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Qu'est-ce que l'art et le design font aux lieux de soin et qu'est-ce que les lieux de soin font à l'art et au design ? C'est en somme à ces deux questions que souhaite répondre cet ouvrage en mêlant réflexions, témoignages…

Enheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, about 2300 BCE. Not only does Enheduana have the distinction of being the first author whose name we know, but the poems…

Debout parmi les choses rend compte d’un parcours d’écriture sur près de soixante ans, au sein duquel Jonas Mekas renouvelle son approche et ses formes,…

« Chaque époque a fait naître des espoirs, des espoirs tournés vers un ailleurs au-delà de la vie des contemporains, des espoirs s’efforçant de percer l’avenir. Aussi étrange que cela puisse paraître, je crois que ces…

« L’art de l’imprimeur consiste à effectuer une double impression, sur le papier et dans l’esprit. » L’invention au xv^e siècle (par Gutenberg ? pas si simple…) de la typographie – ou le procédé qui consiste…

Réunir les bouts du monde est une rencontre avec des oeuvres visuelles, littéraires, musicales et critiques, étatsuniennes et caribéennes, qui portent en elles la mémoire de l’esclavage transatlantique. L’histoire…

A city so rich in trees it looks like a cloth of brocade spread out upon the land.
—Shamsaddin al-Dimashqi, geographer (1256–1327)

This is Gaza – a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture…

“Amy Sillman has increasingly placed painting, animation, and drawing in a dialectical tension in which mediums interrupt one another in associative swerves both elusive and ecstatic.”
—Felix Bernstein

Published…

Je reviens à moi en un seul blink.
—T’étais où ?
J’ai chaud partout. Le défilé est fini. Lumières up et la foule qui sort en brouhaha docile. Le logo dans ma poche comme un petit avion en vrille.

Paris,…

Our inaugural publication spans a decade of resilient artists and collectives in, around, and about China and the greater Sinosphere. Composed of essays, images, conversations, and projects, Shifting the Angle of Shine…

Meredith Monk is recognized as one of the most unique and influential artistes of our time YES! A pioneer in what is now called “extended vocal technique,” and interdisciplinary, site-specific performance, Monk creates…

AfterClub is very proud to present Smos & Baby Bee: Party Flyers And More. Reminiscences Of A Unique Era In Belgian Nightlife Culture (1993–2010). Throughout 326 flyers and many stories from the personal archives…

In 1930, Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob) and her partner, artist Marcel Moore (born Suzanne Malherbe) published their surrealist masterpiece, Aveux non Avenus, translated here as Cancelled Confessions.…

After starting his career as a dancer in Germany, Edwin Denby moved to Manhattan, where he formed friendships with prominent members of the New York School, including Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, and artists such as…

Ces dernières années, la performance est devenue incontournable dans l’art contemporain. Pourtant, si l’intérêt que lui portent les artistes, les institutions ou les écoles s’est considérablement développé, la littérature…

Hier pourchassés par l’État français, les gays sont aujourd’hui invités à souscrire à une gestion sécuritaire de l’homophobie: incorporation des valeurs républicaines, d’une culture de la peur et des solutions policières.…

BACK IN STOCK! What does it mean to be sexually promiscuous in contemporary American culture??

Edited by cult-favorite author Michelle Tea, SLUTS, the first publication from vulgarian queer publisher DOPAMINE,…

*****A new publisher is in town******

 This book contain the text I want our nation to grow, a montage of sentences gleaned from articles, essays or encyclopedia in which Aurelia Guo question the weaponization…

À Ménilmontant comme ailleurs, on savait qu'on avait un roi, puis on apprenait qu'on n'en avait plus. Les ouvrières, les ouvriers, manquaient de pain. Comme dans les faubourgs avoisinants, on dressait des barricades.…

A former historian is spending time in a residential home – but is it an artist’s retreat, a spa, or a psychiatric hospital?

In hypnotic and digressive prose, Tillman’s narrator spins tales of her life while ruminating…

Back in stock : ) “When lichens talk to each other, the most important thing for them to do is to exchange something: delicacies, air, news, syrup, moisture, or thoughts. Therefore, there is no such word as ‘I’…

l o g o r r h e a
or
glossolalia
or
chapeau de paille ?

An artists’ book focusing on the written word in the work of Jean-Michel Wicker. Expect the unexpected, and a fluorescent…

Over recent decades, a post-critical theoretical and methodological paradigm has become increasingly dominant in the human sciences. Proponents of this approach have come to dismiss the idea—central to all modern aesthetics—of…

The stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, certainly the smelliest. Ever since it was described by a Dutch doctor in a sixteenth-century pamphlet, the stinkhorn has been reported to emit…

The sixth volume of the bie bao series presents the first English translation of Ilya Zdanevich’s writings on Berlin—a city he visited at the end of 1922, spending time with Russian emigre writers whom he accused of commodifying…

“Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been less.”

This was the state of the discipline that social theorist and urban…

A book about designer Jonas Prapuolenis’ hand-built Studio – a peculiar space, where he designed and produced most of his work over a remarkable and inventive career. It sits on a nearly century-old site in the Žaliakalnis…

Un vent nouveau souffle sur l’histoire LGBTQI+. Une redéfinition des enjeux politiques de l’histoire et de la mémoire portée par une génération de chercheur.euses concerné.es et par l’émergence de nombreux collectifs d’archives…

Just a few years after Morocco gained inde­pen­dence in 1956, a vibrant center of cultural renewal devel­oped in Casablanca. Led by artists such as Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chabâa, Bert Flint, Toni Maraini, and Mohamed…

The Collected Poems of Mary Ellen Solt brings together nearly five decades of poetic work. Celebrated for her suite of visual poems Flowers in Concrete, much of Solt’s work has remained little known or…

With I Can Give You Anything but Love, Gary Indiana has composed a literary, unabashedly wicked, and revealing montage of excursions into his life and work—from his early days growing up gay in rural New Hampshire…

“What sparked off this issue of as a Journal was the clear evidence of poetry’s growing presence in the field of contemporary art. Rather than ‘Poetry’ in general, and even less so the figure of the ‘Poet’, it’s…

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…

In response to the anti-war movements of the 1960s, pioneering musician and composer Pauline Oliveros began to expand the way she made music, experimenting with meditation, movement and activism in her compositions. Fascinated…

“Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantánamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty, Roget’s Thesaurus, my Dad, Saturday night. The pieces are not linked. That’s why I’ve called…

The first English-language collection focused on the later works of Joyce Mansour, an Arab-Jewish Surrealist poet who was exiled from Egypt in the 1950s and settled in Paris.

Mansour’s late poems chart constellations…

In 1920's Berlin, the recovered diaries of transgender model Heike expose her as the mysterious muse and subject behind Christian Schad's best-known painting. After signing her Gender Recognition Certificate, a trans woman…

« Je sors de l'eau. Bord qui glisse. Jill tombe pour la seconde fois. Scull attend impatient avec sa grande serviette jaune et ravie je me dis que c'est mon entraîneur et que j'ai gagné la course. Je contourne la haie…

C’est un secret de Polichinelle : on n’apprend rien à l’École. Rien sinon qu’au départ, soi-disant, on ne sait rien. Pour l’enfant, l’important à l’École, c’est d’apprendre à obéir. Certes on ne parle pas ici de ces moments…

Comment expliquer qu’Israël, malgré ses attaques meurtrières à Gaza et sa violation du droit international, reste à l’abri de toute véritable critique? Pourquoi de nombreuses féministes du Nord global, si promptes à dénoncer…

What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked…

BILL 5 contains sand, wind, tide, bills, tulips, LA, parking lots, waves, thoughts, bagels, prints, Tokyo, orchids, horses, backs, balm, magazines, updates, shadows, Elena's shoe, two mudbaths and a garage door.

Featuring…

Quand ton existence se déploiera-t-elle librement, ainsi qu’une bannière victorieuse, sur tant d’années comprimées ? Quand se lèvera un jour doré de promesses ? Quand ploieras-tu au vent de plus hauts caprices ?

Une traduction française de plusieurs récits de Gary Indiana : White Trash Boulevard et autres récits retourne aux premiers textes publiés en revues par Indiana, jusqu’ici inédits en France, se focalisant sur…

Following the publication of Cookie Mueller’s Garden of Ashes, a reissue of her first contribution to the Hanuman canon: Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls, an epistolary portrait of the absurdity…

“My idols are dead, and my enemies are in power. Domination co-opts language, making it almost unusable, other than by machines. We are to be ruled without even the semblance of style. I speak instead of what I have loved:…

A Book Knot Book is a 208 page-long performance, the first from the research and publishing initiative Body Text. In this study of language in action systems of meaning-making crash, sparkle and swoon. In a playful…

Dispersed Events brings together for the first time Nick Mauss’ essays from the last fifteen years. Shimmering with the urgency of a new generation of queer thinkers, Mauss’ writing refracts contemporary art through…

Can critical thinking spring from both a fortune cookie and Jacques Lacan’s most obscure seminar footnote? Estelle Hoy says yes. In saké blue, overpriced cheesecakes are the starting point for an essay…

D’l’or est une suite de poèmes, le premier livre de Rosanna Puyol Boralevi, également fondatrice de la maison d’édition Brook. Un texte qui parle de la traduction comme d’un aller-retour plutôt que comme d'un…

A beguiling debut novel about friendship and failure.

Nicola Long is a few years out of a fine arts degree, listless and unenthusiastically employed in London. She begins to spend her hours at a small underfunded…

This is the first English language edition of Chris Marker’s 1982 photo-essay, Le Dépays. Lovingly adapted from the original design, it features Marker’s own translation astride some of his most exquisite,…

Cake Zine’s fifth issue, Candy Land, unwraps candy’s connections to the literal and metaphorical land. It’s ninety-six pages of essays, recipes, fiction, and art, including:

• Conversations…

Through work by artists and poets of various generations and geographies, as well as additional contributors, SIREN (some poetics) considers the ways in which language is increasingly employed by artists…

We identified a task: to try and fill the void, the gaps in information. To try and do this as simply and as precisely as possible.

Pleasure Gardens is an urgent two-part project that…

The North Road Songbook collects together eight sequences of poems, most of which were composed between 2019 and 2024. The title sequence is a set of lyrics written around North Road in Brighton, originally a…

The music of Arthur Russell defies classification. Across a twenty-year career he created a body of work which ranged from his pioneering compositions as part of the New York avant-garde alongside artists including Philip…

How do photographers select, order, and display their images to make visual arguments about built and natural environments? Conceived as part of a long-term project at the CCA to examine the contemporary role of photography…

Visit the year 2136 for a minimum of 43 minutes.

Dream State Code of Conduct gene-rates and orients your Biotic Tag, a form of embodied ID marker allowing you to visit the Altamira Cave Complex (ACC) in…

J’adore les chiens
J’adore les chats
Pas de préférence

Encre verte pour tableaux noirs. Vingt-sept poèmes de Timothée Trouche (maître d’hôtel et instituteur) compilés avec la complicité…

“As a student at Central Saint Martins in the early aughts, spending money on fashion books was something I couldn’t—and didn’t think—to do. That was until 2010, when I spent an afternoon in Paris with the designer Christophe…

Charlie Prodger works across moving image, writing, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. Through the prism of queer subjectivity, her work explores intertwined relations between the body, landscape, language, technology…

For a long time, I went about my work very conceptually. With the hi-fi photographs, ellipsoids, or with the works made of concrete, I had an idea and realized it forcefully. Then I stopped doing that, suddenly, and…

Mystique des rues vides et peu éclatantes des banlieues pavillonnaires, ce court poème en prose interpelle par sa langue sombre. Dans une parodie de messe noire – beigeasse comme le crépis des façades –, Théo Robine-Langlois…

Unica Zürn tells the story of fifteen-year-old motherless Katrin, an aspiring writer, who lives with her father, also a writer. The novel is set in an imaginary world, a metropolis called Linit, split into three levels:…

How does the world form itself? How does it create itself as a world? And how do we understand the role of the visual in this regard? Most responses to these questions within cultural theory and visual culture refer to…

The City of Durham, 1434. Out of a storm, an aging minstrel arrives at the cathedral to entertain the city’s most powerful men.

Mother Naked is his name, and the story he’s come to tell is the Legend…

 Cette première création du collectif queer Fléau social met en résonance les luttes des années 70 avec celles, toujours vives, de notre société contemporaine. Ce fut l’un des moments fondateurs de l’histoire des combats…

Sam Riviere is a past master of taking and exploiting “found” content and process and transforming it into poetry that captivates and unsettles. Here, he harnesses anxiety about AI only to exploit it for his own extraordinary…

In The Dragonfly’s Eye, 92-year-old author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge tests out the cooperative capacities of the Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to process images. As a film-maker, he has many years of experience…

Let the studio top you . . . surrender to Process, take Process straight to the face, get down on the ground with Process.

At the center of New York–based artist Nicole Eisenman’s sculpture Maker’s…

Arthur Jafa’s ***** is a reinterpretation, or détournement, or retake, or remake, or find the right word, of the final gunfight in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, featuring black characters instead of the original…

Flowers, blood, jewels.

“With three simple poems, Rene Ricard exposes us to the often strained love within class stratification, between those coming together from different worlds, whether Bowery panhandlers or…

« C’est excitant de savoir que désormais la poésie sera parfaite et que jamais plus je n’aurai à écrire. »

Bonbons à l’anis est un recueil de poèmes et récits de l’autrice argentine Cecilia Pavón – traduits…

Abu Jildeh and Al-Armeet looks at anti-colonial insurgency in Palestine through the story of the Abu Jildeh bandit gang, a group of farmers from the greater Nablus region who rose up against the British colonization…

The largest book of Max Lamb’s work to date, Inventory Works combines new and archival photographs of Max’s work and letters and essays contributed by åbäke, Alexander S. C. Rower, Brent Dzekciorius, Charlotte…

A selection of drawings that later became jewellery. The insight into what is in progress, unfinished. The only visible hints between Lisa's brain and the works. The drawings are an exclamation of the thoughts, on a piece…

Information didn’t need to be remembered; it remembered her…

A mysterious global syndrome is affecting women, causing symptoms of submissiveness and aphasia. While the number of sufferers grows, so does…

Dances of Time and Tenderness is a bold, sensual cycle of transpoetic stories that blend memory and movement in an innovative choreo-text of rage, sweetness and sorrow. A dance hall where the dead and the living…

The MoMA Plant Collection displays the tradition of including plant life in the Museum of Modern Art in NY. The book presents 340 photographs and drawings that pay tribute to the pairing of plants with art. What…

Archeology of Consequent Forms explores the use of neural-network-based artificial intelligence in the creative process of a typeface. [publishers’ note]

* Includes a Font License for MX Archeology.

Cornbread the Legend depicts the legendary story of Darryl ‘Cornbread’ McCray, the pioneer of modern graffiti. Explore archive newspapers, drawings, photographs, and an interview by Maxitype revealing his groundbreaking…

Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78'17" is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. This first-time US edition reproduces the original gatefold sleeve with beautiful…

Terence Dwyer’s iconic 1971 tutorial Composing with Tape Recorders (originally published by Oxford University Press), re-published by JOAN, includes new texts by Sarah Angliss, Irene Revell, John Hughes and a…

William Anastasi is the author of a prolific body of work. A major figure in conceptualism and in many respects one of its initiators, his trajectory cannot be solely confined to this chapter in the history of contemporary…

In 2022, the collective Wages for Wages Against applied for the Swiss Art Awards with the ambition of questioning the very model of the prize and its impact on artists. Art competitions are presented as real opportunities…

This booklet – the result of a visit by Laura Mulvey to the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich in November 2022 – contains two texts: Mulvey’s evening lecture at the Cabaret Voltaire, revisiting hers…

And so, beginning in September of 2020, and carrying on, with occasional interruptions and dilations, until the next April, we read from the first page of J. H. Prynne’s Parkland to the last. After that first pass through…

It’s 2009 and summer is encroaching on the town of Bellingen when Rhiannon is forced to move from her local high school to one in Coffs Harbour. Initially reluctant to leave behind her best friend Ellie, she quickly finds…

The sixth issue of Viscose focuses on fashion as constructed through words, language and writing. From the pens of fashion journalists and art critics to the conceptual wordplay of designers, the issue delves…

Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) was an American artist whose multidisciplinary work in ceramics, painting, sculpture, weaving, and installation innovatively drew from the natural world, combining expressionist energies with…

Can empathy deliver political change? Does art that elicits emotional identification with others take us where we need to go? In Imperfect Solidarities, writer and art historian Aruna D’Souza offers observations…

Lessons from Sun & Sea!? The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performances last a minute. Exhibitions are spread…

In this book, Legacy Russell, explores the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and contemporary media.

Russell argues that without the contributions of Black…

After 8 Books is pleased to present a new publication: How do I survive?, an artists’ book by Cooper Jacoby!

“How do I survive? was written with machines over the course of a year. I say ‘with,’…

Alice Notley’s new collection is at once a window into the sources of her telepathic and visionary poetics, and a memoir through poems of her Paris-based life between 2000 and 2017, when she finished treatment for her…