Paraguay Press

Originally the imprint of the Paris-based project space castillo/corrales (2007-2015), Paraguay is a non-profit organization devoted to developing a new vocabulary of words and actions through a program of publications, talks, exhibitions and workshops. The offices of Paraguay are located in the collectively-run space DOC, 26, rue du Docteur Potain, Paris 19th, and its activities are overseen by a group of artists, writers, graphic designers, and curators including Agathe Boulanger, Thomas Boutoux, Signe Frederiksen, Céline Gay, Joachim Hamou, Jules Lagrange, François Piron, Lucas Roussel and Roman Seban.

Paris

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45 titles

Series:

Francisco Tropa
La Moustache cachée dans la barbe

2019

bilingual edition (English / French)

A publication conceived by Portugese artist Francisco Tropa in collaboration with writer Thomas Boutoux and graphic designer Pedro Falcão, which adopts the form of magazine one flips through in bars or in waiting rooms. A true/false weekly style magazine with refined imagery printed on glossy paper, The Mustache Hidden in the Beard is dedicated to cultural and scientific topics, design, life styles but also real estate through a series of cutting, quirky articles, investigations, portraits and reports.

Etienne Chambaud, Vincent Normand
Counter History of Separation

2017

bilingual edition (English / French)

Publication based on the eponymous film by Etienne Chambaud and Vincent Normand in which the authors develop the concept of the “Decapitated Museum.” The voice-over in the film has been made into a one-edition book, which was rephotographed according to the technique the authors used to make the film. The outcome is a photography book that is as much a text document than an imaginary scene.

Guy de Cointet
The Complete Plays

2017

English edition

First publication to gathers all theatrical works by artist Guy de Cointet, written between 1973 and 1983. 25 plays, published with an explanatory apparatus and numerous documents from the de Cointet Estate at the Centre Pompidou's Kandinsky Library.

Guy de Cointet
Théâtre complet

2017

French edition

Jonas Delaborde, Hendrik Hegray
Nazi Knife #10 – Puro Ódio

2017

no text

The 10th issue of Nazi Knife takes the form of a vast album covering a dozen iconographic sequences of unclassifiable aesthetics.

Calling out of context

2017

English edition

Edited by artist Joachim Hamou, this publication offers a current analysis of the similar issued shared by the fields of contemporary art and of the performing arts, through essays, interviews, and an unpublished play by British artist Cally Spooner.

$Incorporated! - Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d\'art contemporain (2 vol.)$

Incorporated! – Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d'art contemporain (2 vol.)

2016

bilingual edition (English / French)

Two-volume catalogue of the Fifth Rennes Biennal (France): twenty-nine international artists were invited to construct an exhibition based on the particular issue of shaping emotions in a world which formulates them in terms of markets.

Soleil politique

2016

English edition

This catalogue examines the role of the Museion Bolzano in the urban environment of Bolzano city in Italy by looking back at the museum's history and mission from the perspective of artists in all disciplines: architects, filmmakers, performers, musicians, composers, etc. These are joined by a number of major historical works that have inspired the exhibition throughout its conception and helped our understanding of museographic history.

Clément Rodzielski
Aube

2015

bilingual edition (English / French)

First monograph / artist's book.

Love Your Parasites

2015

English edition

A picture book edited by English artist Camilla Wills, with a dozen of contributions by international artists.

Tobias Kaspar, Hannes Loichinger
The Provence Summer Reader – After Dark

2015

English edition

New and historical texts by artists, writers and cultural agents that ballades amongst the themes of seduction, glamour and politics.

Mangelos

2014

English edition

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.

$Pensée Nomade Chose Imprimée - Histoire d\'un atelier nomade de l\'Ecole des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux (1989-2013)$

Pensée Nomade Chose Imprimée – Histoire d'un atelier nomade de l'Ecole des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux (1989-2013)

2014

French edition

As much adventure novel as catalogue raisonné, this book tells the fabulous pedagogical and artistic experience of the studio Pensée nomade, chose imprimée (Nomadic thought, Printed matter) led from 1989 to 2013 at the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts in France by Michel Aphesbero & Danielle Colomine (4taxis), and Jean Calens.

Guillaume Leblon
Helbling

2013

bilingual edition (English / French)

New monograph.

Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Interpretation

2013

bilingual edition (English / French)

Artist's book: the last part of a complex project initiated in 2010—an exploration of the intimate legacies of Sun Ra's peculiar body of work (texts by Diedrich Diederichsen, Anthony Elms, J. Griffith Rollefson...).

Karl Larsson
Consensus (The Room)

2012

English edition

A theater play in two acts (the fifth book by Swedish artist and poet Karl Larsson).

Tobias Kaspar, Hannes Loichinger
The Provence City Guide: Nice – The California of Europe

2011

English edition

currently out of stock

An artist's book that renews the genre of the travel guide.

Owen Land
Dialogues – A film by Owen Land

2010

bilingual edition (English / German)

A book based on American experimental filmmaker Owen Land's last movie.

Dora García
Steal This Book

2009

texts in English, Spanish, French

currently out of stock

Eleven performance-based projects by Dora García, documented through letters, emails and other elements from the artist's private correspondence with various interpreters of performances, whether they were direct collaborators of simple spectators.

$Contre-vents - Colères, espoirs, écologies et politiques dans l\'Ouest de la France$

Contre-vents – Colères, espoirs, écologies et politiques dans l'Ouest de la France

2021

French edition

sold out

A documentary and speculative publication on a genealogy of political, social, ecological and identity-based struggles in the Brittany region and the West of France, from the 1960s to the Zone to Defend of today, based on numerous documents and films made by filmmakers and collectives.

Pierre Bal-Blanc
Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score – The Licence

2020

English edition

sold out

A score of performative gestures, drawn from the conceptual art and body art scenes from Central and Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s.

Joëlle de La Casinière, Ana Jotta, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Three Moral Tales

2019

English edition

sold out

Catalogue.

Lili Reynaud-Dewar
My epidemic (texts about my work and the work of other artists)

2015

English edition

sold out

An anthology of texts by the artist.

$A Book About - What\'s More To Life Than Books$

A Book About – What's More To Life Than Books

2014

English edition

sold out

A subjective lexicon, proposing keywords for contemporary publishers and book freaks.

Revolution – A Reader

2012

French edition

sold out

A subjective selection by Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler of annotated texts by various authors (Edmund Burke, Frantz Fanon, Louise Michel, Donna Haraway, Oscar Tuazon...) about revolution.