search results for "the contemporary condition"
2020
French edition
Light Cone
A presentation of the key figures and the basic concepts of Lettrist cinema, which prefigured the breakthroughs of the nouvelle vague and the experiments of expanded cinema.
2020
Faitiche
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Frank Bretschneider's most radical work: a self-generating composition for synthesizer modules whose sole sound source is the movement of two VU meter needles. The resulting percussive sounds coalesce into rhythmic combinations—all random, without repetition. A meditation on infinite rhythmic variation.
2020
English edition
Punch
Artist's book.
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This book revolves around the cycle Topography of Terror, initiated by artists Elisa Caldana and Diego Tonus in 2017, and presents the making-of process behind Topography of Terror (19.12.2016) and Never Again, the first two episodes of the cycle.
2020
French edition
Tombolo Presses
First monograph.
2020
English edition
ISOLARII
Salmon: A Red Herring questions what colours we expect in our "natural" environment. It asks us to examine how our perception of colour is changing as much as we are changing the planet. Adapted into the eponymous Turner Prize-nominated exhibition at Tate Britain, this book launched an international campaign against salmon farming.
2020
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
(last copies available!)
Artist's book.
2020
Shelter Press - Records
Kassel Jaeger's first solo LP with Shelter Press—a remarkably intimate and forward-thinking aural balm, bristling with complex beauty.
2020
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
First monograph dedicated to Pierre Leguillon's Museum of Mistakes: a
traveling exhibition gathering a collection of mass culture artifacts and
craft objects, questioning with humor and subversivity the mechanisms of
today's visual culture.
2020
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A collection of photographs and drawings retracing the founding Californian experience of the artist.
2020
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Between an artist's book, an essay and a catalogue, this publication explores the notion of “installation” in the appropriation strategy developed by the now fictional artist Ludovic Chemarin©, through the conceptual figure of the Kentia palm.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Alberta Pane
Reference monograph, collecting the past 10 years of Marcos Lutyens' research and career, with two essays and detailed introductory texts for each project.
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books
The expanded anastatic reprint of the Italian designer's sulphurous catalog of 1973.
2020
Arbitrary
The latest instalment in Mads Emil Nielsen's sequence of graphic scores and recordings, including the Danish composer's own subjective translations of visual materials and sound pieces accompanied by visual notations: published as a limited edition art print folder, Framework 3 consists of risographed scores and recordings on 10" vinyl and CD—with recordings by Nielsen, along with graphic scores by Katja Gretzinger and contributions by Nicola Ratti.
2020
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
Émilie Notéris focuses her analysis on artworks created by women in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in a book that is at once literary, aesthetic and political.
2020
Matière Mémoire
An extended drone work performed on organ, building from a peaceful single note to a harmonically rich and subtile combination of tones.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This retrospective monograph, with a dozen previously unpublished texts and a long interview with the artist, reveals the challenges of Portuguese artist Diogo Pimentão's resolutely expanded practice of drawing, informed as much by dance as sculpture or performance.
2020
French edition
Shelter Press - Books
An essay on the singular universe of the director, scenographer, choreographer, puppeteer and visual artist Gisèle Vienne.
2020
Optical Sound
The new project of Hervé Zenouda (Stinky Toys): a sophisticated and rustling electronic music.
2020
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
From 1970s to his death in 2000, scientist, artist and art collector Andreas
Züst spent time in Greenland, photographing ice in its most diverse forms.
This publication gathers a selection from this extensive collection,
alongside contextual essays.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Présent composé
Between 2017 and 2020, researchers in the fields of art, design, computer science, psychology, sociology, digital humanities and mathematics explored the historical publication of the artist Paul Klee, which appeared in 1925 at the Bauhaus. The research work led to the project being part of a logic of patrimonialisation and transmission of knowledge based on digital technologies.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
Fondation Hartung Bergman
Drawing on extensive documentation and unpublished sources, this collective publication proposes an ambitious re-examination of Hans Hartung's prolific work and eventful personal trajectory as an actor in a broader history of abstraction, which also provides a fertile matrix for many other reflections on twentieth-century art.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph of the photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, an active member of the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s: an overview of his work, with a dozen essays, an interview and the artist's writings.
2020
English edition
Spike
currently out of stock
The 65th issue of Spike, devoted to the theme of plants.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
MO.CO. Panacée
currently out of stock
Catalogue of Ambera Wellmann's first monographic exhibition in a public institution, presenting a set of about ten recent paintings, several of which were created for the occasion.
2020
French edition
Féros
sold out
The fifth and last issue of the erotic journal.
2020
English edition
Artforum
sold out
Carceral Aesthetics: Nicole R. Fleetwood in conversation with Rachel Kushner;
Where We're At: Bulletins from around the globe;
Artist Project: David Velasco introduces Stanley Whitney;
Blasted Allegories: Fabrice Stroun on the art of Steven Parrino...
2020
Faitiche
sold out
Jan Jelinek's album Tierbeoachtungen in a limited pressing on vinyl for the first time.
2020
Second Editions
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Two attuned location-based pieces that sit somewhere between conceptual composition and magical realism.
2020
Sub Rosa
The composition Radio Music Extended, performed by Opening Performance Orchestra, draws upon the concept John Cage brought to bear in his piece Radio Music from 1956.
2020
English edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
It is a form of spiritual revolt that Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís highlights through a transversal analysis of different artistic expressions that combine to enrich his reflection.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
currently out of stock
A study on the role of research and knowledge production in today's
contemporary art, and the growing relevance of art as conduit of
knowledge.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Theorists, historians, and artists address the precarious futurity of the notion of the future itself.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Drawing on original documents, photographs and detainee artwork, this book offers a unique insight into the experience of immigration detention in the UK.
2020
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Flash Art Summer Issue.
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
The Musical Chairs That Is Capitalism by Estelle Hoy; Hudinilson Jr. by Paulo Miyada, walking in Chicago with Hendrik Folkerts; Brook Hsu in conversation with Ross Simonini; a short story by Travis Jeppesen; Primavera (An Elegy) by Sabrina Tarasoff; Anthropy: What the Post-Human Looks Like by Dieter Roelstraete; Ian Wilson by Catherine Wood; Omar Kholeif charts the ailing effects of living in an increasingly sick society...
2020
English edition
Archive Books
Reference monograph: the most comprehensive introduction to the Korean artist's postcolonial and feminist approach.
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A comprehensive look at the unique artistic work of German photographer Annette Kelm and the visual idiom she has developed over the course of her career.
2020
Sub Rosa
Silk Saw's 12th album, blending sweet and bitter in languorous and enigmatic melodies that float on intriguing pounding polyrhythms.
2020
Blank Forms - Records
Reissue of a classic example of Masayuki Takayanagi's “non section music” from 1975.
2020
Blank Forms - Records
Reissue of a classic example of Masayuki Takayanagi's “non section music” from 1975.
2020
Blank Forms - Records
Reissue of a classic example of Masayuki Takayanagi's “non section music” from 1975.
2020
English edition
Archive Books
Publication including the films Transformation Scenario, 70.001, and Faux Terrain, as well as a visual essay, a glossary and texts by Heike Geißler, Fanni Fetzer, and Franciska Zólyom.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
A painter and an inventor, Eugène Frey (1863-1930) pioneered techniques of animated sets for the theatre at the same time period as the cinema was invented. While he is contextualized beside the creations of Loie Fuller, Georges Méliès or Lotte Reiniger, he is reinterpreted by the artist João Maria Gusmão. First publication devoted to the work of Eugène Frey, the luxurious catalogue of the exhibition at the New National Museum of Monaco presents texts by Stéphane Tralongo (University of Lausanne) and Laurent Mannoni (Cinémathèque française), as well as a work of fiction by João Maria Gusmão.
2020
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Through “Experimental & Parametric Music 1976-2017,” more than 40 years of Joris de Laet's work are unveiled. We discover here for the first time the great coherence of this work: from “Signalisations” (1976) to “Mnemosyne pour une acousmaman” (2017). The twelve compositions are annotated and explained in detail by the composer, as well as a kind of wild autobiography.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
An overview of how creative practices are modifying the ways we think about both knowledge production and research in the cultural sector and in academia.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Twenty authors and artists reinvent our relationship to nature.
2020
Sub Rosa
sold out
Through “Experimental & Parametric Music 1976-2017,” more than 40 years of Joris de Laet's work are unveiled. We discover here for the first time the great coherence of this work: from “Signalisations” (1976) to “Mnemosyne pour une acousmaman” (2017). The twelve compositions are annotated and explained in detail by the composer, as well as a kind of wild autobiography.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
From Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich to Basma Alsharif and Pauline Oliveros, Deux Soeurs brings together a chorus of voices that explore representations of parenthood, friendship, and disobedience.
2020
English edition
MER. Books
sold out
In this book, together with Pierre Chabard, Philippe Vander Maren and Richard Venlet explore and explicit the design process of House D through a set of unpublished work documents such as sketches, scale models, series of annotated plans, collages and pictures.