Igor Grubić's project for the Venice Biennale, documenting Croatia's transition to capitalism. Igor Grubić has been actively working as a multimedia artist from the beginning of the 1990s. His work includes photography, film, and site-specific interventions in public spaces. Since 2000 he has been a producer and author of documentaries, TV reports, and socially committed commercials. Grubić's project for the Venice Biennale, Traces of Disappearing in Three Acts (2006–19), is already thirteen years in the making. It consists of three interrelated photo essays and an animated film, set in a specially designed mise-en-scène. The project began in 2006 when the artist began documenting the transition Croatia was facing after the war, with a particular focus on the shift from socialism to capitalism, from a central, stated-planned system to a free market economy. It explores how this has affected changes in habitation, the urban fabric, public space, and social relations. Also included are essays by Katerina Gregos and WHW.

Notes from the last 12 years of a Greek island's cultural and artistic initiatives The publication highlights two parallel, ongoing projects from the Greek island of Samos: the Samos Young Artist Festival and the art exhibitions at Art Space Phytagorion. Complimented by documentary photographs, the book features texts from artistic directors, artists and musicians involved in these cultural projects, now on their 12th year.

Mechanisms of Power. The Spanish artist Cristina Lucas (b. Jaén, 1973; lives and works in Madrid) works in a wide range of media and genres. Central concerns include the confrontation of subjective and political historiographies and a critical examination of cultural stereotypes. The publication's point of departure is the multichannel video installation Unending Lightning, begun in 2013, in which Lucas undertakes a painstaking study of the history of aerial warfare. The book also showcases works that limn a contemporary perspective on value chains and the capitalization of time and landscape. Moreover, the artist has developed a corpus of critical cartographic models that offer algorithmic, philosophical, poetic, or, in some instances, humorous visualizations of unexpected nexuses. The first German-language publication on Cristina Lucas's art, it offers a comprehensive survey of her oeuvre to date. Cristina Lucas studied fine arts at the University of California and the Universidad Complutense, Madrid.

In his provocative, often humorous, but always compelling work, Kendell Geers employs various media such as installation, drawing, video, performance, and photography. For two decades his art has been closely linked to the political and cultural environments of his home--whether in South Africa or Europe. This volume explores in particular the trajectories of two decade-long periods. The first, a political phase, runs from 1988 to 2000, during which time Geers explored the moral and ethical contradictions of apartheid. By appropriating historical events and ideas, he focused on questions of the relationship between individual and society. The second period was initiated by Geers' move to Brussels in 2000. This European period is characterized by a poetic aesthetic as Geers transferred his artistic practice into a postcolonial and increasingly global context, exploring themes like terrorism, spirituality, and mortality. This volume features a number of essays addressing aspects of Geers work as well as an interview with the artist. AUTHOR: Clive Kellner is Curator at Large of the Gordon Schachat Collection in Johannesburg. SELLING POINTS: This book explores how South African artist Kendell Geers's life and work can be seen to constitute a living archive of political turmoil, protest against injustice, and the effects of globalisation. ILLUSTRATIONS: 156 illustrations