Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz have designed a photographic and pictorial artist's book which focuses on Berlin cemeteries. In a combination of photography and painting they consider the uniqueness of the park-like cemeteries in Berlin, which are used as leisure and recreational areas. Bachmann and Banz turn these places of melancholy and calm into an aesthetic experience by “making emotions visible”.
New expanded and subtitled edition: nearly four-hour program consisting of twelve films, five documentaries, unpublished documents as well as original video works by the artist.
What is it we call “Black” music? A selection of texts from the April 2010 conference in Bordeaux based on a critical discussion of Philipp Tagg's open letter about “Black music,” “Afro-American Music” and “European Music.”
Transcript of a seminar on the philosophical concept of fidelity and the definition of the political space. With philosopher Pierre-Damien Huyghe and writer Fabrice Reymond.
Italian-German artist Ezramo (Alessandra Eramo) recorded the sounds of larvae during their transformation into flies. Trough rough, sub-real field recordings, she explores, interprets and lyrically re-invents the concept of metamorphosis.
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Space as the raw material and the underpinning
of the work of art (different approaches looking into the
concept of space in all its ramifications, from the recent history
of sculpture to the latest research in astrophysics).
“Galerie J Chronology” is witness not only to a curatorial activity related to interfering within the simultaneous exhibition openings in a cosmopolite neighborhood in Geneva, but also to future paths for the Galerie J association.
292 pages,
13 texts,
290 works (X. Veilhan, G. Turk, O. Dolligner, P. Broccolichi, M. Cantor, V. Stratmann, J. Koons, C. Williams, M. Boyce, R. Hysbergue, T. Dean, J. Monk, P. Roehr.
An interdisciplinary approach to contemporary design, beyond the purely economic dimension, at the crossroads between technological innovations and social, political and ecological issues.
A film documenting a series of musical performances in the streets of Marseilles organized by Jacques Siron and commissioned by the Cité de la Musique.
A ghost town in Cyprus as a metaphor for an aesthetic and political reconstruction in the margins of Europe: an artistic approach to contemporary issues related to a real situation, with about 30 international artists and contributions by writers from different fields (philosophy, anthropology, history, politics, and sociology).
Collection of fictitious transcripts of radio speeches by experts on subjects such as art in life, the scarcity of water, cigarettes, or neighborhood relations. Among the 21 speeches, only one is authentic. A humoristic take on the notion of expert, and its propagandist deviation.
This publication is part of a series of books in which writers are invited to create a narrative based on an artwork held at the Frac Aquitaine in France. Marcelline Delbecq chose Robert Barry's Returning, a projection of eighty-one slides that alternates images, words, and black interludes.
This publication is part of a series of books in which writers are invited to create a narrative based on an artwork held at the Frac Aquitaine in France. Sabrina Soyer's text was inspired by Mathieu Mercier's installation Holothurie.
Joël Kermarrec,
Daniela Comani,
Du spirituel dans l'art contemporain, Variations sur un thème de Peter Szendy, Alexandre Maubert, Justine Pluvinage & Vera Schöpe,Didier Dessus &
Pierre-Yves Magerand,
Nicolas Daubanes,
Camille Llobet, François Daillant, Julia Cottin, Nicolas Tilly, Yannick Vey...
This publication collects the statements of four migrants workers and leaders of groups of undocumented workers. These interviews focus on the reasons why they chose to live and work in France.
Three sound compositions by sound artist Yannick Dauby, based on field recordings of Taipei city and its surroundings. Inspired by the Ghost Festival and the ambiences of Summertime, by the evolution and modernity of the urban environment, by the now extinct plain aborigines who once lived in the Taipei basin, these works are reflecting three ways of listening the urban soundscape of Taiwan's capital.
Designed from
photographs of Decrauzat's films, this artist's book offers an experiment of retinian excitement echoing the syncopes of the reel. Each copy was bound together following a random repartition system and is therefore unique.