The fourth installment in Ivan Cheng’s (born 1991) vampire novels, Confidences/Production deals with education and is related to the role of substitute teachers in the foundation of the vampire, with younger loves” and dedications.\

Nobody writes about art like Estelle Hoy. Overpriced cheesecakes are the starting point for an essay on art writing; shoplifting in Berlin opens to a reflection on the economies of activist practices; fiction allows for discussion of the legacy of institutional critique, queer mélanges or quiet melancholy. To her, the story of art becomes more nuanced in light of lyrics by Arthur Russell, the posthumous sorrow of Sylvia Plath or a poem by Yvonne Rainer. Saké Blue gathers Hoy’s critical essays and reviews, primarily on women artists. Echoing the work of Hervé Guibert or Camille Henrot, Hoy’s writing suggests that . . . .go to book page >>

What is an artist’s life made of? In his second volume of New Address, Tobias Kaspar (born 1984) uses behind-the-scenes style documentation to picture the hidden aspects of the life of a stereotypical” artist.

A novella by Welsh artist Angharad Williams (born 1986), Eraser follows a narrator who undergoes multiple transformations via psychic connections with other living beings, including a rose, a trout and a magpie. The book closes with images of the artist’s work and her research addressing human capacity to categorize reality.

In response to the titular question, American artist Cooper Jacoby (born 1989) programs thermostats inserted into sculptures with continuously evolving text generated by AI. The tone of the narrative changes according to the heat and humidity in the exhibition space. Somewhere between automatic poetry and speculative fiction, these experimental writing pieces form the core of this book.