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'Kiss my genders' celebrates the work of more than 20 international artists whose practices explore and engage with gender fluidity, as well as non-binary, trans and intersex identities. Published alongside an exhibition, the book features works from the late 1960s and early 1970s through to the present, and focuses on artists who draw on their own experiences to create content and forms that challenge accepted or stable definitions of gender. Working across painting, immersive installations, sculpture, text, photography and film, many of these artists treat the body as a sculpture, and in doing so open up new possibilities for gender, beauty, and representations of the human form. The publication includes texts from writers, theorists, curators, poets and artists who have made key contributions to thinking in the field. From pop culture and gender dissidence to the embrace of the 'monstrous' or 'freaky', from the politics of prose to transfeminism and politics on the street, each of these writers throws light on a different way of seeing. Also featured is a round-table discussion between a selection of artists and exhibition curator Vincent Honoré

Die totalitären Regime, mit denen sich die Ausstellung befaßt, vollzogen gezielt einen Bruch mit ihrer unmittelbaren Vergangenheit: Italien, UdSSR, Deutschland. Das wird schon auf der breit dokumentierten Weltausstellung 1937 in Paris deutlich. Mit 475 Exponaten wird das Verhältnis der offiziellen und der inoffiziellen Kunst zur Politik dokumentiert und auch tabellarisch visualisiert. Der aufwendige Katalog zeigt, wie Künstler - und hier vor allem Architekten - im Dienst der Propaganda instrumentalisiert, ja entwürdigt wurden und sich der öffentlichen Kontrolle nicht entziehen konnten. Die Forderung war, den Glanz der neuen Mächte darzustellen, Macht als öffentliches Schauspiel zu inszenieren und der Umerziehung und Propaganda zu dienen. Das gelang um so leichter, als die moderne Kunst lediglich eine Minderheit ansprach und deren Künstler ins Exil getrieben wurden. Mit 86 Kurzbiographien von Künstlern. (3) (LK/OL: Reindl-Scheffer)

Inspired by artist Otobong Nkanga?s suggestion that ?caring is a form of resistance?, this pioneering book will highlight the ways in which artists are helping to reframe and deepen our psychological and spiritual responses to the climate crisis.00Essays by Rachel Thomas, Maja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes, and Rebecca Solnit explore work by the 14 featured international artists; the history of climate-concerned art; and the role art has to play in climate activism today. After a series of short essays on each of the featured artists, a ?tapestry? of texts ? old and new ? weaves together the voices of the artists in the exhibition with other practitioners from the worlds of literature and ecology.00The book?s unique take on the climate crisis is the connection between activism, care and hope, explored through the work of leading contemporary artists. As well as the text ?tapestry?, mentioned above, we have been given licence to publish a new text by Greta Thunberg, based on her recent keynote speech delivered at the Southbank Centre in 2022.00Exhibition: Hayward Gallery, London, UK (21.06. - 03.09.2023)