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7 rue Jarry
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June 7 2023 07:00PM
WEDNESDAY NIGHT by Joseph Matick

We are happy to host an evening of readings and performances by a special new friend / adopted talisman just landed in Paris from the USA, poet and musician Joseph Matick. There will be music and words, together with *

ILIAZD (Ilya Zdanevich); TERENTIEV, Igor
Tenderness Record – The Life of Ilya Zdanevich

The third volume of the bie bao series presents Igor Terentiev’s Tenderness Record, a hagiography of Ilya Zdanevich published in 1919 in Tbilisi. In this slim book, Terentiev summarises the plots of Zdanevich’s…

HADJADJI, Nastasia
No Crypto - Comment Bitcoin a envoûté la planète

Bitcoin et les « monnaies » magiques d’Internet suscitent un engouement souvent teinté de fanatisme mais aussi la défiance, voire le rejet. Pour apporter un éclairage critique sur le phénomène des « cryptomonnaies », ce…

LEWIS, Nicholas
Traces et tensions en terrain colonial

De la commune d’Etterbeek à celle de Schaerbeek, de la place Royale au parc du Cinquantenaire, Nicholas Lewis nous guide lors d'une déambulation dans les rues de Bruxelles afin d’examiner en profondeur le rapport qu’entretient…

ROBINSON, Cedric J.
Marxisme Noir - La genèse de la tradition radicale noire

Dans ce clas­si­que de la pensée radi­cale noire enfin tra­duit en fran­çais, Cedric Robinson entre­prend d’écrire une his­toire intel­lec­tuelle du radi­ca­lisme noir. Bien que ce livre soit…

MIDDLETON, Tricia
Obsidian Situations

What is the obsidian situation? An act of mourning, committed in a mood of cocky abjection, against indifference and hollow repetition. The element is wet: fountains, sweat, vapours, wine, puddles, tears tears tears, soggy…

RAINER, Yvonne; COATES, Emily (ed.); MAUSS, Nick (ed.)
Remembering a Dance: Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019

Parts of Some Sextets, Yvonne Rainer’s 1965 performance for ten people and twelve mattresses, represents a turning point in the American choreographer’s oeuvre. “My mattress monster,” as Rainer calls it, was built…

ANSELMO, Diana W.
A Queer Way of Feeling

A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational…

AUGUSTE, Robert; GAUSSERAND Gyn; AUGUSTE, Leslie (ed.)
Pots. Robert Auguste & Gyn Gausserand

Poterie fever forever \ ∞ / Un ouvrage qui met en lumière l’atelier de poterie de Gyn Gausserand et Robert Auguste, actif depuis le début des années 50 jusqu’en 2017, en revenant sur les aspects techniques, idéologiques…

MARI, Michele
Le copertine di urania

First issued in 1952, Urania was the publishing series that introduced the Italians to science fiction. Millions of people delved into its tales of imaginary worlds and adventures, fuelling…

GIRAUDON, Liliane
Une femme morte n'écrit pas

l'ordre du désordre

mon plus cher sujet

parmi quelques autres

& brouiller les cartes

& ne pas oublier

les y

dans cymetière & aymer

hystoire & enyvrer

 

VON WULFFEN, Amelie
Some Watercolors

In this small volume, normally-inanimate objects are brought to life by Amelie von Wulffen's paint brush, moving throughout this strange, surreal universe as if they were real people. The result is a series of darkly funny…

PALOTTA, Lina; MARCASCIANO, Porpora
Porpora

Porpora collects the photographs that, since 1990, Lina Pallotta has taken of Porpora Marcasciano, a historic Italian trans activist. The project intersects private, everyday life and collective struggles, becoming…

ECHEVERRÍA ORTIZ, Marcos
The Lost Places of Salsa Music in New York

The 2nd edition of a bilingual publication that includes short stories about some of the most iconic places for the Latinx community that defined New York City’s salsa scene in the 1970s. Also, it contains oral narratives,…

LUPTON, Deborah
The Internet of Animals

“A brilliant guide to animal-human-digital assemblages”
—Bill Adams

“The internet is made of cats” is a half-jokingly made claim. Today, animals of all shapes and sizes inhabit our digital spaces, including…

DRUCKER, Johanna
Iliazd. A Meta-Biography of a Modernist


The poet Ilia Zdanevich, known in his professional life as Iliazd, began his career in the pre-Revolutionary artistic circles of Russian futurism. By the end of his life, he was the publisher of deluxe limited edition…

HAMILTON HELLE, Una; BROWN, Lotte (eds.)
Becoming the Forest #4 – Treading the arboreal pathway through the backwoods of black metal

This issue of Becoming the Forest includes specially commissioned essays, interviews and illustrations, by animists, philosophers, artists and musicians, including: an essay on panpsychism…

DIEDERICHSEN, Diedrich
Aesthetics of Pop Music

In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that pop music is not so much a form of music as a constellation of different…

MINH-HA, Trinh T.; VALINSKY, Rachel (ed.)
The Twofold Commitment

The Twofold Commitment is an artist book by filmmaker, writer, and theorist, Trinh T. Minh-ha. While contextualizing the wider scope of her filmmaking practice, this publication centers on Trinh’s feature film…

Various
Crystal Hotel X After 8 Books CAP

S/S 2023 LAVENDER EDITION
Celebrating what could have been but remains unlikely. One size fits all, bad hair days welcome. Disclaimer: book that hotel at your own risk !

Une collaboration qui n'existe que…

MATHIEU, Geoffroy; BALLESTA, Jordi
Anti installation

Une collection de dispositifs anti-installation réalisée par Geoffroy Mathieu et Jordi Ballesta. Barrières, tas de gravats, tranchées, amas, trous, champs de pierres ou de parpaings, ces dispositifs dits « de sécurisation…

MYERS, Rhea
Proof of Work

DAO? BTC? NFT? ETH? ART? WTF? HODL as OG crypto artist, writer, and hacker Rhea Myers searches for faces in cryptographic hashes, follows a day in the life of a young shibe in the year 2032,…

YORK, Charlotte
Enter Fatima

The customs officer’s face lit up when he saw the body parts in my luggage in his x-ray machine. Some explaining will have to take place. I wasn’t sure to be ready for this.

A new collection of unbelievable…

DOUARD, David; THOREL, Benjamin (ed.)
David Douard: 0´THEE LIL' 0

Intense! Après des mois d’échanges avec David Douard autour de scanners, de boules de plâtre, de zines, de fichiers numériques et de caractères typographiques non conformes, 0´THEE LIL' 0 est là.

Élaboré…

WARK, McKenzie
Raving

I’m interested in people for whom raving is a collaborative practice that makes it possible to endure this life. There’s a lot of metaphors I could throw at this: rave as addiction, ritual, performance, catharsis,…

BENAZET HEUGENHAUSER, Estelle
Les recettes de madame Perez pour un destin parfait

Quatre recettes simplissimes pour une cuisine économique et familiale. Les filles deviendront des tanks, les garçons seront réduits en bouillie. Le régime parfait accessible à toutes et tous.

Cette…

SAS, Julie
Confiture #9 : Trash Tour

L'air de la brume grise, la masse de ce qui s'y déplace est assez grande pour ne pas être remuée par le vent, et ce qui constitue cette brume est un ensemble de grains qui traversent les espaces, se rapprochent et s'éloignent,…

LIST, Herbert; FABER, Monika (ed.); NIERHAUS, Andreas (ed.); RICHTER, Peer-Olaf (ed.)
Herbert List: Panoptikum

Herbert List was fascinated by the ”artificial humans“—life-size figures moulded in wax—on display at the Panoptikum in Vienna’s Prater. In 1944, he photographed these waxworks,…

JULIEN, Isaac; MAIDMENT, Isabella (ed.)
Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me

Celebrated for his compelling lyrical films and video art installations, Isaac Julien is one of the leading artists working today.

This landmark book reveals the scope of Julien’s pioneering practice of over forty…

GRUPPO DI NUN
Revolutionary Demonoloy

The End Times are here. The Digital Middle Ages approaches, the plague reaps its deadly harvest, climate apocalypse is around the corner, and fanaticism, fascism, and madness are rampant.

MCLAUGHIN, Rosanna
Sinkhole: Three Crimes

A novel in three parts, Sinkhole: Three Crimes submerges readers in a grotesque and comical world on the edge of collapse – much like our own. Britain is immersed in a toxic swamp, and sinkholes are opening up in the ground…

TUMA, Yuri; UGENA, Lucía; BENITO, Clara; ALONSO, Gabriel (eds.)
Making Kin

When we practice becoming with another’s experience, we practice empathy. When we embody collectiveness, we understand ourselves as a whole and therefore feel no separation. What would it be like to inhabit a body without…

SILT, Irene
My Pleasure

Precise, astute, and uncompromising in its nuance, My Pleasure lives in the poetic entanglements of pleasure, disgust, and agency. From the bed to the club, the coal mine, the power plant, and the jail cell, Silt asks:…

DIAMANT, Dora; PLANCHON, Esmé (ed.); PACOTTE, Clara (ed.); DE LAURENS Helena (ed.)
Archive Dora Diamant #5

Archive Dora Diamant est une collection de livres ​de photos initiée en 2022 et co-éditée par les éditions l’Amazone. Photographe autodidacte et figure iconique des nuits parisiennes, Dora Diamant a légué des milliers…

SOH BEJENG NDIKUNG, Bonaventure
Pidginization as Curatorial Method

In this compelling rethinking of curatorial practice, renowned museum director, curator, and writer Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes that Pidgin languages and pidginization as a mode of being and doing offer a decolonialized…

KRAMER, David Jacob (ed)
Heads Together – Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate, 1965–73

A glorious design herbarium of marijuana ads from the great underground magazines of the 1960s and '70s.
The youth uprising, now simply called "The Sixties," was fed by one of the greatest booms in publishing history.…

Various
Spike #75 Closed due to Colonialism, Elitism, and a Private Dinner – The Museum Issue

Spike #75 fêtes the museum in all its stuffy, messy, showy, old-timey glory, as a home-away-from-home, the address of solace and astonishment. Featuring William Pope.L, Simon Wu, Louise Lawler, Ben Davis, Ann Demeester,…

DESCLOUX MERCIER, Lizzy
Don’t Take Care of Yourself. Lettres à Christine. 1974-1983

1979. Lizzy Mercier Descloux a 23 ans et termine d’enregistrer son premier album, Press Color, qui marquera l’histoire du post-punk. Elle a publié un recueil de poèmes et de collages (Desiderata), elle…

WERKER COLLECTIVE; MAMEDOV, Georgy (eds.)
Werker 2: A Gestural History of the Young Worker

Drawing inspiration from the Worker Photography Movement of the 1920s, which saw photographers collaborating with workers and trade unions to visualize societal and political conditions from a working-class perspective,…

BURGER, Mary; GLÜCK, Robert; ROY, Camille; SCOTT, Gail (eds.)
Biting the Error

What is the best way to tell a story?

In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative, cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top experimental writers describe…

LAFUENTE LLANO, José María; GURÍERREZ VIÑUALES, Rodrigo; BOGLIONE, Riccardo (eds.)
Diagramming Modernity: Books and Graphic Design in Latin America, 1920–1940

This MASSIVE publication offers the first comprehensive panorama of the Latin American illustrated book between the 1920s and 1940s, a period characterized by the rapid modernization of the region. The books reproduced…

FAYOLLE, Azélie
Des femmes et du style

Un spectre hante l'histoire de la littérature : des femmes écrivent, et sont (parfois) lues. L'histoire, s'écrivant de mémoire d'hommes, délaisse, néglige et relègue dans l'oubli les productions des femmes. Toujours ramenés…

TWOMBLY, Cy
Marocco 1952/1953

The photographs made by Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg in Morocco in the 1950s. For fans and scholars alike.

BRIGGS, Kate
The Long Form

It’s early morning and there’s a whole new day ahead. How will it unfold? The baby will feed, hopefully she’ll sleep; Helen looks out of the window. The Long Form is the story of two people composing a day together. It…

MAZZETTI, Lorenza
The Sky is Falling

First published in 1961, Lorenza Mazzetti’s The Sky is Falling (Il cielo cade) is an impressionistic, idiosyncratic, and uniquely funny look at the writer’s childhood after she and her sister are sent…

SUZUKI, Isumi
Hit Parade of Tears

OMG A new collection of stories by the author of Terminal Boredom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! with titles such as “Full of Malice,”The Covenant,” “Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise,” or “Hit Parade of Tears.”

Izumi…

VARIOUS
Girls Like Us vol.2 #14 DISAPPOINTMENT

The feeling of disappointment is not only close to regret, sadness, and dissatisfaction – a feeling of loss, an uncomfortable space (or a painful gap) between expectations and reality – we also understand it as a rattling…

ALEGRE; VELARDI; SOSA
Apartamento #31

Featuring: Tal R & Emma Rosenzweig, Pedro Costa, Dayanita Singh, Alexander Calder, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Laura & Deanna Fanning, Misha Kahn, Abdellah Taïa, Lucia Di Luciano & Giovanni Pizzo, Robert Barber, Bas Princen, Seyni…

ANGELETTI, Marie; ANDREETTA, Gianmaria; WILLS, Camilla
Paradis

Catalogue of the same name exhibition held at Maison R&C, 224 Rue Paradis, 13006 Marseille, from August 26 to Octobre 25, 2021. Check back cover picture for the list of contributions.

MIYACHI, Sachi
Practising Structures: India

"This book is the result of my first visit to Kolkata, India, from January to February 2020. [...]
Drawing became a daily practise for me in Kolkata. I bought a bunch of drawing paper and coloured pencils at an art…

BOTS, Kim David (ed.)
¶#3 - The mental traveler

For this fourth and (for now) last edition in our ¶ (Pilcrow) series we invited artist Kim David Bots to explore notions of memory and cognition through various myths, histories, phenomena, poems and images he found on…

ROBERTSON, Lisa
La fractale Baudelaire

Un matin, dans une chambre d’hôtel de Vancouver, Hazel Brown découvre au réveil qu’elle a écrit l’œuvre entier de Baudelaire. Sous le choc de cette révélation, elle replonge dans sa mémoire de fille et raconte l’époque…

BENSON MILLER, Peter (ed.)
Responses to Untitled (eye with comet) Paul Thek
Responses to Untitled (eye with comet) (c.1985) by Paul Thek is the sixth anthology in a series that gathered responses to works of art made during a period of the ongoing…
KAHN, Gustave
The Solar Circus
The Solar Circus is the great forgotten masterpiece of French Symbolist literature. Written by Gustave Kahn—the man whom Stéphane Mallarmé and Jules Laforgue credited…
LORRAINE, Nancy
Bad Poetry

Smoking Smoked Smoke

Now I know the

$moke of all things

 

And to you

I can swear

Good ones

and bad ones…

HOLDER, Will; BENTELE, Kathrin; GRITZ, Anna; LEUNG, Ghislaine (eds.)
F.R.David (Z) Spring 2023. “Zeros and Ones”

And it's a new F.R.DAVID ! We can find an Hanne Darboven quote in it. It says:

"It's exhausting. it's good. It's idea. It's idea. It's good. It's exhausting."

Dedicated to the Sadie Plant book…

WARHOL, Andy
Warhol, the textiles

Andy Warhol (1928–1987), a giant of twentieth century art, is known to most people for his iconic images of soup cans, Coke bottles, and Marilyn Monroe. Before his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s as a Pop Art…

NIEDERGANG, Pierre
Vers la normativité queer

Ce que je propose, c’est une autre approche des politiques et sexualités queers, une approche qui ne se confonde pas avec le refus de toute norme. ‘Le queer’ n’est ni un être ou un état (‘si je suis’), ni le résultat…

SCHUYLER, George Samuel
L'Empire noir

Après une campagne militaire fulgurante, l’organisation secrète du redoutable Dr Belsidus a chassé les puissances occupantes du sol africain et s’est rendue maitre de l’ensemble du continent, unifié pour la première fois…

MANDERS, Mark
La Scomparsa Degli Sciapodi

La Scomparsa Degli Sciapodi (“The Dissapearance of the Skiapodes”) is a book that brings together several historical images of Skiapodes. The term Skiapode – also spelled Sciapode, Skiapod or Sciapod – derives…

ELHAJJ, Rita
étranges nébuleuses

tout se passe très vite. en surface, des humains, du désespoir. en profondeur, une multiplicité : des naissances, des ancêtres, des histoires, des émotions, des envies, des désirs… ostensiblement, les paroles s’atténuent,…

ROBINE-LANGLOIS, Théo
Ton cœurps change

D’habitude quand j’écris
je veux utiliser un langage
qui colle aux impressions
qui me parviennent du réel
au sens large
et pas forcément

TUAZON, Oscar
Building

Building collects works spanning more than twenty years, presented as a visual essay on experimental space-making that culminates in the two major exhibitions of the artists' work planned for 2023. Balanced on…

TABBOO!
Cityscapes

Multidisciplinary performer, designer and artist Tabboo! rose to prominence during the 1980s through New York City’s underground drag scene. When Tabboo! first moved to the city at age 23, he fell in love with the electrifying,…

DE LAURENS, Helena; PACOTTE, Clara; PLANCHON, Esmé
Le jukebox des trobairitz

D’Alexandrine à Zizanie, 101 définitions mythologiques, topographiques et poétiques, inventées par Helena de Laurens, Clara Pacotte et Esmé Planchon, inspirées par le Brouillon pour un dictionnaire des amantes de Monique…

GILES, Harry Josephine
Du $alaire pour nos transitions

Originellement écrit sous la forme d’un fanzine en 2019, ce manifeste articule ensemble transféminisme et anticapitalisme. En reprenant l’approche matérialiste du féminisme et du handicap, Giles considère ici la transition…

VON BISMARCK, Beatrice (ed.)
Archives on Show – Revoicing, Shapeshifting, Displacing – A Curatorial Glossary

Archives on Show brings the potential of reformulating the social and political relevance of archives by curatorial means into focus. Based on the specific properties, faculties and methods of curation, the volume…

NDIKUNG, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng
An Ongoing-Offcoming Tale. Ruminations on Art, Culture, Politics and Us/Others

An Ongoing-Offcoming Tale comprises abstractions, subversions and poetic ruminations, housed within essays that engage with the lives and practices of over 30 artists (Maria Thereza Alves, Jean-Pierre Bekolo,…

WOODWARD, Ben
Slime Dynamics

Despite humanity's gradual ascent from clustered pools of it, slime is more often than not relegated to a mere residue—the trail of a verminous life form, the trace of decomposition, or an entertaining synthetic material—thereby…

Various
Sophie Reinhold / Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. Kein Witz, No Joke

Sophie Reinhold (born 1981 in East Berlin) lives and works in Berlin. She studied painting at the Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, and at the Akademie der bildenden…

IVES, Lucy
Dreams, 2016-2021

"May 24

Dream that insects were "the new Covid." Was at some sort of garden store/hotel complex, sheltering with others. When the time for my transformation came, I elected "moth"."

❧ If a Leaf Falls…

METSALU, Maria; PALLASVUO, Jaakko
The Well

"I am married to the idea of being a book, being a character. I am married to the idea of being a character in a book

I was sucking on a peach. " A summer day but in winter, " I thought while walking towards the…

BERTEI, Adele
Twist: An American Girl

Iconic punk musician Adele Bertei’s memoir Twist is her harrowing and electric story of transforming trauma through art, pluck, and imagination, as told through the voice of her alter ego, Maddie Twist.

Adele…

HAK KYUNG CHA, Theresa; LEWALLEN, Constance M. (ed.)
Exilee. Temps Morts. Selected Writings

BACK IN STOCK… In her radical exploration of cultural and personal identity, the writer and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha sought “the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue.” Her first book, the highly…

BARTON, Polly
Porn. An Oral History

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History,…

LEBOVICI, Elisabeth; PIRON, François (eds.)
Exposé·es. D’après « Ce que le sida m’a fait » d’Elisabeth Lebovici

Cette exposition et la publication qui l'accompagne tracent et retracent les relations entre l'art et l'activisme de la lutte contre le VIH/sida dans certains contextes, et les généalogies entre des générations d'artistes…

ESHUN, Kodwo
Plus brillant que le soleil. Aventures en fiction sonore

OMG Livre mythique et épuisé depuis x temps en VO, voici en traduction française Plus brillant que le soleil, de Kodwo Eshun, essai conceptuel afrofuturiste, « machine conçue pour voyager à la vitesse de la pensée,…

STAPPMANNS, Viviane; STEINMÜLLER, Nina; MADDÈ, Carolina (eds.)
Garden Future. Designing with Nature

Will gardens help us achieve a liveable future for everyone? Gardens reflect identities, dreams, and visions. Deeply rooted in their culture, they can unfold immense symbolic potential. The recent revival of horticulture…

SOPER, Kate
Post-Growth Living

Philosopher Kate Soper offers an urgent plea for a new vision of the good life, one that is capable of delinking prosperity from endless growth. Instead, she calls for a renewed emphasis on the joys of being, one that…

HETI, Sheila
Pure Colour

In this first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father…

GRAEBER, David; SAHLINS, Marshall
Sur les rois

En anthropologie comme dans la culture populaire, les rois sont des figures qui fascinent et qui intriguent. Ils se révèlent comme des héros ou des tyrans avec une vigueur dont les personnages politiques sont incapables.…

LONZI, Carla
Nous crachons sur Hegel

Livre culte du féminisme italien, Nous crachons sur Hegel, ici traduit intégralement pour la première fois, expose et concentre en six textes la pensée du féminisme de Carla Lonzi. Tenant à la…

CHIAMBRETTO, Sonia
Peines Mineures

Délinquantes, c’est l’institution qui le dit. Elles, toutes mineures, rêvent. Courent. Volent. Refusent de signer. Et finissent toujours par trouver un trou dans le grillage.
Dans ce récit choral, Sonia Chiambretto…

BRINGHURST, Robert
Principes élémentaires de la typographie

Décrit comme « la Bible du typographe » par le dessinateur de caractères allemand Hermann Zapf, et traduit dans plus de dix langues dans le monde, Principes élémentaires de la typographie est considéré comme un…

VOORHIES, James
Postsensual Aesthetics. On the Logic of the Curatorial

In this new book, James Voorhies argues that we live in the shadow of old ways of thinking about art that emphasize the immediate visual experience of an autonomous art object. But theory must change as artistic and curatorial…

PAEZ PASSAQUIN, Natalia; MYON, Fanny (eds.)
Voix Off : imprimerie de femmes

De nouveau disponible !

Ce premier volume des Cahiers des Typotes est consacré à Voix Off, une imprimerie non mixte fondée à Paris en 1982 par quatre femmes militantes du MLF désireuses de créer un lieu de travail…

WARK, McKenzie
Fascias éditions #1 - Reverse Cowgirl (extraits)

Une traduction collective d'extraits du livre Reverse Cowgirl de McKenzie Wark, avec deux postfaces originales de Benjamin Dlv et Julie Bintje qui proposent des lectures émotionnelles et critiques, entre littérature…

SHANI, Tai
The Neon Hieroglyph

The building of a house we will never live in – a house for our ghosts where the gothic and the hallucinatory collide.

From the cellular to the galactic, via Paleolithic cave markings to the trace impressions…

HOUÉDARD, Dom Sylvester
frog pond plop

“frog pond plop” (1965) refers to a celebrated Japanese haiku poem by Matsuo Bash¯o from 1686, which takes as its theme the sound of a frog jumping into a pond. Houédard reduces the three groups of words characteristic…

AUBART, François
L'attitude de la Pictures Generation – Excès, passion et manipulation

Aux États-Unis, à la fin des années 1970, des artistes comme Dara Birnbaum, Jack Goldstein, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, Richard Prince ou Cindy Sherman se mettent à reproduire des images…

MATTIA, Aurora
The Fifth Wound

The Fifth Wound is a phantasmagorical roman à clef about passion as a way of life. In one dimension, this is a love story—Aurora & Ezekiel—a separation and a reunion. In another, we witness a tale of multiple…

ALTMANN, Susanne; KRASZNAHORKAI, Kata; MÜLLER, Christin; SCHMIDT, Franziska; VOSS, Sonia (eds.)
Pants Wear Skirts: The Erfurt Women Artists’ Group 1984–1994 / Hosen haben Röcke an: Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt

Founded in 1984 by women around Gabriele Stötzer, the Erfurt Women Artists’ Group pursued a radically creative lifestyle to counter the rigid structures of everyday life in the GDR, over a period of ten years. Subversive,…

CHANUT, Henri (ed.)
Tendre #3

La Tendre nouvelle est arrivée ! avec les textes de :

Simon Pastoors, Vinciane Mandrin, Clémence Rousseau, Alex Balgiu et Safia Bahmed-Schwartz.

 

SILVEIRA GOMES, António; CASTELO, Cláudia (eds.)
A Cantos Compendium

A long-awaited publication on the fascinating work of Paulo de Cantos (1892-1979), a Portuguese publisher, bibliophile, educator, and amateur typographer who wrote, designed, and published around 40 titles between 1920…

DEMOS, T. J.
Radical Futurisms. Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice to Come

There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end—of democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the Holocene, of civilization as we know it. In this book, drawing on radical futurisms and…

LEWIS, Sophie
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

Abolish the Family traces the history of family abolitionist demands, beginning with nineteenth century utopian socialist and sex radical Charles Fourier, the Communist Manifesto and early-twentieth century Russian…

TUCKER, Alexander
Fifth Quarter: Derek Jarman, Keith Collins & Dungeness

Fifth Quarter: Derek Jarman, Keith Collins & Dungeness brings together collaborators, friends, contemporary artists, writers, musicians, and curators to respond to the influence and legacy of Jarman and his late partner…

SDRIGOTTI, Fernando
Rough Trade Editions #52 : We Are But Nothing - No somos nada

We Are But Nothing takes place during a funeral in Argentina, when the unnamed narrator meets some of his old school friends after a long time away. What is a sad albeit boring occasion serves here as an excuse…

JEMISON, Steffani
A Rock, A River, A Street

In her experimental debut novella, A Rock, A River, A Street, artist Steffani Jemison moves deftly across narrative genres and styles as she interrogates the boundedness of the self, the possibilities of plurality,…

VAN BENNEKOM, Jop; JONKERS, Gert; FELDMANN, Nathaniel (eds.)
BUTT #32

AKEEM SMITH, stylist-turned-artist gets frisky in titty suit
By Zak Stone and Philip-Daniel Ducasse
EILEEN MYLES, legendary dyke is turned on by poetry
By Brontez Purnell and Jack Pierson
OLIVER SIM,…