Experimental / concrete / visual / sound poetry

The “chairs-poems” conceived by the Quebec sculptor Michel Goulet for the Palais-Royal garden in Paris, with contributions from nearly 70 authors, visual artists, poets, critics, theoreticians, philosophers and thinkers.

Originally resealed in 1975, Poesia Sonora is one of the first international compilation of sound poetry. Edited by Maurizio Nannucci, the anthology gathers pieces by some of the most important pioneers of the Sound Poetry movement: Bob Cobbing, François Dufrêne, Henri Chopin, Ernst Jandl, Franz Mon, Arthur Petronio, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Brion Gysin, Bernard Heidsieck, Sten Hanson, and Paul De Vree.

Recounting a partial history of our relation with matter, this reader explores how the crossover between cosmological narratives, the spatial revolutions of concrete poetry, and hypertextual and territorial fictions might have an impact on the recognition of human agency in a time that calls for our action on environmental policies.

A special issue dedicated to John Giorno, in the framework of Ugo Rondinone's exhibition “I Love John Giorno” in New York.

Publication reproducing one of Carrión's early linguistic exercises in English language, in which the conceptual artist dissects names of musical instruments to make sound appear.

In his “Book” George Brecht describes the specific nature of each single page, in a gesture that renders the printed matter a tautological object.

Limited edition box set with 43 instrumental tracks recorded with an alto saxophone, a radio and an electric toothbrush by Mart Küchen. The musical pieces are accompanied by four poems written by the Swedish musician and eight plates by Austrian plastic artist Johannes Heuer.

Animals questions through a poetic approach the modernist apprehension of time and locomotion, in the realm of today.

Cut-up, lectures, incantations, soundworks recorded by the American writer himself in hotel rooms in Paris, London & New York, in the early 1960s (one of Sub Rosa's absolute classics, officially re-released).

Issue 22 of Palais magazine is entirely devoted to the Ugo Rondinone's exhibition “I Love John Giorno” at the Palais de Tokyo (October 21, 2015 - January 10, 2016), the first retrospective of the life and work of the American poet John Giorno, a key figure of America's counterculture since the 1960s.

A subjective compilation by David Le Simple and Vincent Romagny concluding the three exhibitions cycle “Doppelgänger” at CEAAC curated by Romagny.

A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.

First issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine, including a CD with music by Frédéric Acquaviva and Phill Niblock, a DVD with performances by Tomomi Adachi, Bernard Heidsieck, Katherine Liberovskaya, Jacques Lizène, Alvin Lucier, Loré Lixenberg, and Alex Mincek, posters, and documents.

An extreme experience seeking to hear the body's internal sounds. It uses both the medium of drawing and of writing to account for the metamorphoses produced by this sensorial experiment.

12 typescripts of concrete poetry (signed and numbered artist's book).

Carl Andre's poems (retrospective monograph).

The second issue in the “Poetic Series”, initiated by Keren Cytter, takes its title Peacocks with Hiccups from the poetry of Berlin-based artist Karl Holmqvist, whose work is featured alongside American poet Catherine Wagner and emerging Spanish writer Luna Miguel, with artwork by Koo Jeong-A.

The Atlantis Search Engine, the first edition in the Poetic Series, features a selection of poetry and prose by Matthew Dickman, Roman Baembaev, Josef Strau, and drawings produced specifically by John Kelsey based on the film The Canyons.

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia.

Concrete poems / language "drawings" (artist's book).

Facsimile edition of an unpublished artist's book by Marcel Broodthaers from 1968 referring to Stéphane Mallarmé's poem “Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard.”

A dialogue between two singular appropriations of the concept of cannibalism at two key historical moments: a new translation of Oswald de Andrade's cult poem, advocating the symbolic ingestion of the colonizer and his culture, faced with an analysis by Suely Rolnik of a perverted contemporary cannibalism experience in the context of financial capitalism.

The reprint of the publication pioneer in the artistic experimentations of the 1960s, published by the artist in 1962 (leporello).

Dada, Fluxus, futurism, spatialism, lettrism, concrete poetry, cut-up… a 560-page anthology of typographical explosions and poetic experiments by Al Dante.

L'armée noire is a collaborative review founded by poet Charles Pennequin and illustrator Quentin Faucompré. This first issue gathers texts and illustrations inspired by art brut and experimental poetry.

A posthumous notebook of writings and sketches by poet Christophe Tarkos.

Latest works by legendary French sound-poetry pioneer Henri Chopin.

Essays and interviews on 20th century avant-gardes in France (from Dada to sound poetry, avant-garde reviews, happenings and events, Fluxus, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Gil J. Wolman, Camille Bryen...).

First translation in French of the collection of talks by American poet, critic, linguist and performance artist.

One of the first published text by a major figure of Belgian experimental literature.

New edition of the Letterist manifesto.

Facsimile reissue of the original graphic poetry book self-published in 1975 by Guy de Cointet.

The first critical edition treating a fundamental text by one of the principle actors of Fluxus.

Richard Huelsenbeck's En avant dada is his first proclamation of Dada in Berlin.

Reproduction of the artist's book published in 1975.

Booklet published on the occasion of a 1996 exhibition commissioned by Paul McCarthy and featuring the work of three European artists exiled in California: Guy de Cointet, Bas Jan Ader and Wolfgang Stoerchle. The publication includes texts by McCarthy and Cornelia Butler, biographical and bibliographical notes.

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia...

What translation does to performance and what performance does to translation: a collective publication exploring the relationship between translation and performance, including the fields of theater, dance, sound and visual poetry, and film.

This edition by Walter and Jan Verwoert pairs an 7" record featuring 6 pieces of sound poetry with facsimiles of the 6 collages used as scores for the recordings.

A collective work examining fifty years of poetic activity by Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014), a central figure in sound poetry and performance poetry, a major poet of the second half of the 20th century, along multiple axes.