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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En 13 procès-verbaux et avec les outils de la poésie objectiviste, l'auteur nous plonge dans le langage de la justice militaire française en Algérie entre 1954 et 1963. Historien, Marius Loris Rodionoff est l'un des premiers…
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…
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Bottled humanism, colored neon contaminations, tattered flaps of skin, and limp penises bring humanist self-assurance crashing to the ground. What appears as poison or chemical…
¡Poetry by the author of Carceral Capitalism!
The poems in The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void read like dispatches from the dream world, with Jackie Wang acting as our trusted comrade…
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice offers an exciting guide to ways of listening and sounding. This book provides unique insights and perspectives for artists, students, teachers, mediators and anyone…
Ray Johnson (1927–1995) was a renowned maker of meticulous collages whose works influenced movements including Pop Art, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Emerging from the interdisciplinary community of artists and poets at…
D for Dummy Woman, M for Monster’s Tools, S for Style Defense, U for Unstable Signs – the Glossary of Undisciplined Design looks into undisciplinarity as a feminist unpacking of the field of graphic design, of…
“The body prints had political content, and then at times they weren’t political. They were always Black bodies, to my knowledge—that was concrete. The image wasn’t conceptual or abstract. The images were Black figures.…
Réédition d’un livre majeur de la poète et peintre Etel Adnan, publié pour la première fois en 1980, dont elle avait entamé l’écriture en janvier 1975 à Beyrouth – quelques mois avant le début de la guerre civile au Liban.…
Artists, writers, curators, teachers, and librarians reflect on how they can use the beloved library as a source of inspiration or a field of action for anyone who identifies as a woman, queer, non-binary, or a person…
Alors qu’on le connaissait lecteur insatiable, observateur minutieux d’images en tous genres et amateur exigeant de musique, les textes rassemblés dans ce livre nous révèlent que Jean-Claude Lebensztejn est aussi un spectateur…
This book is dedicated to the complex artistic trajectory of Chiara Fumai, who played a significant role in the development of performance and feminist aesthetics in the twenty-first century and who died prematurely in…
Au départ, une simple anecdote: un gabion de chasse typique des marais normands se détache de son ancrage pour dériver dans l’Océan Atlantique, avec des chasseurs incapables de nager à son bord. Théo Robine-Langlois transpose…
In Gailė Pranckunaitė’s publication F-O-N-T-S you will discover a collection of 21 fonts created between 2017 and 2020. To explore the shapes and forms of each font, the text is copied from a section on Reddit…
“The umbrellas were shot in Rockaway Beach over the course of four Mondays, starting July 13th, 2020. When I arrived at the beach, it was littered with broken umbrellas and various other “day at the beach” sundry. It had…
“I curated myself with Peter Hujar; a risky act, but it was an invitation I could not resist. I began by listing categories of images I wanted to see: animals, water, Latino men, body parts, NYC, babies. I’ve long been…
The Matrix by Norman H. Pritchard (1939–1996) gathers a selection of the Concrete and Black Arts poet’s work from 1960 to 1970. The seventy-one poems collected here might be regarded, as Charles Bernstein has…
The misappropriated notion of care and the paths for its rehabilitation.
The Delusions of Care is a culmination of three long essays that ruminate on notions of…
“Often people acuse Rab-Rab of dealing with the odd issues from the past. This is true. […] We did not discover Archie Shepp, Viktor Shklovsky, or Karel Teige under the dust of archives, and ressuscitate them…
Le dernier Nioque est arrivé ! Mais laissons à ce court texte de Christophe Tarkos le soin de définir l'orientation de ce nouveau numéro :
je ne suis pas pressé, je ne m'étouffe pas
je ne suis…
This book accompanies the 2020 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize exhibition, Nicole Eisenman: Sturm und Drang. The exhibition ran from February 27 through November 15, 2020, at The Contemporary…
American poet Norman H. Pritchard’s second and final book, EECCHHOOEESS was originally published in 1971 by New York University Press. Pritchard’s writing is visually and typographically unconventional. His methodical…
Painter and photographer Eileen Agar (1899–1991) was born in Buenos Aires and spent the majority of her life in Great Britain. In spite of her own pioneering contributions to painting, collage, photography and sculpture,…
Coinciding with a major exhibition at Barbican Art Gallery, this richly-illustrated book features an exclusive interview with Clark alongside a series of enlightening essays and contributions, from Jarvis Cocker to Kim…
L’Athée dans le grenier est une novella publiée pour la première fois en 2018 aux USA. Ce texte raconte avec suspense, tension, réflexions diverses, la rencontre très secrète entre le mathématicien génial Gottfried Wilhelm…
« Le royaume des hippies avait ses conventions, même si elles n’avaient pas toujours grand sens. On se rebellait contre le système en jouant les marginaux, mais on ne se gênait pas pour toucher la sécurité sociale ou les…
Lisbon: that city at the mouth of the Tagus, that city that whispers, licks and seduces its visitors, that city that haunts those seeking refuge or its pleasures. Who would wish to escape?
It is the start of the…
Long before the collapse of the Information Age, in the twelfth century since the appearance of the prophet Christ, young…
In 2020, Juliette Blightman invited Dorothy Iannone to work on a collaborative exhibition for the Kölnischer Kunstverein. The work (Ta)Rot Pack (1968-69) by Iannone is the seed for this three-part project: "Love is the…
Jutta Koether's new artist book, "Libertine", documents and interprets her eponymous exhibition at Museum Abteiberg, a major installation that delved into the museum's history. The artist designed the book and its fold-out…
Edith Heath: Philosophies is the most comprehensive resource on Edith Kiertzner Heath (1911-2005) and the history of Heath Ceramics to date, emphasizing the philosophical foundations…
A handsome publication after an eponymous exhibition around Hervé Guibert, … of lovers, time, and death gathers photographs of his – several taken during stays and journeys in Italy – along with the English translation…
“Press releases are genuinely fascinating documents. They’re usually unsigned, which is perhaps why they’re so often absurdly pompous. But the really interesting thing is, who are they for? Rich collectors, who must be…
This book is the first comprehensive monograph of the highly accomplished Albanian artist Edi Hila. His vast oeuvre, long overlooked, describes the political and social transformations of Eastern Europe over the last half…
FRANK was an Oslo-based queer-feminist platform established in 2012 to nurture art and critical discourse revolving around gender, desire and sexuality, run by Liv Bugge and Sille Storihle until 2020. The final publication, FRANK, is…
One of the most singular voices of today’s contemporary art scene, Jim Shaw is known for his desire to produce an immersive visual oeuvre aimed at exploring the dark side of the American psyche.…
«Qu’est-ce que la culture de droite?» demande un journaliste à Furio Jesi en 1979. C’est « la culture pour laquelle le passé est une sorte de bouillie homogénéisée que l’on peut modeler de la façon la plus utile, dans…
L’Amérique du Sud est un des coeurs battants du féminisme contemporain. Des millions de femmes y prennent la rue contre les féminicides, les violences qui frappent les minorités de race et de genre, les lois qui répriment…
Bruyant et contestataire, fossoyeur des années 1970, le punk poursuit sa trajectoire aussi nihiliste qu’inventive avec l’idée de tout faire par soi-même (do it yourself) en refusant la marchandisation et l’institutionnalisation.
A memoir by a member of the Incredible String Band that charts a journey from hippie utopia to post-Woodstock implosion.
Between 1967 and 1971 Rose Simpson lived with the Incredible String Band (Mike Heron, Robin…
“I was thrilled”, was Andy Warhol’s enthusiastic reaction to the pictures of Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944). Many of the elements of her work inspired his Pop Art. During Stettheimer’s life her…
This book compiles, in loose chronological order, some of the many pictures that Rachel Harrison and Haim Steinbach exchanged via text-message between 2008 and 2020.
Through humour and visual wit that ranges between…
Peaux blanches, masques noirs, à travers l’histoire des ménestrels du blackface, explore la longue mutation d’un lore limité aux frontières d’un marché multi-ethnique en une véritable culture populaire atlantique…
imagi-nation nwar – genealogies of the black radical imagination in the francophone world
de-composed, an-arranged and re-produced by Chimurenga
feat. Mongo Beti & Odile Biyidi’s Peuples Noirs, Peuples…
Back Office est une revue annuelle entre design graphique et pratiques numériques. Elle explore les processus de création en jeu dans la diversité des médias et des pratiques numériques contemporaines. En traitant…
“May we want to reckon the time of the position ‘student’ not from the progressive aspect of amateur towards pro. Besides the fact that every step of life is an ongoing learning, there’s a clear physical (virtual) circumstance…
A collection gathering readings for discussions on ending gender oppression, not by the proliferation or liberation of gender(s), but by its catastrophic cancellation. The reader brings together writings as old as 1883…
We are told we are living in the middle of a climate crisis of unprecedented proportions. As doomsday scenarios mount, hope collapses. Even as more and more people around the planet experience climate disaster as immediate…
This zine is a great introduction to identifying, foraging, and using what the authors term “weeds” and “common plants.” The authors wrote it to be an introductory-level guide for anarchists to get more acquainted with…
A woman answers a Craigslist ad (to write erotic diaries for money). A woman walks onto a tennis court (from her home at the bottom of the ocean). A woman goes to the supermarket and meets a friend’s husband (who happens…
As a child, Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life…
“Clearly ‘shit mom’ can be taken in several ways. Most obviously, it would seem, the title adopted by Tala Madani for her latest series of paintings (and for her book) refers to a mother who is bad, or ‘shitty’, at her…
La magie du monde moderne nous empêche d’identifier nos technologies et notre économie, issues de la révolution industrielle, à l’accaparement de l’énergie, du temps de travail et des terres au profit d’une minorité. Démontrant…
Black Art Notes is a collection of essays edited by artist and organizer Tom Lloyd. Originally published in 1971, the book was conceived as a critical response to the Contemporary Black Artists in America exhibition…
Undrowned is a book-length meditation for the entire human species, based on the subversive and transformative lessons of marine mammals. Alexis Pauline Gumbs has spent hundreds of hours watching our aquatic cousins.…
Autofiction. Emily Segal, artist and trend forecaster in her 20s, tries to tell the future by reading the present. Literature finds commercial form in the shape of eXe, a mysterious and well-funded Internet start-up that…
A special archival issue, featuring unpublished Martin Margiela lookbook photographs, a horse, street style from the 90's, vases of Japan, a silver story, a flash forward and back, tennis, an icecube tray, more Margiela,…
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. En une décennie, ils produiront des dizaines…
Entre Dublin, l'Oregon, Paris et l'hyper-espace, la nouvelle EAAPES est arrivée, conçue comme une vieux disque dur qui contient des cryptos-freaks secrètes, des groupes de rêves, des coups de gueule féministes d'antan,…
From the canonical texts of the Arts and Crafts Movement to the radical thinking of today's "DIY" movement, from theoretical writings on the position of craft in distinction to Art and Design to how-to texts from renowned…
The new issue of Girls Like Us, guest-edited by the Swedish queer art and architecture collective MYCKET, is dedicated to The Club Scene. Amazing ephemera from clubs is interlaced with a script-like conversation…
Ce document poétique est basé sur des archives des dossiers de procédure personnelle d'un tribunal militaire en Algérie entre 1954 et 1963. Ces dossiers sont des archives soumises à dérogation que l'auteur, également historien,…
This long-awaited monograph presents the breadth of JB Blunk's practice and includes never-before-seen archival and newly commissioned photographs of jewelry, ceramics, paintings, furniture, sculpture and his hand built…
On prosody, “poet-voice,” and the politics of delivery.
“Following a political impulse that I cannot shake, I want to oppose poet-voice. Not to smirk, but to suggest that poet-voice, that is, to lay a given…
Dedicated to the incredible – and incredibly beautiful – publication Triple Jeopardy (1971–75, by the Third World Women’s Alliance), as well as the ideas in Sophie Lewis’s book Full Surrogacy Now! Feminism…
Des relations intimes aux politiques globales, Sarah Schulman fait le constat d’un continuum : individus comme États font souvent basculer les situations conflictuelles dans le registre de l’agression, criminalisant leurs…
In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam…
This is a chapter in which nothing happens. (Even more
so than usual).
I am taking a day off, to lie on the floor.
My yoga mat purple corrugated mousse sticks
slightly…
It’s 4:50 am, without an alarm clock ringing, the rage comes out, why ? Sherian Mohammed Forster questions the abstract patterns that get into our heart and hurt, from Instagram trends to planes that take off with or without…
Yesterday as they smoked, a cigarette butt leaked and burned
their delicately stitched summertime pyjamas. A round hole
on their torso reminded the holes drilled in the wall the day
before to ventilate…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was… 1996—a year artist Matt Keegan proposes an in-depth study of, in this multivocal, multi-layered publication. It aims at, as he puts it, “a critical analysis…
Girl Head shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen. For decades, feminist film criticism has focused on issues of representation:…
“Bezna” in Romanian means consistent darkness + diffuse fear. Bezna is darkly glowing dead thinking, cosmic pessimism, hairy autonomy, inner reptilians, limbo sighs, horrendous pink volumes, underground nematodes, happy…
En novembre 2019, Paul Preciado s'exprime devant 3500 psychanalystes lors des journées internationales de l'Ecole de la Cause Freudienne à Paris. Devant la profession qui l'a diagnostiqué « malade mental » et « dysphorique…
A collection of writings by Claire Fontaine, addressing our complicity with anything that limits our freedom, Human Strike… presents, in chronological order, all the texts by the feminist, conceptual…
Trois interviews télévisuelles de l’écrivain Guillaume Dustan, deux de 1999 et une de 2001, de l’auteur de Dans ma chambre ou Nicolas Pages. Retranscrits par un outil automatisé de YouTube,…
In 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout the decade as he wrote his weekly column for Record World magazine,…
“A tribute to Heliczer’s creative mind and to the man himself by friends, admirers and people Heliczer worked with”—to quote Counter Culture Chronicles’ René van der Voort—this book, printed in Risograph, gathers poetry,…
Et oui, Jack Kerouac did write about Murnau’s Nosferatu! It was in the early 1960s, as the New York Film Society invited him to introduce a film of his choice: the notes were then printed as a small handout. In…
Cet ouvrage tente de rassembler en quelques chapitres les grands enjeux soulevés par Silvia Federici autour de la notion de sorcières et de chasse aux sorcières. Le public a connu (et reconnu) Federici à travers son magnum…
De toutes les musiques populaires contemporaines, le rap est celle que l'on associe le plus communément à l'expression d'un discours misogyne. Mais si les rappeuses elles-mêmes décrivent souvent l'industrie du rap comme…