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Maude Léonard-Contant - Listen, the crust is cracking
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first-ever comprehensive overview of Maude Léonard-Contant's universe.
Korakrit Arunanondchai - Song for Living Song for Dying
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The most comprehensive publication to date on Korakrit Arunanondchai's practice.
Giuseppe Micciché - No Ponte
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic essay on the abandoned project of a suspension bridge between the Calabrian and Sicilian coasts and on the coastline of the Strait of Messina, documenting the transformation of suburban coastal areas and the daily life of the inhabitants.
Élisa Larvego - Chicanes
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
currently out of stock
23 photographs of chicanes taken between 2013 and 2016 on the roads leading to the Notre-Dame-des-Landes ZAD, France (with an interview with philosopher Marie José Mondzain).
 eRikm - Douze horizons (book + CD)
2023
French edition
Ouïe/Dire
A sound postcard by eRikm: an instant composition recorded on CD, somewhere between sound performance and radio creation, accompanied by a booklet of photographs.
Peter Greenaway - Papers
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dis Voir - Figures
The first book to unveil the main pictorial works (drawings, paintings and collages) of the British film director, the source of his entire cinematic oeuvre (new edition).
Alain de La Bourdonnaye - Peintre, graveur, artisan-architecte du livre, typographe, imprimeur et bâtisseur (3 volume box set)
2023
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Three-volume catalogue raisonné of the work of Alain de la Bourdonnaye.
John Armleder - It Never Ends
2023
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
Lenz Press
Comprehensive documentation on the vast and daring interdisciplinary project conceived and staged by the Swiss artist John Armleder, a programme of exhibitions comprising invitations to other artists as well as presentations of different collections, for the Kanal-Centre Pompidou spaces.
Carroll Dunham - Green Period - Prints, Drawings, and Paintings – 2018-2022
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Carroll Dunham's "Green Period."
Tadashi Kawamata - Site Sketches n°1-500
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Site Sketches n°1-500 is the first volume of the catalog raisonné devoted to the Site Sketches series, works on paper made from recycled scrap wood by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata.
Zoë Lund - Poems
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions Lutanie
Poems presents four unpublished poems by American writer and actress Zoë Lund (1962–1999), written in the 1980s. An incandescent voice emerges, revealing the might, sincerity, and precision of her expression, as well as her vulnerability and defiance in the face of death. This is the first publication dedicated to her work.
Walter Pfeiffer - Chez Walti 2000-2022
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
A large retrospective of the Swiss cult photographer's work over two decades.
Artforum - October 2023
2023
English edition
Artforum
Stanley Brouwn, Walter de Maria, Peter McGough, Art history after Black Studies...
Mousse
2023
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Cally Spooner, Donald Rodney, Ivan Cheng, Niloufar Emamifa, McKenzie Wark, Clémentine Deliss, Kerstin Stakemeier, Chus Martínez...
Claude Closky - 2/5
2023
no text
Captures - 2/5 Series
Four artist's posters.
 Eva & Franco Mattes - Fukushima Texture Pack
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
This artist's book reflects Eva & Franco Mattes' continued interest in the condition of displacement to be sensed in Fukushima. Borrowing the format of wrapping-paper catalogs, it contains twenty large pre-perforated sheets, each of which features a photographic texture—a seamlessly repeating motif captured by the camera amid the radioactive ruins of the contaminated towns and countryside.
Aurélie Pétrel - Vues prises à Romme
2023
no text
Mix
A visual attempt to index photographic images.
Yoann Sarrat - Mon livre
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
A visceral questioning of what a book can or cannot be, and of the positions of author and reader.
Elika Hedayat -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
First monograph of the Franco-Iranian artist.
Tori Kudo - Ceramics
2023
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
Tori Kudo's ceramics.
Pedro Neves Marques - Vampires in Space
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Exhibition catalogue of filmmaker, visual artist, and writer Pedro Neves Marques's solo project "Vampires in Space" at the Portuguese Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2022.
Ella Finer - Silent Whale Letters - A Long-Distance Correspondence, on All Frequencies
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
A long-distance correspondence reflecting on the infravoice of a blue whale and other so-called “silent” subjects.
Daisuke Ichiba - Coulour
2023
no text
United Dead Artists
sold out
The third book by Master of the Underworld Daisuke Ichiba published by United Dead Artists focuses on color, blending red demons with the sulfur of strangling gardens.
Warja Honegger-Lavater - Pictograms
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Nieves
A previously unpublished collection of 60 ink pictograms by the early progenitor of the artist's book genre (new edition).
Charlemagne Palestine - The God Bear Archives 1 (2 CD)
2023
Matière Mémoire
Unreleased tapes from the 70s and 80s.
Tucker Nichols - Flowers
2023
no text
Nieves
Tucker Nichols' flowers paintings.
Pierre Henry - Diary of my sounds
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Maison ONA
New expanded edition of an essential text for defining the thought of composer Pierre Henry (1927-2017): a musical biography in the sense of a diary and an autobiography in forty-two sequences that accompanied him in various forms between 1977 and 2005 (audio download link included).
Tiger Tateishi - Cheat Sheets
2023
no text
Nieves
A new edition of Tiger Tateishi's incredible comics sequence.
Nicolas Ballet - Shock Factory - Culture visuelle des musiques industrielles (1969-1995)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast study of the visual culture of industrial music during its development in Europe, the United States and Japan, from the 1970s to the 1990s, a global culture that goes beyond sound experimentation to cross different media (graphics, film, performance, video), in a close dialogue with the heritage of modernity and under the growing influence of technologies.
Stephen O\'Malley - Sept duos pour guitare acoustique & piano préparé (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
The second collaboration between Stephen O'Malley and Anthony Pateras, this time entirely acoustic, based around an acoustic guitar and prepared piano: a music that seems suspended, captivating by its almost organic coherence and modal simplicity, behind which resonances and subtle plays of pitch develop.
Frédéric Acquaviva - No Soy Un Robot (CD)
2023
AcquAvivA
For countertenor, parrots, different voices & dead electronics.
Félicia Atkinson - Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (pour Georgia O\'Keeffe) / Recurrence.Expansion (vinyl LP)
2023
INA-GRM - Portraits GRM
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by Félicia Atkinson and Richard Chartier.
Jean-Philippe Delhomme - Studio Poems
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
A collection of poems by French writer, painter and illustrator Jean-philippe Delhomme, accompanied by previously unpublished ink drawings.
Mette Edvardsen - Livre d\'images sans images (vinyl LP)
2023
Xing
A sound piece by choreographer and performer Mette Edvardsen in collaboration with her daughter, Iben, based on the performance of the same name.
Honza Zamojski - Rise and Fall of the Middlemen
2023
English edition
Nero
Artist book: a visual and poetic investigation of the enigmatic figure of the "Middleman", combining short punchlines and full-page illustrations, which are wryly reminiscent of Kafka's fictional world. The publication comes with a cardboard puppet, to be screwed and assembled.
Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - Sousveillance - L\'œil du contre-pouvoir
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
On the border between arts and surveillance studies, this book analyzes the technopolitical role of new "machines vision" and considers sousveillance as a democratic counter-power.
Herman Parret - La délicatesse des sens
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – esthétique:critique
A collection of three new aesthetic essays, between the visual arts and literature, by Belgian philosopher and semiotician Herman Parret: a reflection on the "delicacy" in the various fields of sensoriality (the visible, the sound, the taste and the tactile)—a most suggestive reading for the construction or the development of a sensitive semiotics.
Steven Feld - La recherche comme composition
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
Two essays by Steven Feld, a leading figure in anthropology and sound studies, that challenge established acoustic perspectives and open up the exciting field of research-composition.
 Mattin - Homage to Annea Lockwood (book + CD)
2023
English edition
Recital
currently out of stock
A book and CD homage to the New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood.
Alice Guareschi - Je m\'appelle Olympia
2023
no text
Nero
A series of 16 photographs documenting an action for house lights performed by Alice Guareschi at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris (leporello).
Peter Piller - Spekulationen (III) - Begleiter
2023
no text
Nieves
The third volume of the artist's book series dedicated to prehistoric cave painting mostly features photographs taken in everyday life and on trips, as well as found illustrations from scientific publications in various disciplines.
Heimo Zobernig -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie Chantal Crousel
New monograph.
Daniel Arsham - 100 Hotel Sketches
2023
English edition
Perrotin
currently out of stock
In 100 Hotel Sketches Daniel Arsham compiles 100 drawings made over the last few years as Arsham has travelled for exhibitions and installations worldwide.
Eric Thielemans - Double Consciousness (vinyl LP)
2023
Matière Mémoire
currently out of stock
Over the course of 40 minutes, the guitar treatments of composer, multi-instrumentalist and label head (Black Truffle) Oren Ambarchi (he also plays an audobon bird call) and the percussive work of Eric Thielemans perfectly merge in an outstanding improvisational session.
Loren Connors - Let the Darkness Fall (vinyl LP)
2023
Recital
sold out
The first vinyl edition of Let the Darkness Fall, a forgotten corner from the vast discography of Suzanne Langille & Loren Connors, joined here by David Daniell and Andrew Burnes (of the Atlanta-based group San Agustin).
Cassandra Miller - Traveller Song / Thanksong (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
The first release of celebrated London-based Canadian composer Cassandra Miller's music on vinyl, presents a pair of compositions for voice and ensemble that exemplify her gently absurd, strikingly beautiful, and utterly unique work.
Écrire avec et sans - LabBooks
2023
French edition
isdaT (Higher Institute of Arts and Design of Toulouse) - Research Series
Publishing as a discursive process and the book as a device of (re)formulation and enunciation: the culmination of a research program aimed at extending the notion of writing to all dimensions of editorial practice.
Artforum - September 2023
2023
English edition
Artforum
(last copies available!)
The Anti-aesthetic at forty, Chryssa, Sung Neung Kyung, Ed Ruscha...
Neural - Machine Transparency
2023
English edition
Neural
Interviews with Vivian Xu, Abi Liu, Stephen Cornford, Timo Toots, Egor Kraft; reports: xCoAx 2022, Ars Electronica 2022...
Sound American - The Thirtieth Issue
2023
English edition
Sound American
The final issue of Sound American journal, , as a tribute to the musical community, with Eileen Myles, Ellen Pullman, Brandon Lopez, Ellen Fullman, Albert Oehlen, Natasha Pickowicz, Patricia Nicholson Parker, Michael Ranta, Sarah Hennies, Vincent de Roguin, and Lesley Mok.
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