"This is a collection of attempted manifestos whose composition began in 2011. It does not pretend to be completed and any life it has is in its capacity for change, movement and instability. These manifestos are described…
"... I am Rosie's lawyer. Dog lawyers have become possible in recent years, even months. Which is not to say crimes of all kinds against dogs are 'new' in any way."
“Iʼve gathered so many books […], all about the family. This is all washing over me like a waterfall. I canʼt figure out the genealogy, the chronology flows like currents that wind around each other at different rates.…
Are there communities? Are there ghosts? Let yourself be tested!
Anniversary issue of the Berlin-based magazine with Ei Arakawa, Tenzing Barshee, John Beeson, Gerry Bibby, David Bussel, Eric D. Clark, Sarah Chow,…
Deux études, inédites en français, du sociologue et critique musical britannique Simon Frith, pionnier des popular music studies et auteur du classique The Sociology of Rock paru en 1978. Le premier texte offre…
Un ensemble de nouvelles traductions et de textes inédits (manifestes, articles, intervensions, essais, poèmes) du cinéaste d'avant-garde et théoricien soviétique Dziga Vertov, assortis d'un appareil critique et de nombreux…
Nous avons produit une nouvelle édition avec Marie Lund. Il s'agit d'une pièce composée de deux pièces, unies par une troisième. Ces trois pièces permettent l'ouverture et la fermeture d'une pièce, l'union ou la séparation…
This book documents the day to day workings of a specialist support service that looks after young adults with high functioning autism and related diagnoses / mixed diagnoses. (...) During the time of its composition the…
The Daily Bread is a collection of beginnings. It stems from Dépense Défensive’s residency at Le Petit Versailles community garden on the Lower East Side, between the 2nd and the 17th of August, 2018. Everyday,…
Megan Wallace: Why would you say anger is such a pertinent issue for the queer community right now?
Richard Porter: Queers are beginning to remember why they were angry in the first place, which connected a lot with…
In A Die with Twenty-Six Faces, the author—let’s call him L.—guides the reader through his collection of alphabet books, that is, books with letters for titles. Some of these titles are well known: Andy Warhol’s…
Bzzzzz Bzzzz. This is the script of a theater play, inspired by Avital Ronell's seminal The Telephone Book (1989). Reines condenses and texts back into life telephone's inventors Bell and Watson, as well as Miss…
"Minna,
A lot of things that you wouldn't think could really happed do. I know a girl who broke her neck in the bathtub – a big wave came and washed her against the porcelain, a gentle slam really, and it just snapped.…
"It was an exhibition at Cabinet Gallery in 2016, a formerly unrealized proposal, which caused John Knight and I to descend into his filing cabinets, where not in haste we brought a number of unmade ideas, brilliant and…
A sequence of images of found amateur photographs dating from the 1970s to the early 2000s that each depict a female subject holding a camera or taking a photograph collected by Anne Collier over a number of years from…
Fifth volume in Karma’s 11-volume facsimile printing of Lee Lozano’s “Private Book” project. Lozano (1930-99) has marked conceptualism with a severe sense of the body and the political. As she retreated from the art scene…
Fourth volume in Karma’s 11-volume facsimile printing of Lee Lozano’s “Private Book” project. Lozano (1930-99) has marked conceptualism with a severe sense of the body and the political. As she retreated from the art scene…
In the footsteps of 1970s international type specimen newsprint and type foundries journals, Diorama is a journal that takes as a starting point an historical quote. It is sent to a variety of guests for them…
L’or et la cocaïne sont les deux matériaux bruts de Mon musée de la Cocaïne. C’est au cours de leur transformation et raffinement que ces deux substances ramènent avec elles une histoire de l’oppression et de…
“I like scary stories around a fire. When I was a kid I used to write stories and then read them at my summer camp. Then the kids had nightmares, and all the parents complained. That was one of thee first artistic things…
Kevin Killian's Fascination comes to us with delay, yet arrives, thankfully, as though preserved within the flaps of an unsent, sealed, and searing correspondence, consummate and irreverent, having wasted no time. With…
Out of print for fifty years, Jeff Nuttall’s Bomb Culture has achieved legendary status as a powerful, informative, and spirited exploration of 1960s alternative society and counterculture. Nuttall’s confessional…
Just Another Asshole was an influential mixed-media publication series edited by Barbara Ess from 1978 to 1987. The submission process was open and collaborative, and each issue was produced in a different format…
Pat Hearn and Colin de Land have been key figures of the New York art galleries scene of the 1980s and ’90s, working with artists such as Renée Green, Stephan Dillemuth, Lutz Bacher, Mary Heilmann, Andrea Fraser, Art Club…
No longer able to live on the proceeds of her freelance writing and translating income, German novelist Heike Geissler takes a seasonal job at Amazon Order Fulfillment in Leipzig. But the job, intended as a stopgap measure,…
The book examines how the city plays a role in the formation and unfolding of Dubuffet’s practice and imagination as a material, a source, and a vehicle for ideas. It analyzes works in which the artist depicts city dwellers,…
« Il est certain que les concepts de l’entendement n’existent nulle part ailleurs que dans la conscience humaine, mais ce n’est pas de là qu’ils surgissent. Ils n’en proviennent pas. C’est l’être social des hommes qui…
In De vulgare eloquentia, Dante developed a poetics of the vernacular – the collectively accessible speech of the household and the street, distributed unilaterally rather than intentionally acquired via a disciplined…
The book stems from the transcript of the script prepared by Pendleton for Yvonne Rainer to read during their day spent filming at the Ridgeway Diner in Chelsea. The text mixes citations from Stokely Carmichael, Malcom…
Ghost Stories of the British Museum documents the rich oral tradition of haunted spaces, unquiet objects and inexplicable occurrences that has long circulated privately among British Museum staff. Based on interviews…
In Aliasing the narration of fiction shifts like the weave of a binakulblanket, and the reader is confronted by a procession of simulacra that might be misunderstood as an alternative history of the Philippines.…
This issue of Giles Bailey’s Talker is a transcript of an event hosted by the writer Kathy Acker at the ICA, London in February 1987 in which the performer Spalding Gray discussed his work. A founding member of…
“This book addresses my cancellation of a solo exhibition that had been planned to open in May 2017 at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Glasgow, Scotland.” —Marlie Mul
The book gathers essays by Marlie Mul,…
“I have wanted, I think, sincerely but in futility, to make this book a sort of guide, a replicable guide for other people to direct their thoughts and feelings that are or feel worthless into a manifestable material substance,…
Welcome to The Palace of Typographic Masonry—an imaginary building founded by Dutch graphic designer Richard Niessen, that serves as a speculative platform for the variety, poetry and digressions of graphic design.…
Recherches du groupe EAAPES initié par Clara Pacotte et Charlotte Houette autour des questions queer et de féminismes dans la littérature de science-fiction/fiction spéculative. Contient des traductions de nouvelles de…
A recount of the formative power of music, rock bands, record shops, zines and, mostly, fortuitous encounters. The fog, a metaphor for how elusive memory can be, in its in-between state, is “breath made thick,” and the…
Cette étude historiographique consacrée au théoricien de l'art, écrivain et militant anarchiste allemand Carl Einstein (1885-1940), contemporain des avant-gardes, acteur de quelques-unes de leurs opérations les plus marquantes…
The newest issue of our ever favourite, legendary South African periodical has landed. Chronic keeps pushing against the boundaries of territoriality, neoliberalism, and the market – there's even a fotonovela set in the…
In The Universal Machine—the concluding volume to his landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being—Fred Moten presents a suite of three essays on Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, and Frantz Fanon,…
The fragmented epistolary exchange reproduced in this edition forms the core of a publication to come addressing the relations of Swiss critic, activist and traveller Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942) and the American…
Paper Airplanes (Volume I) features richly detailed photographic documentation of 251 paper airplanes gathered by Smith from the streets of New York City over an approximately 20-year period. Whimsical and weird,…
Bernadette Van-Huy puise dans un répertoire de références artistiques et stylistiques qui empruntent à littérature romantique, à l’esthétique postimpressionniste, ou encore à Kafka et aux Lumières de la ville de Chaplin.…
Old Futures explores the social, political, and cultural forces feminists, queer people, and people of color invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way to imagine transforming the present. Lothian…
As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles…
How to Suppress Women's Writing is a book by Joanna Russ, published in 1983. Written in the style of a sarcastic and irreverent guidebook, it explains how women are prevented from producing written works, not…
The exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 focused on radical approaches to feminist thinking developed by women artists and activists of color. The Brooklyn Museum published two volumes:…
Sourcebook accompanying the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 at the Brooklyn Museum from April 21 through September 17, 2017, showcasing the work of black women artists such as Emma…
Ce numéro de la revue Initiales est dédié à la figure de Sylvère Lotringer, écrivain et théoricien français qui, après s’être établi à New York au début des années 1970, a été un des principaux “passeurs” de la…
Recognisably and fearlessly designed by Metahaven and densely illustrated, this uniquely original and experimental publication offers a fresh perspective on Metahaven´s exceptional and versatile practice by offering reflections…
This is the first in‑depth study of Lee Lozano’s idiosyncratic ten‑year career in 1960s New York, assuring this important artist a key place in histories of post‑war art. The book charts the entirety of Lozano’s production…
Published for MoMA’s 2018 retrospective exhibition and in collaboration with the artist, this volume presents new critical essays that expand on Piper's practice in ways that have been previously under- or unaddressed.…
In his works on canvas created over the past twelve years, René Daniëls often returns to his paintings from the period before 1987. He adopts ciphers deriving from these works but uses them to develop a different, unprecedented…
“I tend to fear at times for the world’s perception of my own work: though I find my own oeuvre impeccably consistent and directed, its diversity (I realize) obscures the plane of this consistency from any but…
The book has been produced on the occasion of installation London-based artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s (born 1947) 2017 exhibition at Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover. His new work, which lends the exhibition and the…
The book All for All! is a trip through All! (2012-2017), a project conceived by Kinkaleri and instigated by the voracious attacks on language committed by William Seward Burroughs. It intentionally strays beyond the limits…
Imaged on an Apple Macintosh computer in 1985, Bobby might be the very first digitally composed artist's book. It tells the story of the falling in love of young Keith with Bobby, a metaphorised shadow playfriend, incarnated…
Bruce Hainley writes on Hervé Guibert and Nicole Miller on Tina L’Hotsky; Chris Kraus is “In the loft” while Natasha Stagg is “Alone at Safeway”; Masha Tupitsyn discusses Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick, while Charlie…
Name, Thing, Thing is a compilation of thoughts, quotations, fragments, on and around typographic intervention as resistance against the colonial embeds of typographic tradition—a pursuit analogous to strategies…
La verve d'Antonin Artaud illustrée par une pièce inédite de Nurse With Wound, soit quinze minutes d'un hommage retentissant. [note de l'éditeur]
Podolski's work is emblematic of a time marked by sexual liberation, antipsychiatry and youth disenchantment. In the brief period between 1968 and 1974 – when she took her own life at the age of 21 – she produced a remarkable…
A Field Guide to the Snowden Files is the first book to critically engage with artists responding to the NSA-files leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Considering the most relevant contexts in which the files…
Library contains four essays and two interviews, with the pre-dominant concern of sexual questions: the subjects in art, film, and literature—the issues tied to Rivette’s La Belle Noiseuse, Madonna’s sexual assault…
After the leading organisations of radical sexual politics—the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Marxist Group—imploded or dissolved, the Gay Left Collective formed a research group to make sense of the changing terrain…
Come Together tells the incredible story of the emerging radicalism of the Gay Liberation Front, providing a vivid history of the movement, as well as the new ideas and practices it gave rise to across the United Kingdom.…
The camera zooms closer in on her face when he reaches the part where she identifies him as her father and threatens to make him shrivel into nothing if he fails in this role. PAPERBACK EDITION
L’émeute est généralement négligée par les marxistes, taxée d’apolitisme et renvoyée à l’instant pur, à la spontanéité. Joshua Clover s’attache à la théoriser et à…
Londres et New York se réinventent, Saint-Pétersbourg sort de terre. La marche en avant de la modernisation exhume des navires de pierre depuis les marais de la Neva ou fait flotter des palais de cristal dont les…
Les coordonnées idéologiques et la logique culturelle de notre époque peuvent se rapporter au constat suivant: il est plus facile d’imaginer la fin du monde que celle du capitalisme. Un sentiment répandu,…
Artist book composed of images that Chaimowicz took in 1975 of Andy Warhol signing copies of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) in London.
Chaimowicz, then a recently graduated art…
Is there anything more poetic than freestyle rap? Why do Jaguar? Do you have the Munch’s Flu? You may find some answers and more questions in this Fall 2018 issue of the journal May.
With contributions…
How to become a soft corpse recomposed in light fabric ou comment laisser les cadavres saigner de la porte du placard, comment anti-citer comme la reine de chicane les yeux couverts de cuir, comment s’écrit Madame…
À nouveau disponible, cet excellent livre “bio-monographique” est le résultat d’un travail de recherche de l’artiste Hélène Bertin réunissant des archives et notices inédites, ansi qu’une importante iconographie…
Nouvelle édition de l’ouvrage séminal de Guy Hocquenghem (1946-1988), paru pour la première fois en 1979. “Œuvre de combat” (pour reprendre la formule de René Schérer dans son introduction), Race d’Ep ! tisse…
Now what? Homer reads?! Yes, indeed: the editors of this encyclopedic yellow volume, needed no less than 640 pages to show all the books that ever appeared in the episodes of the US animated sitcom, The Simpsons,…
“I think he enjoys the confetti going up in the air”
“It's like wearing 2 condoms”
“Spitballing”
Open the Kimono is a chronogical record of some remarks from TV ads movies news radio novels airplanes…
In the 1950s and 1960s, London underwent a cultural revolution, which altered forever the trajectory of contemporary art and gave rise to a radical re-formulation of artistic production. United in their distrust of culture,…
The focal point of PROVENCE REPORT Autumn/Winter 2018/2019 is Art in the service of... A new, ambitious and unexpected development of the 8-issue magazine PROVENCE, conceived and edited by Hannes…
Ellen Cantor (1961–2013) combined ready-made materials with diaristic notes and drawings to probe her perceptions and experiences of personal desire and institutional violence. This book is concerned with, and a document…
Lavender Glass explores how the subjects of growth and formation develop in Zin Taylor’s work into a series of conceptual forms surfacing through investigative elements of inquiry, exchange, and abstraction. A…
American author Ben Lerner and German film-maker and writer Alexander Kluge come from two different generations but share a single passion: an interest in the long-term effects of things. A line from Lerner’s poem “The…
Every week, from 1958 until 1977, Jonas Mekas published his “Movie Journal” column in the Village Voice, conducting numerous interviews with filmmakers from all over the world. Conversations is the first time that these…
“My work with electronic music began in 1959. My first tape piece was an ambitious four channel work called Time Perspectives. The piece was made by recording small sounds from objects resonated on a wooden wall and changing…
Otto Neurath (1882-1945), philosophe, sociologue et économiste autrichien, est l’un des créateurs de l’Isotype, un langage universel et non verbal qui vise à transformer une information en formes visuelles, pionnier dans…
La Gentrification des esprits est un retour captivant sur la crise du sida et l’activisme d’ACT UP dans le New York des années 1980 et 1990. Sarah Schulman, elle-même new-yorkaise et militante de la cause…
Défini comme “Paraperformance”, le livre est l’agencement d'une sélection de matériaux ayant circulé avec ou ayant été choisis pour représenter des composantes de son travail qui, au cours des cinq dernières années, ont…
Initialement présentées sous la forme d’une page web, les 40 pages de Claires Fontaines dessinées par Antoine Orand décrivent des interactions avec des objets triviaux et produits en série. Un tour de Risographie magistral,…
Phone-wallet-keys. A typical scenario everyone is running through their head when leaving the house. But what if keys are soon a thing of the past?
In 2017 a U.S. tech company first introduced microchips to their…
Initiated by Flurina Rothenberger and Hammer, Nice is a magazine conceived and realized by young photographers, writers and artists, over the course of workshops and work sessions organized for each issue in a…
This issue of Jef Geys’s newspaper Kempens Informatiedblad was conceived in connection with the artist’s posthumous exhibition at Yale Union in Portland in 2018, curated by Nicholas Tammens.
For London Fashion Week Spring Summer 2004 Peter Jensen was given a slot on the official schedule, a prized accolade for the young designer he was. For many reasons undiscussed here he hated his collection and, to add…
Ce reader rend compte du cycle de rencontres Exploration des Alternatives Arrivantes de Provenance Extra-Solaire organisées au sein de la Cheapest University, autour de la science-fiction et des possibilités d'existences…
Un cri de détresse d'un groupe de scénaristes enfermé dans un local. Que Faire ? Quand on est soumis à un impératif de créativité. Que Faire du langage quand on est en groupe ? Que Faire ? Quand…
Segunda Vez is an art research project centered on the figure of Oscar Masotta (Buenos Aires, 1930, Barcelona, 1979), an author of groundbreaking texts about the Happening, art, and dematerialization, a pioneer…
Concrete Oslo gives the reader an opportunity to explore a great number of buildings, structures and objects through curated tours across the city. But more than mere tourist guide, this book is an opportunity…
This new issue of LA-based X-TRA magazine inaugurates a new design and layout. It notably comprises an essay on “soft talk” and the language of critique by writer Leslie Dick; a conversation between Simone Forti,…
This new volume in the Occasional Table series of critical anthologies focuses on the act of distribution as a subject for serious creative consideration and one of great social and economic importance. Contributors from…
The last issue of OEI has just arrived! What is it? What is it not? OEI #80-81 is not an anthological publication, and has no representative ambition. It is a montage-based publication trying, in as material…
Do you remember 2016?
Do you know who in art donated money to Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton
Do you know who funds, for instance, the Art Institute of Chicago?
This heavy book will give you all the information…