search results for "the contemporary condition"
2025
Discrepant
A new revelation into the deeply personal soundworld of a true voyager of both ancient, present and forthcoming times.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
A series of photographs of Naples, by Jim C. Nedd, blending and reinterpreting elements from diverse iconographic traditions, such as fashion photography, documentary, and tableau vivant.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Romanian)
Punch
An extensive survey of Romanian artist Ionuț Cioană's practice, with a selection of texts he wrote over the years.
2025
English edition
MER. Books
A stark and contemplative tribute to composer and intellectual Alain Pierre (1948-2024) by Belgian artist Tim Onderbeke.
2025
Discrepant
The third thematic volume on the "Aquapelagos" series, a collection of split LPs where selected artists offer their own take into water surrounded cultures and communities.
2025
English edition
Punch
An artist's book published in celebration of Peles Duo's twenty years of work.
2025
French edition
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Books
A project conceived by artist Julien Prévieux around current issues in space law.
2025
Editions Mego
A previously unreleased theatre soundtrack made for Icelandic choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, whom Peter Rehberg had a decade long collaboration with until his untimely passing in 2021. A psychological journey through the mental effects of sound on space and subsequently the mind.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
A collection of essays discussing the role of spider/webs in different cultures from an inter-species perspective.
2025
Sub Rosa
(last copies available!)
An album based on a cruel text by Moldavian writer Nicola Esinencu, somewhere in between a hybrid electronic – modern classical oratorio and a concept album.
2025
Sub Rosa
An album based on a cruel text by Moldavian writer Nicola Esinencu, somewhere in between a hybrid electronic – modern classical oratorio and a concept album.
2025
French edition
Kunsthalle Mulhouse
Writer Nicolas Tardy is an author associated with the 2022 exhibition season of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. He immersed himself in the universe of three exhibitions, composed freely around the works and ideas he perceived there.
2025
French edition
Kunsthalle Mulhouse
Writer Véronique Vassiliou is an author associated with the 2023 exhibition season of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. She immersed herself in the universe of three exhibitions, composed freely around the works and ideas she perceived there.
2025
English edition
Nero
An hybrid editorial object based on the language of fashion, utilizing the eponymous exhibition at the MACRO museum as a starting point.
2025
English edition
Damiani - Photography
Inside the drag-queen “Invasion” on Fire Island.
2025
French edition
Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books
Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A critical reflection on colonial spaces initiated by the Portuguese artist.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
Four epistolary exchanges between Thierry Chancogne and Richard Niessen about the Palace of Typographic Masonry, a project initiated in 2014
by the Dutch graphic designer as an imaginary architecture devoted entirely to the variety, abundance, digressions and poetry of graphic expression.
2025
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Nieves
Two series of brutal, raw drawings by Miriam Cahn.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
Michel Guet's intellectual diary, from his commitment to "Banalytique" (an experimental movement that emerged from French post-situationnism in the early 1980s in response to the triumph of the "colonization of reality by market value" and the injunctions to make work totally profitable) to the social critique of art and the vertigo of a planet on fire.
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
At the crossroads of design, art, architecture and popular culture, Alexandra Midal investigates the techniques developed by artists, designers and revolutionaries to conceal information and messages, through the lens of the coded language of flowers.
2025
French edition (texts in English)
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ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
currently out of stock
The 14th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with interviews Brian Roettinger, Eliott Grunewald, Aurore Piedigrossi, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Mathilde Agius, Marvin Armand and Cécilia Poupon and a conversation between Erwan Bouroullec and Michel Roset.
2025
Discrepant
currently out of stock
Recorded during a residency in Tenerife powered by Keroxen Festival and Discrepant back in 2020—amidst the pandemic, no less—, the duo of Carlos Godinho and Mestre André return after their "Mãe D'Água" debut on Sucata Tapes and an entry on Keroxen's Aquapelago Series through a split with tropical druids Lagoss.
2025
Editions Mego
currently out of stock
Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker pursue their exploration of the computer music system invented by Xenakis.
2025
Faitiche
currently out of stock
A remastered 20th-anniversary reissue of the album released on the ~scape label in 2005 and long out of print on vinyl, with which Jan Jelinek turned away from his earlier jazz-glitch experiments and dance-floor incursions to venture into the organic sounds of early krautrock bands.
2025
Discrepant
currently out of stock
Ergo Phizmiz creates a time loop with his ambient recordings made two decades before the memefication of ASMR videos.
2025
Aurora Central Records
currently out of stock
The first-ever release on vinyl of the important 2001 lowercase work "Forms of Paper" by Steve Roden. Lovingly remastered by Taylor Deupree of 12K Masters in 2024 from the original recording, this limited-edition LP features Steve Roden's artwork on the cover/packaging.
2025
French edition
various
currently out of stock
Irène Schwartz's notebooks enable us to follow the entire creative process that, between 1973 and 1983, led the artist to three actions in the field of body art or, more specifically, eat art.
2025
Editedby
currently out of stock
Recorded in 2019 at the Centre Pompidou, Music for Today is the last public performance by Canadian artist Michael Snow, who died in 2023. Entirely improvised on a prepared piano, this musical piece is a true journey through the musical work of an artist who made perpetual experimentation an artistic practice in its own right.
2025
Reiger Records Reeks
currently out of stock
A major reissue of Roland Kayn's cybernetic music: a 5-CD boxed set based on the original recordings from the Lydia and Roland Kayn Archive, sensibly remastered by Jim O'Rourke.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
currently out of stock
Issue 39 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo takes us into group dynamics conducive to the experience and learning of joy.
2025
Xing
currently out of stock
Amazoom by Luca Trevisani presents two hypotheses of landscape reincarnation, two translations, two strict, entropic protocols of imagination.
2025
English edition
Reliable Copy
Short Circuits features essays, interviews, and documentation that highlight Dubai based artist Vikram Divecha's interest in the often invisible structures of planning, construction, demolition and maintenance. It centres on his long-term collaborations with workers, contractors and decision-makers who shape the cities of the United Arab Emirates and beyond.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture / Astrologie considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs.
2025
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
The new special Toilet Paper edition, in collaboration with British artist-photographer Miles Aldridge.
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
A collection exploring the intersections of gender and religion in post-secular knowledge production and visual culture.
2025
English edition
Jeu de Paume
A collective story that recounts the history of the representation of natural landscapes and the imaginations that accompany them.
2025
English edition
Artforum
Denzil Forrester, Sophie Calle, "The Imaginary Institution of India", PST ART, Bill Viola...
2025
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Farida Amadou & Martina Berther; Cécile Babiole; LUFF 2024; Fuji|||||||||||ta; Emmanuelle Tornero; Clément Vercelletto; Donald Miller (1958-2024); Sophie Agnel; Annick Nozati & Daunik Lazro...
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore - Autobiography
John Armleder delivers a series of drawings for his “autobiography”.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
Joint artistic research, between Switzerland and Brazil, around ideas of consumption and exhaustion, the legacies of colonialist expropriation and its monocultural ideologies, besides the infrastructures of export and displacement, across both countries and their intertwined historie.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A look back at the poetic, political and anthropological dimensions of the collective performance initiated by artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò around a mining plant in Sardinia.
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Published in collaboration with Harun Farocki Institut, this book unpacks About Narration [Erzählen], a 1975 essay film directed by Ingemo Engström and Harun Farocki.
2025
French edition
Lenka lente
Without ever giving a lesson in painting, Alain Gunst lists 32 reasons for painting that, “bad” or “not so bad”, take malicious pleasure in mocking an art world.
2025
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A book-length poem by Berlin based artist and poet Natalie Häusler.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.
2025
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Portées
A booklet containing two musical pieces by artist Grégoire Motte and composer Gabriel Mattei.
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.
2025
French edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A look back at all Nicolas Trembley's exhibitions over the past 10 years, the cross-fertilization of art and craft, and the various references he has used, both Western and Eastern.