AKV BERLIN

AKV Berlin
Publishing House

In 2008 a publishing house with an official surface was founded. Released publications have included the following themes: tests concerning the gap between image and text, experimental journalism, urban semiotics, practices of appropriation of space, investigative documentations and arguments with archives and biographies.

Authorship: AKV is of the opinion that the role or identity of the author is influential in how text and image are perceived. The publications have been produced by the following: anonymously working authors author-groups or collectives authors who publish under their civil name. The publishing house welcomes experimental author-concepts, which will interrogate the potential roles of the originator. Through rearrangements within the author-publisher-structure, undiscovered latitudes and narrations as well as unproven connections between text and image can be generated.

Currently AKV includes four representatives who appear sporadically before the public to present recent publications, to enrich them with amplifying material and/or to establish relationships between publications. Programming includes projects beyond publishing to in- clude performative lectures and experimental exhibitions. Presentations are held in private and public contexts and serve as a vehicle for debates. AKV is independently run; all profits feed directly back into current production. Berlin 2011.