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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I was not offended when you looked at me and I realized there was no one in my place to look back at you. I comprehend. Seriously, I have strange feelings about the different wars that are going on in the universe…
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;…
Ce livre rassemble la collection complète des News Animations de Simone Forti, l'une des oeuvres le splus représentatives de sa pratique artistique. Les actualités et, plus largement, les questions les plus urgentes de…
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…
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…
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…
A fresh edition of the sustainable design pioneer Victor Papanek’s classic and ever-relevant book.
[publisher's note]
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…
A NOUVEAU DISPONIBLE ε>ε>ε=ε=ε=ε=┌(;￣◇￣)┘
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…
Tetsumi <3 Kudo
Tetsumi <3 Kudo
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 Delusions of Care is a culmination of three long essays that ruminate on notions of care in our contemporary and historically. It is concerned with the appropriation of care by the capitalist…
“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…