Look at Hazards, Look at Losses and Anti-Wall
Two books are being launched with talks by the contributors, Anthony Iles (Mute), Zoran Pantelić (kuda.org) and Howard Slater
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Look at Hazards, Look at Losses
978-86-88567-21-3
Look at Hazards, Look at Losses developed out of a series of conversations, exchanges and visits between kuda.org, GKP, Anthony Iles and Marina Vishmidt over 2015-2017 through which different approaches to common problems of cultural production in early-21st century Europe and its peripheries were debated and conceptually probed.
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Anti-Wall – Contribution to a more or less caput comprehension of Surrealism
Including:
Mystić Constructions & The Boring One, Surrealist Publications, Belgrade, 1932
Poetic translation and transduction: Howard Slater, London/Novi Sad, 2017

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Look at Hazards, Look at Losses
 
Authors - Group for Conceptual Politics (GKP), Danny Hayward, Anthony Iles, Lisa Jeschke, Benjamin Noys, Eirik Steinhoff and Marina Vishmidt
Editors - kuda.org, Group for Conceptual Politics, Anthony Iles & Marina Vishmidt
Translation interventions - Group for Conceptual Politics & New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad
Look at Hazards, Look at Losses developed out of a series of conversations, exchanges and visits between kuda.org, GKP, Anthony Iles and Marina Vishmidt over 2015-2017 through which different approaches to common problems of cultural production in early-21st century Europe and its peripheries were debated and conceptually probed. Setting out from Theodor W. Adorno’s concept of ‘the aesthetic relations of production’ these discussions proceeded to explore problems bearing upon organisation in small groups in the field of culture, philosophical idealism and materialism, poetry, error and crisis. The anthology assembled reflects these concerns through engagement with the writing of others who have helped orientate us through these discussions. The book which is the outcome consists of seven original contributions by poets and theorists which attempt to move toward new political interventions in culture and beyond ‘crisis as a way of life’.

Paperback ISBN: 978-86-88567-21-3
eBook ISBN: 978-86-88567-22-0
Paperback 18€, eBook: 12€, Bundle – print and eBook: 20€
Languages: English and Serbo-Croatian, Illustrations: 20, Release Date: 27th April, 2017, Page count: 280 pages Page size: 229 x 152 mm
Co-published, kuda.org and Mute Books, 2017

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Anti-Wall – Contribution to a more or less caput comprehension of Surrealism
Authors: Mystić Constructions & The Boring One
Poetic translation and transduction: Howard Slater, London
Translation interventions: Group for Conceptual Politics & New Media Center_kuda.org, Novi Sad
Publisher: kuda.org, 2017
Languages: English and Serbo-Croatian

Anti-Wall has come together as one of many steps in kuda.org and GKP collaboration with Howard Slater over recent years. This latest co-operation saw us coming together around a mutual interest in the manifestations of the Surrealist movement both locally and world-wide. Anti-Wall, then, operates as a conjunction point (‘communicating vessel’) between the Belgrade Surrealist Group and those in the Antilles that came together around the journals Legitimate Defence and Tropiques. It also became a means of investigating political, affective and art organisations, then, here and now:

Infra- and OurOrganization, politics as thought, distance from the State and political parties are just some of common themes embedded into the poetic and experimental transduction of Anti-Wall, originally published by Surrealist Publications, Belgrade in 1932 (by Marko Ristić & Vane Bor). This book, we hope, will help us get over our own walls.

Previous common work
Anomie/Bonhomie – translation of Howard Slater's book into Serbo-Croatian language

Faculty of De-programming for Obsolescence! Welcome! – conference & reader:
http://kuda.org/en/reader-konference-faculty-de-programming-obsolescence-welcome-published-kudaorg

Paperback ISBN: 978-86-88567-20-6
Languages: English and Serbo-Croatian, Illustrations: 1, Release Date: 27th April, 2017, Page count: 80 pages, Page size: 210 x 145 mm
Published: kuda.org, 2017

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The publication of these books is part of the project 'Aesthetic Education Expanded' realised in collaboration with kuda.org Novi Sad; Multimedia Institute and Kulturtreger/Booksa Zagreb; Kontrapunkt Skoplje and Berliner Gazette Berlin, and supported by the EU cultural program Creative Europe.
http://www.kuda.org/sr/pro-irena-estetska-edukacija-aesthetic-education-expanded-2015-2017
The project is supported by program Creative Europe (2014–2020) of the European Union, Ministry of Culture and Informing of Republic Serbia, European Cultural Foundation Amsterdam - BAC program, Ministry for Culture of Province Vojvodina and Ministry of Culture city of Novi Sad.