‘Teaching Objects’ is a journey through art and culture. Jeroen Lutters takes us to see a number of artworks that give new insights into the foundations of twenty-first century civilisation and humanity. In this highly personal and passionate account, he discusses his individual choice of great works works that not only reflect the history of Western culture, but also continue to be a source of inspiration and meaning.

WT reader with contributions by Amir Avraham, Fred Cave, Yana Foque, Daniel Frota, Virginie Gauthier, Daria Kiseleva, Mathew Kneebone, Fay Kolokytha, Menelaos Kouroudis, Jungmyung Lee, Ivan Martinez, Laura Pappa, Christine Pogatchnik and Maria Jimena Sanchez. Edited by Daniel Frota, Menelaos Kouroudis, and Maxine Kopsa.

‘If magic is sometimes very close to nothing at all, it might be indeed possible to mistake one for the other. No wonder language found its origin in myths. This summer reader is about the cup of coffee that keeps us awake every morning. How much of it has to do with caffeine and how much of it with our will to believe in rituals? Amen’.

The Bed Room Barn uses the Craigslist dating forum as a resource to explore the way in which the anonymity provided by the Internet is used to project human desires, truths, and indulgences. It specifically explores those entries which have a specific use of the English language to propel their content and meaning onto the reader, promoting these truths, indulgences, perversions and desires beyond the “self” and onto the “other."

“Fully submerged in the damp earth, I was deprived of visual sensation… Perhaps due to the mesmerising emptiness of the black void or else the lack of oxygen, my eyes soon made images of their own. Pulsating wires entangled before me and emitted an eerie green glow before surging brightly then fizzling away like fireworks. This combination of oscillating blotches and meandering lines crept from the corners of my vision like the growing outlines of a nervous system…”
Mechanical System Drawings Vol. 2 brings together a collection of drawings by Mathew Kneebone whose practice encompasses writing, performance, sculptural installation and drawings. As a child, Mathew’s sister was struck by lightning during a family trip, an event which could have triggered the corpus of work Mathew is working on to this day.

International Trade Lawyer Solomon Digby Ryan is suffering from initial symptoms of corporate burnout i.e. erratic nocturnal habits and seborrheic skin conditions. Late one night in the Giblin Eunsen Library (while conducting routine trade investigation) SDR stumbles upon the unfortunate death reports of a Japanese Bacterial Plant Pathologist who helped influence the import / export practices of the global apple trade. Disturbed by the horrifying accounts he begins to question the impact of his own personal actions on a larger bureaucratic system before uncovering an abandoned model of the Keynesian System. In the next 24 hours he quickly learns how individual actions have a virulent and lasting power. 

The house of I. Ideology and theory in the Netherlands’ design education contributes to the current discussion about the role art schools fulfill as institutes of knowledge. The book offers insight into the specific knowledge domain designers are trained in within art education.
Language: Dutch

Eigengrau  2015 – 2017, an ongoing study of the positive afterimage and its effects.
The phenomenon of the positive afterimage is created when a person, standing in dark room, experiences a sudden and short flash of light. This results in a ‘positive’ afterimage of whatever the person was looking at at the time the flash went off. This image is ephemeral in the sense that it dissipates within seconds of being created but at the same it creates a memory, we can relive that image only in our minds. Every afterimage is unique and can’t be captured by any form or technique we have available at the time. Studying this afterimage therefore becomes an exercise in studying its effects, its lingering traces on the people that experienced them.