search results for "the contemporary condition"
2020
Arbitrary
Mads Emil Nielsen continues his Framework series, a collection of open, hand-drawn graphic scores and recordings. The series includes Nielsen's own subjective translations of the visual material and sound pieces accompanied by visual notations, and collaborations—in this case with Andrea Neumann, Jan Jelinek and Hideki Umezawa.
2020
English edition
MER. B&L
Richard Tuttle and color.
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
Ben Alper and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa present visual unknowns and forgotten gestures from the defunct archives of American mid-century news photography.
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
A glimpse into the genesis of Harun Farocki's film IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR (1988), which evolved from the unrealized project "On the History of Labor" between 1985 and 1988.
2020
English edition
Sound American
The Alien Issue features writing on the alien and alienation by Sarah Hennies, Franklin Bruno, inti figgis-vizueta and James May on listening to ourselves and each other, Marc Hannaford, Nicole Kaack in conversation with Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Charmaine Lee and id m theft able on building a home, Matana Roberts, Jacob Wick, Wendy Eisenberg, Chris Pitsiokos and Ben Young on WKCR and Triple Point Records, a contribution to the 2019 exquisite corpse series by Lester St. Louis, and more. The print edition includes very special full color reproduction of Charles Gaines's Librettos.
2020
Timeless
currently out of stock
The magical drawings and works of Samantha Davies and Matthew Bower of the noise-rock band Skullflower, which invoke and evoke the Egyptian god Set.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Maison ONA
currently out of stock
An essay by the French composer that provides some perspective on his musical concepts and formulates his vision of music and society.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – The Drawing Centre
Michael Scott's ink drawings .
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
A wide-ranging collection of texts on contemporary painting,
by one of its most finest observer today.
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This monographic volume dedicated to the work of Pedro Barateiro spans a
period that dates back to 2008 and features extensive visual and written
material of key projects presented in solo exhibitions, as well as other
relevant installations, videos and performances.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A photographic archive of the transgender community in Bologna in the
1980s. With critical texts by scholars and queer
theorists.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Kaph Books
First major retrospective monograph dedicated to the Franco-Lebanese sculptor.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Books
The new book from French photographer Estelle Hanania gathers over ten years of collaboration and archives revolving around the artistic universe of Gisèle Vienne.
2019
English edition
Nieves
Colorful characters express themselves through humorous signs.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the eponymous exhibition by Laure Prouvost at Pirelli
HangarBicocca: a multimedia project—installations, videos and projections,
sculptures and found objects—revolving around the story of Prouvost's
“grandfather”, a fictional prolific conceptual artist.
2019
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
A talk between three artists around Julia Scher's work.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Klima
Klima #2 focuses on the global ecological crisis, the impact of human activity on its environment and the interdependence between the entities that make up the Earth.
2019
Flee
currently out of stock
This double LP forms a tribute to Pizzica, an antique music from Southern
Italy, used to heal people suffering from tarantism, a mysterious disease
caused by a spider. It includes field recordings of musicians-exorcists in
the 1950's in Puglia, and six reworks by contemporary electronic
musicians.
2019
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
This issue of Flash Art, with essays by Dorothea von Hantelmann and Isobel Harbison, dedicates sixteen-pages dossier to the work of Rebecca Horn, a pivotal figure of performative art, and develops a series of reflections on a younger generation of contemporary artists who are now using their bodies or their personas as agents in an attempt to re-cognize themselves in a present that increasingly rewards the loss of self-consciousness.
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This publication documents a project inspired by Bradbury's Fahrenheit
451, in which performers memorize a book to form a collection of
living books to be read in libraries by visitors. The publication brings
together eighteen text contributions from artists and theoreticians, and a
visual essay.
2019
French edition
Naima
An overview of the experiments carried out over four years by the CCE research laboratory of the National School of Art of Limoges, between ceramics, glass and new technologies.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
An overview of video art
production from the Pearl River Delta in China:
having emerged in the mid-1980s, this vital yet under-represented art scene
is thoroughly documented in this richly illustrated catalogue (460 ill.)
which features works by nearly sixty artists (catalogue of the inaugural
exhibition at Times Art Center Berlin).
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Stemming from the namesake exhibition program at Cooper Gallery, Of
Other Spaces draws on women
artists' activism from the 1970s to the present day to build a
reflection on feminist thinking as a provocative and cogent mode of creative
and critical inquiry.
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Halfway between a catalogue and a reader, this publication documents a
long-term, touring exhibition project on the critical reception of Hubert
Fichte's ethnographic
travel literature. This
large-scale initiative brings forth a multi-faceted debate on colonial
modernism, ethnography, poetry
and sexuality.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
various
Catalogue.
2019
French edition
Cneai
A reflection on the value of speech and anonymity as well as on the authority at work in the distribution of knowledge.
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This catalogue stems from an eponymous project on the Israel Museum in
Jerusalem. The artist brought out an impressive photographic recension of
artifacts, revealing the forgotten stories and fascinating polyphony of
the museum's collections.
2019
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This catalogue documents a research and exhibition project
stemming from a fieldwork conducted by the artist on a
palaeontological site in South Australia.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph dedicated to the radical Swedish painter,
draftsman, sculptor, and precursor of sound arts (audio CD included).
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Casino Luxembourg
Exhibition catalogue.
2019
no text
Nieves
A series of illustrations depicting automobiles
set in a chaotic post-apocalyptic world, inspired by the dystopian
aesthetics of the 1980s and 1990s.
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This historical essay recounts the story of the EXAT 51 collective—the
first Yugoslavian abstract art
group—and how it shaped the idea of abstract socialism by associating
socialist cultural politics and modernist artistic practice.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This autobiographical novel describes the author's esoteric quest and
involvement with a shaman in the hope of saving his mother, diagnosed with
terminal cancer.
2019
DUUU
A radio novel inspired by the author's previous publication, associating
infuences from sound fictions, experimental music, sound
poetry, and rap.
2019
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A collection of photographs of children
who grew up to become famous in a variety of fields, from literature to
arts, sports, politics, and even crime. A photographic “Guess Who” of the
20th century in the making.
2019
English edition
Artforum
The best of 2019.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Four essays by philosopher and musicologist Peter Szendy on Anri Sala's
recent practice. Szendy emphasises the key role played by music
and sound in Sala's
sensorial installations.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Collection
The new issue of the magazine dedicated to drawing, with height long-length interviews with Linus Bill, Adrien Horni & Joseph Allen Shea, Acacio Ortas, Olivier Lebrun, Éditions Peinture around Saeio, Hélène Bertin, Étienne Périn, Son Ni, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Diaphanes
Diaphanes - Diaphanes (magazine)
Diaphanes #8/9 looks into curious loops of reproduced present, the integral of circular I-effects, the other side of the social Möbius strip.
Is the self nothing but an echo? An effect without cause? The human being a message, an autoreply in the jargon of social-memes? Who or what massages the backchannel so astoundingly self-similarly, like an invisible hand?
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
Issues 16 to 18 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
2019
Confort Moderne
The first album of Ophelia, a band composed of the artist Emilie Pitoiset and two members of Aluk Todolo, Shantidas Riedacker and Matthieu Canaguier.
2019
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Thomas Krempke's photographic diary.
2019
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
This issue proposes to examine some of the points of contact between music and hacking.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The development of spatial and tridimensional drawing in American art, both in theory and in practice, from the 1960s through the 1970s.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Catalogue of the second Orleans Biennale of Architecture: a call for an archipelago of solitudes.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Flee
sold out
Limited edition including a double LP compilation and a 168-page publication
gathering a complete documentation on Tarantismo, a project
dedicated to a centuries-old choreo-musical ritual
from Southern Italy, to exorcise women of a mysterious evil caused by the bite of a
spider.
2019
French edition
Fondation Hartung Bergman
sold out
Catalogue of the exhibition gathering a set of eighty works, on canvas or paper, in small and very large formats, that Anna-Eva Bergman created in the wake of her two travels to northern Norway, in 1950 and 1964, from which emerges a plastic language that signs the whole of his future work.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
This catalogue embodies the entire creative career of Marisa
Merz (1926-2019), the only female artist from Arte
Povera. Commissioned texts and selection of her most iconic
works accentuate a recurrent theme in the artist's work: the exploration
of the face and the human figure.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
sold out
New monograph.
2019
no text
various
sold out
Françoise et Jean-Philippe Billarant's collection of minimal and conceptual art.