Symposiums

An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.

The richness of cultural exchanges between Italy and Switzerland, especially in terms of architectural culture, is the framework within which this publication was conceived and structured. The editorial project retraces and expands some of the themes addressed during the first seven years of the Swiss Talks, born in 2017 as a cultural partnership between the Istituto Svizzero and the architecture magazine Casabella.

In this prophetic 1978 essay, legendary science fiction author Philip K. Dick explores the nature of reality, the power of media, and the authenticity of human experience, offering startling insights that resonate eerily with our modern world.

An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.

If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse? In 1981, Richard Sennett delivered six lectures about this relationship, and issued a call to action that remains relevant today.

The continuation and culmination of a vast project, articulated between an exhibition and a symposium, imagined by South African curator Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi), inviting 17 artists from Africa and its diaspora and a group of researchers to evoke black aesthetics and propose an alternative vision of a world without borders.

The continuation and culmination of a vast project, articulated between an exhibition and a symposium, imagined by South African curator Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi), inviting 17 artists from Africa and its diaspora and a group of researchers to evoke black aesthetics and propose an alternative vision of a world without borders.

New visualities and visualizations of literature in the digital age: the possible contributions of design thinking to literary theory.

A record of a symposium on the legacy of the late Luxembourgish artist Michel Majerus (1967-2002).

A collective work to highlight the unique perspective of Pierre Guyotat, one of the greatest authors of the French language and a major figure in the memory of the Algerian conflict, on the war of independence and post-independence Algeria.

Kahlo/Modotti – Forty Years Later is the result of a visit by Laura Mulvey to the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich in November 2022. The booklet contains two texts: Mulvey's evening lecture at the Cabaret Voltaire, revisiting hers and Peter Wollen's exhibition and film on Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti, and Wollen's 2003 essay on the phenomenon of "Fridamania."

The fourth volume of Rab-Rab Press' bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevich's talk The New Schools in Russian Poetry, given in 1921 in Paris. In this talk, Zdanevich introduced zaum to the French Dadaists. He declared that practical and poetic languages are two poles of existence, two opposite ways of life.

Some insights into the imaginaries that inhabit techno-scientific realities, transforming our relationship with the world, closing or opening up the future.

The first major work on the history and current importance of the Biennale of Young Artists, known as the "Biennale de Paris", which took place between 1959 and 1985, bringing together thirty-five texts by international authors, including some testimonies from actors who took part in the Biennale.

A collective and transdisciplinary publication to address the question of the forms of the living in its scientific, philosophical, artistic and aesthetic dimension, engaging a systematic reflection on our relation to the living and to its forms, and on their theoretical and practical significance with regard to the current world.

The very first book devoted to the creations of artificial intelligences in literature and art, and the problems they raise.

A survey of forty years of publications, highlighting the importance of the French publishing house P.O.L. and its authors in the emergence and definition of what can be called the contemporary in literature.

This book explores, through the eyes of six young researchers, issues of normativity in architecture during the twentieth century, questioning the ability of architects to circumvent or even transgress them.

Blind spots of the ubiquitous digital—a critical and loving glossary: 138 entries to explore the unspoken aspects of new technologies, artificial intelligence and other aspects of digital.

The English translation of Zdanevich's Dadaist autobiographical lecture in Paris in 1922, where he adopts the name Iliazda. In this entertaining lecture, the achievements of the avant-garde is presented as a combination of zaum, polymorphous sexuality, aleatory forms and scatological interpretation of culture.

A reflection on the domination of the software industry on our use of computers, which calls for a stimulating reinterpretation of materialism.

A collective reflection on the imperatives of sustainability and reversibility to which architecture must respond today, in connection with contemporary societal and environmental issues.

A collective research on the memory of the places to the test of wars and conflicts through representations of landscapes, as they are reworked by means of contemporary art, cinema or literature.

The different aspects of the work of Marcel Mariën (1920-1993)–member of the surrealist group of Brussels, poet, creator of images, publisher, theoretician and political activist, accomplice of René Magritte and Guy Debord.

Transcripts of unpublished lectures and writings by the French architect-urbanist Marcel Lods (1891-1978).

An exploration of the complex relationship between contemporary pictorial practices and their digital environment, examining in particular the idea of license and the strategies of appropriation pushed to the limit by unlimited access to digital resources.

Reevaluating the scholarly knowledge about Dada and its legacy, this publication reconstructs how Dada was (re)invented in the 1950s and the 1960s, especially by the Dada protagonists themselves, and asks to what extent Dada's impulses are still relevant regarding current aesthetic, literary and cultural analyses.

An original multidisciplinary study of the text-image pair in its political dimension, from the militancy of the early twentieth century to the struggles for "visibility" of minorities.

Can objects be traumatized? How does the commercial value of an art object relate to its aesthetic qualities? How do objects interact? These are some of the questions addressed by Graham Harman, the originator of object-oriented philosophy and a central figure of the Speculative Realism school of thought in contemporary philosophy.

A history of the concept of data.

Dirty Ear Report #3 documents a collective workshop by sound artists and researchers working in the fields of experimental dramaturgy, sonic social engagement, and voice studies.

The current state and future of painting in the digital age.

A collective analysis of the emergence of the “contemporary” and the transnational and transhistorical logics at work in artistic practices in Dakar in response to questions raised by globalization since the Independances, opening up new territories for sociological, economic, political and aesthetic investigations.

The notion of “form” in architecture.

Examining how things are sold and exchanged within diverse cultural environments, past and present through a collection of contributions by social anthropologists and historians, this book builds a bridge between social history, cultural anthropology and economics and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural foundations of economic life and the sociology of culture.

Drawing on extensive documentation and unpublished sources, this collective publication proposes an ambitious re-examination of Hans Hartung's prolific work and eventful personal trajectory as an actor in a broader history of abstraction, which also provides a fertile matrix for many other reflections on twentieth-century art.

The transcription of a lecture by Fanny Drugeon on three installations by Japanese artist Shimabuku.

Thinking design with philosophy (a teaching manual).

The proceedings of a symposium dedicated to the work of French writer, playwright and poet Olivier Cadiot.

An history of the artwork and the image first apprehended as an act and a process.

A collection of essays and lectures that aim to provice insights, analysis and reflections about global identity dynamics, with particular attention to cultural production, the hybridization of languages and postcolonial narratives.

A collective reassessment of Gertrude Stein's relationship to the arts, allowing to understand the complexity of the relationship between writing and visual arts in her work.

A collective reflection on cooperative and co-creation artistic practices engaged in the social field.

A collective exploration of 45 years of protean poetic activities, between printed text, exposed text and proffered text, with some thirty contributions by academics and poets, with numerous illustrations.

A contribution to the construction of a critical thought of the iconic economy of the relations between text, language and image.

A collective reflection on the historical stakes of French avant-garde movement Lettrism.

A synthesis of the multiple dimensions of the protean oeuvre of a legendary artist, which we measure today to what extent they find an echo in contemporary environmental, cinematographic, aesthetic and social issues.

Crossing perspectives on performance acts within the discursive space of contemporary art.