Anthologies

 
 
Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
forthcoming
A collection exploring the intersections of gender and religion in post-secular knowledge production and visual culture.
Residencies Reflected
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
Residencies Reflected looks at international artist residencies with a societal and ecological mind shift.
Jean-Michel Bouhours - When the Eye Trembles - The Cinema of Paolo Gioli
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Light Cone
forthcoming
An anthology of texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours on photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, a key figure in the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s.
Siegfried Kracauer - Culte de la distraction - Miniatures urbaines et critiques de films (1925-1933)
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
forthcoming
Michel Guet - Ne rien faire, mais quoi ? - Suivi de Le coup est parti
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
forthcoming
Michel Guet's intellectual diary, from his commitment to "Banalytique" (an experimental movement that emerged from French post-situationnism in the early 1980s in response to the triumph of the "colonization of reality by market value" and the injunctions to make work totally profitable) to the social critique of art and the vertigo of a planet on fire.
Jacques Donguy - De Jeff Golyscheff à Stelarc - De l\'avant-garde à la post-humanité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
forthcoming
A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of 40 years, with rare illustrations.
Félix Candela - L\'intelligence de la forme
2025
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
forthcoming
This first collection of texts in French by Félix Candela (1910-1997), a major figure in twentieth-century modern architecture, brings together writings and interviews published in the specialized press, as well as lectures and speeches delivered on various occasions by the Spanish-born Mexican architect and engineer between 1953 and 1994.
Visible – Art as Policies for Care - Socially Engaged Art (2010-Ongoing)
2024
English edition
Nero
Comprehensive documentation on 43 outstanding socially committed artistic projects over the past twenty years.
Dream Academy
2024
English edition
Archive Books
The Dream Academy publication explores art education policy in Northern Norway, with the establishment of the Art Academy in Tromsø in 2007 as a pivot point.
Entangled - Texts On Textiles
2024
English edition
Archive Books
What does it mean to be a curator who writes, and, more specifically, how can curators write about textiles? This publication steps outside the framework of the typical exhibition catalogue to occupy "the space between literature and criticism".
New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media (vinyl LP)
2024
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
currently out of stock
The first ever vinyl reissue of the seminal "New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media", from 1977, arguably the most important feminist statement in the history of experimental music, illuminating the work of Johanna M. Beyer, Annea Lockwood, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Megan Robert, Ruth Anderson, and Laurie Anderson.
EKES (EarthKeeping EarthShaking) - Sonder les droits de la Terre
2024
French edition
ESAD Reims (Reims School of Art and Design)
This collective publication explores the question of Earth rights through the interdisciplinary prism of socio-environmental humanities in relation to contemporary art.
Border-Listening / Escucha-Liminal - Volume 3
2024
English edition
Contingent Sounds
A collective exploration of sound, music and the socio-political dimensions of listening, from researchers and artists with perspectives from the global South.
Dusk - Anthology – Contemporary Lebanese Women Poets
2024
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kaph Books
(last copies available!)
A lyrical portrait of Lebanon through the poetry of 60 native women authors.
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.
L\'Art dans la vie - Le constructivisme soviétique dans les textes
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.
Why I Do What I Do - Global Curators Speak
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Thoughts on Curating
Twenty renowned international curators write about one of their exhibitions or projects that transformed their ideas about curating.
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.
Jill Johnston - JJ - Tartine-moi et autres textes
2024
French edition
Brook
JJ brings together articles by cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon Jill Johnston (1929-2010), translated into French for the first time, as well as texts, poems and drawings by Pauline L. Boulba, Aminata Labor, Nina Kennel and Rosanna Puyol.
Alexandre Castant - Chaos
2024
French edition
Naima
A collection of poems and fictions which, based on literary experiences from 1985-1989, reflects aesthetic concerns that foreshadow Alexandre Castant's future literary and artistic research.
Élisée Reclus - Abécédaire Reclus - Les 101 mots d\'Élisée
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
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.
Lieux et milieux des arts vivants - Performer l\'institution
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A polyphonic approach to the emergence, since the 2000s, of new institutional forms dedicated to performative artistic practices.
Marc Hurtado - De cœur à cœur
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A large survey of Marc Hurtado's cinematographic, musical, poetic and plastic work, with texts by some thirty authors, artists, critics, poets and musicians from all over the world (Lydia Lunch, Pascal Comelade, Nicolas Ballet, F.J. Ossang, Kris Needs, Nick Soulsby, Nicole Brenez, Vincent Deville, Romain Perrot, Alexandre Breton, Marie Möör...).
Women In Turkish Electronic Music (CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
A series of recordings that unveils the diverse creativity of young Turkish female artists.
Towards the Realm of Materiality - Designing Philip K. Dick\'s Non-Existing Technologies
2024
English edition
Nero
A multidisciplinary exploration of the technological devices, the machines, and the objects conceived by the brilliant mind of Philip K. Dick.
What to Let Go?
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
What gets counted within the category of heritage, and who gets to do the counting?
Museums at the Ecological Turn
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
A reflection on the relation between art, museum institutions and climate activism.
Mudun - Short stories from the Arab world
2024
texts in English and Arabic
Kaph Books
Published on the occasion of Mudun Short Story Prize, an international competition that pays tribute to cities around the Arab world which was launched by the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah (UAE), Mudun: Stories from Arab Cities brings together the 19 stories—10 in Arabic and nine in English—that were shortlisted for the prize, including the winning submissions.
Arts, écologies, transitions - Un abécédaire
2024
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.
Construire un Matrimoine de la BD - Créations, mobilisations et transmissions des femmes dans le neuvième art, en Europe et en Amérique
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The first scientific work to trace the history of female comic strip creators, for the (re)valorization of women's heritage.
Meandering - Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Inspired by how rivers bend and curve connecting ecosystems, Meandering is a case study for community-oriented artistic research into the cultural, spiritual, and ecological trajectories of waterways.
What Can Theatre Do
2024
English edition
Bruno
currently out of stock
What Can Theatre Do invites artists and thinkers to explore the potential of the performing arts, the political role of theatre and its ability to imagine alternative realities and future scenarios, ranging from essays to artistic interventions.
Revolving Documents - Narrations of Beginnings, Recent Methods and Cross-Mappings of Performance Art
2024
English edition
Diaphanes
currently out of stock
Challenging dominant histories of the genre, this book focuses on translocal and transcultural connections, and seeks to generate, expand knowledge on different narrations of the beginnings of Performance Art.
Textile Textures - Multithreaded Narratives
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
The multiple meanings and uses of textiles in art, culture and society.
Philippe Robert - Free Fight
2024
French edition
Lenka lente
The complete texts and photographs published in the fanzine dedicated to free jazz.
Art for Radical Ecologies (manifesto)
2024
English edition
Bruno
currently out of stock
A reflection on the role of art in the interconnected struggles for climate and ecological justice.
Globalisto - A Philosophy in Flux – Acts of an Imbizo
2024
English edition
MAMC+ (Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne métropole)
The continuation and culmination of a vast project, articulated between an exhibition and a symposium, imagined by South African curator Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi), inviting 17 artists from Africa and its diaspora and a group of researchers to evoke black aesthetics and propose an alternative vision of a world without borders.
Globalisto - Une philosophie en mouvement – Actes d\'un imbizo
2024
French edition
MAMC+ (Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne métropole)
The continuation and culmination of a vast project, articulated between an exhibition and a symposium, imagined by South African curator Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi), inviting 17 artists from Africa and its diaspora and a group of researchers to evoke black aesthetics and propose an alternative vision of a world without borders.
Objets à l\'état vif - Entre dynamiques sociales et pratiques artistiques
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collective reflection on the question of objects in artistic situations, at the crossroads of art history and theory, social sciences and artistic practices.
Pierre Schaeffer - À la recherche de Pierre Schaeffer - Portrait(s)
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast selection of theoretical, philosophical and literary writings by Pierre Schaeffer, accompanied by testimonies of various personalities, providing a privileged entry into the multidimensional universe of the composer, engineer, theorist and radio man, whose tutelary shadow is constantly cast on the landscape of sound creation.
Strange Design
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
A history of critical design in four episodes: the Italian radical design of the late 1970s; the Dutch conceptual design of the 1990s; the English critical design of the 2000s, and the contemporary scene (with contributions by Bless, Didier Faustino, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Pettena…).
Myrna Ayad - Alcove - Intimate Essays on Arab Modernist Artists
2024
English edition
Kaph Books
Spanning a pivotal time in Arab art, from the 1950s through to the 1980s, this book celebrates the lives, careers, and personas of some of the region's pioneering artists (from Huguette Caland to Hamed Nada and Etel Adnan) and features archival material, images of artworks as well as of the artists themselves.
Switched On - The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women
2024
English edition
Contingent Sounds
The first book dedicated exclusively to the female protagonists of Latin American electronic music.
Littérature et design - Visualités et visualisations du texte en régime numérique
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
New visualities and visualizations of literature in the digital age: the possible contributions of design thinking to literary theory.
Agonistic Assemblies - On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A curatorial approach towards deliberative cultures of assembly and a realistic scenario of decentralized power and decision-making (an anthology edited by Markus Miessen).
Michel Majerus - What looks good today may not look good tomorrow - The Legacy of Michel Majerus
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A record of a symposium on the legacy of the late Luxembourgish artist Michel Majerus (1967-2002).
Pierre Guyotat - Pierre Guyotat et l\'Algérie
2024
French edition
Diaphanes
A collective work to highlight the unique perspective of Pierre Guyotat, one of the greatest authors of the French language and a major figure in the memory of the Algerian conflict, on the war of independence and post-independence Algeria.
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