Politics

The Force of Listening explores the role of listening in the contemporary intersection of art and activism and asks what potential for transformation it might facilitate.

Artist and researcher Riccardo Giacconi investigates the relationship between a range of narrative forms (puppetry, street storytellers, flyers and pamphlets) and a series of pre-political acts of revolt staged between Italy and South America. This publication documents his research project and features a series of texts, notes, archives, illustrations, and interviews.

Common sense: a philosophical investigation (after Alfred North Whitehead).

Eight slogans from the May 68 events in France, in duplex printing (artist's book).

The Seventh Issue of Zamâm magazine gathers innovative artists, curators, and art historians to investigate the relationships between the Pacific Region and the Mediterranean Basin, from Morocco to India (with Toni Maraini, Eric Baudelaire, Geeta Kapur, Touda Bouanani, Faouzi Laatiris…).

In Diary of a Leap Year, Lebanese artist produces 366 daily collages from political newspapers in Lebanon and the Arab World, as a protest to the violence taking place in this region.

New Facsimile edition of a brochure published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition at Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine in 1995.

The first full English translation of the Argentine artist León Ferrari's uncompromising literary masterpiece from 1967. A critique of the Vietnam War and American imperial politics, the book weaves together hundreds of excerpts from newspapers, periodicals, works of history, the Bible, and other sources.

Notebook from the South African artist featuring fountain pen's drawings and writings with inserted typescripts.

Limited edition of the notebook from the South African artist featuring fountain pen's drawings and writings with inserted typescripts, and an original work, numbered and signed, printed on various formats (1920's coal mining register, books pages, card stock).

This publication offers new insights into the broad and differentiated spectrum of functions images could assume in political contexts in those areas dominated by the Portuguese in early modern times. How were objects and artifacts staged and handled to generate new layers of meaning and visualize political ideas and concepts? And what were the respective reasons, means, and effects of the visualization of Portuguese power and politics?

A polemical essay targeting the moral economy of indeterminacy in contemporary art.

A both poetical and political text, praising the poetic revolution of language against the current condition of the everyday life.

A series of photographs taken in the margins of the 63rd Bilderberg conference, which brings together some of the most influential political and economic leaders of the Western world.

T. J. Demos considers the creative proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a time when such creative proposals are urgently needed.

Proceedings of the 2015 National conference of the French Schools of Arts.

The political dimension of Visual Studies, between Francophone and Anglo-American studies.

This first comprehensive publication about the Silent University introduces the initiative—a solidary school by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants—and contextualizes it in the wider framework of both radical pedagogy and socially engaged art projects.

The limits of the participatory game in nowadays democracies.

A deconstructed overview offering the widest selection of Jodice's works ever presented: more than twenty years of eclectic art—alternating between photography, videos and installations.

The complete PDF edition of the avant-garde journal Change, created by Jean Pierre Faye in 1968: 42 facsimile issues in a 8482-page file with free-text search engine.

A pocket, non illustrated mid-career catalogue raisonné of a practice now spanning over two decades.

Philosopher and feminist writer Rada Iveković examines the current refugee crisis in Europe, and call for the reception of the migrants.

The genesis and documentation of a video and mapping project on the detrimental effects of foreign authorities' actions in past and present Mexico.

With this volume, Shahryar Nashat recalls the life and death of an iconic art object—a green dodecahedron called La Shape—operating in many of the artist's works since 2011.

The new impact of corporations on both the state and the market as the new paradigm of neoliberalism.

Since its inception, Spike Art Quarterly stands for independent, critical reporting on the arts, and provides the current cultural debates with emerging artists and leading writers. Thisissue looks for political alternatives and resistance into the art world, and includes discussions between Claire Fontaine's Fulvia Carnevale, Rory Rowan, Constant Dullaart & Toke Lykkeberg, portraits of Tobias Madison, Barbara Kruger and Omer Fast, an interview with Armen Avanessian, Liam Gillick on the British documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis, Chus Martínez on the role of art in generating new cultural forms...

This volume brings together essays on the German writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), iconographic documents and manuscripts of the author, and a script written by Sebald for a film ever made about the life of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

First monograph.

The publication addresses performative artistic strategies as a lived practice of resistance in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.

Datumo! recounts a quantification experiment lead by Julien Prévieux and based on the gazes of an audience watching artworks.

This issue brings together four articles (by Michel Antony, Loïc Foulon, Gilles Gourbin, Jean-Claude Sosnowski), two projects (by Michel Cordillot and Patrick Samzun), and a great number of reading notes which demonstrate the significant vitality of the research on Fourier, Fourierism, and utopia.

A political and artistic performance manual revolving around the double agent figure

A disturbing view of the current state of affairs of the culture in which we live (catalogue).

A compact monograph containing gathering a visual documentation, two essays and a conversation with Tony Conrad, whose multi-faceted contributions since the 1960's have influenced and redefined music, filmmaking, minimalism, performance, video and conceptual art.

Taking its cue from the aftermath of the events of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, these five essays contemplate the language's role in moments of dramatic change, and ask how to find meaning for artistic practices in these transformative conditions.

Taking as a starting point the description of an exhibition project, the British artist reflects on the creative process, serendipity, and writing as an exploratory tool in conceiving and creating a work.

This substantial monograph gathers reflections on Ane Hjort Guttu's recent film projects and offers insight into the artist's work and methodology, and the potential of art as a critical and political tool.

Amar Kanwar's extensive project on the social struggles and expropriation issues which take place in the land of Odisha in east India (in collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik / Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur).

A both poetic and political text on ordinary racism towards the Romani people.

An overview of Giuseppe Stampone's recent works.

An history of the Gauche Prolétarienne—the most important revolutionary organisation in France after May 68.

This essay examines the concept of “missing citizens”, taking as a point of departure the violence in the French suburbs, and focusing on contemporary migrations and the construction of citizenships.

Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks.

The possibility and power of art to imagine futures that are not irrevocably determined by the present, but are invested with struggles fought here and now.

A re-appropriation of Edward Said's Orientalism by Joe Scanlan.

A social history of socialist realism imagery in the former East Germany.

Published in homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini, this edition (conceived by Alfredo Jaar) features the poem imagined in 1954 by the Italian filmmaker while visiting the grave of Italian Marxist revolutionnary Antonio Gramsci. In this poem, Pasolini meditates on life in front of Gramsci's tomb, evoking themes such as politics, poetry, sexuality, and Italy.

The last volume of the journal of political activist Jann-Marc Rouillan after his prison release.

Two documents and three articles: unpublished texts by Charles Fourier and Eugène Pottier; Georges Orsoni, Denis Andro, and Michel Antony address original perspectives on Fourierism and the spirit of utopia in general.