Literature

 
 
Bruno Carbonnet - Cloaque
2017
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
This narrative intertwines text and image to reflect on the sinking of the Sewol ferry in April 2014 on the Korean peninsula. At the heart of this tragic story lies the controversial personality of Yoo Byung-eun, an evangelical pastor, guru, patron and photographer.
Anton Bruhin - Dämonen
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
What would a current-day demon look like? The Swiss artist playfully rehabilitates these evil figures in 170 minimalist portraits—rendering them as an ideal type of the postmodern, at once terrifying and comical.
David Antin - Essais choisis sur l\'art et la littérature - 1966-2005
2017
French edition
<o> future <o>
A collection of essays on art and literature—most of them unpublished in French—by the American poet, performance artist, and critic.
Diaphanes
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Diaphanes
Diaphanes - Diaphanes (magazine)
Diaphanes is a new bilingual English-German quarterly magazine with a focus on contemporary art, critical discourse, and multilingual fiction. This first issue features a special section dedicated to the work of Pierre Guyotat, including excerpts, an interview with Donatien Grau and drawings by Paul McCarthy. Also in this issue: Mike Wilson; Ute Holl; Haus Am Gern; Aya Momose; Mário Gomes; Marcus Quent; Julien Maret; Jason Swartz; Julian Röder; Peter Ott; Tyler Coburn; Francisco Sierras Malerei; Yves Netzhammer; Giovanna Marmo; Luc Meresma…
Stefan Roigk - Sprachmusik (CD)
2017
Tochnit Aleph
A new electro-acoustic composition by Berlin-based artist Stefan Roigk. The radio play like combination of poetic lectures, vocals treatments, concrete sounds and deep vocal drones is based on several live recordings and performances made between 2012 and 2015.
 Selten Gehörte Musik - Tote Rennen Lieder (CD)
2017
Tochnit Aleph
19.00 14.50 €
Fifth part in the Selten Gehörte Musik reissue series: recordings by Dieter Roth and Oswald Wiener, at Mosfellssveit, Iceland, from May 28 to 30, 1976.
Vincent Katz - Katz
2017
English edition
Nero
This publication, edited by Enzo Cucchi, gathers drawings by Alex Katz and words by his son Vincent. It is a project that takes shape through the intimate relationship between the three subjects.
Jacques Donguy - Pd-extended 1 - Poésie numérique en Pure Data
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Reference monograph dedicated to the pioneer of digital poetry in France, including documentation illustrating recent projects as well as all theoretical texts on digital poetry written by Donguy from 1984 to 2015.
Jacques Donguy - Pd-extended 1 - Poésie numérique en Pure Data
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Reference monograph dedicated to the pioneer of digital poetry in France, including documentation illustrating recent projects as well as all theoretical texts on digital poetry written by Donguy from 1984 to 2015.
Pierre Klossowski - Initiales - Initiales P.K.
2017
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
9th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Pierre Klossowski.
Andrew James Paterson - Collection/Correction
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First survey of the Canadian artist's writings, including a series of new and recent poems, scripts from his videos, and four fictocriticism texts published in IMPULSE magazine between 1980 and 1989.
Jérôme Bertin - Goulag sous les étoiles
2017
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The daily routine of a dropout in the city of Marseille.
Jean-Philippe Cazier - L\'la phrase. L\'
2017
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poetic and philosophical text investigating the use of the sentence.
Yoan Mudry - Loops - The future is wild / To loop the loop
2017
French edition
Clinamen
This collective publication questions the literary strategies at stake in the work of visual artist Yoan Mudry.
Jean-Claude Hauc - Miscellanées casanoviennes
2017
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
A literary portrait of Giacomo Casanova.
Jungle Juice
2017
texts in English and French
Jungle Juice
Supernova - Jungle Juice magazine
Sixth Issue of the fanzine-like review published by éditions Supernova. It includes poetry, photography, literature, illustrations, and essays.
Espace(s) - L\'espace, lieu d\'utopies
2017
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
“Space and utopia” issue.
The Digital Subject
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An interdisciplinary reflection on the new figures of subjectivity in the digital age.
Situations, dérives, détournements - Statuts et usages de la littérature et des arts chez Guy Debord
2017
French edition
Art Book Magazine
currently out of stock
The use and status of literature and arts in Guy Debord's thought.
Michel Butor - L\'univers géopoétique (+ DVD)
2017
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Viaindustriae
This publication is the result of a series of meetings and interviews with Michel Butor in Italy, between 2012 and 2016. It also features texts by Mireille Calle-Gruber, Paolo Fabbri, and Butor himself, as well as six unreleased photographs from 1952 to 1958, documenting the French author's travels in Italy. The accompanying DVD À propos de. Entre littérature et art, le paysage véritable is a video-essay by Isabella Bordoni, and one of Butor's final appearance.
Soun-Gui Kim - Entends-tu ? - Poèmes et Dessins de Kim Soun-Gui
2017
bilingual edition (French / Korean)
various
currently out of stock
Collection of poems and drawings by the Korean artist.
Alexandre St-Onge - Nude de chose de même
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le laps
This publication is the result of a sound improvisation project by audio artist Alexandre St-Onge. It gathers a collection of hermetic poetry texts and 13 tracks of experimental sounds to download.
Inferno
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
miscellaneous
(last copies available!)
15.00 2.00 €
Inferno's eight issue features an in-depth review of the news in contemporary art (interviews with Maurizio Cattelan, Matt Mullican, Xavier Veilhan, Kader Attia, Provoke exhibition, Agnès Martin's retrospective…), performance art (interviews with Jan Martens, Xavier Le Roy, Boris Charmatz, Martin Faucher and the Montreal FTA Festival, Utrecht Spring Festival) and literature (interviews with Pierre Michon and Olivier Cadiot).
Jocelyn Robert - La danse des variables
2017
French edition
Squint.press
Jean-Claude Lebensztejn - Kafka, Sade, Lautréamont - Rêve déchiré
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Fama
Three textual pieces on Kafka, Sade, and Lautréamont, inspired by the author's dreams and nocturnal readings.
Jean-Luc Godard - Letter to Jane
2017
English edition
various
currently out of stock
Taking as a point of departure a photograph of actress Jane Fonda in Vietnam, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin reflect on the role of intellectuals in the revolutionary process. Originally published in 1972, this Letter to Jane is one of the last texts issued by the two founders of the Dziga Vertov Group.
Jean-Luc Godard - Lettre à Jane
2017
French edition
various
Taking as a point of departure a photograph of actress Jane Fonda in Vietnam, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin reflect on the role of intellectuals in the revolutionary process. Originally published in 1972, this Letter to Jane is one of the last texts issued by the two founders of the Dziga Vertov Group.
León Ferrari - The Words of Others - Conversations between God and a few men and between a few men and a few men and God
2017
English edition
X Artists' Books
(last copies available!)
The first full English translation of the Argentine artist León Ferrari's uncompromising literary masterpiece from 1967. A critique of the Vietnam War and American imperial politics, the book weaves together hundreds of excerpts from newspapers, periodicals, works of history, the Bible, and other sources.
Hippocampe
2017
French edition
Hippocampe
Hippocampe - Hippocampe Review
CRU (Curated Renegade Unidentified)
2016
French edition
miscellaneous
AcquAvivA
The second issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine includes documents on Trevor Wishart, Denis Dufour, Hém-Ish, Ione, Broutin, François Poyet, Johannes Kreidler, Gil J Wolman at work, a film by Frédéric Acquaviva on the late Pauline Oliveros, Silva Gabriela Béju on Henri Chopin and the magazine OU, a set of posters and postcards…
Virgile Novarina - Au cœur du sommeil - Avec Michel Butor, Clément Rosset, Pierre Pachet, Jean-Luc Nancy (DVD)
2016
film in French version with English subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
A literary and philosophic exploration of the various states of sleep. Embark upon a dreamlike path to the heart of sleep through the reading of four texts by Michel Butor, Clément Rosset, Pierre Pachet and Jean-Luc Nancy, and a series of sleepers.
Shezad Dawood - Kalimpong
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
Part fact, part fiction, this collaborative artist's novel is set in the curious town of Kalimpong, India, where past meets present in a multi-layered tale of espionage and the esoteric.
Anne Maurel - Avec ce qu\'il resterait à dire - Sur une figurine d\'Alberto Giacometti
2016
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
This narrative looks back at the creation of a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti inspired by artist and model Isabel Nicholas. Featuring four photographs by Eli Lotar.
Hassan Khan - Twelve Clues
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A mystery tale illustrated with artworks by twelve contemporary artists.
Signature Strengths
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Signature Strengths reproduces in full the four books in the series “No-Frills” published in the early eighties. Inspired by the unadorned packaging of a grocery brand, the series editors designed genre fiction books with similar straightforward and experimental approaches. The volume is completed with enlightening notes on genre writing and mass-market publishing.
Ricardo Basbaum - Diagrams - 1994-ongoing
2016
English edition
Errant Bodies - Critical Ear (monographs)
A publishing survey of the diagrams produced by Ricardo Basbaum in recent years. Both autonomous pieces or elements from installations, these diagrams act as interventional tools and visual poems that connect the literary and plastic spaces.
Anton Bruhin -
2016
English edition
Nero
This catalogue gathers works from different periods of the artist's career, though giving particular prominence to his drawings in analog and digital form—the Pixel-Bildli and Hice for Weiss series, or his plastic mosaics. A foreword by Salvatore Lacagnina and a contribution by Arthur Fink introduce the reader to Bruhin's multifarious work, while a conversation with the artist helps unfold his eclectic strategies.
Jungle Juice
2016
texts in English and French
Jungle Juice
Supernova - Jungle Juice magazine
currently out of stock
October issue of Supernova's fanzine, including an unpublished text by J.G. Ballard. Each copy is accompanied by an original color stencil by French artist Serge Stephan.
Justin Delareux - Extrait des nasses
2016
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A both poetical and political text, praising the poetic revolution of language against the current condition of the everyday life.
Espace(s) - Traces et résidus
2016
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
Espace(s) #13 inaugurates the new formula of the French Space Agency's review. This issue explores the potential of the archive as a material for new artistic or literary narratives.
Guy de Cointet -
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first monograph to offer an overview of Cointet's enigmatic and influential oeuvre.
William Wordsworth - 3 Poèmes / Entends par la vertu puissante de l\'ouïe du lion (+ CD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenka lente
3 tales of childhood and disappearance by William Wordsworth, accompanied by the primitive and free metal music of French duo Talweg.
Peter Greenaway - Joseph
2016
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
The script for Joseph, the new film by Peter Greenaway, an ironic portrayal of the figure of Joseph, father of Jesus. Here, God—“the other father”—becomes, in Greenaway's words, “vulnerable to jealousy… since he has a rival on earth.”
Guy de Cointet -
2016
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first monograph to offer an overview of Cointet's enigmatic and influential oeuvre (available in English edition).
Joseph Vogl - De l\'indécision
2016
French edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
An “anti-history” of the indecision in which Joseph Vogl probes the literary figures of Oreste, Wallenstein, Joseph K., Bartleby, or the man without qualities.
Julien Blaine - Lecture de 5 faits d\'actualité par un septuagénaire bien sonné
2016
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
23.00 11.50 €
Religious crimes, Rosetta spacecraft, Hillary Clinton, workers' struggle in France, Calais jungle: a critical commentary of the news by poet Julien Blaine.
Lyn Hejinian - Ma vie
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
45 chapters of 45 sentences at 45 years.
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