documenta 14: Daybook

by Quinn Latimer (Editor), Adam Szymczyk (Editor)

Follow the 163 days of documenta 14 in this stunning daily record created by the event’s artists. documenta 14 promises to be one of the most exciting iterations in the exhibition’s 62 year history. Presented in the form of an artist’s daybook, this journal offers readers a panoramic view of the event through wide-ranging perspectives. Each “daily” spread is created by one of the exhibition’s artists. It features artwork created by the artist specifically for the book and specially commissioned texts by an impressive array of critics, curators, historians, poets, and novelists. Exquisitely designed and produced to echo the event’s diverse excellence, the documenta 14: Daybook offers an insider’s view of one of the art world’s most inventive and powerful exhibitions.

344 pages, Paperback

Published June 25, 2017

About the author

Quinn Latimer is a California-born poet, critic, and editor whose work often explores feminist economies of writing, reading, and image production. Her books include Like a Woman: Essays, Readings, Poems (2017); Stories, Myths, Ironies, and Other Songs: Conceived, Directed, Edited, and Produced by M. Auder, coedited with Adam Szymczyk (2014); Sarah Lucas: Describe This Distance (2013); Film as a Form of Writing: Quinn Latimer Talks to Akram Zaatari (2013); and Rumored Animals (2012). Her writings and readings have been featured widely, including at REDCAT, Los Angeles; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Radio Athènes, Athens; the Poetry Project, New York; the Venice Architecture Biennale; and the Sharjah Biennial 13. Latimer was editor-in-chief of publications for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. She is currently faculty at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, in Zurich, and, with Chus Martínez, runs a new feminist think tank at Institut Kunst, in Basel.