Contemporary art

“Livre VI” of the (SIC) journal takes the form of a book by Dutch-speaking Belgian philosopher Dieter Lesage (director of RITS | School of Arts). “Art, Research and Politics. Essays in Curatorial Criticism (1999-2014)” spans fifteen years of Lesage's critical interventions in the field of art, politics, and culture, analyzing and unraveling curatorial rhetorics and strategies which during that period marked the so-called art world.

Wies Smals (de Appel, Amsterdam), Kristine Siegel & Rhea Dall (PRAXES, Berlin), Jean-Max Colard, Eddie Peake & Heather Phillipson, Trisha Baga, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Helene Appel, Eloise Hawser, Bunny Rogers, Yoan Mudry...

First monograph, with texts by Frank Lamy and Pierre Giquel, and Cécile Paris interviews with architect Edith Commissaire, choreographer Julie Desprairies and philosopher Peter Szendy (the book is accompanied by a free online application).

PARIS LA #13 or CHEZ CHEZ PERV PERV has been especially created by the artists Gardar Eide Einarsson, Matias Faldbakken, and Oscar Tuazon.

In 2011, Damien Beguet and P. Nicolas Ledoux purchase the name of artist Ludovic Chemarin after he decided to end his career in 2005. Since then, they have been exploiting his name through exhibitions, conferences, and interviews. This monograph gives an overview of the project, gathering exhaustive documentation and essays from critics, historians, and lawyers.

Josse Bailly, Jean Bedez, Mike Billington, Sofia Borges, Olaf Breuning, James Carl, Matthieu Cossé, Nicolas Couturier, Delphine Gigoux-Martin, Daniel Gordon, the Florence & Daniel Guerlain Collection...

Closer to a teen magazine than a classic publication, this catalogue / artist's book by one of the most influential artists of the new media generation features a series of essays by international curators and artists, and exhibition views, alongside elements typical of publications targeting a young audience, such as posters and stickers.

5th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Andrea Fraser.

The return of the anthropological question has completely redesigned the issues of representation. A state of play.

Between documention and recreation: memories and transmissions of performance art and contemporary dance.

Rodrigo García, Jean-Luc Blanc, Israel army radio station, Tristan Garcia, Avi Mograbi, Bharat Sikka, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, virtual representations of Google Street View explored by artists...

Comprehensive monograph.

Artist's book.

New monograph, with essays by Michel Pastoureau and Jean-Marc Huitorel, reproduction of the “anti-dictionary” that accompanies Pierre Mabille's painted work, a selection of recent paintings, and stained glass windows conceived for a church in Chalonnes-sur-Loire, and a documented biography.

Artist's book.

First comprehensive monograph.

Liz Magic Laser's recent works.

First monograph, based on the texts of four writers (Agnieszka Gratza, Béatrice Gross, Chantal Pontbriand, and Allen S. Weiss) that each engage with a recent project by Ines Lechleitner.

A monograph / artists' book that engages with the recent film installations of Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz.

Catalogue.

The first survey of the Swiss and Danish duo's works from 2010 to 2014.

Artist's book.

Special edition of Alberto Tadiello's artist's book, with an original print signed by the artist (limited edition of 10 copies).

Monograph / artist's book based on seven films by the Canadian filmmaker, whose work creates a dialogue between film, photography and painting (with a script by Mark Lewis and an essay by Chantal Pontbriand).

Including images and texts around Christian Boltanski's simultaneous site specific projects in Buenos Aires in 2012, this book is conceived as an archive, a memory and a theoretical and critical discussion of the experience.

Issue #21 of Palais is entirely devoted to the exhibition “Le Bord des mondes” [“At the Edge of the Worlds”] at the Palais de Tokyo (February-May 2015). By exploring territories that lie outside the art world and bringing to light unique gestures that give way to new forms of creation, the exhibition aims to renew and expand the field of our artistic attentiveness in an attempt to see, experience and conceptualize the world by liberating ourselves from the categories that order it.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Art and Literature, Darja Bajagić, Walter Dahn, Fiction in Reality, Have We Become the Internet?, Lynn Hershman Leeson, The History of Exhibitions, Intimacy in Art, Nicholas Mangan, Park McArthur, The Multiplication of Moving Perspectives, Opening up to the Unexpected, Philippe Parreno and Paul B. Preciado, Systems Prosthetics, Time as Material, The Withdrawal of the Artist, Betty Woodman, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and The Artist as Curator #6.

Catalogue.

An extensive overview of the oeuvre of one of the masters of experimental cinema, including a complete chronology of the cineast's work and life as well as newly commissioned contributions by Andrea Bellini, Ken Eisenstein, John Hanhardt, and a visual essay by the artist.

The most in-depth presentation of the work of Swedish artist and poet Karl Larsson to date.

Comprehensive monograph.

The press photographs reproduced in this publication show the bombing of Bagdad. They were taken from German newspapers soon after the beginning of the second iraqi-american war in March of 2003. Following their removal they were placed and stuck in the centre of a piece of paper, aiming to be as precise as possible (artist's book).

A project about the issue of animation and cinema in the field of visual arts, and the possibility to give life to the draw, the silhouette, the puppet, or the photographic image.

Disordered Structures is a book of drawings by the Polish sculptor and installation artist, which documents her artistic research on structures and constructions.

Doris Maninger's drawings (artist's book).

This wide format book is a collection of snapshots from the exhibition of the same name (Depart Foundation Rome), which have a melancholy aspect and invoke personal recollections of places and events. These photographs explore the sense of nostalgia and of lost innocence in the transition from childhood to adulthood.

An attempt to question the possibility of understanding a territory by following its geography.

The sequel of an ongoing collection of fragmentary texts, written daily by poet-artist Fabrice Reymond.

Jason Matthew Lee, Daniel Baumann, Marylin Minter, Magali Reus, Know Wave Radio, Beatrice Gibson, Catherine Ahearn, K-Hole, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Alessandro Bava, Zhao Yao; a reconsideration of female identities and role models; Ida Ekblad; 100 pages of visual contributions by artists, curators and image-makers...

The beginning of Hungarian Conceptual art.

Special offer for the purchase of the set of issues of 20/27, the reference French magazine of critical texts on art, published since 2008: 67 texts, 1792 pages, 1500 images.

The possibility and power of art to imagine futures that are not irrevocably determined by the present, but are invested with struggles fought here and now.

The exchanges and transgressions between art and dance today.

An intertextual and interdisciplinary approach to exploring some contemporary cultural resonances with respect to gender and sexuality.

The Reluctant Narrator attempts to map the migration of narrative modes across several media, bringing together works that intertwine personal biography with historical events, or that deal with stories that fell through the crevices of history.

An introduction to Josef Bauer's oeuvre and practice.