Smax is a magazine commissioned by Schloss Ringenberg, an institute that offers Residency Programmes for artists and curators, but also hosts exhibitions and organises events. Smax #3 documents the outcome of 2011-2012, exhibitions, events and theoretical insights. The magazine can be read from both sides, from one side text is in German, the other in Dutch. Content and illustrations however are not repeated within the two parts but rather complement each other. The different color sections help to navigate through the four different categories within the publication. Since there are a lot of cross references within the categories, such as artists in residence are part of an exhibition curated by a curator in residence, a letter / number code is introduced to indicate these collaborations clearly. The result is a layout that avoids translations filling the same page, and gives more space to the illustrations.

A series of dialogues between the artist and three individuals: a computer game player, an astronaut, and a funeral speech writer, each documented during a recorded conversation and presented in the form of an interview, theater script, and poem. The dialogues examine how each character’s concept of self is formed by their occupation or activities as tied to sensations of presence and absence of the physical body. The symbol of a funnel is used throughout the text.

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.