Contemporary art

From Audra Wolowiec's activation through caretaking of Ann Hamilton's Guggenheim show to the collaboratively written fiction of Shelly Oria and Nelly Reifler, Bomb #145 seeks to reconfigure our ideas of authorship, participation, and other willful acts of co-presentation. This issue also has additional features and new literature from J.P. Sniadecki, Las Nietas de Nonó, Sherwin Bitsui, Diana Hamilton, Bomb's 2018 poetry contest winner, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, and many others.

Artforum invited Catherine Damman, Dorothea Rockburne, La Monte Young, Carolee Schneemann and others to reflect on the Judson Dance Theater in honor of their forthcoming exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Editor-in-chief David Velasco on the art of Adrian Piper, Solveig Nelson on the holographs of Simone Forti, special projects by Awol Erizku and the Women's History Museum, Marilyn Minter shares her Top Ten, plus Fall Previews, looking ahead at 40 exhibitions worldwide and much more.

Issue coedited with Rachel O'Dwyer, media and communications Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin; interviews with Olivier Sarrouy, Furtherfield (Ruth Catlow & Marc Garrett), Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, Martín Nadal, Ami Clarke, Sarah Friend; A token called ART; How is the Blockchain Transforming the Art World?; reports on the Meta.Morf 2018 – the 5th Trondheim Biennale, and Transmediale 2018.

Stage director Léa Drouet; “Cut-up nation” by Fanny Taillandier; the figure of the witch, by essayist Mona Chollet; interviews with Christophe Honoré, Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Læticia Dosch; literary collective Wu Ming; Showmen's life in today's France; the rave scene in Georgia; portraits of Debra Granik, Simon Fisher Turner, Nicolas Daubanes; drones and corporeality: an interview with choreographer Éric Minh Cuong Castaing by philosopher Armen Khatchatourov; portfolios by Julien Carreyn and Jack Bool…

A series of off-the-cuff photographs demonstrating the poetic experience of air travel (artist's book).

Artist's edition: a set of folded posters between two cardboard plates held by elastic bands, featuring a series of black & white female nude by the famous fashion photographer, set in a bus on a rainy night.

This recording stems from a collaborative sound experimentation developed as part of a project to create new forms for artistic research within the university. Invited artists, musicians, and researchers produced a series of sound actions focusing on questions of community, creative resistances, sonic agency and the créolité passing between Haiti and Quebec.

An homage to William Burroughs' and Brion Gysin's eponymous book, this artist book of more than 300 pages is a huge cut-up of the artworks showcased during the group exhibition conceived by Ugo Rondinone at the Palais de Tokyo in 2007.

Nearly 20 years after the publication of his first inventory, Éric Watier has collected 100 new examples of artworks deliberately destroyed by their creators. This new edition combines 200 destruction cases in one volume.

A conversation with French artist Céline Ahond whose work—from video and objects to performance and collaborative acts—questions the place of the individual, power relations, the territory, and the eventuality of freedom.

Oslo Pilot is a two-year research-based project that has laid the groundwork for the Oslo Biennial's first edition in May 2019. It aims to explore art in public spaces and spheres. This publication gathers a collection of commissioned and previously published essays on the subject, and includes a selected transcription of the eponymous symposium.

This catalogue pays homage to the American artist, whose radical language played a significant role in the birth of a new conception of sculpture. Spanning almost six decades of works, The richly-illustrated publication collects several essays and a full-length interview with Kuehn.

Summary by Swiss artist Manuel Burgener is a companion piece to his 2018 Manor Prize show at the Kunsthaus Pasquart in Biel, Switzerland. The idea behind this artist's book is to undertake a fundamental examination of the purpose of an exhibition catalogue. It asks whether an artwork, especially a sculpture, can be documented at all in the form of a readable depiction.

Monograph by artist Athene Galiciadis gathering unpublished artworks, specially created for this publication: inspired by Emma Kunz, Swiss artist and healer, whose work draws on geometric abstraction, Galiciadis produced a series of drawings—figures, spirals, patterns and vases—printed on graph paper, accompanied by photographic documentation.

Elizabeth Lebon writes poems, stories and performances, usually with the help of a typewriter. The choice of paper, as well as its format, is centrally important to the conceptualization and experimentation of this artist. This new book-object of concrete poetry plays with the transparency of its leaflets.

This catalogue looks back at Hartung's artistic production and life during the Second World War.

3 vinyl LP edition presenting solely unreleased recordings of Panhuysen's famous long string installations. It documents the period 1982-2012, and includes a posthumous track from 2017. With liner notes by Rolf Sachsse and Stephan Wunderlich, and richly illustrated inner sleeves.

LP featuring a recording of the search for a lost tape by musician Ben Patterson, with the help of editor Stefan Fricke and composer hans w. koch. This 1960 lost tape acts a symbolical archive, since it documents Patterson's pre-Fluxus period. Having failed to find it, tehy decided to recreate the recording with a score from this period. The reconstructed track is on the record's B side. This edition includes liner notes, and selected documents chronicling the search.

PARIS LA 16—a tenth anniversary special—focuses on the dual themes of fashion and writing.

The itinerary as an artistic, architectural, territorial and social experience.

In a rapidly changing Beirut, neglected dwellings are condemned to disappear as a result of land speculation. This multi-layered transdisciplinary project aims at examining the transformations that these obsolete architectures undergo. The study, carried on site, based on archives, testimonies and oral history, also proposes new artistic perspectives towards the city.

A comprehensive publication of Rifat Chadirji's photographic folio, which records and analyses the development of his architectural practice in Baghdad, from 1952 until the early 1980s. It provides a unique insight into a collection of photographic sheets that reflect how an architect documented his own work, and coded, organized and referenced his projects using photography.

In a rapidly changing Beirut, neglected dwellings are condemned to disappear as a result of land speculation. This multi-layered transdisciplinary project aims at examining the transformations that these obsolete architectures undergo. The study, carried on site, based on archives, testimonies and oral history, also proposes new artistic perspectives towards the city.

A philosophy of decolonization that intends to show how, in knowledge and the arts, the past can be passed.

The growth of thought on ornament, applied arts and architecture in the industrial age, between ornamental impulse and decorative project.

“Primitivism” as a tool for analysis of post-war French society, between a modernization and decolonization movement, and possible forms of resistance.

The first publication ever dedicated to the musical works of American painter Louis Michel Eilshemius: Halfway between romantic tradition and futurist audacity, these sound pieces which prefigure the use of sampling are interpreted with virtuosity by the young pianist Imke Lichtwark in the accompanying CD. The book also includes texts by Roberto Ohrt, Sven Daigger, Stefan Banz, and by Eilshemius himself.

Five writers respond to Clare Goodwin's painting Dennis and Denise (2018), offering narrative foils to Goodwin's visual language. Dennis and Denise is neither described nor explained, but serves as a catalyst for literary experimentation. The texts, in turn, illustrate the painting's wealth of implicit meaning (texts by Tony Grisoni, Rebecca Geldard, Chris Fite-Wassilak, Frances Loeffler, Aoife Rosenmeyer, J. Emil Sennewald).

Affiliated with Vaporwave—a sub-genre of electric music and art which criticizes and mocks 1990s internet imagery—artist Chloe Feinberg takes a new turn with this series of black & white erotic illustrations.

A game of cards and strategy whose goal is to bring out his or her rival from the Hospital, a place of freedom without boundaries. Players will have to use alternative medicine, electroshock, trade union struggle and occult forces to succeed.

Visual documentation on Jonathan Monk's eponymous exhibition, commissioned by curator Marc-Olivier Wahler on the occasion of the twenty-year anniversary of the CAN Centre d'art Neuchâtel. The British artist revisits an iconic exhibition he did during the first years of the CAN in 1997. The publication confronts the images of the two events.

First monograph.

Cicoria is a visual essay conceived as a stream of images of the Alessandro Cicoria's past and current artworks, put together with apparently no visual coherence by Cicoria himself. A dialogue between the artist and curator Luca Lo Pinto is the map to understand the peculiar attitude behind his work and vision.

Opened to the public since 2005, Codalunga is a section of Nico Vascellari's studio in Vittorio Veneto devoted to experiments in visual and sound art. This publication documents a project which has been going on for a decade now, gathering artists from all around the world.

The scripts of Romy Rüegger's performances: a constellation of texts, largely written to be spoken. The scripts as they are printed do not document the performances primarily. They are indications of spacial and temporal layering, juxtapositions of aesthetic and poetic elements and bodies. Overlapping every day observations with archival material, confronting, jumping.

This first monograph accompanies a series of videos inspired by the Metabolist utopist architecture movement, created in 1959 in Japan. The videos bring together several portraits of Japanese towns, combining digital images with filmed or photographed images of social and urban reality.

The relation between crime and power through the lens of archives. Featuring: William Friedkin, Stasi Archive, La Notte, The Secret Life Of Elena Ferrari, Giorgio De Chirico On World War One, The Jonestown Massacre, Marco Malvaldi on suicide, Danse Macabre by Alberto Martini, Phone Taping Vertigo on Aldo Moro. Great thought by Elio Petri On Police Power, Cold Balkan Blood by Ana Blagojevic, Professor Andrea Pinotti on the shroud, Brad Feuerhelm on anxiety and photography, Howard Bingham: The Invisible Photographer and Michael Salu on private pictures from the first Gulf War.

On the occasion of this 13th issue, the Japanese artist asked 46 participating artists to cultivate a hyacinth, and to give an account of this experience through artistic gestures, including paintings, photographs, poetry, haiku, essays, and observation diaries (with Yukinori Maeda, Masanao Hirayama, Benjamin Sommerhalder, Susan Cianciolo…).

Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 50, signed, and accompanied by a multiple by Benoit Maire.

This publication reflects on the education and mediation programs at documenta 14. Organized as a lexicon, it gathers contributions by members of the programs, curators, artists, and educators.

This publication offers a narrative of artist Alex Martinis Roe's research into a genealogy of feminist political practices in Europe and Australia from the seventies until today.

Limited edition box set including a divinatory tarot game designed by filmmakers Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson. The usual cards are replaced by a selection of 78 photograms from the history of cinema (numbered and signed copies).

The ToiletMartin PaperParr wall calendar 2019 features photographs conceived by Martin Parr, Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, a back-to-back of images made in collaboration between the three artists. In a hotly anticipated follow-up to the first ToiletMartin PaperParr magazine, this calendar presents a selection of the best images conceived by the three artists.

Limited edition, with an exclusive Toilet Paper puzzle.

This comprehensive monograph on Teresa Burga acknowledges the recent reassessment of the multidisciplinary artist's work as a pioneering voice in Peruvian contemporary art.

The first issue of the “perpetual catalog” of Le Consortium, at the dawn of the fifth decade of the art center.

Drawing relations between the works of Claude Lévêque and quotes from contemporary writers (Don de Lillo, Pierre Michon, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze…), modern writers (Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Jean Giono, Marcel Proust, Paul Valéry…), and classics (Shakespeare, Dante, Aristote…).

The first survey of text works by artist Ane Hjort Guttu. Written between 2003 and 2018, the texts range from public statements, poetic short prose, film scripts and reflections on the role of the artist to essays on art for children and the link between light and wealth.