search results for "the contemporary condition"
2024
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A hybrid between travel chronicle and studio process notebook, this artist book tracks the construction of a failed modernist fantasy in the island of La Palma and the hallucinogenic properties of wild plants that grow across the Canary Islands.
2024
English edition
Daisy editions
Photographer and filmmaker Manuel Wetscher brings together in an artist's book a unique archive of photographs by his father Richard Jenewein, discovered years after he died of AIDS. A universal family album documenting childhood, which questions the evocative power of an altered narrative and deals with the effects of a taboo and the poetic force of images.
2024
English edition
Bleu.
Script is the second book of artist J.J. Zana and a continuation of the series started with Cycles. Composed of fragments, it gathers eleven sections—with a central part telling about his experiments with drugs.
2024
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
The twelfth album by DAAU is the soundtrack to a series of short, abstract animation films by Rudy Trouvé, who also acted as a creative director during the recording process.
2024
Blank Forms - Records
currently out of stock
Two mesmerizing works for carillon, the keyboard-controlled bell tower derived in the 16th century.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
INA-GRM
currently out of stock
François Bayle's luxurious, monumental retrospective box set: 15 CDs covering half a century (1963-2012) of acousmatic creation, accompanied by a 160-page book with various texts, a 2012 interview with Thomas Baumgartner, presentation and annotated catalog of works by Régis Renouard Larivière, and photographs.
2024
Hands in the Dark / Fragments Editions
sold out
The debut, self-titled album from German trio Schatterau: 15 elegant miniature pieces made with an old 4-track cassette recorder, offering a lo-fi walk through a patchwork of warm, nostalgic, dreamlike and strangely familiar soundscapes.
2024
Alga Marghen
Two previously unreleased collages for magnetic tape, both realized at the Studio di Fonologia Muisicale RAI in Milan. These pieces are precious testimonials to Aldo Clementi's intense and ongoing interest in electronic music in the 1960s.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A record of a symposium on the legacy of the late Luxembourgish artist Michel Majerus (1967-2002).
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A collectible publication on Magali Reus' thinking of objecthood (an immersive and highly refined artist's book—three assembled volumes, different types of paper, transparency play on layers—based on three new series by the Dutch artist).
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The publication Alexander Tovborg: The Church. Photographed by Mishael Fapohunda, edited and designed by Åbäke, follows the artist's eponymous exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023), in which Tovborg investigated the mysteries and paradoxes of faith, as well as the power of images.
2024
Nero
An archive of sounds for interspecies communication, stemming from Renato Leotta's research on Posidonia Oceanica, an underwater plant endemic to the Mediterranean Sea.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A genuine investigation, in the opposite direction to the narrative imposed by art historians, of artistic, cultural and political developments in the Western world after the Second World War, between Paris and New York.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 37 of Palais de Tokyo magazine addresses the relationships between mental health, contemporary creation, and art and culture venues, in particular through the prism of institutional psychotherapy, a set of practices aimed at disalienating institutions—initially psychiatric ones.
2024
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Lenz Press
Curator, art historian, writer Chus Martínez and writer and curator Filipa Ramos bring together a group of artists who have been using clay, pottery and ceramics to imagine, project and shape the world they live in.
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
After Laughter Comes Tears, in its exhibition and book forms, brings together artists from different generations who are experimenting with the idea of the performative.
2024
English edition
Artforum
Gilles Aillaud, Andy Robert, Marisol, Ellen Gallagher, Giovanni Anselmo, Marjorie Welish...
2024
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Anna Oppermann, Benoît Piéron, Maria Toumazou, Coumba Samba, Kiyan Williams, Ali Eyal, Samuel R. Delany, Maryanne Amacher, Roe Ethridge, Aleksandra Kasuba...
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
With the theme "Building," this issue is interested in the future of architecture as a practice of creating housing for the living within urban agglomerations. It questions the ways architecture, as the creation of living spaces, always requires collaboration with several participants including, hopefully, the users.
2024
French edition
Luvah
The transdisciplinary journal continues its return around the theme of the chanson.
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A kino-political theory of the 21st century.
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
An immersive book experience: with numerous special printing features, this luxurious accordion-fold volume documents and embodies Aitken's exploration of mirrored surfaces in architecture.
2024
Xing
FasFari is composed of short vocal emissions that deal with a form of speech before the act of saying, sound particles that invoke meaning without ever fully unfolding it, and barely suggest a body and a biographical identity.
2024
Discrepant
Part of a (very) loose but somewhat like minded kaleidoscope where one can trace something like a Portuguese hauntology, centred around labels like Russian Library or Prisma Sonora Records, Alexandre Centeio joins Discrepant with the surefire release of "Panorama".
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
The publication is the first institutional monograph on the multimedia practice of artist and director Ali Cherri. It aims to highlight the constellation of ideas, themes, and formal concerns running through his most recent, highly significant projects.
2024
Discrepant
Presenting the second thematic volume on the "Aquapelagos" series, a collection of split LPs where selected artists offer their own take into water surrounded cultures and communities, Discrepant introduces an unique collaboration in the series in the shape of no other than two improvising giants, Mike Cooper and Pierre Bastien. This volume blows the lid wide open with a sound journey inspired by the equally majestic and mysterious Indian Ocean, a wide space of open ocean bounded by Africa, to the west, Asia to the north and north-west and Australia, to the south west.
2024
English edition
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
Two previously unpublished interviews with Jim Dine, about his performances in New York City in the early 1960s, an important period in his career that the artist has so far rarely discussed.
2024
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The facsimile and English-language reprint of the volume published in 1721 by Austrian architect and historian Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, a historical and theoretical work covering all architectural periods and styles, from Stonehenge to Chinese imperial arches, which had a considerable influence throughout Europe.
2024
Week-End Records
The remastered anniversary reissue of the guitarist's first solo album, released in 1974, accompanied by a new album made by Fred Frith in similar conditions, celebrating the fifty years that separate them.
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Gelenkstellen – Loose Joints opens a space for mental and physical movement by translating the motif of loose joints, which is central to Hella Gerlach's sculptural practice, into the format of a book.
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
Dreaming Alcestis is an artist's book by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, conceived as an accompaniment to her holographic film installation of the same name.
2024
Swarming
Two works recorded 14 years apart, registering the behaviour and characteristics of environmental and instrumental sound resounding within multiple parking garages.
2024
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Massa Confusa is a combinatorial codex cataloguing João Maria Gusmão's recent material transformations in the studio, featuring an accompanying text by the artist and faithful reproductions.
2024
Black Truffle
The heavyweight trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi return with their 12th and most epic release to date, a monumental triple LP.
2024
Edition Telemark
A unique 90s Berlin underground artefact by Kunstkopf.
2024
Matière Mémoire
25.90 21.50 €
The musician and visual artist's new album, somewhere between folk and experimental music.
2024
Editions Mego
NPVR is the avant garde duo made up of the late Peter Rehberg and Nik Void. Editions Mego is proud to present their second and final release. No this is not some kind of Beatles synthetic AI that raises the dead reconstructed recordings but rather a new album made by the humans and their machines.
2024
French edition
Naima
Artist and curator discuss the role and value of art in the 21st century, and the potential for artistic creation to contribute to the development of new knowledge.
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
Fan book parody, People Painting is an artist's book made up of a collection of found images of famous personalities (from the 1920s to 2020) painting or posing in their studios.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
She Mad gathers materials and documentation on Martine Syms' seminal episodic project of the same name. Each episode of this series takes a different format, using various narrative formats, from sitcoms to TikTok videos, and includes filmed footage as well as research materials.
2024
English edition
Nero
The first book to draw a comprehensive cartography of the relationship between visual arts and digital culture since the early 2000s, tracing the history of memes "from Duchamp to TikTok."
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
Two essays by psychoanalysts Angelo Antonio Moroni and Pietro Roberto Goisis on Rachel Whiteread's singular project and experience in Bergamo, Italia.
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Sculpture is the first monograph dedicated to the work of New York-based British artist Jesse Wine, bringing together a substantial body of work produced between 2016 and 2023.
2024
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
(last copies available!)
A selection of paintings by Cosima zu Knyphausen over a period of five years, accompanied by an essay by Rahel Schrohe, and a poem of the artist.
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
This publication by avant-garde artist and cultural icon Yoko Ono combines never-before-published texts and invitation pieces written in 2016–2018 with drawings from the “Franklin Summer” series she started in 1994 (new edition).
2024
French edition
Véhicule
Vroum - Véhicule
The partitions, to be activated by the reader, by Aziyadé Baudouin-Talec, Mickaël Berdugo, Jocelyn Cottencin & Olivia Grandville, Matali Crasset, Zoée Dahan, Ines Dobelle, Garance Dor, Frédéric Dumond, Diane Giorgis, Vincent Menu, Alain Michard, Aurélie Noury, Nicolas Richard.
2024
French edition
Cahiers mésozoaires
currently out of stock
The challenges of participatory artistic research.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
currently out of stock
A curatorial approach towards deliberative cultures of assembly and a realistic scenario of decentralized power and decision-making (an anthology edited by Markus Miessen).
2024
Edition Telemark
currently out of stock
New electromagnetic recordings by Christina Kubisch: a suite of pieces focusing on the electromagnetic sound qualities of trams, buses and related infrastructure.