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Sun Ra - Sound American - The Sun Ra Issue
2020
English edition
Sound American
sold out
The 24th issue of the New York music magazine focuses on the figure of Sun Ra.
Ettore Spalletti - Ombre d\'azur, transparence
2020
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Catalogue of the last solo exhibition of Ettore Spalletti (1940-2019).
Andrey Tarkovsky - Solaris - Sound and Vision (book + CD box set)
2020
English edition
Song Cycle Records
sold out
The soundtrack realised by the great Russian composer Edward Artemiev for the Andrey Tarkovsky's masterpiece film Solaris (1972). The box comes with the soundtrack on CD, and an exclusive luxurious photo book with unreleased images of the movie set and essays about music and cinema of the duo Artemiev/Tarkovsky.
David Toop - Wounds (vinyl LP)
2020
Song Cycle Records
sold out
The first reissue of Wounds by David Toop and Paul Burwell, originally released in 1980 on Toop's Quartz! label, a representative album of a seminal moment within the British music scene evolved around the London Musicians Collective in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Jean-François Bory - United C. Sherman Company
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
sold out
The figure(s) of Cindy Sherman as the plot of a personal narrative by Jean-François Bory.
Peter Friedl - Rehousing
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Rehousing is the title of a series of works by Peter Friedl which comprises a selection of individual, intricate, and true-to-scale models of houses. Collectively, these structures materialize as constructed environments that reflect the recent past, different biographies, and ideologies in diverse ways; they are “case studies for the mental geography of an alternative modernity.”
Salomé Lamas - Fatamorgana
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The graphic translation of the text at the heart of the Fatamorgana project (2016–2019), alongside a variety of related materials, including project notes and contributions. The books also provides online access to photographic, video, and sound materials, along with technical specifications for all of the project's component elements.
Ulrich Krieger - Wall of Sound - Drones Patterns Noises (3 CD)
2020
Sub Rosa
sold out
Walls of Sounds is a music of sonic sensations. It is a physical and sensual approach to the phenomenon of thick sound worlds. Sound waves become physical objects, four-dimensional sonic sculptures to be experienced, bodily and mentally (works by Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, John Cage, John Duncan, James Tenney, Terry Riley, Lee Ranaldo, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Boris Hegenbart, Ulrich Krieger, Zbigniew Karkowski).
Caio Reisewitz - Altamira
2020
English edition
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
This photographic publication documents the ecological and human devastation caused by the construction of the Belo Monte dam in the Amazon.
Janek Simon - Synthetic Folklore
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This monographic catalogue maps and decodes fifteen years of an artistic practice oriented towards DIY strategies and new technologies, investigating manifold spaces of reflections with a powerful political and theoretical radicality.
Aurel Schmidt - Trash Dolls
2020
no text
Nieves
sold out
Aurel Schmidt's drawings.
Espace art actuel - Dictatorships
2020
bilingual edition (texts in English and French)
Espace art actuel
Contemporary dictatorships and tyrannies.
Revue & Corrigée
2020
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Bruce McClure / Contemporary Arabic-language poetry: Soukaina Habiballah / Isabelle Duthoit / Jacques Brodier / Kazuo Imai / Evan Parker...
Art Basel | Year 50
2020
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
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One year in the art world: Art Basel's official annual publication captures and documents the exhibitions in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong, and goes beyond them, featuring interviews, portfolios, essays about contemporary art, and personal highlights from artists, curators, collectors, and museum directors.
Stephen Barber - The Projectionists - Eadweard Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image
2020
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
This publication explores the pioneering role of 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge in the development of moving-image projection. The study also maps the exceptional influence of his experiments on contemporary world's visual form.
La Tranchée Racine weekly
2020
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La Tranchée Racine
United Dead Artists
sold out
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 July 2021: 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 almost a year...
Migration - Traces in an Art Collection / Spår i en konstsamling
2020
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
How have artists over the past 150 years related to migration and exile? And what role can a museum play in times of mass migration?
Flash Art
2020
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
The theme of this issue, put together back on the pandemic, is an examination of a new sort of figuration in painting that has emerged in recent years.
Artforum - May-June 2020
2020
English edition
Artforum
Artforum asked 20 artists, writers, and collectives to contribute essays and projects reflecting on the pandemic and the worlds it may make and unmake.
Performance Works
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An anthology of both newly commissioned and reprinted essays, as well as interviews and fiction that reflect on performance today.
Mousse
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Bri Williams by Harry Burke, Virginia Overton by Ian Wooldridge, Pati Hill by Maurin Dietrich, Ann Greene Kelly by Andrew Berardini, On psychotic images and other visual symptoms by Aurélien Le Genissel, Todd Haynes's Dark Waters and new new left cinema, Larry Bell by Marie de Brugerolle, Pierre Guyotat by Estelle Hoy, Gabriel Kuri by Chris Sharp, Suellen Rocca by Hans Ulrich Obrist...
Cura. - The Resistance Issue
2020
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
In a period of transition, loss of horizons, rethinking of known schemes and expectations, between trying to catch up with digital acceleration and dealing with a content overload, Cura. translates the vocabulary indicative of this new decade by republishing a thoughtful selection of contributions from its archive.
The Imaginary Republic
2020
English edition
Errant Bodies
The Imaginary Republic is an artistic research project focusing on questions of social practice. In particular, it considers the creative and restless imaginaries underpinning our political selves and argues for a deeper engagement with what Elena Loizidou terms “dream-action”: the figurative and poetic staging of world making activity (with Tatiana Fiodorova, Brandon LaBelle & Octavio Camargo, Sala-manca group and Joulia Strauss).
Bomb
2020
English edition
Bomb
7.50 3.50 €
Summer issue inclues interviews with Amoako Boafo, Nicolas Party, Brenda Goodman, Odili Donald Odita, Jenny Offill, Craig Taborn, Ricardo Phillips, and Jibz Cameron; poetry by Safia Elhillo and Nathaniel Mackey; prose by Lydia Davis, Marie-Helene Bertino, and Saidiya Hartman; and more.
Jacques Berthet - Rumeur sur la ville
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
Photo documentary set in a deserted Geneva during the G8 counter-summit in 2003. The series stages the abandonment of the urban space and its transformation through the deployment of defense barricades.
Antoine Boute - Prompt
2020
French edition
Zero2
52 short poems, written in a nervous prose during periods of trance. A response to the “disease of globalization.”
Joyce Campbell - On the Last Afternoon - Disrupted Ecologies and the Work of Joyce Campbell
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Monographic catalogue examining the forcefield of relations artist Joyce Campbell has activated between photography, philosophy, ecology, material history, science fiction, and the care and reading of sacred and symbolic landscapes, over the course of her near three-decade career.
Mariana Castillo Deball - Kaleidoscopic Eye
2020
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
New edition of an artist's book first published in 2009, gathering essays, short stories and images (leporello ). The publication reflects the artist's long-term critical interrogations on archives, historiography and institutions.
Delphine Dora - À  La Becque
2020
French edition
Le laps
À La Becque is a semi-digital sonorous publication documenting the meeting of three musicians during their brief stay at La Becque, an artist residency in La Tour-de-Peilz (Switzerland). Both a digital album and artist book, the publication comprises 12 pages printed on a risograph, and includes a hyperlink to download seven improvisations (keyboards, voice, synthesizers and objects; 38 minutes).
Maxime Duveau - Renewal - Récit de Didier Balducci
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Hippocampe - Books
A series of drawings that retrace a trip to California, where the multiplied and labyrinthine architecture invites the visitor to wander between reality and fiction.
Charlie Engman - MOM
2020
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
First monograph by Charlie Engman, the rising star of fashion photography: a vast series of pictures (500 images) of his mother, made over the course of more than a decade. With texts by Rachel Cusk and Miranda July.
Nakako Hayashi - Here and There - Collage Issue
2020
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Here and There
Nieves
The 14th issue of Nakako Hayashi's graphic journal, on the theme of collage.
Martin Herbert - Unfold This Moment - The Art of Carol Bove
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
20.00 10.00 €
An exploration of the work of sculpture and conceptual artist Carol Bove, by art critic Martin Herbert.
 Huber.Huber - Widersprüchliche Bewegungsreize / Contradictory Motion Cues
2020
trilingual edition (English / German / Spanish)
Edition Patrick Frey
A new artist's book that goes far beyond the mere reproduction of photographs and masterfully reflects huber.huber's artistic practices in the special medium of the book.
Giuseppe Ielasi - Aix (vinyl LP)
2020
Keplar
A timeless collection of 9 evocative minimalist soundscapes, available on vinyl again (remastered by Giuseppe Ielasi) after 10 years.
Angela Marzullo - L\'origine
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
Artist's book stemming from a performance by the Swiss feminist artist, featuring newspaper cut-outs evoking the female sex (limited edition).
Pali Meursault - { PRESS } (vinyl LP)
2020
Artkillart
A piece of industrial musique concrète composed in the studios of GRM, created from field recordings of a vinyl record pressing plant: a mise en abyme of the record as an object.
Charlemagne Palestine - P V T (vinyl LP)
2020
Matière Mémoire
In October 2013, Charlemagne Palestine, Mika Vainio and Eric Thielemans got together for the first time, meeting each other at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels, for a 4 day residency and 2 live performances. The music of the residency takes, edited by Thielemans, mixed and mastered by Frederic Allstadt, is now released on Matière Mémoire and Godbear, Charlemagne Palestine's archival music label.
Roee Rosen - Desire and Dust
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press
In this book, the animation of commodity objects magically ties together erotic frolics and political horrors: from a DC07 vacuum cleaner to a detention center for refugees, from little irons, socks and sweaters, to the particulars of post-Soviet power, and Vladimir Putin.
Tom James Scott - Mine Is The Heron (vinyl LP)
2020
Students Of Decay
20.00 16.00 €
The new Tom James Scott record, the first document of his solo work since 2017.
 Silk Saw - Everything Starts (vinyl EP)
2020
Sub Rosa
17.00 13.50 €
Vinyl EP from Silk Saw's 12th album, blending sweet and bitter in languorous and enigmatic melodies that float on intriguing pounding polyrhythms.
Giovanna Silva - UN
2020
English edition
Bruno
A photographic diary by Giovanna Silva guiding us through the United Nations Office headquarters in Geneva.
Adrián Villar Rojas - From The Series Brick Farm
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Large-sized monograph based on Adrián Villar Rojas' “Brick Farm” series.
Éric La Casa - Intérieurs (book / CD)
2020
Swarming
Éric La Casa probes his inner sound environment through the recording of his Parisian apartment, an artist's studio and the empty spaces of a museum.
Le son du grisli
2020
French edition
Le son du grisli
Lenka lente
Featuring: Jacques Delamain, Ghédalia Tazartès, Paul Sérusier, John Butcher, Keith Rowe & Cornelius Cardew, Kaoru Abe... and 130 chronicles.
Minor Cinema - Experimental Film in Switzerland
2020
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
An archeology of Swiss experimental film.
50JPG - Osmoscosmos
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
sold out
Exhibition catalogue of the sixth Triennal 50JPG – 50 Days for Photography in Geneva, exploring the relationships between eros and cosmos.
Creativity Exercises - Emancipatory Pedagogies in Art and Beyond
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
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The book contextualizes the Creativity Exercises—an amateur art course led by neo-avant-garde artists Miklós Erdély and Dóra Maurer in Budapest from 1975 to 1977—within the postwar intellectual networks that connected artists, architects, educators, sociologists and other socially engaged professionals.
Pati Hill - Letters To Jill - A Catalogue And Some Notes On Copying
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The reprint of Pati Hill's 1979 book, composed of images and texts by Hill through which she intended to contextualize and explain her working methodology to Jill Kornblee, her New York gallerist.
Dorian Sari - La Parade de l\'aveuglement
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
sold out
Catalogue, with a series of photograms, exhibition views, an interview and a text by Clara Schulmann.
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