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Philippe Robert - Free Jazz Manifesto
2021
texts in English and French
Lenka lente
(last copies available!)
169 fundamental free jazzrecords recommended in 180 pages by Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Philippe Robert, from must-have classics to indispensable curiosities.
François Lemieux - Going to, Making Do, Passing Just the Same
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
In a series of essays the artist Edith Brunette and François Lemieux outline collectively a few proposals on the question of inhabiting as put forward from their multiple and tenuous attachements to the land.
Vincent Meessen - Blues Klair
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
This book furthers the reflection that was given form in the exhibition Blues Klair, a site to test History in terms of the present. A series of essays probes the enduring presence of colonialism as well as of alliances and cultural crossovers across time and space through the filter of the colour blue.
Giorgio Andreotta Calò - Gloria
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
The text and photo diary of a forty-day journey on foot from Venice to L'Aquila, following the subterranean fracture where the European and African tectonic plates meet, in search of the symbolic dimension and the real effects of seismic waves.
Stronger Than Bone - On Feminism(s)
2021
English edition
Archive Books
Stronger than Bone draws upon the embodied strength, intuitive desires, and collective wisdom of feminists and non-binary protagonists to foreground the manifold dimensions of feminist politics and commitments.
Un autre monde///dans notre monde - Évocation contemporaine du réalisme fantastique – Tome 2
2021
French edition
Supernova - Art
A dive into the world of fantastic realism through the works of some twenty contemporary artists.
Mariateresa Sartori - Monde, dis-moi tout
2021
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Bruno
Three three pinhole photographic series by the Venetian artist who explores the possible interactions between artistic and scientific languages.
Reiner Schürmann - Reading Marx - On Transcendental Materialism
2021
English edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
Schürmann's lecture on Marx emphasizes the philosophical axis of the German theoretician's work and reads it as a transcendental materialism.
Performing Human Rights - Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
2021
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
Aesthetic practices and human rights in the global south.
Kim Schoen - BARAGOUIN
2021
English edition
X Artists' Books
A nonsense opera (artist's book).
Everything you ever wanted to know about Jeff Koons. Just kidding. It\'s a book of interviews with nine really great artists
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
Nine interviews with the artists exhibited in the Geneva art space Forde between 2018 and 2020.
Elisa Valero Ramos - La théorie du diamant et le projet d’architecture
2021
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
First publication of the essay of the Spanish architect Elisa Valero Ramos.
FRANK
2021
English edition
Torpedo
A book that documents/closes the Oslo-based queer-feminist plattform FRANK, with a rich contributions list and many illustrations.
Cécile Fontaine - L\'émulsion fantastique : le cinéma selon Cécile Fontaine - Entretiens avec Yann Beauvais
2021
French edition
Light Cone
A fascinating journey into the experimental filmmaker's universe.
Simon Hantaï - Transatlantique
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Seven American artists share their invaluable perspectives on the decisive work of Simon Hantaï.
Raphael Hefti - Salutary Failures
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Lenz Press
First comprehensive monograph on Swiss artist Raphael Hefti (book printed by the artist himself with a specific technique making each copy a unique object).
Diego Marcon - Three Works
2021
English edition
Lenz Press
This monograph deals with Diego Marcon's overall practice through the analysis of three works.
Beatriz Ferreyra - Souvenirs cachés / Innermost (vinyl LP)
2021
Persistence of Sound
A split LP from two leading voices in electroacoustic music.
Myr Muratet - Silent Blocks
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Nouveau Palais
Silent Blocks considers two point of views on the Covid-19 pandemic and the way it is dealt by Western countries during the lockdowns of spring 2020. First, Myr Muratet's photographs in a silent Paris. Then, the thoughts of Canadian science journalist David Cayley, based on the work of philosopher Ivan Illich.
 Kinkaleri - Once more (vinyl LP)
2021
Xing
A total musical and visual performance.
Lydia Mancinelli - Martellate - Scritti Fighi 1990-2020 (vinyl LP)
2021
Xing
(last copies available!)
A collection of the writings, in the form of slogans, which have accompanied Marcello Maloberti in almost thirty years of poetics.
Art contemporain africain - Histoire(s) d\'une notion par celles et ceux qui l\'ont faite
2021
French edition
JRP|Editions - Lectures Maison Rouge
A polyphonic genealogy of the concept of contemporary African art.
(W)archives
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Digital and data technologies are actively transforming the archives of contemporary warfare. Bringing together a range of scholarly perspectives and artistic practices, (W)archives investigates digital archiving as an integral technology of warfare and how artists respond to these changes.
Graham Harman - Artful Objects - Graham Harman on Art and the Business of Speculative Realism
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Can objects be traumatized? How does the commercial value of an art object relate to its aesthetic qualities? How do objects interact? These are some of the questions addressed by Graham Harman, the originator of object-oriented philosophy and a central figure of the Speculative Realism school of thought in contemporary philosophy.
Ilona Németh - Eastern Sugar
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This book takes as its starting point artist Ilona Németh's extensive research into the history of sugar production in Central Europe, from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century.
Jesse Ash - Avoidance – Avoidance
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The script for, and conversations around, artist Jesse Ash's multi-dimensional project built around a play about a bitter argument between two ex-lovers.
 Ho Tzu Nyen - G for Gong
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
G for Gong looks at the artistic practice of Singaporean video artist and theater director Ho Tzu Nyen. An extension of the artist's large-scale solo exhibition in 2019, this book not only explores Ho's distinctive artistic approach but also dives deeper into the themes of his work.
Jenny Odell - Inhabiting the Negative Space
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
Artist and writer Jenny Odell speaks about the role of design and observation in a fully virtual commencement ceremony for Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Isabelle Graw - Three Cases of Value Reflection - Ponge, Whitten, Banksy
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - Institut für Kunstkritik
In response to recent discussions about the value assigned to artworks, art critic and theorist Isabelle Graw introduces the term "value reflection", focusing on the artistic production of three individuals—Francis Ponge, Jack Whitten and Banksy.
Cold Revolution - Central and Eastern European Societies in Times of Socialist Realism, 1948-1959
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Socialist realism and the relationship between the visual culture of the 1950s and the geopolitical "climate" of the time.
Erling Kagge - Walking - Movements North of Bolzano
2021
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The intersection of walking and collecting.
Mario Pfeifer - If you end up with the story you started with, then you’re not listening along the way
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Mario Pfeifer's most extensive monograph to date.
Pamela Rosenkranz - Alien Culture
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Francesca Zappia - Les Flâneuses - Copies, appropriations, citations dans la collection du Centre national des arts plastiques
2021
French edition
Shelter Press - Books
Copies, appropriations, quotations in the collections of the Centre national des arts plastiques (also available in English).
Liu Xiaodong - New England
2021
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Nero
The volume New England brings together a series of portraits by Liu Xiaodong of homonymous subjects. The project represents the artist's search to portray a generation of young Chinese professionals who have moved to London to try and follow their dreams.
Protext! (2 volumes)
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
The possible role of weaving as a transgressive practice, as a weapon of protest and sabotage.
Micol Assaël - Λ (Lambda)
2021
English edition
Nero
Λ (Lambda) is an artist book by Micol Assaël which collects a series of 72 drawings made by the artist starting in 2011 as a reflection on light.
Rä di Martino - Afterall (A Space Mambo)
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Publication based on the eponymous futuristic / dystopian project of the Italian artist and film-maker.
Sara Enrico - The Jumpsuit Theme
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
The series of works developed by Sara Enrico around the concept of the textile jumpsuit.
Josef Albers - Messico 1935/1956
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Unpublished photographs taken by Josef Albers during his travels to Mexico with Anni in the 1930s and 50s.
Connect and Divide - The Practice Turn in Media Studies
2021
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The publication studies four aspects of the practice turn in media studies: Media history from a praxeological perspective, the practice turn in religion and media studies, the connecting and dividing lines of media theories concerning gender and post-colonial agencies, and a historical and theoretical examination of the current relationship of media theory and practice theory.
Wu Yi - The Sea as Mirror - Essayings in and against Philosophy as History
2021
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The deep political and moral ambiguity attributed to the maritimeelement in Western philosophical and literary imaginaries.
Brian Alkire - The Last Mask - Hamann\'s Theater of the Grotesque
2021
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
A philological and theoretical rereading of the late work of Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788).
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