Belgium

A reflection on history and the historical document, based on the chronicles of a village written in the 19th century by a Walloon worker.

Artist's book: an illustrated collage-book made up of recurring visual elements from Franco-Belgian comics. The publication is designed in the traditional format of the bande dessinée.

This artist's book presents a set of photographs made by Belgian artist Sophie Nys during her stay in Zurich. It features each of the modernist fountains produced by designer Alfred Aebersold in the 1970s and scattered throughout the Swiss city. The images are associated with amusing and clever captions written by Leila Peacock, a Scottish artist living in Zurich.

This publication documents the first iteration of Belgian artist David Claerbout's project Olympia, a digital simulation of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.

Catalogue dedicated to one of the pioneers of European conceptual art, whose work adopts a critical approach of the art world and the avant-garde. The publication offers an overview of the Belgian artist's career, and gathers texts by Jean-Michel Botquin from 1960 to 1980, and recent contributions by Nicolas Bourriaud, Denys Riout, Denis Gielen, and Serge Bonati.

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.

Conceptual art in the United States (1965-1975): theoretical tools and European influence.

Common sense: a philosophical investigation (after Alfred North Whitehead).

New “electro-contempo” collaboration, born out of the encounter between turntablist DJ Olive, musical director of Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles Jean-Paul Dessy, and violonist David Núñez. The second CD includes a live recorded at Les Transnumériques festival.

A queer travelogue of a boating voyage on Belgium's inland waterways with merman and singer Steev Lemercier in the company of Chanel and Dolce, who are a cat and a dog, during the first months of their friendship with the author. With photographs by César Segarra.

Artist Sara van der Heide converted the German Library in Guangzhou, China, into a restaging of the Goethe-Institut's German Library and Information Centre of Pyongyang, which operated from 2004 to 2009. The publication features the original multilingual booklets, a documentation on the exhibition and a critical reader.

The 4th album of Babils—an atypical six members Brussels underground band, mixing rock, new wave, psyche, kraut, experimental and repetitive music. Ji Ameeto is the first recording without the late Michel Duyck.

Common sense: a philosophical investigation (after Alfred North Whitehead).

Following the artists' previous series of life-size puppets in Die Schmutzigen Puppen von Pommern, this new publication presents a collection of one hundred sixty-four small puppets, each having a unique look.

Surrounded by European electronic music ensemble Quatuor Tana, 4 new pieces by the unpredictable Baudouin De Jaer, pushing further the boundaries of contemporary composition.

In September 2015, Japanese legend Keiji Haino played with two of Belgium's most active and valued musicians: keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin and drummer Teun Verbruggen. The Miracles Of Only One Thing is a deep and intense testimony of this meeting.

Selected unreleased works from 1980 to 2000 by a key composer of Belgian electronic music.

Expanding its mapping of landmark exhibitions and curatorial history from the 1960s to today, the “Archives” series dedicates its fifth DVD to Sonsbeek, an art manifestation held in 1971 and 1986 in and around Arnhem (Netherlands). Mainly showcasing large installations and sculptures in natural surroundings, these two events are crucial to the history of outdoor exhibitions, shifting the boundaries of traditional sculpture.

This artist's book gives a photographic account of the Creech Air Force Base—a Drone Base set in Indian Springs, Nevada, which carries out military actions in the Middle East. Picture alteration plunges the viewer into an eerie, dreamlike narrative recalling the universe of J. G. Ballard.

This reference monograph reveals the scope of Guillaume Bijl's thinking and art during the last four decades.

Second in the Book of Air series, this recording is performed by vvolk, a group of 18 improvisers who explore the relation between time and motion: How is the perception of sound influenced by time? How do we relate to time in music as improvising performing musicians?

Second in the Book of Air series, this recording is performed by vvolk, a group of 18 improvisers who explore the relation between time and motion: How is the perception of sound influenced by time? How do we relate to time in music as improvising performing musicians?

Pauline Oliveros surrounded by Belgian Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, performing 2 long pieces for orchestra.

Inspired by The Residents, Marc Bolan, Mark Frechette & Zabriskie Point, Swans, Autechre, David Bowie, Eva Ionesco, and Polanski's movie The Tenant, Ultraphallus defines their sound with some accents from different styles including Western Music, Death metal, Doom-Rock, Avant-garde Psychedelia and Electronic Soundtracks, as a tribute to Rock Culture.

Inspired by The Residents, Marc Bolan, Mark Frechette & Zabriskie Point, Swans, Autechre, David Bowie, Eva Ionesco, and Polanski's movie The Tenant, Ultraphallus defines their sound with some accents from different styles including Western Music, Death metal, Doom-Rock, Avant-garde Psychedelia and Electronic Soundtracks, as a tribute to Rock Culture.

The catalogue raisonné of the artist's books published by Bernard Villers's publishing house Le Nouveau Remorqueur (2003-2015).

Facsimile edition of an artist book by Marcel Broodthaers based on a verse from Baudelaire's poem La Beauté.

The theatrical writings of post-anthropocentric “disfigurement” and the reinvention of expressive means of contemporary philosophy.

Book of Air is a series of bundled compositions exploring the parameters of sound and time. Their first reseale Fieldtone is a beautiful “acoustic ambient” / dark jazz four-tracks recording inspired by the musicality and silence of nature.

What Lies In The Sea is the fruit of a ten year collaboration between singer Lynn Cassiers and keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin, and is the first release for their duo Lilly Joel. Both musicians are free spirits and true, much-lauded innovators in their respective fields.

Following on from the duo's continual playful and dystopic depiction of the human condition, Fine Arts brings together the collection of over ninety watercolors inspired by images found on the Internet.

Following an invitation by an organization in Ardèche, Denicolai & Provoost conceived a temporary and contextual project around issues of ownership and use of the natural landscape. By migrating their project to Paris, they extended its history into the urban realm. This book documents the Parisian stage.

The first monograph detailing the work of Belgian artist Leon Vranken, this book presents the most significant and complex projects of a practice now spanning over fifteen years, and is accompanied by three essays that address the many facets of his meticulously constructed works.

Artist's book in two volume.

Mottled sausages, icy landscapes with worms that seem to have died trying to make it over hurdles, portals to impossible lands: welcome to the accidental world of ceramist and drawer Anne Brugni.

An innovative study of David Claerbout's work, following the shady—and dark—logic, until now never raised by critics, that structures many of his films with mineral duration and slowness, but also number of “invisible” photographs.

Catalogue.

L'Écart et l'Accolade gathers 23 texts of various kinds dedicated to contemporary artists, artistic practices, the art critic, exhibitions and curatorial activities.

Monograph based on an exhibition project based on a critical rereading of Roland Barthes' writings.

Artist's edition (two-fold brochure).

Drawings.

“Livre VI” of the (SIC) journal takes the form of a book by Dutch-speaking Belgian philosopher Dieter Lesage (director of RITS | School of Arts). “Art, Research and Politics. Essays in Curatorial Criticism (1999-2014)” spans fifteen years of Lesage's critical interventions in the field of art, politics, and culture, analyzing and unraveling curatorial rhetorics and strategies which during that period marked the so-called art world.

Grégoire Bergeret collected 1.000 images from his vast personal database to build this ambitious first monograph: an erratic and abundant selection of documents introducing Bergeret's artistic practice.

A book about a fictional architecture office in a modernist social housing complex in Brussels, where real architects and locals worked together to make scale models: a reflection on scale models as spaces of negotiation, on maquettes as places where the desire of the architect is visible without the compromises of reality.

The catalogue of the Prize for the Most Beautiful Books in Brussels and Wallonia.

The fourth title in the “Archives” series, which is dedicated to landmark exhibitions and curatorial practices, and provides sources and moving images to the growing field of research of curatorial studies and exhibition history.