Performance / happening / action art / body art

 
 
Yayoi Kusama - Love Forever
2020
French edition
MER. B&L
The first publication to provide an overview of Kusama's early performative activities, with unpublished photos and forgotten works from private collections.
Julien Blaine - 2019
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Julien Blaine - Le grand dépotoir
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
In 2020, Julien Blaine, born in 1942, inventories (and offers) what remains in an artist's studio at the end of a lifetime of creation. Le grand dépotoir brings together essays, letters and reflections on his vast poetic enterprise since its beginnings.
Brandon LaBelle - The Other Citizen
2020
English edition
Errant Bodies - Errant Edition
Drawing upon traditions of socially engaged poetics, Brandon LaBelle's The Other Citizen presents narratives of contemporary crisis and exclusionary politics—from American teenagers in the maze of neoliberal privatization to those caught between borders of nation-states—outlining the force of a planetary citizenry.
Marina Abramović - 7 Deaths of Maria Callas
2020
English edition
Damiani - Contemporary art
75.00 60.00 €
A clothbound companion to Marina Abramovic's tribute to Maria Callas, a performance that recreates the iconic opera diva's famous onstage death scenes.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - Radio Music Extended (based on John Cage\'s Radio Music) (CD)
2020
Sub Rosa
The composition Radio Music Extended, performed by Opening Performance Orchestra, draws upon the concept John Cage brought to bear in his piece Radio Music from 1956.
 Shimabuku - Cuban Samba Remix (Remix by Kassin with Arto Lindsay) / Sculpture for Octopuses: exploring for their favorite colours / With Octopus
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Franche-Comté - Conferences series
The transcription of a lecture by Fanny Drugeon on three installations by Japanese artist Shimabuku.
Performance Works
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An anthology of both newly commissioned and reprinted essays, as well as interviews and fiction that reflect on performance today.
Angela Marzullo - L\'origine
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
Artist's book stemming from a performance by the Swiss feminist artist, featuring newspaper cut-outs evoking the female sex (limited edition).
Manon Harrois - Long Gone
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Naima
First monograph dedicated to the work of French visual artist Manon Harrois, built around two interviews conducted by François Quintin.
 Yuya Tsukahara + contact Gonzo - Transphère - Watching you surf on beautiful accidents
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
10.00 5.00 €
The catalogue of the first exhibition in France of the Japanese performers' collective contact Gonzo.
Julien Blaine - Introdⓐction à la performance
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Julien Blaine's performance manifesto.
Julien Blaine - Introdⓐction à la performance - Limited edition
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
 Marie Cool Fabio Balducci - Rovesciamento
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
29.00 15.00 €
The catalogue of the duo's exhibition at CAPC, featuring a new site-specific work and a series of performed or filmed actions. A project about situations of reversal, confronting the exogenous realities of the enterprise, the working-class, and the museum.
Tris Vonna-Michell - No more racing in circles - Just pacing within lines of a rectangle (box set)
2020
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The performative aspect of the British artist's practice in the form of scores, transcriptions, and photographs (limited box set edition).
Kris Lemsalu - Hi and Bye - The Estonian Pavilion – 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of the Estonian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.
Ulla von Brandenburg -
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
New monograph.
Franz Erhard Walther - L\'autre conception de l\'œuvre
2020
French edition
MAMCO - MAMCO Collection
A detailed analysis of Franz Erhard Walther's pioneering Werksatz series of wearable fabric sculptures by Erik Verhargen, accompanied by a history of the piece by Thierry Davila.
Oreet Ashery - How We Die Is How We Live Only More So
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Publication documenting the award-winning web series Revisiting Genesis by Oreet Ashery. This documentary fiction on mourning in the digital age explores complex issues such as gender and death, digital reincarnation, and women artists.
Thao Nguyen Phan - Monsoon Melody
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monographic catalogue dedicated to multimedia artist Thao Nguyen Phan, whose recent video and visual works explore the agricultural, political, and social issues in rural Vietnam.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - Récits de la vie de Michelangelo Merisi, dit « Le Caravage »
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A story, between myth and reality, of Caravaggio, by parodic artist Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - Récits de la vie de Michelangelo Merisi, dit « Le Caravage » - Limited edition
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Clemente Padín - Horizons ouverts & autres poèmes
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
First French translation of Clemente Padìn's first poems.
Simone Forti - L\'orso allo specchio
2020
Italian edition
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
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.
A.C. Hello - MelmAC.Hello - Le cas très inquiétant de ton cri (book + CD)
2020
French edition
Bisou Records
The encounter of the rock band Melmac with the poet Anne-Claire Hello.
Erin Manning - Le geste mineur
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Erin Manning expands her research on movement politics to the concept of minor gesture.
Joseph Jarman - Black Case Volume I and II - Return From Exile
2019
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
The republication in print form of the poems of Art Ensemble of Chicago's founding member breathes new life into a forgotten document of the Black Arts Movement.
Colloque Actes & Images - Acte et performance comme pratiques contemporaines de l\'image et de l\'œuvre
2019
French edition
ENSP Arles (National School of Photography)
An history of the artwork and the image first apprehended as an act and a process.
Ulla von Brandenburg - Sweets Quilts Sun Works
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
various
This lavishly illustrated catalogue comprehensively documents three recent projects by Franco-German artist Ulla von Brandenburg.
Inter - La disparition de l\'exception artistique
2019
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
An inquiry into the inadmissibility of the artistic exception today, and the importance of atypical individuals in the symbolic economy of a society.
Jean-Christophe Norman - Mundo diffuso
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Zero2
Comprehensive monograph.
Stephen Barber - Film\'s Ghosts - Tatsumi Hijikata\'s Butoh and the Transmutation of 1960s Japan
2019
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
An essential book for readers engaged with film and performance, urban cultures and architecture, and Japan's experimental art and its histories.
Julien Blaine - Le livre
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
An original fable at war against the founding books of monotheisms (unpublished text of 1963).
Clemente Padín - De la représentation à l\'action
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The reissue, in a new translation, of one of the most important essays of Latin American poetry from the historical avant-gardes.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - The Noise Of Art (2 vinyl LP)
2019
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
This album contains seven compositions, created by the Opening Performance Orchestra, Blixa Bargeld, Luciano Chessa and Fred Möpert. All the pieces relate to the theme of Futurism and employ intonarumori, instruments invented and used more than a century ago by the Italian Futurists in their noise compositions.
Monster Chetwynd - The Supreme Deluxe Essential Monster Chetwynd Handbook
2019
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Retrospective monograph, 2007-2018.
Charles Atlas -
2019
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A pioneer of time-based media.
Ecart - Genève 1969-1982
2019
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
John Armleder, Fluxus and the Ecart group.
Inter - Nouveaux terroirs – Réinventer les territoires
2019
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
currently out of stock
Inter #131 focuses on rural areas: how is the local reinvented in a context of economic and technological relocation?
Sonia Boyce - Thoughtful Disobedience - Nouvelle édition française
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Villa Arson
Focusing on several major collaborative performance-videos by a figure of the British Black Art movement, this illustrated monograph includes a series of essays which interpret Boyce's interdisciplinary practice in the light of art history, and analyse her interest in black feminism, cultural studies, film studies, art history and critical theory.
Julien Creuzet -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo
First monograph dedicated to French artist, videographer, performer and poet Julien Creuzet.
Angelica Mesiti -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo
First monograph.
Intersubjectivity - Vol. 2 – Scripting the Human
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: this second volume investigates the relationship between performance, subjectivity, and human agency within a more global reflection on transhumanism.
Romina De Novellis - Mediterraneo
2019
English edition
Alberta Pane
First monograph.
 Kinkaleri - All for All!
2018
English edition
Bruno
(last copies available!)
All for All! is a trip through All! (2012-2017), a project conceived by Kinkaleri and instigated by the voracious attacks on language committed by William Seward Burroughs. It intentionally strays beyond the limits of theatre and dance, suggesting an outside and setting the possible into motion along an undecidable boundary between the body and language.
Thao Nguyen Phan - Voyages de Rhodes
2018
English edition
various
A palimpsest reconstruction of French Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes's (1591–1660) Rhodes of Viet Nam: The Travels and Missions of Father Alexandre de Rhodes in China and Other Kingdoms of the Orient, originally published in 1653 (artists' book).
Charles Pennequin - Dictaphones (vinyl LP)
2018
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
This LP draws on twenty years of archives recorded by Charles Pennequin on mini-cassettes. Spontaneous recordings of his readings, unpublished solitary monologues, vocal and sound experiments, ambient sounds were selected and edited in the studio by the poet, and thought of as a global composition that goes through different registers and eras of his poetry.
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.
Charlotte Birnbaum - 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).
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