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Une soirée avec Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, autour de ses livres Le Culte des Banni.e.s et Stop Making Sense .·:
LCBD – Le Culte des Banni.e.s est un essai comme seul Arnaud Labelle…
School is almost out but hey, here is an excellent book gathering writings by students, dealing with ephemera from the histories of graphic design: a magic box, phoo albums, astrology pamphlets, cut-outs left in diaries,…
Récompensé au Festival de Cannes en 1973, La Planète sauvage est aujourd’hui une œuvre culte. Née de la collaboration de René Laloux et Roland Topor, cette fable écologique et politique constitue l’une des toutes…
« Avec les fantômes de Bowie et de Prince comme guides, nous irons là où trans* nous emmène, en cherchant non pas des personnes trans,[...] mais des politiques de transitivité. Comment les genres se déplacent-ils ?…
Traditionally, art scholarship and aesthetic theory have taken a chaste stance toward physical pleasure. Carnal, bodily experiences of pleasure are often associated with a loss of critical thinking; they appear as a base…
Honestly, I'm not so sure I feel like laughing anymore.
How about you?
BACK IN STOCK! An essay about chairs, design, architecture and racism.
Originally published in Bad Driver…
The fourth volume of the bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevich’s talk The New Schools in Russian Poetry, given in 1921 in Paris. In this talk, Zdanevich introduced zaum to the French…
An anthology pulling together the stories of the forgotten women writers who pioneered and developed the “weird tale” in the early 20th century. It is too often accepted that during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries…
This substantial volume publishes for the first time a series of interviews conducted with seminal East Coast artists and their associates, including Kenneth Noland, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Marcella Brenner, Helen…
In the early years of the twentieth century, Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) began painting mystic and visionary landscapes, and with some of his contemporaries, including Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keefe, and Grant Wood,…
Homoerotic poetry and art appear throughout the world’s civilizations for millennia. The Archaeology of Eros, the first published collection of poems from cult music figure Jorge Socarras, taps into that continuum…
A publication centered on the music of avant-garde composer Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016). Organized by multidisciplinary artist Christopher Willes and the collective Public Recordings, the release documents a large-scale…
—open future, like a plant—’
Diasporic, ornate and protean, shifting in register between essay, prose-poetry and art history, Hussein Mitha’s Vegetal Soul is a beautiful and urgent examination…
For many years, Daniel Eatock has travelled through his day-to-day life documenting vehicles which proudly bear evidence of the repairs they have been subject to. Damaged parts are switched for replacements…
In this provocative new account, David Joselit shows how art from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries began to function as a commodity, while the qualities of the artist, nation, or period themselves became valuable…
Unica Zürn, par cet ensemble de textes et dessins, raconte un séjour en hôpital où elle est soignée d'une jaunisse. Elle y écrit et compose ce carnet où le regard qu'elle pose sur son propre corps, les lieux qu'elle habite…
Politiser l'enfance est une anthologie de textes inédits, traduits ou réédités, écrits par des artistes, des philosophes, des sociologues et des critiques d'art. Ces textes sont réunis par Vincent Romagny et John…
Stuff: Instead of a Memoir is a short, abundantly illustrated autobiography of the American art writer, activist, and sometime curator Lucy R. Lippard. Describing tchotchkes, photographs, and art in her unpretentious…
A crucial exploration of the wealth and diversity of work by women artists working in the 1970s and 1980s during a period of seismic social and political change.
Across a wide variety of mediums including painting,…
In The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends we are introduced to characters from Danish folklore, Scandinavian history and Norse mythology, as envisioned by artist Rasmus Myrup.
Making their first appearance…
Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun traces Jackie Wang’s trajectory from hard femme to Harvard, from dumpster dives and highway bike rides to dropping…
In what ways have women artists come together to investigate their own image? This publication delves into histories of feminist and queer collective practice, expanding on the various ways women claim agency of their…
Mysterious Letters is a private investigation into the unsolved mysteries surrounding the Voynich Manuscript. The manuscript…
What do you eat while you work? For the third edition of the Studio Cookbook series, Hato Press extended an invitation to collaborators, friends and creators we admire to share a dish they enjoy as part of their working…
Bob Glück met Ed Aulerich-Sugai in 1970. Ed was an aspiring artist; Bob wanted to write. They were young men in San Francisco at the high tide of sexual liberation and soon, and for eight years, they were lovers, after…
Avec Charbon, Audre Lorde explore les multiples facettes de son identité (femme noire, lesbienne, mère, guerrière et poète) comme seule possible voie d’émancipation. D’inspiration symboliste, la transformation…
Comment dépasser la binarité de genre caractéristique de la langue française ? Cet ouvrage revient d’abord sur l’apparition des écritures dites inclusives et non-binaires, pour esquisser les prémices d’une approche post‑binaire…
"Yuki Kimura's work exists both as an elegant, static, physical form with a calmly assertive presence in space, and as an immaterial, wandering, and vibrating force reflective of all that exists around and throughout it—in…
2022 marked the 25th anniversary of BLESS. Since 1997, Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag have been working together on numerous transdisciplinary projects. Dubbing themselves 'situation designers,' their products blend fashion,…
Après un nom, DÉCOR en 2021, et un adjectif, VULGAIRE en 2022, c'est sous le préfixe TRANS, dans tous ses états, que se place la troisième revue de l'École des Arts Décoratifs. Si depuis quelques dizaines d'années, TRANS…
Three friends hang out and share a long and unremarkable conversation about getting dressed, headaches, ticks, compression fantasies, surgery, and personal aspirations, among other things. When two of the friends go home…
Post-Branding empowers better design of public communication for civic and activist groups by replacing corporate branding’s predatory principles with a new set of strategies embedded in a new culture of craft. A new way…
De ragoût et du suffixe péjoratif -asse. Mauvaise cuisine, nourriture indigeste; mauvais article de la presse, orale ou écrite.
« Une tendance à faire fi des conventions, un humour potache, une approche assez…
Image RIP, the first publication from Source Type, is centered around New York graphic designer Geoff Han’s investigation into the Shenzen-based printer Artron and explores…
The poems come from Albuquerque, Beirut, Damascus, the Amazon Basin, the air over Hiroshima, the burial grounds both honored and dishonored all over the world. Counterposed to violence and destruction, these poems offer…
Over the last few decades the term “bootlegging”—a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers—has become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in…
The effect of fireworks at the moment of explosion seems impossible to reproduce on paper, due to its ephemeral and iridescent nature. Yet in late 19th century Japan, Jinta Hirayama undertook this challenge by publishing…
As the wind deposits dust, and dirt settles into soil, the landscape forms. The amassment of dirt and specks transfers pressure upon pressure, upon pressure. What erodes elsewhere, gathers here. Until carbon turns into…
First the air is blue and then / it is bluer and then green and then / black I am blacking out and yet / my mask is powerful / It pumps my blood with power.
Adrienne Rich
And Yet My Mask is Powerful…
The original Proust Questionnaire was a set of questions answered by Proust in 1885 as part of a popular parlour game. In this PROVENCE version the 25 questions are designed to reveal truths about the 50+ interviewees…
For the narrator of Motion Sickness life is an unguided tour, populated with hotels and strangers, art, books, and films. Adrift in Europe, her life becomes a carousel of unusual encounters, where coincidences…
To make art is to understand how you are, to notice your prejudices and assumptions about value, to acknowledge your hand in an unequal world, and to recognise how you institute yourself – all while letting go of the outcome…
“What a fantastic, compulsive book. There’s so much in it! Every page opens up new rabbit holes for me to go down.”
—Brian Eno
Why Graphic Culture Matters gathers 45 thought-provoking essays…
It looks like a thick, juicy romance novel, but it's actually a collection of brushy, ephemeral, fin-de-siecle-esque paintings by the young German artist Sophie von Hellermann. Currently based in London, she recently exhibited…
Une écriture dont le style évoque le rap, avec ses rimes, sa part de violence, de néologismes et d’égotrip, outil de lutte contre les injustices et l’ordre établi, celui de la langue comme celui de l’inceste. AD a 22 ans…
Ce numéro c’est une traduction inédite en français de The Letters of Mina Harker de Dodie Bellamy par Lætitia Paviani, sabrina soyer & Mélanie Blaison. Un texte de Félixe Kazi-Tani sur l'émergence des sex-parties…
Unbidden Tongues #8: Feelers brings together three photographic series by artist and activist Alexis Hunter. In a storyboard-like fashion, her “photo narrative sequences” forensically detail her manhandling of…
Kat a fait ses premiers pas dans la crypto il y a neuf ans, lorsqu’iel a acheté pour 500$ de Bitcoin Cash sur les conseils d’une collègue travailleuse du sexe. En fait, il s’est avéré qu’on lui avait dit d’acheter…
BACK IN STOCK ! 2ND PRINTING﹅Artist and fashion designer Cinzia Ruggeri (1942–2019) made her artistic research a tool for inquiry into the functional and semantic properties of the object and the architectural and social…
desires identified
layers of madness
closed doors, cabin, darkroom
autopoiesis
freer mistakes
wirklichkeit histories
neither a nor b
violence roaming through…
Revenge publishing? A new genre? Or has it been around since writers first put pen to paper? Isn’t all writing to some degree a means to avenge an oversight or a rejection, intending to set the record straight? A number…
Anti-Oculus is a work of conceptual espionage: an assemblage of polemical tracts complete with a gallery of graphic illustrations inspired by postmodern and pulp classics from Anti-Oedipus…
Corita Kent, formerly Sister Mary Corita, is known for her exuberant, colorful serigraphs and her teaching, as evidenced in her lively art classes. As a Catholic nun from 1936 until 1968, Corita lived and worked in the…
This quite thick volume adapts 8 pretty amazing short stop-motion animation films by Mungo Thomson to the book form. In these works the artists used a high-speed robotic book scanner to digitize a selection of pages from…
Les Voies du Paradis rassemble ce qui subsiste d’une œuvre perdue : les seules notes de bas de page d’un texte manquant, laissées par un chercheur après son décès et éditées par Peter Cornell. Ces notes et leurs…
This book brings together the Palabrarmas series by the Chilean-born artist, poet and activist Cecilia Vicuña. Images of these works―each a powerful juxtaposition of color, poetry and politics―appear alongside…
Le hochet est le premier jouet que l’on offre au tout-petit, un objet conçu pour stimuler ses cinq sens et favoriser son développement. Au XXe siècle, les modèles les plus inventifs reflètent la quête d’un renouvellement…
D’OK CHAOS, on pourrait dire que c’est un anti-journal intime, écrit depuis les bords d’un capitalisme qui étouffe, compresse et abîme les corps, et plus particulièrement celui des femmes.
De Leïla Chaix, artiste…
Audimat propose pour la première fois un best-of : Audimat Maxi, un grand et gros volume qui rassemble une sélection des meilleurs articles de nos 15 premiers numéros déjà réédités et à nouveau épuisés.…
Avant que Black Lives Matter et #MeToo ne viennent secouer l’Amérique et le monde occidental, bell hooks montrait, dans cet essai incisif, que l’abolition du racisme et l’éradication du sexisme vont de pair. Sans le féminisme,…
“Cardboard boxes are usually secondary in importance to their contents, yet beautiful in material and design. My work using cardboard boxes is as much about the raw constituents as the forms and volumes of the boxes themselves,…
Sketchbook, September 1977 is an early journal by Greer Lankton written during her time as an art student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It offers key insights into the artist’s mind before her…
Sur Lointemps, les hommes ont disparu il y a un millier d’années, victimes d’une pandémie. Les femmes, elles, ont survécu. Elles ont pleuré les morts, puis les ont oubliés. Elles ont su s’adapter, trouvant le moyen de…
Méconnu en France, le « Manifeste gay » de Carl Wittman est l’un des textes fondateurs du militantisme gay et queer états-unien, écrit juste avant les émeutes de Stonewall en 1969. Traduit pour la première fois en français,…
Chef-d’œuvre de Gustav Landauer, l’Appel au socialisme (1911) est l’un des plus beaux textes de la littérature socialiste. Il est aussi l’un des rares, au sein de cette tradition, à avoir conservé ou retrouvé…
In their practice, SoiL Thornton have been working against the grain of some of the art world’s conventions, from medium specificity to questions of branding and commodification. In so doing, they inquire into modes of…
“Learning to Write Science Fiction from Virginia Woolf,” “The Sound of Your Writing,” “Is Gender Necessary?,” “What Women Know,” “Disappearing Grandmothers” – these are the titles of some of the AMAZING…
Un recueil dans lequel bell hooks aborde différents aspects de ce que signifie se sentir « appartenir » à un lieu et à une communauté. Après une enfance dans les montagnes du Kentucky, un État pauvre et populaire, hooks…
Meriem Bennani's Life on the CAPS is the final chapter in her film trilogy of the same name. Set in a supernatural, dystopian future surrounding a fictional island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, it is rooted…
Dear Jean Pierre collects David Wojnarowicz’s transatlantic correspondence to his Parisian lover Jean Pierre Delage between 1979 and 1982. Capturing a truly foundational moment for Wojnarowicz’s artistic and literary…
Pippa Garner. Act Like You Know Me
Encompassing Garner’s most iconic works, from the Backwards Car to the Half-Suit, alongside never-before-seen photographs and ephemera, Act Like You Know Me serves to introduce a highly-influential,…
Poems presents four unpublished poems by American writer and actress Zoë Lund (1962–1999), written in the 1980s. An incandescent voice emerges, revealing the might, sincerity, and precision of her expression, as well as…
The voice is everywhere, infiltrating everything, making civilisation, marking out territories with infinite borders, spreading from the farthest reaches to the most intimate spaces. It can be neither reduced nor summarised.…
Originally released in a long sold-out edition of 50 cassette tapes, Love, Emily (Acte 3) was the third and final album of Michel Henritzi's industrial label AKT Production. Recorded in a Paris studio in 1987,…
YES they are back in fashion. Hand silkscreened by truly yours, with hidden messages - only a few pieces.
This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer on the cusp of a windfall, courtesy of the Social Evils prize committee, for whom the actual gong - and with it the prize money - remains tantalizingly out of reach.
Neon…
For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials…
Dans un monde qui se dirige vers le chaos climatique, la nature est morte. Elle ne peut plus être séparée de la société. Tout n’est plus qu’un amalgame d’hybrides, où l’homme ne possède aucune puissance d’agir particulière…
Wanting Something Completely Different discusses a range of political figures, themes, directors and writers in a series of brief, evocative descriptions (‘vignettes’) aimed at laying out…
Artist's book with reproductions of protective packaging material for fruits, vegetables, and headphones, interspersed with collected images of armour. This new project deals in an unexpected and indirect way with the…
In the histories of art exhibitions that we know, LGBTQIA+ artists and curators have always been underexposed or forgotten. This new title in the PLURAL series focuses on these forgotten and hidden histories, by scrutinizing…
I drift away from the camera to some other place a lot of the time,
but it is always in relation to the idea of the photographic.
—Christopher Williams
An artists’ book in 3 Parts – with an essay…
Miss-Communication is a book of two halves. On each recto page, an AI text generated from the prison letters of Irish rebel politician and British aristocrat, Constance Markievicz, and interviews with 20th century Dublin…
À la question « aimons-nous le sexe ? », Leo Bersani affirme : « Il y a sur le sexe un secret bien gardé : la plupart des gens n’aiment pas ça. » On pourrait croire cette question naïve, mais y répondre sincèrement provoquerait…
This is a book about a single word: skiapod. What began as a task to select a single word from among all existing words, and to expand upon and alter the meaning and mythology of that word, soon became a fascinating journey…
This publication celebrates a tradition of hand created Egyptian cinema posters madeusing the stone litho technique. The book will document 200 posters made between 1938 and1996. These posters are beautiful, highly accomplished,…
In five films, from his debut Metropolitan (1990) through to his “Jane Austen” film, Love & Friendship (2015), Whit Stillman has established himself as the prince of contemporary American comedy. Betting…
Cutes is a collective book of contemporary queer and trans comics that explores the multiple facets of LGBTQIA+ identity through the medium of graphic storytelling. The anthology was co-created by Nour Hifaoui…
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This handsome book gathers 92 works on paper by David Robilliard – mostly ink or pencil, sometimes watercolour, on paper or card — cartoons and portraits of friends, celebrities,…
The more I think about it, art theory is no place for straights. And contrary to popular opinion you can’t be really poor—or poor without a safety net—and bohemian. Or live in a capital city and have a fun time all…
After a successful career, a twenty-year marriage, and two kids, McKenzie Wark has an acute midlife crisis: coming out as a trans woman. Changing both social role and bodily form recasts her relation to the world. Transition…
Le nouveau roman de Nathalie Quintane est une étonnante farce politique et littéraire qui fait écho avec impertinence et fantaisie au désordre de situation sociale. Tout se passe à Paris, non dans les rues obscures d’arrondissements…
A legend in his home country of Greece but virtually unknown abroad, The Commune is the final work of Marios Chakkas, composed in the months preceding his early death in 1972. Born under the Fascist regime and…
A grimoire carved in scarlet, Salamander's Wool is the inaugural full-length collection of writing by V Manuscript, amalgamating a vast array of arcane rituals into an ensorcelling poetic corpus. To read Salamander's…
Search History is a cruise through writer Sam Moore’s internet browsing log, a horny examination of the web as a site for self-
exploration and becoming. Over nine essays, Moore navigates messy digital and…
on a meadow in the park
my back shielded by a hedge,
I set up my desk
while the sun sets,
behind a hill to my right.
Contributors: Sophie Podolski,…
A previously unpublished collection of 60 ink pictograms, drawn between 1976 and 1996, originally printed individually as A2 plane prints.
An early progenitor of the artist's book genre, Warja Lavater was born…
“In space it’s always night.” A family of vampires travels through space, carrying life to a faraway planet. Alone, they recall their past, offering an open-ended narrative about the role of fiction in our lives, with…
Comment fait-on l'expérience de l'histoire de l'esclavage ? Comment la fait-on déjà, encore ? Comment cette histoire se poursuit-elle ? Ce récit d'un voyage au Ghana par l'historienne suit les traces – matérielles, sociales,…
A brush with the mushroom devil whets the appetite. The meat at the werewolf’s table is a dish to relish. Dessert with London’s cannibal club may be the cherry on top… From fairy tales and folklore focused on magical foods…
Non, prévu, comment avoir pu penser que, comment avoir pu dire avant ça, ça n'existait pas, ou peut-être quelque part, c'était là toujours mais pas sur cette peau, c'était arrivé, c'était absent, comment ça aurrait pu…