Art & language

Taking its cue from the aftermath of the events of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, these five essays contemplate the language's role in moments of dramatic change, and ask how to find meaning for artistic practices in these transformative conditions.

The fourth cahier of Dora Garcia's Mad Marginal project brings together essays by international authors that develop different threads pertaining to artist Dora García's practice.

A selected survey of Liam Gillick's groundbreaking projects, installations, methods, and practices, which challenged the orthodox presentation and reception of art through the 1990's.

A comprehensive monograph covering Nannucci's whole career and presenting a selection of his major projects.

Comprehensive monograph: this first retrospective publication gathers together Mančuška's work, which combined different media—literature, film, theater, installations, video, and text—was exhibited widely, from the second half of the 1990s to his last unrealized projects from 2011.

A drivel is a short story wrote by Keren Cytter in a style reminiscent of Witold Gombrowicz, though its meaning gets lost in the continuous intertwining of characters, their stories and their memories.

A fiction reflecting on the issues of language and information.

How the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing.

A novel written orally by the artist Benjamin Seror.

A suite of alphabets exploring the potentiality of langage and symbols (artist's book).

An essential publication that allows to reevaluate the importance and impact of the work of the pioneering English group Art & Language, and the emergence of Conceptual art in the early 1970s.

A collection of hallucinatory epic poems inspired by crime novel & science fiction.

This artist's book features the research notes of a video work based on a sign language interpretation by a deaf performer of a Geneva College Orchestra's live performance.

At the same time an artist's book and a brief historical investigation, Thomas Huber's The Shop Sign reports the birth of a painting, relates the fate of another one, and questions the art market, the transit of works of art and the links between artists, dealers and collectors, all the while Huber plays with interpictoriality the way others would use intertextuality.

Catalogue / artist's book.

Artist's book.

Third volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on photography, film, video, and new media.

A reflection on translation phenomena in the arts.

Catalogue / artist's book.

A comprehensive survey of mangelos' art across all mediums, this book includes three essays which renew the interpretation of his art and its context. It offers a particular focus on his early work and notebooks, which are extensively reproduced for the first time.

A genealogy of cut-up: the history and development of a radical and pioneering literary technique, in Europe and the US, in the twentieth century (readings from William S. Burroughs).

A film, a portrait of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a French-born artist based in California who created text and sculptural works, often combining them as props and stage sets in theatrical performance pieces (interviews with John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Morgan Fisher, Paul McCarthy, Christophe Bourseiller, etc.).

Maurizio Nannucci documents, in the form of an artist's book, a collective action with his family and friends around the world, from Athens to Sydney through Beijing, that literally puts the art in question to better assert its omnipresence while providing a wide range of social interaction.

A linguistic/fictional journey into questions of authorship, language and institutional rhetorics.

Judith Hopf highlights Hugo von Hofmannsthal's hypothesis of a hidden language that might resolve the impasse produced by a widespread lack of attention regarding artistic practice.

Luis Camnitzer plays the Drawing Room Confessions.

David Jablonowski's recent and early works.

A reflection on the problematic of temporality, from an analysis of On Kawara's practice, also revealing certain important aspects of Cesarco's working methods.

Second volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on performance and performativity.

Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today's soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions.

Jean Dupuy's anagrams, from the 1970's to the present day (artist's book): 160 series of works accompanied by the artist's notes, with texts by Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux and Emmanuelle Lequeux.

Artist's book.

This first volume of complete John Baldessari's writings traces the genesis and development of the artist's understanding of art in the early 1960s.

This second volume of complete John Baldessari's writings traces the genesis and development of the artist's understanding of art in the early 1960s through to the present.

Artist' book (Andro Wekua's recent works).

Issue dedicated to John Baldessari.

Keren Cytter's choreographic performance.

Artist's book.

First monograph (work from 2009 to 2012), with three essays and an interview.

In this text, poet Jacques Sivan creates an imaginary planet populated by mortals, a mirror of our world through which he investigates the nature of language.

The relationship between language and thought in pedagogy and humanities at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

New monograph.

The continuation and end of Guillaume de Lorris's Romance of the Rose, written in 1216 but unfinished, by artist and writer Bruno Di Rosa.

Parole #2 explores the relationship of “skin” to language.

Drawing and writing, drawing exhibitions, Paul Noble, François Bouillon, Emmanuelle Lainé, Franz Erhard Walther, Elizabeth Peyton, Sophie Lamm, Paul Sztulman, Pontormo, Albrecht Dürer, Giuseppe Penone, the Collection Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Florent Dubois, Sophie Bazin, Muzo, Markus Lüpertz, Anne Laure Sacriste and Lee Ranaldo, Alexandre Leger, Sophie Lamm...

Artist's book: Taroop & Glabel's ABC.

Artists' book.

Featuring: Nicolas Boillot, Laurent Buffet, Yann Ciret, Gilbert Descossy, Jean Dupuy, John Giorno, Bernard Heidsieck, Françoise Janicot, Olivier Leroi, Patrice Lerochereuil, Matthieu Messagier, Tierney Moira, Adrian Notz, Edgar Morin, Olivier Mosset, Phoebe Neville, Corinne Pencenat, Jeffrey Perkins, Georges Quasha, Alexandre Rolla, Joao Simoes, Evelyne Sutter, Louis Ucciani, Michel Vogel, Peter Vogel, Christian Xatrec...

Monograph (with an essay by Michel Gauthier and an interview).