search results for "the contemporary condition"
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
The complete Ceremonies (2013-2020) by Béatrice Balcou, testing our visual and experiential approach to artworks, confronting us with the basic status of material objects before actually revealing their identity.
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An essay by the distinguished philosopher and theorist of art and media on the current evolution and possible future of museum collections practices and strategies.
2021
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Retrospective monograph.
2021
Montagne Noire / GMEA
This album draws its sounds from improvisations generated by a violin, a few dozen freshly awakened birds, highly reverberant spaces, a voice saying words of Roberto Juarroz and Paul Verlaine, the nostalgia of childhood westerns, a viola mounted with electric guitar strings and the memory of those who left too soon.
2021
French edition
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Books
currently out of stock
Bernard Chambaz, Bertrand Dezoteux and David Redon review the complex history of the construction of the Guiana Space Center, the French space launch base in Kourou, in the 1960s.
2021
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
A work for underwater performance that literally immerses the listener into an acoustical substance, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
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Reference monograph of Georges Mathieu (1921-2012), a major figure of mid-20th century abstraction, founder of Lyrical Abstraction, inventor of performance art, pioneer of Action Painting, speed and risk, dripping, early inspirer of street art.
2021
Sub Rosa
sold out
A work for underwater performance that literally immerses the listener into an acoustical substance, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The images of exile, escape, wandering and exclusion in art history, from classical painting to the most contemporary production.
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Stream
Architect Philippe Chiambaretta brings together thinkers, researchers and contemporary artists in the 5th edition of the exploration book-magazine Stream, which investigates the different forms of intelligence that must be considered, implemented and passed down to move beyond the Urbanocene.
2021
English edition
Floating Opera Press
Catalogue / artist's book with twenty-one colour illustrations of German artist Maximilian Kirmse's paintings, as well as several drawings.
2021
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La Tranchée Racine
United Dead Artists
La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...
2021
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La Tranchée Racine
United Dead Artists
La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...
2021
no text
La Tranchée Racine
United Dead Artists
La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...
2021
no text
La Tranchée Racine
United Dead Artists
La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
A reflection treating the game of football as an expression of both individual and group "identity".
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - XXI Century Science
Microbial oceanography as a means to better understand the conditions of life (and survival) in the Anthropocene era.
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Forty-one contributions by artists, scholars, scientists, and ocean activists in response to the current dramatic evolution of the oceans.
2021
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Terrine, Gabi Losoncy, Nour Mobarak; focus Bruisme Festival; Augustin Bette; 20 Italian records; interviews: Thurston Moore by Jacques Debout & Michel Henritzi ; Michel Chion by Jérôme Noetinger; John Tchicai by Gérard Rouy; Pole Ka; books and records reviews...
2021
bilingual edition (texts in English and French)
Espace art actuel
The use by artists of objects coming from the collections of museums of art, science, and society.
2021
English edition
Artforum
Robert Longo, Ed Atkins, Pattern and Decoration, The Velvet Underground, Mona Hatoum, Jay DeFeo, Huguette Caland...
2021
English edition
Diaphanes
A series of interdisciplinary contributions around the political and social dimensions of ecology and its implications in the humanities and social sciences, artistic practices and design.
2021
Students Of Decay
A sensual and abstract album by the Finnish composer Marja Ahti, one of the most interesting electroacoustic musicians our time.
2021
French edition
various
Between a film diary and a manifesto on the creative process, this book is a wild and enchanting journey in Karen Dalton's footsteps, the cult singer and her breathtaking voice, friend of Bob Dylan and forgotten muse of the '60s, and offers an investigation combining texts, photographs, drawings and archives, at the crossroads of the worlds of art, music and cinema.
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le laps
Through short poetic texts that are both humorous and insightful, Quebec artist Annie Descôteaux speaks to her ever-evolving art practice and relationship with
the physical world, while also incisively critiquing the institution.
2021
various
A beautiful reflective album built around the piano as a central element and inspired by the sound of whispering.
2021
Italian edition
Humboldt Books - Atlas
The Italian edition of Flaubert's account of his trip to Egypt, illustrated by Nathalie du Pasquier.
2021
Sub Rosa
Tetsuo Furudate's new album, featuring Keiko Higuchi and Olga Magieres.
2021
Swarming
Two compositions conceived mainly from researches on the inaudible and the unspeakable, as part of a series devoted to the representation of infraliminary sound phenomenons of the reality, of everyday life.
2021
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
The meeting between the artist and the philosopher, working together to create a common space.
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
Machines & Fictions is a monograph on the work of Spanish artist Félix Luque Sánchez over the last twelve years, in collaboration with fellow artists Damien Gernay and Íñigo Bilbao. The book includes texts by leading scholars, curators, and art critics who discuss Félix Luque Sánchez's artistic projects.
2021
Montagne Noire / GMEA
Algorithm as material and writing.
2021
Recital
The first new album in over 40 years by American composer, pianist, and digital audio pioneer Loren Rush: Bay Area experimentalism meets 20th century classical modernism.
2021
French edition
Walden n
décal'âge is a manuscript, reproduced here in facsimile, between intimate writings, working reflections, and diaries of thought.
We find in it Claude Rutault's style, his familiarity with literature, the meditative density of his daily reflection.
2021
English edition
Perrotin
Josh Sperling's first catalogue raisonné: this carefully produced publication (cloth-bound cover, different papers) is a comprehensive record of paintings produced thus far by the prolific artist, featuring an accompanying essay by Kyle Chayka.
2021
various
An absorbing sound collage album that emerged out of the production material of the film, The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) by C.W. Winter & Anders Edström, with musical excerpts from Tim Berne & Bill Frisell, Tony Conrad, Graham Lambkin, Mary Jane Leach, Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, Folke Rabe, Éliane Radigue, and Akio Suzuki.
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
Issues 31 to 34 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vroum - Editions
Marcel Alocco's Events, some poem-scores to be performed in a real or imaginary space.
2021
French edition
various
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Between a film diary and a manifesto on the creative process, this book is a wild and enchanting journey in Karen Dalton's footsteps, the cult singer and her breathtaking voice, friend of Bob Dylan and forgotten muse of the '60s, and offers an investigation combining texts, photographs, drawings and archives, at the crossroads of the worlds of art, music and cinema. The book is accompanied by Emmanuelle Antille's film A Bright Light – Karen and the Process on DVD (special offer).
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Attempting to explore the transdisciplinary aspects of artistic practice, this book revisits a tipping point in art history: the invention of preconceptual and minimal art forms by George Brecht, a chemical engineer and artist.
2021
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Rethinking the role of the museum today.
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
From the observation of a society of capuchin monkeys and thought experiments borrowed from theater, Zaven Paré, artist and researcher in interaction design, specialist in theater and robotics, attempts to dismantle the pitfalls of anthropomorphization, in an attention that seeks to preserve the irreducible character of an interspecific copresence.
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
A caustic diagnosis of the situation of the current art, by one of its major protagonists.
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The first comparative study of artistic culture in Europe under Soviet influence following the Yalta Accords, tracing the complex relationship between art and politics and the tensions between the avant-garde and traditional practices on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Œuvres en sociétés
The unexplored interactions between hypnosis, music and medicine in the 19th century, between the world of science and the world of art.
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - A Series of Open Questions
sold out
The second volume of the Wattis's annual reader, A Series of Open Questions.
2021
English edition
Spike
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In the age of "post-truth", Spike busts the line between fact and fiction open,
untangling the politics and implications of crafting (and being crafted by) narrative.
2021
Discrepant
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A multiformat release inspired by and channeling the culture and traditions of the Aeta, an indigenous group from the Zambales region in the Philippines, some of the most ancient nomadic and hunter gathering cultures. A sonic exorcism filled with ancestral frequencies, haunted ghosts, and other animistic spirits from the Pinatubo forests, going from the realms of the real to the imaginary, from transcription to syncretism, from concrete to abstract.
2021
Faitiche
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An album version of the radio piece Vom Rohen und Gekochten (The Raw and The Cooked) originally composed and produced by Jan Jelinek for the state broadcaster SWR2, bringing together five sound collages that deal with the consistency of material and its mutability.
2021
various
sold out
Mark Leckey finally presents the soundtrack to his autobiographical allegory 'O' Magic Power of Bleakness', a mind sluicing fantasy/autobiographical narrative inspired by folklore and half-remembered tales of teenage life growing up in the Wirral, a personal history woven into screwed 808s, ringtones, sacred chimes, smudged synths, sirens and levitating ambience that sounds like nowt else.