Experimental / concrete / visual / sound poetry

 
 
Frédéric Acquaviva - Antipodes
2020
AcquAvivA
Frédéric Acquaviva's new record—A QR code record without record limited to 100 copies: a 69 minutes opera for voices (with Joël Hubaut, who also wrote the text, Dorothy Iannone and Loré Lixenberg), dead electronics and video.
Archives sonores de la poésie
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A collection of essays on audio archives of poetry.
Jean-François Bory - Une monographie
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Retrospective monograph.
Lire Olivier Cadiot
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
The proceedings of a symposium dedicated to the work of French writer, playwright and poet Olivier Cadiot.
Clemente Padín - Horizons ouverts & autres poèmes
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
First French translation of Clemente Padìn's first poems.
A.C. Hello - MelmAC.Hello - Le cas très inquiétant de ton cri (book + CD)
2020
French edition
Bisou Records
The encounter of the rock band Melmac with the poet Anne-Claire Hello.
591
2019
French edition
591
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
The sixth issue of the magazine for visual and experimental poetry and works inspired by Dada and Fluxus, directed by Jean-François Bory.
Pascal Mougin - Moderne / contemporain - Art et littérature des années 1960 à nos jours
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
An analysis of the relationship between art and literature over the last six decades.
591
2019
texts in English and French
591
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
The fifth issue of the magazine for visual and experimental poetry and works inspired by Dada and Fluxus, directed by Jean-François Bory.
Jean-François Bory - Abracadada - Embrasement
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
A selection of poems by Jean-François Bory covering more than fifty years of creation (1965-2019), from the most emblematic to the most recent, rare or previously unpublished.
Julien Blaine - Le livre
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
An original fable at war against the founding books of monotheisms (unpublished text of 1963).
Clemente Padín - De la représentation à l\'action
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The reissue, in a new translation, of one of the most important essays of Latin American poetry from the historical avant-gardes.
Jacques Donguy - Chroniques de Poésie numérique
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
currently out of stock
The chronicles of the digital poetry movement, by one of its pioneers and main actors in France.
Jean-François Bory - Minute poems - Choix 1963-2018
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
135 poems, calligrams and other visual experiments, spread over 54 years of poetic activity, by one of the major actors of the poetic avant-garde in France.
Jean-François Bory - Toujours nouvelles
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
Fourteen comical, absurd, ironic, moving short novels, by Jean-François Bory, unfaithful successor to Dada and active author of the avant-garde movements of the 1960s/1970s.
Jean-François Bory - Tels qu\'en eux-mêmes
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
A selection of essays that Jean-François Bory devoted to his favorite and somewhat marginal authors, ranging from Nadar to Raoul Hausmann via d'Annunzio.
Michèle Métail - Portraits-robots
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
From “The Left Bank Publisher” to “Miss Fukushima”, 102 portraits of a person or a profession in 10 expressions in the form of an inventory.
Michèle Métail - Portraits-robots - Luxury Edition
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
From “The Left Bank Publisher” to “Miss Fukushima”, 102 portraits of a person or a profession in 10 expressions in the form of an inventory, with an original and unique artwork.
591
2019
texts in English and French
591
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A magazine for visual and experimental poetry and works inspired by Dada and Fluxus, directed by Jean-François Bory.
Frédéric Acquaviva - Isidore Isou
2019
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
Reference monograph.
Michèle Métail - La poésie en trois dimensions
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A collective exploration of 45 years of protean poetic activities, between printed text, exposed text and proffered text, with some thirty contributions by academics and poets, with numerous illustrations.
Augusto de Campos - Celebrity Cafe - Outro / Autre
2019
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Celebrity Cafe
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Special issue dedicated to Brazilian poet Augusto de Campos.
Fabienne Radi - Quarante et un titres autrement
2019
French edition
Lendroit éditions
This artist's book assembles 41 titles of literary works, transcribed in homophonic translation. An exercise in concrete poetry, stemming from the Oulipo tradition. To be seen as much as read.
Baptiste Gaillard - Bonsaï
2018
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
A collection of experimental poetry.
Frédéric Acquaviva - FREEING (Our Bodies) - La musique de Frédéric Acquaviva
2018
French edition
FREEING (Our Bodies)
The second issue of the magazine FREEING (Our Bodies) is dedicated to the musical work of Frédéric Acquaviva: some forty prestigious contributors (Jean-François Bory, Broutin, Laurent Cauwet, Henri Chopin, Jacques Donguy, Michel Giroud, Bernard Heidsieck, Joël Hubaut, Dorothy Iannone, Otto Muehl, Virgile Novarina, ORLAN, Jean-Luc Parant…) examine and pay tribute to this original creator through poetic texts, portraits, drawings, photographs, interviews, chronicles…
Charles Pennequin - Dictaphones (vinyl LP)
2018
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
This LP draws on twenty years of archives recorded by Charles Pennequin on mini-cassettes. Spontaneous recordings of his readings, unpublished solitary monologues, vocal and sound experiments, ambient sounds were selected and edited in the studio by the poet, and thought of as a global composition that goes through different registers and eras of his poetry.
Frédéric Acquaviva - £pØ@n®diØ$n - Concerto for town and voice – With Loré Lixenberg (CD)
2018
AcquAvivA
Concerto for town and voice created from recordings collected the same day in London and Paris, and illuminated by the voice of mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg.
CRU (Creative Radiant Unique)
2018
French edition
miscellaneous
AcquAvivA
The penultimate issue of Frédéric Acquaviva's audio / video hybrid magazine is dedicated to the works of Frédéric Acquaviva, Isidore Isou, and Orlan. It includes a CD of Isou's last sound work from 2006 and a DVD featuring performances by Orlan, Acquaviva, Isou, Sharif-Sky Mathius, Jeremiah Runnels, Mats Lindström, Jean-Paul Curtay…
Michael Barthel - Halber Pogo (CD)
2018
Tochnit Aleph
14.00 10.00 €
Second full-lenght release by German sound-poet and writer Michael Barthel on Tochnit Aleph. A 60-minute piece recited from memory. Recorded April 2018 straight to tape without overdubs. Raw, unsettling, poetically incorrect.
 Broutin - Ère isouienne an 52 - Un musicien lettriste (CD)
2018
Tochnit Aleph
14.00 10.00 €
First ever release of the sound poetry pieces by French lettrist artist Gérard-Philippe Broutin. The remarkable lettrist text-sound pieces contained on this CD were written during the early 1970's and recorded and broadcast at Radio France in September 1976. With introductory texts by Jean-Pierre Gillard.
Gerhard Rühm - Diotima hat ihre Lektüre gewechselt (CD)
2018
Tochnit Aleph
14.00 10.50 €
A 1971 detective audio play based on a real murder trial from the early 20th century. The court records are read out by two girls, accompanied by narrative background sounds and a piano piece. Liner-notes (in English and German) by Gerhard Rühm.
Claude Favre - Crever les toits, etc. - suivi de Déplacements, septembre 2016
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Claude Favre delivers a poetry made of readings and borrowings, a present poetry, attentive to the movements of men and to those who constrain them.
Elizabeth Lebon - The Book of Ghost
2018
English edition
Boabooks
Elizabeth Lebon writes poems, stories and performances, usually with the help of a typewriter. The choice of paper, as well as its format, is centrally important to the conceptualization and experimentation of this artist. This new book-object of concrete poetry plays with the transparency of its leaflets.
Frédéric Valabrègue - George Brecht, histoire d\'un effacement
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
An essay by Frédéric Valabrègue on the American avant-garde artist, one of the main actors of the Fluxus movement.
Michèle Métail - Le cours du Danube - en 2888 kilomètres/vers… l\'infini
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A long and vertiginous poem, virtually infinite, by Michèle Métail, built on the principle of concatenation and inspired by the editing techniques of electroacoustic music.
Michèle Métail - Le cours du Danube - en 2888 kilomètres/vers… l\'infini – Luxury Edition
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A long and vertiginous poem, virtually infinite, by Michèle Métail, built on the principle of concatenation and inspired by the editing techniques of electroacoustic music, with an original and unique artwork.
Frédéric Acquaviva - The 120 Days of Musica
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin.
Frédéric Acquaviva - The 120 Days of Musica - Luxury Edition (+ CD)
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin. Luxury limited edition, signed, including an original artwork and the sound artwork “Oxymoron Music” on CD.
 Jurczok 1001 - Spoken Beats
2018
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This anthology dedicated to spoken-word pioneer Jurczok 1001 compiles a wide selection of typed scripts, ranging from his early raps to pieces inspired by concrete poetry. The volume features a text by writer and performance artist Melinda Nadj Abonji.
Julien Blaine - 2017
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Frédéric Acquaviva - Du singe au porc / Ape to Pig (DVD)
2018
AcquAvivA
DVD gathering the video recordings of two musical performances by Frédéric Acquaviva, in French and English, made at EMS in Stockholm and La Plaque tournante in Berlin.
Frédéric Acquaviva - Mess - 2015-2017 (CD)
2018
AcquAvivA
A piece for mezzo, mouths, skins and Buchla, recorded with mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg (vinyl sleeve with a CD inside).
Cristina De Simone - Proféractions ! - Poésie en action à Paris (1946-1969)
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A history of poetry-performance in Paris, from the post-war period to May 68.
CRU (Complex Raw United)
2018
French edition
miscellaneous
AcquAvivA
The third issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine, featuring Frédéric Acquaviva, Lieutenant Caramel, Jean-Baptiste Favory, Joël Hubaut, Andy Ingamells, Eduardo Kac, Maurice Lemaître, Loré Lixenberg, and Christoph Ogiermann.
Fragments pour Isidore Isou
2017
French edition
Art Book Magazine
Collective study dedicated to the founder of Lettrism Isidore Isou.
Parole #3 - The Hand Writing / Handschrift
2017
English edition
Errant Bodies - Parole
currently out of stock
The third issue in a series of publications revolving around the materiality of language: a collection of 18 works and texts by international artists and scholars who examine the physical act of writing.
Guy de Cointet - The Complete Plays
2017
English edition
Paraguay Press
First publication to gathers all theatrical works by artist Guy de Cointet, written between 1973 and 1983. 25 plays, published with an explanatory apparatus and numerous documents from the de Cointet Estate at the Centre Pompidou's Kandinsky Library.
Guy de Cointet - Théâtre complet
2017
French edition
Paraguay Press
First publication to gathers all theatrical works by artist Guy de Cointet, written between 1973 and 1983. 25 plays, published with an explanatory apparatus and numerous documents from the de Cointet Estate at the Centre Pompidou's Kandinsky Library.
Frédéric Acquaviva - Oreilles Vides
2017
AcquAvivA
Double QR-Code LP (an empty sleeve with no discs), edition of 100 copies. The recording to listen online is a 5-hour composition for computer voice, first presented in Paris on March 25, 2000: a deepening of the idea of a dematerialized disc.
Anton Bruhin - Dämonen
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
What would a current-day demon look like? The Swiss artist playfully rehabilitates these evil figures in 170 minimalist portraits—rendering them as an ideal type of the postmodern, at once terrifying and comical.
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