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Verborgen Landschap
vergezichten voor een landschapspark in wording - kunstenaars verkennen een vergeten vliegveld
2017 || Paperback || Andre Dekker e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Aan de noordrand van Arnhem ligt een onontsloten gebied met een intrigerende geschiedenis waarin de Tweede Wereldoorlog een grote rol speelde. Bekende Nederlandse kunstenaars en ontwerpers werden door Stichting Verborgen Landschap gedurende vier jaar uitgenodigd om als 'verkenner' dit gebied te onderzoeken vanuit de eenvoudige vraag 'Waar ben ik?' Dit boek bundelt aan de hand van tekeningen, foto's, archiefstukken en logboeken hun manier van kijken. Het resultaat is een inventarisatie en arti...
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EVIDENCE - Jan Dietvorst & Roy Villevoye
2017 || Paperback || Jan Dietvorst e.a. || Jap Sam Books
For almost twenty years the Dutch artists Jan Dietvorst and Roy Villevoye have been exploring issues as diverse as anthropological representation, the conventions of documentary filmmaking and culture as a means of adaptation and re-enactment.
The publication EVIDENCE is published on the occasion of their first major solo exhibition EVIDENCE in Belgium, which was from 13 May to 16 July 2017 in Argos, Brussels. The method of editing used in their collective film work has been applied in this...
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DEMYSTIFIED
the European ceramic workcentre as centre of excellence
2017 || Paperback || Nick Renshaw || Jap Sam Books
The European Ceramic Workcentre is widely regarded as a world leader through its capacity as both an artist-in-residence centre where creative professionals of all kind work with ceramic material and as an institution where the use of this material is understood as being consistently innovative in nature.
This survey describes how it has been possible for such an eminent position to be achieved and how the nature of work is influenced by prevailing circumstances and decision-making, be they ...
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Footprint 20 Analytic Philosophy and Architecture
approaching things from the other side
2017 || Paperback || Karan August e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Although thinkers in the field of architecture have embraced ideas emerging from philosophy through the works of continental philosophers since the late 1980s, references to analytic philosophy have remained distinctly absent within architecture history and theory. In part this may be attributable to a perception of analytic philosophy as historiophobic and politically conservative. However in recent decades the philosophical camp is readjusting its relation to language, and notably returning...
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Tirzo Martha.I wonder if they'll laugh when I'm dead
2017 || Paperback || Rob Perrée e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Dit is de eerste monografie over beeldend kunstenaar Tirzo Martha (Willemstad, Curacao 1965). Deze omvangrijke publicatie omvat een intrigerende compilatie van zijn kunstwerken, performances en installaties. Martha wordt gedreven door een diep engagement met de wereld om hem heen, in het bijzonder met Curaçao en het Caribische Gebied. Zijn werk is veelzijdig, kritisch, politiek en maatschappelijk geladen. Het oeuvre van Martha omvat beelden, installaties, assemblages, video's en performances...
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TheParallelShow
2017 || Paperback || Frans van Lent || Jap Sam Books
TheParallelShow is een initiatief van Frans van Lent en het Unnoticed Art Festival. TheParallelShow is een serie experimentele samenwerkingen tussen kunstenaars werkzaam op het gebied van de performance kunst. De 10 shows vonden onverwacht plaats in en rondom publieke tentoonstellingen in kunstinstellingen in Europa en de Verenigde Staten. TheParallelShows werden nooit aangekondigd, er werden geen uitnodigingen verstuurd en TheParallelShow liet nooit fysieke sporen achter.
De kern van het bo...
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This Road Leads to Nowhere: Pierre Punk
2017 || Paperback || Josh Garrett-Davis || Jap Sam Books
'This Road Leads to Nowhere: Pierre Punk' brings together archives and reflections from a music scene that flourished in small-town South Dakota from the early 90's through 2010. Merging the tradition of DIY punk publications and regional travel guides, the book sings an unsung hymn of American underground culture. This Road Leads to Nowhere includes writings and images from Pierre community members, musicians who traveled through and played in the town, and kindred spirits from similar scene...
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A E I OU. Articles, Essays, Interviews and Out-takes by Tony Fretton
2017 || Paperback || Tony Fretton || Jap Sam Books
A E I OU Articles, Essays, Interviews and Out-takes. The name itself says something of the nature of Tony Fretton's collected writing.
As an architect he has said 'Words, the most collective form of communication, thread their way through the projects, in explanations to clients and constructors, and as my means, along with drawings, of explaining the projects to my collaborators, to myself and to the wider world.'
As Professor of Architectural Design-Interiors at TU Delft, he wrote: 'Interi...
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Future Rural Archive
2019 || Paperback || Margo Handwerker e.a. || Jap Sam Books
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...
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Lon Pennock: Works
2016 || Hardcover || Thomas Köllhofer e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Monografie van beeldend kunstenaar Lon Pennock (1945). 'Lon Pennock: Works' documenteert 15 jaar werk bestaande uit beelden en werk op papier. Met tekstbijdragen van Thomas Köllhofer en Frits Scholten.
By investigating simple forms seemingly borrowed from objective reality, Lon Pennock developed an aesthetic language related to that informing Concrete Art, which draws solely on such geometric elements as the rectangular solid, the cube, the cone or the cylinder.' - Thomas Köllhofer
'Even e...