With its diary-like structure, the documenta 14 Daybook emphasizes both the 163 calendar days of the exhibition - a first-time extension of the traditional 100-day documenta - and the visitors' personal and subjective approach to the events. All documenta artists were given a day in the Daybook, which in the book contains both a commissioned text and images specially selected by the artists for the publication. The texts were written by a wide variety of authors - critics, curators, poets, writers, historians - and provide in-depth insights into the artists' artistic practice in various literary forms - as criticism, in letters, poems and parables. The Daybook is supplemented by two brochures, one each for Athens and Kassel, which are available in the exhibition. The brochures can be inserted into the dust jacket of the Daybook and thus complete the book.
With contributions by Alexander Alberro, Athena Athanasiou, Negar Azimi, Jean-François Chevrier, Moyra Davey, Marta Dziewańska, Anselm Franke, Natasha Ginwala, Paz Guevara, Rachel Haidu, Virginija Januškevičiūtė, R. Siva Kumar, Yvette Mutumba, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Panos Panopoulos, Yehuda Safran, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Zhang Yaxuan and many others