Trebuchet 19: Beyond Bodies / Out Now

Beyond our physical limits / 144 pages / Luxury print / Available UK & Worldwide

Trebuchet 19 Beyond Bodies. Cover image: Benjamin Spiers, Natural Pink, 2026. Photo: © Justin Piperger. Courtesy of the artist.

The body is a framing concept that lies at the heart of whatever can be imagined. Whether by extension or by negative space, arguably the body is the mind’s manual analogue for the boundaries of the self and the limits of the beyond. Tools are extensions of the body’s capabilities, and many ideas of transhumanism that wish for a spectral existence struggle to conceive of a presence not framed by what physical senses have measured and found.

Art is bound up with the physical. Even Klein’s Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle (1959), a receipt for which sold for $1.2 million in 2022, and Gavin Turk’s Invisible Sculpture (2017) both suggest that a sense of physical value, as real as money, can be owned (Dafoe 2022).

This issue is an inquisitive romp through phenomenology, the distribution of mind, cognitive science, trans/posthumanism, cyborg realities, biology and the commodification of physicality, all seen through the lens of artists and institutions transgressing the normative, and making strong cases for a wider view of the self. An incorporeal step beyond.

Features in T19: Beyond Bodies

Edith Dekyndt Writes The Remembered Breath
Alessio Boni: Frozen in the Process of Fading
miart: Plays a New Standard
Venice: Bodies of Water, Bodies of Lore
Eileen Cooper: A Life Told Through the Body
Kara Walker: History as Living Wound
Benjamin Spiers Paints The Watched Face
Jake Chapman: The Biopolitical Jet Ski
Félix González-Torres: Love Endures
Guggenheim Bilbao: The Choir of the Telluric Body
Scotland: Artland and RSA
Profile: Robert Stilin
The Muses: Sonic Inspiration
Upcoming: Art Fairs

144 Pages / Luxury Print / UK & Worldwide Delivery August 2026