ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)

An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.

An account of artist Io Burgard's experience in the town of Ugine (archives, concert, residency, exhibition), part fanzine, part punk, part white cube.

Le meilleur système is a hybrid and meta text. At once a poetic collection and a critical reader, nourished by references to genre literature, it explores the narrator's dissociative affects and her experience of racial passing.

A novel of anticipation anchored in queer ecologies, a frenetic odyssey interwoven with songs and short poems, mixing the genres of feminist science fiction, young adult literature, space-opera and marvelous fable.

Publication based on a film by Stephen Loye about the micro-stories that emanate from the territory where the Germanwings A320 crash took place on March 24, 2015.

The second part of the research and artistic experimentation project based on the observation of the evolution of landscapes and the consequences of climate change.

The report of a collective and immersive residency at the Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art.

A collective publication implementing the itinerant project of the School of non-work developed by the Geneva-based Argentinian artist Patricio Gil Flood, developed in always different forms, depending on the context where it settles and acts.

An investigation into the history of Tunisian filmmaker Habib Masrouki (1950-1980).

A research and artistic experimentation project based on the observation of the evolution of landscapes and the consequences of climate change.

Artist's book.

Interview with influential astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau on animal welfare and related issues, including ecology and vegetarianism.

The itinerary as an artistic, architectural, territorial and social experience.

Young architects, researchers, artists, designers, and students took part in a residency program for five years at the French ski resort Les Arcs. They prospected and conducted projects in order to renew this unique site, and to perpetuate its modernist heritage. This publication documents their collective adventure.

Conversation on artist Éléonore Pano-Zavaroni and art historian Stéphane Sauzedde given by Martial Déflacieux (Artistes en résidence, Clermont-Ferrand) and Virginie Bobin (Villa Vassilieff, Paris).

A radical reading of the Spanish city of Valencia, drawing on the works of urban ecology pioneer Patrick Geddes.

Diary published to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Summerlake Summer School initiated in 2011 by ESAAA – École Supérieure d'Art de l'Agglomération d'Annecy.

500 random notes collected by the artist and inspired by discussions, films and books.

A contemporary epic poem gathering quotes, film clips, titles, slogans, and a variety of images and sentences collected here and there…

An overview of Camille Laurelli's humoristic and provocative work in all its diversity: photographs, pen and felt pen drawings, prints, screenshots, commissioned texts by her mother or a fictional art critic, viral videos, ready-made, website comments, found objects…

A series of interviews with artists, an art student and an art school director, which implicitly defines Céline Ahond's own artistic practice.

Side Effects follows an international artistic exchange born from questioning the “sides effects” of artistic activity—sideline jobs, multiple works, choice, accident. This hybrid publication contains archives, photographs, notes and drawings as well as texts, interviews and images from art historians, sociologists, critics and artists.

A collective work bringing together thirty contributors, based on an experimental research project conducted with artists and theoreticians (philosophers, sociologists, historians, scientists...) around the question of the formats of art, a forgotten yet decisive issue that crosses contemporary artistic practices in depth.

The artistic and pedagogical experimentations and the alternative networks developed in California from the late sixties.

This artist's book and first monograph gives an insight into Thomas Jeames's nomadic and diversified practice, influenced by the underground culture and DIY graphic design. Jeames' collages, drawings, trips, experiences, and videos reflect the burlesque poetry of this remarkable draughtsman and iconographer.

Since his historical research on the line, anthropologist Tim Ingold has been working closely with laboratoire des intuitions on diagrams. This unpublished text follows a working session at the Kandinsky Library at Centre Pompidou, Paris.

A glossy and luxurious exhibition catalogue including an illustration board with 24 bittersweet photographs.

Grégoire Bergeret collected 1.000 images from his vast personal database to build this ambitious first monograph: an erratic and abundant selection of documents introducing Bergeret's artistic practice.

The first monograph dedicated to Fortino's performances and videos takes the form of a 160 pages volume which constitutes a synthesis of the work and research conducted by the artist at ESAAA art school, Annecy, and beyond.

This artist's book features the research notes of a video work based on a sign language interpretation by a deaf performer of a Geneva College Orchestra's live performance.

First monograph: thirty-four watercolors summarizing Lionel Renck's three years research at ESAAA art school.

A collective work conducted by students and teachers from the Design & Space Master at ESAAA art school that aims to highlight the atypical forms that young designers produce and address to our contemporary societies.

The first issue of the Intuitive Notebook's series of theoretical texts features an unpublished text by philosopher of mathematics David Rabouin on the relationships between mathematics, physicality, and intuition.

This issue features two photo novels produced during workshops with the academic Bastien Gallet.

A collective essay as much as an exhibition catalogue, dedicated to the imaginary of the savage, from the 15th century to the contemporary culture, based on Rousseau's conception of state of nature.

A collection of texts on contemporary experimental practices in art.