Anthologies

 
 
Musafiri - Of Travellers and Guests
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
An artistic and research project focusing on issues of travel, exile, migration, welcome and hospitality in a globalized world.
Instituting - Space-making, refusal, and organizing in the arts and beyond
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
This collection proposes instituting as a potentially critical methodology in curating, art making and organizing as an unsettling process that produces forms and structures.
Reiner Schürmann - Breaking Ground - Thinking with Reiner Schürmann
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
forthcoming
An anthology of responses to Reiner Schürmann's philosophical research, writings, and commentaries.
Dialogical Imaginations - Aisthesis as Social Perception and New Ideas of Humanism
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
forthcoming
A transdisciplinary reevaluation of the dialogical character of humanism.
La Performance aux États-Unis - Vol. 1 : 1955-1966
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
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).
La Performance aux États-Unis - Vol. 2 : 1967-1982
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
forthcoming
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).
Jacques Donguy - De Jeff Golyscheff à Stelarc - De l\'avant-garde à la post-humanité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of 40 years, with rare illustrations.
Bernard Heidsieck - Poésie debout
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
A collective work examining fifty years of poetic activity by Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014), a central figure in sound poetry and performance poetry, a major poet of the second half of the 20th century, along multiple axes.
Deberlinization - Refabulating the World, A Theory of Praxis
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
The possibility and conditions of a "de-Berlinized" world order that overcomes a 140-year history of colonial violence.
Global Narratives of Russian Disinformation
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
forthcoming
A study of the affects and effects of Russian narratives and their global dissemination.
Radical Desires - French Gay Liberation and Anticolonial Critique
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Critical Stances
forthcoming
An intersectional approach to the radicality of desire.
Ettore Sottsass - Écrits
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
A vast collection of Ettore Sottsass's writings, edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz.
Un art de la réparation - Réparer (par) les arts vivants
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
Artists' activity examined through the notion of reparation, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the living arts (theater, dance, performance, mediation, multiple practices).
René Berger - Esthétique et mass media - Sélection de cours et des actes du colloque « Art, technologie et communication », 1970-1972
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Cinétisme
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
forthcoming
A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication, offering a closer insight into his thinking on video art and new media.
Liliane Giraudon - Fragments polyphoniques
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
The first volume of essays devoted to the work of Liliane Giraudon explores the diversity of her oeuvre, its interdisciplinarity but also its coherence, and enables us to understand what makes its strength and importance in the contemporary literary landscape.
L\'Encyclopédie des Objets Impossibles
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Cité du design / ESADSE
forthcoming
A vast research project to explore the connections and mutual enrichment between cinema and design, both considered as reservoirs of fiction: an illustrated inventory of impossible and unthinkable objects, with some thirty contributions by design researchers and designers.
The Future of Survival
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
How will cinema's significance evolve?
Les Cahiers du son 2025
2025
French edition
Naima
Les Cahiers du son once again draw up an inventory of contemporary sound practices while inviting us to discover the stimulating creativity which, today, animates the presence of sound in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.
Legacy Russell - Gay Pompeii 79 A.D.
2025
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
With her debut chapbook, award-winning author and curator Legacy Russell returns to poetry with her GAY POMPEII, a collection of lyric poems that begin at the end of the world.
The Middle Matter - Sound as interstice
2025
English edition
umland / Q-O2
This reader brings together artistic and theoretical contributions on the instertitial nature of sound. This issue is addressed through a variety of prisms, such as format, language, politics, or new technologies.
Standpoint Autotheory - Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practices
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
In this anthology of essays, twelve artists explore radically self-reflexive research attitudes integrating embodied experiences within the production of theory.
Sexual Dissidences - Frau Diamanda\'s Catalan Scenes, Travesti Politics of Resistance, and Anti-canonical Knowledge
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Drawing together together numerous travesti writers, voices, performers, artists, and historians, this collection amounts to a narrative of survival.
Sub(e)merging - Experiences, Practices and Politics from below
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
From submerging as emerging: a cross-disciplinary perspective of the medial, aesthetic, and material aspects of submerging, as well as its methodological qualities as a resistant practice and figure of thought.
Drafts in Action - Concepts and Practices of Artistic Intervention
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
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.
Teri Wehn Damisch - Transatlantic Crossings Between the Arts
2025
French edition
Bierke
Four texts by Teri Wehn Damisch, attending to the conception of her films on artist Robert Morris, photographer Gisèle Freund and anthropologist Françoise Héritier.
Siegfried Kracauer - Culte de la distraction - Miniatures urbaines et critiques de films (1925-1933)
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.
Madness of the Anthropocene
2025
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
This book brings together artists and writers who use image-making and text as means to understand ecological change. By presenting their work here, including ongoing projects and commissioned pieces, the publication conveys knowledge within attentive proximity to the contributor's own definitions of the subject and their governance of observation and analysis of global crises in the age of the Anthropocene.
Through the Prism of Borders - Beyond the Threshold: Art and Spaces in Between
2025
English edition
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
Through the Prism of Borders brings together artistic and academic voices to explore borderlands as dynamic and relational spaces shaped by history, landscape and human experience.
Philippa Snow - Snow Business
2025
English edition
ISOLARII
A collection of Philippa Snow's most celebrated writings, articulating with majestic precision the thorny, unbreakable bond between mass media, popular culture and art.
Eco-operations
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
An edited collection of contributions to conversations about the climate crisis and its role in critical discourse.
Siegfried Kracauer - Culte de la distraction - Miniatures urbaines et critiques de films (1925-1933)
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.
Matter Mattering Matters - A Scienticity Reader
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
A scienticity reader of artistic, philosophical, theoretical moves on the epistemic instruments we spin to intimate the universe.
Display, Distribute, Disrupt - Contemporary Moving Image Practices
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
The implications of the digitization of image production and distribution on the contemporary ecology of the moving image.
Sensation Quantique - Atomes et souvenirs
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Naima
A dialogue between art and quantum physics.
Nos paris critiques - Nos engagements critiques pour des artistes sans galerie
2025
French edition
Naima
Some sixty artists from different generations not represented in galleries, selected and presented by 35 critics.
Peinture & numérique - Pratiques et enjeux contemporains
2025
French edition
Cité du design / ESADSE
How contemporary painting embraces the possibilities offered by digital technology.
Valentine de Saint-Point - L\'ardeur et la conquête
2025
French edition
Ardemment
A selection of texts by Valentine de Saint-Point, emblematic of both the Belle Époque and anticolonial militancy.
Arts, écologies, transitions - Un abécédaire
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
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.
Temps naissant - Un glossaire pour le XXIe siècle
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Writings and Interviews
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The collected writings of artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz, along with the stories behind them told by Alexis Vaillant.
Éclats d\'Ukraine - La résilience ukrainienne à la Cité internationale universitaire de Paris
2025
French edition
Cneai
A collection of testimonials from Ukrainian students and researchers hosted at the Maison de l'Ukraine at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, who share their stories and future aspirations.
String Figures - A Cultural Practice between Art, Anthropology, and Theory
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
A non-Western way of thinking (a playful interweaving of connections between history and the present and between world regions and disciplines).
Curatorial Design - A Place Between
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
currently out of stock
The future of architecture lies in the curatorial approach. This is the thesis put forward by architect Wilfried Kuehn and theorist Dubravka Sekulić in their book Curatorial Design: A Place Between, which brings together contributions from more than 30 authors working in the fields of architecture, art, and curatorial knowledge and practice.
Le travail de l\'acteur·rice - Opérations, protocoles, exercices pour le jeu
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A multidisciplinary analysis, based on a historical perspective of theater pedagogies and an eminently contemporary approach to actor training.
Knots
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New interdisciplinary readings of contemporary urban metamorphoses.
Félix Candela - L\'intelligence de la forme
2025
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
This first collection of texts in French by Félix Candela (1910-1997), a major figure in twentieth-century modern architecture, brings together writings and interviews published in specialized journals, as well as lectures and speeches delivered on various occasions by the Mexican architect and engineer of Spanish origin between 1953 and 1994
Michel Guet - Ne rien faire, mais quoi ? - Suivi de Le coup est parti
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
Michel Guet's intellectual diary, from his commitment to "Banalytique" (an experimental movement that emerged from French post-situationnism in the early 1980s in response to the triumph of the "colonization of reality by market value" and the injunctions to make work totally profitable) to the social critique of art and the vertigo of a planet on fire.
Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
A collection exploring the intersections of gender and religion in post-secular knowledge production and visual culture.
Jean-Michel Bouhours - When the Eye Trembles - The Cinema of Paolo Gioli
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Light Cone
An anthology of texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours on photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, a key figure in the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s.
Residencies Reflected
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Residencies Reflected looks at international artist residencies with a societal and ecological mind shift.
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