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Le 12 novembre 2016, un an après les attentats qui y avaient fait des dizaines de victimes, le Bataclan rouvre…
Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found virtually everywhere in capitalism. It comes in many guises: a musical hook, a financial strategy, a striptease, a novel of ideas. Above all,…
American sci-fi author Mark von Schlegell reflects on a dialogue of works by American painter Wade Guyton and Josef Albers. Von Schlegell shows how, building upon Albers’ exploration of minimalist visual language, Guyton…
Once confined to the narrow circle of "medicalizing" practices, the prosthesis finally colonized our imagination thanks to the promise of an "augmented body" capable of undermining traditional dichotomies such as artificial…
Dedicated to the occult, Klima #3 continues the last issue's line of questioning, this time turning its gaze towards the spiritual dimension that emerges from the various encounters and cohabitations of the living and…
The richly illustrated volume offers the occasion to discover a singular yet little-known body of work on the borders of the art world. The practice of the late American-born, Swiss-based artist Cathy Josefowitz (1956–2014),…
Guest edited/curated by Sarah Hennies and Anna Roberts-Gevalt, two of American's most forward-looking practitioners in the experimental and folk fields respectively, SA25 takes on questions of a musical community, and…
A window into the preservation of contemporary feminist documents and artifacts, and how this archival activism has advanced intergenerational political alliance.
Kathryn Yusoff examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. She initiates a transdisciplinary conversation…
LatinX, according to Claudia Milian, is the most powerful conceptual tool of the Latino/a present, an itinerary whose analytic routes incorporate the Global South and ecological devastation. Milian’s trailblazing study…
“Two clock-faces are staring at each other.
They are two sides of one thing, as different as they are the same.
They move as two bodies revolving around each other, into a tender embrace.
A kiss, made of…
Concurrently: ode, elegy, satyre, Boeing Nº 737-800 in F♯m awakes and takes off, lands and falls asleep, in between cold sweats and time zones. Triangulating the distance from ground to body, moving though still, to sun,…
Founded in 2018, LIFTA is a space led by the imagination. Prioritizing collaboration and humancentric processes, LIFTA develops projects across different mediums including publications, exhibitions, and film. Crafted by…
Contemplating Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo’s (1935-90) work in the 21st century provokes a sense of the uncanny on multiple levels: grotesquely beautiful on their own, his abject sculptures seem to foretell today’s environmental…
An artist whose beautiful, restrained and often mutable works are abundant in compelling contradictions, Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957−1996) was committed to a democratic form of art informed as much by aesthetic and conceptual…
Amelie von Wulffen’s amazing comics—or ego-comics, as she calls them—gathered for the same time: hilarious, nightmarish, vividly drawn tales from the daily life of a woman artist, depicting social embarrassments, emotional…
Attention pays. In today‘s online economy it has become a commodity to be bought and sold. Bombarding us with free smartphone apps and news websites, developers and advertisers…
Ce livre réunit tous les textes de John Berger sur les artistes, et il mérite pour cette seule raison la plus grande attention. Il est, nous dit Tom Overton, comme son autoportrait. Il est, pourrait-on dire aussi, son…
An oral history of the UK’s soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Youth, Norman Jay MBE, Adrian Sherwood, Mala, and others.
For years an out-of-print rarity, Michael Snow’s classic artist book Cover to Cover is available once again, in a facsimile edition from Light Industry and Primary Information. Never bound by discipline, Snow…
Shame Space is an artist book that explores the possibilities of narrative and identity. The book collects a selection of journal writings by Syms from 2015-2017 in which she…
In Strangers, Rebecca Tamás explores where the human and nonhuman meet, and why this delicate connection just might be the most important relationship of our times.
From ‘On Watermelon’ to ‘On Grief’,…
Vers un nouveau manifeste montre Theodor W. Adorno et Max Horkheimer dans un échange d’idées unique, animé et fluide. Ce livre est un compte rendu de leurs discussions pendant trois semaines au printemps 1956,…
The Keramikos book presents front-and-back photographic records of 300 painted pieces that artists Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Natsuko Uchino produced since 2010 - including plates, bowls, pitchers and oil jars. Some objects…
Amazing photographs by Reynaldo Rivera that document a vanished LA of cheap rent, house parties, subversive fashion, and underground bands, and long-closed gay and transvestite bars.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s,…
Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources (thereby…
La conception d’un livre suit-elle uniquement un processus logique et réfléchi ? Du choix d’un caractère typographique et de son corps à celui de la disposition des blocs de texte, le designer graphique et typographe suisse…
Cette histoire exhaustive du glam rock par l'auteur de Rétromania (Le Mot et le reste) réussit, alors même qu'elle revient sur des artistes des sixties et seventies, à nous propulser dans une réflexion d'une actualité…
This year’s Annual is published in tandem with a long-term installation of The Serving Library’s collection of (mostly) framed objects at 019, an artist-run space in a former welding factory in Ghent, Belgium.…
A collection of 41 monoprints created by Karel Martens in 2019 and 2020, reproduced on their original size (front and back). Karel Martens: "In 2018 I received a package by mail from Pierre Leguillon with a small pile…
Anthologie bilingue, ce numéro double présente une quinzaine de jeunes écrivains oeuvrant dans les poétiques radicales et expérimentales du XXIe siècle, afin d’ausculter la façon dont les formes, les discours et les
“Exactly three decades after the inaugural issue of TZK was published, we return to the question of where the hard-won and still-embattled rights of women* stand. With this issue, entitled ‘The Feminist’, we celebrate…
Pouvait-on changer de genre au Moyen Âge ? Vivre en homme et devenir sainte ? Naître fille et finir chevalier ? Changer d’habits comme d’identité durant cette période dominée par la chrétienté ?
Pour faire taire les…
Castle Faggot is Derek McCormack's darkest and most delicious book yet, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney dreamed up. At the heart…
So, so thick. 320 pages for this new* F.R.DAVID. “Somebody did some work during the quarantine.” “Very good.” So, E is for Eeyore, aka Bourriquet.
“I stood flapping my arms, first the left and then the…
La vie de Jacqueline De Jong fait penser à un roman : multipliant les expériences professionnelles (assistante de Willem Sandberg, célèbre directeur de musée, l'une des rares femmes de l'International Situationniste, éditrice…
An essential selection of the poetry of one of the most important twentieth-century creative movements.
Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought;…
We can't go back, but we don't want to. Nor can we go on like this much longer. What will emerge from such a transitional phase, when the civic body is so lacking in health (physical, moral, political and economic)?
The…
Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979 is expansive anthology focused on concrete poetry written by women in the groundbreaking movement’s early history. It features 50 writers and artists from Europe, Japan, Latin…
Qu’est-ce que le Stack ? Une autre façon de concevoir et d’imaginer cette nouvelle réalité qu’est l’Internet. En moins de trois décennies, nos modes de vie et nos rapports de pouvoir ont été bouleversés. Or le réseau des…
We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations. In this new…
The purpose of the em dash is wide-ranging —as an appropriation of silence, as acting dissonance, as interruption, as occupying space. This anthology zooms into the pointed use of em dashes in the poems of pioneering Dadaist…
A bold call to seize feminism back from the cultural gatekeepers and return it to its radical roots. In this book Lola Olufemi explores state violence against women, the fight for reproductive justice, transmisogyny, gendered…
The positions adopted by Hito Steyerl in her works and texts are of key importance in any consideration of the contemporary role that art and the museum play in society. They are also crucial to experimental forays into…
Meet Ezechiel Hooper Stark, cultural anthropologist and bemused commentator on the contemporary world. Zeke has carved out an academic career studying family photographs, gender and images. Meanwhile – now 38 – he still…
A collection of anti-capitalist poetry, philosophy, cultural analysis, legal studies, manifesto and critique spanning 1996 to the present by Alenka Zupančič, Alexander Kluge, Amy Ireland, Anne Boyer, Aurelia Guo, Bini…
The twentieth-anniversary edition of an early autofiction classic, first published in 2000. On the fringes of the music scene in a Southern college town, a lonely young student driven to flee a troubled adolescence pursues…
Le langage officiel à propos de l’égalité hommes-femmes est un répertoire de violences : harcèlement, viol, maltraitance, féminicide. Ces mots désignent une cruelle réalité. Mais n’en dissimulent-ils pas une autre, celle…
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“Pendant plusieurs années je me suis occupé de fautes d’orthographe : d’abord en tant qu’écolier, puis en tant que maître d’école, ensuite comme fabricant de jouets, s’il m’est permis d’appeler…
“[With] the coronavirus crisis, it is impossible to ignore the fact that we have entered an era of unprecedented unemployment and immiseration that has not been seen since the Great Depression.”
—Melanie Gilligan.
Not…
Chus Martínez started writing these tales as she had been weighing how people and the media were addressing the outbreak of the virus as an unprecedented disaster. Her possible contribution,…
If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics on the left? How to demystify a hegemonic order that dismisses its own contradictions?…
As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live in? McKenzie Wark surveys…
Simone de Beauvoir said, “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The glitch announces: One is not born, but rather becomes, a body.
The divide between the digital and the real world no longer…
“05.08.1999 Ugh, the old money topic, not again... Too poor for the revolution! No adventure tourism and no weekend campground. Thinking is stupid. We watch TV because we can’t afford the revolution.”
Serpentine…
The backcover reads: “There is nothing fancier than sit in your kitchen and write.” Damn right! The writings by Hans-Christian Dany collected in this book have titles such as “Burn Money, Burn”; “Subjectivity in the Shadows”;…
Over the year of 2019, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania presented the experimental exhibition Colored People Time. Organized by Meg Onli and divided into three distinct chapters–Mundane…
Dans cet essai au verbe acéré, Paul Gilroy dénonce la pathologie néo-impérialiste des politiques mises en œuvre dans les pays occidentaux, sclérosés par les débats sur l’immigration, et propose en retour un modèle de société…
En 1919, la Société Coopérative d’Habitation Genève rachète 4 hectares de terrains en périphérie de Genève, à Châtelaine et mandate l’architecte…
The image clippings in All Our Suns are taken from Nicolai’s collection of pictures of outer space printed in daily newspapers.These images suggest a high degree of objectivity, though technological settings as…
Michel Claura : « Étonné par l’intérêt que Sara Martinetti a manifesté pour les activités para artistiques que j’ai déployées peu de temps il y a longtemps, j’en suis arrivé à penser que cela m’intéressait également, ce…
This posthumous volume gathers Annette Michelson's erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, giving readers the opportunity to track her sustained investigations into…
Bodies are agents and products of history. Bodies are history made flesh, but they are also primary tools for understanding the past, present and future. History is a choreographed sequence of gestures that makes bodies…
“Better Read Than Dead” was the title that the great American art dealer, curator, author and researcher Seth Siegelaub (1941-2013) had chosen for an anthology of his own writings—one of the projects for which he never…
Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the techno-Heroic, the carrier bag theory of human evolution proposes: “before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.” Prior to the preeminence…
“What is wrong with him?”
“Everything.”
I laughed and ran my hand along the searest shelf. There was a wall of philosophy. Christopher had once taken to calling me and Gretchen, Deleuze…
Isabelle Graw manages to capture radical political, social, and cultural changes that have occurred since 2014 in elegantly written observations, analyzing as well how these macro-shifts reach into her own life. She addresses…
First published in 1990, The Sexual Politics of Meat is a landmark text in the ongoing debates about animal rights. In the two decades since, the book has inspired controversy and heated debate.
T he Sexual Politics…
Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader is a landmark collection representing the visionary life’s work of beloved Bay Area luminary Steve Abbott. It brings together a broad cross-section of literary and artistic…
Une grande femme laide tombe sous le charme d’un bûcheron à longue chevelure rousse. Un gendarme esthète se prend de passion pour la photographie d’accidents. Deux sœurs luttent contre leur prédisposition aux varices.…
Dans la matrice : le design radical de Ken Isaacs explore le travail du designer américain Ken Isaacs (1927-2016), plus particulièrement ses projets de micro-habitations des années 1950 à 1970. L’essentiel de…
For most of his adult life, Karlheinz Weinberger (1921–2006) worked in the warehouse department of the Siemens factory in Zurich, Switzerland. On the weekends, he escaped his job’s monotony by immersing himself in photography.…
“Trash has always served me well—over the years it has become the outer form and material expression of my dreams: of tomorrow, of life in space, of the blissful alienation from this world that I have always craved.”—from…
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In 1925, Ludwig Wittgenstein, arguably one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, wrote a dictionary for elementary school…
”Noora didn’t know a lot about contemporary art either. The most contemporary art she had seen up to that point had been a Joseph Beuys retrospective at Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. But she was tall, sported a rough,…
Two lovers sitting on a tomb
peeled an orange and ate the rind
Three lovers in a cosy room
slept with arms and legs entwined
Four lovers on a dusty road
looked for God and found a toad
One…
This book appears in conjunction with Cecilia Vicuña’s retrospective exhibition in Rotterdam. The comprehensive show highlights the wide-ranging oeuvre of this self-taught Chilean artist, poet, and filmmaker whose work…
Milanese architect Vico Magistretti started his work as an industrial designer in the 1960s, going on to create more than 300 products and furniture objects. Yet only 70 of these design classics are still in production…
Six years in the making, BLOOD is the first comprehensive English translation of the poems of Danish art historian, communist activist, and writer R. Broby-Johansen. Translated, edited, and designed by Line-Gry…
On pense qu’elle a toujours existé et qu’elle existera toujours, mais non : la police telle que nous la connaissons est récente et les événements actuels mettent mondialement son existence même « en question ». On trouvera…
“Un exemple plus facile à analyser nous est offert par Géryon. Géryon est le nom d’un personnage dans la mythologie grecque au sujet duquel Stésichore a écrit un très long poème lyrique en vers dactylo-épitrites, de structure…
A book dedicated to motorcycles, mini-skirts, handguns, and dark,romantic poetry. Following their renowned Autonomic Tarot, David Keenan & Sophy Hollington propose here a radical imagining of the Gods of antiquity…
“Note aux participants à la rencontre intergalactique – Vous avez manifesté le souhait de participer à la Rencontre Internationale pour l’Humanité et Contre le Néolibéralisme qui se tiendra au Chiapas du 27 juillet au…
“A community of duplicators, printers, and artisans. Our press is not a business, it’s a way of life.” That’s how Beau Geste Press – the amazing small press founded in 1971 by the Mexican artists’ couple Martha Hellion…
A guided tour, in English, of Pierre Leguillon’s campy Musée des Erreurs – from WC to WC*, from the Visible Storage to the New Wing, to the Auditoriums, and back again. A museum on a human scale—no need to wipe…
This book is the follow-up of the project, The Hidden City*, developed by Cloe Piccoli and Stefano Graziani in the context of Manifesta 12, and focusing on Palazzo Abatellis, a place that triggers imagination and…
Campo di Marte was “constructed” in March 2020, at a time when Nathalie Du Pasquier was not painting. After cutting out photos of paintings produced between the 1980s and 2020, the French artist then placed them…
Desert Plants was a cult book in the seventies because it brought the first information about the US-American composer-performer scene to Europe. Numerous examples of sheet music and entire scores enrich this…
L’enfance est une invention récente: les caractéristiques qu’on lui attribue (innocence, vulnérabilité, dépendance, etc.) sont le produit d’une construction sociale. Les attentions spéciales, la “protection”, le “respect”…
Part-memoir, part-essay, The Metabolic Museum is a stimulating book, in which curator Clémentine Deliss reflects on her own work as the Director of Frankfurt’s Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures). She…
The microworld of the millions of neurons in the brain can, of course, be photographed but not their functions. Painting, however, can.”
—Maria Lassnig
Lassnig and HUO had an amicable exchange lasting twenty…
Released on the last day of the Waking the Witch exhibition tour, the catalogue acts both as a legacy of the exhibition and as a stand alone publication. As well as contextual contributions from the curators, the catalogue…
Worms is a bi-annual literary magazine focusing on female writers and celebrating a feminist, empowering approach to books, founded by Clem Macleod; its second issue, subtitled “Revolting Women” is dedicated to…
On anti-erotics and sexual pessimism in four essays—an analysis of the incel phenomenon, a reflection on Geroges Bataille’s erotics and ethically produced pornography, a lyrical essay on Black Venus, and a diagnosis of…
A provocative mixtape, mash-up, and treasure trove of never-before-seen images and interviews of the Black Power movement, with contemporary reflections.
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is an extraordinary…
Dennis Cooper has been a punk poet, a queercore novelist, a transgressive blogger, an indie filmmaker – each successive incarnation more ingenious and surprising than the last. Using extensive archival…
David Wojnarowicz’s In the Shadow of Forward Motion was originally published in 1989 as a limited-run zine/catalog to accompany an exhibition by the artist at P.P.O.W gallery.
Despite its meager print run of just…
Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1864 to define the ‘third sex’…