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Air de repos (Breathwork) (book + vinyl LP)
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
currently out of stock
A double vinyl and a catalogue that constitute a proper extension of the exhibition with which the Capc in Bordeaux continues to question the forms that the museum can take, with the aim of creating a renewed awareness of what it means to breathe, both on an individual and collective level, at a time when the world is living in a climate of generalized asphyxia.
New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media (vinyl LP)
2024
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
sold out
The first ever vinyl reissue of the seminal "New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media", from 1977, arguably the most important feminist statement in the history of experimental music, illuminating the work of Johanna M. Beyer, Annea Lockwood, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Megan Robert, Ruth Anderson, and Laurie Anderson.
Ben Vida - Vocal Trio (vinyl LP)
2024
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
sold out
Creatively visionary and groundbreaking on numerous terms, as well as being intoxicatingly beautiful and remarkably listenable, Ben Vida's "Vocal Trio" represents a striking step forward for one of the most ambitious and outstanding sonic artists working in the United States today.
Jason Hirata - Supporting Role
2024
English edition
Reliable Copy
A collection of the artist's writings from 2019 to 2024.
Stefan Prins - Inhabit (2 CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
The second release by Stefan Prins on Sub Rosa brings together four recent, large-scale compositions in which traditional instruments—from bass woodwind trio to electric guitar and symphonic orchestra—merge seamlessly with electronics, feedback, and field recordings.
Cally Spooner - Sweat Shame Etc.
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
Across objects, writing, sound and choreography, British artist Cally Spooner addresses the manners in which specific technological and financial conditions shape and organize life. This volume surveys her artistic output of the last five years.
Mark Templeton - Two Verses (vinyl LP)
2024
Faitiche
Canadian experimental artist Mark Templeton revisits and revives his sound archives with Andrew Pekler.
Vincent Valdez - Just a Dream...
2024
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
X Artists' Books
Retrospective monograph.
e-flux Index
2024
English edition
e-flux Index
76 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists, published by e-flux between April–May 2024, arranged into 11 thematic chapters—ranging from the live question of cultural censorship through to the role of diagrams and notation in contemporary artistic practice.
Lalie Thébault Maviel - Notre pain quotidien
2024
no text
Tombolo Presses
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
An edition like an archaeology of our more or less contemporary iconography of bread. A lacunary and subjective encyclopedia that reflects its presence in our lives and its political, social, economic, and aesthetic evolutions (artist's book).
Between a Romanticised Past and a Not Yet Redeemed Future - Urbane Künste Ruhr 2018-2023
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The nine printed issues of the Urbane Künste Ruhr Magazine from 2019 to 2023 create an experimental publication in bound form that documents the institution's projects over the entire period.
Film Undone - Elements of a Latent Cinema
2024
English edition
Archive Books
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.
Artforum - October 2024
2024
English edition
Artforum
Garrett Bradley, Maija Peeples-Bright, Tarik Kiswanson, Matthew Barney, Charles Atlas, Tracey Emin...
Soldes
2024
French edition
Soldes Almanac
An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.
VISIO - Moving Images in Europe Since the 2010s
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
This volume brings together visions, experiences and critical interdisciplinary methodologies that have been instrumental in the development of the language of moving images since 2010.
Francesco Arena - Der Blitz steuert alles / Il fulmine governa ogni cosa
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
A complete documentation of a site-specific project conceived by Francesco Arena, allowing to get more into the heart of the artist's creative process.
Crys Cole - Making Conversation (vinyl LP)
2024
Black Truffle
Crys Cole's third solo release for the Black Truffle label, Making Conversation documents a different facet of her work, presenting three rigorously conceptualised commissioned pieces, each of which extend her signature approach to highly amplified small sounds into new directions.
Judith Eisler - Center of the Frame
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
Judith Eisler's first monograph, bringing together paintings made between 1997 and 2024, featuring an essay by Kirsty Bell, an introduction by Christopher Bollen, and an interview with Wade Guyton.
Éléonore False - Ensembles
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
First monograph.
Spencer Gerhardt - Ticking Stripe
2024
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
A new collection of writings by the composer and mathematician Spencer Gerhardt, considering among other topics the rich points of contact between minimalist musical aesthetics and intuitionistic mathematics.
Ingo Giezendanner - Mille Feuilles
2024
no text
Nieves
Ingo Giezendanner's wild herbarium.
Anne Houel - Tobrouk
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
Anne Houel's first book is dedicated to the monumental sculpture Tobrouk, installed on Ouistreham's Riva-Bella beach for one year in 2023, then moved to the Musée d'Art, Histoire et Archéologie in Évreux.
Jihye Jung - Resterenvie
2024
French edition
Zero2
The diary of the Korean-born artist based in France.
Klara Lewis - Thankful (vinyl LP)
2024
Editions Mego
Klara Lewis' latest offering is undoubtedly a heartfelt tribute to her friend, mentor and former label boss, Peter Rehberg.
 Mazza Vision - Ohm Spectrum (CD)
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.
 Morvandiau - Vigil
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.
 Rubbish Music - Fatbergs (CD)
2024
Persistence of Sound
The second album by Rubbish Music (Kate Carr and Iain Chambers), the duo upcycling waste into immersive electroacoustic music.
Katharina Schilling - Sand is Water You Can walk On
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.
 So Sner - The Well (vinyl LP)
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.
Erik Steinbrecher - Gopf
2024
no text
various
Artist's book.
Skye Arundhati Thomas -
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.
 Winter Family - On Beautiful Days (vinyl LP)
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.
 Winter Family - On Beautiful Days (CD)
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.
Faire – To look at things - A calculated approach: Norm\'s unreasonable reasonableness
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.
Le chant des sirènes / Il canto delle sirene
2024
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire - Books
30 artists and 10 authors talk about water.
Lenke Rothman - Life as Cloth / Liv som tyg
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.
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo
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.
Jean-Jacques Lebel - Front Unique - La traversée du surréalisme de Jean-Jacques Lebel
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).
En quête d\'images - Écritures sensibles en recherche-création
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.
Temps naissant - Un glossaire pour le XXIe siècle
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.
Olivier Berggruen - Formes du désir - Une brève histoire de la collection d\'art
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.
Ida Soulard - Les abstractions concrètes d\'Anni Albers (1899-1994) - Une histoire textile de la modernité
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.
Alexandre Chèvremont - Donner lieu au son
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.
Afterall - Palestine and the World
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.
Alessandro Di Pietro - Ghostwriting Paul Thek
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).
Terry Riley - Descending Moonshine Dervishes (vinyl LP)
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.
We Will Survive - Le mouvement prepper
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).
We Will Survive - The prepper movement
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”.
We Will Survive - Le mouvement prepper
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”.
We Will Survive - The prepper movement
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”.
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