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This week's artist's book:
Title: Erstes Buch
Artist: Claudia de la Torre
Year: 2023-24
Publisher: backbonebooks

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EPHEMERAL SPACES – ARCHIVES IN MOVEMENT

Raumklasse UdK Berlin x Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln
Winter 2026_27

Was bleibt von der Bewegung, wenn sie vorüber ist?

Im Rahmen des Entwurfsprojekts ‚Ephemeral Spaces – Archives in Movement‘ und in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Tanzarchiv Köln widmet sich die Raumklasse, zusammen mit ihren Gästen der Frage, wie Tanz als flüchtige Kunstform bewahrt, erinnert und neu erfahrbar gemacht werden kann. Aus künstlerischen und theoretischen Perspektiven erkunden wir das Archiv als lebendigen Möglichkeitsraum zwischen Körper, Bewegung, Raum und Erinnerung. Dabei geht es um Spuren des Vergangenen, um Formen der Weitergabe und um die Frage, wie Bewegung über ihre eigene Zeitlichkeit hinauswirken und immer wieder neu in Bewegung versetzt werden kann.

20.10. Luisa Ungar & Juana Awad (UdK) 03.11. deufert&plischke (Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln) 09.11. Yui Kawaguchi (UdK)  26.10. Mone Schliephack (UdK)
24.11. Claudia de la Torre / backbonebooks (studio visit)  19.01. Dr. Nora Sternfeld (UdK + online)

Die Vorträge finden, wenn nicht anders angegeben, im Medienhaus der UdK Berlin statt, Grunewaldstr. 2-5, 10823 Berlin - Schöneberg / Raum 105/106.

spacesofcommunication.de @raumklasse_udk
udk-berlin.de @udkberlin
deutsches-tanzarchiv.de @stiftungkultur

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Image Credits
Bild 2: Stigma: Score for A Regurgitation is a Song is a Spell (Consultations to Recreate the Colonial Disease). Luisa Ungar
Bild 3: Handy-Kommunikation. Mone Schliephack
Bild 4: deufert&plischke
Bild 5: Yui Kawaguchi
Bild 6: The Waves, Artist Books
Bild 7: Volker Renner

Grafikdesign / Plakate: @parkistark

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You don’t have to be a dog to wear the Dog Days bandana (but it’s extra cute if you are….see last pic).

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Hello book lovers! I’m Claudia de la Torre (@claudiadelatorrea), a Mexican artist, publisher, and founder of @backbonebooks, based in Berlin.

Books have been at the center of my practice for many years. I make, design, edit and publish concept-driven artist books, exploring the book not simply as a container for work, but as a space where the work itself can happen.

I founded @backbonebooks in 2011 and have since published more than 90 titles. Alongside my own artistic and publishing practice, teaching has become an important part of what I do.

Since 2021, I’ve been running @artistsbooksworkshop from my Berlin studio, working closely with artists to translate an idea into a physical book. We think through editing, sequence, scale, paper, rhythm, binding and all the decisions that allow a book to become a work in its own right.

Over the years, I’ve led more than 200 workshops in my studio and at art institutions internationally, most recently in Chile, Hong Kong and Denmark. In 2024, I was invited by the Center for Book Arts in New York as keynote speaker for the Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference.

My work and publications are held in collections including MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library, Yale University, NYPL, Museo Reina Sofía, mumok and Fundación Ankaria.

But what continues to interest me most is quite simple: what can a book do that another form cannot?

That question runs through my art, my publishing practice and my teaching.

Happy to have you here, and always happy to meet others thinking through books

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This weekend, einBuch.haus presents artist’s books by Laure Catugier @laure_catugier , Claudia de la Torre @claudiadelatorrea , Daniel Gustav Cramer @xxdgcxx , Micah Lexier @micahlexier and Haleen Lee @haleenleestudio at Thousandfold Photobook Fair @thousandfold.fair
during the Photo Book Summer.

September 12 - 13, 2026
Saturday: 10 - 19 hr
Sunday: 10 - 17 hr
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Potsdamer Str. 33, 10785 Berlin

Thousandfold Photobook Fair is a self-sustaining photobook fair that collaborates with festivals and initiatives to create a cultural program centered on photobooks, support publishers and connect them with their audiences, and bring together lovers of photography and photobooks.

Organised by @dienachtpublishing

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Trimming. A moment of full focus. Last step to make all pages even. Thanks to @om_on_sky for capturing me in that moment !

PS. I think I will work on fixing my guillotine.

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The Artists’ Books Workshop takes place in my own studio in Berlin, home to both @claudiadelatorrea Studio and @backbonebooks

It’s where I work, make and publish, surrounded by my machines, materials, collection of artists’ books and the backbonebooks archive.

For the ABW, I open this space and everything in it. The books, tools, machines and archive become part of the workshop.
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Studio documentation: @omri_livne

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Goodbye Berlin, the past two months have been so special that I have no words (but luckily I have some pictures).

Thank you so much @claudiadelatorrea for having me. I’m so glad I could be part of @artistsbooksworkshop this summer, and I’m incredibly grateful for this experience, for everything I learned, and for all the people I’ve met along the way. I also hope I was able to give something back in return!

This time will always have a special place in my heart 🤍

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So much of the process happens through conversation.

Thinking together, asking questions, looking closely, testing possibilities. How can an abstract idea become something tangible? What form does it need to take?

Through these conversations, decisions begin to emerge. What to keep, what to leave out, how to sequence, fold, cut, repeat or reveal.

At the Artists’ Books Workshop, making a book is not only about making. It is about creating a space to think together, where ideas can slowly find their form.
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Documentation: @omri_livne

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The in between …

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Last month we were in Prague to view and document @klara.kusa ‘s diploma project at the Academy of Fine Arts.

‘Archive of Transit’ explores mail art as an ongoing process of critical communication across time and space. Through postal exchanges around the world, some set up in person, others online, Klara invited eight individuals to participate using the same simple instruction:

“Send me something, to which I will respond by sending something back”

The initial contribution could be anything, from a note to an art piece; the exchange would be the work itself. Through a series of dialogues that accompanied the physical mail, these conversations reflect on how artistic identity is negotiated within institutional frameworks.

Pictured on slides 4 and 5 are a few excerpts from Klara’s correspondence with @claudiadelatorrea . These excerpts from Archive of Transit, along with seven other conversations, will be published this fall by @markhampress

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I’m somewhere in the middle of the second Summer @artistsbooksworkshop , and I just wanted to stop for a moment and say how much joy this brings me.

This is something I planned and imagined for months, and seeing it now alive in the studio is incredibly exciting. The space is full of people thinking through books, trying things out, changing their minds, cutting, folding, talking, looking, making decisions and finding their way through their projects. I love being part of that process.

And I couldn’t do any of this without @alicjagaszta . Having her support, energy and care throughout these weeks has made all the difference.

There are still a few days ahead of us, and I’m very curious to see where all these books will land!

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