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Michael in Black by Nicole Miller (2022) focuses on a single sculptural work by the artist and filmmaker: a bronze cast of Michael Jackson’s kneeling figure, poured from a mold made directly from his body circa…
Dédié à l’expérience douloureuse d’un chagrin d'amour, ce recueil semble avoir été écrit dans un souffle. God with Revolver offre un témoignage vibrant du New York des années 1980, et s’adresse aux lecteurs d’aujourd’hui…
As an attempt to rediscover the basics of human connection in these isolated times, Laure Prouvost has developed a new ideographic language called ‘Legsicon’. The aim of Prouvost’s project is to unlearn and relearn language…
The people and things we want feel very far away. Everything else feels far too near. Daily life is incorrectly calibrated. Lockdown kept us painfully apart. The virtual keeps us painfully together. Everyone wants the…
Comic Velocity: HIV and AIDS in Comics, curated by Paul Sammut for Visual AIDS, explores how artists and activists have used comics to create and shape conversations about HIV and AIDS. The exhibition’s title…
The news reported over and over that everyone, every living American, was enraptured by the alien object. There were crowds at Jones Beach and the city had a hectic, anticipatory air, crammed with tourists of all kinds,…
This second issue of the cultural magazine * as a Journal deals with the subject of space.
In “Cosmos as a Journal," Julijonas Urbonas tells readers about the Lithuanian Space Agency and his project Planet…
With a body of work that explores a broad spectrum of subjects - from lesbianism and feminism to contemporary politics and the natural world - Nicole Eisenman (b.1965) challenges convention and encourages viewers to construe…
In this characteristically sexy, daring, and hyperliterate novel, Kathy Acker interweaves the stories of three characters who share the same tragic flaw: a predilection for doomed, obsessive love. Rimbaud, the delinquent…
Après un premier numéro manifeste consacré à la question du décor, ce second opus explore le « vulgaire », mot redoutablement polysémique et politique qui incarne toutes les tensions de notre époque.
À travers des…
The June issue of Texte Zur Kunst is dedicated to the politics of memory and forms of ritualized mourning in art and culture. Rather than focusing on an analysis of an ostensibly universal emotion or general state…
Amor Cringe explores the dually base and beautiful aspects of self-obsessed media culture. In a perennial bohemian style, an unnamed, ungendered protagonist travels from coast to coast and affair to affair, stumbling…
A shocking debut poetry collection that invites readers to grapple with the origins of a world that both hates and needs Black women. A disruptive hagiography of the Black Venus & Sapphire, mammy bulldaggers, and welfare…
Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they’d turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf.
Queyras returns to that contentious first encounter with Virignia Woolf to recover the body and thinking…
‘Moving through the Space of the Picture and the Page’ brings together essays on six contemporary Belgian photobook makers and the way they deal with space, time, movement and surface within the book and within…
Trou Noir ? Une proposition d´expérience politique et charnelle du monde qui, dans ce premier volume, explore les antagonismes internes à notre société : le fascisme de Renaud Camus de sa littérature homosexuelle du Tricks…
Ce conte d'un érotisme frénétique et surréaliste, où perroquets, montres et miroirs sont saisis de furie génésique, a lui-même une drôle d'histoire. Alors qu'il devait paraitre en 1928 chez l'éditeur clandestin René Bonnel,…
Le « monde organisé », tramé par l'industrie et le management, menace aujourd'hui de s'effondrer. Alors que les mouvements progressistes rêvent de monde commun, nous héritons de communs bien peu bucoliques : des fleuves…
« On habite ce que l’on peut : la faïence, la baignoire, le hlm, le trottoir, on construit une cabane. Du début à la fin on utilise l’amoure comme survie collective. » Fiévreuse plébéienne est un texte qui interroge la…
Are there weird questions that have been haunting you all your life? Do you wonder why you pass out each mother in law comes to your place? Do you smell fish when you cook meat? Do you know of miraculous medical machines…
A combination of a personal memoir with essays on contemporary artists, completed by short pieces of fiction, Cloud Bridge proposes a subjective approach to the South Korean art scene. In the book, Seyoung Yoon…
It’s fall (or autumn) 2018. The Trump administration wants to fortify the United States-Mexico border, Robert ‘Beto’ O'Rourke is running for Senate, and British grifter Nicki Smith has just secured a “low-paid glamour…
In 2004, poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau’s Boat, poems culled from years of notebooks that are, nevertheless, by no means autobiographical. In 2010, she expanded the work into a full-length…
Polar bears emerge from t-shirts. Reeboks come to life. Nothing is normal in the house of Mother Normal.
In Isabel Waidner’s second novel, we follow an unnamed narrator who looks like Eleven from Stranger Things,…
*WOW* This comprehensive monograph surveys four decades of work by Swiss Argentine artist Vivian Suter (born 1949), from early drawings and her painterly wall reliefs of the 1980s to her recent outdoor installations.
Thune Amertume Fortune raconte la possibilité d’une révolution. Eva Sig est pauvre. Elle vit en Vendée. Ses journées sont organisées autour de la nécessité de…
It is precisely by stylising her work to the point of artifice, von Wulffen saves it from lapsing into any form of confessional or ‘authentic’ painting. For all that the subtexts of her works are permeated by personal…
Un livre qui rassemble l’intégralité des photographies réalisées par Bruno Serralongue à Calais sur une période de 15 ans, documentant les conditions de vie des réfugié·es tentant de franchir la Manche pour se rendre en…
Archive Dora Diamant est une collection de livres de photos initiée en 2022 et co-éditée par les éditions l’Amazone. Photographe autodidacte et figure iconique des nuits parisiennes, Dora Diamant a légué des milliers…
SERI(a) 1: The Silk Museum is the first in the State Silk Museum’s new series of eponymous publications. Historically, the museum’s predecessor—the Caucasian Sericulture Station—was a space for scientific research…
Un essai sur la période italienne de l’artiste américain Paul Thek – qui a profondément influencé son imaginaire et son œuvre. De 1962 à 1976, Thek voyage en Italie : à Rome, il découvre la sculpture antique, les réalisations…
Silvia Federici présente une histoire critique de la politique des communs dans une perspective féministe! De son vécu au Nigeria et de ses rencontres avec des militantes d’Amérique latine et du monde entier,…
Kou Machida is a punk singer who turned to poetry and fiction after releasing one of the seminal Japanese punk albums with his band INU.
Set in a kaleidoscopic hyperreal Japan circa Y2K, Rip It Up catalogues…
The long rolling crescendo of Art Worker comes in Alan W. Moore’s discussion of the expansive art scene around Collaborative Projects (Colab) that had its heyday from 1977 to the mid-1980s. Colab, situated in…
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Faster Than An Erection is a chapter from Maybury’s upcoming book. Published in conjunction with the homonymous exhibition at MACRO, it lays out Her methodology as an Artist and Dominatrix…
What if fascism didn't disappear at the end of WW II with the defeat of Hitler and Mussolini? Even more troubling, what if fascism can no longer be confined to political parties or ultra nationalist politicians but has…
From leather parties in the Castro to Gay Liberation Front touch-ins; from disco at Studio One to dark rooms in Vauxhall railway arches, the gay bar has long been a place of joy, solidarity and sexual expression. But around…
Dennis Cooper’s previous four novels–Closer, Frisk, Try, and Guide–have established him as a completely unique, fearlessly radical voice in contemporary American fiction. Charting a path of exploration…
Kathy Acker’s Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on a formidable quest: to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America by pursuing “the most insane idea that any woman can think of. Which…
In Paper Revolutions, Sarah James offers a radical rethinking of experimental art in the former East Germany (the GDR). Countering conventional accounts that claim artistic practices in the GDR were isolated and…
Nothing
but
Flowers
or rather
Paintings and
Drawings
of Flowers
by Artists such as:
Gertrude Abercrombie
Marina Adams
Henni Alftan
Ed Baynard
Nell Blaine
Dans la pratique artistique de Mimosa Echard, les éléments de la culture pop et du monde du vivant s'articulent en composant des ensembles vibrants et sensuels. À travers ses vastes compositions, l'artiste explore les…
The play, whose full title is Up Your Ass Or From the Cradle to the Boat Or The Big Suck Or Up from the Slime, marches out a cast of screwy stereotypes: the unknowing john, the frothy career girl, the boring male…
Qu’est-ce que le genre dans le capitalisme contemporain ? C’est à cette question qu’invite à répondre ce recueil, à partir d’une démarche théorique inspirée du féminisme et du marxisme. Il s’agit de penser, depuis une…
On the occasion of Tom of Finland’s birthday (8th May), in the spring of 2022 Tom of Finland Foundation and The Community have curated a group exhibition, supported by Diesel, presenting Tom of Finland Foundation’s permanent…
FUN & SMART. Martino Gamper is a designer based in London. Arnold Circus is situated in the heart of Shoreditch. Built on the rubble of the old slums it is part of the Boundary Estate, London’s first social housing project,…
A body of work from Íris Erlings made in 2019. Verk is an Icelandic word with triple meaning; the act of work, the creation from working and composition. These ten meticulously detailed drawings stem from digital collages…
This book places poetry by Ashbery, gathered from his later collections, in conversation with a selection of contemporaneous art writing. In addition, as Ashbery loved music and listened to it while writing, the “playlists”…
intercalations 6 ... is a queer refrain, populated with both acoustical lines of flight and the sorrows of captivity, wherein the reader-as-exhibition-viewer learns that the adventure of ornithology is as preoccupied with…
Construite sur des discussions avec l’architecte & ingénieur civil Hans-Walter Müller, et sur des photographies, dessins et documents issus de ses archives, cette publication propose une formidable vue d’ensemble sur les…
"I wanted to portray the story of a strong female character, a dystopian laboratory subject who breaks free from chains thanks to her inner magical strenght and recoonect with nature.
This project combines elements…
Apposer des fleurs sur la pellicule, ensevelir le film, inventer des dispositifs d'observation, laisser la caméra être affectée par les forces naturelles, engager son corps filmant dans une relation symbiotique avec le…
What draws ‘affect’ into ‘form’ becomes a matter of ‘concern’, she believed.
OC I is a study of narration distinctive in their visual form — lexicons, lists, lyrics, collages, comics, essays,…
Au cours de ses quarante années d’existence, le Scriptorium de Toulouse a formé de nombreux créateurs de caractères et calligraphes parmi lesquels François Boltana, Rodolphe Giuglardo, Franck Jalleau, Claude Mediavilla,…
This book aims to reactivate the archival material by Ulli Beier, co-founder of the Black Orpheus Magazine and the Mbari Clubs in Nigeria in the early 1960s. To better understand the formation of modernities from…
La consommation domestique de musique pour chiller est devenue omniprésente. Des chaînes ou playlists YouTube / Spotify dédiées rassemblent des millions d’auditeur·ices, qui vont des jeunes passionné·es de jeux…
“The images that comprise this book come from two sheets of slides that I have held onto for almost thirty years now. . . . Over that time I have projected them in talks I gave here and there, although never a talk deveoted…
TREASURE! The facsimile of Desiderata, a collection of Lizzy Mercier Descloux’s poetry, photos, and diaristic fragments from her visit to New York City in the Winter of 1977. Only eighteen at the time, Descloux…
Les habitants des maisons hantées s’inquiètent des présences invisibles qui troublent leur quotidien. Il leur arrive de demander de l’aide pour qualifier ces inquiétantes apparitions. En Angleterre,…
In the decades after World War II, new forms of learning transformed architectural education. These radical experiments sought to upend disciplinary foundations and conventional assumptions about the nature of architecture…
How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with unparalleled candour and commitment. Touching on work from across his career as well as…
Adeliza McHugh helped put the whimsical, funky, and irreverent aesthetic of California’s Central Valley on the art-historical map at her legendary Candy Store Gallery, which she opened in Folsom, California, in 1962. The…
Lorsqu’Allen Ginsberg s’enregistre sur un magnétophone et capte fortuitement des émissions de radio, le souffle du vent et des conversations, des agents du FBI et de la CIA l’écoutent, à la recherche d’aveux involontaires.…
In World of Interiors I use collage and appropriation to destabilise the first-person ‘I’. I also write directly about the inescapable condition of being perceived and positioned by other people. Our lives take…
It’s been a long time since my body.
Unbearable, I put it down
on the earth the way my old man
rolled dice. It’s been a long time since
time. But I had weight back there [...]
In…
Feminicide and Global Accumulation brings us to the frontlines of an international movement of Black, Indigenous, popular, and mestiza women’s organizations fighting against violence—interpersonal, state…
In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our ‘digital age’ is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialisation of social existence,…
Making Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women’s lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on gender and sexuality that have…
The first English translation of theoretical writings on punk, art, socialism, bureaucracy, and nationalism by Slavoj Žižek, Rastko Močnik, and Zoja Skušek. Written in the first half of the eighties, these texts are a…
Con una potente esclamazione e una bomba fumetto in copertina, il volume rimette a disposizione del grande pubblico le rarissime pagine della rivista FUORI!, storico organo di stampa del Fronte Unitario…
Exploring Lene’s strong anthropological interest – the publication invites us to think about the conceptions we have about the natural and the artificial, and about the relationship between animals and humans as they have…
"Si la France est un Etat de propriétaires, l'Etat n'aime pas montrer son cocyx."
This is the story of what happens after your property and after your progress … it’s over.
Everything But The World: The Complete Annotated Screenplay constitutes a scrapbook of the making of…
First published by Semiotext(e) in 2001, Indivisible concludes a radically philosophical and personal series of Fanny Howe novels animated by questions of race, spirituality, childhood, transience, wonder, resistance,…
Cookie Mueller wrote like a lunatic Uncle Remus—spinning little stories from Hell that will make any reader laugh out loud. She was a writer, a mother, an outlaw, an actress, a fashion designer, a go-go dancer, a witch…
This pretty amazing book on the work of artist & illustrator Anna Haifisch smells like ink spirit. It brings together sketches, references, haikus, notes, and the new short story “1992”—a making-of account composed of…
Entre 2015 et 2019, Marius Loris Rodionoff s’est rendu dans les tribunaux de grande instance de Lille, Paris et Alençon pour assister aux audiences publiques de comparutions immédiates. Retenant dix journées d’audiences,…
B R R A N D N N E W 8 !
The uprising was staged by the minority, and a downfall is remembered by the majority.
Gilgamesh “Gil” Gupta is a theatre maker and self-defined “avant-gardist.” As a young…
Drama, carrières, sabotage, compromissions... Le premier numéro de Suckcess Magazine débute par une sélection de poèmes du flamboyant Rene Ricard, effectuée avec le concours des éditions Lutanie, et se poursuit…
Over the course of 2020-21, during the pandemic, Kara Walker has produced series of drawings in the style of a medieval “Book of Hours.” Enigmatic images appear to traverse a range of time periods, from scenes of biblical…
Træfængslet (The Wooden Prison) is a collection of photographs made by Nick Geboers. Close-up photographs of carvings on surfaces of the wooden prison cells of the historical buildings of Kunstmuseet Tønder, part…
La vie est toujours ce qui aura déjà passé sans que l’on soit bien sûr d’y avoir été présent, ce qui aura glissé entre nos doigts, ce qui aura pris un tour monstrueux sans qu’on en le voie venir.
Oh oh.
Au…
L’équipe de Kapsel vous présente le premier numéro en français de sa revue de science-fiction chinoise, qui a déjà pris ses marques en Allemagne et en Chine. Cette première édition présente deux visions de la même ville.…
This is a book of failure and mistakes; it begins with what is stolen from us and proposes only an invitation to imagine.
In these playful written experiments, Lola Olufemi navigates the space between what is and…
"Known best for her exuberant, often large-scale sculptural works that celebrate the abundance and complexity of female desire, imagination, and creativity, Niki de Saint Phalle viewed making art as a ritual and a performance—a…
A firsthand account of the 1980s Los Angeles art scene by groundbreaking artist Ulysses Jenkins.
Written in 1990 and published as a limited-edition artist’s book in collaboration with Rosanna Albertini in 2018,…
(…) D enters the waiting room. Name some of your angels here : Write them down or say them out loud or think them to yourself.
Dans Et maintenant le pouvoir, Fania Noël déploie le corpus théorique des féminismes Noirs et aborde des thématiques telles que la famille, la misogynoir, l’intersectionnalité, le néolibéralisme ou encore l’écologie.…
This book offers a collaborative panorama of Belgian graphic design history from a multiplicity of perspectives, with essays on type design, colonisation and labour relations among other subjects. Contributors include…
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the…
blankets topologies in glistening snow and blood — produces instructional spattering, again and again — coughs up clotted network diagram hairballs of illegibility — parasitically…
This first collection, Sleeper, features 9 new writing commissions and 2 re-printed texts all responding to the idea of mechanics, cars and journeys. We approached this collection with the idea of a space or…
SO SO EXCITING ! Writing by Artist is the first collection to focus on William Wegman’s lengthy and deeply funny relationship to language and is filled with previously unknown and wildly entertaining texts, drawings,…
Le bar et ses riverains, le couperet, le goût du refuge rendu à l’oubli : tout ceci nous est tristement familier. Mais après la fermeture l’histoire n’est pas finie. Après : quand il n’y a plus personne pour espérer, quand…
[¡Silver paper is reflective, can’t you see?] The fourth issue of Counter-Signals assembles texts and images to query the claims and break the chains of “visual identity” in capitalism. What is an identity and…
« Des nuits des fêtes et de mille concerts que reste-il ? Des souvenirs brumeux de lieux improbables, des anecdotes en pagaille, une affiche dans ton salon, un flyer sur ton frigo, des histoires vertigineuses et des émotions…
Dans ce numéro, vous trouverez également une conversation rencontre initiée par Vir Andrès Hera avec Claire Finch, écrivain-e de manifestes et protocoles gouines pour un monde postapocalypse.
From the Bronx to Soho to Brixton, Mirror Reflecting Darkly is an exploration of the artist Rita Keegan's archive collection. Part autobiography and part critical history, it reproduces a cross-section of Keegan's…
La bonne épouse, la bonne mère, la bonne ménagère, une sorte de femme totale : voilà ce que donnent à voir les magazines et les journaux féminins depuis qu'ils existent. Il faut revenir au moment où émergent les codes…
Traductrice de l' anglais, et notamment de nombreuses autrices engagées, comme Julia Serano, bell hooks ou encore Dorothy Allison, Noémie Grunenwald cherche sans cesse à retranscrire cet engagement féministe au sein de…