La Révolution, c’est de l’Eau… Sauver un cours d’Eau, aussi ténu soit-il, c’est un début pour sauver tout ce qui peut encore l’être.
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October 4 2025 07:00PM
Welcome to a warm-up evening of fashion and words. Writer and editor Dal Chodha has teamed up with Siri Johansen - creator of Waste Yarn Project - in producing a limited edition knitwear, inspired by Chodha's writings.…
October 11 2025 07:00PM
kyklàda.press is a publishing experiment situated in the archipelago of the Aegean Sea. kyklàda.press takes the form of a series of compact and unlaminated books, each emerging from one central theme—exploring embodied,…
In four parts, Susan Howe’s new book opens with the arresting long prose poem “Penitential Cries,” followed by a group of word-collages “Sterling Park in the Dark,” “The Deserted Shelf,” and finally a brief sparrow poem.…
In Pervert or Detective?, artists Reba Maybury and Lucy McKenzie dissect power, desire, and subversion in a provocative conversation. Maybury, who integrates her work as a political dominatrix into her artistic…
BACK IN STOCK! Yes we love Frimkess : ) This publication brings together over 140 works produced over the past twenty-five years by the Venezuelan American artist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. Frimkess’s hand-built ceramic…
In each issue of Public Domain, a distinct voice is invited to select a sequence of images culled from the public domain. Expanding and accessible grants, broadband internet and affordable scanning technology…
Fanzin sa nou ka danse !
Un zine rassemblant playlists, essais critiques, archives, photographies, et autres documents pour inviter les lecteur·trices à plonger dans l’histoire musicale d’Haïti. De Toto…
The Homosexual, whether he likes it or no, is perhaps the best example of a good Situationist. Uncensorable, emotionally sluttish, always horny for destruction – and with tendencies to be good at stealing – the Homosexual…
Featuring writing and artistic practices that trace the racialized and gendered relationship between bodies and land, A Grammar Built with Rocks explores artists’ engagement with…
Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic, Perverts explores desire as a political problem. It asks two questions at the same time: whose desire is understood as dangerously excessive? And—a classic organizer’s…
In 1911, Sigmund Freud addressed his followers gathered at Nuremberg, where he restated the import of his practice: “the task of psychoanalysis lies not at all in the discovering of complexes, but in the dissolving of…
Née en 1940 à New York, Joan Nestle a grandi dans une famille monoparentale juive de la classe ouvrière, puis a fréquenté la communauté butch-fem avant de rejoindre les mouvements antiracistes, féministes et homosexuels.…
Becoming the Forest is a serial publication about ecology and music edited by Úna Hamilton Helle and Lotte Brown. It is part of a long-running art project by Úna Hamilton Helle, inspired by how the dense spruce…
PRESCRIPTIONS is a transcription of a handwritten manuscript, dated to approximately 1650, containing a wide range of medicinal and magical remedies. Currently housed in the Cornell University Witchcraft Collection, it…
In her Manifesto, Charlotte Posenenske (1930-1985) stated: “I find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that art can contribute nothing to the solution of pressing social problems.”
Developing…
“Beginning in the 1990s, the efflorescence of a technology-driven, ostensibly post-industrial ‘new economy’ brought with it a revival of interest in an array of concepts and discourses relating systems and systems thinking…
Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons, many have believed in the political power of music. Rulers recognise it too. Music has been used to challenge the political and…
Building loosely on the form of a pocket-sized travel guide, this artist’s book unfolds into a 731.52 cm wide miniature landscape. Composed of hand-painted and digitally illustrated images stitched together into a continuous…
Ce recueil d’absences fait ainsi un livre de relations. Pas vraiment au sens de récit, plutôt au sens où il fait état d’une relation possible entre corps flottants.
Dans le sens, enfin, où résulte de…
The practice of yoga promises peace, self-realisation and release, thanks to the power of its “mystic” Indian origins. But what if this is just hype? In Fascist Yoga, Stewart Home sweeps away the half-truths to…
“In this book, I have bought together the transcripts of dialogues I recorded on tape in three girls' classes from the first, second and third year of a state middle school. For having proposed this unauthorised activity,…
A deeply moving and revelatory reading experience, the essays collected in Portrait of an Island on Fire form a searing account of Mauritius at a crucial moment in its history. Unceasing in its critiques…
Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding exhibitions were the…
For those who seek to combat injustice, solidarity with the oppressed is one of the highest ideals, yet it does not come without complication. In this searing yet uplifting book, award-winning writer and cultural critic…
Dans un petit opuscule intitulé Sept ans de musique concrète, publié en 1955, on peut lire, de la plume de Jacques Poullin, le passage suivant : « […] la projection sonore en salle de concert constitue une suite…
Something in the Water marks a new chapter in Oscar Tuazon’s ongoing Water School project. Bringing together the work of 15 artists who engage with water as a living material and an artistic medium, the publication…
« Il existe bien une lutte des sexes où le sexe féminin, bien qu’en grande partie définissable en tant que classe, ne se comporte pas comme une classe ; il lui a été jusqu’à présent impossible de s’assumer comme…
American publisher and DIY architect Lloyd Kahn made a name for himself in the 1970s with publications on the self-build movement. As an eclectic meta-manual, Shelter Cookbook explores the content of these now…
Lebanese-born artist, Huguette Caland was a path-breaking figure in late modernism. The only daughter of the first Lebanese president, Bechara El Khoury, she produced a singular body of art that spanned media and continents.…
Gio Ponti (Milan, 1891–1979) was a key figure for Italian modernism; it is impossible to confine his legacy to a single creative field. From 1923 to 1930, Ponti was artistic director of the now cult Italian tableware manufacturer…
This volume expands David Reinfurt’s uniquely pragmatic and experimental approach to pedagogy into a collaborative project that weaves together a multiplicity of voices to present a polyphonic approach to design history…
"No one was born Butch. People were born babies and promptly burst into tears, which was most Un-Butch," declares Clark Henley's Butch Manual, a hilarious 1980s cult classic that reminds us that being "butch"…
Cabanes, bibliothèques, îles, grottes, maisons : au fil des siècles, une infinité de lieux ont été façonnés pour que les désirs et les vies lesbiennes se déploient. À l’abri des regards ou dans une affirmation politique,…
Cooking with Scorsese Vol. 4 continues the beloved series' exploration of cinematic cuisine, serving up another feast of unforgettable food moments on film. This latest volume features the visions of directors…
Since his on-screen “death” by erogenous torture device in Nine Inch Nails’ notorious “Happiness in Slavery” music video, writer and artist Bob Flanagan has been a looming legend in domains of art, pain and sex. First…
De Simone Weil à Lisa Robertson, tout le monde aime les cathares! Mais – des hérétiques les plus célèbres du Moyen Âge, il ne reste rien, sauf les châteaux qu’on leur attribue à tort. Nous ne les connaissons qu’au travers…
The critical orthodoxy is slowing; it’s tired, it's not especially good at the internet, it’s probably never manned a Starbucks counter or an anonymous cubicle. Its younger adepts—though digitally native—are chronically…
American artist Kandis Williams works across collage, sculpture, film, performance, writing, pedagogy and publishing. Her multidisciplinary practice leverages the experience of the body alongside personal and communal…
Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact “do more.” The War of Art tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political and aesthetic debates of the…
Comment s’habilleront-elles cet été, les jeunes ouvrières de Maubeuge ? Et leurs copines caissières de Lille ou de Saint-Quentin ? Quels nouveaux vêtements accrocheront-elles au hit-parade de leurs envies…
More Harry Smith! This time with a big monograph – published in the aftermath of the exhibition coorganized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Carpenter Center at Harvard University in 2024.
The first…
Oh oh quite a lovely one.
In the House of the Trembling Eye is a compendium by Allison Katz that draws out unexpected affinities across artworks and centuries—from Pompeian fresco fragments to Katz’s own…
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.
Un livre d'artiste pour enfants avec un texte de Rosanna Puyol Boralevi…
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…