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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.
Félicia Atkinson - A Forest Petrifies - Diamond Feedback
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.
Waiting for Omar Gatlato - A Survey of Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its Diaspora
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.
Art Against 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.
Theater, Garden, Bestiary - A Materialist History of Exhibitions
2019
English edition
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
A transdisciplinary history of exhibitions.
Neither
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.
Subjective Atlas of Luxembourg
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).
Susan Cianciolo - I Love You
2019
no text
Nieves
Artist's book.
Paul Elliman - The Heralds - Un appel et peut-être une réponse (vinyl LP)
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.
Jean-Yves Evrard - Jean-Yves Evrard / Christine Wodrascka (CD)
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.
 EYƎ - This Bird Know Rabit
2019
no text
Nieves
Artist's book.
Laure Ghorayeb -
2019
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
This publication looks back on Laure Ghorayeb's transition from writer to painter.
Peter Halley - Heterotopia Ⅰ
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.
Michael Hieslmair - Stop and Go - Nodes of Transformation and Transition
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.
Mischa Kuball - Res.o.nant
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.
Alexandre Leger - Hélas, rien ne dure jamais pour toujours
2019
French edition
Roven - books
This first monograph looks back on French artist Alexandre Leger's production over the last 10 years.
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