search results for "the contemporary condition"
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.
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.
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...
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).
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.
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.
2020
French edition
Zero2
52 short poems, written in a nervous prose during periods of trance. A response to the “disease of globalization.”
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.
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.
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).
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Hippocampe - Books
12.00 6.00 €
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.
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.
2020
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Here and There
Nieves
The 14th issue of Nakako Hayashi's graphic journal, on the theme of collage.
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.
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.
2020
Keplar
A timeless collection of 9 evocative minimalist soundscapes, available on vinyl again (remastered by Giuseppe Ielasi) after 10 years.
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).
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.
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.
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.
2020
Students Of Decay
20.00 10.00 €
The new Tom James Scott record, the first document of his solo work since 2017.
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.
2020
English edition
Bruno
A photographic diary by Giovanna Silva guiding us through the United Nations Office headquarters in Geneva.
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Large-sized monograph based on Adrián Villar Rojas' “Brick Farm” series.
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.
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.
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.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
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Exhibition catalogue of the sixth Triennal 50JPG – 50 Days for
Photography in Geneva, exploring the relationships
between eros and cosmos.
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.
2020
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
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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.
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.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
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Catalogue, with a series of photograms, exhibition views, an interview and a text by Clara Schulmann.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
10.00 5.00 €
The catalogue of the first exhibition in France of the Japanese performers' collective contact Gonzo.
2020
French edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
A post-colonial pamphlet on the ethnological museums of Europe, primarily the upcoming Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
2020
English edition
Bywater Bros. Editions
The fifth volume in Jack Pierson's famed Tomorrow's Man
series associates archival material and works by contemporary artists in a
collage-like design to produce an exploded vision of the current visual
landscape, draped in vintage homoeroticism and glamour.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
A reflection on an escape from the public sphere starting from a visit of Derek Jarman's house.
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Retrospective catalogue spanning more than fifteen years of work by the conceptual textile artist known to explore the idiom of minimalist painting.
2020
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Nieves
This Zine contains a selection of Dash Snow's critical Dada-esque collages, which range from cum-glittered tabloid covers starring Saddam Hussein to straight text pieces to sculptural works composed of items like books and skeletal fragments; and a smattering of the photographs and Polaroids that originally made Snow famous outside of street art culture, where he began writing graffiti.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Al Dante
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
The colony as a major philosophical concept in contemporary political thought—a basis for reflection on decolonization (expanded reprint of the book published in 2008).
2020
English edition
Clinamen
Art & vinyl: an analytic anthology of artist's records in Switzerland.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This publication explores the legacy of Renzo Martens' landmark film Enjoy
Poverty: a provocative work establishing how poverty
became Congo's most lucrative export.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This publication is the outcome of a touring assembly platform
bringing together writers, curators, and art practitioners to reflect on exhibition
practices and histories in China and Southeast Asia.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Spectres
Shelter Press - Spectres
The second issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, is dedicated is devoted to the concept of resonances, with contributions by Maryanne Amacher, Chris Corsano, Ellen Fullman, Christina Kubisch, Okkyung Lee, Pali Meursault, Jean-Luc Nancy, David Rosenboom, Tomoko Sauvage, The Caretaker, David Toop, and Christian Zanési.
2020
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
Sternberg Press - Sandberg Series
Art as a tool to reinvent our daily reality: textual and visual
outcomes of the temporary master Reinventing Daily Life at the Sandberg
Instituut in Amsterdam.
2020
French edition
Roven
Roven - Roven magazine
Roven #15 is entirely devoted to the links between drawing and sound.
2020
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Serendipity and “accidental intelligence”.
2020
English edition
Spike
Special New York issue.
2020
English edition
Neural
Co-editor: Rachel O'Dwyer; interviews with Kyriaki Goni, Tiziana Terranova, Roel Roscam Abbing and Dennis De Bel, Tim Shaw, Surya Mattu; Dreaming otherwise: the past and future of community wireless networks; We Organise You Music, So You Don't Have To; reports: FAEN 2019, Mud Muses, Nam June Paik exhibition...
2020
INA-GRM - Recollection GRM
A highly psychedelic electroacoustic piece from 1981 built on fractal patterns in the studios of the Groupe Musiques Vivantes de Lyon, and another one composed almost four decades later, based on birdsong and forest sounds.
2020
Akousis Records
Six pieces exploring multi-phonic spaces on the clarinet and alto saxophone, spaces linked to breath and the sonic landscapes developed by the amplification.