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Destination: Tashkent - Experiences of Cinematic Internationalism
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
The legacy and posterity of the Tashkent Festival for Asian, African and Latin American Cinema, which was held between 1968 and 1988 in Uzbekistan.
Rawi Hage - The Call
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
A personal reflection on fragmentation, language, and place.
Ko Murobushi - Fierce Unworking
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
Fierce Unworking highlights Ko Murobushi's role as an unparalleled pioneer of contemporary paradigms such as body language, the third space or embodied knowledge. Ten years after his death, this volume brings together writings, poems and diary fragments in collaboration with the Ko Murobushi archive in Tokyo, making many of which are available in English for the first time.
Madeleine Thien - The Artisans
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
A reflection on the autonomy and eternity of art by Canadian writer Madeleine Thien, based on a mural in the Thousand Buddha Grottoes of Bezeklik, China.
Marco Cassani -
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
Deeply shaped by his long-term residence in Indonesia, the conceptual practice of Italian artist Marco Cassani engages with the country not as a tourist or detached observer, but as an active participant in navigating the reconfiguration of authorship in a globalized landscape.
Shiro Kuramata - Alaïa / Kuramata - Lightness in Creation
2025
English edition
Damiani
A dialogue between the works of fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa and design icon Shiro Kuramata.
Nakako Hayashi - Here and There
2025
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Here and There
Nieves
Every page of Here and There Vol.1 – Vol.13.5 in a single volume.
Miao Mouthorgans & Other Rare Instruments in Guizhou, Sichuan, China (vinyl LP)
2025
Sub Rosa
A series of previously unreleased recordings of mouth organs and other rare traditional instruments from China's Guizhou and Sichuan provinces.
Samson Young - Intentness and Songs
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
This monograph focuses on a multimedia installation by Samson Young that poetically traces the idiosyncratic rhythms of love, memory, experiences of time, and AI. Essays and a rich set of unpublished materials offer new keys to understanding the research of the artist.
LSD - A manga issue
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
LSD (Le Signe Design)
Le Signe – National Graphic Design Center - LSD
The fourth issue of Le Signe Design (the Cahiers of the National Graphic Design Center), under the sign of Japan.
Vincent Peal - Rites & ceremonies of South East Asia
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Timeless
An unflinching photographic journey into the heart of Asia’s most intense and sacred rituals.
L\'Écologie des choses - Regards sur les artistes japonais et leurs environnements de 1970 à nos jours
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
A new reading of the links between artistic practices that emerged in Japan in the late 1960s, against a backdrop of reconstruction and massive industrialization, and those of contemporary artists addressing current environmental issues.
 She Lea Cheang - KI$$ KI$$
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Wang Yuyang - Chaosmosis
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Uno Kuniichi - Artaud pensée et corps
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.
Shiro Kuramata - Alaïa / Kuramata - La légèreté en création
2025
French edition
Damiani
A dialogue between the works of fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa and design icon Shiro Kuramata.
Trần Lương - Soaked in the Long Rain
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first comprehensive publication exploring the practice of Trần Lương, a key figure in Vietnamese contemporary art.
Ryuji Tanaka - II
2025
English edition
MER. Books
 Fuminori Nousaku & Mio Tsuneyama - Dixit - Conditions / About Condition
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dixit
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Dixit
The fifth issue of Dixit, the journal of architecture criticism features the words of architects Charlotte Truwant + Dries Rodet, Mio Tsuneyama + Fuminori Nousaku who confront each other around the theme of conditions.
Rirkrit Tiravanija - On Making Less
2025
English edition
Bierke
currently out of stock
Rirkrit Tiravanija's methods for making less.
Uno Kuniichi - Artaud pensée et corps
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.
Jihye Jung - Resterenvie
2024
French edition
Zero2
The diary of the Korean-born artist based in France.
The 14th Shanghai Biennale - Cosmos Cinema
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Cosmos Cinema combines comprehensive visual documentation of the acclaimed 14th Shangai Biennale with newly commissionned essays reflecting on its themes.
Akio Suzuki - Stone (CD)
2024
Room40
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).
Wukir Suryadi - Siklus dan Doa (Cycle and Prayer) (vinyl LP)
2024
Discrepant
On "Cycle and Prayer," Indonesian experimental musician and instrument builder Wukir Suryadi expands the edges of his unique artistic world further, by digging in to meditative improvisation, art, and community building in his home workshop in the mountains of central Java.
 Merzbow - Pia-Noise (CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
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.
Yoshifumi Hayashi - L\'alchimie du cerveau à la mine de plomb
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Arsenicgalerie
currently out of stock
The first monograph on the Japanese artist of desire.
Miljohn Ruperto - An Operational Account of Western Spatio-Temporality
2024
English edition
X Artists' Books
An artist's edition by Miljohn Ruperto comprising three flipbooks and an accordion-fold booklet, that examines different forms of time.
Makiko Furuichi - Le vent, la vague, l’étoile
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
A comprehensive overview of Makiko Furuichi's work, focusing on her special installation for the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Les Sables-d'Olonne.
Alice Hui-Sheng Chang - I Smile When the Sound Is Singing Through the Space (CD)
2024
Editions (Jason Kahn)
Eight pieces of free vocal improvisation by the duo of Jason Kahn and Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, who have been working together since 2015.
Kenzō Tange - Architectes des Jeux de Tokyo
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
A presentation of the fascinating architectural legacy of the Tokyo Olympic Games through two iconic buildings, the Yoyogi Olympic Gymnasium and the New National Stadium, highlighting the two world-renowned Japanese architects behind these projects: Kenzō Tange and Kengo Kuma.
Scratching at the Moon
2024
English edition
DoPe Press
Catalogue of a historical exibition curated by artist Anna Sew Hoy, with support from ICA LA Executive Director Anne Ellegood, Scratching at the Moon presents an intergenerational group of thirteen leading artists in the Asian American community who currently live and work in Los Angeles or have strong ties to the city.
Akasegawa Genpei - Anatomie du Tomason
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
The first French translation of the texts of the Japanese artist and writer Akasegawa Genpei (Katsuhiko Akasegawa, aka Otsuji Katsuhiko, 1937-2014), a figure of the Tokyo avant-garde of the 1960s, on the concept of Tomason, with a rich iconography.
 Kink Gong - Funeral Gongs Ceremonies in Ratanakiri, Cambodia
2024
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Those recordings of Gongs Orchestras were made during Funeral Ceremonies in two Kung villages and one Jaraï village in Ratanakiri province, Cambodia by Laurent Jeanneau (Kink Gong) in 2003 and 2004, at a times when jungle had not been replaced by rubber plantations. Focusing on funeral's ceremonies, those hypnotics pieces are intense and haunting harmonics sonic experiments.
Kaoru Tashiro - Miragique (CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
This second project released on Sub Rosa by the Japanese artist Kaoru Tashiro, manages to create a subtle dialogue between four composers, and four musical pieces, mixing a delicate blend of Japanese and European sensibilities. Those different approaches convergence thanks to the highly recognisable sensibility of Kaoru Tashiro's way to play.
GaHee Park -
2024
English edition
Perrotin
A selection of the artist's drawings and paintings from 2019 to 2023, accompanied by a text by Jennifer Higgie and an interview with Éric Troncy.
Yoko Ono - Everything in the Universe is Unfinished
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
This publication by avant-garde artist and cultural icon Yoko Ono combines never-before-published texts and invitation pieces written in 2016–2018 with drawings from the “Franklin Summer” series she started in 1994 (new edition).
Keiji Haino - With pats on the head, just one too few is evil one too many is good that\'s all it is (3 vinyl LP)
2024
Black Truffle
The heavyweight trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi return with their 12th and most epic release to date, a monumental triple LP.
Taku Unami - Kindling #1 - Parazoan Mapping #2 (newspaper + digital)
2024
Kindling
Kindling #1: Parazoan Mapping #2 by Taku Unami and Eric La Casa is the first edition of an ongoing series of artist-run digital+paper sound-art releases, only available as a newspaper plus digital file.
L\'art des charpentiers japonais - Au cœur de l\'architecture en bois traditionnelle
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
This volume presents a little-known facet of Japanese culture: the know-how of traditional wooden architecture.
K-Artists
2024
English edition
Archive Books
A compilation of interviews with forty-seven younger-generation Korean artists: this first-ever interview book on contemporary Korean artists in the English language offers a kaleidoscopic overview of the new and dynamic practices taking place in Seoul.
Kitasono Katué - 1902-1978
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Reference monograph of the most renowned Japanese artist-poet of the 20th century in Europe and the United States, active since the 1920s, a figure of visual poetry, linked to all the European and American literary and artistic avant-gardes, with numerous illustrations.
Yayoi Kusama - The Dutch years 1960–70
2023
English edition
MER. Books
A complete documentation of Yayoi Kusama's early performative activities in the Netherlands in the 1960s-70s, through a collection of previously unpublished photographs and written and visual accounts from eyewitnesses, showcasing her unique style and engagement with the emerging sexual revolution.
Sombat Simla - Master Of Bamboo Mouth Organ – Isan, Thailand (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
currently out of stock
First vinyl edition of the record by the master of the Thai Molam mouth organ (originally released on CD in Japan in 2018).
Kohei Matsunaga - Spuren & Gegenworte (CD)
2023
Sonoris
"Spuren & Gegenworte" began with a quasi-telepathic collaboration between KM and RW. Both recorded a track on May 3, 2021, from 8:00 PM to 8:10 PM. These recordings were subsequently transformed, combined, juxtaposed, and further modified over the course of several months, resulting in the completion of the four pieces on the CD.
As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories - Fragments for a Geopoetics of North Eurasia
2023
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
This publication is based on an exhibition and research project that foregrounds an ever-incomplete weaving of narratives of artists, curators, writers, and customary knowledge holders. It traces the many worlds that have existed in parallel, often in spite of or against the oppressive visions imagined by successive regimes—the Russian Empire, the USSR, and contemporary Russia—that have controlled areas across Eastern Europe and Central and North Asia.
Chinese Shadows - Through a diplomatic lens
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Albums (exhibition catalogues)
The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume: a selection of little-known or unpublished prints from two photographic collections belonging to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, covering China from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Seijiro Murayama - Supersedure 2 (book / CD)
2023
Swarming
Percussion by Paris-based Japanese improviser Seijiro Murayama and field recordings by sound artist Éric La Casa, "small, simple gestures" on the threshold of the musical, a low-key presence, listening to inhabited spaces.
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