Art & protocol / system / ritual

 
 
Jean-François Maurige - Éditions 1991-2019
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
The catalogue raisonné of Jean-François Maurige's prints produced with Michael Woolworth from 1991 to 2019.
Ulla von Brandenburg -
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
currently out of stock
New monograph.
Mads Emil Nielsen - Framework 2 (2 vinyl EP)
2020
Arbitrary
Mads Emil Nielsen continues his Framework series, a collection of open, hand-drawn graphic scores and recordings. The series includes Nielsen's own subjective translations of the visual material and sound pieces accompanied by visual notations, and collaborations—in this case with Andrea Neumann, Jan Jelinek and Hideki Umezawa.
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.
Michael Scott - The Drawing Centre - He tried to swallow the world – and other drawings 2008-2019
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – The Drawing Centre
Michael Scott's ink drawings .
Pascal Mougin - Moderne / contemporain - Art et littérature des années 1960 à nos jours
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
An analysis of the relationship between art and literature over the last six decades.
Ulla von Brandenburg - Sweets Quilts Sun Works
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
various
This lavishly illustrated catalogue comprehensively documents three recent projects by Franco-German artist Ulla von Brandenburg.
Guy Mees - The Lost Space
2019
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
Publication devoted to the only statement the Belgian artist has ever published about his own work.
Werner Dafeldecker - Small Worlds (vinyl LP)
2019
Edition Telemark
22.50 16.00 €
A composition for improvising sextet by Austrian double bassist, composer and improviser Werner Dafeldecker, providing a structure that doesn't curtail the qualities of the musicians, yet forces them to listen very closely to each other and make focused decisions about parameters that are often overlooked in completely free improvisation.
Yvan Salomone - Déluge & retrait
2018
French edition
Frac Bretagne
Produced as a follow-up to three previous publications edited by Mamco between 2010 and 2017, this monograph is a compilation of found images associated with Yvan Salomone's own photographs. It also features an interview with the artist and new essays examining his practice.
Romy Rüegger - Language is Skin - Scripts for Performances
2018
English edition
Archive Books
The scripts of Romy Rüegger's performances: a constellation of texts, largely written to be spoken. The scripts as they are printed do not document the performances primarily. They are indications of spacial and temporal layering, juxtapositions of aesthetic and poetic elements and bodies. Overlapping every day observations with archival material, confronting, jumping.
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.
Frédéric Valabrègue - George Brecht, histoire d\'un effacement
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
An essay by Frédéric Valabrègue on the American avant-garde artist, one of the main actors of the Fluxus movement.
Michèle Métail - Le cours du Danube - en 2888 kilomètres/vers… l\'infini
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A long and vertiginous poem, virtually infinite, by Michèle Métail, built on the principle of concatenation and inspired by the editing techniques of electroacoustic music.
Michèle Métail - Le cours du Danube - en 2888 kilomètres/vers… l\'infini – Luxury Edition
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A long and vertiginous poem, virtually infinite, by Michèle Métail, built on the principle of concatenation and inspired by the editing techniques of electroacoustic music, with an original and unique artwork.
Frédéric Acquaviva - The 120 Days of Musica
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin.
Frédéric Acquaviva - The 120 Days of Musica - Luxury Edition (+ CD)
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin. Luxury limited edition, signed, including an original artwork and the sound artwork “Oxymoron Music” on CD.
NASA - Graphic Design Guide
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
Facsimile reprinting of Danne & Blackburn's graphics standards manual for the redesign of NASA's visual identity in 1975.
IBM - Graphic Design Guide from 1969 to 1987
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
Facsimile reprinting of Paul Rand's graphics standards manuals for the redesign of the visual identity of the multinational technology company IBM from 1962 to 1987.
Pauline Piguet - SCT-PP
2018
French edition
ACME
Artist's book exploring the notion of rigor in experimentation through the constraints of the grid and structure.
 The Yanomami - Ancient Lights And The Black Core (vinyl LP)
2017
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Ancient Light and the Blackcore was originally published in 1995 as part of Sub Rosa's “Utopian Diaries” series. It gathers 5 tracks of hallucinatory music and extraordinary recordings of shamanic ceremony from the Yanomami communauty. Includes the text Subworld by David Toop. First vinyl issue.
 Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin - Aru Kuxipa - Sacred Secret
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This collaborative journey between Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto and members from the Huni Kuin indigenous communities brings to the fore the concept of “ancestral futures” and extends the concerns that have been evident in Neto's oeuvre over the past 20 years: a celebration of the sensuality of being, the unity of bodies and nature, and a longing for spiritual vision.
Émilie Parendeau - Ça m\'inquiète toujours ces sirènes
2017
no text
Boabooks
For her show at Mamco, the French artist borrowed from the museum collections to reinterpret a series of artworks by Imi Knoebel, Steven Parrino, Frank Stella, John M. Armleder, Luciano Fabro, Robert Filliou, and Christian Robert-Tissot. Both a catalogue and an artist's book, this publication replays the exhibition much like a snapshot collection.
Yael Bartana -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First comprehensive monograph dedicated to the work of Yael Bartana: a comprehensive overview of the artist's films, installations, performative projects, photographs, and sound works of the past 15 years. The publication highlights her fascination with the ways in which social rituals shape both individual identities and collective memory.
Hermann Nitsch - Streichquartett in 4 Sätzen (CD)
2017
Tochnit Aleph
16.00 12.00 €
First performance of the original 60-minute composition for string quartet in 4 parts, recorded at the Nitsch Foundation in Vienna in 2016. With Anne Harvey-Nagl and Diane Pascal on violins, Marta Potulska on viola, and Mara Achleitner on cello.
Yvan Salomone - Evaporation - 2006-2017
2017
French edition
MAMCO - Monographs
New monograph: a collection of 352 watercolors made since 2006 by the painter on the theme of industrial landscapes.
Marie Canet - Palestine, first name Charlemagne - Meshugga Land
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Fama
A biographical essay which explores the origins and influences of Charlemagne Palestine, as well as themes related to his life and artistic practice—spirituality, music, performance, avant-gardism—together with an acute analysis of his main works. The study is followed by an interview with the artist, which provides a clever balance between personal anecdotes and reflection.
Marie Canet - Palestine, prénom Charlemagne - Meshugga Land
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Fama
A biographical essay which explores the origins and influences of Charlemagne Palestine, as well as themes related to his life and artistic practice—spirituality, music, performance, avant-gardism—together with an acute analysis of his main works. The study is followed by an interview with the artist, which provides a clever balance between personal anecdotes and reflection.
Dorian Gaudin -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
First monograph.
Jean-Baptiste Farkas - On words, in deeds
2017
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
This handbook traces ten years of activity of Glitch and IKHÉA©SERVICES—two collaborative projects initiated by artist Jean-Baptiste Farkas.
Benoît Fougeirol - (ZUS)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
X Artists' Books
In (ZUS), a visual essay by the French photographer Benoît Fougeirol, views of and views from eleven of the “Zones urbaines sensibles” (Sensitive Urban Zones) on the peripheries of Paris reveal harsh paradoxes of modern society. The series is accompanied by a text by author Jean-Christophe Bailly.
Francisco López - Anima Ardens (CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
The new organic soundtrack creation by Francisco López inspired by trance rituals.
Stephen Felton - No Drama
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Confort Moderne
An introduction to the art of Stephen Felton, with an essay by Jill Gasparina, “On the uselessness of sophisticated discourse,” as a guiding thread to better understand a work relying on simplicity and narratives.
Philippe Gronon - Versos
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Publication dedicated to the Versos series, in which Philippe Gronon photographs the verso side of paintings by ancient and modern masters. With a foreword by Hubert Besacier.
Bernard Piffaretti - 1980-2016 - Reasonable catalog
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
The first major monograph on Piffaretti: a journey through contemporary painting.
Claude Rutault - Dé-finitions/méthodes - 1973-2016
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Monographs
Collection of 657 “definitions/methods”—the emblematic pictorial statements first created by Claude Rutault in 1973.
Roven - Les rituels du dessin
2016
French edition
Roven
Roven - Roven magazine
Special issue devoted to the theme of the drawing rituals.
Claude Rutault - L\'Inventaire
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
The story of an iconic work by Claude Rutault.
Éric Watier - Plus c\'est facile, plus c\'est beau : prolégomènes à la plus belle exposition du monde
2015
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's book.
Estelle Hanania - Happy Purim
2015
texts in English and French
Shelter Press - Books
This new monograph gathers 42 images documenting 3 years of photographs taken between 2011 and 2014 during the Purim holiday in the neighbourhood of Stamford Hill, London.
Hermann Nitsch - 6. Sinfonie (2 CD)
2015
Tochnit Aleph
19.00 14.50 €
Nitsch's Sixth Symphony for large orchestra performed and recorded November 1, 1980 at Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna.
Claude Rutault - Imprimés 1973-2013 - Essai de catalogue raisonné des livres, publications, ephemera et autres imprimés
2015
French edition
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
The catalogue raisonné of Claude Rutault's books and prints.
Éric Madeleine - Je suis le cerveau du délibéré, encellulé au-dessus des incisives
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
First publication by visual artist and performer Éric Madeleine: a collection of texts associated with his performance work and drawings.
Inter - Avant l\'œuvre – Préparatifs & partitions
2014
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
The origins and creating process of the artwork.
François Morellet - C\'est n\'importe quoi ? - 1949-2014
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
New monograph.
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