Beeldend kunstenaar Pii Daenen produceert al ruim 50 jaar sculpturen, installaties, video’s, foto’s, prints, artefacten, multiples, interieur- en meubelstukken. Hij haalt zijn inspiratie vooral uit de elementaire menselijke behoeftes en technologische ontwikkelingen en geeft met zijn kunst met humor commentaar op hoe wij hier als mens mee omgaan.

In 2012 begon Pii zijn werk te archiveren in FileMaker Pro. Zijn totale oeuvre is hierdoor een visuele encyclopedie geworden; een kunstwerk an s...

With elementary materials – wood, paper, clay, tape, paint – artist Fleur van Dodewaard creates ephemeral compositions that play with the possibilities of photography, sculpture, and painting. Situated at the intersection of these disciplines, her work uses photography to achieve the final result. ‘The Fold’ presents ten years of practice, reshaped according to the principles of book production methods such as folding, cutting, and binding. Operating like a “making-of” documentary...

Accountable Temporary Expedients is a practice that challenges the ability of dancers to attend to multiple stimuli at once and instigate situations which embrace confusion, doubt and uncertainty. This work stands in response to the notion that dance urges to emancipate. Baldini’s current critique sees dance as being "stuck, gooey, a victim of its own habit and, so in love with itself, it does not recognise its limitations. It is self-seduced, self-sufficient, and self-indulgent. Dance is n...

Opera Village, a participatory art experiment by the late German multimedia artist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a critical interrogation of Richard Wagner’s notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner’s introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to Schlingensief’s attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso. Schlingensief developed Opera Village ...

Marlies De Munck is philosopher of culture. She teaches at the Philosophy department of the Antwerp University and at the KASK & Conservatory in Ghent. As a member of the Culture Commons Quest Office (CCQO) of the Antwerp Research Institute of the Arts (ARIA) she conducts research into the health of culture. Pascal Gielen is sociologist of culture. He is based at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) of Antwerp University. There he leads the research group Culture Commons Quest O...

A revised edition of this popular history of design, updated to reflect innovations since the book's first publication in 2016. Design: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key developments, movements and practitioners of design around the world, from the beginnings of industrial manufacturing to the present day. Organized chronologically, it locates design within its technological, cultural, economic, aesthetic and theoretical contexts.

From the high-minded moralists of the 19th century...

A beautifully packaged introduction to the perennially popular subject of Japanese prints. Slipcased with three prints suitable for framing.

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 histories and methods that link to networks of friendship and solidarity, and of the visual arts as participating in a longer history of contact between individuals motivated by shared interests and struggles. Visual art is not limited to a discip...

An illustrated publication on the controversially debated topic on the colonial history of collections of art works from indigenous cultures and the loudly voiced claims for their restitution.