Performance / happening / action art / body art

 
 
Inter - Avant l\'œuvre – Préparatifs & partitions
2014
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
The origins and creating process of the artwork.
Femmes, attitudes performatives, aux lisières de la performance et de la danse
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
ENSAD Nancy (Nancy National School of Art and Design)
The place and role of women in performing arts from 1912 to 2012, between performance and dance.
Jean-Christophe Norman - De l\'action à la conversation
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Franche-Comté - Conversation series
Since 2010, Sophie Lapalu and Jean-Christophe Norman have worked together in the form of interviews and critical writings focussing on artistic actions and their visibility. De l'action à la conversation (“From action to conversation”) forms part of this reflective approach.
Pierre Bal-Blanc - Draft Score For an Exhibition
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Nero
A book that documents an oral presentation given by Pierre Bal-Blanc to a jury of professionals, as part of his application to curate the 7th Berlin Biennale. Devised as an exhibition in several acts, the session adheres to the rules of a score performed by its author or by a third party.
Re: - Vers une histoire mineure des expositions et des performances
2014
French edition
it: editions
A collection of textual and visual essays stemming from a series of lecture-performances in which artists and curators experimented with various strategies of reprise in the fields of publishing, visual arts, animation, new technologies and the law.
Yael Bartana - Two Minutes of Standstill - A Collective Performance by Yael Bartana
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The role of history and commemoration in Germany today.
Ulrike Grossarth - Were I Made of Matter, I Would Color / Wäre ich von Stoff, ich würde mich färben
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This book traces the evolution of Ulrike Gossarth's practice, with a particular emphasis on her training as a dancer in the 1970s, to draw connections between the early years with her sculptural settings and actions and her most recent work, which engages with history more generally.
Corin Hewitt - Seven Performances
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This book brings together the documentation of seven installations, produced by Corin Hewitt from 2007 up to the 2013, including preparatory sketches, process shots, exhibition documentation, and discrete photographic works. This visual mass helps understand Hewitt's practice as a continuum of interconnected actions and materializations, instances of generative discovery and contextual play.
Charles Pennequin - Alias Jacques Bonhomme
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
An experimental novel written by two powerful voices of French experimental poetry. With illustrations by Charles Pennequin.
Guy de Cointet - Who\'s that guy? - Tell me more  about Guy de Cointet (DVD)
2014
original version, bilingual susbtitles (English / French)
various
A film, a portrait of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a French-born artist based in California who created text and sculptural works, often combining them as props and stage sets in theatrical performance pieces (interviews with John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Morgan Fisher, Paul McCarthy, Christophe Bourseiller, etc.).
Ion Grigorescu - Diaries - 1970-1975
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Ion Grigorescu's diaries from the crucial years of 1970 to 1975, a small literary and art-historical sensation.
Oriol Vilanova - Goodbye
2014
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Frac Champagne-Ardenne
The transcription of a performance by Oriol Vilanova.
Performance Art - Life of the Archive and Topicality
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
Villa Arson
An epistemology of performance.
Inter - Détournement / imposture / falsification
2014
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Imposture, falsification and diversion.
Serge Pey - Agenda rouge de la résistance chilienne
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A collection of poems dedicated to the Revolutionary Left Movement's struggle against fascism in Chile.
Michel Giroud - Le Musée des Muses Amusées (MMAM) Imperium Asinum Magnificum (IAM) selon la Poésie Totalement Totale (PTT) (+ CD / DVD)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
A real, potential and fictitious museum by Michel Giroud.
Wolf Vostell - Concert Fluxus - Sara-Jevo (vinyl LP)
2014
Edition Telemark
(last copies available!)
Recording of Wolf Vostell's happening / Fluxus Concert “Sara-Jevo”, realised September 9th, 1994 at Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca, Spain.
Laura Lima -
2014
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New monograph.
Ion Grigorescu - The Man with a Single Camera
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An extraordinary overview of Ion Grigorescu's body of work since the late 1960s until today.
Inter - Transférer l\'expérience
2014
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Art and teaching.
Bill Vorn - The Theater of Machines
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
Artist Bill Vorn creates robotics as part of his research on artificial life and machine anthropomorphism. This catalogue, intended to be a robograhpy of the artist, attempts to understand, if perhaps not the phenomenon, then at least Bill Vorn's innovative approach to it (with contributions by Ian Fenelon and Jean-Paul Fourmentraux).
Bruno Fernandès - Pornologie vs capitalisme – Le groupe de happening Zero Jigen - Japon 1960-1972
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
First monograph in a Western language on the subversive and radical Japanese avant-garde group Zero Jigen.
Parachute - The Anthology (vol. 2) – Performance & Performativity
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Second volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on performance and performativity.
La performance - Vie de l\'archive et actualité
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
Villa Arson
An epistemology of performance (also available in English edition).
Des Corps compétents (Sportifs, Artistes, Burlesques)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Villa Arson
Actions and discussions around personal skills in art and other disciplines, physical and film (performances, video), sports and burlesque.
Rencontre internationale d\'art performance 2012
2013
French edition
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
A complete survey of performance arts between Quebec, Colombia, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Vietnam.
 Gelatin - Loch
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
A comprehensive documentation on the Austrian art collective's exhibition and elaborate site-specific performance at the 21er Haus in Vienna.
A bras le corps - Matérialité, image et devenir des corps
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
A collective publication that brings together artists and researchers on the issue of the body.
Chloé Pirson - Art Orienté Objet - Marion Laval-Jeantet & Benoît Mangin
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
First extensive publication devoted to the French artists duo.
Choreographing Exhibitions
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
Mathieu Copeland editions
An overview of the relation between choreography and exhibition, through the contributions of over thirty international visual artists, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, theorists, and curators (Kenneth Anger, Jérôme Bel, Boris Charmatz, Kenneth Goldsmith, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Lacey, Alan Licht, Malcolm McLaren, Gustav Metzger, Phill Niblock, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Michael Parsons, Claude Rutault, Catherine Wood...).
Charles Pennequin - Ecluse de Kembs-Niffer - Bâtiment administratif et technique
2013
French edition
Al Dante - Architecture
(last copies available!)
This publication documents the architecture of the Kembs-Niffer lock in Alsace, conceived by Georges Heintz and Anne-Sophie Kehr. It also features the text of a performance from 2011 by Charles Pennequin.
Leif Elggren - Un peu comme voir dans la nuit (+ CD)
2013
French edition
various
currently out of stock
A collection of original poems Leif Elggren wrote between 1970 and 2013 and translated for the first time into French. With illustrations by the author.
Jean Dupuy - Where
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Loevenbruck
Jean Dupuy's anagrams, from the 1970's to the present day (artist's book): 160 series of works accompanied by the artist's notes, with texts by Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux and Emmanuelle Lequeux.
Inter - Performatifs
2013
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
35 years of performance art in Canada and around the world.
Roman Signer - Fondazione Zegna, All\'Aperto
2013
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A complete documentation on Roman Signer's first permanent public commission.
Michael Barthel - Stapel - Efeu-Fährten (CD)
2013
Tochnit Aleph
The long overdue first proper collection of sound-poetry / musique concrete pieces by German installation & conceptual artist Michael Barthel.
Markus Schinwald -
2013
bilingual edition (English / French) / texts in English and French
CAPC
15.00 5.00 €
After he transformed the whole nave of the CAPC Museum into a mechanical theatre, Markus Schinwald conceives an elegant and sophisticated artist's book that reflects this physical and mental adventure through preparatory prints, film dialogues, and a series of stickers alternating exhibition views and reproduction of works.
Jirí Kovanda - The Nervous System
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Tranzit
A conversation between two artists, conducted in the form of spontaneous reflections on the images with which they confront each other.
 Kimsooja - To Breathe: Bottari
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Fully illustrated retrospective monograph based on Kimsooja's project presented at the Korean Pavilion of the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, with numerous newly commissioned and re-published texts.
 Kimsooja - To Breathe: Bottari - Limited edition
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
currently out of stock
Limited edition of Kimsooja's monograph, accompanied by a Korean Bottari and a screenprinted bag.
 Zofia Kulik & Przemyslaw Kwiek - KwieKulik
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
Cezary Bodzianowski - This Place is Called the Hole
2013
trilingual edition (English / German / Polish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
An album of photographic documentation of Cezary Bodzianowski's ephemeral ‘events' gently disrupting the course of everyday life, with essays by Catherine Wood, Jarosław Suchan, and Susanne Titz.
Inter - Poésie autre
2013
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
A transversal survey of various forms and practices of contemporary poetry (experimental, performative, digital, sound poetry, etc.), on the occasion of the magazine's 35th year anniversary.
Elvan Zabunyan - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha - Berkeley – 1968
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
First monographic book on the unique work of Korean-American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982), at the crossroads of performance, of conceptual art, of video and of poetry.
Joël Hubaut - Sophisme
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Franche-Comté - Alphabet series
Artist's book: Joël Hubaut's ABC (“a compressed, unprecise mini ABC of the art of living for the young generations in art schools in particular and for everyone else in general”).
Tris Vonna-Michell - Capitol Complex / Ulterior Vistas (book + vinyl LP)
2013
English edition
Mount Analogue
Tris Vonna-Michell's latest artist's record/book is constructed around two works, Capitol Complex (2012-2014) and Ulterior Vistas (2012-2013), both of which are encapsulated on a ten-inch vinyl record. The spoken-word compositions are enclosed within a gatefold design and accompanied by the Capitol Complex manuscript as a booklet insert and a bound series of Ulterior Vistas photographic montages.
Keren Cytter - D.I.E. Now - The True Story of John Webber and His Endless Struggle with the Table of Content
2012
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Keren Cytter's choreographic performance.
Jessica Warboys - Vanelephant
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Artist's book based on surrealist artist and dancer Hélène Vanel's manuscript.
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