Performance / happening / action art / body art

An extraordinary overview of Ion Grigorescu's body of work since the late 1960s until today.

Art and teaching.

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).

First monograph in a Western language on the subversive and radical Japanese avant-garde group Zero Jigen.

Second volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on performance and performativity.

An epistemology of performance (also available in English edition).

Actions and discussions around personal skills in art and other disciplines, physical and film (performances, video), sports and burlesque.

A complete survey of performance arts between Quebec, Colombia, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

A comprehensive documentation on the Austrian art collective's exhibition and elaborate site-specific performance at the 21er Haus in Vienna.

A collective publication that brings together artists and researchers on the issue of the body.

First extensive publication devoted to the French artists duo.

An overview of the relation between choreography and exhibition, through the contributions of over thirty international visual artists, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, theorists, and curators (Kenneth Anger, Jérôme Bel, Boris Charmatz, Kenneth Goldsmith, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Lacey, Alan Licht, Malcolm McLaren, Gustav Metzger, Phill Niblock, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Michael Parsons, Claude Rutault, Catherine Wood...).

This publication documents the architecture of the Kembs-Niffer lock in Alsace, conceived by Georges Heintz and Anne-Sophie Kehr. It also features the text of a performance from 2011 by Charles Pennequin.

A collection of original poems Leif Elggren wrote between 1970 and 2013 and translated for the first time into French. With illustrations by the author.

Jean Dupuy's anagrams, from the 1970's to the present day (artist's book): 160 series of works accompanied by the artist's notes, with texts by Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux and Emmanuelle Lequeux.

35 years of performance art in Canada and around the world.

A complete documentation on Roman Signer's first permanent public commission.

The long overdue first proper collection of sound-poetry / musique concrete pieces by German installation & conceptual artist Michael Barthel.

After he transformed the whole nave of the CAPC Museum into a mechanical theatre, Markus Schinwald conceives an elegant and sophisticated artist's book that reflects this physical and mental adventure through preparatory prints, film dialogues, and a series of stickers alternating exhibition views and reproduction of works.

A conversation between two artists, conducted in the form of spontaneous reflections on the images with which they confront each other.

Fully illustrated retrospective monograph based on Kimsooja's project presented at the Korean Pavilion of the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, with numerous newly commissioned and re-published texts.

Limited edition of Kimsooja's monograph, accompanied by a Korean Bottari and a screenprinted bag.

Comprehensive monograph.

An album of photographic documentation of Cezary Bodzianowski's ephemeral ‘events' gently disrupting the course of everyday life, with essays by Catherine Wood, Jarosław Suchan, and Susanne Titz.

A transversal survey of various forms and practices of contemporary poetry (experimental, performative, digital, sound poetry, etc.), on the occasion of the magazine's 35th year anniversary.

First monographic book on the unique work of Korean-American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982), at the crossroads of performance, of conceptual art, of video and of poetry.

Artist's book: Joël Hubaut's ABC (“a compressed, unprecise mini ABC of the art of living for the young generations in art schools in particular and for everyone else in general”).

Tris Vonna-Michell's latest artist's record/book is constructed around two works, Capitol Complex (2012-2014) and Ulterior Vistas (2012-2013), both of which are encapsulated on a ten-inch vinyl record. The spoken-word compositions are enclosed within a gatefold design and accompanied by the Capitol Complex manuscript as a booklet insert and a bound series of Ulterior Vistas photographic montages.

Keren Cytter's choreographic performance.

Artist's book based on surrealist artist and dancer Hélène Vanel's manuscript.

The collaboration between artist and poet Charles Pennequin, the band Gun-Gi and Laurie Franck.

Brandon LaBelle's revolutionary diary during the Arab Spring.

A conversation with the artist (with a selection of reference documents).

Special issue dedicated to the question of the presence and treatment of sexuality in contemporary creation.

These notebooks recount the scientific-poetic journeys of poet Julien Blaine in search of the original language.

Essay and interviews.

A heroic performance bringing together seven renowned thinkers, held to talk, on the principle of the Deleuzian ABC, of 26 different themes, during 26 hours... while drinking wine regularly.

An in-depth survey of Yorgos Sapountzis' work in ten chapters from 2000 to the present.

Reference monograph.

Various documentary approaches of Kimsooja's work (8 films).

The collection of texts of the performance art theorist/activist.

Reference monograph.

This first monograph retraces the artist's career since 2005 and explores the various facets of his work through lavish illustrations, an essay by Laurent Buffet and an interview with the artist by Marjorie Micucci.

A literary piece considered to be a central written in Stratil's body of work, Životopis (biography) is a poetic discourse reflecting the artist's inner spirituality and lifelong contemplation of his self and its versatility. This edition is illustrated with a series of self-portraits, both paintings and photographs.

Featuring: Nicolas Boillot, Laurent Buffet, Yann Ciret, Gilbert Descossy, Jean Dupuy, John Giorno, Bernard Heidsieck, Françoise Janicot, Olivier Leroi, Patrice Lerochereuil, Matthieu Messagier, Tierney Moira, Adrian Notz, Edgar Morin, Olivier Mosset, Phoebe Neville, Corinne Pencenat, Jeffrey Perkins, Georges Quasha, Alexandre Rolla, Joao Simoes, Evelyne Sutter, Louis Ucciani, Michel Vogel, Peter Vogel, Christian Xatrec...

A book/DVD featuring a performance by Fabrikdelabeslot and Julien Blaine on a text by the latter (Je parle à la machine) in the printing workshops of the École Supérieure d'Art et Design Grenoble-Valence.

This monograph is derived from a lecture given in 2009 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. ORLAN takes a retrospective look at her career and brings forward themes explored in her work, such as hybridization and the female body in art.