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A key figure in the New York art scene, Amy Sillman is renowned for her singular approach to painting and drawing. Her writings extend a practice that…
The first anthology of poetry by fashion designer, musician, painter, and Paris icon Vava Dudu.
A book somewhere between Daniel Spoerri’s Anecdoted Topography of Chance and a stream of consciousness/confession version of a “What’s in my bag” skit. The Knife is the name Charlotte York gave to their…
Inspired by the life & career of Richard Nixon, this book reproduces 73 satirical drawings created by Philip Guston in the summer of 1971, two years before Watergate. Guston was then holed up in Woodstock, New York, still…
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, its surfaces, textures…
Ratcharge (2004-2014) était un fanzine qui disséquait le quotidien avec le même acharnement que la musique. Au fil de ses trente-quatre numéros, il a montré ce que pouvait être la littérature punk : pas de nostalgie, une…
A pretty, pretty rich collection of writings “about” art, politics, fashion, music, advertising, life, by Glenn O’Brien, some dating back to the 1980s, some previously unpublished—gathered by ZE Books (and before that,…
Vivre avec le trouble, c’est entrer dans un monde étrange — le nôtre — où le temps, sorti de ses gonds, se retrouve ballotté dans un tourbillon de rencontres multispécifiques, d’appropriations violentes, de créations collectives…
Comment reprendre corps ? Comment nous rapporter au corps, cet objet éminemment historique, domestiqué, violenté, pathologisé ? Silvia Federici répond : écoutons le langage du corps, sa fragilité et ses imperfections,…
“Aspirations of Madness”: this issue of Blank Forms takes its title from a series of interviews with Japanese free jazz pioneer Masayuki Takayangi that were published in Japanese in 1975–76 and are published here…
“I half hold that my life is a fine ride as long as I don’t attempt to navigate. The least critical way to describe this outlook is “bemused fatalism,” and as coping mechanisms go, there’s much to be said for keeping that…
Wisrah Villefort’s overarching research focuses on the nonhuman, digital matter, synthetic polymers, prosthetics and their markets.
The ongoing hypermedia…
Exceeding all predictions
As I write you
At last! Just in time for the sand of this summer, we got copies of A Sand Book, Ariana Reines’ latest book of poems (+ a few pictures). The title…
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“While a man in a hotel is in a crematorium, or in the negative image of a church ..., a girl in her hotel is free. I want to claim this word free for myself and I intend to use it…
An energizing pocket book gathering texts that deal, from different perspectives, on the exchanges that can occur between spectators and moving images, when moving images are made and conceived with a specific take on…
Not long ago, a melancholic left and a manic neoliberalism seemed to arrive at an awkward consensus: the foreclosure of futurity. Whereas the former mourned the failure of its utopian project, the latter celebrated the…
Can contemporary art’s practitioners change the way we perceive nature? Employing a variety of forms that include speculative essays, poems, pencil sketches, and photo essays, twenty authors challenge the exclusive human…
Fred Moten first delivered this remarkable lecture at Threewalls in Chicago, prompted by Harold Mendez’s show “but I sound better since you cut my throat.” Sputnik & Fizzle’s annotated and expanded transcription of A Poetics…
This publication explores the intersection between the histories of cinema, video and feminism in France—following the exhibitions Muses Insoumises in Lille, and Musas insumisas in Madrid. Focusing…
Neotenica is a novel of encounters: casual sex, arranged-marriage dates, cops, rowdy teenagers, lawyers, a Sapphic flirtation, a rival, a child, and two important dogs. At the center of it are Young Ae, a Korean-born…
Haunting and compulsively readable, Drifts is an intimate portrait of reading, writing, and creative obsession. At work on a novel that is overdue, spending long days walking neighborhood streets with her restless…
No New Theories builds on Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s accretive and associative installation work, bringing together xerox abstractions, poetic text fragments, and found as well as original photography to explore learning…
featuring Zoe Leonard, Eileen Myles, Jimmy DeSana, Princess Julia, Olivia Laing, Simon Costin, Timothy Thornton, Mary Manning and many more.
Nothing should have flourished here, in this desert, in this country, under this reactionary government – and yet it did, and does. Alexander Harris
As green commentators speculate about the future of…
The American composer and writer John Cage, born 1912, and the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, born 1928, have emerged as the leading figures of the bourgeois musical avant-garde. They are ripe for criticism. The…
Eighteen international writers respond to the open-ended period of social distancing, closures, and illness caused by Covid-19. Compiled during the initial lockdown in Europe, this special collection is a meteoric publishing…
Nuages lacrymogènes, grenades de désencerclement, LBD 40… Des ZADs aux campus, des quartiers populaires aux cortèges syndicaux, manifester en France expose aujourd’hui à la violence des armes non létales. Les forces de…
A meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane…
In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounter—with a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a book—and links that subject to others, drawing…
Arthur Jafa is a director, cinematographer, artist and critic who was born in Mississippi in 1960. He was the producer and cinematographer for Daughters of the Dust (1992), the cinematographer for Crooklyn (1994), and…
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was among the most influential proponents of civil rights during a presence that covered five decades. A sociologist, historian, novelist and activist, Du Bois was the first…
A collection of essays, artistic contributions, and two inserted zines, Queer City, A Reader was developed as part of an 18-month inquiry in São Paulo. Initiated by Lanchonete.org and ArtsEverywhere/Musagetes,…
“Toward what goal do I aspire, ever, but collision? Always accident, concussion, bodies butting together . . . By collision I also mean metaphor and metonymy: operations of slide and slip and transfuse.”
This book compiles a selection of publications—photobooks and magazines, along with other related documents—demonstrating the great flowering of typography, photomontage and photobooks in the Soviet Union in the period…
From Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich to Basma Alsharif and Pauline Oliveros, Deux Soeurs brings together a chorus of voices that explore representations of parenthood, friendship, and disobedience. The book acts…
“Résonner : re-sonare. Sonner, encore. Implication immédiate d'un dédoublement. Le son et son double : renvoyés, réfléchis par des surfaces, diffractés par des angles. Le son amplifié, revêtant une acoustique…
A common interest in the history of motifs and retail display inspired designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy McKenzie to form the Atelier E.B fashion label. The title of the exhibition, Passer-by, acknowledges…
For readers interested in the extraordinary life, work, and artistic milieu of the great American surrealist and proto-pop painter William Nelson Copley (1919–96), this volume will come as a thrilling revelation and a…
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In 1999, the British artist Mark Leckey released his video-montage Fiorucci made me Hardcore, a dreamscape vignette that communes with the rapturous promises of youth. Putting archive material to use, Leckey entwined…
F.R.DAVID is a typographical journal, dealing with the organisation of reading and writing in contemporary art practises. The 19th issue, “very good*” is edited with Paul Abbott. Like music, the issue’s “theme” is better…
A chair is a chair is a chair is a staircase is a book...
Harry Thaler is notoriously a man of very few words so if you want to know about him, this book is a good starting point. This small publication celebrates…
Audimat propose une écriture sur la musique libérée des contraintes d‘actualité et des formats de la presse périodique. La revue veut rendre compte de la situation actuelle de la pop music, et l‘éclairer par son…
Digital—even before this word signified research-based processing, its original meaning referred to "the fingers." The same goes for the artists Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov, whose Image Bank, founded in…
This long-awaited monograph presents the breadth of JB Blunk's practice and includes never-before-seen archival and newly commissioned photographs of jewelry, ceramics, paintings, furniture, sculpture and his hand built…
This pamphlet consists of the text of two speeches Jarvis Cocker made in public during 2017. They both concern Br**it—but please don’t let that put you off.
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Pour célébrer cette sortie, les premières 20 copies vendues seront accompagnées d'une sélection de documents imprimés à la librairie, issus…
Qu’est-ce qui fait d’une femme une colombe ? une pieuvre ou une baleine ? La cougar existe-t-elle ? Fait-il bon vivre avec une chienne ?
Ce petit livre au ton piquant recense 55 métaphores animalières dont se…
This publication extends an exhibition program that examines the environmental challenges facing the art world and its institutions, drawing on the concept of “destructive plasticity” theorized by philosopher Catherine…
The first of a two-volume publication dedicated to the artist's novel, this theoretical essay aims to elucidate the pressing questions posed by the emergence of this new artistic medium with a number of key case studies…
In this anthology, seven exhibition makers (Yves Aupetitallot, Mary Jane Jacob, Lu Jie, Raimundas Malašauskas, Alan W. Moore, Seth Siegelaub & Teresa Gleadowe, Jennifer (Licht) Winkworth) lay out the motivations, conditions,…
The ultra-blackness manifesto: a Deleuzian reading of the philosophical and socio-political stakes of the current electronic music scene (publication marking the reactivation of the influential label Mille Plateaux, with…
This is the first book on the Venice, California-based ceramicist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess (born 1926). Now in her 90s, the Venezuela-born artist is just now getting the recognition she deserves, with her work finding…
Lauded by Jerry Saltz as “one of the most reactionary yet radical visions of art,” The Young and Evil tells the story of a group of artists and writers active during the first half of the twentieth century, when homosexuality…
This exhibition and its catalogue reconsider periods of economic and social collapse through the lens of artistic innovations and material-driven narratives. It examines five art scenes generated during heightened periods…
Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art. Writing…
Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conceived as a series of portraits analyzing the role…
Before I transcribed them, the voices that I had accumulated lived in my headphones and as sound waves on an editing screen, and were released as I re-spoke them into the tunnels. Trying to repeat…
In the latest edition of our journal of artists’ writings, 'The Happy Hypocrite', Guest Editor Erica Scourti has figures like Paul B. Preciado’s auto-guinea pig, the parasite, and the pidgin in mind and will be editing…
The term “artivism” seems to have become a catchword for any woman’s empowerment through the arts. This volume aims to critically dissect this catchword, unveiling the diversity of practices and realities that it comprises.
Representing…
Originally published in 1974 by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Yvonne Rainer’s Work 1961-73 documents the artist’s landmark early works at the intersection of dance, performance, and art. The publication…
Oscar Tusquets is an artist in the style of the Renaissance greats: his acclaimed career has spanned the fields of architecture—with the influential practice he founded in 1964, Studio Per—industrial design, painting,…
To Run Wild In It is a book about tarot, an experimental novella, a "channelled" text and an extension of ideas first broached in David Keenan’s acclaimed debut novel, This Is Memorial Device. Taking…
Another genre for another gender. What if you were trans and didn't know it? What if there were some hole in your life and you didn't even know it was there? What if you went through life not knowing why you only felt…
In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility that music was no longer bounded by formalities of audience: the clapping, the booing, the short attention span, the demand for instant gratification. Considering…
Of all the figures associated with the history of LSD there is none more enigmatic than Michael Hollingshead. Appearing as if from nowhere, he turned Timothy Leary on to LSD in 1962, and was influential in Leary's years…
Propositions for Non-Fascist Living begins from the urgent need to model a world decidedly void of fascisms during a time when the rise of contemporary fascisms threatens the very foundations of a possibility…
Examining the genre-bending writing of Dodie Bellamy, whose work has focused on sexuality, politics, feminism, narrative experimentation, and all things queer.
Dodie Bellamy (b. 1951, in North Hammond, Indiana)…
Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest…
Made available in English for the very first time by NY based Small Press, Pierre Klossowski’s debut novel from 1950, The Suspended Vocation, fictionalizes and satirizes the great erotic artist, philosopher, and…
Zizanies raconte comment une recherche, au départ académique, dévie de sa route. Alors qu’elle s’engage dans un travail sur la voix off féminine au cinéma, les lectures de la jeune chercheuse et critique d’art…
There she goes !
Pisti, 80 rue de Belleville is Estelle Hoy’s latest novel.
Elke is a young academic with a troubled past that keeps spilling onto her present. Just as she is about to leave town for…
Un livre émouvant et magnifique, qui rassemble des dessins que Pierre Milville – graphiste et typographe indépendant qui a fait partie de Grapus et de différents collectifs avec Vincent Perrottet ou Pierre di Sciullo –…
Once more, an astonishing issue of OEI – a thrilling, compelling, stimulating feast of ideas regarding publishing and the book: the perfect big companion to read and hug in bed while the virus spreads outside.
Bringing…
Fabrice Croux est alerte, volubile et gourmand. Il fait des tas d’objets, empile des paroles. Installé au cœur des paysages basques et grenoblois, il mange des choses, les techniques, et autres mets comestibles. Il baigne…
Richly illustrated catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition Walid Raad - Let's be honest, the weather helped, organized by Moderna Museet, Stockholm (February 15 - May 10 2020), and the Stedelijk Museum…
Le tout premier numéro d'une nouvelle revue bilingue, Senna Hoy, qui prend le pseudonyme du militant anarchiste Johannes Holzmann (1882-1914) pour pratiquer la collecte et la traduction de textes de poésie contemporaine.…
Four years after Statement and Counter-Statement (2015), Experimental Jetset returns with their second paperback for Roma Publications. Whereas the previous publication had a more overall monographic scope, Full…
Rhea Anastas’s ranging and intimate essay about experience and viewership, focusing on the art of Beverly Buchanan, Richard Maxwell, Cameron Rowland, and Dinah Young, is the first in the series PPI, edited by…
Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions—and the dangers—of the twentieth-century world.
Her writing on art and…
Night Philosophy is collected around the figure of the child, the figure of the child not just as a little person under the tutelage of adults, but also the submerged one, who knows, who is without power, who…
Une édition réalisé par un workshop de Sin Licencia Editorial, qui s'est reuni entre 2017 et 2018 pour travailler sur le thème de l'inconscient, du rêve, du souvenir, de l'émotion réprimée, l'écriture automatique et le…
The Natural Enemies of Books is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, which brought together contributions by women printers, illustrators, authors, typographers…
“Glitter In My Wounds”; “I’m a riddle and you’re working me out”; “Queersploitation”; “OFTEN”; “[egg hat]”; “record of a commune”; “Cusp”; “flare-up”; “Ritalin 1”; “Cap of Pearls”: these are the titles of some of the poems…
In the decades preceding the Stonewall riots—in the wake of the 1948 publication of Alfred Kinsey’s controversial report on male sexuality and in the midst of a cold war culture of suspicion and paranoia—discussions of…
“Bad times, but good times for metaphysics—Our society is suffering at every level from overwhelming challenges and crises of meaning that we have forgotten to conceive as metaphysical. The leaps in technology or advances…
A prolifically creative artistic polymath, American artist Amy Sillman (b.1955) works in drawing, zines, iPhone videos, installation, collaboration, teaching and curating, but painting has remained always at the very heart…
Three of Ashley's landmark recordings, Automatic Writing (1979), Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon (1971) and She Was A Visitor (1967).
Composed in recorded form over a period of five years,…
Table of Contents
Review. Sabrina Tarasoff, Touchy-Feely on Morgan Fisher
Interview. Brooke Holmes and Allyson Vieira
Feature. Cora Gilroy-Ware
Artist’s Project. Beatriz Cortez
Interview. Beatriz…
God bless the Wattis Institute and all who sail with it.
THE anthology of essays written alongside the exhibitions at the Wattis Institute between 2014 and 2019, celebrating the wide range of voices and forms of…
Forget the tiresome reviews of the last “decade”! Since Lucy Lippard, everybody knows that seven is the number that counts when it comes to evaluate how art is developing in relation to ideas and society. Curator Maria…
Selina Todd’s Tastes of Honey brings Shelagh Delaney’s work and times to life, and re-establishes her position at the heart of British cultural and social history. On 27 May 1958, Delaney’s A Taste…
When I am a bitch I feel in such good company.
Nice girls never gave me anything but trouble,
Eating the ground out from under me, then waving
As I fall. Pity one has to die to see how liberating
Bad…
Over the past decade, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) has pursued a hybrid mode of working that melds the roles of curator, artist, and scholar. This catalogue leans heavily into the scholarship side of his practice, building on…
It's October, 1980, the 10th anniversary of the October Crisis, when a radical Quebec group's actions led to the invocation of the War Measures Act. In a bathtub in a rooming house in Montreal in 1980, a woman tries to…
A concentrated look at the Mr.Men and Little Miss Series, House Rules is an architecture book featuring drawings by Roger Hargreaves and accompanying snippets from found source texts by Bernard Rudofsky and the Prince…
Le 9 décembre 1893, l’anarchiste Auguste Vaillant lance une bombe dans la Chambre des députés en pleine séance parlementaire, faisant quelques blessés légers. Deux jours plus tard, la même Chambre vote à la hâte la première…