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e-flux Index
2024
English edition
e-flux Index
76 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists, published by e-flux between April–May 2024, arranged into 11 thematic chapters—ranging from the live question of cultural censorship through to the role of diagrams and notation in contemporary artistic practice.
Lalie Thébault Maviel - Notre pain quotidien
2024
no text
Tombolo Presses
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
An edition like an archaeology of our more or less contemporary iconography of bread. A lacunary and subjective encyclopedia that reflects its presence in our lives and its political, social, economic, and aesthetic evolutions (artist's book).
Between a Romanticised Past and a Not Yet Redeemed Future - Urbane Künste Ruhr 2018-2023
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The nine printed issues of the Urbane Künste Ruhr Magazine from 2019 to 2023 create an experimental publication in bound form that documents the institution's projects over the entire period.
Artforum - October 2024
2024
English edition
Artforum
Garrett Bradley, Maija Peeples-Bright, Tarik Kiswanson, Matthew Barney, Charles Atlas, Tracey Emin...
Soldes
2024
French edition
Soldes Almanac
An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.
Afterall - Palestine and the World
2024
English edition
Afterall
Following documenta 15's cascading logic, this issue then branches out, on the one hand, towards further engagements with Palestinian art and visual culture as a way to fend off ongoing erasure and, on the other, towards new understandings of geographies of art practices and histories.
VISIO - Moving Images in Europe Since the 2010s
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
This volume brings together visions, experiences and critical interdisciplinary methodologies that have been instrumental in the development of the language of moving images since 2010.
Francesco Arena - Der Blitz steuert alles / Il fulmine governa ogni cosa
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
A complete documentation of a site-specific project conceived by Francesco Arena, allowing to get more into the heart of the artist's creative process.
Crys Cole - Making Conversation (vinyl LP)
2024
Black Truffle
Crys Cole's third solo release for the Black Truffle label, Making Conversation documents a different facet of her work, presenting three rigorously conceptualised commissioned pieces, each of which extend her signature approach to highly amplified small sounds into new directions.
Alessandro Di Pietro - Ghostwriting Paul Thek
2024
texts in English and Italian
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A compendium of texts and notes around the project developed by artist Alessandro Di Pietro in dialogue with the work of Paul Thek (1933-1988).
Judith Eisler - Center of the Frame
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
Judith Eisler's first monograph, bringing together paintings made between 1997 and 2024, featuring an essay by Kirsty Bell, an introduction by Christopher Bollen, and an interview with Wade Guyton.
Éléonore False - Ensembles
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
First monograph.
Spencer Gerhardt - Ticking Stripe
2024
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
A new collection of writings by the composer and mathematician Spencer Gerhardt, considering among other topics the rich points of contact between minimalist musical aesthetics and intuitionistic mathematics.
Ingo Giezendanner - Mille Feuilles
2024
no text
Nieves
Ingo Giezendanner's wild herbarium.
Anne Houel - Tobrouk
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
Anne Houel's first book is dedicated to the monumental sculpture Tobrouk, installed on Ouistreham's Riva-Bella beach for one year in 2023, then moved to the Musée d'Art, Histoire et Archéologie in Évreux.
Jihye Jung - Resterenvie
2024
French edition
Zero2
The diary of the Korean-born artist based in France.
Klara Lewis - Thankful (vinyl LP)
2024
Editions Mego
Klara Lewis' latest offering is undoubtedly a heartfelt tribute to her friend, mentor and former label boss, Peter Rehberg.
 Mazza Vision - Ohm Spectrum (CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
The first album of this new digital-drone-rock-noise/ambient/electronica project created by two founding members of Tone Rec and DAT Politics (Claude Pailliot - Gaetan Collet). Inspirational collision of motorik avant rock and heavy electronics.
 Morvandiau - Vigil
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
A drawn chronicle of sleepless nights, Vigil brings together over one hundred and sixty drawings by the artist.
Katharina Schilling - Sand is Water You Can walk On
2024
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The artist book Sand is Water You Can walk On by Katharina Schilling brings together the series of paintings of the same name with texts by the authors Eva Hegge, Miriam Stoney and Sophia Eisenhut. In her series of works, Schilling refers to Gothic illuminations, an early form of painting that tells of a time before the concept of the subject.
 So Sner - The Well (vinyl LP)
2024
TAL
The second album by the duo So Sner, composed of Susanna Gartmayer (bass clarinet) and Stefan Schneider (electronics), both stylistically cohesive and daringly uncompromising.
Erik Steinbrecher - Gopf
2024
no text
various
Artist's book.
Skye Arundhati Thomas -
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
In this first critical volume and biography of the Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi (1932–2023), author Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi's archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist's character and path.
 Winter Family - On Beautiful Days (vinyl LP)
2024
Sub Rosa
Winter Family's 4th album tells a lot of stories; that of the musicians themselves and their loved ones, those of their territories, of their life in Jerusalem, Paris or Lorraine; that of women, "witches", conspiracy myths; that of capitalist and colonialist Europe; that of the blindness and violence of Israeli society and the indoctrination of its population; that of the occupation of Palestine; that of eternal lockdown and a laboratory rat; and maybe yours, too.
 Winter Family - On Beautiful Days (CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
Winter Family's 4th album tells a lot of stories; that of the musicians themselves and their loved ones, those of their territories, of their life in Jerusalem, Paris or Lorraine; that of women, "witches", conspiracy myths; that of capitalist and colonialist Europe; that of the blindness and violence of Israeli society and the indoctrination of its population; that of the occupation of Palestine; that of eternal lockdown and a laboratory rat; and maybe yours, too.
Faire – To look at things - A calculated approach: Norm\'s unreasonable reasonableness
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
The 46th issue of the critical graphic design journal is devoted to the Zurich-based graphic design studio Norm.
Le chant des sirènes / Il canto delle sirene
2024
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire - Books
30 artists and 10 authors talk about water.
Lenke Rothman - Life as Cloth / Liv som tyg
2024
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Focusing on Lenke Rothman's unique, conceptual approach to her working materials, this publication presents selected parts of her extensive production, including paintings, drawings, installations, books, sculptures, objects and textiles.
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 38 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo calls upon ancestries, be they intimate or political, transgenerational and historical, human or more-than-human, symbolic or material.
Jean-Jacques Lebel - Front Unique - La traversée du surréalisme de Jean-Jacques Lebel
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This book recounts Jean-Jacques Lebel's long and tumultuous passage through the powerful laboratory of ideas and experiments of surrealism that was the journal Front Unique (1955-1960), which heralded and sometimes prefigured his future protean activities in the fields of art, poetry and militancy (anticolonial and libertarian).
En quête d\'images - Écritures sensibles en recherche-création
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.
Temps naissant - Un glossaire pour le XXIe siècle
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.
Olivier Berggruen - Formes du désir - Une brève histoire de la collection d\'art
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This history of art collecting traces a multiplicity of aesthetic attitudes through the prism of certain key figures in the history of taste. Over the course of the chapters, we discover how art collecting reflects—or responds to—an individual's character.
Ida Soulard - Les abstractions concrètes d\'Anni Albers (1899-1994) - Une histoire textile de la modernité
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
A wide-ranging study of the visual and theoretical practice of Anni Albers, a pivotal figure between two continents and two modernities, as part of a general history of art, design and textile production in the European and American women's avant-gardes.
Alexandre Chèvremont - Donner lieu au son
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A philosophical reflection on the place of sound, from musical aesthetics to sound habitat, at the crossroads of sound, music and technology studies, and phenomenology.
Film Undone - Elements of a Latent Cinema
2024
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
Film Undone presents contributions introducing unmade and unfinished film projects, film ideas realised in non-filmic media, as well as films that remained unseen in their intended form and at their intended time.
Terry Riley - Descending Moonshine Dervishes (vinyl LP)
2024
various
currently out of stock
A limited edition repress of the remastered album "Descending Moonshine Dervishes" by Terry Riley, originally recorded live in Berlin in 1975 and released by Kuckuck in 1982.
We Will Survive - Le mouvement prepper
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers” (also available in English edition).
We Will Survive - The prepper movement
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers”.
Kim West - The Contemporary Condition - The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary – Notes in Defense of an Idea of Emancipation
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
currently out of stock
An essay-length book arguing for the autonomy of art in the present.
Jacques Villeglé - STAR
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
Catalog conceived as a tribute to Jacques Villeglé's insatiable curiosity, exploring his relationship with the world of entertainment (cinema, dance, theater and music) from the 1950s to the end of his career, with texts by Julie Chaizemartin, Emma Lavigne, and Jeff Mills.
Thierry Fournier - L\'Espace de l\'entre
2024
French edition
various
A first major monograph on Thierry Fournier's practice, French visual artist, with an extensive documentation of many recent works and a collection of texts and interviews.
Jean-Michel Wicker - Logorrhea
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
The fruit of a long-term project, this artist's book focuses on the written word and language in Jean-Michel Wicker's work.
Eckardt Lindner - Inorganic Life - On Post-Vitalism
2024
English edition
Diaphanes
A theory of passive vitalism.
Éliane Radigue - A Song for Two Mothers / Occam IX
2024
Black Truffle
The first ever solo release from electronic music pioneer and innovator Laetitia Sonami, featuring a new composition especially written for her interface/instrument, the Spring Sprye, by her former teacher the legendary Éliane Radigue.
Tiago Sousa - A Thousand Strings (vinyl LP)
2024
Discrepant
Continuing his fruitful relationship with Discrepant, Tiago Sousa returns with two longform pieces for organ.
Akio Suzuki - Stone (CD)
2024
Room40
An exploration of sound, space and time using found objects and flute. (new remastered version by Lawrence English of the piece recorded by Akio Suzuki in Berlin in 1994).
Yann Annicchiarico - Of Moths and Muybridge\'s Scale
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
Gathering reflections and testimonies of exhibitions realized by Yann Annicchiarico in various countries, this looks back at a unique state of perception, related to the experience of emptiness and to the suspension of attention, an essential element in the artist's research.
Morgan Labar - La gloire de la bêtise - Régression et superficialités dans les arts depuis la fin des années 1980
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of stupidity (deliberate and sometimes even claimed), regression and superficiality in the arts.
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