Art & spaciality

Using non-linear heuristic methods and experimental webs of information to draw links between the cities of Utrecht, and Slab City, California, USA, this book brings together speculative proposals that ask basic questions about public space, conceived as a physical and conversational sphere.

Inside the white cube.

The "Anthology of art" established during more than a year a ground of exchange on Internet for artists and art critics worldwide, being interested in the relations between art, its theoretical discourse, the conditions of its production and its distribution. This work collects the contributions.

Dismantling spaces of representation.

This first monograph presenting an exhaustive selection of the artwork of Tobias Putrih illuminates the thought and methodology of the artist.

A new series of images taken in Brussels: the portrait of a city.

This visual essay on hostage portrait questions the emotional relationship to the image in wartime. The artist uses basic communication tools to encourage us to reflect on information in public spaces.

Research about the potential of the Merzbau in contemporary art and architecture, with contributions by art historians, artists, critics and architects.

Art and public spaces in the city.

Fully illustrated 2nd edition with a new introduction and afterword by the author, annotated artwork illustrations, a special insert by Paul Chan, and flip-book sequences from two films.

Identifying an intensified concern for place-based production in art and architecture, Surface Tension – Supplements addresses questions of site-specific art, public and architectural design, and location-based practice.

This first monographic book discusses issues of art in public space and the social-political implications of Beutler's work.

Taking as their starting point one of the oldest objects in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, a moon rock, artists Bik Van der Pol invited different writers to comment on issues of site-specificity, museum collections, and space law.

Publication on the Walter A. Bechtler Stiftung foundation, which has the particularity of being shown in a public space.

A book conceived as an extension of Melik Ohanian's film Seven Minutes Before, with contributions by Cecil Balmond, Gilles Clément, Beatriz Colomina, Tacita Dean, Richard Drayton, David Elbaz, Patricia Falguières, Medard Gabel, André Gaudreault, Paul Gilroy, Edouard Glissant, Anna Halprin, David Held, Pekka Himanen, Bruno Latour, Charles Musser, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jane Poynter, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Saskia Sassen, Peter Sloterdijk, John Tresch, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Robert Whitman.

A philosophical essay on time, phenomenology and beyond, Daniel Birnbaum's Chronology was presented in frieze as a “compelling and sophisticated take on the common theme of Deleuzian immanence."

Monograph with texts by Eva González-Sancho, Michel Gauthier, Line Herbert-Arnaud and Richard Klein, exploring different aspects of Downsbrough's work (movies, maps, space...).

Artist's book: an invitation to travel by way of a mappemonde punctuated by lines and photographs of city spaces.

A retrospective presentation of 10 years of creation resulting from the association of international contemporary artists and commissions for public works.

A reflection initiated by Veit Stratmann on the sometimes conflictual relationship between the artist and public space.

Artist's book.

Artist's writings.

Two attuned location-based pieces that sit somewhere between conceptual composition and magical realism.

This publication provides an in-depth exploration of the artists joint project Olt, focusing on a 1967 promotional campaign by the French oil company Elf. The book highlights Mosset and Sauvage's common interest in graphic design and roadside art, and features a text by Jill Gasparina on the circle as a symbol of visual modernity, as well as an interview with the two artists.

The importance of Gordon Matta-Clark's work in a revaluation of architecture after modernism.

This publication documents Eliasson's Green light project —an artistic workshop for refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and NGOs, whose goal is to fabricate lamps for fundraising education. It provides testimonies, stories, and memories by Green light participants, founders, and organizers, as well as essays by art historians and theorists.

Through archival research, this first monographic publication focuses on Ukeles's work ballets—a series of seven grand-scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables and steel—which took place between 1983 and 2012 in New York, Pittsburgh, Givors, Rotterdam, and Tokamachi.

A comprehensive look at the public artworks that Daniel Buren has made using ephemeral materials.

3rd issue of the sound arts and experimental music annual review, devoted to the question of sound space.

An analysis of the experience of spatiality in dance, through five works by Xavier Le Roy, Yvonne Rainer, Olga Mesa, Boris Charmatz, and Merce Cunningham.

What, today, can be understood as a critical modality of spatial practice?

Christopher Wool's stained glass windows for the Prieuré of La Charité sur Loire, France.

Six interviews.

An archive of vandalism.

First monograph dedicated to Franco-marocan video-artist's films (installations or movies), dealing with the notions of movement, relation and distance, on the borderline between visual arts, documentary, and cinema.

150 black-and-white photographs from the New York studio of Richard Nonas taken by the artist.

Shadows of witches, bats and black cats for a street public lighting commissioned work.

A retrospective of “empty exhibitions”.

A retrospective of “empty exhibitions” (hardcover limited edition).

A study that conceptualizes, tests, and practically applies the spatial strategy for the European Kunsthalle.

This book discusses Michael Sailstorfer's most recent work, with a special focus on issues of space and site specificity.

This book reassembles the most significant texts and images of works of the 80's art scene, focusing on the problematics of public and private space.

Site Specific Sound documents a series of sound installations from 1998 to 2002 by sound-artist and writer Brandon LaBelle, exploring the relationship between sound and space.

First monograph on the Swiss artist.

At a time when questions of “place” are active in dialogues around globalization, cultural identities, and the loss of public space, how are artists, theorists, and architects imagining space? “Surface Tension” examines the conversations that occur as negotiations between cultural production and the place of its reception.

A minimalist interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus (artist's book).

An anthology focusing on architectural and acoustic space, sound sculpture, field/environmental investigation and recording, and site-specificity, featuring writings, visual works, interviews and artist projects by leading experimental composers, sound-artists, architects, contemporary authors, cartographers, and ecologists.

a panoramic view of John Cornu's practice since 2006, with thirty-eight works accompanied by thirty-eight texts by historians, curators, conservation experts, art critics, and contemporary artists, with as many different approaches and possible readings.