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Kateřina Šedá - Over and Over
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New monograph, based on Šedá's work for the Berlin Biennal 5.
Ben Vautier - Vérités et points de vue - A à Z
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A panorama of Ben's conflicting ideas and various activities since 1959.
Pierre Molinier -
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Mennour
The method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's oeuvre with more than 800 pictures, mostly unpublished, numerous documents, manuscripts and letters, a complete chronology, a critical biography, and a text by Jean-Luc Mercié.
Pierre Molinier - Limited edition
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
50 copies limited edition accompanied by a signed color photographic print of Molinier's fetish doll by artist photographer Gilles Berquet.
Michelangelo Pistoletto - Facing Pistoletto
2010
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Pistoletto's theater and performances.
Inter - Fragments d\'art actif
2010
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Action art and performance.
Inter - Rituels
2010
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Art, performance and ritual (special issue directed by Serge Pey).
Geneviève Favre Petroff - Making the Image Sing (+ CD)
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Aparté
15.00 10.00 €
First monograph.
Eduardo Kac - Natural History of the Enigma and other works
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Artist and poet Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his interactive works on internet and for his practice of bio art. This catalogue dedicated to this singular artist features contributions by an art critic (Eleonor Heartney), a leader of the contemporary American novel (Steve Tomasula) and a French sociologist and philosopher (Pierre -Henri Jeudy). An interview with Eduardo Kac by Hugues Marchal concludes the volume.
Simone Forti - Oh, Tongue
2009
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The notebook of American dancer 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… The publication includes an interview with Forti by Annie Suquet, and an afterword by poet and Fluxus artist Jakson Mac Low.
Julien Blaine - Le pont du Diable
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Al Dante - Architecture
The confrontation between the radically poetic world of Julien Blaine and the radically technological world of Rudy Ricciotti's Pont du Diable (a footbridge spanning the Hérault gorges in the south of France, both a superb aesthetic gesture and a genuine technological feat).
 Stelarc - Body Mechanics
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
This monograph is dedicated to Stelarc—the body artist known for his radical performances involving robotic prosthetics.
Performa - Everywhere and All at Once: An Anthology of Writings About Performa 07
2009
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
The second in a series of publications drawing content and inspiration from the world-renowned Performa biennials.
Voice Over - On Staging and Performative Strategies in Contemporary Art
2009
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Voice Over examines staging, theatricality, and performative strategies in contemporary art practices.
Leif Elggren - Death Travels Backwards (DVD)
2009
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
A collection of works from 1999 to the present, delivering an important overview of the artist/musician's pursuit of the uncanny within the everyday.
Dora García - Steal This Book
2009
texts in English, Spanish, French
Paraguay Press
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.
Julien Blaine - Blaine au MAC - Un tri
2009
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
39.60 19.00 €
This catalogue dedicated to experimental poet Julien Blaine documents the wide variety of his work through his texts, images, installations and performances. Published on the occasion of a retrospective at the MAC Marseille, the publication is richly illustrated and documented, and features an interview with Blaine by Laurent Cauwet and Fabienne Létang.
Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Villa Arson
Documenting works by artists dealing with performative issues between the 1960s and today, this catalogue, gathering numerous essays, questions the nature and the relevance of “performative” objects in contemporary practices (also available in English edition).
Double Change - A film archive of poetry – 2004-2005 (DVD)
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
45.00 20.00 €
Filmed bilingual lectures (9 video DVDs): a perspective on contemporary French and American poetry.
Double Change - A film archive of poetry – 2005-2006 (DVD)
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
45.00 20.00 €
Filmed bilingual lectures (9 video DVDs): a perspective on contemporary French and American poetry.
Paul Panhuysen - The Game & the Rules (+ CD)
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
The first monograph on the multiple activities of the artist / musician / performer, with numerous illustrations, texts, and an audio CD.
Roman Ondák - Measuring the Universe
2009
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book.
La caravane de la parole - Performance sonore / poésie / art action (+ DVD)
2009
bilingual edition (French / Polish)
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
The 15th Rencontre internationale d'art performance (RIAP) in Quebec: sound performance, poetry, action art.
Julien Blaine - Les Cahiers de la 5e feuille - 1er avril 2007
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
27.40 13.50 €
Penultimate volume of notebooks recounting the scientific-poetic journey of poet Julien Blaine in search of the original language. Here, he reflects on linguistic works by Jean-Pierre Brisset and Jules Hermann, but most and foremost on Hans W. Bornefeld's research on Cro-Magnon glyphs.
Jean-Jacques Lebel -
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This exhibition catalogue gathers together the visual works—collages, drawings and installations—of three major French experimental poets.
Denis Baron - The Mutant Flesh - Fabrication of a Posthuman
2008
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
currently out of stock
This study on the fabrication of Posthumanity questions us on the limits of the human, its boundaries and its possibilities in our “biotech” era. It examines the fundamental distinction between natural and artificial, nature and technology, human and machine, body and flesh.
Denis Baron - La chair mutante - Fabrique d\'un posthumain
2008
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
This study on the fabrication of Posthumanity questions us on the limits of the human, its boundaries and its possibilities in our “biotech” era. It examines the fundamental distinction between natural and artificial, nature and technology, human and machine, body and flesh.
Charles Pennequin - Pas de tombeau pour Mesrine
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
While looking for French criminal Jacques Mesrine's grave, Charles Pennequin engages in a poetic and politic reflection against French society.
Mobile Album International - In between
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mobile Album International
Works by Michel Auder, Julien Blaine, Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Mathieu Exposito, John Giorno, Bob Lens, Pierre Tilman...; texts by Démosthène Agrafiotis, Philippe Boisnard, Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Denis Chevalier, Charles Dreyfus, Anselm Jappe (on Situationnists), Richard Martel (on Dick Higgins et Giordano Bruno), Edgar Morin...
William Forsythe - Suspense
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
(last copies available!)
Presenting new installations and films by one of the most significant and innovative choreographers working in the area of contemporary dance today.
Kateřina Šedá - For Every Dog a Different Master
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book based on Sedá's work for Documenta 12.
Brandon LaBelle - Dirty Ear (CD)
2008
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
Dirty field recordings, found sounds, sound effects, archives, and sonorous dramas, composed as a series of micro-narratives each designed to intervene onto imagined settings or spatial locations, as a counter-sonorities.
Danièle Roussel - L\'Actionnisme viennois et les autrichiens
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Viennese Actionism was one of the strongest effort of the 1960's to develop contemporary art and a forerunner of what is now widely known as Performance Art. Danièle Roussel interviewed not only the former actionists (Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler) but also some journalists, politicians, historians and witnesses of that time.
Susan Hiller - The Provisional Texture of Reality - Selected Talks and Texts (1977-2007)
2008
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Between critical writing and visual art practice.
Charles de Meaux - Marfa Mystery Lights - A Concert for the UFO\'s – featuring The Secret Machines (DVD)
2008
English edition (French subtitled)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
A performance of The Secret Machines conceived and filmed by Charles de Meaux.
Hanspeter Hofmann - Bonheur automatique II
2008
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
19.00 10.00 €
Artist's book: experiment with graphics, painting, performance, and installation.
Bernard Lallemand - Works & Process (DVD)
2008
French edition
a.p.r.e.s editions - Works & Process (DVD)
25.00 20.00 €
A documentary on three exhibitions, a filmed interview with the artist and an original video work.
Brandon LaBelle - Radio Memory (+ CD)
2008
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
A project based on archiving people's memories connected to specific songs and radio broadcasts. Includes over 100 memories from around the globe, along with contributions by curators and theorists Bastien Gallet and Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz, and an audio CD of related work by the artist.
Inter - La relation
2008
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
From the artwork to the event / Salvador Dalí performer / surrealist suicide...
Karina Bisch - Album - 2005-07
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
it: editions
This monograph documents the artist's exhibitions since 2005, reflecting on the evolution and diversity of her work. The heterogeneous essays tracing her career are illustrated with exhibition views.
Brandon LaBelle - Live Bootleg (+ CD)
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An overview of sound installations and environments by the experimental artist-musician, with three essays and an interview, a specific project, installations views and performances on audio CD.
Avital Ronell - Life Extreme - An Illustrated Guide to New Life
2007
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.
Avital Ronell - Life Extreme - Guide illustré des nouvelles formes de vie
2007
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.
Julien Blaine - Poëmes vulgos
2007
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
39.60 19.00 €
Full-color anthology dedicated to the works of visual poet and performer Julien Blaine.
Václav Stratil - I\'m History
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A documentation on the Czech artist's work, based on a series of self-portraits.
 Gilbert & George - The Secret Files of Gilbert & George (DVD)
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Bureau des Videos (DVD)
This interview with G&G, filmed in 2000 by the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, concentrates on the hysteria of the archive and the collection.
Kateřina Šedá -
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book: first complete survey of projects by the young Czech artist arranged in jackets and brought together in a box.
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