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Alain de La Bourdonnaye - Peintre, graveur, artisan-architecte du livre, typographe, imprimeur et bâtisseur (3 volume box set)
2023
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
currently out of stock
Three-volume catalogue raisonné of the work of Alain de la Bourdonnaye.
Archivio - The Fashion Issue
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archivio
sold out
Archivio n°9, the first issue of the third editorial cycle, is entirely dedicated to fashion and its history.
Korakrit Arunanondchai - Song for Living Song for Dying
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The most comprehensive publication to date on Korakrit Arunanondchai's practice.
Pippa Garner - Act Like You Know Me
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Bierke
sold out
The first comprehensive monograph and critical survey of American artist Pippa Garner, Act Like You Know Me surveys fifty years of her radical and transdisciplinary art practice, from the late 1960s to the early 2010s, through ca. 400 photographs, illustration, ephemera, and original writings.
 KCBR -
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
A series of rail graffiti by the KCBR collective, renewing the practice with an original reflection on the medium, concealment (including, of course, with regard to police services), the trace, public reception and ephemerality, as the works are obliterated by the artists themselves immediately after completion.
Objectif Terre - Le design de notre planète
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
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 (also available in English).
Keep it Flat - Petite histoire sur la Terre plate
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
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 (also available in English).
Cosmos - Design d\'ici et au-delà
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Weaving fruitful links between the worlds of science and design, this catalog unveils the work of designers who have questioned the architecture of the Universe and the hidden laws of physics that govern it (also available in English).
Cosmos - Design from here and beyond
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Weaving fruitful links between the worlds of science and design, this catalog unveils the work of designers who have, in conceptual, technical or poetic ways, questioned the architecture of the Universe and the hidden laws of physics that govern it, bringing to the fore the fundamental questions that drive artists and scientists alike (with a contribution of cosmologist Thomas Hertog).
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.
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An overview of the work of the Paris-based American artist, through a series of exhibitions, installations and performances over a dozen years, three essays and two interviews.
Niki de Saint Phalle - Tableaux éclatés
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
Catalogue devoted to Niki de Saint Phalle's Tableaux éclatés (Burst paintings), a vast series of paintings composed of cut-out shapes set in motion by motorized devices as spectators pass by, created as an homage to Jean Tinguely (the book's pop-up cover allows to recompose the pattern of a painting using pull tabs!).
Mary Jane Leach - Woodwind Multiples (vinyl LP)
2023
Modern Love
"Woodwind Multiples" features four pieces for multiples of the same instrument: four bass flutes, nine oboes, nine clarinets, and seven bassoons. Each piece works closely with the unique sound of each instrument, combining pitches that create other, sometimes unexpected, tones, primarily combination and interference tones, as well as rhythmic patterns.
Félicia Atkinson - Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (pour Georgia O\'Keeffe) / Recurrence.Expansion (vinyl LP)
2023
INA-GRM - Portraits GRM
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by Félicia Atkinson and Richard Chartier.
Ciarán Finlayson - Perpetual Slavery
2023
English edition
Floating Opera Press
In Perpetual Slavery, Ciarán Finlayson investigates the relationship of art to freedom in the work of Cameron Rowland and Ralph Lemon, who both utilize imagery of labor haunted and structured by the historical experience of slavery.
Alice Guareschi - Je m\'appelle Olympia
2023
no text
Nero
A series of 16 photographs documenting an action for house lights performed by Alice Guareschi at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris (leporello).
Elika Hedayat -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
First monograph of the Franco-Iranian artist.
Graham Lambkin - Aphorisms (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
Graham Lambkin (of Shadow Ring fame) returns with a long awaited epic double LP, Aphorisms, his first major solo outing since 2016, continuing his synthetic-naturalist approach to sound-making, twisting disparate and unique elements together to create the sensation of a coherent sonic space.
Graham Lambkin - The Cat & Bells Club (vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
The very first completely handmade and almost unreleased recordings of Graham Lambkin and Darren Harris under the name of Cat & Bells Club, prefiguring The Shadow Ring.
 Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) - Symphony No. 107 - The Bard (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
A previously unheard archival recording of the legendary improvising ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva (Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum), captured in concert at Bard College, New York in 2012.
Tucker Nichols - Flowers
2023
no text
Nieves
Tucker Nichols' flowers paintings.
Peter Piller - Spekulationen (III) - Begleiter
2023
no text
Nieves
The third volume of the artist's book series dedicated to prehistoric cave painting mostly features photographs taken in everyday life and on trips, as well as found illustrations from scientific publications in various disciplines.
Marie Preston - Inventer l\'école, penser la co-création
2023
French edition
Tombolo Presses
A publication by artist and teacher-researcher Marie Preston on the alternative pedagogies developed in France during the 1970s-1990s in "open" schools working on the question of the relationship between co-creation and co-education.
Otto Willberg - The Leisure Principle (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
A true homage to the low end: six unashamedly melodic improvisational workouts created almost entirely with heavily filtered bass harmonica and electric bass, silky smooth, luxurious, odd and compelling.
Jason Kahn - All Along the Way (book + CD)
2023
English edition
Editions (Jason Kahn)
20.00 10.00 €
370-page book + CD chronicling of a solo tour through North America in 2022, exploring the state of the DIY experimental music scenes.
Sébastien Miravete - Bergson structuraliste - L\'aube d\'une autre anthropologie structurale et cognitive
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
What does Bergson bring to the history of the concept of "structure" even before the advent of structuralism? Why is his approach still relevant today? Sébastien Miravete proposes a rereading of Bergsonian philosophy to show how it outlines an other structuralist metaphysics, which can inspire all 21st century thought.
Vincent Broqua - La langue du garçon
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poetic investigation on desire, love and masculinity in the form of a constellation of texts, drawings and photographs.
Nicolas Ballet - Shock Factory - Culture visuelle des musiques industrielles (1969-1995)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast study of the visual culture of industrial music during its development in Europe, the United States and Japan, from the 1970s to the 1990s, a global culture that goes beyond sound experimentation to cross different media (graphics, film, performance, video), in a close dialogue with the heritage of modernity and under the growing influence of technologies.
Daniel Arsham - 100 Hotel Sketches
2023
English edition
Perrotin
currently out of stock
In 100 Hotel Sketches Daniel Arsham compiles 100 drawings made over the last few years as Arsham has travelled for exhibitions and installations worldwide.
Graham Lambkin - Aphorisms (2 CD)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
currently out of stock
Graham Lambkin (of Shadow Ring fame) returns with a long awaited epic double LP, Aphorisms, his first major solo outing since 2016, continuing his synthetic-naturalist approach to sound-making, twisting disparate and unique elements together to create the sensation of a coherent sonic space.
Stephen O\'Malley - Sept duos pour guitare acoustique & piano préparé (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
The second collaboration between Stephen O'Malley and Anthony Pateras, this time entirely acoustic, based around an acoustic guitar and prepared piano: a music that seems suspended, captivating by its almost organic coherence and modal simplicity, behind which resonances and subtle plays of pitch develop.
Annea Lockwood - Glass World (book + CD)
2023
Room40
sold out
An exploration into the complexity of sounds drawn exclusively from glass (reissue of the record released in 1970, remastered by Lawrence English).
E-flux journal - Navigation Beyond Vision
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
Navigation and montage in Harun Farocki's work.
Artforum - September 2023
2023
English edition
Artforum
(last copies available!)
The Anti-aesthetic at forty, Chryssa, Sung Neung Kyung, Ed Ruscha...
Neural - Machine Transparency
2023
English edition
Neural
Interviews with Vivian Xu, Abi Liu, Stephen Cornford, Timo Toots, Egor Kraft; reports: xCoAx 2022, Ars Electronica 2022...
Azimuts - Se permettre l\'écriture chez les designer·euse·s, artistes, chercheur·euse·s
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Azimuts
Cité du design / ESADSE
The 56th issue of the design research journal, devoted to the question of writing in design practices.
Artists\' Survival Kit
2023
English edition
Nero
A collection of essays and a critical attempt to rethink and improve the relationship between artists and art institutions and to give visibility to the precarious, complex, and very often existential reality of the art workers.
XKatedral Anthology Series II - An Anthology Of Slowly Evolving Timbral Music (2 vinyl LP)
2023
XKatedral
The second in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by XKatedral affiliated composers working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral music, featuring exclusive music from Kali Malone, Jessica Ekomane, Mats Erlandsson, Theodor Kentros, Wilma Hultén, and Maria W. Horn.
Sound American - The Thirtieth Issue
2023
English edition
Sound American
The final issue of Sound American journal, , as a tribute to the musical community, with Eileen Myles, Ellen Pullman, Brandon Lopez, Ellen Fullman, Albert Oehlen, Natasha Pickowicz, Patricia Nicholson Parker, Michael Ranta, Sarah Hennies, Vincent de Roguin, and Lesley Mok.
Flash Art - Fall 2023 – The Always Already
2023
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Rhea Dillon, Art & Language, Nikita Gale, Precious Okoyomon, Rory Pilgrim & Carol R. Kallend, SoiL Thornton, WangShui, Issy Wood...
Mouvement
2023
French edition
Mouvement
Eileen Myles, motherhood and an artistic career, Kelly Reichardt, Pierre Creton, Julien Gosselin's sermon on the fall of Vienna, squatting on algorithmic video surveillance in Rotterdam...
 7038634357 - Neo Seven (vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
7038634357 (Neo Gibson)'s first vinyl record, between soundscape, song, and silence.
Frédéric Acquaviva - No Soy Un Robot (CD)
2023
AcquAvivA
For countertenor, parrots, different voices & dead electronics.
 blackbody_radiation - Ultra-Materials (vinyl LP)
2023
Faitiche
Andrew Black aka blackbody_radiation's debut album gathers six ghostly drones, created with the help of sound masking, fully in line with the aesthetics of Jan Jelinek's Faitiche label.
Robert Bonaccorsi - La Bataille du riz de Gilles Aillaud  et la « Salle rouge pour Le Vietnam » - Itinéraire d\'un tableau singulier
2023
French edition
Loevenbruck
An essay by Robert Bonaccorsi on Gilles Aillaud's highly unusual painting "La bataille du riz", illustrated by a portfolio containing the historical documents mentioned in the text, from museum archives or the author's own collection.
Tiane Doan na Champassak - The King is dead, long live The King!
2023
no text
Bruno
An artist's book expanding on Tiane Doan na Champassak's iconographic research on the former king of Thailand (and amateur photographer).
 Coil - The Ape Of Naples (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Important Records
Repress of Coil's final studio album and absolute masterpiece, re-cut from original Peter Christopherson approved masters.
Jean-Philippe Delhomme - Studio Poems
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
A collection of poems by French writer, painter and illustrator Jean-philippe Delhomme, accompanied by previously unpublished ink drawings.
Mette Edvardsen - Livre d\'images sans images (vinyl LP)
2023
Xing
A sound piece by choreographer and performer Mette Edvardsen in collaboration with her daughter, Iben, based on the performance of the same name.
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