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Anthony Burgess - Conversations with the Anthony Burgess cassette archives - 1964-1993 (2 CD)
2019
Sub Rosa
An intimate audio archive of the British novelist, coupled with a 18-track sonic portrait of Burgess by invited artists and musicians.
Anthony Burgess - Conversations with the Anthony Burgess cassette archives - 1964-1993 (2 vinyl LP)
2019
Sub Rosa
22.00 18.00 €
An intimate audio archive of the British novelist, coupled with a 18-track sonic portrait of Burgess by invited artists and musicians.
Kevin Desbouis - A Long List Of Safe Words - (A.L.L.O.S.W)

2019
French edition
Tombolo Presses
A compilation of texts, poems and stories whose title is borrowed from the safe words used in BDSM practices.
Philippe Dudouit - The Dynamics of Dust
2019
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A long-term photographic study on the sociopolitical evolution of the Sahelo-Saharan region since 2008.
Ruth Ewan - It Rains, It Rains
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
29.00 15.00 €
A comprehensive documentation on Ruth Ewan's installation at CAPC, a tangible plastic version of the revolutionary calendar.
Alexander García Düttmann - Qu\'est-ce que l\'art contemporain ?
2019
French edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The heart of the political-aesthetic debate.
Lori Goldston - Things Opening (vinyl LP)
2019
Second Editions
22.00 16.50 €
This new album by the American cellist offers an appreciation of her talents as both a composer and performer, in a unique and elegant style reflecting her many inspirations, from baroque music to Americana and experimental music.
Raphaël Grisey - Semer Somankidi Coura - Une archive générative
2019
French edition
Archive Books
This publication is the result of a research project led by artists Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré around the archives of the self-organized agricultural cooperative Somankidi Coura, in Mali. A historical reflection on agricultural, archival, health, and migratory issues through a decolonial perspective.
Shara Hughes - Portraits
2019
no text
Nieves
A series of colorful invented landscapes, by American painter Shara Hughes.
Jesper Just - Servitudes. Circuits. Interpassivities.
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First retrospective monograph overviewing the Danish video artist's body of works for over a decade.
Julio Le Parc - Du réel au virtuel - 1958-2019
2019
French edition
CDA (Centre des Arts)
Julio Le Parc and the practices generated by digital creation.
Claude Ledoux - Cloud Atlas / Vertical Study (CD)
2019
Sub Rosa
Cloud Atlas is a collection of 10 short pieces composed by Toshi Ichiyanaghi between 1985 to 1999. Vertical Study gathers rare pieces composed by Claude Ledoux. Both are performed by Japanese pianist Kaoru Tashiro.
Christophe Lemaitre - Deux pierres retrouvées d\'Amedeo Modigliani
2019
French edition
Tombolo Presses
An interpretative study of a catalogue published on the occasion of the discovery of two sculptures in the canal of Livorno in 1984. Attributed to Modigliani, these sculptures were, in fact, a student hoax.
Caroline Mesquita - The Ballad
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cura. - Cura.books
The catalogue of the eponymous exhibition by Caroline Mesquita, published on the occasion of her Fondation Ricard Prize. The French artist works primarily with metal, creating sculptures and staged video with strong narratives.
 Miracle Workers Collective - A Greater Miracle of Perception
2019
English edition (texts in English, Sami, Arabic, Spanish)
Archive Books
This catalogue explores how miracle making—making the impossible possible—is reflected in artistic practices today. It includes commissioned essays and poetry by the Miracle Workers Collective and writers close to the collective (catalogue of the exhibition at the Finnish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale).
Philippe Parreno - Synchronicity
2019
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue for Philippe Parreno's first solo show in mainland China, at the Rockbund Art Museum, reveals the artworks presented in the exhibition.
 Raumlabor - Cantiere Barca
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archive Books
Publication documenting a series of workshops involving Raumlabor, a Berlin-based group architects, and the youths of Barca, a neighbourhood in outskirts of Turin. The project, which advocates for the re-appropriation of the public space, saw the development of a series of inhabitable environmental installations.
Antonio Rovaldi - The Sound of the Woodpecker Bill - New York City
2019
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This publication documents a visual research on the perimeters of all five boroughs of New York, featuring a photographic portfolio, a set of maps and a series of texts.
Ines Schaber - Notes on Archives 2 - Culture Is Our Business
2019
English edition
Archive Books
The second in the series of publications "Notes on Archives" dedicated to archival practices, Culture is Our Business offers a comparative case study on the archival policies of a commercial agency and a non-profit independent organization through the example of a 1919 image by photographer Willy Römer.
Ines Schaber - Notes on Archives 4 - Dear Jadwa
2019
English edition
Archive Books
The fourth in the series of publications "Notes on Archives" dedicated to archival practices, Dear Jadwa draws on a photographic archive from the Wadi Ara Valley in Israel to reflect on how visual archives can shed light on forgotten stories.
Günter Schickert - Mauerharfe - Field recordings from 1990 featuring the Berlin Wall (vinyl LP + CD)
2019
various
Three unreleased field recordings from August 1990, documenting a sound installation made from a damaged piece of the Berlin Wall.
Panayiotis Terzis - Megalith Zero
2019
no text
Nieves
A collection of colorful paintings inspired by science fiction and classical Antiquity. A prequel to the artist's ongoing Megalith series of publications that acts as a PH sample of his broader painting, collage, and print studio practice.
Lauren Tortil - Une généalogie des grandes oreilles
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
Une généalogie des grandes oreilles is the result of an iconographic research conducted by artist Lauren Tortil over the past three years on what she calls “Big Ears”: these military surveillance devices that call upon mediated listening – an increased listening through a mediator, such as a tool, an instrument, an architecture, a system, etc.—and that the modern man has relentlessly improved with the purpose of anticipating potential dangers.
Vangjush Vellahu - Fragments I - Where stories cut across the land
2019
English edition
Archive Books
This artist's book derives from a series of videos documenting the present situation of six unrecognized Republics on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Vellahu collects the collective memories of people and lands which have been affected by years of war and by the politics of borders.
Luca Vitone - Romanistan
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Both a journal and a photographic report, this publication documents Luca Vitone's travel from Italy to India, in the footsteps of the first Roma migrations between the eighth and fourteenth centuries.
Christian Wolff - Preludes, Variations, Studies and Incidental Music (2 CD)
2019
Sub Rosa
These recordings performed by pianist Philip Thomas reveal Wolff as a composer fully exploring, in different ways, the continuum between music which is highly fragmented, embracing extended silences—composed or indeterminate—to that which is more progressive and seemingly driven, albeit taking in disarming and unconventional routes.
Ina Wudtke - The Fine Art of Living
2019
English edition
Archive Books
This monographs presents a decade of Wudtke's artistic work on gentrification in the city of Berlin.
Après la crise - États contemporains de la photographie
2019
French edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
A platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today.
Artforum - November 2019
2019
English edition
Artforum
This November in Artforum Bruce Hainley on Pierre Bonnard, Domenick Ammirati on the art of Georgia Sagri, Declan Long on Derek Jarman, and Natasha Stagg on Anicka Yi. Plus, exhibition reviews from Milan, Berlin, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Dubai, and more. 
 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.
Marc Matter - Deconceptual Voicings (vinyl LP)
2019
Mount Analogue
currently out of stock
A collection of musical compositions derived from film interviews with conceptual artists, including Martha Rosler, Art & Language, Andrea Fraser, Ed Ruscha, Shilpa Gupta, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner and Yvonne Rainer.
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).
The Middle Matter - Sound as interstice
2019
English edition
umland / Q-O2
sold out
This reader brings together artistic and theoretical contributions on the instertitial nature of sound. This issue is addressed through a variety of prisms, such as format, language, politics, or new technologies.
Stefan Banz - Marcel Duchamp: Richard Mutt\'s Fountain
2019
English edition
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
sold out
Stefan Banz has brought together and evaluated all the relevant documents and sources relating to Fountain by Richard Mutt alias Marcel Duchamp. At least one thing is certain after reading them: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven had definitively nothing to do with the creation of Fountain. In addition, Banz has succeeded in writing a highly inspiring book containing many new and revealing ideas that present this work of the century in a much more differentiated light.
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.
 Univers Zéro - Phosphorescent Dreams (vinyl LP)
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 (limited marbled vinyl edition).
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.
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