Azimuts #54 reports on a selection of design research surveys that were carried out in Saint-Étienne between 2015 and 2022 by various researchers and collectives in collaboration with artists and academics in relation to this territory, their terrain.

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.

Julius Eastman's Four Pianos (1979-80), performed by Melaine Dalibert, Stephane Ginsburgh, Nicols Horvath and Wilhem Latchoumia.

A gallery of portraits of people listening to a work by Frédéric Acquaviva in progress, laid out like a flip book.

A pair of contemporary music giants re-release a long-lost 2003 live recording, previously available only as a CD-R.

Soundscapes, drones, disruptive aberrations, textures and perplexingly absorbing interactions between French guitarist, graphic and sound artist Xavier Mussat and saxophonist Quentin Rollet, performing live at Instants Chavires, in Montreuil, France, in 2020, for eight diverse and unusual improvisations.

A book of interviews with Sylvère Lotringer.

"Two Duos" is pressed from cellist Okkyung Lee's OTO Residency; the first side a duo with Jérôme Noetinger on Revox B77 and the second with Nadia Ratsimandresy on ondes Martenot. Cut together, the two meetings seem to raise three cellos in the search for expressive voice: the cello, it's magnetic reproduction, and the dual controls of the machine invented to expand on its musical qualities.

An journal of critical and political poetry: Leslie Kaplan, Rothenberg, arts and critical positions, an anthology of contemporary Central American poetry, a catalog of visual poetry, a dossier on the Brazilian concrete poetry group Noigandres, new translations of William Blake by Jean-Jacques Viton...

Afterall issue 52, entitled "New Politics", featuring: contextual essays by Natalia de la Rosa, Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, Pascal Gielen; Jonas Staal by Sven Lütticken, Jonas Staal by Kim West, Kapwani Kiwanga by Elvan Zabunyan, Aldo Tambellini by Hanna B. Hölling, Aldo Tambellini by Barrington Matthew, Feminist Art and Activism in South Korea by Hyeonjoo Kim...

Iannis Xenakis by Kasper T. Toeplitz; interviews with Delphine Dora, Paul Lovens, J.A. Seazer, Frédéric Blondy; Fred Van Hove by Gérard Rouy; carte blanche to Julie Hascoët; reading notes and about sixty albums reviews; contemporary Arabic poetry: Mina Nagy...

The third issue of the editorial discursive space for the Bergen Assembly triennial, conceived by Saâdane Afif, is dedicated to the manifold figure of the Bonimenteur, which is approached differently by the seven contributors.

At the invitation of Frédéric Paul, nine artists from both sides of the Atlantic cast an eye on the work of American abstract painter Shirley Jaffe (1923-2016).

The first official monograph project around Ramsès Younan (1913-1966), a major figure and member of the Egyptian surrealists group, this volume gathers an exhaustive catalogue of Younan's paintings, drawings and visual experimentations with an anthology of critical essays about and by the artist.

Destruction/reconstruction and contemporary art.

A study of the body of concrete poetry in the MAMCO collection.

First monograph.

First monograph.

A sort of anti-monograph in several episodes proposed by the artist Simon Nicaise around his project of Tour de France of trades and practices.

A hybrid edition (a vinyl record with a newspaper and an insert) extending the artist's research on the links between sound, architecture and the history of spiritism.

The complex architectures of the new “memory palaces”, from libraries, archives and museums to the IT structures, databases and server farms that feed the flow of data on the network.

The script of Peter Greenaway's latest film.

An anthology of the theoretical and critical texts on experimental cinema and moving images written by Yann Beauvais in parallel with his films and his activities as programmer and curator.

Catalogue.

Various approaches (historical, philosophical, psychoanalytical, but also artistic) on the experience of confinement, from incarceration to sanitary lockdown.

The purpose of this issue "Experts / Non Experts. Participative Knowledge Construction in Popular Music: Controversies and Historiography" is to offer a retrospective and critical reflection on popular music studies' initial vocation, to bring to light repertoires that are seldom studied and even sometimes discredited.

Contemporary poetry in Arabic: Lamis Saïdi; Pascale Criton; homage to Peter Rehberg by Jérôme Noetinger; Romain Perrot aka Vomir; Michel Doneda; Wuppertal festival / Peter Brötzmann; Yosuke Yamashita interviewed by Michel Henritzi; 45 album reviews...

The 2020 edition of the Tour de France was canceled before being eventually postponed. Tour is a series of 101 photographs shot by Louis Canadas on the race's official route, during this period of uncertainty. Words are from Fanny Taillandier.

An essay on the climate crisis by Erri De Luca.

Three pieces for speaking pianist by the American avant-garde musician, politically committed composer and virtuoso pianist Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021), performed by Stephane Ginsburgh (for whom two of the pieces were composed).

A collection of twelve octosyllabic sonnets to accompany us throughout the year. The rhythm of the verses directly echoes the passage of time, days, weeks, months.

Hannah Baer and Monica Huerta on the Year in Hell; best of 2021: a renowned group of critics, artists, and curators from around the world take stock of the year in art; "Illiberal Arts" by David Joselit; Anne Imhof by Caroline Busta; five celebrated cineastes select the top films of the year; five musicians and critics choose the year's outstanding titles...

Reference monograph on the work of one of Belgium's most discreet, yet most important, female artists.

A retrospective in images of the activities of the Compagnie Pitoiset in ten theatrical creations, with a long analysis by Daniel Loayza.

The third collaboration between Félicia Atkinson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma—their first album produced together in the same studio: an electroacoustic, poetic, fluid and sensitive dialogue between the two experimentalists.

A history of southern surrealism, between Monaco and Alexandria: a journey that defies established cartographies, far from the nationalistic landmarks of a European-centric history of modernity.

Belgian soprano Sarah Defrise dedicates her first new music album to the American mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian, featuring exclusively a capella pieces which were written for Berberian by some of the most prominent composers of her time.

A series of images of Villa Santo Sospir in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, the "Tattooed Villa" transformed into an artwork by Jean Cocteau, whose Brazilian photographer Mauro Restiffe reveals the hidden details during a residency.

The first issue of the new CNES Space Observatory reviex invites to discover the space universe from a human perspective through nearly 150 photos and graphic documents, analyzed by four researchers in human and social sciences.

45 low tables imagined by as many architects / designers from personal objects of fascination.

A territorial project but also a collective, musical, social and political experience of listening and exchange.

La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...

La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of MuMo (Musée Mobile), this fourth volume traces the journey of a new museum truck, designed in 2017 by designer Matali Crasset to circulate the works of the Fonds régionaux d'art contemporain (Frac) and the Cnap – Centre national des arts plastiques.

The third issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, around the topic of artificial intelligence (contributions by Keith Fullerton Whitman, Steve Goodman, Florian Hecker, Robin Mackay, Bill Orcutt, Akira Rabelais, Lucy Railton, Jean-Claude Risset, Sébastien Roux...).

The catalog of the international exhibition initiated at Les Abattoirs reveals a little-known story that was a milestone in 20th century psychiatry and its new links with art brut and modern art, taking as its starting point the career of the Catalan psychiatrist François Tosquelles (1912-1994).

A work for underwater performance that literally immerses the listener into an acoustical substance, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.

A work for underwater performance that literally immerses the listener into an acoustical substance, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.

Reference monograph of Georges Mathieu (1921-2012), a major figure of mid-20th century abstraction, founder of Lyrical Abstraction, inventor of performance art, pioneer of Action Painting, speed and risk, dripping, early inspirer of street art.

The second issue of the Cahiers du centre national du graphisme (National Graphic Design Center) is about typography (new edition).