Art & labor

 
 
Crossing Values - Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d\'art contemporain
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
various
35.00 19.00 €
Catalogue of the first Rennes Biennal, exploring what artistic activity and corporate/business activity have in common (and what sets them apart): work and labour, creators of value. With 60 international artists (Adel Abdessemed, Boris Achour, Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Claude Closky, Hans Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Claire Fontaine, Pierre Huyghe, Jean-Charles Massera, Mathieu Mercier, Gianni Motti, Jean-Luc Moulène, Simon Starling...).
Andro Wekua - Wait to Wait - A Conversation
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
A conversation between the celebrated Russian philosopher and the young international artist from Georgia.
Yann Toma - Journal-poster - Limited edition
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - 127 Series
Limited edition in a boxed set with the original photo print.
Andro Wekua - Lady Luck
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
New paintings and collages, with texts by the artist.
Yann Toma - Ouest-Lumière - La Collection
2008
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
Jannink - Wide Open
More than a catalogue, this artist's book presents a selection among the 12 000 electric objects gathered for an exhibition by Yann Toma (the President for life of the Ouest-Lumière Company) at the Electropolis Museum, Toulouse (France), described with their specification sheets.
Andro Wekua - Sunset / I Love the Horizon
2008
English edition
Le Magasin
18.00 9.00 €
Inspired by a monumental installation by Andro Wekua, this artist's book showcases a collection of illustrations and archives.
Yann Toma - Part de jouissance - Limited edition
2007
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Yann Toma explains what is Ouest Lumière and "Presidential Art" (limited edition with an original artwork signed by the artist).
Yann Toma - Part de jouissance
2007
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Yann Toma explains what is Ouest Lumière and "Presidential Art".
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Carnets (1847-1851)
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An essential work covering the activities of the 19th century French theoretician of anarchy, federalism, perpetual education and the mutual principle.
Emile Pouget - Le sabotage
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
A 19th century political activism classic.
Yann Toma - Faut-il abolir Ouest-Lumière ? - Trois entretiens avec Yann Toma, Artiste, Président et Citoyen
2005
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Three interviews with the President for life of the Ouest-Lumière Company.
 Lefevre Jean Claude - LJC, éditeur à compte d\'auteur /  La pensée en transparence, l\'insert en tant que lieu d\'exposition du travail de l\'art au travail de Lefevre Jean Claude
2004
French edition
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
Two texts by Jean-Charles Agboton-Jumeau et Marion Hohlfeldt on Lefevre Jean Claude, with some “inserts” by the artist on divider pages.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Du principe de l\'art et de sa destination sociale
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This posthumous work is the first study of his friend Gustave Courbet (who requested a text for a catalog), and of the role of art in society.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Les confessions d\'un révolutionnaire
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The Confessions, written in six weeks in a prison cell, recounts the political life of a social thinker.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Les majorats littéraires (« La propriété intellectuelle c\'est le vol ! ») - (et un choix de Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux de contributions d\'époque sur le droit d\'auteur)
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Proudhon's book against rights of ownership for authors, and collection of the most significant contributions toward the original debate over literary property..
Charles Fourier - Le nouveau monde industriel et sociétaire ou invention du procédé d\'industrie attrayante et naturelle distribuée par séries passionnées
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
In 1829, Fourier synthesizes his entire doctrine: a systematic critique of civilization and its natural deviations, as well as his proposal for a new social scheme of mutual assocation, governed by passionate attraction rather than by repression and constraint.
Charles Fourier - Théorie de l\'unité universelle - Tome 1
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.
Charles Fourier - Théorie de l\'unité universelle - Tome 2
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.
Charles Fourier - Hiérarchie du cocuage
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Hiérarchie du cocuage proposes a system of classification, worthy of Linné for botany, in which he organizes the indomitable differences of beings and their diverse characters.
Pilvi Takala - Close Watch - The Pavilion of Finland – 59th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Pilvi Takala's project for the Finnish Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale.
Allan Sekula - Photography at work
2017
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
various
sold out
Catalogue dedicated to the late American artist: an influential photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist and critic whose works have been a unique reference in debates and conversations about photography, art and politics for over 40 years. The publication includes a historical and analytical text by curator Marie Muracciole, as well as a 20-page photographic booklet.
Politiques des musiques populaires au XXIe siècle
2016
French edition
Mélanie Seteun - Music and Society
sold out
This collective work aims to demonstrate the relevance of today's popular music in contemporary political action through eight international case studies.
Simon Denny - New Management
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Artist's book.
Art Production beyond the Art Market?
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Theoretical reflections and insights into alternative artistic working models.
Work, Work, Work - A Reader on Art and Labour
2012
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
What is “work” today and what is its relation to art.
E-flux journal - Are You Working Too Much? – Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
sold out
When the flexibility, certainty, and freedom promised by being part of a critical outside are considered as extensions of recent advances in economic exploitation, does the field of art then become the uncritical, complicit inside of something far more compelling?
Peter Piller - Teilzeitkraft
2007
no text
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Artist's book: office drawings.
Andro Wekua - Shadows on the Facade
2007
no text
Nieves
sold out
Full color monograph showcasing some of Georgian-born artist's most recent collages.
Andro Wekua - If There Ever Was One
2006
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
First monograph (paintings, collages, sculptures).
Andro Wekua - No one was there, she did not know it
2005
no text
Nieves
sold out
A series of black and white drawings by Andro Wekua.
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