Art & parapsychology / paranormal / occultism / esotericism

 
 
Anton Vidokle - Citizens of the Cosmos
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
This book on the films of Anton Vidokle features essays and conversations by theorists, curators, and artists exploring the themes of technological immortality and resurrection informed by Cosmist philosophy.
 Nurse With Wound - Revenantes (book + CD)
2024
French edition
Lenka lente
forthcoming
Two revenant stories by Léon Bloy (1846-1917), with music by Nurse With Wound.
Spectra Ex Machina - A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena – 1920-2017 – Vol. 2 (CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
This anthology brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology. The second volume si devoted to musician mediums.
Spectra Ex Machina - A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena – 1920-2017 – Vol. 1 (CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
This anthology brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology. The first volume is an exploration of spiritualism and haunted houses. It features records of spiritual séances and medium trances, haunting spirits and haunted places, audios of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini...
Spectra Ex Machina - A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena – 1920-2017 – Vol. 2 (vinyl LP)
2024
Sub Rosa
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
This anthology brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology. The second volume si devoted to musician mediums.
João Maria Gusmão - Massa Confusa
2024
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Massa Confusa is a combinatorial codex cataloguing João Maria Gusmão's recent material transformations in the studio, featuring an accompanying text by the artist and faithful reproductions.
Épopées Célestes / Epopee celesti - Art brut dans la collection Decharme
2024
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire - Books
A veritable panorama of Art Brut at an international level, through 180 works selected from Bruno Decharme's collection.
Ursula Bogner - Sonne = Blackbox (vinyl LP)
2022
Faitiche
currently out of stock
The reissue of the compositions for tape and voice of Ursula Bogner (1946-1994), scientist, phamarcian, artist, "outsider" experimental musician fascinated by Wilhelm Reich's work, whose archives were mysteriously discovered Jan Jelinek, compiled by Andrew Pekler.
João Maria Gusmão - Terçolho
2022
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A new publishing project documenting the duo's artistic trajectory with a particular emphasis on their discursive production.
Jérôme Poret - Les hôtes (vinyl LP / booklet)
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
La Maréchalerie
A hybrid edition (a vinyl record with a newspaper and an insert) extending the artist's research on the links between sound, architecture and the history of spiritism.
Chiara Fumai - Poems I Will Never Release, 2007-2017
2021
English edition
Nero
currently out of stock
First retrospective monograph: an essential resource for any in-depth critical study of Chiara Fumai's work and thought, including a first systematic analysis of her oeuvre.
Klima - Magical Trouble
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Klima
Klima #3 focuses on the occult, the spiritual dimension that emanates from the different encounters and cohabitations of the living and the non-living, the deviant and erudite aspects of witchcraft, magic, rituals, spiritism and their societal implications.
João Maria Gusmão - João Maria Gusmão introduces Eugène Frey - Inventeur des célèbres Décors lumineux à transformations du Théâtre de Monte Carlo appliqués pour la première fois à l\'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
A painter and an inventor, Eugène Frey (1863-1930) pioneered techniques of animated sets for the theatre at the same time period as the cinema was invented. While he is contextualized beside the creations of Loie Fuller, Georges Méliès or Lotte Reiniger, he is reinterpreted by the artist João Maria Gusmão. First publication devoted to the work of Eugène Frey, the luxurious catalogue of the exhibition at the New National Museum of Monaco presents texts by Stéphane Tralongo (University of Lausanne) and Laurent Mannoni (Cinémathèque française), as well as a work of fiction by João Maria Gusmão.
Konstantin Raudive - The Voices of the Dead - Featuring David Toop, 
DJ Spooky, 
Lee Ranaldo, 
Calla & 
CM von Hausswolff (vinyl LP)
2020
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Original archives from Konstantin Raudive and Gerhard Stempnik and some additional remixes.
Tarantismo - Odyssey of an Italian ritual (2 vinyl LP)
2019
Flee
This double LP forms a tribute to Pizzica, an antique music from Southern Italy, used to heal people suffering from tarantism, a mysterious disease caused by a spider. It includes field recordings of musicians-exorcists in the 1950's in Puglia, and six reworks by contemporary electronic musicians.
Zoe Beloff - Techniques de la distraction
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Two texts by New York artist Zoe Beloff, pioneer in the field of “media archeology”, whose works are at the crossroads of avant-garde art, popular cultures and critical theory.
João Maria Gusmão - Lua Cão
2019
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A panoptic cinema.
Bertrand Lamarche - The Plot
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
La Maréchalerie
The publication presents a series of works and two critical texts stemming from Bertrand Lamarche's project on the occult figure of Baphomet.
Nico Vascellari - Codalunga
2018
English edition
Nero
Opened to the public since 2005, Codalunga is a section of Nico Vascellari's studio in Vittorio Veneto devoted to experiments in visual and sound art. This publication documents a project which has been going on for a decade now, gathering artists from all around the world.
Manuel Süess - Altar
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Through photographic documentation and essay, Altar documents the widespread human urge to elevate secular things to the status of “ritual objects” and combine them to form private altars. Whether they're dust catchers, knickknacks, souvenirs, found objects, meaningful artworks or earnestly and deeply revered objects, they all tell a peculiar story—not in words, but in things—about whoever built the altar.
E-flux journal - Art Without Death – Conversations on Russian Cosmism
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
This book of interviews and conversations with today's most compelling living and resurrected artists and thinkers seeks to address the relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on the Russian artistic and political vanguard as well as on today's art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics.
Even
2016
English edition
Even
15.00 7.50 €
In this issue: Donald Trump's furniture, the opening of the Bir Zeit's Palestinian Museum, how digital technology renewed the art of painting, South Africa's student protests target colonial art in Universities, Rio beyond the postcard view, 1960's New York in photographs, culture and refugee crisis in Germany, the paranormal in early cinema, interviews with Jenny Holzer and Asli, and a portfolio by Roman Stetina.
Julien Carreyn - Lyot
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Champagne-Ardenne
This catalogue provides a set of photographs and drawings by the artist, as well as documents and installation views that reflect the obsessions of Carreyn, from the female body and pop occultism to symbolism and surrealism.
Carlo Mollino - Giappone 1970
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Carlo Mollino's photographs of a Japan in between tradition and modernity during the 1970 Universal Exposition.
João Maria Gusmão - Teoria Extraterrestre
2015
bilingual edition (English / French booklet)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Reference monograph.
Maria Loboda - “How do we get out of all this darkness?”
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue / artist's book.
Roberto Cuoghi - Da iḍā e piṅgalā a iḍā e iḍā o piṅgalā e piṅgalā
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
An adventure exploring drifts in translation (artist's book).
Marc Décimo - Sciences et Pataphysique - Tome I : Savants reconnus, érudits aberrés, fous littéraires, hétéroclites et celtomanes en quête d\'ancêtres hébreux, troyens, gaulois, francs, atlantes, animaux, végétaux, aryens, extraterrestres et autres ?
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
Science and Pataphysics, volume I: the history of the origin myths—how science is torn from what is now defined as pseudo-science.
Geneviève Cloutier - L\'avant-garde russe face à la « terreur de l\'histoire » - Historiosophie et historiographie chez Velimir Khlebnikov et Pavel Filonov
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A reflection on the Russian avant-garde's artistic project in the early twentieth century, and the problem of their paradoxical relationship to history.
Franz Roh - Postexpressionnisme – Réalisme magique - Problèmes de la peinture européenne la plus récente
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
First translation into French of tghe seminal book of German historian, photographer, and influential theorist and critic of avant-garde film and photography Franz Roh (1890-1965).
 Z\'EV - Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear (2 CD)
2013
Sub Rosa
Second time in 20 years Charlemagne Palestine and Z'ev are performing together / first time they are recording it... (unreleased material from Palestine's lair, a place now called Charleworld, where both fellows spent 3 days in June 2010).
 Z\'EV - Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear (LP)
2013
Sub Rosa
Second time in 20 years Charlemagne Palestine and Z'ev are performing together / first time they are recording it... (unreleased material from Palestine's lair, a place now called Charleworld, where both fellows spent 3 days in June 2010).
Maria Loboda - Oh, Wilderness
2012
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
First monograph (work from 2009 to 2012), with three essays and an interview.
Nico Vascellari - Le Dictateur - Solid Sweat – Cattelan / Ferrari / Pepe / Presicce / Vascellari
2011
no text
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
Special issue: five new projects by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Federico Pepe, Luigi Presicce, and Nico Vascellari (limited edition).
Peter Hobbs - Queer Spirits
2011
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artists' book.
Tarantismo - Odyssey of an Italian ritual
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Flee
sold out
Publication documenting a centuries-old choreo-musical ritual from Southern Italy, used to exorcise women of a mysterious evil caused by the bite of a spider. It gathers contributions by artists, sociologists, anthropologists, scientists, and priests, and features a large ensemble of photographs.
Tarantismo - Odyssey of an Italian ritual – Limited Edition (book + 2 vinyl LP)
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Flee
sold out
Limited edition including a double LP compilation and a 168-page publication gathering a complete documentation on Tarantismo, a project dedicated to a centuries-old choreo-musical ritual from Southern Italy, to exorcise women of a mysterious evil caused by the bite of a spider.
Spectra Ex Machina - A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena – 1920-2017 – Vol. 1 (vinyl LP)
2019
Sub Rosa
sold out
This anthology brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology. The first volume is an exploration of spiritualism and haunted houses. It features records of spiritual séances and medium trances, haunting spirits and haunted places, audios of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini...
Archivio - The Americana Issue
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archivio
sold out
The Americana Issue includes: Surfing Vietnam, The Manhattan Project, John Margolies Along The Road, Catherine Dunne, In The MoMA's Vault, Jean Baudrillard On 9/11, The Black Female Imagery, Marco Ferreri: Dawn Of The End, Spectres Of Power, Disneyland Has Been Abandoned, Yes! Yes! Yes! Media Goes Underground, Tony Oursler And The Paranormal, Gianni Pettena And The Living Desert.
David Toop - Suttle Sculpture (vinyl LP)
2018
Sub Rosa
sold out
Never released before recordings from Logos Foundation live sessions in Brussels, on May 7, 1977. Toop and Burwell's association, which ran during the seventies, was a good mixture of musical decomposition through free improvisation, bioacoustics, environmental sound, raw musics, anthropology, and esoterism.
Tony Oursler - Imponderable - The Archives of Tony Oursler
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
The artist's own archive of phantasmagoria: a unique collection of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, occultism, pseudoscience, technology as well as their cultural and media portrayals (new edition).
David Toop - Lost Shadows – In Defence Of The Soul - Yanomami Shamanism, Songs, Ritual, 1978 (CD)
2015
Sub Rosa
sold out
The extraordinary recordings from 1978 by David Toop of Yanomami ritual songs, shamanistic ceremonies and rainforest sounds. The 40 pages booklet recounts the full story of his fascinating journey in 1978 through the Amazon jungle to meet and record the last Yanomami shamen.
David Toop - Lost Shadows – In Defence Of The Soul - Yanomami Shamanism, Songs, Ritual, 1978 (vinyl LP)
2015
Sub Rosa
sold out
The extraordinary recordings from 1978 by David Toop of Yanomami ritual songs, shamanistic ceremonies and rainforest sounds. The 40 pages booklet recounts the full story of his fascinating journey in 1978 through the Amazon jungle to meet and record the last Yanomami shamen (LP version mixed by Lawrence English).
Estelle Hanania - Glacial Jubilé
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
First monograph.
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