Performance / happening / action art / body art

 
 
Paul Panhuysen - The Game & the Rules (+ CD)
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
The first monograph on the multiple activities of the artist / musician / performer, with numerous illustrations, texts, and an audio CD.
Roman Ondák - Measuring the Universe
2009
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book.
La caravane de la parole - Performance sonore / poésie / art action (+ DVD)
2009
bilingual edition (French / Polish)
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
The 15th Rencontre internationale d'art performance (RIAP) in Quebec: sound performance, poetry, action art.
Julien Blaine - Les Cahiers de la 5e feuille - 1er avril 2007
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
27.40 13.50 €
Penultimate volume of notebooks recounting the scientific-poetic journey of poet Julien Blaine in search of the original language. Here, he reflects on linguistic works by Jean-Pierre Brisset and Jules Hermann, but most and foremost on Hans W. Bornefeld's research on Cro-Magnon glyphs.
Jean-Jacques Lebel -
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This exhibition catalogue gathers together the visual works—collages, drawings and installations—of three major French experimental poets.
Denis Baron - The Mutant Flesh - Fabrication of a Posthuman
2008
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
This study on the fabrication of Posthumanity questions us on the limits of the human, its boundaries and its possibilities in our “biotech” era. It examines the fundamental distinction between natural and artificial, nature and technology, human and machine, body and flesh.
Denis Baron - La chair mutante - Fabrique d\'un posthumain
2008
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
This study on the fabrication of Posthumanity questions us on the limits of the human, its boundaries and its possibilities in our “biotech” era. It examines the fundamental distinction between natural and artificial, nature and technology, human and machine, body and flesh.
Charles Pennequin - Pas de tombeau pour Mesrine
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
While looking for French criminal Jacques Mesrine's grave, Charles Pennequin engages in a poetic and politic reflection against French society.
Mobile Album International - In between
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mobile Album International
Works by Michel Auder, Julien Blaine, Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Mathieu Exposito, John Giorno, Bob Lens, Pierre Tilman...; texts by Démosthène Agrafiotis, Philippe Boisnard, Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Denis Chevalier, Charles Dreyfus, Anselm Jappe (on Situationnists), Richard Martel (on Dick Higgins et Giordano Bruno), Edgar Morin...
Brandon LaBelle - Dirty Ear (CD)
2008
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
Dirty field recordings, found sounds, sound effects, archives, and sonorous dramas, composed as a series of micro-narratives each designed to intervene onto imagined settings or spatial locations, as a counter-sonorities.
Danièle Roussel - L\'Actionnisme viennois et les autrichiens
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
Viennese Actionism was one of the strongest effort of the 1960's to develop contemporary art and a forerunner of what is now widely known as Performance Art. Danièle Roussel interviewed not only the former actionists (Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler) but also some journalists, politicians, historians and witnesses of that time.
Susan Hiller - The Provisional Texture of Reality - Selected Talks and Texts (1977-2007)
2008
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Between critical writing and visual art practice.
Charles de Meaux - Marfa Mystery Lights - A Concert for the UFO\'s – featuring The Secret Machines (DVD)
2008
English edition (French subtitled)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
A performance of The Secret Machines conceived and filmed by Charles de Meaux.
Hanspeter Hofmann - Bonheur automatique II
2008
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
19.00 10.00 €
Artist's book: experiment with graphics, painting, performance, and installation.
Kateřina Šedá - For Every Dog a Different Master
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Tranzit
Artist's book based on Sedá's work for Documenta 12.
Bernard Lallemand - Works & Process (DVD)
2008
French edition
a.p.r.e.s editions - Works & Process (DVD)
25.00 20.00 €
A documentary on three exhibitions, a filmed interview with the artist and an original video work.
Brandon LaBelle - Radio Memory (+ CD)
2008
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
A project based on archiving people's memories connected to specific songs and radio broadcasts. Includes over 100 memories from around the globe, along with contributions by curators and theorists Bastien Gallet and Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz, and an audio CD of related work by the artist.
Inter - La relation
2008
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
From the artwork to the event / Salvador Dalí performer / surrealist suicide...
Karina Bisch - Album - 2005-07
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
it: editions
This monograph documents the artist's exhibitions since 2005, reflecting on the evolution and diversity of her work. The heterogeneous essays tracing her career are illustrated with exhibition views.
Brandon LaBelle - Live Bootleg (+ CD)
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An overview of sound installations and environments by the experimental artist-musician, with three essays and an interview, a specific project, installations views and performances on audio CD.
Avital Ronell - Life Extreme - An Illustrated Guide to New Life
2007
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.
Avital Ronell - Life Extreme - Guide illustré des nouvelles formes de vie
2007
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.
Julien Blaine - Poëmes vulgos
2007
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
39.60 19.00 €
Full-color anthology dedicated to the works of visual poet and performer Julien Blaine.
 Gilbert & George - The Secret Files of Gilbert & George (DVD)
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Bureau des Videos (DVD)
This interview with G&G, filmed in 2000 by the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, concentrates on the hysteria of the archive and the collection.
 ORLAN - Pomme-cul et Petites fleurs
2007
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A collection of previously unpublished poetic texts by ORLAN, accompanied with photos by Fabrice Lévêque: a new highlighting on her work.
 ORLAN - Pomme-cul et Petites fleurs - Limited edition
2007
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Limited edition with a signed silkscreen enhanced by ORLAN's own lips.
Jacques Donguy - Poésies expérimentales - Zone numérique (1953-2007)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
J. Donguy introduces the visual and sound experimentations of concrete poetry, from 1953 (Gomringer and de Campos) to the current movements ("digital area"). The anthology, followed by an international bibliography, offers the first overview of this art, with 300 illustrations.
Kateřina Šedá -
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Tranzit
Artist's book: first complete survey of projects by the young Czech artist arranged in jackets and brought together in a box.
Václav Stratil - I\'m History
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Tranzit
A documentation on the Czech artist's work, based on a series of self-portraits.
Rencontre internationale d\'art performance 2006 (+ DVD)
2007
French edition
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
Catalogue of the 14th RIAP in Quebec.
Pierre Tilman - Robert Filliou - Nationalité poète
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The first biography of Robert Filliou.
Catherine Sullivan - Film and Theater Works - 2002-2004
2006
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
40.00 20.00 €
First monograph devoted to the Californian artist.
Late Shift - Kunst als symbolisches Terrain
2006
German edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
A series of performances in public space (with Roman Singner, Steiner/Lenzlinger, Daniele Buetti and Knowbotic Research).
Inter - L\'art biotech et le posthumain
2006
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Biotech art and the posthuman.
Dick Higgins - Postface - Un journal critique de l\'avant-garde
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Dick Higgins, one of the main figures of Fluxus, points out the particularity of poet-artists who, since German and English Romanticism, have refused to make distinctions between what is sonorous, visual and written.
Joël Hubaut - Re-mix épidemik - Esthétique de la dispersion
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
An exhaustive documentation on the work of the French artist since 1970, fully illustrated.
 Jean-Baptiste Bruant & Maria Spangaro - Dispositif sonore pour écouter radicalement les anges (CD)
2005
Cneai
A musical project in collaboration with hospitalized teenagers as part of a “Culture and Handicap” program.
Robert Morris - Hurting Horses
2005
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
In Hurting Horses, the artist uses a distinct literary style from one chapter to another, from autobiography to historical essay, from satirical parody to the fantastic, from letter to fiction, from detailed report to visionary daydream. These masterly pieces of literature are haunted by the great American foundation myths and establish a series of crucial links from myth to history, from history to art, from art to nature.
Yayoi Kusama - Manhattan Suicide Addict
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
26.00 15.00 €
First French translation of the Kusama's psychedelic novel, published first in 1978 during the exile of the artist in New York.
Pierre Molinier - Je suis né homme-putain - Écrits et dessins inédits
2005
French edition
Mennour
Writings and drawings.
Jan Świdziński - L\'art et son contexte - Au fait, qu\'est-ce que l\'art ?
2005
French edition
Intervention - Theory
Art and context.
Rencontre internationale d\'art performance 2004
2005
French edition
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
Catalogue of the 13th RIAP in Quebec.
Richard Martel - Art-Action
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Art as actions : a collection of Martel's essays and articles since the eighties.
Franz Erhard Walther - ABC... Museum - Wortbilder
2004
bilingual edition (German / French)
MAMCO - Artists' books
32.00 25.00 €
German artist's "word-images" (early works).
Norma Jeane - Body Proxy
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
An exploration of the body in contemporary culture (artist's book / collection of texts).
Vito Acconci - Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio (+ DVD)
2004
French edition
various
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph.
Charles Pennequin - Je me jette (book + DVD)
2004
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Artist's book born from the encounter between Charles Pennequin's texts and the intimate immediacy of Pascal Doury's sketchbooks. The DVD features the film Je me jette as well as four other videos.
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