Another printed masterpiece by Christopher Williams, in the form of four slim books in a slip case, Stage Play focuses on Williams’ eponymous theatrical work, first presented in 2017…
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Cet ouvrage documente des luttes et des contre-cultures en Bretagne et en Loire-Atlantique, telles qu’elles ont été chroniquées par des cinéastes, des photographes, des artistes et des militant·es…
In this book, Dutch graphic designer Ruben Pater uses clear language and visual examples to show how graphic design and capitalism are inextricably linked. Capitalism could not exist without the myriad banknotes, documents,…
It's time to recognize Kathy Acker as one of the great postwar American writers. Over the decades readers have found a punk Acker, a feminist Acker, a queer Acker, a kink Acker, and an avant-garde Acker. In Philosophy…
Il faut être deux pour bien garder un secret. Il faut être deux pour bien manier le métier à tisser. Il faut être deux sœurs, coutumières du silence et du caché, pour confier à la trame d’une tapisserie le plus grand secret…
I Should Have Known Better’s first person narrator, while working at a dead-end job in Los Angeles during the mid-1990s, reconnects with his best friend Moira, recently returned from Central America, and makes…
The atmosphere in Jill Mulleady's paintings is one of foreboding; of an underlying tension about to be unleashed. Tragedy lurks in open suitcases, displays of sea creatures, and sinks filled with dirty dishes. Another…
The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book…
Nouvelle traduction d’un ouvrage essentiel du brésilien Paulo Freire (1921–1997), écrit en 1968 au Chili et publié une première en VF par les éditions Maspéro en 1974. La Pédagogie des opprimés pose les principes…
Les années 1960 et 1970 sont les décennies du triomphe du design graphique : du cinéma à la télévision, de la signalétique urbaine à l'exposition, sans parler de son rôle dans la contre-culture.
Véritable traversée…
Originally created in 1977 as a single handmade copy, Dara Birnbaum’s Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On / Deal With) gathers writings, working drawings, photographic documentation, and ephemera…
This 640-page volume comprises drawings from a critical six-year period in the development of American painter and conceptual artist Lee Lozano’s (1930-99) practice. Her daring, facetious sketches investigate issues of…
[BACK IN STOCK!] Îlles tisse un récit mêlé de fiction et de données historiques autour de l’existence, à travers les âges, d’une garde-robe non genrée. Des processus…
A new version of our first publication and bestseller: Evelyn’s adventures as a transgender masseuse in Amsterdam, back when she was a young artist, supporting herself by working in a massage salon. The texts are witty,…
Ce livre suit le même fil conducteur qu'un roman noir - une des dernières formes de récit qui arrivent à nous parler vraiment du monde. La narration se construit ici comme une enquête qui, à force de rassembler des éléments…
Alors que les violences policières sont de plus en plus visibles, l'image du gardien de la paix et l'idée que la police serait un service public tendent à s'effriter. Il est maintenant entendu que l'institution policière…
In Beyond the World's End T. J. Demos explores cultural practices that provide radical propositions for living in a world beset by environmental and political crises. Rethinking relationships between aesthetics and an…
For six years Maya Stovall staged Liquor Store Theatre, a conceptual art and anthropology video project---included in the Whitney Biennial in 2017---in which she danced near the liquor stores in her Detroit neighborhood…
To understand the scale of what faces us and how it ramifies through every corner of our lives is to marvel at our inaction. Why aren’t we holding emergency meetings in every city, town and village every week?
What…
Les mouvements écologiques dans leur ensemble ont du mal à intégrer la question des minorités et notamment des minorités sexuelles. Certains adoptent même des discours ouvertement LGBTQIphobes, sur la PMA et la transidentité…
A debut collection of love poems that resist subjection and ask how we might live together outside of capitalism, providing for each other through intimate acts of care and struggle.
[publisher's note]
It is rare now for people to stay where they were raised, and when we encounter one another—whether in person or, increasingly, online—it is usually in contexts that obscure if not outright hide…
Maisons d’art moderne takes the reader on a journey through the history of private art-collections in Belgium starting in the 1920’s. He describes two generations of art collectors: the post-war generation that made their…
Confidences / Baseline plays with the vampire novel like a dollhouse. Characters who variously believe in the power of theatre and performance become entangled with grief, desire, and the unknown. What does a rehearsal…
“Maquillage zébré sur le visage, aux formes aussi nettement dessinées que le démantèlement progressif des droits sociaux, on prendra des chemins de traverse avec Emmanuel Beaubatie en liant changements de sexe et mobilités…
Just when I think I’m winning
When I’ve broken every door
The ghosts of my life blow wilder than before
Just when I thought I could not be stopped
When my chance…
First published in 1999, Gary Indiana’s Three Month Fever is the second volume of his famed crime trilogy, now being republished by Semiotext(e). (The first, Resentment, reissued in 2015, was set in a…
A nocturnal secret ritual performed by two naked men in a hotel room in the Netherlands; a woven tent where the artist dressed as a mage encounters visitors to share their traumas; buttplugs adorned with rooster feathers;…
The book is the complete collection of Simone Forti’s News Animations, one of the works that best reveal her artistic practice. The news and, more broadly, the most pressing issues of the global socio-political…
Initialement paru en 1965, Du tissage retrace le passage de l'artisanat à la production industrielle, soulignant toute l'importance de la matérialité et les innovations créatives apparues à chaque fois que des…
Alice, do you think the problem of the contemporary novel is simply the problem of contemporary life?
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome…
Les Doublures – titre provisoire du roman Le Souffleur ou le Théâtre de société publié chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert en 1960 – est une plongée dans les manuscrits et les archives de Pierre Klossowski, disparu il y a vingt…
A publication dedicated to the wonderful—and long overlooked—painting work of Tabboo! With a text by Jarrett Earnest.
Some background: Tabboo! is a multidisciplinary performer, designer, and artist with a fascination…
From the very beginning of planning this show, the artist talked of Bernard Leach and his deeply rooted love for the work of this man, extending to his writing and thought, which…
Saturday night
It's in the tube, they found it in the tube. ectopic it's called. that's greek for "out of place." that's greek for "what the fuck"
Methotrexate cancer shot taxi home now we wait for it to bleed
A key figure of Swedish counterculture and the creator of the first digital arts laboratory in Nordic countries, Charlotte Johannesson has worked primarily with two tools: the artisan technology of the loom and digital…
Real Review is “what it means to live today”.
Real Review assesses contemporary culture.
Real Review looks backwards to look forwards.
Real Review appears timely and timeless.
Real Review interrogates…
This September issue of Texte zur Kunst examines envy as the operating system of an art world based largely on networking, competition, and interdependencies. Envy, as understood here, develops when individuals…
Karl-Heinz Drescher (born on October 7, 1936 in Quirl; died on May 19, 2011 in Berlin) was a graphic artist working at Bertolt Brecht’s world famous theater Berliner Ensemble as a graphic designer for almost 40 years.…
Emotional ! We are very proud of this one. It has taken a lot of time and dedication to bring this publication to life - exploring Neil Beloufa's manifold practice and relations has been quite a ride. We hope you will…
“Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.”
A…
The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has…
Au milieu des années 1970, Sylvère Lotringer a créé Semiotext(e), un groupe philosophique devenu magazine puis maison d'édition. Depuis sa création, Semiotext(e) est le lieu de rencontres libres: John Cage lisant Nietzsche,…
Fruit d'un travail de recherche de plus de dix ans sur les potentialités queer que Muñoz observe dans les pratiques artistiques et littéraires des années 60 et 70 à New York et Los Angeles, pratiques qui lui permettent…
GIVING HEAD
I think I'll get my head examined - but by who that is the thing
Guillaume Dustan's first three novels, published in France between 1996 and 1998, describing the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Paris still haunted by AIDS. [publisher's note]
I am a pornographer. From earliest childhood, I saw sex suffusing the world. I felt the rhythms of nature and the aggressive energies of animal life. Art objects, in both museum and church, seemed to blaze with sensual…
99 flowers, a guide, a calendar, an index, and a conversation.
Amy Sillman strikes again with this really beautiful publication, dedicated to all the flowers she encoutered last summer. So, yes, a great summer look-into-book,…
Nous avons rencontré Liv par écrans interposés, en regardant un épisode de la mini-série « Que Faire ? ». Des phrases en sous titre se collaient à nos pupilles et se fixaient quelque part dans nos souvenirs. Le sous-titrage,…
COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping social restrictions. In…
‘Tense’ is a never-realised publication, written and composed by Lucy Lippard and Jerry Kearns in 1984, that has only now has been released in a very limited run. The book accompanies their exhibition ‘Top…
Romance in Marseille a patienté près de 90 ans avant de trouver un éditeur. Écrit en 1932 à Tanger, le roman nous plonge,…
Mona et Pauli ont survécu à d’étranges et immenses inondations. Elles vivent et s’aiment à Tabor, un nouveau monde bricolé et agreste. Mais de mystérieux visiteurs, sorciers ou fonctionnaires, viennent en troubler l’équilibre,…
Sterling is arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. Plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world, Sterling – with the help of their three best friends – must defy bullfighters, football players and…
"Please note: This book contains explicit imagery. Limited editions will be in a slipcase, then wrapped and sealed in brown paper."
[publisher's note]
The Cowboy’s Dreams of Home, the seventh Blank Forms anthology, takes its name from a psychedelic Wild West reverie of Texan singer-songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen. This volume privileges new texts including…
In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it…
Une adolescente tombe amoureuse d’une IA. Une femme est sauvée par une sororité cachée. Une chanteuse a d’inquiétantes visions du futur. Une femme combat le cancer…
Les nouvelles de Nisi Shawl, figure de l’afro-féminisme,…
A comprehensive compendium of artists and writers confronting questions of Black identity, activism and social responsibility in the age of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, based on the landmark traveling exhibition What…
Though he has worked in film and music for decades, American video artist Arthur Jafa only garnered acclaim in the art world in 2016 for his video work Love is the Message, the Message is Death. Composed of found…
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 iconic publications…
I'm a mess. The cream sweater I'm wearing right now has so many stains and I have no memory of what caused them. I'm guessing coffee. There's a hole in the seam at the armpit that I've darned but the hole won.…
In the early 1990s, Martin Kippenberger developed the idea of a global underground network: METRO-Net. Although it is one of the artist’s most fascinating projects, his premature death in 1997 meant that it could only…
What can be carried over
From the sensation of groundlessness
To the laws of light reflection?
Is it the same groundlessness
on a plane of momentary outlines…
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Élodie Petit et Marguerin Le Louvier écrivent des poèmes brûlants, sexuels, politiques et les autoéditent depuis leurs chambres sous la bannière commune des Éditions Douteuses.…
WAGES FOR WAGES AGAINST lance le premier volume d’une série de publications. Son objectif est de questionner les logiques néo-libérales qui sous-tendent les milieux de l’art contemporain et de mettre en pratique différentes…
Four Seasons is a unique artist book presenting Yuji Agematsu’s renowned zips, miniature sculptures comprised of reanimated urban detritus collected by Agematsu on daily walks in New York City and encased within…
WOW ! Le Octopus nouveau est arrivé // This already legendary state-of-the-arts bilingual (en-fr) publication is everything you need to carry around this summer.
Avec & Autour de / With & About : Sara de Chiara,…
Avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry (née Karlsson) met in Sweden in the late sixties. They began to live and perform together, dubbing their mix of communal art, social and environmentalist…
If I knew what the snow fell on, I could triumph over the current political regime, which has its own perverse style of landing on surfaces; this regime falls on my body with the ambiguous force of a milkshake spilling…
Shopping is history, in both senses of the word. As shopping shifts online and the COVID-19 pandemic transforms our perception of social contact, retail is facing its own version of the end of days. The arsenal of commercial…
Gut Feelings est une comédie musicale chantée et jouée par des bactéries géantes. En référence aux communautés lesbiennes séparatistes et plus particulièrement à leur capacité à créer d’autres formes et modes…
Madame X, the cruelest and most successful pirate of the Far Eastern seas, puts out a call to all women seeking a world full of gold, love, and adventure to join her crew and become marauders on the high seas. But even…
Dans ce numéro, nous avons échangé et discuté des pratiques de Fanny Lallart, de la revue SHOW, d'autonomie, de visibilité, de feinte, d'amitié, d'écriture et de travail. Gufo a rencontré Fanny après qu’elle ait déposé…
A collection of essays, librettos, lyrics, memories, photos, personal anecdotes by musicians, visual artists, researchers and archivers that pays homage to the work and life of African-American composer, musician, performer,…
Why am I here in this city? Thousands of miles from San Francisco. Do we have enough food? Water? Books? Living in a zombie movie is banal. What a slog till we get to the other thing. Where are we going? Why can’t…
This June issue of Texte zur Kunst undertakes a wide-ranging inquiry into the figurative in art. The human body, and the figure more generally, is undoubtedly among the most widely depicted subjects in the history…
“If you’re wondering why the inside of your head feels so strange these days, this book has the answers.” [!?]
The Extreme Self is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you’ve been morphing into something…
Friction : que se passe-t-il dans les « zones-frontières » où se développe une économie sauvage, ravageant les ressources, les plantes, les animaux, les forêts et les cultures humaines ? Où aucun droit ne limite plus la…
Tuesday’s Child was a short-lived “ecumenical, educational newspaper for the Los Angeles occult underground” published in Hollywood between November 1969 and April 1970. While perhaps not as successful or well-known as…
A chance encounter with two older fellows at the movie theater has the young vagabond Ligie on his way to Lot-8, a trailer park down the road with an unconventional local reputation. There, Ligie meets Big Joe and his…
The Nancy Reagan Collection is a response to growing up queer and trans under the rise of HIV-AIDS. Crossing genres and generations, this performance novel remixes the AIDS archive through an ever-spiraling politics…
This book gathers all the poems written by Lynn Lonidier (1937-1993) between her last book and her death. Lynn Lonidier was a streetwise, visionary poet whose idiom was a jazzy American English with San Francisco Mission-district…
A compendium of five talks presented by poet Cedar Sigo for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series. Retracing the ways in which he first encountered the realm of poetry, Sigo plumbs the particulars of modern critique, identity…
“Part of the reason for being involved in poetry, part of the reason for starting journals, part of the reason for starting presses, part of the reason for talking to you sitting on this bench right now, is all about building…
“Although this anthology is a literary poetic volume, written by a great many hands, it is built and seems to want to function like a grammar or a manual for the sociolinguistic study of a region with topical testimonies…
The burgeoning lesbian and feminist movements of the '70s and '80s created an impetus to form more independent and equitable social and cultural institutions—bookstores, publishers, health clinics, and more—to support…
Over a brief, twelve-year career, the Iranian director and playwright Reza Abdoh broke all of the conventions of American theater, pushing actors and audiences past their limits to create hallucinatory, at times nightmarish,…
Les écrits que la revue Les saisons collecte naissent dans un espace de coalescence entre les mots et les images : le paysage masculin de l’histoire que Lis Rhodes rouvre à son appropriation irréductible, l’acuité…
"J'adore apprendre plein de choses" est un livre qui mêle des anecdotes, des idées, des mémoires, des critiques concernant l'éducation nationale. La forme varie d'un chapitre à l'autre. Le texte est très rythmé, l'ensemble…
In How to Mend: On Motherhood and its Ghosts, Iman Mersal navigates a long and winding road, from the only surviving picture of the author has with her mother, to a deep search through what memory, photography,…
Aaron Cometbus, auteur phare de la scène underground, est connu pour être resté fidèle à son éthique punk et son approche do it yourself. Lorsque Green Day l’invite sur leur tournée asiatique, ce sont deux styles…
La trap est autant célébrée que stigmatisée et criminalisée. Elle évoque le rap obsessionnel d’artistes comme T.I., Young Jeezy, Gucci Mane, Young Thug ou Future, les planques d’Atlanta et la prison, les succès français…