Performance / happening / action art / body art

 
 
Inter - Mélancolie à l\'ère de la technique
2023
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
On the melancholy and morality of digital ecosystems.
Yayoi Kusama - The Dutch years 1960–70
2023
English edition
MER. B&L
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of Yayoi Kusama's early performative activities in the Netherlands in the 1960s-70s, through a collection of previously unpublished photographs and written and visual accounts from eyewitnesses, showcasing her unique style and engagement with the emerging sexual revolution.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - LCDB (Le Culte Des Banni.e.s)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A trans-theoretical essay: Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux explores the arcana of artists' cult status through a kaleidoscopic series of portraits of "banished" visual artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians and architects, from William S. Burroughs to Jean-Luc Godard via John Cage.
 ORLAN - Hibridaciones / Hybridizations
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Temblores Publicaciones
Hybridizations presents the most recent work of the French artist ORLAN which reflects, from the aesthetics of ancient Mesoamerican cultures, on the canons of beauty, cultural exchanges, and the symbolic and material powers of native peoples in a globalized world.
Bruno Fernandès - Dadakan ! - Nu intègre descendant les préjugés
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
The life and work of the precursor of happening and streaking in Japan, Itoi Kanji (aka Dadakan, 1920-2021): the first comprehensive chrono-biographical study in Western language on the great Japanese Dadaist nudist ascetic, with a rare iconography.
Ella Finer - Silent Whale Letters - A Long-Distance Correspondence, on All Frequencies
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A long-distance correspondence reflecting on the infravoice of a blue whale and other so-called “silent” subjects.
Ana Mendieta - Aux commencements
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
MO.CO. Panacée
An in-depth exploration of the work and destiny of Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), with numerous illustrations and previously unpublished contributions.
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An overview of the work of the Paris-based American artist, through a series of exhibitions, installations and performances over a dozen years, three essays and two interviews.
Art performance, manœuvre, coefficients de visibilité
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
Performance art with a “low artistic coefficient of visibility”.
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? - (A Series of Open Questions, vol. 4)
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - A Series of Open Questions
On the themes found in the work of Lorraine O'Grady: Black female subjectivity, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, music, and translation.
Dominique Paul - Silent Fall - Devenir oiseau / Becoming Bird / Convertirse en ave
2023
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
various
Monograph surveying more than ten years of the Canadian visual and performance artist's career, whose engaged practice addresses social and environmental issues, with two essays by Chantal Pontbriand and Ayelet D. Aldouby.
Inter - Décroissance
2023
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Inter #141 invites to approach degrowth as a paradigm of a possible way out of the planetary crisis, and to imagine new ways of living in the world.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - SMS - Stop Making Sense
2023
French edition
Loevenbruck
This luxurious publication in large format presents 365 collages made by the artist between 2021 and 2022.
Charles Dreyfus Pechkoff - Avant-garde et contre culture
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.
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.
Angel Vergara - We, the Works of Art
2023
English edition
MER. B&L
The most complete monograph devoted to the Belgian artist of Spanish origin, heir to Ensor, Broodthaers and Beuys.
Louis Dorsène - Quatre catastrophes
2023
French edition
Vroum - Editions
A collection of poetic, political and ecological stories to be told aloud, in which the natural elements (the melting ice, the volcanic eruption, the hole in the clouds, or the flood) are the heroes, approaching ecology through its sensitive manifestations.
 Big Tail Elephant - Build and Resist
2023
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A retrospective of the performances, photographs, installations and videos of the avant-garde collective that disrupted the Chinese cultural scene in the 1990s.
Démosthène Agrafiotis - Prolégomènes à une histoire de la performance en Grèce
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A comprehensive overview of performance and action art in Greece, from its origins to the most contemporary practices.
Hélio Oiticica - Parangolé - Between Revolt and Poetry
2023
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Reference trilingual monograph / a conceptual art's discourse around Hélio Oiticica's parangolés.
Jacques Jouet - Le théâtre simple
2023
French edition
Vroum - Editions
A theater work by Jacques Jouet with "performative" rules for the actors in each play.
Otto Muehl - Musik 1982-90 (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Tochnit Aleph
85 minutes collection of previously unpublished recordings made at the Friedrichshof commune between 1982 and 1990. Performed by Otto Muehl and members of the commune. Includes actionist group-music, improvised conceptual pieces, and barpianist-songs.
 SIGNA - Det åbne hjerte (The Open Heart) (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Tochnit Aleph
38.00 35.00 €
A record resulting from a 12-hour participatory performance by the Danish collective.
Massimo Bartolini - Hagoromo
2023
English edition
Nero
The most complete publication ever dedicated to the Tuscan artist.
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.
Simone Forti - Oh, Tongue
2023
English edition
Nero
currently out of stock
A new revised version of the notebook of the legendary American dancer, artist 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.
Maria Hassabi - Hardscapes / Here
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
Hardscapes / Here documents and brings together two exhibition projects by artists Nina Canell and Maria Hassabi. Produced on the occasion of the exhibitions of the same name curated by Samuele Piazza at the OGR Torino, the publication consists of two graphically specular books that merge into a single volume.
Véhicule
2023
French edition
Véhicule
Vroum - Véhicule
The partitions, to be activated by the reader, by Ludovic Bernhardt, Anaël Castelein, Garance Dor, Frédéric Forte, Linda Hayford, Léa Henry, Anabelle Hulaut, Dominique Jégou, Violaine Lochu, Frédéric Mathevet, Vincent Menu, Karim Ould, Pauline Picot, PPAF éditions (Adrien Chacon and Julien Molland), Matthieu Saladin and Yoann Thommerel.
Julien Blaine - Le motier
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The continuation by all means of an elementary poetry which develops always and still new poetic devices to restore the world.
Inter - Visages
2022
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
The status of the face in a society of images.
How to Die - Inopiné
2022
English edition
Archive Books
A transdisciplinary investigation and a choreographic performance, between Umeå and Oslo, about ecological grief, cultural panic, and a feeling of collapse.
Going Out - Walking, Listening, Soundmaking
2022
English edition
umland / Q-O2
An anthology that traces the long legacy of interdisciplinary experimentations at the intersection of walking, listening, and soundmaking (new edition).
Akio Suzuki - New Sense of Hearing (vinyl LP)
2022
Blank Forms - Records
Available for the first time since its original 1980 release on ALM-Uranoia, New Sense of Hearing documents a collaboration between Takehisa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki, two luminaries of Japanese experimental music in the lineage of Fluxus.
Akio Suzuki - New Sense of Hearing (CD)
2022
Blank Forms - Records
Available for the first time since its original 1980 release on ALM-Uranoia, New Sense of Hearing documents a collaboration between Takehisa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki, two luminaries of Japanese experimental music in the lineage of Fluxus.
Alain Snyers - Microgestes
2022
French edition
Vroum - Editions
Artist's book. Alain Snyers' Microgestes (Microgestures) are invitations to action, they can be practiced or read aloud. They form a set of 45 detailed instructions for all sorts of situations: becoming a cow painter, instructing a meringue, capturing a draft, forgetting tomatoes in the subway or opening a can of tuna with a pickaxe...
 Kimsooja - La Lanterne du Bon Dieu (DVD)
2022
French edition, English subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
A film by Gilles Coudert and Damien Faure about the stained glass windows made by Kimsooja for the Metz Cathedral: a dialogue between contemporary art and cultural heritage and between Eastern and Western thought.
Luz Broto - Put oneself in the place of the other
2022
English edition
IF Publications
"Put oneself in the place of the other" brings together and shares for the first time a series of actions proposed by Spanish artist Luz Broto from 2014 to 2022.
591 - Les idiotes
2022
no text
591
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Special issue dedicated to the simple and spectacular actions of the group of women artists "Les idiotes" (Hélène Defilippi and Sarah Cassenti): "the most raw and naked materiality of the body, which objectifies itself in act and concretizes itself as form."
Melati Suryodarmo - I am a Ghost in My Own House
2022
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
First monograph on the durational performance artist Melati Suryodarmo, one of the pioneers of performance art in Indonesia.
Luísa Mota - The Artistic Practice of Luísa Mota
2022
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
Retrospective monograph.
Nicolas Richard - Commentaires - Un coup de tête jamais n\'abolira le hasard
2022
French edition
Vroum - Editions
A "football-oratorio" that replays the 2006 World Cup final match between France and Italy.
Martin Kersels - Home Sweet Home
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
Catalogue gathering the series of works realized around the furniture by two artists of different generations but having in common a same refusal of the authority, the paintings of Enrico Baj produced at the beginning of the years 1960 meeting the new sculptures of Martin Kersels.
Paul Panhuysen - Duo Geloso (vinyl LP)
2022
Black Truffle
The first release to document the variety and playfulness of the concerts that Arnold Dreyblatt and Paul Panhuysen's Duo Geloso performed throughout Europe in 1987-88.
Artistes-chercheur·es, chercheur·es-artistes - Performer les savoirs
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – ArTeC
Innovative hybridizations between research, creation (theater and performance) and pedagogy.
Walking from Scores
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An anthology of text and graphic scores to be used while walking, from Fluxus to the critical works of current artists, through the tradition of experimental music and performance, gathered and presented by Elena Biserna.
Otto Muehl - Musik 1982-90 (CD)
2022
Tochnit Aleph
Collection of recordings made at the Friedrichshof commune between 1982 and 1990. Includes actionist group-music, improvised conceptual pieces, and barpianist-songs.
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