Art & travel / displacement / exile / migration / nomadism

 
 
Andrew Pekler - Tristes Tropiques (vinyl LP)
2021
Faitiche
An album of “synthetic exotica & pseudo-ethnographic music”.
François Lemieux - Going to, Making Do, Passing Just the Same
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
In a series of essays the artist Edith Brunette and François Lemieux outline collectively a few proposals on the question of inhabiting as put forward from their multiple and tenuous attachements to the land.
Giorgio Andreotta Calò - Gloria
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
The text and photo diary of a forty-day journey on foot from Venice to L'Aquila, following the subterranean fracture where the European and African tectonic plates meet, in search of the symbolic dimension and the real effects of seismic waves.
Erling Kagge - Walking - Movements North of Bolzano
2021
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The intersection of walking and collecting.
Liu Xiaodong - New England
2021
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Nero
The volume New England brings together a series of portraits by Liu Xiaodong of homonymous subjects. The project represents the artist's search to portray a generation of young Chinese professionals who have moved to London to try and follow their dreams.
Josef Albers - Messico 1935/1956
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Unpublished photographs taken by Josef Albers during his travels to Mexico with Anni in the 1930s and 50s.
Esther Hoareau - Le soleil danse autour de nos têtes
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Réunion
By means of photographs, videos, installations and sound pieces, Esther Hoareau depicts phantasmagorical landscapes which nevertheless share certain appearances and appeal to a truly collective imagination (monograph).
Whose Land Have I Lit on Now? - Contemplations on the Notions of Hospitality
2021
English edition
Archive Books
A curatorial project about concepts of hospitality and the triggers of hostility in hospitality.
Alexis Nouss - Droit d\'exil - Pour une politisation de la question migratoire – précédé de Covidexil
2021
French edition
Mix
A manifesto for the right of exile: the foreigner is the future of the citizen.
Mirjam Wirz - Sobre El Río (Passage)
2021
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This publication tells of the journey of a photographic research of the origins of cumbia music along the lower Magdalena river in Colombia.
Identités du transitoire
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
ENSAD Nancy (Nancy National School of Art and Design)
The dimension of the transitory in the fields of architecture, urbanism and design, as a new horizon of thought and action concerning all aspects of urban life, in its economic and ecological complexity.
Claudia Losi - Voce a vento (book + vinyl LP)
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
Voce a vento (a vinyl LP + an artist's book) represents the result of a choral, visual and performative intervention realized by Claudia Losi in the Cilento countryside in Southern Italy in 2018.
Ingo Giezendanner - Sloppy Sleep
2020
no text
Nieves
A series of drawings made in Paris with felt pen in small notebooks. The hours-long work on the drawings, which are all made right on the spot, displaces Giezendanner into meditation and lets him perceive the urban space in different ways.
Shirin Azari - Stories of Little and Big Blossoms
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Conceived as a children's book, Stories of Little and Big Blossoms is a collection of illustrated short stories about Elham, a little Iranian girl exiled in Germany, and her difficulties to fit in this new environment. A poetic work on exile, friendship, courage and open-mindedness, inspired by the childhood of author and illustrator, Shirin Azari.
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré - Paris la Consciencieuse : Paris la Guideuse du monde
2020
French edition
Empire - Books
The unpublished story, reproduced in facsimile, of the journey to Paris of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923-2014), Ivorian poet and artist, "prophet", creator and inventor of the Bété alphabet, who writes a "report" of his encounter with the Western world on his return from the opening of the mythical exhibition "Magiciens de la Terre".
Johanne Løgstrup - The Contemporary Condition - Co-existence of Times – A conversation with John Akomfrah
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
In the form of a conversation with filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah, this book sets out to explore how his work with montage can be understood to articulate contemporaneity in sensuous ways.
Minor cosmopolitan - Thinking art, politics, and the universe together otherwise
2020
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
Rethinking cosmopolitanism without its exploitative grip through alternative traditions and practices of the cosmopolitan from across the globe.
 Suspended spaces - Suspended spaces - Fordlândia
2020
bilingual edition (Portuguese / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An artistic project carried out around Fordlândia—a town built from 1928 onwards by Henry Ford in Amazonia on the banks of the Tapajòs to intensively exploit the rubber tree needed to manufacture tyres, which, following the failure of the project, became a small village in the middle of an industrial heritage of uncertain statu. With twenty international artists and researchers, in collaboration with Fotoativa, a Brazilian collective from Belém.
Michele Lombardelli - California
2020
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A collection of photographs and drawings retracing the founding Californian experience of the artist.
Bordered Lives - Immigration Detention Archive
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Drawing on original documents, photographs and detainee artwork, this book offers a unique insight into the experience of immigration detention in the UK.
Jane Jin Kaisen - Community of Parting
2020
English edition
Archive Books
Reference monograph: the most comprehensive introduction to the Korean artist's postcolonial and feminist approach.
Jean-François Bory - Retour au Japon
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
Jean-François Bory's travel diary to Japan.
Migration - Traces in an Art Collection / Spår i en konstsamling
2020
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
How have artists over the past 150 years related to migration and exile? And what role can a museum play in times of mass migration?
Maxime Duveau - Renewal - Récit de Didier Balducci
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Hippocampe - Books
A series of drawings that retrace a trip to California, where the multiplied and labyrinthine architecture invites the visitor to wander between reality and fiction.
 Cog•nate Collective - Regionalia
2020
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
X Artists' Books
First monograph.
Nina Valerie Kolowratnik - The Language of Secret Proof – Indigenous Truth and Representation - Critical Spatial Practice 10
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
This publication documents new spatial notational systems developed by architect Nina Valerie Kolowratnik to help Indigenous communities from New Mexico to protect and regain traditional lands.
Larissa Sansour - Heirloom - Research/Practice 03
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Research/Practice
This publication documents the artistic research for Sansour's project for the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale: a dark science fiction narrative set after an eco-disaster, evolving into an intimate dialogue about memory, exile and nostalgia.
Roger Eberhard - Human Territoriality
2020
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A collection of photographs of former border regions around the globe and down through the course of human history.
Carlo Levi a San Costantino Albanese - Archivi della Basilicata – Vol. 2
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
Three multidisciplinary essays—from cultural anthropology to photography analysis—based on visual archives documenting the visit of writer, painter and politician Carlo Levi to an Albanian community in Southern Italy (second volume in the series “Archivi della Basilicata”).
Thomas Krempke - The Whispering of Things
2019
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Thomas Krempke's photographic diary.
The Second Yinchuan Biennale - Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge
2019
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the Second Yinchuan Biennale articulates itself through the themes of the desert, nomadism, and ecology. Taking the form of an illustrated atlas, the publication documents works by more than 90 participating artists.
Philippe Dudouit - The Dynamics of Dust
2019
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A long-term photographic study on the sociopolitical evolution of the Sahelo-Saharan region since 2008.
Luca Vitone - Romanistan
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Both a journal and a photographic report, this publication documents Luca Vitone's travel from Italy to India, in the footsteps of the first Roma migrations between the eighth and fourteenth centuries.
Vangjush Vellahu - Fragments I - Where stories cut across the land
2019
English edition
Archive Books
This artist's book derives from a series of videos documenting the present situation of six unrecognized Republics on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Vellahu collects the collective memories of people and lands which have been affected by years of war and by the politics of borders.
Andrew Pekler - Sounds From Phantom Islands (vinyl LP)
2019
Faitiche
The soundtrack of an interactive project around phantom islands—islands that appeared on historical maps but never actually existed. A collection of fictitious soundscapes, between field recording and exotica music.
Michael Zinganel - Stop and Go - Nodes of Transformation and Transition
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
This publication presents the results of a research project which explored the transformation of informal structures within the road transport corridors connecting Eastern and Western Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Félicia Atkinson - A Forest Petrifies - Diamond Feedback
2019
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
The first part of a larger novel in several episodes: a text about the perception of time and how some places mark people's minds.
David Collin - La Grande Diagonale - Avec Victor Segalen
2019
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
Shirana Shahbazi - New Good Luck
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A new series of photographic works by Shirana Shahbazi.
 Favorinos d\'Arles - L\'Exil
2019
French edition
Mix
The first French edition of the text on exile by ancient philosopher Favorinos (circa 80-150).
Jean-Christophe Norman - Mundo diffuso
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Zero2
Comprehensive monograph.
Marco Godinho - See Another Sea
2019
English edition
Casino Luxembourg
A visual and poetic proposal that looks back on the different journeys and collaborations realized by Marco Godinho during the preparation of his installation for the Luxembourg pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2019.
Peter Märkli - In Search of a Language - A Journey through Peter Märkli\'s Imaginary
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
currently out of stock
A rereading of the work of the Swiss architect.
Carlos Casas - Mutia (2 vinyl LP)
2019
Matière Mémoire
35.00 29.00 €
An album conceived by Carlos Casas from the sound materials recorded during the making of his film Cemetery (about the last journey of an elephant in the Sri Lankan jungle, a meditative and hallucinatory oeuvre between animist documentary, adventure film and experimental cinema), extending the immersive experience of the film.
Carlos Casas - Mutia - Limited Artist Edition (3 vinyl LP)
2019
Matière Mémoire
currently out of stock
An album conceived by Carlos Casas from the sound materials recorded during the making of his film Cemetery (about the last journey of an elephant in the Sri Lankan jungle, a meditative and hallucinatory oeuvre between animist documentary, adventure film and experimental cinema), extending the immersive experience of the film. This artist's edition includes a hand numbered bonus LP, an art print and a dowload code for an exclusive 99' bonus track.
Keren Cytter - Tel Aviv - Jerusalem Diary
2019
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A travel diary / a screenplay.
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