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Pier Geering - El Presidente - Confessions d\'un artiste
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
A retrospective of the eclectic work of Swiss artist Pier Geering (1947-2024).
Alexandre Gérard - J. voit double
2025
French edition
Naima
forthcoming
In this essay, Alexandre Gérard recounts his discovery and interpretation—which was not entirely straightforward at first—of the work of his great-uncle, the artist Jean Dupuy (1925-2021).
Giuseppe Ielasi - The Vestige (vinyl LP)
2025
Black Truffle
forthcoming
The Vestige is the first fruit of a new intergenerational collaboration between Giuseppe Ielasi, a quietly prolific key contributor to the European experimental music scene for over twenty years, and Jack Sheen, a young composer-conductor-sound artist from Manchester whose recent projects have seen him moving seamlessly from enigmatic chamber music composition and installations to conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.
Kassel Jaeger - Fernweh (vinyl LP)
2025
Black Truffle
forthcoming
Black Truffle presents a new edition of Kassel Jaeger's "Fernweh", returning François J. Bonnet's electroacoustic project to the label five years after the acclaimed "Meith".
Liz Johnson Artur - PDA
2025
English edition
Bierke
forthcoming
For her long awaited second monograph, Liz Johnson Artur follows the legendary London club scene PDA and the community that created it.
Agnieszka Kurant - Collective Intelligence
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
An innovative monograph of conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant's work, focussed on the phenomenon of collective intelligence, alongside newly commissioned texts by renowned thinkers across science, philosophy, technology, anthropology, and economics.
Violaine Lochu - Inventaire Langages
2025
French edition
Paraguay Press
forthcoming
A retrospective of the work of transdisciplinary artist Violaine Lochu, bringing together performances, drawings, sound pieces, installations, and videos.
Richard Martel - Art et poésie d\'action, intervention, performance - Théorie et pratique
2025
French edition
various
forthcoming
Art and poetry in action as performative power.
 Narthex - Superstitions (vinyl LP)
2025
Sub Rosa
forthcoming
Rhythmic, exotic, deep & primitive sounds for post modern ears: the first album by the acoustic ensemble founded by Daniel Denis (Univers Zéro) and Alain Neffe (Pseudocode).
Caroline Schattling Villeval - No Kids, More Coke!
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
forthcoming
A text by the Swiss artist, imbued with highly personal reflections on her relationship with creativity, notions of gender, motherhood, and the place of parenthood in the world of work (more specifically, the tensions inherent in the dual role of mother and artist).
Jim Shaw - The Ties That Bind (Study Drawings 2013-2023)
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
142 drawings realized over a decade, addressing the commitments, obsessions, and conceptual territories that drive Jim Shaw's practice.
Steven Stapleton - The Formless Irregular
2025
English edition
Timeless
forthcoming
The definitive Babs Santini book: the complete graphic work of Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), covering his entire visual output over five decades, on nearly 600 color pages.
Anup Mathew Thomas - Native ball
2025
bilingual edition (English / Malayalam)
Reliable Copy
forthcoming
"Native ball" is a collection of four bodies of works set in Kerala. A compendium on various phenomena, it brings together moments from alternative histories of a culture and region, some of which are based on commonalities that may be odd but significant.
David Toop - Decay Music n.10 - And I Entered Into Sleep (vinyl LP)
2025
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
forthcoming
Easily one of the most striking and memorable releases by either artist to appear in recent years, Sergio Armaroli and David Toop's "And I Entered Into Sleep", issued as the tenth and final album in Die Schachtel's Decay Music series, traverses uncharted realms at the borders of literary reference, sound art, ambience and abstraction through delicately musical sounds, revealing new depths at every turn.
Luigi Turra - Decay Music n.9 - Liminale (vinyl LP)
2025
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
forthcoming
An aural bridge between two distinct generations of Italian experimental and electroacoustic musicians, "Liminale" is the debut collaborative outing from the creative partnership of Luigi Turra and Elio Martusciello.
Charlotte Moth - A Rounded Landscape
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMC+ (Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne métropole)
forthcoming
New monograph by Paris-based British artist Charlotte Moth, conceived as part of her exhibition at MAMC+ Saint-Etienne.
 Dr Lakra - Coloring Book
2025
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
forthcoming
Coloring Book II by Dr. Lakra is the second book published by the artist in collaboration with BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE.
Faire – To look at things - An award: What is a most beautiful book?
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
forthcoming
The reissue of issue 34 of the critical graphic design journal: a questioning of the criterion of "beauty" applied to typography and the challenges of the "Most Beautiful Swiss Books" award.
Jocaste
2025
French edition
Jocaste
Empire - Jocaste
forthcoming
The inaugural issue of the journal of psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary discussions, around the figure of the fold.
Un art de la réparation - Réparer (par) les arts vivants
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
Artists' activity examined through the notion of reparation, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the living arts (theater, dance, performance, mediation, multiple practices).
René Berger - Esthétique et mass media - Sélection de cours et des actes du colloque « Art, technologie et communication », 1970-1972
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Cinétisme
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
forthcoming
A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication, offering a closer insight into his thinking on video art and new media.
Mauro Carbone - Pour une anthropologie des écrans - Montrer et cacher, exposer et protéger
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
forthcoming
A seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.
Charlotte Foucher Zarmanian - La conquête d\'une autorité - Historiennes de l\'art en France
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
A history of art in France from the women's perspective.
Enzo Mari - 25 façons de planter un clou
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century.
Jean-Michel Durafour - Qu\'est-ce que l\'éconologie ? - Au bout des images : cinéma, monde, perception
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Perceptions
forthcoming
The other side of images in cinema, between phenomenology, art history, literature and ecology.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
forthcoming
2025
English edition
Neural
forthcoming
Morten Søndergaard (co-editor); interviews with panGenerator, Charles Stankievech, Mélia Roger, Adelin Schweitze; articles: Geofónie, Sonic Reorientations; reports: Electric Dreams, The Vinyl Factory: Reverb, Art Must Be Artificial.
2025
English edition
Artforum
forthcoming
2025
Bierke
forthcoming
Published several years after the fact, "Exposure" is a catalogue for Patricia L. Boyd's solo exhibition "Hold" at Kunstverein München in 2021.
2025
English edition
Lenz Press
forthcoming
An unprecedented dialogue between the bronze works of the American-Kenyan artist associated with the Afrofuturist movement and the treasures of the Borghese Gallery, a temple of Renaissance beauty.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
A cross-disciplinary and critical reflection on the philosophical stakes of so-called "artificial intelligence", from an epistemological, political and cultural point of view.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
forthcoming
A critical history of a fundamental video art event: the large-scale study of the entire history of Locarno's VideoArt Festival, the culmination of a four-year research project.
Yngve Holen - 6G
2025
no text
Lenz Press
An artist book composed of approximately 1000 screenshots captured from Yngve Holen phone and laptop: a study in oversharing, exhaustion, and the aesthetics of digital accumulation.
Salomé Lamas - Gold and Ashes
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A record-cum-publication that unfolds through sound and text by transposing and transforming the soundtrack, dialogues, and images of Salomé Lamas' film Ouro e Cinza / Gold and Ashes (2025); featuring text by Frédéric Neyrat, Isabel Pettermann, Isabel Ramos, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Salomé Lamas. The experience is intended to be intimate and meditative as it resonates between the spoken and unspoken, between sound and silence.
Béatrice Balcou - Porteurs
2025
English edition
MER. Books
The Porteurs series of glass works by Béatrice Balcou.
John Baldessari - Transatlantique
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Invited by Marie de Brugerolle, ten artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Ericka Beckman, Julien Bismuth, Sharon Lockhart, Tony Oursler, Anna Wittenberg...), look at the work of John Baldessari, one of the leading figures of West Coast conceptual art.
Rossella Biscotti - The Trial
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The Trial is an extensive publication chronicling the decade-plus-long evolution of one of Rossella Biscotti's seminal works, focusing on the trials of members of the revolutionary left-wing movement Autonomia Operaia in the early 1980s, an emblematic judicial drama of Italy's Years of Lead.
Michele Di Stefano - L\'altro Hotel (vinyl LP)
2025
Xing
L'altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano brings together, in a lucid and amusing way, fragments of a vast collection of voice memos collected by him from around the world as a catalogue of localized sounds, precise moments of personal experience.
Piero Golia - Follies
2025
English edition
Nero
An artist's book of images and words—an exploration of Piero Golia's imagery and an articulation of his personal understanding of art.
Jean-Luc Nancy - Le Portique - Conférences inédites – Dieu sans confession, la technique et le postmoderne
2025
French edition
Le Portique
Issue devoted to previously unpublished lectures by Jean-Luc Nancy
Laure Prouvost - Au fort les âmes sont
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mucem
Exclusive works designed by Laure Prouvost for her carte blanche at the Mucem in Marseille, a series of immersive and poetic installations in the heart of Fort Saint-Jean, photographed by Raphaël Massart for this cut-out book, between an artist's book and an exhibition catalogue, accompanied by drawings and critical texts.
Ada Tosatti - L\'extrémisme littéraire et politique - Nanni Balestrini et les années 70
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).
Yannick Butel - Le Gai Théâtre – Pour un théâtre de la contre-addiction - Essai d\'histoire sociale et politique du phénomène théâtral contemporain
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante
A challenging study of contemporary theater in all its political dimensions.
Emmanuel Adely - Trois contes et quelques
2025
French edition
Vroum - Editions
A resolutely contemporary author, Emmanuel Adely revisits the fairy tales of Perrault and Grimm and brings them up to date with his lively, sharp writing.
Les Cahiers du son 2025
2025
French edition
Naima
Les Cahiers du son once again draw up an inventory of contemporary sound practices while inviting us to discover the stimulating creativity which, today, animates the presence of sound in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.
Pasé Bél Tan - Francophonies and Creolities in Louisiana (book)
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Flee
forthcoming
A tribute to the cultural legacy of Louisiana's Francophone and Creole songs, shaped by African, Native American, French, and Caribbean influences.
Pasé Bél Tan - Francophonies and Creolities in Louisiana (2 vinyl LP)
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Flee
forthcoming
A tribute to the cultural legacy of Louisiana's Francophone and Creole songs, shaped by African, Native American, French, and Caribbean influences.
Pasé Bél Tan - Francophonies and Creolities in Louisiana (book + 2 vinyl LP)
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Flee
forthcoming
A tribute to the cultural legacy of Louisiana's Francophone and Creole songs, shaped by African, Native American, French, and Caribbean influences.
 Nurse With Wound - Le diamant de l\'herbe (book + CD)
2025
French edition
Lenka lente
forthcoming
A short story by Xavier Forneret (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.
Tools - To Spin
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of spinning.
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