Contemporary art

A collection of essays investigating predicaments of rootedness and rootlessness and notions of belonging and of displacement across different geographical and epistemological coordinates.

An extensive and comprehensive polyphonic exploration of the work of The Otolith Group.

The restitution of a research and production program (Chair "Young Creation and the Sacred") conducted at the Ecole des Arts Déco by students, teachers and a number of invited artists and thinkers on the question of the sacred in contemporary creation.

A sort of anti-monograph in several episodes proposed by the artist Simon Nicaise around his project of Tour de France of trades and practices.

First monograph.

A political and aesthetic critique of racial capitalism and modes of social experimentation in the form of resistance to the colonial commons.

A reflection on the aesthetics of the fragment as a paradigm of memory, from the works of six women artists.

New monograph.

A hybrid edition (a vinyl record with a newspaper and an insert) extending the artist's research on the links between sound, architecture and the history of spiritism.

The partitions, to be activated by the reader, by Garance Dor, Diane Giorgis, Joël Hubaut, Alexandre Koutchevsky, Daniel Larrieu, Saïdo Lehlouh & Johanna Faye, Vincent Menu, Cécile Mainardi, Malte Martin, Delphine Perret, Pauline Picot, Aziyadé Baudoin-Talec.

Collective and individual artistic practices from a gender perspective.

Autobiography by Jonathan Monk is the first attempt of display of the artist's collection of "Crackers" copies by Ed Ruscha.

The first vinyl LP release from Fluxus pioneer Alison Knowles (remastered edition transferred from original tapes, with an expansive 20-page booklet).

Reevaluating the scholarly knowledge about Dada and its legacy, this publication reconstructs how Dada was (re)invented in the 1950s and the 1960s, especially by the Dada protagonists themselves, and asks to what extent Dada's impulses are still relevant regarding current aesthetic, literary and cultural analyses.

The Nietzschean notion of superman and the very real effects of the virtual, the networks, the digital image and the video game in human interrelationships: a striking essay resulting from the posthumously defended thesis of Benjamin Lavigne (1981-2020), which draws up a singular, committed and rigorous critic of the technological foundations of contemporary society.

Thomas Crow on Billy Apple; Allen Ruppersberg on Margo Leavin; Amy Taubin on Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Anna Shechtman and D. A. Miller on Pedro Almodóvar; Michael Lobel on Romare Bearden in the 1930s; Patric Dicaprio shares his Top Ten; Daniel Marcus on Hannah Wilke; Mostafa Heddaya on art and comparison; Devan Díaz on Drake Carr; Four contributors take stock of "Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror"...

First retrospective monograph.

99% Darkness is a compilation of recent collaborative paintings and drawings, featuring the night sky. Short scattered texts take inspiration from the cold vast emptiness of space, with applied human longings and hopes.

Ronan Bouroullec's ceramic bas-reliefs.

New series of paintings by the Swiss artist, that examine the role of humankind in nature and within its social fabric on a philosophical-anthropological level.

A series of collages by Edie Fake.

A series of new semi-abstract oil paintings by the American artist.

This small volume features drawings created by by the famous Swiss illustrator for Basler Rabattmarke BKG Liga.

Peter Piller's peripheral excursions around Bremen.

Training for the Future is a training camp where audiences are turned into trainees to "pre-enact" alternative scenarios and reclaim the means of production of the future. This handbook gathers training manuals, interviews, and documentation of the various training camps that took place from 2018 to 2021.

An unconventional invocation of Michael Stevenson's practice over the past 35 years.

A visionary analysis of what Terry Smith identifies as the "visual arts exhibitionary complex."

Le Dictateur releases his last big, immense, effort: 27 international curators from the world of art, design and fashion curate their ideal show, from past, present or even future or non existing artists but without using images—only words.

Various approaches (historical, philosophical, psychoanalytical, but also artistic) on the experience of confinement, from incarceration to sanitary lockdown.

ORLAN hybridizes fragments of her face with portraits of Dora Maar, Picasso's companion.

A performative publication by author and choreographer Sara Gebran aiming to immerse readers in a world of social intimacy.

Two pieces based on Milan Knízak's canonical text Aktual University, dating from 1967, containing ten short lectures outlining the university's character—On Conflict, On Dreams, On Revolutions, On Love, On Belief, On Art, etc. These lectures were to serve as inspirational schemes for lectures, seminars and discussions held at an ideal university.

A set of photographs of the back covers of Jonathan Monk's books presented turned over. A play of transparency reveals the captions written on the back of each page.

A book-exhibition that brings together the practice of three artists from the contemporary publishing scene around the figure of Mary Ellen Solt (1920-2007), an American artist whose works of concrete poetry enter into graphic and conceptual resonance with the three artists' own publications.

Artist's book.

This monograph surveys the first decade of the legendary Korean artist's career from 1987 to 1998.

Baptiste Brévart and Guillaume Ettlinger discuss with Julie Sicault Maillé their artistic practice as a duo.

Histories Read Across, Fluentum's inaugural issue that opens the publication series In Media Res, examines how (his-)stories are told, narratives are conceived, and knowledge is produced.

Art and the economics of the digital age.

The first curatorial project dedicated to Post-Performance Video with a special look at the works of four artists working in Los Angeles or having trained in this city: Coleman Collins, Rodney McMillian, Nathaniel Mellors, and Anna Wittenberg.

Over the last four decades, American artist and filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh has forged a distinctive moving image practice in the ruins of originality and authority. With contributions from Erika Balsom, Elena Gorfinkel, Tendai Mutambu, John David Rhodes and Shola von Rheinold, Peggy Ahwesh: Vision Machines explores how she has extended and contested the paradigm of experimental cinema.

This volume presents Laura Aldridge's recent and older works, and features an interview and three original essays about her practice.

First monograph.

Giovanna Silva paints a sinuous, compulsive, dizzying and poetic portrait of the city of Milan through several hundred series of detailed photographs of modern and contemporary building facades.

A study of Tadini's position in the early post-war cultural debate, with a large documentation of paintings, photographic studies, drawing and collages, based on an unpublished manuscript.