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Description et analyse d’un dictionnaire écrit, illustré et conçu par le fascinant Paulo de Cantos (1892-1979) – éditeur, bibliophile, éducateur, philanthrope, typographe, figure à part de la modernité artistique au Portugal.…
Bespoke online archives like PennSound and Eclipse host an astounding array of “old media” artifacts, posing a handcrafted counterpoint to the immense databases aggregated by digital titans like Google and Facebook. In…
KIMIA’s last name was Salée which means salty in French. I heard sablé in the name; sandy, like her skin and like a cookie. She was sweet. We spoke French with each other at École Internationale…
It was in August I discovered the “Debs” white orchid, across the river from Hode, in its twin city, Spode. Specifically, it was in the Clothing Wing of the Wealth Museum. Mummers and I were standing in front of ferns…
While the child psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto stands alongside Jacques Lacan as a leading light of the Other French School, she has been little translated and remains curiously unknown in the English-speaking world. First…
Slides of a Changing Painting is a new artist book by Robert Gober that takes as its point of departure the artist’s highly influential, yet rarely seen, early work of the same name—a slide presentation documenting…
Here are David Wojnarowicz’s most intimate stories and sketches, from the full spectrum of his life as an artist and AIDS activist. Four sections—”Into the Drift and Sway,” “Doing Time in a Disposable Body,” “Spiral,”…
Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and the alternative…
Menko Toys celebrates both a collectable class of ephemera and reflects Parisian artist, Antwan Horfee’s anthropological mind.
This book, a sequel and expanded view of Horfee’s collection of Menko cards, presents…
Issue #4 of Al Hayya traces resistance in the home, on the streets, across borders, and within the self. From Gaza, where genocide compresses time into isolated minutes, to everyday acts of defiance in diaspora, it explores…
Becoming the Product: The Critical Internet Researcher as a Virtual Intellectual traces the evolution of critical internet research. Examining the pioneering work of early net critic Geert Lovink, the influencer-style…
Holding the Camera shows a pictorial genre from the now extinct era of analogue photography: How one tilts the camera, holds it with both hands in front of the waist. How one looks through the viewfinder, gazes…
Unbound accompanies Karel Martens’ upcoming solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The book brings together a wide-ranging body of work Karel made and collected over the entire span of his decades-long…
A Work Will Be Shown presents a selection of artist exhibition announcements and invitations cards that the artist Maurizio Nannucci began collecting in the 1960s. Since that decade of radical avant-garde art…
The 5th book in the annual “Series of Open Questions” published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg Press takes as its starting point the timely themes in the work of Anicka Yi, including AI, umwelt,…
Layering is a great way to play with cowgirls-gone-wild.
They're perky, edgy pretty with a tank peeking out under a sense of humour
their thongs hanging out
after…
Features collage compositions by Ehsan Morshed assembled from found print fragments collected at flea markets and estate sales, alongside text contributions by Steven Warwick, Angharad Williams, Rafaela Figurski, Felix…
The selection of key essays collected here presents Berardi’s prescient interventions into a decade-plus of social turmoil, offering a tour through the cataclysms that have rocked the foundations of the global order in…
Vestales, pythies, druidesses, sorcières, médiums, les figures féminines semblent être des intermédiaires privilégiées entre les mondes visibles et invisibles. En s’intéressant au spiritisme français du XIXe siècle, Stéphanie…
The first solo cookbook from Ottolenghi co-founder Sami Tamimi, Boustany is anhomage to Palestinian food and culture. “Boustany” translates from Arabic as “my garden,” which reflects Sami’s signature style and…
PROVENCE UNCONSCIOUS draws inspiration from the Zurich-based office's proximity to the C.G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht—recently and notably visited by Pamela Anderson, who also appears in the publication. PROVENCE UNCONSCIOUS…
Catalog issue 25 How to get -> there features contributions by artists, designers, writers Phil Baber, Carlo Canún, Lieven Lahaye, Meg Miller and Noah Emanuel Morrison. Their contributions look at traces of cruising,…
"Columns" is a 60-pages-long narrative based on scripts from several years of performances and readings, largely centred around an artist-writer who after squeezing through "the compulsory kissing-on-the-cheeks in the…
The artist Vaginal Davis certainly moves on dangerous ground with her transgressive shuffling of gender and genre boundaries. The self-described "sexual repulsive" co-founded several art/punk bands in her expansive 40-year-plus…
Catastrophes, bombed-out cities, large-scale political transformations: "Image complexes" of humanitarian and ecological upheaval document the world as a sequence of catastrophes. But who decides how events are presented,…
Vous m’avez interrogé sur la résistance non violente. La détonation de l’explosif hier a brisé toutes les fenêtres de la maison familiale. J’étais en train de me faire servir du thé et de jouer avec les deux petits…
Au beau milieu des leads, des beats et des sons de CHLOÉ, _system_ error_ fait entendre une I.A. conversationnelle par la voix de Jérôme Game en train d’apprendre à raconter des histoires.Dans cette poésie postplantage…
“May my story be beautiful and unwind like a long thread . . .”, she recites as she begins her story.
The storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, witch,…
IONE is a Dream Keeper: a facilitator of dreams. Sharing this intimate part of our being, she believes, can be the start of new ways of being with one another.
Exploring the reality of the dream and the dream of…
Back on the shelves – A dirty lil tale written and translated by Amalia Ulman in which a woman gets a job in El Cobrador del Frac, thanks to the gender equality policy executed by the government to diversify the workforce.…
miniskirt is a fashion magazine from Kraków and New York. Stories, essays, poetry, etc about clothes and the people who wear them. This volume gathers 5 issues: each is 8-page long, and features 4 texts.
Violet…
Our computational devices—increasingly powerful, increasingly “intelligent”—can now think for us, perceive for us, pay attention for us, write for us. Lest we forget how to do these things ourselves, we dearly need new…
L’idiot utile is a journal interested in clothing, fashion, its images, its aesthetics, its economy and its professions. It’s also a super slow multilingual publication. [publishers’ note]
Contributors:…
A disaffected young woman seeking self-estrangement and withdrawal from the world decides to quit her day job as a bookseller to live out, or live in, an experiment: to become a full-time narrator. She moves through sentences,…
Essential! Originating from a survey publication proposal found in Jef Geys’ archive, Catalogue Raisonnable is a meticulously assembled monograph that brings together extensive archival research, translations…
The heart of this book is a series of letters exchanged between two friends in 2020. Fox and Lane-McKinley found themselves unable to work on a book left unpublished at the death of their other friend, Christopher Chitty.…
An unlicensed facsimile of issues 1-3 of Bernadette Corporation’s legendary Made in USA magazine. All covers and pages are reproduced in duotone, with a different hue for each issue.
Issue 1,…
Past Words is three books in one: a collection of previously published texts and two exhibition-like experiments: A Year with Prem Krishnamurthy at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and Endless…
For this book – the second publication from Melody Lu published by Studio H13, this time in collaboration with Mexico City-based Can Can Press – Melody Lu worked with handmade / grattage textures to create background textures…
The extension of the desert of machines, unfinished works, and the swelling of the population in cities shifts us toward the patterns of an orchestrated chaos. In these visible and invisible manifestations of the anatomy…
While the largest parts of icebergs — or islands — remain beneath the sea surface, often unmapped and perilous, a myriad of creatures and non-organic matter connect them to other lands. Nowadays, in the era of the climate…
Paris jouit d’une aura planétaire. Elle est partout synonyme de beauté, d’élégance, de culture et de romantisme. Décrite par les auteurs les plus talentueux, représentée par les plus grands peintres, capturée par les photographes…
Criticism is in a crisis of authority—or rather, that’s what critics have been saying ever since the Enlightenment. In a magisterial new essay, Chu offers a revised intellectual history of this supposed crisis, tracing…
Première monographie consacrée à Donna Gottschalk, NOUS AUTRES rassemble une sélection inédite de ses images réalisées entre les années 1960 et 1990.
Le parcours de la photographe se déploie en regard…
Microinternational is a comprehensive catalogue documenting a performance project that emerged from the interactions of a shifting group of artists in Los Angeles. Active between 1993-1999 and organized by Kevin…
Featuring a myriad of extraordinary individuals whose charm, wit, and imagination pique the senses from contributors Angela Hill, Esther Theaker, Takashi Homma, Karoline Robl,Oliver Hadlee Pearch, Isabelle Sayer, Alexandra…
In The City and the World, Gregor Hens explores the city in the twenty-first century – a space we shape and are shaped by in turn – and our place within it. Travelling from Berlin to Las Vegas, Shenzhen to Santiago…
Marx a saisi que les origines du capitalisme furent imprimées dans l’histoire au moyen de caractères de feu et de sang. Dans ce recueil, George Caffentzis affirme qu’il est de même aujourd’hui. Illustrant…
—Somatic body healing pump?
—No: We need to provoke Something!
Oh oh this is the first issue of Tongue Ring, a journal of experimental writing in English & French, with original…
Depuis chaque semaine, au moment où le jour croise la nuit, l'arbre brûlé et l'arbre de Paris peuvent papoter.
This publication is a full-scale reproduction of Ken Isaacs' 1974 book How to Build your Own Living Structures. It is accompanied by an essay by Susan Snodgrass, critic and teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago,…
The first publication dedicated to historical African American quilts in California, Routed West traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in the context of the Second Great Migration from 1940 to 1970. As millions…
This publication delves into the influential, yet underrecognized, work of artist and pedagogue Millie Wilson, who taught generations of artists at the California Institute of the Arts and whose work has deftly examined…
Pippa Garner’s work challenges the conventions of art by putting into play fashion and consumer culture with her subversive, visionary insight. Featuring a selection of images that includes never-before-seen photographs…
Over several decades, American filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa has constructed a compelling body of work that defies categorization. Both powerful and lyrical, his practice combines a profoundly unsettling blend of images…
Rêves Impossibles est le dernier roman de l’artiste Pati Hill. Il paraît en 1976 chez Alice James Books, deux ans après que certains extraits paraissent dans le Carolina Quarterly sous le titre « Une femme au…
Filmmaker, photographer and writer Chris Marker never adhered to the conventions of a particular art form. Each of his films, from La Jetée to Sans Soleil, pushes the boundaries of its medium, merging…
In the wild years of the 1980s and early 1990s, when central London was a clubbers’ paradise, a circle of young, queer friends, including the celebrated Australian designer, performer, musician, and provocateur Leigh Bowery…
The ultimate Forrest Bess monograph! With an essay by Amy Sillman : ) Published in the aftermath of the 2020 exhibition at the Fridericianum, this book offers an opportunity to discover one of the most extraordinary figures…
A visual collection of hardcore punk graphics, flyers, and poster art done by Hafiz. A taste of counterculture history in Singapore and beyond between 2015-2020. Capturing the raw and unapologetic energy that defines a…
Hervé Guibert’s photobook The Only Face is not a novel in the traditional sense, but it is filled with characters, settings, and mystery. It starts with bodies — their faces either eclipsed or out of frame — before…
Ce recueil de textes choisis et inédits en français offre une plongée dans le mouvement féministe américain du début des années 1970 et le rôle déterminant qu'y ont joué les lesbiennes. Entre 1969 et 1974, des textes majeurs…
In Irrational, artist Francesco Jodice and curator Francesco Zanot dissect the rise of irrationality in modern life and society through an extensive and thought-provoking array of visual case studies. Addressing…
In this book, Sven Lütticken invites readers into an exploration of history as accelerating catastrophe – and of alternative, oppositional, divergent practices in life, art and revolutionary thought. Set against the backdrop…
Starmen Poems, edited by Jes McCutchen, collects blackout poetry from Geraldine Hart's last trip home to Earth.
Taking world-building and character development into the…
Robert Earl Paige is one of the most iconic artists and designers from Chicago’s South Side. A multidisciplinary artist and arts educator, he works across textile design, painting, collage, and sculpture. During the 1970s,…
Key Operators focuses on the links between feminized labor, technological advancements, and their associated languages. The systems inscribed in weaving and coding serve as a point of departure for devising alternative…
“Insurrections was and is a project and an idea. The project brought together poets, composers and musicians from South Africa and India – although an Ethiopian or two crept in since to make description difficult! It was…
The space around it echoed, deflecting or reflecting sound, she wasn’t sure which. Sometimes at dawn, it was as though the birds were holding a private chorus inside. It had grown so large that as soon as the sun rose…
What is hardcore? It means many things to many people, and they’re all correct. It’s best described as a feeling, an attitude, a way of life. Dance or Die is the first critical study of city-based hard dance communities…
Derek Jarman’s unrealised film treatment, The Assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the Garden of Earthly Delights, takes as its subject matter the events leading up to and including the murder of Italian film…
Berthold Wolpe’s (1905–1989) first typeface, originally cut in Germany in 1932, underwent numerous name changes, from Wolpe Rursiv to Hyperion. While other designs by the typographer, such as Albertus, found success early,…
Quelques perles coulent entre ses doigts. Les récits de Larem se délient du temps que l’on connaît. Elle raconte, superpose, recule et avance, jouissant des temps qu’elle invoque.
Emma Berger-Pierre…
Slobbering, gibbering, and venomous. . .
a poetry seemingly stupefied that it is poetry at all.
Jourdain Barton is the most frightening poet of her generation.…
Karl Marx spent three consecutive summers in the spa town of Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic) in 1874, 1875 and 1876. Egon Erwin Kisch’s 1946 text Karl Marx in Karlsbad reconstructs these three…
Unravelling the semantics of the ugly jumper, the ratty cardigan and the squishy mittens. Softness is a poetic reflection on hand- knitting and the neglected objects that give us nourishment. A straggly jumper,…
I acquired Sonia’s copy of Fraser Darlingʼs book in 2010 when my cousins, sister, and I were going through Soniaʼs house following her death. From one of her glassed-in bookshelves, the spineʼs distinctive artwork…
Twenty-three innovators from corresponding fields of practice – including art, education, philosophy, curating, public health, journalism, the church, museology, theatre, music, and anthropology – speculate about the benefit…
The texts published in Show Notes are the deconstructed diary entries of a frenzied writer attending fashion shows in London, Milan and Paris. Revised and rebooted from reports written for Wallpaper* magazine…
Hey culture worker! Are you feeling alone and afraid while the world burns? It’s Too Late. Do It Anyway! is two books in one, created for cultural workers who want to get off the racial capitalist high-speed-train-to-nowhere…
"Three Subtle Stories," told in 200 drawings on 28 pages, was created between January and May 1973 in Zurich and Carona and published in 1974 in a limited edition of 500 by Galerie Stähli in Lucerne. In 2014, "Three Subtle…
Voir l'initiale pour l'endroit où je veux aller dans un cercle, caractères très foncés. Je pense que c'est l'endroit où je veux. VEUX dans l'air. OK, pas vraiment envie d'aller dehors ce soir. CE SOIR en travers de…
En deux décennies, les services et les produits numériques ont pénétré nos quotidiens, connecté nos intérieurs et modifié nos villes, conférant un rôle stratégique aux entreprises qui les développent. À Paris, le fournisseur…
“This collection is such a lyrically beautiful and meaningful demonstration of her unwavering commitment to both acknowledging and being a part of an inspired community. These poems are powered by love and a belief system…
The festival is a space of communion and celebration, a romanticized collision of bodies, music and magic. The revolution will look like a festival, we’ve been told by philosophers, writers, artists, and marketers. But…
The first English translation of Leslie Kaplan's crystalline novella Miss Nobody Knows, about the lived aftermath of May '68: its hopes and failures and how they continue to resonate today.
“Ostensibly about the…
Youpidou! An acrobat, carpenter, railroad repairman, and two-time naval war veteran, sculptor H. C. Westermann (1922–1981) rose to prominence in Chicago in the 1950s with new forms inspired by his personal experiences.…
Abused by his father and stifled by closeted life as a teenager in Kansas City, Joe, the wide-eyed narrator of Tramps Like Us, graduates from high school in 1974 and hits the road hitchhiking. But it isn’t until…
Mobilisant différentes formes d’écriture (essai, récit, poème, journal) et des images photographiques tirées de sources diverses (archives personnelles, presse, portraits vernaculaires, etc.), Comment réparer : la…
This book offers a visual and thematic journey through avant-garde, concrete, visual, and experimental poetics as they appeared in ephemeral little magazines and small press publications from the 1960s onward. This book…
An adult woman haunted by her childhood muses on the foster system, institutions, and the medieval tale of a girl given to a witch. A genderqueer Brooklynite learns of their past life as a murdered sorceress. An uptight…
Should art be determined by political ideals? In recent decades art institutions have sought to embody liberal values of universal equality and social justice. This move toward greater inclusivity has borne witness to…
When Jean, a young translator of French and Russian, receives a mysterious commission, she leaps at the chance to escape her current life—and husband—and relocate to Montréal. Marriage has destroyed her sense of self,…
Thomas Wilfred (1889–1968) devoted his life to the creation of a new art form, the art of light, which he termed "Lumia." In the 1920s, Wilfred toured the US and Europe to great acclaim staging colored-light recitals with…
Une cinquième tendresse avec des textes de : Nanténé Traoré & Luz Volckmann, Corentin Garrido, Maïmouna Tirera, Cindy Bannani, Marguerin Le Louvier, Laura Vazquez, Tony…
Dans un contexte où le capitalisme et les grandes entreprises détruisent la planète avec une impunité croissante et où les guerres néocoloniales menacent les vies de toustes les vivant·es, de nombreuses sociétés sont sous…
From the nursery to the prison, from the clinic to the commune, Mother Media tells the story of how we arrived at our contemporary understanding of what a mother is and how understandings of “bad” mothering formed…
Loïe Fuller’s (1862–1928) luminously radical dance performances at the turn of the century were unlike anything that had ever been staged or seen before. She was a true pioneer in creating special effects and using electricity…
“‘The two’ is not simply a couple, Le Deux at stake is neither a fusion of two into one, not a ‘two’ as a sum of one plus one. In a way, Le Deux is neither one (constituted of two complementary parts)…
Je crois qu’il n’y a rien à faire aujourd’hui, à part regarder MTV. Le classement des meilleurs clips de l’année.
Ce sera sûrement les Destiny’s Child.
Heureusement que j’ai un vélo et MTV.
À…