Composer, pianist and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Époque Paris. Known for his unvarying image of bowler hat, three-piece suit and umbrella, Satie was…
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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.
Lancement du troisième numéro…
June 17 2025 07:00PM
Is it difficult to reproduce the sounds of nature?
Welcome to a listening session and a LP launch of Environements 12 with James Parker & Joel Stern from Machine Listening, interviewed by Joseph…
June 13 2025 07:00PM
Encore un launch French+English, oh yeah! Avec Maud Fougerol, coéditrice de ce numéro de Transat’, Bastien Goursaud & Andrew Hodgson, Amélie Hamad, Salomé Mercier, Théo Robine-Langlois, et Hélèna Villovitch.
Transat’…
Publié en 2018 par Kayfa-ta (Égypte), Comment réparer : la maternité et ses fantômes propose une réflexion sur la maternité et ses représentations. Plusieurs fois réimprimé, ce livre jouit d’une très grande réputation…
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…
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…
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…
Traversing multivalent intimacies from the underworld of California’s Central Valley oil fields to the quotidian domestic and love’s painful retraction, Stockton’s poems articulate the blurry modes of extraction, fantasy,…
“‘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…
In Becoming Lesbian, historian Tamara Chaplin argues that the history of female same-sex intimacy is central to understanding the struggle to control the public sphere. This monumental study draws on undiscovered…
Everything Is Political (EIP) is a platform and community amplifying independent culture, research, and ideas with a bias towards freedom & liberation for all. A place to build power, infrastructure, and share…
Phylactère est une revue à voix multiples, née du désir d’explorer l’écriture de l’oralité et les possibilités de retranscription de performance, à travers des visions authentiques, subjectives et spontanées.…
The hardest thing in the world is to live only once.
But it’s beautiful here, even the ghosts agree. Mornings, when the light rinses this place the shade of oatmeal, they rise as mist over the rye across…
À rebours des opérations politiques libérales promettant à Marseille une hégémonie de capitale culturelle et économique, ce numéro s’ouvre à une pluralité de voix pour dire les désirs qui résistent aux fractures et aux…
The tenth and final anthology from Blank Forms explores the early electronic work of French composer Éliane Radigue, whose radical approach to feedback, analog synthesis, and composition on tape has long evaded historical…
What is magic? And what can it do? In this book, Jessica Backsell interrogates the magic of the art world and culture’s stubborn habit of foregrounding art as representative of an alternative value system. Through the…
“The walls shift; sometimes they are stars, sometimes ruins, sometimes the skin of a planet I once walked in silence. There is a table, a chair made of woven air. Ink drips upward. Clocks melt into birds. I am where thought…
Stephanie Davidson dessine, enseigne, enquête, construit, converse, rencontre, relie dans un mouvement énergique et joyeux.
Avec Georg Rafailidis, sous le…
Mia DM la publication de @emotional_support_dyke
Lesbians are allowed to do whatever they want.
"she blew up a planet"
Okay and? Your lesbophobia is showing.
Depuis…
« Et donc, il ne me manque que la parole ? Eh bien, c’est que vous êtes sourdingue. » Oui, car c’est un chat qui parle. Chemoule est un chat, un chat français. Ou plus exactement une chatte, mais à la naissance on a cru…
How often can you empty a bag of letters onto the ground and have them land as perfect sentences, or even as pieces of writing?
This is the 4th in a series of excellent books of writing by students…
The Leksell Stereotactic System is not a tool but a vow. To operate is to whisper into the folded gray. Error is blasphemy. Precision, the only liturgy.
From handmade to mechanized, from the body to the…
If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while…
This book considers two modalities through which vision and motion have converged against the crises of late capitalism. The first is the dashcam recording that has proliferated in recent years, as seen in the accumulation…
ENGLISH / SPANISH edition. 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.…
A collection of Philippa Snow’s celebrated writing, Snow Business articulates with majestic precision the thorny, unbreakable bond between mass media, popular culture, and art. Kim Kardashian’s novel is as much…
“People don’t realize that they burst like fireworks”
Lots of plusieurs conversations in this new issue of dans ce 3e numéro de Suckcess, magazine in English and en français éditéd by Kevin Desbouis:…
Back in stock : ) Motherhood is a theme that stands at the core of life, but has nevertheless been kept in the private sphere for a long time, haunted by clichés, stigmas and myths. Motherhood has always been seen as trivial,…
From credits to subtitles to title cards and beyond, texts play a critical role in cinema. Yet, away from the world of mainstream film, these textual—and visual—elements have often been overlooked. In Read Frame Type…
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…
Oldie but goodie ; ) No more jobs, no more taxes, no more checkbook, no more bills, no more credit cards, no more credit, no more money, no more mortgages, no more rent, no more savings, no more junk mail, no more junk,…
La nouvelle catastrophe subie par le peuple palestinien à Gaza est pire que la Nakba de 1948. C’est le premier génocide perpétré par un État industriel avancé depuis 1945, avec la participation des États-Unis et le soutien…
Frances Bethune is desperate to lose weight before her husband’s return from India―in just two weeks. On the advice of a bad-breathed spirit, Frances undertakes…
⚑ BACK IN STOCK ☭ ☯︎
Celebrating what could have been but remains unlikely. One size fits all, bad hair days welcome. Disclaimer: book that hotel at your own risk ! // Une collaboration qui n'existe que dans (sur)…
“Over the last few years we have been collecting vintage bar mats from in and around Barcelona. A lot of these places have already closed but their incredible logos and stories live on. Here’s a compilation of our personal…
In this first critical volume and biography of the Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi, author Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi's archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist's character…
The new numéro of la revue Habitante, avec des textes de Clara Baudy – sur une esthétique architecturale qui semble avoir émergé de son fil Instagram, l’Antespace –, de Lou Cavallo – « Qui érode le Sénégal…
A collection of dialogues with contemporary writers and artists conducted over great distances and extended periods of time. These conversations focus on poetics, both the theory of poetry (its forms, histories, and critical…
Lyrical drifts warped by syntax into blizzarding softness; odes to beauty, meaning, and inexperience splintered by history and grammar. An aqueous surface marbled with the lightest…
Physique showcases over 250 rare physique photography prints from the private collection of renowned critic and curator Vince Aletti. Spanning the 1930s to the early 1960s, these photographs chronicle a hidden,…
He said he would understand if it was too much for me, that I could leave him, that I was young, I should be living, I said to him, I am living.
Johnny Grant faces stark life decisions. Seeking answers,…
I Am Abandoned documents a little-known, but visionary performance by Barbara T. Smith. Taking place in 1976, it featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs (known today as…
'Sah-ten' صحتين is the Arabic equivalent to ‘bon appetit’. It roughly translates to ‘two healths', and is often said in Palestine when food is placed on the table.
The book is a portrait of the skateboarding scene…
Fashion & Interiors. A Gendered Affair explores the relationship between fashion and interiors from a gender perspective.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, bourgeois ladies embellished both…
Artist François Pain (b. 1945) worked at psychiatric clinic La Borde where he met major representatives of Institutional Psychotherapy Francesc Tosquelles, Jean Oury, and Félix Guattari. Pain became the leading film chronicler…
Gran Fury (1988–95) was a New York–based activist artist collective that emerged from ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an organization founded in 1987 to raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS crisis in the United…
COUSIN Collective and Light Industry present the first critical anthology devoted to Indigenous experimental cinema. Temporal Territories brings together newly commissioned pieces alongside reprints of…
Héctor Viel Temperley (Buenos Aires, 1933-1987) écrit Hôpital Britannique peu de temps avant de mourir. Dans un entretien que nous avons intégré à cette édition, il précise les circonstances dans lesquelles ce…
The publication concludes Julia Gaisbacher's long-time exploration of Hanne Darboven's Künstlerinnenhaus and at the same time continues her own work on "dream houses." The Viennese artist's photographs provide sensitive…
« Pour faire un film, il faut être dans une obscurité lumineuse. »
— Philippe Grandrieux
Les crimes ont lieu à l’intérieur d’une maison située dans une zone de guerre, échappant à tout contrôle. Chaque nuit…
This is a book for all of those who need the rave. Who need to dance. Who have at some point needed that beat in their lives. This is a book for all those who have journeyed through the night, through sound, through movement,…
This book, A Model, parallels the exhibition A Model at Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. The museum’s director Bettina Steinbrügge conceived this exhibition as a conversation with…
Lapo Tanbou ka ekzaminé Matinitjé kon an zouti pou libérasion kolektif Matinitjé é kon an manniè pou eksprimé kò-nou, an pratik mizikal é dansé bèlè. Adan zin-tala, langa a ka man ka eksploré’y pou nou pé sa konprann…
Pontus Hultén (1924 – 2006) was a pioneering art curator who fundamentally reshaped the relationship between art, museums and society. He played a pivotal role in founding cultural institutions such as Moderna Museet,…
!! Jack Whitten <3 <3 Over nearly six decades, he dared to invent new forms of abstraction, constantly transforming both perception and our understanding of art in society. Raised in the segregated Jim Crow South in the…
Le quatrième numéro de la revue Le Signe Design, Cahiers du centre national du graphisme, est placé sous le signe du Japon, en lien avec trois expositions qui ont été présentées au Signe en 2022 et 2023 : Mangas,…
In this fictional work by Isabelle Graw, fear indeed eats the soul of the protagonist as she struggles to survive in a world increasingly defined and divided by money, addressing the situation with psychoanalytic depth.…
When you’re a good painter, you know how to put the paint on just where you want it and sometimes mine fails meserably but I can think up the dieas. The art has to do with ideas here.
—Gertrude Abercrombie
This…
Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control:…
Numéro inaugural de la revue Bye Bye Binary – éditée par la collective franco-belge du même nom !
Bye Bye Binary explore de nouvelles formes typo·graphiques adaptées à la langue française en prenant pour…
« Bonjour Estelle, Bonjour Robyn,
Je m’imaginais vous écrire une lettre pour vous proposer de réaliser ce numéro tout à fait spécial, magiquement hors-série. Car pour la première fois, il s'agit d'une proposition…
"It's like when you go to read your own poetry, you get all choked up" DJ
A significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative scenes, Daniel Johnston inspired musicians and listeners for decades. From his…
Titles beginning with “The Man Who…” have become a prevalent trope in storytelling over the past century and a half. Compiling 243 titles from 1869 to 2023 across literature, theater, and film, this collection lays bare…
Through newly commissioned essays from music historians Wolfram Knauer and Richie Unterberger, journalist Ignacio Juliá (“On Signing the Velevet Underground and Nico” ;), and essayist Pacôme Thiellement, this book, the…
Naseej, meaning “tapestry” in Arabic, is a book about diverse forms of life, communities, histories and continuities in Palestine. It compiles essays, short stories, poetry, interviews, and visual art to tell…
En 1968, Miriam Makeba et Stokely Carmichael quittent les États-Unis pour s’installer à Conakry, capitale de la Guinée socialiste. Réfugiés politiques en exil, la chanteuse sud-africaine mondialement connue et le militant…
From social media to so-called ‘AI’, from cyberpunk society to automated apartheid, The New Flesh asks and answers the same questions: What does it mean to live in an increasingly online world and what is it doing…
I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.
Flower is a book of realistic admissions, likes, dislikes, memories…
The Compost Reader series sees the world as an interconnected being, where all its parts relate to one another. Composting as a way of cultivating consciousness through questions instead of answers, and…
Fatal*e et Arthure Rimbaud constatent que le langage est épuisé. Il n’y a pas de riposte possible puisqu’il n’y a plus d’accroche. Alors, elles entrent en résistance. Fatal*e est une épopée contemporaine avec…
« Je me sens moins abimée ces derniers temps. Oh, pas saine d’esprit pour autant, certainement pas normale, ni même belle (certainement pas belle), mais puissante, secrète, sagace. Et bon sang, j’adore ça. »
Six…
Ce monde est chaotique […] C’est pour ça que nous fuyons, car nous pensons que c’est la seule façon d’être libres.
—Pirateflavor (Tumblr, 2023)
Valentina Tanni nous guide à travers la culture web…
In The Rose, award-winning poet Ariana Reines navigates the intersection of power and surrender.
Drawing on the history of “romance”…
This book is the final piece of an international project initiated in Portugal, which has established an online archive for experimental underground and protest sounds – encompassing both the “real socialism” of Eastern…
All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection,…
A transdisciplinary and experimental collection of critical and artistic engagements with listening as both a practice and a way of being.
Featuring contributions from an extensive roster of international thinkers,…
![SHIN, Sarah; TAMÁS, Rebecca (eds.) - Spells. 21st Century Occult Poetry [new edition] (Silver Press)](/assets/images/products/_image-cache/28181/spells.4045f900.jpg "SHIN, Sarah; TAMÁS, Rebecca (eds.) - Spells. 21st Century Occult Poetry [new edition] (Silver Press)")
Expanded edition!
Spells are poems; poetry is spelling.
Spell-poems take us into a realm where words can influence the universe.
Spells…
Continuities and ruptures between the early Soviet (c.1917) and late state socialist (c.1980s) periods are examined through detailed discussions of a wide range of women’s artistic practices, including Liubov Popova, Varvara…
Get down on your knees for BUTT no. 36. The thickest and most holy issue yet is filled cover to cover with revelations from passionate queens around the world. There’s a lot to gag over inside the alternatingly porny and…
Books in dreams were once made of scrolls and parchments. Once, books in dreams could only manifest themselves as clay. Scratches became meaningful. Books still tumble down. Most rooms are flooded; the waters are generally…
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Or, it seems, without a few thousand followers and a designer stove. Food is everywhere these days, from jello-sculpting reels and fermentation pop-ups to bike deliveries…
This book accompanies the exhibition KI$$ KI$$ at Haus der Kunst München. It features sketches, photographs, and work concepts by Shu Lea Cheang, a conversation between the artist and curator Sarah Johanna Theurer,…
The seventh volume of the series dedicated to the life and work of Ilya Zdanevich - Iliazd presents the first English translation of the “Albanian” issue of Bloodless Murder magazine, published in Petrograd…
Special expanded 5th edition! This manifesto talks to core of GenderFail collecting and archiving practices that looks to the softness as a metaphor for both the material and content of artist made publications. The GenderFail…
… nos monuments sont partout,
absolument partout, au fond de la mer
et dans les quartiers sans lumière
où gémit le Rabòday,
sur les murs défoncés de Pointe-à-Pitre… les femmes folles…
BACK IN STOCK! 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…
A collection of essays on one of the most important living Black artists of our time, David Hammons (b. 1943). Documenting five decades of visual practice from 1982 to the present, this book features contributions from…
8 years of writing prompts, movement activities, research, and experiences from LA Warman’s iconic anti-school, Warman School. Over 1500 students have passed through the hallowed halls of a Warman School Zoom room; you…
Composé à la fois de récits personnels, de citations et de collages provenant notamment du New York Times, New York Temps suggère une discontinuité des états intérieurs, accentuée par la multiplicité des orateur.ices…
Il est possible, à partir de l’œuvre de Gramsci, de penser l’émergence du fascisme historique de manière à mieux reconnaître ses nouveaux variants et mieux le combattre aujourd’hui. Étant donnée la situation politique…
Mindblowing. On the occasion of his exhibition, Weltraum, at the Albertinum in Dresden, Wolfgang Tillmans has created a unique artist’s book that places his four decades of artistic practice in a thoughtprovoking…
Three Swiss companies manufactured type for typewriters between the 1940s and 1990s: Caractères SA, Setag and Novatype. For over fifty years, they supplied leading office machine manufacturers in Europe and around the…
I often find myself wanting to get as far from the present as possible. Recently I’ve been obsessed with the extreme past. People of 20,000 years ago possessed creative and capable minds—the same as ours, apparently—and…
Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto starts with what it is not: a socio-economic argument against ageism, celebrating the “elderly” as economically viable. Instead, Simon(e) van Saarloos presents a radical critique…
SONDUKE (“صندوق”— Arabic for crate, vault, or safe) is an Arab Gulf based independent digital platform featuring regional and global experimental and industrial art and sound. The ‘interiority’ signaled by the name Sonduke…
Hi! I’m Francis. I spend most of my time thinking about a guy named Simon. He is a hot club promoter who put in me a few times. He used to sleep with a ton of people! But now, he’s in a monogamous relationship with…
Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In this brilliant survey of global tech economy, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role of firms like Amazon…