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Continuing Dialogues: A Tribute To Igor Zabel: The Slovenian curator, art critic, writer and theorist Igor Zabel (1958–2005) was largely responsible for putting Slovenian art on the map of the international art scene. As senior curator of Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, he was engaged in establishing links between "East" and "West" Europe without losing a critical perspective of the ongoing transformations. In this book, which aims to provide an appreciative insight into Zabel’s far-reaching commitment, with contributions by artists and theorists, it will become clear that, despite his unblinking perception of all the apparently unbridgeable differences involved, continuing dialogues played a fundamental role in his practice as both a theorist and a curator.

e-flux Journal Reader 2009: e-flux journal, an online experimental art criticism magazine initiated by the artists Julieta Aranda, AntonVidokle, and Brian Kuan Wood. Writers, artists, and thinkers are invited to write on topics of their choosing, discussing the various urgent concerns being engaged in art today. Initiated in fall 2008, e-flux journal is first and foremost an online publication: free and accessible simultaneously from all parts of the world. Its topics and themes are not shaped by the interests or concerns of one specific center, but are developed through open invitations extended to art practitioners and thinkers as diverse as its readership.

The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art
This is the publication for the inaugural event of a long-term research project on ”the documentary" that aims to investigate the heritage of documentary practices in contemporary art in relation to the history of film, documentary photography, and television as well as to video art. The project also aims at situating these contemporary documentary practices within current cultural production and exploring their role within mainstream media and activism. This publication was inspired by the idea of a greenroom at a television station--a place where staff and guests meet before and after filming and engage in discussions that often differ from those conducted in the limelight. The research project is a collaboration between CCS Bard and the artist and theoretician Hito Steyerl.

Christian Marclay: Shuffle (Cards)
For this project, a limited-edition boxed card set, Marclay photographed the appearance of musical notation in his everyday wanderings--finding examples on shop awnings, chocolate tins, T-shirts, underwear and in other unexpected places. This body of work reveals Marclay to be an obsessive photographic note-taker with a flair for uncovering musical "clues" hidden in the landscape and adorning our world--musical notes just waiting to be called into action. Each of the 75 images collected here is presented on an oversized playing card. Part Fluxus box, part John Cage-ian "chance operation" or Eames House of Cards, it offers a compelling, serendipity-driven visual experience, as well as the components for a spontaneous musical score: a player need only shuffle the deck and let the cards fall where they may in order to produce a unique, experimental sequence.


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