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Profit over Peace in Western Sahara - How commercial interests undermine self-
determination in the last colony in Africa
Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956794056 Acqn 28643
Pb 13x19cm 246pp 11ils £17.50

Profit over Peace in Western Sahara examines the role of natural resources in the occupation of
Africa’s last colony. Not well known to the wider public, the territory of Western Sahara is
considered by the United Nations to be awaiting decolonization. Its liberation from colonial rule
has come to a standstill due to Morocco’s continued military occupation of a part of the territory.
The protracted conflict has dramatic consequences for the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara.
This book details, among other things, a remarkable vote in the European Parliament in 2011
when EU offshore fisheries were rejected by the territory. The battle over the fisheries elegantly
illustrates how the EU—for political reasons and financial self-interest—has ignored basic
principles of international law.

This publication is edited by Erik Hagen and the artist Mario Pfeifer, who has been researching
the region since 2011 and provides visual material for the book. Erik Hagen has followed the
issue of resources in Western Sahara since 2002, both as a journalist and as a campaigner for
the organization Western Sahara Resource Watch. An essay by lawyer Jeffrey J. Smith examines
the 2017 landmark judgment in South Africa concerning a bulk vessel carrying conflict minerals
from the territory.

Contributions by Erik Hagen, Mario Pfeifer, Jeffrey J. Smith

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Uriel Orlow - Theatrum Botanicum

Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956794155 Acqn 28644
Pb 22x29cm 368pp col ills £25.25

Edited by Shela Sheikh and Uriel Orlow

Contributions by Sita Balani, Melanie Boehi, Clelia Coussonet, Karen Flint, Jason T. W. Irving,
Nomusa Makhubu, Bettina Malcomess, Karin van Marle, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

This publication emerges from Uriel Orlow’s Theatrum Botanicum (2015–18), a multi-faceted
project encompassing film, sound, photography, and installation that looks to the botanical world
as a stage for politics. Working from the dual vantage points of South Africa and Europe, the
project considers plants as both witnesses to, and dynamic agents in, history. It links nature and
humans, rural and cosmopolitan medicine, tradition and modernity across different geographies,
histories, and systems of knowledge—exploring the variety of curative, spiritual, and economic
powers of plants. The project addresses “botanical nationalism” and “flower diplomacy” during
apartheid; plant migration; the role and legacies of the imperial classification and naming of
plants; bioprospecting and biopiracy; and the garden planted by Nelson Mandela and his fellow
inmates at Robben Island prison.

This publication is made up of two intertwining books: one documents the works of Theatrum
Botanicum, including the scripts for two films; the second is a compendium of brief,
commissioned essays that aims to offer an accessible snapshot of the complex and multifaceted
issues that inform and are raised by the artworks. The independent but interrelated essays, which
either speak directly to the artworks or follow lines of inquiry alongside them, cover perspectives
from postcolonial cultural studies; art criticism and art history; natural history, botany (including
ethnobotany and economic botany), and conservation; jurisprudence and critical legal studies;
and critical race studies.

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Josephine Pryde - Lapses In Thinking By The Person I Am

Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956793943 Acqn 28605
Hb 23x25cm 112pp 54ills 45col £22.75

lapses in Thinking By the person i Am presents documentation and texts from Josephine Pyde's
eponymous exhibition shown at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco,
and Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. In this body of work, Pryde
combines a series of color photographs of hands touching objects with a scale-model freight train
and track, replete with miniaturized graffiti, that took visitors in a short ride through the exhibition.
Through photography and sculpture, Pryde pays close attention to the nature of image making
and the conditions display, subtly reworking codes and conventions to alter our cultural
perception and understanding of each. In this book, "The Individual," an essay by Pryde originally
published in the journal Texte zur Kunst, is followed by an essay from CCA Wattis exhibition
curator Jamie Stevens and a conversation between Pryde and ICA curator Anthony Elms.

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Gianni Pettena - Non-Conscious Architecture

Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956793844 Acqn 28743
Pb 16x23cm 236pp 80ills 33col £19.25

Edited by Marco Scotini in collaboration with Galleria Giovanni Bonelli

Contributions by Pierre Bal-Blanc, Adam Budak, Luca Cerizza, Émile Ouroumov, Marco Scotini,
Elisabetta Trincherini

This publication surveys the work of Italian critic, architect, and visual artist Gianni Pettena.
Focusing on a rich ten-year period of production that began in the mid-sixties, it brings new
attention to the artistic and intellectual practice of a figure known primarily as one of the main
exponents of the Radical Architecture movement. International curators and writers consider a
span of projects about landscape and the built form as well as objects and works documenting
Pettena’s interests in labor, temporality, action, and the event. Published on the occasion of the
exhibition “About Non-Conscious Architecture” at Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan, 2017, the book
also contains a republished conversation between Pettena and artist Robert Smithson and an
illustrated index detailing the trajectory of Pettena’s body of work and research.

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Charlotte Birnbaum - The Meal - A Conversation with Gilbert & George - On the Table VI
Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956794179 Acqn 28744
Hb 11x18cm 68pp 39ills 7col £15.75

Gilbert & George never cook and always eat out. Back in 1969, however, the artist duo hosted
The Meal, an elaborate dinner party that included thirteen guests, Princess Margaret’s butler, a
chef who prepared a meal from a Victorian cookery manual, and the guest of honor, artist David
Hockney. While the art world of the time was largely characterized by Pop art, Minimalism, and
Conceptual art, Gilbert & George developed an entirely unique philosophy and combined their
daily lives with their artistic vision; in short, their art and life are one! Charlotte Birnbaum took a
trip to London’s East End to visit the immaculately dressed pair to discuss The Meal and other
curious projects from their fifty-year collaboration. Also included here are photos and memorabilia
from the singular event.

On the Table is a series of publications edited by Charlotte Birnbaum that explores the encounter
between food and art.

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I Have Left You The Mountain (Albanian Pavilion 15th Venice Architecture Biennale) +
Vinyl LP
Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956793868 Acqn 28675
Pb 31x31cm 24pp £17.50

With contributions by Etel Adnan, Mourid Barghouti, Michel Butor, Claire Fontaine, Yona
Friedman, Anri Sala, Michael Taussig, Yanis Varoufakis, Ornela Vorpsi, Finn Williams; the
singers of Fier, Vlorë, Himarë, and Tirana

“I Have Left You the Mountain,” published on the occasion of the Albanian Pavilion at the
15th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, presents ten new texts
written by contemporary writers and thinkers on the architecture of displacement. These texts
have been set to music and sung by some of the last remaining groups of Albanian iso-
polyphonic singers, an art form now protected as “intangible cultural heritage” by UNESCO.

A living art form in step with the generations of migration and transition, “singing migration” has
been a core part of processing departure, longing, and return. The Albanian Pavilion is a space of
collective listening; of “individuals in company.”

“I Have Left You The Mountain” initiates a conversation about the urbanism of displacement,
projecting the Albanian case onto an international stage, with the express intention to transmit
that dialogue and its speculations back into Albania.

The singers of Fier: Petrit Canaj, Llazar Dumi, Kastriot Halihoxha, Nesim Meno, Muharrem
Mezani, Guri Rrokaj, Fatmir Tahiraj, Shaban Zeneli; the singers of Vlorë: Adriatik Cenko, Viktor
Gjoka, Sinan Gjoleka, Vendim Kapaj, Piro Latifaj, Dejrim Mustafaraj, Trifon Malaj; the singers of
Himarë: Luljeta Çipa, Valentina Gerdhuqi, Violeta Gerdhuqi, Zaharulla Koka, Polite Merkuri,
Eglanda Prifti, Vojsava Zenelaj; the singers of Tirana: Dhurim Ballo, Sotir Ballo, Nazo Celaj,
Trifon Golemi, Hyso Xhaferraj

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Su-Mei Tse – Nested

Sternberg Press 2018 ISBN 9783956794063 Acqn 28806
Hb 22x28cm 268pp col ills £30.50

Edited by Christophe Gallois, Katrin Weilenmann

Texts by Doryun Chong, Emanuele Coccia, Christophe Gallois, Katrin Weilenmann

Marked by her cosmopolitan origins, between Europe and Asia, and by an attention to the
sonorous dimension of the world, the practice of Su-Mei Tse involves issues such as time,
memory, musicality, and language. Presented in 2017–19 at Mudam Luxembourg, Aargauer
Kunsthaus, Yuz Museum in Shanghai, and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, her exhibition “Nested” is
the result of several years of research in different geographical contexts, starting with Italy and
Asia. New directions are apparent in her work, including contemplation, our relation to the
vegetable and the mineral, the multiplicity of modes of existence, and the possibility of a personal
relationship with history.

Like the exhibitions, this publication was conceived to be like a notebook: a form that brings
together impressions that have occurred in everyday life—be they visual, sound, or memory
related—and blends them in a subjective and intuitive way, allowing a whole network of echoes
and correspondences to be deployed.

Combining texts of Doryun Chong, Emanuele Coccia, Christophe Gallois, and Katrin Weilenmann
with a series of “visual chapters” conceived by the artist in close collaboration with graphic
designer Anja Lutz, it constitutes the most comprehensive book on Su-Mei Tse’s work to date.

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