Art & environment / ecology

As part of a series of publications on singular architectural bodies of work, this volume focuses on three stone projects by Gilles Perraudin, an advocate of the renewed use of this material.

A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.

An extensive investigation on the ecosystem of Europe's largest asbestos quarry in Balangero (TO) and the dense network of relations between human and land.

A glossary of themes running through the work of Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), reflecting the contemporary relevance and diversity of the anarchist geographer's thought.

A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers”.

A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers” (also available in English edition).

This volume collects six fables Lin May Saeed (1973–2023) wrote in the early 2000s—the only ones the artist ever shared—which explore fundamental issues of interspecies coexistence, combining scientific, ethical, and philosophical motivations.

Catalogue.

A reflection on the relation between art, museum institutions and climate activism.

New monograph.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

The first overview of the artistic research of Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna, an Italian artistic duo focused on site specific art project with a sensible attitude to the landscape.

The story/manifesto of an architect's life: a re-reading of Gilles Perraudin's career by himself, enabling us to retrace the path of a thought in perpetual motion.

The sixth issue of the transversal journal, at the crossroads of art and thought, political philosophy, gender studies and academic knowledge, delves into the various forms of mutation that ripple through our world.

The glass as a listening device.

The Monadic Age unfolds in thirty-three autonomous—monadic—essays on topics as diverse as environmentalism, terrorism, geopolitics, housing, the metaverse, nonbinarism, language, charity, euthanasia, identity politics, tattoos, ableism, AI, birthrates, war, religion, sex, and art.

The documentation of a mountain path designed by artist Alex Cecchetti in Val Gardena (Bolzano, Italy) and a journey into more-than-human presences and ecologies.

A critical and ethical reflection on contemporary art and ecology, based on long-term research into the work of some twenty international artists committed to environmental issues.

A speculative novel set in 2046 that asks us to question our role in the destruction of our environment, the impact of automation on society, and heightened inequity across class, race, and gender.

23 photographs of chicanes taken between 2013 and 2016 on the roads leading to the Notre-Dame-des-Landes ZAD, France (with an interview with philosopher Marie José Mondzain).

A project by artist Fatma Bucak that considers the relationships between political violence, environmental destruction, and climate change.

Contemporary art and degrowth.

A vast research on the notion of acoustic and sound ecology and its transition to a new sound ecosophy, integrating the multidimensionality of listening to propose to hear differently.

Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.

Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.

Exhibition catalogue of filmmaker, visual artist, and writer Pedro Neves Marques's solo project "Vampires in Space" at the Portuguese Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2022.

A musical work born of residencies for two musicians and a dancer in three natural parks in France, tuned to these three geographies as open-air studios, in dialogue with the mineral, plant and animal environment.

Matching expansive ambience with environmental sound, Chihei Hatakeyama's new album continues Field Records' exploration of Japan and the Netherland's shared approach to water management.

Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object (also available in English).

This publication invites us on a journey to decipher the hidden predatory logic within the mechanisms of gold mining exploitation and the resulting socio-ecological devastation in the Guayana and Venezuela's Amazon regions.

A journey through the work of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané over 25 years (artist's book).

Seven tangible prototypes that respond to our current planetary moment, enabling new ways of envisioning and inhabiting the world (a scientific and artistic collaboration turned to a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable, and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach).

New monograph.

This artist's book explores the diverse reference system of forms and materials, plants, animals and other subjects out of which Claudia Comte develops her biomorphic sculptures.

Monograph surveying more than ten years of the Canadian visual and performance artist's career, whose engaged practice addresses social and environmental issues, with two essays by Chantal Pontbriand and Ayelet D. Aldouby.

Inter #141 invites to approach degrowth as a paradigm of a possible way out of the planetary crisis, and to imagine new ways of living in the world.

What architectural possibilities can emerge when we reimagine arid landscapes as spaces of abundance? (a collective book conceived as a travelogue that challenges preconceptions around aridity: the official publication of UAE's National Pavilion at Venise Biennale of Architecture).

A long-term project by the Italian artist and agroecologist on rethinking the relationship with the earth, both from the point of view of humans and plants.

New media theorist Wendy Hui Kyong Chun exposes her original conception of programming and code, alerts us to the racialization bias, homophily and eugenic tendencies that govern our interactions on platforms, and analyzes the need to call upon the humanities and social sciences in the development of algorithmic models for predicting the evolutions and impacts of climate change.

A collection of poetic, political and ecological stories to be told aloud, in which the natural elements (the melting ice, the volcanic eruption, the hole in the clouds, or the flood) are the heroes, approaching ecology through its sensitive manifestations.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

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.

A photographer-cum-explorer presents his stunning (both sublime and alarming) landscape images from around the world.

What comes after end-of-world narratives: visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing.

Previously unreleased music by Otto Sidharta, pioneer of Indonesian electronic music, inspired by Indonesia's multifarious styles of traditional music.

An exploration of the realities of environmental and social catastrophe through art practices.

A collection of reflections by pioneering scientists, artists, and thinkers about the ocean environment, fusing art, science, and education, offering a diverse and interdisciplinary perspective on those threatened ecosystems and the crucial role they play in our adaption to climate change.

138 records of artist’s books, catalogues, posters, invitation cards and ephemera (with an essay by Jan Meissner).