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Mark Pauline - Survival Research Laboratories (CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
All the destructive mood of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories shows: from "Classical" music to intense destructuration, a new form of Avant-garde.
Brandon LaBelle - The Joy of Cacophony
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
Sonia Boyce engages with the artist and sound theorist Brandon LaBelle, who guides us through the artist's poetics, considering sound as a form of radical inclusion, a medium capable of generating interaction, narratives and new understanding.
Cauleen Smith - Breaking Cinema - Experimental Film 2010-2023
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
A significant contribution to the understanding of the work of artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith, by art historian Romi Crawford, who analyzes how Smith recastsfilm history, in a pivotal period of her career.
Alexandra Grant - Itinéraires Fantômes (box set)
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
X Artists' Books
currently out of stock
Itinéraires Fantômes is an oracle deck created by Alexandra Grant with Hélène Cixous in celebration of H. Cixous' work.
Lynn Marie Kirby - Time & Place - On the Work of Lynn Marie Kirby
2024
English edition
X Artists' Books
An exploration of Lynn Marie Kirby 's work through a collection of writing, essays and interviews (Etel Adnan, Lynne Sachs, Jalal Toufic, Alexandra Grant, Trinh T. Minh-ha...).
The Glover Group - A Los Angeles Story
2024
English edition
Nero
A portrait of the cohesive community of women artists in Frogtown, Los Angeles, including Ruby Neri, Hilary Pecis, Megan Reed, Lily Stockman, and Austyn Weiner.
Sam Francis - Transatlantique
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Pierre Wat invites height artists from both sides of the Atlantic to share their views of Sam Francis (1923-1994).
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.
Toilet Paper - ToiletAlex PaperPrager
2024
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
ToiletAlex PaperPrager is the new edition of Toilet Paper magazine, born from a collaboration with american artist Alex Prager: a vibrant dialogue between visionary minds, where the ironic style of Toilet Paper meets the dark humor of Alex Prager, a parade of familiar yet strange images, suggesting a timeless world placed somewhere between dream and reality.
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.
Doug Aitken - Mirage
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
An immersive book experience: with numerous special printing features, this luxurious accordion-fold volume documents and embodies Aitken's exploration of mirrored surfaces in architecture.
Martine Syms - She Mad
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
She Mad gathers materials and documentation on Martine Syms' seminal episodic project of the same name. Each episode of this series takes a different format, using various narrative formats, from sitcoms to TikTok videos, and includes filmed footage as well as research materials.
Yaron Michael Hakim - Psittaciformes
2023
English edition
X Artists' Books
Monograph devoted to Yaron Michael Hakim's Psittaciformes body of work, drawing inspiration from the migratory nature of parrots and their ability to assimilate. Through bold paintings on used Dacron sailcloth, Hakim uses this subject matter to explore his own relationship with assimilation, living between cultures, and the exoticization of his heritage.
The Stonewall Nation
2023
English edition
Torpedo
(last copies available!)
20.00 14.00 €
Edited by artist Sille Storihl, The Stonewall Nation engages the archival remains of a gay colony that a group of gay men wanted to establish in Alpine County in Northern California in the early 1970s.
Tucker Nichols - Flowers
2023
no text
Nieves
Tucker Nichols' flowers paintings.
Richard Chartier - Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (pour Georgia O\'Keeffe) / Recurrence.Expansion (vinyl LP)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by Félicia Atkinson and Richard Chartier.
 Starving Weirdos - Atheistaregods (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
More than a decade after the release of "Land Lines", the mythical Humboldt County, California based duo of Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay reappears seemingly out of nowhere with "Atheistsaregods".
Ben Sakoguchi - Oranges – Pancartes – Cartes postales (4 booklets)
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
Three series of works that the Californian artist of Japanese origin has been producing since the 1970s, plus a text, in four booklets.
Yvonne Rainer - Remembering a Dance - Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
A re-examination of Yvonne Rainer's Parts of Some Sextets, a radical performance and pivotal piece in the American choreographer's career, which led her to theorize her conception of dance in the 1960s, before being revived in 2019.
Mungo Thomson -
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First comprehensive monograph, surveying three key series spanning Mungo Thomson's investigations into mass culture and everyday perceptual experience.
Julia Scher - Filzengraben Boulevard (vinyl LP)
2023
Small World
35.00 31.00 €
An autobiographical artist-talk as a performance delivered from the artist's bed over Zoom.
 Gerard & Kelly - Ruins
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A presentation of video installations, sculptures, site-specific interventions, performance and works on paper by the duo of Californian artists and choreographers.
William Leavitt - Installations, Plays, Video - 1970-2018
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A retrospective overview of the work of a pioneer of Conceptual art in Los Angeles
Jack Pierson - Less and more
2022
English edition
DoPe Press
A concise introduction to the Jack Pierson's photographs, collages, word sculptures and more across four decades.
Jack Pierson - Tomorrow\'s Man 6
2022
English edition
Bywater Bros. Editions
The sixth volume in Jack Pierson's famed Tomorrow's Man series associates archival material and works by contemporary artists in a collage-like design to produce an exploded vision of the current visual landscape, draped in vintage homoeroticism and glamour.
Elaine Mayes - Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968
2022
English edition
Damiani - Photography
59.00 45.00 €
Everyday life on the Haight: previously unseen portraits from the hippie epicenter by the acclaimed documentarian.
Richard Hertz - Jack Goldstein et la CalArts Mafia
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
The fascinating story of Jack Goldstein, the beginnings of CalArts, and some of the illustrious fellows who, in the 1970s and 1980s, led the transition from conceptual art to the Pictures Generation, paints an uncompromising picture of the art world then and now.
Daniel Schmidt - In My Arms, Many Flowers (CD)
2022
Recital
New release of the first album of American Gamelan composer Daniel Schmidt.
Daniel Schmidt - Cloud Shadows (CD)
2022
Recital
New release of the third album of American Gamelan composer Daniel Schmidt.
Amir Zaki - Building + Becoming
2022
English edition
X Artists' Books
Hyperrealist photographer of California skateparks Amir Zaki's new monograph covers twenty-plus years of photographic work, including an essay and interview.
Kenny Scharf - MOODZ
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Variations on the face: downtown legend Kenny Scharf's permutational exploration of character.
The Youngest Day
2022
English edition
X Artists' Books
A newspaper format publication by artist and curator Mathew Hale, derived from an exhibition of 24 LA and Berlin-based artists.
Steve Roden - Oionos (livre + CD)
2022
Room40
An evocative musical tribute to Greek architect and painter Dimitris Pikionis, based on field recordings and small "poor" objects such as tin whistles, music boxes and toy harmonicas: a meditative, whirring, vibrating and suspended sound piece, both "environmental" and particularly musical.
Harold Budd - The Pavilion Of Dreams (vinyl LP)
2022
Superior Viaduct
Reissue of a milestone of ambient music, produced and released by Brian Eno in 1978, featuring Marion Brown, Gavin Bryars, and Michael Nyman.
Brandon LaBelle - Dreamtime X
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Errant Bodies
Dreamtime X is a diary kept between March 2020 and March 2021, capturing the conditions of lockdown as experienced by the author. Articulated in the form of 100 short poetic entries, the publication veers across a set of ambivalent perspectives.
Post-Performance Video, Prospective 1 - Los Angeles
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
The first curatorial project dedicated to Post-Performance Video with a special look at the works of four artists working in Los Angeles or having trained in this city: Coleman Collins, Rodney McMillian, Nathaniel Mellors, and Anna Wittenberg.
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Un  hiver  en  plein  été (vinyl LP)
2021
Shelter Press - Records
currently out of stock
The third collaboration between Félicia Atkinson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma—their first album produced together in the same studio: an electroacoustic, poetic, fluid and sensitive dialogue between the two experimentalists.
Wolfgang Stoerchle - Success in Failure
2021
English edition
Daisy editions
First monograph devoted to the work of video artist and performer Wolfgang Stoerchle (1944-1976), an artistic figure of the Californian scene in the 1970s, based on extensive research and three international exhibitions.
C.W. Winter - The Works and Days - The Black Sections (vinyl LP)
2021
various
An absorbing sound collage album that emerged out of the production material of the film, The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) by C.W. Winter & Anders Edström, with musical excerpts from Tim Berne & Bill Frisell, Tony Conrad, Graham Lambkin, Mary Jane Leach, Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, Folke Rabe, Éliane Radigue, and Akio Suzuki.
Jim Shaw - Paperback Covers
2021
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
currently out of stock
Monograph dedicated to Jim Shaw's “Paperback Covers” key series.
Kim Schoen - BARAGOUIN
2021
English edition
X Artists' Books
A nonsense opera (artist's book).
Jenny Odell - Inhabiting the Negative Space
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
Artist and writer Jenny Odell speaks about the role of design and observation in a fully virtual commencement ceremony for Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Liz Craft - New York & Beyond - 2017-2019
2021
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A selection of recently exhibited works of the Californian artist.
Steve Roden - The Radio – Airria (Hanging Garden) – Vein Stem Is Calm (vinyl LP)
2021
Sonoris
Sonoris releases both on vinyl and CD, with a new mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi, some important works from the influential and respected artist Steve Roden. These tracks, which mix conceptual composition and musicality, transcend the ambient or lowercase categories too quickly applied to his music, due to its ghostly beauty.
Steve Roden - The Radio – Airria (Hanging Garden) – Vein Stem Is Calm (CD)
2021
Sonoris
Sonoris releases both on vinyl and CD, with a new mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi, some important works from the influential and respected artist Steve Roden. These tracks, which mix conceptual composition and musicality, transcend the ambient or lowercase categories too quickly applied to his music, due to its ghostly beauty.
Brandon LaBelle - The Other Citizen
2020
English edition
Errant Bodies - Errant Edition
Drawing upon traditions of socially engaged poetics, Brandon LaBelle's The Other Citizen presents narratives of contemporary crisis and exclusionary politics—from American teenagers in the maze of neoliberal privatization to those caught between borders of nation-states—outlining the force of a planetary citizenry.
Michele Lombardelli - California
2020
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A collection of photographs and drawings retracing the founding Californian experience of the artist.
Lynn Marie Kirby - Oracular Transmissions
2020
English edition
X Artists' Books
currently out of stock
Oracular Transmissions weaves together three of the most recent collaborative projects Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby have completed through processes of exchange and translation: Back, Back Again to Paris (2013), The Alhambra (2016), and Transmissions (2017).
Raymond Pettibon - Selected Works From 1982 To 2011
2020
no text
Nieves
An anthology of Pettibon's drawings.
Jack Pierson - Tomorrow\'s Man 5
2020
English edition
Bywater Bros. Editions
The fifth volume in Jack Pierson's famed Tomorrow's Man series associates archival material and works by contemporary artists in a collage-like design to produce an exploded vision of the current visual landscape, draped in vintage homoeroticism and glamour.
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