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2016
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Archive Books
First volume of a hors-series' collection focusing on the theory and practice of republishing and archiving.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Nora Schultz gathered digital associations made with Google's image search engine, and then asked nine other artists to build a series of textual and visual narratives around her results (an artists' book designed by Keren Cytter).
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Thirty-seven texts by Tom Burr.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This publication describes the making of a multiple-screen video installation made by Mario Pfeifer while living on Navarino Island, Chile. This anthropological film looks at the life of the descendants of the area's indigenous Yaghan people, and portrays a nation and community that is violently undergoing cultural and religious, social, political and economic transformation.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
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.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Released in parallel of an exhibition at Kunstverein München, this USB card gathers a collection of electronic works by Dexter Sinister produced from 2008 to 2015.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
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Built by the design collective Metahaven, the project Black Transparency questions how information is organized globally and what role the concept of transparency occupies within it. This book engages transparency's junctions with design, architecture, and pop culture through Metahaven's research on technology, structures of information, networks and the Internet.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
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Part document, part photographic album, this artists' book by Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys captures the sculptural revisionings of the descendants of an executioner family from Greifswald in the historical province of Pomerania.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
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Through archival research, this first monographic publication focuses on Ukeles's work ballets—a series of seven grand-scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables and steel—which took place between 1983 and 2012 in New York, Pittsburgh, Givors, Rotterdam, and Tokamachi.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
This issue addresses the notion of (counter-)monuments with essays on National Identity, Immersion Serving Memory, Optical Protocols, Alexandra Pirici's Soft Power, The Kai Dikhas Gallery, Thomas Hirschhorn, The Memorial to the Victims of Communism…
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
Hannah Arendt is not at all keen to build an edifice of ideas or to develop abstract concepts. Rather, she gets on to the stage herself! To enter the scene of her little theater means to take matters into her own hands, take responsibility, to act. In short: Thinking is acting! Whereas the bureaucrats can conceive of only one thing: to build a world out of paper (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
In 1982 Barbara Davatz photographed 12 young couples from the Zurich scen—lovers, friends or kin. She portrayed them again in 1988, 1997 and 2014, covering more than three decades of human relations, aesthetic and social evolution.
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Literature
The semi-autobiographical account of the life of a young German in the 1960s, between Germany, Israel, and The United States. First translation of philosopher Reiner Schürmann's only literary work, originally published in French in 1976.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
A collection of previously unpublished texts by the French philosopher.
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
On a long, cold winter night, more than three hundred years ago, Mister Descartes is suddenly beset by profound doubts: Can I trust my senses, or am I fooled by illusions? Is there an Evil Genius behind all things? What if the outside world is only a dream? Is my own existence nothing but the product of my imagination? (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
2016
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
This “book-object” prompts the reader to piece together a fragmented narrative comprising texts and pictures to color, to copy, to associate…
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
An artist's book on worldwide monetary iconography.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
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Autumnal Sisters recollects seven performances by Alessandro Bosetti, in solo and teaming up with writer Kim Taeyong and video maker Orolo. It is the first extensive document of Bosetti's work with MaskMirror, a musical instrument which takes language rather than sound as it's main material.
2016
French edition
GAMeC Books
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Catalogue.
2016
French edition
MER. Books
The journal/catalogue conceived by Daniel Buren for his retrospective at BOZAR.
2016
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
currently out of stock
Conversations between Swiss architect Luigi Snozzi and the philosopher Fabio Merlini.
2016
Spanish edition
Terranova
A photographic itinerary through the life of Adrià Cañameras and his girlfriend Mar in the heart of Madrid.
2016
PiedNu
A minimalist piece of forty-four minutes in which the electroacoustic composer and experimental guitarist goes beyond the conventional modes of the instrumental approach, deploys a radically personal atypical universe and subtly explores the idea of space by generating different degrees of tension and emotion.
2016
English edition
Sputnik
The family archives of Július Koller's collaborator and loving partner Květa Fulierová (artist's book).
2016
English edition
Neural
Featuring: interviews with Constant (An Mertens, Femke Snelting), Rosa Menkman, Tristan Perich, Alberto Novello, Ralf Baecker, Phillip Galanter; an article on Simplexity, the art of the one-liner for sonic complexity, reports on “Disruption” ISEA 2015, “Test Exposure” WRO 2015, xCoAx 2015, digital news, books and records reviews...
2016
English edition
Neural
Featuring: Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum on their book Obfuscation – A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest, interviews with Mushon Zer Aviv, Francisco López, Jacob Kirkegaard, Benjamin Grosser, and Nick Montfort, reports on Media City – Intermedia Art Festival, Piksel 2015, Renewable Futures Festival, digital news, records and books reviews…
2016
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Timeless
Long awaited new opus by Le Dernier Cri mastermind. Evil and degenerated interpretation of Jap B movie posters in this oversized book.
2016
English edition
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
A retrial of Félix Fénéon (an artist book conceived and written by artists Sanna Marander and Niklas Tafra, with contributions by poet Claes Tellvid and assistant judge Erik Hellsten).
2016
Bisou Records
A 48 pages book of drawings by Costes, with all the lyrics of the 10 songs that are on the accompanying CD.
2016
English edition
Terranova
Postcards from Home documents the encounters between Roc Herms and several different avatars during his years of participation in a virtual world created for Playstation 3.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
A rich and diverse panorama of football gestures selected from newspapers' photographs dating from 1990 to 2010. The aesthetic classification of these gestures opens to wider reflections on sport as choreography and artistic performance.
2015
English edition
Archive Books
A collection of essays and interviews on the issue of curatorship in contemporary art with Pierre Restany, Zoran Kržišnik, Harald Szeemann, Daniel Buren, Charles Esche and Walter Benjamin.
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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The first monograph dedicated to Landon Metz retraces the American artist's distinct practice examining four exhibitions from the past two years.
2015
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first extensive survey catalogue of Zaccagnini & Lagomarsino, a selection of works from 2001 to 2015 especially displayed by artist Luca Frei and which reflects the two artists' transnational ideals.
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Bruce McLean plays the Drawing Room Confessions.
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An account of the 21st edition of the CSAV—Artists Research Laboratory—a workshop for young artists held every year at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, with invited artists Yvonne Rainer and Andrea Kleine.
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
With Marie and William, Alex Cecchetti attempts to transpose the performative gesture in the space of the book.
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first fifteen years of Patrick Tuttofuoco's career in 16 written portraits.
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Artist's book / exhibition index.
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This volume presents the results of the Resò International Art Exchange program which seeks to comprehend the role and influence of evolving geography and residency on artistic practice.
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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.
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Appearing after the Reader, this second volume covering the 8th Momentum Nordic Biennial features images from all artists participating in the exhibition, both in the pages of the publication and via a memory stick, incorporated in the spine.
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
This book documents the eponymous work by British artist Patrick Staff a film installation exploring queer intergenerational relationships negotiated through historical materials. The film combines footage shot at the gay icon Tom of Finland's Foundation in Los Angeles with choreographic sequences shot within a specially constructed set.
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
Alexandre da Cunha plays the Drawing Room Confessions.
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
Published for the first time, a selection of notes from the artist's private diaries.
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Monograph / artist's book.
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Richard Wentworth plays the Drawing Room Confessions.
2015
French edition
Mix
An unpublished novel by one of the great figures of Land art.
2015
English edition
Damiani - Photography
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Taken in the "forgotten borough" of Staten Island between 1983 and 1984, the photographs in Christine Osinski's Summer Days Staten Island create a portrait of working-class culture in an often overlooked section of New York City.