Performance / happening / action art / body art

Looking at the white gaze on Black life, art, and being, Chipo Chipaziwa's first book explores five years of her past performances without any photographic depictions of her body. Instead, she relies on the written word—with texts penned by herself, as well as by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Olumoroti Soji-George—and on art: paintings, drawings, and prints by Margaret Joba-Woodruff, Sophia Lapres, and David Ezra Wang.

Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Anna Halprin, Carolee Schneemann, Emmett Williams, George Brecht, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Watts, Yvonne Rainer).

Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Carl Loeffler, Chris Burden, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Toche, Joan Jonas, Jon Hendricks, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, Wolf Vostell).

Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.

Robert Filliou's last major creation, Eins. Un. One..., embodies the humor, freedom, and radical thinking of a "genius without talent".

Art and poetry in action as performative power.

A retrospective of the work of transdisciplinary artist Violaine Lochu, bringing together performances, drawings, sound pieces, installations, and videos.

Artists' activity examined through the notion of reparation, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the living arts (theater, dance, performance, mediation, multiple practices).

This anthology presents and discusses current tools, methods, and analytical frameworks to address artistic interventions, taking a multidirectional approach that accounts for the positionality of perspectives and highlights the nondirectional formation of the interventions at hand.

Vaginal Davis offers insights into her collaborative practice of making music in art-punk bands in Los Angles and Berlin.

Appropriation, occupation, subversion, punning, alternative activation of vacant spaces, creation of spatial, social and temporal interstices, etc., Inter 145 is interested in the material and socio-political dimensions of our relationship with the world, things, spaces and ideas.

Theater of the world, between live art and visual arts.

A panoramic, cross-border exploration of performative practices in literature, art, dance, theater and more.

A fictionalized biography of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983).

The first comprehensive presentation of Swiss artist Mahtola Wittmer's work.

An investigation into how spontaneous play and public interaction in contemporary art can subvert societal norms, based on the work of Oslo-based Iranian artist Shahrzad Malekian.

A selection of texts by Valentine de Saint-Point, emblematic of both the Belle Époque and anticolonial militancy.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

The "suspensive" artist Chloé Moglia invites authors, illustrators and researchers to write with her what the gesture of standing above the void generates as perceptions and thoughts. This second issue of Les Feuilles (The Leaves) spreads out, explores horizontality, breaks through and perseveres in this perspective. A way of trying not to go backwards, or in reverse.

Consisting of a richly illustrated booklet and a record vinyl, this special release accompanies the performative sound-based project A Comparative Dialogue Act by artists Andrea Mancini and the collective Every Island, hosted in the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.

Six sound games to play at home or on stage, even without musical expertise! (a project by the Jeux Sonores collective, initiated in 2021 by Sébastien Roux, which brings together five people with a variety of practices and backgrounds, at the intersection of the sound arts, musical mediation and scientific research).

A collaboration between performer Silvia Costa and musician Claudio Rocchetti.

A multidisciplinary analysis, based on a historical perspective of theater pedagogies and an eminently contemporary approach to actor training.

Irène Schwartz's notebooks enable us to follow the entire creative process that, between 1973 and 1983, led the artist to three actions in the field of body art or, more specifically, eat art.

Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.

The first comprehensive publication exploring the practice of Trần Lương, a key figure in Vietnamese contemporary art.

A look back at the poetic, political and anthropological dimensions of the collective performance initiated by artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò around a mining plant in Sardinia.

Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.

One minute of dance a day for a decade: a look back at choreographer Nadia Vadori-Gauthier's daily act of poetic resistance, on the edge of situated dance, philosophy and performance.

First monograph of the Brazilian feminist artist.

All the destructive mood of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories shows: from "Classical" music to intense destructuration, a new form of Avant-garde.

A dialogue between two avant-garde figures, one poetic, the other musical.

A Hypothesis of Resistance contains five essays on Asynchronicity, Rehearsal, Undetectability, The Present Tense, and Duration.

This monograph explores the work and the artistic activities of Italian radical performer, poet, visual artist and feminist Tomaso Binga through a specific lexicon, and also features a selection of her poems.

Sonia Boyce engages with the artist and sound theorist Brandon LaBelle, who guides us through the artist's poetics, considering sound as a form of radical inclusion, a medium capable of generating interaction, narratives and new understanding.

A comprehensive overview of the Hungarian post-conceptual and feminist artist's practice in the first decades of her fifty-year long career, including several of her writings.

Retrospective monograph.

Across objects, writing, sound and choreography, British artist Cally Spooner addresses the manners in which specific technological and financial conditions shape and organize life. This volume surveys her artistic output of the last five years.

This book recounts Jean-Jacques Lebel's long and tumultuous passage through the powerful laboratory of ideas and experiments of surrealism that was the journal Front Unique (1955-1960), which heralded and sometimes prefigured his future protean activities in the fields of art, poetry and militancy (anticolonial and libertarian).

An exploration of sound, space and time using found objects and flute. (new remastered version by Lawrence English of the piece recorded by Akio Suzuki in Berlin in 1994).

Interplay is performed by five singers, from tenor clef to treble clef, recorded in different places at different times. Each singer had not listened to what the others had recorded before.

A polyphonic approach to the emergence, since the 2000s, of new institutional forms dedicated to performative artistic practices.

French artists Christophe Brunnquell and Estelle Hanania celebrate 15 years of collaboration with this book published by the legendary Japanese bookstore Komiyama Tokyo, combining performance, illustration and photography.

The cataclysmic meeting between Masami Akita (Merzbow), legend of the Japanese noise scene, and pianist Nicolas Horvath, great connoisseur of the classical repertoire and unparalleled experimenter.

Retrospective monograph.

Julien Blaine's rebellious confidences, between the political and the poetic.

A collection of walking and writing exercises to put our perspective about self and what is other to self, as well as the relations between things, even beyond the human, into question.