A major work by one of the great public intellectuals of the twentieth century, The Question of Palestine was the first book to narrate the modern Palestinian experience…
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Lancement avec Olivier Kaeser de Dance First Think Later – Le corps pensant entre danse et arts visuels – un livre qui rassemble 25 textes inédits explorant les terrains convergents entre danse, performance, arts…
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As the name implies, the Glossary of Cognitive Activism is an iterative activist dictionary composed of 330 words that together describe and navigate the technological, ecological, sociogenic, artistic and philosophical…
Nikki Tempest fait repousser ses tentacules coupés, comme le font les poulpes. À la fin d’un amour tragique en 2019, elle commence un parcours de rétablissement long et douloureux, qu’elle fait pour elle aussi bien que…
Described by those who knew him best as a Buddha, a Merlin, and “a cross between Brer Rabbit and St. Francis of Assisi,” the artist Beauford Delaney was anything but ordinary. James Baldwin, his closest friend, wrote that…
ferme les yeux comme un tunnel voulu/
me dis que ca commence comme ca -
la douceur de la couleur dans l oeil fermé
rien n a d’ importance
a part les ondes é les voix
Who is the Oriental Cyborg? asks Aditi Kini in this collection of notes, jokes, and queries into the provenance of a creature designed for labor, 3-D printed in the technoscientific post-colonies, modeled on old automata.…
The specimen for Signs, a new modern and multipurpose typeface designed by Maximage between 2018 and 2021. It was inspired principally by mid-20th-century typefaces designed for signage and used in the architecture industry.…
Une introduction à la pratique unique de la peinture et du dessin que l’artiste colombienne Emma Reyes a développée du milieu des années 1940 au début des années 2000 en Argentine, aux États-Unis, au Mexique, en Italie,…
Gathering Suzon, a new collection of writings by Raimundas Malašauskas, and a reprint of the sold-out book Paper Exhibitions from 2012, this book offers a window onto the legendary Lithuanian curator’s…
mon congélateur était vide mon estomac également mon cerveau passait la limite névrotique de l'obsession il était 16h48 l'heure du goûter allait bientôt être dépassée il me fallait de la glace
This title features the recovered and re-edited transcript of a 1998 conversation between artist Adrian Piper and philosopher Peter Osborne at Jerry’s restaurant in Soho, New York.
As Piper…
Is art obliged to engage with politics? If so, how? By taking sides in political struggle; by singing the song of the barricade, the new nation, the bombed city? Or by giving form to the deeper patterns of experience –…
Children’s books tell more than just stories. They stimulate the imagination, convey feelings and help young readers to explore the world. Many appeal to both children and adults alike through their idiosyncratic narratives,…
David King Publications 1977–2019 is the first published survey of David King’s book projects and graphic design work. David King (1948–2019) was a British born artist, graphic designer, and musician best known…
Writer Ellen Mara De Wachter considers the ways in which food, when used as a material in contemporary art, confronts, subverts and ultimately brings us to our senses. Focusing on artists working between 1960 and 2000,…
What do we start with when telling a story — What tensions activate it — What does it promise — What do we want from it — How do we deliver it — Must it have an end — What about a story which never began — Stories we wish…
Jack Smith (1932-1989), cinéaste et artiste-performer multi-facettes de l’underground new-yorkais, vouait une admiration sans pareil à l’actrice Maria Montez, qui connut son heure de gloire à Hollywood dans des films d’aventures…
A remarkable blood-soaked stranger upends the lives of two Lake District ramblers; a lonely tavern offers its guests something much more disturbing than a post-walk pint; a night hike on the Fens takes a terrifying turn…
Mike Kelley is best known as one of the most influential visual artists of his generation. But he was also an insightful theorist who wrote profusely about his work as well as on aesthetics in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s,…
No one can get out of their skin. This popular saying expresses the fact that each person has a skin. Each skin is therefore unique. It is a non-transferable document. Acting as a record, it details aspects of an individual…
From microbes meeting to speculative mindmaps and from cyclical calendars to mutually beneficial exchange-systems, this deck of 42 illustrated cards will help you get a deeper understanding of the world of fungi – recognising…
Compiling works from nearly five decades, Headwaters (and Other Short Fictions) provides the first comprehensive overview of the narrative and experimental writing of Lucy R. Lippard. While she is best known for…
To listen, then, is to fail at understanding in the traditional sense. It is to tremble and await, to dream, to explore and to remain open to the dissonance that arises in the encounter with otherness. Through failure,…
« Suite à un évènement, je commence une collection de formes. La première est trouvée et photographiée le jour de ma dernière rencontre avec J. Pour bien des raisons encore, je me mets à y voir des signes.
D’une…
Meriem Laribi est journaliste indépendante. Tel un journal de bord, cet ouvrage retrace sa veille médiatique d'une année de génocide commis par Israël à Gaza du 7 octobre 2023 au 7 octobre 2024. Suivant les événements…
« Et si j’étais une sublime blessure à l’intérieur de laquelle les gens dansent ? »
Fuir la ville et retourner dans sa réserve, au nord de l’Alberta ; y trouver auprès des membres de la communauté la matière pour…
Tout un chacun une arme est un recueil du poète britannique Sean Bonney, qui pratiquait une poétique militante. La majorité des textes proviennent de Letters against the Firmament.
Ses « lettres » sont…
The New Television delves into the rich history of video art, reexamining the pivotal Open Circuits conference held at MoMA in 1974 and exploring its enduring relevance to today’s artistic and critical…
How can we talk about violence against bodies, objects or nature in regions of conflict? What acts of brutality lie beneath these landscapes? And how to reflect on Western knowledge production…
Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decade she was known as a keen observer of postmodern art and lesbian feminist life who…
Darryl Cook is a cuckold, and that’s exactly how he likes it. He has an inheritance that spares him from work, a manageable and seemingly consequence-free drug habit, and a lovely wife called Mindy who’s generally game…
Why do some processes—like aging, birth, and car crashes—occur in only one direction in time, when by the fundamental symmetry of the universe, we should experience time both forward and backward? Our dominant perception…
Mushroom Fever explores the history of the first mushroom club in New York City—the 19th century New York Mycological Club.
Cornelia C. Bedford founded the organization in 1897 with the goals of studying…
Written in response to three “physical” photographs, Broken Villas contains and considers how a vessel might clasp tightly to known volumetric identities, but also loom with a set of accentuated clues towards…
Made in private between 1984 and 1999 and kept mostly to herself for more than thirty years, the images in Tender comprise a complete, personal self-portrait of a young, queer, Black woman intimately exploring…
Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence? In a series of letters to her father, her great-grandmothers, and her children—and to thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Hannah Arendt—Ariella Aïsha Azoulay examines…
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future. Other white nationalists envision racist utopias filled…
Hope you had a good Christmas. I did; played in the snow all morning, completely broke my glasses, went down in the subways & took 8 pictures of myself in a “4 for 25¢ machine,” worked on a self-portrait collage, went…
Satura comes from the Latin term satura lanx, meaning a dish filled with fruits intended for the gods, from which has descended a literary genre characterized by a variety of styles. In Italian, satura…
Announcing the inauguration of the Sori Yanagi Appreciation Society, this is also the first publication outside of Japan on one of the 20th century’s most important industrial designers. Sori Yanagi (1915–2011) is especially…
“Here’s a river of fire. Dive in, if you dare. It will clear the fog.”
—Arundhati Roy
Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues…
Une incroyable destruction des bonnes manières du « Blanc, adulte et civilisé »
—Oswald de Andrade
Ce livre réunit trois textes d’Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954). Une retraduction du mythique « Manifeste…
This is a minute-by-minute depiction of a typical night at a legendary monthly house party known as ‘The Wickedest’. Here, we meet a vivid cast of characters, young and old, all surfing a revelry steeped in camaraderie,…
I’m at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them – for me it would be thousands of sex partners.
The 85-year-old “paterfamilias of queer literature” recounts the sixty-plus…
In her extraordinary non-fiction debut, Jacqueline Feldman tells the story of Le Bloc, a legendary squat situated at the far edge of Paris, near where the banlieue begins. Opened in 2012, the squat took in artists and…
In this series of poetic vignettes, award-winning poet Minnie Bruce Pratt explores the fluidity, capaciousness, unpredictability, malleability, and shifting everyday terrains of sex and gender. As memoir, S/HE…
You are alive
for a moment
when living people
run after you.
Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza…
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“More than ten years ago, we watched Maboroshi, a Japanese movie by Kore-eda Hirokazu and were hypnotised by Wajima and the Noto region in Japan. A few years later we visited an…
Malandre is a magazine around latinx culture and club culture, specially focused on post-club music in the community and creating knots in sense along with decolonial theories and matters of deconstruction ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ.
Malandre…
This book documents the production of Céline Condorelli’s process-based, cumulative artwork titled Tools for Imagination. The title of the book raises the question of labour and working time,…
Learning from the inscription in the courtyard of the Ducal Palace of Urbino, Radim Peško, Jonathan Pierini and the students from ISIA Urbino consider different approaches based on the original letterforms from the renaissance…
Pourquoi est-il si difficile de dépasser le capitalisme ? La question a hanté Mark Fisher toute sa vie. Elle traverse l’ensemble des textes réunis dans ce recueil – essais, chroniques…
Liberté du tissu qui s’échappe comme la vie elle-même. Laisser cette porte ouverte au mouvement, la laisser ouverte juste le temps qu’il faut pour contempler l’absence et se résigner…
This book names and wrestles with design and institutional design education’s pseudo-neutral relationship with colonial capitalist world orders and what it means to teach and design today. It slowly weaves together ideas…
Briar Levit’s design journey is as rich and unexpected as a forest hike. From the bustling offices of Bitch magazine to historic trails in Kent and the best Goodwills of Portland, her practice weaves through teaching,…
An artist-book/catalog published in the aftermath of Flint Jamison’s show, Installation View at Paid, Seattle, in Spring of 2023*. A matter of garage doors.
As often with the artist, we are faced with…
On ne peut comprendre la condition palestinienne sans comprendre l’assujettissement de la Palestine à l’impérialisme fossile depuis deux siècles. Tout commence en 1840, quand la victoire des Anglais sur les troupes ottomanes…
The third issue of Le Chauffage – an artist-run publication based in Brussels and Vancouver – is an inquiry into the relationship between the practices of artists / writers and their day jobs. This subject…
In Paradise, Hollings tells the story of three kings who squandered everything they had in a grandiose spectacle of waste: King Ludwig II of Bavaria, “King of Rock’n’Roll” Elvis Presley…
Since the 1970s, Cynthia Hawkins (born 1950) has investigated the potentials of abstract painting. Her process-oriented practice embraces the improvisational to create a space for her continually evolving vocabulary. From…
I: What does it mean to be a scholar?
R: It means I knew all the tropes. I’d read hundreds of books. Could name the popular authors. I learned a lot about what femme lesbians wear,…
« La fête est politique. » Ce slogan peine à convaincre aujourd’hui. Le dancefloor, investi par le capitalisme, s’édulcore dans son devenir ambiance. Le pouvoir mobilise la puissance de la fête pour célébrer une identité…
Edited by writer and artist Michael Salu, fifteen of today’s most daring writers from across the globe read and respond to Italo Calvino’s seminal essay “Cybernetics and Ghosts” with rich and expansive works of fiction.
In…
A facsimile of a notebook from 1969 in which Paul Thek sketched, scribbled, and simmered images and ideas. Featuring thirty-one drawings that have never before been shown publicly, the book is filled with searching self-portraits,…
Speed Glum Hero. Read it as an instruction: Speed, Glum Hero. Read it as an assertion of life, like, keep living, go on. It takes this kind of serious play to make any sense of this moment we are living through.…
A cacophonous cabinet of curiosities, gathering other musics channeled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges. Compiled by musician, historian…
Depression is rife amongst young people the world over. But what if this isn’t depression as we know it, but instead a reaction to the chaos and collapse of a seemingly unchangeable and unliveable…
Alaa is haunted by his grandmother’s memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, Alaa’s neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critical of the military occupation…
A Set of Actual Tracks brings a contemporary critical lens to the work of Reyner Banham, one of the most prescient architectural and design critics of the 20th century. Sixteen of the acerbic historian’s essays…
Whether he’s describing Tracy Emin or Warhol, the films of Barbet Schroeder (“Schroeder is well aware that life is not a narrative; that we impose form on the movements of chance, contingency, and impulse....”) or the…
Lawrence Weiner’s use of graphic design has always been of fascination for graphic designers. “What makes Weiner’s work seductive to graphic designers is his resolutely non-apologetic method of displaying words without…
Robots designed to care for people and neglected landscapes of digital trash. The promise of synthetic biology and the panic of living on a dying planet. Wonderful feats of intelligence and systemic acts of violence. Exhilaration…
Unpacking About Narration [Erzählen], a 1975 essay film directed by Ingemo Engström and Harun Farocki! This book includes the film’s script alongside the historical documents related to its…
KLITTERN (aesopica) works through the fable “A Wolf and a Kid,” ascribed to the ancient poet and slave Aesop. Borrowing from and dressing up in the idioms of others, the play assembles tactics and gestures of…
In 2015, artist Patty Chang followed the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the longest aqueduct in the world, which brings water from southern to northern China. While walking, she collected her urine in plastic…
Enlisée dans sa nouvelle vie d’expatriée à Berlin, une jeune coréo-américaine suit sa colocataire à un gigantesque concert de K-Pop. Sur scène, Moon, l’un des chanteurs au charisme extraterrestre, subjugue notre…
CURRENCY 6 exists at the intersection of art history, culture, fashion and style. It includes contributions from over 25 writers and artists, such as Michel Amet, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Heinz Peter Knes, Merzedes…
Wow we’ve waited for that one for quite some time!! Wrapped in a very thin black tissue paper with a gold seal, 1/2 An Autobiography, Exhibition Catalog is the second volume of a publication project related to…
Philadelphia–based artist, dancer and choreographer Ralph Lemon (born 1952) is one of the most significant figures to arise from New York’s downtown scene in the 1990s. This catalog, published on the occasion of the first…
Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art examines the work of the inventive yet overlooked Los Angeles–based artist Teddy Sandoval (1949–1995). A central figure in Los Angeles’s queer and Chicanx artistic…
This is Mistress Rebecca’s account of having eight different submissive men make versions of Toulouse-Lautrec’s painting The Medical Inspection for Her using paint by number kits.
Reba Maybury is an artist,…
BACK IN STOCK : ) 40th anniversary reprinting of a beloved fable-manifesto from the 1970s queer counterculture. Writt en by Larry Mitchell with illustrations by Ned Asta, the book takes place in a brutal empire in decline,…
Ce livre est un manifeste hybride et impertinent, qui gicle et qui dérange. Entre impulsion vitale et répertoire de réflexions nées des fantasmes et de la rage existentielle de son autrice envers un système castrateur.…
It seems to me that collective energy may be found in a general unmastering, in which we would be ready to let go together – of mastery, of the narrative as a bounded entity, of gestures as “successful,” of meaning…
Entre 2014 et 2019, Thomas Hirschhorn entretient une correspondance avec les philosophes Alexandre Costanzo et Daniel Costanzo. Alors qu’il réalise à cette période certains projets emblématiques (on pense notamment à l’exposition…
Un recueil de textes de Zig Blanquer, militant handi autonomiste, écrits sur vingt ans, parus dans des revues et médias en ligne et hors ligne. Ces essais puissamment politiques et enthousiasmants abordent le validisme,…
A Hypothesis of Resistance contains five essays on Asynchronicity, Rehearsal, Undetectability, The Present Tense, and Duration. Each attempts to resist the doctrine of "performance," the symptom of a society,…
Issu d'une recherche empirique, Espaces pédagogiques alternatifs : de l'utopie à l'institutionnalisation enquête sur la manière dont les espaces de pédagogies alternatives se créent, se développent et se transforment.…
Un monstre venu des profondeurs de l'océan, un poulpe vampire. Sa violence rappelle les nazis, ses mœurs sont libertaires et libidineuses. C'est une créature infernale, cannibale et brutale, pouvant changer de couleur…
Robert Fitterman transposes William Carlos Williams’ postwar long poem Paterson onto the segregated suburbs of late twentieth-century St. Louis to track the collapse of the American urban landscape. Mirroring…
Death-obsessed, whiny, disengaged, and overinvested—the four long poems in Help theatricalize feelings that are usually considered childish. Steve Zultanski set up conversations and games between friends which…
The juxtaposition of intimacy and infrastructure might appear paradoxical at first, yet these two rubrics have recently been animating conversations around relational life in the work of a number of artists. Diving into…
A Tree, is about vegetal agency, plant knowledge, and the interaction between plants and people, with a specific focus on trees. Like all plants, trees make the world; they literally create soil, shape landscapes,…
The Secret History of Kate Bush, first published in 1982 as Kate Bush was on the verge of superstardom, is a daring and unorthodox dive into the world of music, fame, and cultural obsession. Written by Fred Vermorel…
SoiL Thornton’s practice engages with the underlying conditions of the exhibition, presentation and representation of artistic production. Who represents what? And what is it that constitutes meaning and value?
A loosely-linked collection that follows, with varying distance, an unnamed narrator, his dog, and girlfriend or wife, from small American town to town. He tries on clothes in the mirror, drives by ladders hanging off…
Fruit d'un travail de recherche approfondi sur l’œuvre de Bruno Richard et de Pascal Doury, cette anthologie de la revue mythique Elles sont de sortie (ESDS) retrace 5 décennies d'un corpus de près de 300 publications.
Elles…
German Theater 2010–2022 is the first monograph on the work of the artist duo Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff. Their manifold practices play out, live test and fictionalize the mechanisms that shape creative communities.…
“I am concerned with the power of sound! and what it can do to the body and the mind,” wrote composer Pauline Oliveros. In the body, histories and politics come together with sound and listening, memory and feeling. Bodies…