Escape the Overcode. Activist Art in the Control Society

This book is absolutely beautiful, a real pleasure to hold in your hands and read through. It was designed by one of our favorite designers Dejan Kršic´, whose work with WHW (Zagreb-based curatorial collective), is well known and loved by many.

This publication contains a selection of texts and essays by the writer Brian Holmes that engage with the possibilities and problematics of geopolitics and geopoetics. Holmes is a crucial contemporary writer and thinker whose insight into current social and political developments and how they relate to artistic processes opens up a new field of “geocritique”.

Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society was published by the Van Abbemuseum in collaboration with WHW, Zagreb, as the second publication in the Van Abbemuseum Public Research Series. This series is dedicated to putting new knowledge about the political possibilities of art and its institutions into the public domain.