Art & labor

 
 
Julien Rufié - À la ligne - Chansons d\'usine
2020
Ici, d'ailleurs…
currently out of stock
The musical adaptation of Joseph Ponthus' eponymous book by Michel Cloup (Diabologum), Pascal Bouaziz (Mendelson, Bruit Noir) and Julien Rufié (Michel Cloup Duo), between rock, reading, chanson and electronics.
David Graeber - Anarchy – In a Manner of Speaking - Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman
2020
English edition
Diaphanes - Anarchies
David Graeber's interviews (with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman) redefine the contours of what an anarchist morality could be today.
Jacques Berthet - Rumeur sur la ville
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
Photo documentary set in a deserted Geneva during the G8 counter-summit in 2003. The series stages the abandonment of the urban space and its transformation through the deployment of defense barricades.
Andreas Sell - From self-employment to employment
2020
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This diary traces the artist's journey in search of a permanent job, combining notes and visual documents. The publication is the second in a series of autobiographical narratives by Sell.
 Marie Cool Fabio Balducci - Rovesciamento
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
29.00 15.00 €
The catalogue of the duo's exhibition at CAPC, featuring a new site-specific work and a series of performed or filmed actions. A project about situations of reversal, confronting the exogenous realities of the enterprise, the working-class, and the museum.
Sidsel Meineche Hansen - Second Sex War
2020
English edition
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
Stemming from a series of works by Sidsel Meineche Hansen, this monographic catalogue offers a range of perspectives on urgent issues around gender, sexuality and labour in the digital age.
Yves Drillet - Garçon de Café
2020
French edition
Nouveau Palais
A book of photographs and texts showing young people in their precarious work uniforms, drawing up a sensitive social chronicle of the precariousness of work among this generation.
Mathilde Sauzet - Pilote - Un scénario de film sur l’esthétique managériale
2019
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Stimuli
A documentary fiction depicting the abstraction of tools and management and consulting.
Pascal Rivet - Rase campagne
2018
French edition
Frac Bretagne
An overview of Pascal Rivet's artistic practice through an examination of his favored subjets: rural traditions, farming, sports, and the working world.
The Syz Collection
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
An extensive documentation of the art collection initiated by Eric and Suzanne Syz, on the occasion of its installation at the Syz Group Headquarters in Geneva in 2017. Featuring iconic works from the 1980s, the ever-expanding collection also promotes established and emerging contemporary artists.
Bernard Renoux - Dockers à Nantes - L\'expérience des itinéraires
2018
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
The itinerary as an artistic, architectural, territorial and social experience.
Andro Wekua -
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
The Promise of Total Automation
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This catalogue surveys the literature on our relationship to a world of machines, new technologies, and electronic devices. It brings thoughts on automation and its promises, primarily the end of labor. The publication unfolds a bibliography and chronology on the subject.
Carl Havelange - Gaspard - Une écriture ouvrière au XIXe siècle
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
A reflection on history and the historical document, based on the chronicles of a village written in the 19th century by a Walloon worker.
Allan Sekula - Okeanos
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This publication is charting the Allan Sekula's research into and investigation of the oceans. It intersperses essays from scholars, historians, and thinkers with a selection of the artist's seminal texts and excerpts from his private notebooks.
Spike - The Real
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Spike
This issue of Spike looks at the real as a fault-line of art and a utopian horizon of its agency. Welcome to the oasis of the real (featuring Francesco Vezzoli, Maria Hassabi, Asad Raza, Emily Jacir, Wayne Koestenbaum, Gabi Ngcobo, Tristan Garcia, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff…)!
Valentine Schlegel - Je dors, je travaille
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Conceived as a "bio-monograph", this catalogue offers a unique insight into the life and work of the French artist, sculptor and ceramist Valentine Schlegel (1925-2021). It features a large iconography, archives, and texts by sculptor and Schlegel specialist Hélène Bertin (new expanded edition with English texts).
À l\'Ouest toute ! - Travailleuses de Bretagne et d\'ailleurs
2017
French edition
various
An account of a three-year research program focusing on working women's struggles in Britany: the publication provides an overview of the studies and artworks produced within the framework of the program, as well as extracts of lectures and a set of original archives.
Azimuts - Travail
2017
texts in English and French
Azimuts
The second volume of the design research journal devoted to work and its mutations.
7759 - Bodies, Logistics, and Labor
2017
English edition
Nero
7759 – Bodies, Logistics, and Labor is a collective collection of essays which also includes two photographic works by Stefan Burger. The publication examines the notions of surplus value, logistics and globalization, in the framework of a case study on the self-managed dockers from Genoa.
CATPC - Congolese Plantation Workers Art League
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This book offers a first report on the activities of the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League (CATPC), an association for the development of an independent thought on postcolonial power relations within the global art world.
Judith Hopf - Up
2017
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Hopf's multidisciplinary practice addresses the paradoxes and ridicule that spill form high-minded attitudes toward art making and the faith in technology, professionalism, and efficiency. This catalogue gathers a significant sampling of her works, as well as two essays and an interview.
Pierre-Damien Huyghe - Azimuts - Du travail
2017
texts in English and French
Azimuts
The first volume of the design research journal devoted to work and its mutations presents a collection of texts by the philosopher Pierre-Damien Huyghe.
Black Diamond Dust
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A multidisciplinary investigation dedicated to the cultural representations of coal mining, gathering contemporary artworks, poetry, essays, literature, folk songs, and archival images.
Incorporated! - Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d\'art contemporain (2 vol.)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Paraguay Press
Two-volume catalogue of the Fifth Rennes Biennal (France): twenty-nine international artists were invited to construct an exhibition based on the particular issue of shaping emotions in a world which formulates them in terms of markets.
New Ways of Doing Nothing
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
New Ways of Doing Nothing highlights artistic gestures challenging today's inclination towards productivity and growth (with Robert Breer, Claire Fontaine, Mathias Delplanque, Marina Faust, Ryan Gander, Karl Holmqvist, Jiří Kovanda, Superflex, Mario García Torres...).
L\'Île des réunions - Méthode de réunions collaboratives pour une approche affirmative de l\'incertitude
2016
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Stimuli
An anti-method of meeting that reaffirms the uncertain outcome of gathering moments.
Julien Prévieux - Datumo!
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
currently out of stock
Datumo! recounts a quantification experiment lead by Julien Prévieux and based on the gazes of an audience watching artworks.
Claudio Cambon - Shipbreak
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A project by internationally working documentary photographer Claudio Cambon that tells the story of the last voyage, dismantling, and recycling of an American merchant vessel in Bangladesh in the late 1990's.
Allan Sekula - Ship of Fools / The Dockers\' Museum
2015
French edition
Frac Bretagne
Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks.
Charles Fourier - Œuvres complètes - 7 volumes
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
185.00 125.00 €
Special offer for the purchase of Charles Fourier's complete works.
Mustapha Akrim - Iqraa - Work in progress
2013
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
Mustapha Akrim's works mixes at once protest, aesthetics, philosophy and politics. The project documented in this catalogue questions labour and education—two notions symbolized by the recurring motif of the fly. As a work in progress, “Iqraa” also refers to the idea that nothing is fixed—neither aesthetically nor politically.
Charles Fourier - Le Nouveau Monde amoureux
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Simone Debout's re-edited version of Fourier's essential work.
Living Labor
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
15.00 7.50 €
Viable forms of refusal and imagine prospects for a post-work future.
Andro Wekua - Dreaming Dreaming
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Artist' book (Andro Wekua's recent works).
Taysir Batniji - Man does not live on bread alone
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - Wide Open
Catalogue: a selection of recent and older works by Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji.
Benjamin Sabatier - Do It Yourself de A à Z
2013
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Benjamin Sabatier shells over the alphabet the founding principles of his work.
Benjamin Sabatier - Do It Yourself de A à Z - Limited edition
2013
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Benjamin Sabatier shells over the alphabet the founding principles of his work. This limited edition is accompanied by a can compression, a unique signed piece.
Marie Angeletti - Fabricants Couleurs
2013
French edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The French artist Marie Angeletti presents photographs from a project hosted by two sites belonging to a color manufacturing company in the cities of Gémenos (France) and Shanghai.
Thomas Eggerer - Gesture and Territory
2013
English edition
Petzel
14.00 7.00 €
A series of large colorful canvases depicting visions of an alienated humanity.
Stream - After-Office
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Stream
After Office, the second issue of Stream, addresses the conflicts of the evolution of our work conditions, now greatly modified, with contributions by international thinkers, artists, designers and architects.
Artistes & Entreprises
2012
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Various critical approaches under the shape of questioning and the appropriation by artists of the model of the company.
Marc Partouche - Le nouveau à l\'épreuve du marché - La fonction non instrumentale de la création
2011
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
This collective essay examines the crossroads between creation and business through various analyzes and case studies on Marcel Duchamp, Bertrand Lavier and the Brancusi trial.
Yann Toma -
2011
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Jannink - Wide Open
Reference monograph: an overview of the unclassifiable work of an entrepreneurial artist who, by appropriating the symbolic network of a former electric power company, turned it into his research territory and the very matter of his activity, through twenty texts and interviews and some 700 photographs and illustrations.
Yann Toma - Journal-poster
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - 127 Series
A set of photographs and texts / a large original photograph.
Charles Fourier - Théorie des quatre mouvements et des destinées générales
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The first, fundamental work in which Fourier declares his objectives for a world government and economy administered by "Passionate Attraction".
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