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Made available in English for the very first time by NY based Small Press, Pierre Klossowski's debut novel, The Suspended Vocation, fictionalizes and…
This text, which is presented as an unfinished, in-progress document, combines notes, quotations, and deletions in a fragmentary, indirect response to Rindon Johnson's VR videos (alongside other of the disintegrations,…
Ce numéro entend répondre à la crise du sens et aux préoccupations actuelles en ouvrant des perspectives artistiques. Au sommaire : Will Benedict, Kahlil Joseph par Massimiliano Gioni, Mahfuz Sultan, Ari Marcopoulos, Lynda…
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…
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…
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…
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…
More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements—all look at the body in its manifold manifestations as a ground of confrontation…
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…
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…
“Il entre dans la pièce toujours de la même façon et je sais que c’est
lui parce que j’ai entendu du bout du couloir le bruit de sa
sous-doudoune
technique qui murmure que mon heure est arrivée.
On…
“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…
From Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Saitō Tamaki offers a sophisticated and convincing interpretation of this…
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…
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…
“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 wrongly very often. Here by…
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…
Front de l’information ! Front de la lutte armée ! Front de la figuration ! Front de l’être ! Front du plaisir ! Front de l’histoire !
De Straub & Huillet à Virginie Despentes, de René Vautier à Lionel Soukaz,…
Dernier numéro additionel de EAAPES #2 en attendant le troisième reader !
Charlotte Houette et Clara Pacotte poursuivent leurs explorations intergalatiques en se concentrant sur comment le sexe est pensé dans la…
“I’m proud you call us gangsters, nevertheless you are wrong. We are worse, we are situationists.” —Jacqueline de Jong, 1962
The Situationist Times was a magazine edited and published by Dutch artist Jacqueline…
Much of today's literature on end-of-life issues overlooks the importance of 1970s social movements in shaping our understanding of death, dying, and the dead body. This anniversary edition of Lyn Lofland's The Craft…
Patrick Cowley was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in the canon of electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study electronic music…
"Florine Stettheimer is my favourite artist." Andy Warhol
Stettheimer (1871-1944) was Modernism's great "outlier"—a highly original artist with a boldly interdisciplinary aesthetic that attracted such luminaries as…
In the context of the Cold War bipolarity, the African continent and the Arab world were contested territories for the strategic deployment of influence between the superpowers. Cultural diplomacy represented an important…
Writings is the first collection to widely survey Tony Conrad’ singular, prolific activity as a writer. Edited by artists Constance DeJong and Andrew Lampert, the book spans the years 1961 – 2012 and includes…
“Welcome to your queer life.
A life along a line, or several.
A life through writing, images and objects.
Life as a sticky, messy pile of narratives and emotions.
Life not as singular and…
![DELANY, Samuel R. - Voyage, Orestes! [a surviving novel fragment] (Bamberger Books)](/assets/images/products/_image-cache/27324/Scan_20200115_152119_002.4045f900.jpg "DELANY, Samuel R. - Voyage, Orestes! [a surviving novel fragment] (Bamberger Books)")
“I have been up to Maine; and then, come down.
Scenes compress to single details: dull leaves aming…
En 1900, lors de l’Exposition universelle de Paris, le célèbre sociologue et militant W. E. B. Du Bois présenta une série de données statistiques dans le but de promouvoir les progrès socio-économiques des Africains-Américains…
Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities…
Eisenstein's adaptation of Karl Marx's Capital (1927–1928) is a phantom in a double sense: although never realized, it has nonetheless haunted the imagination of many filmmakers, historians, and writers to the…
This book is inspired by the pictures that Giordano Bonora, a young streetcar operator and aspiring photographer, took of Bologna’s small transgender community in 1980 (although it would be more correct to speak, in this…
In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of ruling class. Through the ownership and control of information, this emergent class dominates not only labour but…
Drawing inspiration from a forgotten play by Valerie Solanas—the author of the SCUM Manifesto—Chu aims her searing wit and surgical intuition at targets ranging from performance art to psychoanalysis, incels to…
“I’ve had a substantial career based on really bad reviews of almost everything I’ve ever done. An early example: “Bad” Painting: “Unfortunately, most of it is really bad.” (unpublished lecture, 2003)
A…
Scorched by senility and nostalgia, and wracked by all kinds of hunger, Ed Atkins’ Old Food lurches from allegory to listicle, from lyric to menu, fetching up a plummeting, idiomatic and crabbed tableau from the…
Merve Emre turns a critical eye on the role of technology in feminism both past and present. With her starting point the “fertility benefits” offered by Silicon Valley tech companies, Emre posits that such reproductive…
In exchange for studying what each fraudulent cell looks like under a merciless commercial and commodified lens, viewers enable late-capitalism to run more smoothly by calling in with their votes, as is the case with…
Art critic Calvin Tomkins has called Albert York (1928–2009) “the most highly admired unknown artist in America.” Over the course of three decades, York’s small paintings of landscapes, flowers, cows, and figures have…
This publication documents a long-term, touring exhibition project on the critical reception of Hubert Fichte's ethnographic travel literature. This large-scale initiative brings forth a multi-faceted debate on colonial…
Since 2016, choreographer Lenio Kaklea has been collecting the practices of Europeans. Taking to the streets and pathways of Athens, Aubervilliers, Essen, Guissény, Nyon, and Poitiers, she has gathered nearly 600 unique…
#ChristmasSpirit
“Evil [das Böse], as the opposite of “good” [des Guten]—pure immorality—is everywhere today, and somehow also nowhere. It is the “other” par excellence; something we ourselves never are, but by which…
The oldest urushi object is about 9,000 years old and was found in Hokkaido, Japan. Fast forward to the 21st Century and you will find Max Lamb travelling, on numerous occasions since 2013, to Wajima in Ishikawa prefecture,…
I am still alive, a parasitical magazine. Issue 25 edited by Kiyonori Muroga and Åbäke.
For this issue, originally published in IDEA 374, we went to interview Kenichi Samura, the graphic designer…
A transcription of an interview with James Ballard that was recorded in 1992 for FantaZone, an Italian cult horror/fantasy VHS magazine. The discussion is introduced by Sandro Moiso, the interviewer, and followed…
The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. In Wages Against Artwork Leigh Claire La…
The feminist counterpart to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Anti-Electra asserts that focusing on the escape of “the girl” from the Oedipus complex leads to a fundamental shift in our most common views on media and…
OMG! Primary Information brings back to life one more essential publication: this time, Art-Rite, the legendary New-York based magazine from the 1970s that made the connection between the gallery scene and the…
“In early 2018, I came back home with a book titled Flower Arranging, an illustrated home reference manual about floral decoration dated 1966. The book was printed in Holland, yet published almost simultaneously…
We’re a bit late in bringing in Paris this book, when its publisher, Badlands Unlimited, actually announces its closing *sob*. Whitewalling provides an insightful and complex historical context for the recent…
More Mulvey! By popular demand, following the French edition of Fetishism and Curiosity, we’re happy to present Laura Mulvey’s latest book to date, Afterimages. On Cinema, Women and Changing Times. It…
If you’ve never heard about Stewart Home’s 1995 Art Strike Bed, it’s a shame! and you should read this pamphlet to know everything about it & the art context(s) as well as the political issues it is addressing,…
Si ce texte personnel apporte une contribution précieuse à la réflexion sur l'enquête de terrain et la manière dont les savoirs s'y agencent, sa portée dépasse largement le cadre de l'ethnographie. Taussig y déploie en…
This publication marks the first-ever presentation outside of Argentina of the legendary work, La Menesunda, first envisioned by Marta Minujín and Rubén Santantonín in 1965. Over the past 60 years, Minujin (born 1943),…
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…
This fresh perspective on the German painting movement of the late '70s and early '80s explores the community of artists such as Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen, drawing on forgotten…
Footloose and broke, the unnamed narrator of Gone Tomorrow hops on a plane without asking questions when his director friend offers him a role in an art film set in Colombia. But from the moment he arrives at…
Real-Time Realist is an experiment in the range of human affect through typography, visual art and contemporary writing. It stems from the type design practice of Jungmyung Lee, and is edited by Jungmyung Lee…
Since its first publication in 1992, David Rattray's How I Became One of the Invisible has functioned as a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition running through Western civilization…
Ads. reproduces 70 advertisement pages torn from magazines and in which artists posed. From Marina Abramovic to Aaron Young. From the 1940’s to the present. This collection of ads belong to the Museum of Mistakes, Brussels.
Matter lies like the skin, it moves between genres. HAND SMOOTHED BY COIN is a collection of works that combine and intertwine to form an accumulative portrait of objects moving between art and design. The book presents…
40th anniversary reprinting of a beloved fable-manifesto from the 1970s queer counterculture. Writt en by Larry Mitchell with illustrations by Ned Asta, the book takes place in a brutal empire in decline, where the faggots…
This highly illustrated introduction to the work of the Chicago Imagists celebrates the grotesque surrealism, cartoon energy and vivid color of a group of innovative 1960s artists who thoroughly rejected art-world terms.
These…
Issue 5 of Rab-Rab includes stories about nation traitors, fierce masses, socialist women struggles, love-forms, psychedelic counter-revolutionaries, workers unions, Brecht fiddlers, jazz surrealism, Soviet trains, and…
D'après [...] publié en octobre 2016 aux éditions NOUS, collection grmx. Réalisation sonore par Julien Brulé. Musique de club de Benamix. Dessin aux feutres de couleurs…
Artist Victor Boullet curates a series of fanzines entitled COMPANY. The title COMPANY is stolen from a Samuel Beckett book. Samuel Beckett talks about seeing his father out of the corner of his eye while walking, giving…
The third volume in Hato Press’s most delicious trilogy Cooking with Scorsese is finally out and available to order. An exploration of food on screen, through the eyes of directors from Ang Lee to Bob Giraldi. This volume…
NICE Magazine features the multiple perspectives of a young generation of working creatives in metropolitan areas from across Africa. This beautiful, new edition contains the stories, works and emerging voices of a creative…
On prétend que les catégories du vingtième siècle ne seraient plus adaptées pour comprendre le présent. Cet essai démontre au contraire que seul le vingtième siècle nous offre des instruments suffisamment tranchants pour…
“...It’s hard not to mourn the promise of the early Internet, not as a window into the lie that is our reality but the place where you can be anything you want. “2-15/f/ny” my friend would type into the white…
Finding it’s starting point (plus its dimensions and page count) within a 2001 Michael Krebber artist's book/catalogue from Kunstverein Braunschweig, Untitled #2 / KE is a two-part book that together, like much…
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the Black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. The event…
Fétichisme et curiosité, une anthologie de textes publiée en anglais en 1996, s’intéresse au cinéma de Douglas Sirk, Ousmane Sembène, Jean-Luc Godard, Orson Welles et David Lynch, ainsi qu’au travail des artistes…
Volume réunissant deux essais du théoricien et critique allemand, parus en anglais en 2008 et 2018, qui abordent la question du marché de l’art, de son explosion spéculative et de ce qui le relie aux évolutions…
Andre
Joseph, I think it's actually...
Beuys
You can't give name of the corrupt people.
(ANDRE looks frustrated)
À la croisée de plusieurs genres, ce roman-radiographie de l’Algérie contemporaine relève le pari de recréer le chaos de l’Algérie des années 1990 par l’expérimentation formelle : le texte est mots, ratures, photos, pages…
First published in 1973, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog is a seminal survey of Second Wave feminist efforts, which, as the editors noted in their introduction, represented an “active attempt to reshape culture…
This issue is dedicated to 'Materializzazione del Linguaggio', a 1978 Venice Biennale exhibition curated by Mirella Bentivoglio. The exhibition comprised of work by over eighty women artists working in a huge range of…
This book gathers for the first time the early writings by Kathy Acker: early poems, tapuscrits, diary entries, correspondence—most of them previously unreleased! The book features several letters to Bernadette Mayer,…
Finally collected in a signature single standalone edition, Clark Ashton Smith's Averoigne is a testament of temptation and transcendence: corrupt sellswords, vengeful sorceresses, and time-warping dissident priests…
At the end of Iris van Herpen’s Haute Couture Fall 2018 show titled ‘Syntopia’, an otherworldly, bird-like creature ambled down the runway with intricately layered wings that undulated like a stingray’s fins underwater.…
The 2019/20 issue of The Serving Library Annual is entirely devoted to Bruno Munari. At its core, the first English translation of Obvious Code, the 1971 collection of Munari’s own writings, sketches and poems…
First published in 1996 and for a long time out-of-print. New expanded edition presenting almost sixty years of the Dutch master practice!
Androgynous angelic beings emerge from blinding white light. A commanding voice booms from an unknown source. The veil of everyday reality is lifted to reveal primordial worship rituals performed by beings both monstrous…
In the mid-80s, Connors took a partial break from music and focused instead on the art of haiku, for which he received the Lafcadio Hearn Award in 1987. With his wife Suzanne Langille he also co-wrote an article on blues…
Writers in Zimbabwe talk less to each other about their craft than perhaps they should. Some Writers Can Give Yuo Two Heartbeats is an eclectic and indispensable treasury of wisdom from Zimbabwe’s literary masters…
"Now that I am undying, the world is full of possibility. I could write a book in which nothing is left out, or write a book of undying litterature in which everything that is missing shows up as the shadow of its own…
“If we have no gender, we have no women. Lately, we like the idea of obsession. Straight men are obsessed with sex, gay men are obsessed with form, women are obsessed with themselves, the internet is an obsessive habit.…