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Herewith The Clues

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794421 Acqn 29325
Pb 22x27cm 40pp 24 ills 12col £13.25

"An intricate web of envy, desire and aspiration." Herewith the Clues is a jaunt through the history
of the Crime Dossiers, a form of literature as mystery game-developed in the interwar period-
where players solved puzzles much in the way that a detective in the 1920s might have solved a
crime using forensics. With origins in the whodunit mystery genre (whose roots go as far back as
a tale in One Thousand and One Nights), this style of parlor game proliferated. The mass-
produced games came in the form of binders, books, suitcases, or boxes containing crime-scene
evidence (and literary red herrings), each piece of evidence itself a kind of riddle. One could see
these as not only an entirely new manifestation of gamified literature, but game playing itself
evolving: storytelling as a riddle-solving game acted in the flesh, rather than existing solely in the
minds of author and reader.

Herewith the Clues continues Boy Vereecken's research into mass-market literary culture, which
began with Signature Strengths (2016). The volume includes two text contributions: a
contemporary take on the whodunit novel by Shumon Basar, followed by a tour of the history of
the Crime Dossiers by Laura Herman. The book is illustrated with a photo series from Antoine
Begon who has unpacked and photographed the pieces of evidence that comprise Crime
Dossiers such as File on Rufus Ray and Murder Off Miami.

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Red Love: A Reader on Alexandra Kollontai / Kollontai. A Play by Agneta Pleijel

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9789185549436 Acqn 29348
Pb 12x20cm 512pp col ills £15.95

Edited by Maria Lind, Michele Masucci, Joanna Warsza, together with CuratorLab 2017/18
participants: Aly Grimes, Malin Huber, Nicholas John Jones, Martyna Nowicka-Wojnowska,
Alessandra Prandin, Dimitrina Sevova, Sophia Tabatadze, Federico Del Vecchio, Hannah
Zafiropoulos

Contributions by Bini Adamczak, Sara Ahmed, Giulia Andreani, Lise Haller Baggesen, Petra
Bauer & Rebecka Thor, Dora Garcia, Michael Hardt, Maria Lind, Michele Masucci, Alla
Mitrofanova, Martyna Nowicka-Wojnowska, Pontus Pettersson, Jonathan Brooks Platt, Agneta
Pleijel, Nina Power, Paul B. Preciado, Tomas Rafa, Alicja Rogalska, Mohammad Salemy, Sally
Schonfeldt, Aaron Schuster, Sophia Tabatadze, Oxana Timofeeva, Joanna Warsza, Hannah
Zafiropoulos

Alexandra Kollontai was a prominent Russian revolutionary, a commissar of social welfare after
the October Revolution, and a long-term Soviet ambassador to Sweden. As a cofounder of the
Zhenotdel, the "Women's Department" in the Communist Party, she introduced abortion rights,
secularized marriage, and provided paid maternity leave. Kollontai considered "comradely love"
to be an important political force, elemental in shaping social bonds beyond the limitations of
property relations.

Red Love: A Reader on Aleksandra Kollontai stems from a yearlong research by CuratorLab at
Konstfack University together with Tensta konsthall, leading up to Dora Garcia's exhibition "Red
Love" and its related public programing. A number of artists and thinkers revisit Kollontai's ideas
on the politics of love and their relation to current political, social and feminist struggles. The
publication also includes the biographical play Kollontai from 1977 by distinguished Swedish
writer Agneta Pleijel.

Part critical analysis and part artist book, Red Love: A Reader on Aleksandra Kollontai seeks to
address the ongoing relevance of Kollontai's thought and the increasingly complex sphere of love
relations in advanced capitalism. Is there a place for Kollontai's vision of comradely love today,
and how could it be formed?

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All Men Become Sisters

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794148 Acqn 29349
Pb 20x25cm 212pp 152ills 105col £20.00

With contributions by Joanna Bednarek, Ines Doujak & John Barker, Zofia Lapniewska, Raqs
Media Collective, Joanna Sokolowska, Marina Vishmidt, Siona Wilson

This book is both a record and a theoretical expansion of the exhibition All Men Become Sisters
at the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz. Dedicated to the manifestation of sisterhood in art from the 1970s
until today, the exhibition and the publication focus on art that resonated with feminist
perspectives on work, production, and reproduction. "Sisterhood" is a key concept and an
impulse to work with imagination; built on the foundations of second-wave criticism of the
patriarchal exploitation of women, it poses questions about the future from the perspective of
feminist economics and ethics of care.

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Notes on Contemporary Art in Kosovo

Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794629 Acqn 29350
Pb 11x18cm 128pp 128ills £13.99

Contributions by Sezgin Boynik, Charles Esche, Alush Gashi, HAVEIT, Astrit Ismaili, Shkelzen
Maliqi, Cathrin Mayer, Miran Mohar, Edi Muka, Vanessa Joan Muller, Kathrin Rhomberg, Vesa
Sahatciu and D.

This publication collects writings on the art scene of Kosovo over the past twenty years. In the
1990s Kosovars felt-as many other countries in the Balkan region did-the urgency to shape their
own scene: in a search for identity, for nation building, in continuing or ending political conflicts,
by trying to find a language to grasp recent social and political developments, or simply by
continuing their practice in new, unstable times. This collection of writings and interviews offers
insight into these processes through various perspectives (from curators, artists, and
philosophers) on the latest fundaments of artistic developments and further fosters reflection on
how a local, prospering scene continuously raises new questions, and addresses undiscovered
topics, hand in hand with the region's historical struggles while building and being the youngest
state within Europe.

Notes on Contemporary Art in Kosovo is published in the context of the tranzit.at Glossary Series
which aims to encourage reflection on possible new and different approaches to creating
common knowledge, more in sync with our time than the prevalent epistemological models,
focusing on the new global conditions-and on the fact that we require more equality in creating
knowledge under these conditions-as well as the need to redefine artistic geographies so that
they can attune themselves to this new situation.

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Doireann O'Malley – Prototypes

Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956794087 Acqn 29355
Hb 17x24cm 96pp col ills £21.95

Texts by Lou Drago, Caspar Heinemann, Joel Kuennen

Prototypes by Doireann O'Malley is a multi-screen film installation, a series of dreamscapes

interrogating trans* semiotics through psychoanalytic practices, speculative technologies and live
action role-playing. O'Malley's work references scientific and medical investigations into the
human psyche that address wider philosophical concerns relating to biology, gender embodiment,
sexuality, utopianism and biomolecular advancement in human evolution.

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Andrea Pichl
Sternberg Press 2019 ISBN 9783956794698 Acqn 29374
Pb 24x30cm 126ills 122col £25.50

Texts by Alexander Cammann, Christine Nippe, Susanne Prinz, Marc Wellmann

"There is an inner logic to the appearance of spolia in Pichl's work: significant fragments from the
past but also the present, fragments both ideal and real, staged anew, interacting with each other.
Here the twentieth and twenty-first centuries permeate each other. We hear both the echo and
the new sound. In this way, Pichl's spolia also reveal the ambivalence of form and its often
helpless dream of beauty, which so frequently comes to an ugly and brutal end. What remains is
the dogged, antagonistic persistence of a utopia of form, one no longer unbroken and expressed
with a particular irony. Anything else would not be a solution. So come along, and don't forget that
art has its aim in sight: the point is _ to make reality impossible."
-Alexander Cammann

For a number of years, the work of Andrea Pichl has centred on the oft-derided architecture of
mass-produced buildings and their position in wider architectural and historical contexts. Pichl is
interested in the utopian potential of modernity that these forms convey. In her installations,
photography, and paper work, the artist focuses on the question of what became of these utopias.

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