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.
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.

Photos from the Fitzsimmons family, Maine USA

An-Sofie Kesteleyn was born in Oudenaarde, Belgium, and took up photography when she was 18. In 2011 she gained a master’s degree in photography from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (KASK). After that, An-Sofie started working as a freelance photographer for the Dutch daily de Volkskrant, de Standaard and Vrij Nederland. She also works on independent photo-essays, focusing mainly on people and the ways they live.

This publication is an exercise between performance and documentary photography.
“As a narrative that takes the format of a video projection and a fotonovela (1), Once upon a time… concentrates on the story of Nieding and Hendrikje Wolters, ex-travellers (2) who became notorious in the North of the Netherlands after publishing a book about their own lives, ranging from criminal convictions to evangelic belief (3). With specific attention to performance and documentary practices, a photographic sequence is enveloped within a conversation that attempts to describe what we are seeing in order to problematize what we are not seeing, being facts and fictions equally subjected to speculation. The work is the result of three moments of production. In the first, I work in collaboration with the Wolters on the construction of photographs that document the staging of specific passages in their biography. In a second moment, discarding the use of talking heads or speech bubbles and avoiding moral impositions (often used in fotonovelas) I invite curator Inti Guerrero to enter into a dialogue about the pictures produced. Using the recorded and transcribed version of this conversation as the textual part of the narrative, the third moment of production is further developed with references to theatre scripts, film stills and newspaper reports to the final form of a video projection and a publication.”

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. DAI and WT, both located in Arnhem are Master’s programs of ArtEZ, one of the major arts universities (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten) in the Netherlands. Gabriëlle Schleijpen , head of program at the DAI, founded DAI PUBLICSATIONS in 2003. It began as an experimental and innnovative research and publishing platform aiming to address the specific process of arts books production, it is now an acclaimed editorial project. Since its inception more then 90 artist books have been published. As of 2006 the series is supervised by an annually appointed collection editor; for 2011, visual artist Rebecca Sakoun.

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.

A publication with texts by Ian Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Lady Equitone and Taf Hassam as part of the Publications Project, which is a collection of artist books issued by the Dutch Art Institute and designed in collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie.

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.