Futurism

 
 
Feminine Futures 2 - Expression / Abstraction – The Membrane of Dreams – Avant-garde Expressive & Abstract Dance Through Photography & Experimental Film
2024
Texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
forthcoming
Eleven years after the publication of the first volume of Feminine Futures in 2011, this sequel explores the dance history of abstraction in the feminine, during the first half of the 20th century and continuations today, unfolding new research perspectives with a new body of rare or unpublished original photographs.
 Iliazd - PhiloSophia - Istanbul 1921
2024
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
forthcoming
The fifth volume of the bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevich's fictional autobiographical writings based on his one-year stay in Istanbul in 1921.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - It\'s Not Quite That Inventive (Sixty Years with Broken Music) (2 CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
The album includes Milan Knížák's 1973 private recording BROKEN MUSIC, released as a multiple of forty copies by Armin Hundertmark in 1983 on Edition Hundertmark, and a live version of BROKEN REBROKEN, performed in January 2020 at the Museum of Czech Music in Prague by Milan Knížák, Petr Ferenc (aka Phaerentz) and Opening Performance Orchestra.
 Iliazd - Zaum for Strangers - Paris 1921
2023
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The fourth volume of Rab-Rab Press' bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevich's talk The New Schools in Russian Poetry, given in 1921 in Paris. In this talk, Zdanevich introduced zaum to the French Dadaists. He declared that practical and poetic languages are two poles of existence, two opposite ways of life.
Igor Terentiev - Tenderness Record - The Life of Ilya Zdanevich
2023
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Igor Terentiev's biography of Ilya Zdanevich published in 1919 in Tbilisi.
 Iliazd - Iliazda at the Birthday Party - Autobiographical Lecture, 1922
2022
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The English translation of Zdanevich's Dadaist autobiographical lecture in Paris in 1922, where he adopts the name Iliazda. In this entertaining lecture, the achievements of the avant-garde is presented as a combination of zaum, polymorphous sexuality, aleatory forms and scatological interpretation of culture.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - Aktual University (CD)
2022
Sub Rosa
15.00 11.00 €
Two pieces based on Milan Knízak's canonical text Aktual University, dating from 1967, containing ten short lectures outlining the university's character—On Conflict, On Dreams, On Revolutions, On Love, On Belief, On Art, etc. These lectures were to serve as inspirational schemes for lectures, seminars and discussions held at an ideal university.
Regina Cassolo Bracchi - Regina
2021
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
GAMeC Books
Reference monograph dedicated to Regina Cassolo Bracchi, in art Regina (1894-1974), one of the most fascinating, innovative, and to this day lesser-known figures of the European artistic panorama of the twentieth century.
Lucia Piccioni - Art et fascisme - Peindre l\'italianité (1922-1943)
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A reconstruction of the vast network of images and texts that give shape to Italian fascist totalitarianism.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - Radio Music Extended (based on John Cage\'s Radio Music) (CD)
2020
Sub Rosa
The composition Radio Music Extended, performed by Opening Performance Orchestra, draws upon the concept John Cage brought to bear in his piece Radio Music from 1956.
Iveta Slavkova - Réparer l\'homme - La crise de l\'humanisme et l\'Homme nouveau des avant-gardes autour de la Grande Guerre (1909-1929)
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
An ambitious and transversal study on the crisis of humanism resulting from modernity, and on the historical consequences of the universalist and absolute conception carried by Futurism and the Bauhaus, proposing little explored paths for a re-reading of the artistic stakes in the 20th century.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - The Noise Of Art (2 vinyl LP)
2019
Sub Rosa
22.00 16.00 €
This album contains seven compositions, created by the Opening Performance Orchestra, Blixa Bargeld, Luciano Chessa and Fred Möpert. All the pieces relate to the theme of Futurism and employ intonarumori, instruments invented and used more than a century ago by the Italian Futurists in their noise compositions.
Dziga Vertov - Le ciné-œil de la révolution - Écrits sur le cinéma
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Medias/Theories
A collection of texts by Soviet avant-garde filmmaker and theoretician Dziga Vertov, including a critical apparatus and visual documents.
Coiled Verbal Spring - Devices of Lenin\'s Language
2018
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of Lenin's Language brings together the first English translation of the Russian Formalist and Futurist writings on Lenin's revolutionary language, one of the most interesting projects of political Formalism and avant-garde theory in the twentieth century.
Alessandra Eramo - Roars Bangs Booms (vinyl 7\
2014
Corvo Records
This composition by Alessandra Eramo shows for the first time a vocal interpretation of eight onomatopoetic words from the Manifesto of Futurist Music The Art of Noises by Luigi Russolo, between sound poetry and noise.
Feminine Futures – Valentine de Saint-Point - Performance, Dance, War, Politics and Eroticism
2011
French edition (texts in French, English, Italian, German)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
A reexamination of the role of female avant-gardes in the fields of performance and dance: a comprehensive publication with over 2500 color illustrations, together with documentary material on Valentine de Saint-Point, Marinetti, Futurism, Canudo, Russian Ballets, German and American expressionism (original photographs, manuscript letters, drawings, woodcuts, manifestos, first editions and ephemera).
Inter - Le futurisme a 100 ans
2009
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Futurism special issue.
 Iliazd - Le degré 41 sinapisé - Lecture on Pearl Disease, Paris 1922
2022
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
sold out
The first volume in bie bao series dedicated to militant investigations on Russian poet, designer, typographer, theoretician, and publisher Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevich, 1894-1975), who developed a new philosophy and methodology from zaum (trans-sense) experiments.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - Opening Performance Orchestra plays Phill Niblock - Four Walls Full Of Sound (CD)
2021
Sub Rosa
sold out
An electronic interpretation of the works of Phill Niblock by the Prague-based group Opening Performance Orchestra.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - The Noise Of Art (CD)
2019
Sub Rosa
sold out
This album contains seven compositions, created by the Opening Performance Orchestra, Blixa Bargeld, Luciano Chessa and Fred Möpert. All the pieces relate to the theme of Futurism and employ intonarumori, instruments invented and used more than a century ago by the Italian Futurists in their noise compositions.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - Merzopo (2 CD)
2018
Sub Rosa
sold out
A collaborative 2-CD album by Japan noise legend Masami Akita alias Merzbow and Czech seven-member ensemble Opening Performance Orchestra. The first CD features four folk-inspired Merzbow compositions. The second CD gathers two live recordings of the Opening, made in Tokyo and Prague.
Le son du grisli - Jedna
2016
French edition
Le son du grisli
Lenka lente
sold out
French musical website Le son du grisli now in print version. First issue includes: Jason Kahn, Sven-Åke Johansson, La Monte Young, Nurse With Wound, Zbigniew Karkowski, 1910's Manifesto of the Futurist Painters…
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti - On the Table 4 - The Futurist Cookbook
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Table
sold out
A manifesto-as-culinary-innovation.
Francesco Balilla Pratella - Manifeste des Musiciens futuristes
2014
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
The reissue of the Manifesto of Futurist Musicians (written in 1911), in which the Italian composer, musicologist and ethnographer Francesco Balilla Pratella (1880-1955) explains the "violent and absolute principles" of a futuristic music which inspired Luigi Russolo's The Art of Noises.
The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners (2 vinyl LP)
2014
Sub Rosa
sold out
The first Luigi Russolo's intonarumori complete reconstruction ever attempted. Some of the Russolo instruments have been reconstructed here for the first time.
Calligrammes & compagnie, etcetera
2010
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
sold out
Dada, Fluxus, futurism, spatialism, lettrism, concrete poetry, cut-up… a 560-page anthology of typographical explosions and poetic experiments by Al Dante.
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