Writing

Selected Writings, Publications

The Zodiac, Editions Publication Libre, 2024, edited by Christophe Leflot and Stéphane Mortier, Paris

“On Days of Clear, Perfect Light.” film by Isabell Heimerdinger, 2022, text by Stephan Pascher

“Conversation with Stephan Pascher (2005),” in Public Knowledge: The Writings of Michael Asher, Kirsi Peltomaki, MIT Press, 2019

“Interview with Michael Asher,” Michael Asher, October Files 19, ed. Jennifer King, MIT Press, 2015

In Lieu of Unity/En Lugar de la Unidad: Ballroom Marfa, Art in America, November 2010

Museum as Muse–Asher Reflects, Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, edited by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, MIT Press, 2009

Landscape Memories, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles

“Who Got the Chickens?”, 2009, Steven Wolf Fine Arts

The Practice of Education, talk given at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, February 2008

Luna Luna In The Sky Will You Make Me Laugh Or Cry, exhibition book project, 2008

“Phantom Limb: Michael Asher’s Sculpture Project,” Afterall, Spring 2008

The Middle Class Goes to Heaven, text/booklet for Nicolás Guagnini Exhibition, Orchard, September 2006 (https://www.47orchard.org/press/The_Middle_Class.html)

On Boris Mikhailov, talk give at the Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum in St Petersburg, Russia, January, 2006

Images of the World: A Brief Introduction, MERGE Magazine #16, Summer 2005

Handla, MERGE Magazine #13, Fall, 2004

The Sellout and the Avant-Garde, MERGE Magazine #12, Spring, 2003

A Conversation with Billy Klüver, MERGE Magazine #11, Spring 2002

Opinion: Enduring Freedom and the Next World, MERGE Magazine #11, Spring 2002

Opinion: Enduring Freedom and the Media, MERGE Magazine #10, Winter 2001

Museum as Muse: Asher Reflects, “The Museum as Arena,” (“Das Museum als Arena”) Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Köln, 2001

Working on Wishmaster, “Isabell Heimerdinger Act One: On the Occasion of the Exhibition Wie passen vier Elefanten in einen Roten VW?,” Esslingen am Neckar, 2000

Museum as Muse: Asher Reflects, Conversation with Michael Asher, Springerin Magazine, (Vienna) 2000

Art into Politics: Cildo Meireles, Metropolis Magazine (Utrecht), 2000

Close to Nature, or, Manifest Destiny Revisited: Bobby Reynolds and His 5-Legged Cow, Merge #7/8, 2000

Art, Food, and Revolution, Svenska Dagbladet, (Stockholm) 1999

A Conversation with Martha Rosler, MERGE Magazine, #6, 1999

Isabell Heimerdinger’s Hollywood Interiors, Catalogue essay for the exhibition “Moving Images,” Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany, 1999

Interview with Martha Rosler, Metropolis Magazine, (Utrecht) 1999

Cave Notes (Interview with Michael Asher)) MERGE Magazine #5, 1999

Tom Sachs and Ruben Ortiz-Torres at SITE Santa Fe, thing.review, 1999

Truer Romance, MERGE Magazine #4, 1999

Still In Love With Who?, MERGE Magazine #3, 1999

Sunshine and Noir at the Armand Hammer, thing.review,1998

The Same Mistake, On the Work of Mitchell Syrop, thing.review, 1998

Three Destinations: Speeding Into 21 C., MERGE Magazine #1, 1998

Love Forever: You Never Love Once, ARTNET, 1998

The CAA Meets in Toronto, ARTNET, 1998

Still In Love With Who?, “I’m Still In Love With You,” exhibition and publication, 1998

Isabell Heimerdinger in Hollywood, Mehdi Chouakri Gallery, Berlin, 1997

“Blind Date”, exhibition and publication. 1997

Bigfoot, 1997, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA

Moving In and Moving On, Catalog for the exhibition “Thomas Emde, Isabell Heimerdinger, Jutta Koether, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles International Biennial Invitational, July, 1997