Future Rural Archive is the fourth Center Pivot publication the Last Chance Press of M12 Studio. Co-publishers: M12 Collective and the Last Chance Press.

Through interdisciplinary approaches, this series explores and connects the changing realities of rural landscapes and communities around the world.

'Tucked inside the covers of this slim volume is a conversation—a chorus, a round. It takes place between the contributions, across a territory of blacktop, botany, and biography. It is as mu...

In 'Before I Was Born', Tja Ling illustrates the story of her family’s journey from China to the Netherlands, between the 1930s and 1970s, in 14 interconnected pencil drawings. Out of respect and admiration for the way her (grand)- parents built a life for themselves with all the challenges they have had to face, migrating without any formal education or knowledge of the local language.

These drawings are a chronicle of pride, strength and respect. A narrative of a child discovering why he...

Beginning in the Middle. Conversations on the Post-Soviet, edited and compiled by Elsbeth Dekker and Robbie Schweiger, explores the works, lives and travels of artists coming from a (post-) Soviet context. The conversations delve deeper into questions of art and (de)colonisation in countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia, most of which recently celebrated their 30th anniversary of independence.

Departing from Dutch collections and exhibitions, the conversations try to grapple with question...

Displace explores the process of entering into a dialogue with soil as a living entity. It offers an intimate insight into Elena Khurtova's artistic research and process during her residency at 3bisF, on the site of Montperrin Psychiatric hospital in Aix-en-Provence, and delves into her personal connection with displaced soils.

Extending the sensitive experience of touching red and yellow soils into the materiality of the book, Elena Khurtova and graphic designer Tariq Heijboer experiment wit...

AgriValley is a long-term poetic study of Dutch agriculture. In her cinematographic representations, video artist Mirte van Duppen brings together various production landscapes as a social construct: here, humans and machines live and work side by side. The futuristic, almost dreamlike images give an insight into the enormous impact of technological innovation in the agricultural sector.

Van Duppen shows the contemporary landscape in associative analyses, using visual rhyme and essayistic cam...

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Arianne Olthaar (NL, 1970) portretteert en documenteert verdwijnende, verborgen en fictieve interieurs in film, fotografie en miniatuurmodellen. Haar werk is internationaal vertoond tijdens diverse tentoonstellingen en op filmfestivals waaronder International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, EMAF, New York Film Festival, Videoex, Media City Film Festival, IFFR, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. Tussen 2008 en 2012 bezocht Olthaar een aantal voormalige staats- en l...

Since 1945 the modern revolution in sculpture has gathered pace, and sculpture has now ceased to be the fixed category it once was. In recent decades the modernist idea of sculpture across the UK, America, and Europe, has been challenged, and issues such as nationality and politics have been brought in to the arena of public discussion. In this ground-breaking account of the development of post-War sculpture Andrew Causey examines innovative and avant-garde works in relation to contemporary e...

Voorjaar 2014 zal bij Jap Sam books een omvangrijke monografie verschijnen van de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Richard Saxton. Het boek, vormgegeven door Peter de Kan heeft 560 pagina's en is getiteld 'A Decade of Country Hits - Art on the Rural Frontier'. Het boek presenteert een overzicht van werk geïnitieerd en gerealiseerd door Richard Saxton in landelijke gebieden.

'A Decade of Country Hits - Art on the Rural Frontier' omvat onder meer een selectie van foto's uit Saxton's 'Rural Research Arc...

De artistieke praktijk van Rafaël Rozendaal bestaat uit websites, installaties, prints en teksten. Zijn werk tekent zich af binnen en serie transformaties-van beweging naar abstractie, van virtuele naar fysieke ruimte, en van website naar print-die met elkaar in verband staan. Al zijn werken hebben een ding gemeen: ze ontstaan vanuit een fascinatie voor bewegend beeld en interactiviteit in de meest basale vorm. Everything, Always, Everywhere staat stil bij de veranderingen die Rozendaal's we...