01/07/2013

Holy Bible | Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin

Holy Bible
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
768 pages | 614 colour plates
16.2 cm x 21.6 cm
Embossed hardcover
MACK, 2013

“Right from the start, almost every appearance he made was catastrophic… Catastrophe is his means of operation, and his central instrument of governance.”
Adi Ophir

Inspired in part by the annotations and images Bertolt Brecht added to his own personal bible, Broomberg and Chanarin’s publication questions the clichés at play within the visual representation of conflict.

http://www.mackbooks.co.uk/books/68-Holy-Bible.html

01/07/2013

Relations on Paper | Paula Caspão

Relations on Paper
Paula Caspão
64 pp | Offset
14,2 cm x 19,7 cm
Ghost, 2013

What kinds of relations do we generate when we think, write and talk about/through/with a performance, a live encounter, any artistic object or a book, which we intend to continue – giving it other lives – in other mediums?

If artistic and documentary productions cannot be considered as separate activities and positions, how can we practise the idea of an extended collaboration between artistic work, performance, reception, documentation and edition, in a permanent process of public engagement in the activation of common places of investigation?
These issues certainly imply a critical discussion about the temporality of the live event, often simplistically opposed to the temporality of written discourse, thought, and document. How many temporalities resonate in a performance, in an installation, in a live encounter, in the writing (and reading) of a book? Which pasts does the live touch; what presents does it find in which pasts; what futures does it build in which presents… and what (mean-)whiles, (mis-)encounters, “inter(in)animations” can a book – or any other written surface or audio file – generate?

http://www.ghost.pt/crbst_9.html

30/06/2013

SECALHARIDADE (Livros e Serigrafia) | João Fiadeiro & Fernanda Eugénio

SECALHARIDADE (Livros e Serigrafia)
João Fiadeiro & Fernanda Eugénio
Design: Marco Balesteros
Silkcreen | leporello 7 pages
150 cm x 35 cm (one piece)
30 copies | Numbered and signed
Ghost, 2013

João Fiadeiro has distanced himself from choreographic creation, working with the Sciences of Complex Systems, Neuroscience and Anthropology to question different ways of “how to live together”. This led him to the anthropologist Fernanda Eugénio, herself drawn to the performing arts by her growing concern about the omnipresence of relativist interpretivism in the Social Sciences. Their encounter is embodied in the Conference-Performance “Secalharidade” (Mayhapness), presented at Culturgest venue, in Lisbon, in June 2012, in the framework of the festival Alkantara.

During this Conference-Performance, Fiadeiro and Eugenio create a written dialogue in real time in front of the audience. The result of this dialogue is then presented in the shape of a banner that is reproduced in this special edition.

The special edition comes with the books ‘O ENCONTRO É UMA FERIDA’ and ‘O JOGO DAS PERGUNTAS’, books that are sustaining Fiadeiro and Eugenio’s artistic research. Both books are in Portuguese.

(Apenas os livros: http://stet-livros-fotografias.com/livros/secalharidade-joao-fiadeiro-fernanda-eugenio/?lang=en)

http://www.ghost.pt/crbst_16.html

01/06/2013

She dances on Jackson | Vanessa Winship

she dances on Jackson
Vanessa Winship
144 pages | 64 tritone plates
24 cm x 27 cm
Printed and embossed linen hardcover
MACK,2013

In 2011 Vanessa Winship was the recipient of the Henri Cartier Bresson Award which funds an artist to pursue a new photographic project. For over a year Winship travelled across the United States, from California to Virginia, New Mexico to Montana, in pursuit of the fabled ‘American dream’. she dances on Jackson presents a conversation, a lyrical and lilting interaction between landscape and portrait exploring the vastness of the United States and attempting to understand the link between a territory and its inhabitants. For Winship this relationship is inextricable; places accrue particular meanings according to the people she meets, what she sees, and by what’s happening to her personally. Each human encounter, sound and smell adds extra dimensions to her work and the resulting photographs.

she dances on Jackson marks a progression. Stylistically similar to her previous work using black and white film and a large format camera, Winship’s portraits remain arresting and unnerving but this body of work reveals her to also be a skilled landscape photographer. For Winship photography is a process of literacy, a path by which she understands life. Her intimate approach enables the reader to glimpse the world as she sees it, if only for a moment.

http://www.mackbooks.co.uk/books/66-she-dances-on-Jackson.html

01/06/2013

Lohos (Troop) | Petros Efstathiadis

Lohos (Troop)
Petros Efstathiadis
9 photos | Offset
10 cm x 15 cm
Ghost, 2013

It has been a turbulent time for Greece. In 2010, as politicians discussed austerity measures with EU officials, the televisions showed scenes of rioting in the streets of Athens. Suddenly university students were being labeled as terrorists, as many were seen in YouTube videos hurling Molotov cocktails. Greece was a spectacle for the medias around the world: petrol bombs everywhere, Athens was on fire.

Reacting to those images, Petros Efstathiadis sets up a parallel and ironical universe made of that sudden “peur du Grec”. In the series ‘Lohos’ (Troop), he styles models as rebels impersonated by local inhabitants of his small hometown. They are rebels without a name or face, performing potential heroes or unknown soldiers who haven’t chosen their side, like a small troop in the middle of the battlefield.

http://www.ghost.pt/crbst_8.html

30/05/2013

Casa de Lava (Poster) | Pedro Costa

Casa de Lava (Poster)
Pedro Costa
Colour | 48 x 68 cm
All posters signed by Pedro Costa
A limited signed edition of 300 posters
Pierre von Kleist, 2013

(Casa de Lava – Caderno: http://stet-livros-fotografias.com/livros/casa-de-lava-pedro-costa/)

http://www.pierrevonkleist.com/product/casa-de-lava-poster

01/05/2013

Fábrica | Daniel Blaufuks

Fábrica
Daniel Blaufuks
172 pages | color, b&w
20.5 x 25.5 cm
Hardcover w/ dust jacket
Includes DVD with film ‘Fábrica’ by Daniel Blaufuks and booklet with text by Daniel Blaufuks and Eduardo Brito (in Portuguese and English)
Pierre von Kleist & Guimarães 2012, 2013

“One cannot walk through an assembly factory
and not feel that one is in Hell.” – W.H. Auden

Fábrica, a new book and film by photographer Daniel Blaufuks, is a collection of images composed into an expanded scenery of memory, a walk through the abandoned spaces of one of the largest factories in Europe in an once flourishing industrial region, that never recovered from the loss of the textile market to the Chinese exports.

Blaufuks worked the book and the film (which comes with this edition) as a documental piece, collecting different kinds of memories, crossing old photographs, manuscripts and objects with images of the present state of the building interiors and surroundings.

The result is a reflection not only on the idea of a ‘factory’ in itself, most generic and abstract, but also about forgetting and abandonment, thus creating a significant memento about labor and the disappearance of the working class in Europe in the last century, which is one of the reasons for the present crisis in the region.

http://www.pierrevonkleist.com/product/f%C3%A1brica-by-daniel-blaufuks

01/05/2013

Imitation of Christ | William E. Jones

Imitation of Christ
William E. Jones
128 pages | 54 colour plates
17 cm x 23 cm
Silkscreen paperback
MACK, 2013

“My Jesus was a real person who did not perform miracles and was not resurrected after death. He was a political revolutionary who, in the face of circumstances that appeared hopeless, succeeded revolutionising the spirit.” William E. Jones

This illustrated essay, by US artist William E. Jones, was born from a collection of images selected from the Hammer Museum archive in LA. Jones unearthed a striking photograph by Pedro Meyer of a wounded guerrilla fighter in Nicaragua during the early 80s. This image became a prism for his selection of a further 45 images from the archive, ranging from Renaissance and Baroque prints to documentary photographs, modern Latin American art and rare books.

http://www.mackbooks.co.uk/books/64-Imitation-of-Christ.html

28/03/2013

Easter and Oak Trees Bertien van Manen

Easter and Oak Trees
Bertien van Manen
112 pages | 25 tritone plates | 89 black & white plates
16.6 cm x 20 cm
MACK, 2013

http://www.mackbooks.co.uk/books/63-Easter-and-Oak-Trees.html

14/03/2013

BLUMEN Collier Schorr

Blumen by Collier Schorr
Steidl, 2010

Blumen is the second volume of Forest and Fields and moves away from the figure. Schorr decided instead to look for or build arrangements in the landscapes and domestic and commercial settings of her much investigated town. If people appear in Blumen, they are merely props in an examination of how objects and nature create dialogues within the communities they encompass. Flowers are uprooted so as to become performers in the landscape; signage, plums, chairs and a plaster fawn are some of the shapes of things moved and combined to further detail the daily life of the townspeople of Schwabish Gmund.