- Domaine Lilium
- Novel (French)
- Éditions Hédliotrope, Montreal
- 242 pages, 13 x 18 cm, 2023
- “
Dan Katz, historien de l’architecture montréalais, se rend à Drancy
pour étudier la Cité de la Muette, qui fut tour à tour habitat social
moderne, camp d’internement sous l’occupation nazie, caserne de
gendarmes puis HLM. Lorsqu’il découvre que ses grand-parents y ont été
enfermés et torturés avant d’être envoyés à Auschwitz, ses recherches
prennent un tour plus sombre, autrement plus personnel. Car si Henri
Cannac, le gardien responsable des sévices, est décédé depuis
longtemps, son petit-fils, candidat du Parti de la France, a hérité de
ses opinions politiques, à l’extrême droite du spectre. Katz,
s’improvisant espion et justicier, se met en tête de le traquer et de
lui faire payer les crimes de son aïeul. À mesure qu’il s’en approche,
Katz met au jour les plans du politicien, bien plus funestes qu’il ne
l’aurait cru, et qui semblent impliquer des intérêts fonciers au
Québec. Katz s’enfonce alors dans une quête dangereuse qui le mènera de
la Bretagne à la Gaspésie. Un roman noir étonnant et habile qui
interroge les notions de culpabilité et de réparation.” Back cover text.
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- Canadiana Remix (Dummy)
- Research report
- 344 pages, 14 x 18 cm, 2019
- Canadiana
Remix is the outcome of Blum’s research residency in 2017 at the
Canadian Photography Institute, National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
He produced a re-reading of the Canadian stereotype and pioneer spirit
by mining the National Film Board Still Photography Division archive
hosted at the museum. The NFB Still Photography Division, mandated by
the federal government, commissioned many photographers to provide a
portrait of Canadian society from the 1940s to the 1970s.
This dummy can be seen as a visual research report, in which contents
have been assembled as to provide a completely different narrative,
more in line with today’s Zeitgeist. While the NFB Still Photography
Division celebrated modernity, progress, and the great Canadian
landscapes, we are left today with with many questions and an
environmental disaster.
This dummy is not for commercial use but for documentation purposes only.
All rights reserved.
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- Oranienstraße. Ausgrabungen. Eine Verschronik
- KLAK Verlag, Berlin
- 150 pages, 13 x 21 cm, 2019
- In German
- A chronicle in verse of an ordinary building in
Berlin-Kreuzberg from the mid-19th century until now, combining
different narratives: the social-political background of the
neighbourhood, protest culture, the housing situation, an architectural
perspective on the building, intertwined with the story of a family who
lived there and their descendants throughout the world and the 20th
Century. More here in German KLAK Verlag
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- Tinderbox City. Great and Less Great Fires in Glasgow
- Publication Studio, Glasgow & Editions de
l'école des arts visuels et médiatiques, Montreal
- 96 pages, 14.5 x 20.5 cm, 2017
- Prototype, 50 copies.
- pdf file
- Tinderbox City. Great and Less Great Fires in
Glasgow is a non-scientific, non-exhaustive micro-survey limited to 28
cases among many, many more. Based on newspaper articles or other
documents, the project aims at questioning how the sites of these
disasters have changed in time, and usually how the memory of these
fires is obviously absent from their current form.
- All the fires that have been excluded, whether
the artist decided to ignore them, did not have access to reliable
sources, or merely didn’t know about them, will feature in the more
extensive survey that might be conducted one day. For now, this modest
enterprise will be limited to 28 fires, ranging from the Great Fire of
1652 to the School of Art blaze in 2014.
Most cities have had great or less great fires that scarred and shaped
them forever - whether physically or in their collective psyche. Fire
is a disastrous, destructive, and frightening event, yet it allows
urban regeneration and rebirth. Glasgow, for many reasons, has had so
many fires that the fact became part of its public image. Chief among
these many reasons are the dense and flammable city fabric
inherited from the 19th century, and the very common repurposing of old
buildings, which makes them perpetually unsuitable for the activities
they shelter, and lethal for the people who work or live in them. In
addition, the state seems unable to protect listed buildings, as some
of them have been left to burn, rot, and were then demolished as unsafe.
- Notre histoire || Our History
- Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal
- 156 pages, 20 x 12.5 cm, 2014
- Graphic design: Raymond Lanctot
- In English and French
- Distribution ABC Art Books Canada
- A documentation of the poll that initiated Notre
histoire || Our History,
which ambitioned to sound the soul of Quebec on the identity issue. In
addition to a foreword by Louise Dery and
a project diary by Michael Blum, the book contains the answers of 86
respondents, ranging from mini-essays to sharp one-liners, to the
following questions:
- What is Quebec for you?
- How would you explain the
difference between Canada and Quebec to a foreigner?
- If a museum had to
preserve the history of the differences between Canada and Quebec, how
would you envision it?
- How do you see the relations between Canada and
Quebec within two or three generations?
- What common language other than
English or French could we use?
- D.A. - A Transdisciplinary Handbook of Design Anthropology
- Edited by Yana Milev
- Peter Lang Publishing, 1299 pages, 23.6 x 17 x
7.1 cm, 2013
- In English
- With contributions by Tom Holert, Jean
Baudrillard,
Marc Bijl, Gregor Schneider, Boris Groys, Alexander Kluge, Armin Linke,
Molly Nestbit, Chantal Mouffe, Oliver Marchart, Pierre Bourdieu, Brian
Holmes, Hal Foster, Übermorgen.com, Michael Blum, Paul Virilio, Peter
Weibel, Jacques Rancière, Irit Rogoff, Giorgio Agamben and many more.
- “D.A.” represents a cultural science handbook of
“Design Anthropology”, providing an epistemology, phenomenology and
survey of the varieties of the extended concept of design. Here the
design concept is placed at the centre of the nexus of meaning of
cultural production that rests on the three pillars Segno, Mythus and
Techne. Anthropological design research is trans- disciplinary,
developing in the connexion between Visual Culture (signal,
in/visibility, image/void, imagination, representation), Doing Culture
(act, cooperation, relation, fabrication, exchange), Material Culture
(object, artefact, thing, facing, texture), Knowledge Culture
(techniques, practices, norms, beliefs, values), Narrative Culture
(mythology, significance, meaning, memory, identity), Critical Culture
(watching, criterion, antagonism, crisis, theory) and Aesthetic Culture
(emotion, sentiment, taste, feel, sense). It is only against this
background that the complex anthropological dimension of Design Culture
can be understood, extending far beyond the horizon of a design science
concept of design, industry-near design thinking and marketing, or a
product-oriented concept of manufacture. “Design Anthropology” is the
research field of the “Coming Community”, which has been founded here
with a “D.A.” fraternity of more than 100 contributions, partners and
friends.
Through “D.A.” Yana Milev has formulated the theoretical and curatorial
foundation for an extended concept of design that she has been
representing and practicing since the 1990th in the context of the
arts, rendering it now as “Anthropo Design”.
- CIAO GHATOUL
- Catalogue, 16 pages,
FRAC Pays de la Loire/F, 2012
- Includes 'You Are A Cannon', essay by Galit Eilat
in Hebrew, Arabic, English and French.
- BESHINUY ADERET, GVERET AKHERET (with different clothes, it's a
different lady)
- Perpetual calendar, 14 p., B/W, 30 x 48.5 cm,
2008
- Design by Michal Sahar and Koby Levy.
- Commissioned by Beit Hatefutsot, Tel Aviv,
for the exhibition NEVER LOOKED BETTER, curated by Galit Eilat and Eyal
Danon.
- Edition 2000
- Hebrew
- Based
on the Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld collection hosted by Beit
Hatefutsot, the calendar boils down the entire collection of 200.000
photographs to 13 images, offering an alternative reading of the
Zionist narrative. The calendar is given out for free to museum
visitors, and will hopefully infiltrate many kitchens, offices, and
waiting rooms in Israel.
- MEIN LAND
- 96 p., B/W, 14 x 20.5 cm, 2008
- Published by Unrast Verlag, Munster/DE
- Edition 1500
- German
- ISBN 978-3-89771-478-6
- MOJE ZEME
- Published in Czech by Faculty of Art and Design,
Purkyne University, Usti nad Labem/CZ, 2008
- With
the implementation of drastic national and EU immigration policies,
life for undocumented migrants in Europe has become a daily nightmare.
Fueled by populistic discourse and translated into law, the fear of the
foreigner is reaching a new currency. With yearly figures as guideline,
there seems to be no other option than deport as many people as
possible, regardless of their situation.
- Inspired by daily reports of deportations of
'sans-papiers', Mein Land unravels the terrifying litany of destinies
crushed and lifes broken in the name of legality and democracy.
- CAPE TOWN - STOCKHOLM (ON THEMBO MJOBO)
- 210 p., B/W, 16 x 22 cm, with Audio CD, 2007
- Published by Mobile Art Production &
Propexus, Stockholm/SE
- Design Mattias Givell
- Edition 1200
- English and Swedish
- ISBN 978-91-87952-46-3
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- MAKE EVERYTHING NEW. A PROJECT ON COMMUNISM
- Bookworks, London/UK
& Project Arts Center, Dublin/IRL
- Edited by Grant Watson,
Gerrie van Noord & Gavin Everall, 2006
ISBN
1 870699 93 9
- Communism is routinely
defined as defeated and its conquest the subject of regular
celebration. Caught in the disappointment and negative connotations of
the past, it has become all but unthinkable. Make Everything New seeks
to rescue the idea of Communism from this trap. Collaborating with
artists, writers and collectives, this project has commissioned and
collected counter-narratives, abstract and unrealistic ideas, engaged
political commentary and satirical work, that presents neither an
historical or comprehensive overview nor a requiem for the past. It is
a collection of partial and subjective accounts of various creative
practices, an experimental platform for ideas and an attempt to see in
what ways the communist imagination can be materialised as art.
Contributors
include: 16Beaver, Gopal Balakrishnan, Michael Blum, AA Bronson, Maria
Eichorn, Factotum, Dmitry Gutov, Wu Ming, Aleksandra Mir, Sarah
Pierce/The Metropolitan Complex, CK Rajan, Raqs Media Collective, Dont
Rhine, Martha Rosler, Rob Stone, Alberto Toscano, and Klaus Weber.
- LA DERNIERE BREVE
- 72 pages, B/W,
16
x 22,5 cm, 2005
- Centre d'art contemporain La synagogue de
Delme/F
- Revolver-Archiv für aktuelle Kunst,
Frankfurt/D
- Design Digital Baobab, Lyon/F
- Edition
700French and English
- ISBN 3-86588-190-4 (Revolver)
- ISBN 2-9522123-1-7
(Synagogue de Delme)
- A documentation of the project carried out in
the pages
- of regional daily Le Republicain Lorrain,
Metz/F.
- MONUMENT TO THE
BIRTH OF THE 20TH CENTURY
- 224 pages, B/W, 15 x 18 cm, 2005
- English, German and French
Edition 1000
ISBN
3-86588-047-9
Revolver-Archiv für aktuelle
Kunst, Frankfurt/D
A project about history, memory
discourse, commemoration culture,
heritage management, city-branding, controversy and more. Includes
contributions by (a.o.) Arahmaiani, Brett Bloom, Erhard Busek, Yves
Chaudouet, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Jacques Chirac, Noam Chomsky,
Kimberley Cornish, Carola Dertnig, Thomas Duschlbauer, Stephen
Feinstein, Robert Fleck, Karl Iro Goldblat, Erich Haider, Daniela
Hammer-Tugendhat, Frank Hartmann, Thomas Hirschhorn, Detlef Hoffmann,
Nabila Irshaid, Willibald Katzinger, Susan Kelly, Pierre Leguillon, Ken
Lum, Thomas Michelon, Simon Morris, Sina Najafi, Marylene Negro, Gregor
Neuerer, Jenny Perlin, Olivier Poivre d’Arvor, Wolfgang
Preisinger,
Franz Prieler, Elsa Prochazka, Josef Puehringer, Paul Rajakovics,
Gerald Raunig, Julian Samuel, Christine Schoepf, Wolfgang Schuessel,
Esther Shalev-Gerz, Erich Watzl, Lawrence Weiner, Lesley Young; as well
as an essay by Stella Rollig and an interview of Michael Blum by Steven
Nyanga.
- '400 JAAR ZONDER GRAF, DEN
HEB JE LANG
GEZWEGEN' (400 YEARS WITHOUT A GRAVE IS A LONG TIME TO SHUT UP)
- Audio-CD and
booklet 8 pages, color-B/W, 2002
- Edition 500
- Audio in Dutch, booklet in English
- Published by Michael Blum & Amsterdams
fonds voor de kunst, Amsterdam/NL
- Soundtrack and documentation of the public
installation.
- POTLATCH.DOC
- 64 pages, full color, 24 x
29 cm
- 1st
run 2001, 2nd run 2002
- Edition 2 x 1000
- ISBN 2-9515349-1-4
- Published by Michael Blum &
Rijksakademie
van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam/NL
- A visual exploration of the paradigm of
loss. Free distribution in waiting-rooms worldwide, on-going.
- HOMO OECONOMICUS
- 48 pages, full
color, 16 x 17,5 cm, 2000
- Edition 1000
- English and French
- ISBN 2-9515349-0-6
- Published by Michael Blum
- Distributed by De Balie,
Amsterdam
(Netherlands & Belgium) and IDEA books, Amsterdam/NL
'An amazing journey into corporate
culture' - The Financial Times
'A moving testimony about the
future of mankind' - The New
York
Times
'La renovacion de la economia
política ya tiene su
monumento' - El Pais
'Un livre a diffuser d'urgence
dans les ecoles et les
entreprises' - Le Monde
'A beautifully illustrated
glimpse of transglobal life-style'
- Vanity Fair
'Ein herrlicher Blick auf den
Kapitalismus' - Bild Zeitung
'When free-trade becomes a fairy
tale' - South China Morning
Post
'Le liberalisme mis a nu.
Rudement epatant !' - Le Nouvel
Observateur
'Een zonderlinge reis naar de
beurs' - NRC Handelsblad
'The shareholder's Bible' -
Newsweek
'The best since Marx' -
Amazon.com
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- LA SALLE DES TEMPS PERDUS
- Booklet 8
pages, B/W, 21 x 16 cm, 1997
- Edition 700
- French
Published by Michael Blum
& Le Grand
Wazoo,
Amiens/F
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