The Reading room

The reading room

2025

  • -Matter Mattering Matters- A Scienticity Reader: Edited by Kabelo Malatsie & Lantian Xie
  • -Bunker Archeology: Paul Virilio
  • -Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A materialist History of Exhibitions. Edited by: Tristan Garcia & Vincent Normand
  • -My Cinema: Marguerite Duras
  • -Radio Remediated: Sissako’s Life on Earth and Sembène’s Moolaadé: Marissa J. Moorman
  • -Sub-Saharan African film production. Technological paternalism: Manthia Diawara
  • -Dear Science and Other Stories: Katherine McKittrick
  • -Meeting the Universe Halfway- Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning: Karen Barad
  • -The Jazz of Physics- The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe: Stephon Alexander
  • -Meridian Crossing Aesthetics: Jacques Derrida Interviews, 1974-1994
  • -Tools for Conviviality: Ivan Illich
  • -Sonic Meditations: Oliveros Pauline
  • -Time Lost, Instantaneity and The Image: Dorothea E. Olkowski
  • -Deleuze and the Limits of Mathematical Time: Dorothea Olkowski
  • -Race, Rhetoric and Revision: June Jordan as Utopian Architect: Charles Davis

2024

  • -Speed & Politics: Paul Virilio
  • -Bosses: Ghislaine Leung
  • -Units of Measurement: Jackie Karuti
  • -Politicization of Nature: Luxemburg, Kraus, Benjamin: Tom Vandeputte
  • -Reinventing the Medium: Rosalind E. Krauss
  • -Japan Video Topics: DVD list (1998-2017)
  • -Fog, Froth and Foam: insubstantial Matters in Substantive Atmospheres: Esther Leslie
  • -Life-Destroying Diagrams: Eugenie Brinkema
  • -Imagination: Vilem Flusser
  • -Instructional Cinema in Colonial Africa- An Historical Reappraisal: Dr. Femi Okiremuete Shaka
  • -Ciné-chronotones: Decolonial Temporal Critique in Contemporary Moving Image Practice: KJ Abudu
  • -Ousmane Sembene: The Aestheticization of Memory & history: Peter Mwaura Gachanja
  • -Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen
  • -ZOO, or the letter Z, just after Zionism: Malkit Shoshan
  • -The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill: Tim Ingold
  • -The Arachnean and Other Texts: Fernand Deligny
  • -Harun Farocki- Soft Montages: edited by Yilmaz Dziewior
  • –Pages 11: Stage so near so far
  • -Togetherward: Christian Nyampeta
  • -Xenogenesis: The Otolith Group
  • -Ways of Worldmaking: Ben Rivers
  • -Walls to talk to: Jewyo Rhii
  • -Structural Film Anthology: Peter Gidal
  • -Writings: Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
  • -Raw Materials for the Imagination: Alexander Kluge
  • -Inserts in Real Time: Dora Garcia, performance work 2000-2023
  • -Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus: Jean-Louis Baudry and Alan Williams

2023

  • -Axolotl: Julio Cortázar
  • -Versus the Multinational Vampires. An Attainable Utopia: Julio Cortázar
  • -Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  • -Diego Garcia: Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams
  • -The Last Whole Earth Catalog, January 1971: Rare print edition
  • -Arte Povera: Germano Celant
  • -Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963: Samson Kaunga Ndanyi
  • -Exhibiting the New Art: ‘Op Losse Schroeven & ‘When Attitudes Become Form’ 1969: Christian Rattemeyer & others
  • -Slow & soft & righteous. Improvising at the end of the world (and how we make a new one): Sonia Louise Davis
  • -Slide Show. Projected images in contemporary Art: Darsie Alexander. Withe essays by Charles Harrison & Robert Storr
  • -How to imitate the sound of the shore using two hands and a carpet: Cevdet Erek
  • -Wind Tunnel Bulletin no. 11 & 13: Research Focus in Transdisciplinarity at Zurich University of the Arts
  • -Ordinary Notes: Christina Sharpe
  • -The Mushroom at the End of the World: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
  • -How to ‘correct’ Nostalgia: Danièle Huillet
  • -Cinema, meteorology, and the erotics of weather: Emil Leth Meilvang
  • -The Loop of Belatedness: Cinema After Film in the Contemporary Art Gallery: Thomas Elsaesser
  • -Expanded Vision and Blended Mediums: Remembering the Art of Michael Snow: Lukas Brasiskis, eflux

 

2022

  • -Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia: Jonathan Walley
  • -The Skin of the Film. Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses: Laura Marks
  • -The hills have ideologies: The fûkeiron tradition in Japanese landscape cinema: Conor Bateman
  • -Memoria: Apichatpong Weerasethakul & team. The book features materials collected during the development, writing, pre-production & shoot of the film
  • -Steve McQueen: Tate Modern in collaboration with Pirelli HangarBicocca
  • -Black Chapel: Theaster Gates
  • -Institute of Radical Imagination(IRI)
  • -Working-class Cinema in the Age of Digital Capitalism: Massimiliano Mollona
  • -A glossary for arts education: On the Home Workspace Program 2014–2015: Edited by Özge Ersoy
  • -Publishing as Method: In Conversation with Özge Ersoy and Paul C. Fermin: IDEAS Journal
  • –Jackie Karuti: Notes Movement Method
  • -Tube Dust Drone: Brückenmusik 1995-2015
  • -Sneak Review: Benjamin Patterson
  • -Das Rheingold (a new attempt): A multi-media opera by Ben Patterson
  • -I Will Draw a Map of What You Never See. Endeavours in Rhythmanalysis: SAVVY Books
  • -Ultrasanity. On Madness, Sanitation, Anti-psychiatry and Resistance: SAVVY Books
  • -The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922: Camilla Gray
  • -Would That I Might Reach Myself Before All Others: Barbara Casavecchia on Maria Lai
  • -Ralph Lemon: Thomas J. Lax, MOMA
  • -What the Fire Sees: A Divided Reader
  • -Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: Olga Tokarczuk

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