Herbert List was fascinated by the ”artificial humans“—life-size figures moulded in wax—on display at the Panoptikum in Vienna’s Prater. In 1944, he photographed these waxworks,…
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Celebrating what could have been but remains unlikely. One size fits all, bad hair days welcome. Disclaimer: book that hotel at your own risk !
Une collaboration qui n'existe que…
Intense! Après des mois d’échanges avec David Douard autour de scanners, de boules de plâtre, de zines, de fichiers numériques et de caractères typographiques non conformes, 0´THEE LIL' 0 est là.
Élaboré…
I’m interested in people for whom raving is a collaborative practice that makes it possible to endure this life. There’s a lot of metaphors I could throw at this: rave as addiction, ritual, performance, catharsis,…
When Sean DeLear died prematurely in Vienna in 2017, his friends…
Quatre recettes simplissimes pour une cuisine économique et familiale. Les filles deviendront des tanks, les garçons seront réduits en bouillie. Le régime parfait accessible à toutes et tous.
Cette…
L'air de la brume grise, la masse de ce qui s'y déplace est assez grande pour ne pas être remuée par le vent, et ce qui constitue cette brume est un ensemble de grains qui traversent les espaces, se rapprochent et s'éloignent,…
Celebrated for his compelling lyrical films and video art installations, Isaac Julien is one of the leading artists working today.
This landmark book reveals the scope of Julien’s pioneering practice of over forty…
The End Times are here. The Digital Middle Ages approaches, the plague reaps its deadly harvest, climate apocalypse is around the corner, and fanaticism, fascism, and madness are rampant.
A novel in three parts, Sinkhole: Three Crimes submerges readers in a grotesque and comical world on the edge of collapse – much like our own. Britain is immersed in a toxic swamp, and sinkholes are opening up in the ground…
When we practice becoming with another’s experience, we practice empathy. When we embody collectiveness, we understand ourselves as a whole and therefore feel no separation. What would it be like to inhabit a body without…
Precise, astute, and uncompromising in its nuance, My Pleasure lives in the poetic entanglements of pleasure, disgust, and agency. From the bed to the club, the coal mine, the power plant, and the jail cell, Silt asks:…
Archive Dora Diamant est une collection de livres de photos initiée en 2022 et co-éditée par les éditions l’Amazone. Photographe autodidacte et figure iconique des nuits parisiennes, Dora Diamant a légué des milliers…
A glorious design herbarium of marijuana ads from the great underground magazines of the 1960s and '70s.
The youth uprising, now simply called "The Sixties," was fed by one of the greatest booms in publishing history.…
Spike #75 fêtes the museum in all its stuffy, messy, showy, old-timey glory, as a home-away-from-home, the address of solace and astonishment. Featuring William Pope.L, Simon Wu, Louise Lawler, Ben Davis, Ann Demeester,…
1979. Lizzy Mercier Descloux a 23 ans et termine d’enregistrer son premier album, Press Color, qui marquera l’histoire du post-punk. Elle a publié un recueil de poèmes et de collages (Desiderata), elle…
Drawing inspiration from the Worker Photography Movement of the 1920s, which saw photographers collaborating with workers and trade unions to visualize societal and political conditions from a working-class perspective,…
What is the best way to tell a story?
In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative, cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top experimental writers describe…
This MASSIVE publication offers the first comprehensive panorama of the Latin American illustrated book between the 1920s and 1940s, a period characterized by the rapid modernization of the region. The books reproduced…
Un spectre hante l'histoire de la littérature : des femmes écrivent, et sont (parfois) lues. L'histoire, s'écrivant de mémoire d'hommes, délaisse, néglige et relègue dans l'oubli les productions des femmes. Toujours ramenés…
The photographs made by Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg in Morocco in the 1950s. For fans and scholars alike.
It’s early morning and there’s a whole new day ahead. How will it unfold? The baby will feed, hopefully she’ll sleep; Helen looks out of the window. The Long Form is the story of two people composing a day together. It…
First published in 1961, Lorenza Mazzetti’s The Sky is Falling (Il cielo cade) is an impressionistic, idiosyncratic, and uniquely funny look at the writer’s childhood after she and her sister are sent…
OMG A new collection of stories by the author of Terminal Boredom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! with titles such as “Full of Malice,”The Covenant,” “Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise,” or “Hit Parade of Tears.”
Izumi…
The feeling of disappointment is not only close to regret, sadness, and dissatisfaction – a feeling of loss, an uncomfortable space (or a painful gap) between expectations and reality – we also understand it as a rattling…
Featuring: Tal R & Emma Rosenzweig, Pedro Costa, Dayanita Singh, Alexander Calder, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Laura & Deanna Fanning, Misha Kahn, Abdellah Taïa, Lucia Di Luciano & Giovanni Pizzo, Robert Barber, Bas Princen, Seyni…
Catalogue of the same name exhibition held at Maison R&C, 224 Rue Paradis, 13006 Marseille, from August 26 to Octobre 25, 2021. Check back cover picture for the list of contributions.
"This book is the result of my first visit to Kolkata, India, from January to February 2020. [...]
Drawing became a daily practise for me in Kolkata. I bought a bunch of drawing paper and coloured pencils at an art…
For this fourth and (for now) last edition in our ¶ (Pilcrow) series we invited artist Kim David Bots to explore notions of memory and cognition through various myths, histories, phenomena, poems and images he found on…
Un matin, dans une chambre d’hôtel de Vancouver, Hazel Brown découvre au réveil qu’elle a écrit l’œuvre entier de Baudelaire. Sous le choc de cette révélation, elle replonge dans sa mémoire de fille et raconte l’époque…
Responses to Untitled (eye with comet) (c.1985) by Paul Thek is the sixth anthology in a series that gathered responses to works of art made during a period of the ongoing…
The Solar Circus is the great forgotten masterpiece of French Symbolist literature. Written by Gustave Kahn—the man whom Stéphane Mallarmé and Jules Laforgue credited…
Smoking Smoked Smoke
Now I know the
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And to you
I can swear
Good ones
and bad ones…
And it's a new F.R.DAVID ! We can find an Hanne Darboven quote in it. It says:
"It's exhausting. it's good. It's idea. It's idea. It's good. It's exhausting."
Dedicated to the Sadie Plant book…
Andy Warhol (1928–1987), a giant of twentieth century art, is known to most people for his iconic images of soup cans, Coke bottles, and Marilyn Monroe. Before his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s as a Pop Art…
Ce que je propose, c’est une autre approche des politiques et sexualités queers, une approche qui ne se confonde pas avec le refus de toute norme. ‘Le queer’ n’est ni un être ou un état (‘si je suis’), ni le résultat…
Après une campagne militaire fulgurante, l’organisation secrète du redoutable Dr Belsidus a chassé les puissances occupantes du sol africain et s’est rendue maitre de l’ensemble du continent, unifié pour la première fois…
La Scomparsa Degli Sciapodi (“The Dissapearance of the Skiapodes”) is a book that brings together several historical images of Skiapodes. The term Skiapode – also spelled Sciapode, Skiapod or Sciapod – derives…
tout se passe très vite. en surface, des humains, du désespoir. en profondeur, une multiplicité : des naissances, des ancêtres, des histoires, des émotions, des envies, des désirs… ostensiblement, les paroles s’atténuent,…
D’habitude quand j’écris
je veux utiliser un langage
qui colle aux impressions
qui me parviennent du réel
au sens large
et pas forcément
Building collects works spanning more than twenty years, presented as a visual essay on experimental space-making that culminates in the two major exhibitions of the artists' work planned for 2023. Balanced on…
Multidisciplinary performer, designer and artist Tabboo! rose to prominence during the 1980s through New York City’s underground drag scene. When Tabboo! first moved to the city at age 23, he fell in love with the electrifying,…
D’Alexandrine à Zizanie, 101 définitions mythologiques, topographiques et poétiques, inventées par Helena de Laurens, Clara Pacotte et Esmé Planchon, inspirées par le Brouillon pour un dictionnaire des amantes de Monique…
Originellement écrit sous la forme d’un fanzine en 2019, ce manifeste articule ensemble transféminisme et anticapitalisme. En reprenant l’approche matérialiste du féminisme et du handicap, Giles considère ici la transition…
Archives on Show brings the potential of reformulating the social and political relevance of archives by curatorial means into focus. Based on the specific properties, faculties and methods of curation, the volume…
An Ongoing-Offcoming Tale comprises abstractions, subversions and poetic ruminations, housed within essays that engage with the lives and practices of over 30 artists (Maria Thereza Alves, Jean-Pierre Bekolo,…
Despite humanity's gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residue—the trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic material—thereby…
Sophie Reinhold (born 1981 in East Berlin) lives and works in Berlin. She studied painting at the Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, and at the Akademie der bildenden…
"May 24
Dream that insects were "the new Covid." Was at some sort of garden store/hotel complex, sheltering with others. When the time for my transformation came, I elected "moth"."
❧ If a Leaf Falls…
"I am married to the idea of being a book, being a character. I am married to the idea of being a character in a book
I was sucking on a peach. " A summer day but in winter, " I thought while walking towards the…
Iconic punk musician Adele Bertei’s memoir Twist is her harrowing and electric story of transforming trauma through art, pluck, and imagination, as told through the voice of her alter ego, Maddie Twist.
Adele…
BACK IN STOCK… In her radical exploration of cultural and personal identity, the writer and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha sought “the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue.” Her first book, the highly…
How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History,…
Cette exposition et la publication qui l'accompagne tracent et retracent les relations entre l'art et l'activisme de la lutte contre le VIH/sida dans certains contextes, et les généalogies entre des générations d'artistes…
OMG Livre mythique et épuisé depuis x temps en VO, voici en traduction française Plus brillant que le soleil, de Kodwo Eshun, essai conceptuel afrofuturiste, « machine conçue pour voyager à la vitesse de la pensée,…
Will gardens help us achieve a liveable future for everyone? Gardens reflect identities, dreams, and visions. Deeply rooted in their culture, they can unfold immense symbolic potential. The recent revival of horticulture…
Philosopher Kate Soper offers an urgent plea for a new vision of the good life, one that is capable of delinking prosperity from endless growth. Instead, she calls for a renewed emphasis on the joys of being, one that…
In this first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father…
En anthropologie comme dans la culture populaire, les rois sont des figures qui fascinent et qui intriguent. Ils se révèlent comme des héros ou des tyrans avec une vigueur dont les personnages politiques sont incapables.…
Livre culte du féminisme italien, Nous crachons sur Hegel, ici traduit intégralement pour la première fois, expose et concentre en six textes la pensée du féminisme de Carla Lonzi. Tenant à la…
Délinquantes, c’est l’institution qui le dit. Elles, toutes mineures, rêvent. Courent. Volent. Refusent de signer. Et finissent toujours par trouver un trou dans le grillage.
Dans ce récit choral, Sonia Chiambretto…
Décrit comme « la Bible du typographe » par le dessinateur de caractères allemand Hermann Zapf, et traduit dans plus de dix langues dans le monde, Principes élémentaires de la typographie est considéré comme un…
In this new book, James Voorhies argues that we live in the shadow of old ways of thinking about art that emphasize the immediate visual experience of an autonomous art object. But theory must change as artistic and curatorial…
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Ce premier volume des Cahiers des Typotes est consacré à Voix Off, une imprimerie non mixte fondée à Paris en 1982 par quatre femmes militantes du MLF désireuses de créer un lieu de travail…
Une traduction collective d'extraits du livre Reverse Cowgirl de McKenzie Wark, avec deux postfaces originales de Benjamin Dlv et Julie Bintje qui proposent des lectures émotionnelles et critiques, entre littérature…
The building of a house we will never live in – a house for our ghosts where the gothic and the hallucinatory collide.
From the cellular to the galactic, via Paleolithic cave markings to the trace impressions…
“frog pond plop” (1965) refers to a celebrated Japanese haiku poem by Matsuo Bash¯o from 1686, which takes as its theme the sound of a frog jumping into a pond. Houédard reduces the three groups of words characteristic…
Aux États-Unis, à la fin des années 1970, des artistes comme Dara Birnbaum, Jack Goldstein, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, Richard Prince ou Cindy Sherman se mettent à reproduire des images…
The Fifth Wound is a phantasmagorical roman à clef about passion as a way of life. In one dimension, this is a love story—Aurora & Ezekiel—a separation and a reunion. In another, we witness a tale of multiple…
Founded in 1984 by women around Gabriele Stötzer, the Erfurt Women Artists’ Group pursued a radically creative lifestyle to counter the rigid structures of everyday life in the GDR, over a period of ten years. Subversive,…
La Tendre nouvelle est arrivée ! avec les textes de :
Simon Pastoors, Vinciane Mandrin, Clémence Rousseau, Alex Balgiu et Safia Bahmed-Schwartz.
A long-awaited publication on the fascinating work of Paulo de Cantos (1892-1979), a Portuguese publisher, bibliophile, educator, and amateur typographer who wrote, designed, and published around 40 titles between 1920…
There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end—of democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the Holocene, of civilization as we know it. In this book, drawing on radical futurisms and…
Abolish the Family traces the history of family abolitionist demands, beginning with nineteenth century utopian socialist and sex radical Charles Fourier, the Communist Manifesto and early-twentieth century Russian…
Fifth Quarter: Derek Jarman, Keith Collins & Dungeness brings together collaborators, friends, contemporary artists, writers, musicians, and curators to respond to the influence and legacy of Jarman and his late partner…
We Are But Nothing takes place during a funeral in Argentina, when the unnamed narrator meets some of his old school friends after a long time away. What is a sad albeit boring occasion serves here as an excuse…
In her experimental debut novella, A Rock, A River, A Street, artist Steffani Jemison moves deftly across narrative genres and styles as she interrogates the boundedness of the self, the possibilities of plurality,…
AKEEM SMITH, stylist-turned-artist gets frisky in titty suit
By Zak Stone and Philip-Daniel Ducasse
EILEEN MYLES, legendary dyke is turned on by poetry
By Brontez Purnell and Jack Pierson
OLIVER SIM,…
Limited in space, bodies are immense in their potentiality. Today, in the face of a crisis – ecological, military, economic and social – it is their vulnerability that defines them most. Guest edited by Neringa Černiauskaitė,…
Powerfully inventive and atmospheric, Strega is a modern gothic story of nine young women on the cusp of inheriting society’s submission to violence, and the age-long myths that uphold it
With…
Originally released as a feature film in 1993, the year before the acclaimed artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman’s death due to an AIDS-related illness, Blue is a daring and powerful work of art. The film and its…
Working as a self-taught artist, and employed as an office manager in the former GDR, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt used her typewriter to create patterns and abstract compositions with characters and letters at the junction of Concrete…
A central figure in the Cali and Bogotá art and film scenes of the 1970s and '80s, Karen Lamassonne has maintained a focus on self-portraiture and depictions of intimacy across private and public spaces in her work. From…
A vibrant, wry, and engaging account of life as an adventurous, queer young person in late 1970s London discovering themselves as an artist, and an individual.
While working as a photographer's model, gallery usher,…
The March issue of TZK centers perspectives of trans artists and writers. They call attention to transmisogyny and intersections between racism, anti-Semitism, and transphobia in the art field as well as to the potentials…
Amazing large-sized publication on newsprint, with mirror paper on the inside cover, gathering 63 photos of Amsterdam by Robby Müller.
“This publication is intended as an ode to the special light of Amsterdam,…
Based on the exhibition Proof of Stake: Technological Claims at Kunstverein in Hamburg, curated by Simon Denny and Bettina Steinbrügge, the book brings together a global group of artists and scholars who inquire…
In Candles, Onderbeke uses his own work and that of others to research what he calls "the colour of darkness," or negative space—a concept he borrowed from the Japanese writer and essayist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.…
This first monograph on Swiss artist Louisa Gagliardi introduces her specific voice within the landscape of contemporary painting.
Louisa Gagliardi (born 1989 in Sion, Switzerland) draws freely from the codes of painting…
Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete materialist analysis of the…
The inner life of objects according to Erlend Peder Kvam. Humans have created many tools in order to make life better and more organized, such as languages, nation states and a lot of different objects. But who ever asked…
This cahier is a visual sketchbook for an exhibition by Marlene Dumas at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, in dialogue with the museum's collection. Although the exhibition…
“Je voyais ce qui était écrit sur les murs. Ce n’était plus les années 1990. Ce n’était même plus le Pacifique Nord-Ouest. Quelque chose était arrivé qui avait tout balayé et j’avais été abandonnée enfermée dans un sarcophage…
It's New York City, 1981, and everyone wants to be at the Emerson Club, from Cindy Crawford to Cindy Adams; from Famous Roger, one-time lion of the talk shows, to Sandy Miller, the “downtown” writer with the tattoos and…
Worms and Luncheon have come together to bring the tastiest of fertilisers, to accompany your lunch for one. Think of this publication as a wine pairing for bookworms. Each story has been tailored to…
Or should we say … Cooking with Scorsese & Juzo Itami & John Hughes & Gabriel Axel & Jeremiah Chechik & Tran Anh Hung & Campbell Scott & Stanley Tucci & Nora Ephron & Stephen Chow & Li Lik-chi & Ang Lee & Francis…
This has no longer to do with the myth of a one-way trajectory from the influencer to the influenced; instead, it speaks of a click or spark between poles. It evokes the idea of an encounter. It takes two to tango.…
This zine turns our eyes to the great histories of natural dyers.
Women, witches and healers throughout time have practised dyeing out of necessity and joy, and passed down the sacred knowledge to their children.…
« Chez Godard, tout geste, toute pratique, toute phase dans la création, depuis sa conception jusqu’à sa diffusion dans l’espace public, se transforme en proposition sur l’art. Le terme d’ « art » , ici, renvoie non pas…
Le musée occidental est un champ de bataille – idéologique, politique et économique. Si à peu près tout le monde veut aujourd’hui « repenser le musée », peu ont pourtant l’audace d’interroger…