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Boek Plan And Play, Play And Plan, geschreven door Janwillem Schrofer, uitgegeven door Valiz, Kunst algemeen

Make Your City geeft een fascinerend beeld van twintig jaar pionieren in de stad, aangevuld met de lessen die daaruit te trekken zijn. In 1999 trok een bont gezelschap van skateboarders tot theatermakers en bijstandsmoeders in de toen verlaten scheep

What would happen if museums put relationships at the centre of their operations? This question inspires this publication, which offers a diverse, rigorous, and experimental analysis of what is commonly known as education, mediation or interpretation

Failed Images tries to understand photography in its difference from the reality it shows. It sets as a task to analyse the different ways the photograph transforms that which exists before the camera. Photography is not only determined by technical

Artist residencies provide space, time, and concentration for making art, doing research and for reflection. Residencies are crucial nodes in international circulation and career development, but also invaluable infrastructures for critical thinking

After half a century of neoliberalism, a new radical, practice-based ideology is making its way from the margins: commonism, with an o in the middle. It is based on the values of sharing, common (intellectual) ownership and new social cooperations. C

The Long 1980s considers the significance of the 1980s for culture and society today. It revisits this pivotal decade via a collection of microhistories from across Europe that span the fields of art, culture, and politics. Central to the stories in

Pavilion Propositions addresses the contemporary pavilion phenomenon and those often temporary and functionless architectural structures commissioned and exhibited by art institutions around the world (including the annual Serpentine Pavilion in Lond

Over the past decades, the cultural and political map of Europe and the world has changed rapidly. Developments such as the changing status of the European Union, migration, and th wider repercussions of globalization have posed numerous social and p

Since the turn of this century, we have witnessed a significant expanse in the field of transhistorical exhibition practices. A range of curatorial efforts have emerged in which objects and artefacts from various periods and art-historical and cultur

Over a number of meetings Jeroen Lutters and Mieke Bal engaged in a conversation on the art of teaching. Looking for a dialogue that would also touch on the role of visual art, Lutters brought in paintings by Banksy, Rembrandt, Marlene Dumas, and Geo

In The Future of the New: Artistic Innovation in Times of Social Acceleration artists, theorists, and professionals working in the art field reflect on the role of the arts in a world that is speeding up and changing through joint forces of globaliza

What is at stake in this book is an attempt to de-align the discussion of international art practice from the rhetoric of globalization and an exclusive focus on the contemporary. Instead, it seeks to trace a genealogy of trans-local practices, with

Since the 1960s, art and architecture have experienced a series of radical and reciprocal trades. While artists have simulated ‘architectural’ means like plans and models, built structures and pavilions outside art institutions, or intervened in urba

Het spanningsveld tussen feit en fictie wordt al veel langer onderzocht en bevraagd binnen het gebied van de documentaire kunst. When Fact Is Fiction verzamelt diverse bijdragen van en over kunstenaars die de grenzen tussen feit en fictie verkennen d

Artivisme lijkt tegenwoordig een modewoord te zijn geworden voor de empowerment van vrouwen door middel van activistische kunst. Dit boek wil de diversiteit aan praktijken en realiteiten onder de paraplu van kunstactivisme en activisme in de kunsten

Wicked Arts Assignments zijn gewaagde, ongebruikelijke, dwarse, grappige, poëtische, inspirerende, sociaal betrokken of anderszins uitdagende kunstopdrachten. Iedereen die kunstlessen geeft, kent ze: zo'n opdracht die ogenschijnlijk simpel is, maar d

Kiosken: ze staan op straathoeken en pleinen, in winkelcentra en industriegebieden, bij scholen en stadions, sportvelden en parken. Kleine, luchtige bouwwerken in de buitenruimte, met de stad als decor. 'Kiosk in de stad' vertelt over de historie, ve

Capitalism could not exist without the coins, banknotes, documents, information graphics, interfaces, branding, and advertisements made by graphic designers. Even anti-consumerist strategies such as social design and speculative design are appropriat

No School is een beweging die leren en het onderwijs open wil breken via creativiteit. Nieuwsgierig zijn en experimenteren, ongebreideld denken, maken en ontwikkelen — zelf en met elkaar— en diversiteit zijn basiselementen van alle vormen van leren e

The Covid-19 crisis teaches us how priceless human nearness is. Art and education can't do without it either. Like works of art, people lose their aura when kept at digital arm's length. Art is lifeless when it can't resonate with bodies. In Nearness

De Covid-19 crisis leert dat menselijke nabijheid goud waard is. Kunst en onderwijs kunnen niet zonder. Mensen verliezen net als kunstwerken hun aura wanneer ze op digitale afstand worden gehouden. Kunst ontbeert leven wanneer ze niet met lichamen ka

How can art weave meaningful connections between different people, their surroundings, and social systems? What does art mean in a specific community? How can art contribute to the advancement of civil society? Intricate questions that are being addr

Graphic Design Is () Not Innocent questions ingrained approaches, values and assumptions of graphic design in globalized societies. The publication aims to initiate a dialogue between designers, scholars, critics and commissioners, who investigate re

Sinds de #metoo-beweging zijn vormen van mannelijk seksueel geweld en machtsmisbruik op grote schaal onder de loep genomen. De focus op ‘toxic masculinity’ heeft invloed op onze perceptie van mannelijke seksualiteit, die het zelfbeeld en het zelfresp

Architecture has always been found in a space between its economic and cultural values. As distinct from the intrinsic values attributed to the visual and performing arts, literature and music, architecture's values are often seen to be compromised b

Wie ben je, wie wil je zijn, en wat moet je doen om daar te komen? We staan voortdurend onder druk om het perfecte leven te leiden. De media spiegelen ons een beeld voor van een bestaan waarin we rijk, mooi, gelukkig en geslaagd zijn. We ontwerpen on

Effigy hanging and burning, a specific theatrical form of political protest, has become increasingly visible in the news media, particularly in protests against United States military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, in US domestic politics, and i

Slow Spatial Research: Chronicles of Radical Affection is a collection of essays about ‘Slow’ approaches to spatial practice and pedagogy from around the world. The book’s contributors are from twenty-two countries on five continents. Each one brings

‘Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to be witnessed.’David Kessler (2019)The pandemic has once again made us more aware of the fr

On the Necessity of Gardening tells the story of the garden as a rich source of inspiration. Over the centuries, artists, writers, poets and thinkers have each described, depicted and designed the garden in different ways. In medieval art, the garden

What is the role of the curator when organizing digital art exhibitions in offline and online spaces? Analyzing the influence and impact of curating digital art, the book focuses on how the experiments of curators, artists and designers opened the po

Solidarity has re-entered the global zeitgeist with resounding force in the last decade, driving new thinking to counter the systemic failures and abuses of our society. The Art and Solidarity Reader considers the agency artists, collectives, and art

Mix & Stir, this book’s aim is an endeavour to understand art as being a panhuman phenomenon of all times and cultures; to steer away from the persistent Eurocentric/Western-centric viewpoint towards a transcultural and transnational interconnected m

Betaalbaar wonen is in Nederland nagenoeg onmogelijk geworden. De ongelijkheid neemt op allerlei gebieden toe: tussen generaties en tussen wie vermogend is en wie niet, en ook de reële dagelijkse economie en de huizenbubbel lopen uit de pas. De oplos

Geert Lovink is een Nederlandse mediatheoreticus, internetcriticus en auteur van Uncanny Networks (2002), Dark Fiber (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero Comments (2007), Networks Without a Cause (2012), Social Media Abyss (2016), Organization aft