Art & science

 
 
Bernar Venet - 1961-1963 - L\'immanence mise en chantier
2002
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
39.00 15.00 €
Monograph on the conceptual artist' early works.
 Panamarenko - Modèle jouet de l\'Espace - Limited edition
2000
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Unpublished text, signed original collage, unique for each copy
Bernar Venet - Apoétiques - 1967-1998
1999
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' writings
Venet's writings.
Claude Bellegarde - Blancheur de la couleur - Limited edition
1997
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Unpublished text. Original and unique painting for each copy.
Guy Sioui Durand - L\'art comme alternative - Réseaux et pratiques d\'art parallèle au Québec – 1976-1996
1997
French edition
Intervention - Theory
A sociological analysis of the history of alternative art in Quebec.
Richard Nonas - Get out/Stay away/Come back - A propos de sculpture et de la sculpture en œuvre
1995
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
24.00 12.00 €
Artist's writings.
 Takis - Les Fleurs poussent si on les regarde - Limited edition
1993
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Unpublished text with an original silkscreen print signed by the artist.
Hans Haacke - Libre-échange
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
15.20 8.00 €
A conversation between the sociologist and the artist: a sociology of art at the service of a political project.
Paul-Armand Gette - Textes très peu choisis - Ecrits de 1964 à 1988
1989
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
21.00 10.00 €
Collection of texts.
Nicolas Schöffer -
1963
English edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
The legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record.
Nicolas Schöffer - Limited edition
1963
Editions du Griffon - Multiples & limited editions
currently out of stock
Limited edition of the legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record, and with an original lithograph, dated, numbered and signed.
Alain Séchas - Naked
Jannink - Naked (prints)
Silkscreen (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).
Vibeke Mascini - Silent Whale Letters - A Long-Distance Correspondence, on All Frequencies
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
A long-distance correspondence reflecting on the infravoice of a blue whale and other so-called “silent” subjects.
Keep it Flat - A little history on flat earth
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
sold out
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.
Objective: Earth - Designing our Planet
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
sold out
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.
Thus Waves Come in Pairs - Thinking with the Mediterraneans
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
By taking a conversation between Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal as a point of departure and inspiration, this publication intends to collect interdisciplinary reflections around/about the Mediterraneans through art, oceanic thinking, science, and activism.
Ramon Amaro - The Black Technical Object - On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Antipolitical
sold out
A contemplation on the abstruse nature of machine learning, mathematics, and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy.
Salomé Lamas - Gaia (book + vinyl LP)
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A multi-format (a vinyl record, a publication and an installation) and multidisciplinary project with an approach between science, technology and the arts, in dialogue with contemporary thinkers. The vinyl LP gathers a set of sound pieces made by twelve musicians with whom Lamas collaborated.
The Palliative Turn Number 1
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
sold out
Dedicated to the activities of the Association for the Palliative Turn (APT), The Palliative Turn Number 1 proposes a fundamental shift in our attitude towards art and culture, informed by the practices of palliative medicine and care.
Andrey Tarkovsky - Solaris - Sound and Vision (book + vinyl LP + CD)
2021
English edition
Song Cycle Records
sold out
Collector's edition box set including the soundtrack realised by the great Russian composer Edward Artemiev for the Andrey Tarkovsky's masterpiece film Solaris (1972). The box comes with the remastered soundtrack in the vinyl and CD formats, and an exclusive luxurious photo book with unreleased images of the movie set and essays about music and cinema of the duo Artemiev/Tarkovsky.
Nicky Assman - The Reconfigured Nature
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
sold out
Set alongside guest contributions, this catalogue offers, from the works of the two Dutch artists Nicky Assmann and Jan Robert Leegte, a fresh take on the fundamental concept of nature, in an age when science and technology are capable of replicating its phenomena.
Andrey Tarkovsky - Solaris - Sound and Vision (book + CD box set)
2020
English edition
Song Cycle Records
sold out
The soundtrack realised by the great Russian composer Edward Artemiev for the Andrey Tarkovsky's masterpiece film Solaris (1972). The box comes with the soundtrack on CD, and an exclusive luxurious photo book with unreleased images of the movie set and essays about music and cinema of the duo Artemiev/Tarkovsky.
Tomás Saraceno - Palais - On air
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
sold out
On the occasion of his carte blanche at the Palais de Tokyo (from 17 October 2018 to 6 January 2019), the artist Tomás Saraceno is the guest editor-in-chief of issue 28 of the magazine Palais.
Samuel Étienne - Bricolage Radical - Génie et  banalité des fanzines do-it-yourself
2018
French edition
Strandflat
sold out
A panorama of the world of do-it-yourself fanzines.
Will Sweeney - Vorpal Sword
2018
no text
Nieves
sold out
Will Sweeney's new graphic narrative is set in a retrofuturistic England ruled by a twisted elite who exploits a population inhabiting decadent urban centers. Monsters populate this strange world, and humanity's last chance lies in the power of the Vorpal Sword—a metaphysical blade of vital creative energy…
Andrey Tarkovsky - Solaris - Sound and Vision (book + vinyl LP + CD + DVD Blu-ray book box set)
2018
English edition
Song Cycle Records
sold out
Collector's edition box set including the soundtrack realised by the great Russian composer Edward Artemiev for the Andrey Tarkovsky's masterpiece film Solaris (1972). The box comes with the soundtrack in the vinyl and CD formats, an exclusive luxurious photo book with unreleased images of the movie set and essays about music and cinema of the duo Artemiev/Tarkovsky, and the Blu-ray version of the film, in original language with English subtitles.
Tomás Saraceno - Arachnid Orchestra - Jam Sessions (+ CD)
2018
English edition
various
sold out
This catalogue is conceived as a continuation and circulation of Saraceno's eponymous sound project: The artist uses spider webs as musical instruments embodying the incredible structural properties of the spider's silk, but also the spider's sophisticated mode of communication through vibrations. Saraceno recorded jam sessions between arachnids and musicians, included in this publication, as well as documentation, essays, and a manifesto.
Valérie Pihet - Le chemin des possibles - La maladie de Huntington entre les mains de ses usagers
2017
French edition
Dingdingdong
sold out
A three-year survey with patients, families, caregivers and associations who fight off the Huntington's disease using the tools and lessons stemming from the arts and humanities.
Olafur Eliasson - Green light - An artistic workshop
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This publication documents Eliasson's Green light project —an artistic workshop for refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and NGOs, whose goal is to fabricate lamps for fundraising education. It provides testimonies, stories, and memories by Green light participants, founders, and organizers, as well as essays by art historians and theorists.
Hercule Florence - Le Nouveau Robinson
2017
French edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
sold out
Through a series of scientific contributions and archives, this publication recounts the extraordinary character that was Hercule Florence—an explorer, an inventor and an artist, considered one of the inventors of photography.
Félicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand (2 vinyl LP)
2017
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
Atkinson's most ambitious musical work to date, Hand In Hand combines 80's sci-fi anxious aethetics with today's transparency of digital sounds. Placing the voice at the epicenter of the recording, the French artist and musician convokes fiction, composition and abstraction in the manner of Joan La Barbara, Robert Ashley, or Delia Derbyshire.
Carsten Höller - Doubt
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Belgian artist Carsten Höller has risen to the fore of the international scene with a practice that revolves around the search for new ways of inhabiting our world. This catalogue features 20 large-scale works––installations, videos, and photographs that play with optics and space.
George Brecht - This is the Cover of the Book
2017
English edition
IF Publications
sold out
In his “Book” George Brecht describes the specific nature of each single page, in a gesture that renders the printed matter a tautological object.
Radionics Radio - An Album Of Musical Radionic Thought-Frequencies (CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
sold out
Daniel Wilson's Radionics Radio project draws upon the fringe-science of “radionics”, with its invisible forces and psychic resonances, to spawn electroacoustic and electronic compositions employing very alternative tuning systems.
Tony Oursler - Imponderable - The Archives of Tony Oursler
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
The artist's own archive of phantasmagoria: a unique collection of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, occultism, pseudoscience, technology as well as their cultural and media portrayals (new edition).
Agnes Denes - Work - 1969-2013
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The reference monograph on the work of artist Agnes Denes, this profusely illustrated book aslo gathers an extensive selection of the artist's texts and manifestos.
Stéphane Thidet - From Walden To Space (vinyl LP – Picture Disc)
2015
Optical Sound
sold out
This project stages the collision between the book Walden or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1854) and the mission of Mercury Seven (1958) sending men to space. It is a polymorphic work, evoking the questions of autonomy, isolation, solitude, but also contemplation and enlarged perspectives through music and live performance with modular synthesizers.
 FibreTigre - Le Chant des Oubliés
2015
French edition
Franciscopolis
sold out
An interactive book where you are the hero, written by the game designer FibreTigre, edited by Fanette Mellier (a collector's item for graphic art lovers as well as for readers-players).
Ixiptla
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Ixiptla
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
This second edition of Ixiptla takes the form of a newspaper to broadcast the multiplicity of views and experiences connected to the complex history of the objects shown in the exhibition “Parergon” at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
Allegory of the Cave Painting
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A multidisciplinary examination of the Gwion Gwion cave paintings' “living pigments” which are generating new articulations between “art” and “life.”
Dieter Mersch - Epistemologies of Aesthetics
2015
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
sold out
A pioneering study in which professor of media theory Dieter Mersch paves the way for a methodology of aesthetics that would move beyond the “linguistic turn” to create a new scientific discourse that would create a better conceptual understanding of art-based research.
In the Holocene
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
In the Holocene is based on a 2012 group exhibition of the same name at the MIT List Visual Arts Center that explored art as a speculative science, investigating principles more commonly associated with scientific or mathematical thought.
Alberto García del Castillo - Retrospective
2014
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
Alberto García del Castillo's first novel is a comedy-science-fiction novelette about “faggotry” and the art world; depicting a retour-au-passé in contemporary painting and waving to some of the most beautiful homosexuals on Earth.
Art Production beyond the Art Market?
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Theoretical reflections and insights into alternative artistic working models.
Chloé Pirson - Art Orienté Objet - Marion Laval-Jeantet & Benoît Mangin
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
First extensive publication devoted to the French artists duo.
Edward Page Mitchell - L\'homme le plus doué du monde
2013
French edition
Franciscopolis
sold out
First translation into French of the short story by Edward Page Mitchell—a major figure in the early development of the science fiction genre—, written and published unattributed in the NY Sun in 1879.
Ulf Linde - De ou par Marcel Duchamp par Ulf Linde
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Ulf Linde summarizes his decades of investigation into the geometry of Duchamp's works.
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