Gregor, Cuauhtemoc Medina (Eds.), Mexico 2019

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In this project, the Mexican experimental theater group Teatro Ojo, founded in 2002, confronts the trauma of violent images in news media and how this stream silences all constructive thought. The group produced a symposium and short ads for public television and Youtube, aiming to undermine the sensationalism of human tragedy while preserving the public possibilities of images.

245 Pages
ISBN 978-8-41704-754-2
CHF 16.00 | € 17.92

Marcel Duchamp – Die Schriften (Reprint 2018)

Serge Stauffer (Eds.)

The writings of Duchamp, out of print for years, now available again!

Supplemented with the annotations by Serge Stauffer, which he left in the first edition in 1982-89, a foreword by Herbert Molderings and an afterword by Michael Hiltbrunner.

Limited edition of 1200 ex.
350 pages
ISBN 978-3-85862-729-2
CHF 78.00

Wir muten Ihnen alles zu. Peter Trachsel and the Hasena

Peter Trachsel and the Hasena

Michael Hiltbrunner and Stifung für fliessenden Kunstverkehr (eds.), Zurich 2018

Peter Trachsel (1949-2013) was active as a performance artist in the mid-1970s and was involved in the expansion of the F+F School for Experimental Design. With his association Hasena - Institut für (den) fliessenden Kunstverkehr (Institute for (the) flow of art), he realised various exhibition and performance formats, from the 1980s increasingly in rural areas and with the participation of amateurs. Trachsel is considered a pioneer of self-organised art in Switzerland. Since Trachsel's death, the Foundation for (the) flowing circulation of art has been committed to the preservation of his work. This monograph is the first to work through the oeuvre of this extraordinary artist and makes an important contribution to the documentation of Swiss performance art. The essays explore Trachel's diversity of media and his interest in participatory project models. They are complemented by photographs of his performances as well as letters and drawings by colleagues, which give an insight into the working and thinking methods of Trachsel and his environment.

With contributions by Linus Bill, Gina De Micheli, Charlotte Gohs, Michael Hiltbrunner, Ginia Holdener, Bernd Kempker, Birgit Kempker, Marc Matter and Yost Wächter.

282 pages
ISBN 978-3-85881-609-2
CHF 49.00 | EUR 48.00

Art and ethnography - between cooperation and co-production?

Attraction - Repulsion - Entanglement: Epistemic and Methodological Perspectives

Ute Holfelder, Klaus Schönberger, Thomas Hengartner, Christoph Schenker (eds.), Zurich 2018

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The contributions brought together in this volume point to the confluence between artistic and ethnographic research, between the practice of field research and art enterprises, between artists, ethnographers and hybrid actors who are one thing today and something else tomorrow. The focus is on transdisciplinary perspectives that attempt to methodically and epistemically catch up with the current delimited social conditions.
The volume presents the results of a workshop conducted as part of the project "Mobile Phone Films - Artistic and Ethnographic Approaches to Representations of Young People's Everyday Worlds". In this workshop, the question was asked in what way a coming together of art and ethnography can be practised as a co-production that is not exhausted in the mode of an additive cooperation or collaboration. The majority of the contributions refer to this research project, which is situated between cultural-scientific technology research and artistic research. In addition, there are texts that fundamentally explore the relationship between art and ethnography, as well as presentations of other artistic-social science research projects. In addition to conceptual considerations, all contributions discuss the potentials and difficulties of cooperation between art and ethnography. They illustrate different forms of cooperation, mutual attraction, but also rubbing, separation and repulsion.

200 pages, 10 colour illustrations
ISBN 978-3-0340-1410-6
CHF 48.00 | EUR 48.00

Stadt auf Achse

Gabriela Christen, Christoph Doswald and Martin Haller (eds.), Zürich 2016

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The manual has three components: A step-by-step guide for
participatory artistic projects in the context of urban development, a collection of
collection of reference examples that provide concentrated insight into best
practice, and a service section with further information.

The volume contains a graphical reference system that links individual sections to explanations and
sections to explanations and references in other parts of the text.
other parts of the text. The quotations included in the guide are taken from the numerous discussions
from the numerous discussions with representatives from the municipalities and cities
and cities as well as the artists involved in the project.
They are not attributed to individual persons, because they are representative
statements that have been made in a similar way several times.

144 pages
ISBN 978-3-03764-453-9
CHF 32.00 | € 16.00