Performance / happening / action art / body art

 
 
Dysfunctional Comedy - A Reader
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This reader is the result of a series of public events, performances, and workshops which examined performative patterns and subvertive power in comedic and cartoonist practices.
Olivia Plender - Rise Early, Be Industrious
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
In specially commissioned essays, as well as interviews, archival material, and new texts by the artist, this first monograph addresses the in-depth investigation of Plender's research and artwork into educational models and their relation to social organization.
Lara Favaretto - Ageing Process
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A manual / first monograph on Lara Favaretto's works comprising iconographic documentation and complementary essays by critics and specialists.
Cristian Chironi - My House is a Le Corbusier / Broken English
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
My House is a Le Corbusier / Broken English is a two-sided book containing two different projects by Cristian Chironi. Intersecting and diverging, both projects raise questions surrounding communication, reading and interpretation and concomitant linguistic and socio-political implications. The double-cover book is divided into two specular sections so the reader can choose to begin with either of the projects.
Oskar Dawicki - I\'m Sorry
2016
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
Nero
The publication is the first comprehensive review of Oskar Dawicki's oeuvre. Trained as a painter, it was his practice as a performer and as a post-conceptualist with a singularly fatalistic slant that brought him into the public realm.
Angela Marzullo - Homeschooling
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Homeschooling (parental education) is at the center of the performance and video work by Angela Marzullo, who, in analyzing critical texts from the '60s and '70s, recreates them involving her two daughters as protagonists. The publication presents a decade of Marzullo's works, highlighting the evocative value and content of images and text.
Cally Spooner - Peep-Hole Sheet - On False Tears and Outsourcing
2016
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A selection of notes on Cally Spooner's forthcoming novel—shaped as a map of potential starts, plots and snippets of dialogue between possible characters.
Inter - Addictions, drogue, création, conscience augmentée
2016
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Counterculture & cyberculture: exploring human potential from psychotropic substances to technological advances.
Spike - The Body
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Spike
Special Trans-and Posthumanism Issue: curator's key by Anselm Franke, 1992's “Post Human” group show, Hans Scheirl's Dandy Dust, eating the future: a roundtable, how to become an alien, portraits of Ian Cheng, Stelarc and Hannah Perry, Bernhard Willhem on the perfect body of the future, Transformers: an essay by Bryan Droitcour, Elisa Ambrogio's music videos, Guyotat's Eden Eden Eden…
Carole Douillard - Alive
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
This first monograph on French-Algerian artist and performer Carole Douillard spans her entire work from the end of the 1990s and invites us to reflect on her performative and non-material practice, interrogating the forms and issues of contemporary performance.
Xanti Schawinsky - The Album
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This publication is based on the albums the artist conceived during his tenure at the Bauhaus, and presents, for the first time, photographs and documents, personal as much as artistic, on this key moment of the modern period. It is also the first opportunity to discover this primary material, in a format reproducing the original albums.
Inter - Affirmation autochtone
2016
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Canadian native art today
Marnie Weber - The Day of Forevermore - Synopsis, Script, Storyboard
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
A complete documentation on Marnie Weber's first feature film, a strange kind of carnival that emerges from the American cultural repressed.
L\'Île  au trésor - ou la saga des Mengin
2016
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
The big book of the LAC (Lieu d'Art Contemporain), the first private cultural center of the Reunion Island and an essential artistic place in the Indian Ocean.
 Kimsooja - To Breathe (book / DVD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French), original version, English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
A DVD-book which documents Korean artist Kimsooja's transfigurational installation at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, as part of the France-Korea year.
Cinema in the Expanded Field
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
(last copies available!)
This volume, published in parallel to Exhibiting the Moving Image, extends the inquiry into the history, theory and practice of exhibiting artists' cinema, video, installation as well as advertising films, by focusing on the domains of performance and of the “expanded arts.”
Latifa Laâbissi - Grimaces du réel
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
First monograph.
Quebec-Bangkok - Encounter with Strangers
2016
French edition
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
A critical and visual testimony about a cultural and artistic exchange project between the two cities of Quebec and Bangkok.
Marco Mazzoni - Atlas Soccer
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
A rich and diverse panorama of football gestures selected from newspapers' photographs dating from 1990 to 2010. The aesthetic classification of these gestures opens to wider reflections on sport as choreography and artistic performance.
Alex Cecchetti - Marie and William - A Performance by Alex Cecchetti
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
With Marie and William, Alex Cecchetti attempts to transpose the performative gesture in the space of the book.
Resistance Performed - An Anthology on Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive Regimes in Latin America
2015
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
The publication addresses performative artistic strategies as a lived practice of resistance in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.
Brandon LaBelle - Room Tone
2015
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
The publication documents a project developed by artist Brandon LaBelle which attempts to instigate conversations between sound and architecture through a set of audio recordings of the artist's apartment in Berlin.
Agnes Nedregård - Performance Works - The Big Toe
2015
texts in English, French, Norwegian
various
28.00 12.00 €
This richly illustrated edition presents the ten-year performance career of Bergen visual artist Agnes Nedregård, looking at her practice from a diversity of perspectives and media.
Ragnar Kjartansson -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
New monograph.
Dora García - I See Words, I Hear Voices - Mad Marginal – Cahier #4
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The fourth cahier of Dora Garcia's Mad Marginal project brings together essays by international authors that develop different threads pertaining to artist Dora García's practice.
A.C. Hello - Naissance de la gueule
2015
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poem of sheer brutality on the corporal incarnation of the language.
Inter - Pauvreté, dépouillement, dénuement
2015
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
A review of voluntary bareness and simplicity practices in art.
Jan Świdziński - Jan Świdziński en contexte / W Kontekście / In Context (+ DVD)
2015
trilingual edition (English / French / Polish)
Intervention - Monographs and artists' books
This trilingual publication dedicated to the Polish artist and theorist deceased in 2014 emphasize his essential contribution to action art by gathering previously unpublished articles from his friends and colleagues in the contemporary art world. The authors recount his ideas, career and influence. Photos, reproductions of the artist's original articles and a DVD all serve to enrich this publication.
Suzanne Lacy - Gender Agendas
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Comprehensive monograph of the Californian artist and political activist.
Khvay Samnang - L\'Homme-caoutchouc / Rubber Man
2015
trilingual edition (English / French / Khmer)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
With Rubber Man (2015), Khvay responds to the colonial legacy of land use and its effects on Cambodia's indigenous forests and culture today.
Ragnar Kjartansson - To Music
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
(last copies available!)
Comprehensive monograph (second edition).
Benjamin Seror - Mime Radio
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A novel written orally by the artist Benjamin Seror.
Inter - Micro-interventions
2015
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
The “micro-interventions” in the public space in the age of social movements and citizen action.
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.
Xanti Schawinsky -
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
currently out of stock
Comprehensive monograph: the first survey of first generation Bauhaus artist Xanti Schawinsky's extraordinarily prolific output over the course of five decades.
Andrea Fraser - Initiales - Initiales A.F.
2015
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
5th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Andrea Fraser.
Recréer / scripter - Mémoires et transmissions des œuvres performatives et chorégraphiques contemporaines
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
Between documention and recreation: memories and transmissions of performance art and contemporary dance.
Josef Bauer - Werke 1965-Heute / Works 1965-Today
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An introduction to Josef Bauer's oeuvre and practice.
Liz Magic Laser - Public Relations / Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Liz Magic Laser's recent works.
 Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz - Aftershow
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A monograph / artists' book that engages with the recent film installations of Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz.
Ahmet Öğüt - Tips and Tricks
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Comprehensive monograph.
Inter - Organisations artistiques d\'ici et d\'ailleurs
2015
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Artistic groups, collectives, and organizations.
Julien Blaine - La poésie à outrance - À propos de la poésie élémentaire de Julien Blaine
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Frac Franche-Comté - Monographs & catalogues
A critical book: a reassessment of Julien Blaine's poetry and the aesthetic problems related to it.
Rencontre internationale d\'art performance 2014 (+ DVD)
2015
French edition
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
A complete survey of performance arts between Canada, Cuba, Noway, Philippines, and Poland.
André Fortino - Grammaire fauve
2015
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
The first monograph dedicated to Fortino's performances and videos takes the form of a 160 pages volume which constitutes a synthesis of the work and research conducted by the artist at ESAAA art school, Annecy, and beyond.
Olivia Boudreau - L\'Oscillation du visible
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
28.00 25.00 €
First monograph.
Marinella Senatore - Building Communities
2014
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
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.
Mobile Album International - Performance, Body, Fiction
2014
bilingual edition (English / French; texts in German and Spanish)
Mobile Album International
The third issue of the French-American magazine of creation and reflexion is devoted to performance art.
Paul Panhuysen - Pendulum Change Ringing (vinyl LP)
2014
Edition Telemark
First vinyl LP edition by Dutch sound and visual artist Paul Panhuysen since 1986 (sound installation).
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