search results for "the contemporary condition"
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
A very personal essay that provides a clear introduction to Gilles Deleuze's thinking through his relationship with cinema, seen as a field of experimentation (existential, conceptual and aesthetic) to resist death, disaster and the stupefaction produced by the “modern fact”.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast research on the notion of acoustic and sound ecology and its transition to a new sound ecosophy, integrating the multidimensionality of listening to propose to hear differently.
2025
French edition
Cité du design / ESADSE
How contemporary painting embraces the possibilities offered by digital technology.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
A visual journey through an extensive collection of fashion ephemera housed at the International Library of Fashion Research in Oslo, the world's most comprehensive repository of specialized fashion research and contemporary fashion publications. Aude Fellay discusses the challenges facing fashion research today.
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
The implications of the digitization of image production and distribution on the contemporary ecology of the moving image.
2025
English edition
Torpedo
An investigation into how spontaneous play and public interaction in contemporary art can subvert societal norms, based on the work of Oslo-based Iranian artist Shahrzad Malekian.
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
In an extraordinary feat of endurance and intellectual curiosity, curator and art historian Charles Moore conducted twenty-four back-to-back interviews over twenty-four hours, weaving a tapestry of voices that define contemporary art today.
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A scienticity reader of artistic, philosophical, theoretical moves on the epistemic instruments we spin to intimate the universe.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
This book brings together over 500 drawings from the Antoine de Galbert Collection, gathered over a period of almost 40 years. Works by 213 artists are presented in the form of an alphabet book, generating chance encounters.
2025
French edition
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
A reflection on the experience and challenges of an artistic residency in a rural environment, nourished by the thought of re-habitation.
2025
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Lovett/Codagnone; Sabrina Tarasoff on Diego Marcon; Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi on JJJJJerome Ellis; Cally Spooner and Hendrik Folkerts; Himali Singh Soin;
Wendy Vogel interviews pioneering art historian, curator, and founder of Performa biennial RoseLee Goldberg; Shanzhai Lyric; Amelia Jones on queer feminist literary critic Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Dani Blanga Gubbay; Amanda van Hesteren by Olamiju Fajemisin; Thibault Lac by Skye Arundhati Thomas; Mira Mann by Nicholas Tammens; Claudia Pagès Rabal by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu; Binta Diaw by Camilla Paolino;
Christine Sun Kim and Johanna Hedva discuss "mainstreaming," ableism, and the perils of "care"; books by Georgia Sagri...
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Naima
A dialogue between art and quantum physics.
2025
French edition
Naima
Some sixty artists from different generations not represented in galleries, selected and presented by 35 critics.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An invitation from Marie de Brugerolle to four artists of different styles, backgrounds and nationalities—Mads Lindberg, Kirsten Mosher, Martin Vongrej and Anna Wittenberg—to reaffirm the roundness of words and the world.
2025
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art Volumes
For its second issue, Flash Art's yearly review Flash Art Volumes invited Michael Abel and Nile Greenberg of the New York–based architecture practice ANY as guest editors. They have titled this edition "Crisis Formalism."
2025
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Cura.
Sabine Delafon's business cards signed by other artists.
2025
Blank Forms - Records
Rediscovered and compiled for release shortly before her death in November 2023, Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord presents a never-before-heard recording of composer and artist Catherine Christer Hennix's early magnum opus.
2025
French edition
OUT SIDE IN
Keep Smiling! The Printed Universe of Pontus Hultén offers a portrait of visionary museum director Pontus Hultén (1924-2006) through over 200 printed works—posters, catalogues, film programmes, and invitations. Reflecting his playful, free-spirited take on anarchism, the archive highlights the bold collaborations he fostered with artists and designers throughout his career.
2025
English edition
OUT SIDE IN
Keep Smiling! The Printed Universe of Pontus Hultén offers a portrait of visionary museum director Pontus Hultén (1924-2006) through over 200 printed works—posters, catalogues, film programmes, and invitations. Reflecting his playful, free-spirited take on anarchism, the archive highlights the bold collaborations he fostered with artists and designers throughout his career.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Swarming
A solo CD based essentially on sound recordings in commercial ports.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
This inaugural retrospective volume unveils the œuvre of Lebanese artist Jamil Molaeb (b. 1948) and marks a seminal moment in the appreciation of his artistic legacy.
2025
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Nieves
A series of collaborative drawings by the two Swiss illustrators and artists during a stay in Los Angeles, confronting the city's demons and wonders with unbridled felt-tip pens and colored pencils.
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
2025
no text
Torpedo
A rich selection of around 500 drawings from the extensive archive of the collaborative artist collective from Norway.
2025
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A fictionalized biography of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983).
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first comprehensive presentation of Swiss artist Mahtola Wittmer's work.
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
2025
English edition
Bleu.
In the last element of a triptych debuted by Cycles and Script, J.J. Zana stretches his research on form/emptiness and offers a collage of pieces written between 2016 and 2023.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first publication dedicated to the practice of Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, a central figure in the Portuguese art scene, both in exploratory music, performance, and visual arts.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
From the observation of a society of capuchin monkeys and thought experiments borrowed from theater, Zaven Paré, artist and researcher in interaction design, specialist in theater and robotics, attempts to dismantle the pitfalls of anthropomorphization, in an attention that seeks to preserve the irreducible character of an interspecific copresence.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
An original theory of power based on a dense and insightful inquiry into the consequences of the "Global War on Terror" and the security state, up to the imposition of neoliberal logic and the overflowing of the media made viral.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A philosophical reflection on the place of sound, from musical aesthetics to sound habitat, at the crossroads of sound, music and technology studies, and phenomenology.
2025
Xing
currently out of stock
A vociferous attempt to Shout The Self Out by Elvin Brandhi.
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
The catalogue of the Lebanese-American artist's first exhibition in Italy.
2025
Blank Forms - Records
currently out of stock
Rediscovered and compiled for release shortly before her death in November 2023, Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord presents a never-before-heard recording of composer and artist Catherine Christer Hennix's early magnum opus.
2025
Blank Forms - Records
currently out of stock
Resynthese FAVN is a ten-CD box set and publication presenting a new realization of Florian Hecker's 2017 thirteen-channel installation of the same name.
2025
English edition
Artforum
sold out
Joe Baer, Gertrude Abercrombie, Joiri Minaya, Christine Sun Kim...
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Marion Laval-Jeantet's research into therapeutic care continues her work with Benoît Mangin under the name of Object-Oriented Art on microbiota, at the crossroads of scientific art, biology, anthropology, psychology and ethology.
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
The very personal New Year's greetings published by the Swiss artist in the form of zines over the last twenty years.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
X Artists' Books
Everything Belongs to the Cosmos is a catalog comprising 6 fold-out posters and a booklet that accompanies Alexandra Grant's exhibition with the same name that took place at the gallery carlier | gebauer in Berlin in 2024-2025.
2025
English edition
Zolo Press
currently out of stock
em>Form of Contingency and Pattern of Imminence by Gabriel Kuri combines photographs of emergency plans and cleaning charts with layered drawings, challenging the boundary between chaos and structure. Featuring Kuri's works and an essay by James Cahill, this book offers a profound exploration of inevitability, contingency, and the human need to organize the unpredictable.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
Over 700 drawings and full documentation of the major participatory Land art installation conceived by the Saudi artist for “Valley of the Arts”.
2025
French edition
Lendroit éditions
A list of 112 artists names modified with Open Office corrector (artist's book).
2025
English edition
Lendroit éditions
A list of 112 artists names modified with Open Office corrector (artist's book).
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
Hans Ulrich Obrist leads readers into the world of path-breaking Syrian artist Simone Fattal in this intensely personal volume.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Artist's books
A monograph designed in dialogue with George Trakas based on a choice of works from 1970 to 2022 made by the artist.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
An archeological inventory of the bizarre beauty of art brut, popular gardens and improbable architecture, palaces and tree castles, chapels and converted caves, concrete and matchstick models, rustic furniture and animal sculptures, caravans and flying bicycles, calvaries... and the last homes of creators of all kinds (mental patients, abbots, bistro owners or self-proclaimed artists), most of which now only exist on postcards from the period, around 1900.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A multidisciplinary analysis, based on a historical perspective of theater pedagogies and an eminently contemporary approach to actor training.