Experimental / concrete / visual / sound poetry

J. Donguy introduces the visual and sound experimentations of concrete poetry, from 1953 (Gomringer and de Campos) to the current movements ("digital area"). The anthology, followed by an international bibliography, offers the first overview of this art, with 300 illustrations.

An experimental prose poem by Samuel Rochery.

Dick Higgins, one of the main figures of Fluxus, points out the particularity of poet-artists who, since German and English Romanticism, have refused to make distinctions between what is sonorous, visual and written.

New edition of the Letterist manifesto, with an original artwork of inter-participation, consisting of a photograph torn by the artist and inserted in an envelope.

Reprint of the first Dada anthology (Berlin, 1920), with Tzara's chronicles, manifests and documents.

Reference monograph.

An electric rock performance seen as an attempt to free literature from the realm of the book (illustration cover by Thomas Hirschhorn).

Artist's book born from the encounter between Charles Pennequin's texts and the intimate immediacy of Pascal Doury's sketchbooks. The DVD features the film Je me jette as well as four other videos.

An experimental narrative by writer and poet Jerome Mauche.

The last document of the dadasopher of Berlin.

An unknown, rarely published writer who nevertheless sent shock waves into the 60s and 80s by constructing a text worthy of a great rhetoretician on the game of alliteration.

A selection of essays by the artist, poet, writer, happening-maker, cinematographer, art and literary critic.

A Fluxus journal.

First publication in French on Fluxus artist, including the transcription of an intervention by Higgins at the International Conference on Action Art in October 1998. With texts by Charles Dreyfus and Jacques Donguy.

The diverse range of practices that center on the voice.

For his first ever conceptual piece from 1990, Frédéric Acquaviva collaborated with Australian pianist Mark Knoop on the recording of all harmonic frequencies using only the damper pedal of a piano.

Brochure/catalogue (24 pages) of an exhibition that took place in 1987, simultaneously in Milan (Mercato del Sale gallery) and Paris (Donguy gallery), presenting the pictorial version of metaphysical poems.

The first edition of Julien Blaine's "metaphysical poems".

Special issue of the poetry journal directed by Jean-François Bory, dedicated to performance in the broad sense, from the page to the stage.

The figure(s) of Cindy Sherman as the plot of a personal narrative by Jean-François Bory.

52 short poems, written in a nervous prose during periods of trance. A response to the “disease of globalization.”

A disappointing trip to Manaus capital of the Amazon during the rainy season becomes the opportunity for Jean-François Bory to deploy a text in lush color of vegetal letters.

An anthology of texts by writers, artists, choreographers, poets and performers who think about the relationships between body, writing and textuality.

The “chairs-poems” conceived by the Quebec sculptor Michel Goulet for the Palais-Royal garden in Paris, with contributions from nearly 70 authors, visual artists, poets, critics, theoreticians, philosophers and thinkers.

Originally resealed in 1975, Poesia Sonora is one of the first international compilation of sound poetry. Edited by Maurizio Nannucci, the anthology gathers pieces by some of the most important pioneers of the Sound Poetry movement: Bob Cobbing, François Dufrêne, Henri Chopin, Ernst Jandl, Franz Mon, Arthur Petronio, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Brion Gysin, Bernard Heidsieck, Sten Hanson, and Paul De Vree.

Recounting a partial history of our relation with matter, this reader explores how the crossover between cosmological narratives, the spatial revolutions of concrete poetry, and hypertextual and territorial fictions might have an impact on the recognition of human agency in a time that calls for our action on environmental policies.

A special issue dedicated to John Giorno, in the framework of Ugo Rondinone's exhibition “I Love John Giorno” in New York.

Publication reproducing one of Carrión's early linguistic exercises in English language, in which the conceptual artist dissects names of musical instruments to make sound appear.

In his “Book” George Brecht describes the specific nature of each single page, in a gesture that renders the printed matter a tautological object.

Limited edition box set with 43 instrumental tracks recorded with an alto saxophone, a radio and an electric toothbrush by Mart Küchen. The musical pieces are accompanied by four poems written by the Swedish musician and eight plates by Austrian plastic artist Johannes Heuer.

Animals questions through a poetic approach the modernist apprehension of time and locomotion, in the realm of today.

Cut-up, lectures, incantations, soundworks recorded by the American writer himself in hotel rooms in Paris, London & New York, in the early 1960s (one of Sub Rosa's absolute classics, officially re-released).

Issue 22 of Palais magazine is entirely devoted to the Ugo Rondinone's exhibition “I Love John Giorno” at the Palais de Tokyo (October 21, 2015 - January 10, 2016), the first retrospective of the life and work of the American poet John Giorno, a key figure of America's counterculture since the 1960s.

A subjective compilation by David Le Simple and Vincent Romagny concluding the three exhibitions cycle “Doppelgänger” at CEAAC curated by Romagny.

A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.

First issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine, including a CD with music by Frédéric Acquaviva and Phill Niblock, a DVD with performances by Tomomi Adachi, Bernard Heidsieck, Katherine Liberovskaya, Jacques Lizène, Alvin Lucier, Loré Lixenberg, and Alex Mincek, posters, and documents.

An extreme experience seeking to hear the body's internal sounds. It uses both the medium of drawing and of writing to account for the metamorphoses produced by this sensorial experiment.

12 typescripts of concrete poetry (signed and numbered artist's book).

Carl Andre's poems (retrospective monograph).

The second issue in the “Poetic Series”, initiated by Keren Cytter, takes its title Peacocks with Hiccups from the poetry of Berlin-based artist Karl Holmqvist, whose work is featured alongside American poet Catherine Wagner and emerging Spanish writer Luna Miguel, with artwork by Koo Jeong-A.

The Atlantis Search Engine, the first edition in the Poetic Series, features a selection of poetry and prose by Matthew Dickman, Roman Baembaev, Josef Strau, and drawings produced specifically by John Kelsey based on the film The Canyons.

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia.

Concrete poems / language "drawings" (artist's book).

Facsimile edition of an unpublished artist's book by Marcel Broodthaers from 1968 referring to Stéphane Mallarmé's poem “Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard.”

A dialogue between two singular appropriations of the concept of cannibalism at two key historical moments: a new translation of Oswald de Andrade's cult poem, advocating the symbolic ingestion of the colonizer and his culture, faced with an analysis by Suely Rolnik of a perverted contemporary cannibalism experience in the context of financial capitalism.

The reprint of the publication pioneer in the artistic experimentations of the 1960s, published by the artist in 1962 (leporello).

Dada, Fluxus, futurism, spatialism, lettrism, concrete poetry, cut-up… a 560-page anthology of typographical explosions and poetic experiments by Al Dante.