Supported Publications
48 Publications in this category
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This book, entitled simply Writings, presents for the first time a selection of studies, essays, exhibition texts and criticism by Jana Ševčíková (1941) and Jiří Ševčík (1940), supplemented by their complete bibliography and a list [...]
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"Silence" is a seminal compilation of writings by American avant-garde composer, poet and artist John Cage. Despite the fact that this pioneer of experimental and electronic music visited Czechoslovakia as far back as 1964, and despite his [...]
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The publication when things are done again embodies Sung Hwan Kims rudimental take of a holistic offering for the spectator, not only as a sensual experience but also always including a political paradox and the transformation of historical [...]
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In the late 1980s Michel Espagne and Werner Greiling established the idea of cultural transfer, which was the alternative draft to the back then common idea of national segmentation in art and science. Since then culture has no longer been seen as [...]
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We’re ready to intervene in conflict areas, to fight for peace, but what are we to do next? How do we materialise peace? Can architects help to stabilizes peace in crisis regions? And finally, which role does architecture play for a peaceful coexistence [...]
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So weit, so nah / So far, so near
Disability is mostly understood as a deficit of abilities, creativity and possibilities for self-fulfilment. The book “So weit, so nah / So far, so near” breaks with this popular, but superficial view of people with disabilities and presents them [...]
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New Frontiers - Experimental Tendencies in Architecture
„We stand at the edge of a New Frontier – the frontier of unfulfilled hopes and dreams, a frontier of unknown opportunities and beliefs in peril. Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, [...]
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Romale! Persönliches über Aufbruch, Kunst & Aktivismus / Personal views of breakup, art and activism
What do you like? What do you hate? What does identity mean to you? Are you an activist? And is there something like a "gypsy spirit"?
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The book discusses the meanings of feminism, which are present in the mass media and public addresses like: feminism reduced to the concept of equal opportunities on the job market; feminism reduced to choose between having a family and having a career; [...]
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Curated by Marius Babias and Sabine Hentzsch, the Spaţiul Public Bukureşti | Public Art Bucharest 2007 project represents a trans-disciplinary discourse on art, architecture, urban development, education, and youth culture, in society and [...]
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was draußen wartet - what is waiting out there
How can the relationship between contemporary art and reality be described; what stance does artistic praxis take on the present? Can it make the disparate realities of our present perceivable, and aid the viewer in assuring him/herself of his/her [...]
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RO-MD/Moldova în douâ scenarii | RO-MD/Moldova in Two Scenarios
What identity could have a collaboration project between two institutions promoting contemporary art practices bearing in mind that the artistic market is almost missing in the first country, while in the second country such market is just emerging? [...]
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The book is based on lectures from the international symposium 1989-2009: Religion und Wende in Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa, which took place in Vienna on 7-9 October 2009 at the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Iron [...]
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Constructing the Third Way: Architecture in Socialist Yugoslavia
Photo: Paviljon 1, Belgrade Fair, Belgrade, Serbia. Architect: Milorad Macura. Engineer: Milan Krstić
Constructing the Third Way: Architecture in Socialist Yugoslavia is a collection of photographic and textual essays on Yugoslav architecture [...]
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Political Leadership. Interpretations from Research and Practice
Every manager wants to have it but only a few are credited with it: leadership. This very topical magic word is used to describe the ability to look at the bigger picture and the readiness to make decisions coupled with the ability to motivate others [...]
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Das Dreieck meiner Kindheit | The Triangle of my Childhood
The book that accompanies the exhibition was published by Mandelbaum publishing company and tells stories about the Jewish community »Sechshaus« from its beginnings to its destruction. It connects the historic archive research with the voices of [...]
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Joint Exhibition of Young Visual Artists Awards Winners
"It is very exciting that the Third Joint Exhibition of the Young Visual Artists Awards (YWAA) is hosted by the Kontekst Gallery and DEZ ORG, Belgrade, Serbia. It is very significant and challenging as well as a tribute to the programme that young [...]
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Archis SEE Network - Report 2008
Archis SEE Network is a network of independent urban initiatives in South Eastern Europe. In cooperation with local initiatives lounched by architects, planners, artists, urbanists, sociologists and other professionals engaged in the process of improving [...]
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Prishtina is Everywhere analyses the situation in Prishtina after 1999, when an instant building boom changed Kosovo's capital dramatically. Whithin a few years its population doubled, partly as a consequence of an influx of returning refugees [...]
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Misthaufen der Geschichte? Ash Heap of History?
A few years ago I found some old, thrown away soviet propaganda pictures at a rubbish heap. Pictures which I –like every former citizen of the Eastern Bloc – met" always and everywhere: in school, in boarding school, in official public buildings... [...]
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Twenty years after its history has started, post-communism continues to present itself, when one wants to discern its characteristics, its precisely delimited epochal profile, under the signature of two intertwined traits. “Post-communism“ marks [...]
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Inne miasto, inne zycie | Another City, Another Life
If the fall of communism was indeed a revolution, what kinds of organisation of the space of cities does it propose or imply? How has the fabric of the city responded to the promises of post-communism? What role does art play in the new urban configuration? [...]
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Friedrich Ohmann is one of the major European architects, whose main works fall at the time of turn of the XIX to XX century. From the modern point of view Friedrich Ohmann was till his death on 6 April 1927 with his whole life and work, with his [...]
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Fotografia in arta contemporana | Photography in Contemporary Art
The lack of knowledge about Romanian art, although there are many aspiring and up-coming artists working in this medium still stays more ore less unnoticed in other European countries as well as the remaining world. Photography in Contemporary Arts [...]
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Archis SEE Network - Report 2009
In cooperation with local initiatives launched by architects, planners, artists, urbanists, sociologists and other professionals engaged in the process of improving various political and social dimensions of the urban environment, Archis Interventions [...]
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Piotr Piotrowski chronicles the complex relation between avant-garde art practice and politics in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, East Germany, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria from the End of the Second World War to the collapse of Communism in 1989. [...]
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Polish Art of the 70s discusses the opening of the Polish neo-avant-garde in the 1970s toward the realities of the era in two ways – a post-essentialist and a pragmatist one. The book examines a large variety of positions within the [...]
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The Diversity Report 2008 was presented at the conference “On Translation” on 21 November 2008 in Vienna. It compiles and analyses statistics on books in translation across Europe over a period of more than 25 years (1979 to 2005, and [...]
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The magazine Smell it! Freundschaft als Lebens-, Produktions- und Aktionsform (Friendship as a form of life, production and action) is a collateral, deepening, additional as well as substantive collection of material, which belongs to the [...]
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Eurozine im:print is a new series of print collections, compiling Eurozine articles and essays around topics of special interest and relevance to a transnational debate. Literary persectives is an ongoing series of essays that aims [...]
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Close ENCOUNTERS connects the three culture metropolises Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava in the representation of contemporary art, the promotion of encounters and the development of a “new closeness” marked by reciprocity. Close ENCOUNTERS [...]
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DEMOCRACY?
The publication Whatever happened to democracy? Eastern and Central Europe twenty years after is the outcome of the Central European Forum, which was held at the Pavol Országh Hviezdoslva Theatre in Bratislava in November 2009 to mark the [...]
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Ekstravagantna tjela: Ekstravagantni umovi / Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Minds
The interdisciplinary festival Extravagant Bodies was initiated in 2007 and is part of Kontejner´s longstanding curatorial and discursive programme line dealing with the ideological, social and cultural production of narratives of “illness” and [...]
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Migrationsskizzen / Sketches of Migration
The publication Sketches of Migration embodies both the results of a collective process and its realization as an art project, which consists of images as well as scientific and literary contributions from art, gender and migration experts. [...]
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The award winning publication “Atlas of Trans-formation” (“The Best Book design from all over the World of the year 2010” by the Stiftung Buchkunst Leipzig – Gold Medal – and “The most Beautiful Swiss Books of the year 2010” [...]
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Monument to Transformation deals with different aspects of Czech-Slovak art history before and the Czech and Slovak art history after 1989. This is the catalogue of an exhibition, that is part of a long-term project and that shows only a topical fragment. [...]
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This catalogue of an exhibition was presented to an international audience at the European Forum Alpbach conference in 2007. Held by the Dutch-German-Kosovan initiative Archis Interventions together with planners and architects from Kosovo the reason [...]
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This documentation compiled by photographer Hertha Hurnaus and architects Benjamin Konrad and Maik Novotny analyses buildings from the era of socialist late modernism in Eastern Europe – a style of architecture that marks a whole period of time when [...]
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Documenta 12, with 754.301 visitors one of the most attended exhibitions of contemporary art in the world took place from the 16th of June until the 23rd of September 2007 in Kassel/ Germany. A regional and cultural focus of documenta 12 was on integration [...]
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Austro-Hungarian Regional Press and Urban Culture
This volume focuses on the development of the German-language regional press in urban centres of Central Europe between 1860 and 1910. It collects articles by scientists from seven regions of the Habsburg Empire that are distinguished by their very [...]
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This is the catalogue of an exhibition that took place in 2007 at different venues in Kassel, Germany. It consists of contemporary art by 109 artists from 43 countries and has no form, which means that the exhibition was not dedicated to a particular [...]
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Although there are many slums across Europe, few think to ask how they came to be and how their inhabitants live out their daily lives there. One particularly poignant example of a slum is the area of huts and shacks underneath the Gazela motorway [...]
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From the 1830s onwards overpopulation, advancing urbanisation, fear of cholera and social unrest created intense public interest in the dark, hidden zones of metropolises. “Ganz unten” tells the story of the misery experienced in cities such as [...]
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Jewish Witness to a Romanian Century
This is the catalogue of an exhibition within the scope of the correspondent Centropa project that focuses memories and old family snapshots to preserve Jewish memory and so brings history to life. Culled from 93 interviews and 1.600 privately-held [...]
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Die demographische Zukunft von Europa (Europe's Demographic Future)
Low birth rates, ageing populations and an increasing number of people from other countries and of different religions will bring sustainable change to Europe during the coming decades, and this change is sure to bring about a number of problems with [...]
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Von Hollar bis Beuys (From Hollar to Beuys)
With its exhibition “From Hollar to Beuys”, the art museum of Olomouc opened a long-term series of exhibitions that feature loans from significant European collections and represent an important part of Europe’s cultural tradition. [...]
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Utopien und Konflikte (Utopias and Conflicts)
Utopias and Conflicts is a collection of 40 programmatic and theoretical texts on Czech art in the post-war period. This chronology of Czech visual arts is an excerpt from the book Czech Art 1939-1989, Programmes, Critical Texts, Documents, [...]