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ENTKUNSTUNG – Bundle

01 Entkunstung
02 On Aesthetics
03 On Politics
04 Power
05 The Body
06 Avant-Garde
07 Precariousness
08 Emancipation(s)
09 Fetishism
10 Vanity
11 Time
12 Fictions

€ 50.00

The bundle brings together all three ENTKUNSTUNG publications at a reduced price!

920 pages and 250 artists and writers from all over the world!

ENTKUNSTUNG III

09 Fetishism
10 Vanity
11 Time
12 Fictions

€ 28.00

"ENTKUNSTUNG is an independent publication with a bold reflective attitude toward the contemporary art scene. With contributions in English and German, it is more of an artists’ forum of ideas in the form of a yearbook."
—do you read me?! (Berlin)

"[...] Now that there’s so much more art it makes sense that people would have the sensation of being awash in empty art. That is a good thing! This means that not only white men from Europe and America get to make art and that art is being made by everybody, everywhere and more people are getting to see it. Best of all of it is us who get to sort out what matters, what doesn’t, what is empty, what might be full, what has use [...]."
—JERRY SALTZ, VANITAS EST NOBIS

It also features studio visits and interviews, among them ALICJA KWADE, JASON GRINGLER, JEFF MILLS and JERRY SALTZ.

Limited Edition of 500 copies
2019
304 pages
14.8 × 22.5 cm

ENTKUNSTUNG II

05 The Body
06 Avant-Garde
07 Precariousness
08 Emancipation(s)

€ 28.00

"History, as many philosophers and historians have said, is a problem that is conjugated in the present tense, and that makes use of the imperative form. Understanding the contemporary world and finding out as much as possible about its raison d‘être and the phenomena that characterise it is an obligation in times where there are fewer excuses for being passive, permissive, and indifferent. Instead of merely wondering at the complexity of our world, we must strengthen our ability to interpret it and criticise it. This is what the artists and authors present in this book are fostering with their envisions of life: creating possible worlds that are contributing to shaping a more thoughtful and collective present.

We hope you can see this book as we do: as an extension of memory; interpretations of our time that aspire to reinvent the world anew, "as a whole to be imagined".
—FELIPE DUQUE & MAXIMILIAN MAURACHER

Limited Edition of 500 copies
2018
304 pages
14.8 × 22.5 cm

ENTKUNTUNG I

01 Entkunstung
02 On Aesthetics
03 On Politics
04 Power

€ 28.00

"Because art is always reflection: there’s no art without thinking—consciously or unconsciously—, there’s no creation when there isn’t destruction: the understanding of how the world functions just to reinvent it anew. Just like that origami bird, its ashes are also its flight. That’s what I have found in this wonderful project called ENTKUNSTUNG: a lot of reflection, a lot of reinvention of many problems related not only to aesthetic theory and art criticism but also to politics and sociology and history and life as a whole, “as a whole to be imagined”, as William Shakespeare once said. This book is a precious opportunity to revisit what ENTKUNSTUNG has been doing, if you already knew it; or it is a fascinating door to discover its aims and conquests and aspirations as a project. Its incorruptible hope for the present, notwithstanding these horrible times in which we live. But that’s art too, isn’t it? A relief, a shelter, a justification of everything we stand for. Just read and enjoy, you won’t regret it. But if you do, so much the better".
—JUAN ESTEBAN CONSTAÍN CROCE, Foreword.

Limited Edition of 500 copies
2017
304 pages
14.8 × 22.5 cm

RESTORATION TO A BETTER PAST

€ 50.00

Restoration to a Better Past is a photography book by Jorma Mueller.

In Jorma Mueller's photography there is margin for a biographical hypothesis and glimpses of something that has been lost. A vision of the present as ebb and flow is almost inevitable in the experience of his work. 
 
Subjectivity is melancholic, and that melancholy contains the evocation that restores the legacy for which others risked their fate. A physical, vital, experiential link with the world has eroded between the time of those anachronistic soldiers and that of the men and women of a taciturn river.
 
Restoration to a Better Past, and its set of mirrors, is the continuation of that aesthetic and personal search visible in Jorma’s previous works. However, the pieces that make up this book are not always imaginary refraction but an oblique truth that supports reality. 
 
In the construction of a narrative several texts can remain without any connection to each other until a new one turns them into something different from what they were before. The drift of time, memory, nostalgia for that world that could have been and that at the same time was, are the axis on which this publication rests.
 
With Restoration to a Better Past, Jorma Mueller proves that nostalgia is aere perennius—and fragile and eternal as time.

Limited Edition of 300 numbered copies
2022 
28 x 36 cm
Folder with printed matter in various formats (nine parts)

LINE DEATH DANCE

€ 15.00

Line Death Dance is a monographic book by Melanie Maar.

As a way to commemorate transitions through performance making, Melanie Maar has composed Line Death Dance: a multi-phased ceremony of performances at the old and new Chocolate Factory Theaters in Queens, NY.

The book looks at the poetry of the 'live' and the potent relationship between deceptively simple compositional tools: bodies, time, space, light, and sound.

Line Death Dance
Texts by Melanie Maar
Photography by Laura Bartczak
Co-edited by Laurel Atwell & Melanie Maar
Designed & Published by masse studio

Limited Edition of 200
2021
48 pages
21.5 x 25.7 cm

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MetaMorphosis

€ 25.00

MetaMorphosis is a publication in collaboration with Symbiotic Lab.

This publication is not a textbook about insects and their way of life. Rather, it aims to understand humans as part of an assemblage of human and non-human actors that is always already in the process of becoming. In addition to specific ideas on how to counteract the fatal extinction of species, this volume brings together contributions that stimulate the reader’s curiosity through artistic, poetic, or philosophical approaches. This interdisciplinary attempt stems from our conviction that change cannot be initiated solely through the presentation and understanding of imperatives.

To grasp what has been lost to climate change and what will be lost in the future, we also need to engage aesthetically and effectively with the world in which we live. Thus, with this publication, we want to suggest artistic and poetic strategies as allies of the sciences, which have long been alarmingly pointing to the world’s catastrophic situation. In doing so, we seek to find ways of making the urgency to act now tangible through the whole body.

This anthology follows the logic of the metamorphosis cycle. The artists, authors, theorists, and scientists represented in this book, with their artistic positions and their thinking, allow for diverse approaches to the topic of metamorphosis, far beyond the context of entomology.

Contributors: Julian Charrière, Kate Chen, Monika Dorniak, Felipe Duque, Nikolaus Eckhard, Leoni Fischer, Richard Frater, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Lea Grebe, Henrik Håkansson, Xaver Hirsch, Fabian Knecht, Jakob Kukula, Jakob Kudsk Steensen , Niklas Liebetrau, Swantje Martach, Ben Meerwein , Esteban Menares, Prof. Dr. Michael Ohl, Janosch Reiter, Anna Ridler, Julia Sommerfeld, Symbiotic Spaces

Limited Edition of 300 copies
2022
180 pages
16 x 22 cm
German and English

AGAINST NATURE

€ 10.00

AGAINST NATURE is a reader with texts by Swantje Martach, Alexander W. Schindler and Felipe Duque as well as artworks by Herwig Scherabon and includes an AR artwork created in collaboration with Refrakt Studio. The reader was released on the occasion of Scherabon's first solo exhibition in Berlin in July 2021.

Limited Edition of 500 copies
2021
56 pages
18.6 x 29.7 cm

ENT005 – Booklet

€ 8.00

ENT005 ADORNO - FUN IST EIN STAHLBAD (Booklet only)

With this 16-pages booklet you can listen to the ENT005 album without having a record player. Download the iOS app ENT005 and scan the pages to start a unique listening experience with audioreactive visuals by Herwig Scherabon. You will also get the album as digital download on request.

Records

ENT005

€ 25.00

ADORNO – FUN IST EIN STAHLBAD
“Fine dreamy Ambient / Drone / Downwards leaning Techno album”.—Hardwax

Limited Edition Double Transparent 12" Vinyl including streaming AR (Augmented Reality) application (only for iOS) and a 16 pages booklet.

Celebrating the release of ENTKUNSTUNG's firth record, the AR app brings the vinyl’s booklet to life and showcases interactive visuals by Berlin-based artist Herwig Scherabon. It creates a unique listening experience of the eight-track album "Fun ist ein Stahlbad" which deliberately oscillates between Ambient and Techno.

Tracklist:
UNTITLED I
UNTITLED II
UNTITLED III
UNTITLED IV
UNTITLED V
UNTITLED VI
UNTITLED VII
UNTITLED VIII

Written & Produced by Felipe Duque
Mastered by Cem Oral at Jammin Masters - Berlin
Art Direction by Maximilian Mauracher
Design by Maximilian Mauracher & David Rindlisbacher
AR Animation and Images by Herwig Scherabon
App Development by Refrakt
Berlin 2020/21

Limited Edition of 300 copies | 45rpm
2021
30 x 30 cm

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ENT004

€ 10.00

MALICE – DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE TAIL
"Relentlessly driving Techno weapon."—Hardwax

Tracklist:
A Your Body
B She Used My Head Like a Revolver

Written & Produced by Felipe Duque
Additional production on Your Body by Daniel Hartl
Mastering by Tim Xavier at Manmade Mastering, Berlin
Artwork by Max Mauracher
Vienna, 2018

Limited Edition of 300 copies | 33rpm
2018
30 x 30 cm

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ENT003

€ 10.00

WITTGENSTEIN – FICTIONS
"Flawless driving Techno missiles."—Hardwax

Tracklist:
1.1 The South
1.11 Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
1.2 The Immortal | Sedvs Reified Version
1.21 Funes
2 The Immortal

Written & Produced by Felipe Duque
Additional production by Daniel Hartl (Except on The Immortal)
The Immortal (Sedvs Reified Version) by Daniel Hartl
Mastered by Cem Oral at Jammin Masters, Berlin
Artwork by Maximilian Mauracher
Vienna 2018

Limited Edition of 300 copies | 45rpm
2018
30 x 30 cm

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ENT001

€ 10.00

ADORNO – DARSTELLUNG
"Dreamy Ambient & Driving Techno EP".—Hardwax

Tracklist:
1.1 Verklärte Nacht
1.11 Die Welt von Gestern
1.2 Sehnsucht | Nach MF01121979
1.21 Phantasmagorie

All tracks written and produced by Felipe Duque
Mastered at Manmade Mastering Berlin by Tim Xavier
Artwork by Maximilian Mauracher
Vienna, 2017

Limited Edition of 300 copies | 45rpm
2017
30 x 30 cm

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