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A bold and brilliant short work by the author of the Goldsmiths Prize winning Cuddy November 1971 Berlin Germany Opening night Klaus Kinski Germany s most controversial actor steps into the spotlight to a crowd of thousands After years of making movies abroad he has returned to the stage for a much publicized one man performance about Jesus Christ As the crowd turn on him and violence is threatened it is also very nearly his last After this week he will never perform on stage again Exactly fifty years later a hypochondriac writer housebound by winter snowstorms becomes fixated with video footage of Kinski at his most manic In this forensic analysis he strays into the darker corners of modern culture and finally begins to understand the compulsive urge that drives artists to the edge of sanity in their pursuit of perfection Jesus Christ Kinski is a novel about a film about a performance about Jesus It is a daring act of literary ventriloquism a meditation on censorship creativity loneliness and just how far our tolerance is tested by bad people who make great art Praise for Benjamin Myers One of our finest and most deftly imaginative writers i news Radical and gorgeous Max Porter A writer of extraordinary and incandescent talent Alex

The debut book from the YouTube sensation and all round cartographical nerds The Map Men Mark and Jay also known as The Map Men are an online sensation whose irreverent and hilarious videos have charmed and captivated millions around the world Now they bring you their debut book all about the world s worst maps Some are decades old some are centuries old and some are so recent they re still being published today or yesterday if you re reading this tomorrow They include world maps colonial maps corporate maps Soviet maps pioneer maps news maps and maps whose intended use was hijacked for a French surrealist political movement in the 1950s Whether you re an avid map junkie or simply map curious each chapter uncovers a unique tale of adventure error and unexpected humour as they attempt to answer the question What on earth happened here So ditch the compass or disable location services and set out into a world of cartographic chaos and mappy mishaps Because the worst maps are the best maps

How are contemporary artists responding to the climate crisis Filipa Ramos takes an original approach to the subject by addressing two parallel strands She looks firstly at pioneering approaches to ecology by key contemporary artists from different generations and cultural backgrounds working in different art media and she considers the balance between ecology as theme and ecology as practice underscoring the imperative for both artists and art institutions to adopt responsible environmental positions in their practice This topical and important book discusses the work of artists who have returned to the land reviews how questions of shared rights and environmental justice are represented in contemporary artistic practice highlights the renewed importance of performance and time based media in ecologically themed art and looks at artists and art institutions complex relationship to environmental action