This monograph by and about the artistic duo Payer Gabriel is an antidisciplinary encyclopedia
that literally unfolds its etymological meaning – as a circle of learning in which variable forms of knowledge that mutually
inform and reference each other, often in playful ways, circulate.
The alphabetically arranged
collection of terms is the result of the artists’ reflection on their own work, as well as on theories of visual and other
epistemologies relevant to their work. For example, an essay by Bruno Latour on inscriptions finds its way into the book not
only as an original text, but also via reflection in the form of a drawing and in reference texts. Thanks to these contextualizations,
the artistic works transcend their status as documents and develop a life of their own.
With texts by Bruno Latour,
Byung-Chul Han, and Odo Marquard.
Payer Gabriel (Micha Payer, Martin Gabriel),
artistic research, University of Applied Arts Vienna
was awarded as one of the most
beautiful Austrian books (
Schönste Bücher Österreichs) 2023
and received an Honorary Appreciation at
Best
Book Design From All Over the World 2025 from Stiftung Buchkunst.
