search results for "the contemporary condition"
2017
bilingual edition (German / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Celebrating the 100th title in the “L'art en écrit” series, Daniel Spoerri plays on the homonyms of the word “cent,” as a tribute to Marx Ernst. Published as a leporello, this artist's book features an original artwork signed by the artist.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Bretagne
28.00 10.00 €
Monographic catalogue presenting a series of sculptures and a set of photographs by the Belgian artist. The two media enter in close dialogue with each other, thus exploring the potentialities of image and space. With a text by Michel Gauthier.
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
This book of interviews and conversations with today's most compelling living and resurrected artists and thinkers seeks to address the relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on the Russian artistic and political vanguard as well as on today's art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics.
2017
Sub Rosa
Sylvain Chauveau plays reworkings of early music from the Spanish Renaissance Repertoire, with the Chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble.
2017
texts in French and in Arabic
Kulte Editions
At the crossroads of an artist book and a graphic novel, Fawda is an ode to Casablanca's life, presented through a non-linear narrative inspired by vox-pops.
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
(last copies available!)
Fifty years of graphic and editorial production of one of the most visionary artists of his generation—Enzo Cucchi. The catalogue includes more than a hundred plates, ordered chronologically, photographic reproductions, detailed information, and a series of essays by reknowned contributors.
2017
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
This issue celebrates the 50th anniversary of the magazine. It features texts and interviews that reassess key passages in recent art history, in each case using landmark content from Flash Art's archive as a point of departure (Piero Gilardi; Anarchitecture; the Soviet Nonconformist art; Jeff Koons and Maurizio Cattelan; the writings of Peter Halley; revisiting the pioneering exhibition “Aperto '93” with Helena Kontova and Hans Ulrich Obrist; Chinese art today; what's left of the Berlin art scene…).
2017
French edition
Mouvement
In Japan, what is left of Butō?; Qatar, the young painter and the Emir's portrait; John Maus; F. J. Ossang; the new generation of French graffiti artists; interviews with Anders Petersen, Michael Foessel, Vincent Macaigne, Lola Gonzalez; Crowd by Gisèle Vienne; Mount Olympus by Jan Fabre; the oppressive mutations of urban lighting; portfolio by Fumi Ishino & Thomas Koenig.
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
First major catalogue dedicated to one of the biggest representatives of Polish art and experimental cinema, Józef Robakowski. The publication presents some of the artist's most significant works and his research on the language of film and montage. It includes and interview with Marina Abramović, one of Robakowski's colleague at the time of the Soviet Union.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
Bächli & Hattan's publication features the 1:1-scale reproduction of certain pieces exhibited during a joint show at Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris. The reproductions take the form of printed sheets that have been folded and inserted in a plastic sleeve. It comes with a booklet featuring an interview of the two artists by Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser, along with a text by Patrick Javault.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Catalogue of the eponymous group exhibition on the theme of romantic relationships in the digital age. Curator Cloé Perrone's introductory text is followed by a series of works by Antoine Catala, Catharine Czudej, Cecile B. Evans, Pakui Hardware, Camille Henrot, Ingo Niermann & Alexa Karolinski, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Avery Singer and Anna Uddenberg.
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
This voluminous publication gathers 818 drawings by Dutch artist Michael Tedja, along with a series of commissioned texts by critics and curators. It highlights Tedja's practice as hypersubjective and all-encompassing, as well as predicated on studying the circulation and recycling of images.
2017
English edition
Errant Bodies - Anthologies
This publication is the first outcome of an ongoing series of seminars at the Bergen University of Fine Arts, developping critical and creative perspectives on invisible practices. These essays and works seek to investigate the operations of visibility by highlighting the unseen, the camouflaged, the immaterial and the erased as particular aesthetic strategies, and to reflect on the possible outcomes of such strategies on the socio-political realm.
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue documenting the Lebanese-born artist's eponymous project, which started as a sonic experimentation project with objects from the Dahlem Museum in Berlin. This work, which was later contucted at the kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico and at the Tate Modern, gave rise to various events and interventions, concerts and workshops.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
French translation of the Tulane Drama Review's 1965 issue on the happening (with John Cage, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, George Maciunas, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer, La Monte Young…).
2017
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / Portuguese)
Serralves
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A twenty-year survey of works by Julie Mehretu, considered as one of the foremost painters of her generation.
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
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This publication documents a workshop by Atelier Bow-Wow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Yoshi Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima of the Tokyo-based firm asked students to create a pencil drawing which would record their considerations on their surroundings. The resulting discussion with professor K. Michael Hays reflected on architecture as a central means of practicing livelihood and on the development of an “architectural ethnography.”
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
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Designed by the founder of Conceptual Art, this elegant and precious artist's book—and exhibition catalogue—serves as a visual analysis of the conceptual structures that interrogate the nature of color, form, space, and time, where the works and writings of Post-war artists such as Castellani, Fontana, Manzoni, and Klein, converse with Kosuth's statements, and the theoretical as well as personal account of curator Cornelia Lauf.
2017
Sub Rosa
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This new record is the re-release of the Belgian cult post-punk band's last cassette tape, reflecting a more raw and experimental side of their work and the beginnings of what was to come. Remastered in 2017.
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
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Since 2009, need and care and desire and admiration have been cross-examined, called as witness, put on parole, and made the subject of caring inquiry by e-flux journal authors. These writings have now been collected to form this comprehensive volume.
2017
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
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The 10th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Italian pedagogist Maria Montessori.
2017
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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Invited to forge a dialogue with the unique context of the Art Deco building of the Serralves Villa in Porto, American artist Nick Mauss created works that reflect an encounter with the social and private choreographies of the formerly grand and domestic spaces of the Villa. The catalogue includes an essay by the American author and poet, Lucy Ives and an interview with Nick Mauss, conducted by João Ribas, the exhibition's curator.
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
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First monograph documenting a three-year research on the mineral mica that became the ground for multidisciplinary outcomes, including poems, intricate drawings, modular sculptures that form systems of display, and performances.
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Sandberg Series
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In this publication, various authors reflect on the history of dematerialization and deskilling, the manifold meanings of materials in art and design, and the challenges for education when the innovative power of the artistic process is celebrated.
2017
Sub Rosa
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Compilation album Metaphors contains 14 soundworks carefully selected from the Cinema of the Thai film director. Includes Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Syndromes and a Century, Fever Room and more.
2017
Sub Rosa
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Compilation album Metaphors contains 14 soundworks carefully selected from the Cinema of the Thai film director. Includes Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Syndromes and a Century, Fever Room and more.
2017
Shelter Press - Records
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The Japanese sound artist's second album is the result of a ten-year investigation on the sound properties of water, in line with her previous LP in 2009. Based on the use of waterbowls—porcelain bowls filled with water and amplified via hydrophones—her musical practice is now enriched with experiments with the environment and hydrophonic feedback.
2017
Shelter Press - Records
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The Japanese sound artist's second album is the result of a ten-year investigation on the sound properties of water, in line with her previous LP in 2009. Based on the use of waterbowls—porcelain bowls filled with water and amplified via hydrophones—her musical practice is now enriched with experiments with the environment and hydrophonic feedback.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
A collection of essays focusing on the notions of invention and image in art.
2017
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
An investigation on the performative future of cinema, followed by two studies on Lettrist's cinema and on the end of the projectionist.
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Villa Arson
Focusing on several major collaborative performance-videos by a figure of the British Black Art movement, this illustrated monograph includes a series of essays which interpret Boyce's interdisciplinary practice in the light of art history, and analyse her interest in black feminism, cultural studies, film studies, art history and critical theory.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph, documenting 21 installations conceived by Haegue Yang during the past decade.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
May
Kim West, Exhibition, Apparatus, and Media, 1963-1977 / Yann Chateigné, 1977 / Richard Parry, London, London / Lotte Arndt on Enquête sur le/notre dehors by Alejandra Riera / Peter Fischli, The Hiking Trail Around the Airport / Liam Considine on “Thinking of readymades belong to everyone®” / Giovanna Zapperi on “Show Me Your Archive” / Oleg Frolov on Tobias Kaspar / Anke Dyes on Till Megerle / Christian Haye on Juliana Huxtable / Camilla Wills on On Charges (The Supplicants) by Elfriede Jelinek / Jeanne Graff, Clifton Clifton.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
This issue addresses the shiver and explores the affective dimension in the field of art. With: Aseman Sabet on Stendhal syndrome; poetic images and waking dreams in contemporary art; the aesthetic shudder, from Nietzsche to Castellucci; Anicka Yi; Myriam Lefkowitz; interview with Sophie Jodoin; the Venice Biennale and Manif d'art 8; reviews and selected publications…
2017
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A biological investigation of a Nordic man-made beach landscape through a series of cameraless photographic registrations of the site's flora, fauna, and particles.
2017
Shelter Press - Records
The conclusion of Saloman's musical trilogy for contemporary dance, this time inspired by a work by choreographer Vanessa Goodman. The bowed guitar, militant percussion and searing guitar eruptions, are joined by distorted guitar, minimalist piano attacks, melancholy guitar melodies, a patina of harsh noise, and a more contemporary approach to drums and bass. (download code included with one additional track).
2017
Shelter Press - Records
17.00 13.00 €
Double album compiling all 3 volumes of the Movement Building serie, dedicated to Gabriel Saloman's music for contemporary dance.
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, T. J. Demos critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations, trough a series of cases study taken from contemporary visual culture.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
On the occasion of her carte blanche at the Palais de Tokyo from 18 October 2017 to 7 January 2018, French artist Camille Henrot is the guest editor-in-chief of this issue 26 of the magazine Palais, devoted entirely to the exhibition “Days are Dogs.”
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.
2017
Transversales Disques
Never before released soundtrack of the film Rock directed by Michel Treguer, composed in 1982 by Bernard Parmegiani (remastered from the original master tapes, with exclusive liner notes).
2017
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A collection of texts written between 1983 and 2016, enabling us to comprehend the singularity of Sivan's work. Prefaces in opening section offer insights into this unusual poetry, pointing the links between Sivan's poetic universe and those of Denis Roche, Raymond Roussel, Charles Olson, Maurice Roche, Marcel Duchamp…
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.
2017
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
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Ricocheting quietly between photographic landscapes, drawn abstractions and poetic recollections, this artist's book assumes the form of a deferred performance. Serving as a kind of response to the French artist and experimental musician's recent sonic and visual output, the book comprises a series of film stills shot during her travels to New Mexico and Arizona, overlaid with a collection of at once crude and delicate drawings made in Australia.
2017
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
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At the crossroads of theater, performance, and poetry, this collection of texts puts forward women's voice to express their power of resistance against their condition.
2017
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Notebooks (ebooks)
French dancer and choreographer reports on various relationships to the movement in dance, relying as much on classical and contemporary performances as on concepts borrowed from philosophers, linguists and art theorists.
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This catalogue brings together international artists and theorists to reflect upon conditions surrounding female artistic, theoretical and institutional practices and contemporary gender studies within the changing landscape of biopolitics affected by the digital economy and social change.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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Catalogue of the first Orleans Biennale of Architecture: introduced by a series of texts on Guy Rottier, Demas Nwoko and Patrick Bouchain, the publication offers an intersecting vision from over forty contemporary architects working on building a shared world. The concluding part presents a mapping of the research in architecture.
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Appetite for the Magnificent is a photographic and essayistic exploration of the history and present-day world of the aquarium. The contribution by David and Tania Willen tackles the aesthetic dimension of Swiss present-day aquariums, while Jörg Scheller's essay on naturalist Philip Henry Gosse retraces the evolution of the aquarium at the interface between art, science and religion...
2017
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Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book based on Schultz eponymous work, a video project based on the German artist's sculptural installation at the Kunstverein Braunschweig, and filmed by a flying robot camera.