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The New Model - An Inquiry

Sternberg Press 2020 ISBN 9783956794490 Acqn 30251
Pb 21x30cm 176pp ills £19.25

Contributions by Dave Hullfish Bailey, Magnus Bartas, Jessica Gogan, Ane Hjort Guttu, Lars
Bang Larsen, Maria Lind, Gunilla Lundahl, Palle Nielsen, Hito Steyerl. With an artistic intervention
by Metahaven.

For three weeks in October 1968, Stockholm's Moderna Museet was transformed into a sprawling
adventure playground that was free to access for children: Gunilla Lundahl and Palle Nielsen's
The Model: A Model for a Qualitative Society concatenated art, research, and urban activism into
a visionary hybrid framework. Half a century later, through a series of seminars, exhibitions, and
new artworks, The New Model revisited this utopian intervention, reviving discussions of public
participation, children's agency, and shifting ideals of collective being. Curated by Lars Bang
Larsen and Maria Lind, this inquiry took place from 2011 to 2015 at and around Tensta konsthall
in one of Stockholm's late modernist suburbs. Through essays, exhibition documentation, and
dialogues with the participating artists-among them Magnus Bartas, Hito Steyerl, Ane Hjort Guttu,
and Dave Hullfish Bailey-this volume charts the evolution of two artistic, curatorial, and
institutional experiments.

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Solution 295-304 - The Sea of Love

Sternberg Press 2020 ISBN 9783956795220 Acqn 30252
Pb 11x18cm 108pp ills £12.95

It was the concept of the ocean as a global commons, free for everyone-first formulated by Hugo
Grotius in his 1609 treatise, Mare Liberum-that stimulated a free global market. Today, the free
market and the free ocean both suffer from rigorous, exploitive use. A new concept of how to
relate to the ocean could transform the global economy and global politics. Solution 295-304:
Mare Amoris proposes new practical, technological, and metaphysical scenarios of how to fall in
love with the sea, and, eventually, have the sea fall in love with us.

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E-Flux - One Number is Worth One Word

Sternberg Press 2020 ISBN 9783956795091 Acqn 30253
Pb 11x18cm 288pp ills £15.50

For nearly sixty years, Luis Camnitzer has been obsessing about the same things. As an art
student in Uruguay in 1960, he was part of a collective of artists, students, and educators who
reformed the School of Fine Arts in Montevideo. Today, he is still an "ethical anarchist"
preoccupied with the role of education in redistributing power in society. With mischievous wit and
wisdom, Camnitzer's writings summons an inherent utopianism in egalitarian, participatory
models of art education to identify how meaning is made.

One Number Is Worth One Word spans over half a century of the Conceptual artist's radical
engagement with art education and its institutions, from his student days in Uruguay and move to
New York in 1964 to his current work and writings, with many texts published for the first time.
This is a singularly authoritative, antiauthoritarian gathering of a life's work in art, education, and
activism.

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Tom Holert - Knowledge Beside Itself - Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics

Sternberg Press 2020 ISBN 9783943365979 Acqn 30254
Pb 15x21cm 278pp ills £16.50

What is the role and function of contemporary art in economic and political systems that
increasingly manage data and affect? Knowledge Beside Itself delves into the peculiar emphasis
placed in recent years, curatorially and institutionally, on notions such as "research" and
"knowledge production." Considered as a specific, expansive mode of the culture industry,
contemporary art is viewed here as a strategic bet on the social distinctions and value extractions
made possible by claiming a different, novel access to "knowledge." Contemporary art's various
liaisons with the humanities and the social and natural sciences, as well as its practitioners'
frequent embeddedness within transdisciplinary research environments and educational settings,
have created a sense of epistemo-aesthetic departure, which concurs with the growing relevance
of art as conduit or catalyst of knowledge.

Discussing the practice of artists such as Christine Borland, Tony Chakar, Natascha Sadr
Haghighian, Adelita Husni-Bey, Jakob Jakobsen, Claire Pentecost, and Pilvi Takala, writer and
curator Tom Holert submits the gambit of conceptualizing contemporary art as an agent of
epistemic politics to a genealogical analysis of its political-economic underpinnings in these times
of cognitive capitalism, machine learning, and a renewed urgency of epistemological
disobedience.

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Reinventing Daily Life

Sternberg Press 2020 ISBN 9783956795138 Acqn 30279
Pb 14x21cm 260pp col ills £12.95

Contributions by Heske ten Cate, Lucas De Man, Martijn de Rijk, Thomas Spijkerman, Lara Staal

Does art possess the power to cause structural and meaningful changes in daily life? How can
we inject our daily reality with the estranging, binding, and reflective qualities of theater,
performance art, and the visual arts? Using the artist's desire to escape institutional space as a
point of departure, the temporary master Reinventing Daily Life investigated the implications, the
possibilities, and the limits of daily life as inspiration, as a place for presentation, and as a central
material. This publication marks the completion and distillation of this inquiry. By means of a
critical essay, correspondence with kindred spirits from the field, and visual impressions of the
alumni's work, this book reflects on the possibility to merge art and life, fiction and reality, and on
the importance of this process for the future of artistic practice.

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