Er zijn weinig onderwerpen die zoveel vooronderstellingen opleveren als de boerderij. Het reflecteren op beelden van de boerderij ligt op het snijvlak van cultuur, mythe vorming, erfgoed en beeldende kunst. Dit boek vraagt aandacht voor de beeldvorming rondom het boerenland met twintig (beeld)essays van kunsthistorici, cultuurwetenschappers, kunstenaars, landschapsarchitecten en anderen.

De productie en de beeldvorming van zowel kunst als boer worden belicht. De beeldbeschrijvingen zijn vanui...

Dit boek is de eerste monografie van Hedwig Houben. In Grip wordt haar speelse, humoristische, multi-gelaagde werk verkent en besproken. Visueel, rijk geïllustreerd met tekeningen en foto's, documenteert Grip haar performances, videos en sculpturale installaties.

Door verschillende auteurs, maar ook door de kunstenaar zelf, wordt het werk besproken. Grip omvat een beschrijving van haar cast en hoofdpersonen als zowel drie scripts van Houben; een interview van Vanessa Desclaux (associate cura...

What does the Earth sound like? In 'Stations: Listening to the Deep Earth', musician Stuart Hyatt teams up with PRINTtEXT to invite poets, composers, and scientists to answer this question. What begins as a grand science experiment quickly transforms into a lyrical duet with the enchanted ground beneath us.

Hyatt and Enrique Ramirez begin the text with examinations of a whole-Earth sensorium. The text then branches out in three directions—Invocation, Reverie, and Rhapsody—before reconverg...

Future Rural Archive is the fourth Center Pivot publication the Last Chance Press of M12 Studio. Co-publishers: M12 Collective and the Last Chance Press.

Through interdisciplinary approaches, this series explores and connects the changing realities of rural landscapes and communities around the world.

'Tucked inside the covers of this slim volume is a conversation—a chorus, a round. It takes place between the contributions, across a territory of blacktop, botany, and biography. It is as mu...

In 'Before I Was Born', Tja Ling illustrates the story of her family’s journey from China to the Netherlands, between the 1930s and 1970s, in 14 interconnected pencil drawings. Out of respect and admiration for the way her (grand)- parents built a life for themselves with all the challenges they have had to face, migrating without any formal education or knowledge of the local language.

These drawings are a chronicle of pride, strength and respect. A narrative of a child discovering why he...

Beginning in the Middle. Conversations on the Post-Soviet, edited and compiled by Elsbeth Dekker and Robbie Schweiger, explores the works, lives and travels of artists coming from a (post-) Soviet context. The conversations delve deeper into questions of art and (de)colonisation in countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia, most of which recently celebrated their 30th anniversary of independence.

Departing from Dutch collections and exhibitions, the conversations try to grapple with question...

Displace explores the process of entering into a dialogue with soil as a living entity. It offers an intimate insight into Elena Khurtova's artistic research and process during her residency at 3bisF, on the site of Montperrin Psychiatric hospital in Aix-en-Provence, and delves into her personal connection with displaced soils.

Extending the sensitive experience of touching red and yellow soils into the materiality of the book, Elena Khurtova and graphic designer Tariq Heijboer experiment wit...

AgriValley is a long-term poetic study of Dutch agriculture. In her cinematographic representations, video artist Mirte van Duppen brings together various production landscapes as a social construct: here, humans and machines live and work side by side. The futuristic, almost dreamlike images give an insight into the enormous impact of technological innovation in the agricultural sector.

Van Duppen shows the contemporary landscape in associative analyses, using visual rhyme and essayistic cam...