Interviews

 
 
Jacques Donguy - De Jeff Golyscheff à Stelarc - De l\'avant-garde à la post-humanité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
forthcoming
A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of 40 years, with rare illustrations.
Conversations on Architecture – Swiss Talks – About and Beyond / Conversazioni sull’architettura – Swiss Talks – Intorno e oltre
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
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.
Yvon Lambert au Mucem - Une pièce en cinq actes
2024
French edition
Mucem
A poetic conversation, in five acts, between Yvon Lambert (Paris), Marie-Charlotte Calafat (director of the Mucem collections), Stéphane Ibars (artistic director of the Lambert collection), and numerous artists, accompanies the exhibition, which brings together works from the Yvon Lambert collection and Mucem folk art objects.
Luc Tuymans - Mercy (Politics)
2024
English edition
MER. B&L
This publication examines the intersection of art and politics, through the deeply engaged work and thought of two contemporary artists.
Jacqueline Burckhardt - My Commedia dell\'Arte
2024
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
An extended meandering conversation between Swiss art historian, critic and curator Jacqueline Burckhardt and curator/art historian Juri Steiner, accompanied by numerous texts, documents and artist inserts.
Gérard Berréby - Documents relatifs à l\'édition pirate du Traité du style de Louis Aragon par Gérard Berréby
2024
French edition
Incertain Sens
Gérard Berréby looks back at the first publishing experience of the man who was to become the director of Allia publishing house: the decision, in the early 1980s, to produce a pirate edition of Aragon's book—at the time opposed to any reprinting—, an unprecedented gesture that provoked numerous reactions in the literary world, and raised a number of questions linked to appropriation and self-publishing.
Éliane Radigue - Intermediary Spaces
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
umland / Q-O2
In the long interview that forms the body of this publication, Éliane Radigue talks about her work, her reflections and underlying research, as well as her historical context. The publication also contains a commented list of works and Radigue's programmatic text on The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal (new expanded edition).
Jean-Luc Nancy - Sexpositions
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A series of exchanges relating to questions of gender, sexual difference and sexualities, enabling not only a rereading of Jean-Luc Nancy's corpus and its developments through the prism of what Nancy has called sexistence, but also the reinscription of the elaboration of this concept in a web of biographical elements and, hence, an exploration of the philosopher's actual sexistence.
Jim Dine - Painter\'s Theater 1960–1965
2024
English edition
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
Two previously unpublished interviews with Jim Dine, about his performances in New York City in the early 1960s, an important period in his career that the artist has so far rarely discussed.
Michel Paysant - Entretiens
2024
French edition
Naima
Artist and curator discuss the role and value of art in the 21st century, and the potential for artistic creation to contribute to the development of new knowledge.
K-Artists
2024
English edition
Archive Books
A compilation of interviews with forty-seven younger-generation Korean artists: this first-ever interview book on contemporary Korean artists in the English language offers a kaleidoscopic overview of the new and dynamic practices taking place in Seoul.
Thierry Prat - Vivre dans leurs têtes - Entretiens avec Anne Bertrand
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
This book retraces Thierry Prat's career as a player and witness to the history of contemporary art in France for over forty years, through a series of interviews that highlight the main issues at stake.
Vues & données (entretiens)
2023
French edition
Mix
Interviews with artists and researchers on the issues of catch and data.
Sound American - The Thirtieth Issue
2023
English edition
Sound American
The final issue of Sound American journal, , as a tribute to the musical community, with Eileen Myles, Ellen Pullman, Brandon Lopez, Ellen Fullman, Albert Oehlen, Natasha Pickowicz, Patricia Nicholson Parker, Michael Ranta, Sarah Hennies, Vincent de Roguin, and Lesley Mok.
Sun Ra - Interview with Charlie Morrow - New York, 1989 (vinyl LP)
2023
Recital
A newly unearthed recording of an interview between Sun Ra and composer, sound and intermedia artist and Fluxus associate Charlie Morrow recorded at his New York studio in 1989. This outstanding voice-only recording develops more like a kaleidoscopic sermon than any standard interview.
Strata - Italian Art since 2000 – The Words of the Artists
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Lenz Press
An interdisciplinary perspective upon Italian visual culture through the words of 37 artists active from 2000 to today.
Raphaela Vogel - Outside Form
2023
English edition
Floating Opera Press
In this interview, Marie-France Rafael and the artist Raphaela Vogel probe the perennial question of form, asking: What is the relationship between form and time? In their conversation, Rafael and Vogel contemplate the potential of putting artistic mediums in dialogue with one another, proffering a new vision of what form can achieve.
Carmelo Bene - L\'esthétique du déplaisir
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
Two interviews in which Carmelo Bene exposes his working method and his ideas on television, and opens a reflection on the links between artistic avant-gardism and mass diffusion.
Abbas Zahedi - “ ”
2023
English edition
Nero
A conversation between Eva Wilson and the 2022 Frieze Artist Award Abbas Zahedi, around the core concepts of "translation and transplantation".
Philippe Robert - Guitare Conversation
2023
French edition
Lenka lente
In a long conversation about the guitar(s), Philippe Robert and Noël Akchoté sift through the history of the instrument and its practice, from the Renaissance lute to the 12-string, from the Stratocaster to the tabletop guitar surrounded by utensils and effects, from the blues to free improvisation.
Joan Mitchell - By her Friends
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An intimate portrait of Joan Mitchell, one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with the artists, art historians and personalities closest to her, from Paul Auster to Zuka.
Dan Graham - Some Rockin\' - Dan Graham Interviews
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A collection of Dan Graham's interviews and conversations with a wide array of individuals from various backgrounds and disciplines.
Joel Meyerowitz - The Pleasure of Seeing - Conversations with Joel Meyerowitz on sixty years in the life of photography
2023
English edition
Damiani - Photography
65.00 59.00 €
The oral and visual autobiography of one of American photography’s most legendary figures.
Jeph Jerman - Listen - Jeph Jerman in conversation with Aram Yardumian
2023
English edition
Errant Bodies
A sketch history of the 1980s American home-taping and electronic music scene through the career of sound artist, field recordist, percussionist, and visual artist Jeph Jerman.
Anne Mœglin-Delcroix - Ten Artists\' Book Publishers in Their Own Words (1960-1980) - Volume II (English)
2023
English edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
Interviews with a group of pioneering artists' book publishers: Simon Cutts, Hansjörg Mayer, and Leif Eriksson.
Anne Mœglin-Delcroix - Ten Artists\' Book Publishers in Their Own Words (1960-1980) (2 volumes)
2023
texts in English and French
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
45.00 40.00 €
Interviews with ten pioneering artists' book publishers: Simon Cutts, herman de vries, Michel Durand-Dessert, Leif Eriksson, Guy Jungblut, Yvon Lambert, Irmeline Lebeer-Hossmann, Hansjörg Mayer, Maurizio Nannucci, Maurizio Spatola.
Anne Mœglin-Delcroix - Dix éditeurs de livres d\'artistes par eux-mêmes (1960-1980) - Volume I (French)
2023
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
Interviews with a group of pioneering artists' book publishers: herman de vries, Michel Durand-Dessert, Guy Jungblut, Yvon Lambert, Irmeline Lebeer-Hossmann, Maurizio Nannucci, Maurizio Spatola.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - Ever Gaia
2023
English edition
ISOLARII
currently out of stock
The most accessible introduction to the life and work of James Lovelock (1919-2022), and a guide to address today's "polycrisis."
Joan Mitchell - Témoignages et confidences
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An intimate portrait of Joan Mitchell, one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with the artists, art historians and personalities closest to her, from Paul Auster to Zuka.
Émile Naoumoff - Rencontre avec Émile Naoumoff - Entretien avec Nathalie Guilbaud (DVD)
2022
French edition (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions
A filmed interview with the pianist, composer and teacher Émile Naoumoff, conducted by Nathalie Guilbaud, with a booklet gathering the testimonies of some of his former students.
Claude Closky - Entretien sur l\'art
2022
French edition
various
This text is the script of a performance by Claude Closky, which took place in February 2022 at the Pernod Ricard Foundation. Invited by Jill Gasparina to an Interview on Art, Claude Closky twisted the exercise by writing a text-partition, based partially on interviews given by the artist since the 1990s.
François Piron - Ce que Sylvère Lotringer n\'écrivait pas
2022
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A book of interviews with Sylvère Lotringer.
Fateh Moudarres - Hiwar - Sense and Intuition
2022
English edition
Kaph Books
A conversation between acclaimed Syrian artist Fateh Moudaress (1922-1999) and Arab poet Adonis, finally translated from Arabic to English, with 30 never seen before paintings and drawings by Fateh Moudaress.
 Baptiste Brévart & Guillaume Ettlinger -
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Digressions (interviews)
Baptiste Brévart and Guillaume Ettlinger discuss with Julie Sicault Maillé their artistic practice as a duo.
Jean-Pierre Turmel - The Last Slogan
2022
English edition
Timeless
currently out of stock
Personal correspondence between Genesis P-Orridge and Jean-Pierre Turmel over a fifteen-year period.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - Archipelago
2021
English edition
ISOLARII
15 years of conversations between Caribbean philosopher Édouard Glissant and his friend Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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