Performance / happening / action art / body art

The actionnist's autobiography.

First artist's book by Robert Morris.

Catalogue dedicated to the works of American video artist and performer Michael Smith. It features a text by Yves Aupetitallot, an interview by John Miller and a full chronology of Smith's works.

First publication in French on Fluxus artist, including the transcription of an intervention by Higgins at the International Conference on Action Art in October 1998. With texts by Charles Dreyfus and Jacques Donguy.

A retrospective of the activities of the alternative art center Le Lieu in Quebec.

Conversation between six artists from six Asian countries.

Unpublished text, original signed silkscreen print.

Conversations with Daniel Baumann and Jutta Koether, accompanied by "reconnaissance photos".

27 artists from 14 countries around a performance and interactive TV program.

Two texts written at a twenty-year interval.

An eight-page dossier in which artists and friends retrace the trajectory of the French artist Alain Gibertie, who passed away on 13th July 1996.

Performances and conversations with 30 artists from Quebec and overseas.

Catalogue of the 7th Festival d'in(ter)vention, focused on audio and radio art.

A report of the activities of the art center in 1990-1991.

A repertory of performance art practices in Canada over twenty years, with contributions by art critics, historians, and artists, a history of performance in Quebec and Canada, teh report of 35 major events, the description of 2000 performances, more than 600 photos, a bibliography...

The report of the first Biennale of contemporary art and performance in Quebec.

Catalogue of the 5th Festival d'In(ter)vention curated in Poland by Quebec art center.

An “editorial performance.”

Brochure/catalogue (24 pages) of an exhibition that took place in 1987, simultaneously in Milan (Mercato del Sale gallery) and Paris (Donguy gallery), presenting the pictorial version of metaphysical poems.

The first edition of Julien Blaine's "metaphysical poems".

Original gelatin silver print (circa 1968) by Pierre Molinier, on sealed Kodak Kodura paper.

Over five hours of video and audio documenting the three-day Intermedia event organized by Fluxus artist Eric Andersen in 1996, involving parachute jumps, helicopters, mountain climbing, live sheep and over 100 singers walking on water.

Alice Anderson dialogues with the objects of the Fontevraud Museum of Modern Art, by placing her own works in the spaces of the permanent collections.

Special issue of the poetry journal directed by Jean-François Bory, dedicated to performance in the broad sense, from the page to the stage.

Pilvi Takala's project for the Finnish Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale.

A history of feminist gesture and performance since the 1960s and 1970s in California through an interview conducted by Carole Douillard with art critic Amelia Jones and two pioneering American artists, Barbara T. Smith and Susan Lacy.

Flipbook.

Reference monograph of Georges Mathieu (1921-2012), a major figure of mid-20th century abstraction, founder of Lyrical Abstraction, inventor of performance art, pioneer of Action Painting, speed and risk, dripping, early inspirer of street art.

On the occasion of Natures Mortes, her carte blanche at the Palais de Tokyo, the artist Anne Imhof is the guest editor-in-chief of issue 31 of the magazine PALAIS.

An electronic interpretation of the works of Phill Niblock by the Prague-based group Opening Performance Orchestra.

The partitions, to be activated by the reader, by Mette Ingvartsen, Violaine Lochu, Sonia Chiambretto, Garance Dor, Aurélie Noury, Melaine Dalibert, Didier Aschour, Roland Sabatier, Vincent Menu, IKHEA@SERVICES, Florent Delval & David Liver, Pierre di Sciullo.

An analysis of Mike Kelley's work as a position in materialist philosophy, which appears as the feature that is most at stake in his artistic practice, focusing on the pieces he produced around the issue of memory––his leitmotiv from 1995 onward.

A tribute to William S. Burroughs.

Reissue of Nitsch's very first release, originally published in 1972 by Edition Galerie Klewan in a limited edition of 100 copies.

Reissue of Nitsch's very first release, originally published in 1972 by Edition Galerie Klewan in a limited edition of 100 copies.

A conversation about performance, genre and cinema in the subversive work of Brice Dellsperger.

The first reissue of Wounds by David Toop and Paul Burwell, originally released in 1980 on Toop's Quartz! label, a representative album of a seminal moment within the British music scene evolved around the London Musicians Collective in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The partitions, to be activated by the reader, by Marcel Alocco, Edouard Boyer, Matali Crasset, Jean-Claude da Silva, Frédéric Dumond, Jacques Jouet, Nicolas Richard, Sébastien Roux>, Yoann Thommerel, Éric Watier.

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

Retrospective monograph documenting the exceptional yet little-known journey of Cathy Josefowitz (1956-2014), painter, designer, dancer and musician.

Monographic catalogue: for more than a decade, Israeli installation and performance artist Naama Tsabar subverts the gender roles associated with art and music, with a particular emphasis on rock'n'roll.

Retrospective catalogue spanning Morris's early years, covering the 1960s and 1970s through a selection of works, historical essays, interviews with collaborators, and texts by the artist.

A lexical survey on compositional practice in contemporary dance.

Performance art with a “low artistic coefficient of visibility”.

This album contains seven compositions, created by the Opening Performance Orchestra, Blixa Bargeld, Luciano Chessa and Fred Möpert. All the pieces relate to the theme of Futurism and employ intonarumori, instruments invented and used more than a century ago by the Italian Futurists in their noise compositions.

A collaborative 2-CD album by Japan noise legend Masami Akita alias Merzbow and Czech seven-member ensemble Opening Performance Orchestra. The first CD features four folk-inspired Merzbow compositions. The second CD gathers two live recordings of the Opening, made in Tokyo and Prague.

An anthology of texts by writers, artists, choreographers, poets and performers who think about the relationships between body, writing and textuality.