How To Make Sculpture Move

Jap Sam 2022 ISBN 9789492852588 Acqn 32619

Pb 21x27cm 112pp col ills £24.75

Sculpture, choreography, and installation are the main pillars of Ruta Butkute's art practice. Her
method is guided by a reflective approach to the physicality of sculpture and the relation to the
performers, audiences, and the spaces in which they interact. Departing from the principle that an
object has a function hidden inside, she redefines the origins and functions of materials and forms
in order to evoke their intricate capacity to move. During her Rijksakademie residency (2014-15)
in Amsterdam, Butkute started to translate sculpture into different mediums. Over the course of
several years, she developed a new medium she calls 'sculptural performance', which places
objects, sculptures, and space in a transformative field, enabling the direction of movement.

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Arjan van Helmond - What speaks to us
Jap Sam 2022 ISBN 9789492852557 Acqn 32562
Pb 23x28cm 192pp col ills £28.95

Arjan van Helmond approaches painting as a medium that helps us think about objects, places,
and representations of the spaces of our daily lives. His practice focuses on appropriating the
unspectacular and even banal aspects of daily life. Images that tell a story, and yet his paintings
are not explicitly narrative. Instead they use ordinary and evocative details to build up a form of
realism, to trace a path between history, culture, cliche, and everyday human behaviour.
Published with an exhibition of Van Helmond's work curated by Marieke Jooren, this compendium
gives us pause, allowing us to reminisce about those 'unspecial' things which can nevertheless
hold emotional value.

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Rune Peitersen – RAABJERG
Jap Sam 2022 ISBN 9789492852571 Acqn 32563
Pb 22x28cm 288pp col ills £24.95

'Raabjerg' emerges from the changing landscape of northern Jutland in Denmark. Due to
climatological shifts and the extraction of resources by humans, the landscape has gradually
altered over time. Attempts have also been made to "restore" and "re-establish" the natural
situation. The book's narrative focus is on the violent sand drift which has occurred here between
the 16th and 19th centuries; how it manifested and completely transformed a once fertile region
into a barren wasteland. After two centuries of struggle, humans have "succeeded" in re-
transforming the landscape into a controlled state. With this project, Rune Peitersen asks: How
do you preserve transition?

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Ruchama Noorda - As Above, So Below
Jap Sam 2022 ISBN 9789492852564 Acqn 32618
Hb 23x29cm 252pp col ills £32.95

'As Above, So Below' documents the work made by Amsterdam-based artist, Ruchama Noorda
over a twenty-year period and explores the esoteric system of belief that links her practice to the
early twentieth century Lebensreformers, the European avant-garde, and today's no growth
environmentalist movement. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the artist's
installations, drawings, videos, sculptures, and performances with written commentary by the
artist and by California-based art and cultural critic Dick Hebdige.

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