The fourth instalment of the ‘Teaching Objects’ series revolves around “Creation”. In this art novella the reader is guided by Lisa, a young artist who is facing death. A dialogue with four works by the American painter Cy Twombly emerges from the question of life’s duration, and Lisa discovers the secret of creative speech. The protagonist’s thoughts bring her to Gaeta, a seaside town near Velia, the ancient Greek town in Italy, now named Elea – the place where the school of Pa...

Met de publicatie van 'Cultural Activism Today. The Art of Over-Identification' willen de initiatiefnemers een lans breken voor activistische kunstuitingen die durven te provoceren. In het huidige neoliberale politieke klimaat is weinig ruimte voor maatschappijkritische culturele uitingen tenzij ze zich aanpassen aan de wetten van de vrije markt of de afgesproken normen en waarden. Dit boek wil aantonen dat dit doorbroken kan worden met over-identificatie: compromisloos je idealen naleven. In...

We are living in a time of polarization. Cultural and educational institutions are confronted with the responsibility to provide tools and spaces for critical reflection, for engagement, and, more fundamentally, for meeting and recognizing each other in our differences. In this decolonial essay Rolando Vázquez introduces his critique which offers an option for thinking and doing beyond the dominant paradigms. It provides a critical analysis of modernity understood broadly as the western proj...

The Impossibility of Silence is a book for artists, designers and photographers interested in approaching writing about their vocation and culture. Drawing upon decades of experience as a writer, designer, artist and teacher, Ian Lynam offers up a plethora of inspirational and concrete approaches to writing about creative fields.

Thinking together aloud.

Talking uninhibitedly.

Holding a non-polemic conversation.

How can you receive an idea hospitably?

You don't know what the other person is going to say.

You don't always know what you yourself are going to say.

This book provides a picture of the 'thinking aloud' that went on during several gatherings initiated by Erik Hagoort. In a series of essays, he builds on ideas on closeness that originate from Ilse Bulhof, Emmanuel Levinas and Cornelis Verhoeven.

'I don't kno...

What exactly is the tactile, in a world in which a rising technocracy exploits the designed environment we feel? Who authorises and who writes, what tradition do we stand in and how can we touch base?

After endlessly hearing that Onomatopee publications have a materiality and tactility not often experienced in recent years, Onomatopee director and curator Freek Lomme decided to create an exhibition and publication addressing the issue of tactility and print today, accommodated by the Frans Ma...

This book is an accessible introduction to the critical theories used in analysing art

De sculptura is a collection of ideas about sculpture that could inspire a range of insights into the discipline. They

concern artworks that play on our minds and our imaginations in contemporary times, just like the countless other

kinds of images with which we are surrounded. The fact that sculpture, more than any other artform, succeeds in captivating us beyond the boundaries of time and space is due to the slowness of a medium that eradicates all elaborations on content, so that the scu...

UNFIXED, geïnitieerd en geredigeerd door Sara Blokland en Asmara Pelupessy, onderzoekt vanuit een postkoloniaal perspectief de fotografie langs de uiteenlopende posities en kritische standpunten van een internationale groep schrijvers, kunstenaars en wetenschappers, afkomstig uit het veld van de hedendaagse kunst, fotografie en culturele studies.

Het is de aantrekkingskracht van fotografie als medium, haar historische relatie met de productie en fixatie van identiteit en de actuele discuss...