Art & travel / displacement / exile / migration / nomadism

 
 
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
55.00 46.00 €
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. This artist's edition includes a hand numbered bonus LP, an art print and a dowload code for an exclusive 99' bonus track.
Antonio Grulli - Tel Aviv - Jerusalem Diary
2019
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A travel diary / a screenplay.
Mario Schifano - America 1970
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Mario Schifano's road trip in the United States.
Antonin Artaud - Artaud 1937 Apocalypse - Letters from Ireland
2019
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
First English translation of Antonin Artaud's writings from his apocalyptic journey to Ireland in 1937.
Anna-Eva Bergman - Casseroles - Recettes du monde entier
2019
French edition
Fondation Hartung Bergman
(last copies available!)
Recipes from all over the world: an illustrated cookbook by Anna-Eva Bergman, published for the first time.
Thinking from the Border - Methodological and Epistemological Experimentations between the Arts and the Human Sciences
2019
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
This publication gathers the outcomes of a research project bringing together sociologists, art historians and artists to investigate the frontier as both a subject and an epistemic framework.
Thao Nguyen Phan - Voyages de Rhodes
2018
English edition
various
A palimpsest reconstruction of French Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes's (1591–1660) Rhodes of Viet Nam: The Travels and Missions of Father Alexandre de Rhodes in China and Other Kingdoms of the Orient, originally published in 1653 (artists' book).
Koki Tanaka - Vulnerable Histories - An Archive
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Fully documenting Koki Tanaka's latest video & photo project, this publication focuses on a pressing issue from the artist's native country—the mutual incomprehension and mistrust between Zainichi Koreans and ethnic Japanese—to plead for vigilance when it comes to racism and discrimination.
Ari Marcopoulos - Boarding Pass
2018
no text
Nieves
currently out of stock
A series of off-the-cuff photographs demonstrating the poetic experience of air travel (artist's book).
Bitter Things - Narratives and Memories of Transnational Families
2018
English edition
Archive Books
This publication features academic and literary contributions, interviews, songs and photos which explores the impact of labor migration on the notion of motherhood from the perspectives of women migrant workers and children left-behind.
Olivier Debré - Norge - Un voyage en Norvège
2018
no text
Jannink - Wide Open
Facsimile edition of a 1971 small sketchbook by a major painter of the lyrical abstraction, made during one of his many travels in Norway.
Bouchra Khalili - Blackboard
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
Bouchra Khalili's films, video installations, photographs and silkscreen prints suggest civic platforms, from which members of minorities perform their strategies of resistance to arbitrary power. This catalogue dedicated to the French-Moroccan artist spans ten years of creation.
Border Thinking - Disassembling Histories of Racialized Violence
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Border Thinking: Disassembling Histories of Racialized Violence aims to question and provide answers to current border issues in Europe. Central to this investigation is a refugee crisis that is primarily a crisis of global Western capitalism and its components: modernization, nationalism, structural racism, dispossession, and social, political, and economic violence.
 Birdhead - Welcome to Birdhead World Again
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
The artistic practice of Birdhead associates photography with particular collage skills and mounting technique. The publication is a visual diary of the duo's experimentation in Italy, accompanied with a dual language essay by art historian Maurizio Bortolotti.
Hämatli & Patriæ
2018
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
Catalogue documenting an eponymous exhibition project which interprets contemporary issues such as migration, nationalism, populism and identity, using the symbolism in the Flemish painting of 1570 by Simon de Myle entitled Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat.
Tomoko Yoneda - Transphère - Dialogue avec Albert Camus
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
10.00 5.00 €
This catalogue presents an unpublished series of work by Tomoko Yoneda: the Japanese photographer has followed in the footsteps of Albert Camus, through Algeria and France, carrying on her reflection on the memory of places by way of her sensitive and poetic photographs. It is a subtle evocation of the youth of the author of “The Stranger.”
Penser depuis la frontière - Expérimentations méthodologiques et épistémologiques entre art et sciences humaines
2018
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
This publication gathers the outcomes of a research project bringing together sociologists, art historians and artists to investigate the frontier as both a subject and an epistemic framework.
Hercule Florence - Le Nouveau Robinson
2018
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
Through a series of scientific contributions and archives, this publication recounts the extraordinary character that was Hercule Florence—an explorer, an inventor and an artist, considered one of the inventors of photography.
Pierre Keller - My Colorful Life
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
Some four thousand Polaroids depicting nearly fifteen years in the life of artist and former director of the Lausanne art school, ECAL. This photographic diary offers an intimate and erotic portrait of Keller, from its time in 1970s New York to trips to South America and Europe. With texts by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Stéphanie Moisdon.
David Collin - Vers les confins - Voyages, dérives, épiphanies
2018
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
A collection of texts gathering stories of journeys across Asia and literary reflections on travel.
Romana Schmalisch - Mobile Cinema
2018
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
This publication presents the outcomes of Romana Schmalisch's long-term project, the Mobile Cinema, an itinerant apparatus somewhere between urban model, cinema, and plate camera. The artist constructed the Mobile Cinema and used it to present films created during her travels, mobilizing film extracts and archive material.
Michael Fliri - Replace Me as the Substitute
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Artist Michael Fliri investigates concepts such as metamorphosis, mutation and disguise: the protagonists in his work—often Fliri himself—time and again undergo a process of change or transformation. This catalogue offers an extended overview of his practice and underscores his significance on the international art scene.
Giovanna Silva - Afghanistan - 0 RH
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This series of photographs narrates Giovanna Silva's life among the Italian army in Afghanistan, while she worked on a commissioned project in honor of Italian journalist Maria Grazia Cutuli.
Adrian Paci - The Guardians
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of the eponymous exhibition held at the Chiostri di Sant'Eustorgio museum complex in Milan: the works of Adrian Paci enter in dialogue with the frescoes and the space of the Diocesan museum, and draw on a narrative dominated by stories of migration and the relationship to religion.
Michele Lombardelli - Los Angeles 1989 Tokyo 1991
2017
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Los Angeles 1989 Tokyo 1991 brings together a collection of images from two of the most complex and undefinable metropolises on the face of the Earth, the social and urban form of which is ceaselessly reshaped by the minimal existence of millions of people in movement. Lombardelli's photographs are also cinematographic homages to the works of Wim Wenders and Yasujirō Ozu.
Gianni Pettena - The Curious Mr. Pettena - Rambling around USA – 1971-73
2017
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
The Curious Mr. Pettena recounts various steps along a journey, through cities and wide open natural spaces, undertaken by the anarchitect Gianni Pettena at the start of the 1970s across the United States.
Ugo Mulas - Danimarca 1961
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
In 1961, L'Illustrazione Italiana sends critic Giorgio Zampa and photographer Ugo Mulas to carry out a reportage in Denmark. Along their meetings with writer Karen Blixen or Nobel Prize Nils Bohr, the two correspondents also witness the new manifestations of the Scandinavian lifestyle, characterized by its design and its modern habitats.
Isabelle Champion Métadier - Rush
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A striking selection of words extracted from the notebooks of Isabelle Champion Métadier during a journey in New York. These quotes are arranged and accompanied by unpublished photographs.
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