Art & economy / art market

Retrospective catalogue featuring a chronology of the artist's works, an introduction by Yves Aupetitallot and Lionel Bovier, texts by Mike Kelley, John Miller, and Nancy Spector, and an interview with the artist by Robert Nickas

A comprehensive record of the London-based art collective BANK's notorious project from the late 1990s, a fierce critic of the language elements of the art market.

Catalogue dedicated to the late American artist: an influential photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist and critic whose works have been a unique reference in debates and conversations about photography, art and politics for over 40 years. The publication includes a historical and analytical text by curator Marie Muracciole, as well as a 20-page photographic booklet.

In this post-truth era, how does one navigate the endless information available and choose a viable narrative of reality? In How to Know What's Really Happening Glasgow-based writer and curator Francis McKee looks at various techniques for determining verity, from those of spy agencies and whistle-blowers to mystics and scientists.

Kate Cooper stages CGI female models in a parody of lookbook. Reproducing the patterns of hypercapitalist aesthetics, her images underlie a powerful reflection on gender, representation, and the potentialities of the digital world.

This book is the result of four years of collaborative work that focused on topics of affect, the return of history, ecology, and art and its markets in today's power law–based economies. It attempts to shift practices of thought toward both critical realism and new materialism.

Anguish Language approaches language as a core aspect of the present social crisis. The project engages in solidarity with forms of self-publishing, poetry, criticism, experimental writing and declamation that have arisen in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, considering language among and through the social struggles responding to its consequences.

An extensive publication, documenting the process and final outcome of Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model, a sensational and excessive exhibition by the two controversial artists which takes the form of a “Gesamtkunstwerk” pointing the multifaceted excesses of contemporary art production and commodification.

The first issue of the magazine dedicated to post-market culture features essays by Marion Maneker, Martin G. Fuller, Steven Shaviro, Taslima Ahmed, Manuel Gnam, Roberto Ohrt, Ben Vickers, Carles, and a visual work by Michael Farin.

Artist's book.

Aesthetic Politics in Fashion outlines critical studies in the present cross-sections of fashion, art, politics, and global capitalism.

A “fictionalized adaptation” taken from the audio of Seth Price's Digital Video Effect: “Spills.”

Theoretical reflections and insights into alternative artistic working models.

What is “work” today and what is its relation to art.

The complex and contested entanglements of contemporary art and its commercial markets.

When the flexibility, certainty, and freedom promised by being part of a critical outside are considered as extensions of recent advances in economic exploitation, does the field of art then become the uncritical, complicit inside of something far more compelling?

This mini, compact catalogue, accompanies the eponymous exhibition at CAPC museum of contemporary art of Bordeaux.

First monograph, including an essay by Michael Newman as well as Price's own critical take on his practice.

Towards the art world's inner contradictions between symbolic meaning and monetary value.

Interviews with 51 international gallerists.

New expanded edition of a pamphlet against the High Quality Environmental standard for sustainable buildings in France. Architect Rudy Ricciotti argues that this standard only serves the interests of liberal economy.

Drawing on fresh readings of Marxist and post-modern thought, renowned German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen compares the abstract and climbing values of artworks with the plunging value of music—a traditionally immaterial art—in order to formulate a broad reflection on the current “crisis of value in the arts.”

First monograph of the activist-artist.

Artist's book: a series of bank notes brought together, lying on the floor.

For a reassessment of the function of art in late capitalist society (contributions by Bernadette Corporation, Will Bradley, Claude Closky, Dejanov & Heger, Liam Gillick, Lars Bang Larsen, Daniel Pflumm, Superflex...).

From “polemical” texts to extensive theoretical essays, passing through Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman or John Baldessari, these writings have proved to be among the most challenging ones.