Art & labor

The first volume of the design research journal devoted to work and its mutations presents a collection of texts by the philosopher Pierre-Damien Huyghe.

A multidisciplinary investigation dedicated to the cultural representations of coal mining, gathering contemporary artworks, poetry, essays, literature, folk songs, and archival images.

Two-volume catalogue of the Fifth Rennes Biennal (France): twenty-nine international artists were invited to construct an exhibition based on the particular issue of shaping emotions in a world which formulates them in terms of markets.

New Ways of Doing Nothing highlights artistic gestures challenging today's inclination towards productivity and growth (with Robert Breer, Claire Fontaine, Mathias Delplanque, Marina Faust, Ryan Gander, Karl Holmqvist, Jiří Kovanda, Superflex, Mario García Torres...).

An anti-method of meeting that reaffirms the uncertain outcome of gathering moments.

Datumo! recounts a quantification experiment lead by Julien Prévieux and based on the gazes of an audience watching artworks.

A project by internationally working documentary photographer Claudio Cambon that tells the story of the last voyage, dismantling, and recycling of an American merchant vessel in Bangladesh in the late 1990's.

Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks.

Mustapha Akrim's works mixes at once protest, aesthetics, philosophy and politics. The project documented in this catalogue questions labour and education—two notions symbolized by the recurring motif of the fly. As a work in progress, “Iqraa” also refers to the idea that nothing is fixed—neither aesthetically nor politically.

Simone Debout's re-edited version of Fourier's essential work.

Viable forms of refusal and imagine prospects for a post-work future.

Artist' book (Andro Wekua's recent works).

Catalogue: a selection of recent and older works by Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji.

Benjamin Sabatier shells over the alphabet the founding principles of his work.

Benjamin Sabatier shells over the alphabet the founding principles of his work. This limited edition is accompanied by a can compression, a unique signed piece.

The French artist Marie Angeletti presents photographs from a project hosted by two sites belonging to a color manufacturing company in the cities of Gémenos (France) and Shanghai.

A series of large colorful canvases depicting visions of an alienated humanity.

After Office, the second issue of Stream, addresses the conflicts of the evolution of our work conditions, now greatly modified, with contributions by international thinkers, artists, designers and architects.

Various critical approaches under the shape of questioning and the appropriation by artists of the model of the company.

This collective essay examines the crossroads between creation and business through various analyzes and case studies on Marcel Duchamp, Bertrand Lavier and the Brancusi trial.

Reference monograph: an overview of the unclassifiable work of an entrepreneurial artist who, by appropriating the symbolic network of a former electric power company, turned it into his research territory and the very matter of his activity, through twenty texts and interviews and some 700 photographs and illustrations.

A set of photographs and texts / a large original photograph.

The first, fundamental work in which Fourier declares his objectives for a world government and economy administered by "Passionate Attraction".

Catalogue of the first Rennes Biennal, exploring what artistic activity and corporate/business activity have in common (and what sets them apart): work and labour, creators of value. With 60 international artists (Adel Abdessemed, Boris Achour, Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Claude Closky, Hans Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Claire Fontaine, Pierre Huyghe, Jean-Charles Massera, Mathieu Mercier, Gianni Motti, Jean-Luc Moulène, Simon Starling...).

A conversation between the celebrated Russian philosopher and the young international artist from Georgia.

Limited edition in a boxed set with the original photo print.

New paintings and collages, with texts by the artist.

More than a catalogue, this artist's book presents a selection among the 12 000 electric objects gathered for an exhibition by Yann Toma (the President for life of the Ouest-Lumière Company) at the Electropolis Museum, Toulouse (France), described with their specification sheets.

Inspired by a monumental installation by Andro Wekua, this artist's book showcases a collection of illustrations and archives.

Yann Toma explains what is Ouest Lumière and "Presidential Art" (limited edition with an original artwork signed by the artist).

Yann Toma explains what is Ouest Lumière and "Presidential Art".

An essential work covering the activities of the 19th century French theoretician of anarchy, federalism, perpetual education and the mutual principle.

A 19th century political activism classic.

Three interviews with the President for life of the Ouest-Lumière Company.

Two texts by Jean-Charles Agboton-Jumeau et Marion Hohlfeldt on Lefevre Jean Claude, with some “inserts” by the artist on divider pages.

This posthumous work is the first study of his friend Gustave Courbet (who requested a text for a catalog), and of the role of art in society.

The Confessions, written in six weeks in a prison cell, recounts the political life of a social thinker.

Proudhon's book against rights of ownership for authors, and collection of the most significant contributions toward the original debate over literary property..

In 1829, Fourier synthesizes his entire doctrine: a systematic critique of civilization and its natural deviations, as well as his proposal for a new social scheme of mutual assocation, governed by passionate attraction rather than by repression and constraint.

A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.

A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.

Hiérarchie du cocuage proposes a system of classification, worthy of Linné for botany, in which he organizes the indomitable differences of beings and their diverse characters.

Pilvi Takala's project for the Finnish Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale.

Four essays and one conversation with contemporary artists and curators from different backgrounds and origins (Jerusalem, Lebanon, Kuwait, USA, Egypt) discussing their experience of becoming mothers as professionals in the arts, its reality and effects.

Catalogue dedicated to the late American artist: an influential photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist and critic whose works have been a unique reference in debates and conversations about photography, art and politics for over 40 years. The publication includes a historical and analytical text by curator Marie Muracciole, as well as a 20-page photographic booklet.

This collective work aims to demonstrate the relevance of today's popular music in contemporary political action through eight international case studies.

Artist's book.