Art & animality

Elisa Caldana's The Falcon of Karachi investigates stories of the laggar falcon, a species endemic to Pakistan, India, and Myanmar that is slowly disappearing in the wild.

The new and definitive edition of Vilém Flusser's fabulous treatise, based on the original French typescripts.

Marion Laval-Jeantet's research into therapeutic care continues her work with Benoît Mangin under the name of Object-Oriented Art on microbiota, at the crossroads of scientific art, biology, anthropology, psychology and ethology.

First monograph.

The indispensable equine calendar by Nils Bertho, illustrator allergic to horses.

A book spanning Cosima von Bonin's work of the last decade, and a personal journey into her private world and references.

Over 200 drawings and paintings to explore the visionary, obsessive, and hypnotic qualities of Jacopo Pagin's work.

The long running vessel for Cameron Stallones' psychedelic excursions, Sun Araw, returns to Discrepant, using hydrophones and digital synthesis.

What art owes to birds.

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.

10 years of stolen iPhone photos of dogs. We follow the author's life and peregrinations, the constancy of a singular passion and the evolution of phones, all with images that are still modest, but constitute a substantial sum—1000 images in 384 flip book pages, with the Instragram scroll effect.

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.

This book takes the domestic dog as an affective standard, a practical horizon and an index of a moral economy specific to the capitalocene.

CURA. turns 15 and celebrates this important milestone with We Monsters, a special "horror" issue dedicated to the exploration of the revolutionary role of monsters in modern civilization, and contemporary art.

A new poem composed by the legendary dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti.

The glass as a listening device.

An extensive compilation of Abraham Cruzvillegas' drawings of apes, which he has been producing since the early beginning of his career starting in 1985 (artist's book / leporello).

Wall assemblages and totemic bronze and resin sculptures made during the pandemic by Houston-based sculptor Joseph Havel with the help of his pet parrot Hannah.

Monograph devoted to Yaron Michael Hakim's Psittaciformes body of work, drawing inspiration from the migratory nature of parrots and their ability to assimilate. Through bold paintings on used Dacron sailcloth, Hakim uses this subject matter to explore his own relationship with assimilation, living between cultures, and the exoticization of his heritage.

A realisation of a 20 years-long conversation, with results that articulate Toop's long held sound vision (here executed with his own voice, electric and lapsteel guitars, whistling, percussion, flutes and electronics) around English's stunning recordings of various insects, birds and exotic animals.

A long-distance correspondence reflecting on the infravoice of a blue whale and other so-called “silent” subjects.

New monograph, focused on the last years of work of the duo around the animal, landscape and ecological issues that cross it.

A monumental monograph tracing ten years of the French sculptor's practice over some 500 pages, with an interview and five essays.

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.

The indispensable equine bible by Nils Bertho, illustrator allergic to horses, is back for a third (and final?) edition.

A new revised version of the notebook of the legendary American dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti in which she shares her poetry as well as her thoughts on dance, the body, writing, the state of the world.

A "small portable zoology": a book combining 50 animal poems by Christian Bernard and 50 collages by Hippolyte Hentgen.

The first release to document the variety and playfulness of the concerts that Arnold Dreyblatt and Paul Panhuysen's Duo Geloso performed throughout Europe in 1987-88.

Through a ready-made exhibition of works made by animals, the poet Julien Blaine offers a vision as comical as it is tragic of the art world, while trying to "establish a communication between the lost world and the contemporary world."

The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, the first major retrospective in France on the filmmaker and biologist specializing in underwater fauna Jean Painlevé (1902-1989), considered one of the founding fathers of scientific cinema and a source of inspiration for the avant-gardes and the surrealist movement.

Very cheap non-human animal imitations amicably mimics the wonderful presentations of songs from birds and other protagonists of the animal world, made available by the ornithologist and publisher Jean-Claude Roché in the 1980s.

Both a cinematographic work diary, a travel diary and a private diary, Climatic Species is made up of multiple stories where each thread unfurls at its own rhythm.

This small volume features drawings created by by the famous Swiss illustrator for Basler Rabattmarke BKG Liga.

This monograph surveys the first decade of the legendary Korean artist's career from 1987 to 1998.

Le Zoo vidé ("The Emptied Zoo") is an artist's project about large land mammals that Agnès Rosse went to visit in zoos, in their natural environment and at the National Museum of Natural History: a protean set of texts, videos, drawings, paintings and objects made in various places between 2009 and 2018.

This publication assembles three phases of Termite Economies, a major series of artworks produced between 2018 and 2020 by the Australian artist Nicholas Mangan.

Modern Animal, a sort of anti-autofiction, knots together humans and animals, retelling interviews, folktales, memories, and visions of the people—bourgeois, urban, rural, Roma, working class—encountered on a multiyear journey through Ukraine.

Télescope intérieur narrates the creation of Inner telescope, an artwork by Eduardo Kac, realized aboard the International Space Station.

From the observation of a society of capuchin monkeys and thought experiments borrowed from theater, Zaven Paré, artist and researcher in interaction design, specialist in theater and robotics, attempts to dismantle the pitfalls of anthropomorphization, in an attention that seeks to preserve the irreducible character of an interspecific copresence.

The Louvre invites itself to Reunion Island: a dialogue between the collections of the island's five museums and those of the Department of Graphic Arts.

Five rare pieces from the minimalist "rhythmic drone" period of the early 1980s of the ensemble founded by Paul Panhuysen, Remko Scha and Jan van Riet, reissued for the first time.

Conceived in close collaboration with Shimabuku, this new publication tells of the poetic actions conducted during his travels, between his native Japan and Monaco via Brazil, Australia, and many other lands (with texts by the artist, Nicolas Bourriaud, Claire Le Restif and Rirkrit Tiravanija).

Michele Sibiloni photographs the harvest of bush crickets in Uganda, between local traditions and questions about a global future.

A reference book containing all the transcripts of Simone Forti's News Animations.

A new interpretation of the explosive frog breeding phenomenon.

A retrospective of Anne Van der Linden's paintings and drawings from 2015 to 2020.

The General's Stork explores historical accounts of biblical prophecies, colonial narratives, and the politics of technological warfare in the Middle East from a bird's eye view.