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Tadashi Kawamata - Site Sketches n°1-500
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Site Sketches n°1-500 is the first volume of the catalog raisonné devoted to the Site Sketches series, works on paper made from recycled scrap wood by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata.
Heinz Peter Knes - Correspondences
2023
English edition
Is-Land
In five chapters, the photographer reflects on the multiple "correspondences", influences and interactions at the heart of his artistic work.
 Ludovic Chemarin© - Une Trilogie
2023
French edition
Art Book Magazine
A rethinking of the conceptual approach of Ludovic Chemarin©, artist turned fictional and polycephalous, who continues to redraw the figurative boundaries of the artist and the work, the exhibition and the institution.
 Mesmer - Terrain Vague (CD)
2023
Arbitrary
The debut album of Danish group Mesmer, an environmental project including field recordings, improvisations and live recordings, intrigued by the auditive landscapes of places where nature and culture meet and challenge each other.
Giuseppe Micciché - No Ponte
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic essay on the abandoned project of a suspension bridge between the Calabrian and Sicilian coasts and on the coastline of the Strait of Messina, documenting the transformation of suburban coastal areas and the daily life of the inhabitants.
Ellen Moffat - A rested development (CD)
2023
Squint.press
A rested development is a collaborative sound and moving image work that used chance as a process to develop a sequence of autonomous elements that intersect and diverge in their unfoldings.
Aurélie Pétrel - Vues prises à Romme
2023
no text
Mix
A visual attempt to index photographic images.
Quentin Rollet - A Fothermass Abominesque (CD)
2023
ReQords
Saxophones, voice, electronics and percussions, recorded remotely between France and Australia, with texts/poems by James Worse, and artwork by Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound).
Quentin Rollet - Espace en l\'espèce (CD)
2023
ReQords
New improvised quartet synthesizer / voice / accordion / saxophone / drums, recorded in concert in Paris then mixed / edited by Jean-Marc Foussat.
Quentin Rollet - Le vieux fusible (CD)
2023
ReQords
The continuation of the sound adventures of the duo after "L'impatience des invisibles". A new studio album plus a second CD including the tracks released on vinyl by Mind Records, on mini-CD by Lenka Lente and with a live track in trio with Richard Franès (Pointe du Lac).
 Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs - WATER COLUMN
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The second and final installment of FUTURE, a series of publications by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, explores the deep watery world.
Fabien Vallos - Vues & données (essai)
2023
French edition
Mix
A reflection on the notions of catch and data.
Décor - Trans
2023
French edition
Décor
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
The third issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, placed under the complex and ambivalent sign of "TRANS", covering the various ways of transgressing (identity, textuality, coding, training, etc.).
 eRikm - Douze horizons (book + CD)
2023
French edition
Ouïe/Dire
A sound postcard by eRikm: an instant composition recorded on CD, somewhere between sound performance and radio creation, accompanied by a booklet of photographs.
Maude Léonard-Contant - Listen, the crust is cracking
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first-ever comprehensive overview of Maude Léonard-Contant's universe.
Peter Greenaway - Papers
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dis Voir - Figures
The first book to unveil the main pictorial works (drawings, paintings and collages) of the British film director, the source of his entire cinematic oeuvre (new edition).
Alain de La Bourdonnaye - Peintre, graveur, artisan-architecte du livre, typographe, imprimeur et bâtisseur (3 volume box set)
2023
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Three-volume catalogue raisonné of the work of Alain de la Bourdonnaye.
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo - Amour, amours, amourxs
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 36 of the Palais de Tokyo magazine proposes to explore the multiplicity, hybridity and fluidity of identities and the ways of loving, the plurality and complexity of our affects and our sexualities.
Bruno Fernandès - Dadakan ! - Nu intègre descendant les préjugés
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
The life and work of the precursor of happening and streaking in Japan, Itoi Kanji (aka Dadakan, 1920-2021): the first comprehensive chrono-biographical study in Western language on the great Japanese Dadaist nudist ascetic, with a rare iconography.
Christine Bergé - L\'image en cours - Tarkovski Ristelhueber
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A parallel dive into the images of filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and photographer Sophie Ristelhueber.
Korakrit Arunanondchai - Song for Living Song for Dying
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
The most comprehensive publication to date on Korakrit Arunanondchai's practice.
Eva Fàbregas - Enredos
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
First monograph of the Spanish artist Eva Fàbregas.
Archivio - The Fashion Issue
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archivio
sold out
Archivio n°9, the first issue of the third editorial cycle, is entirely dedicated to fashion and its history.
 KCBR -
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
A series of rail graffiti by the KCBR collective, renewing the practice with an original reflection on the medium, concealment (including, of course, with regard to police services), the trace, public reception and ephemerality, as the works are obliterated by the artists themselves immediately after completion.
Objectif Terre - Le design de notre planète
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object (also available in English).
Keep it Flat - Petite histoire sur la Terre plate
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated (also available in English).
Cosmos - Design d\'ici et au-delà
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Weaving fruitful links between the worlds of science and design, this catalog unveils the work of designers who have questioned the architecture of the Universe and the hidden laws of physics that govern it (also available in English).
Cosmos - Design from here and beyond
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Weaving fruitful links between the worlds of science and design, this catalog unveils the work of designers who have, in conceptual, technical or poetic ways, questioned the architecture of the Universe and the hidden laws of physics that govern it, bringing to the fore the fundamental questions that drive artists and scientists alike (with a contribution of cosmologist Thomas Hertog).
Keep it Flat - A little history on flat earth
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
currently out of stock
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.
Objective: Earth - Designing our Planet
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
sold out
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An overview of the work of the Paris-based American artist, through a series of exhibitions, installations and performances over a dozen years, three essays and two interviews.
Niki de Saint Phalle - Tableaux éclatés
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
Catalogue devoted to Niki de Saint Phalle's Tableaux éclatés (Burst paintings), a vast series of paintings composed of cut-out shapes set in motion by motorized devices as spectators pass by, created as an homage to Jean Tinguely (the book's pop-up cover allows to recompose the pattern of a painting using pull tabs!).
Mary Jane Leach - Woodwind Multiples (vinyl LP)
2023
Modern Love
"Woodwind Multiples" features four pieces for multiples of the same instrument: four bass flutes, nine oboes, nine clarinets, and seven bassoons. Each piece works closely with the unique sound of each instrument, combining pitches that create other, sometimes unexpected, tones, primarily combination and interference tones, as well as rhythmic patterns.
Daniel Arsham - 100 Hotel Sketches
2023
English edition
Perrotin
In 100 Hotel Sketches Daniel Arsham compiles 100 drawings made over the last few years as Arsham has travelled for exhibitions and installations worldwide.
Félicia Atkinson - Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (pour Georgia O\'Keeffe) / Recurrence.Expansion (vinyl LP)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by Félicia Atkinson and Richard Chartier.
Ciarán Finlayson - Perpetual Slavery
2023
English edition
Floating Opera Press
In Perpetual Slavery, Ciarán Finlayson investigates the relationship of art to freedom in the work of Cameron Rowland and Ralph Lemon, who both utilize imagery of labor haunted and structured by the historical experience of slavery.
Alice Guareschi - Je m\'appelle Olympia
2023
no text
Nero
A series of 16 photographs documenting an action for house lights performed by Alice Guareschi at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris (leporello).
Elika Hedayat -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
First monograph of the Franco-Iranian artist.
Graham Lambkin - Aphorisms (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
Graham Lambkin (of Shadow Ring fame) returns with a long awaited epic double LP, Aphorisms, his first major solo outing since 2016, continuing his synthetic-naturalist approach to sound-making, twisting disparate and unique elements together to create the sensation of a coherent sonic space.
Graham Lambkin - Aphorisms (2 CD)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
Graham Lambkin (of Shadow Ring fame) returns with a long awaited epic double LP, Aphorisms, his first major solo outing since 2016, continuing his synthetic-naturalist approach to sound-making, twisting disparate and unique elements together to create the sensation of a coherent sonic space.
Graham Lambkin - The Cat & Bells Club (vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
The very first completely handmade and almost unreleased recordings of Graham Lambkin and Darren Harris under the name of Cat & Bells Club, prefiguring The Shadow Ring.
 Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) - Symphony No. 107 - The Bard (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
A previously unheard archival recording of the legendary improvising ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva (Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum), captured in concert at Bard College, New York in 2012.
Tucker Nichols - Flowers
2023
no text
Nieves
Tucker Nichols' flowers paintings.
Peter Piller - Spekulationen (III) - Begleiter
2023
no text
Nieves
The third volume of the artist's book series dedicated to prehistoric cave painting mostly features photographs taken in everyday life and on trips, as well as found illustrations from scientific publications in various disciplines.
Marie Preston - Inventer l\'école, penser la co-création
2023
French edition
Tombolo Presses
A publication by artist and teacher-researcher Marie Preston on the alternative pedagogies developed in France during the 1970s-1990s in "open" schools working on the question of the relationship between co-creation and co-education.
Otto Willberg - The Leisure Principle (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
A true homage to the low end: six unashamedly melodic improvisational workouts created almost entirely with heavily filtered bass harmonica and electric bass, silky smooth, luxurious, odd and compelling.
Jason Kahn - All Along the Way (book + CD)
2023
English edition
Editions (Jason Kahn)
370-page book + CD chronicling of a solo tour through North America in 2022, exploring the state of the DIY experimental music scenes.
Sébastien Miravete - Bergson structuraliste - L\'aube d\'une autre anthropologie structurale et cognitive
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
What does Bergson bring to the history of the concept of "structure" even before the advent of structuralism? Why is his approach still relevant today? Sébastien Miravete proposes a rereading of Bergsonian philosophy to show how it outlines an other structuralist metaphysics, which can inspire all 21st century thought.
Vincent Broqua - La langue du garçon
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poetic investigation on desire, love and masculinity in the form of a constellation of texts, drawings and photographs.
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