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Ellen Cantor - A history of the world as it has become known to me
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Publication focusing on Cantor's final project Pinochet Porn (2008–16)—an epic experimental film taking the form of a soap opera about the intimate life of people under the military dictatorship of Chile. A dramatic, transgressive and explicitly feminist work, embodying and radically extending Cantor's multifaceted artistic practice.
Philippe Robert - Agitation frite - Témoignages de l\'underground français – Vol. 3
2018
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
The third and last volume of the publication dedicated to the French underground musical scene.
Davide Balliano - Building Body
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
sold out
This catalogue traces a comprehensive itinerary within the artist's rigorous and appealing body of work. A research where austere geometric forms, shaped in tones of white and black, become the alphabet of an open reflection on the world. The publication includes an interview with Balliano by curator Chrissie Iles, a critical essay by Luigi Fassi, and a rich collection of images.
Otto Dix - Estampes
2018
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
sold out
This publication devoted to Otto Dix's print works (woodcuts, etchings, lithographs) showcases a collection from the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany. A large iconographic thematic section and a series of essays revisit Otto Dix's favourite themes—the nude, the portrait, the city, religion and war—symptomatic of his desire to portray man holistically, from birth to death, as a creature of flesh, palpitations and blood.
Ana Mendieta - Le temps et l\'histoire me recouvrent
2018
French edition
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
sold out
The films of Ana Mendieta.
Ugo Rondinone - Limited Edition (5 volume box set)
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Specially designed box containing a series of five books conceived by the New York–based Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, published over two years to accompany a cycle of exhibitions devoted to works inspired by the color spectrum, with the centerpiece being Vocabulary of Solitude, forty-five life-size sculptures of clowns. Limited edition of 100 copies, box set signed by the artist.
Tomás Saraceno - Palais - On air
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
sold out
On the occasion of his carte blanche at the Palais de Tokyo (from 17 October 2018 to 6 January 2019), the artist Tomás Saraceno is the guest editor-in-chief of issue 28 of the magazine Palais.
Uriel Orlow - Theatrum Botanicum
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This publication emerges from Uriel Orlow's Theatrum Botanicum (2015–18), a multi-faceted project encompassing film, sound, photography, and installation, which looks to the botanical world as a stage for politics, in South Africa and Europe. It brings together documents on the project, and a series of commissioned essays.
 A Constructed World - Ideology & A Constructed World - The Complete Writings 2001-2018
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mix
A Constructed World is the collective project of Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva, founded in 1993. This bilingual publication brings their complete writings from 2001 to 2018. In forty plus texts A Constructed World discuss the subject matter of their work, other artists work and subjects that seemed prescient and in need of discussion at the time.
Thomas Ankersmit - Homage to Dick Raaijmakers (CD)
2018
Shelter Press - Records
For his first record in 6 years, Thomas Ankersmit pays homage to the late legendary Dutch composer, electronic and tape music pioneer, and multimedia artist Dick Raaijmakers. Inspired by Raaijmakers's composition and recording techniques, Ankersmit exclusively used analogue devices, creating three-dimensional and holophonic sound fields.
Max Neuhaus - Max Feed - Œuvre et héritage de Max Neuhaus
2018
French edition
miscellaneous
A collective reflection on the legacy of Max Neuhaus, the pionneer figure of sound installation art.
Pauline Oliveros - Early Electronic Works 1959-66 (2 vinyl LP)
2018
Sub Rosa
sold out
Pauline Oliveros's early and rare electronic works in a strictly limited edition on silver vinyl—with no reprint.
Thomas Ankersmit - Homage to Dick Raaijmakers (vinyl LP)
2018
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
For his first record in 6 years, Thomas Ankersmit pays homage to the late legendary Dutch composer, electronic and tape music pioneer, and multimedia artist Dick Raaijmakers. Inspired by Raaijmakers's composition and recording techniques, Ankersmit exclusively used analogue devices, creating three-dimensional and holophonic sound fields.
Zin Taylor - Lavender Glass
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This monograph brings together nearly a decade of work, combining sculpture, installation, artist's book and writing. More specifically, the publication explores the themes of growth and training within the artist's conceptual practice, through a long interview conducted by writer and curator Dieter Roelstraete.
Ari Marcopoulos - Boarding Pass
2018
no text
Nieves
A series of off-the-cuff photographs demonstrating the poetic experience of air travel (artist's book).
Gregory Buchakjian - Habitats abandonnés - Une histoire de Beyrouth
2018
French edition
Kaph Books
In a rapidly changing Beirut, neglected dwellings are condemned to disappear as a result of land speculation. This multi-layered transdisciplinary project aims at examining the transformations that these obsolete architectures undergo. The study, carried on site, based on archives, testimonies and oral history, also proposes new artistic perspectives towards the city.
Brandon LaBelle - The Human Strike (CD)
2018
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
This recording stems from a collaborative sound experimentation developed as part of a project to create new forms for artistic research within the university. Invited artists, musicians, and researchers produced a series of sound actions focusing on questions of community, creative resistances, sonic agency and the créolité passing between Haiti and Quebec.
Ben Patterson - The Lost Tape & The Three Required Musics (vinyl LP)
2018
Edition Telemark
LP featuring a recording of the search for a lost tape by musician Ben Patterson, with the help of editor Stefan Fricke and composer hans w. koch. This 1960 lost tape acts a symbolical archive, since it documents Patterson's pre-Fluxus period. Having failed to find it, tehy decided to recreate the recording with a score from this period. The reconstructed track is on the record's B side. This edition includes liner notes, and selected documents chronicling the search.
Louis Michel Eilshemius - Six Musical Moods (+ CD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
The first publication ever dedicated to the musical works of American painter Louis Michel Eilshemius: Halfway between romantic tradition and futurist audacity, these sound pieces which prefigure the use of sampling are interpreted with virtuosity by the young pianist Imke Lichtwark in the accompanying CD. The book also includes texts by Roberto Ohrt, Sven Daigger, Stefan Banz, and by Eilshemius himself.
Gregory Buchakjian - Abandoned Dwellings - A History of Beirut
2018
English edition
Kaph Books
currently out of stock
In a rapidly changing Beirut, neglected dwellings are condemned to disappear as a result of land speculation. This multi-layered transdisciplinary project aims at examining the transformations that these obsolete architectures undergo. The study, carried on site, based on archives, testimonies and oral history, also proposes new artistic perspectives towards the city.
Klaudia Schifferle - 152 Paperdolls
2018
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This publication features a series of 152 paper dolls by artist Klaudia Schifferle, also co-founder of cult punk band Kleenex / Liliput. These collages, created with magazine cutouts collaged on A4 paper, embody a certain vision of modern life, identified by consumerism and commodity fetishism.
Charlotte Charbonnel - A07 A17
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
First monograph.
Christian Globensky - Comment j\'ai appris à me tenir droit
2018
French edition
various
A pastiche, playful and educational aesthetic manual.
Flash Art
2018
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
12-page special feature on Tony Conrad, with texts by Nora N. Khan and Charlemagne Palestine, on the occasion of his traveling retrospective; the Cultural Capital Cooperative; Tony Cokes's 1988 video Black Celebration; Raul Guerrero; the art of Tobias Kaspar; the minimalist tendency in Rasheed Araeen's work…
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi - La Nuova pratica
2018
French edition
Mix
A synthesis of the research conducted by the Italian composer since 1987 (new edition).
Seta Manoukian - Painting in Levitation
2018
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
This publication looks back at Manoukian's pictorial work, focusing on the 70s and 80s periods of her practice. It includes an essay by Gregory Buchakjian, a chronology by Aline Manoukian, and an interview with the artist by Kristine Khouri.
Simple Gift
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
A visual  sprechgesang opera by Florent Dubois arranged by officeabc, with a libretto by Jill Gasparina, Stephen Knott, Aurèle Nourisson, Joël Riff, and Guiral & Domingues.
 Gilbert & George - The Great Exhibition
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Catalogue of the quadruple major retrospective exhibition celebrating Gilbert & George's one-of-a-kind half century of creating art together: an overview of their practice, featuring a selection of historical pictures deemed by the artists themselves as the most representative of their art and life, and five new interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Daniel Birnbaum.
Koki Tanaka - Vulnerable Histories - An Archive
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Fully documenting Koki Tanaka's latest video & photo project, this publication focuses on a pressing issue from the artist's native country—the mutual incomprehension and mistrust between Zainichi Koreans and ethnic Japanese—to plead for vigilance when it comes to racism and discrimination.
PARIS LA - Tenth Anniversary Special / The Fashion and Writing Issue
2018
English edition
PARIS LA
DoPe Press
PARIS LA 16—a tenth anniversary special—focuses on the dual themes of fashion and writing.
Céline Ahond -
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Digressions (interviews)
A conversation with French artist Céline Ahond whose work—from video and objects to performance and collaborative acts—questions the place of the individual, power relations, the territory, and the eventuality of freedom.
Mads Emil Nielsen - Black Box 1 (7\
2018
Arbitrary
(last copies available!)
A 7" vinyl based on an music/audio made by Mads Emil Nielsen made for a dance performance.
Mads Emil Nielsen - Refound (10\
2018
Arbitrary
A collaboration between Andrea Neumann (composer, inside piano, mixer) and Mads Emil Nielsen (composer, electronics).
Vincent Peters - 113 C
2018
no text
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
Artist's edition: a set of folded posters between two cardboard plates held by elastic bands, featuring a series of black & white female nude by the famous fashion photographer, set in a bus on a rainy night.
Actes du colloque arts & langage - Épreuves  contemporaines des relations textes & images
2018
French edition
ENSP Arles (National School of Photography)
A contribution to the construction of a critical thought of the iconic economy of the relations between text, language and image.
Athene Galiciadis - An Acrylic Glass Pyramid and Three Pendulums attached to a Triangle on a Table
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Monograph by artist Athene Galiciadis gathering unpublished artworks, specially created for this publication: inspired by Emma Kunz, Swiss artist and healer, whose work draws on geometric abstraction, Galiciadis produced a series of drawings—figures, spirals, patterns and vases—printed on graph paper, accompanied by photographic documentation.
Artforum - September 2018
2018
English edition
Artforum
Artforum invited Catherine Damman, Dorothea Rockburne, La Monte Young, Carolee Schneemann and others to reflect on the Judson Dance Theater in honor of their forthcoming exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Editor-in-chief David Velasco on the art of Adrian Piper, Solveig Nelson on the holographs of Simone Forti, special projects by Awol Erizku and the Women's History Museum, Marilyn Minter shares her Top Ten, plus Fall Previews, looking ahead at 40 exhibitions worldwide and much more.
Nicholas James Bullen - Bass Terror (vinyl LP)
2018
Sub Rosa
Limited edition of a recording confronting the virtuosity of two bassists: Bill Laswell's black trance track Bass Terror Tetragrammaton faces Nik Bullen's hypnotic composition Nocturnal Crawl. The two pieces answer each other strangely, like two sides of the same hidden anxiety.
Bomb
2018
English edition
Bomb
7.50 3.50 €
From Audra Wolowiec's activation through caretaking of Ann Hamilton's Guggenheim show to the collaboratively written fiction of Shelly Oria and Nelly Reifler, Bomb #145 seeks to reconfigure our ideas of authorship, participation, and other willful acts of co-presentation. This issue also has additional features and new literature from J.P. Sniadecki, Las Nietas de Nonó, Sherwin Bitsui, Diana Hamilton, Bomb's 2018 poetry contest winner, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, and many others.
Rifat Chadirji - Building Index
2018
English edition
Kaph Books
A comprehensive publication of Rifat Chadirji's photographic folio, which records and analyses the development of his architectural practice in Baghdad, from 1952 until the early 1980s. It provides a unique insight into a collection of photographic sheets that reflect how an architect documented his own work, and coded, organized and referenced his projects using photography.
Kaori Suzuki - Conduit (CD)
2018
Second Editions
Originally conceived for live context employing high volume playback and extended duration, Conduit pushes the parameters of musical composition and perception. Minimal in construction, applying high frequency staccatissimo that gradually turns in on itself, Kaori Suzuki's latest output delivers a striking twenty-six minutes of intoxicating computer music. A remarkable statement.
Bernard Renoux - Dockers à Nantes - L\'expérience des itinéraires
2018
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
The itinerary as an artistic, architectural, territorial and social experience.
Jacques Attali - Éditoriaux du Journal des Arts - 2017-2018
2018
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Jacques Attali's chronicles on art.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - En affinité(s) - Marcel Duchamp / Jean Dupuy
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Loevenbruck
This illustrated essay creates a dialogue between the works of Fluxus artist Jean Dupuy and dadaist Marcel Duchamp around their shared interest with eroticism.
Niklaus Stauss - Foto
2018
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This publication presents an overview of the Zurich photographer's work as well as a very personal record of the Swiss and European arts scene of the past sixty years. Edited by Barbara Stauss, it's also a daughter's tribute to her father on his 80th birthday.
Hans Hartung - Les années de guerre
2018
French edition
Fondation Hartung Bergman
This catalogue looks back at Hartung's artistic production and life during the Second World War.
Paul Panhuysen - Long String Installations (3 vinyl LP)
2018
Edition Telemark
(last copies available!)
68.00 59.00 €
3 vinyl LP edition presenting solely unreleased recordings of Panhuysen's famous long string installations. It documents the period 1982-2012, and includes a posthumous track from 2017. With liner notes by Rolf Sachsse and Stephan Wunderlich, and richly illustrated inner sleeves.
Mouvement
2018
French edition
Mouvement
Stage director Léa Drouet; “Cut-up nation” by Fanny Taillandier; the figure of the witch, by essayist Mona Chollet; interviews with Christophe Honoré, Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Læticia Dosch; literary collective Wu Ming; Showmen's life in today's France; the rave scene in Georgia; portraits of Debra Granik, Simon Fisher Turner, Nicolas Daubanes; drones and corporeality: an interview with choreographer Éric Minh Cuong Castaing by philosopher Armen Khatchatourov; portfolios by Julien Carreyn and Jack Bool…
Neural - Blockchain. The Trust Catalyst
2018
English edition
Neural
Issue coedited with Rachel O'Dwyer, media and communications Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin; interviews with Olivier Sarrouy, Furtherfield (Ruth Catlow & Marc Garrett), Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, Martín Nadal, Ami Clarke, Sarah Friend; A token called ART; How is the Blockchain Transforming the Art World?; reports on the Meta.Morf 2018 – the 5th Trondheim Biennale, and Transmediale 2018.
 Pseudocode - Next One\'s Called… (vinyl LP)
2018
Sub Rosa
The third and final LP report of the Belgian electronic improvised music band from the eighties. Recorded and mixed between 1980 and 1981, Next One's Called… features unreleased songs only. It could be seen as the missing link between their two previous albums—Slaughter in Tiny Place and Europa (limited dark green vinyl LP edition).
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