Garage and Ad Marginem Press collaborate to create new publications
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture announced the launch of a joint
publishing program with Ad Marginem Press, specializing in texts on
contemporary culture. The new series will include publications on contemporary
art and architecture, new media, photography, theater, cinema, sociology and
cultural marketing.
Published texts will include theory and criticism, fiction, diaries and
collections of interviews and will encompass well-known classical texts by 20th
century thinkers, together with new publications such as Jonathan Littell’s
Triptych: How To Look At Francis Bacon (2012). The first publications
will be Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema and John Seabrook’s Nobrow: The
Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture. Also this year, the first
publications in Russian of Politicians of Poetics, a selection of collected
essays from the earlier Art Power and Going Public, by Boris
Groys; History of Curating by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Bento’s
Sketchbook by Booker Prize winner John Berger will be published. These
titles contribute to delineating the notion of the ‘contemporary’, and they
allow the reader to shape an individual outlook on contemporary culture.
Dasha Zhukova, founder of Garage, commented, ‘We would like to bridge the gap
in terms of knowledge and information on contemporary culture. Russia is
developing a new community of artists, curators and contemporary art lovers,
but there are virtually no books in Russian which comment on contemporary
culture, so this is a chance to make a difference.’
