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The publication is the result of an invitation to think about what an introduction to a screening of Sohrab Shahid-Saless’ In der Fremde (1975) could consist of. Everyone was provided with the same set of instructions, an attempt not so much to confine their speech but to open up the possibilities of what this convention allows us to say. The only command, so to speak, the editors included, was that writing was supposed to approximate speaking, as each text is supposed to be read aloud before the screening, ideally by a person who is not the author. Part of the idea was that these introductions can be used freely for other screenings of In der Fremde, and possibly other films as well. Edited by Niloufar Emamifar Pujan Karambeigi With contributions by Esra Akcan Alice Creischer Pujan Karambeigi Michelle Langford Simon Lässig Ghislaine Leung Richard Maxwell Samaneh Moafi Romy Rüegger Alfred Schefczyk 84 pages 12.7 × 20.3 cm Softcover English & German ISBN 978-3-200-07890-1 Edition of 250 EUR 18.00 excl. shipping costs Order Introductions to “In der Fremde”

Bringing together six short stories by Benjamin Hirte, The Robbers is the first compilation of the artist’s literary œuvre. 64 pages 11 × 17.8 cm Softcover English ISBN 978-3-200-07872-7 Edition of 150 EUR 14.00 excl. shipping costs Order Benjamin Hirte The Robbers

Taking the furniture catalogue Möbel und Lampen from the 1980ies as a starting point, Milena Büsch’s eponymous artist’s book appropriates the catalogue’s imagery through her artistic practice. Pages of the original were ripped out, images of design pieces meticulously overpainted. Thus Büsch takes the layout of the catalogue and re-inserts it into her practice, making a book with an order that follows the artist’s compositional idea rather than the original commercial structure. Möbel und Lampen is an artist’s book that exists as a work on its own, reflecting Büsch’s understanding of painting and authorship. 38 pages 23.7 × 31.9 cm Softcover ISBN 978-3-200-07770-6 Edition of 150 EUR 18.00 excl. shipping costs Order Milena Büsch Möbel und Lampen

The publication Fontanel, includes photographs by Constantin Thun taken in the artist’s apartment between 2016 and 2021. As embedded in Thun’s artistic practice of creating frameworks, challenging them, and drawing from them, his apartment is also considered such a framework and serves as a resource for the creation of new works. The identity of the resulting works is the sum of the information collected and repeatedly edited from the living spaces—whether in the form of notes made, books read, a quick snack, observations of one’s surroundings. Like the spaces themselves, the illustrated book with its snapshots also functions as an archive of these ephemeral conditions. Fontanel, sees itself as a work in its own right, on par with other works by Thun and consists of a publication, a postcard, a compliment card and the colophon in an archival cardboard box in an edition of 200. Publication, postcard, compliment card and colophon in cardboard box 24.0 × 28.8 × 3.0 cm 192 pages with 139 images 23.4 × 25.9 cm Softcover ISBN 978-3-200-07700-3 Edition of 200 EUR 40.00 excl. shipping costs Order Constantin Thun Fontanel,

Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... of lovers, time, and death, organized with Attilia Fattori Franchini at FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna, this book brings together contributions by Estelle Hoy, Drew Sawyer, Attilia Fattori Franchini, and the text Enquête autour d’un portrait (sur Balthus), 1983 by Hervé Guibert, translated for the first time in English alongside 15 images of Guibert’s photographic work. Editors: Attilia Fattori Franchini, Felix Gaudlitz Design: FONDAZIONE Europa 68 pages with 15 black and white images 19.2 × 25.6 cm Softcover with dust jacket ISBN 978-3-200-07307-4 Edition of 250 EUR 32.00 excl. shipping costs Order Hervé Guibert … of lovers, time, and death

Bringing together six short stories by Benjamin Hirte, Die Räuber is the first compilation of the artist’s literary œuvre. 64 pages 11 × 17.8 cm Softcover German ISBN 978-3-200-07030-1 Second edition of 150 EUR 14.00 excl. shipping costs Order Benjamin Hirte Die Räuber

16 pages 21 × 29.7 cm Brochure Edition of 50 + 50 EUR 15.00 excl. shipping costs Sold out

60 pages 12 × 18 cm Softcover, open spine with black thread ISBN 978-3-200-06469-0 Edition of 150 EUR 22.00 excl. shipping costs Order Jenna Dini Bliss SUICIDE GIRLS

24 pages 24 × 34 cm Pamphlet stitch Edition of 150 EUR 18.00 excl. shipping costs Order Georgie Nettell Natural Language & Oliver Corino Favourite Son

The Artist & The Publishers is based on a long ongoing conversation between the artist and saxpublishers, reflecting on artistic processes, exhibition making, documentation and fragmentation. Referring to the exhibition Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989 – 2017 (8 November 2017 – 28 January 2018) at Kunsthalle Wien, the title of the publication quotes a chapter of the show entitled “The Artist & The Publishers.” The Artist & The Publishers combines installation views of Dunst’s previous artistic production as inlays and spreads. While the inlay images were chosen from Dunst’s documentation archive, Georg Petermichl was commissioned for the spread images. Over the past years, Dunst has taken photographs—in his private home, studio as well as exhibition spaces—and printed them as a physical archive, showing sequences, formations and configurations of his artistic process. Taking Dunst’s solo exhibition Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C (28 March – 27 April 2018) at the Gallery of Contemporary Art and Architecture – House of Arts České Budějovice as a starting point, Petermichl kept the white balance provoked by the floor installation’s pink reflection as a reference for the whole documentation. Studying the interactions of light, space and the artworks, Petermichl marks a counterposition towards the practice of contemporary exhibition documentation. By layering the two positions, works and intentions of institutional context and industrial production appear and re-appear under subjective connotations—differing in size, context, and quality—towards a question of form and representation. 74 pages and inlays 23.5 × 29.5 cm Binder ISBN 978-3-200-06244-3 Edition of 400 EUR 28.00 excl. shipping costs Order Heinrich Dunst The Artist & The Publishers

Starting with fictional texts in the mid-1980s, Creischer soon began to write scores for her pioneering performances and, together with her partner Andreas Siekmann, ended up becoming one of the early champions of the second wave of Institutional Critique that formed in the early 90s around Texte zur Kunst and Springerin. A decade later, and often in collaboration with Siekmann, Creischer would begin to expand this institutionally critical grammar towards issues surrounding globalization and transnational structures of exploitation. The twentytwo chronologically ordered essays, poems, performance scores, plays, prose pieces, and critical analyses by the artist, activist, and writer Alice Creischer that are collected in this book aim not only at rendering the manifold transitions of the reunified German (artistic) landscape visible. Moreover, the texts problematize Alice Creischer’s constant struggle for a language to analyze and criticize, to comment and intervene into the socio-economic fabric she finds herself surrounded by. Editor: Pujan Karambeigi Design: Ronnie Fueglister 196 pages 13.5 × 20 cm Cloth spine softcover ISBN 978-3-200-06292-4 Edition of 150  EUR 22.00 excl. shipping costs First edition sold out, second edition coming soon

With the invention of (book) printing in the 15th century, private book collections and actual libraries increased respectively started, whereupon it became important to list and archive books in the collection. Subsequently libraries, collectors and bookmakers commissioned artists to create an exlibris (transl. for “from the books (or library) of”)—stamps, little woodcuts, etchings, lithographs and other prints on paper, that were put in the frontispiz of every book in order to indicate the collection/owner of the book. Whilst in the 16th century exlibris became very popular and artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein or Lucas Cranach were commissioned, the exlibris did not entirely create much attention until its renaissance in the late 19th century, especially during the art deco period. In the beginning of book printing, exlibris stamps were used to mark and archive books. Later on, etchings, woodcuts and other prints on paper replaced the stamp for it not being distinguished enough. Although the exlibris has mostly disappeared and is almost only used in public libraries nowadays, the stamp was brought back for its longevity and practicality. saxpublishers’ new edition consists of commissioned exlibris stamps each in an edition of 10 + 2 AP by eight international artists. Artists: Patricia L. Boyd Alice Creischer Michèle Graf & Selina Grueter Sam Lewitt Till Megerle Andreas Siekman TJW/JP Wooden stamp with rubber plate and ink pad ca. 4.5 – 6.5 × 7.5 – 9.5 × 8.5 cm Edition of 10 + 2 AP EUR 100.00 Order saxpublishers Ex Libris

The Vienna Guide is built upon “travel notes” compiled and edited by artist Tony Cokes. Adopting the point of view of the flaneur, Cokes creates a speculative image of Vienna by appropriating and meshing non-art, historical figures, touristic clichés and club nights, all entwined in technological comments. This distant gaze—Cokes hasn’t visited Vienna in the last 20 years—facilitates an aerial view of the complexities and unique traits that characterizes it. Commissioned by Attilia Fattori Franchini, the guide proposes to approach Vienna—and any urban site—as a discursive platform for future possibilities and identities rather than offering a historical or direct feedback over a city. The Vienna Guide by Tony Cokes includes 3 stickers of video stills of Cokes’ video Could you visit me in dreams? (2018) and is published in an edition of 150 + 25. 48 pages 11 × 17 cm Softcover Printed on Colorplan Factory Yellow Includes 3 stickers (15 × 8.5 cm) Edition of 150 + 25 for Could you visit me in dreams? curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini EUR 24.00 excl. shipping costs Sold out

Exhibition & Bookshop: 13 – 16 December 2017 Tuesday – Friday: 12:00 – 18:00 Saturday: 11:00 – 15:00 Opening: Tuesday, 12 December 2017, 18:00 – 21:00 Screening: Friday, 15 December 2017, 19:00 OC Bar is open Nights in Black Leather USA, 1972/73 100min, OV Directed by Richard Abel With special thanks to Peter Berlin, San Francisco Croy Nielsen Parkring 4, 1010 Vienna, Austria In the early to mid-1970s, Peter Berlin created some of the most recognizable gay male erotic imagery of that time. Serving as his own photographer, model, and fashion designer, Peter redefined self-portraiture and became an international sensation. His two films, Nights in Black Leather (1972) and That Boy (1974), played to packed houses for years and, along with other pioneering erotic filmmakers such as Wakefield Poole and Jack Deveau, helped bring gay male erotic films artistic legitimacy. His self-portraits were widely published, making Peter a gay household name and an international celebrity. He was also the subject of several Robert Mapplethorpe photographs and six drawings by Tom of Finland. Read more...