Key Operators. Weaving and coding as languages of feminist historiography

Kunstverein München e.V., Bierke Books
designed by Max Schropp, Cologne
embossed box made from gray cardboard, paperback, thread binding with gauze
German / English
20 x 25 cm
80 pages (bound), 19 booklets, each 2–6 pages (unbound)

edition of 300

ISBN 978-3-948546-26-7
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The publication serves as a record(ing), of sorts, of the comprehensive project Key Operators. Weaving and coding as languages of feminist historiography. Packed neatly in a box, the bound pages—along with nineteen unbound brochures—offer a reflection on the group exhibition, its accompanying program of events, and the featured contributors.
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The book is not an aside to the exhibition, but rather a translation of its concerns, questions, and structure into the printed form(at). Much like the exhibition, it functions both as information memory and information medium. Its open composition follows the intents of its spatial predecessor and is thus a transmission of its processuality, non-linearity, and multiplicity. While the bound section centers on the visual documentation of the exhibition, the works, and the various spatial relations, the unbound brochures are each dedicated to—and in several cases conceived by—the individual contributors.
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Contributions by Claire L. Evans, Elsi Giauque, Johanna Gonschorek, Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter, Pati Hill, Charlotte Johannesson, Lotus L. Kang, Alison Knowles, Beryl Korot, Lynn Hershman Leeson, James Tilly Matthews, Katrin Mayer, Sadie Plant, Johannes Porsch, Radical Software, Bea Schlingelhoff, Marilou Schultz, Johanna Schütz-Wolff, Iris Touliatou
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Texts by Gloria Hasnay, Lucie Pia, Chris Reitz, Lea Vajda
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