Contemporary art

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

This catalogue accompanies three solo exhibitions in which two threads in Amelia Pica's practice are brought together: communication between humans and exchange between species. It includes a series of essays on animal rights and the artistic practice of the Argentine artist, as well as documents and an iconographic ensemble.

This catalogue accompanies the group exhibition curated by Meg O'Rourke at Eykyn Maclean gallery in New York. With Viennese architect Adolf Loos's eponymous 1908 diatribe against excessive ornamentation as its guide, the exhibition draws on the tenets set forth by Loos—simplicity, purity, freedom—with particular attention to their philosophical implications and their persistence into the latter twentieth century.

Perhaps It Is High Time for a Xeno-architecture to Match is a Brussels-based curatorial and research project that seeks to examine the possibilities for re-radicalizing architecture. This publication documents a conversation series from January to March 2017 that sums up their reflections.

Artist's book, based on Peter Voigt and Arno Fischer's project developed for the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin.

Ascending from the Liquid Horizon focuses on the possibilities and potentials once proposed by speculative narratives about the future, and reflects on the realm that is currently emerging from the intersection of science, corporate interests, and ecology. Vast developments in technology, advancing hand in hand with rapid climate change, predict a situation far more complex than the current one, defined by an environment where technology levels nature and notions of the biological, natural and terrestrial need to be revised.

Published in collaboration with the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, this book guides the reader through the discovery of Latifa Echakhch's jardin mécanique, her latest exhibition at the Monegasque institution. A collection of visual and written essays, the publication explores the artist's take on the museum's collection of automatons and set models, as well as on the historical representations of the Exotic Garden of Monaco, through the form of a flipbook, translating on the page the motion of the five video works specifically produced for the exhibition.

An exploration of the absence and presence of the (red) color.

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition by Florence Lazar at the Jeu de Paume. It is also her first monograph.

Revised and expanded edition of the“Color notebooks” published by the National School of Decorative Arts, a synthesis of a series of in-depth studies initiated by Jacques Fillacier on the characteristics of color perception. A reference pictorial manual, for pedagogical as well as professional purposes, for all practitioners of color—painters, architects, designers, stylists, etc.

Chronotopic Traverses brings together unexpected arrangements of Haegue Yang's versatile sculptures of various materials against a backdrop of a panoramic and dramatic wallpaper Incubation and Exhaustion (2018).

A panorama of the world of do-it-yourself fanzines.

An expanded reflection around the optical principles, the light and the visual perception that constitute the main axes of Flavien Théry's artistic research.

This issue offers various approaches to what the animal point of view can be, through a set of contributions that reflect on this new relational state in which animals can take part in the artistic activity.

10 exhibition reviews (Mike Kelley, Matthew Brannon, « Peindre la nuit », Trisha Donnelly...), 8 interviews (Yan Pei-Ming, Ashley Bickerton, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Arno Brandlhuber, Rob Pruitt, Emily Mae Smith, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille...), 9 exhibitions in pictures, some artists special projects, and the chronicles.

Spike Art Magazine #58 (“The Magic Issue”) inaugurates a new formula all in English.