search results for "the contemporary condition"
2025
Black Truffle
The second album from Nantes-based Ensemble Nist-Nah founded by the Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie, 48 minutes of electrifying music for Gamelan, drum kits, wood and metal percussion instruments, and plucked strings.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
MER. Books
The first total survey of Jef Geys' work.
2025
various
Andrzej Karałow's piano metamorphoses in the cogs of Jérôme Noetinger's tape recorder, multiplying and playing with its distorted mirror: a journey through imaginary landscapes haunted by a ghostly presence.
2025
Discrepant
People Like Us, the project of artist Vicki Bennet returns to Discrepant with a special vinyl release of "Copia". This album marks the first new musical material since 2018, delving into the profound realms of existential collage and sampling, celebrating these forms as expressions of timeless connectivity.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cécile Fakhoury
currently out of stock
A selection of previously unpublished photographs from the Bolol project conducted by Eva Diallo since 2018 on the trail of overland migration routes from Africa to Europe.
2025
Black Truffle
currently out of stock
The second album from Nantes-based Ensemble Nist-Nah founded by the Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie, 48 minutes of electrifying music for Gamelan, drum kits, wood and metal percussion instruments, and plucked strings.
2025
Arbitrary
Cross remixes by two emblematic figures of the contemporary electronic and experimental scene.
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
The architecture of disaster: Eyal and Ines Weizman trace the history of the before-and-after image from 19th-century photography to contemporary satellite images.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
A contemporary cabinet of curiosities, comprising the singular collection assembled by Jean Chatelus (1939-2021) over the course of his life: sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings by the greatest figures of the 20th century, as well as by outsider artists and "enfants terribles", pieces of non-Western art and objects from popular traditions, reflecting diverse aesthetics and voices.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cité du design / ESADSE
Designers and researchers question the notion of resources (being material, human or intellectual) and our everyday habits to explore the ways in which design can respond to contemporary issues by rethinking production, consumption and innovation (the catalogue of the 13th Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial).
2025
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Slavs and Tatars, Stephanie Comilang, Ho Tzu Nyen, Sohrab Mohebbi, Lauren Cook, Édouard Glissant, Mira Dayal, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Dani Blanga Gubbay, Ruoru Mou, Virginia Ariu, Bagus Pandega, Ceidra Moon Murphy, Oshay Green, Shafei Xia, Christian Rattemeyer, Lamm & Kirch...
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center
for Architecture, this publication is the second volume of a
periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial
practices.
2025
French edition
Casino Luxembourg
A reflection on two essential formats in photographic production: the book and the exhibition space (featuring Christian Aschman, Julien Carreyn, Bertrand Cavalier, Wade Guyton, Pierre Hourquet, Aurélien Mole, Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, Batia Suter, Rebecca Topakian, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Ruth Van Beek).
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
In this anthology of essays, twelve artists explore radically self-reflexive research attitudes integrating embodied experiences within the production of theory.
2025
English edition
Neural
Interviews with Dan Ploeger, Derek Curry & Jennifer Gradecki, Liz Pelly, Barnaby Francis & Bill Posters; Poetic Terrorism & Brand Sabotage; reports: xCoAx 2024, Konton-ni-Ai!, 7th International Digital Art Biennal...
2025
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Céline Guichard; Dalia Taha; on autodidacticism in music, by Fanny Chiarello; towards intercultural listening, a conversation between Kristoff K. Roll and the Mexican collective La Lleca; interviews with Alexandra Spence and Ayami Suzuki; Noises at Pompidou: a conversation between Marion Camy-Palou, Kasper T. Toeplitz and Nicolas Ballet; creating in psychic precariousness, by Aude Romary; book and record reviews..
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Spectres
Shelter Press - Spectres
The fifth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, around the topic of voice (with François J. Bonnet, Marja Ahti, Scott Arford, Nicolas Debade, Michael Gatt, Tim Ingold, Rolf Julius, Jules Négrier, John Richards, Marina Rosenfeld, Hildegard Westerkamp, Randy Yau...).
2025
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire - Books
The 2025 Villa Medici residents catalogue.
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
From submerging as emerging: a cross-disciplinary perspective of the medial, aesthetic, and material aspects of submerging, as well as its methodological qualities as a resistant practice and figure of thought.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
MER. Books
To a Dead Hare collects images from trajectories around photography, created by mentormentor over the past few years for S.M.A.K. Moves, a programme centred around inclusivity, with art as a universal language.
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
This anthology presents and discusses current tools, methods, and analytical frameworks to address artistic interventions, taking a multidirectional approach that accounts for the positionality of perspectives and highlights the nondirectional formation of the interventions at hand.
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
The links between feminized labor, technological advancements, and their associated languages: a very special publication including a softcover book and 19 booklets with artists' imagery in a box. Accompanying the exhibition curated by Maurin Dietrich and Gloria Hasnay at Kunstverein München.
2025
English edition
Spike
For Summer 2025, Spike is getting freaky with the truest image of our time: Vulgarity.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenz Press
An in-depth look at nearly two decades of artistic output by the Palestinian artist and filmmaker Basma al-Sharif.
2025
Corvo Records
Gilles Aubry's composition "L'Makina" is a haunting soundscape that combines AI-generated sound textures with modular synths. Structured in two parts, the piece explores the spectral possibilities of a virtual sound model developed using a machine learning algorithm, in collaboration with Moroccan musicians Ali Faiq and Idr Basrou.
2025
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Nieves
In Meta Cars, Beni Bischof transforms found images of cars into visual distortions. Through digital manipulation and radical simplification, the original shapes are abstracted—reduced to ghostly and ridiculous silhouettes that feel both familiar and alien.
2025
Montagne Noire / GMEA
A moment in bird territory: a musical piece created live in an aviary fitted out with musical instruments, in which visitors are invited to stay in the company of some sixty live Australian finches, hopping quietly (and harmoniously) on 12 tuned electric guitars that have become perches.
2025
French edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A fictional text by Geneva based artist Timothée Calame aka T. Freakson Calame: a collection of short stories that follow the urban wanderings of a protagonist through a series of unlikely events and encounters.
2025
Discrepant
Discrepant's chieftain Gonçalo F. Cardoso continues his sonic travelogue on insularity with impressions of Macaronésia: Canary Islands, Açores and Cabo Verde.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
X Artists' Books
A publication that directs dialogue and points of exchange among art, science, and environmental justice in the Americas.
2025
bilingual edition (French / Dutch)
Accattone
An artist's book by architect, forester and refuge keeper Wim Cuyvers, examining the changing climate and the very definition of architecture through a photographic investigation of the landscape.
2025
English edition
Bierke
Vaginal Davis offers insights into her collaborative practice of making music in art-punk bands in Los Angles and Berlin.
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
This enchanting convening of texts and images, diaries and epistles celebrates a unique voice and ongoing dialogue around the erotics of art.
2025
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Nieves
The Zurich-based artist reinterprets the fear of emptiness from a feminist, psychological and socio-political perspective, through a pictorial reappropriation of the aesthetics of bureaucratic documents.
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
A broad survey of the Brazilian artist's work since 2016, dwelling on the recurring motifs and iconographic sources that feed the complex imagery of his painting.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
A Nomadic Book celebrates the first five editions of the Nomadic School. Launched in 2020 by Office for a Human Theatre [OHT], the school takes place each summer at around 2000 meters in the Alps, offering a different pedagogical approach—one that's more open to the mountain's ecosystems and rhythms.
2025
Faitiche
New Environments & Rhythm Studies is a further attempt to re-describe past tropes which laid claims to authentically represent music and sound from beyond the Western world (exotica, ethnomusicology, field recording) as undertakings of the imaginary.
2025
English edition
Becoming Press
A rigorous and mind-blowing account of the dynamics of capitalism today through an in-depth exposition of software, speculative finance, and the highest scales of arbitrage.
2025
Hands in the Dark / Fragments Editions
Eight sound pieces delicately handcrafted like a game between inside and outside.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
International curator Cristina Ricupero uses the figure of Frankenstein as a common thread to explore and share her curatorial practice.
2025
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Nieves
A series of watercolor house studies by the Swedish artist, printed in risography.
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A hundred recipes, almost 500 pages, 27 dinner-locations from 15 years of supper-clubbing and displacement of artistic practice in urban space.
2025
English edition
Bierke
Artist Bruno Zhu's project on the perception of migratory phenomena and the creation of identity and nationalist narratives.
2025
French edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
The posthumous publication of the German philosopher: a major work on the collapse of Western philosophy and on the necessity to rethink the past to build the future.
2025
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
The ToiletWalter PaperChandoha Calendar 2026 presents 13 photographs of sweet, polyamorous and sleepy cats by the American photographer Walter Chandoha and the artistic duo and animal lovers of Toiletpaper.
2025
French edition
Bierke
Four texts by Teri Wehn Damisch, attending to the conception of her films on artist Robert Morris, photographer Gisèle Freund and anthropologist Françoise Héritier.
2025
various
currently out of stock
The first two albums of the fictional and conceptual girl band comprising Colin Lloyd-Tucker and Simon Fisher Turner.
2025
Discrepant
currently out of stock
A meeting of minds and bodies on a heady percussive trip with no clear destination, captured live at Espacio Cultural El Tanque in Tenerife.
2025
UNRec
currently out of stock
A double CD with Suite blanche, a musique concrète composition by Anouck Genthon (violin, sound recordings) and Lionel Marchetti (synthesizers, electroacoustics, sound recordings), and Angelica, a concert by the duo.
2025
Discrepant
currently out of stock
Robert Millis' first album with the Discrepant label explores his obsession with hidden sounds and its anomalies.