Art & animality

 
 
Arts, écologies, transitions - Un abécédaire
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
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.
Marion Laval-Jeantet - Microbiota - Créer et soigner
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
forthcoming
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.
The Aquarium is a Listening Glass
2024
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The glass as a listening device.
Abraham Cruzvillegas - Sticky Selfies
2023
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An extensive compilation of Abraham Cruzvillegas' drawings of apes, which he has been producing since the early beginning of his career starting in 1985 (artist's book / leporello).
Joseph Havel - Parrot Architecture
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Wall assemblages and totemic bronze and resin sculptures made during the pandemic by Houston-based sculptor Joseph Havel with the help of his pet parrot Hannah.
Yaron Michael Hakim - Psittaciformes
2023
English edition
X Artists' Books
Monograph devoted to Yaron Michael Hakim's Psittaciformes body of work, drawing inspiration from the migratory nature of parrots and their ability to assimilate. Through bold paintings on used Dacron sailcloth, Hakim uses this subject matter to explore his own relationship with assimilation, living between cultures, and the exoticization of his heritage.
David Toop - The Shell That Speaks The Sea (vinyl LP)
2023
Room40
31.00 25.50 €
A realisation of a 20 years-long conversation, with results that articulate Toop's long held sound vision (here executed with his own voice, electric and lapsteel guitars, whistling, percussion, flutes and electronics) around English's stunning recordings of various insects, birds and exotic animals.
Vibeke Mascini - Silent Whale Letters - A Long-Distance Correspondence, on All Frequencies
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A long-distance correspondence reflecting on the infravoice of a blue whale and other so-called “silent” subjects.
 Alexandre & Florentine Lamarche-Ovize - Dinosaures végétariens
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
The Drawer - Books
New monograph, focused on the last years of work of the duo around the animal, landscape and ecological issues that cross it.
Jean-Marie Appriou -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A monumental monograph tracing ten years of the French sculptor's practice over some 500 pages, with an interview and five essays.
Dominique Paul - Silent Fall - Devenir oiseau / Becoming Bird / Convertirse en ave
2023
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
various
Monograph surveying more than ten years of the Canadian visual and performance artist's career, whose engaged practice addresses social and environmental issues, with two essays by Chantal Pontbriand and Ayelet D. Aldouby.
Nils Bertho - Passion Chevals - Tome 3
2023
French edition
Lendroit éditions
The indispensable equine bible by Nils Bertho, illustrator allergic to horses, is back for a third (and final?) edition.
Simone Forti - Oh, Tongue
2023
English edition
Nero
A new revised version of the notebook of the legendary American dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti in which she shares her poetry as well as her thoughts on dance, the body, writing, the state of the world.
 Hippolyte Hentgen - Fabules
2022
French edition
Walden n
A "small portable zoology": a book combining 50 animal poems by Christian Bernard and 50 collages by Hippolyte Hentgen.
Paul Panhuysen - Duo Geloso (vinyl LP)
2022
Black Truffle
The first release to document the variety and playfulness of the concerts that Arnold Dreyblatt and Paul Panhuysen's Duo Geloso performed throughout Europe in 1987-88.
Horst Bredekamp - Les fenêtres de la monade - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Art et théâtre de la nature
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
Art historian and philosopher Horst Bredekamp reveals the importance of visual analysis and the central role of images in the development of the philosophical thought of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Relying mainly on the Leibnizian concept of the monad and on the Theater of Nature and Art, elaborated by the German philosopher and scientist from 1671 until his death, Bredekamp places Leibniz as a precursor of the theory of the image.
Julien Blaine - Julien Blaine présente quelques-uns de ses amis Animaux-&-artistes
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Through a ready-made exhibition of works made by animals, the poet Julien Blaine offers a vision as comical as it is tragic of the art world, while trying to "establish a communication between the lost world and the contemporary world."
Jean Painlevé - Feet in the Water
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Albums (exhibition catalogues)
The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, the first major retrospective in France on the filmmaker and biologist specializing in underwater fauna Jean Painlevé (1902-1989), considered one of the founding fathers of scientific cinema and a source of inspiration for the avant-gardes and the surrealist movement.
Christiane Geoffroy - Climatic Species
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Artist's books
Both a cinematographic work diary, a travel diary and a private diary, Climatic Species is made up of multiple stories where each thread unfurls at its own rhythm.
Celestino Piatti - Hamsters
2022
no text
Nieves
This small volume features drawings created by by the famous Swiss illustrator for Basler Rabattmarke BKG Liga.
Lee Bul - Beginning
2022
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This monograph surveys the first decade of the legendary Korean artist's career from 1987 to 1998.
Agnès Rosse - Le Zoo vidé
2022
French edition
Naima
Le Zoo vidé ("The Emptied Zoo") is an artist's project about large land mammals that Agnès Rosse went to visit in zoos, in their natural environment and at the National Museum of Natural History: a protean set of texts, videos, drawings, paintings and objects made in various places between 2009 and 2018.
Nicholas Mangan - Termite Economies
2021
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This publication assembles three phases of Termite Economies, a major series of artworks produced between 2018 and 2020 by the Australian artist Nicholas Mangan.
Eduardo Kac - Télescope intérieur
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Books
Télescope intérieur narrates the creation of Inner telescope, an artwork by Eduardo Kac, realized aboard the International Space Station.
Zaven Paré - Le spectacle anthropomorphique - Entre les singes et les robots
2021
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.
Résonances - Le Louvre à La Réunion
2021
French edition
various
The Louvre invites itself to Reunion Island: a dialogue between the collections of the island's five museums and those of the Department of Graphic Arts.
 Maciunas Ensemble - YoplaBoum + Permanent Wave (2 vinyl LP + CD)
2021
Edition Telemark
Five rare pieces from the minimalist "rhythmic drone" period of the early 1980s of the ensemble founded by Paul Panhuysen, Remko Scha and Jan van Riet, reissued for the first time.
 Shimabuku - The 165-metre Mermaid and Other Stories
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Conceived in close collaboration with Shimabuku, this new publication tells of the poetic actions conducted during his travels, between his native Japan and Monaco via Brazil, Australia, and many other lands (with texts by the artist, Nicolas Bourriaud, Claire Le Restif and Rirkrit Tiravanija).
Michele Sibiloni - Nsenene
2021
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Michele Sibiloni photographs the harvest of bush crickets in Uganda, between local traditions and questions about a global future.
Simone Forti - News Animations
2021
English edition
Nero
A reference book containing all the transcripts of Simone Forti's News Animations.
Thomas Tilly - Codex Amphibia (Phonotaxis) (CD)
2021
Aposiopèse
A new interpretation of the explosive frog breeding phenomenon.
Anne Van der Linden - Amour vache
2021
French edition
Eretic-art
A retrospective of Anne Van der Linden's paintings and drawings from 2015 to 2020.
Heba Y. Amin - The General\'s Stork - Research/Practice 02
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - Research/Practice
The General's Stork explores historical accounts of biblical prophecies, colonial narratives, and the politics of technological warfare in the Middle East from a bird's eye view.
Carlos Casas - Cemetery - Journeys to the Elephant Graveyard and Beyond
2021
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Cemetery. Journeys to the Elephant Graveyard and Beyond compiles a selection of the visual and research materials accumulated during the development of the film and project Cemetery (2009–2019).
Laurent Le Deunff - L\'incroyable
2021
French edition
L'Incroyable - Books
An illustrated portrait of Laurent Le Deunff through interviews with various personalities, artists, filmmaker, philosopher and art critics.
Hermann Nitsch - Traubenfleisch (2 vinyl LP)
2020
Tochnit Aleph
Presenting the first perfomance of Hermann Nitsch's grand and large-scale “Traubenfleisch” symphony.
Alfio Tommasini - Via Lactea
2020
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Agricultural landscapes and portraits of the Swiss Alps: a fascinating visual study of the relationship between humans, animals and topography in the context of a rapidly changing agriculture and dairy industry.
Nanna Debois Buhl - Cloud Behavior
2020
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A study of clouds through photographs, drawings, essays, and interviews.
Ursula Biemann -
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
currently out of stock
A notebook based on Ursula Biemann's latest film, Acoustic Ocean, an expedition to the depths of the Arctic Ocean in search of interspecies communications.
Simone Forti - L\'orso allo specchio
2020
Italian edition
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
This artist’s book gathers childhood memories, some lived experiences and personal reflections on the family histories and relations, and the ways in which they interweave with geographical locations.
Theater, Garden, Bestiary - A Materialist History of Exhibitions
2019
English edition
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
A transdisciplinary history of exhibitions.
Thomas Braida - La bava sul cuscino - Sculptures funzionali e fantastiche / Functional and fantastic sculptures
2019
Italian edition
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
Fanzine / artist's book.
Melissa McCarthy - Sharks, Death, Surfers - An Illustrated Companion
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An unprecedented transdisciplinary study dedicated to the deathly relationship between sharks and surfers, initiated from a thorough analysis of newspaper obituaries.
Guillaume Pinard - Du Fennec au Sahara
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
First monograph.
Bioart et éthique
2019
French edition
CQFD
Cross perspectives by bioartists, philosophers and art theoreticians around the link between bioart and ethics.
Carlos Casas - Mutia (2 vinyl LP)
2019
Matière Mémoire
35.00 29.00 €
An album conceived by Carlos Casas from the sound materials recorded during the making of his film Cemetery (about the last journey of an elephant in the Sri Lankan jungle, a meditative and hallucinatory oeuvre between animist documentary, adventure film and experimental cinema), extending the immersive experience of the film.
Carlos Casas - Mutia - Limited Artist Edition (3 vinyl LP)
2019
Matière Mémoire
55.00 46.00 €
An album conceived by Carlos Casas from the sound materials recorded during the making of his film Cemetery (about the last journey of an elephant in the Sri Lankan jungle, a meditative and hallucinatory oeuvre between animist documentary, adventure film and experimental cinema), extending the immersive experience of the film. This artist's edition includes a hand numbered bonus LP, an art print and a dowload code for an exclusive 99' bonus track.
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