Czech Republic

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.

A “man” tells his fabulous past as an ape, from his capture to his adaptation to the world of men, to the members of an Academy of Sciences. This edition of A Report to an Academy, a short story by the great Kafka, is accompanied by a musical piece especially written by Nurse With Wound (here, Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, Matt Waldron, Quentin Rollet, and It could be Worse).

Artist's book gathering a selection of outstanding photographic strips that capture the subtle beauty of ephemera. The use of black and white strengthens the contemplative essence of the photographs, in between naturalism and abstraction.

Monograph on Miroslav Tichý's unconventional and artisanal (blurred, underexposed photos, taken with handmade cameras) but powerfully evocative work.

An artist's book dedicated to a new body of works in ceramic, including 50 pieces never before reproduced, as well as an essay by the French art historian Yves Aupetitallot.

This book is the first complete edition of the actions, installations and interventions of Jirí Kovanda : a rediscovery in Conceptual art.