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“The Red Crowned-Crane & The End of the World” is an artists’ book and micro exhibition at the same time.
The Ainu, the indigenous people of Hokkaido, call the volcanic Shiretoko region ‘the end of the world’.
It is home to the Red-Crowned Crane, a symbol of happiness, long life and loyalty in Asia for thousands of years. In the 1920s, humans brought the Red-Crowned Crane to the brink of extinction. The rescue of the Red-Crowned Crane is as legendary in Japan as the bird itself: During a particularly harsh winter in 1952, a farmer saved one of the last flocks from starvation by sowing grain in a field where the cranes had sought refuge.
Humans are destroying nature, but at the same time, the committed actions of one individual can save a species and perhaps even an entire ecosystem: ‘The Red-Crowned Crane & The End of the World’ by Peter Granser was created in Hokkaido in 2020 and addresses the complex relationship between humans and nature. The linen-covered Leporello shows abstract images of cranes inspired by Japanese mural painting. These are juxtaposed with a series of dramatically rising clouds of vapour from a volcano at the ‘end of the world’: A symbol of the power of nature as the beginning and end of all life. A thin Leoprello sheet is inserted in the book, on which poems by Mari Kashiwagi are printed in Japanese and English.
‘The Red-Crowned Crane & The End of the World’ can be staged as an exhibition within your own four walls; together with the poems and sound from Peter Granser's teahouse installation “The End of the World”, the fanfold book forms a unit. It is held together by a white sleeve.
Peter Granser was born in Hanover in 1971 as an Austrian citizen. He is self-taught and lives in Stuttgart.
Inspired by long stays in Japan, China and Taiwan, Granser founded the ITO Raum in 2015. There, he experiments with unusual exhibition formats and forms as well as with artistic positions that revolve around themes such as time, emptiness, nature, existence and consciousness. Themes that are also at the centre of Granser's own work.
At ITO (ITO is the Japanese word for thread), he combines contemporary art with tea sessions that allow visitors to concentrate on the moment while still leaving room for communication. ‘The Red-Crowned Crane’ fits into these tea ceremonies and plays an important role in Granser's work. To date, he has published 12 books, the last 5 of which with Edition Taube.
The book object is part of the collection of the Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt and the Stiftung Federkiel, among others, which have generously supported its production.

The new artist book features photographs by Ju Young Kim that capture her personal perspective as a transcontinental traveler. They documen/Users/hops/PARAT.cc Dropbox/PARAT.cc GbR/Edition Taube Promo/03-1 Publications/ET084 David Horvitz – How to shoplift books/01 Material/Collaborative Posts/ET_Shoplift_Hungariant both the peculiar and the exceptional moments during the hours of travel between different time zones, the standardized meals, the views of cloudscapes, sunrises, and runways through the small round windows. In this way, Kim gives a unique and universally recognizable expression to states of transition and transit zones.
The photographs are accompanied by collaborative short stories by Guilherme Vilhena Martins and the artist. In an exchange of journal entries, which are based on thoughts and conversations during the flights or personal travel routines and observations of other passengers, Vilhena Martins assembled the passages into a travelogue.

The artists’ book “How to shoplift books” by David Horvitz is a guide on how to steal books. It details 80 ways in which one can steal a book, from the very practical, to the witty, imaginative, and romantic.

The mountain is slowly becoming porous, the glaciers are melting and the rocks are crumbling. The previous endeavour to climb to the summit becomes superfluous. A renaissance of perception, narrated by a group of melting figures who surrender to nature, allow themselves to be overgrown and are able to communicate with the mountain as a living organism. An assemblage of fragments of self-experience, accompanied by sketches, drawings and paintings created during McCarthy's own climbing expeditions in the mountains en plein-air.
In search of change and healing, ‘The Hills Have Crazy Eyes - Woman in a Landscape’ juxtaposes the structures of violence against women with man's treatment of nature. In a patriarchal understanding of nature, nature, a living organism, is interpreted as feminine: either as a romanticised, fertile and nurturing being or, on the other hand, as a wild and dangerous entity that demands control. In her work, alpinist Anna McCarthy interweaves extractive violence towards nature with the mysogynistic power structures of domestic violence and femicide.
Anna McCarthy's ‘The Hills Have Crazy Eyes - Woman in a Landscape’ is the second part of a content-based dilogy. The first volume, ‘Trickles & Oozes’, is an anthology of drawings of melting figures. Both books refer to the performance ‘The Hills Have Crazy Eyes’, which premiered at the Münchner Kammerspiele in 2024, and were supported by the Stiftung Kunstfonds.
Anna McCarthy is known for her multi-layered work, which deals with social issues in a poetic and multidisciplinary way. McCarthy has received numerous scholarships and awards, including the Villa Aurora Fellowship in Los Angeles and working scholarships in Chile and Argentina, as well as most recently the 6-month USA scholarship from the Ministry of Science and the Arts. She has also published ‘Trickles & Oozes’ with Edition Taube.

A collection of short poems in a pocket-sized leporello book.

David Horvitz's poems gently invite readers to connect deeply with nature, drawing inspiration from the majestic Alpine landscape.

Phrases such as ‘Imagine the voice of someone who is no longer alive’ or ‘Call to a crow until a crow calls back to you’ invite readers to engage in a contemplative experience that bridges the natural and the poetic.

The collection of poems in English and French was originally written for the Biennale Son in Sion, Switzerland. The book is designed by Valaisan artist Romain lannone and published in collaboration with Biennale Son and Kapa Books.

David Horvitz is an American artist whose work is categorised as ‘post-fluxus’ and conceptual art. It includes artist books, installation, performance art and mail art. Edition Taube has already published other books by David Horvitz, including ‘Rain’, ‘Nostalgia’ and ‘How to Shoplift Books’, which has been translated into more than 35 languages.