The Biennale Matter of Art 2024 Reader
Sowing Unrest – the Biennale Reader was published on the occasion of the third Biennale Matter of Art. With newly commissioned as well as republished essays, …
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anthologies/catalogues
An extensive publication entitled Atlas of Transformation accompanied the exhibition Monument to Transformation that took place at Municipal Library Prague in …
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Two international awards
We would like to inform you about two international awards for the book "Atlas of transformation" (Czech version) and "Atlas of Transformation" (English …
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Audre Lorde – Sister Outsider
Sister Outsider is the seminal work of Audre Lorde, one of the most influential feminist writers and thinkers of the 20th century, a self-described black …
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anthologies/catalogues
Autobiographies is the catalogue of third part or “act” in a series of exhibitions taking place in Bratislava (I Narrow Focus, June —August, 2005, …
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artist´s book series
The publication is based on the accompanying catalogue to the retrospective exhibition of the avant-garde artist Avdey Ter-Oganyan titled Fucked Up (or ‘The …
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artist´s book series
The publication examines artistic phenomena on the peripheries of social affairs in the Moravian environment of the 1970s and '80s.
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artist´s book series
Two books in one contain the book one of comprehensive poem/text titled John Doe & Joe Bloggs written by the author on this ocasion in 2011 and the book two …
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Brian O´Doherty: Inside the White Cube
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Bruno Latour: Stopovat a skládat světy s Brunem Latourem. Výbor z textů 1998-2013 (Tracing and composing worlds with Bruno Latour: Selected texts 1998-2013)
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The book is a record of an actual four-day dialogue of between woman aged nearly fifty years old and a man on the threshold of sixty – a couple who have found …
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The revolutionary novel by the American critic, filmmaker and writer Chris Kraus lifts the lid on the New York intellectual scene of the seventies, eighties and …
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Tereza Stejskalová & Vít Havránek (Eds.)
The book was published on the occasion of the first Biennale Matter of Art and presents various perspectives on class, race, and gender differences as they …
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Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosoph—everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for …
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This book represents the most extensive spoken commentary by Duchamp and possesses a special charm by virtue of the simplicity with which the artist conveys his …
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The book is part of a new movement of contemporary French literature (A. Ernoux, E. Louis), situated on the border of autobiographical writing, sociology and …
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artist´s book series
The publication is published as part of the Dominik Lang exhibition The Sleeping City, held in the Pavilion of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic at the …
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Artist's book series
Recollection of the traumatic time of childhood. Stories and manifestations of spiritual otherness, Rituals and symbols of cultural alterity. Skeletons subject …
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Forgotten Internationalism, Czechoslovak Film and the Third World
The Algerian director Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (1934) and the recently deceased Syrian director Nabil Maleh (1936–2016) are considered the founding fathers of …
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Frantz Fanon: Psanci této země (The Wretched of the Earth)
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Frantz Fanon: Černá kůže bílé masky (Black Skin, White Masks)
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The first complete translation of a significant work on the history and present state of anarchy and parallel social structures.
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anthologies/catalogues (interviews with Czech artists of the 1960s–1970s)
This publication is a result of visits and discussions carried out by Hans Ulrich Obrist in artists’ studios in Prague around 2001 and 2008. Interviews with …
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Homi K. Bhabha is one of the best-known contemporary representatives of the academic branch of Postcolonial studies. He is Professor of English and American …
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anthologies/catalogues
It would appear that contemporary art is mesmerised by the past. The formal pole of this trend, variously described by art theory as the archival impulse, …
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artist´s book series
The catalogue presents in a broader selection the work of Jan Šerých between 1999 and 2008. The pictorial part of the publication (over 200 colour …
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This book, entitled simply Writings, presents for the first time a selection of studies, essays, exhibition texts and criticism by Jana Ševčíková (1941) and …
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The fifth volume of tranzit navigation series.
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artist´s book series
This book is the first complete edition of the actions, installations and interventions (1976-2005) of Jiří Kovanda.
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artist´s book series
Every system change requires for its actors to adapt to it. Their new cultural status is defined according to the success of their assimilation which creates …
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Visual artist Jiří Valoch’s book of experimental poetry White Sheets (Bílé listy) was originally compiled for publication by the Brno publishing house …
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First, unique Czech translation of the book John Cage Silence.
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artist´s book series
Absence is the third volume of the Tranzit series published in cooperation with Swiss publisher JRP-Ringier. The series focuses on significant figures of …
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artist´s book series
This catalogue is a record of the inventory of the work, reproductions, texts and projects of the conceptual artist Ján Mančuška (1972–2011) that began in …
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artist´s book series
This publication is the fourth in the tranzit publishing series. The series focuses on significant figures in contemporary art in Central and Eastern Europe.
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artist´s book series
Based on Šedá´s work for Documenta 12, this book documents a complex and long-term project realized in Nova Líšeň, Brno, Czech Republic, where the artist …
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anthologies/catalogues
Cut-up posters size 418 x 582mm issued for the laboratoř (graphic studio) exhibition in tranzitdisplay gallery.
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artist´s book series
Lukáš Jasanský and Martin Polák are among the most highly respected living Czech photographers. They express themselves through extensive cycles of …
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In her book Raving, McKenzie Wark shows the intimate and collective sides of life in the New York trans and queer rave scene. For Wark, rave is not just a dance …
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First Czech translation of Nicolas Bourriard´s texts, the French curator and art theoretician.
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anthologies / catalogues
This manual by Ondřej Chrobák is being published on the occasion of the author’s 40th birthday in honour of the many years he has spent systematically …
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Pavel Humhal (born 1965) is a visual artist working predominantly with the media of objects and installations. He’s interested in spatial solutions, the …
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The second work in the series Post-colonial Thought I–IV, the introductory volume of which was a translation of the book by Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White …
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This anthology of theoretical studies and essays is the fourth volume in the series Post-Colonial Thought, which has a loose chronological order and contains …
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tranzit publication - special projects
the poster medium will be combined with the artist’s option of using one side as his or her catalogue
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anthologies/catalogues
The creative process behind this catalogue/book reflected the characteristic collective approach by the studio of Projektil architekti – apart from its …
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This anthological publication examines graphic design in the context of visual art. The book is published as a compilation of parts of two degree dissertations …
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The setting for this collection of short stories about social outsiders who feel suffocated by contemporary society is the claustrophobic environment of …
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First Czech translation of Slavoj Žižek´s book Slavoje Žižka Did somebody say totalitarism?
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Vydáno k příležitosti bienále Ve věci umění 2022. Editoři jsou Rado Ištok, Piotr Sikora, Renan Laru-an a Tereza Stejskalová.
This publication brings together new as well as existing essays, interviews, short stories, and reports from different fields and geographies on various issues, …
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On Selling Art and Selling Sex
We desire art and sex because we desire human authenticity, pure emotion, and beauty. And yet, in a capitalist society, both turn into commodities and capital. …
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A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Does the family stand in the way of autonomous love and shared solidarity? And isn’t it enough just to reform it? According to Sophie Lewis, the nuclear …
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artist´s book series
b}Sung Hwan Kim (b. 1975, Seoul), in his practice, artist integrates video and performance art, taking on the role of director, editor, performer, composer, …
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We can imagine the art world as a household where some people do work that is invisible, even though it makes any artistic creation at all possible. We see only …
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In September 2021 the artist and social worker Bára Bažantová together with the anthropologist Lenka Podroužek Polčová moved for one month into the …
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The publication conceived together by Visual Culture Research Center in Kyiv and tranzit in Prague is a follow-up of The Kyiv International – ’68 NOW …
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anthologies/catalogues
The book The Need to Document attempts to make out the backgrounds leading to this turn towards documentation, as well as the thematic focuses and concerns …
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Children's newspaper
The newspaper Tohle nejsou blbosti (This is not baloney) is the result of the intensive work of the children's editorial team, which met from June to August …
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This publication searches for the place of Czech, Slovak, and Eastern European postwar art in global history. Programmatically avoiding the repetition of the …
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The collection of essays by Tomáš Pospiszyl entitled Asociativní dějepis umění [An Associative History of Art] follows in the wake of his book …
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World-renowned filmmaker and feminist, postcolonial thinker Trinh T. Minh-ha is one of the most powerful and articulate voices in both independent filmmaking …
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anthologies / catalogues
It is only recently that Central and Eastern Europe has woken up to the notion of “conceptual literature”, a vexed zone on the border between literary …
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artist´s books series
Second volume of the artist´s books series, focusing on Central and Eastern Europe artists.
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artist´s book series
A dialogue between two artists about... the Voynich Manuscript, how ideas come in artistic practice, propitious situations, memory of the conscious and …
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