Art & environment / ecology

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.

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.

This publication assembles twenty years worth of social, aesthetic and philosophical reflexions that essentially place the individual within the contemporary community.

An artistic reflexion on science and images.

Art and nature / residual landscapes.

Artist's writings.

Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.

The third volume of the Wattis Institute's annual reader is informed by themes found in the work of Cecilia Vicuña, including ecofeminism, indigenous forms of knowledge, poetry and politics, dissolution and extinction, exile, dematerialization, regeneration, and environmental responsibility.

An intimate dialogue between the works of the two artists over four decades.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.

A conversation about science fiction and robotics, ecology and gender, Indigenous Futurisms and what it means to be human.

Finding a future desert without deserting the future.

Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology is devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and present forms of resistance.

A documentary and speculative publication on a genealogy of political, social, ecological and identity-based struggles in the Brittany region and the West of France, from the 1960s to the Zone to Defend of today, based on numerous documents and films made by filmmakers and collectives.

The necessary new paradigms to invent in architecture and design in the context of the environmental crises.

Julian Charrière's filmic journey to some of the most inhospitable areas of our planet.

Twenty authors and artists reinvent our relationship to nature.

Thinking design with philosophy (a teaching manual).

52 short poems, written in a nervous prose during periods of trance. A response to the “disease of globalization.”

This publication extends an exhibition program that examines the environmental challenges facing the art world and its institutions, drawing on the concept of “destructive plasticity” theorized by philosopher Catherine Malabou.

Accattone #6 explores a renewed relationship with land, matter, “nature” and localities against the backdrop of the new climatic regime.

Bringing together art, science, and humanities, and focusing on environmental phenomena that directly influence our lives, the project for the 58th Venice Biennale by Ane Graff, Ingela Ihrman, and artist duo Nabbteeri is themed around the complex and varied relations between the human and nonhuman, in an age when climate change and mass extinction are threatening the future of life on Earth.

A collective reflection on reciprocal relations between design and the ethics of care, in the areas of health, social innovation, objects, or the environmental issue.

This unedited issue of Spectre invites contemporary artists to share their interpretation of vegetal trauma.