Performance / happening / action art / body art

The catalogue of the annual contemporary art festival in Toulouse: 20th edition is placed under the sign of performance.

A critical anthology (texts and interviews on/with Christian Boltanski, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Glenn Ligon, Pipilotti Rist, John Baldessari, Florence Lazar, Bruce Nauman, Bruno Peinado, Michel Kireger, Delphine Reist, Karina Bisch, Guy de Cointet, Larry Bell...).

An anthology exploring the possibilities of documenting time-based works.

30 copies limited edition accompanied by a signed color photographic print of Molinier's fetish doll by Philippe Bonan.

First comprehensive German edition of legendary texts by Robert Morris.

New monograph, based on Šedá's work for the Berlin Biennal 5.

A panorama of Ben's conflicting ideas and various activities since 1959.

The method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's oeuvre with more than 800 pictures, mostly unpublished, numerous documents, manuscripts and letters, a complete chronology, a critical biography, and a text by Jean-Luc Mercié.

50 copies limited edition accompanied by a signed color photographic print of Molinier's fetish doll by artist photographer Gilles Berquet.

Pistoletto's theater and performances.

Action art and performance.

Art, performance and ritual (special issue directed by Serge Pey).

First monograph.

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.

The notebook of American dancer and choreographer Simone Forti, in which she shares her poetry as well as her thoughts on dance, the body, writing, the state of the world… The publication includes an interview with Forti by Annie Suquet, and an afterword by poet and Fluxus artist Jakson Mac Low.

This monograph is dedicated to Stelarc—the body artist known for his radical performances involving robotic prosthetics.

The second in a series of publications drawing content and inspiration from the world-renowned Performa biennials.

Voice Over examines staging, theatricality, and performative strategies in contemporary art practices.

A collection of texts and works dealing with the materiality of language and highlighting the theme from various perspectives.

A collection of works from 1999 to the present, delivering an important overview of the artist/musician's pursuit of the uncanny within the everyday.

Eleven performance-based projects by Dora García, documented through letters, emails and other elements from the artist's private correspondence with various interpreters of performances, whether they were direct collaborators of simple spectators.

This catalogue dedicated to experimental poet Julien Blaine documents the wide variety of his work through his texts, images, installations and performances. Published on the occasion of a retrospective at the MAC Marseille, the publication is richly illustrated and documented, and features an interview with Blaine by Laurent Cauwet and Fabienne Létang.

Documenting works by artists dealing with performative issues between the 1960s and today, this catalogue, gathering numerous essays, questions the nature and the relevance of “performative” objects in contemporary practices (also available in English edition).

Filmed bilingual lectures (9 video DVDs): a perspective on contemporary French and American poetry.

Filmed bilingual lectures (9 video DVDs): a perspective on contemporary French and American poetry.

The first monograph on the multiple activities of the artist / musician / performer, with numerous illustrations, texts, and an audio CD.

Artist's book.

The 15th Rencontre internationale d'art performance (RIAP) in Quebec: sound performance, poetry, action art.

Penultimate volume of notebooks recounting the scientific-poetic journey of poet Julien Blaine in search of the original language. Here, he reflects on linguistic works by Jean-Pierre Brisset and Jules Hermann, but most and foremost on Hans W. Bornefeld's research on Cro-Magnon glyphs.

This exhibition catalogue gathers together the visual works—collages, drawings and installations—of three major French experimental poets.

This study on the fabrication of Posthumanity questions us on the limits of the human, its boundaries and its possibilities in our “biotech” era. It examines the fundamental distinction between natural and artificial, nature and technology, human and machine, body and flesh.

This study on the fabrication of Posthumanity questions us on the limits of the human, its boundaries and its possibilities in our “biotech” era. It examines the fundamental distinction between natural and artificial, nature and technology, human and machine, body and flesh.

While looking for French criminal Jacques Mesrine's grave, Charles Pennequin engages in a poetic and politic reflection against French society.

Works by Michel Auder, Julien Blaine, Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Mathieu Exposito, John Giorno, Bob Lens, Pierre Tilman...; texts by Démosthène Agrafiotis, Philippe Boisnard, Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Denis Chevalier, Charles Dreyfus, Anselm Jappe (on Situationnists), Richard Martel (on Dick Higgins et Giordano Bruno), Edgar Morin...

Dirty field recordings, found sounds, sound effects, archives, and sonorous dramas, composed as a series of micro-narratives each designed to intervene onto imagined settings or spatial locations, as a counter-sonorities.

Viennese Actionism was one of the strongest effort of the 1960's to develop contemporary art and a forerunner of what is now widely known as Performance Art. Danièle Roussel interviewed not only the former actionists (Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler) but also some journalists, politicians, historians and witnesses of that time.

Between critical writing and visual art practice.

A performance of The Secret Machines conceived and filmed by Charles de Meaux.

Presenting new installations and films by one of the most significant and innovative choreographers working in the area of contemporary dance today.

Artist's book: experiment with graphics, painting, performance, and installation.

Artist's book based on Sedá's work for Documenta 12.

A documentary on three exhibitions, a filmed interview with the artist and an original video work.

A project based on archiving people's memories connected to specific songs and radio broadcasts. Includes over 100 memories from around the globe, along with contributions by curators and theorists Bastien Gallet and Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz, and an audio CD of related work by the artist.

From the artwork to the event / Salvador Dalí performer / surrealist suicide...

This monograph documents the artist's exhibitions since 2005, reflecting on the evolution and diversity of her work. The heterogeneous essays tracing her career are illustrated with exhibition views.

An overview of sound installations and environments by the experimental artist-musician, with three essays and an interview, a specific project, installations views and performances on audio CD.

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.