search results for "the contemporary condition"
 
 
Donnacha Costello - Together Is The New Alone (vinyl LP)
2022
Keplar
29.00 24.00 €
For its 20th anniversary, Keplar presents an absolute milestone in the history of IDM and ambient music for the first time in its definite form.
Julius Eastman - Gay Guerrilla - L\'histoire de Julius Eastman
2022
French edition
Éditions 1989
A collection of biographical and musical essays about composer-performer Julius Eastman—a compelling portrait of Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.
 Fennesz - Endless Summer (2 vinyl LP)
2022
Editions Mego
The definitive edition of Fennesz's breakthrough album, newly mixed by himself.
Kim Gordon - At Issue (vinyl LP)
2022
various
A unique live performance at Issue Project Room gathered the former Sonic Youth member and artist Kim Gordon and the legendary minimal blues master and artist Loren Connors in 2014.
João Maria Gusmão - Terçolho
2022
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A new publishing project documenting the duo's artistic trajectory with a particular emphasis on their discursive production.
Atsuko Hatano - Water Ladder (vinyl LP)
2022
various
20.00 17.50 €
Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Midori Hirano and Tokyo based string experimentalist Atsuko Hatano have teamed up for their first collaborative full-length.
Atsuko Hatano - Water Ladder (CD)
2022
various
Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Midori Hirano and Tokyo based string experimentalist Atsuko Hatano have teamed up for their first collaborative full-length.
Alison Knowles - Sounds from the Book of Bean (vinyl LP)
2022
Recital
The first vinyl LP release from Fluxus pioneer Alison Knowles (remastered edition transferred from original tapes, with an expansive 20-page booklet).
John Latham - Recueil de contradictions
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Dedicated to John Latham's heterogeneous and paradoxical practice, this book highlights the artist's contradictory relationship with knowledge and language, through a selection of translated texts and images of some of his projects, all articulated around a glossary.
Klara Lewis - Live in Montreal 2018 (CD)
2022
Editions Mego
Klara Lewis returns to Editions Mego with a surprising live set recorded in 2018. Expanding her exploratory vision into haunted realms of unheimlich sound, Live in Montreal consists of a single piece with three distinct discernible sections.
Elke Mittmann - L\'architecture n\'est pas une image - Centre de création contemporaine Olivier Debré Tours (DVD)
2022
French edition (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
Seven films on the architecture of the Centre de création contemporaine Olivier Debré in Tours and on the exhibitions that have marked its recent history.
Jonathan Monk - Autobiography
2022
English edition
Tonini Editore
Autobiography by Jonathan Monk is the first attempt of display of the artist's collection of "Crackers" copies by Ed Ruscha.
Fateh Moudarres - Hiwar - Sense and Intuition
2022
English edition
Kaph Books
A conversation between acclaimed Syrian artist Fateh Moudaress (1922-1999) and Arab poet Adonis, finally translated from Arabic to English, with 30 never seen before paintings and drawings by Fateh Moudaress.
Royden Rabinowitch -
2022
French edition
MAMCO - MAMCO Collection
A renewed approach to the history of sculpture and post-minimalism, based on the Royden Rabinowitch collection at MAMCO.
Maria D. Rapicavoli - Surface Tension
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A multifaceted view of an artist who is interested in both larger global politics, and intimate, domestic spaces and the inner psyches of individuals under duress.
Marco Sammicheli - Danish Diaries
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
A singular history of cultural encounters between Italy and Denmark.
 The Otolith Group - Xenogenesis
2022
English edition
Archive Books
An extensive and comprehensive polyphonic exploration of the work of The Otolith Group.
Tatiana Trouvé -
2022
French edition
MAMCO - MAMCO Collection
A rereading of Tatiana Trouvé's work based on her drawing practice.
David Toop - Breathing Spirit Forms (CD + book)
2022
Room40
A series of in situ improvisations on Mount Tamborine in Australia.
 Nurse With Wound - Du suicide (book + CD)
2022
French edition
Lenka lente
An excerpt from the Album of a Pessimist by the suicidal writer Alphonse Rabbe, whose exaltation and licentiousness were made for Nurse With Wound, who musically accompanies the text.
Jérôme Poret - Les hôtes (vinyl LP / booklet)
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
La Maréchalerie
A hybrid edition (a vinyl record with a newspaper and an insert) extending the artist's research on the links between sound, architecture and the history of spiritism.
Véhicule
2022
French edition
Véhicule
Vroum - Véhicule
The partitions, to be activated by the reader, by Garance Dor, Diane Giorgis, Joël Hubaut, Alexandre Koutchevsky, Daniel Larrieu, Saïdo Lehlouh & Johanna Faye, Vincent Menu, Cécile Mainardi, Malte Martin, Delphine Perret, Pauline Picot, Aziyadé Baudoin-Talec.
The Return of DADA / Die Wiederkehr von DADA / Le Retour de DADA (4 volume box set)
2022
texts in English, French, German
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
Reevaluating the scholarly knowledge about Dada and its legacy, this publication reconstructs how Dada was (re)invented in the 1950s and the 1960s, especially by the Dada protagonists themselves, and asks to what extent Dada's impulses are still relevant regarding current aesthetic, literary and cultural analyses.
Architectures of Memory
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The complex architectures of the new “memory palaces”, from libraries, archives and museums to the IT structures, databases and server farms that feed the flow of data on the network.
Neural - Climate Resistance
2022
English edition
Neural
currently out of stock
Ai Hasegawa, Robertina Šebjanič, The Centre for Genomic Gastronomy, Kasia Molga, The Radiant Future of Solarpunk, Listening as Activism, Werkleitz Festival 2021, Climate Care...
Spike - Web3
2022
English edition
Spike
currently out of stock
Spike's "Web3" issue is all about the blockchain (with Holly Herndon, Rhea Myers, Charles Broskoski, Constant Dullaart, Jerry Gogosian, Ruth Catlow, María Paula Fernández, Wassim Z. Alsindi, Damien Hirst, Miao Ying, Harm van den Dorpel, Sarah Friend, Kenny Schachter, Mónica Belevan, Rafaël Rozendaal, Toby Shorin, Mark Alizart, Primavera De Filippi, Elie Ayache, Simon Denny...).
Stefano Harney - Les sous-communs - Planification fugitive et étude noire
2022
French edition
Brook
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
A political and aesthetic critique of racial capitalism and modes of social experimentation in the form of resistance to the colonial commons.
Manual for a Future Desert
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Finding a future desert without deserting the future.
Loren Connors - Portrait of a Soul (2 vinyl 10\
2022
various
sold out
Beautiful reissue of the 2000 album on FBWL, guitar ballads about Day, Evening, Night and Dawn, a major album in the discography of Loren Connors, which he considers his most personal record. Remastered in 2014 by Taylor Deupree at 12k.
Leo Kupper - Complete Electronic & Voices Works 1961-1987 (3 CD)
2022
Sub Rosa
sold out
The complete works of one of the pioneers of Belgian early electronics.
Tabita Rezaire - Womb Consciousness
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Espace multimedia Gantner
This collective publication is a singular invitation to discover or deepen the universe of Tabita Rezaire, at the intersection of new technologies, decolonial healing, spirituality and the political history of science. Through numerous contributions from poets, theorists, artists and her friends and relatives, she invokes the wisdom of the womb: the mother womb, the earth womb, the cosmic womb, for us to receive its grace.
Terry Smith - Curating the Complex & The Open Strike
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - Thoughts on Curating
A visionary analysis of what Terry Smith identifies as the "visual arts exhibitionary complex."
Saâdane Afif - Side Magazine - The Moped Rider
2022
English edition
Wirklichkeit Books
The second issue of the editorial discursive space for the Bergen Assembly triennial, conceived by Saâdane Afif, is dedicated to the manifold figure of the Moped Rider, which is approached differently by the seven contributors.
Keegan McHargue - New Paintings
2022
no text
Nieves
A series of new semi-abstract oil paintings by the American artist.
Frederic Rzewski - Speaking Rzewski - Performed by Stephane Ginsburgh (CD)
2022
Sub Rosa
15.00 11.00 €
Three pieces for speaking pianist by the American avant-garde musician, politically committed composer and virtuoso pianist Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021), performed by Stephane Ginsburgh (for whom two of the pieces were composed).
Markus Breitschmid - Architecture Non-Référentielle
2022
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
French edition of Valerio Olgiati's and Markus Breitschmid's widely acclaimed manifesto for a new approach in architecture in a world free of ideologies and, therefore, references: a must-read for anyone interested in architecture today.
Erri De Luca - Bird Song / Canto della Cinciallegra
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
various
An essay on the climate crisis by Erri De Luca.
Milan Knížák - Aktual University (CD)
2022
Sub Rosa
15.00 11.00 €
Two pieces based on Milan Knízak's canonical text Aktual University, dating from 1967, containing ten short lectures outlining the university's character—On Conflict, On Dreams, On Revolutions, On Love, On Belief, On Art, etc. These lectures were to serve as inspirational schemes for lectures, seminars and discussions held at an ideal university.
 ORLAN - « Les femmes qui pleurent sont en colère » par femme avec tête(s)
2022
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
ORLAN hybridizes fragments of her face with portraits of Dora Maar, Picasso's companion.
Peter Piller - Materialien (J) - Peripheriewanderungen Bremen
2022
no text
Nieves
Peter Piller's peripheral excursions around Bremen.
Maurice Louca - Elephantine – Limited Edition (marbled vinyl LP)
2022
Sub Rosa
A long form composition of six movements from Maurice Louca, with the Lebanese improvisational group A Trio, featuring Anthea Caddy, Khaled Yassine, and Christina Kazaryan, between Arabic music and psychedelic folk.
Roula Matar - L\'architecture selon Gordon Matta-Clark
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The architectural proposals of Gordon Matta-Clark.
Yann Beauvais - Agir le cinéma - Écrits sur le cinéma expérimental (1979-2020)
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
An anthology of the theoretical and critical texts on experimental cinema and moving images written by Yann Beauvais in parallel with his films and his activities as programmer and curator.
Giampiero Cane - Postfantamusicologia (vinyl LP)
2022
Xing
sold out
A sound creation based on the texts and voice of Giampiero Cane performed by himself and manipulated by the composer Daniela Cattivelli, who electronically projected them into a chaotic flow.
Maurice Louca - Elephantine (vinyl LP)
2022
Sub Rosa
sold out
A long form composition of six movements from Maurice Louca, with the Lebanese improvisational group A Trio, featuring Anthea Caddy, Khaled Yassine, and Christina Kazaryan, between Arabic music and psychedelic folk.
Jong Won Rhee - Solitudes of Human Places
2022
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Jong Won Rhee's photographs of scenes of contemporary everyday life in South Korea.
Giovanna Silva - City, I Listen to Your Heart - Milan
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Giovanna Silva paints a sinuous, compulsive, dizzying and poetic portrait of the city of Milan through several hundred series of detailed photographs of modern and contemporary building facades.
Raffaella della Olga - Forsythia, Lilac and Geranium
2022
French edition
Incertain Sens
A book-exhibition that brings together the practice of three artists from the contemporary publishing scene around the figure of Mary Ellen Solt (1920-2007), an American artist whose works of concrete poetry enter into graphic and conceptual resonance with the three artists' own publications.
Repenser le médium - Art contemporain et cinéma
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Medias/Theories
The redefinition of the medium through the interrelation between contemporary art and cinema.
La perspective de la pomme - Histoires, politiques et pratiques du Contact Improvisation
2022
French edition
various
Bringing together contributions from North America, France and Italy, texts by dancers and texts by historians, anthropologists and philosophers of dance, this book offers a contemporary look at Contact Improvisation, the dance form created by Steve Paxton (1939-2024) in 1972 and which is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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