search results for "the contemporary condition"
2019
Sub Rosa
15.00 11.00 €
Third chapter in the Sufi Word's series by Belgian composer Jean-Luc Fafchamps, featuring Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles and Centre Henri Pousseur, conducted by Jean-Paul Dessy.
2019
Edition Telemark
Recordings made between 2005 and 2014 by the experimental German band.
2019
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
First major monograph devoted to the “Icarus of Lautertal”, a key figure of outsider art, flying machines inventor Gustav Mesmer. This publication looks back at his path through essays by Lucienne Peiry, Juliane Stiegele and Franz Xaver Ott, as well as photographs by Franco Zehnder and Stefan Hartmaier.
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: this second volume investigates the relationship between performance, subjectivity, and human agency within a more global reflection on transhumanism.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
A publication conceived by Portugese artist Francisco Tropa in collaboration with writer Thomas Boutoux and graphic designer Pedro Falcão, which adopts the form of magazine one flips through in bars or in waiting rooms. A true/false weekly style magazine with refined imagery printed on glossy paper, The Mustache Hidden in the Beard is dedicated to cultural and scientific topics, design, life styles but also real estate through a series of cutting, quirky articles, investigations, portraits and reports.
2019
French edition
EESAB (European Academy of Art in Brittany)
This collective publication, bringing together texts and images by artists and theoreticians, proposes to turn away from the inexorable question, so often reiterated, “What is painting?”, to question the ways in which the painting is made and thought today, with or without the pictorial medium, in or out of the canvas, with or sometimes without the painters themselves.
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
28.00 14.00 €
Since the 1990s, artist Rainer Ganahl has been inspired by Karl Marx's writings. In over 700 pages, this publication brings together essays, photographs and other documentation from dozens of Ganahl's projects adapted from Marx's theories.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Sophie von Hellermann by Tenzing Barshee; David Horvitz in Conversation with Yann Chateigné; Helen Lundeberg by Andrew Berardini; Queer Abstraction by Travis Jeppesen; An Unpardonable Mannerism of Style by Rose Vickers; The Art of Judging a Book by Its Cover by Dieter Roelstraete; Tomás Saraceno; Mario García Torres...
2019
English edition
Neural
Interviews with
Cornelia Sollfrank,
Lílian Campesato,
Hyphen-Labs,
Faith Holland,
Mary Flanagan,
Spideralex,
Linda O'Keeff;
Sonic Territories, monumental loudspeakers to the people; books, DVDs and CDs reviews...
2019
Sub Rosa
17.00 12.50 €
Piano always had a central role in the discography of French composer Sylvain Chauveau. This selection of unreleased and out-of-print short pieces—mostly soundtracks—showcases what might be Chauveau's musical signature: quietness, slow pace, long resonances, a close as possible to silence. Music to be played at night.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
(last copies available!)
Artist's book with which Lauren Huret looks at the question of erasing images on the Internet.
2019
Edition Telemark
22.50 16.00 €
A composition for improvising sextet by Austrian double bassist, composer and improviser Werner Dafeldecker, providing a structure that doesn't curtail the qualities of the musicians, yet forces them to listen very closely to each other and make focused decisions about parameters that are often overlooked in completely free improvisation.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Spectres
Shelter Press - Spectres
The first issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Spectres – Composing Listening presents a series of texts by composers (Félicia Atkinson, François Bayle, Brunhild Ferrari, Stephen O'Malley, Jim O'Rourke, Eliane Radigue, Chris Watson...) who discuss personal dimension in the practice of experimental sound art and music.
2019
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
Publication devoted to the only statement the Belgian artist has ever published about his own work.
2019
Edition Telemark
A set of pieces written by sound artist William Engelen for a 18th century organ, exploring and pushing the sonic boundaries and possibilities of the instrument.
2019
Sub Rosa
17.00 12.50 €
A previously unheard masterpiece of Israeli multimedia artist Ami Shavit, inspired by the Yom Kippur war, in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic Music series.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Figures
Philosopher Ludger Schwarte presents a critical essay against the notion of contemporaneity in art and pleads for a renewed temporality: an art of futurity.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Délashiné!
A detailed investigation into the Japanese noise scene (Japanoizu), with a sharp critical eye and an in-depth knowledge of local sources, by a specialist of alternative cultures and experimental musics in Japan.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
currently out of stock
First major catalogue/monograph on the French artist: an overview of Molinero's dual work, which both reflects on the academic history of sculpture and refers to pop culture, especially science fiction, splatter films, and crime news.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
various
currently out of stock
Catalogue of Francis Alÿs' exhibition at Beirut Art Center.
2019
English edition
Spike
currently out of stock
Spike Art Magazine #58 (“The Magic Issue”) inaugurates a new formula all in English.
2019
Edition Telemark
currently out of stock
A composition for brass chamber ensemble that explores the origins of language and its relationship with music.
2019
French edition
ESAD Reims (Reims School of Art and Design)
sold out
A collective survey on the multiple dimensions of Artist-Run Spaces all around the world.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Zolo Press
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This monograph provides an exhaustive look at the practice of Yann Gerstberger, a French artist exiled in Mexico, whose work is deeply rooted in Mexican popular culture and pre-Columbian mythologies. The publication gathers series of works (sketches, photocopies, neon paper drawings and collages, tapestries), two essays, and poems by Gabriela Jauregui. The edition features an annex booklet devoted to exhibition views.
2019
French edition
Féros
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The fourth issue of the erotic journal Féros comes in the form of a leporello, accompanied by various inserts (slide, silver print...), featuring 25 visual and artistic projects.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Bretagne
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This new monograph brings together Nicolas Floc'h's artistic production of the last twelve years.
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
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This catalogue accompanies the group exhibition curated by Meg O'Rourke at Eykyn Maclean gallery in New York. With Viennese architect Adolf Loos's eponymous 1908 diatribe against excessive ornamentation as its guide, the exhibition draws on the tenets set forth by Loos—simplicity, purity, freedom—with particular attention to their philosophical implications and their persistence into the latter twentieth century.
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
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A collection of texts by the French-American photographer and filmmaker in which she reflects on her artistic practice and discusses her collaborations with other filmmakers, artists, dancers and choreographers such as Marina Abramović, Chantal Akerman, Trisha Brown, and Yvonne Rainer.
2019
Edition Telemark
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This double LP is released in an edition of 300 and includes two solo vocal pieces by Flux artist Takako Saito, two more vocal pieces in which Saito's voice interacts with the sounds of an everyday event, and two non-vocal sound pieces. It is housed in a full-color sleeve and includes one insert with liner notes by Saito, a poster, and four postcards.
2019
Song Cycle Records
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Powerful instrumental music performed by Robert Rauschenberg, Kat Epple, and Bob Stohl on electronics, and a series of musical metal sculptures called Strategic Structures.
2019
Song Cycle Records
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Michael Snow's The Last LP is an extraordinary collection of tracks “of rare music derived from threatened, obsolete, or now-extinct cultures from around the world” that although the claiming of being field recordings of ancient musical experiences, are in fact pieces played, conceived and recorded by the artist himself.
2019
French edition
Mouvement
Nils Alix-Tabeling; Emmanuel Fureix looks at political conflicts through the prism of acts of destruction; an emerging generation of writers chronicles contemporary Ireland; survivalist experience in contemporary art; dance and the video game industry; Steven Cohen;
Élisabeth Filhol; Philippe Quesne; Mimosa Échard...
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
First monograph dedicated to the artistic freelance photography of industrial photographer and filmmaker Giorgio Wolfensberger (1945-2016). Beginning with the black-and-white documentary photography of his first years, the publication then documents a rich body of colorful photographs depicting with humor, the strangeness of everyday life and its objects.
2019
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
An extensive investigation on art conducted for thirty years by an artist for whom the archives constitute an artistic material in its own right.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
This publication celebrates 10 years of Poptronics, a French online media dedicated to net-culture: net-art, video games, music and sound art, hacktivism, post-digital art… For its tenth anniversary, Poptronics brought up a collective archive of its materials, revisited by the French digital art scene.
2019
English edition
Artforum
Editor-in-chief David Velasco introduces a special artist project by Martine Gutierrez, Bruce Hainley on the art of Cady Noland, Daniel Marcus on Picasso: Blue and Rose, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on the art of Banu Cennetoğlu, plus a special previews section with over 40 exhibitions worldwide; including Nari Ward at the New Museum, Wong Ping at Kunstalle Basel, the Sharjah Biennial, and more.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Bureau des Videos (DVD)
The sixth volume of the “Archives” series, which is dedicated to landmark exhibitions and curatorial practices, brings together two films by Belgian filmmaker Jef Cornelis on the opening of the Castello di Rivoli in 1985, whose inaugural exhibition was conceived by curator Rudi Fuchs, and the 1987 edition of Skulptur Projekte Münster, organized by Kasper König and Klaus Bussmann.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Casino Luxembourg
An exploration of the theme of emptiness in art (exhibition catalogue).
2019
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
Reference monograph.
2019
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Elian Radigue; sound and magic; Arnaud Rivière / Mark Morgan / Blenno die Wurstbrücke; James Saunders; Bill Orcutt...
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Books
Soil Affinities explores the connections of (post)colonial history and the movement of plants for agriculture, from Aubervilliers, a northern suburb of Paris, to formerly French West Africa (Mali and Senegal). This publication and Uriel Orlow's eponymous project retrace the lines and networks of earthly connections between plants and humans through images, maps, texts, and interviews conducted in France, Senegal, and Mali over the span of two years.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A critical examination of the relationship between aesthetics and politics through the iconic figure of Carla Lonzi (1931-1982), an innovative art critic and one of the founders of neo-feminism in Italy.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An investigation into the artistic and political issues of participatory art since the 1990s.
2019
English edition
Damiani - Photography
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One of the most charming and least well-known Italian cities portrayed through the faces of the people who live there today.
2019
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
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The long-awaited facsimile publication of Dorothy Iannone's 1969 cookbook.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archivio
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The Americana Issue includes: Surfing Vietnam, The Manhattan Project, John Margolies Along The Road, Catherine Dunne, In The MoMA's Vault, Jean Baudrillard On 9/11, The Black Female Imagery, Marco Ferreri: Dawn Of The End, Spectres Of Power, Disneyland Has Been Abandoned, Yes! Yes! Yes! Media Goes Underground, Tony Oursler And The Paranormal, Gianni Pettena And The Living Desert.
2019
French edition
Fondation Hartung Bergman
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Recipes from all over the world: an illustrated cookbook by Anna-Eva Bergman, published for the first time.
2019
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Serralves
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This luxurious comprehensive catalogue, lavishly illustrated, brings together works from throughout the artist's career, from early collages and Polaroids, to the images of flowers, nudes, sexuality and portraits that made him one of the most notable photographers of the last century.
It includes texts by art historian Jonathan K. Nelson and by Susan Sontag
2019
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
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A score for 51 human voices intended to mimic the sound of the sea, displayed as loose sheets slipped in PVC sleeve. David Horvitz's hommage to Pauline Oliveros.
2019
English edition
Alberta Pane
First monograph.