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Jap Sam Books (57)
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René Tosari. Diversity is Power
2018 || Paperback || Rob Perrée e.a. || Jap Sam Books
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Remy Jungerman. Where the River Runs
2019 || Paperback || Rob Perrée || Jap Sam Books
In his work Suriname-born Dutch artist Remy Jungerman (1959) searches for a visual language that will bring different cultures together. His recent work is inextricably bound up with African traditions and the Western, modernistic art tradition. He is interested in the intersecting paths travelled by motifs from Africa, the Surinamese Maroon culture, and 20th century Modernism. By exploring the convergence of patterns and shapes from these seemingly disparate cultural landscapes, he reveals ...
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Blind Date with the Future
Stefanie Zoche / Haubitz + Zoche
2023 || Paperback || Stefanie Zoche e.a. || Jap Sam Books
German duo Haubitz + Zoche were among the first artists in Germany to address climate crisis in their work. The book Blind Date with the Future gives a comprehensive overview of the artistic projects on ecological issues such as sea level rise or dwindling resources that they have realised between 2006 and 2022. In the context of current climate debates their oeuvre is becoming increasingly relevant.
An art-historical essay by Ann-Katrin Günzel and an interview between Franziska Kunze and St...
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Star Route 1
2019 || Paperback || Mary Welcome e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Star Route 1 is the fifth 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.
Like the network of post offices presented herein, Star Route 1 is itself a precise arrangement of distances. Alongside pin-board messages, crop prices, reconfigured addresses, and a horse named Montana...
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The wheel of fortune / druk 1
gamebook
2014 || Paperback || David Maroto || Jap Sam Books
Deels verhaal, deels game, dit boek is anders, uniek. Een boek waarin de lezer de protagonist wordt. Geïnspireerd door Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time en Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Gambler. Het verhaal is gesitueerd in een hotel casino aan de kust in Normandië. The Wheel of Fortune herontdekt het 'Kies uw eigen avontuur' gamebook-- een genre dat populair was in de vroege jaren negentig, net voordat het internet tot bloei kwam.
Het boek is opgebouwd uit 350 tekstfragmenten. De lezer bep...
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Mother's Milk
2023 || Hardcover || Marie Ilse Bourlanges || Jap Sam Books
Mother’s Milk (re)constructs the story of Ilse, the author’s grandmother. Alienated in the psychiatric hospital of La Timone, in Marseille, Ilse resided there from 1952 until her death in 1983. Bringing together archival material, correspondences and conversations narrated via documentary poetry, Marie Ilse Bourlanges assembles the fragments of a family history hiding in plain sight.
An undertow of embodied memory meets the flow of institutional remembrance, drawing parallels between the ...
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