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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January 17 2025 07:00PM
Rencontre avec Thomas Hirschhorn, Alexandre Costanzo et Véronique Yersin, directrice des éditions Macula, autour du livre Quand les faibles se prennent pour des forts. Dans ce nouveau livre en dialogue avec les…
January 18 2025 07:00PM
Let’s celebrate The Beyond Within, with a presentation by artists Maïder Fortuné and Annie MacDonell, and contributors Clara Schulmann and Vincent Broqua!
The book expands on an exhibition by the same…
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,…
« 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…
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,…
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…
BACK IN STOCK 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,…
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…
In her sensitive photographs, Estelle Hanania captures highly charged, violent moments in the works of artist and choreographer Gisèle Vienne, moments that are at the same time both fragile and poetic. In her complex oeuvre,…
“Haraka baraka!” …there’s a reason this phrase rolls off the tongue so nicely... الحركة بركة (pronounced ha-ra-ka ba-ra-ka) is an Arabic expression which translates as ‘movement is a blessing’. It's a sentiment that everyone…
A collection of works by Henri Jacobs who has been conducting an investigation into two-dimensionality, the flat nature and recto-verso proposition of a surface. Materialising in various forms such as plaited paintings…
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…
Susan Stryker is a foundational figure in trans studies. When Monsters Speak showcases the development of Stryker’s writing from the 1990s to the present. It combines canonical pieces, such as “My Words to Victor…
La première monographie dédiée au collectif des Hackney Flashers, groupe de neuf femmes activistes qui ont pratiqué l'agitprop de 1974 à 1980 dans le quartier populaire de Hackney à Londres.
Les travaux des Hackney…
From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the origins and legacy of blended musical genres by focusing on twelve dynamic collaborations. From Alice Coltrane working with Carlos…
Cette anthologie présente une sélection de plus de 100 textes d'une soixantaine de poétesses libanaises contemporaines, rendant compte de la pluralité de voix qui témoignent, chacune à sa manière, des multiples facettes…
I think this galaxy was badly written
maybe the universe entire all our Worst ideas
made real without our knowledge something
did this using us as basis our base notions as
clubs to skew the system…
Kate Durbin’s book sparkles with the static of TV personalities, the privileged dramas of MTV’s The Hills and Bravo’s Real Housewives, the public tragedies of Amanda Knox and Anna Nicole…
Contemporary mythologies are out there, in the urban chaos. Monsters, giants, constructions, spirits, and creatures of all sorts tell the cities’ everyday life struggles if one is willing to listen to them. Atlas of…
Poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, Amsterdam, and wherever…
Reworlding Ramallah is a collection of stories born of a series of science fiction writing workshops led by Callum Copley at Disarming Design in Birzeit, a few miles north of Ramallah, Palestine. ‘Reworlding’…
BACK IN STOCK – 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…
et si frankenstein était trans ?
ce fanzine post-opératoire propose une réfléxion collective sur le gore, le body horror, les portails et les métamorphoses. mais pas que. vampires lesbiennes, désir freudien,…
“Esther Mahlangu’s work is a vibrant contemporary testimony to the infinite spectrum of African geometric abstraction that stems from the wealth of traditional aesthetics of her Ndebele community.”
—Koyo Kouoh
Esther…
We humans are united in our vulgar, egoistic revisions of ourselves. Don't look back.
In banana boxes, Maxime Le Bon collects and stores a lot of documents in a jumble. Most of them are printed, cut out from newspapers, magazines, old publications, erratas, other fragments of texts and photographs. Added…
MERYL STREEP SAID THAT JOHN CAZALE IS SICK
“This printed matter project was born out of an impossibility of producing a fanzine in Mexico City. The printing was postponed until it didn’t really make sense to print…
Un « loubok » est une gravure populaire russe. Les souris enterrent le Chat, lʼours joue de la balalaïka, des jeunes filles chantent lʼamour, la Baba Yaga picole, un monstre marin surgit... Ce livre richement illustré…
A book that documents Monster Chetwynd’s Moths, Bats and Velvet Worms! Moths, Bats and Heretics! through a wealth of collages of medieval pictures, tartans, images of insects and text cutouts, and photographs…
BUTT's thick 35th issue packs in pleasures from shameless queers the world over. Between the splashy covers, catch popstar Troye Sivan stripped for a motel quickie, house-spinning icon Honey Dijon dish with Jeremy O. Harris,…
Think of the computer as a magic box, with many graphic images hidden inside it. This book is positioned as a starter guide to calling forth these images, creating figures with basic shapes such as lines, arcs, squares,…
\/\/\/ BACK IN STOCK /\/\/\ 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…
Wow! Yes! It’s here : ) 640+ pages of more than 2000 legendary product (books, cookbooks, pop star memoirs, DVDs and Blu-rays…) reviews Kevin Killian posted on a famous online webshop. Getting the Amazon we should have…
BACK IN STOCK <3 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…
The project started at the beginning of the summer, as the label approached its second anniversary. A desire to bring together artists close to the label, with whom we have collaborated to release original scores; with…
I’m living. Well, all of a sudden, one day I did something beside cut up firewood. I actually took a log and made a great throne-like chair from it. And then I began to be challenged as to what you could do with the…
Re-Materialization of Language. 1978–2022 represents the first attempt at a philological reconstruction of the seminal exhibition Materializzazione del linguaggio, while simultaneously re-activating and…
A synthesis of ancient and modern cooking which allows the best aspects of Ancient Roman cooking to shine.
Sally Grainger’s Roman Recipes for Modern Cooks offers 34 contemporary interpretations…
“You can immediately identify a Mel Odom artwork. His vision is as sharp as a plastic surgeon’s scalpel, mixing bold, sensual figures with extremely delicate details.”
—Luis Venegas
This book presents a selection…
The Diva Who Became an Alphabet sheds light on the intriguing and lesser-known history of how a dry transfer typeface inspired renowned type designer and art director Hans Donner (b. 1948), best known for his…
A genre-defiant sex-trip to post-human dimensions. If C.G Jung, magic-mushroom shaman Terence McKenna and Camille Paglia had a three-way while binging on George Bataille and undergoing Hormone Replacement Therapy, their…
Against the surreal backdrop of Disneyland in 1978, visionary science fiction author Philip K. Dick delivers a mind-bending lecture on the fragile nature of reality, the power of fiction, and the quest for authentic human…
Finally the elephant in the living room.
Featuring: Espace Aygo, Ronan Bouroullec, Rose Wylie, Agosto Machado, Miyako Bellizzi, SAGG Napoli, Jane Dickson, Luca Lo Pinto, Gary Schneider & John Erdman, Celeste, Beca…
BACK IN STOCK || 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…
BACK IN STOCK >> Lessons from Sun & Sea!? The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performances last a minute. Exhibitions…
This book presents the work of Venezuelan artist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess (born 1929) and features a selection of her works from the ’70s to the present, including utilitarian…
Second recueil de textes de Rina Kenovic, aka rinio, Sunflowers Sunflowers Sunflowers rassemble 5 chants que l’artiste a d’abord interprétés à Athènes, « transposés » dans l’espace du livre au fil de plusieurs…
How Fred Sandback makes you cry.
In 1968, sculptor Fred Sandback (1943–2003) mounted his first solo exhibition at Heiner Friedrich’s Munich gallery, displaying works made from elastic cord or acrylic yarn that…
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“History is full of people who just didn’t.”
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate highlights a decade of Anne Boyer’s interrogative writing on poetry, death, love, lambs,…
Hans Haacke is a legend of political conceptual art – and at the same time, his work is highly topical and of great relevance today. As a founding figure of artistic institutional critique, Haacke redefined the relationship…
“this simulation sux is a collection of speculative essays and personal observations commissioned by global cultural institutions and local counterculture zines between February 2020 and April 2021. [...]
During…
Dans ce livret, Julien Van Anholt propose une analyse de l’invention, de l’usage et du lettrage des intertitres et cartons dans des films comme Ballet Mécanique de Fernand Léger et L’Invitation au…
Un jeu à l’image de la société actuelle où il y a plus d’un schéma familial. Les règles sont les mêmes que celles d’un jeu de 7 familles classique,à ceci près que toutes les familles…
The Consequences is a hybrid collection of prose and poetry; an autofictional examination of the pain of a transatlantic relocation from New York to the blanketing beige of Paris to rejoin a totemic muse. It also…
Monogamy is not dismantled by fucking more or by falling in love simultaneously with more people, but by constructing relationships in a different way, relationships that allow us to fuck more and fall in love simultaneously…
“My interest in the human subject has less to do with the politics of representation than with the kind of identification, or over-identification, that some figurative paintings are able to activate. In that sense, the…
“To be sure, fashion smells. Olfactory sensations have leaked from industries of style since its inception: scent, the stuff of ancient history and myth, has been traded as precious commodities alongside textiles and garments…
For decades, Sheila Hicks has engaged with color, texture and verticality, using textiles as her medium of choice. Her unique approach is informed by her interest in architecture, space, historical weaving traditions and…
In her painting, Amy Sillman is expanding the standards of abstraction using material and conceptual interventions in the painting process. In her mediaspanning approach to painting she destabilizes purported dichotomies…
Audimat propose une écriture sur la musique libérée des contraintes d‘actualité et des formats de la presse périodique. La revue veut rendre compte de la situation actuelle de la pop music, et l‘éclairer par son histoire.…
Dans ce livre devenu un classique, l’historien Tim Lawrence raconte l’invention du dancefloor. En février 1970, le New-Yorkais David Mancuso décide d’inviter ses nombreux amis à venir s’oublier sur une sélection de disques…
Before making his first films in the 1950s, Chris Marker was a regular contributor to the Paris-based journal Esprit from 1946 to 1952. Unbound by genre or form, Marker’s pieces range from short stories, essays,…
The Radio Phonics Laboratory explores the intersection of technology and creativity that shaped the sonic landscape of the 20th century. This fascinating story unravels the intricate threads of telecommunications,…
What would it mean to treat an interval of space as a line, thus drawing an empty void into a constellation of art and meaning-laden things? In this book, Irene Small elucidates the signal discovery of the Brazilian artist…
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,…
“For Harlem is where he worked and where he struggled and fought—his home of homes, where his heart was, and where his people are.” Nearly sixty years since the martyrdom of Malcolm X, these words from Ossie Davis’s eulogy…
The rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, the true peril…
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…
This 5th issue of NYC-based fiction magazine Heavy Traffic features Mark Leckey, Reinier de Graaf, Amalia Ulman, Lynne Tillman, Bud Smith, Hannah Regel, Ada Antoinette, Mark…
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…