search results for "the contemporary condition"
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
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From 2012 to 2016, Foreign Affairs, the international performing arts festival of Berliner Festspiele, and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) have been investigating the relations between the performing and visual arts. The festival has continuously produced projects with international artists that experiment with various institutional frameworks. This book is both a question and a manual, collecting ideas, knowledge and experiences that stem from the theory and practices developed over the past few years.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
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Kate Cooper stages CGI female models in a parody of lookbook. Reproducing the patterns of hypercapitalist aesthetics, her images underlie a powerful reflection on gender, representation, and the potentialities of the digital world.
2016
Sub Rosa
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New CD edition of a classic from Sub Rosa's catalogue.
2016
Sub Rosa
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Daniel Wilson's Radionics Radio project draws upon the fringe-science of “radionics”, with its invisible forces and psychic resonances, to spawn electroacoustic and electronic compositions employing very alternative tuning systems.
2016
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
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The 2017 Toilet Paper wall calendar features photographs conceived by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari taken from their image-only
magazine.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
Catalogue of a project designed for Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris as part of the “Transphere” Exhibition cycle. Atelier Bow-Wow and Didier Fiuza Faustino have long explored the issue of the habitat, inventing innovative and often provocative “machinery / habitats”. Here they have come together to create a “magical environment”.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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A dialogue between the works of contemporary artist Amie Siegel and the historical spaces of the Villa Stuck in Munich (monographic catalogue).
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A new artist publication coming in two different versions, revolving around Værslev's new series of “sunset” paintings.
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Errant Bodies
Organised in 8 “episodes,” Brandon LaBelle's reference monograph guides us through a number of his installation works and scripts from 2003 to 2014, raising questions of space and community, and further, to the direction of the social and its political potential. Three essays and an interview, as well as the recording on CD of a recent live performance, complete the book.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Cave is a series of publications dedicated to contemporary collecting. The first issue looks into the territory of the public collection considering it both a semantic ground for institutional collecting as well as political and cultural infrastructure.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: the first volume makes a case in favor of concretism in contemporary artistic practices.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The publication encloses a rich documentation on the design, construction and installation of an eponymous permanent work created by Liliana Moro for the seventh edition of “All'Aperto” (Outdoors) in Trivero, in the Piemonte countryside.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
This publication documents a project initiated by Jay Heikes whose purpose is to reflect on collaboration as artistic practice.
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Aparté
This first monograph dedicated to Maxime Bondu's work includes an essay by Daniel Kurjakovic and focuses on nine of the artist's essential installations. Numerous sketches, drawings, mock-ups, archival material and exhibition views contribute to throw light on an experimental, speculative oeuvre that explores alternative readings of the world, history and society.
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The publication follows investigations lead by LOOP—a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image—and questions the act of collecting artists' films and videos.
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published on the occasion of the twenty-year anniversary of the non-governmental organization ART for The World, this publication presents the prestigious organization's activities during the period 1995 to 2016.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Cura. - Cura.books
These volumes document Kunsthalle Lissabon's fourth and fifth year of activity, which happened between 2013 and 2014.
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Road Back To Relevance gives insight into the last decade of Dan Rees's practice. It brings together groups of works—paintings, videos, installations, and photography—that have never before been viewed simultaneously, and reveals the complex nature of the artist's research.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This first comprehensive publication about the Silent University introduces the initiative—a solidary school by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants—and contextualizes it in the wider framework of both radical pedagogy and socially engaged art projects.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
New monograph: a photographic documentation on the site-specific works Under the Water at the Centre Pompidou Metz and gallery Kamel Mennour, completed with visual archives covering over thirty years of practice (1979-2015), and a focus on the artist's roof installations from 1995 to 2015.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An artistic dialogue between German artist and computer composer Florian Hecker, and the late American sculptor John McCracken.
2016
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A set of charades invented by Alain Séchas and illustrated with original drawings, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
miscellaneous
(last copies available!)
15.00 2.00 €
Louise Bourgeois, Adel Abdessemed, Jan Fabre, Judy Chicago, Andres Serrano, Sara Favriau, Camille Henrot, Tino Sehgal, reviews of Angélica Liddell and Nadia Lauro plays, Brussels Kunstenfestival, festival d'Avignon, festival TransAmeriques…
2016
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
A list of titles for exhibitions available free of charge from the artist (artist's book).
2016
Shelter Press - Records
18.00 12.00 €
A record of experimental electronic music that explores possible relationships between voice and modular synthesis.
2016
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
Starting from the art collection of the museum M in Leuven, Vilanova reflects on the artof exhibiting and explores display modes from showcases to postcards.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
ENSAD Nancy (Nancy National School of Art and Design)
An analysis of new collaborative artistic practices interconnecting artists, designers, graphic designers, architects and researchers with different social and economic backgrounds, outside the strict boundaries of the art world.
2016
English edition
Nero
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The catalogue of Metzger's first extensive overview: divided into sections—each of which is accompanied by a critical text—corresponding to those presented in the exhibition, the publication provides systematic insight into an artistic oeuvre considered as one of the most important in the 20th century (with texts by Mathieu Copeland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yoko Ono, Hermann Nitsch…).
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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Part monograph, part artist's book, a publication accompanying Ulla von Brandenburg's eponymous video work—a “danced film” dedicated to color.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
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An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
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A hybrid publication beween a catalogue and an artist's book, articulated on two different registers: a flip-book consisting of the frames of the two videos shown in the exhibition at MAXXI, published on all of the right pages in the book; and a section of critical texts and images documenting the exhibition, on the left.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
First monograph.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
New monograph.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This exhibition catalogue dedicated to Croatian artist Ivan Picelj provides a much needed closer look at the international neo-avantgardes of programmed art, taking a critically systematic approach to the investigation currently underway.
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
A compilation of insightful, first-hand accounts of art making, art criticism, and exhibition organizing from the early-1970s to the present.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Poet Harry Burke recounts an extreme and barely legal experiment led by artist Raphael Hefti in a mountain village in Switzerland in 2008 (artist's book).
2016
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
The group exhibition “Fugitive Volumes” at Mohammed VI museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat presents three generations of artists trained at the Tetouan Institut National des Beaux-Arts, and in particular those who have flourished since the 1980s in the orbit of the artist-teacher Faouzi Laatiris, creator of the Volume and Installation workshop at the INBA in 1993. Beyond the documentation on the exhibition, this publication offers a critical and comprehensive archive on the “Ecole de Tetouan” and the history of a contemporary art in Morocco.
2016
French edition
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
A series of interviews with contemporary poets to understand a practice which seems today more incongruous than ever.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Spike
This issue explores contemporary archetypes—the microcelebrity, the one-percenter, the refugee, the feminist, the sleeper, the saviour, and the thief—who likewise occupy a position between hyper- and invisibility within the social space.
2016
French edition
Frac Franche-Comté - Monographs & catalogues
This catalogue brings together all support materials from Frac Franche-Comté's collective exhibition “Légende*” which focuses on the building of narratives and paratextuality in contemporary art. An “Erratum” brochure to be published at the exhibition's closure will complete this edition.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
20.00 15.00 €
Bringing together their shared and ongoing engagement with artistic practices from Latin America, Jens Hoffmann and Pablo León de la Barra have assembled one of the most significant contemporary survey's of recent art from the region.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A significant intervention into recent debates on the place of literature and writing in the context of contemporary art. Featuring essays on the highs and lows of the conceptual turn in poetics, avant-garde literary genealogies, and monographic pieces on Paul B. Preciado, Chris Kraus, and Pierre Guyotat, among others, Brutalist Readings explores the radical histories of writing, as well as its potential now.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
This volume documents a series of site-specific works by four artists looking at existence from an abstractionist point of view.
2016
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United Dead Artists
Caroline Sury's latest work: a series of phantasmagoric shadows cut out of black paper in a very refined mirror game.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
May
Crisis Fashion by Daniel Horn / Mikael Brkic in conversation with DIS / Vêtements Fall-Winter 2016: Panel Discussion / The Modern Naked King by Taque Hirakawa / Women's History Museum / Stefan Kalmár / Bless in conversation with Anja Aronowsky Cronberg and Heinz Peter Knes / The Street by Tobias Kaspar & Tobi Maier / Interview with Kaspar Müller by Peter Fischli / On the Wardrobe of the Countess Greffulhe / Post-Hummannerism / Eric Sidner and Ryan Siegan Smith by Eric Bell / Mathieu Malouf by George Egerton-Waburton / Julia Moritz on Crystal Moselle's film The Wolfpack / Limited Editions: Julien Ceccaldi, Antek Walczak and Danny McDonald.
2016
French edition
Mouvement
Hélène Frappat, Phia Ménard, Yasmine Hugonnet, the Syrian conflict onstage, urban psychoanalysis, interviews with Laurent de Sutter and Antoine d'Agata, when artists become filmmakers, British musical duo Autechre…
2016
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Edition Patrick Frey
Andreas Tschersich's photographic portraits of peripheral areas around the globe capture the uniformity of these transitional spaces that form the hidden face of urbanity.
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A photographic attempt to capture the elusive nature of the Californian landscape.
2016
English edition
Nero
This artist's book presents a series of polaroids taken from inside a moving car's trunk portraying a dream-like sunbathed Los Angeles landscape, or indeed, an image that is now firmly imprinted in the collective imagination—asphalt, cars and palm trees silhouetted against expansive skies.
2016
English edition
Nero
Uniting the artist with two scholars of the Medieval Mediterranean, John Lansdowne and Christopher MacEvitt, this volume illustrates the movement of objects, images, people and places between Palestine and Italy.