Komma, an artist's book by Antonia Hirsch, is a modified facsimile of Dalton Trumbo's 1938 anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun. The original book describes a soldier who has lost all of his limbs, his face and consequently the ability to communicate. Addressing issues of censorship and instrumentalization, Hirsch's version of Trumbo's novel has been reedited to include commas--punctuation entirely missing from the original.

Antonia Hirsch: Komma: After Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun

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This volume is a collection of drawings and captions for “unshowable” photographs taken in Palestine in 1947–50, gathered from the International Committee of the Red Cross archives in Geneva by the well-known author and cultural critic Ariella Azoulay, author of The Political Ontology of Photography and The Civil Contract of Photography.

Ariella Azoulay: Different Ways Not to Say Deportation

Azoulay, Ariella

Individual Artists

Artist-run initiatives in North America provided a space for the presentation and legitimization of experimental work and for the assertion of socially progressive and politically radical ideas and questions. In making such spaces available, artist-run initiatives have operated alternately as flash points for heated debates and controversies, as well as platforms for social understanding and remaining for their audiences. Institutions by Artists: Volume One presents a collection of texts addressing the performance and promise of contemporary global artist-run centers and initiatives within the historical contexts that saw their emergence. Texts address centers in Amman (Jordan), Brisbane (Australia), Vancouver (Canada), Zurich (Switzerland) and Tokyo (Japan), Barcelona (Spain), among others. The book is published as part of Fillip’s ongoing Folio Series which presents anthologies of new and previously published questions on international contemporary art.

Institutions by Artists: Volume One (Folio Series: C)

Bronson, AA

Camnitzer, Luis

Faguet, Michele

Treating the idea of an economy as a general system of exchange, Intangible Economies advances the idea that personal relationships are produced by economic activity, and that desire generates economic transactions. Intangible Economies, speculatively investigates the role that these “affective transactions” play in modes of representation and cultural production. The abstract and abstracting function of value itself becomes particularly significant in this constellation, in its relation to both capitalist economy and to ethics. First developed for a 2011 conference in Vancouver, the essays included in this anthology seek to tackle the difficult task of tracing the role of affect in economic exchanges relative to artistic production, while also enacting the unruly force of such transactions. The contributing essayists are Melanie Gilligan, Juan A. Gaitàn, Hadley + Maxwell, Candice Hopkins, Olaf Nicolai, Patricia Reed, Monika Szewczyk and Jan Verwoert.

Intangible Economies (Folio Series: B)

Hopkins, Candice

Gaitán, Juan

Gilligan, Melanie

Hirsch, Antonia

Nicolai, Olaf

The second volume of Institutions by Artists looks at various global artist-run centers and initiatives within the historical contexts that saw their emergence--among them Western Front (Vancouver), Alice Yard (Trinidad and Tobago), ASCO (Los Angeles) and General Idea (Toronto). It compiles material presented at and around the Institutions by Artists conference, organized in Vancouver in 2012, documenting a series of historical and theoretical texts on artist-led practices as well as transcripts of two debates investigating the professionalization and state sponsorship of art.

Institutions by Artists: Volume 2

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