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BOOK LAUNCH & TALK—BERLIN
Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life
To celebrate the launch of Kathrin Böhm Art on the Scale of Life, artist/organiser Kathrin Böhm will be in conversation with art historian/critic Christoph Chwatal to discuss the intersection between art and economics, and interdependent spaces for transformative action.
Thursday 7 March, 7:30pm
Pro qm
Berlin
Find out more about the event here.
BOOK LAUNCH & PANEL DISCUSSION—SYDNEY
What to Let Go?
How can art reconfigure our collective foundational myths? And of what should we let go on the journey towards figuring it out?
To celebrate the launch of What to Let Go? editors Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guererro, and contributors Nikau Hindin, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Pablo José Ramírez, Marian Pastor Roces and Vivian Ziherl will be in conversation with moderator Claire Shea. Together they will discuss what counts as heritage now, who gets to do the counting, and broader related issues around the subject of cultural sovereignty.
What to Let Go? is copublished by Para Site.
This event is presented as part of the opening weekend program for the 24th Biennale of Sydney.
Saturday 9 March, 6pm
UNSW Galleries
Sydney
Find out more about the event and register here.
BOOK LAUNCH & CONVERSATION—NEW YORK
Citizens of the Cosmos
Citizens of the Cosmos examines the artist Anton Vidokle’s films and the Cosmist philosophy underpinning them. It features essays and conversations with Vidokle by seminal contemporary theorists, curators, and artists: Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Keti Chukhrov, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Daniel Muzyczuk, Miguel Amado and Georgia Perkins, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Raqs Media Collective. This is the first book to survey Vidokle’s Cosmism-related filmic output, begun in 2014, and includes full scripts from the films.
For the book’s launch at the Swiss Institute, Vidokle will screen one of his films, Autotrofia (2020), and will be joined afterwards in conversation with Elizabeth Povinelli and Liam Gillick.
Wednesday 20 March, 7pm
Swiss Institute
New York
Find out more about the event here.
To attend, please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.
BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK_VIENNA
The White West
Ana Teixeira Pinto will be in conversation with Felix Stalder, to discuss The White West: Fascism, Unreason and the Paradox of Modernity, as part of a two-day event held at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. A special lecture by Ana Teixeira Pinto will follow on Thursday, June 12 at 6pm.
Ever since neofascist movements began to surge across the globe, liberal commentators have tried to put a name to what they are defending from these illiberal ideologies. The consensus is reason or rationality––after the Second World War, mainstream scholarship has supported the view that adherence to fascism is a thing of unreason. This distinction between reason and unreason, a tenet of Enlightenment thought, sustains the universal appeal of liberal democracy but leaves unexamined the paradoxes that haunt modernity, particularly its colonial foundation, thus obscuring the continuities between fascism and imperial policies. The White West: Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity contends that, without confronting the structuring force of race in the production and reproduction of global wealth disparities, fighting for reason only leads to flawed utopias in which a critique or disruption of capitalism is easily inflected in the direction of neofascism. This collection of writing by leading historians, theorists, and scholars engages the overlaps between philosophical predicates and colonial legacies, as well as the undertheorized continuities between fascism and settler colonialism.
With contributions by Larne Abse Gogarty, Norman Ajari, Ramon Amaro, Sladja Blazan, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Donna V. Jones, Nitzan Lebovic, Olivier Marboeuf, A. Dirk Moses, Rijin Sahakian, Nikhil Pal Singh, Kerstin Stakemeier, and Felix Stalder.
Wednesday 11 June, 6pm
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
More information about the event can be found here.
Free entry and open to the public.
BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK_NEW YORK
Writings and Interviews
Artists Space is hosting a special launch for Writings and Interviews in New York, in collaboration with Andrew Kreps Gallery. The event will feature a discussion between Kelly Taxter, Deputy Director of Artists Space and curator of the exhibition Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… (The Jewish Museum, New York, 2017) and Dan Fox, writer, filmmaker, musician and author of “…In the Cherished Company of Others… by Marc Camille Chaimowicz: A New Work Is a Retrospective, of Sorts,” a transcribed interview between Chaimowicz and Fox included in the publication.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz (1946-2024) was an acclaimed visual artist known for his performances, installations and curatorial flair. He was also a writer. This volume, the first comprehensive collection of writings by the artist, includes seminal interviews, chitchats, jokes, performance reports, insightful statements and letters in essay form, as well as rare documents, such as early surviving leaflets, typewriter handouts and hard-to-find articles. Spanning 1971-2023, the book unlocks the work of an artist considered to be a refreshing role model for a new generation of culture mavens and style savants. Drawing form literature, modernist architecture, interior design, art theory, glam rock and camp culture, the collection reveals the artist’s inner self alongside the art, social flânerie and the goings-on of his time. Entertaining and witty, the texts stand out brilliantly with their early acumen and inclusivity, while setting a new template for an expression of queerness through writing. With access to Chaimowicz’s personal material and photographs, curator and editor Alexis Vaillant is a guide to the artist’s writings. This book presents readers with an in-depth look into Chaimowicz’s quixotic shaping of his written work, which comes to life as a knowing and longing prose for the twenty-first century.
Wednesday 4 June, 7pm
Artists Space, New York
Free entry and open to the public.
BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK_LONDON
Huguette Caland
As part of the exhibition Finding My Blue Sky, Dr. Omar Kholeif will be in conversation with Brigitte Caland, to explore the life and work of artist Huguette Caland. The intimate talk will be accompanied by a short documentary screening and will be followed by a book signing for the artist’s first critical biography, Huguette Caland.
Lebanese-born artist, Huguette Caland (1931–2019) was a path-breaking figure in late modernism. The only daughter of the first Lebanese president, Bechara El Khoury, she produced a singular body of art that spanned media and continents. Working for more than five decades, her art is recognized for its embodied aesthetic and its unique sensuality.
In this book, author and curator, Omar Kholeif, disentangles the seeming madness, velocity, and the interiority of Caland’s life. Both an epistolary memoir and a biography, Kholeif, interleaves the affective experience of encountering the artist over a period of 18 years, as readers are summoned on a journey through clouds of bristling color. Here, Caland’s fields of light are set to lyric prose and poetry, fashioning a scene for looking at and experiencing the erotics of art anew.
Friday 30 May, 12.30-2pm
Lisson Gallery, London
Further information about the event can be found here.
Free entry. To RSVP, please email: rsvp@lissongallery.com
BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK_PARIS
Lalitha Lajmi
Skye Arundhati-Thomas will be in conversation with scholar and historian Françoise Vergès to discuss the recent book Lalitha Lajmi from the imagine/otherwise series, edited by Dr. Omar Kholeif.
For this first critical volume and biography of the artist, Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi’s archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist’s character. The author also reveals the critical role that psychoanalysis played in the evolution of Lajmi’s art into the realm of the conceptual and, specifically, a distinctly situated form of auto ethnography. Studying Lajmi’s relationship with her psychoanalyst, Thomas describes how these sessions fueled a practice of self-portraiture that formed the bedrock of the artist’s practice.
This talk coincides with Lalitha Lajmi’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Anne Barrault in Paris, on view through 14 June.
Wednesday 21 May, 8pm
After 8 Books, Paris
Further information about the event can be found here.
Free entry and open to the public.
BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK_NEW YORK
Fear and Money
To mark the release of Fear and Money, Pace Gallery is hosting a launch, accompanied by a conversation between Isabelle Graw, Adam Pendleton and Violaine Huisman.
In Fear and Money: A Novel, author and art historian Isabelle Graw explores how fear eats the soul of the protagonist, as she struggles to survive in a world increasingly defined and divided by money, addressing the situation with psychoanalytic depth. Relatable to anyone who recognizes the stream of anxious thoughts along with feelings of isolation and abandonment, the gripping inner monologue in this latest novel from Graw also offers instances of relief, connecting all who feel equally stuck, frayed, and neurotic, and suggesting a collective route through this crisis-shaken world.
Monday 12 May, 6.30-8pm. Doors open at 6pm.
Pace, New York
540 West 25th Street
This is a ticketed event. RSVP here.
BOOK LAUNCH_PARIS
Writings and Interviews
To mark the release of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Writings and Interviews, Shmorevaz is hosting a weekend launch in Paris.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz (1946-2024) was an acclaimed visual artist known for his performances, installations and curatorial flair. He was also a writer. This volume, the first comprehensive collection of writings by the artist, includes seminal interviews, chitchats, jokes, performance reports, insightful statements and letters in essay form, as well as rare documents, such as early surviving leaflets, typewriter handouts and hard-to-find articles. Spanning 1971-2023, the book unlocks the work of an artist considered to be a refreshing role model for a new generation of culture mavens and style savants. Drawing form literature, modernist architecture, interior design, art theory, glam rock and camp culture, the collection reveals the artist’s inner self alongside the art, social flânerie and the goings-on of his time. Entertaining and witty, the texts stand out brilliantly with their early acumen and inclusivity, while setting a new template for an expression of queerness through writing. With access to Chaimowicz’s personal material and photographs, curator and editor Alexis Vaillant is a guide to the artist’s writings. This book presents readers with an in-depth look into Chaimowicz’s quixotic shaping of his written work, which comes to life as a knowing and longing prose for the twenty-first century.
Friday 7 March, 6-9pm
Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 March, 2-6pm
Shmorevaz, Paris
Free entry and open to the public.
BOOK LAUNCH_LONDON
Planetary Realism: Art Against Apocalypse
Josephine Berry will be in conversation with Ron Gray and Georgia Perkins, on the occasion of the launch of Planetary Realism: Art Against Apocalypse.
The devastation left in the wake of modernity and globalization is revealing a fragile and unfamiliar planet, and humanity has awakened to a new real. If the old “realist” tools of objectivism have contributed to capitalist society’s divorce from the natural world, how are artists finding new ways to make us really see – and feel- the planet?
Surveying a body of planet-facing art, communal practices, and activism, Josephine Berry investigates art’s power to break with capitalist realism and decarbonize the imagination. With chapters on feeling as world-making, the rupture of petroleum landscapes, artists’ urban exodus, and migration as survival, Planetary Realism delves deeply into art’s necessary reimagining of life on Earth.
Saturday 1 March, 4-6pm
FormaHQ
London
Find out more about the event here.
Free entry. RSVP is required: rsvp@forma.org.uk
BOOK LAUNCH_BRUSSELS
A Moratorium on New Construction
Join Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Lara Almarcegui on the occasion of the launch of A Moratorium on New Construction. The event will be moderated by Nikolaus Hirsch.
To build is to destroy, writes Charlotte Malterre-Barthes. From steel bolts to concrete blocks to wood flooring to polyester insulation panels, every single component of the built environment is the product of extractive processes. Driven by greedy economies, the global enterprise of space production expands, impacting climate, earth, water, humans, and non-humans everywhere. However housing is both a human right and the mandate of design disciplines: How to navigate the need for housing versus the destructive practice of construction?
Engaging with unsettling questions, A Moratorium on New Construction envisions a massive value shift for our existing stock. From housing redistribution to reinviting value generation, from anti-extractive measures to profound structural changes, from curricula reforms to purging the exploitative culture of the office, an entire rewiring of design processes and construction lays ahead. Somewhere between a thought experiment and a call for action, A Moratorium on New Construction is a leap of faith to envision a less extractive future, made of what we have: Not demolishing, not building new, but building less, building with what exists, inhabiting it differently, and caring for it.
Thursday 6 March, 7pm
CIVA
Brussels
Find out more about the event here.
This is a ticketed event. Please book your ticket here.
TALK_LONDON
What to Let Go?
Delfina Foundation is hosting a double book launch for What to Let Go? and Ten Thousand Suns. Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guerrero will be in conversation with historian and writer Samir Khatun, and cultural critic and curator, Marian Pastor Roces.
Thursday 21 November, 6.30pm to 8pm (doors open and refreshments from 6.15pm).
Delfina Foundation
London
Further information about the event can be found here.
Free access. Bookings essential. Please book your ticket here.
BOOK LAUNCH—LONDON
Fusion!
A conversation between Alex Coles and Danalogue to celebrate the launch of the book Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother.
Followed by a live performance featuring Danalogue and Robyn’s Rocket, and a DJ set with the Vinyl Bunnies.
From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the origins and legacy of blended musical genres by focusing on twelve dynamic collaborations. From Alice Coltrane working with Carlos Santana in 1974 to Moor Mother sharing the mic with Wolf Weston in 2022, the collaborations-cum-chapters reveal how musicians pursue fusion as a process.
With sonic fusion always premised on cultural fusion, each of the collaborations find musicians using the mixing of genres to explore fusions of generations, eras, philosophies, sensibilities, idioms, histories, and even continents. When the musicians hail from contrasting musical genres their collaboration leads to a dynamic tension, typified by free jazz trumpeter Don Cherry recording with Lou Reed, Kendrick Lamar cutting tracks with saxophonist Kamasi Washington, Miles Davis playing with electric guitarist John McLaughlin and synth player Danalogue joining Shabaka Hutchings and Max Hallett to form the Comet is Coming.
Fusion! pushes the music of overlooked musicians—such as post-punk singer and saxophone player Lora Logic—to the fore while emphasizing overlooked aspects of the oeuvres of better-known figures such as Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Neneh Cherry and FourTet. To characterize their unique approach to fusion, each of the examples Coles explores are driven by a dynamic sonic principle coined by the musicians themselves.
Tuesday 5 November, 6.30pm til’ late
The Library Lounge at The Standard
London
BOOK LAUNCH—EDINBURGH
Stinkhorn
Join author Siôn Parkinson for a special launch of Stinkhorn.
How Nature’s Most Foul-Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen
The stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, certainly the smelliest. Ever since it was described by a Dutch doctor in a sixteenth-century pamphlet, the stinkhorn has been reported to emit odors resembling damp earth, dung, rotting cheese, decaying flesh, and even semen. It also happens to look like a phallus, bursting out of a subterranean egg to poke above the ground, where it lures insects towards its slimy, fetid cap. In Stinkhorn, artist, musician, and writer Siôn Parkinson asks: What can the pervasive stench of this mushroom and the droning noise of the flies compelled towards it reveal about how sounds and smells are combined in the imagination?
A heady mix of natural history, science writing, musicology, philosophy of the senses, and illness memoir, Parkinson uses examples of so-called bad smells to argue for a theory of Stink as a kind of “smelling sound.” Alongside images and insights from the author’s search for stinkhorn fungi in nature, the book expands upon the philosophy of listening to consider the role of the nose and the “nasal imaginary” in how we make sense of sound.
In this treatise on malodors and how they can transform the conditions for listening, Parkinson considers John Cage’s silent fungal forays, Brian Eno’s compositions with perfumes, the hum note of a vibrating bell, the “eggy” odor of space, and the author’s own hallucinated stench as the result of an epileptic seizure. What links these disparate ideas and sensory experiences can be found in a single encounter with a ripe stinkhorn mushroom.
Monday 4 November, 7.30pm. Doors open 7pm
Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh
2 Blenheim Place
Edinburgh EH7 5JH
Tickets can be purchased here.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Democracy and Urban Form
A pair of events mark the release of Democracy and Urban Form, a new book featuring a series of lectures delivered by the eminent sociologist Richard Sennett at Harvard Graduate School Of Design in 1981. Copublished with Harvard Design Press.
Wednesday 9 October
Please join philosopher Michael Sandel, as he will deliver a lecture that draws on themes from his book titled Democracy’s Discontent.
6.30pm, Piper Auditorium, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Thursday 10 October
A panel discussion including Richard Sennett, Diane Davis, Claire Zimmerman, Markus Miessen and Miguel Robles-Durán will reflect on the state of democracy in relation to architecture and cities.
12.30pm, Gund Hall Stubbins Room 112, Harvard Graduate School Of Design.
Free and open to the public.
TALK_ONLINE
Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations
Trevor Paglen will be in conversation with Anthony Downey about the recently published book Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations.
How machine learning and computer vision generate images.
Although often considered to be a fault or a glitch in the system, the event of hallucination is central to the models of image production generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Through mining the latent space of computer vision, Trevor Paglen’s series Adversarially Evolved Hallucination (2017-ongoing) reveals this phantasmal and hallucinatory domain. In the conversation included in this volume, he discusses how we can think from within these opaque structures and, in turn, questions the frequently inflated claims made on behalf of automated image-production systems. In an accompanying essay, Anthony Downey explores the uncanny realm of algorithmically induced images and proposes that AI, through its generative modelling of the world, invariably estranges us from the present and the future.
Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation.
Saturday 28 September, 9pm CEST
Online
Book a free ticket for the event here.
BOOK LAUNCH & TALK—PARIS
What to Let Go?
KADIST Paris is hosting a double book launch for What to Let Go? and Ten Thousand Suns, edited by Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guerrero.
What to Let Go? is copublished by Para Site.
Wednesday 4 September, 6:30pm to 8pm
KADIST
Paris
Find out more about the event here.
Free access.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Sternberg Press at NYABF 2024
Sternberg Press will be at the NY Art Book Fair from April 25–28.
Barbara Casavecchia and Omar Berrada will also be participating in The Classroom series as part of the fair’s public program to discuss Thus Waves Come in Pairs: Thinking with the Mediterraneans, edited by Barbara Casavecchia and published by Sternberg Press in May 2023.
To find a full list of exhibitors and events, please see the NYABF’s website here.
BOOK LAUNCH & TALK—BERLIN
Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life
To celebrate the launch of Kathrin Böhm Art on the Scale of Life, artist/organiser Kathrin Böhm will be in conversation with art historian/critic Christoph Chwatal to discuss the intersection between art and economics, and interdependent spaces for transformative action.
Thursday 7 March, 7:30pm
Pro qm
Berlin
Find out more about the event here.
BOOK LAUNCH & PANEL DISCUSSION—SYDNEY
What to Let Go?
How can art reconfigure our collective foundational myths? And of what should we let go on the journey towards figuring it out?
To celebrate the launch of What to Let Go? editors Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guererro, and contributors Nikau Hindin, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Pablo José Ramírez, Marian Pastor Roces and Vivian Ziherl will be in conversation with moderator Claire Shea. Together they will discuss what counts as heritage now, who gets to do the counting, and broader related issues around the subject of cultural sovereignty.
What to Let Go? is copublished by Para Site.
This event is presented as part of the opening weekend program for the 24th Biennale of Sydney.
Saturday 9 March, 6pm
UNSW Galleries
Sydney
Find out more about the event and register here.
BOOK LAUNCH & CONVERSATION—NEW YORK
Citizens of the Cosmos
Citizens of the Cosmos examines the artist Anton Vidokle’s films and the Cosmist philosophy underpinning them. It features essays and conversations with Vidokle by seminal contemporary theorists, curators, and artists: Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Keti Chukhrov, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Daniel Muzyczuk, Miguel Amado and Georgia Perkins, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Raqs Media Collective. This is the first book to survey Vidokle’s Cosmism-related filmic output, begun in 2014, and includes full scripts from the films.
For the book’s launch at the Swiss Institute, Vidokle will screen one of his films, Autotrofia (2020), and will be joined afterwards in conversation with Elizabeth Povinelli and Liam Gillick.
Wednesday 20 March, 7pm
Swiss Institute
New York
Find out more about the event here.
To attend, please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.
BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK_VIENNA
The White West
Ana Teixeira Pinto will be in conversation with Felix Stalder, to discuss The White West: Fascism, Unreason and the Paradox of Modernity, as part of a two-day event held at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. A special lecture by Ana Teixeira Pinto will follow on Thursday, June 12 at 6pm.
Ever since neofascist movements began to surge across the globe, liberal commentators have tried to put a name to what they are defending from these illiberal ideologies. The consensus is reason or rationality––after the Second World War, mainstream scholarship has supported the view that adherence to fascism is a thing of unreason. This distinction between reason and unreason, a tenet of Enlightenment thought, sustains the universal appeal of liberal democracy but leaves unexamined the paradoxes that haunt modernity, particularly its colonial foundation, thus obscuring the continuities between fascism and imperial policies. The White West: Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity contends that, without confronting the structuring force of race in the production and reproduction of global wealth disparities, fighting for reason only leads to flawed utopias in which a critique or disruption of capitalism is easily inflected in the direction of neofascism. This collection of writing by leading historians, theorists, and scholars engages the overlaps between philosophical predicates and colonial legacies, as well as the undertheorized continuities between fascism and settler colonialism.
With contributions by Larne Abse Gogarty, Norman Ajari, Ramon Amaro, Sladja Blazan, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Donna V. Jones, Nitzan Lebovic, Olivier Marboeuf, A. Dirk Moses, Rijin Sahakian, Nikhil Pal Singh, Kerstin Stakemeier, and Felix Stalder.
Wednesday 11 June, 6pm
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
More information about the event can be found here.
Free entry and open to the public.
BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK_NEW YORK
Writings and Interviews
Artists Space is hosting a special launch for Writings and Interviews in New York, in collaboration with Andrew Kreps Gallery. The event will feature a discussion between Kelly Taxter, Deputy Director of Artists Space and curator of the exhibition Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine… (The Jewish Museum, New York, 2017) and Dan Fox, writer, filmmaker, musician and author of “…In the Cherished Company of Others… by Marc Camille Chaimowicz: A New Work Is a Retrospective, of Sorts,” a transcribed interview between Chaimowicz and Fox included in the publication.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz (1946-2024) was an acclaimed visual artist known for his performances, installations and curatorial flair. He was also a writer. This volume, the first comprehensive collection of writings by the artist, includes seminal interviews, chitchats, jokes, performance reports, insightful statements and letters in essay form, as well as rare documents, such as early surviving leaflets, typewriter handouts and hard-to-find articles. Spanning 1971-2023, the book unlocks the work of an artist considered to be a refreshing role model for a new generation of culture mavens and style savants. Drawing form literature, modernist architecture, interior design, art theory, glam rock and camp culture, the collection reveals the artist’s inner self alongside the art, social flânerie and the goings-on of his time. Entertaining and witty, the texts stand out brilliantly with their early acumen and inclusivity, while setting a new template for an expression of queerness through writing. With access to Chaimowicz’s personal material and photographs, curator and editor Alexis Vaillant is a guide to the artist’s writings. This book presents readers with an in-depth look into Chaimowicz’s quixotic shaping of his written work, which comes to life as a knowing and longing prose for the twenty-first century.
Wednesday 4 June, 7pm
Artists Space, New York
Free entry and open to the public.
BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK_LONDON
Huguette Caland
As part of the exhibition Finding My Blue Sky, Dr. Omar Kholeif will be in conversation with Brigitte Caland, to explore the life and work of artist Huguette Caland. The intimate talk will be accompanied by a short documentary screening and will be followed by a book signing for the artist’s first critical biography, Huguette Caland.
Lebanese-born artist, Huguette Caland (1931–2019) was a path-breaking figure in late modernism. The only daughter of the first Lebanese president, Bechara El Khoury, she produced a singular body of art that spanned media and continents. Working for more than five decades, her art is recognized for its embodied aesthetic and its unique sensuality.
In this book, author and curator, Omar Kholeif, disentangles the seeming madness, velocity, and the interiority of Caland’s life. Both an epistolary memoir and a biography, Kholeif, interleaves the affective experience of encountering the artist over a period of 18 years, as readers are summoned on a journey through clouds of bristling color. Here, Caland’s fields of light are set to lyric prose and poetry, fashioning a scene for looking at and experiencing the erotics of art anew.
Friday 30 May, 12.30-2pm
Lisson Gallery, London
Further information about the event can be found here.
Free entry. To RSVP, please email: rsvp@lissongallery.com
BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK_PARIS
Lalitha Lajmi
Skye Arundhati-Thomas will be in conversation with scholar and historian Françoise Vergès to discuss the recent book Lalitha Lajmi from the imagine/otherwise series, edited by Dr. Omar Kholeif.
For this first critical volume and biography of the artist, Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi’s archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist’s character. The author also reveals the critical role that psychoanalysis played in the evolution of Lajmi’s art into the realm of the conceptual and, specifically, a distinctly situated form of auto ethnography. Studying Lajmi’s relationship with her psychoanalyst, Thomas describes how these sessions fueled a practice of self-portraiture that formed the bedrock of the artist’s practice.
This talk coincides with Lalitha Lajmi’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Anne Barrault in Paris, on view through 14 June.
Wednesday 21 May, 8pm
After 8 Books, Paris
Further information about the event can be found here.
Free entry and open to the public.
BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK_NEW YORK
Fear and Money
To mark the release of Fear and Money, Pace Gallery is hosting a launch, accompanied by a conversation between Isabelle Graw, Adam Pendleton and Violaine Huisman.
In Fear and Money: A Novel, author and art historian Isabelle Graw explores how fear eats the soul of the protagonist, as she struggles to survive in a world increasingly defined and divided by money, addressing the situation with psychoanalytic depth. Relatable to anyone who recognizes the stream of anxious thoughts along with feelings of isolation and abandonment, the gripping inner monologue in this latest novel from Graw also offers instances of relief, connecting all who feel equally stuck, frayed, and neurotic, and suggesting a collective route through this crisis-shaken world.
Monday 12 May, 6.30-8pm. Doors open at 6pm.
Pace, New York
540 West 25th Street
This is a ticketed event. RSVP here.
BOOK LAUNCH_PARIS
Writings and Interviews
To mark the release of Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Writings and Interviews, Shmorevaz is hosting a weekend launch in Paris.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz (1946-2024) was an acclaimed visual artist known for his performances, installations and curatorial flair. He was also a writer. This volume, the first comprehensive collection of writings by the artist, includes seminal interviews, chitchats, jokes, performance reports, insightful statements and letters in essay form, as well as rare documents, such as early surviving leaflets, typewriter handouts and hard-to-find articles. Spanning 1971-2023, the book unlocks the work of an artist considered to be a refreshing role model for a new generation of culture mavens and style savants. Drawing form literature, modernist architecture, interior design, art theory, glam rock and camp culture, the collection reveals the artist’s inner self alongside the art, social flânerie and the goings-on of his time. Entertaining and witty, the texts stand out brilliantly with their early acumen and inclusivity, while setting a new template for an expression of queerness through writing. With access to Chaimowicz’s personal material and photographs, curator and editor Alexis Vaillant is a guide to the artist’s writings. This book presents readers with an in-depth look into Chaimowicz’s quixotic shaping of his written work, which comes to life as a knowing and longing prose for the twenty-first century.
Friday 7 March, 6-9pm
Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 March, 2-6pm
Shmorevaz, Paris
Free entry and open to the public.
BOOK LAUNCH_LONDON
Planetary Realism: Art Against Apocalypse
Josephine Berry will be in conversation with Ron Gray and Georgia Perkins, on the occasion of the launch of Planetary Realism: Art Against Apocalypse.
The devastation left in the wake of modernity and globalization is revealing a fragile and unfamiliar planet, and humanity has awakened to a new real. If the old “realist” tools of objectivism have contributed to capitalist society’s divorce from the natural world, how are artists finding new ways to make us really see – and feel- the planet?
Surveying a body of planet-facing art, communal practices, and activism, Josephine Berry investigates art’s power to break with capitalist realism and decarbonize the imagination. With chapters on feeling as world-making, the rupture of petroleum landscapes, artists’ urban exodus, and migration as survival, Planetary Realism delves deeply into art’s necessary reimagining of life on Earth.
Saturday 1 March, 4-6pm
FormaHQ
London
Find out more about the event here.
Free entry. RSVP is required: rsvp@forma.org.uk
BOOK LAUNCH_BRUSSELS
A Moratorium on New Construction
Join Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Lara Almarcegui on the occasion of the launch of A Moratorium on New Construction. The event will be moderated by Nikolaus Hirsch.
To build is to destroy, writes Charlotte Malterre-Barthes. From steel bolts to concrete blocks to wood flooring to polyester insulation panels, every single component of the built environment is the product of extractive processes. Driven by greedy economies, the global enterprise of space production expands, impacting climate, earth, water, humans, and non-humans everywhere. However housing is both a human right and the mandate of design disciplines: How to navigate the need for housing versus the destructive practice of construction?
Engaging with unsettling questions, A Moratorium on New Construction envisions a massive value shift for our existing stock. From housing redistribution to reinviting value generation, from anti-extractive measures to profound structural changes, from curricula reforms to purging the exploitative culture of the office, an entire rewiring of design processes and construction lays ahead. Somewhere between a thought experiment and a call for action, A Moratorium on New Construction is a leap of faith to envision a less extractive future, made of what we have: Not demolishing, not building new, but building less, building with what exists, inhabiting it differently, and caring for it.
Thursday 6 March, 7pm
CIVA
Brussels
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TALK_LONDON
What to Let Go?
Delfina Foundation is hosting a double book launch for What to Let Go? and Ten Thousand Suns. Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guerrero will be in conversation with historian and writer Samir Khatun, and cultural critic and curator, Marian Pastor Roces.
Thursday 21 November, 6.30pm to 8pm (doors open and refreshments from 6.15pm).
Delfina Foundation
London
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Free access. Bookings essential. Please book your ticket here.
BOOK LAUNCH—LONDON
Fusion!
A conversation between Alex Coles and Danalogue to celebrate the launch of the book Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother.
Followed by a live performance featuring Danalogue and Robyn’s Rocket, and a DJ set with the Vinyl Bunnies.
From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the origins and legacy of blended musical genres by focusing on twelve dynamic collaborations. From Alice Coltrane working with Carlos Santana in 1974 to Moor Mother sharing the mic with Wolf Weston in 2022, the collaborations-cum-chapters reveal how musicians pursue fusion as a process.
With sonic fusion always premised on cultural fusion, each of the collaborations find musicians using the mixing of genres to explore fusions of generations, eras, philosophies, sensibilities, idioms, histories, and even continents. When the musicians hail from contrasting musical genres their collaboration leads to a dynamic tension, typified by free jazz trumpeter Don Cherry recording with Lou Reed, Kendrick Lamar cutting tracks with saxophonist Kamasi Washington, Miles Davis playing with electric guitarist John McLaughlin and synth player Danalogue joining Shabaka Hutchings and Max Hallett to form the Comet is Coming.
Fusion! pushes the music of overlooked musicians—such as post-punk singer and saxophone player Lora Logic—to the fore while emphasizing overlooked aspects of the oeuvres of better-known figures such as Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Neneh Cherry and FourTet. To characterize their unique approach to fusion, each of the examples Coles explores are driven by a dynamic sonic principle coined by the musicians themselves.
Tuesday 5 November, 6.30pm til’ late
The Library Lounge at The Standard
London
BOOK LAUNCH—EDINBURGH
Stinkhorn
Join author Siôn Parkinson for a special launch of Stinkhorn.
How Nature’s Most Foul-Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen
The stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, certainly the smelliest. Ever since it was described by a Dutch doctor in a sixteenth-century pamphlet, the stinkhorn has been reported to emit odors resembling damp earth, dung, rotting cheese, decaying flesh, and even semen. It also happens to look like a phallus, bursting out of a subterranean egg to poke above the ground, where it lures insects towards its slimy, fetid cap. In Stinkhorn, artist, musician, and writer Siôn Parkinson asks: What can the pervasive stench of this mushroom and the droning noise of the flies compelled towards it reveal about how sounds and smells are combined in the imagination?
A heady mix of natural history, science writing, musicology, philosophy of the senses, and illness memoir, Parkinson uses examples of so-called bad smells to argue for a theory of Stink as a kind of “smelling sound.” Alongside images and insights from the author’s search for stinkhorn fungi in nature, the book expands upon the philosophy of listening to consider the role of the nose and the “nasal imaginary” in how we make sense of sound.
In this treatise on malodors and how they can transform the conditions for listening, Parkinson considers John Cage’s silent fungal forays, Brian Eno’s compositions with perfumes, the hum note of a vibrating bell, the “eggy” odor of space, and the author’s own hallucinated stench as the result of an epileptic seizure. What links these disparate ideas and sensory experiences can be found in a single encounter with a ripe stinkhorn mushroom.
Monday 4 November, 7.30pm. Doors open 7pm
Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh
2 Blenheim Place
Edinburgh EH7 5JH
Tickets can be purchased here.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Democracy and Urban Form
A pair of events mark the release of Democracy and Urban Form, a new book featuring a series of lectures delivered by the eminent sociologist Richard Sennett at Harvard Graduate School Of Design in 1981. Copublished with Harvard Design Press.
Wednesday 9 October
Please join philosopher Michael Sandel, as he will deliver a lecture that draws on themes from his book titled Democracy’s Discontent.
6.30pm, Piper Auditorium, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Thursday 10 October
A panel discussion including Richard Sennett, Diane Davis, Claire Zimmerman, Markus Miessen and Miguel Robles-Durán will reflect on the state of democracy in relation to architecture and cities.
12.30pm, Gund Hall Stubbins Room 112, Harvard Graduate School Of Design.
Free and open to the public.
TALK_ONLINE
Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations
Trevor Paglen will be in conversation with Anthony Downey about the recently published book Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations.
How machine learning and computer vision generate images.
Although often considered to be a fault or a glitch in the system, the event of hallucination is central to the models of image production generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Through mining the latent space of computer vision, Trevor Paglen’s series Adversarially Evolved Hallucination (2017-ongoing) reveals this phantasmal and hallucinatory domain. In the conversation included in this volume, he discusses how we can think from within these opaque structures and, in turn, questions the frequently inflated claims made on behalf of automated image-production systems. In an accompanying essay, Anthony Downey explores the uncanny realm of algorithmically induced images and proposes that AI, through its generative modelling of the world, invariably estranges us from the present and the future.
Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation.
Saturday 28 September, 9pm CEST
Online
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BOOK LAUNCH & TALK—PARIS
What to Let Go?
KADIST Paris is hosting a double book launch for What to Let Go? and Ten Thousand Suns, edited by Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guerrero.
What to Let Go? is copublished by Para Site.
Wednesday 4 September, 6:30pm to 8pm
KADIST
Paris
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Free access.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Sternberg Press at NYABF 2024
Sternberg Press will be at the NY Art Book Fair from April 25–28.
Barbara Casavecchia and Omar Berrada will also be participating in The Classroom series as part of the fair’s public program to discuss Thus Waves Come in Pairs: Thinking with the Mediterraneans, edited by Barbara Casavecchia and published by Sternberg Press in May 2023.
To find a full list of exhibitors and events, please see the NYABF’s website here.
BOOK LAUNCH & TALK—BERLIN
Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life
To celebrate the launch of Kathrin Böhm Art on the Scale of Life, artist/organiser Kathrin Böhm will be in conversation with art historian/critic Christoph Chwatal to discuss the intersection between art and economics, and interdependent spaces for transformative action.
Thursday 7 March, 7:30pm
Pro qm
Berlin
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BOOK LAUNCH & PANEL DISCUSSION—SYDNEY
What to Let Go?
How can art reconfigure our collective foundational myths? And of what should we let go on the journey towards figuring it out?
To celebrate the launch of What to Let Go? editors Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guererro, and contributors Nikau Hindin, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Pablo José Ramírez, Marian Pastor Roces and Vivian Ziherl will be in conversation with moderator Claire Shea. Together they will discuss what counts as heritage now, who gets to do the counting, and broader related issues around the subject of cultural sovereignty.
What to Let Go? is copublished by Para Site.
This event is presented as part of the opening weekend program for the 24th Biennale of Sydney.
Saturday 9 March, 6pm
UNSW Galleries
Sydney
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BOOK LAUNCH & CONVERSATION—NEW YORK
Citizens of the Cosmos
Citizens of the Cosmos examines the artist Anton Vidokle’s films and the Cosmist philosophy underpinning them. It features essays and conversations with Vidokle by seminal contemporary theorists, curators, and artists: Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Keti Chukhrov, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Daniel Muzyczuk, Miguel Amado and Georgia Perkins, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Raqs Media Collective. This is the first book to survey Vidokle’s Cosmism-related filmic output, begun in 2014, and includes full scripts from the films.
For the book’s launch at the Swiss Institute, Vidokle will screen one of his films, Autotrofia (2020), and will be joined afterwards in conversation with Elizabeth Povinelli and Liam Gillick.
Wednesday 20 March, 7pm
Swiss Institute
New York
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To attend, please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.
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