Only boys... is a processing artproject that was carried out between 2020 and 2023.

In 25 large pastel portraits Jimmy Groen shows a hidden world of aspects of identity, gender and identification during childhood. The drawings are based upon personal experiences and provide an unique insight in what might become in dissociative identity disorder from adverse experiences during childhood.

Only boys... it\'s the observer of the portraits that completes the dots.

Cool Pastoral Splendor is the first Center Pivot publication the Last Chance Press of M12 Studio. It is published as a special limited edition, in a print run of 250 copies. 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."Cool Pastoral Splendor includes a selection of pictures from Richard Saxton's Rural Research Archive and accompanying ...

'This Road Leads to Nowhere: Pierre Punk' brings together archives and reflections from a music scene that flourished in small-town South Dakota from the early 90's through 2010. Merging the tradition of DIY punk publications and regional travel guides, the book sings an unsung hymn of American underground culture. This Road Leads to Nowhere includes writings and images from Pierre community members, musicians who traveled through and played in the town, and kindred spirits from similar scene...

Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first ‘Parallel Encyclopedia’, published in 2007. Underlying themes of Suter’s practice are the “iconification” and “immunogenicity” of old images, and the circumstances by which they become charged with new associative values. “In my work, I collect groups of images based on various themes and characteristics, ...

RAABJERG by Danish artist Rune Peitersen (1971) explores the changing landscape of northern Jutland (DK) from the last Ice Age until today.

During the 16th-19th centuries, climate change and human extraction of natural resources led to violent sand drift, which transformed the once fertile landscape into a barren wasteland. Different governments – from kings to elected parliaments – enacted laws to try to reverse it. After 200 years, they ‘succeeded’ and started reintroducing plants i...

"Stitch Your Brain" is a long-term study into the intelligence of the hand by artist and former medical doctor Monika Auch. The book reflects the results of the empirical study Auch worked on for the past decade about the importance of creating with your hands in our digital age and the effects of slow creation on neuro cognitive learning, health, and well-being.

The detailed images of a collection of 100+ stitched brains created by participants and their personal comments illustrate the infl...

Er wordt de laatste jaren vaak gesteld dat er in de hedendaagse westerse kunst een sociale wending heeft plaatsgevonden. Het gaat niet langer om kunst om de kunst, niet om kunst als uitdrukking van de persoonlijke visie van een eenling, maar om kunst (of projecten) die mensen (en dingen) samenbrengen en zo de wereld veranderen. Tot op zekere hoogte is deze sociale wending terug te voeren op het verlangen naar 'gemeenschap' dat veel kunstenaars eigen lijkt te zijn. De filosofische opvattingen ...

Dit boek gaat over een bijzonder kunstenaarscollectief.

Het toont de kunst van een (groot) aantal leden.

Ook komen leden aan het woord in diverse interviews

en kom je meer te weten over de achtergrond van het collectief en de grote variatie aan zelfgeorganiseerde workshops en activiteiten.

Het Diepwater collectief hoopt in dit boek te laten zien hoe kunst mensen

kan helpen om een nieuwe betekenis te geven aan

hun bestaan. En hoe wenselijk, zelfs nodig dat kan zijn.

Wat het collectief doet ...