Criticism, theory & documents

A collection of texts and interviews by the art critic and independant curator (John Armleder, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Guy Debord, Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Michel Houellebecq, Pierre Huyghe, Jacques Lacan, Jean-François Lyotard, Olivier Mosset, Philippe Parreno, Andy Warhol...).

The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age (also available in English edition).

A collection of essays on ten contemporary artists (Peinado, Achour, Sala, Cattelan, Huyghe, Scanlan, Trouvé, Bublex).

Collection of interview and essays (Parrino, Morris, Armleder, Veilhan, Walsh, Mosset, Gygi, Miller...).

A collection of texts and interviews of artists, musicians and art critics (Kim Gordon, Mike Kelley, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Bob Nickas...) based on the relationship between art, "rock" music and culture in the largest sense of the word.

Relations between society and artists.

Those who spread their image over Internet, what do they want? And what do those who view them get out of it? Numerous are those who jumped on the bandwagon of the webcam, pushing its spectrum of video-surveillance and condemning it to voyeurism or exhibitionism. Far beyond the simplistic idea of opposing exhibitionist / voyeur, actor / spectator, active / passive, the webcam serves as a meeting point of exchanges, complicity, views of or relationships with others, what Nicolas Thély terms as "web-intimacy".

Texts and interviews by Eric Troncy.

Bob Nickas' writings.

Bob Nickas' writings (English edition).

Also available in English edition.

Thirty texts by Eric Troncy.

Cultural mediation in France.

Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.

This book examines the modes of execution in contemporary art from the viewpoint of production, by means of a series of eighteen interviews. It presents a plural and polyphonic thinking, bringing together the words of different participants concerned with the realisation of artworks and several generations of artists.

The current panoply of private initiatives in the museum world.

Artists' book history.

Nonprofit collective organizations in the 1960s-1970s.

The societal efficacy of art.

An analysis of some major contemporary works that challenge the traditional values of art.

Essays and interviews by the American curator and critic: a portrait of the American art scene over the last few decades.

An activist analysis of new transmission models in art teaching.

A compendium of texts containing famous exhibition case studies, involving some of the more thought-provoking artists, architects, and scientists of our time. A must-have for anyone interested in the unusual strategies of a curator-at-large.

A collection of interviews with artists and curators.

Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s.

A study on Richter's work with illustrations.

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.

Aesthetics of breathing: new ways of getting to know the air we breathe and developing a sensitive culture of air qualities.

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.

A much-needed mapping of the Indian art scene.

Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.

A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication.

The first French translation of Vivian Sobchack's work, Le corps du film – Une phénoménologie de l'expérience filmique offers a new perspective to the phenomenological tradition through an interrogation of our cinematographic experience and, more generally, of our relationship to screens.