Art & environment / ecology

A fascinating artist's book that, with its particular structure, states the impossibility of catching the raw beauty without destroying it.

Artist's book: Christoph Keller's weather experiments with a replica of Wilhelm Reich's rainmaking machine in Morocco, in the form of a complex flip-book.

First monograph.

Monograph based on Ann Veronica Janssens' exhibition at Wiels, with an essay by cultural theorist, critic and video artist Mieke Bal.

Silkscreen (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).

Seven artists (the duo Art Orienté Objet, Amy Balkin, Gilles Bruni, Seamus Farrell, Romain Pellas, and Akira Sunrise) explore the issues of the ecological crisis and how humanity is endangering itself, from a reflection on the territory of the bucolic valley of the Lot in France.

First major monograph devoted to the Swiss artist: a retrospective of Pierre Vadi's work and exhibitions over fifteen years, with three essays.

An investigation into Eduardo Kac's practice in 50 questions asked by digital art historian Dominique Moulon.

An anthology.

Luxurious monograph based on Huang Yong Ping's monumental installation at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, documenting a series of recent exhibitions, with an essay by Jessica Morgan and the transcription of a round table with many personalities around the artist.

An essay based on a group exhibition conceived by French philosopher and writer Gilles A. Tiberghien.

Sixteen exhibitions and four video works by the artist, in an original handmade screen-printed cardboard box.

Italian-German artist Ezramo (Alessandra Eramo) recorded the sounds of larvae during their transformation into flies. Trough rough, sub-real field recordings, she explores, interprets and lyrically re-invents the concept of metamorphosis.

An interdisciplinary approach to contemporary design (available in English edition).

An interdisciplinary approach to contemporary design, beyond the purely economic dimension, at the crossroads between technological innovations and social, political and ecological issues.

Artist's book.

Three sound compositions by sound artist Yannick Dauby, based on field recordings of Taipei city and its surroundings. Inspired by the Ghost Festival and the ambiences of Summertime, by the evolution and modernity of the urban environment, by the now extinct plain aborigines who once lived in the Taipei basin, these works are reflecting three ways of listening the urban soundscape of Taiwan's capital.

Limited edition of Betty Bui's DVD, turned to a night light.

Artist's book based on an information brochure from the 1960s on security measures for a nuclear power plant.

First translation in French of the study on American beaver by a pioneer of ethology and anthropology in the US, an avant-garde and surprisingly relevant work in an age of global ecological crisis.

Artist and poet Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his interactive works on internet and for his practice of bio art. This catalogue dedicated to this singular artist features contributions by an art critic (Eleonor Heartney), a leader of the contemporary American novel (Steve Tomasula) and a French sociologist and philosopher (Pierre -Henri Jeudy). An interview with Eduardo Kac by Hugues Marchal concludes the volume.

Special offer for the purchase of the two complementary Tectoniques architectes monographs: Unplugged and Explicit.

Seven recent ecological buildings by the French architecture collective specialized in wood constructions.

Four approaches (aesthetic, geographic, poetic and photographic) of the river.

An investigation on the social and political dimensions of buildings and urban spaces, oferring multiple perspectives on the limits and creative possibilities of the built environment (edited by Ken Ehrlich and Brandon LaBelle, with contributions by Rachel Allen, Ava Bromberg, Jesko Fezer & Mathias Heyden, Nis Rømer, CM von Hausswolff...).

This DVD gathers the images of the project conceived by Claude Lévêque for the French Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, as well as 40 other works realized since 2004.

Michel Blazy's Urban Safari, discovering extraordinary houseplants (and their owners).

Artist's book (the Hugues Reip's herbarium).

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.

This comprehensive catalogue documents for the first time Klaus Weber's oeuvre and reveals a recurring sense of limit-experiences: accidents, organism mutations, altered states, incursions from the outside.

Catalogue / artist's book: disguised in a post-modern hunter, Pii invites us to think about drift feeding practices and the place of nature in the contemporary world.

An artistic reflection on Deacon's project for 2008 Saragossa International Exhibition, on the theme of water and its associated elements.

An artistic reflection on Deacon's project for 2008 Saragossa International Exhibition, on the theme of water and its associated elements. The limited editon of the book contains an original and unique drawing signed by the artist.

A major contribution, by German philosoph and art historian Horst Bredekamp, to the current debate on the 'tree of life' in evolutionary biology. The essay deals with the aesthetic and political dimension of the coral, in Darwin's system a model of anarchic evolution which opposes the hierarchical metaphor of the tree.

First publication devoted to the French architects collective specialized in wood constructions, gathering twelve exemplary buildings.

At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.

At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.

Exhibition catalogue.

The quest for unknown, rumored, or hidden animals.

In all of his works the Danish artist demonstrates an interest in an expanded notion of ecology, one that encompasses cultural history and sociopolitics as well as natural resources.

Films, videos, photographs and installations following the theme of landscapes and urban views, questioning our relation to city and nature.

An exploration of the body in contemporary culture (artist's book / collection of texts).

An “anti-humanist” musical piece, overlaying Klaus Weber's voice and frequency ranges defined in relation to the hearing of cricket (limited edition).

A reproduction of handwritten notes, accompanied with sketches, in which Fabrice Hyber explains his conception of the role of art and artists. The limited edition is accompanied by an unique artwork, made on its case.

A reproduction of handwritten notes, accompanied with sketches, in which Fabrice Hyber explains his conception of the role of art and artists.

DVD-book including all the exhibition films and discussions of 3 workshops at the 2004 International Biennale in Venice, on the theme of sustainable development and urban metamorphoses (a programme of about 2h).

Filmed installations and interview.

Gloria Friedmann writes about the main questions raised by its work: nature, animal kingdom and ecology; work and war, the origins of mankind and art. Limited edition with a felt-tip drawing printed on a restaurant tablecloth paper and enhanced by hand.