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Peter Kurzeck - Un hiver de neige
2018
French edition
Diaphanes - Literature
The first volume of Peter Kurzeck's great autobiographical and poetic chronicle in 12 volumes: the opening of a colossal literary project which portrays the city of Frankfurt and Germany in the early 1980s. A must read, often compared to Proust, Joyce, and Döblin.
Lilian Auzas - Anita
2018
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
Fictionalized biography of Anita Berber, the sulphurous expressionist icon, dancer, actress, and muse.
Kaori Suzuki - Conduit (CD)
2018
Second Editions
Originally conceived for live context employing high volume playback and extended duration, Conduit pushes the parameters of musical composition and perception. Minimal in construction, applying high frequency staccatissimo that gradually turns in on itself, Kaori Suzuki's latest output delivers a striking twenty-six minutes of intoxicating computer music. A remarkable statement.
Footnotes from the Centre for Research Architecture
2018
English edition
IF Publications
Footnotes from the Centre for Research Architecture brings together short contributions by students and staff of the MA 2017-18 programme. This publication provides a conceptual framework to compile a series of visual and textual footnotes by each of CRA's students. It enables each student to make visible a crucial fragment of the research process that fits neither within the dissertation's narrative or within the exhibition's format.
Laëtitia Jasserand - Prose postérieure - Le courrier électronique d\'une instructrice d\'aérobic sauvage et grotesque
2018
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Stimuli
A raw extraction from the email inbox of an aerobics teacher.
Mads Emil Nielsen - Refound (10\
2018
Arbitrary
A collaboration between Andrea Neumann (composer, inside piano, mixer) and Mads Emil Nielsen (composer, electronics).
Mads Emil Nielsen - Black Box 1 (7\
2018
Arbitrary
(last copies available!)
A 7" vinyl based on an music/audio made by Mads Emil Nielsen made for a dance performance.
Clare Goodwin - Dennis and Denise
2018
English edition
Nieves
Five writers respond to Clare Goodwin's painting Dennis and Denise (2018), offering narrative foils to Goodwin's visual language. Dennis and Denise is neither described nor explained, but serves as a catalyst for literary experimentation. The texts, in turn, illustrate the painting's wealth of implicit meaning (texts by Tony Grisoni, Rebecca Geldard, Chris Fite-Wassilak, Frances Loeffler, Aoife Rosenmeyer, J. Emil Sennewald).
Chloe Feinberg - Infinite Recognition
2018
no text
Nieves
Affiliated with Vaporwave—a sub-genre of electric music and art which criticizes and mocks 1990s internet imagery—artist Chloe Feinberg takes a new turn with this series of black & white erotic illustrations.
L\'Hospice des Mille-Cuisses - Expériences de guérison (coffret)
2018
French edition
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
A game of cards and strategy whose goal is to bring out his or her rival from the Hospital, a place of freedom without boundaries. Players will have to use alternative medicine, electroshock, trade union struggle and occult forces to succeed.
Jonathan Monk - Anything by The Smiths
2018
no text
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
Visual documentation on Jonathan Monk's eponymous exhibition, commissioned by curator Marc-Olivier Wahler on the occasion of the twenty-year anniversary of the CAN Centre d'art Neuchâtel. The British artist revisits an iconic exhibition he did during the first years of the CAN in 1997. The publication confronts the images of the two events.
Séverin Guelpa - Energy as a vehicle
2018
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Aparté
First monograph.
Alessandro Cicoria - Cicoria - A Brief Account of Alessandro Cicoria\'s Life and Work
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Cicoria is a visual essay conceived as a stream of images of the Alessandro Cicoria's past and current artworks, put together with apparently no visual coherence by Cicoria himself. A dialogue between the artist and curator Luca Lo Pinto is the map to understand the peculiar attitude behind his work and vision.
Perrine Rouillon - Me and the Other Little Someones Would Like to Know Why We\'re Not in the Book – Not to Mention It\'s the First Time I Put My Arms Like This
2018
English edition
Dis Voir - Figures
This charming volume stages a dialogue between an ink-drawn character named Little SomeOne, and her creator, illustrator and writer Perrine Rouillon.
Bitter Things - Narratives and Memories of Transnational Families
2018
English edition
Archive Books
This publication features academic and literary contributions, interviews, songs and photos which explores the impact of labor migration on the notion of motherhood from the perspectives of women migrant workers and children left-behind.
Romy Rüegger - Language is Skin - Scripts for Performances
2018
English edition
Archive Books
The scripts of Romy Rüegger's performances: a constellation of texts, largely written to be spoken. The scripts as they are printed do not document the performances primarily. They are indications of spacial and temporal layering, juxtapositions of aesthetic and poetic elements and bodies. Overlapping every day observations with archival material, confronting, jumping.
Pierre-Jean Giloux - Invisible Cities
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Zero2
This first monograph accompanies a series of videos inspired by the Metabolist utopist architecture movement, created in 1959 in Japan. The videos bring together several portraits of Japanese towns, combining digital images with filmed or photographed images of social and urban reality.
Jean-Luc Bouvret - La Bataille du Côa - Une leçon portugaise (DVD)
2018
French edition
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
This film documents the struggle for the preservation of the prehistoric rock art sites in the Côa valley in Portugal in the early 1990s.
Benoît Maire - Luxury Edition
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 50, signed, and accompanied by a multiple by Benoit Maire.
Nico Vascellari - Codalunga
2018
English edition
Nero
Opened to the public since 2005, Codalunga is a section of Nico Vascellari's studio in Vittorio Veneto devoted to experiments in visual and sound art. This publication documents a project which has been going on for a decade now, gathering artists from all around the world.
Aneducation - Documenta 14
2018
bilingual edition (English / Greek)
Archive Books
This publication reflects on the education and mediation programs at documenta 14. Organized as a lexicon, it gathers contributions by members of the programs, curators, artists, and educators.
Alex Martinis Roe - To Become Two - Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice
2018
English edition
Archive Books
This publication offers a narrative of artist Alex Martinis Roe's research into a genealogy of feminist political practices in Europe and Australia from the seventies until today.
 Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson - Dark Matter Cinema Tarot (box set)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers
Limited edition box set including a divinatory tarot game designed by filmmakers Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson. The usual cards are replaced by a selection of 78 photograms from the history of cinema (numbered and signed copies).
New North Zurich / Neuer Norden Zürich
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
Stemming from a Public Art Zurich project, this publication gathers texts and international artists contributions exploring the condition of 21st-century cities in relation with contemporary art.
Teresa Burga - Aleatory Structures
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This comprehensive monograph on Teresa Burga acknowledges the recent reassessment of the multidisciplinary artist's work as a pioneering voice in Peruvian contemporary art.
Claude Lévêque - Tombeau - Variations autour des œuvres de Claude Lévêque
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
Drawing relations between the works of Claude Lévêque and quotes from contemporary writers (Don de Lillo, Pierre Michon, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze…), modern writers (Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Jean Giono, Marcel Proust, Paul Valéry…), and classics (Shakespeare, Dante, Aristote…).
Guttu Ane Hjort - Writings, Conversations, Scripts
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The first survey of text works by artist Ane Hjort Guttu. Written between 2003 and 2018, the texts range from public statements, poetic short prose, film scripts and reflections on the role of the artist to essays on art for children and the link between light and wealth.
Marie Canet - Juntos en la Sierra - Speech Act, Identité, Globalisation
2018
French edition
Shelter Press - Books
The production of alternative and solidarity-based knowledge through the linguistic, sexual, biological and geographical margins.
Vincent Bonin - D\'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant / Actors, Networks, Theories
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
This book examines the notion of deferred receptions of theories and art through language, context and translations.Vincent Bonin explores the gap between the publication of a text in one language and that of its translation (using the example of the French Theory), or between the inaugural presentation of an artwork in one context and its subsequent display. A critical reflection on the discourses surrounding contemporary art practices.
Keren Cytter - The Brutal Turtle
2018
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
Second in a trilogy of children's books, The Brutal Turtle tells the story of a Turtle wandering in the desert, trying to reach the animal farm. Facing cruel obstacles during his journey, he becomes angry and terrorizes the farm's people once he arrives at the farm. A tale on power's relativity, hate, violence, and on the importance to be nice.
Keren Cytter - The Furious Hamster
2018
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
The last in a trilogy of children's books, this publication tells the story of a hamster stuck between the pages of a book. Wishing to escape to discover the animal farm, he will find the help of his own fleas. A story about caring and learning, by artist Keren Cytter.
Victor Man - Childhood Drawings for Rózsa
2018
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
This artist's book reproduces a series of comics made by Victor Man when he was a child in communist Romania in the early 1980s. These drawings reveal the artist's fascination for the then rare Western magazines. The publication opens with a letter from Victor Man to little Rózsa, to whom the book is dedicated.
Stephen Barber - White Noise Ballrooms
2018
English edition
Diaphanes - Forward Fiction
In a corrupt town of North England shortly before Thatcher, a group of kids sets a “white noise” insurgency to try and save the city. A disturbing and captivating novel.
Localizing the Contemporary - The Kunsthalle Bern as a Model
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
This scholarly publication discusses the historical development of the Kunsthalle Bern and its implications for the “localization” of art. It contributes to current research on institutional histories by looking at the many ways in which the Kunsthalle Bern addresses the question of how exhibitionary practices take place.
Sam Falls -
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Andro Wekua -
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Josephine Pryde - Lapses in Thinking By the person i Am
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
currently out of stock
This catalogue presents documentation and texts from the British artist's first exhibition in the United States, which combines a series of color photographs of hands touching objects with a scale-model freight train and track.
Le Toguna - Une œuvre collective dédiée à la transmission des savoirs imaginée par des artistes et des artisans d\'art
2018
French edition
Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books
The Toguna is a collective work co-created by craftsmen and visual artists, a space of conviviality and sharing in the heart of the Palais de Tokyo. This publication follows the project's genesis through texts and images, and addresses the questions raised by the collaboration between craftsmen and artists.
Pauline Julier - Naturalis Historia
2018
French edition
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
currently out of stock
Naturalis Historia is the result of an ambitious multimedia research on the history of nature. Taking an encyclopedic approach, artist Pauline Julier explores several nature stories appealing to the arts and sciences to create this vast narrative. The 504-page edition includes a rich iconography, original texts as well as interviews with Philippe Descola and Bruno Latour.
Baltic Triennial 13 - Give up the Ghost
2018
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
The catalogue of the 13th edition of the Baltic Triennial which takes place in three venues: Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Tallinn Art Hall and Kim? Contemporary Art Center Riga. The publication includes a range of curatorial and critical voices to provide highly individual reflections on each of the artists, poets and musicians taking part in the project.
Justin Meyers - Struggle Artist (vinyl LP)
2018
Shelter Press - Records
Struggle Artist by Justin Meyers, the Minneapolis-based composer, artist, and head of the Sympathy Ltd. label, expresses the incompatibility of neoliberalism and non-commercial artistic practice through melancholic sonorities and the meticulous narrativity of the synth-based compositions.
Marian Kaiser - “ ”
2018
English edition
Nero
An interview with artist James Hoff by theorist writer Marian Kaiser, focusing on Hoff's publishing practice and reflections on books.
 GCC - “ ” - Internal Affairs – 2013-2018
2018
English edition
Nero
A collection of selected images and conversations from the artist collective GCC's five-year WhatsApp archive.
 Badlands Unlimited - “ ” - Act 1
2018
English edition
Nero
Set behind the scenes of Badlands Unlimited, an artist-run, New York-based publishing company, this three- act play follows the characters as they launch an erotic novella, deal with internal conflicts, and imagine the promise and threat of technology between the pages and in our lives. Badlands Unlimited is a comedy of errors that morphs into a deeper meditation on art and mortality.
From Bits to Paper
2018
English edition
Art Book Magazine
Publication reflecting on the work of contemporary artists who explore the collision between the digital and physical worlds. These artists take a step back, using decontextualization, rematerialization and displacement tactics to examine the future of our world. Through a collection of interviews with and essays by artists and theoreticians, this book develops the reflections generated during the eponymous exhibition.
Neolithic Childhood - Art in a False Present, c. 1930
2018
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
Based on the writings of Carl Einstein, this comprehensive, richly illustrated reader examines how the artistic avant-gardes reacted to the multiple crises of European modernity around 1930. Structured around a glossary, the publication gathers commissioned essays, texts by Einstein, and documentation on the namesake exhibition.
Jean-Pierre Zarader - L\'invention de Morel d\'A. Bioy Casares - La tentation du spéculaire
2018
French edition
ARTDERIEN
An essay on Adolfo Bioy Casares' novel.
Raphael Gygax - Extra Bodies - Über den Einsatz des anderen „Körpers” in der zeitgenössischen Kunst
2018
German edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
The use of the “Other Body” in Performance art and Contemporary Art.
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