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Marko Ciciliani - Why Frets? 2083
2023
English edition
Mille Plateaux
35.00 € 17.50 €
A multimedia book featuring transdisciplinary works by composer, audiovisual artist and performer Marko Ciciliani, that illuminate different aspects of a fictional history of the electric guitar from varying angles (including an USB-Stick with audiovisual works).
Isabelle Cornaro -
2023
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph (also available in English edition).
Isabelle Cornaro -
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
June Crespo - Vieron su casa hacerse campo
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An indepth survey to June Crespo's artistic practice.
 Iliazd - Zaum for Strangers - Paris 1921
2023
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The fourth volume of Rab-Rab Press' bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevich's talk The New Schools in Russian Poetry, given in 1921 in Paris. In this talk, Zdanevich introduced zaum to the French Dadaists. He declared that practical and poetic languages are two poles of existence, two opposite ways of life.
 Mattin - Seize the Means of Complexity (vinyl LP)
2023
Xing
A sound project by Mattin operating a radical critique of the era of social media, which proposes to free oneself from it by reappropriating its own tools.
Nickolas Mohanna - Double Pendulum (vinyl LP)
2023
Run/Off
Double Pendulum is a selection of new material from NY-based artist/composer Nickolas Mohanna. Using a varied palette of percussive devices alongside the electric guitar and computer, hammered notes flutter into brushed cymbals to create pulsing and immersive shapes.
Christian Nyampeta - Togetherward
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
A volume assembling new and existing documents that revisit, mix and remix moments in the work of artist Christian Nyampeta.
Olu Ogunnaike -
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
CAPC
First monograph.
 Pointe du Lac - Les siphonophores des eaux froides et profondes de l\'Arctique (vinyl LP)
2023
Hands in the Dark / Fragments Editions
The third studio album from the Frenchmen Pointe du Lac offers a deep, catchy and classy dive into kosmische, electronica and jazz.
Manuel Raeder - Agenda 2024
2023
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Bom Dia's new Agenda offers a different font designed by Studio Manuel Raeder for each month. It provides you with a fun way for new beginnings and to take notes and make sketches. This years Agenda can function on a daily basis as a notebook, or be used for hanging as a wall calendar.
Jimmy Robert - Call and Response (vinyl LP)
2023
Bierke
The artist record Call and Response brings together pieces created in connection with performances and exhibitions by Jimmy Robert, including a booklet wrapped around the record.
Lorenzo Sandoval - Industry / Matrices - Threads and sounds
2023
English edition
Archive Books
A hybrid proposal developed by artist and curator Lorenzo Sandoval and archaeologist Tono Vizcaíno, situated between the creation of an archive and an artistic project, whose objective is to offer a necessarily partial reading of Valencian industrial heritage based on the sound, the intangible and social movements.
 SG<!----> - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite (vinyl LP)
2023
Faitiche
SG is none other than Andrew Pekler returning to faitiche with an album of sentimental guitar escapism. For Lovers Only / Rain Suite features ten tracks made using only an electric guitar and a handful of effects pedals (plus some additional recordings of rain) and finds Pekler once again attempting to reconicile his tendencies towards kitsch, experimentation and minimalism.
Jocko Weyland - Elk
2023
no text
Nieves
The culmination of the American artist's assemblage project.
Stefan Roigk - de—COMPOSED (book + 2 CD)
2023
English edition
Errant Bodies
An artist's book by Berlin-based sound artist Stefan Roigk, documenting acousmatic compositions, sound installations, musical graphics and text-sound compositions of the years 2005 to 2023 on 144 pages and 2 audio CDs.
Imaginaires technologiques
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Some insights into the imaginaries that inhabit techno-scientific realities, transforming our relationship with the world, closing or opening up the future.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - LCDB (Le Culte Des Banni.e.s)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A trans-theoretical essay: Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux explores the arcana of artists' cult status through a kaleidoscopic series of portraits of "banished" visual artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians and architects, from William S. Burroughs to Jean-Luc Godard via John Cage.
La Biennale internationale des jeunes artistes - Paris (1959-1985)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The first major work on the history and current importance of the Biennale of Young Artists, known as the "Biennale de Paris", which took place between 1959 and 1985, bringing together thirty-five texts by international authors, including some testimonies from actors who took part in the Biennale.
Carla Cerati - Milano 1963/1973
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
currently out of stock
Photographer and writer Carla Cerati (1926-2016) captures the architectural, social and political upheavals of 1960-70s Milan.
Farkhondeh Shahroudi - Wir sind die feder in des schreibers hand, wohin wir gehen, ist uns nicht bekannt
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / Persian)
Archive Books
currently out of stock
The first monographic overview publication of the work of Iranian artist Farkhondeh Shahroudi.
David Toop - The Shell That Speaks The Sea (vinyl LP)
2023
Room40
currently out of stock
A realisation of a 20 years-long conversation, with results that articulate Toop's long held sound vision (here executed with his own voice, electric and lapsteel guitars, whistling, percussion, flutes and electronics) around English's stunning recordings of various insects, birds and exotic animals.
Éric La Casa - Supersedure 2 (book / CD)
2023
Swarming
currently out of stock
Percussion by Paris-based Japanese improviser Seijiro Murayama and field recordings by sound artist Éric La Casa, "small, simple gestures" on the threshold of the musical, a low-key presence, listening to inhabited spaces.
Blank Forms - Sound Signatures
2023
English edition
Blank Forms
Blank Forms - Blank Forms Journal
sold out
The penultimate Blank Forms anthology presents new, in-depth interviews with musicians Theo Parrish, Amelia Cuni, Akio Suzuki, and more.
 Bless - Celebrating 25 Years of Always Stress with BLESS N°42–N°74
2023
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
Written and visual documentation of the German stylist-designer duo's projects from 2010 to 2022.
Thomas Tilly - Melt (vinyl LP)
2023
Hands in the Dark / Fragments Editions
sold out
A project exploring the sounds of glaciers, captured in crevasses, glacial torrents or moraine folds using microphones, hydrophones and seismic sensors.
 Nurse With Wound - Le Christ (book + CD)
2023
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
The story of Jesus, or that of a fin-de-siècle anarchist, by the sapphic poet Renée Vivien (1877-1909), accompanied by a new piece by Nurse With Wound on CD.
Keep it Flat - Petite histoire sur la Terre plate
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated (also available in English).
Keep it Flat - A little history on flat earth
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.
Objectif Terre - Le design de notre planète
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
Objective: Earth - Designing our Planet
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
Gabriel Orozco - Diario de Plantas (2 volumes)
2023
no text
Zolo Press
Diario de Plantas presents 724 drawings made by Gabriel Orozco in Tokyo and Acapulco on 33 notebooks between November 9, 2021, and April 20, 2022 (two volumes in one slipcase).
Marlene A. Schenk - The Darkest Corners
2023
English edition
Floating Opera Press
The Darkest Corners documents and explores sculptures by Lena Marie Emrich and an eponymous exhibition.
Walter Pfeiffer - Chez Walti 2000-2022
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
A large retrospective of the Swiss cult photographer's work over two decades.
Claude Closky - 2/5
2023
no text
Captures - 2/5 Series
Four artist's posters.
Carroll Dunham - Green Period - Prints, Drawings, and Paintings – 2018-2022
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Carroll Dunham's "Green Period."
Camille Henrot - Jus d\'Orange
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
A dialogue between Camille Henrot's images and Estelle Hoy's texts, a visual and verbal exploration of melancholy, failure, injustice, and hope.
Diego Marcon - Music for Diego Marcon\'s works - Written by Federico Chiari (vinyl LP)
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
The music composed by Federico Chiari for various film and video works by the artist Diego Marcon.
Diego Marcon - Glassa
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
A polyphonic examination of the Italian artist's project for the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, the largest display of the artist Diego Marcon artworks in an Italian institution, reviewing some of the central themes of Diego Marcon’s research.
 ORLAN - Hibridaciones / Hybridizations
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Temblores Publicaciones
Hybridizations presents the most recent work of the French artist ORLAN which reflects, from the aesthetics of ancient Mesoamerican cultures, on the canons of beauty, cultural exchanges, and the symbolic and material powers of native peoples in a globalized world.
François Ristori -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
Georges Rousse - Rising Circles
2023
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
various
A retrospective of Georges Rousse's "circles."
Mieke Bal - Concepts itinérants - Comment se déplacer dans les sciences humaines
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course "beyond" cultural studies.
Roberto Barbanti - Les sonorités du monde - De l\'écologie sonore à l\'écosophie sonore
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast research on the notion of acoustic and sound ecology and its transition to a new sound ecosophy, integrating the multidimensionality of listening to propose to hear differently.
 Eva & Franco Mattes - Fukushima Texture Pack
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
This artist's book reflects Eva & Franco Mattes' continued interest in the condition of displacement to be sensed in Fukushima. Borrowing the format of wrapping-paper catalogs, it contains twenty large pre-perforated sheets, each of which features a photographic texture—a seamlessly repeating motif captured by the camera amid the radioactive ruins of the contaminated towns and countryside.
Antoine Bonnet - Poétique de la décroissance
2023
French edition
Mix
Contemporary art and degrowth.
Art & Essai - 2014-2020
2023
French edition
Présent composé
This book documents six years of reflections and productions, that is to say the 47 exhibitions—dedicated to young emerging artists as well as to major actors of the French and international art scene—organized at the Galerie Art & Essai of the University Rennes 2 between 2014 and 2020 under the direction of John Cornu.
Paradis
2023
texts in English and French
various
Paradis is a continuation of the eponymous exhibition conceived by artist Marie Angeletti in Marseilles in 2021. The exhibition brought together 56 artists of different origins and generations. More than just a transcription of this event, this catalogue brings together some one hundred contributions, combining critical texts, poetry, artists' writings and new translations, alongside an equally large number of visual contributions and ad hoc works, most of them previously unpublished.
Spectres - A Thousand Voices
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Spectres
Shelter Press - Spectres
The fourth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, around the topic of voice (with François J. Bonnet, John Giorno, David Grubbs, Lee Gamble, Sarah Hennies, Joan La Barbara, Pierre Schaeffer, Peter Szendy, Ghédalia Tazartès...).
Sahara - A Thousand Paths Into the Future
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future is devoted to the ideas, images, poetics, politics, fictions, and movements of this vast desert and its myriad voices.
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