search results for "the contemporary condition"
2022
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This artist's book by the American artist, musician (Destroy All
Monsters), writer and bookseller intertwines Polaroids of 1970s
Detroit with photographs of painterly collages made of TV stills and print
ephemera combining Christian iconography, Classical Hollywood cinema, pop
and b-movie culture.
2022
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
Publication based on a film by Stephen Loye about the micro-stories that emanate from the territory where the Germanwings A320 crash took place on March 24, 2015.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
Retrospective monograph: an exhaustive overview of more than fifteen years of practice of the Belgian artist whose work oscillates between post-industrial sculptures and post-apocalyptic realism.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
A body of fragmented images and views that draw their iconography from public spaces or from motifs specific to modernity.
2022
Run/Off
Culled from field recordings, sampled orchestral noises, and voice recorders, the new production by New York artist and composer Nickolas Mohanna explores the spatial impressions of sound within a delicate acousmatic language; producing expressionistic collages that translate into wide-screen cinematic terrain.
2022
Discrepant
Marking an important step in the discography of the Portuguese musician, Oeste A.D. is crossed by a nostalgic impulse, between a nod to the theme of the Expo 98 in Lisbon and a tribute to the best productions of Fennesz and Black Dice in the early 2000s.
2022
Black Truffle
The first release to document the variety and playfulness of the concerts that Arnold Dreyblatt and Paul Panhuysen's Duo Geloso performed throughout Europe in 1987-88.
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
2022
English edition
X Artists' Books
This artist newspaper, edited by Asad Raza and Mathew Hale, accompanies a new work by Raza of the same name, which redirects the river through Portikus and invites the public to interact with and dip in the waters of the Main (contributions by Keren Cytter, Emily Dickinson, Dan Graham, Rufus Hale, Catalina Imizcoz, Wolfram Lotz...).
2022
INA-GRM - Recollection GRM
Two previously unreleased recordings of Peter Rehberg (1968-2021), live performances given at the GRM which, each in their own way, vividly illustrate the extent of his sonic palette.
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
A complete overview of the vast cinematographic project of the Italian artist and director around the "Arab Spring".
2022
Recital
21.00 € 17.00 €
The new album of composer Loren Rush is inspired by poems from "L'allegria", the collection of poetry by Giuseppe Ungaretti written in the trenches of World War I.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
Monograph dedicated to the productions made in the early 1970s by major Swiss painter of Pop Art and Narrative Figuration Peter Stämpfli, period from which he devotes himself to the figure of the tire.
2022
Sub Rosa
Dark-folk songwriter Chantal Acda and beyond drums-percussion musician extraordinaire Eric Thielemans propose, after Philip Glass, a new score for Koyaanisqatsi, re-actualising the incredibly beautiful, raw, rhythmic and touching images of this 80-ties cinematographic masterpiece.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
This catalogue features an exclusive selection of works created by renowned Belgian painter Koen van den Broek in France, a series on paper based on the architecture of Le Corbusier (Firminy).
2022
no text
Nieves
Chronicles Vol. 3 combines Kim Gordon's Real Estate Paintings with staged canvases photographed by Josephine Pryde in vacant apartments and offices in and around Kriens and Lucerne. The photos, which were taken using purely analog technology, create a disturbing and enraptured atmosphere.
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Wirklichkeit Books
A conversation between the political geographer Sinthujan Varatharajah and the artist Moshtari Hilal on gentrification, asylum policy and double standards of the German majority society. Both authors have become leading voices of a new generation on topics such as racism, having ceated a strong counterpublic through their social media in the last years.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
Issues 39 to 41 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
2022
Alga Marghen - Sound Houses Series
An anthology of silence pieces from the records history.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A fascinating exploration of the utopian origins and tumultuous 130-year history of the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the world.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
The fascinating story of Jack Goldstein, the beginnings of CalArts, and some of the illustrious fellows who, in the 1970s and 1980s, led the transition from conceptual art to the Pictures Generation, paints an uncompromising picture of the art world then and now.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
A comprehensive survey of visual studies and visual culture, from its origins in art history to the current perspectives opened by new technologies, virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The first study devoted to the American ecological art movement.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – ArTeC
Innovative hybridizations between research, creation (theater and performance) and pedagogy.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An anthology of text and graphic scores
to be used while walking, from Fluxus to the critical works of current artists, through the tradition of experimental music and performance, gathered and presented by Elena Biserna.
2022
English edition
Neural
currently out of stock
Lu Yang, LaTurbo Avedon, Lawrence Lek, Marco Cadioli, A genealogy of the metaverses, The metaverses performed sounds, Ars Electronica 2021...
2022
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
currently out of stock
An account of an album about Albania by British experimental musicians made in the eighties. Also involving stories about the Albanian Society, William Bland, A. L. lloyd, RCPB ML, and Cornelius Cardew.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
sold out
The second issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to weaving.
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Avenues for engaged pedagogies, collective learning, and artistic ecologies that can engender new institutionalities.
2022
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
sold out
For its fall issue, Flash Art looks at how artists navigate and draw upon the creative industry known as "fashion".
2022
English edition
Nero
sold out
A retrospective of the first ten years of the NY-based radical art, publishing and multimedia collective 8-Ball Community.
2022
Recital
sold out
Second pressing of Recital's vinyl edition from 2015, perhaps the most approachable and beautiful in all of Loren Connors' catalog.
2022
various
sold out
The second album of the fictional and conceptual girl band comprising Colin Lloyd-Tucker and Simon Fisher Turner, originally released in 1983 on their own imprint, Papier Maché, full of meandering guitar, technically tighter and more refined, and with a more ominous tone, than the debut Silence & Wisdom.
2022
Touch
sold out
2022 reissue of Fennesz's beautiful 4th solo album, originally released in 2008.
2022
English edition
Damiani - Photography
sold out
This new monograph from Niko J. Kallianiotis presents photos taken in and around Athens, the city in which he grew up. The images reflect the artist's eagerness to assimilate back into a home that feels at once foreign and familiar.
2022
Sub Rosa
sold out
This release highlights Leo Kupper's earliest compositions with his GAME machine - Générateur Automatique de Musique Electronique (Automatic Generatorof Electronic Music) constructed during the 1960's. Purely electronic sounds into new structures, Leo Kupper shows through his 4 tracks a real spirit of renewal.
2022
various
sold out
An indispensable introduction to the wonderfully moving and expressive parlour music of Dominique Lawalrée (1954-2019).
2022
English edition
Wirklichkeit Books
The sixth issue of the editorial discursive space for the Bergen Assembly triennial, conceived by Saâdane Afif, is dedicated to the figure of the coalman.
2022
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
The long term project of the Italian artistic duo around the trajectories of sound through the Mediterranean sea.
2022
French edition
Kulte Editions
An experience of observation of contemporary African migratory approaches and new theological movements of Christianity on the continent and in particular in Morocco, through texts of researchers but also various testimonies and documents.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
(last copies available!)
Through a ready-made exhibition of works made by animals, the poet Julien Blaine offers a vision as comical as it is tragic of the art world, while trying to "establish a communication between the lost world and the contemporary world."
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
The catalogue of the 15th Triennial of Small Sculpture Fellbach exhibition, curated by Elke aus dem Moore.
2022
no text
Tonini Editore - Autobiography
Autobiography by Ignasi Aballí is made up of 64 "años" (years), one for each of the 64 pages. Casually, the artist was born in 1958, it means that he has 64 years old at the time of the publication of the book.
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
As a cofounder of Cabaret Voltaire in 1916, Emmy Hennings, with her partner, the Dadaist Hugo Ball, is recognized as having established and environment for collective experimentation. This book gathers an extensive collection of Hennings's writings, ephemera, and art, to give shape to a practice and an individual so ofter flattened for the sake of art historical narrative.
2022
Persistence of Sound
Persistence of Sound publishes the new solo record by Natasha Barrett, known internationally for her intense explorations of the movement of sounds through space.
2022
English edition
X Artists' Books
A retrospective of immersive performances and installations with which the Israeli sound and visual artist, composer and musician explores the physicality of sound.
2022
English edition
Archive Books
A panorama of the multifaceted and transversal production of the Dutch-Jewish painter and composer Sedje Hémon (1923-2011), with fifteen essays.
2022
English edition
Zolo Press
Adam McEwen's inkjet-on-sponge paintings, collected here in their entirety for the first time.
2022
English edition
Archive Books
A survey of the abstract and contemplative work of Pakistani artist Imran Mir (1950-2014), with fifteen essays.
2022
Tochnit Aleph
Collection of recordings made at the Friedrichshof commune between 1982 and 1990. Includes actionist group-music, improvised conceptual pieces, and barpianist-songs.