178 x 250mm, 176 pages, Colour printing, Wire-o bound, Softcover, 2024

Yulia Carolin Kothe works at the intersection of sculpture, installation, sound, writing, and performance. Her multi-format publication WORK traces sculptural installations and spatial interventions that explore the connections, discrepancies, and tensions between temporal and spatial settings. The spiral binding holds together the artist’s work cycles from the past five years in a chapter-like format, combining exhibition views with scripts from her radio art pieces and live performances.

In this first monograph, Kothe documents the processes, possibilities, and limitations of spatial narration. It functions as a layered navigation through images, documentation, and texts, where each material enables the creation of a new chapter that translates the site-specific and spatial works into the context of the publication. Past spatial and sonic arrangements intersect with current exchanges between the contributors, who are both colleagues and friends.

Kothe’s practice unfolds in non-linear acts based on research that weaves together personal and collective memory, queer feminist theory, and archival material — with the aim of revisiting and repositioning events that respond to particular conditions of spaces and the bodies within them. Moving away from the idea of a singular, finished work, her process leads to site-specific and contextual modes of display, casting unforeseen light on particular environments.

With commissioned texts by artists Adrian Ruth Williams (Frankfurt am Main, DE / Portland, Oregon, USA) and Ragini Chawla (Delhi, IND), writer and curator Caitlin Merrett King (Glasgow, UK) as well as art theorist Friederike Nastold (Berlin, DE).

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