Performance / happening / action art / body art

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).

Structured like a "choose-your-own-adventure" book, Demandez le réel invites readers to choose their own path through forty poems.

The first book to document the evolution of bio art and the aesthetic development of Eduardo Kac, the creator of the "artist's gene" as well as the controversial glow-in-the-dark, genetically engineered rabbit Alba.

Special issue on performance and sound art.

The Swiss artist and writer studies a place at beetle height.

This first monograph, richly illustrated with images and texts, offers a broad overview of the diversity of Marie-Ange Guilleminot's work spanning four decades.

First monograph.

Silent speeches is a book on the non-compliant force of sound in contemporary art and a career-spanning catalog focusing on the employment of music, songs, and silence in the work of the artist duo Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz.

An investigation into the repertoire of performative gestures emerging from the work of German artist Ulla von Brandenburg and the practice of her troupe of performers.

A programmatic book for rethinking and implementing montage as a medium in contemporary art.

An exploration of the encounter, in the early 1960s, between the controversial—yet now world-renowned—writer Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) and Tatsumi Hijikata's (1928–1986) Dance of Darkness (Ankoku butō). This paradoxical connection remains little known and is rarely mentioned in the chronologies and biographies of this turbulent man of letters.

A tribute to the French collective Pap' Circus, a post-Dada/Fluxus art troupe founded in 1980.

A large survey of the practice of artist Oscar Murillo with a concentration on bodies of work produced from 2019-2026.

This posthumous work is the first monograph devoted to the Franco-Palestinian artist and activist Amal Abdenour (1931–2020).

Mathilde Roman explores contemporary video installation practices through the lens of theater and the performing arts.

An original publication bringing together Esther Ferrer's performance scores and a previously unpublished long-form conversation on creation, language, freedom and action.

Julien Blaine's poetic bestiaries.

Camouflage theorized as an expanded ecological and choreographic tactic.

An exploration of the subversive work of Gabriele Stötzer, a leading figure in the GDR's underground art scene, through her photographic archives (experimental photographs, Super 8 films, performances, and actions in public spaces), over which the artist superimposes new drawings.

A legendary artist's book finally reissued in an updated and revised version, Enseigner et apprendre, a truly collaborative work, provides a valuable introduction to Robert Filliou's work and his pioneering and innovative ideas on the educational dimension of artistic creation.

This book brings together poetic and theoretical texts about Callisto (a woman with a bear's head, a writer and a mythical figure), using metaphors as a form of anti-capitalist resistance.

Eroticism and sexuality in Marina Abramović's work.

The catalog accompanying the provocative performance installation by Austrian artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger, presented at the 61st Venice Biennale.

This new monograph offers a fresh and international perspective on the relationship between Journiac's work and the sacred.

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

Gender is Over is a story about Warsaw's queer art scene at the turn of the 2010s and 2020s, written from the inside (Polish edition).

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.

A collective exploration of the murky area where practices from sound art, visual arts, performance, digital technologies, science, but also poetry and philosophy intersect in a constantly evolving digital environment, drawing on the cross-disciplinary dynamics and experiments initiated by the international festival ]interstice[ in Caen.

The first retrospective of the work of Jean-Claude Guillaumon (1943-2022), a self-taught artist who defies categorization, associated with the French Fluxus scene, avid practitioner of happenings and other forms of ephemeral art.

A series of poems written by Yoann Thommerel for the stage: 5 short stories, poetic and performative, conceived as scores, combining text and action.

The "suspensive" artist Chloé Mogli invites authors, illustrators and researchers to write with her what the gesture of standing above the void generates as perceptions and thoughts, and invites us to suspend our perceptions of reality.

The first monograph dedicated to the American artist, poet, and activist John Giorno (1936–2019).

A performative research-creation project by Emmanuelle Becquemin.

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

The editorial extension of a long-term art and performance program in Cologne's public space, on and around its seven bridges over the Rhine.

First comprehensive publication devoted to Turkish performance artist Moni (Salim Özgilik).

An overview of the French artist's film remakes over a decade.

Lina Pallotta's much anticipated Tongue on Flames captures the underground poetic energy that pulsed through New York from the early 1990s to the early 2000s in poetry and performance clubs that have become legendary, featuring Pallotta's immersive photographs and texts by key figures from that scene.

This interview of Brandon LaBelle with curator, artist, and researcher Berit Fischer offers insight into her transformative approach to contemporary art practice that challenges conventional notions of empathy and ecological awareness.

Universality, multiplication of identities, and disappearance of otherness.

The first monograph dedicated to the Neapolitan feminist and pacifist artists' group.

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.

Yoann Sarrat presents a collection that showcases his practice of performative writing combined with tattooing (with and without ink—which he calls “dermographic poetry”) and dance.

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

Five dance pieces and an iconographic imaginary in convulsion: making the most of these ingredients, Alexandra Balona engages with the work of Cabo Verdean choreographer and dancer Marlene Monteiro Freitas.

A retrospective of the striking scenographies designed by Nadia Lauro since the early 2000s, visual environments, fictional landscapes, disorienting architectures, and living sets that have played a pivotal role across the vibrant field of dance and performance in Europe.

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

A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of almost 50 years, with rare illustrations.

Art and poetry in action as performative power.