Forthcoming

 

Walter Benjamin: Dreams

 

Spring 2025

Edited with text by Burkhardt Lindner

Though published during his lifetime, Walter Benjamin’s dream notes and theoretical reflections on dreams are collected here for the first time in a single volume.

Dreams highlights a dimension of Benjamin’s thinking that was invaluable for his writing and thought but which has thus far received little attention. It is a comprehensive and chronological collection of Benjamin’s transcriptions of his own dreams and includes unpublished manuscript materials. The publication also features his theoretical reflections on dreams, ranging from short aphorisms and longer analyses of dream literature and the history of dreams to the political conception of a “dreaming collective” and its awakening.

Editor Burkhardt Lindner describes Benjamin’s literary approach to his own dreams in the epilogue and gives a sketch of Benjamin’s own definition of the dream sphere, independent of and in contrast to Surrealism and Freud’s interpretation of dreams.

Patricia L. Boyd: Exposure

Spring 2025

with texts by Patricia L. Boyd and Josephine Pryde

edited by Gloria Hasnay and Kunstverein München, accompanying the exhibition Hold in 2021

Published several years after the fact, “Exposure” is a catalogue for Patricia L. Boyd’s solo exhibition “Hold” at Kunstverein München in 2021. Taking into account the interval of time between exhibition and date of publication, “Hold” is reconsidered by Boyd as mediated through its documentation—both official documentation as well as photos, videos and notes made by the artist at the time. Since “Hold” took place during the pandemic, the exhibition’s mediation was an integral part of how it was originally conceived and installed. The book engages with formal questions that are central concerns elsewhere in Boyd’s practice and contains a newly commissioned essay by artist Josephine Pryde.

Boyd’s work finds form through an enquiry into its own matters of production and presentation, and often extends to address infrastructures—physical, economic, institutional—within which it is made and exhibited. Encompassing sculpture, photography, writing and video, it is often characterised by a display of the negative: through inversion, elision, removal.

design by Scott Ponik

 

 

 

Liz Johnson Artur/PDA:

Spring 2025

This publication will be a profound glimpse into the spaces around which the legendary club-night PDA was created, and the community it birthed.

Since its inception, founded by Mischa Mafia, Ms. Carrie Stacks and Akinola Davies Jr, PDA has been a vital centre for experimental black and brown queer nightlife in London. Community-led and always invested in promoting the prosperity, safety and joy of its community, PDA became a home for so many and through its impact a very important part of UK cultural history and the visibility of its talents.

 

Key Operators: Weaving and coding as languages of feminist historiography

Spring 2025

with Elsi Giauque, Johanna Gonschorek, Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter, Pati Hill, Charlotte Johannesson, Lotus L. Kang, Alison Knowles, Beryl Korot, James Tilly Matthews, Katrin Mayer, Johannes Porsch, Radical Software, Bea Schlingelhoff, Marilou Schultz, Johanna Schütz-Wolff, Iris Touliatou, Claire L. Evans, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Sadie Plant and Johannes Porsche.

edited by Gloria Hasnay and Kunstverein München, accompanying the exhibition in 2024

embossed box made from gray cardboard, paperback, thread binding with gauze
20 x 25 cm, 80 pages (bound),
19 booklets, each 2–6 pages (unbound)
design by Max Schropp

The publication serves as a record(ing), of sorts, of the comprehensive project Key Operators. Weaving and coding as languages of feminist historiography. Packed neatly in a box, the bound pages—along with nineteen unbound brochures—offer a reflection on the group exhibition, its accompanying program of events, and the featured contributors.

The book is not an aside to the exhibition, but rather a translation of its concerns, questions, and structure into the printed form(at). Much like the exhibition, it functions both as information memory and information medium. Its open composition follows the intents of its spatial predecessor and is thus a transmission of its processuality, non-linearity, and multiplicity. While the bound section centers on the visual documentation of the exhibition, the works, and the various spatial relations, the unbound brochures are each dedicated to—and in several cases conceived by—the individual contributors.

Key Operators focuses on the links between feminized labor, technological advancements, and their associated languages. The systems inscribed in weaving and coding serve as a point of departure for devising alternative ways of looking at gender and work. The project brings together an intergenerational group of artists and theorists—encompassing commissioned as well as historical contributions—that engage with the concept of weaving and its significance for technological developments, both metaphorically and structurally.

The artistic and theoretical positions in Key Operators employ weaving and coding as critical metaphors. The featured contributions act as narrative threads, traversing various contexts and intertwining diverse methods of storytelling in order to scout the peripheries of official historiography for its absences. In this sense, the loom and the computer are conceived as allies in the examination of history’s sidelines, which so often provide the conditions for its writing.

 

 

 

also forthcoming is the Viscose Journal issue 8