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Per-Oskar Leu - Scrim Sinews
2015
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
This artist's book documents a dialog, exchange, and collaboration between Per-Oskar Leu and Benjamin Tiven, from summer 2013 through the winter of 2015.
Space is the Place 2014
2015
English edition
Nero
(last copies available!)
A selection of xerox copies coming from original drawings reproduced by hand fifty times by twenty artists as part of an editorial game organized by Fabio Marco Micheli and Gigotti Pirovino in 2014 (limited edition).
Lisa Beck - The Middle of Everywhere
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
La Salle de bains
This reference monograph on New York artist Lisa Beck, who develops since more than 30 years an abstract language which is as playful and discreet as it is effective and sharp, presents a significant body of work ranging from the 1980s to the present, and also offers to revisit Beck' recent solo exhibitions (with essays by Samuel Gross and Bob Nickas).
Amar Kanwar - The Sovereign Forest
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Amar Kanwar's extensive project on the social struggles and expropriation issues which take place in the land of Odisha in east India (in collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik / Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur).
There is no place like home
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
(last copies available!)
Twenty-nine artists invest a forgotten building site in Roma during 72 consecutive hours without any institutional oversight.
Gianfranco Baruchello - Verifica Incerta (DVD)
2015
original version, subtitles in English and Italian
JRP|Editions - Bureau des Videos (DVD)
Avant-garde meets Cinecittà: in 1964, artists Baruchello and Griffi edit found footage of Hollywood films from the fifties in Italian version. This original assemblage seeks to disclose the formatting process in the Cinema Industry and offer a new meaning to images.
Volume! - Varia
2015
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
This new “varia” issue of Volume! is made of six papers proposing different while often complementary perspectives on popular music (the role of the Hellfest festival in representations and uses of metal culture, discourses of loudness in rock music, recent evolutions in South American music, Damon Albarn and the English identity, La Monte Young vs The Velvet Underground). Also in the issue: Alf Björnberg and wind harmony, a musical device by Bruno Lefebvre...
World of Matter
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An aesthetic and ethical approaches to the handling of natural resources. By drawing connections between works that derive from artistic practice, journalism, philosophy, activism, and other realms of research, “World of Matter” provides a place of commonality for eco-logical imaginaries.
Stephanie Kloss - Weltausstellung
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Stephanie Kloss's photographs capture the mythos and utopianism of architecture in locations as diverse as Athens, Berlin, the United States, and Japan (catalogue / artist's book).
Stéphane Thidet - From Walden To Space (vinyl LP – Picture Disc)
2015
Optical Sound
sold out
This project stages the collision between the book Walden or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1854) and the mission of Mercury Seven (1958) sending men to space. It is a polymorphic work, evoking the questions of autonomy, isolation, solitude, but also contemplation and enlarged perspectives through music and live performance with modular synthesizers.
Jack Smith - Hamlet, mise-en-scène - EXTRA TROUBLE – Jack Smith in Frankfurt
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
sold out
The publication brings together extensive material from Hamlet, mise-en-scène, an homage to Jack Smith presented at Portikus in 2012, along with recently restored and never-published stills, drawings, and writings by the American filmmaker related to his film Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment) (1970-73).
Ixiptla
2015
Spanish edition
Ixiptla
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
Ixiptla vol. 3 explores archaeological heritage and how it is expressed, contaminated or dissolved in the present.
Olaf Holzapfel - The Technology of the Land / Die Technik des Landes
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
New monograph.
Jeux sérieux - Cinéma et art contemporains transforment l\'essai
2015
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
The cinematic essay thought as a hybrid form between fiction and documentary, cinema and contemporary art: a cartography of the contemporary cinematic essay in 47 critical texts written by filmmakers, artists, historians and art theoreticians.
Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza - Fragments liminaires
2015
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
First monograph.
Christodoulos Panayiotou - Two Days after Forever - A Reader on the Choreography of Time
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
An alternate temporal manifestation of the themes developped by artist Christodoulos Panayiotou and curator Omar Kholeif at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, in 2015.
Michel Assenmaker - L\'Écart et l\'accolade
2015
French edition
(SIC) - Vase
L'Écart et l'Accolade gathers 23 texts of various kinds dedicated to contemporary artists, artistic practices, the art critic, exhibitions and curatorial activities.
Thierry Davila - Shadow Pieces (David Claerbout)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
An innovative study of David Claerbout's work, following the shady—and dark—logic, until now never raised by critics, that structures many of his films with mineral duration and slowness, but also number of “invisible” photographs.
Martin Beck - Summer Winter East West
2015
English edition
Archive Books
Summer Winter East West discusses Martin Beck's engagement with display not only as a tool of presentation but also as a form of communication—within and beyond the realm of the exhibition.
Félicia Atkinson - A Readymade Ceremony (CD)
2015
Shelter Press - Records
A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.
Suzanne Lacy - Gender Agendas
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Comprehensive monograph of the Californian artist and political activist.
Félicia Atkinson - A Readymade Ceremony (vinyl LP)
2015
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.
Dan Graham - Mirror Landscape
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Mirror Landscape weaves together a rich documentation on the design, construction and installation of Two Way Mirror / Hedge Arabesque, the pavilion created by Dan Graham for the sixth edition of “All'Aperto” (Outdoors)—the art event organized by the Fondazione Zegna and curated by Andrea Zegna and Barbara Casavecchia—with a wider overview on the relationship between artwork, viewer and landscape, which runs through the entire production of the artist.
Mousse
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Dora Budor, Martine Syms, On the copy (by Bettina Funcke, Michele Robecchi, Ian Cheng, Liam Gillick, Daniel McClean, Kenneth Goldsmith, Darren Bader, Nick Currie, Martin Clark, grupa o.k.), L'imitation by Philippe Pirotte, Walter Benjamin by Jens Hoffmann, Jim Nutt, Leidy Churchman, Albert Serra, The 80s by Kelly Taxter, Yuri Parrison, Rachel Rose & Ben Russell, Michael Snow & Sharon Lockhart, Aldo Tambellini, Nancy Lupo & Hayley Silverman, f.marquespenteado...
Clément Rodzielski - Aube
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Paraguay Press
First monograph / artist's book.
Invisible Beauty
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the Iraqi Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.
Heinz Peter Knes - On distance
2015
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A volume of photographs by Heinz Peter Knes representing a small selection from his extensive archive of travel photography dating back to 2010.
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen - Playmates and Playboys at a Higher Level - J. V. Martin and the Situationist International
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
After the infamous split in the Situationist International in 1962, the Danish artist J. V. Martin was unexpectedly put in charge of the group's Scandinavian section. This book is the first presentation of Martin's strange trajectory within the SI, in which he would remain a member until the group's dissolution in 1972.
Miriam Sturzenegger - Renovieren
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Boabooks
Miriam Sturzenegger's Renovieren is a compilation of texts about space, time, and the relationship between them, as well as with her work.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - Rêvolutions
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
An extensive documentation on Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's installation for the French Pavilion of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
Vincent Meessen - Third Form
2015
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monograph based on an exhibition project based on a critical rereading of Roland Barthes' writings.
Ghédalia Tazartès - La Bar Mitzvah du chien / Don\'t Cry For Me, Mamma (vinyl LP)
2015
Bisou Records
A shamanic journey in Tazartès's universe.
Mirjam Thomann - 2015
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Monograph / artist's book: a broad selection of Mirjam Thomann's work from 2006 to 2015.
 KWY Group - A Cosmopolitan Realism / Um realismo cosmopolita - The KWY Group / O grupo KWY
2015
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Serralves
This catalogue, based on works and publications in the Serralves Collection, reconstitutes the trajectory of the KWY group and its members—from Lisbon to Paris, to Munich—, their collaborations with other artists and publications and their links to international avant-garde movements.
Atopolis
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
(SIC) - Pinceau
39.00 19.00 €
Catalogue.
 Huang Yong Ping - Bâton Serpent
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This publication supplements the exhibition of the same title at the MAXXI museum in Rome and contains a selection of texts, installation views and a special section focused on Huang Yong Ping's project notes, sketches and models.
Yto Barrada - Before History
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Before History catalogues the exhibition for the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2015, which includes a new body of work by Yto Barrada, the winner of the prize, and existing work by shortlisted artists Sarnath Banerjee, Setareh Shahbazi, and Mounira Al Solh.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2015
English edition
Bulletins of The Serving Library
Sternberg Press
Produced under the auspices of the exhibition “Transmitting Andy Warhol” at Tate Liverpool, this issue includes a history of the relations between drugs and groups by Ian Svenonius, an e-mail exchange between Paul Elliman and pioneer of voice synthesis Richard T. Gagnon, a collage of voices that conjure Warhol's aura by Michael Bracewell...
 The Pit - Jalouses
2015
no text
United Dead Artists
Disembodied girls and sadistic imagery: the nightmarish and disturbing universe of The Pit. Perfect, graphically speaking.
Khvay Samnang - L\'Homme-caoutchouc / Rubber Man
2015
trilingual edition (English / French / Khmer)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
With Rubber Man (2015), Khvay responds to the colonial legacy of land use and its effects on Cambodia's indigenous forests and culture today.
 Chicaloyoh - Les Sept Salons (vinyl EP)
2015
Shelter Press - Records
Alice Dourlen' new EP stands has a condensed document of a 18 months non-stop tour, melting experimental and oriental sounds with a strong theatrical aesthetics.
Frédéric Acquaviva - Loré Ipsum (3 CD)
2015
AcquAvivA
A piece for voice(s) an dead electronics with Loré Lixenberg (mezzo-soprano).
Alessandra Eramo - Se Dio Vuole / God Willing (book)
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Corvo Records
Alessandra Eramo (Ezramo) talks about growing up in Tarano, a city shaped by Catholicism and superstition, by industrial pollution and the ancient tradition of mussel farming. Includes link to the audio files of the sound installation Se Dio Vuole.
The Lulennial - A Slight Gestuary
2015
bilingual edition (Spanish / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
When artistic gestures achieve the maximum effect through the smallest of means: the catalogue of the Lulennial, a biennial organized by Fabiola Iza and Chris Sharp at Lulu, a 9-square meter independent space in Mexico City, whose economy, “in the sense of doing a lot with a little or sometimes nothing at all,” is one of the founding principles.
Carsten Höller - “Fara Fara” - A Film Not Made
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A photographic account of Carsten Höller's journeys to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the purpose of a film about Fara Fara music.
Nicole Brenez - “We Support Everything since the Dawn of Time That Has Struggled and Still Struggles” - Introduction to Lettrist Cinema
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A presentation of the key figures and the basic concepts of Lettrist cinema, which prefigured the breakthroughs of the nouvelle vague and the experiments of expanded cinema.
Composing Differences - Imagining New Models for Knowledge Production and Exchange
2015
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A montage of theoretical and speculative texts, conversations, fictions, and documents exploring different tactics of production and intellectual exchange that operate in the interstices between artistic, educational, and political contexts, and imagine novel institutional forms.
Hans Haacke - Esthétique des systèmes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
First French translation of the two famous essays in which Jack Burnham draws the profile of an “aesthetic systems.”
E-flux journal - The Internet Does Not Exist
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
currently out of stock
The internet is an ever-growing storage space of information that we have come to rely on—but what does this thing called the internet really mean? (contributions by Julian Assange, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Diedrich Diederichsen, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Bruno Latour, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hito Steyerl...).
In the Canyon, Revise The Canon - Utopian Knowledge, Radical Pedagogy and Artist-Run Community Art Spaces in Southern California
2015
English edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
currently out of stock
The artistic and pedagogical experimentations and the alternative networks developed in California from the late sixties.
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