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Already known as a “poet’s poet,” John Wieners (1934–2002) moved to Boston’s Beacon Hill in 1972, where he was involved with anti-war and gay liberation movements and organizations devoted to the rights of people with…
This book is the first to focus on the life and work of Susan Brockman (1937–2001), a prolific American filmmaker and artist who was involved in the feminist art movement, the documentary filmmaking community and the downtown…
From the 1970s until her death, Louisiana-born artist Tina Girouard (1946–2020) was a dedicated experimental artist, collaborator and art worker. Alongside her individual creative endeavors, she nurtured and was a part…
Using hand puppets, Wouter van Riessen – analogous to the poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal by French writer Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) – depicts the story of a man and a woman who identify so strongly with…
The first ever English translation of Bruno Munari’s Design and Visual Communication (1968) fills a gap in Munari’s output for the English-speaking world and provides a highly relevant guide to bridging architecture…
distinguish the limit from the edge is an intergenerational dialogue between Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Jimmy Robert. Their connection emerges through the intersection of text and image between selected work from Cha’s…
Fury brings together a new series by Marie Quéau, winner of the 5th LE BAL/ DAGP Prize for Young Creation. The work focuses on bodies confronted with extreme states: stunt performers repeatedly thrown through…
“Jo Barchi has written a breathless, feverish, ‘hysterical materialist’ satire from their final boss fight at level whatever of the service industry. The drop from the boss? A ‘new ugliest sentence yet’. Natural Wine…
“Nazareth Hassan’s devastatingly brilliant Slow mania is a powerful document of senses and sense-making where estrangement and ugliness meets longing and beauty. The artist begins with a photographic sequence:…
BACK IN STOCK! What can survive the end of the world? In Otherworlds, philosopher Federico Campagna constructs extraordinary stories and alternative histories of the Mediterranean, nexus of migrations and odysseys,…
I guess it’s too late to live on the farm
I guess it’s too late to move to a farm
I guess it’s too late to start farming
I guess it’s too late to begin farming
I…
If there is a centre around which the language of this pamphlet circulates, then it is Palestine. As this centre, Palestine enables a transformative power that persistently and steadfastly turns repression and silencing…
Holdings (2015-2025) offers a more expansive view of Ghislaine Leung’s work – with a comprehensive list of her scores, plus the non-score works that have punctuated her exhibitions.
Central to Leung’s…
“I’ve been controversial ever since I started. I can’t help it. I’m neither ashamed nor proud of it. That’s just what happened.”
—Bruce Goff, 1979/80
AMAZING ONE!!
This mesmerizing catalogue accompanies…
Domestic Terrorism: War Rugs From America is an artist book that grew out of Johannah Herr’s 2020 solo show of the same name at the Elijah Wheat Showroom. The show was comprised of a series of machine-tufted rugs…
Christopher Wool’s See Stop Run debuted in 2024 on the 19th floor of an empty high-rise in Manhattan’s financial district. Curated by Anne Pontegnie, the exhibition featured 75 works set against the raw architecture…
In The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge toward wanting hard, working hard, and pouring forth—and…
BACK IN STOCK! What does it mean to be sexually promiscuous in contemporary American culture??
Edited by cult-favorite author Michelle Tea, SLUTS, the first publication from vulgarian queer publisher DOPAMINE,…
Oeuvre culte de théorie-fiction contemporaine, Cyclonopédie est un livre hybride mêlant philosophie spéculative, géopolitique et horreur cosmique. Dans une prose labyrinthique d'où émergent d'étranges artefacts,…
For twenty-three years I was able to say that the most important event in my life had taken place on a frosty evening while I stood and shivered on a basketball court behind a Catholic church in an outer south-eastern…
Terry Dactyl has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she comes of age as a trans girl in the 1980s in a world of dancing queens and late-night house parties just as the AIDS crisis ravages…
A book about the Studio of the South residency – a project hosted in Arles by LUMA and artist Laura Owens between September 2020 and July 2023—in a house where 23 artists came to stay, work, and live.
During her…
Working at the nexus of performance, art writing, and fiction, Tyler Coburn creates monologues that explore how the “I” is marked in speech. His myriad topics—alternate history, legal personhood,…
The publication charts more than three decades of Michaela Eichwald’s singular and shapeshifting practice that spans painting, sculpture, writing, and more elusive forms, creating idiosyncratic visions and (visual) worlds.…
Que signifie vivre dans un monde contaminé par de faibles doses de radioactivité ? C’est la question que Sophie Houdart se pose depuis l’accident nucléaire de Fukushima Daiichi survenu le 11 mars 2011. Au terme d’une longue…
De retour en Sicile, Thésée écrit une lettre infinie à des êtres chers, commençant par le récit d’une quête : résoudre l’énigme d’une tombe oubliée. Enfant sans genre aux mille amours, mi-centaure, mi-fantôme, il traverse…
« Comment accompagner ces brouillons épars, à première vue sans destination, si ce n’est pas les mots de Christian Dotremont lui-même, par des souvenirs, des images qui lui appartiennent autant que son écriture. »
Ce…
“in the coherence, we weep is both an artist book and an exhibition. The project is about the critical potential of incoherencies. It is an attempt to map methodology across media, while welcoming glitches that…
Finally there it is ! After multiple marketing brainstorms and ethical issues forums, we ended giving in the popular demand: After 8 Books has a (mini) tote bag ! It comes in neutral with surprise shades of color prints,…
The realm of finance has its own eco-logics. Hectocorns offer behemoths poison pills, whales take fledglings to the moon, disappear into dark pools, and form fraudulent daisy chains with one another. This book examines…
How to Pin Down Smoke is an expansive guide to ruangrupa and their singular and multifaceted practice. Formed in Jakarta in 2000 against a background of authoritarianism, economic crisis and youth movements, ruangrupa…
From 2015 to today, Camille Bidault-Waddington captured nearly 200 photographers at work. Shaped by her stylist’s perspective, Bidault-Waddington’s images reveal the collaborative craft, offering a thoughtful exploration…
Prieta Is Dreaming, a speculative novel-in-stories, follows the precocious Prieta from her childhood in South Texas to college and beyond as she tries to find her way in the world. Imbued with supernatural powers,…
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