search results for "the contemporary condition"
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)
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 – To look at things
Issues 16 to 18 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
2019
no text
various
(last copies available!)
Françoise et Jean-Philippe Billarant's collection of minimal and conceptual art.
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
bilingual edition (English / French)
Collection
sold out
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
English edition
Archive Books
A post-colonial
pamphlet on the ethnological museums of Europe, primarily the upcoming
Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
2019
quadrilingual edition (English / German / Greek / French)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
Since 2016, choreographer Lenio Kaklea has been collecting the practices of Europeans. Taking to the streets and pathways of Athens, Aubervilliers, Essen, Guissény, Nyon, and Poitiers, she has gathered nearly 600 unique stories. This compilation testifies to the familiarity and diversity of habits, of rituals, and of trades that compose and distinguish these territories.
2019
English edition
Punch
sold out
A collection of texts, notes and drawings from Alina Popa (1982-2019),
edited as a tribute publication by her longtime accomplice, the artist Florin
Flueras. A political and theoretical work that questioned
both the intimate and social mechanisms of the contemporary.
2019
English edition
Archive Books
Celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the project A Collective
Memory by Azin Feizabadi—a series of five narrative films—this
publication features fictions by guest contributors who were asked to expand
on their viewing experience of one of the films in the Collective Memory
series.
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph dedicated to the young American painter, whose expressive and colorful universe draws on the everyday life in the margins, from bohemians to non-conformists. The publication also
presents the Gray's theatrical works and associates the artist's two
practices.
2019
English edition
Punch
Artist's book.
2019
English edition
Archive Books
Monograph dedicated to the films of the Israeli artist Assaf Gruber.
Articulated around eight conversations related to the films' production,
this publication reflects an important theme in Gruber's work: what effects
can art have on individuals far removed from the artistic field.
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monograph dedicated to artist Brittany Nelson, who appropriates
techniques from 19th century photography to create works of feminist science fiction and queer abstraction.
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
Comprised of a series of texts, drawings and photographs, this catalogue
documents and expands on the multimedia installation by "Natascha Süder
Happelmann" (Natascha Sadr Haghighian), an artistic reflection on ruinous
space (catalogue of the German Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale).
2019
English edition
Loevenbruck
Reference monograph on the singularly radical work of Michel Parmentier—an important addition to the history of painting in the second half of the 20th century.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Présent composé
currently out of stock
This bilingual publication retraces a journey and a set of studies, graphic creations and texts that lead to a process of drawing research in a digital environment.
2019
Sub Rosa
sold out
A compilation of string compositions and collages
by multimedia artist and composer Milan Knížák, performed by the fama Q
string quartet.
2019
English edition
Punch
Corner is a Romanian artist-run magazine that approaches football
from an interdisciplinary perspective (anthropology,
art, contemporary dance, architecture,
economics, politics...).
This volume comprises all contributions from the first six issues,
published between 2015-2017.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
CQFD
Twenty multidisciplinary texts and artistic proposals to re-examine our relationship to the natural world.
2019
English edition
Archive Books
What can it mean to return home? Inspired by author Georges Perec's Espèces
d'espaces and artist Hreinn Friðfinnsson's House Project,
this catalogue brings together international artists to investigate the
various facets of coming home.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the Second Yinchuan Biennale articulates itself through
the themes of the desert, nomadism, and ecology. Taking the
form of an illustrated atlas, the publication documents works by more than
90 participating artists.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The first in a series of publications dedicated to the exploration of the
archives of the Italian region of Basilicata from an
artistic perspective. This volume focuses on areas affected by the
reclamation of the water system.
2019
English edition
Mount Analogue
This monograph documents a research on an abandonned site of the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). For his investigation,
artist Henrik Andersson relied on various public archives as well as on
the FOI's astonishing art collection.