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February 2020
LIGHT BREAK – PHOTOGRAPHY / LIGHT THERAPY
Howalt’s fascination of Finsen’s experiments and apparatus is based on the obvious similarities between the basic elements of photography and Finsen’s medical phototherapy. In both cases, light rays are passed through specially crafted lenses and filters onto photosensitive material. Finsen discovered that invisible light rays, at the periphery of the electromagnetic spectrum, had the property to heal. It is these same rays Howalt is interested in, now taking advantage of the sun
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November 2019
THOSE WHO ARE DEAD ARE NOT EVER GONE
On the Maintenance of Supremacy, the Ethnological Museum
and the Intricacies of the Humboldt Forum
The institution of the ethnological museum or world museum seems to be in the midst of a serious crisis of choking. The delicacies that most of these museums have acquired, which is to say co-opted, which is to say ingested, seem to have collectively missed the track to the oesophagus and got stuck in the respiratory tract. They
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April 2020
BOOKBINDING – THE COMPLETE GUIDE
Bookbinding is a unique and essential reference guide for designers, explaining industrial bookbinding techniques with a focus on the design and conception of print products. Packed full of insights from the world’s best bookbinders, it contains everything you need to know about folding, stitching and binding to create beautiful books.
Franziska Morlok has worked at Sagmeister inc, Leonardi.Wollein and Fons Hickmann m23 and currently runs her own studio, Rimini Berlin.
Miria
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September 2019
SUPPLEMENT TO THE ITALIAN DICTIONARY
In this volume the author examines the many ways there are for expressing oneself without using words, using not just hands but also facial expressions and gestures using the whole body. [...] With the passage of time, many of these Neapolitan expressions have spread to the rest of Italy and even the rest of the world. Some expressions have become a part of our everyday language, like the American ‘OK.’ This is why we have decided
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October 2019
PLEASURE ROCKS
The orgasmic force favors no organ over any other, so that the penis possesses no more orgasmic force than the vagina, the eye, or the toe”
Paul B.Preciado
Pleasure rocks is a research on unconventional pleasures and new imaginaries. It is an interdisciplinary project that uses different media: photography, performance, sound.
Pleasure Rocks is an artistic collaboration with the artist and photographer Alessia Bernardini and it has been developed
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