BACK IN STOCK! In 2021, Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal recorded an intimate conversation about the Mediterranean at their Parisian home: “There…
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Please join author and translator Jacqueline Feldman as she launches her new book, On Your Feet: A Novel in Translations, which features a story by Nathalie Quintane. Feldman will read from On Your Feet,…
“The Black Arts Movement is radically opposed to any concept of the artist that alienates him from his community. Black Art is the aesthetic and spiritual sister of the Black Power concept. As such, it envisions an art…
*BACK IN STOCK* In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: For one month she exposed a roll of 35mm film and kept a daily journal. The result was a conceptual work that investigates the nature of memory,…
Forecast and Fantasy stages a meeting point for scientific predictions and futuristic fantasies that were manifested in architecture and art from the 1960s to the 1980s. The works gathered here emerged from the…
The main “fact” of the 20th century is the concept of the unlimited future. This predicate of science and technology enshrines the notion of a moratorium on the past, on the one hand, and on the other the limitless…
In an unnamed coastal city home to many refugees, a mother of a displaced family searches for her child, calling her name as she wanders along the cliffside road where her daughter used to work. She searches and searches…
Qu’elle traite de son enfance tiraillée entre brutalité et amour ou de sa sexualité lesbienne hors-la-loi, la poésie insolente, touchante, cinglante et licencieuse de Dorothy Allison vise juste : elle dit ce qu’elle pense…
Combien rêvent de créer leur propre magazine ? Comment s’y prendre ? Pensé comme un guide, ce livre rassemble des outils, techniques, ressources, conseils et idées pour qui voudrait se lancer dans l’auto-édition ou l’édition.…
Les poèmes qui composent ce livre forment un portrait prismatique qui renvoie vers l’extérieur un faisceau d’apparences, les traits d’un visage changeant, saisis dans une forme d’écriture brève et instantanée.
Je…
“It is a manual, which shows the details of my tables. I hope that sharing the shapes and material development of this body of work can help other makers invent their own creations.”
—Martino Gamper
Martino’s…
“Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood. Let us go to sleep now.”
A prophecy threatens a volcanic upheaval for a star-crossed pair. A forbidden rite binds a dark arts dabbler to a phantom bride.…
SO SPECIAL! Fieber is an artist’s book that came together in the aftermath of a year-long research into the daily, weekly, monthly, and bi-monthly newspapers distributed in Georgia. The publications kept accumulating…
Originally published by Lerici Editore, Rome, in 1969, Capitolo Zero is Giovanna Sandri’s first book-length work: an experiment in new reading operations, composed with dry-transfer lettering instead of a typewriter,…
In this new book, Clémentine Deliss expands on how artists understand risk and contention both in their work and with regard to historical collections. Through a series of compelling conversations, questions are raised…
THIS ISSUE IS ABOUT DESPERATION, EXCESS, ROMANCE, AND GRIEF
Issue 002 collects literary interviews, essays, reviews, and poetry featuring the sharpest contemporary voices. With contributions from McKenzie Wark, Natasha…
Time Tells is a grand study of time, technology, performance, the attention economy, and comedy. Using the cinematic time-jump, "a numerical shorthand for a fated intermission," to weave a narrative of chronopolitics,…
Self-published in 1968, Footprints, Poems, and Leaves collects dozens of poems written by Martin Wong between 1966 and 1968. Hand-written in a signature calligraphic style that he was just beginning to develop,…
Of course there is the practice of art by the artist, but an exhibition is even more so an engagement between people, places, institutions, projections, desires, coincidences, memories, and temporalities. In this monograph,…
Who is Carlo Mollino? In 1933, he is a twenty-eight-year-old architect who has just received a commission from Mussolini’s regime for his first building: an administrative center for a provincial agricultural federation…
The Fluxus Newspaper collects all eleven newspapers published by the Fluxus art collective between January 1964 and March 1979. The newspapers were edited by an ever-changing team of…
Appelez-moi Ismaël, premier livre publié par Charles Olson en 1947, est également une œuvre maîtresse des études melvilliennes, dont Olson fut l’un des pionniers. Il s’intéressa à l’auteur de Moby Dick alors…
Women Artists Together is a thought-provoking study of how the women’s liberation movement galvanized a generation of women artists. It offers a fresh perspective on the history of the women’s art movement and…
Show Me The World Mister is Ayo Akingbade’s first publication, developing work from her touring exhibition of the same name. Centring two films, The Fist and Faluyi, shot…
Darya, an educated young woman in Kabul, navigates her way through the male-dominated demands of work in a corporate sales office when her comfort and confidence are shattered by a series of encounters with strangers—not…
Ce livre propose une exploration politique, queer et féministe de nos anus, en mêlant théorie et poésie, enquêtes et humour. Les auteurs retracent l'histoire longue des stigmates et des silences liés aux sexualités anales,…
¨¨ BACK IN STOCK ¨¨ Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun traces Jackie Wang’s trajectory from hard femme to Harvard, from dumpster dives…
“Choosing a different book as the subject for each text, our main focus…
The Voice that Remains is a kind of retrospective; a looking back at material, digital and archival traces left behind within the physical and situated space of PUBLICS, and in the bodies, voices and memories…
Triant laborieusement, j’ai passé plusieurs mois à discriminer ce qui a de la valeur et ce qui ne vaut rien. D’un côté ce qui est destiné au paradis des archives ; de l’autre ce qui est voué à disparaître dans le néant…
A cento is a poem composed of verses or fragments from various literary texts that are collaged into a new one. The word comes from an ancient Latin term which means a blanket made of textile scraps.
This etymological…
Retranscrire un cycle de conférences, entretiens, workshops et groupes de discussion féministes intersectionnels dans une école d'art s'avère crucial pour partager des outils d'émancipation et bousculer les critères implicites…
En sortant de l’école d’art, Élise Legal parcourt un monde de crises économiques, d’absurdités politiques et d’angoisses écologiques. Un monde dans lequel elle doit désormais légitimer sa démarche artistique dans des dossiers…
Une idée du temps pays homage to Éliane Radigue and her unrivalled contribution to the electronic music genre over the past century. At 92 years old, she paved the way for independent producers. Armed only with…
Seeing <―> Making: Room for Thought both studies and presents the creative process of constructing ideas with images. By activating the techniques of montage, the book reveals a wide field of view and a space…
PHANTOM OF LIBERTY
It isn’t the representation of violence in the Gaza Strip that is so disturbing; it is the absence of representation. The grief and despair of a child is penetratingly real. The extreme realism…
The press called him “perverted”. The police called him “sick and beneath contempt”. Even the Prime Minister was “utterly revolted”. But he’s proved them all wrong. Now Tintin’s back with all his pals, battling it out…
How is the struggle for Palestinian freedom bound up in other freedom struggles, and how are activists coming together globally to achieve justice and liberation for all?
In this bold book, Palestinian activist…
Bienvenue en forêt! Nous voici au coeur d’un studio d’enregistrement à la chlorophylle où le fond vert qui nous est proposé nous servira de support à de multiples projections utopistes tandis qu’en fond et comme spectateurices…
After serving a five year prison sentence for her association with the anarchist Angry Brigade in the early 1970s, Mendelssohn subsequently withdrew from political groups and devoted herself entirely to art and writing.…
D’eux, il ne reste que les mots de celle qui a croisé leur route. Le crissement de pneus qui sifflent avant un malheur qui tarde à se produire. Sanctification plus que célébration, Oraison funèbre pour Zelda1990…
Qui contesterait un énoncé d’une telle évidence : « Ça joue. »
C’est le genre de vérité d’entrée de gamme, qu’un simple soupçon réalise : si tu te demandes si c’est vrai, c’est déjà un peu vrai, et si…
MORE RUCHES! Artist Aladin Borioli has been working on the Apian project since 2014, exploring the centuries-old relationship between bees and humans. In this book his research focuses on Bannkörbe – lit. “charm…
Mon utilisation de la couleur est très sérieuse et peut-être pas tant que ça sur le plan artistique. Je choisis avant tout mes couleurs de façon symbolique ou conceptuelle. Les quatre seules couleurs pastel qui m’intéressent…
Dans ce livres, un ensemble de textes Zoé Weil, à savoir cinq définitions en relation avec les Tours Nuages – Navire, Nuages, Étreinte, Amarres – mises en lien avec des photographies de Zineb Anber, Salomé Apack-Teddé,…
Sheila Heti collected half a millions words from a decade's worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was left with 60,000 words…
A detailed study of the role and legacy of weaving at the legendary Black Mountain College
In the mid-twentieth century, Black Mountain College attracted a remarkable roster of artists, architects, and musicians.…
When he tired of Toronto’s insular scene, art critic Martin Heather fled to Berlin, where he tried to sleep his way through the entire population of gay men. And then he met Alexandar, who began to tutor Martin in increasingly…
Après avoir revisité le cinéma d’exploitation et la comédie musicale, voilà que Camp ! se conclut par un feu d’artifice. Il nous replonge dans les mélodrames outrés d’Edward Dmytryk, les divas esquintées, débordantes…
Ce numéro est né de la place prise par le « monde de la nuit » dans la culture urbaine contemporaine – « la Night », dirait-on aujourd’hui. L’essor des « Night Studies » en témoigne. La Fée Électricité a fait reculer l’obscurité…
BACK IN STOCK <> What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its…
Ever since neofascist movements began to surge across the globe, liberal commentators have tried to put a name to what they are defending from these illiberal ideologies. The consensus is reason or rationality—after the…
Un recueil d’écrits inédits de Dorothy Dean, l’une des rares figures féminines africaines-américaines de l’âge d'or de la bohème new-yorkaise, accompagné d’une sélection de sa correspondance avec Edie Sedgwick, Rene Ricard…
Body Language is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening French). Nick Mauss and Angela Miller offer timely…
Acad, Seventiz (et les autres), ne sont pas toujours d'accord, mais une chose est sûre : ensemble, elles forment le meilleur système. À la fois actives au sein de l'université et dans le champ de l'art contemporain,…
This issue is dedicated to language’s basic material: the letter, a seemingly modest sign that can be a force of protest and connection. MacGuffin #13: The Letter dives deep into the infinite world of written…
Curated by Valerio Del Baglivo and exhibited for the first time at the 8th edition of the Biennale Gherdëina, Sentiero is a two-hour one-to-one walk-piece, the result of a year of performances, hikes, art, and…
A chapbook by Tiffany Sia (b. Hong Kong) and Yuri Pattison (b. Dublin) on time-telling and hegemony. Featuring writing by Sia and images selected by Pattison, Weird Times is a brief history on the development…
There is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one frighteningly basic question seems never to be answered: why does it happen? If men are not inherently evil and…
Ranging from the terrifying embrace of the slave ship’s hold to the racist encoding of “cuddly” toys, On Cuddling is a unique combination of essay and poetry that contends with the way racial violence is enacted…
Dans la polyphonie d’une île dresse la généalogie raciale et coloniale du séga mauricien. Comment ces chants, musiques et danses, nés dans des communautés de fugitif·ves pendant…
Trouer la brume du paradis est une introduction à la vie et à l’œuvre de Yanka Diaghileva, comète qui brilla brièvement à la fin des années 80 sur la scène punk d’une Union soviétique…
À l’heure où le bruit et la fureur ne seraient plus de mise en politique, où l’on prend garde de ne pas cliver et où l’on se doit d’éviter toutes paroles « problématiques », lire Lénine en philosophe du langage, c’est…
Les organisateurs des Jeux olympiques et paralympiques de Paris 2024 ont obtenu carte blanche pour fabriquer en Seine-Saint-Denis la ville rêvée des promoteurs et investisseurs : moderne, innovante,…
Pour les révolutionnaires des deux derniers siècles, l’accumulation du capital devait unifier la classe ouvrière sous la bannière du sujet révolutionnaire. Le mouvement ainsi né était appelé à renverser la société de classes…
Lamentation practices can empower the potentiality to defy patriarchal orders ruling everyday life. Always a collective process, lamentation inscribes loss and vulnerability by tending bridges towards the world of the…
Brazil’s folk artists have long been admired for their detailed handicrafts. In a time of roaring art prices and increasing critique on what is worth collecting, folk art offers a fresh and uninhibited artistic exploration…
For so it happens that when the poets speak, objects appear closer to their own shadows. The poet's mouth fills up with horses and marble, and his verses start to shine like rivers. These rivers then turn back to flow…
BACK IN STOCK : ) Cadavres rassemble 13 poèmes écrits par Phœbe Hadjimarkos-Clarke sur les errances dans les villes âpres, les campagnes humides et les maisons branlantes. Les poèmes sont accompagnés de 15 dessins…
Ouvrage monographique consacré à Jost Hochuli, Typobiographie revient sur l’ensemble de la longue et prolifique carrière du designer et typographe suisse. Rassemblant plusieurs…
Aujourd’hui, le mot « politique » est partout en littérature, peut-être au point d’en disséminer le sens et d’en atténuer la portée. C’est contre cette neutralisation que nous avons réuni quelques ami·es (et ami·es d’ami·es)…
Suddenly he tripped and fell his length over a prostrate body... he marvelled that so rough an impact should not have kicked a groan out of the drunkard...
With a stiff measure of the supernatural, a dram…
Woven Histories begins in the early twentieth century, rooting the abstract art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp in the applied arts and handicrafts, then features the interdisciplinary practices of Anni Albers, Sonia Delaunay,…
BACK IN STOCK! In 2021, Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal recorded an intimate conversation about the Mediterranean at their Parisian home: “There…
Mina Loy (1882–1966) was one of the most iconoclastic figures in modernism. A groundbreaking poet, she also left an indelible mark in painting, drawing, prose, art criticism, and fashion. Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable…
Catullus was undoubtedly one of the most intimate, witty, vivid, and tender poets of antiquity. Perhaps his greatest gift was his ability to truthfully reveal the fleeting…
Art and technology know lots of tricks. They can spot little sings in different parts of society. These weak signals might show us new trends or big changes coming. They enable us to consider the unknown future not as…
Quittant la ville et la vie domestique pour l'air de la campagne et les odeurs de la forêt, Caramel, « néo-chien errant » sans laisse ni collier, rameute ses troupes…
The main characters of Monument are magical candles that photographer Camille Vivier has been collecting for quite some time. These candles are originally used in macumba and santería religions, as well as voodoo…
Un recueil de textes inédits de Joanna Russ, autrice majeure et précurseuse dans le domaine de la science-fiction féministe. Y figurent et se répondent des essais littéraires et de courts pamphlets (un extrait de guide…
Hannah n'est pas un chien comme les autres, c'est le clone d'une première Hannah, qui trône empaillée au milieu du salon. Elle suscite les peurs et les reproches muets du village, à mesure qu'on découvre au matin des animaux…
Tous les écrivains s'engagent. La question n'est donc pas celle-ci. Certains s'engagent en faveur du monde tel qu'il est fait ; d'autres à le défaire - avec plus ou moins de résultats. Il faut dire, foi du Syndicat national…
The guest sits on his brown mare with his back to us so we look through his eyes at the blind windows and rank sedges and the coming on of twilight and season.
Published on the occasion of Robert Glück’s…
GREAT + TIMELY Artists for Democracy formed in London in 1974 to give “material and cultural support to liberation movements worldwide.” Precarious Solidarities addresses the far-reaching actions of this group…
The Grid is about the end of worlds, ancient and modern. In three sequences of poems interspersed with Mandel’s own translations from classical texts, figures of obsession and loneliness try to decrypt what Maurice…
"In this special edition, double-cover issue of Worms, we bring you not one, but two cover stars. The indelible Tyson Yunkaporta and the iconic Anne Waldman adorn both sides of Worms 8 which can also be thought…
Shae wants to stop shagging other women's husbands and be a proper queer. Plus, she's bored of only ever getting to use her new strap on a pile of cushions. The answer seems simple enough: come out, go out, and…
Cake Zine is a hedonistic exploration of history, pop culture, literature, and art through sweets. The fourth issue, Tough Cookie, presents a hearty batch of trials and triumphs all in the context of…
BACK IN STOCK! Bob Glück met Ed Aulerich-Sugai in 1970. Ed was an aspiring artist; Bob wanted to write. They were young men in San Francisco at the high tide of sexual liberation and soon, and for eight years, they were…
This *very cool and deep* Mahjong Manual book aims to bring peace to the world!
Mahjong is a board game that encapsulates the rich history and cultural traditions of East Asia. Due to the cultural and geographical…
In this radical rethinking of the art of Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), Julia Bryan-Wilson provides a long-overdue critical account of a signature figure in postwar sculpture. A Ukraine-born Jewish immigrant, Nevelson persevered…
Just in time to be slipped under your Christmas tree… though this would not be very dandyish, would it?
This much-expected, elegant book is published as a sequel to the eponymous show held at Kunsthalle Bern in…
This artists’ book gathers an extensive selection of Abraham Cruzvillegas’ AMAZING drawings of apes, which he has been producing since the early beginning of his career in 1985. Cruzvillegas draws, paints, and makes silkscreen…
Queer theory has often been hesitant to align itself with a politics of the state, approaching it with a negative or pragmatic framework. A Queer Theory of the State offers a more optimistic perspective. Rather…
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“This essay emerged from personal reflections on the concepts of inwardness, interiority and selfhood. The film [SAFE], directed by Todd Haynes in 1995, is the starting point of my research. It portrays the political…
It is a scary and disorienting time for art, as it is a scary and disorienting time in general. Aesthetic experience is both overshadowed by the spectacle of current events and pressed into new connection with them. The…
Everyone knows Asger Jorn. The best of painters. In addition to which, he did everything. Marvels: that is to say, in every domain, innovations. We are even beginning to learn—and here the latecomers will be forced…
Attraction,
object of affection,
coming,
going,
transit of the image;
Between…