Poetry

A dialogue between two singular appropriations of the concept of cannibalism at two key historical moments: a new translation of Oswald de Andrade's cult poem, advocating the symbolic ingestion of the colonizer and his culture, faced with an analysis by Suely Rolnik of a perverted contemporary cannibalism experience in the context of financial capitalism.

The reprint of the publication pioneer in the artistic experimentations of the 1960s, published by the artist in 1962 (leporello).

A collection of texts, most unpublished in French.

Dada, Fluxus, futurism, spatialism, lettrism, concrete poetry, cut-up… a 560-page anthology of typographical explosions and poetic experiments by Al Dante.

L'armée noire is a collaborative review founded by poet Charles Pennequin and illustrator Quentin Faucompré. This first issue gathers texts and illustrations inspired by art brut and experimental poetry.

A posthumous notebook of writings and sketches by poet Christophe Tarkos.

Latest works by legendary French sound-poetry pioneer Henri Chopin.

Reading of One Million Years (Past and Future 51 – 62) by male and female voices (250 copies limited edition wood boxed set of 24 audio CDs).

Essays and interviews on 20th century avant-gardes in France (from Dada to sound poetry, avant-garde reviews, happenings and events, Fluxus, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Gil J. Wolman, Camille Bryen...).

First translation in French of the collection of talks by American poet, critic, linguist and performance artist.

A poem on war and the oppression of the modern body.

First extensive publication of American artist, poet and performer's texts, illustrated with 4 screenprintings.

A collection of conferences for an exibition.

One of the first published text by a major figure of Belgian experimental literature.

New edition of the Letterist manifesto.

A series of poems by Henri Cole used by conceptual artist Jenny Holzer for her monumental “signs” installations.

Facsimile reissue of the original graphic poetry book self-published in 1975 by Guy de Cointet.

The first critical edition treating a fundamental text by one of the principle actors of Fluxus.

Gerard Malanga's first hand documents from his personal archives, with unpublished music by various personalities.

Richard Huelsenbeck's En avant dada is his first proclamation of Dada in Berlin.

Venet's writings.

The fourth and last poem by Kippenberger, written several days before his succombed to illness. A short letter of adieu, with two portraits of the artist by Elfie Semotan.

Reproduction of the artist's book published in 1975.

Booklet published on the occasion of a 1996 exhibition commissioned by Paul McCarthy and featuring the work of three European artists exiled in California: Guy de Cointet, Bas Jan Ader and Wolfgang Stoerchle. The publication includes texts by McCarthy and Cornelia Butler, biographical and bibliographical notes.

Daniel Spoerri's works declining the variations from the drawings of Charles Le Brun's animals to understand the human face.

An essay by Christian Prigent.

What translation does to performance and what performance does to translation: a collective publication exploring the relationship between translation and performance, including the fields of theater, dance, sound and visual poetry, and film.

The increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, and the sense of suffocation that grows everywhere: an essay on poetical therapy.

A collective work examining fifty years of poetic activity by Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014), a central figure in sound poetry and performance poetry, a major poet of the second half of the 20th century, along multiple axes.