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Hubert Fichte - The Black City - Glosses
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The first English translation of Hubert Fichte's investigation on New York's African diaspora in the late 1970s. Contesting the stylistic norms of ethnographic studies, Fichte offers an experimental, poetic, and radical reflection on the living conditions, struggles and cultural heritage of New York Africans.
David Ostrowski - The Thin Red Line
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An exploration of the absence and presence of the (red) color.
Florence Lazar - You Think The Earth Is A Dead Thing… It\'s So Much More Convenient! Dead, We Thus Trample On It…
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition by Florence Lazar at the Jeu de Paume. It is also her first monograph.
Isidore Isou -
2019
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
Reference monograph.
 Peür - Pëur (vinyl 10\
2019
La Belle Brute
The noise duo Peür meets Didier Bourgoin (text and voice).
Lucio Fontana - Ambienti/Environments
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The reference monograph deepens, for the first time in an exhaustive way, the pioneering installations created by Fontana since the late 1940s.
Julie Béna - Anna & the Jester in Window of Opportunity
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Part of The New Sanctuary, the Satellite Programme 12 devised by Laura Herman for the Jeu de Paume and the CAPC, Anna & the Jester in Window of Opportunity is published in conjunction with the exhibition of work by Julie Béna, which takes the form of an architectural tale.
Grégoire Motte - Baby
2019
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
Artist's book.
Emma Dusong - collection Maison Bernard, Fonds de dotation
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
22.00 11.00 €
The second title in a series of publications dedicated to artists' residencies at Maison Bernard, a masterpiece of organic architecture carried out in the 1970s by Antti Lovag in association with Pierre Bernard. The book documents a site-specific project by Emma Dusong, an artist who works with her own voice.
Cécile Bart - Effet d\'hiver
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Bretagne
26.00 10.00 €
New monograph: a retrospective of Cécile Bart's main projects since fifteen years, from the multiple configurations of her painting/screen to her most recent immersive works, with three interviews.
Espace art actuel - Animal Point of View
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
This issue offers various approaches to what the animal point of view can be, through a set of contributions that reflect on this new relational state in which animals can take part in the artistic activity.
Espace(s) - Nos géographies mentales
2019
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
17th issue proposes a journey through the many “mental geographies” deployed by 43 contributors, artists, historians, scientifics, and writers.
 Kosmose - First Time Out (2 CD)
2019
Sub Rosa
The first (and the last) concert of mythic Kosmiche Belgian band Kosmose (1973-78): unreleased songs recorded and mixed in March 1975, something undoubtedly cosmic but with a DIY, home-made edge, dirtier than clean, noisier than technology-based.
 Kosmose - First Time Out (vinyl LP)
2019
Sub Rosa
The first (and the last) concert of mythic Kosmiche Belgian band Kosmose (1973-78): unreleased songs recorded and mixed in March 1975, something undoubtedly cosmic but with a DIY, home-made edge, dirtier than clean, noisier than technology-based.
Frog
2019
texts in English and French
Frog
10 exhibition reviews (Mike Kelley, Matthew Brannon, « Peindre la nuit », Trisha Donnelly...), 8 interviews (Yan Pei-Ming, Ashley Bickerton, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Arno Brandlhuber, Rob Pruitt, Emily Mae Smith, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille...), 9 exhibitions in pictures, some artists special projects, and the chronicles.
Jean-Luc Fafchamps - H1KhH2WM (Du seuil) - A Five-letter Sufi Word (CD)
2019
Sub Rosa
15.00 11.00 €
Third chapter in the Sufi Word's series by Belgian composer Jean-Luc Fafchamps, featuring Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles and Centre Henri Pousseur, conducted by Jean-Paul Dessy.
 Populäre Mechanik - Hi-Fi Is Sweeping the Country! (2 vinyl LP)
2019
Edition Telemark
Recordings made between 2005 and 2014 by the experimental German band.
Gustav Mesmer - Ikarus vom Lautertal genannt
2019
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
First major monograph devoted to the “Icarus of Lautertal”, a key figure of outsider art, flying machines inventor Gustav Mesmer. This publication looks back at his path through essays by Lucienne Peiry, Juliane Stiegele and Franz Xaver Ott, as well as photographs by Franco Zehnder and Stefan Hartmaier.
Intersubjectivity - Vol. 2 – Scripting the Human
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: this second volume investigates the relationship between performance, subjectivity, and human agency within a more global reflection on transhumanism.
Francisco Tropa - La Moustache cachée dans la barbe
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
A publication conceived by Portugese artist Francisco Tropa in collaboration with writer Thomas Boutoux and graphic designer Pedro Falcão, which adopts the form of magazine one flips  through in bars or in waiting rooms. A true/false weekly style magazine with refined imagery printed on glossy paper, The Mustache Hidden in the Beard is dedicated to cultural and scientific topics, design, life styles but also real estate through a series of cutting, quirky articles, investigations, portraits and reports.
La peinture sans titre
2019
French edition
EESAB (European Academy of Art in Brittany)
This collective publication, bringing together texts and images by artists and theoreticians, proposes to turn away from the inexorable question, so often reiterated, “What is painting?”, to question the ways in which the painting is made and thought today, with or without the pictorial medium, in or out of the canvas, with or sometimes without the painters themselves.
Rainer Ganahl - Manhattan Marxism
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
28.00 14.00 €
Since the 1990s, artist Rainer Ganahl has been inspired by Karl Marx's writings. In over 700 pages, this publication brings together essays, photographs and other documentation from dozens of Ganahl's projects adapted from Marx's theories.
Mousse
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Sophie von Hellermann by Tenzing Barshee; David Horvitz in Conversation with Yann Chateigné; Helen Lundeberg by Andrew Berardini; Queer Abstraction by Travis Jeppesen; An Unpardonable Mannerism of Style by Rose Vickers; The Art of Judging a Book by Its Cover by Dieter Roelstraete; Tomás Saraceno; Mario García Torres...
Neural - Speculative Pink
2019
English edition
Neural
Interviews with Cornelia Sollfrank, Lílian Campesato, Hyphen-Labs, Faith Holland, Mary Flanagan, Spideralex, Linda O'Keeff; Sonic Territories, monumental loudspeakers to the people; books, DVDs and CDs reviews...
Sylvain Chauveau - Pianisme (vinyl LP)
2019
Sub Rosa
17.00 12.50 €
Piano always had a central role in the discography of French composer Sylvain Chauveau. This selection of unreleased and out-of-print short pieces—mostly soundtracks—showcases what might be Chauveau's musical signature: quietness, slow pace, long resonances, a close as possible to silence. Music to be played at night.
Lauren Huret - Praying for my Haters
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
(last copies available!)
Artist's book with which Lauren Huret looks at the question of erasing images on the Internet.
Werner Dafeldecker - Small Worlds (vinyl LP)
2019
Edition Telemark
22.50 16.00 €
A composition for improvising sextet by Austrian double bassist, composer and improviser Werner Dafeldecker, providing a structure that doesn't curtail the qualities of the musicians, yet forces them to listen very closely to each other and make focused decisions about parameters that are often overlooked in completely free improvisation.
Spectres - Composing Listening
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Spectres
Shelter Press - Spectres
The first issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Spectres – Composing Listening presents a series of texts by composers (Félicia Atkinson, François Bayle, Brunhild Ferrari, Stephen O'Malley, Jim O'Rourke, Eliane Radigue, Chris Watson...) who discuss personal dimension in the practice of experimental sound art and music.
Spike - It\'s magic!
2019
English edition
Spike
Spike Art Magazine #58 (“The Magic Issue”) inaugurates a new formula all in English.
Guy Mees - The Lost Space
2019
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
Publication devoted to the only statement the Belgian artist has ever published about his own work.
William Engelen - Today, the organ has played beautifully again (2 vinyl LP)
2019
Edition Telemark
A set of pieces written by sound artist William Engelen for a 18th century organ, exploring and pushing the sonic boundaries and possibilities of the instrument.
Ami Shavit - Yom Kippur 1973 (vinyl LP)
2019
Sub Rosa
17.00 12.50 €
A previously unheard masterpiece of Israeli multimedia artist Ami Shavit, inspired by the Yom Kippur war, in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic Music series.
Ludger Schwarte - Notes pour un art futur
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Figures
Philosopher Ludger Schwarte presents a critical essay against the notion of contemporaneity in art and pleads for a renewed temporality: an art of futurity.
Jeremy Corral - Japanoise - Extrémismes & entropie
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Délashiné!
A detailed investigation into the Japanese noise scene (Japanoizu), with a sharp critical eye and an in-depth knowledge of local sources, by a specialist of alternative cultures and experimental musics in Japan.
Anita Molinero -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
currently out of stock
First major catalogue/monograph on the French artist: an overview of Molinero's dual work, which both reflects on the academic history of sculpture and refers to pop culture, especially science fiction, splatter films, and crime news.
Francis Alÿs - Knots\'n Dust
2019
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
various
currently out of stock
Catalogue of Francis Alÿs' exhibition at Beirut Art Center.
Robin Hayward - Words of Paradise (vinyl LP – Picture Disc)
2019
Edition Telemark
currently out of stock
A composition for brass chamber ensemble that explores the origins of language and its relationship with music.
Artist-Run Spaces, around and about - 2012-2015-2017
2019
French edition
ESAD Reims (Reims School of Art and Design)
sold out
A collective survey on the multiple dimensions of Artist-Run Spaces all around the world.
Yann Gerstberger - Baby Comet Face
2019
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Zolo Press
sold out
This monograph provides an exhaustive look at the practice of Yann Gerstberger, a French artist exiled in Mexico, whose work is deeply rooted in Mexican popular culture and pre-Columbian mythologies. The publication gathers series of works (sketches, photocopies, neon paper drawings and collages, tapestries), two essays, and poems by Gabriela Jauregui. The edition features an annex booklet devoted to exhibition views.
Féros
2019
French edition
Féros
sold out
The fourth issue of the erotic journal Féros comes in the form of a leporello, accompanied by various inserts (slide, silver print...), featuring 25 visual and artistic projects.
 Nicolas Floc\'h - Glaz
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Bretagne
sold out
This new monograph brings together Nicolas Floc'h's artistic production of the last twelve years.
Ornament and Crime
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
sold out
This catalogue accompanies the group exhibition curated by Meg O'Rourke at Eykyn Maclean gallery in New York. With Viennese architect Adolf Loos's eponymous 1908 diatribe against excessive ornamentation as its guide, the exhibition draws on the tenets set forth by Loos—simplicity, purity, freedom—with particular attention to their philosophical implications and their persistence into the latter twentieth century.
Babette Mangolte - Selected Writings - 1998-2015
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
A collection of texts by the French-American photographer and filmmaker in which she reflects on her artistic practice and discusses her collaborations with other filmmakers, artists, dancers and choreographers such as Marina Abramović, Chantal Akerman, Trisha Brown, and Yvonne Rainer.
Takako Saito - Spontaneous Music (vinyl LP)
2019
Edition Telemark
sold out
This double LP is released in an edition of 300 and includes two solo vocal pieces by Flux artist Takako Saito, two more vocal pieces in which Saito's voice interacts with the sounds of an everyday event, and two non-vocal sound pieces. It is housed in a full-color sleeve and includes one insert with liner notes by Saito, a poster, and four postcards.
Robert Rauschenberg - Strategic Structures (vinyl LP)
2019
Song Cycle Records
sold out
Powerful instrumental music performed by Robert Rauschenberg, Kat Epple, and Bob Stohl on electronics, and a series of musical metal sculptures called Strategic Structures.
Michael Snow - The Last LP (vinyl LP)
2019
Song Cycle Records
sold out
Michael Snow's The Last LP is an extraordinary collection of tracks “of rare music derived from threatened, obsolete, or now-extinct cultures from around the world” that although the claiming of being field recordings of ancient musical experiences, are in fact pieces played, conceived and recorded by the artist himself.
Mouvement
2019
French edition
Mouvement
Nils Alix-Tabeling; Emmanuel Fureix looks at political conflicts through the prism of acts of destruction; an emerging generation of writers chronicles contemporary Ireland; survivalist experience in contemporary art; dance and the video game industry; Steven Cohen; Élisabeth Filhol; Philippe Quesne; Mimosa Échard...
Giorgio Wolfensberger - Foto Povera
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
First monograph dedicated to the artistic freelance photography of industrial photographer and filmmaker Giorgio Wolfensberger (1945-2016). Beginning with the black-and-white documentary photography of his first years, the publication then documents a rich body of colorful photographs depicting with humor, the strangeness of everyday life and its objects.
 Lefevre Jean Claude - LJC Notations 1977-2007
2019
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
An extensive investigation on art conducted for thirty years by an artist for whom the archives constitute an artistic material in its own right.
Poptronics
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
This publication celebrates 10 years of Poptronics, a French online media dedicated to net-culture: net-art, video games, music and sound art, hacktivism, post-digital art… For its tenth anniversary, Poptronics brought up a collective archive of its materials, revisited by the French digital art scene.
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