search results for "the contemporary condition"
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Carmelo Bene. Là dove muore, canta is the work of the artist Rä di Martino and she comes to terms with the memory of Carmelo Bene (1937–2002), through his archive materials.
2023
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The book "Movements of Air" reprints the breathtaking pictures of Étienne-Jules Marey, that he took between 1899 and 1901 during his scientific experiments with moving air and smoke, and complements them with two essays of Georges Didi-Huberman and Laurent Mannoni.
2023
INA-GRM - Recollection GRM
A 16-channel piece composed between 2016 and 2020, inspired by astrophysics, the mystery of the pre-Big Bang era and some of the uncanny motions of the unconscious mind, where strangeness meets the ordinary, in memoriam Bernard Baschet, Bernard Parmegiani and Carlos Pellegrino.
2023
English edition
MER. Books
A look at 40 years of artistic practice by Belgian artist Michel François.
2023
English edition
Archive Books
Part visual essay, oral history and artist book, DNCB – A History of Irritation is a companion to the multi-channel installation DNCB by Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger, around the history of the chemical substance DNCB, used both in film and photo labs to process color, and as a treatment in alternative AIDS clinics.
2023
Shelter Press - Records
François Bonnet's new album, more vaporous, immersive and evocative than ever, explores a wide range of sound sources and techniques to blur musical codes and leave room for memory imprints.
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An artist's book on photography, cemeteries and museum archives.
2023
Persistence of Sound
The concrete, electronic sounds of the Langham Research Centre (here Iain Chambers and Robert Worby) combine with the acoustic qualities of John Butcher's saxophone in an extended improvisation session.
2023
French edition
Kunsthalle Mulhouse
Vannina Maestri is an author associated with the 2020-2021 exhibition season of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. She immersed herself in the universe of three exhibitions, composed freely around the works and ideas she perceived there.
2023
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Christophe Daviet-Théry
François Mangeol appropriates Michel Houellebecq's Sérotonine and reduces it to only the letters representing the chemical symbols composing the neurotransmitter linked to the state of happiness (artist's book).
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A fully-fledged artistic project expanded with writings, poems, and aphorisms by the artist alongside various interviews.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Roven - books
First monograph dedicated to Marie-Claire Mitout's series of painted images, fixing the best of the day, a life's work initiated in 1990 now including more than one thousand gouache paintings on paper.
2023
Tochnit Aleph
85 minutes collection of previously unpublished recordings made at the Friedrichshof commune between 1982 and 1990. Performed by Otto Muehl and members of the commune. Includes actionist group-music, improvised conceptual pieces, and barpianist-songs.
2023
Faitiche
Faitiche presents the album Exq I by Berlin underground techno legends Muellie Messiah & Punk not Punk, mainly known under their 100Records moniker. Weighing in at 36 minutes, the track was recorded in 2010, effortlessly intermingling dub, drone and collage, a blend achieved thanks to the duo's jazz-inspired approach to improvisation.
2023
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Retrospective monograph.
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first comprehensive monograph on the Romanian-born, UK-based artist Paul Neagu (1938-2004), whose oeuvre transcends traditional artistic disciplines, and who was for several decades an important source of inspiration for young artists, curators and intellectuals.
2023
English edition
MER. Books
A photographic essay on the spiritual and architectural dimensions of the candle.
2023
Persistence of Sound
Persistence of Sound celebrates the British composer Richard Orton (1940-2013) with a selection of electroacoustic and computer music from across his career.
2023
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
In Reto Pulfer's novel, the artist draws a rich picture of a community of hybrid living beings. Characters and scenes from the novel also appear in the works and exhibitions of the artist. A multi-layered cosmos of links emerges and takes the reader into a parallel universe full of references to our current relationship with nature.
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Kein Witz, No Joke combines paintings and objects by Sophie Reinhold with the "Typewritings" of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. As different as the artists may be, their works share a manic perseverance, precision, and subversive humor.
2023
Small World
35.00 31.00 €
An autobiographical artist-talk as a performance delivered from the artist's bed over Zoom.
2023
Tochnit Aleph
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A record resulting from a 12-hour participatory performance by the Danish collective.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
The photographs made by Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg in Morocco in the 1950s.
2023
French edition
Kunsthalle Mulhouse
Laura Vazquez is an author associated with the 2019/2020 exhibition season of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. She immersed herself in the universe of four exhibitions, composed freely around the works and ideas she perceived there.
2023
Touch
The immersive sound diary of a trip to Bali.
2023
English edition
Archive Books
The first monograph of writing by visual artist Emma Wolf-Haugh interconnecting performative works, performance scripts and assemblage texts.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
UNRec
A sound and music experience along the Dordogne river, with Le Chant du Moineau and the Ensemble UN orchestra (Pascal Battus, Benjamin Bondonneau, Michel Doneda, Jérôme Noetinger, Mathieu Werchowski...), and a group of invited researchers (with a composition by Lionel Marchetti on CD and a film by Camille Auburtin on DVD).
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The very first book devoted to the creations of artificial intelligences in literature and art, and the problems they raise.
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A study of the Pictures Generation that considers the feelings provoked by sensational images manipulated by these artists.
2023
English edition
Archive Books
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Archives on Show brings the potential of reformulating the social and political relevance of archives by curatorial means into focus.
2023
English edition
Archive Books
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A manual for academic teaching and learning contexts.
2023
Tochnit Aleph
currently out of stock
First recording: a cascade of sounds and words, recorded one after the other as they arose in the mind, consists of songs and poetry from diverse sources as well as original works by the artist.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
INA-GRM
currently out of stock
A lavish 10-CD box set with a 106-page book, featuring more than 11 hours of seminal works by one of the most important electronic and electroacoustic composers of the 20th century.
2023
English edition
The Colour Journal
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The Colour Journal is a lavish publication that explores colour in art and photography. It has been conceived as a collection of six volumes, each devoted to a single colour: blue, red, yellow, green, white and black. The Blue Issue contains, over more than 400 pages, about twenty contributions by international art historians, writers, anthropologists, philosophers, critics, artists and photographers that start from the colour blue.
2023
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
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Isabelle Albuquerque, Isa Genzken, Aria Dean, Bri Williams, Cole Lu, Dominique White, Mimosa Echard, Isabelle Andriessen, Jordan Strafer...
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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This book traces the last thirty years of Rita Ackermann's career containing both well-known and previously unpublished works, ranging from painting to drawing, created in a range of media and formats.
2023
LAAPS
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The third solo release by a prominent pillar of Japanese ambient music, after 11 years of collaborations.
2023
English edition
Damiani - Photography
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An evocative chronicle of the Lower East Side's halcyon days, from Giovan's archives.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
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A retrospective devoted to Jonas Mekas's 70-year activity within and beyond the history of avant-garde cinema.
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first monograph of the painter Nicolas Ionesco, born in 1919 in Bucharest, active all his life in Paris, who occupied a prominent place in the art of the 1950s before being forgotten because of the direction he had taken his work: an opportunity to reconsider everything anew.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Zolo Press
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A series of one-hundred masks constructed of everyday materials by the Mexican artist, featuring texts by writer and poet Luigi Amara.
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Forms of Abstraction engages with abstraction not as a formal option in art, or as an airy theoretical speculation, but as an operational force that has redesigned our world, and continues to do so.
2023
English edition
Nero
A new revised version of the notebook of the legendary American dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti in which she shares her poetry as well as her thoughts on dance, the body, writing, the state of the world.
2023
English edition
Nero
An artist book celebrating the first five issues of Grasso magazine.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A presentation of video installations, sculptures, site-specific interventions, performance and works on paper by the duo of Californian artists and choreographers.
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Artist's book.
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Thirty-four original collage-poems by the Chicago-based artist Tony Lewis.
2023
Important Records
currently out of stock
On December 11, 1980 Eliane Radigue performed live on KPFA. Her full performance is included here, remastered, on two compact discs. Upon hearing these performances for the first time in many years Radigue declared them to be the best versions she'd ever heard.
2023
Mille Plateaux
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Thomas Köner's eighth album, originally released in 2002, pressed on vinyl for the first time, including a 12 minute bonus track.
2023
Mille Plateaux
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Thomas Köner's eighth album, originally released in 2002, including a 12 minute bonus track.