BOOK SERIES INDEX

SI Series

Embracing the conceptual framework of an exhibition at Swiss Institute and its related public programs, each book in the SI Series adds retrospective context through seminal essays, archival materials, event transcripts, artist portfolios and exhibition documentation, as well as reprints and new translations of important texts.

Heidi Bucher Edited by Karen Marta, Simon Castets. Text by Indigo Bucher, Mayo Bucher, Bice Curiger, Heike Munder, Beatrix Ruf, Christian Scheidemann, Philip Ursprung. Although Heidi Bucher's (1926–93) oeuvre remained mostly overlooked after her death, a recent revitalization around her idiosyncratic practice has opened the conversation on this pioneer in the feminist dialogue of the 1970s. Born in Switzerland, >>more Swiss Institute/Karma, New York ISBN 9781942607144 US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE Hbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 116 pgs / 50 color / 20 b&w. Pub Date: 02/23/2016 Not available The St. Petersburg Paradox Edited by Karen Marta, Simon Castets. Text by Ericka Beckman, A.E. Benenson, Walter Benjamin, Fredric Brandt, Vitalik Buterin, Alex Mackin Dolan, Hugh Scott Douglas, Cooper Francis, Sam Frank, Konstantin Genin, Remco Heesen, Nicolas Langlitz, Scott Lyall, Tabor Robak, Ben Schumacher, Emily Segal, Amalia Ulman, Douglas Wilson, Eric Zimmerman. In the “St. Petersburg gamble,” the house offers to flip a coin until it comes up heads. The payoff doubles each time tails appears. By conventional definitions, the St Petersburg gamble has an infinite potential >>more Swiss Institute/Karma, New York ISBN 9781942607151 US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE Hbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 168 pgs / 37 color. Pub Date: 02/23/2016 In stock Allyson Vieira: The Plural Present Edited by Karen Marta, Simon Castets. Text by Joe Fyfe, Amelia Groom, William Hanley, Adam Szymczyk. This first-ever in-depth look at New York artist Allyson Vieira (born 1979) investigates the contextual variations that occurred when her exhibition The Plural Present moved from Kunsthalle Basel to Swiss Institute in New York. Focusing >>more Swiss Institute/Kunsthalle Basel/Karma, New York ISBN 9781942607137 US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE Hbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 120 pgs / 130 color / 7 b&w. Pub Date: 02/23/2016 Not available