"Over the past two decades, the art world has broadened its geographic reach and opened itself to new continents, allowing for a significant cross-pollination of post-conceptual strategies and vernacular modes. Printed materials, in both innovative and traditional forms, have played a key role in this exchange of ideas and sources. This catalogue, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, examines ..."
"Drawing from such disciplines as anthropology, sociology, economics, art criticism, and travel writing, Universal Experience is both a sizeable illustrated catalogue of the exhibition at the MCA, Chicago and a companion to the experience of contemporary travel and tourism. This volume draws on the proliferation of research surrounding the social, geographic, and cultural dimensions of mobility and outputs this information as an antholog ..."
"The story of Alexandra Mir's Space Tapestry: Faraway Missions, with reproductions of the finished work and images from its collaborative creation with twenty-five young artists.This book provides a companion to Aleksandra Mir's latest body of work Space Tapestry: Faraway Missions, exhibited at Tate Liverpool and Modern Art Oxford.Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and the anonymous artists who depicted Halley's Comet in 1066, the Space Tap ..."
"Based on a symposium at the Department of Sculpture―Transmedial Space, University of Art and Design, Linz, Austria, Sculpture Unlimited captures the breadth of the contemporary discussion around sculpture. Against the historical backdrop of expansions of the notion of sculpture―from Auguste Rodin to Rosalind Krauss and beyond―one could think that the discipline has become defined by its near arbitrary malleability, since practically any ..."
The How Not to Cookbook(1st Edition) Lessons Learned the Hard Way by AleksandraMir Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2010 by Rizzoli ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-3499-0, ISBN: 0-8478-3499-9
"Learn what not to do in the kitchen from this hilarious collection of real advice by real people. Sometimes the best way to learn is to make mistakes. That’s the premise of this book—a sort of anti-cookbook. Fed up with our prevailing food culture of patronizing celebrity chefs with their rigid and often impossible instructions, Aleksandra Mir started a website to invite real people to send in their kitchen disaster stories, so that the ..."
"Numerous international exhibitions and biennials have borne witness to the range of contemporary art engaged with the everyday and its antecedents in the work of Surrealists, Situationists, the Fluxus group, and conceptual and feminist artists of the 1960s and 1970s. This art shows a recognition of ordinary dignity or the accidentally miraculous, an engagement with a new ki ..."
"This catalogue for the traveling exhibition Space Is the Place (whose title refers to a movie about the super-experimental and influential jazz musician, Sun Ra) takes an inspired look at the theme of space exploration. Encompassing the concept of infinite potential, as well as historical outer-space successes and failures, it features installations, paintings, works on paper, and sound and video works made during the past 15 years by L ..."
Living and Loving The Biography of Mitchell Wright by AleksandraMir, Mitchell Wright Paperback, 24 Pages, Published 2005 by Living & Loving ISBN-13: 978-0-9552848-0-9, ISBN: 0-9552848-0-5
"Featuring works created by over 60 international artists who were invited by the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts to devise plans for a monument for the United States of America. Freed from contextual, budgetary or practical constraints, the proposals reflect each artist's ideas about the type of monument the people of the United States currently need--or deserve. The submitted drawings, diagrams, maquettes, photo collages, wr ..."
"Coined by the Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet in 1835, the term "average man" evokes both contentment and anxiety. In some sense an inverted history of the genius, the story of the average has had a formative influence on modern aesthetics, politics, and philosophy. For the artist, to be mediocre is a greater fault than to have failed spectacularly. For the politician, the battle for the heart of the average Joe determines both me ..."
"Invention and imagination, the fake, the fictive, the fantastic, and the downright offbeat: the latest edition of the Sydney Biennale features drug taking in the Andes, the Queen of Mud, Pope Alice, submarines, and flying machines. From May 15 to July 14, at various venues around Sydney's Central Business District (CBD), 57 artists from 21 countries prove that the world may just be fantastic. See Vito Acconci's architectural dreams, Ji ..."
Living & Loving No. 1: The biography of Donald Cappy by AleksandraMir 31 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-13: 978-0-9532765-1-6, ISBN: 0-9532765-1-1
Corporate Mentality(1st Edition) An Archive Documenting the Emergence of Recent Practices Within a Cultural Sphere Occupied by Both Business and Art by AleksandraMir, John Kelsey Paperback, 255 Pages, Published 2001 by Sternberg Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9711193-1-4, ISBN: 0-9711193-1-7
"Calling for a reassessment of the function of art in late capitalist society, Corporate Mentality focuses on the complex and ambiguous ways artistic production inhabits corporate processes, abandoning the autonomy of the artwork in order to elaborate resistant approaches to a world increasingly determined by commercial strategies and market concerns.Based on an archive (1995–2001) maintained by Aleksandra Mir, it presents a diverse spec ..."
AleksandraMir Newsroom 1986-2000 by AleksandraMir, Mary Boone Gallery Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Mary Boone Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-9801715-0-1, ISBN: 0-9801715-0-4
"Psycho cops, gay riots, stock market implosions, heroic acts, serial killers, Rudy, Ronald, Osama and The Donald all feature heavily in this pitch-perfect, oversized collection of the large-scale, black-and-white Sharpie drawings created by the noted international conceptualist Aleksandra Mir (and a rotating cast of assistants) live, daily, at New York's Mary Boone Gallery in the fall of 2007. For the critically acclaimed show, Mir and ..."
AleksandraMir(1st Edition) The Meaning of Flowers (Paperback) by AleksandraMir Paperback, 84 Pages, Published 2006 by Sternberg Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933128-23-8, ISBN: 1-933128-23-2
"Rather than those traditional Victorian botanicals that passively grace the halls and sitting rooms of respectable homes, these naively colorful works carry sophisticated implications and complicated overtones. Co-produced by GAVLAK"
""The Big Umbrella", un parapluie dont le diamètre est le double de celui du plus grand parapluie disponible sur le marché, a été conçu pour abriter jusqu'à 16 personnes de la pluie. Mais voyager à travers le monde avec un objet familier aux proportions démesurées peut provoquer des effets insoupçonnés...
Cette publication tente de retracer le parcours de l'artiste, à travers Paris, New York, Londres ou Dresde, mais aussi la solitude du ..."