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Lenke Rothman - Life as Cloth / Liv som tyg
2024
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Focusing on Lenke Rothman's unique, conceptual approach to her working materials, this publication presents selected parts of her extensive production, including paintings, drawings, installations, books, sculptures, objects and textiles.
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 38 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo calls upon ancestries, be they intimate or political, transgenerational and historical, human or more-than-human, symbolic or material.
Jean-Jacques Lebel - Front Unique - La traversée du surréalisme de Jean-Jacques Lebel
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
This book recounts Jean-Jacques Lebel's long and tumultuous passage through the powerful laboratory of ideas and experiments of surrealism that was the journal Front Unique (1955-1960), which heralded and sometimes prefigured his future protean activities in the fields of art, poetry and militancy (anticolonial and libertarian).
En quête d\'images - Écritures sensibles en recherche-création
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.
Temps naissant - Un glossaire pour le XXIe siècle
2024
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.
Olivier Berggruen - Formes du désir - Une brève histoire de la collection d\'art
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This history of art collecting traces a multiplicity of aesthetic attitudes through the prism of certain key figures in the history of taste. Over the course of the chapters, we discover how art collecting reflects—or responds to—an individual's character.
Ida Soulard - Les abstractions concrètes d\'Anni Albers (1899-1994) - Une histoire textile de la modernité
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
A wide-ranging study of the visual and theoretical practice of Anni Albers, a pivotal figure between two continents and two modernities, as part of a general history of art, design and textile production in the European and American women's avant-gardes.
Alexandre Chèvremont - Donner lieu au son
2024
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.
Film Undone - Elements of a Latent Cinema
2024
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
Film Undone presents contributions introducing unmade and unfinished film projects, film ideas realised in non-filmic media, as well as films that remained unseen in their intended form and at their intended time.
Afterall - Palestine and the World
2024
English edition
Afterall
sold out
Following documenta 15's cascading logic, this issue then branches out, on the one hand, towards further engagements with Palestinian art and visual culture as a way to fend off ongoing erasure and, on the other, towards new understandings of geographies of art practices and histories.
Alessandro Di Pietro - Ghostwriting Paul Thek
2024
texts in English and Italian
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A compendium of texts and notes around the project developed by artist Alessandro Di Pietro in dialogue with the work of Paul Thek (1933-1988).
Terry Riley - Descending Moonshine Dervishes (vinyl LP)
2024
various
sold out
A limited edition repress of the remastered album "Descending Moonshine Dervishes" by Terry Riley, originally recorded live in Berlin in 1975 and released by Kuckuck in 1982.
We Will Survive - Le mouvement prepper
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers” (also available in English edition).
We Will Survive - The prepper movement
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers”.
Kim West - The Contemporary Condition - The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary – Notes in Defense of an Idea of Emancipation
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
An essay-length book arguing for the autonomy of art in the present.
Jacques Villeglé - STAR
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
Catalog conceived as a tribute to Jacques Villeglé's insatiable curiosity, exploring his relationship with the world of entertainment (cinema, dance, theater and music) from the 1950s to the end of his career, with texts by Julie Chaizemartin, Emma Lavigne, and Jeff Mills.
Thierry Fournier - L\'Espace de l\'entre
2024
French edition
various
A first major monograph on Thierry Fournier's practice, French visual artist, with an extensive documentation of many recent works and a collection of texts and interviews.
Jean-Michel Wicker - Logorrhea
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Logorrhea is an artist book focusing on the written word in Jean-Michel Wicker's work. It is a large and lighter-than-air paperback, the author's third void.
Jason Kahn - Every Hand Is Lunatic That Travels on the Moon (CD)
2024
Editions (Jason Kahn)
A new voice+electronics solo CD by Jason Kahn: voice, modular synth, mixing board, electromagnetic transducers, radio, spring reverb tank.
Eckardt Lindner - Inorganic Life - On Post-Vitalism
2024
English edition
Diaphanes
A theory of passive vitalism.
Tiago Sousa - A Thousand Strings (vinyl LP)
2024
Discrepant
Continuing his fruitful relationship with Discrepant, Tiago Sousa returns with two longform pieces for organ.
Yann Annicchiarico - Of Moths and Muybridge\'s Scale
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
Gathering reflections and testimonies of exhibitions realized by Yann Annicchiarico in various countries, this looks back at a unique state of perception, related to the experience of emptiness and to the suspension of attention, an essential element in the artist's research.
Morgan Labar - La gloire de la bêtise - Régression et superficialités dans les arts depuis la fin des années 1980
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of stupidity (deliberate and sometimes even claimed), regression and superficiality in the arts.
Akio Suzuki - Stone (CD)
2024
Room40
currently out of stock
An exploration of sound, space and time using found objects and flute. (new remastered version by Lawrence English of the piece recorded by Akio Suzuki in Berlin in 1994).
Éliane Radigue - A Song for Two Mothers / Occam IX
2024
Black Truffle
sold out
The first ever solo release from electronic music pioneer and innovator Laetitia Sonami, featuring a new composition especially written for her interface/instrument, the Spring Sprye, by her former teacher the legendary Éliane Radigue.
Vertiges des temps - Dialogue entre l\'art contemporain et l\'archéologie
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collective exploration of the relationship between contemporary art and archeology.
Élisée Reclus - Abécédaire Reclus - Les 101 mots d\'Élisée
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A glossary of themes running through the work of Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), reflecting the contemporary relevance and diversity of the anarchist geographer's thought.
Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
First global exploration of contemporary forms of filmmaking from political and cultural self-determination movements of Autochthonous communities and peoples.
Magma - New Surrealist Enquiries
2024
French edition
Magma
To mark the centenary of Surrealism, this ephemeral journal, featuring 150 contemporary voices from literature, art, cinema, poetry, theater, and civil society, brings together over 200 unpublished contributions, responding to the surrealist enquiries.
Flash Art - Fall 2024 – De-Object
2024
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Lou Cantor, Sylvie Hayes-Wallace, Elizabeth Jaeger, Stanislava Kovalčíkova, Mire Lee, Jack O'Brien, Frida Orupabo, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Anicka Yi...
Lo Spazio di Via Lazzaro Palazzi - Ovvero: tirar correndo
2024
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
The facsimile of a never-before-published catalogue, documenting a Milanese exhibition banned by the police in 1992, renders the productions and stances of a group of Italian artists in the artistic context of the time.
Tools - To Cut
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The fourth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, looks at the cut.
Neural - Artificial Corporeality
2024
English edition
Neural
Co-editor: Zane Cerpina; interviews with Boris Eldagsen, Martinus Suijkerbuijk, Maya Man, Molly Soda; Transmediale 2024; REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art...
Ambivalent work*s - Queer perspectives and art history
2024
English edition
Diaphanes
An exploration of queerness in visual and material culture with regard to the specific conditions of the making and experience of art in different cultural, sociopolitical, and historical contexts.
The 14th Shanghai Biennale - Cosmos Cinema
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Cosmos Cinema combines comprehensive visual documentation of the acclaimed 14th Shangai Biennale with newly commissionned essays reflecting on its themes.
Artforum - September 2024
2024
English edition
Artforum
Richard Serra (1938-2024), textile art, "Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan", "Foreigners Everywhere"...
BOM Magazine – Ballet of the masses - On Football and Cartharsis
2024
English edition
Archive Books
The BOM Magazine, the publication for the Ballet of the Masses project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), focuses on rare perspectives on football as a field of both tension and relaxation.
Courtplay
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
The first volume published by Amsterdam-based Hartwig Art Foundation, COURTPLAY constitutes the book counterpart to the eponymous event conceived by Mohamed Almusibli and Ivan Cheng, and presented in January 2024 at the former courthouse of Amsterdam, the location of the foundation's forthcoming museum.
In Medias Res #3 - Postproductions
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
With Postproduction, the third and final issue of In Medias Res, Fluentum's research project on the history of its premises concludes by literally taking stock of both the production of and productivity inherent in moving images.
Athos - Échos de la Sainte Montagne
2024
bilingual edition (Greek / French)
Flee
Devoted to Mount Athos in Eastern Greece, FLEE's sixth project invites artists and researchers to explore and unravel the musical tradition of this important Orthodox site.
ZinZac
2024
French edition
ZinZac
Naima
The first issue of the artistic and literary magazine created by Christophe Le Gac and Rozenn Le Roux offers 240 pages of novels, poetry, essays, philosophy, thoughts and other experiences.
Mouvement
2024
French edition
Mouvement
Aboard the lifeboat Ocean Viking; Jérôme Ferrari; Quebec poetry; Florentina Holzinger; Corsican cinema; investigation in the Kodak factories...
Revue & Corrigée
2024
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Kiki Jones; Fady Joudah; Mica Levi; Pascale Ciapp; Kasper T. Toeplitz; Graham Lambkin; Risaripa; Steve Albini; David Grubbs; DASDAS...
Errant Sounds (vinyl LP)
2024
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
16 international sound artists and musicians explore the materiality, spatiality, technicality and diverse cultural, social and political forms of sound, questionning the relationship between improvisation and composition, between performance and installation, etc.
Yumna Al-Arashi - Aisha
2024
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Edition Patrick Frey
Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi's first artist's book.
Pascal Battus - Traîner
2024
French edition
ARTDERIEN
Book-object: a collection of fifty drawings made on a train, within the meanders of a straight line.
François Bayle - Diabolus in Musica - 2008-2024
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Maison ONA
Jean-Christophe Thomas analyzes François Bayle's complete work in 52 recurring features (book augmented with 151 sound examples to download).
Michèle Bokanowski - Cirque (vinyl LP)
2024
various
A musique concrète piece divided into five movements, based on the handling and editing of recordings captured within circuses between 1988 and 1993.
Alessandro Bosetti - Portraits de Voix (CD)
2024
Kohlhaas
Sound artist and composer Alessandro Bosetti paints a series of portraits from a collection of conversations recorded in Italy over the course of a Summer.
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