dOCUMENTA (13) is pleased to announce its cooperation with Hatje Cantz Verlag on all publications.
dOCUMENTA (13) will open in Kassel, Germany, on June 9, 2012, and will issue all its publications in collaboration with Hatje Cantz Verlag. documenta and Hatje Cantz Verlag will thus be working together for the fourth time, after the 1992, 1997, and 2002 editions of the exhibition. A range of dOCUMENTA (13) publications will appear over the next two and a-half years, including the exhibition catalogue, artists’ books, and a preliminary series of notebooks.
"Through innovative publications with Hatje Cantz, dOCUMENTA (13) focuses on contemporary art practice while aiming to expand the exhibition’s perspectives by exploring how knowledge, thinking, and visuality are generated in and around art," explains artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
"It is exciting to be integrated in the planning of the publications at such an early stage and to experience the genesis of dOCUMENTA (13) at first hand," comments Annette Kulenkampff, CEO of Hatje Cantz Verlag. Bernd Leifeld, CEO of documenta and Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH, adds, "this is an extraordinarily early decision and I am looking forward to start working on the publications tomorrow."
We are also pleased to announce that Dr. Bettina Funcke has been appointed Head of Publications for dOCUMENTA (13). A New York-based German writer and editor, Dr. Funcke has published numerous books and essays on art and its production. After editing books at Dia Art Foundation (2000-07), she was Senior Editor U.S. for Parkett (2007-10) and is also a co-founder of The Leopard Press and the Continuous Project group.
As a prelude to the 2012 exhibition, dOCUMENTA (13) and Hatje Cantz will publish 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, a series of notebooks. Note taking encompasses witnessing, drawing, writing, and diagrammatic thinking; it is speculative, manifests a preliminary moment, a passage, and acts as a memory aid or trace. Consisting of contributions by authors from a range of fields and disciplines, such as art, science, philosophy and psychology, anthropology, economic- and political theory, language- and literature studies, as well as poetry, 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts constitutes a space of dOCUMENTA (13) that aims to explore how thinking emerges and lies at the heart of the active exercise of re-imagining the world. The Latin "documentum," from which the plural noun "documenta" derives, means "lesson, lessons," and at times it even indicates a "warning." In its cumulative nature, this publication project generates a motion, a mental workshop, and embraces many different vocabularies, forms of note taking, enunciations, words, images, and logics. 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts is a continuous articulation of the emphasis of dOCUMENTA (13) on the propositional, underlining the nature of the various and flexible mental moves inherent in such a project-to stretch the mind, to give it the flexibility to generate space for the possible. Thoughts, unlike statements, are always variations: this is the spirit in which these notebooks are proposed.