Art & animality

The infinite monkey theorem states that a chimpanzee randomly typing on a typewriter will sooner or later end up composing a sonnet by Shakespeare. Pierre Sanges carries the metaphor further with this ethological tale illustrated by Nicolas de Crécy.

The infinite monkey theorem states that a chimpanzee randomly typing on a typewriter will sooner or later end up composing a sonnet by Shakespeare. Pierre Senges carries the metaphor further with this ethological tale illustrated by Nicolas de Crécy.

The notebook of American dancer and choreographer Simone Forti, in which she shares her poetry as well as her thoughts on dance, the body, writing, the state of the world… The publication includes an interview with Forti by Annie Suquet, and an afterword by poet and Fluxus artist Jakson Mac Low.

First monograph.

First monograph.

First monograph (available in English edition).

Artist's book.

Michel Blazy's Urban Safari, discovering extraordinary houseplants (and their owners).

A series of works by international artists presented in the style of a natural history museum collection.

The first monograph on the multiple activities of the artist / musician / performer, with numerous illustrations, texts, and an audio CD.

The Art of Hunting (artist's book by young Swiss designer).

Liam Gillick's project for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2009.

This comprehensive catalogue documents for the first time Klaus Weber's oeuvre and reveals a recurring sense of limit-experiences: accidents, organism mutations, altered states, incursions from the outside.

Catalogue / artist's book: disguised in a post-modern hunter, Pii invites us to think about drift feeding practices and the place of nature in the contemporary world.

First monograph.

The third issue of Page Sucker—the 32-page magazine featuring photographs collected over the Internet via a single keyword. This issue's keyword is “lobster”.

A major contribution, by German philosoph and art historian Horst Bredekamp, to the current debate on the 'tree of life' in evolutionary biology. The essay deals with the aesthetic and political dimension of the coral, in Darwin's system a model of anarchic evolution which opposes the hierarchical metaphor of the tree.

The first book of collaborative work by the two American artists, partners in life and art.

Artists' book: a selection of watercolors on paper.

At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.

At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.

A deliberately unrepresentative compilation of genre-hopping textual and visual material around the work of four artists who represent Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennial 2007.

Catalogue of the exhibition inspired of American "Freak Show", presenting around 50 contortionist, giant, hairy or Siamese works.

Exhibition catalogue.

Exhibition catalogue.

The quest for unknown, rumored, or hidden animals.

An “anti-humanist” musical piece, overlaying Klaus Weber's voice and frequency ranges defined in relation to the hearing of cricket (limited edition).

Gloria Friedmann writes about the main questions raised by its work: nature, animal kingdom and ecology; work and war, the origins of mankind and art. Limited edition with a felt-tip drawing printed on a restaurant tablecloth paper and enhanced by hand.

Gloria Friedmann writes about the main questions raised by its work: nature, animal kingdom and ecology; work and war, the origins of mankind and art.

48 cats drawings.

First monograph.

An artistic reflexion on science and images.

The funny though serious inventions of the thinker, poet, prophet and annagrammarian.

First monograph (available in English edition).

A series of drawings by one founder of Support-Surface.

A monument for both linquists and writers.

Unpublished text with an original silkscreen print signed by the artist.

Silkscreen (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).

CURA. turns 15 and celebrates this important milestone with We Monsters, a special "horror" issue dedicated to the exploration of the revolutionary role of monsters in modern civilization, and contemporary art.

A long-distance correspondence reflecting on the infravoice of a blue whale and other so-called “silent” subjects.

This small volume features drawings created by by the famous Swiss illustrator for Basler Rabattmarke BKG Liga.

A series of failed, rejected, or unused animals from Rop van Mierlo's archive; the reserve bench animals.

Reissue of Nitsch's very first release, originally published in 1972 by Edition Galerie Klewan in a limited edition of 100 copies.

Reissue of Nitsch's very first release, originally published in 1972 by Edition Galerie Klewan in a limited edition of 100 copies.