search results for "the contemporary condition"
2020
English edition
Nero
Around 1999, artist Becky Beasley began writing to her former tutor, Claire Scanlon, who kept her letters but never replied. Years later, in 2016, the two began to intermittently record their conversations, now as friends.
2020
English edition
Nero
A conversation about Ergonomic Futures, Tyler Coburn's furniture for humans to come.
2020
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The first English-language anthology of writings by the Slovak critic Tomáš Štrauss.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
An ambitious and transversal study on the crisis of humanism resulting from modernity, and on the historical consequences of the universalist and absolute conception carried by Futurism and the Bauhaus, proposing little explored paths for a re-reading of the artistic stakes in the 20th century.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Cultures of the Curatorial
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Intertwining transdisciplinary discourses, transcultural perspectives, and
methods of practice, this anthology provides new insight into the analysis
of things in a curatorial context.
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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This publication extends an exhibition program that examines the environmental
challenges facing the art world and its institutions, drawing on the
concept of “destructive plasticity” theorized by philosopher Catherine
Malabou.
2020
English edition
Mille Plateaux
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The ultra-blackness manifesto: a Deleuzian reading of the philosophical and socio-political stakes of the current electronic music scene (publication marking the reactivation of the influential label Mille Plateaux, with texts by an ensemble of international musicians, artists and theorists: Frédéric Neyrat, Achim Szepanski, Holger Schulze, Gerriet K. Sharma, Bernd Herzogenrath, Corry Shores, Marcus Schmickler, Thomas Brinkmann, Thomas Köner...).
2020
French edition
Fear Drop
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The 18th issue of the French magazine for ambient & experimental music revolves around the theme of wild sounds, the singing of the waters, the forest and the night, with William Basinski, L.M. Riek, Jana Winderen, Troum, Yannick Dauby, Thierry Weyd, O Yuki Conjugate, Marc Namblard, Cédric Peyronnet, The Cure, Coil, Michael Begg, Maninkari, Bass Communion, The [law-rah] Collective, B.L. Boysen (with a 13 track CD included).
2020
English edition
Accattone
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A project by Éva Le Roi & Pierre Burquel (drawings and sketches of São Paulo); hand drawings by Éva Le Roi.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMC+ (Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne métropole) - Mousse Publishing (books)
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Retrospective catalogue spanning Morris's early years, covering the 1960s
and 1970s through a selection of works, historical essays, interviews with
collaborators, and texts by the artist.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
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A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
Olivier Mosset's reference monograph offers a complete panorama of the work of one of the central figures in post-war abstract painting, and a pivotal reference for generations of European and American painters, covering six decades of practice, from the first experiments to the monumental recent works.
2020
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CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
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A selection of drawings by the New Zealand outsider artist:
her work, recognized belatedly, provides a journey into a
grotesque, sometimes somber universe, filled with animals, distorted human
bodies, and cartoon characters.
2020
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
Presented as a work-in-progress, this text on American artist Rindon
Johnson's video practice offers a reflection on the widening creative
possibilities in the multimodal digital landscape, while discussing the
political and personal aspirations of a new generation of artists and
critics.
2020
French edition
MAMCO - MAMCO Collection
A new publication spotlights Gordon Matta-Clark's only extant architectural piece.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books
A political view of international contemporary creation seen from the Gulf region, where wars and diplomatic tensions have constantly determined the history of the early 21st century (exhibition catalogue).
2020
French edition
MAMCO - MAMCO Collection
A legendary Parisian collection of minimalist and conceptual art, and its evocative installation in the home of collector Ghislain Mollet-Viéville.
2020
English edition
Artforum
This February in Artforum poet Simone White and writer Ciarán Finlayson respond to the recent Pope.L exhibitions that spanned multiple institutions across New York. Plus, Joan Jonas, Ugo Rondinone, and others on the life and art of John Giorno (1936-2019), a special artist's project by Christine Sun Kim, Daniel Marcus on Charlotte Perriand, and exhibition reviews from Paris, Cologne, Milan, Tallinn, and more.
2020
bilingual edition (texts in English and French)
Espace art actuel
How can we today situate the artist or, more broadly, the act of creation using artificial intelligence?
2020
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
This issue of Flash Art explores a sort of archeology of images, aiming to reflect on issues of appropriation and authenticity in their most contemporaneous sense, whereby any original or preexisting artwork, image, or product can be invested with a multiplicity of meanings.
2020
English edition
Damiani - Photography
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The crucible of creation: portraits of New York artists in the intimate seclusion of their work spaces.
2020
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
First monograph.
2020
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CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A selection of erotic paintings by the American artist, produced between
1969 and 1971: an ecstatic and mystical celebration of the sexual act.
2020
Corvo Records
An accordion and two turntables for an abstract musette.
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first of a two-volume publication dedicated to the artist's novel,
this theoretical essay aims to elucidate the pressing questions posed by
the emergence of this new artistic medium with a number of key case
studies and interviews.
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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The two volumes of the publication dedicated to the artist's novel (two-books set special offer).
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Diaphanes - Think Art
A manifesto for artistic research and in defense of its autonomy.
2020
English edition
MER. B&L
This artist's book is the book-form of a work by Matt Mullican, "The Meaning of Things (who feels the most pain?)" (2014), con sisting of 676 collages and texts on sheets of standard printing paper.
2020
French edition
MAMCO - MAMCO Collection
A detailed analysis of Franz Erhard Walther's pioneering Werksatz series of wearable fabric sculptures by Erik Verhargen, accompanied by a history of the piece by Thierry Davila.
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Every Force Evolves a Form by Alessandro Bava; Design, Reset: Studio Formafantasma in Conversation with Alessandro Rabottini; Clinical Cosmology: Tishan Hsu by Hera Chan; Oceanic Time-Lag: on Mati Diop's “Atlantics” by Dora Budor...
2020
English edition
Neural
Co-editors: Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska, intervioews with Špela Petrič, Tega Brain, Joyce Hinterding, Kat Austen, Thomas Thwaites, Melle Smets; The Sound of Disappearance and The Sonic Sublime; reports of ISEA 2019 Lux Aeterna, 58th Venice Biennale and Liechtenstein Brunch, 18th Media Art Biennale WRO “Human Aspect”.
2020
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
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The large-format book celebrating the collaboration between Toilet Paper and Martin Parr.
2020
Edition Telemark
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LP plus DVD with full-length movie (125 minutes) of Balafon music of the
Lobi people, recorded in and around Gaoua, Burkina Faso, on a two-week
journey in June 2014, by Dirk Dresselhaus (alias Schneider TM), Julian
Kamphausen and Arved Schultze. Packaged in a full-colour gatefold sleeve
with DVD tray, with numerous photos and an extensive interview with
Dresselhaus.
2020
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
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A transdisciplinary discussion on the influence of computer-based
technologies on the conditions of biological
research.
2020
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
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Limited edition, including an exclusive satin scarf, of the book celebrating the collaboration between Toilet Paper and Martin Parr.
2020
La Belle Brute
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The meeting between the Japanese group Acid Mothers Temple and the Argentinian group Reynols, a major figure of art brut practices with its trisomic drummer-singer, Miguel Tomasin.
2020
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
First monograph.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue presents the artist's Sail Paintings
series—32 hybrid compositions reminiscent of a boat's sail. This
monumental publication (30 x 40 cm) is designed as a graphic extension to
the project.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
A manifesto of the architecture of the air.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
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A lexical survey on compositional practice in contemporary dance.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Sandberg Series
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A transdisciplinary anthology of essays and articles
investigating the cut-up as a contemporary mode of creativity and
important global model of cultural production.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Archive Books
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Catalogue conceived for the 12th Edition of the Bamako Encounters, the principal event dedicated to contemporary photography and new imagery in Africa.
2020
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
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Emma Souharce, contemporary Arabic-language poetry, Michèle Bokanowski, Olivia Block, Barre Philips, Jojo Hiroshige, Lin Chi-Wei...
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Stemming from the Master Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts,
this publication promotes the art school as a place for pedagogical,
civic and political implications.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This catalogue stems from two eponymous exhibitions examining Hungary's
art scene's drive toward abstraction to reflect on the complex social
conditions of the country, from the 1960s to the present-day.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Artistic views on forestry and its actors (catalogue).
2020
French edition
Archive Books
Conceived for the 12th Edition of the Bamako Encounters this book captures thoughts and responses of writers, poets, and artists to the curators' proposition to think the practice of photography in Africa and its diaspora through the notion of the “stream of consciousness.”
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archive Books
This catalogue investigates the genealogy of the relationship between art
and ecology in Europe, introducing a series of pioneering research
conducted on both sides of the Iron Curtain in the 1970s.
2020
English edition
Archive Books
A series of essays and visual contributions critically reflecting on the current structures of knowledge within the art world.
2020
English edition
Archive Books
A multidisciplinary investigation of the interrelations of space
and time, memory, architecture
and urban planning through and beyond Henri Lefebvre's concept of
Rhythmanalysis.