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This issue of Flash Art explores a sort of archeology of images, aiming to reflect on issues of appropriation and authenticity in their most contemporaneous sense, whereby any original or preexisting artwork, image, or product can be invested with a multiplicity of meanings.

An accordion and two turntables for an abstract musette.

Presented as a work-in-progress, this text on American artist Rindon Johnson's video practice offers a reflection on the widening creative possibilities in the multimodal digital landscape, while discussing the political and personal aspirations of a new generation of artists and critics.

A selection of erotic paintings by the American artist, produced between 1969 and 1971: an ecstatic and mystical celebration of the sexual act.

A selection of drawings by the New Zealand outsider artist: her work, recognized belatedly, provides a journey into a grotesque, sometimes somber universe, filled with animals, distorted human bodies, and cartoon characters.

First monograph devoted to the work of the French designer / scenographer, with a text by design historian Tony Côme, interviews, and an important iconography.

Frédéric Acquaviva's new record—A QR code record without record limited to 100 copies: a 69 minutes opera for voices (with Joël Hubaut, who also wrote the text, Dorothy Iannone and Loré Lixenberg), dead electronics and video.

First monograph of the French artist who makes the changing states of the body the territory of her research, between desires and suffering.

Six short stories by Maria Kakogianni, between literary fiction and philosophy.

A poetic document found during a political rally in 2019 (against prisons), without author's name nor any indication of origin. Only mention at the bottom of the last page: copying. to be freely distributed.

A story, between myth and reality, of Caravaggio, by parodic artist Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux.

Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

First French translation of Clemente Padìn's first poems.

A long poem that questions our being in the world with a freedom that is both new and timeless, as if these words came from the origins (limited edition, signed, including an original and unique artwork).

A long poem that questions our being in the world with a freedom that is both new and timeless, as if these words came from the origins.

An investigation into the female presence in the places of art and thought, where discourses on emancipation are fabricated.

First official solo album of Claire Bergerault, Stick Slip is an incredible cloud of frequencies where voice and accordion twist the space like an electronic music with psychoacoustic effects. A light and intense record at the same time, always on this acoustic border which makes the inner ear resonate like a mini oscillator.

A piece created in 2013 that is a step towards applying spectral techniques in an electroacoustic environment.

Vast cross-composition by Jean-Yves Bosseur and Benjamin Bondonneau created for the Bordeaux ensemble le Un. A wild thought towards Claude Lévi-Strauss and his notion of "bricolage".

This artist’s book gathers childhood memories, some lived experiences and personal reflections on the family histories and relations, and the ways in which they interweave with geographical locations.

Mads Emil Nielsen continues his Framework series, a collection of open, hand-drawn graphic scores and recordings. The series includes Nielsen's own subjective translations of the visual material and sound pieces accompanied by visual notations, and collaborations—in this case with Andrea Neumann, Jan Jelinek and Hideki Umezawa.

Catalogue.

Françoise et Jean-Philippe Billarant's collection of minimal and conceptual art.

Exhibition catalogue.

This issue of Flash Art, with essays by Dorothea von Hantelmann and Isobel Harbison, dedicates sixteen-pages dossier to the work of Rebecca Horn, a pivotal figure of performative art, and develops a series of reflections on a younger generation of contemporary artists who are now using their bodies or their personas as agents in an attempt to re-cognize themselves in a present that increasingly rewards the loss of self-consciousness.

This issue proposes to examine some of the points of contact between music and hacking.

A reflection on the value of speech and anonymity as well as on the authority at work in the distribution of knowledge.

A collection of thoughts, fragments and poems set in a prose text, between the newspaper, written from day to day, the essay and the autobiography.

The fourth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the wooden crate.

A radio novel inspired by the author's previous publication, associating infuences from sound fictions, experimental music, sound poetry, and rap.

The first album of Ophelia, a band composed of the artist Emilie Pitoiset and two members of Aluk Todolo, Shantidas Riedacker and Matthieu Canaguier.

Three unreleased field recordings from August 1990, documenting a sound installation made from a damaged piece of the Berlin Wall.

Artist's book.

Reference monograph on the singularly radical work of Michel Parmentier—an important addition to the history of painting in the second half of the 20th century.

This monograph documents a research on an abandonned site of the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). For his investigation, artist Henrik Andersson relied on various public archives as well as on the FOI's astonishing art collection.

A proposal for a radio project on the diffusion of world music in the digital age, focusing on the concept of “seismographic sound”.

A collection of musical compositions derived from film interviews with conceptual artists, including Martha Rosler, Art & Language, Andrea Fraser, Ed Ruscha, Shilpa Gupta, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner and Yvonne Rainer.

Julio Le Parc and the practices generated by digital creation.

This new album by the American cellist offers an appreciation of her talents as both a composer and performer, in a unique and elegant style reflecting her many inspirations, from baroque music to Americana and experimental music.

Twenty multidisciplinary texts and artistic proposals to re-examine our relationship to the natural world.

The fifth issue of the annual magazine mixing graphic design, publishing and architecture questions these disciplines through the theme of obsession.

A reverse encoder that keeps only frequencies usually removed by the mp3 encoders, giving the “inaudible” frequencies to listen (software edition on SD card and silkscreen booklet, including a text by Jonathan Sterne).

The soundtrack of an interactive project around phantom islands—islands that appeared on historical maps but never actually existed. A collection of fictitious soundscapes, between field recording and exotica music.

This bilingual publication retraces a journey and a set of studies, graphic creations and texts that lead to a process of drawing research in a digital environment.

A 4-hour work recorded at Steamroom (composer's studio) between 2017 and 2018: a hypnotic, multi-faceted, labyrinthine piece which flows as slowly as a river while speeding back through memory, and shows all the talent of Jim O'Rourke.

A very subjective and alternative cartography of Luxembourg (a social design, publishing and bottom-up creation project led by Dutch graphic designer Annelys Devet).