search results for "the contemporary condition"
 
 
 René-Jacques - Forms of Elegance
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Albums (exhibition catalogues)
The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume – Château de Tours provides an overview of the photographer's career through forty key images.
Matthieu Saladin - La Popularité des conflits
2019
no text
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's book.
Mouvement
2019
French edition
Mouvement
Matera and Taranto; interviews with Abraham Poincheval and Siri Hustvedt; Nyege Nyege and underground music in Ouganda; Jonathan Capdevielle...
Aldo Schmid - Notebooks 2005-2018 (box set)
2019
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
A collection of ten facsimiled Moleskine notebooks filled with works by Swiss artist Aldo Schmid.
Jim O\'Rourke - To magnetize money and catch a roving eye ( 4 CD box set)
2019
Sonoris
A 4-hour work recorded at Steamroom (composer's studio) between 2017 and 2018: a hypnotic, multi-faceted, labyrinthine piece which flows as slowly as a river while speeding back through memory, and shows all the talent of Jim O'Rourke.
Erin Manning - Le geste mineur
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Erin Manning expands her research on movement politics to the concept of minor gesture.
Andrew Pekler - Sounds From Phantom Islands (vinyl LP)
2019
Faitiche
currently out of stock
The soundtrack of an interactive project around phantom islands—islands that appeared on historical maps but never actually existed. A collection of fictitious soundscapes, between field recording and exotica music.
Matthieu Saladin - La capture de l\'inaudible (booklet + SD card)
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Artkillart
currently out of stock
A reverse encoder that keeps only frequencies usually removed by the mp3 encoders, giving the “inaudible” frequencies to listen (software edition on SD card and silkscreen booklet, including a text by Jonathan Sterne).
Philippe Dudouit - The Dynamics of Dust
2019
French edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
A long-term photographic study on the sociopolitical evolution of the Sahelo-Saharan region since 2008.
 Institute of Sonology - Early Electronic Music - 1959-1969 (2 vinyl LP)
2019
Sub Rosa
sold out
Early electronic music from 1959 to 1969 produced by the Institute of Sonology, in Utrecht, Holland. Their pioneering research work helped define brand-new forms during the crucial 1960s decade.
 Institute of Sonology - Early Electronic Music - 1959-1969 (CD)
2019
Sub Rosa
sold out
Early electronic music from 1959 to 1969 produced by the Institute of Sonology, in Utrecht, Holland. Their pioneering research work helped define brand-new forms during the crucial 1960s decade.
Stefan Marx - Berlin Drawings
2019
no text
Nieves
sold out
The everyday life of Stefan Marx in Berlin, in a 300-page volume of drawings.
 Univers Zéro - Phosphorescent Dreams (CD)
2019
Sub Rosa
sold out
Available for the first time outside Japan, another epic album of symphonic schizophrenic avant-rock from legendary band Univers Zéro.
Jacob Lund - The Contemporary Condition - Anachrony, Contemporaneity, and Historical Imagination
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
This theoretical essay advocates for the overcoming of the dominant notion of the contemporary as the point of departure for the development of (art-) historical imagination.
Oscar Oiwa - Transphère - Rio, Tokyo, Paris – Cities, Games
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
10.00 5.00 €
Rio, Tokyo, Paris: Oscar Oiwa, Brazilian artist of Japanese origin, draws from these three Olympic cities to which he is personally bound, a matter to question the world of today, inviting us to dive into his half-realistic mid-fantasy universe, where sometimes point humor and nostalgia.
Alexandra Grimal - Désordre (CD)
2019
Montagne Noire / GMEA
Joëlle Léandre (double bass, voice) and Alexandra Grimal (saxophones, voice) compose, improvise and underline the freedom of musical creation.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - An Exhibition Always Hides Another Exhibition - Texts on Hans Ulrich Obrist
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
15.00 7.50 €
A collection of essays and portraits on one of the most influential art critic and curator of today.
Félicia Atkinson - A Forest Petrifies - Diamond Feedback
2019
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
The first part of a larger novel in several episodes: a text about the perception of time and how some places mark people's minds.
Waiting for Omar Gatlato - A Survey of Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its Diaspora
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This catalogue offers diverse representations of everyday life in Algeria and its diaspora through film, paintings, photography and sculpture by twenty-five contemporary artists. It includes the first English translations of key theoretical texts on Algerian contemporary art.
Art Against Art
2019
English edition
Art Against Art
Günter Erbe on the Dandy in and outside society up until the digital age, Taslima Ahmed on how Putin's political culture has affected art, Masato Fukushima looking at multiple personae taken on by contemporary artists, a seminal essay by Andrés Gómez Emilsson's designing eight models of art for a scientific paradigm of aesthetic qualia, plus recent film reviews by A.S. Hamrah and a documentation of Michael Farin's search for a lost oasis in the Saharan Desert.
What about Activism?
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This reader gathers more than twenty leading curators and thinkers who present powerful case studies, historical analyses, and theoretical perspectives that address the dynamics of activism, protest, and advocacy in curatorial practice.
Neither
2019
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Stemming from the Barthean spirit of the 2017 opening show of Brazilian gallery Mendes Wood DM's new space in Brussels, this catalogue gathers new works by a selection of artists who participated in the inaugural exhibition. It also features a fictional history of the gallery by Oliver Basciano, associated with photographs by Mauro Restiffe.
Subjective Atlas of Luxembourg
2019
English edition
Casino Luxembourg
A very subjective and alternative cartography of Luxembourg (a social design, publishing and bottom-up creation project led by Dutch graphic designer Annelys Devet).
Susan Cianciolo - I Love You
2019
no text
Nieves
Susan Cianciolo's new artist's book.
Paul Elliman - The Heralds - Un appel et peut-être une réponse (vinyl LP)
2019
La Salle de bains
Superimposing different sources—background sounds, recordings of a charivari in the streets of Lyon, bird songs or rhythms and melodies of amateur or professional musicians—Paul Elliman's vinyl record can be experienced as a form of sound loitering, each track composed by the transformation of different audio materials into unique musical collages.
Jean-Yves Evrard - Jean-Yves Evrard / Christine Wodrascka (CD)
2019
Montagne Noire / GMEA
Christine Wodrascka, pianist and improviser, and Jean-Yves Evrard, guitarist and improviser, produce one and the same complex sound material, a homogeneous and multiple sum, advocating a freedom nestled in the interstice of notes.
 EYƎ - This Bird Know Rabit
2019
no text
Nieves
Artist's book.
Laure Ghorayeb -
2019
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
This publication looks back on Laure Ghorayeb's transition from writer to painter.
Peter Halley - Heterotopia Ⅰ
2019
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
Peter Halley's multimedia installation for the Magazzino del Sale N. 3, a 15th-century warehouse in the Dorsoduro district of Venice.
Michael Hieslmair - Stop and Go - Nodes of Transformation and Transition
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
This publication presents the results of a research project which explored the transformation of informal structures within the road transport corridors connecting Eastern and Western Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Mischa Kuball - Res.o.nant
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Res·o·nant documents the namesake light and sound installation created by conceptual artist Mischa Kuball for the Jewish Museum Berlin. The catalogue comprises contributions by a prestigious ensemble of international thinkers, artists, and writers.
Alexandre Leger - Hélas, rien ne dure jamais pour toujours
2019
French edition
Roven - books
This first monograph looks back on French artist Alexandre Leger's production over the last 10 years.
Marcello Maloberti - Martellate - Scritti Fighi 1990-2019
2019
Italian edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
A collection of all writings, in the form of slogans, which have accompanied Marcello Maloberti in almost thirty years of poetics introducing themes he finds meaningful.
 Musa paradisiaca - Views on Misunderstanding
2019
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
First monograph dedicated to Musa paradisiaca, a dialogue-based project by Eduardo Guerra and Miguel Ferrão founded on temporary partnerships. This richly illustrated publication documents the variety of their works— sculpture, paintings, texts, and sounds—and includes new commissioned essays.
Warren Neidich - The Glossary of Cognitive Activism - (For a Not So Distant Future)
2019
English edition
Archive Books
A dictionary designed as a tool for analysis and resistance to the new realities of neurocapitalism. With 285 definitions stemming from the fields of political philosophy, media studies and neuroscience.
Christoforos Savva - Untimely, Again
2019
bilingual edition (English / Greek)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Monographic catalogue dedicated to the life and practice of Christoforos Savva, whose oeuvre was unparalleled in the incipient Cypriot art scene of the 1960s (catalogue of the exhibition at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, honoring the 50th anniversary of the artist's death).
Christoforos Savva - The Memory of the Archive - Christoforos Savva in the 1954 – 1968 Cypriot Press & Literary Periodicals
2019
bilingual edition (English / Greek)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A compilation of press archives related to Cypriot artist Christoforos Savva, selected in the Cypriot press and literary periodicals between 1954 and 1968.
Stephen Sutcliffe - At Fifty
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
First monograph dedicated to British filmmaker and video artist Stephen Sutcliffe. Including commissioned essays and an interview with the artist, At Fifty examines over twenty years of film collages practice, delving into Sutcliffe's extensive use of television archives and critical reflection on British cultural identity.
Anna M. Szaflarski - Very Normal People
2019
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
In this collection of stories and illustrations, Szaflarski examines the subject of violence, in particular as it is experienced through the female body. Beginning with an autobiographical experience, the story triggers a dissociative state that plunges the book in and out of imaginary worlds and associative narrative threads.
Daisuke Kosugi - A False Weight
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Part of The New Sanctuary, the Satellite Programme 12 devised by Laura Herman for the Jeu de Paume and the CAPC, A False Weight is published in conjunction with the exhibition by Daisuke Kosugi, an intimate project on the disabled body, supported by a reflection on the architecture of the home.
Active Art
2019
English edition
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
In this book, the 1923 manifesto “Active Art” by Latvian philosopher Andrejs Kurcijs triggers a series of responses by writers, artists and curators on the notion of activism, past and present: art for political purposes, art for its own purpose or art with no purpose.
Aesthetic Theory
2019
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
There is no theory that is not aesthetic (collective publication edited by Dieter Mersch, Sylvia Sasse and Sandro Zanetti).
Archivio - The Unreal Issue
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archivio
The Unreal Issue includes: Alluding to the invisible Gaetano Kanizsa, He will not come in the splendour of his glory, Memories of an observed scenario, World sign relic, Wherever you look you can admire, Against the point of view, The banality of evil, CRRI—The archive as a tool, Post-ideological autonomous island, Bodies are the objects, The beginning of the Italian music industry: Ricordi against piracy in the 19th Century, The mythology of the saint, Jeux sans frontières.
Artforum - October 2019
2019
English edition
Artforum
This October in Artforum Lauren O'Neill-Butler on the art of Agnes Denes, Barry Schwabsky on Jean Dubuffet, and Jace Clayton on Christian Marclay. Plus, 4 artists and critics consider the legacy of Douglas Crimp, Amy Taubin on Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat, exhibition reviews from Paris, Zurich, Basel, Vilnius, and much more. 
Loren Connors - Autumn\'s Sun
2019
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
The definitive edition of Loren Connors' texts.
Bomb
2019
English edition
Bomb
7.50 3.50 €
Interviews with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Antoine Catala and Dan Graham, Atelier Bow-Wow, American Artist, Jeff Bliumis, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Rion Amilcar Scott, and Carmen Giménez Smith.
Cura.
2019
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
Cura. #32 brings together an incredible array of conversations with cutting edge and pioneering artists, together with recurring and brand new sections, that set the rhythm of an upcoming year filled with new and thrilling explorations.
Elena Vogman - Dance of Values - Sergei Eisenstein\'s Capital Project
2019
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
Researcher Elena Vogman examines the unpublished archival material relating to the film adaptation of Karl Marx's Capital by Sergei Eisenstein. The analysis of these materials reveals the clear and ambitious idea that animated the Soviet filmmaker for this aborted project: to build a visual theorization of value.
Béatrice Cussol - Eponym e
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
AMAC
Retrospective monograph.
Espace art actuel - Transparency
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
The development of the ideology of transparency within aesthetic modernity and the importance of being able to circumvent it.
filters:


 top of page