The book of books: the catalogue features essays, art projects, and the core themes of dOCUMENTA (13). It reproduces the entire series of publications known as 100 Notes 100 Ideas, either as facsimiles or with entirely new layouts, and is supplemented by essays by Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Chus Martínez, head of the department and member of the core group, and author and media activist Bifo (Franco Berardi). Many of the dOCUMENTA (13) agents and advisors to have actively accompanied the process of mounting the exhibition in its various formats contribute statements of their own: curator Marta Kuzma, artists Rene Gabri and Ayreen Anastas, curator and author Raimundas Mala auskas, scholar and curator Kitty Scott, curators Andrea Viliani and Iwona Blazwick, and artist Pierre Huyghe. The spectrum of notebook authors ranges from anthropologist Michael Taussig and philosophers Donna Haraway and Christoph Menke, feminist cultural theorist Griselda Pollock and political philosopher Susan Buck-Morss, to poet Romaine Moreton and scientist Anton Zeilinger, including numerous artists. The illustrated short biographies of all the participants are combined with the catalogue of works on display, offering a complete overview of the range of dOCUMENTA (13). An extensive reading list and a comprehensive index furnish instructions for navigating the book as well as advice on how to further explore individual themes outside the context of the exhibition. This richly illustrated catalogue provides sweeping insight into the concept behind dOCUMENTA (13) and its many branches into diverse areas of radical research and experimental thought, and is at the same time an informative reference book.
