Sternberg Press
A Series of Open Questions
Each book in the series takes the work of a single artist as its point of departure, spiraling outward to create an expansive and carefully edited ecosystem of ideas and voices. Each volume includes newly commissioned writing as well a selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the year-long research seasons at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press
forthcoming
Thirty international artists, writers, and thinkers consider timely themes found in the work of Anicka Yi, including AI, umwelt, scent and taste, the anthropocene, decay and rot, the animal world, and feminism.
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press
On the themes found in the work of Lorraine O'Grady: Black female subjectivity, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, music, and translation.
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
The third volume of the Wattis Institute's annual reader is informed by themes found in the work of Cecilia Vicuña, including ecofeminism, indigenous forms of knowledge, poetry and politics, dissolution and extinction, exile, dematerialization, regeneration, and environmental responsibility.
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
The second volume of the Wattis's annual reader, A Series of Open Questions.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
A collection of reflections and literary and artistic contributions inspired by the themes at the heart of American writer Dodie Bellamy's work, and driven by the central question “What are we learning from artists today?”
