Utopics: Systems and Landmarks
Simon Lamunière (ed.)
This publication examines the spaces, nations, and communities created by artists or indivuals to develop alternative modes of living. Throughout history individuals have continuously developed systems based on a mix of reality, fiction, and mediatization, create micro-nations, or fight for their existence. All these proposals are simultaneously real and utopic. By inventing identity signs (IDs, flags, constitutions, currencies, etc.), by practicing their beliefs (be it through dance, naturism, terrorism, or collectivism), and by working on the boundaries of reality (parallel worlds, isolationism, new territories, etc.), these proposals are challenging our definitions of normalcy and territoriality. The title "Utopics" is itself the free contraction of utopias, you, topic, topos, and pics.
ISBN: 978-3-03764-056-2
Publisher: JRP|Editions
Price: 32.00 €
The Promises of the Past: A discontinuous history of art in Former Eastern Europe
Christine Macel, Nataša Petrešin (ur.)
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Promises of the Past questions the former opposition between Eastern and Western Europe by reinterpreting the history of the communist bloc countries. To draw this discontinuous history of art in Former East, this transnational and transgenerational project features works by more than fifty artists from Central and Eastern Europe but also from other European Countries.
Putting together commissioned essays, documentation, artist pages, unpublished documents and an anthology of key texts (among them, historic essays by Slavoj Žižek, Igor Zabel & the What, How & for Whom group), Promises of the Past is a valuable and useful survey of the last decades Eastern Europe artistic scene – a scene which has now the place it deserves.
ISBN: 978-3-03764-099-9
Publisher: JRP|Editions
Price: 48.00 €
