Pour le cinéma français, le temps de l’examen de conscience semble venu. Les témoignages de victimes de violences sexuelles au sein de l’industrie sont accablants, la profession admet que l’impunité…
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Audite, audite! Oui, le livre est un outil monstrueux – imprévisible et résilient comme le serpent de mer, il se multiplie comme les têtes d’une hydre, et enflamme les imaginations comme le souffle du dragon. Au fil de…
November 20 2024 07:00PM
Here comes the new issue of the NYC-based literary magazine Heavy Traffic ! You’re welcome to its Paris launch, with its editor Patrick McGraw.
This new issue features new fiction from Mark Leckey, Reinier…
November 21 2024 07:00PM
Shabby Doll House is on tour, and they stop by rue Jarry on Thursday to throw a reading party with Kristen Felicetti, Will Mountain Cox, LA Warman, Ange d’Argent, and Oscar d’Artois –
We will celebrate the release…
When CAConrad’s reverence for the King puts them on a trip to Memphis, the result is this wild joyride of a book, a homage that is bursting with love and twisted sincerity.
Drawing on sources as disparate as graffiti,…
Set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo, Set My Heart On Fire tells the story of Izumi in her turbulent twenties. Through a series of disarmingly frank vignettes, author Izumi…
A facsimile edition of Derek Jarman’s sole, early, extremely rare poetry book A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, originally published in 1972.
Heavily illustrated from Jarman’s collection of postcards, the…
Surviving as a cultural or artistic worker in the city has never been easy. Creative workers find themselves celebrated as engines of economic growth, economic recovery and urban revitalization even as the conditions for…
Dear Miss Maxfeld . . . What I’m really afraid of is that I am a homosexual human being. I wish you were one too but I don’t think it’s…
This book is a personal production diary in which artist and filmmaker Noor Abed compiles visual and poetic notes from the production phase of her film A Night We Held Between, filmed in Palestine in 2023 with…
On met dans la nature ce qu’on veut évacuer de l’horizon politique : contrairement aux rapports de pouvoir que sont la classe, le genre et la race, les rapports adulte-enfant semblent encore inscrits dans un ordre naturel.…
C’était en été
Ah non c’était en hiver en fait
On sait plus à cause du changement climatique
Y a même un mammouth sans poils sur le parking du McDo
…
In her debut book, Amelia Zhou poses the question, “How do I perform or not perform?” Weaving together poems, fiction, and lyric essay, Repose follows an unnamed woman grappling with the limits of the self on…
Curious brings together a selection of interviews with curators and artists conducted by Paul O’Neill at the beginning of the new millennium, when contemporary curating emerged to become the established creative…
Educated in sculpture and urban planning, Gates first came to Japan in 2004 to study ceramics in Tokoname, Aichi, and has since been influenced by Japanese culture, including ceramics, for over 20 years. Impressive encounters…
This research project gathers artists’ magazines and publications by various artists who were active in the realm of “periodical and irregular” printed matter from the 1950s to the present day, beginning with of the work…
Crazy format, crazy colors, and crazy wrapping paper for this artist’s book documenting Inna Kochkina’s research into the history, style, and politics of traditional Cyrillic... Born from her self-reflective curiosity…
Love Letters is a selection of 44 envelopes for the letters that Karel Martens sent to his love, Lous between 1962 and 1963. These envelopes have been manually printed during the time Karel was stationed in the…
Karl Holmqvist is looking at traffic, rich and poor, Hollywood myth making, the ocean, climate change forest fires earthquakes and more dumpster fire US political turnaround and global conflict ...
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As a rule, I always look for green objects in charity and antique shops. It’s a particular kind of green I have in mind, a kind of deep jade, or, if made of glass or plastic, emerald. It’s so I have one particular…
Cette publication rassemble les onzes poèmes qui composent le court-métrage de Nesrine Salem, What is the residue left from setting a black puddle on fire?, Mars 2023.
Les textes sont publiés dans…
Depuis 2014, l’artiste Laurence Cathala déploie dans des expositions une série de textes à voir autant qu’à lire, qu’elle nomme Les Versions. Ces textes empruntent au genre littéraire de l’anticipation…
“In 1987, while finishing his training as a tailor, Bruno Pélassy was living in a studio apartment in Paris, amidst dark clutter and a cascade of needles, lace and fur that his mother used to bring him from Nice. On his…
In Furniture Music, Montreal legend Gail Scott chronicles her years in Lower Manhattan during the Obama era, in a community of poets at the junction between formally radical and political art. Immersing herself…
S’il est écrit que je dois mourir
Il vous appartiendra alors de vivre
Pour raconter mon histoire
S’il est écrit que je dois mourir
Alors que ma mort apporte…
Alien worlds, alter-egos, and Pleasure Domes–Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation explores the overlooked importance of science-fiction fandom and the occult to U.S. queer history.
Science…
This suite of heartfelt accounts invites the reader firsthand into artist Gary Schneider’s journeys in image making with his friend and mentor, the beloved photographer Peter Hujar (1934-1987). Drawing from a selection…
Influenced by her experiences of war and migration, Simone Fattal has transcended the boundaries of both media and geography like few other artists of her generation. In her collages, she combines pieces from her private…
This is a pared-down, demystified overview of the mental operations involved with creating things aesthetic, i.e., art, design, and the like. It is a disarmingly clearheaded and unsentimental look at the creative process…
Read me while you walk. Hold me while you stand. Put me down while you take a pause.
“What might be considered the research output of a walking practice? Where and when does the research occur in relation to the…
From 1964 until his death in 2009, Merce Cunningham produced over 800 “Events.” Each Event comprised a different sequence of excerpts from his repertory, parts of works in progress, and new material. Each lasted around…
Drowning, bathing, crying and praying in this one. Thank you Ariana for all you do.
Is it the computerization of the planet
Or a loosening of my fidelity to suffering
I don’t understand the intensity
Poets Audre Lorde and Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. Over the next fifteen years, Lorde and Parker shared ideas, advice, and confidence through the mail. They sent…
Suzanne and Louise tells the story of two sisters, one widowed, the other never married, recluses in a hôtel particulier in Paris’s 15th arrondissement. Suzanne, the older one, controls the finances. Louise, a…
A limited edition repress of the remastered album Descending Moonshine Dervishes by Terry Riley, originally recorded live in Berlin in 1975 and released by Kuckuck in 1982.
Using just intonation and a…
Embedded in the language of visual and sound poetry, the practice of Tomaso Binga (Bianca Pucciarelli Menna, born in Salerno in 1931) is based on an ironic, insightful questioning of the idea of gender. In her work, this…
Issue 57 ‘Palestine and the World’ is premised on the intention to examine some of the collectives included in lumbung one and their work with the attention we deem they deserve but have not been given yet. If only three…
Rammellzee was an enigmatic yet key figure in the nexus of creative forces that defined New York City’s heady downtown scene in the late 1970s and 1980s. In the first major monograph on the multi-hyphenate artist, his…
Anne Bourse pratique un dessin quotidien et compulsif qui prolifère souvent au-delà du papier, sur des maquettes, des tissus, des objets domestiques mais aussi sur les livres qu’elle collectionne et ceux, souvent unique,…
In Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt, Brontez Purnell—the bard of the underloved and overlooked—turns his gaze inward. A storyteller with a musical eye for the absurdity of his own existence, he is peerless in his ability…
Née à Berlin en 1899, Anni Albers, artiste, designer et éducatrice, s'est rapidement heurtée aux préjugés de genre qui régnaient dans l'Allemagne des années 1920. Pourtant, elle sut tirer parti de toutes les contraintes…
The work in this publication aims to offer some questions regarding what this means for the modern psyche, caught as it is in the never-ending massive array of choices. From supermaket shelves to entertainment feeds,…
On the occasion of Diego Marcon’s first solo exhibition in Austria at Kunsthalle Wien in October 2024, Kunsthalle Wien is publishing a book on Marcon’s film La Gola in collaboration…
Cette histoire est pleine de trous, elle est surtout celle d'un puits.
“One of my earliest memories is of a Persian rug at my childhood home in Abu Dhabi – I loved looking at it for hours, projecting myself into its maze of vines, trees and peacock feathers. I wanted so badly to teleport…
The first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail art.
Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. “New York's most famous unknown artist,”…
Contextures was originally published in 1978 by New York City’s legendary Just Above Midtown gallery. Edited by gallery founder Linda Goode Bryant and Marcy S. Philips, the publication provides an extensive history…
In this issue, you’ll find different angles and takes on trans cinema. Featuring 22 contributors — we’ve got pieces on gothic cinema, growing up as a TV kid in the 90s, trans femme film favs, cripness in Cronenberg’s work,…
Seasonal begins writing sentences and thinking thoughts they never thought possible. They want to give László the pleasure of being nothing. The more they come to like him, to value his sensitivity, his sharp mind,…
A work of biography and criticism that tells the inside story of Robert Beavers (b. 1949), a major American avant-garde filmmaker. Until now, Beavers's dramatic life of itinerancy and resistance to commercial circulation…
“Dawn Lundy Martin’s poems read like a real-time excavation of what poetry can and can’t do,” writes Maggie Nelson. In Instructions for The Lovers, her most stripped down, direct work to date, Martin creates a…
Quand on dit que les enfants passent trop de temps sur les écrans, on ne cherche jamais à comprendre pourquoi. Des comptines ultra-colorées de YouTube Kids aux plateformes de jeux comme Roblox en passant par les serveurs…
Injecting the disruptive potential of collective action into the body of the poem, Nat Raha’s invigorating experiment resuscitates Anglophone poetry.
Une monographie pensée à partir de la logique collective, réflexive et évolutive du travail de Jagna Ciuchta – rassemblant six nouveaux essais qui examinent les moments clés de son processus, ses méthodologies et son éthique…
La Grande Conspiration Affective part d’un double effondrement, personnel (une rupture amoureuse) et collectif (la crise écologique). Le livre propose un dispositif littéraire pour « en sortir » : le narrateur…
Vies rebelles retrace des bribes d’existence de femmes noires, qui ont quitté le sud des États-Unis en quête d’une vie meilleure pour les villes du Nord-Est, New York et Philadelphie, entre 1890 et 1930, après…
LaCava’s Class Dirt Clown School was first read on February 10, 2024 at night on a rooftop across from the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City. The performance was created with Martha Taddei and Mallika Vora of local…
Published in conjunction with an eponymous exhibition surveying the history of digital art from a feminist perspective, Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991 focuses on women who worked with computers…
Guiding readers across the desiccated landscape of twenty-first century America in The Frontier Index is the cult duo of Raymond Pettibon and Mike Topp, two of contemporary art and literature's wildest provocateurs…
Laminaire est composé de dix-sept longs poèmes dans lesquels sont tressés vers et fragments de prose. On y rencontre, entre autres choses, un sénateur américain, des contrats de propriété et de location, les dessins…
Bruno Zhu’s The September Issue is an artists’ book in the form of an oversized wall calendar, depicting the artist’s mother in a series of Chinese glamour photoshoots.
First presented as a prototype…
Dans les vastes carrières de marbre de Carrare, sous terre dans le Loir-et-Cher, au milieu des tentes de free-parties en Bretagne, dans l’air frais des fjords norvégiens, aux pieds des prisons, dans son camion posté devant…
OMG Claire Star Finch’s book in French dispo en exclu!!
En baisant je me sens siiiiiiiii super vivant·e. Mais maintenant je suis siiiiiii triste et seul·e, je n’ai pas baisé depuis siiiiiiiiii longtemps, au…
Exploring the intimate relationship between Hawaiian quilts, post-colonialism and ecological disaster, research curator Marenka Thompson-Odlum traverses Hawai‘i through the Poakalani quilting group and fifteen extraordinary…
“This is a story of our life, it’s about how we died and learnt to survive, by taking messages for the dead. What do they call us? Medium. The Medium.”
To…
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,…
Precious Okoyomon’s latest collection of poems combines their signature divinely-inspired lyricism with vivid illuminations. Okoyomon’s pantheism-in-verse brings the sensibility of their sublime installations to the page…
« L’art de l’imprimeur consiste à effectuer une double impression, sur le papier et dans l’esprit. » L’invention au 15e siècle (par Gutenberg ? pas si simple…) de la typographie – ou le procédé qui consiste à déposer de…
More spit on Hegel! A collection of new translations of significant texts by two poles of Italian feminist thought—Leopoldina Fortunati and Carla Lonzi—to examine the “unexpected subject” of women in society and history.…
“Without humidity there is no humanity”
—Cecilia Vicuña
Highlighting…
In Survival Is a Promise, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde’s manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Lorde. Her life and work become more than a sound…
Enheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, about 2300 BCE. Not only does Enheduana have the distinction of being the first author whose name we know, but the poems…
Debout parmi les choses rend compte d’un parcours d’écriture sur près de soixante ans, au sein duquel Jonas Mekas renouvelle son approche et ses formes, où les longs poèmes…
Réunir les bouts du monde est une rencontre avec des oeuvres visuelles, littéraires, musicales et critiques, étatsuniennes et caribéennes, qui portent en elles la mémoire de l’esclavage transatlantique. L’histoire…
A city so rich in trees it looks like a cloth of brocade spread out upon the land.
—Shamsaddin al-Dimashqi, geographer (1256–1327)
This is Gaza – a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture…
“Amy Sillman has increasingly placed painting, animation, and drawing in a dialectical tension in which mediums interrupt one another in associative swerves both elusive and ecstatic.”
—Felix Bernstein
Published…
One night a satellite falls out of the sky and splits a girl in half. Disquiet Drive is a book scraped together from the shorn parts of a person who may no longer exist. Beginning with an admission that language…
Je reviens à moi en un seul blink.
—T’étais où ?
J’ai chaud partout. Le défilé est fini. Lumières up et la foule qui sort en brouhaha docile. Le logo dans ma poche comme un petit avion en vrille.
Paris,…
Our inaugural publication spans a decade of resilient artists and collectives in, around, and about China and the greater Sinosphere. Composed of essays, images, conversations, and projects, Shifting the Angle of Shine…
Le livre raconte l'histoire de Nick et de Jeff, qui se rencontrent un soir, en cruisant sur la plage. Nick va chez Jeff. Après avoir fait l'amour, ils se font soudainement charger par un duo de policiers qui…
Meredith Monk is recognized as one of the most unique and influential artistes of our time YES! A pioneer in what is now called “extended vocal technique,” and interdisciplinary, site-specific performance, Monk creates…
AfterClub is very proud to present Smos & Baby Bee: Party Flyers And More. Reminiscences Of A Unique Era In Belgian Nightlife Culture (1993–2010). Throughout 326 flyers and many stories from the personal archives…
In 1930, Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob) and her partner, artist Marcel Moore (born Suzanne Malherbe) published their surrealist masterpiece, Aveux non Avenus, translated here as Cancelled Confessions.…
After starting his career as a dancer in Germany, Edwin Denby moved to Manhattan, where he formed friendships with prominent members of the New York School, including Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, and artists such as…
“Styling à go-go”
In this photo series that was originally published in Lui and New West magazine in 1977, Pippa Garner (fka Philip Garner) and her artist friend Nancy…
Ces dernières années, la performance est devenue incontournable dans l’art contemporain. Pourtant, si l’intérêt que lui portent les artistes, les institutions ou les écoles s’est considérablement développé, la littérature…
Hier pourchassés par l’État français, les gays sont aujourd’hui invités à souscrire à une gestion sécuritaire de l’homophobie: incorporation des valeurs républicaines, d’une culture de la peur et des solutions policières.…
BACK IN STOCK! What does it mean to be sexually promiscuous in contemporary American culture??
Edited by cult-favorite author Michelle Tea, SLUTS, the first publication from vulgarian queer publisher DOPAMINE,…
*****A new publisher is in town******
This book contain the text I want our nation to grow, a montage of sentences gleaned from articles, essays or encyclopedia in which Aurelia Guo question the weaponization…
À Ménilmontant comme ailleurs, on savait qu'on avait un roi, puis on apprenait qu'on n'en avait plus. Les ouvrières, les ouvriers, manquaient de pain. Comme dans les faubourgs avoisinants, on dressait des barricades.…
A former historian is spending time in a residential home – but is it an artist’s retreat, a spa, or a psychiatric hospital?
In hypnotic and digressive prose, Tillman’s narrator spins tales of her life while ruminating…
Back in stock : ) “When lichens talk to each other, the most important thing for them to do is to exchange something: delicacies, air, news, syrup, moisture, or thoughts. Therefore, there is no such word as ‘I’…
l o g o r r h e a
or
glossolalia
or
chapeau de paille ?
An artists’ book focusing on the written word in the work of Jean-Michel Wicker. Expect the unexpected, and a fluorescent…
Over recent decades, a post-critical theoretical and methodological paradigm has become increasingly dominant in the human sciences. Proponents of this approach have come to dismiss the idea—central to all modern aesthetics—of…
The stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, certainly the smelliest. Ever since it was described by a Dutch doctor in a sixteenth-century pamphlet, the stinkhorn has been reported to emit…
The sixth volume of the bie bao series presents the first English translation of Ilya Zdanevich’s writings on Berlin—a city he visited at the end of 1922, spending time with Russian emigre writers whom he accused of commodifying…
“Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been less.”
This was the state of the discipline that social theorist and urban…
A book about designer Jonas Prapuolenis’ hand-built Studio – a peculiar space, where he designed and produced most of his work over a remarkable and inventive career. It sits on a nearly century-old site in the Žaliakalnis…
Un vent nouveau souffle sur l’histoire LGBTQI+. Une redéfinition des enjeux politiques de l’histoire et de la mémoire portée par une génération de chercheur.euses concerné.es et par l’émergence de nombreux collectifs d’archives…
Just a few years after Morocco gained independence in 1956, a vibrant center of cultural renewal developed in Casablanca. Led by artists such as Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chabâa, Bert Flint, Toni Maraini, and Mohamed…
The Collected Poems of Mary Ellen Solt brings together nearly five decades of poetic work. Celebrated for her suite of visual poems Flowers in Concrete, much of Solt’s work has remained little known or…
With I Can Give You Anything but Love, Gary Indiana has composed a literary, unabashedly wicked, and revealing montage of excursions into his life and work—from his early days growing up gay in rural New Hampshire…
“What sparked off this issue of as a Journal was the clear evidence of poetry’s growing presence in the field of contemporary art. Rather than ‘Poetry’ in general, and even less so the figure of the ‘Poet’, it’s…