Grafische Cel

Micronarratives and the City. An Annotated Map of Bucharest
168 p., 170 x 240 mm
Edited by Alina Cristea, Ileana Marin, Mira Sanders
Designed by Fien Vaneenooghe
ISBN 9789492574244
€ 20,00

This publication maps spatial experiences/wanderings through the city of Bucharest. Through photography, text, drawing, film and mixes of different media, the authors explore the mapping of (micro) situations witnessed in the city of Bucharest. The use of image and text forms a common thread across the contributions of the different authors: Alina Cristea draws from her research and practice Bucharest. The City with One Inhabitant. The City-Me, Mira Sanders brings in the act of drawing to represent/explore ways of spatial experiences, and Ileana Marin examines the creative power of wandering in the city of Bucharest through a selection of Romanian literary works. The publication does not aim to give an exact representation of Bucharest, rather to make side notes of its city-ness and to what extent the authors’ actions reveal (or not) other features of the city, at a given time in this spatial context.

Notes on Bimbos and Bodybuilders
352 p., 148 x 210 mm
Dirk Lauwaert Prijs 2021 (Scriptieprijs LUCA School of Arts 2021)
Author: Stan Van Rompaey
Promotor and final editing: Isolde Vanhee
ISBN 9789492574237
€ 25,00

Inspired by Susan Sontag’s Notes on “Camp”, Stan Van Rompaey attempts to penetrate the very essence of all things “camp”, the manifestations of camp past and present, and the critical appeal she reads in them. The climax of her research is the Post-Sontagian “Camp” Manifesto. The calls in the manifesto are as sincere as they are contrived, as personal as they are political, soaked in the so-called post-irony that the artist embraces as an inevitable condition of her generation. In her manifesto, she calls for a revolutionising of everyday life, the overturning of conventional categories and language systems associated with heteronormativity, the celebration of excess, the elimination of shame and guilt, for a rebellious hyper-awareness too, prompted by the realisation that no form of aesthetics is innocent, nor is its critique.

The Collective Spark. Igniting thinking in groups, teams and the wider world

272 p., 125 x 200 mm
Edited by Martin Ringer, Rob Gordon and Bert Vandenbussche
Designed by Sam Corijn 
ISBN 9789492574220
€ 29,90

This book shows how to think together with others and to help others to think together with you. The chapters are written from a rich store of knowledge, experience and understanding that illumi-nates the hidden complexities occurring whenever people meet to collaborate, plan, review, innovate, learn, teach, consult or facilitate. From their various professions and work areas, the authors delve beneath the surface of visible interactions to reveal the knowledge and wisdom that exists in intuitive and unconscious processes. The result is a profound and informative book that is engaging, accessible and readable, to inform everyday practice in groups, teams, committees, organizations and communities.

With contributions by: Martin Ringer, Rob Gordon, Bert Vandenbussche, Richard Morgan-Jones, András Gelei, Rosealeen Tamaki, Bob Hinshelwood, Susanne Broeng, Barry Jones, Marina Mojovic, Efrat Ginot, Kristina Karlsson.

Acts of Painting
256 p., 170 x 230 mm
Edited by Ritsart Gobyn together with Tom Van Imschoot
Designed by Stella Schöning
ISBN 9789492574213
€ 25,00

This book explores various forms of painting in which the act of painting itself is foregrounded. It offers a range of perspectives on how and why such paintings consciously show, reflect upon and sometimes even stage their own making. Every painting is of course the result of a process, but the paintings and texts on painting discussed here make the artistic process itself the centre of attention. Or, at least, they make it tangible.

With contributions by Melissa Gordon, Matthieu Ronsse, Melanie Deboutte, Isolde Vanhee, Jenny Brosinski, Rachel Esner, Kees Goudzwaard, Moritz Neuhoff, Franziska Reinbothe, Daniel Jensen, Benedikt Leonhardt, Matthias Weischer, Manor Grunewald, Max Frintrop, Tom Van Imschoot and Ritsart Gobyn.

Apologie van het schrift
2 vols., 200 p.
Auteur: Willem Styfhals
Grafisch ontwerp: Dear Reader,
ISBN 9789492574190
€ 25,00

In een tijd waarin digitale tekstverwerkers onze schrijfcultuur volledig bepalen, is het handschrift ten dode opgeschreven. Voor Willem Styfhals is dit het uitgelezen moment om een cultuurfilosofische analyse van het handschrift te ontwikkelen. Apologie van het schrift is een postscript van het met de hand geschreven woord, een lijkrede van een dode letter. Aan de hand van het werk van Belgische dichter-schilder Christian Dotremont, maar ook van de Franse denkers Gaston Bachelard en Roland Barthes, reflecteert dit boek over het wezen van het schrijven. Hoe kunnen we, los van enige romantische nostalgie, het verschil tussen het geschreven en getypte woord bepalen? Hoe bepaalt de materialiteit van het schrift de betekenis van onze teksten? In een poging deze kwesties op te helderen combineert het boek filosofische reflectie met typografisch experiment. Voor het ontwerp van dit boek ontwikkelde grafisch ontwerper Eva Moulaert (Dear Reader,) in samenwerking met letterontwerper Wouter Van Nes een lettertype dat gebaseerd is op haar handschrift.

Artuarium
376 p., 170 x 240 mm
Edited by Nancy Vansieleghem & Volkmar Mühleis
Designed by Hannah Boogaerts
ISBN 9789492574206
€ 18,00

The Artuarium presents keywords to reflect  on art education today. Every keyword contains a text and/or an image that has been  constitutive for the formation of the art school. Some texts unfold critical ideas and  questions, some images evoke careful ob-servations, some texts tell stories, others reflect on the reflection.

With contributions by: Giorgio Agamben Aristoteles, Herman Asselberghs, Maïté Baillieul, Joseph Beuys, Augusto Boal, Agnes Bube, Leonardo da Vinci, Serge Daney, Marc De Blieck, Fernand Deligny, John Dewey, Ana Dimke, Mattijs Driesen, Marguerite Duras, Jerzy Grotowski, Boris Groys, Kerstin Hallmann, Lisa Jevbratt, Allan Kaprow, Paul Klee, Eva Koethen, Wiebe Koopal, Julie Lesenne, Tyson E. Lewis, Audre Lorde, Pierangelo Maset, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Volkmar Mühleis, Ludwig Münz, Kakuzo Okakura, Jacques Rancière, Adrienne Rich, Andrea Sabisch, Ousmane Sembene, Richard Serra, Michel Serres, Friedrich Schiller, Susan Sontag, Nancy Vansieleghem, Ella Ziegler.

School of Equals
240 p., 150 x 220 mm
Edited by Stijn Van Dorpe and Sarah Késenne
Designed by Emmely Comhaire & Septian Priyatna
ISBN 9789492574183
€ 15,00

The publication School of Equals collects a series of reflective texts, instructions, notes, testimonies and slam poetry reflecting the mechanisms at art schools that give rise to exclusion and inequality. A great deal of attention goes to the decolonising and intersectional feminisms that are questioning the status quo of arts education at the institutional level. The publication exposes in that sense situations of discord in relation to the art academy -which is often considered a neutral place- and wants to intervene in essentialist approaches of identity and difference.

Through a variety of personal and peripheral writing practices, the interdisciplinary writing was approached as a critical strategy intervening in the homogenisation and objectification of debates on these issues. Authors that didn’t follow official or formal arts education, or texts that can not simply be placed into recognisable critical frameworks, were thus considered as significant.

The publication can be viewed as an attempt to place critical and emancipatory approaches in arts education higher on the agenda. 

Goodbye to Morrissey. An Essay on Art and Morals – Volkmar Mühleis

192 p., 120 x 195 mm
Author: Volkmar Mühleis
Graphic design: Marie De Keersmaecker
ISBN 9789492574152
€ 15,00   SOLD OUT

Goodbye to Morrissey is a case study about what it means in Pop culture to place trust in someone, to be their fan. As such, it deals on the surface with
the political and ethical conflict exemplified by the swing of the singer Morrissey to the radical right. On a deeper level, it treats the fundamental questions accompanying Morrissey’s shift: the relationship between art and morality, idol and idolizer, critique and myth. Superficiality and profundity – Pop and philosophy – illuminate each other in one provocative essay.

Bioscopic Books
144 p., 118 x 205 mm
Authors: Tine Guns, Inge Ketelers, Isolde Vanhee
Graphic design: Septian Priyatna

Catalogue on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Bioscopic Books’, from 24 April till 6 June 2021 at Kunsthal Gent.

Films have always had an eye on books, but books have been staring right back at them, fascinated by the modern flair, the power and the light of cinema. The ‘Bioscopic Books’ exhibition brings together artist’s books from past and present that relate implicitly or explicitly to the medium of film. It is no coincidence that the artist’s book emancipated itself as an autonomous art object shortly after the emergence of cinema. Whereas painting and photography envied film for its moving images and narrative power, the artist’s book fully embraced its cinematic potential, experimenting with new possibilities to generate form and meaning sequentially, not only in words, but also and especially through images. In turn, filmmakers discovered that various combinations of images and complex camera movements are possible on and between the pages of a book.

In Kunsthal Gent, over 60 books are exhibited that have been carefully selected by several experts on photobooks and artist’s books. Moreover, three new artist’s books have been created especially for the exhibition by Tine Guns, Sophie Nys and Nicolas Provost. These three books are presented alongside three films from the same artists to wrap up the dialogue between books and films.

Concept and realization exhibition: Tine Guns, Inge Ketelers & Isolde Vanhee

Alas – Sophie Nys

208 p., 195 x 165 mm
ISBN 9789492574145
€ 18,00

This publication is realized upon invitation by Tine Guns within the research project Bioscopic Books. Artist’s Books As Seen Through the Cinema Eye and made possible by the support of LUCA School of Arts and the research group Image.

Infinite thanks goes to Peter de Voogd, the collector and owner of the illustrious library from which all the images in this publication originate. Without his generosity, hands and knowledge it would have been unthinkable to compile this remarkable collection of black pages, all captured from more than hundred different editions of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne.

Clementine – Clementine Hoens
288 p., 240 x 300 mm
Dirk Lauwaert Prijs 2019 (Scriptieprijs LUCA School of Arts 2019)
Auteur: Clementine Hoens
Promotor en eindredactie: Tom Van Imschoot
ISBN 9789492574138
€ 28,00

Deze publicatie is gerealiseerd door de Grafische Cel naar aanleiding van de LUCA School of Arts Scriptieprijs Dirk Lauwaert. Het lijvige boek is het werk waarmee Clementine Hoens afstudeerde aan de opleiding Grafisch Ontwerp; onder begeleiding van de promotoren Randoald Sabbe en Peter Van de Cotte.
Scriptiepromotor, redactie en eindredactie: Tom Van Imschoot. De realisatie van het boek werd mogelijk gemaakt door de financiële steun van vele schenkers en LUCA School of Arts.

Reverse Perspective
Reverse Perspective presents practice-based architectural, art historical and philosophical research on presence via images, buildings, and texts. Therefore, the Belgian architect Wim Goes explores three of his main projects: the Yohji Yamamoto Boutique Antwerp, the Royal Belgian Sailing Club and Refuge II. In conversation with Volkmar Mühleis with supplement questions of Wim Goes, the Bulgarian art historian Clemena Antonova discusses the concept of reverse perspective, in relation to Orthodox icons, cubism, the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky and paintings of David Hockney. Mühleis himself is reflecting on practice and theory in this context, by two experimental, philosophical meditations.

Funding: The Faculty of Architecture of KU Leuven
Publisher: Grafische Cel, LUCA School of Arts
Graphic design: Sarah Tilley
152 pages, 135 x 210 mm, Ghent, 2020
ISBN 978-949-257412-1
€ 18,00

Marc De Blieck. Bewaar als afbeelding
160 p., 153 x 204 mm
Beelden, tekst en ontwerp: Marc De Blieck
Uitgave van Grafische Cel, LUCA School of Arts
ISBN 978-949-257411-4
€ 25,00

Matthias Van de brul – Uit de lucht, naar het licht. Een onderzoek naar de betekenis en de verbeelding van de deus ex machina in de tragedie van Medea bij Euripides, Heiner Müller en Peter Verhelst en in mijn eigen theaterwerk

96 p., 210 x 297 mm
Dirk Lauwaert Prijs 2018 (Scriptieprijs LUCA School of Arts 2018)
Auteur: Matthias Van de brul, Master of Arts in Drama
Promotor en eindredactie: Peter Anthonissen
Grafisch ontwerp: Briek Van de Walle
Uitgave van Grafische Cel, LUCA School of Arts
ISBN 978-949-257410-7
10,00 €