Performance / happening / action art / body art

 
 
Agnes Nedregård - Performance Works - The Big Toe
2015
texts in English, French, Norwegian
various
28.00 12.00 €
This richly illustrated edition presents the ten-year performance career of Bergen visual artist Agnes Nedregård, looking at her practice from a diversity of perspectives and media.
Ragnar Kjartansson -
2015
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.
Dora García - I See Words, I Hear Voices - Mad Marginal – Cahier #4
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The fourth cahier of Dora Garcia's Mad Marginal project brings together essays by international authors that develop different threads pertaining to artist Dora García's practice.
A.C. Hello - Naissance de la gueule
2015
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poem of sheer brutality on the corporal incarnation of the language.
Inter - Pauvreté, dépouillement, dénuement
2015
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
currently out of stock
A review of voluntary bareness and simplicity practices in art.
Jan Świdziński - Jan Świdziński en contexte / W Kontekście / In Context (+ DVD)
2015
trilingual edition (English / French / Polish)
Intervention - Monographs and artists' books
This trilingual publication dedicated to the Polish artist and theorist deceased in 2014 emphasize his essential contribution to action art by gathering previously unpublished articles from his friends and colleagues in the contemporary art world. The authors recount his ideas, career and influence. Photos, reproductions of the artist's original articles and a DVD all serve to enrich this publication.
Suzanne Lacy - Gender Agendas
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Comprehensive monograph of the Californian artist and political activist.
Khvay Samnang - L\'Homme-caoutchouc / Rubber Man
2015
trilingual edition (English / French / Khmer)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
With Rubber Man (2015), Khvay responds to the colonial legacy of land use and its effects on Cambodia's indigenous forests and culture today.
Ragnar Kjartansson - To Music
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
(last copies available!)
Comprehensive monograph (second edition).
Benjamin Seror - Mime Radio
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A novel written orally by the artist Benjamin Seror.
Inter - Micro-interventions
2015
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
The “micro-interventions” in the public space in the age of social movements and citizen action.
Hermann Nitsch - 6. Sinfonie (2 CD)
2015
Tochnit Aleph
19.00 14.50 €
Nitsch's Sixth Symphony for large orchestra performed and recorded November 1, 1980 at Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna.
Xanti Schawinsky -
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph: the first survey of first generation Bauhaus artist Xanti Schawinsky's extraordinarily prolific output over the course of five decades.
Andrea Fraser - Initiales - Initiales A.F.
2015
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
5th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Andrea Fraser.
Recréer / scripter - Mémoires et transmissions des œuvres performatives et chorégraphiques contemporaines
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
Between documention and recreation: memories and transmissions of performance art and contemporary dance.
Liz Magic Laser - Public Relations / Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Liz Magic Laser's recent works.
 Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz - Aftershow
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A monograph / artists' book that engages with the recent film installations of Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz.
Ahmet Öğüt - Tips and Tricks
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Comprehensive monograph.
Josef Bauer - Werke 1965-Heute / Works 1965-Today
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An introduction to Josef Bauer's oeuvre and practice.
Inter - Organisations artistiques d\'ici et d\'ailleurs
2015
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Artistic groups, collectives, and organizations.
Julien Blaine - La poésie à outrance - À propos de la poésie élémentaire de Julien Blaine
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Frac Franche-Comté - Monographs & catalogues
A critical book: a reassessment of Julien Blaine's poetry and the aesthetic problems related to it.
Rencontre internationale d\'art performance 2014 (+ DVD)
2015
French edition
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
A complete survey of performance arts between Canada, Cuba, Noway, Philippines, and Poland.
André Fortino - Grammaire fauve
2015
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
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.
Olivia Boudreau - L\'Oscillation du visible
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
28.00 25.00 €
First monograph.
Marinella Senatore - Building Communities
2014
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Éric Madeleine - Je suis le cerveau du délibéré, encellulé au-dessus des incisives
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
First publication by visual artist and performer Éric Madeleine: a collection of texts associated with his performance work and drawings.
Mobile Album International - Performance, Body, Fiction
2014
bilingual edition (English / French; texts in German and Spanish)
Mobile Album International
The third issue of the French-American magazine of creation and reflexion is devoted to performance art.
Paul Panhuysen - Pendulum Change Ringing (vinyl LP)
2014
Edition Telemark
First vinyl LP edition by Dutch sound and visual artist Paul Panhuysen since 1986 (sound installation).
Inter - Avant l\'œuvre – Préparatifs & partitions
2014
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
The origins and creating process of the artwork.
Femmes, attitudes performatives, aux lisières de la performance et de la danse
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
ENSAD Nancy (Nancy National School of Art and Design)
The place and role of women in performing arts from 1912 to 2012, between performance and dance.
Jean-Christophe Norman - De l\'action à la conversation
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Franche-Comté - Conversation series
Since 2010, Sophie Lapalu and Jean-Christophe Norman have worked together in the form of interviews and critical writings focussing on artistic actions and their visibility. De l'action à la conversation (“From action to conversation”) forms part of this reflective approach.
Pierre Bal-Blanc - Draft Score For an Exhibition
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Nero
A book that documents an oral presentation given by Pierre Bal-Blanc to a jury of professionals, as part of his application to curate the 7th Berlin Biennale. Devised as an exhibition in several acts, the session adheres to the rules of a score performed by its author or by a third party.
Re: - Vers une histoire mineure des expositions et des performances
2014
French edition
it: editions
A collection of textual and visual essays stemming from a series of lecture-performances in which artists and curators experimented with various strategies of reprise in the fields of publishing, visual arts, animation, new technologies and the law.
Yael Bartana - Two Minutes of Standstill - A Collective Performance by Yael Bartana
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The role of history and commemoration in Germany today.
Ulrike Grossarth - Were I Made of Matter, I Would Color / Wäre ich von Stoff, ich würde mich färben
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This book traces the evolution of Ulrike Gossarth's practice, with a particular emphasis on her training as a dancer in the 1970s, to draw connections between the early years with her sculptural settings and actions and her most recent work, which engages with history more generally.
Corin Hewitt - Seven Performances
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This book brings together the documentation of seven installations, produced by Corin Hewitt from 2007 up to the 2013, including preparatory sketches, process shots, exhibition documentation, and discrete photographic works. This visual mass helps understand Hewitt's practice as a continuum of interconnected actions and materializations, instances of generative discovery and contextual play.
Charles Pennequin - Alias Jacques Bonhomme
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
An experimental novel written by two powerful voices of French experimental poetry. With illustrations by Charles Pennequin.
Guy de Cointet - Who\'s that guy? - Tell me more  about Guy de Cointet (DVD)
2014
original version, bilingual susbtitles (English / French)
various
A film, a portrait of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a French-born artist based in California who created text and sculptural works, often combining them as props and stage sets in theatrical performance pieces (interviews with John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Morgan Fisher, Paul McCarthy, Christophe Bourseiller, etc.).
Ion Grigorescu - Diaries - 1970-1975
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Ion Grigorescu's diaries from the crucial years of 1970 to 1975, a small literary and art-historical sensation.
Oriol Vilanova - Goodbye
2014
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Frac Champagne-Ardenne
The transcription of a performance by Oriol Vilanova.
Performance Art - Life of the Archive and Topicality
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
Villa Arson
An epistemology of performance.
Inter - Détournement / imposture / falsification
2014
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Imposture, falsification and diversion.
Serge Pey - Agenda rouge de la résistance chilienne
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A collection of poems dedicated to the Revolutionary Left Movement's struggle against fascism in Chile.
Michel Giroud - Le Musée des Muses Amusées (MMAM) Imperium Asinum Magnificum (IAM) selon la Poésie Totalement Totale (PTT) (+ CD / DVD)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
A real, potential and fictitious museum by Michel Giroud.
Wolf Vostell - Concert Fluxus - Sara-Jevo (vinyl LP)
2014
Edition Telemark
(last copies available!)
Recording of Wolf Vostell's happening / Fluxus Concert “Sara-Jevo”, realised September 9th, 1994 at Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca, Spain.
Laura Lima -
2014
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New monograph.
Ion Grigorescu - The Man with a Single Camera
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An extraordinary overview of Ion Grigorescu's body of work since the late 1960s until today.
Inter - Transférer l\'expérience
2014
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Art and teaching.
Bill Vorn - The Theater of Machines
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
Artist Bill Vorn creates robotics as part of his research on artificial life and machine anthropomorphism. This catalogue, intended to be a robograhpy of the artist, attempts to understand, if perhaps not the phenomenon, then at least Bill Vorn's innovative approach to it (with contributions by Ian Fenelon and Jean-Paul Fourmentraux).
Bruno Fernandès - Pornologie vs capitalisme – Le groupe de happening Zero Jigen - Japon 1960-1972
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
First monograph in a Western language on the subversive and radical Japanese avant-garde group Zero Jigen.
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