bzz bzz, a series of fireflies pen-and-ink drawings, along with an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and an essay by Vinciane Despret on time and mortality.
Real-Time Realist is an experiment in the range of human affect through typography, visual art and contemporary writing. It stems from the type design practice of Jungmyung Lee and is edited by Jungmyung Lee and Lieven…
Since its first publication in 1992, David Rattray's How I Became One of the Invisible has functioned as a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition running through Western civilization…
Ads. reproduces 70 advertisement pages torn from magazines and in which artists posed. From Marina Abramovic to Aaron Young. From the 1940’s to the present. This collection of ads belong to the Museum of Mistakes, Brussels.
Matter lies like the skin, it moves between genres. HAND SMOOTHED BY COIN is a collection of works that combine and intertwine to form an accumulative portrait of objects moving between art and design. The book presents…
40th anniversary reprinting of a beloved fable-manifesto from the 1970s queer counterculture. Writt en by Larry Mitchell with illustrations by Ned Asta, the book takes place in a brutal empire in decline, where the faggots…
This highly illustrated introduction to the work of the Chicago Imagists celebrates the grotesque surrealism, cartoon energy and vivid color of a group of innovative 1960s artists who thoroughly rejected art-world terms.
These…
Issue 5 of Rab-Rab includes stories about nation traitors, fierce masses, socialist women struggles, love-forms, psychedelic counter-revolutionaries, workers unions, Brecht fiddlers, jazz surrealism, Soviet trains, and…
D'après [...] publié en octobre 2016 aux éditions NOUS, collection grmx. Réalisation sonore par Julien Brulé. Musique de club de Benamix. Dessin aux feutres de couleurs…
Artist Victor Boullet curates a series of fanzines entitled COMPANY. The title COMPANY is stolen from a Samuel Beckett book. Samuel Beckett talks about seeing his father out of the corner of his eye while walking, giving…
The third volume in Hato Press’s most delicious trilogy Cooking with Scorsese is finally out and available to order. An exploration of food on screen, through the eyes of directors from Ang Lee to Bob Giraldi. This volume…
NICE Magazine features the multiple perspectives of a young generation of working creatives in metropolitan areas from across Africa. This beautiful, new edition contains the stories, works and emerging voices of a creative…
On prétend que les catégories du vingtième siècle ne seraient plus adaptées pour comprendre le présent. Cet essai démontre au contraire que seul le vingtième siècle nous offre des instruments suffisamment tranchants pour…
“...It’s hard not to mourn the promise of the early Internet, not as a window into the lie that is our reality but the place where you can be anything you want. “2-15/f/ny” my friend would type into the white…
Finding it’s starting point (plus its dimensions and page count) within a 2001 Michael Krebber artist's book/catalogue from Kunstverein Braunschweig, Untitled #2 / KE is a two-part book that together, like much…
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the Black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. The event…
Fétichisme et curiosité, une anthologie de textes publiée en anglais en 1996, s’intéresse au cinéma de Douglas Sirk, Ousmane Sembène, Jean-Luc Godard, Orson Welles et David Lynch, ainsi qu’au travail des artistes…
Volume réunissant deux essais du théoricien et critique allemand, parus en anglais en 2008 et 2018, qui abordent la question du marché de l’art, de son explosion spéculative et de ce qui le relie aux évolutions…
Andre
Joseph, I think it's actually...
Beuys
You can't give name of the corrupt people.
(ANDRE looks frustrated)
À la croisée de plusieurs genres, ce roman-radiographie de l’Algérie contemporaine relève le pari de recréer le chaos de l’Algérie des années 1990 par l’expérimentation formelle : le texte est mots, ratures, photos, pages…
First published in 1973, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog is a seminal survey of Second Wave feminist efforts, which, as the editors noted in their introduction, represented an “active attempt to reshape culture…
This issue is dedicated to 'Materializzazione del Linguaggio', a 1978 Venice Biennale exhibition curated by Mirella Bentivoglio. The exhibition comprised of work by over eighty women artists working in a huge range of…
This book gathers for the first time the early writings by Kathy Acker: early poems, tapuscrits, diary entries, correspondence—most of them previously unreleased! The book features several letters to Bernadette Mayer,…
Finally collected in a signature single standalone edition, Clark Ashton Smith's Averoigne is a testament of temptation and transcendence: corrupt sellswords, vengeful sorceresses, and time-warping dissident priests…
I. At the end of Iris van Herpen’s Haute Couture Fall 2018 show titled ‘Syntopia’, an otherworldly, bird-like creature ambled down the runway with intricately layered wings that undulated like a stingray’s fins underwater.…
The 2019/20 issue of The Serving Library Annual is entirely devoted to Bruno Munari. At its core, the first English translation of Obvious Code, the 1971 collection of Munari’s own writings, sketches and poems…
First published in 1996 and for a long time out-of-print. New expanded edition presenting almost sixty years of the Dutch master practice!
Androgynous angelic beings emerge from blinding white light. A commanding voice booms from an unknown source. The veil of everyday reality is lifted to reveal primordial worship rituals performed by beings both monstrous…
In the mid-80s, Connors took a partial break from music and focused instead on the art of haiku, for which he received the Lafcadio Hearn Award in 1987. With his wife Suzanne Langille he also co-wrote an article on blues…
Writers in Zimbabwe talk less to each other about their craft than perhaps they should. Some Writers Can Give Yuo Two Heartbeats is an eclectic and indispensable treasury of wisdom from Zimbabwe’s literary masters…
"Now that I am undying, the world is full of possibility. I could write a book in which nothing is left out, or write a book of undying litterature in which everything that is missing shows up as the shadow of its own…
“If we have no gender, we have no women. Lately, we like the idea of obsession. Straight men are obsessed with sex, gay men are obsessed with form, women are obsessed with themselves, the internet is an obsessive habit.…
Hamilton's artist book comprises a series of images collaged from personal photographs, found images and computer-based drawings as well as a short talk with her daughter.
An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at the age of twenty-one. At twenty-four, he opened the Ferus Gallery with then-unknown artist Edward Kienholz, where…
Hello there. So very happy to hold this new publication today.
Fade the Lure is a collection of poems and photographs created between 2014 and 2017, during Dena Yago’s experience working and living alongside…
In the current issue of Texte zur Kunst, “Literature,” we explore the emergence of the genre “autofiction”: a field in literature that has taken up space between the formally distinct categories of fiction and autobiography.…
Sa buche avait prédit
L'âpreté de la lutte
Elle marchait loin devant
Mais je sentais son souffle
Les chemins intenstins
De cette île légendaire
Brûlait
Most generous, profusive, beautiful and crazy artist's book by the loveliest magical presence in Portland, Oregon. This object contains 9 works written over the past decade, poetry and text written in the entirety of Morgan’s…
Seventh volume in Karma’s 11-volume facsimile printing of Lee Lozano’s “Private Book” project, covering the days from Feb. 15 to March 2, 1970, and comprising several entries about orgasms.
In Bure, a small French commune in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region, French and German opponents of nuclear power have been campaigning for decades against the construction of a permanent disposal site for…
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Marcel never says the word "lesbian" to Albertine. He says "the kind of woman I object to."
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Albertine denies she knows any such women. Marcel assumes she is lying.
The Albertine Workout…
“Empire shops” were first developed in London in the 1920s to teach the British to consume foodstuffs from the colonies and overseas territories. Although none of the stores ever opened, they were intended to make previously…
In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned…
Monographie présentant une trentaine d'œuvres inédites réalisées spécifiquement pour un double projet curatorial, avec un essai, sous la forme d'une enquête, de Tristan Garcia. Publié à l'occasion des expositions de Wade…
In the book SAVE Ines Cox protagonizes the volatile and seemingly unimportant steps of the digital (working) process and reveals them as printed matter. The elements which appear in the book are the result of…
Cura. 31 is devoted to 22 women artists and features essays on Rebecca Ackroyd, Farah Al Qasimi, Bianca Bondi, Maja Čule, Nikita Gale, Ilana Harris-Babou, Jamila Johnson-Small, Valerie Keane, Jade Kuriki Olivo (Puppies…
For a “wild writing,” a boundaryless etching into the future unknown, a writing that is inherently frameless, it becomes all about extension – the self no longer a self but a vehicle, the writing a trajectory extending…
Jill Johnston—cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon—was renowned as a writer on dance, especially on the developments around Judson Dance and the 1960s downtown New York City scene, and later as the author…
Published by UNESCO in 1953, The Manual of Travelling Exhibitions is a handbook on organizing touring exhibitions. Aimed at museums and other public institutions, it formulates a “grammar” of how to exhibit, ranging…
The latest release by the excellent Visible Press is a collection of writings by artist and filmmaker Lis Rhodes! The book includes the influential essay, “Whose History?” alongside texts from works such as Light Reading,…
This wild book is an introduction to analog steganography, a type of secret writing that is hidden in plain sight. It is an invisible ink colouring book, recipe book, puzzle book and artistic research book. This book also…
Top Ten: 1998–2008 is a new edition of the long-out-of-print publication by James Hoff from 2009.
In almost every issue since April 1998, Artforum has asked an individual from the art world to compile…
Continuing his ongoing work with geography, state secrecy, and military symbology, Trevor Paglen has selected coins, patches, models, and other objects from the archive of Peter Merlin—a historian, technical writer, and…
Publié à 20 exemplaires, La Sagesse des Nations est un Hentai sur les bulles duquel viennent se superposer des dialogues issus de la pièce de thêatre Le Balcon de Jean Genet (1956).
Originally published in the mid-1970s, Womens Work was a magazine that sought to highlight the overlooked work of female artists working at the cusp of the visual arts, music, and performance. The magazine was…
“Les sorties organisées par les Naturalistes en lutte les deuxièmes dimanches de chaque mois étaient ouvertes à tous. Venait qui voulait avec son savoir et ses compétences et les mettait en commun, les partageait. On venait…
In October 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Ross William Ulbricht was arrested at the Glen Park Public Branch Library in San Francisco, accused of being the “Dread Pirate Roberts” and mastermind of a dark net drug marketplace…
The secret history of the UK esoteric underground—aka the biography of Coil, Current 93 and Nurse With Wound—by Wire contributor and Volcanic Tongue co-founder, David Keenan. Revised & expanded edition.
Finally available, the critical edition of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s writings, from Jean Marie Straub’s film reviews in the 1950’s to the “Three messages to the 63rd Venice International Film Festival” in…
“For me this book is a bag... Like any single-use carrier bag – I disapprove. It shouldn’t exist, it contributes to pollution, it should be banned... And yet, in spite of the fact I know this book may be a waste product...…
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Lyn Hejinian’s unpublished prose poem which (in her better-known essay The Rejection of Closure) the author reads closely as model for various, open, equitable relations between language and things (such…
Natsuko Uchino strikes again ♥
Those beautiful pieces are each one of a kind, made with love in Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, Occitanie. Come over to the shop in Paris, or ask us about shipping (just mark the image number)…
An history of net art through a selection of 100 works/artists from the early '80s up to the present days, accompanying the eponymous ongoing online exhibition curated…
Bilingual French/English monograph dedicated to the work of French graphic designer Frédéric Teschner.
Ouvrage monographique retraçant le travail du graphiste français Frédéric Teschner (1972-2016) à travers une…
This substantial archive offers an ideal point of entry into the work and reception of Los Angeles–based performance artist and writer Andrea Fraser (born 1965). The interview format provides particular insight into Fraser's…
“The situation Odysseus finds himself in bears a striking resemblance to contemporary art’s situation in contemporary society. The echo resounds with the same undertones: the seduction of material luxuries, notions of…
Petit recueil édité à l'occasion d'une soirée de lectures proposée par Théo Robine-Langlois à la radio *DUUU, à Paris, le vendredi 14 Juin 2019. Avec des textes de Maxime Actis, Mélanie Blaison, Claire Finch, Tatiana Karl…
A beautifully crafted, new artist’s book from John Baldessari, a non-linear narrative based on the blown-up emojis from the artist's 2017 series. Playing with the limits of language and imagery, it’s both conceptual art…
A very beautiful book in silver and black, May 25 is now October 1 is an extensive research across Kosovar newspapers published between 1974 and 2018. The book documents sports activities that took place in seven…
Richard Roe is the fictional memoir of a legal person. The name is one of the oldest used in English law when the real name of someone is withheld, or when a corpse can’t be identified, Richard Roe is a known…
The 9th issue of octopus notes is conceived as the sum of several affinities around Pati Hill, Greer Lankton, Lil Picard, and Bern Porter. In different ways (baroque performances, collages, a lot of collages,…
The sea has inspired artists, writers, and thinkers for centuries; but what has changed in our view of the sea since the canonical seafaring novels and paintings of the 19th century? The June issue of Texte zur Kunst is…
“‘The hardest thing is not illness but the institutionalisation of cures.” —Derek Jarman
The latest anthology from Pilot Press—following a trilogy dealing with loneliness,…
“i cant lay down
the spoken word
show seats are
uncivilized
discounted
remember much
long it takes
to be or not be
going back and
uncapitalizing insipid
"On Wednesday, May 5th, 2010, I opened Rob's Word Shop, a storefront shop where individual letters and words were sold. My shop location was 308 Bowery (the south window at the Bowery Poetry Club), and my hours of operation…
"Kevin Killian’s plays remind me of Preston Sturges’s movies, with their fast repartee, hilarious ripostes, and crazy situations. Killian lets readers listen in on imagined conversations with literary greats, film-makers,…
Artist-run project SideReal looks into alchemical ideas of passage, manipulation, magic, and occult politics through events and research related to music, art, and theory. Considering alchemy as a counterpublic…
A rich array of materials coalesce here into a vibrant portrait, in text and image, of two extraordinary artists and collaborators. For nearly sixty years, the Waldrops have influenced multiple generations of writers through…
“How will the future study group for liberation from autonomic computational governance look like?” That’s how Natascha Sadr Haghighian’s How to spell a fight starts. Telling the story of James R. Murphy, a math…
This collection brings together selections from Andrea Dworkin’s work, both fiction and nonfiction, with the aim of putting the contentious positions she’s best known for in dialogue with her literary oeuvre: a radical…
Ballistic buzzing guided camera drones, terrorizing fur and feathers. Drip drop drop top inside your futuristic RV Zen boombox, and then you float away. There’s nothing like a trip into the great unknown with avant-garde…
'What?' her hair flew around her head as she turned to eye me.
'Oh, you really think I'a a dolt. Aha, the truth comes out..'
'Not at all. Where can we dance together?'
'In a lesbian bar, where else?'
New…
"His apparence was too wonderful! Lying on two chairs, surrounded by silk shawls and cushions, writing poetry on a large sheet of paper. His collar turned up straight against his cheeks, like Byron, with a black tie wound…
‘The Attraction Of The Attractor’ is a key concept in our understanding and perception of relationships between people in Western social reality. For it centres on how we possess another person psychologically, how we…
From early portraits of her five sisters, to photos taken above bookshelves and under beds, and later series on the New York City subway, Moyra Davey has spent four decades developing a practice that comprises photography,…
Paul Anthony Harford lived and made drawings in Southend-on-Sea and Weymouth, before passing away at the age of 73 in Leigh-on-Sea in 2016. Harford produced hundreds of meticulous large-scale drawings throughout his lifetime.…
In the heyday of B-movies, low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers looking for a soundtrack reached for library music: LPs of stock recordings for any mood. Initially regarded as an inexpensive alternative…
What an emotional book. The volume covers the 94 years Jonas Mekas has spent weaving himself inextricably into the fabric of postwar culture, featuring a dizzying cast of cultural icons both underground and mainstream.…
The book features 44 of Odundo’s vessels alongside a large selection of museological and contemporary objects that reveal the wide range of global references that have informed her practice. The book object comprises a…
When Marcel Duchamp invented the readymade one hundred years ago, there was no way of knowing that these random objects taken from everyday life would have such a lasting influence on art. The book The Readymade Century…
Henry van de Velde (1863–1957) is a pivotal figure in the history of modern design. His range was prodigious: from furniture, jewellery and dress design to interiors and entire buildings. His radical ideas on design education…
Nightcleaners (1975) by the Berwick Street Film Collective has long been recognised as a landmark of British experimental film and political cinema. Together with its companion film, ’36 to ’77 (1978)…
Drawing on the tradition of the stairway as an element of prestige and distinction in architecture, Jasmin Werner’s modular systems of aluminium and threaded rods symbolise wobbly career ladders, individual life plans,…
Continuing the artist’s cultural analysis of the ’60s, this is a satiric entertainment which began with Graham’s 1981 video, Rock My Religion, dealing with the evolution of youth culture during the ’50s, ’60s,…
The long-awaited anthology of Mark Fisher’s seminal posts on the k-punk blog—including the previously unpublished, unfinished introduction to his planned book on “Acid Communism”—collected together with a comprehensive…
A product of the contemporary environment, which, more than ever, is bleakly electronic and at the mercy of rabid socio-economics, as symbolised in the sleeve’s illustration of a financial trader’s open palm, contrasting…
Beau comme la rencontre sur papier jaune d’une machine à coudre et d’un photocopieur à Saint Denis, ce zine rassemble de manière impromptue et automatique des dessins anciens et/ou nouveaux de Guillaume Dénervaud et David…
“Ici champs non défrichés habitants non déchiffrés d’autres bois dans d’autres voix: énigme en charabia non écrite.
La poésie désétablit nos défenses griffonées; impossible à appréhender mais précieuse malgré tout.
This fourteen-track vinyl LP in gatefold sleeve features poems of American poets Susan Howe (b. 1937) and Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947) as produced by visual artist Shannon Ebner. Juxtaposing historic and recent material…
When I was a boy
A god rescued me often
From shouts and whips of men,
It was then that I played
Safely and well with woodland flowers
And the winds…