search results for "the contemporary condition"
2024
texts in English, German, French
Nero
A monograph dedicated to Nicolas Cilins’ films between 2011 and 2020.
2024
English edition
Reliable Copy
(last copies available!)
This publication features a project by Leone Contini looking into the canned food available during the war of Caporetto in 1917 and especially its iconography. It brings together an essay by the artist along with reproductions of a selection of his drawings.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Retrospective monograph: a journey through over two decades of intersectional and queering practices in film, performance, sculpture, community work, and textiles.
2024
English edition
Bruno
A shift in perspective on passive tourism in Italy
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Rachel Valinsky invites seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic (Davide Balula, Eva Barto, Julie Béna, Jesse Chun, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Gordon Hall, and Alan Reid) to share their views of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a major figure in the conceptual and performance art movements.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Éditions 1989
The first book devoted to the late African American writer and actress, Dorothy Dean (1932-1987), one of the few prominent African American women of New York City's bohemian heyday, close to Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The 15-year history of the production of a "German scotch" Black Whisky, made by Dexter Sinister together with Stahlemühle, a distillery set up by former publisher, Christoph Keller
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Templon
A new series of works by the Senegalese painter, in dialogue with the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen's Impressionist masters.
2024
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Lendroit éditions
An artist's book by Jérémie Gindre with backgrounds taken from The Observer's Book of Weather by Reginald M. Lester (1955): a picture book of meteorological oracles, a wink as much to cinema and comics as to the natural history museum.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
a.p.r.e.s editions
Over a period of more than ten years, Pascal Goblot undertook a performance based on Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, the first stage of which involved making as exact a reproduction of The Large Glass as possible. This book is the pictorial account of that reconstitution.
2024
French edition
Le laps
A new literary work by Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf, Mauvaises herbes is an alphabetical list of undesirable plants, a poetic lexicon of Quebec flora, where composite and colorful terms accumulate in an incessant enumeration.
2024
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Combining archive material with a wide selection of photographs of
body paintings produced by the duo in the 1970-1980s, this publication
retraces the evolution of gender identities and the treatment of the
female body in visual culture from the 1950s to the present.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The Monadic Age unfolds in thirty-three autonomous—monadic—essays on topics as diverse as environmentalism, terrorism, geopolitics, housing, the metaverse, nonbinarism, language, charity, euthanasia, identity politics, tattoos, ableism, AI, birthrates, war, religion, sex, and art.
2024
French edition
United Dead Artists
1000 drawings ranked from lightest to darkest, a major work by a rare and powerful artist, a major influence on the current graphzine scene.
2024
French edition
Le laps
A cinephilic, emotional and memorial journey: page after page of cinema tickets—exhumed from the past, preserved until now and published here for tomorrow—retrace fragments of artist Marie-Douce St-Jacques' cinephilic itinerary, and tell the story of a discreet struggle against oblivion and indifference.
2024
French edition
Lendroit éditions
A series of photographs of traces of glue on city walls, testifying to what has been posted/hung there (artist's book).
2024
English edition
MER. Books
An exploration of the creative world of Belgian artist Leon Vranken, blending artworks with experimental imagery spanning from 2019 to 2023.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Villa Arson
A collective publication resulting from a research project led by Sophie Orlando and Katrin Ströbel that takes as its starting point the way in which current geopolitical, economic and social changes induce a renewal and adjustment of artistic strategies, by investing, in an intersectional perspective, contextual thinking and feminist, queer and postcolonial thinking in an artistic and conceptual way.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An in-depth historical study of the artistic and political project of the Situationist International (1952-1972).
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
Dancer and playwright Esther Meunier Corfdyr ventures into sleeping territories.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Perceptions
Cinema as a method of investigating the visible and a journey into the theoretical thinking of images.
2024
INA-GRM - Recollection GRM
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Four purely electroacoustic pieces recorded between 1994 and 2002 by the Argentine composer and theorist.
2024
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
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Ukrainian American visual artist Yelena Yemchuk's sixth photobook: a series dedicated the Malanka Ukrainian folk holiday celebrated on Old Year's Day.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Accattone
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A dialogue between architectural history and design, in homage to Le Corbusier's theoretical vision behind the construction of the Villa Baizeau in Carthage.
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
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Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.
2024
English edition
CoMa artbooks
Judith Bernstein's Active Figuration series (2000) consists of ink-on-paper drawings created through a trance-like process, exploring the subconscious. The gestural images address the political injustices of their time, depicting figures in existential angst and turbulent relationships. "It's fun, but it's dead serious".
2024
English edition
CoMa artbooks
Artist, designer and publisher Cornelia Blatter returns to the Alps of her childhood to release letters in balloons addressed to lost loved ones.
2024
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Timeless
A retrospective of Elzo Durt's work since 2017.
2024
English edition
Timeless
The first book of visual artworks by acclaimed musical wunderkind Daniel O'Sullivan.
2024
English edition
CoMa artbooks
A series of works by Leslie Roberts, who transforms language into paint, capturing the flood of overlooked information around us.
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
Kahlo/Modotti – Forty Years Later is the result of a visit by Laura Mulvey to the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich in November 2022. The booklet contains two texts: Mulvey's evening lecture at the Cabaret Voltaire, revisiting hers and Peter Wollen's exhibition and film on Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti, and Wollen's 2003 essay on the phenomenon of "Fridamania."
2024
English edition
e-flux Index
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This first issue of e-flux 's bimonthly publishing project
presents the pieces published by e-flux in December 2023 and January 2024. The metadata gives some indication of its breadth, spanning 48 pieces, 52 authors, and over 150,000 words. Following its wider editorial ambitions to co-articulate multiple discourses, the Index removes the identity cards anchoring these pieces to their original provenance, and instead "meta-edits" them into nine emergent thematic strands.
2024
God Records
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Two monumental pieces for flutes and additional voices.
2023
English edition
Nero
A collection of poems generated between 2020 and 2022 by an Artificial Intelligence trained exclusively on poet Charles Bernstein's entire corpus.
2023
no text
Nieves
sold out
A large-format board-book sequel to Homma's seminal photobook Tokyo Suburbia.
2023
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An extensive compilation of Abraham Cruzvillegas' drawings of apes, which he has been producing since the early beginning of his career starting in 1985 (artist's book / leporello).
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Wall assemblages and totemic bronze and resin sculptures made during the pandemic by Houston-based sculptor Joseph Havel with the help of his pet parrot Hannah.
2023
English edition
Zolo Press
Bridget Mullen's "Birthday" series of intimate-sized paintings expressing emotions through abstracted figures and features, with a conversation between the artist and Lucas Blalock.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
An overview of Eugène Carrière's work, through a selection of little-known or previously unpublished paintings, alongside his major masterpieces.
2023
English edition
MER. Books
A complete documentation of Yayoi Kusama's early performative activities in the Netherlands in the 1960s-70s, through a collection of previously unpublished photographs and written and visual accounts from eyewitnesses, showcasing her unique style and engagement with the emerging sexual revolution.
2023
English edition
X Artists' Books
A speculative novel set in 2046 that asks us to question our role in the destruction of our environment, the impact of automation on society, and heightened inequity across class, race, and gender.
2023
English edition
Lenz Press - Monographs
Fredrik Værslev: The Garden Paintings is the first publication dedicated solely to one specific body of work in the artist's practice. It includes essays by Martha Kirszenbaum and Erlend Hammer, and gives a comprehensive and chronological account of the works from the series, showing their stylistic development as well as their exhibition history.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
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The English translation of Il viaggiatore insonne, poet legend Sandro Penna's final collection, coupled with illustrations by the American artist Louis Fratino.
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
A cultural examination of the enigmatically iconic figure of the Dandy, both in history and as a figure for the future.
2023
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
On the melancholy and morality of digital ecosystems.
2023
English edition
Torpedo
(last copies available!)
20.00 14.00 €
Edited by artist Sille Storihl, The Stonewall Nation engages the archival remains of a gay colony that a group of gay men wanted to establish in Alpine County in Northern California in the early 1970s.
2023
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
An investigation of the multiple in art, through the works of some thirty artists.
2023
French edition
Lenz Press
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, curated by Andrea Bellini and held at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève in 2023, its eponymous catalog documents and completes this ambitious and multifaceted project through the work of the more than fifty artists involved, ranging from historical and iconic figures to emerging artists. The publication includes an essay by Andrea Bellini and contributions by a number of curators, critics, artists, philosophers, and scholars on themes related to metamorphosis.
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, curated by Andrea Bellini and held at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève in 2023, its eponymous catalog documents and completes this ambitious and multifaceted project through the work of the more than fifty artists involved, ranging from historical and iconic figures to emerging artists. The publication includes an essay by Andrea Bellini and contributions by a number of curators, critics, artists, philosophers, and scholars on themes related to metamorphosis.
2023
French edition
Mouvement
Ireland-Palestine united against apartheid; "dark romances": the problematic new publishing business; the breakdown of French cultural diplomacy in the Sahel; infiltration into armed survivalism; reportage in the dormitory town of Kiev; Alice Rohrwacher; Carolina Bianchi; Ben Rivers ; Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Hugo Pernet...