Contemporary art

This book traces the evolution of Ulrike Gossarth's practice, with a particular emphasis on her training as a dancer in the 1970s, to draw connections between the early years with her sculptural settings and actions and her most recent work, which engages with history more generally.

First monograph.

A continuation (rather than simply documentation or commentary) of the exhibition “The Crime Was Almost Perfect” at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.

Limited edition accompanied by an original and unique signed artwork, hand colored comic strip box.

Willem's satirical drawings on art.

The design, construction and reception of all interventions by Daniel Buren in the public space of the city of Istres in 2013.

Rethinking public space.

Minimalist progressive lofi techno tracks by MACON (Nicolas Murer) for a series of exhibitions by visual artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar.

As much adventure novel as catalogue raisonné, this book tells the fabulous pedagogical and artistic experience of the studio Pensée nomade, chose imprimée (Nomadic thought, Printed matter) led from 1989 to 2013 at the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts in France by Michel Aphesbero & Danielle Colomine (4taxis), and Jean Calens.

First monograph, with an essay by Jacqueline Burckhardt.

The second issue of the magazine published by Optical Sound, between experimental music and contemporary art.

Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. For Timing of Affect, Marie-Luise Angerer, Bernd Bösel, and Michaela Ott have assembled leading scholars to explore the temporal aspects of affect through the perspectives of philosophy, music, film, media, and art, as well as technology and neurology.

A collection of textual and visual essays stemming from a series of lecture-performances in which artists and curators experimented with various strategies of reprise in the fields of publishing, visual arts, animation, new technologies and the law.

A guide for J. G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition, between human sciences and science fiction, between the history of art and the medicine including reproductions of 20s pulps and of 60s independent magazines.

Artist's book.

Science and Pataphysics, volume II: the birth of linguistics, as an academic field, in France, and the ideological and political issues that contribute to this implementation.

Does Mona Lisa deserve her mustache? An erudite review of 180 pre- and post-Duchamp caricatures and misappropriations.

Science and Pataphysics, volume I: the history of the origin myths—how science is torn from what is now defined as pseudo-science.

An innovative analysis of our relationship to the image.

New monograph.

New monograph (available in English edition).

New monograph.

This publication traces two years of a project dedicated to the concept of drift, with theoretical texts, artists' contributions and contributions from educational projects, workshops and exhibitions.

The history and posterity of François Mathey (1917-1993), a singular curator with the destiny of a romantic hero, a major figure in the promotion of contemporary art and a pioneer of artistic heritage.

Mendini's writings 1972-2011.

A collection of recent colored pencil drawings by artist Keegan McHargue.

Five Pieces for Projection introduces recent projection work from 2010 to 2014, with an essay by Hanne Loreck, an afterword by Eva Schmidt and texts by Victor Burgin.

The first instance of considering Okiishi's work from the last fifteen years as a heterogeneous whole.

The chimerical final work by Maxim Komar-Myshkin, one of the most elusive and tragic figures in Israeli-Russian art.

This book brings together the documentation of seven installations, produced by Corin Hewitt from 2007 up to the 2013, including preparatory sketches, process shots, exhibition documentation, and discrete photographic works. This visual mass helps understand Hewitt's practice as a continuum of interconnected actions and materializations, instances of generative discovery and contextual play.

The art/research articulation.

Catalogue of the main contemporary exhibition at HOK in 2014.

A photographic encounter between Guillaume de Sardes, Nicolas Comment, Ola Rindal, and Henry Roy, four French photographers who are fond, each in their own way, of the mundane, the insignificant, which they interpret with controlled blur, subtle color palettes and perspectives that make sense.

Soun-Gui Kim engages her collaborators—philosophers Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, and John Cage—in conversation about contemporary art and the relationship of artists to the globalized art world and market, from the perspective of Eastern thought.

A photographic encounter between Guillaume de Sardes, Nicolas Comment, Ola Rindal, and Henry Roy, four French photographers who are fond, each in their own way, of the mundane, the insignificant, which they interpret with controlled blur, subtle color palettes and perspectives that make sense (available in English edition).

Through the notion of ecology of art, Des récits ordinaires (On ordinary conversations), a project by Grégory Castéra (curator), Yaël Kreplak (linguist) and Franck Leibovici (poet and artist), attempts to vizualise the various modes of existence of artworks.

Improvisation as musical and political experimentation (essay).

A graphic short-story: a trip to Afghanistan, organised by the British government, in which Anish Kapoor and Anthony Gormley are charged with building a gigantic sculpture to subdue the insurgent population...

Monograph / artist's book, with a selection of images—a documentation of exhibited works and those in process—that offer a sense of Valentine's approach to working, which gestures toward abstraction and improvisation, as well as three essays that investigate Valentine's process.

Artist's book designed by Åbäke, based on Danish artist Marie Lund's first institutional solo exhibition.

Ten years of artmaking by Martin Beck, at the intersection of art, design, architecture, and historical inquiry.

A rediscovery.

A film by Pascal Goblot that explores an exceptional relationship between two influential figures of contemporary art.

A film, a portrait of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a French-born artist based in California who created text and sculptural works, often combining them as props and stage sets in theatrical performance pieces (interviews with John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Morgan Fisher, Paul McCarthy, Christophe Bourseiller, etc.).

Artist's book (each book contains 4 different types of paper handmade by the artist).

Peter Hujar, The Not-Spot by Nick Currie, The Art of (Leadership) George W. Bush by Alison Gingeras, Selfie Poetics by Andrew Durbin, Robert Heinecken, Art After the End of Art: Exhibit B by Jens Hoffmann, The Whole Earth Show Revisited by Chelsea Haines, Otobong Nkanga by Hans Ulrich Obrist, From Performance To Post-Performance by Marie Canet, Marie de Brugerolle and Catherine Wood, Whatever Happened to the Sisterhood by Jennifer Allen, Hannah Weinberger, Than Hussein Clark, James Ferraro, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Jasper Spicero, Mario Schifano, Bunny Rogers, Phillip Zach, Jamian Juliano-Villani...

New monograph / artist's book.

David Maljković publishes, for the first time, some excerpts of his notebooks.