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After a long time coming we proudly present Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island. This decolonial guide explores Berlin’s Museum Island through colonial and nationalist narratives. It reimagines spaces of power, proposing new paths for restitution and transformation, and features site-specific works, commissioned essays, and psychogeographic explorations.
A long time coming — we proudly present Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island, now ready to ship.
With artworks, images, and texts by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Aram Bartholl, Nathaniel Flakin, Regina José Galindo, Melanie Garland, Andreas Gehrke, Lutz Henke, Lauren Lee, Carla J. Maier, Maciej Markowicz, Nnenna Onuoha, Patrice G. Poutrus, Anna-Sophie Springer, Adela Taleb, Raul Walch, Katharina Warda, Weise/Große, and others. Edited by Raul Walch and Anna-Sophie Springer. Design by Basics09.
Hot off the press! Rather like a shadow / Más bien sombra, Santiago Borja’s new book in K. Verlag’s Processing Process series.
In Rather like a shadow / Más bien sombra, Santiago Borja navigates between magic and rationalism, celebrating diverse knowledge forms. Through captivating site-specific work and reflections from eight distinguished authors, the book explores how ethical and aesthetic experiences shape social and political worlds, embracing complexity and multiple perspectives.
Hot off the press! Rather like a shadow / Más bien sombra, Santiago Borja’s new book in K. Verlag’s Processing Process series.
With texts and photography by Santiago Borja, reflective texts by Michel Blancsubé, Clémentine Déliss, Philippe Descola, Maria Antonia González Valerio, Catalina Lozano, and Spyros Papapetros, as well as a conversation between Santiago Borja, Anna-Sophie Springer, and Etienne Turpin. Design by K. Verlag with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.
Out now! Veil of Nature, by Justine Blau in K. Verlag’s Processing Process series.
Artist Justine Blau delves into the mysteries of de-extinction through the lens of Sicyos villosus, a plant once endemic to the Galapagos and collected by Charles Darwin, now known only from a single preserved specimen. Blau’s artistic journey, from herbaria and seed banks to the Galapagos Islands, uncovers the contradictions within modern scientific conservation. As she explores the desire to bring species back to life, her work challenges the rational ambitions of science, revealing nature’s elusive and enigmatic potency.
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Landscapes of Retreat
The awarded first edition of Landscapes of Retreat is currently out of stock but the forthcoming second edition is available for preorder. We will fulfill your order as soon as the book becomes available again in a few months so please don't hesitate to get your copy now.
Landscapes of Retreat are portraits of climate adaptation. Retreat is found in the land that is left behind as settlement patterns shift due to a changing climate. The term landscape refers to the earth animated by the aliveness of creatures and organisms, and the term retreat suggests that human patterns are not fixed but might also be enlivened. Featuring in-depth field studies from Nijinomatsubara Forest/Japan, Maule River/Chile, Niugtaq Village/Alaska, Langtang Park/Nepal, and Gaspésie Peninsula/Québec, the stories in Landscapes of Retreat suggest that communities are more likely to adapt to change when the landscape is appreciated, so that retreat can be valued. The results cut across history, fieldwork, citizenship, and geography in order to rethink and rework “change” as a means toward shared climate futures.
Rosetta S. Elkin is Associate Professor and Academic Director of Landscape Architecture at Pratt Institute, Principal of Practice Landscape and Research Associate at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. She is author of Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation and Tiny Taxonomy: Individual Plants in Landscape Architecture.
We’re thrilled to announce that Landscapes of Retreat by Associate Professor Rosetta S. Elkin has been awarded the prestigious 2024 J.B. Jackson Book Award from the Landscape Studies Initiative at the University of Virginia! The jury, composed of Kenneth Helpland, Sarah Lopez, and Beth Meyer, unanimously praised this “moving book” for its innovative contributions to landscape studies. This award recognizes groundbreaking contributions to landscape studies, and we’re proud to have developed this remarkable book with Rosetta.
The paper edition is accompanied by a free digital publication at LandscapesofRetreat.com.
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Processing Process
Unfolding at the intersection of the artist monograph, aesthetic manifesto, and solo exhibition, the series Processing Process celebrates artists’ pathbreaking forays into culture, history, science, ecology, and narrative technique. Buy three or more books and receive a 20% discount!
