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Foreword by Gerhard Finckh. Text by Jorg Heiser, Markus Gisbourne, Christian Rattemeyer.

In 2014 Bettina Pousttchi (*1971) was awarded the Wolfsburger Art Prize "Junge Stadt sieht Junge Kunst" (Young City Sees Young Art). The German-Iranian artist works in the media of photography, video, and sculpture and is primarily concerned with themes such as the perception of time and the delineation of borders. She became well known for her project 'World Time Clock' (2008–14), for which she flew around the world in order to photograph a public clock at five minutes to two in each time zone. For her work conceived for the façade of Wolfsburg Castle, 'The City - Eine Transnationale Skyline' (The City - A Transnational Skyline) she combines ten skyscrapers, including the Empire State Building, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and Burj Khalifa in Dubai, into a fake, hybrid high-rise - as an exploration of the role of art in public space. This is a central theme of the publication 'The City', which also presents an overview of many of the artist’s works.0Exhibition: Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany (24.5.-28.9.2014).

Artists from Renée Green to Haim Steinbach explore themes of temporality and absurdity in the work of On Kawara This is the sixth volume in a series that builds upon Dia Art Foundation's Artists on Artists lectures. The contributors to this book explore the practice of On Kawara (1932-2014) from various points of entry: Alejandro Cesarco uses a self-reflexive approach to the ideas of artistic legacy, influence and work; Nancy Davenport contends with innocence and trauma in two of Kawara's most influential series; Renée Green weaves a poetic relationship between the work of Chantal Akerman and Kawara; Annette Lawrence provides a close reading of the Todayseries and her own journals, grappling with what it means to keep time; Scott Lyall considers the experience and contingency of time, differentiating between thinking with and speaking about a work of art; Dave McKenzie stages a diaristic correspondence with Kawara; Bettina Pousttchi reflects on duration in art and the history of time keeping; and Haim Steinbach plays with Beckettian abstraction, absurdity and repetition.