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Archive Books

Archive is a platform for cultural research and debate. It brings together activists and cultural practitioners in an adaptable and non-hierarchal structure with the aim to foster a unique space for discussion and exchange. Archive is engaged in a wide range of activities including publishing and exhibition making.
Archive Books produces readers, monographs and artists' books as well as journals focusing on contemporary cultural production.
 
Berlin / Milan
www.archivebooks.org
mail@archivebooks.org
 
183 titles
 
Untranslatable Terms of Cultural Practices - Shared Vocabulary
Untranslatable Terms of Cultural Practices – Shared Vocabulary
2021
English edition
A collective reflection on the richness of the untranslatable.
Laura Horelli - Changes in Direction - A Journal
Laura Horelli
Changes in Direction – A Journal
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Changes in Direction – A Journal provides multivocal and transnational African-European statements to current decoloniality debates from different perspectives.
Igor Zabel - Inexplicable Presence (Curator’s Working Place)
Igor Zabel
Inexplicable Presence (Curator’s Working Place)
2021
English edition
The posthumous catalogue of one of the most personal curatorial projects of Igor Zabel (1958-2005).
Stronger Than Bone - On Feminism(s)
Stronger Than Bone – On Feminism(s)
2021
English edition
Stronger than Bone draws upon the embodied strength, intuitive desires, and collective wisdom of feminists and non-binary protagonists to foreground the manifold dimensions of feminist politics and commitments.
How Does The World Breathe Now? - Film as Witness, Archive, and Political Tool
How Does The World Breathe Now? – Film as Witness, Archive, and Political Tool
2021
English edition
How film may be a constructive tool to examine the state of the world and its cruelties, and how to form a more stable and supportive culture of film production and distribution.
Ultrasanity - On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry, and Resistance
Ultrasanity – On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry, and Resistance
2021
English edition
A curatorial and research project that aims to move beyond insanity as the opposite of sanity, and imagine a space beyond what is understood as sane, i.e. ultrasanity—not a romanticization of madness or mental illness, but an effort to reconsider and challenge the notion of madness and the stigmas labelled on the so-called mad.
Julius Eastman - We Have Delivered Ourselves From the Tonal - Of, Towards, On, For Julius Eastman
Julius Eastman
We Have Delivered Ourselves From the Tonal – Of, Towards, On, For Julius Eastman
2021
English edition
A collection of essays, librettos, lyrics, memories, photos, personal anecdotes by musicians, visual artists, researchers and archivers that pays homage to the work and life of African-American composer, musician, performer, activist Julius Eastman.
Med Hondo - On the Run - Perspectives on the Cinema of Med Hondo
Med Hondo
On the Run – Perspectives on the Cinema of Med Hondo
2020
English edition
A tribute.
Med Hondo - 1970—2018 - Interviews with Med Hondo
Med Hondo
1970—2018 – Interviews with Med Hondo
2020
English edition
Seventeen interviews conducted with Med Hondo over a period of almost half a century, most of the interviews originally published in French were translated into English.
Ian Kiaer - Endnote, tooth
Ian Kiaer
Endnote, tooth
2020
English edition
Ian Kiaer's new monograph is based on a project that the artist began several years ago and whose configuration changes with the circumstances. Drawing on the notion of marginal endnotes in books, it references the utopian concepts of the Austrian American architect Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965).
Beyond Repair
Beyond Repair
2020
English edition
The account of a collective study around the question of the irreversibility of the damage caused by extractivism and accumulation for common spaces and living conditions, in their political, social and aesthetic dimensions.
Nicoline van Harskamp - My Name is Language
Nicoline van Harskamp
My Name is Language
2020
English edition
This publication explores the key tenets of artist Nicoline van Harskamp's research and practice, such as the contemporary use and modification of languages, a treatment of names as spoken language rather than spelled identity markers, and the practice of self-naming.
Rehearsing Hospitalities - Companion 2
Rehearsing Hospitalities – Companion 2
2020
English edition
A series of essays and visual contributions critically reflecting on the current structures of knowledge within the art world.
Not Working
Not Working
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
The interdependence of artistic production and social class.
Jane Jin Kaisen - Community of Parting
Jane Jin Kaisen
Community of Parting
2020
English edition
Reference monograph: the most comprehensive introduction to the Korean artist's postcolonial and feminist approach.
Clemens von Wedemeyer - The Illusion of a Crowd
Clemens von Wedemeyer
The Illusion of a Crowd
2020
English edition
Publication including the films Transformation Scenario, 70.001, and Faux Terrain, as well as a visual essay, a glossary and texts by Heike Geißler, Fanni Fetzer, and Franciska Zólyom.
Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia - Critical Texts of the 1960s
Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia – Critical Texts of the 1960s
2020
English edition
A collection of commissionned translations of a selection of key texts about Intermedia and Expanded Cinema in Japan.
Boris Buden - Transition to Nowhere - Art in History After 1989
Boris Buden
Transition to Nowhere – Art in History After 1989
2020
English edition
The collection of essays on art by the philosopher and critic Boris Buden constitutes a history of post-communism studied through that of works of art.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - In a While or Two We Will Find the Tone - Essays and Proposals, Curatorial Concepts, and Critiques
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
In a While or Two We Will Find the Tone – Essays and Proposals, Curatorial Concepts, and Critiques
2020
English edition
This collection of writings from Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung presents, for the first time in one volume, essays and proposals edited anew.
Uriel Orlow - Conversing With Leaves
Uriel Orlow
Conversing With Leaves
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Of plants and men.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Pamphlet 1 - Ceux qui sont morts ne sont jamais partis – La préservation de la suprématie, du Musée ethnologique et les complexités du Forum Humboldt
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Pamphlet 1 – Ceux qui sont morts ne sont jamais partis – La préservation de la suprématie, du Musée ethnologique et les complexités du Forum Humboldt
2020
French edition
A post-colonial pamphlet on the ethnological museums of Europe, primarily the upcoming Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
Encircling the Image of Trauma
Encircling the Image of Trauma
2020
English edition
This book tiptoes between aesthetics and ethics; it proposes to rethink trauma in its necessity as well as impossibility to be represented and understood.
Earthrise - Ecological Visions on Both Sides of the Wall
Earthrise – Ecological Visions on Both Sides of the Wall
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
This catalogue investigates the genealogy of the relationship between art and ecology in Europe, introducing a series of pioneering research conducted on both sides of the Iron Curtain in the 1970s.
I Will Draw a Map of What You Never See - Endeavours in Rhythmanalysis
I Will Draw a Map of What You Never See – Endeavours in Rhythmanalysis
2020
English edition
A multidisciplinary investigation of the interrelations of space and time, memory, architecture and urban planning through and beyond Henri Lefebvre's concept of Rhythmanalysis.
Rehearsing Hospitalities - Companion 1
Rehearsing Hospitalities – Companion 1
2020
English edition
A series of essays and visual contributions critically reflecting on the current structures of knowledge within the art world.
Courants de conscience - Une concaténation de “Dividus”
Courants de conscience – Une concaténation de “Dividus”
2020
French edition
Conceived for the 12th Edition of the Bamako Encounters this book captures thoughts and responses of writers, poets, and artists to the curators' proposition to think the practice of photography in Africa and its diaspora through the notion of the “stream of consciousness.”
Being Together Precedes Being
Being Together Precedes Being
2019
English edition
A textbook for the project "The Kids Want Communism,"—a clandestine and public series of events marking the century of the Bolshevik Revolution. Contributions discuss the legacies and meaning of communism today.
Homecomings - 1, 2, 3, etc.
Homecomings – 1, 2, 3, etc.
2019
English edition
What can it mean to return home? Inspired by author Georges Perec's Espèces d'espaces and artist Hreinn Friðfinnsson's House Project, this catalogue brings together international artists to investigate the various facets of coming home.
Azin Feizabadi - After Cinema - Fictions from A Collective Memory
Azin Feizabadi
After Cinema – Fictions from A Collective Memory
2019
English edition
Celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the project A Collective Memory by Azin Feizabadi—a series of five narrative films—this publication features fictions by guest contributors who were asked to expand on their viewing experience of one of the films in the Collective Memory series.
Raphaël Grisey - Semer Somankidi Coura - A Generative Archive
Raphaël Grisey
Semer Somankidi Coura – A Generative Archive
2019
English edition
This publication is the result of a research project led by artists Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré around the archives of the self-organized agricultural cooperative Somankidi Coura, in Mali. A historical reflection on agricultural, archival, health, and migratory issues through a decolonial perspective.
Assaf Gruber - The Storyseller
Assaf Gruber
The Storyseller
2019
English edition
Monograph dedicated to the films of the Israeli artist Assaf Gruber. Articulated around eight conversations related to the films' production, this publication reflects an important theme in Gruber's work: what effects can art have on individuals far removed from the artistic field.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Pamphlet 1 - Those who are dead are not ever gone – On the Maintenance of Supremacy, the Ethnological Museum and the Intricacies of the Humboldt Forum
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Pamphlet 1 – Those who are dead are not ever gone – On the Maintenance of Supremacy, the Ethnological Museum and the Intricacies of the Humboldt Forum
2019
English edition
A post-colonial pamphlet on the ethnological museums of Europe, primarily the upcoming Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
Raumlabor - Cantiere Barca
Raumlabor
Cantiere Barca
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Publication documenting a series of workshops involving Raumlabor, a Berlin-based group architects, and the youths of Barca, a neighbourhood in outskirts of Turin. The project, which advocates for the re-appropriation of the public space, saw the development of a series of inhabitable environmental installations.
Natascha Sadr Haghighian - Natascha Süder Happelmann - Ankersentrum (surviving in the ruinous ruin)
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Natascha Süder Happelmann – Ankersentrum (surviving in the ruinous ruin)
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Comprised of a series of texts, drawings and photographs, this catalogue documents and expands on the multimedia installation by "Natascha Süder Happelmann" (Natascha Sadr Haghighian), an artistic reflection on ruinous space (catalogue of the German Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale).
Ines Schaber - Notes on Archives 2 - Culture Is Our Business
Ines Schaber
Notes on Archives 2 – Culture Is Our Business
2019
English edition
The second in the series of publications "Notes on Archives" dedicated to archival practices, Culture is Our Business offers a comparative case study on the archival policies of a commercial agency and a non-profit independent organization through the example of a 1919 image by photographer Willy Römer.
Ines Schaber - Notes on Archives 4 - Dear Jadwa
Ines Schaber
Notes on Archives 4 – Dear Jadwa
2019
English edition
The fourth in the series of publications "Notes on Archives" dedicated to archival practices, Dear Jadwa draws on a photographic archive from the Wadi Ara Valley in Israel to reflect on how visual archives can shed light on forgotten stories.
Vangjush Vellahu - Fragments I - Where stories cut across the land
Vangjush Vellahu
Fragments I – Where stories cut across the land
2019
English edition
This artist's book derives from a series of videos documenting the present situation of six unrecognized Republics on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Vellahu collects the collective memories of people and lands which have been affected by years of war and by the politics of borders.
Ina Wudtke - The Fine Art of Living
Ina Wudtke
The Fine Art of Living
2019
English edition
This monographs presents a decade of Wudtke's artistic work on gentrification in the city of Berlin.
Miracle Workers Collective - A Greater Miracle of Perception
Miracle Workers Collective
A Greater Miracle of Perception
2019
English edition (texts in English, Sami, Arabic, Spanish)
This catalogue explores how miracle making—making the impossible possible—is reflected in artistic practices today. It includes commissioned essays and poetry by the Miracle Workers Collective and writers close to the collective (catalogue of the exhibition at the Finnish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale).
Warren Neidich - The Glossary of Cognitive Activism - (For a Not So Distant Future)
Warren Neidich
The Glossary of Cognitive Activism – (For a Not So Distant Future)
2019
English edition
A dictionary designed as a tool for analysis and resistance to the new realities of neurocapitalism. With 285 definitions stemming from the fields of political philosophy, media studies and neuroscience.
Film in the Present Tense - Why can\'t we stop talking about analogue film?
Film in the Present Tense – Why can't we stop talking about analogue film?
2018
English edition
A contemporary discussion around the use, value and purpose of analogue film.
Bitter Things - Narratives and Memories of Transnational Families
Bitter Things – Narratives and Memories of Transnational Families
2018
English edition
This publication features academic and literary contributions, interviews, songs and photos which explores the impact of labor migration on the notion of motherhood from the perspectives of women migrant workers and children left-behind.
Romy Rüegger - Language is Skin - Scripts for Performances
Romy Rüegger
Language is Skin – Scripts for Performances
2018
English edition
The scripts of Romy Rüegger's performances: a constellation of texts, largely written to be spoken. The scripts as they are printed do not document the performances primarily. They are indications of spacial and temporal layering, juxtapositions of aesthetic and poetic elements and bodies. Overlapping every day observations with archival material, confronting, jumping.
Aneducation - Documenta 14
Aneducation – Documenta 14
2018
bilingual edition (English / Greek)
This publication reflects on the education and mediation programs at documenta 14. Organized as a lexicon, it gathers contributions by members of the programs, curators, artists, and educators.
Daniela Comani - 1975 - Diario di strada / Diary from the Road
Daniela Comani
1975 – Diario di strada / Diary from the Road
2018
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
As a child in the 70's Daniela Comani travelled with her parents in their car where they used to past time jotting down the cars that drove by. 40 years later she found one of these old notebooks and researched photographs of the cars. The project now takes the form of this artist's book, which can be seen as an interesting social and historical study on style in the pre-globalized world and, above all, a kind of self-portrait.
Tyyne Claudia Pollmann - Tracelation
Tyyne Claudia Pollmann
Tracelation
2018
English edition
New technologies today make it possible to translate raw data into graphic representations. This action of translation has become essential in the era of big data. It forms the core of this publication, which presents the outcomes of an experiment conducted by conceptual artist Tyyne Claudia Pollmann at the Charite CrossOver Institute Berlin Mitte since 2013.
Gitte Villesen - I stick my hands into the earth, and I think for a while
Gitte Villesen
I stick my hands into the earth, and I think for a while
2018
English edition
Publication gathering 49 posters representing photographs and film stills by the Danish artist. It also includes a booklet with comments by Villesen, and an essay by Joerg Franzbecker.
Proxy Politics - Power and Subversion in a Networked Age
Proxy Politics – Power and Subversion in a Networked Age
2018
English edition
currently out of stock
The proxy—an intermediary for requests from clients—has become an emblematic word in our networked age. Edited by the Research Center for Proxy Politics, this publication uses the term as a dialectical figure to examine today's post-democracies politics.
The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism - Part Three
The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism – Part Three
2018
English edition
The third volume of a collection of papers on cognitive capitalism in relation with the conditions of mind and brain in the Information Age.
Romana Schmalisch - Mobile Cinema
Romana Schmalisch
Mobile Cinema
2018
English edition
This publication presents the outcomes of Romana Schmalisch's long-term project, the Mobile Cinema, an itinerant apparatus somewhere between urban model, cinema, and plate camera. The artist constructed the Mobile Cinema and used it to present films created during her travels, mobilizing film extracts and archive material.
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