search results for "the contemporary condition"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2019
various
Three unreleased field recordings from August 1990, documenting a sound
installation made from a damaged piece of the Berlin Wall.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2019
English edition
Archive Books
This monographs presents a decade of Wudtke's artistic work on
gentrification in the city of Berlin.
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.
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.
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.
2019
no text
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's book.
2019
French edition
Mouvement
Matera and Taranto; interviews with Abraham Poincheval and Siri Hustvedt; Nyege Nyege and underground music in Ouganda; Jonathan Capdevielle...
2019
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
A collection of ten facsimiled Moleskine notebooks filled with works by Swiss artist Aldo Schmid.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
2019
French edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
A long-term photographic study on the sociopolitical evolution of the
Sahelo-Saharan region since 2008.
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.
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.
2019
no text
Nieves
sold out
The everyday life of Stefan Marx in Berlin, in a 300-page volume of drawings.
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.
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).
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.
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.
2019
Montagne Noire / GMEA
Joëlle Léandre (double bass, voice) and Alexandra Grimal (saxophones, voice) compose, improvise and underline the freedom of musical creation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2019
English edition
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
A transdisciplinary history of exhibitions.
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.
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).
2019
no text
Nieves
Artist's book.
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.
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.
2019
no text
Nieves
Artist's book.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
This publication looks back on Laure Ghorayeb's transition from writer to painter.
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.
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.
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.
2019
French edition
Roven - books
This first monograph looks back on French artist Alexandre Leger's production over the last 10 years.