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Anne-James Chaton - I have the solution for the planet
2022
texts in English and French
Daisy editions
The first publication dedicated to the visual work of writer and performer Anne-James Chaton.
Omar Kholeif -
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
The first comprehensive monograph of the art and life of Iranian American artist of Armenian descent Sonia Balassanian: in this deeply personal portrait, author Dr. Omar Kholeif weaves together poetry, memoir, and historical anecdote to trace the contours of Balassanian's world.
Giorgio Peghin - Voyages en Sardaigne - Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Voyages en Sardaigne
Voyages en Sardaigne (Travels in Sardinia) is a collection of unconventional thematic guides on the island in the middle of the Mediterranean. This first part proposes an itinerary through the mining landscapes of Sulcis-Iglesiente, exploring soil, excavations, incisions, mutations, transpositions and silence of this territory marked by an industrial history.
Manuel Raeder - Agenda 2023
2022
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The BOM DIA weekly planner for 2023, offering a different font designed by Studio Manuel Raeder for each month.
Henry Roy - Ibiza Memories
2022
English edition
Nieves
A 30-year archive of images from Franco-Haitian artist photographer Henry Roy's many trips to the island of Ibiza.
David Bihanic - Matrices
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Athom
Faced with the ecological peril, what can design and archarchitecture itecture do but encourage and accompany modes and ways of living that maintain a renewed relationship with nature? Based on realizations and projects, Matali Crasset and David Bihanic share the writing of this book, seeking together, between testimony and analysis, to characterize a design of matrices.
Karel Teige - The Marketplace of Art / Commentary (2 volumes)
2022
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The first English translation of Karel Teige's The Marketplace of Art in two volumes includes a critical introduction, inquiries, and extensive commentaries. Originally published in the Czech language in 1936, The Marketplace of Art is the summation of Teige's artistic, political, and theoretical work.
Loren Connors - Night of Rain
2022
English edition
Recital
sold out
An art book by musician and artist Loren Connors, exploring his pictural practice.
Audrey Muratet - Flore des friches urbaines
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A new and expanded edition of the reference flora, the result of 20 years of studies and floristic surveys on a multitude of urban wastelands, allowing, through 600 photographs and 800 original drawings, to recognize and name some 300 silent plants that we come across every day: a methodical herbarium of the wastelands which constitutes a true guide to biodiversity, beautiful and playful, accessible and rigorous..
Matthias Uhlmann - Die Nudistenfilme des Schweizers Werner Kunz
2022
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The naturist films of the Swiss director Werner Kunz (1926-2018), pioneer of sexual liberation in cinema.
Holding Pattern
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Kunstnernes Hus Director and former Wire editor Anne Hilde Neset to award-winning novelist Tom McCarthy, invited to unpack, via contemporary art, the themes dealt with in his books.
Mousse
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Ayo Akingbade, Dora Budor, Ignacio Gatica, Caspar Heinemann, Simon Lehner, David Moser, Fujiko Nakaya, Selma Selman, Francisco Tropa, Travis Jeppesen, Cally Spooner...
Éric Baudelaire - Make, Do, With - Films and exhbitions, 2011-2022
2022
English edition
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
A new monograph devoted to Éric Baudelaire's work and collaborative method, tracing the connection between his films and his curatorial projects.
David Douard - U Killed me First (Melody)
2022
English edition
various
Publication constituting a continuation of Melody, the installation created by David Douard for Sculpture Garden, acquired by the city of Geneva, and which was subsequently vandalized.
Anne-Valérie Gasc - Machines Aveugles
2022
French edition
Athom
This edition, at the crossroads of the exhibition catalogue and the critical essay, abundantly illustrated, gathers the contributions of about fifteen invited authors around Anne-Valérie Gasc's experiments on the architectural disappearance.
 General Idea - Ecce Homo
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The General Idea drawings.
Jim O\'Rourke - Immanent in Nervous Activity (vinyl LP)
2022
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
Riding the razor's edge between bristling electroacoustic wizardry and the constrained structures and harmonic interplay of musical minimalism, "Immanent in Nervous Activity" is Die Schachtel's new release from the creative partnership of Giovanni Di Domenico and Jim O'Rourke, joining the conversant vision of two of the most striking voices within the field of contemporary sound.
Vanessa Safavi - Alien Armpit
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Alien Armpit brings together short texts and images that the artist Vanessa Safavi made between 2013 and 2022.
Pietro Roccasalva - Chi è che ride
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This new monograph aims to highlight the fundamental areas of Pietro Roccasalva's production through fifty works from the late 1990s up to the present day, including new and unpublished works from the artist's studio as well as public and private collections. 
C4 - Nazgol Ansarinia, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Invernomuto, Diamond Stingily
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The outcome of an examination of the collection of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, and thus the history of the Museum, by four different contemporary artists.
As you go… roads under your feet, towards the new future
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
As you go… roads under your feet, towards the new future is a long-term project and research inquiry that reflects on the Belt and Road Initiative and how it will alter the aesthetics and practices of everyday life in different local contexts.
 A Kassen - Dimensions Variable
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Over 15 years of subversive installation art from a Copenhagen-based collective.
Julien Audebert -
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of the French mixed media artist's work, engaged with historical and found imagery.
Wesley Brown - Blue in Green
2022
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
Wesley Brown narrates the day when trumpeter Miles Davis was assaulted by the New York Police Department. A dramatic and humorous story, told from multiple perspectives including that of Frances Taylor, Davis's wife, and the musicians in Davis's bands: a timely meditation on the psychological impact of police brutality, through the lens of a day in the life of Miles Davis.
Vika Kirchenbauer - Works, Scripts, Essays 2012-2022
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Conceived as a monographic reader, theis publication compiles for the first time an extensive, decade-spanning collection of Kirchenbauer's seminal and profoundly perceptive essays, the scripts of her widely celebrated moving image works in conjunction with selected video stills, as well as exhibition views.
Tarik Kiswanson - Nest
2022
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A multimedia meditation on time, memory and cultural identity.
Robert Milin - Le Jardin aux habitant·es
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books
Publication dedicated to the Jardin aux habitant·es, a work by the artist Robert Milin produced in collaboration with volunteers for the opening of the Palais de Tokyo, a community garden that brings together, since 2002, amateur gardeners, who are members of an association.
Luísa Mota - The Artistic Practice of Luísa Mota
2022
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Retrospective monograph.
Cinzia Ruggeri - Cinzia Says...
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The widest and most complete overview of Cinzia Ruggeri's career to date.
Ran Slavin - Shapeshifter
2022
bilingual edition (English / Hebrew)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first comprehensive publication documenting Israeli artist and experimental cinematographer Ran Slavin's work.
BODIED
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
BODIED unites an internationally diverse group of artists who, in positioning the body at the centre of their work, explore how our physical forms are shaped by the social worlds around us.
Carolyn Lazard - Hintertür
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
Monograph based on Carolyn Lazard's eponymous video installation drawing from the sensorial legacy of flicker films.
Lucien Pelen - Monte et descend
2022
French edition
Empire - Books
sold out
The result of a remarkable editorial work whose graphic design is signed by Syndicat and Lucien Pelen, this first monograph brings together fifteen years of photographic and video production, unpublished contributions, texts and the making-of of the actions carried out by the artist.
Amelia Cuni - Mumbai 04.02.1996 (2 vinyl LP)
2022
Black Truffle
Black Truffle continues its documentation of the work of Berlin-based Italian singer Amelia Cuni, one of the great contemporary exponents of dhrupad, the oldest surviving style of North Indian classical vocal music.
Marc Décimo - Étant donné Marcel Duchamp - Palimpseste d\'une œuvre
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An erudite investigation into the enigma of Marcel Duchamp's great testamentary work Étant donnés, an installation conceived for twenty years in the greatest secrecy before being unveiled to the public a year after the death of the inventor of the readymade, which gives the viewer new keys to interpretation, by examining both what the work concludes and what it opens.
Alice Rawsthorn - Design as an Attitude
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Acclaimed author Alice Rawsthorn has revised her bestselling field guide to design in the wake of the pandemic, technological change, and the escalating climate emergency.
Yves Netzhammer - Convex Thoughts - 293 Digital Drawings
2022
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
293 new digital drawings by the Swiss artist.
Nina Canell - Shell Reader
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
Nina Canell's artistic practice does not revolve around the finished artwork; instead, it foregrounds process and synergy. This artist's book/catalogue is based on an experiential installation that considers the material vitality of calcite.
Margherita Morgantin - Cosmic Silence 5, Fluorescence 4 (vinyl LP)
2022
Xing
currently out of stock
A dialogue between the visual artist Margherita Morgantin and two musicians and sound makers.
Jeff Parker - Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy (vinyl LP)
2022
Aguirre Records
2 LPs of long-form, lyrical, groove-based free improv by acclaimed guitarist and composer Jeff Parker and his ETA IVtet.
Ettore Sottsass - Architettura Attenuata
2022
no text
Nieves
A series of drawings by the iconic Italian designer.
Tony Buck - SPILL - Mycelium (vinyl LP)
2022
Corvo Records
currently out of stock
Since 2002, Berlin based musicians Tony Buck and Magda Mayas have been developing their duo music as SPILL, recording, touring and occasionally collaborating with international guests. Having spent the last 20 years establishing their unique approach to the piano and percussion combination, SPILL celebrates this milestone with the release of their 5th album Mycelium.
Seloua Luste Boulbina - Alger-Tokyo - Des émissaires de l\'anticolonialisme en Asie
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Al Dante
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
A transversal vision of the affirmation of a global Afro-Asian South through the anti-colonial resistance and war diplomacy of Algerians in Asia and Japan, bringing together history, politics, political philosophy, and poetics.
Travailler, lutter, diffuser - Archives militantes du Centre Grisélidis Réal de documentation internationale sur la prostitution, Genève
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
(last copies available!)
The first publication on the archive created by the Swiss writer, painter, activist and prostitute Grisélidis Réal (1929-2005) since the 1970s, containing more than 10,000 documents that trace the international mobilizations for the rights of sex workers and their struggles against exclusion and stigmatization.
Life and Limbs - Annual Architecture and Design Series
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
Austrian artist and curator Anna-Sophie Berger here assembles a group of works, from Arakawa and Gins to Lyle Ashton Harris, that register the body as a habitat that can be imaginatively stretched, altered, modified, adorned, replicated or destroyed.
Espace art actuel - Flesh
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Aesthetics/Ethics of the Flesh.
Isabel Carvalho - Langages tissés
2022
trilingual edition (English / French / Portuguese)
various
An exploration of the work of the Portuguese artist Isabel Carvalho, between visual and writing practices, based on a project conducted around the history of the art center Le Lait, Albi.
Crys Cole - Other Meetings (vinyl LP)
2022
Black Truffle
A major addition to the body of carefully hewn solo work Crys Cole has released over the last decade, offering up two side-long suites of her radically intimate approach to sound.
Alix Eynaudi - Noa & Snow
2022
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An artist's edition based on the eponymous project of dancer and choreographer Alix Eynaudi, a choreographic social experiment between the everyday and the event, which makes performance, writing and audience participation coexist.
William Leavitt - Installations, Plays, Video - 1970-2018
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A retrospective overview of the work of a pioneer of Conceptual art in Los Angeles
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