04 Mar 2014

New Ebooks from KT press on contemporary women artists

KT press announce 3 new ebooks on contemporary women artists are now available from their website, Amazon Kindle and many ebook retailers. These electronic books are published in epub format only.

Olga Kisseleva
Custom Made (KT press, 2014)
ISBN: 9780992693428
185 pp. with external links to 9 video clips

Olga Kisseleva's series, 'Custom Made' (1998-2013), explores a wide range of concepts about interactivity and participation in a contemporary global culture. From her early interactive web work 'How are you?' (1998) to her intervention in ecology in 'Biopresence' (2013), she has considered what the world would be like if we rethink our relationships to communication, gaming, telepresence, 'n' time and the media-led perception of the world today, by contrasting this with our human sensibility, by what we see, feel and do. This book documents 18 inter-related works by the artist with an essay by Barbara Formis (translated by Oliver Feltham).
This ebook has external links to 9 video clips among its 185 pages alongside over 100 photos.
A second version, made specifically for ipad, has embedded videos (ISBN: 9780992693411).

New media artist, Olga Kisseleva (b. St Petersburg, lives between St Petersburg and Paris) and teaches contemporary art in the University Pantheon-Sorbonne of Paris 1 and she is editor of Plastik Art & Science Magazine (Editions de la Sorbonne).

Barbara Formis is a Lecturer in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art in the Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences at the University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, and a member of the Institute ACTE (Art, Creations, Theories, Aesthetics, UMR 8218, C.N.R.S.).


Michèle Cohen Hadria
Three Tunisian Women Artists: Nicène Kossentini, Mouna Karray and Moufida Fedhila (KT press, 2013)
ISBN: 978-09536541-8-5
82 pages, 40 illus.

In this ebook, Michèle Cohen Hadria interviews Nicène Kossentini, Mouna Karray and Moufida Fedhila three women artists living and working in Tunisia today. The interviews discuss the work of these artists since the revolution and feature a discussion of artistic creation against the political backdrop of contemporary Tunisia. The interviews featured are accompanied by photographs of the artists' works. Translated by Judith Hayward.
This book is also available in French. ISBN: 978-0-9536541-9-2.

Born in Tunisia in 1950, Michèle Cohen Hadria is independent art critic, living in Paris. She studied art, in Roma (Italia), then experimental film, at Paris Sorbonne. She contributed to various catalogues for artists and to various art journal in France and abroad such as: ArtPress, Jeune Cinéma(Paris), n.paradoxa, Third Text (London) Tema Celeste (Milano/ Italie) ETC, Ciel Variable (Montréal/Canada) Camera Austria (Graz/ Austria). She dedicated herself to examine Arab world works' artists since 1998 and she organized together with the scholar Nicole Brenez a series of screenings around New Arab experimental films at La cinémathèque Française, Paris, (2003). Now she has dedicated herself to postcolonial issues in general and as well postcolonial gender studies in particular.


Silvia Ziranek
Wall Works: Selected Writings and Performances (KT press, 2013)
ISBN: 9780953654178
100 pp. with external links to video and audio.

A selection of writings and performances by UK visual artist, Silvia Ziranek, produced 1976-2011, including ICI VILLA MOI (1990) and NOT UNDIRTY (2011). This ebook includes 5 video clips of Ziranek in live performances in the UK at conferences, exhibitions and exhibition openings, including the Photographers Gallery and the De La Warr Pavilion and the Wellcome Trust, with the full script of the performance and photographic documentation. The ebook is introduced by the artist who has been working in the field of performance art since the 1970s. All the performances and texts in this book circulate around the idea of architecture.
A second version of this book for ipad is available with the videos and audio embedded in the ebook: ISBN: 978-0-9536541-6-1.

This series of ebooks from KT press are published only as epubs.
Epubs are not PDFs and no print form is available.
Epubs can be read on many different devices: Amazon Kindle, ibooks on ipad/ iphones, Sony Reader and Kobo. These ebooks can also be read on any PC/MAC provided that a programme installed (an .epub reader of which there are many available and free to download).

KT press are also the publishers of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal.

This series of ebooks is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Three earlier ebooks in the series have been published by Patricia Karetzky 'Femininity in Asian Women Artists' Work from China, Korea and USA: If the Shoe Fits' (2012), Fran Cottell 'House: from Display to BACK to FRONT' (2012, 2013) and Rina Arya 'Chila Kumari Burman: Shakti, Sexuality and Bindi Girls' (2012). One more is due in March 2014 by Judy Freya Sibayan 'The Book of HerMe(s)'.