search results for "the contemporary condition"
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
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.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The first scientific work to trace the history of female comic strip creators, for the (re)valorization of women's heritage.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Arsenicgalerie
currently out of stock
The first monograph on the Japanese artist of desire.
2024
English edition
Nero
currently out of stock
A collection of walking and writing exercises to put our perspective about self and what is other to self, as well as the relations between things, even beyond the human, into question.
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
A series of preparatory drawings for exhibitions by Michael E. Smith, collected over fifteen years.
2024
English edition
Nero
currently out of stock
The first attempt to map that ensemble of subcultures, popular narratives, and visual and auditory languages we now recognize as "internet aesthetics".
2024
Black Truffle
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A major archival release from legendary American composer and live electronics innovator Richard Teitelbaum, centred around his soundtrack for Suzan Pitt's cult 1978 animation Asparagus.
2024
Superior Viaduct
currently out of stock
Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78'17" is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. This first-time US edition reproduces the original gatefold sleeve with beautiful calligraphy by Zazeela and liner notes by Young and French musicologist Daniel Caux.
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The catalogue of the Japanese Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2024.
2024
Alga Marghen
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Some of the earliest works by American composer Phill Niblock, including three never before released pieces: "Index" (1969), "Tenor," and "Boston III" (both from 1972). Until now, it's been impossible to encounter Niblock's compositions from earlier than the 1960s, a reality thankfully rectified by the long overdue publication of this LP on Alga Marghen.
2024
English edition
Kaph Books
Accompanying Abdullah Al Saadi's eponymous solo exhibition at the National Pavilion UAE at the 60th International Venice Biennale, this publication invites an immersion into the artist's singularly subjective universe.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
A presentation of the fascinating architectural legacy of the Tokyo Olympic Games through two iconic buildings, the Yoyogi Olympic Gymnasium and the New National Stadium, highlighting the two world-renowned Japanese architects behind these projects: Kenzō Tange and Kengo Kuma.
2024
Sub Rosa
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New compositions (by Phill Niblock, Klaus Lang, Bernhard Lang, Milan Guštar, Judith Berkson, Idin Samimi Mofakham and Ian Mikyska) for the sixth-tone harmonium conceived by Czech composer and pioneer of microtonal music Alois Hába in the 1920s and '30s, performed by Miroslav Beinhauerr, currently the only player of this unique instrument in the world, who has single-handedly revived it after decades of slumber.
2024
Editions (Jason Kahn)
Three pieces spanning free improvisation, noise and extended saxophone technique with Ulrich Krieger, one of the masters of contemporary experimental music.
2024
English edition
Nero
A new poem composed by the legendary dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti.
2024
Editions (Jason Kahn)
Eight pieces of free vocal improvisation by the duo of Jason Kahn and Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, who have been working together since 2015.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cécile Fakhoury
The first monographic publication dedicated to Souleymane Keïta (1947-2014), a major figure in Senegalese art.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fama
This monographic essay explores Iris Clert, an unclassifiable and emblematic figure of the 1960s artistic avant-garde.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A philosophico-cinematographic journey through Fassbinder's filmic oeuvre, from the avant-garde daring of 1968 to the fallout of the leaden years ten years later.
2024
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Objet d'étude
A contemporary artistic reinterpretation of a vanished craft.
2024
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Extensive survey of the politically outward-looking Conceptualism emerging from Art & Language in the UK. Especially considering its critique of the norms of Modernist art practices in contemporary art, particularly practices of art education.
2024
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
The catalog for 2024 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, under the artistic direction of Ute Meta Bauer, featuring some one hundred artists of different generations: a testament of a unique moment within a changing Saudi Arabian cultural ecosystem.
2024
English edition
Diaphanes
Challenging dominant histories of the genre, this book focuses on translocal and transcultural connections, and seeks to generate, expand knowledge on different narrations of the beginnings of Performance Art.
2024
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art Volumes
The inaugural issue of Flash Art's yearly review dedicated to design at large and an in-depth analysis of market relevant issues, titled Anti Composition, provides an aesthetical upgrade at world scale sources and phenomena (featuring Michael E. Smith; Peter Fischli; Anne Imhof; Paride Maria Calvia; Armature Globale; Joshua Brinksman; Mishima House, Tokyo; Winter House, London; Hopkins House, London; Wolf D. Prix; Bruce Graham Residence, Chicago; Sci-Arc, Los Angeles; The Met, New York; Scad Museum Of Art, Savannah; Bottega Veneta...).
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
MUdec United, the publication of the MUDEC – Museo delle Culture di Milano, one of the Italian leading institutions, is a book-zine dedicated to interdisciplinary research on world cultures. The second issue questions the quintessential symbolic device of the museum machine: the showcase—a tool of preservation, mummification, and desire, with many stories to tell.
2024
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Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
This notebook from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna contains 192 blank pages for making your own notes.
2024
English edition
Artforum
Ghislaine Leung, Vaginal Davis, Joan Jonas, Vera Molnar, Vanessa Conte, Raven Chacon, Teruko Yokoi...
2024
French edition
Templon
Jean-Michel Alberola's series 1965-1966-1967 (Details), a group of drawings, engraving and oil on canvases.
2024
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
La Maréchalerie
Initiated by Tunisian artist, architect and scenographer Chedly Atallah, whose practice explores geopolitical changes in the Arab world through history, architecture and mythological narratives, Matar, Matar, Matar is an artistic investigation into the time of representation and memory, with water as a metaphor for remembrance.
2024
French edition
MER. Books
Catalogue.
2024
English edition
Nero
An island photographic wandering (a series of photographs taken on a small island in the Aegean Sea, Kastelorizo, focusing on its hollow spaces and silent atmospheres).
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An overview of the career of Amerindian composer and artist Raven Chacon.
2024
French edition
various
An interdisciplinary investigation by French-Bulgarian visual artist Iglika Christova, an explorer of the microcosm, into the relationship between the mechanisms of the living world and drawing.
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
In the first monograph on the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine, political theorist and somatic practitioner Anita Chari explores the artist's theoretical and political innovations to illuminate a more haptic, embodied approach to the practice of critical theory.
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
The result of a collaboration in the fields of architecture and photography, Glasraum explores the deliberate ambiguities embedded in a seemingly aloof approach to the construction of both space and image.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
A comprehensive overview of Makiko Furuichi's work, focusing on her special installation for the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Les Sables-d'Olonne.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
This critical biography guides readers through artist Magda Stawarska's practice via a series of journeys—from the streets of Istanbul to the canals of Venice and across the waters of Zanzibar.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Visual Cultures as…
How does the world—and the world of visual culture in particular—creates itself in a creative act that knows no economic return.
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
New monograph.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Templon
Known for his braided canvases, French artist François Rouan presents his latest "photographic-tableaux", a group of forty previously unseen pieces.
2024
English edition
X Artists' Books
An artist's edition by Miljohn Ruperto comprising three flipbooks and an accordion-fold booklet, that examines different forms of time.
2024
Hands in the Dark / Fragments Editions
25.00 19.00 €
Berlin-based, Italian-born sound artist Andrea Taeggi introduces his debut release on Hands in the Dark records, an album showcasing six mesmerizing and rhythmically intricate electronic compositions.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This book on the films of Anton Vidokle features essays and conversations by theorists, curators, and artists exploring the themes of technological immortality and resurrection informed by Cosmist philosophy.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Octopus notes
Daisy editions
The eleventh issue of the journal-collection that brings together academic writings, interviews with artists, critical essays and artists' interventions in the form of inserts: Jeffrey Perkins, Sophie Lapalu, Billy Sullivan, Liz Magor, Moyra Davey, Zoe Beloff, Paul Thek, a long previously unpublished conversation between Paul McCarthy and Sabrina Tarasoff...
2024
French edition
OpticalSound
Optical Sound
Interviews with Michel Dector et Jean-Baptiste Farkas, Alice Dourlen, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jim O'Rourke, Steven Stapleton, Andrea Laszlo De Simone; Johanna Went and Dame Darcy by Nicolas Ballet; Mickael Vis; Yûichi Yokoyama; SMITH; Marcel Broodthaers; Current 93; IKHÉA©SERVICES; Alan Dunn; Oskar Schlemmer; Blaine L. Reininger; Martin Le Chevallier; Ludovic Chemarin©...
2024
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
ToiletAlex PaperPrager is the new edition of Toilet Paper magazine, born from a collaboration with american artist Alex Prager: a vibrant dialogue between visionary minds, where the ironic style of Toilet Paper meets the dark humor of Alex Prager, a parade of familiar yet strange images, suggesting a timeless world placed somewhere between dream and reality.
2024
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
currently out of stock
Inter 143 invites you to explore Mad art, Crip art, disabled art, deaf art, raw art, edible art, situated art and inclusive art: all ways of perceiving, thinking and creating by people with different abilities (physical, intellectual, cognitive, mental, sensory, learning, language and communication skills) or functional diversity.
2024
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
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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.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
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Inspired by how rivers bend and curve connecting ecosystems, Meandering is a case study for community-oriented artistic research into the cultural, spiritual, and ecological trajectories of waterways.
2024
Sub Rosa
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Released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series, this LP reveals the extraordinary diversity of research—almost all hidden—by Spanish musicians in the '50s and '60s.