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Inter - La disparition de l\'exception artistique
2019
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
An inquiry into the inadmissibility of the artistic exception today, and the importance of atypical individuals in the symbolic economy of a society.
Jean-Christophe Norman - Mundo diffuso
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Zero2
Comprehensive monograph.
Stephen Barber - Film\'s Ghosts - Tatsumi Hijikata\'s Butoh and the Transmutation of 1960s Japan
2019
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
An essential book for readers engaged with film and performance, urban cultures and architecture, and Japan's experimental art and its histories.
Julien Blaine - Le livre
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
An original fable at war against the founding books of monotheisms (unpublished text of 1963).
Clemente Padín - De la représentation à l\'action
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The reissue, in a new translation, of one of the most important essays of Latin American poetry from the historical avant-gardes.
 Opening Performance Orchestra - The Noise Of Art (2 vinyl LP)
2019
Sub Rosa
22.00 16.00 €
This album contains seven compositions, created by the Opening Performance Orchestra, Blixa Bargeld, Luciano Chessa and Fred Möpert. All the pieces relate to the theme of Futurism and employ intonarumori, instruments invented and used more than a century ago by the Italian Futurists in their noise compositions.
Monster Chetwynd - The Supreme Deluxe Essential Monster Chetwynd Handbook
2019
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Retrospective monograph, 2007-2018.
Charles Atlas -
2019
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A pioneer of time-based media.
Ecart - Genève 1969-1982
2019
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
John Armleder, Fluxus and the Ecart group.
Inter - Nouveaux terroirs – Réinventer les territoires
2019
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
currently out of stock
Inter #131 focuses on rural areas: how is the local reinvented in a context of economic and technological relocation?
Sonia Boyce - Thoughtful Disobedience - Nouvelle édition française
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Villa Arson
Focusing on several major collaborative performance-videos by a figure of the British Black Art movement, this illustrated monograph includes a series of essays which interpret Boyce's interdisciplinary practice in the light of art history, and analyse her interest in black feminism, cultural studies, film studies, art history and critical theory.
Julien Creuzet -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo
First monograph dedicated to French artist, videographer, performer and poet Julien Creuzet.
Angelica Mesiti -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo
First monograph.
Intersubjectivity - Vol. 2 – Scripting the Human
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: this second volume investigates the relationship between performance, subjectivity, and human agency within a more global reflection on transhumanism.
Romina De Novellis - Mediterraneo
2019
English edition
Alberta Pane
First monograph.
 Kinkaleri - All for All!
2018
English edition
Bruno
(last copies available!)
All for All! is a trip through All! (2012-2017), a project conceived by Kinkaleri and instigated by the voracious attacks on language committed by William Seward Burroughs. It intentionally strays beyond the limits of theatre and dance, suggesting an outside and setting the possible into motion along an undecidable boundary between the body and language.
Thao Nguyen Phan - Voyages de Rhodes
2018
English edition
various
A palimpsest reconstruction of French Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes's (1591–1660) Rhodes of Viet Nam: The Travels and Missions of Father Alexandre de Rhodes in China and Other Kingdoms of the Orient, originally published in 1653 (artists' book).
Charles Pennequin - Dictaphones (vinyl LP)
2018
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
This LP draws on twenty years of archives recorded by Charles Pennequin on mini-cassettes. Spontaneous recordings of his readings, unpublished solitary monologues, vocal and sound experiments, ambient sounds were selected and edited in the studio by the poet, and thought of as a global composition that goes through different registers and eras of his poetry.
Georgia Sagri - Georgia Sagri Georgia Sagri and I
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
As her first comprehensive publication, this catalogue surveys the multi-facetted oeuvre of the Greek artist/social activist Georgia Sagri. Across performance, video work, and sculpture, she explores the murky relationships between the artist's body and her body of work, subjectivity and persona, original and reproduction with equal parts humor and severity.
 Gilbert & George - On the Table 6 - The Meal – A Conversation with Gilbert & George
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Table
Charlotte Birnbaum meets with Gilbert & George to discuss The Meal—a culinary performance organized in 1969 by the British duo, with David Hockney as the guest of honor. Also included here are photos and memorabilia from the singular event (the sixth publication in the On the Table series, that explore the encounter between food and art).
Inter - Apocalypse
2018
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Visions of Apocalypse.
Ana Mendieta - Le temps et l\'histoire me recouvrent
2018
French edition
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
The films of Ana Mendieta.
The only performances that make it all the way… Yes, but is it performable?
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
A joint catalogue focusing on two group exhibitions at the Künstlerhaus Graz dedicated to the examination of current performative practices in relation with the main works of historical forerunners.
Alex Cecchetti - Tamam Shud - An Artist\'s Novel
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
A mystery murder artist's novel by Alex Cecchetti, in which the artist and narrator realises he is dead and decides to investigate the causes of his own death.
Michael Barthel - Halber Pogo (CD)
2018
Tochnit Aleph
14.00 10.00 €
Second full-lenght release by German sound-poet and writer Michael Barthel on Tochnit Aleph. A 60-minute piece recited from memory. Recorded April 2018 straight to tape without overdubs. Raw, unsettling, poetically incorrect.
Alexandra Bachzetsis - An Ideal for Living
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
This artist's book is part of a choreographic project exploring the body/object relationship. It features a photographic series which juxtaposes performers' bodies and objects, creating contradictory associations. The publication also includes two texts by Paul B. Preciado: an essay on the philosophy of movement, and a poem on sexual subjectivity, written with artificial intelligence.
Terry Fox - AudioWorks (vinyl LP)
2018
Song Cycle Records
(last copies available!)
Originally published in 1983 by Maurizio Nannucci, this collection gathers a careful selection of audio works by American body artist and conceptual artist Terry Fox, also a pioneer of sound art.
Michel Journiac - Le corps travesti
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Christophe Gaillard Gallery
This monograph reflects on Michel Journiac's body of work through the prism of transvestism. With great iconography from the Journiac's archives, the publication focuses on his photographic performances, combining analyzes by authors and specialists and texts by the artist, one of the great body art's precursors.
 Gilbert & George - The Great Exhibition
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Catalogue of the quadruple major retrospective exhibition celebrating Gilbert & George's one-of-a-kind half century of creating art together: an overview of their practice, featuring a selection of historical pictures deemed by the artists themselves as the most representative of their art and life, and five new interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Daniel Birnbaum.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - En affinité(s) - Marcel Duchamp / Jean Dupuy
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Loevenbruck
This illustrated essay creates a dialogue between the works of Fluxus artist Jean Dupuy and dadaist Marcel Duchamp around their shared interest with eroticism.
Brandon LaBelle - The Human Strike (CD)
2018
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
This recording stems from a collaborative sound experimentation developed as part of a project to create new forms for artistic research within the university. Invited artists, musicians, and researchers produced a series of sound actions focusing on questions of community, creative resistances, sonic agency and the créolité passing between Haiti and Quebec.
Paul Panhuysen - Long String Installations (3 vinyl LP)
2018
Edition Telemark
(last copies available!)
68.00 59.00 €
3 vinyl LP edition presenting solely unreleased recordings of Panhuysen's famous long string installations. It documents the period 1982-2012, and includes a posthumous track from 2017. With liner notes by Rolf Sachsse and Stephan Wunderlich, and richly illustrated inner sleeves.
Ben Patterson - The Lost Tape & The Three Required Musics (vinyl LP)
2018
Edition Telemark
LP featuring a recording of the search for a lost tape by musician Ben Patterson, with the help of editor Stefan Fricke and composer hans w. koch. This 1960 lost tape acts a symbolical archive, since it documents Patterson's pre-Fluxus period. Having failed to find it, tehy decided to recreate the recording with a score from this period. The reconstructed track is on the record's B side. This edition includes liner notes, and selected documents chronicling the search.
Romy Rüegger - Language is Skin - Scripts for Performances
2018
English edition
Archive Books
The scripts of Romy Rüegger's performances: a constellation of texts, largely written to be spoken. The scripts as they are printed do not document the performances primarily. They are indications of spacial and temporal layering, juxtapositions of aesthetic and poetic elements and bodies. Overlapping every day observations with archival material, confronting, jumping.
Raphael Gygax - Extra Bodies - Über den Einsatz des anderen „Körpers” in der zeitgenössischen Kunst
2018
German edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
The use of the “Other Body” in Performance art and Contemporary Art.
Valentina Jager - Eleven Poems
2018
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A collection of 11 poems printed on single sheets that can be used as page markers to interrupt whatever else you are reading. Each poem is based on descriptions of natural phenomena, to talk about everyday situations of human social behavior.
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa - Requíem for Mirrors and Tigers
2018
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This publication catalogues the trajectory of a cycle of performances of the same name, through which the artist attempted to exhaust his interest in the Guatemalan Civil War as a recurring subject of his work. It documents the six performances in the cycle via foldout colour posters of each work, and an essay by Frédérique Bergholtz and Susan Gibb.
Frédéric Valabrègue - George Brecht, histoire d\'un effacement
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
An essay by Frédéric Valabrègue on the American avant-garde artist, one of the main actors of the Fluxus movement.
Frédéric Acquaviva - The 120 Days of Musica
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin.
Frédéric Acquaviva - The 120 Days of Musica - Luxury Edition (+ CD)
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin. Luxury limited edition, signed, including an original artwork and the sound artwork “Oxymoron Music” on CD.
Inter - Mai 68 – Cinquante ans plus tard
2018
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Special issue dedicated to the May 1968 events in France, including texts by Paul Ardenne, Jacques Donguy, Victor Muñoz, Giovanni Fontana, Charles Dreyfus, Julien Blaine, an interview with Daniel Cohn-Bendit… Also on this issue: a special feature on Sociological art.
Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli - Towards the Altar of a God Unknown - Liberian Notes
2018
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Federico Lodoli and Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli went twice in Liberia to carry out a study on the war. This publication gathers their travel memoirs, interviews with Liberian warlords and a photographic reportage.
Julien Blaine - 2017
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Cura.
2018
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
(last copies available!)
This issue investigates the sinuous folds of the body. Featuring: special section on George Henry Longly; Mathieu Copeland on anti-bodies within the body of art institutions; interview with Barbara Hammer, Lou Dallas, Manuel Solano; Eleanor Antin on Carving; Ellen Blumenstein & Kate Cooper; Ben Vickers in conversation with Kenric McDowell on human and machine; visual essay by Marianna Simnett; Donna Huanca in conversation with Venus Lau; ektor garcia; 25 questions with Eric N. Mack… and including Clubbing fanzine's first issue!
Valérie Da Costa - Fabio Mauri - The Past in Acts
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first study dedicated to Fabio Mauri's performative work.
Cristina De Simone - Proféractions ! - Poésie en action à Paris (1946-1969)
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A history of poetry-performance in Paris, from the post-war period to May 68.
Inter - Technocorps et cybermilieux
2018
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Current technological issues and new boundaries of human corporeality.
Quand le discours se fait geste - Regards croisés sur la conférence-performance
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
Crossing perspectives on performance acts within the discursive space of contemporary art.
Re: - Towards a minor history of exhibitions and performances
2018
English edition
it: editions
A collection of textual and visual essays stemming from a series of lecture-performances in which artists and curators experimented with various strategies of reprise in the fields of publishing, visual arts, animation, new technologies and the law.
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