What forms does withdrawal—meaning either that which withdraws itself or which is being withdrawn—take in artistic and cultural practices? What movement(s) does it create or follow in specific contexts, and with what theoretical, material, and political consequences? The contributors of this book address these questions in a variety of writing practices, each focusing on specific scenes.

Artist's book.

Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces: pursuing their project to disseminate the work and thought of Livio Vacchini, Caryatide publish a new edition in French of Capolavori, the small (and immense) milestone, full of meaning and poetry, that the architect from Ticino wrote in 2006 just before his death.

A split on 4 sides gathering 10 musicians, poets and poetesses around texts written and read by Gilles Furtwängler.

A series of historical images of buildings and monuments, retouched by the artist who superimposes the flames that ravaged these monuments long after the time of the original image, overlaying the present and the past.

A writing workshop led by the writer François Bon and the artist photographer Bruno Serralongue at HEAD - Geneva from February 20 to 25, 2022.

In this interview, Marie-France Rafael and the artist Raphaela Vogel probe the perennial question of form, asking: What is the relationship between form and time? In their conversation, Rafael and Vogel contemplate the potential of putting artistic mediums in dialogue with one another, proffering a new vision of what form can achieve.

Reference monograph.

An artistic research project led between 2019 and 2022, investigating how 3-D electroacoustic composition and sound-art can evoke and provoke a new awareness of our outdoor sound environment.

Three series of works that the Californian artist of Japanese origin has been producing since the 1970s, plus a text, in four booklets.

Igor Terentiev's biography of Ilya Zdanevich published in 1919 in Tbilisi.

Paintings and photocollages by the French artist based in Senegal, Vincent Michéa, which are part of a vast kaleidoscopic iconography, African but also European and American, that reorganizes space and time.

A photographic serie about Redeyef, a mining town in the south of Tunisia.

An ecological, urban and architectural anatomy inspired by Tunisia's palms and eucalyptus trees: a conceptual, committed and critical gesture of renovation of Tunis' municipal greenhouse at the Parc du Belvédère, which questions the very same definition of an artwork, the place of the artist and the role of cultural institutions.

Basse saison combines photographs taken by the artist mainly during the winter of 2020, while staying in her native region, La Grande Motte in southern France.

"For those who, despite everything, have decided to live, there will always be a home." A work on the experience of exile and migration, memory and selfhood, from legendary French-Rwandan storyteller Scholastique Mukasonga.

The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.

Catalogue of an exhibition centered on the work of the artist and writer Helen Khal (1923-2009), an influential figure in the Lebanese art scene.

The most significant critical, theoretical, and art historical texts by the artist, writer, and filmmaker Aria Dean.

On the themes found in the work of Lorraine O'Grady: Black female subjectivity, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, music, and translation.

Simone Hoffmann's films invites us to rediscover one of the world's most important contemporary artists in the context of her retrospective exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris in 2023.

A sci-fi imagining of life in America's penultimate chapter: Montreal-born, NY-based writer Charlotte Graham's debut novel, a work of experimental fiction, follows a sweeping group of characters in America's near future as they live and die under the threat of a new kind of deadly bomb called the Peacemaker.

Monograph surveying more than ten years of the Canadian visual and performance artist's career, whose engaged practice addresses social and environmental issues, with two essays by Chantal Pontbriand and Ayelet D. Aldouby.

29 Fluxus pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical and special instruments (with a 72 page booklet with texts and pictures).

18 Fluxus pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical and special instruments (with a 24 page booklet with texts and pictures).

Three "night music" pieces by Czech composer Petr Bakla, centered around the piano.

Post-rock by a chamber music ensemble from Belgium, mixed by Steve Albini.

Post-rock by a chamber music ensemble from Belgium, mixed by Steve Albini.

Hypnotic instrumental improvisation-based explorations by the trio from Cairo featuring Maurice Louca (Alif, Bikya), Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush, Shalabi Effect) and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, The Invisible Hands, Alvarius B.) are propelled by North African percussion loops and shimmering keys, a West African tinged free jazz guitar and a driving Krautrock-style acoustic bass.

The recording of a literary interpretation of a performance by the artist Pablo Pijnappel.

Karen Kilimnik's artist's book Early Drawings 1976–1998 brings together the artist's own rich and varied selection of around 130 never before published early works on paper.

This luxurious publication in large format presents 365 collages made by the artist between 2021 and 2022.

The reprint of a cult book of post-1968 psychedelic culture:, an encyclopedia of the cultural and artistic manifestations of the rainbow first published in 1975 in Berkeley, California, on the occasion of The Rainbow Show exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

A monograph conceived as a self-portrait: the story of the artist's career through works and writings from 1961 to 2015, collected in chronological order to illustrate the ever-evolving, organic nature of Salvo's activities, which constantly interacted with the history of art.

MUdec United, the new publication of the MUDEC – Museo delle Culture di Milano, one of the Italian leading institutions, is a book-zine dedicated to interdisciplinary research on world cultures. The first issue addresses the themes explored with an exhibition project composed of different stories related to the rainbow as a natural, cultural, spiritual and human phenomenon.

A conversation between Eva Wilson and the 2022 Frieze Artist Award Abbas Zahedi, around the core concepts of "translation and transplantation".

The volume "Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else" brings together the voices of all the protagonists involved in the Italian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

A series of works by the duo of painters Les Sœurs Siamoises, who work the images together "like a decomplexed table tennis game, with Indian cactus in the pin-up colors of the forests of the kingdom of Siam".

A new milestone in the reflection on the challenges of creation in traditional music, and its recent aesthetic renewal.

A novel of anticipation anchored in queer ecologies, a frenetic odyssey interwoven with songs and short poems, mixing the genres of feminist science fiction, young adult literature, space-opera and marvelous fable.

What architectural possibilities can emerge when we reimagine arid landscapes as spaces of abundance? (a collective book conceived as a travelogue that challenges preconceptions around aridity: the official publication of UAE's National Pavilion at Venise Biennale of Architecture).

A very personal text by Yann Chateigné Tytelman, curator and critic, who establishes a link between his past, his childhood and his career as a curator, his artistic choices, his exhibitions, often in connection with the theme of silence.

Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa explores Moroccan traditional knowledge and engages dialogue with diverse artistic perspectives, for the very first monographic exhibition dedicated to a contemporary artist at MACAAL, Marrakech.

A collection of about thirty texts to resume the passionate conversation that Jean-Luc Nancy was engaged in throughout his life, with philosophers and artists from all over the world.

Retrospective monograph: a panorama of Jennifer Caubet's work over fifteen years.

The first novel by Swiss artist Johana Blanc.