Publication made in collaboration with Aziza Harmel based on images related to her grand-parents in Tunisia between 1947 and the present day, both involved in the liberation of Tunisia. From these appropriated archives, a fictional story was created.

Jesus, Make up and Football by Belgian photographer Frederik Buyckx is all about the favelas, or slums, of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. His photographs provide a haunting glimpse into the lives of the favela residents and what matters to the most: Jesus, make up and football.
Buyckx rented a pied-à-terre for a few months in a favela and shared the inhabitants’ daily vicissitudes. A fifth of Rio’s six million inhabitants live in favelas: self-built, improvised populous neighbourhoods in which life can be rough. With the World Cup coming to Rio in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016, the city is determined to show itself to its best advantage. The government is using the opportunity to clean up the slums and flush out the drug gangs.
The book is published by Lannoo (Belgium) and won several awards, including a World Press Photo Award in 2013. In 2017 Frederik was named ‘Photographer of the Year’ at the Sony World Photography Awards. His work has been published in National Geographic Magazine (NL), The New York Times Newspaper/Style Magazine (USA), The Sunday Times Magazine(UK), CNN Photo Blog (USA) and De Standaard (BE) among others.

Marianna La Rosa Maruyama works through notions of resistance, weariness, and return. If anything could be assumed or imagined to have challenged the question of how to live together, it is that which occurs in the space of catastrophe, in this case, the earthquake and subsequent nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

Publishing Class III HOW TO LIVE TOGETHER series published in collaboration with DAI, WERKPLAATS TYPOGRAFIE, and CASCO Office for Art, Design and Theory (Utrecht). With contributions by David Maroto, Hanan Benammar, Larraitz Torrez, Maja Hodoscek, Marianna Maruyama, Padraig Robinson, Daniel Frota, and Christian Nyampeta, and also with Janine Armin, Binna Choi, Benjamin Thorel, and Yolande van der Heide as editorial team.

Class Breaks was made in close collaboration with the artist Maja Hodoscek’s sister Zala who at the time of the book’s development was just finishing elementary school. For several months Zala secretly filmed activities at her school during class breaks. She was especially interested in shooting her closest classmates, Nik and Urh, and engaging in a series of discussions throughout the school. The book consists of fragments from these conversations. As the students touch upon political issues, their own position within institutional structures, and their relationships, Class Breaks provides stimulating insight into the social dynamics of the school environment.

How to Live Together series, the third edition of Publishing Class, focuses on writing and publishing as a speculative tool and as a conduit through which communities are fostered. Over the course of a year the class sets out to ‘publish’ individually and / or collectively, with the aid of monthly guests. It is inspired by Roland Barthes’ seminal 1977 lecture series that bears the same title. In that series Barthes developed the concept of ‘idiorrythmy’ to express a possible way of living together that preserved individual rhythms. Special guests to the class include: Hong-Kai Wang, Tea Hvala, Christian Nyampeta, Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri (16 Beaver), Pieter Verbeke & Elisabeth Klement (San Serriffe), Benjamin Thorel (castillo/corrales)

Art at Large is a compilation of essays by art historian Marga van Mechelen. It explores the characteristics of Performance and Installation art, emerging forms of art in the early seventies which defied the notions and boundaries of medium-based approaches to contemporary art. In the essays special attention is paid to the intertwinement of different fields and to the mixing of disciplines. In this sense Performance art and Installation art today can be seen as perfect representatives of current developments in Postmodern art and the confirmation of the idea of an art at large.
Handwritten by Ilke Gers

Between 1967 and 1990, freelance photographer Reinhard Mende was commissioned by various GDR combines to document factories and the presentation of their manufactured products at the International Trade Fair in Leipzig. He portrayed women at their workbenches, he took shots of lamps, vacuum cleaners and kitchen appliances. The approximately 250,000 pictures in his archive – both in black and white and colour – offer a rare look at the factories and the people who produced all these commodities. Although the perspective was directed by official ideals, Mende followed his own view. Double Bound Economies explores how we might approach this unique body of images today: how we can access them, how we can derive historical insights from them, and for what considerations they might represent a starting point. Along with a number of essays the book includes artistic contributions by Armin Linke, Olaf Nicolai and KP Brehmer.
Languages: English / German

The South Highway is a gamebook. Part story, part game, this is a book with a difference –one in which you become the protagonist. The narrative changes according to your decisions on which path to follow, the actions to carry out, and the answers to give to other characters. It is you who interacts with the others inside the book, and thus are responsible for the protagonist’s vicissitudes. You will need all your wits about you to go through the unexpected that lies ahead. Apparently trivial situations can lead some time later to a serious outcome in which your own life can be at stake. Thus, choose your actions carefully!

The Finding & Raising of Anchors of Barges and Steamers plays with forms of content structuring and editing, based on research into knowledge management systems and Wikis. The book is made up of documentation of Quenton Miller’s artworks presented next to manipulated republished texts interspersed with annotations and footnotes. The design of the project involved implementing an updated idea of medieval rubrication, which sits on top of and along side the body text, spot printed in Pantone Green.

“Best Books” is the subject of an annual workshop at Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem. “Best Book, Don’t Care or, Poor Form from Fringe Areas” resulted from the 2013 workshop led by Sophie Nys in collaboration with the participants of Year 13 and Year 14.

Flamin’ Stars is a collaborative sound work by artist and writer Sarah Jones, sound producer Julika, and designer Ivan Martinez. The hour-long narrative piece, reminiscent of a radio drama, is based on a series of short, poetic texts developed during a residency period in Texas in 2013. Flamin’ Stars readdresses
notions in a contemporary context through a personal engagement with landscape and movement by three artists from different backgrounds. The work travels through, along, and at times ruptures contemporary dialogue around border landscapes, race, movement and environment. It hopes to go beyond the written and the spoken, into and then somehow beyond the specific context of the West Texas desert landscape.

https://soundcloud.com/sarah-v-jones/flamin-stars