Contemporary art

A much-needed mapping of the Indian art scene.

Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.

What translation does to performance and what performance does to translation: a collective publication exploring the relationship between translation and performance, including the fields of theater, dance, sound and visual poetry, and film.

Nature Never Loses surveys six decades of Carl Cheng's prescient, genre-defying work and accompanies the eponymous traveling exhibition organized by the Contemporary Austin. It is the definitive guide to Cheng's career, including a detailed overview of his most impressive works and an abundance of never-before-seen archival material.

An exploration of the "swampy" zone between the human and the other forms of life that make up his ecosystem and his environment, at the intersection of art, architecture and philosophy, in the perspective of a posthumanist ecology.

A collection of critical, polemic, and personal essays composed in the past decade.

This first comprehensive survey of Joseph Kosuth's work with public media centers on his pioneering project The Second Investigation (1968–74).

New monograph, based on Saskia Holmkvist's film Margaret (Back Translation), weaving together staged scenes, documentary elements and archival footage, exploring the recent history of Belfast through a series of tonally diverse scenes, by turns comic, elegiac and speculative.

Weekly Planner I & II by Silje Iversen Kristiansen is two individual pocket-books filled with drawings. The drawings records in a fragmented way her subjective experience of life in time and space. Each book covers the span of a year, always starting in May and ending in April. In addition to the drawings, the books contain a text by Jan Verwoert that reflects upon the subject at hand.

This edition by Walter and Jan Verwoert pairs an 7" record featuring 6 pieces of sound poetry with facsimiles of the 6 collages used as scores for the recordings.

The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin.

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.

A counter-history of contemporary art, where experience becomes form, and aesthetics is redefined as a radical relationship with the living.

The classic question of “proof by image” rethought in the light of contemporary practices and technological developments, notably the transformation of the way images are captured and circulated in the digital age.

Eleven years after the publication of the first volume of Feminine Futures in 2011, this sequel explores the dance history of abstraction in the feminine, during the first half of the 20th century and continuations today, unfolding new research perspectives with a new body of rare or unpublished original photographs.

Drawing on a material, cultural and social history of art, Hugo Daniel proposes to understand the recognition and redefinition of drawing by the avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s, between the questioning of artists, the evolution of critics and the projects of gallery owners and curators, to show how drawing is understood as a complex reality, in act.

An overview of the early days of video art in Europe, drawing on a network of some fifty researchers.

Morten Søndergaard (co-editor); interviews with panGenerator, Charles Stankievech, Mélia Roger, Adelin Schweitze; articles: Geofónie, Sonic Reorientations; reports: Electric Dreams, The Vinyl Factory: Reverb, Art Must Be Artificial.

An unprecedented dialogue between the bronze works of the American-Kenyan artist associated with the Afrofuturist movement and the treasures of the Borghese Gallery, a temple of Renaissance beauty.

Published several years after the fact, "Exposure" is a catalogue for Patricia L. Boyd's solo exhibition "Hold" at Kunstverein München in 2021.

A cross-disciplinary and critical reflection on the philosophical stakes of so-called "artificial intelligence", from an epistemological, political and cultural point of view.

A critical history of a fundamental video art event: the large-scale study of the entire history of Locarno's VideoArt Festival, the culmination of a four-year research project.

Sheila Hicks' recent monumental and architectural-based projects.