search results for "the contemporary condition"
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).
2023
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph (also available in English edition).
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An indepth survey to June Crespo's artistic practice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
CAPC
First monograph.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2023
no text
Nieves
The culmination of the American artist's assemblage project.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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).
2023
English edition
Floating Opera Press
The Darkest Corners documents and explores sculptures by Lena Marie Emrich and an eponymous exhibition.
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
A large retrospective of the Swiss cult photographer's work over two decades.
2023
no text
Captures - 2/5 Series
Four artist's posters.
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Carroll Dunham's "Green Period."
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.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
The music composed by Federico Chiari for various film and video works by the artist Diego Marcon.
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.
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.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
2023
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
various
A retrospective of Georges Rousse's "circles."
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.
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.
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.
2023
French edition
Mix
Contemporary art and degrowth.
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.
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.
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...).
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.