The text by Hiller navigates the boundaries between art, anthropology and psychoanalysis in relation to her installation at the Freud Museum in 1994 titled At the Freud Museum. Accompanying images included throughout from Book Works UK archive, the commissioner of the artwork and talks that this text is edited from.
Andrew Walsh‐Lister, Matthew Stuart
This instalment of Bricks from the Kiln doubles as issue #6 of the journal and as an exhibition catalogue for the thematic show ‘BFTK#6: Tentative — Incomplete — Inconsistent: A Catalogue of the Disappeared, Destroyed, Lost or Otherwise Inaccessible’. Presenting objects, artworks, artefacts, models, events and animals that no-longer — or never did — exist in physical form, the exhibition explores themes of death, destruction and reincarnation, examining persisting interests in notions of ephemerality and permanence, memory and record, preservation and erasure, creation and reconstruction.
How do we remember and memorialise? How is space given to the unrecorded? How do we experience the out of reach, concealed, unseen, undiscovered? How can the dematerialised be materialised again, through the mediation of writing, image and sound?
THE ALMOST HORSE
Helen Marten
(inside front / back cover)
‘STILL IN ALL HEARTS, IN ALL BELLIES, IN ALL TOES’:
A BELATED REVIEW OF FESTIVAL DE FORT BOYARD
Matthew Stuart & Andrew Walsh-Lister
(pp.6–8)
EDDYSTONE
Rachael Allen
(pp.11–18)
TO MAKE THE STONE STONY
Emily LaBarge
(pp.21–26)
WHEREFORE AM I NOW?
Lucy Mercer
(pp.29–40)
WESTON: THE TOWN THAT WAS, AND THEN WASN’T
Crystal Bennes
(pp.43–52)
NOTES TO ACCOMPANY VIOLENT INNOCENCE (2019)
Will Harris
(pp.55–64)
GHOST, POCKETS, TRACES, NECESSARY CLOUDS
Matthew Stuart
(pp.66–69)
CONNECTIVITY OF TOUCHING
Ali Na & Mindy Seu in conversation
(pp.71–76)
PEARL
Rose Higham-Stainton
(pp.79–84)
NOTES FROM NEW MEXICO
Jennifer Hodgson
(pp.87–98)
THE MOOG OF AHMEDABAD
Paul Purgas
(pp.101–108)
IN WHICH DECIBELLA ESCAPES AUDITION
Sarah Hayden
(pp.111–122)
D.C.B.: A PARTIAL RETROSPECTIVE
Juliet Jacques
(pp.125–136)
PINBALL REMAINS: ON THE PINBALL ISSUE OF THE SITUATIONIST TIMES
Ellef Prestsæter
(pp.139–150)
TOMB III – CADMIUM (2021)
Gilbert Again
(pp.152–154)
NON-DESCRIPT ANIMAL
David Hering
(pp.157–161)
Cover & Bookmark artwork by Helen Marten
A collection of twenty-six abécédaire missives by Sharon Kivland, written and sent daily to the editors (MS & AWL) between Friday 7 February and Tuesday 4 March 2025. Interjected with melancholic ‘Mes horizons’ postcard erasures and an insert of abcedminded replies by Matthew Stuart titled ‘A Letter Always Suggests a Word’, this publication is both a standalone edition and precursor to BFTK#8, which focuses on letters (alphabets) and letters (correspondence).
‘These are Addressed to You’ addresses what it means to be addressed and to address, to write with love and scorn, to seal with a kiss and conceal impressions and hair within a letter’s folds, to inscribe with ink and thread, to speak with and to those we admire. Drawing on / from Freud and Lacan, Joyce and Carringdon, Camille Corot and many more, these letters are about writing and reading, about language falling and bumping you on the head.
The reading score for the presentation at rile*books on Sunday June 23, an A to Z of Indexing / Organising / Cataloguing BFTK for Two Voices.
The first standalone title on the BFTK imprint, ‘As Celebration, As Critique, As Play’ pulls together selected writings by Ron Hunt across his varied career as a writer, librarian, curator, critic and self described ‘lapsed anarchist’. Structured as a ‘biographic bibliography’ supplemented with annotations and contextual notes, ‘As Celebration, As Critique, As Play’ combines commissioned writing and previously unpublished texts that range from exhibition catalogue essays and détourned Q&As, to A–Z indexes and cherry-picked readers. Writings reproduced in full include:
Francis Picabia: Introduction (1964)
Yves Klein: A Mythopoeic of the Plurisignative (1967)
The Arts in Our Time (1968)
We Are Revealing New Pages of Art in Anarchy’s New Dawns (1968)
Interview with Brigitte Bardot (1969) (preview)
Poetry must be made by all! / Transform the world! (1969)
An Interview with Pontus Hultén, Stockholm 1981 (1971)
For Factography! (1976)
Andreas Gursky (1999)
Kalf: A Late Perspective (2000)
Dreams of / Fears of …… Flying (2009)
Fourier / Breton / Cherries (2017)
Hélène Cixous or Waiting for Tears (2018)
Some Books of Barbara Bloom (2019)
A Very Brief Dictionary in the Vicinity of Situationism (2019)
‘Recovery’ / Is Recovery Possible (2020)
with photographs by Tom McCaughan
typeset in Janson Max Neue by Dinamo & Sam de Groot
224 pgs, 21 × 15 cm, Softcover
PROVENCE UNCONSCIOUS deep dives into the cosmological pool that shapes the collective unconscious and takes a look at the relevance of Jung's ideas in relation to contemporary art and fashion.
PROVENCE UNCONSCIOUS draws inspiration from the Zurich-based office's proximity to the C.G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht—recently and notably visited by Pamela Anderson, who also appears in the publication. PROVENCE UNCONSCIOUS focuses on the work of three US-American artists—Mike Kelley, Matt Mullican, and Jason Rhoades—whose practices orbit around the themes of psychoanalysis and the unconscious. The issue also features collaged analog photographs of Laura Langer's spiral paintings, and a manuscript-style dream archive: over 30 hand-written or drawn submissions by artists, curators, jungians, and writers. Additional sections include, among many other things, jewelry by Bernhard Schobinger, photographs by Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, and a curatorial exploration of Emma Jung—analyst and wife of C.G. Jung—shedding light on the often-overlooked feminine legacy within Jungian thought.
PROVENCE UNCONSCIOUS didn't include any cooking recipes. And no, PROVENCE is not a magazine—but if it were, it would probably be the most radical one among its contemporary art peers.
Edited by Tobias Kaspar, Paolo Baggi, Samuel Haitz, Nina Hollensteiner, Claire Shiying Li, Veronika Dorosheva, Tatjana Hub.
Contributions by Pamela Anderson, Nina Hollensteiner & Claire Shiying Li, Forrest Bess, Matt Mullican, Mike Kelley, Valerie Smith, Delcy Morelos, Jimmy Raskin, Petra von bechtolsheim, Elizabeth leuenberger, Laura Langer, Bernhard Schobinger, Sophie Gogl, Susan Hiller, Calla & Max Pitegoff, Emma Jung, Rebecca Ackroyd, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Claire Shiying Li, Séverine Heizmann, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, Raphael Gygax, Stefano Carpani, Sabrina Tarasoff lITeRaTURe, Leda Bourgogne, Olamiju Fajemisin, Veronika Dorosheva, Lera Polivanova, Edgars Gluhovs.
This monograph covers more than fifty years of creation by Art & Language, whose artists are at the origin of conceptual art. Through unpublished texts by Matthew Jesse Jackson and Art & Language, a transcript of their opera libretto Victorine, and an interview with the artist collective, this publication questions their journey, and more broadly, the relationship between contemporary art and conceptual art.
The permanent collection of the Château de Montsoreau – Museum of Contemporary Art has grown to include 800 works from Art & Language. To celebrate this event, the museum produced a major exhibition and a publication titled Reality (Dark) Fragments (Light). The monograph and exhibition look back at 50 years of creation by these critical, provocative, subversive, punk art collective. They question the main issues involved in Art & Language's work: conversation as an artwork, description, transdiciplinarity, crisis in the relationship between the artist, the museum and the art gallery.
Edited by Marie-Caroline Chaudruc.
Foreword by Marie-Caroline Chaudruc.
Text by Matthew Jesse Jackson, interview with Art & Language by Victorine Meurent.
Catalog is a serial publication about cataloging written by Lieven Lahaye and designed by Ott Metusala. This is Catalog issue 21, ‘Impressed’, it’s part of a sub-series on near invisibility. Published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Dear Friend’ at EKA Gallery, Tallinn in September 2022. This issue of Catalog was produced during a residency period at Air Berlin Alexanderplatz, May-August 2022.
This book brings together a selection of photographs by artist Mekhitar Garabedian, documenting the warehouse of his late father’s company, Melantex, which exported second-hand clothing from Belgium to the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. The images inspired a one-year sculptural intervention by Garabedian, commissioned by the Antwerp Public Art Collection.
Import—Export, Friperie tells a compelling personal and collective story of how displacement can be turned into economic livelihood while creating connections between old and new homes, languages, and textiles.
The photographs are accompanied by an in-depth conversation between Garabedian and curator Samuel Saelemakers about the relationship between photography and sculpture, public representation, and diasporic thinking.