Performance / happening / action art / body art

 
 
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.
Charles Pennequin - Les Chiens de la Casse (vinyl LP)
2012
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
The collaboration between artist and poet Charles Pennequin, the band Gun-Gi and Laurie Franck.
Brandon LaBelle - Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian
2012
English edition
Errant Bodies - Doormats
Brandon LaBelle's revolutionary diary during the Arab Spring.
Lili Reynaud-Dewar - Conversation with Lili Reynaud- Dewar, before This Is My Place, Magasin, Grenoble, 2012
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Magasin
A conversation with the artist (with a selection of reference documents).
Inter - Sexes à bras le corps
2012
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
currently out of stock
Special issue dedicated to the question of the presence and treatment of sexuality in contemporary creation.
Julien Blaine - Carnets de voyages - Tome VII
2012
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
25.00 12.50 €
These notebooks recount the scientific-poetic journeys of poet Julien Blaine in search of the original language.
Charles Dreyfus Pechkoff - Fluxus - L\'Avant-garde en mouvement
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Essay and interviews.
Les héros de la pensée
2012
French edition
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
A heroic performance bringing together seven renowned thinkers, held to talk, on the principle of the Deleuzian ABC, of 26 different themes, during 26 hours... while drinking wine regularly.
Yorgos Sapountzis - A statue has remembered me / Eine Statue hat sich an mich erinnert
2012
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An in-depth survey of Yorgos Sapountzis' work in ten chapters from 2000 to the present.
Kateřina Šedá -
2012
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
 Kimsooja - Works & Process (DVD)
2012
original version (English / Spanish / French), subtitles in English and French
a.p.r.e.s editions - Works & Process (DVD)
25.00 20.00 €
Various documentary approaches of Kimsooja's work (8 films).
Richard Martel - L\'art dans l\'action / l\'action dans l\'art - Textes 2002-2012
2012
French edition
Intervention - Theory
The collection of texts of the performance art theorist/activist.
Luigi Ontani - CoacerVolubilEllittico
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.
Jean-Christophe Norman - The Circumstances of the Accident
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Franche-Comté - Monographs & catalogues
This first monograph retraces the artist's career since 2005 and explores the various facets of his work through lavish illustrations, an essay by Laurent Buffet and an interview with the artist by Marjorie Micucci.
Václav Stratil - Životopis
2012
Czech edition
Sputnik
10.00 4.00 €
A literary piece considered to be a central written in Stratil's body of work, Životopis (biography) is a poetic discourse reflecting the artist's inner spirituality and lifelong contemplation of his self and its versatility. This edition is illustrated with a series of self-portraits, both paintings and photographs.
Mobile Album International - Translation
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mobile Album International
Featuring: Nicolas Boillot, Laurent Buffet, Yann Ciret, Gilbert Descossy, Jean Dupuy, John Giorno, Bernard Heidsieck, Françoise Janicot, Olivier Leroi, Patrice Lerochereuil, Matthieu Messagier, Tierney Moira, Adrian Notz, Edgar Morin, Olivier Mosset, Phoebe Neville, Corinne Pencenat, Jeffrey Perkins, Georges Quasha, Alexandre Rolla, Joao Simoes, Evelyne Sutter, Louis Ucciani, Michel Vogel, Peter Vogel, Christian Xatrec...
Julien Blaine - Concerto pour autotypo, conques et bulles - duo (book / DVD)
2012
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
(last copies available!)
21.00 9.00 €
A book/DVD featuring a performance by Fabrikdelabeslot and Julien Blaine on a text by the latter (Je parle à la machine) in the printing workshops of the École Supérieure d'Art et Design Grenoble-Valence.
 ORLAN - Ceci est mon corps… ceci est mon logiciel
2012
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
This monograph is derived from a lecture given in 2009 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. ORLAN takes a retrospective look at her career and brings forward themes explored in her work, such as hybridization and the female body in art.
Wolf Vostell - Dé-Coll/Age Musik (CD)
2011
Tochnit Aleph
CD-Reissue of the rare 1983 LP by the pioneer of video-art, happening, and Fluxus.
Feminine Futures – Valentine de Saint-Point - Performance, Dance, War, Politics and Eroticism
2011
French edition (texts in French, English, Italian, German)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
A reexamination of the role of female avant-gardes in the fields of performance and dance: a comprehensive publication with over 2500 color illustrations, together with documentary material on Valentine de Saint-Point, Marinetti, Futurism, Canudo, Russian Ballets, German and American expressionism (original photographs, manuscript letters, drawings, woodcuts, manifestos, first editions and ephemera).
Rencontre internationale d\'art performance 2010 - Regards sur l\'art action en Amérique latine et en Asie
2011
French edition
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
A complete survey of performance arts in Latin America and Asia today.
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