search results for "the contemporary condition"
2024
French edition
Zero2
The diary of the Korean-born artist based in France.
2024
Editions Mego
Klara Lewis' latest offering is undoubtedly a heartfelt tribute to her friend, mentor and former label boss, Peter Rehberg.
2024
Sub Rosa
The first album of this new digital-drone-rock-noise/ambient/electronica project created by two founding members of Tone Rec and DAT Politics (Claude Pailliot - Gaetan Collet). Inspirational collision of motorik avant rock and heavy electronics.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
A drawn chronicle of sleepless nights, Vigil brings together over one hundred and sixty drawings by the artist.
2024
Persistence of Sound
The second album by Rubbish Music (Kate Carr and Iain Chambers), the duo upcycling waste into immersive electroacoustic music.
2024
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The artist book Sand is Water You Can walk On by Katharina Schilling brings together the series of paintings of the same name with texts by the authors Eva Hegge, Miriam Stoney and Sophia Eisenhut. In her series of works, Schilling refers to Gothic illuminations, an early form of painting that tells of a time before the concept of the subject.
2024
TAL
The second album by the duo So Sner, composed of Susanna Gartmayer (bass clarinet) and Stefan Schneider (electronics), both stylistically cohesive and daringly uncompromising.
2024
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various
Artist's book.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
In this first critical volume and biography of the Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi (1932–2023), author Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi's archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist's character and path.
2024
Sub Rosa
Winter Family's 4th album, beautiful and haunting, tells a lot of stories; that of the musicians themselves and their loved ones, those of their territories, of their life in Jerusalem, Paris or Lorraine; that of women, "witches", conspiracy myths; that of capitalist and colonialist Europe; that of the blindness and violence of Israeli society and the indoctrination of its population; that of the occupation of Palestine; that of eternal lockdown and a laboratory rat; and maybe yours, too.
2024
Sub Rosa
Winter Family's 4th album, beautiful and haunting, tells a lot of stories; that of the musicians themselves and their loved ones, those of their territories, of their life in Jerusalem, Paris or Lorraine; that of women, "witches", conspiracy myths; that of capitalist and colonialist Europe; that of the blindness and violence of Israeli society and the indoctrination of its population; that of the occupation of Palestine; that of eternal lockdown and a laboratory rat; and maybe yours, too.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
The 46th issue of the critical graphic design journal is devoted to the Zurich-based graphic design studio Norm.
2024
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire - Books
30 artists and 10 authors talk about water.
2024
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Focusing on Lenke Rothman's unique, conceptual approach to her working materials, this publication presents selected parts of her extensive production, including paintings, drawings, installations, books, sculptures, objects and textiles.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 38 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo calls upon ancestries, be they intimate or political, transgenerational and historical, human or more-than-human, symbolic or material.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
This book recounts Jean-Jacques Lebel's long and tumultuous passage through the powerful laboratory of ideas and experiments of surrealism that was the journal Front Unique (1955-1960), which heralded and sometimes prefigured his future protean activities in the fields of art, poetry and militancy (anticolonial and libertarian).
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This history of art collecting traces a multiplicity of aesthetic attitudes through the prism of certain key figures in the history of taste. Over the course of the chapters, we discover how art collecting reflects—or responds to—an individual's character.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
A wide-ranging study of the visual and theoretical practice of Anni Albers, a pivotal figure between two continents and two modernities, as part of a general history of art, design and textile production in the European and American women's avant-gardes.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A philosophical reflection on the place of sound, from musical aesthetics to sound habitat, at the crossroads of sound, music and technology studies, and phenomenology.
2024
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
Film Undone presents contributions introducing unmade and unfinished film projects, film ideas realised in non-filmic media, as well as films that remained unseen in their intended form and at their intended time.
2024
English edition
Afterall
sold out
Following documenta 15's cascading logic, this issue then branches out, on the one hand, towards further engagements with Palestinian art and visual culture as a way to fend off ongoing erasure and, on the other, towards new understandings of geographies of art practices and histories.
2024
texts in English and Italian
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A compendium of texts and notes around the project developed by artist Alessandro Di Pietro in dialogue with the work of Paul Thek (1933-1988).
2024
various
sold out
A limited edition repress of the remastered album "Descending Moonshine Dervishes" by Terry Riley, originally recorded live in Berlin in 1975 and released by Kuckuck in 1982.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers” (also available in English edition).
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers”.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
An essay-length book arguing for the autonomy of art in the present.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
Catalog conceived as a tribute to Jacques Villeglé's insatiable curiosity, exploring his relationship with the world of entertainment (cinema, dance, theater and music) from the 1950s to the end of his career, with texts by Julie Chaizemartin, Emma Lavigne, and Jeff Mills.
2024
French edition
various
A first major monograph on Thierry Fournier's practice, French visual artist, with an extensive documentation of many recent works and a collection of texts and interviews.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Logorrhea is an artist book focusing on the written word in Jean-Michel Wicker's work. It is a large and lighter-than-air paperback, the author's third void.
2024
Editions (Jason Kahn)
A new voice+electronics solo CD by Jason Kahn: voice, modular synth, mixing board, electromagnetic transducers, radio, spring reverb tank.
2024
English edition
Diaphanes
A theory of passive vitalism.
2024
Discrepant
Continuing his fruitful relationship with Discrepant, Tiago Sousa returns with two longform pieces for organ.
2024
Room40
An exploration of sound, space and time using found objects and flute. (new remastered version by Lawrence English of the piece recorded by Akio Suzuki in Berlin in 1994).
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
Gathering reflections and testimonies of exhibitions realized by Yann Annicchiarico in various countries, this looks back at a unique state of perception, related to the experience of emptiness and to the suspension of attention, an essential element in the artist's research.
2024
French edition
Lenka lente
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of stupidity (deliberate and sometimes even claimed), regression and superficiality in the arts.
2024
Black Truffle
currently out of stock
The first ever solo release from electronic music pioneer and innovator Laetitia Sonami, featuring a new composition especially written for her interface/instrument, the Spring Sprye, by her former teacher the legendary Éliane Radigue.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collective exploration of the relationship between contemporary art and archeology.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A glossary of themes running through the work of Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), reflecting the contemporary relevance and diversity of the anarchist geographer's thought.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
First global exploration of contemporary forms of filmmaking from political and cultural self-determination movements of Autochthonous communities and peoples.
2024
French edition
Magma
To mark the centenary of Surrealism, this ephemeral journal, featuring 150 contemporary voices from literature, art, cinema, poetry, theater, and civil society, brings together over 200 unpublished contributions, responding to the surrealist enquiries.
2024
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Lou Cantor, Sylvie Hayes-Wallace, Elizabeth Jaeger, Stanislava Kovalčíkova, Mire Lee, Jack O'Brien, Frida Orupabo, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Anicka Yi...
2024
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
The facsimile of a never-before-published catalogue, documenting a Milanese exhibition banned by the police in 1992, renders the productions and stances of a group of Italian artists in the artistic context of the time.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The fourth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, looks at the cut.
2024
English edition
Neural
Co-editor: Zane Cerpina; interviews with Boris Eldagsen, Martinus Suijkerbuijk, Maya Man, Molly Soda; Transmediale 2024; REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art...
2024
English edition
Diaphanes
An exploration of queerness in visual and material culture with regard to the specific conditions of the making and experience of art in different cultural, sociopolitical, and historical contexts.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Cosmos Cinema combines comprehensive visual documentation of the acclaimed 14th Shangai Biennale with newly commissionned essays reflecting on its themes.
2024
English edition
Artforum
Richard Serra (1938-2024), textile art, "Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan", "Foreigners Everywhere"...