Artist books – The Dutch Art Institute is one of the master programmes of the ArtEZ institute of the Arts. The DAI is a practice based research institute but grants theory, knowledge production and reflection as important. Because of the international student body DAI does not work with compelling formats, but instead folds thematic seminars and conferences and lectures in a flexible way around running projects. Since 2004 WT and DAI cooperate in editing, designing and producing the yearly graduation booklets for DAI.

Der Reader dokumenteert het programma en de activiteiten van het Duits-Nederlandse project over de periode 1.7.2005-1.7.2008

Graduation booklet for Yen Yitzu. Texts: Francesco Bernardelli, Yen Yitzu
Artist books – The Dutch Art Institute is one of the master programmes of the ArtEZ institute of the Arts. The DAI is a practice based research institute but grants theory, knowledge production and reflection an important, shared position within the curriculum. Students at DAI participate in the discourses on the future of art in the context of a globalizing world. Because of the international student body DAI does not work with compelling formats, but instead folds thematic seminars and conferences and lectures in a flexible way around running projects. Since 2004 WT and DAI cooperate in editing, designing and producing the yearly graduation booklets for DAI.

This publication constitutes a stage in an ongoing research-based project initiated by the Greek contemporary artist: Yota Ioannidou. Published in 2009, Stratagem became the first moment where she made her exploration about economic relocation public. A collection of texts, interviews and imagery gives the reader an understanding about the process that moves the production of goods to Eastern Europe and Asia.

The Publications Project is a collection of artist books issued by the Dutch Art Institute and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie. DAI and WT are both master programmes of ArtEZ. Gabrielle Schleijpen, course director of the DAI, founded the Publications Project in 2003. It started as an experimental and innovative research and publishing platform aiming to address the specific process of artist books production, from concept and design to distribution, and is now an acclaimed editorial project. Artists and designers are invited to team up in couples to produce an artwork in the form of printed matter, in close collaboration with one or more guest authors (historians, novelists, sociologists, artists, philosophers, etc. ).

Michel Foucault Letters documents artist Kevin Immanuel’s ongoing project archiving the supposed correspondence between the famous philosopher and a number of galleries and art institutions throughout Europe, North America, and China. The letters were, in fact, written by Immanuel himself, both as a literalization of Foucault’s emphasis on the importance of cultivating an "ironic stance" toward one’s present situation–in Immanuel’s case, the crisis of being a young artist trying to strike up a meaningful discourse with art institutions–and as a poignant critique of the relationship between art institutions and their patrons.
Each letter contains a polite request to become a member of the institution, offers a monetary donation, and actively attempts to initiate a critical dialogue with the institution about its programming and exhibitions. According to Immanuel, the only part of the letters that the institutions responded to were those pertaining to fiscal contribution, proving that the archetypal art institution is both unwilling and incapable of becoming part of a different discourse, even with figures of such cultural significance as Michel Foucault.
Includes an essay by Vesna Madzoski and "A Discursive Letter written to Michel Foucault" by Kevin Immanuel.
Insert: Essay on Museums ( 2009 ed.) by Kevin Immanuel.

A set of 2 booklets: Marina + Buba. Buba Cvoric and Marina Tomic were born in Serbia 1980 and 1982, and are a collaborative artist team performing actively since 2005. Their performances present an exploration and study of a collective identity, intimacy and behaviour within mutual experience. In most of the works they strive to reveal and understand a marginal and subconscious nature of the collective mind.
These booklets are part of a growing collection of artists publications issued by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) produced in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie and edited by artist/ curator Delphine Bedel. The 2009 edition consists of 15 publications by different artists, varying from printed matter, book and artist edition to performance artefact. For each project, the artist teamed up with a graphic designer from Werkplaats Typografie, and invited a guest author to contribute. Over the period of one year, various aspects of publishing- concept, editing and design, production and distribution – were addressed, while the artists were invited to see the publication process, as a way of generation work or conversation, rather than just representing it.

Our knowledge about light is based on possible theories, which can differ extreme. The fascination of certain artists towards the content of light can be explained by the complexity of this phenomenon. There are many sides to explore and new insights and ideas to approach this subject. The subject of light and the object of light are constantly nourished, what keeps light an vivid and contemporary subject. Suzanne’s interest lies in perception – how we see and how we perceive – most importantly on an individual and subjective level.

The Restoration of a Wall. This publication for greek artist Viki Semou deals with her fascination for the accumulation of home things.

The Publications Project is a collection of artist books issued by the Dutch Art Institute and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie. The 2010 edition consists of twelve publications edited by artist and curator Delphine Bedel. International in its scope, this collection is a unique blend of printed matter varying from artist books, essays, posters series, performance artefacts, documentary investigations, auto-fiction and colllages to reenactments on YouTube. Through very diverse perspectives the artists and designers reflect on publishing as a versatile medium. Each book defines its own modes of circulation, through performances, exhibitions and book fairs or as a gift.

This publication is produced as part of State of ArtEZ 2010 and dedicated to Willem Hillenius, former chairman of the Board of Directors.
Image caption: A photograph taken in 1998 shows walls of the Werkplaats Typografie painted white and entirely clean except for the odd graphic interjection such as an isolated poster or a series of black elastic bands hung on hooks. Twelve years later, the same surfaces are dense with marks, both accidental and deliberate. Inscriptions made at the outset have been absorbed or obliterated by subsequent accretions.
Concentrating on details, this series of photographs raise questions about the provenance of particular stains. Each one tells a story. The phrase is˜if these walls had ears”, but in the case of the WT, the generations of students have given their walls a graphic voice.

This publication was produced on the occasion of the Last Zürich Zine Sezession by HAHA. Printed with Risograph and Xerox, spiral bound.

The publication uses the format of a leporello and presents two essays and the documentary transcription of the Downey’s Ordinary Talking, a film project from Korean artist Yunjoo Kwak.

Thesis project of Dries Wiewauters and part of collected works (supervised by Paul Elliman). Affine Transformations is an attempt to consolidate his views about a frequently overlooked step in the history of typography: the Pantograph. A Pantograph is an instrument that can duplicate plans and drawings to an adjustable scale. For the history of type design this meant that a design no longer had to be manually cut and interpreted by a punchcutter, but could easily be copied to an adjustable scale. The design of this thesis is a play with the standardized academic essay. These cheaply bound, A4 publications are normally typeset in the system-font chosen by the university. This publication is typeset in Timeless, an iteration of the ubiquitous Times. The text is printed on a paper-stock reminiscent of standard copy paper, whilst the images are printed on silk paper. With a pantograph and a red marker the skeleton of the Pantograph was transferred to each individual cover. All the sheets were then shuffled, folded vertically and stapled.

Ach Ach en owee ach en ojee ach en onee ach geef acht doe mee! is a publication by Amanda Koelman in collaboration with Spinvis is part of the Publications Project, a collection of artist books issued by the Dutch Art Institute and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie.

Amanda Koelman (b. 1985) is an artist whose work emanates from the belief that all humans strive to make sense of the universe around them. As throughout history and geography, people have created fairy tales, fables, fantastic stories, sagas, myths, and religions in order to conceive some sort of understanding of their surroundings. Koelman combines knowledge, ideas and elements from various times and different places in order to provide carnavalesque connections between stories, substances and the collective attribution of meaning. The used imagery and metaphors stem from different parts of the world and are combined by Koelman in a free and loose aesthatic that is nevertheless dense and layered. The work addresses a space beyond the material and rational world; where it enters the realm of hybrid myths and complex magic. The sensual, spontaneous, and emotional aspects of human nature are connected with the notions of birth and death, and everything in between.
Language: Dutch

This publication was conceived as a supplement to the forgotten life of Eva Schippers, showing the parts of an artistic practise that are seldom exposed; failures, unfinished ideas, stolen sentences, unwritten stories. These fragments are collected and spread over five posters in chronological order; starting with the most recent finds and then going back in time untill 1997, the year when I started collecting to remember. It consists of approximately 480 images. Images to be remembered, reused and appropriated. With the contribution of the writer Maria Barnas, reflecting upon the affect of collecting and archiving, the Black and Blues is the first supplement. It is a transient attempt to display a complete collection of ideas and a practise that is always in motion, by marking this moment.

The Publications Project is a collection of artist books issued by the Dutch Art Institute and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie.

A Sense of Scale is a short, but very interesting, essay about measurement systems and how they pre-structure the world. Thesis, part of collected works (supervised by Paul Elliman). Printed on 4c risograph & limited to 250 copies.

The publication is a reproduction of a painting by Izabela Ołdak in a form of a book. The painting was artist’s diary which had been created in Holland and Poland in a period of one year. The form of the book allows to recreate the paining in new contexts.
It is part of the Publications Project is a collection of artist books issued by the Dutch Art Institute and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie.

Concept and supervision: Experimental Jetset. With contributions by: Simone Koller, Lidia Wilkosz, Ines Cox, Astrid Seme, Gregory Dapra, Hyo Kwon, Lu Liang, Stephen Serrato, Anna Haas, Marc Hollenstein, Julie van Severen, Joris van Aken, Boris van den Eynden, Dries Wiewauters, Isabelle Vaverka, Annett Höland, Goda Budvytyte

MAPPING THE LIBRARY is the outcome of a workshop conducted by Experimental Jetset at Werkplaats Typografie, May – June 2010, part of the annual Best Books project at WT. Participants were asked to turn their favourite books 2009 into maps; consequently, formal connections among the selected books were made that in turn resulted in a giant 16-piece collective map. Working with the format of the newspaper, every student was given one sheet. The inside spread was used for the individual maps, the cover for the part of the collective map showing the chosen book. The back gave information about the book and allowed students to explain their interpretation.

Tutorial WT Punch-out activity book. Play with us! Glue the Werkplaats Typografie building together and discover the forgotten joy of rebuilding the world in miniature size. Perfect for use with your favorite WT action figures. This model was made for the WT project “Feed the Library” at the 2010 New York Art Book Fair from November 5-6- at MoMA P.S.1.

This publication is about making a publication, produced during an internship about an internship. It’s an overview of an artist working as an intern for a year. I gave up my studio and my autonomy in return for experience in the institutional art world.
The 300 editions of the publication were printed, bound and rubber stamped at the Office of Mark Simmonds, WT.

DAI PUBLICATIONS is a collection of artist’s books issued by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie (WT). The 2011 edition consists of 16 publications. As of 2006 the series is supervised by an annually appointed collection editor; for 2011: visual artist Rebecca Sakoun.

"In 1969 the unique and pioneering psychedelic rock band Lothar & the Hand People released their second album, Space Hymn. Just as they sought to create an aural ‘space hymn,’ the second issue of Stupendous attempts to create a visual space hymn. This edition is dedicated to the vibrations, meditations, contemplations and incantations of spaces and voids." –from the publisher

Each of the six interior pages of this issue of Stupendous folds out into a 80 x 53 cm. poster with a black and white design printed on both sides. Contributing artists include Luke Allen, Davide Balliano, Max Bode, Kim Boske, Peter Kleeman, Darri Lorenzen, Katja Mater, Anders Nordby, Agnieszka Polska, Misha de Ridder, Rich Samis, and Clare Wohlnik.

Stupendous is a biannual publication designed and printed in New York, NY. Randomly thematic, Stupendous remains free of design constraints while managing to achieve a distinct tone throughout.

In between Visible/Invisible is a publication published on July 2011, and is based on a project called Invisible City(In between Visible/Invisible), which is a photographic exploration, realized in December 2010. For this publication researcher, writer and documentary maker on civil liberties works Rick Van Amersfoort and researcher, writer Nishant Shah were invited to write a contribution.

Impossible calibrations of an imaginary Sherry is an artist book, it consists out of photographs taken of a miniature model with a darkroom on the left side that connects to an artist studio on the right. The Maquette itself is inhabited by an imaginery version of a person who is dealing with issues that refer to the concept of this book. The book comes with a little magnifier glass to enable the viewer to see more details.

Off the coast in the north of the Netherlands, an extinct, prehistoric volcano lies dormant in the layers of the earth and beneath the waters of the Wadden Sea. This volcano is 160 million years old and it was active for several million years. In the 1970s, while drilling for gas, volcanic specimens were found and thereby this volcano was discovered. Eva Olthof invited filmmaker/writer Peter Delpeut, researcher/writer Siri Driessen and visual artist Roman Signer to write a contribution for this publication. Delpeut wrote a fictive story, Driessen wrote an analysis of the photograph, and Signer send me a publication of his works on the phenomenon of volcanoes.
The publication is part of the series DAI PUBLICATIONS which is a collection of artist’s books issued by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie (WT). The 2011 edition consists of 16 publications.

This is a publication with the Artist Patricia Sousa. The booklet is a space of expression of the norm of the passport pictures and regulations. The grid is the norm and the type evolves through the book in order to fill in the space of the spread, as the face should fill in the space of the photography. The 300 copies, like the passports, present a common state, personnalized by the hand glued colored pictures. With Texts by Sophie Nield and Raqs Media Collective.

DAI PUBLICATIONS is a collection of artist’s books issued by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie (WT). The 2011 edition consists of 16 publications. In close collaboration with one or more guest authors, artists team up with designers to produce an artwork in the form of printed matter. From very diverse perspectives they reflect on publishing as a versatile medium.

A book about writing, storytelling, translation and interpretation. Artist Jort van der Laan translated ‘A Journey Through My Room’, a story by Dutch writer J.M.A Biesheuvel from Dutch to English (prior to this book’s publication in June 2011 the story was not available to read in English). Yet this translation is incomplete. The missing lines and paragraphs of the story are made visible throughout the book as blank spaces. The format of the book and design of the interior was copied from a 1972 collection of Biesheuvel’s stories owned by the artist which includes ‘Reis Door Mijn Kamer’ or ‘A Journey Through My Room’.

This publication is part of the magazine series ‘16’ and published on the occasion of the exhibition Vacanze da Trame, on show at the Bookshop Trame in Bologna, Italy. With contributions by Werkplaats Typografie participants.

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 quadrangled story about shades and variations in co-dependence and sovereignty, inspired by a musician (John Lennon), a theorist (Henry Lefebre), an author (Halldor Laxness) and a demnted ruler of Rome (Caligula). Mindgames is constituted by four parts – ordered in alternating sequence – to form thirteen chapters in total. Each of the four sections holds a biographical account of its subject: Caligula, Henri Lefebvre, John Lennon and Halldór Laxness. The chapters can be read separately, as they have been conceived to be independent wholes, forming biographies that present portraits of associations rather than particular statements about individual lives. The text, however, is constructed to alternate rhythmically between the main motives. The motives in turn produce variations on particular themes as they modulate into different parts within the totality of the work as a whole. Mindgames was conceived as a way to enjoy information in the tradition of autodidacts of the past – but in a style which is commingled with a reverence towards traditional modes of archiving the world. The author will give a talk about the ideas behind the work and selected chapters will be read.

Geirþrúður Finnbogadóttir Hjörvar was born in 1977. She received her MFA from the Malmö Art Academy in 2005 and her BFA from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2002. She attended the Rijksakadamie residency program in 2007-2008 in Amsterdam. She works with sculpture, text, performance, painting and installations.

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.

This work is a sound piece pressed onto 10” vinyl with an accompanying booklet. It is a construction of interwoven interview fragments in which three people recount transcending their ordinary perception of reality. Each of their accounts are laced with wavering perceptions, volatile realities, doubt, and an underlying quest for “truth.” The assemblage relates a fantastical and disturbing tale of esoteric and shamanic rituals, of training schools and occupation, of psychological and bodily accounts, treading a tenuous line between desire and turmoil. It poses the zealous nature of group and individual desire, and its potential to dominate and compel. While the transcription of the sound piece, printed in the booklet, reads as a stream of consciousness —it’s riddled with stutters and the three voices are indistinguishable from one another, there’s no punctuation and sentences potentially start, end or lapse at multiple points—the construction of the work is laid bare when the sound piece is listened to.
Total duration 30 mins.

From a series of Phantom Radio transmissions by Ane Ostrem – recorded by Valentijn Goethals – Arnhem – NL. April 2012. Limited edition of 250 copies

DAI Publications is a collection of artist’s books issued by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie (WT). The 2012 edition consists of 13 publications developed in the context of ‘Publishing Class’ a two year course designed by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, delving into the act of publishing as a critical art practice, both as a way to make things public – forming publicness – and as a from of dissemination beyond time and space constraints.

This book offers a glimpse into all of the rooms and reception areas in the Modez Hotel of fashion and design in Arnhem. By means of words and pictures it explores the ideas behind the creation of each room as well as the design process and the designing of Piet Paris’ s Gesamtkunstwerk as a whole.

Rui’s short story is about two speechless characters caught in the curse of love. The uncertain moment, in which they are trapped, will be followed up, questioned and answered by the collaborators. Each contribution is a reaction to Rui’s short story and approaches diverse aspects concerning love and restraint. Performative and cinematic, literary and philosophical as well as phenomenological analyses come into play. Using strategies of collaboration in an artistic context, the book turns into a multifaceted investigation. Vivien Trommer.

Artist books – The Dutch Art Institute is one of the master programmes of the ArtEZ institute of the Arts. The DAI is a practice based research institute but grants theory, knowledge production and reflection an important, shared position within the curriculum. Students at DAI participate in the discourses on the future of art in the context of a globalizing world. Because of the international student body DAI does not work with compelling formats, but instead folds thematic seminars and conferences and lectures in a flexible way around running projects. Since 2004 WT and DAI cooperate in editing, designing and producing the yearly graduation booklets for DAI.

In December 2011 Stefano and Eva worked together on an exhibition in a small artist-run space in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The exhibition was called At the end of the world I exist and consisted of two diverse installations. The work on display was mirroring an ongoing discourse about traveling, distance and the transportive potentialities of the image starting from each our interests – respectively photography and architecture. Six months later, they organized an event at Schloss Ringenberg, Germany. During the night the work took the form of two presentations and a book, in order to broaden the performative side of the installation presented before and to transport the previous space into the new room, the Rittersaal. The presentations and the book touch, amongst other things, upon a postcard from Tenerife and the portrait of Emily Dickinson, respectively the features of the two specific exhibition spaces and the furniture that inhabits them. Artist and writer Miek Zwamborn was invited to write a contribution to the book as a third link. The sentence At the end of the world I exist was used as a point of departure point for a short story titled Legacies of the moon.

Declaration ‘Improve your surrounding with a small gesture, achievable in a day’
Proof ‘Take a photograph of the improvement’
Concept ‘The declaration and its documentation are the material for a poster. Write a brief for the poster. Aim for a result that reflects your conception of Dutch Design.’
Poster ‘ Make three poster, following three different briefs. Print them in postcard format’

Several stories around an inn with a historical background connected to the Portuguese regime. The history of the space has this paradox of being a manifesto against architecture of its time and at the same time it becomes a symbol of the regime. Departing from a very concrete prove (the building) and a very subjective experience (ones relation with the space) a fiction was created around a history that the writer did not experience.

There was an empty room in the back of the Werkplaats Typografie. One day, that void has been pushed out of the two doors. In 2012 eighteen people had to find that space somewhere else. During six separate excursions, throughout Arnhem and the Netherlands, they explored the potentialities of the destruction and construction of new lands. They searched for the room that they had lost, or for the conditions and materials with which to rebuild it, and in doing so began to expand the walls of the school along a whole new set of trajectories and possibilities. Cosmic Mental Therapy is a guide for escape from sovereignty and a manual for creating new trajectories.
It consists of a collection of texts that were gathered through Year 12 and Year 13 WT participants. Contributions from Stefano Faoro, Ine Meganck, Corina Neuenschwander, Mark Simmonds, Rutger de Vries, Noah Venezia and Manuel Zenner.

This book is a photo book of an archive, or attempt to make an annex of Library of Light, archive which gives identity to Cosmic People (www.universal-people.com). With a focus particularly on this artificial archive, as a construction of fictions whose task is to produce a collection of effects of the real, idea of this book is to explore archives not as merely passive repositories, but rather as powerful tools that can be used to shape society, politics, and culture.

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.

The Shelves (formerly Proposal for a (Book)shelf) is a project space for participants of the Werkplaats Typografie for presenting work. The Shelves, a small niche, are located inside the meeting room of the school. Similar to many places in the WT building, this space is a platform for sharing research and producing work with an emphasis on peer critique.

This publication is an overview of The Shelves projects in 2012 – 2013.

This publication by Padraig Robinson and Daniel Frota was made in context of Publishing Class III: How to Live together, DAI. This publication was devised in the model of a conversation in collaboration with designer Daniel Frota, where the act of writing was used to explore the “idiorrhythmic” nature of the discourse around images.The starting point was an image published on The Guardian’s website on Monday 18th February 2013, which is an Instagram image said to be depicting a Palestinian boy in the cross hairs of an Israeli sniper’s rifle zoom. The distinct texts between artist and designer perhaps suggested that the nature of such pictures in general, even those that could be considered “political” at a given moment, have a very unusual condition within the online, digital circulation of social networking. The writing created a problematic regarding the agency of vision, based on an "ethical reaction" for an other we will never meet via image media. This is discussed, and indeed averted, through two individual perspectives — or a fragment of writing about vision. 

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.

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 Fantasy is the culmination of a period of research into tensions within the dilapidated Dutch city of Almere, and its failure to realize an architectural plan to become a utopian haven. The book takes the form of both travelogue and timeless voyage. Three characters, based on the city’s actual residents, share accounts of a fictional trip that traces a route based on small irregularities, curiosities and almost invisible details that were uncovered while wandering through the city. The Fantasy is a work of fiction, which, in merging social, political, and urban investigation with street observation, emphasizes how daily urban situations and invisible street practitioners define geopolitical conditions. This book belongs to the Publishing Class Collection How to Live Together Series published by CasCo Art Institute, Utrecht.

How to live together is also the name of a collective publication Artists from the DAI and Casco publised in september 2013. SEQUENCE INTERIOR NIGHT, is one of them based on the arrangement of memories of a party. Images as memories are also the lyrics for 3 songs.

The series Exercises in Practical Mischievery takes a closer look at notable groups and individuals in the production and implementation of various out of the ordinary forms for the distribution of word and thought. This includes using and manipulating existing media channels but also inventing new tools and methods. How could daily theatre be put to work for our benefit in regard to sharing information in our immediate surrounding? The collection, aspiring to become an encyclopedia of sorts, is intended to serve as a catalyst in thinking of freely accessible tools for the dissemination of thought. In this series we will introduce you to: Jan de Jong, Fritz Rainer, Andy Bichlbaum & Michael Bonanno, Yetta Bronstein and (Mrs) Edna Welthorpe.

The series is edited by Aubrie Savage .

Fritz Rainer (1925, Basel) became a spiritual leader in his mid-twenties guiding people through the trials of life. In 1951 he began preaching on the streets and soon enough his teachings started to attract bigger and bigger crowds. The movement rapidly developed into a cult-like entity with a large group of supporters and followers. Analysts have speculated that the real driving force behind Rainer’s popularity was his unusual not to say bizarre method of deliverance. The method, now taken on by The Rainer Plate creators, incorporated the employment of the material qualities of a CTP printing plate to give speeches all over the country. This included bizarre movements with the plate, a variety of ear-splitting sounds the plate produced, the reflection of it, not to mention the presence of an odd-sized metal sheet that in itself raised a mass furor, which eventually influenced the minds of the crowds, converting them into full-scale Rainerists. The publication walks through Fritz’ life and uncovers some details from his past.

The series Exercises in Practical Mischievery takes a closer look at notable groups and individuals in the production and implementation of various out of the ordinary forms for the distribution of word and thought. This includes using and manipulating existing media channels but also inventing new tools and methods. How could daily theatre be put to work for our benefit in regard to sharing information in our immediate surrounding? The collection, aspiring to become an encyclopedia of sorts, is intended to serve as a catalyst in thinking of freely accessible tools for the dissemination of thought. In this series we will introduce you to: Jan de Jong, Fritz Rainer, Andy Bichlbaum & Michael Bonanno, Yetta Bronstein and (Mrs) Edna Welthorpe. The series is edited by Aubrie Savage.

The first issue in the series TRANSLATION IN THE DARK features the first and only translation from Amharic into English of selections of Ethiopian novelist Abe Gubegna’s seminal novel “I Won’t Be Born” (1962). Part 1 also proudly features a new translation (Amharic into English) of poetry by contemporary Ethiopian artist and poet Mihret Kebede. As a series, TRANSLATION IN THE DARK embarks on a mission to employ unorthodox translation methods with the intention of honoring the misunderstandings, mishearings, missed translations, and misinterpretations that multiply and deepen meaning. As a fundamental part of this aim, the series offers a method for the redistribution of roles of author, translator, publisher, editor and reader.

Publishing Class is an imprint of DAI Publications, a collection of artists’ books jointly published by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and – Office for Art, Design and Theory in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie.

Publishing Class is an imprint of DAI Publications, a collection of artists’ books jointly published by the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and – Office for Art, Design and Theory in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie.
A Thing Called Time is a serial publication project in which different understandings of the concept of time are explored. Using a specific area of knowledge as a starting point. For issue #1: Biological Time, the team invited Dr. Marina Escalera, a molecular biologist who’s main research involves searching for new viruses in the anal swamps of vampire bats. The next publication, Issue #3: Mathematical Time is currently being worked on in collaboration with Felipe Garcia Ramos, a mathematician who is focused on the study order and chaos.

Book and DVD

Edition 18/30. About bus line nr. 3 in Arnhem. Together with DVD with footage taken from The Happening, 2008.

For this year’s LA Art Book Fair the Werkplaats Typografie was investigating the topic of Breaking-even. The Breaking-even publication presents a tangible outcome of the experience of Breaking-even at the LA Art Book Fair. Each workshop served as a chapter in the book and within that each participant’s contribution is represented. The six chapters of the book each present one of the workshops held at the fair, unraveling the mystery of breaking-even.

This first issue in a serial publication is inspired by a house located in the coastal town of La Marsa near Tunis. Taking the house’s close proximity to a gallery and a bookstore as a starting point for thinking through the book’s structure, the place quickly became both a literal and metaphorical character. The house is interesting not only in a historical sense, or for of the role it plays within the community, but due to its strong position as a host and the politics of hospitality it supports.

Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory as the associate partner for Arts Collaboratory co-organizes the first Arts Collaboratory Assembly in Jakarta, together with Stichting Doen, Hivos, ruangrupa, and KUNCI Cultural Studies Centre. The Assembly brings together the 24 participating organizations of the network in Indonesia for a week-long series of encounters. It centers around a series of working groups addressing a variety of topics including crisis and post-crisis sites, alternative pedagogies, urban intervention, rewriting (art) histories in terms of organizational practices, ethics & aesthetics, commons, and different curatorial methods. The local hosts raungrupa and KUNCI have also arranged for visits to a number of local art and cultural spaces.

“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.

This publication draws on the documents compiled by the photographer and political activist Miklós Klaus Rózsa (1954) from 1971 to 1989, consisting of an assortment of photographs taken by Rózsa as well as state security files on Rózsa, as reported by the Federal Police, the Cantonal Police, and the Zurich Police Department. Christof Nüssli and Christoph Oeschger juxtapose the text produced by the state and the images produced by the monitored person. The collage of these sources produces new images that reveal the history of a politically agitated time in Switzerland. The montage brings the conflict between Rózsa’s images and the State Security texts to light. Observation and surveillance encounter one another.
_BEST BOOK DESIGN FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD 2014 (BRONZE MEDAL)
_APERTURE FIRST PHOTO BOOK AWARD (SHORTLIST)
_ONE OF THE 25 MOST BEAUTIFUL GERMAN BOOKS 2014
Languages: English + German

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

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."

The view of translation as a second-rate, derivative form of writing, seems to prevail in Western discourse on the subject since sometime around the 17th century. The lowly status of translation is reflected in standard book publishing practices and in modern copyright law. It is perhaps because of our desire to think of the translations as a trancparency, a clear window through which we see the meaning of the original, that we lose sight of the obvious impossibility of one-to-one correspondence and take for granted the presence of the translator and the choices and praxis involved in the task (Matvei Yankelevich).

Compilation of notes and introductions written by translators on different attitudes towards the level of transparency and authorship of their mediation, as well as the inescapable trade-off they have to face between form and meaning. Fifteen contributors dealing with analogous concerns in their practices, selected pages from their personal libraries, present in the book as facsimile versions.

Contributions by Derek Byrne, Fred Cave, Cecília Costa, Paul Elliman, Yana Foqué, Daniel Frota, Virginie Gauthier, Will Holder, Mathew Kneebone, Menealos Kouroudis, Pedro Moraes, Miguel Nóbrega, Maria Jimena Sanchez, Lisette Smits and Sarah Tripp.

The play for two actors and a choir, entitled I Was Not Able to Visit the Entire Show, was created with the intention of being staged within the environment of gallery institutions.

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’.

Tracklisting to Soulseek for Dreamy Boy (aka, Majority – Slow March), the basement mix, Soundtrack from a workshop, November 2008
Release contains a Booklet with the essay from 114 Songs Written and Published by Charles E. Ives. A CD containing a sound file, this is the track-listing to another record, (wt114), in the form of a field-recording. 1 hour 32 minutes.

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

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. 

“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.

Rock Newspaper is 1/1 scale replica of the petroglyphs that are carved in Newspaper Rock. The sandstone boulder measures 19 m2 and contains rock carvings from cultures dating from 1500 years ago to therapy twentieth century. “Petroglyphs: rock art or rock writing?’ focuses on how Native American rock carvings can be read. Rock Newspaper is 1/1 scale

In a time when the earth has been mined to a point of no return and the commons are more and more enclosed, this artists’ book questions, offers tools and ponders the possible entanglements of art and agriculture, land, (agro-)ecology, rural knowledges, commoning practices and forms of resistance.

The INLAND Volume brings together 20 artistic contributions on these themes; a map of rural art initiatives in China that will grow in time, a grafting manual in which we follow the capable hands of a Greek farmer, a Facebook message thread about the role of women in the Kurdish countryside, a retrospective announcement of an eco-feminism reading group and a conversation about Goethean science, among many more unearthings of situated knowledge.
http://www.cascoprojects.org/publishing-class-v-inland

From colonial history to ecology, and from public space to colouring outside the lines: each Karbon Arnhem File publication highlights a particular issue. In the process, artists, writers, researchers, activists, collectives, designers, and many others work closely with the Editorial team. This results in a cacophony of voices asking critical questions about our daily reality. Karbon Arnhem Files is inspired by ruangrupa’s own Karbon magazine, and brings together experimental art and design practices. The whole series consists of six publications and is also available in our shop.
Language: Dutch

From colonial history to ecology, and from public space to colouring outside the lines: each Karbon Arnhem File publication highlights a particular issue. In the process, artists, writers, researchers, activists, collectives, designers, and many others work closely with the Editorial team. This results in a cacophony of voices asking critical questions about our daily reality. Karbon Arnhem Files is inspired by ruangrupa’s own Karbon magazine, and brings together experimental art and design practices. The whole series consists of six publications and is also available in our shop.
Language: Dutch

From colonial history to ecology, and from public space to colouring outside the lines: each Karbon Arnhem File publication highlights a particular issue. In the process, artists, writers, researchers, activists, collectives, designers, and many others work closely with the Editorial team. This results in a cacophony of voices asking critical questions about our daily reality. Karbon Arnhem Files is inspired by ruangrupa’s own Karbon magazine, and brings together experimental art and design practices. The whole series consists of six publications and is also available in our shop.
Language: Dutch

From colonial history to ecology, and from public space to colouring outside the lines: each Karbon Arnhem File publication highlights a particular issue. In the process, artists, writers, researchers, activists, collectives, designers, and many others work closely with the Editorial team. This results in a cacophony of voices asking critical questions about our daily reality. Karbon Arnhem Files is inspired by ruangrupa’s own Karbon magazine, and brings together experimental art and design practices. The whole series consists of six publications and is also available in our shop.
Language: Dutch!

This is a set of sample material only to be used for the deconstruction of a process. It contains a set of eight posters presenting a research on glass blowing production.

The Griefers of Bandung, a novella written by 14 authors. A gripping romantic fantasy shifting with fiendish aplomb between characters and voices, perspectives and plotlines. ‘Elsemieke has just spent the last three months in Bandung, searching for love and fighting alongside a local activist collective. Meanwhile, her virtual avatar Virgo has become a resistance hero involved in weapons-trafficking, corporate-boycotts, rally-organising, illegal-fundraising and cybertheft. It turns out the effects of these operations are not limited to cyberspace.’

This publication is the result from a workshop with Tom Clark at the Critical Studies department of the Sandberg Instituut. The bound texts were written beforehand, responding to a prompt on the theme of “proximity”. The loose-leaf text, an “editorial”, was written and edited during the workshop and reflects on the process over those three days.

Wishing to capture the sun while facing the impossibility of doing so with a standard camera Chantal van Rijt used the basics of photography and the eye itself to cause a projection. This tactile publication brings together multiple layers, showing parts of the surroundings in each image. In the shadows of the shining sun the process and the maker are present. The sun makes this all visible, even though in the image the sun is only a white spot where the pixels are burned out.

In this photobook, Anneke D’Hollander investigated the interior of an apartment that seems inhabited by the phantom presence of its dweller.
By abstracting the look book format, this publication documents the traces of a remote connection between the kingdom of virtual reality and a domestic landscape. It shows the so-called “SlothLife” lifestyle in an intriguing, yet confronting way.

“…someone who is living the SlothLife went through many years of fine-tuning the art of doing absolutely nothing, even though it appears shit’s getting done. A senior sloth has very minimal care and kicks back by spending life for what very little they feel like doing. Once you’re living the sloth life, all you need to worry about is where your next meal comes from, and who’s bringing it to you.”

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.

Wikipedia is not:
A paper encyclopedia
A dictionary
A publisher of original thought
A soapbox or means of promotion
A mirror or a repository of links
A memorial site
A manual or scientific journal
A dictionary
A crystal ball
A newspaper
An indiscriminate collection of information

¶#1 consists solely of texts and images found on the online collaborative platform Wikipedia. This publication contains many authors and we’d like to thank every one of them. ¶#1 is assembled by Annosh Urbanke, designed by Tjobo Kho and published by OUTLINE. ¶#1 is printed in an edition of 150 and was made in November 2020. It includes a numbered print of her work Wadi Rum (2018) + sticker.

Annosh Urbanke is a curator, writer and photographer living and working in Amsterdam. Recently she is interested in tourism and mass production and how the two influence each other. For ¶#1 she travelled through Wikipedia, looking for imaginary landscapes and fictitious cities.
See also ¶#0 by Jan-Pieter ’t Hart

By combining the reading positions of the human body with the ‘Sun Salutation’ Yoga practice, this chapter of ‘A USER GUIDE TO YOUR POTENTIAL ENERGY’ will discuss how to concentrate on reading while stimulating the body for a better circulation of energy.

READING IS AN ACT FOR GAINING EXTRA ENERGY TO YOUR BODY
Mens sana in corpore sano Healthy Mind In A Healthy Body

“Ellipsis after Closure” is a 2020 Werkplaats Typografie End of the Year Show in book form by Nicha Keeratiphanthawong and Tabea Nixdorff, with mended hole contributions submitted by participants who took part in hole mending meditation workshops in 2020.

Following endless digital threads of information and being in constant touch with ‘hardware,’ it is easy to forget one’s bodily presence and situatedness. Weavings, just like computer coding, are complex automated nettings. Only the point of rupture—a dropped stitch, like a bug in the code, a systemic error—redirects the attention outside of the machine by requesting a manual intervention.

The book is printed with white ink on black paper, and stitched on a Singer sewing machine.

ISBN 9789491003110

‘Nobody Remembers a Shapeshifter’ is simultaneously the title of a fashion show, the password to enter the show’s venue, and the title of this book. The fashion show that lacked a fashion collection served as an exhibition context for the participants of the Werkplaats Typografie. Each participant contributed to the expanded format of the fashion show, creating work that existed specifically within the support structure: from online platforms to wayfinding on the street, from coordinated services to spatial interventions, from the ferry dock to the catwalk.

This publication is an extension of the show, a premeditated afterthought expanding on the collective gesture and individual efforts of Andrea Salerno, Austin Redman, Darío Dezfuli, Frédérique Gagnon, Gerardo Madera, Hannah Sakai, Jannete Mark, Loes Claessens, Maria Smit, Mariana Lobão, Michelle Lin, Michiel Terpelle, Mirjam Reili, Miron Galić, Moriz Oberberger, Nicha Keeratiphanthawong, Rebecca Metzger, Sangah Shin, Sarah Cleeremans, Simona Koutná, Susan van Veen and Tabea Nixdorff. Written review by Constant Dullaart.

Publisher: Kunstverein Publishing
ISBN: 9789490629243

Six years in the making, BLOOD is the first comprehensive English translation of the poems of Danish art historian, communist activist and writer R. Broby-Johansen. Translated, edited and designed by Line-Gry Hørup, Broby-Johansen’s poems are accompanied by a series of full colour photographs by Amsterdam photographer Johannes Schwartz, which document the pair’s trip to Brody-Johansen’s recently established archive. So recent, that they were in fact the first to view it. BLOOD is published by Kunstverein Publishing and made possible with the support of Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and the Danish Arts Foundation.

Fantasma is a publication inspired by the relationship of what is called "paranormal encounter" with a decoded frequency. In this book, the collaborators act as mediums of these encounters and use graphic works to represent their experiences.

Contributions by: Paul Elliman; Carlos Amorales; Experimental Jetset
; Elsa-Louise Manceaux
; Enrique Arriaga
; Armand Mevis;

Isaac Olvera


Printed at silvestre

Stencil print

Edition of 150 copies

Real-Time Realist is a serial publication of J-LTF PRESS. This issue of Real-Time Realist explores Ecstasy, Joy, Serenity, and Love, The Yellow Wheel, with contributions from invited artists distilling the aforementioned emotions.

Editors: Jungmyung Lee, Lieven Lahaye
Design: Jungmyung Lee
Contributors: Kasia Fudakowski, Paul Haworth, Carla & Karlis, Arvo Leo, Angharad Williams, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Lieven Lahaye, Nolwenn Salaün, Mikko Varakas, David Bennewith, Anders Frederik Steen and Jean-Marc Brignot, Josse Pyl, and Jungmyung Lee

The famous Dutch typographer and museum curator Willem Sandberg is portrayed by art historian Ank Leeuw Marcar through interviews compiled more than 30 years ago. Particularly focusing on the period from 1945-1970, during which Sandberg was quite active and passionate in both typographic forms and as director of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, this thoroughly edited reprint of the original book closely examines his legacy and influence, its cultural aspects and roles of art historians and curators. His approaches to these topics remain relevant and challenging even today, offering new impulse in the discourse surrounding art and its place in an historic perspective.