Contemporary art

This book is part of a research project conducted at ECAL that takes a critical look at standards in the field of offset printing. One will find here a collection of texts and images related to colour printing which recount histories, at times unknown, others forgotten, or else, for some, never told.

This hybrid publication's starting point relies in ten years of activities of LiveInYourHead, Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD)'s exhibition space. Between a catalogue, an archive and a collective publication, this book explores the relationships between art education and curatorial knowledge.

An overview of study programs teaching socially engaged art.

The reconciliation of art and life, at the heart of the reflection and practice of many modern and contemporary movements.

Two texts by New York artist Zoe Beloff, pioneer in the field of “media archeology”, whose works are at the crossroads of avant-garde art, popular cultures and critical theory.

A conversation, accompanied by an introduction by Andrea Soto Calderón, to better understand the crucial role that images occupy in Jacques Rancière's work, and how images are the site of imaginative and reconfiguring operations.

Jean Dubuffet, Art Brut, and the primitivist paradigm.

A critical look at the place and stakes of representations of the war of independence in the contemporary construction of the French and Algerian art scene.

Catherine Taft on Matthew Barney's new work, Melissa Anderson on the films of Christian Petzold, Kate Sutton on Gabriele Beverage, a special project from artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya, plus exhibition reviews from Paris, Milan, Berlin, Istanbul, Madrid, and more.

A pioneer of time-based media.

A children's book conceived by illustrator Adam Higton. It's small square size was inspired by the Pixi children's books and by the Nupuset series from Petomies.

The temporality of curatorial processes and research practices.

A body of research that focuses on the fragility of memory and the potential for its preservation, defying the gradual breakdown of matter through the effects of time.

Prototypes by Doireann O'Malley is a multi-screen film installation, a series of dreamscapes interrogating trans* semiotics through psychoanalytic practices, speculative technologies, and live action role-playing. O'Malley's work references scientific and medical investigations into the human psyche that address wider philosophical concerns relating to biology, gender embodiment, sexuality, utopianism,  and biomolecular advancement in human evolution.

10th anniversary special issue.

A panoptic cinema.

A series of portraits of performance artist, avowed transsexual anarchist with no place to call home, macho woman, fashion model for Marianne Alvoni, target for the Swiss tabloid: Eve-Claudine Lorétan, alias Coco.

The catalogue of the first exhibition of works by artists and chefs, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and Andrea Petrini: assembling 25 chefs and 20 artists from around the world, Cookbook'19 explores through a large panorama the relationship between the future art of cooking and the edibleness of art.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

100th issue, featuring: investigating the strange silence of the dance community about sexual harassment; Jean Nouvel and the “revitalization” of the Kasbah of Algiers; orthodox icons; Joël Pommerat; Amanda Piña; Lise Sarfati; Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe...

A journey covering several episodes of Situationist International.

John Armleder, Fluxus and the Ecart group.

Catalogue raisonné of paintings realized by Peter Halley between 1980 and 1989.

A collective reflection on Paul McCarthy's polemical sculpture Tree installed at Place Vendôme in Paris in 2014, presenting a map of the city's intellectual debates.

This Is Television addresses the increasingly obsolete medium of television by way of the medium of the book, commenting on media's continuous changes of form and format. Through an interplay of theory and artistic research material, the book extends Judy Radul's ongoing investigation of media with an idiosyncratic perspective on television—while still feeding off collective experience. The book thematizes television as a cultural container, both in its format as a box for content and as an ideologically saturated apparatus for reception.

An exchange between artist Sterling Ruby and fashion designer Raf Simons.

Moving image artists (Daphné Nan Le Sergent, Marinella Senatore, Francis Alÿs, Jean-Christophe Norman); Tatiana Trouvé; Blaise Drummond; representations of the female body by Diana Quinby; Louise Aleksiejew and Antoine Medes; Mélanie Berger, Riccardo Baruzzi, Marie-Claire Mitout, Dirk Zoete; the collection of the graphic art cabinet of the Musée d'Orsay ; Charlène Levasseur; selection of books by Laurel Parker...

Inter #131 focuses on rural areas: how is the local reinvented in a context of economic and technological relocation?

Dokoupil's Leopard Paintings.

A book of portraits with a difference, culled from a 2002–2018 photo archive of porn actors who resemble or actually even portray celebrities and public figures. Polish artist Piotr Uklański draws on a stock of hard and soft copies of “dirty” glossy men's magazines like Hustler and Loaded—as well as a plethora of meme culture material dumped on websites and blogs.

Mario Schifano's road trip in the United States.

United Dead Artists' giant graphic tabloïd #14, featuring Boris Pramatarov, Stéphanie Sautenet, Sandra Ghosn, Ana Prr Prr & Nils Bertho, Reinhard Scheibner, Keiichi Tanaami, Jessica Rispal, Chloé Poizat, Marine Perraudin, Zélie Doffémont, Damien Deroubaix.

Special dossier devoted to Etel Adnan; blackness in performance by Adrienne Edwards; Rosalind Nashashibi by Quinn Latimer; Gary Indiana by Eli Diner; ABBA by Kristian Vistrup Madsen; Huang Jing Yua by Kyoo Lee; a conversation between Tamara Henderson and Aaron Weldon; Thomas Lawson...

Marc Desgrandchamps, Jérémy Liron, Dora Maar, Lisa Oppenheim, Gina Pane, Tere Recarens...

A collective reflection on cooperative and co-creation artistic practices engaged in the social field.

Interview with one of the great figures of art photography today, in which Sophie Ristelhueber reflects on her own carrer and practice.

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.

First monograph dedicated to French artist, videographer, performer and poet Julien Creuzet.

First monograph.

A magazine for visual and experimental poetry and works inspired by Dada and Fluxus, directed by Jean-François Bory.

The historical-memorial narrative in comics, from Art Spiegelman to Marjane Satrapi, as a new form of representation of History, between individual and collective memory.

Jeffrey Weiss, Carolee Schneemann, and Simone Forti on the passing of Robert Morris, editor Lauren O'Neill Butler on the art of fierce pussy, Wayne Koestenbaum on the art of David Gilbert, a special dispatch from Thailand by David Teh, plus exhibition reviews from Paris, Berlin, Prague, Zurich, New York, and more.

New monograph, focusing on the ephemeral sculptures made by French artist Arnaud Vasseux in the context of recent exhibitions, at the end of which the works are destroyed.

How did autonomous art become such an effective tool of the capitalist state? A thorough analysis of the connection between contemporary art and modern biopower.

Prints by Jennifer Bornstein gathers together a body of work encompassing her latest projects in printmaking during a recent fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. These works are contextualized by earlier projects in drawing, film, and artist books that span the 1990s to the present.

This first monograph on Aslan Gaisumov borrows its title from a video work focusing on the traumatic aftermaths of post-World War II for the Chechen people under Soviet control. The publication documents in text and images this both historical and intimate project.

Giving Voices features documentation on four of Erkan Özgen's video works dealing with war, violence, and trauma—beyond the boundaries of the political, within the dimension of the private and the human. It includes essays and an interview with the artist lead by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Hilde Teerlinck.