Anthony Huberman Bücher

Options with Nostrils brings together a collection of previouslyunpublished essays, both theoretical and visual, by artists, curators anda group of post-graduates from the Fine Art program at Piet ZwartInstitute in Rotterdam, who together founded the Office for the Unknown.The writings investigate notions of the unpredictable and theunknown while looking at ways in which these notions enable a criticalview on conditions of art making within the context of the present.Mirroring the process, this volume presents a chaos of ideas.Labyrinthine in structure and outlook, Options with Nostrils aims todestabilize the belief that there is an order of things in responseto which the artist holds a decisive position. Because, as Sarat Maharajhas said, ''The artist has an unknowability: the ability to unknow.''Featured contributors include Anthony Huberman, RaimundasMalasauskas, Linda Quinlan plus many more.

A Needle Walks into a Haystack constitutes a site of the Biennial Exhibition itself, and consists of new texts by the curators and by Keren Cytter (Israel), Angie Keefer (US), Hassan Khan (Egypt), Karl Larsson (Sweden), Eileen Myles (US), Lisa Robertson (Canada) and Matthew Stadler (US) with drawings by Abraham Cruzvillegas (Mexico). The book extends the exhibition to the written word, locating a similar spirit in the work of cultural critics, novelists, philosophers, poets, and others. Foreword by Sally Tallant. Texts by David Antin, Keren Cytter, Angie Keefer, Hassan Khan, Karl Larsson, Eileen Myles, Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler, Edward Said and George Szirtes.