Anthologies

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

Originally resealed in 1975, Poesia Sonora is one of the first international compilation of sound poetry. Edited by Maurizio Nannucci, the anthology gathers pieces by some of the most important pioneers of the Sound Poetry movement: Bob Cobbing, François Dufrêne, Henri Chopin, Ernst Jandl, Franz Mon, Arthur Petronio, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Brion Gysin, Bernard Heidsieck, Sten Hanson, and Paul De Vree.

A compendium of essays, scripts, poems, and proposals compiled by the anonymous collective Studio for Propositional Cinema for their eponymous show at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. It investigates notions of script and staging in exhibition display. It features reknowned contributors such as Paul Chan, Keren Cytter, Irena Haiduk, John Miller, Cally Spooner, Lawrence Weiner et Christopher Williams.

Since 2009, need and care and desire and admiration have been cross-examined, called as witness, put on parole, and made the subject of caring inquiry by e-flux journal authors. These writings have now been collected to form this comprehensive volume.

Recounting a partial history of our relation with matter, this reader explores how the crossover between cosmological narratives, the spatial revolutions of concrete poetry, and hypertextual and territorial fictions might have an impact on the recognition of human agency in a time that calls for our action on environmental policies.

A musical anthology gathering a collection of recordings featuring traditional instruments from Asia and Oceania—from New Zealand to the Philippines, from India to Burma.

An anthology of original recordings from Java, Sumatra, and Bali: a collection of ecstatic and hypnotic sounds, featuring a large panel of musical influences and traditional instruments that represent Indonesia's large heritage of profound cultural differences.

A two-record album of 21 original sound works by artists who exhibited at the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York—including Eleanor Antin, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Terry Fox, William Burroughs…

At the heart of this collection of short writings are three provocative texts extracted from important artworks by Rosen, offered here as genre-defying literature at the intersection between reality and fiction, speculative narrative and historical-political critique, humor and eroticism.

This collection of more than thirty texts, which were originally published between 1790 and the present day, explores man's rich relationship with material things. Devised largely in response to the gradual breakdown of the divide between art and design that began over a century ago, this book sheds light on the ways that the concept of the thing as idea has been considered over time.

A collection of texts from a series of screenings, lectures, exhibitions and meetings on Palestine organized by the Mucem, Marseille, in 2017.

The third volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1952-2004), for the first time on vinyl (3 discs with a poster booklet).

An anthology surveying the relationship between artistic practices and documents.

Aesthetic Politics in Fashion outlines critical studies in the present cross-sections of fashion, art, politics, and global capitalism.

Performing the Sentence brings into dialogue the ways that “performative thinking” has developed in different national and institutional contexts, within different disciplines in the arts, and the conditions under which it has developed in experimental art schools.

A collection of texts by Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman, two visionary anarchist women at the turn of the twentieth century.

An anthology on new musical forms in the 20th century.

Avant-garde in Italy between 1968 and 1976.

This volume brings together multidisciplinary essays dedicated to the question of how dance, both in its historical and in its contemporary manifestations, is intricately linked to conceptualisations of the political.

Collective work among designers.

The work of Raymond Roussel as a point of departure for an oblique and transversal reading of 20th century art.

The seventh and last volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1930-2012), including unreleased material and rarities (Henry Jacobs, Tziga Vertov, Luciano Berio, Bülent Arel, Don Preston, Helmut Schäfer, E-L Scott de Martinville, John Oswald, Justin K. Broadrick, Storm Bugs, Henry Cow, Osso Exotico, Eugeniusz Rudnik, Cabaret Voltaire, Mika Vainio, New GX Jupitter-Larsen...), and a 84 pages booklet of critical and biographic notes.

How ongoing transformations in social housing are reflected in the aspirations and practices of artists.

An anthology of writings by curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas.

An anthology on socially engaged art.

Minimalism and the return of human figure in art, in the light of Franco Berardi's theory of semiocapitalism.

A subjective selection by Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler of annotated texts by various authors (Edmund Burke, Frantz Fanon, Louise Michel, Donna Haraway, Oscar Tuazon...) about revolution.

A collection of texts, most unpublished in French.

A collection of mostly unpublished essays, notes and letters which shed a new light on Warburg's last studies.

A selection of recent writings by the art critic, galvanizing central themes Verwoert has been developing in pursuit of a language to describe art's transformative potential in conceptual, performative, and emotional terms.

A collection of influential essays by Boris Groys.

Dada, Fluxus, futurism, spatialism, lettrism, concrete poetry, cut-up… a 560-page anthology of typographical explosions and poetic experiments by Al Dante.

Swiss lines (available in English edition).

What happens when you look at design as some thing more than a service-based relationship between client and designer? What new strategies and models help to question and challenge the limits of design? What outer circumstances influence this kind of practice?

The sixth volume of the experimental and electronic music anthology (1957-2010), including unreleased material and rarities.

A retrospective of “empty exhibitions”.

A retrospective of “empty exhibitions” (hardcover limited edition).

A manual for what bears, sustains, and props, for those things that encourage, care for, and assist; for that which advocates, articulates; for what stands behind, frames, and maintains: a manual for those things that give support.

A giant zap through Warhol's television universe; a journey through the artist's obsessions, his fascinations, his loves, his surprises and fears.

The first French anthology of texts by conceptual artists from the 60's-70's.

“East Coast Europe,” which took place during Spring 2008, is a project about the perceptions of contemporary European identity and its relation to spatial practices and international politics.

This book reassembles the most significant texts and images of works of the 80's art scene, focusing on the problematics of public and private space.

Third volume of the ultimate collection of archives of all the avant-garde in Belgium from Magritte to Broodthaers, from James Ensor to Christian Dotremont.

Essays and interviews on 20th century avant-gardes in France (from Dada to sound poetry, avant-garde reviews, happenings and events, Fluxus, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Gil J. Wolman, Camille Bryen...).

Written texts and films, interviews, symposia, and essays by a central figure in the history of the New York avant-garde.

A film-maker and curator's reflection on moving image and its viewer.

An anthology.

Contemporary art collectors interviewed.