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Loré Lixenberg - The Singterviews - A real time Opera – Vol. 1 (DVD)
2018
AcquAvivA
The first volume of the sung interviews by mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg (with Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Trevor Wishart…).
Magda Mayas - SPILL - Stereo (vinyl LP)
2018
Corvo Records
(last copies available!)
Conceived as rendering of a live concept the Berlin based duo of Tony Buck and Magda Mayas have been developing during one year or so, featuring multi-speaker and multi-layered audio, the essence of Stereo sees SPILL performing in the studio, improvising and reacting to previously recorded improvisations and pre-structured, pre-recorded elements.
L\'Écart absolu
2018
French edition
Empire - Books
This catalogue documents a collective exhibition program inspired by the writings of Charles Fourier. “L'Écart absolu” is a dialogue between architecture, artistic heritage and contemporary works, in which artists come together, interact and experiment on the edge of design, visual arts, decorative arts and applied arts.
Dan Warburton - Métro Pré Saint-Gervais (CD)
2018
Swarming
Reissue of the CD released on the label Chloë (USA) in 2002, recorded in July 2001 in the Paris metro station, during the last two hours of service. A reference, between site-specific improvisation and sound art.
Caroline Claus - Studio_L28 - Sonic Perspectives on Urbanism
2018
English edition (texts in French and Dutch)
umland / Q-O2
A multifaceted examination of sound as a central feature in urban planning.
Coiled Verbal Spring - Devices of Lenin\'s Language
2018
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Coiled Verbal Spring: Devices of Lenin's Language brings together the first English translation of the Russian Formalist and Futurist writings on Lenin's revolutionary language, one of the most interesting projects of political Formalism and avant-garde theory in the twentieth century.
Stéphane Blanquet - Par les masques écornés
2018
trilingual edition (English / French / Chinese)
Abbaye d'Auberive
The most important monograph to date on Stéphane Blanquet: designed by the artist, the publication gathers ancient works and new ones, created for his exhibition at Auberive Abbey in France. Drawings, terracotta, tapestries, lithographs, photographs… This monograph provides a broad look at Blanquet's erotic and nightmarish universe.
Julien des Monstiers -
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Christophe Gaillard Gallery
First monograph: focusing on French painter's Julien des Monstiers most recent work, this publication features a rich iconography with reproductions and exhibition views. An introductory text by Frédéric Valabrègue invites us into the artist's studio, and the interview by Alain Berland gives a formidable insight into des Monstiers' practice.
Torbjørn Rødland - Fifth Honeymoon
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This publication accompanies Torbjørn Rødland's touring exhibition “Fifth Honeymoon,” featuring thirty new photographs and a new video work, his first in eleven years, as well as newly commissioned essays by the American writer and cultural theorist Sianne Ngai and artist colleague Matias Faldbakken.
Georgia Sagri - Georgia Sagri Georgia Sagri and I
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
As her first comprehensive publication, this catalogue surveys the multi-facetted oeuvre of the Greek artist/social activist Georgia Sagri. Across performance, video work, and sculpture, she explores the murky relationships between the artist's body and her body of work, subjectivity and persona, original and reproduction with equal parts humor and severity.
 Gilbert & George - On the Table 6 - The Meal – A Conversation with Gilbert & George
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Table
Charlotte Birnbaum meets with Gilbert & George to discuss The Meal—a culinary performance organized in 1969 by the British duo, with David Hockney as the guest of honor. Also included here are photos and memorabilia from the singular event (the sixth publication in the On the Table series, that explore the encounter between food and art).
 Art & Language - Reality (Dark) Fragments (Light)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
This monograph covers more than fifty years of creation by Art & Language, whose artists are at the origin of conceptual art. Through unpublished texts by Matthew Jesse Jackson and Art & Language, a transcript of their opera libretto Victorine, and an interview with the artist collective, this publication questions their journey, and more broadly, the relationship between contemporary art and conceptual art.
Christodoulos Panayiotou - Pulp Paintings
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
This catalogue focuses on a series of paintings made of discarded euro banknotes. These imposing fields of colour produced by the synthesis of the original banknotes are part of a greater investigation that seeks to remobilise devalued material. With a foreword by Jean Capeille.
George Henry Longly - We all love your life
2018
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
This catalogue documents an eponymous exhibition by the British artist inspired by the daily lives of astronauts in space. The publication presents a series of images of the exhibition together with unpublished photos by the NASA. The book also includes a conversation between the artist and Victor Buchli, a NASA astronaut.
Zachary Cahill - The Black Flame of Paradise (A Novel)
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The Black Flame of Paradise is the first novel by American artist Zachary Cahill. The book is a proposition for a new model of religious life grounded in the artistic and personal relations to the divine.
Andrea Galvani -
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This monograph offers a portrait of over a decade of work by international artist Andrea Galvani. It is a visual excavation into the rigorous research, scientific methodologies, and philosophical thought that underscore his practice. His most notable projects are examined through essays, field notes, calculations, cartographies… in support of a better understanding of a both demanding and fascinating work.
Vaclav Pozarek - 15 x 2 - Colour Lights
2018
no text
MAMCO - Monographs
Artist's book.
The Syz Collection
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
An extensive documentation of the art collection initiated by Eric and Suzanne Syz, on the occasion of its installation at the Syz Group Headquarters in Geneva in 2017. Featuring iconic works from the 1980s, the ever-expanding collection also promotes established and emerging contemporary artists.
Guy Mees - The Weather is Quiet, Cool, and Soft
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The late Belgian artist Guy Mees has been a central figure of Antwerp's art scene since the 1970s. This catalogue features emblematic works and unpublished archival materials from the artist's creative phases spanning the 1960s to 2000s; two unpublished essays, and an interview with the artist.
The only performances that make it all the way… Yes, but is it performable?
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
A joint catalogue focusing on two group exhibitions at the Künstlerhaus Graz dedicated to the examination of current performative practices in relation with the main works of historical forerunners.
Alex Cecchetti - Tamam Shud - An Artist\'s Novel
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
A mystery murder artist's novel by Alex Cecchetti, in which the artist and narrator realises he is dead and decides to investigate the causes of his own death.
The Contemporary Condition - Contemporary Research Intensive
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
This reader addresses the concept of “contemporaneity”, the temporal complexity that follows from the coming together of different temporalities in the same present. It asks how these temporal qualities can be made known in the context of contemporary art research and particularly through practices that involve exhibitionary forms.
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen - The Contemporary Condition - Hegel after Occupy
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
A Western Marxist analysis of the relationship between the historical present and political action.
Knut Ebeling - The Contemporary Condition - There Is No Now – An Archaeology of Contemporaneity
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Drawing together discourses on contemporaneity and new materialisms, this book examines a material conception of temporality that makes it possible to develop a critique of the philosophical discourse on presence. Claiming that “there is no now,” Ebeling develops an archaeology of contemporaneity according to which the traces of the contemporary can only be secured through visual or material operations, not historical ones.
Margaret-Anne Hutton - The Contemporary Condition - On Writing a Literary History of the Contemporary, or What is, or was,“the Contemporary,”and should we keep calling it that?
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
A critical analysis of the use of the term contemporary in scholarly and disciplinary discourses through the hypothetical project of a literary history of “the contemporary.”
 Acezantez - Acezantez (vinyl LP)
2018
Sub Rosa
Avant-garde Croatian experimental '70s masterpiece, never reissued before.
Michael Barthel - Halber Pogo (CD)
2018
Tochnit Aleph
14.00 10.00 €
Second full-lenght release by German sound-poet and writer Michael Barthel on Tochnit Aleph. A 60-minute piece recited from memory. Recorded April 2018 straight to tape without overdubs. Raw, unsettling, poetically incorrect.
 Broutin - Ère isouienne an 52 - Un musicien lettriste (CD)
2018
Tochnit Aleph
14.00 10.00 €
First ever release of the sound poetry pieces by French lettrist artist Gérard-Philippe Broutin. The remarkable lettrist text-sound pieces contained on this CD were written during the early 1970's and recorded and broadcast at Radio France in September 1976. With introductory texts by Jean-Pierre Gillard.
Mario de Vega - Smells Like Teen Spirit (CD)
2018
Tochnit Aleph
14.00 10.00 €
Recording of a sound performance executed in October 2016 in the exhibition space of Berlin record store Rumpsti Pumsti. Using sanding machines and a hammer, the Mexican artist destroyed one copy of each publication ever released by Tochnit Aleph label. Without an audience present, the action was documented with two dynamic microphones.
Gerhard Rühm - Diotima hat ihre Lektüre gewechselt (CD)
2018
Tochnit Aleph
14.00 10.50 €
A 1971 detective audio play based on a real murder trial from the early 20th century. The court records are read out by two girls, accompanied by narrative background sounds and a piano piece. Liner-notes (in English and German) by Gerhard Rühm.
Claude Lévêque -
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
A 520 pages reference monograph which traces the career of Claude Lévêque, and more particularly these last ten years. The core of the publication contains numerous reproductions and texts by Florence Ostende, David Sanson, and Dean Daderko. This edition also includes four inserted booklets, each dedicated to a specific topic: “practical work,” “writings,” “projects,” and “biography”.
Mark Geffriaud - Toast
2018
English edition
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
This artist's book gathers a series of scripts for public speeches made by Mark Geffriaud since 2011. These toasts' scripts are composed of notes and indications, as well as images to be broadcast or reproduced during the performance.
Mark Geffriaud - Toast
2018
French edition
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
This artist's book gathers a series of scripts for public speeches made by Mark Geffriaud since 2011. These toasts' scripts are composed of notes and indications, as well as images to be broadcast or reproduced during the performance.
Alexandra Bachzetsis - An Ideal for Living
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
This artist's book is part of a choreographic project exploring the body/object relationship. It features a photographic series which juxtaposes performers' bodies and objects, creating contradictory associations. The publication also includes two texts by Paul B. Preciado: an essay on the philosophy of movement, and a poem on sexual subjectivity, written with artificial intelligence.
Athena Papadopoulos - A Tittle-Tattle-Tell-A-Tale-Heart (2 vol.)
2018
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
The first artist book by Athena Papadopoulos conceived as a diary and a novel. The publication is a collection of drawings and thoughts of the artist in the form of a romance, published in two different editions.
How Evil Is Pop Art? - New European Realism 1959-1966
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A relecture of of the European Pop Art through a selection of works stemming from private collections.
Walter Pfeiffer - Bildrausch – Drawings 1966-2018
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Focusing on a lesser known aspect of Walter Pfeiffer's practice, this monograph explores the Swiss photographer's graphic works throughout the decades: large-scale hyper-realistic pencil drawings, drawings in China ink, colored pencils and watercolors, characterized by a joyful sensuality that emanates from his portraits of friends and his floral still lifes.
Vincenzo Castella - Mississippi / Tennessee 1976
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
A photographic journey in search of the very last bluesmen. The birth of a vocation for the Italian photographer.
Laura Mello - Ringing Still Life (7\
2018
Corvo Records
A 7" double groove cut concept-album (2004-2017), including field recordings and ringtones composed by Laura Mello.
Alejandro Cesarco - Learning the Language (Present Continuous I)
2018
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
This catalogue stems from the artist's eponymous video project dedicated to Argentine pianist Margarita Fernández. The publication reproduces two texts from seminars given by Fernández, in which she gives an analysis of the filmic and musical writing taking the example of Robert Bresson's use of Franz Schubert's Sonata in A major.
Terry Fox - AudioWorks (vinyl LP)
2018
Song Cycle Records
(last copies available!)
Originally published in 1983 by Maurizio Nannucci, this collection gathers a careful selection of audio works by American body artist and conceptual artist Terry Fox, also a pioneer of sound art.
Glenn Ligon - Debris Field / Notes for a Poem on the Third World / Soleil Negre
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Is-Land
currently out of stock
Catalogue of the American artist's exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel: the publication presents a series of new works (neon, painting, drawing) inspired by texts by Gertrude Stein and Pier Paolo Pasolini, and by the artist's reflections on language, race and gender. The book includes poems by writer, artist and Act Up activist Gregg Bordowitz, and an essay by teacher and writer Sara Nadal-Melsio.
Perrine Le Querrec - Bacon le cannibale
2018
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
currently out of stock
A poetic portrait of Francis Bacon, inspired by the artist's own archives.
Heimo Zobernig - Farben / Alphabet
2018
English edition
IF Publications
This publication brings together two early works by Heimo Zobernig, Farben and Alphabet.
François Bayle - Electrucs ! (vinyl LP)
2018
Transversales Disques
currently out of stock
Never released before: on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the GRM, the composer François Bayle introduces us to some of his unpublished archives.
Bernard Parmegiani - Mémoire Magnétique Vol. 1 (1966-1990) (vinyl LP)
2018
Transversales Disques
Spanning 1966-1990, Mémoire Magnétique vol.1 is a revelatory collection of commercial and secret music by electronic music pionneer Bernard Parmegiani. The first volume of this compilation allows us to discover some of these lost tapes and unpublished recordings which were composed for the screen or the performing arts.
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