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Ce numéro s’est construit comme tous les précédents : sur un temps long et par une série de rebonds. Il est l’occasion de mettre en valeur les recherches…
In 2001, the group Temporary Services invited their friend Angelo, a prisoner in California, to write about and draw the different things he had seen other prisoners invent.
Angelo illustrated everything from immersion…
A Toast to St Martirià is an improvised speech given by the cult Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra at the St Martirià fiesta in Banyoles, the town of his birth. Transmitting his subversive attitude and impulsive lust for…
This long-awaited and essential volume collects writings and interviews by Glenn Ligon, whose canonical paintings, neons and installations have been delivering a cutting examination of race, history, sexuality and culture…
This book explores art publishing today, in particular, the practices of small-scale publishing in Asia. Focusing on “Asia” and “small-scale publishing,” it attempts to contextualize and read together the increasingly…
Dans cet ouvrage majeur, Ilan Pappé, historien israélien de renom, revient sur la formation de l’État d’Israël : entre 1947 et 1949, plus de 400 villages palestiniens ont été délibérément détruits, des civils ont été massacrés…
Dans Les liens qui empêchent, Sarah Schulman analyse la reproduction de l’homophobie au sein du cercle familial, quand bien même ce dernier devrait être le lieu du développement et de l’épanouissement de chacun·e.
En…
“This is the 20th issue of Starship and we are proud and very happy to present it, and mainly want to thank all the artists, the contributors, the columnists, and the people who helped us gather images of exhibitions…
the skeleton comes to visit
and can not sleep
anymore when the skeleton
comes to visit and
just gets coffee
and cake and
food
New edition! Faster Than An Erection lays out Reba Maybury’s methodology as an Artist and Dominatrix whose medium is men. Accompanied by a poem by Cassandra Troyan and documentation of Maybury’s visual practice…
On the cover of Serving Suggestion #02 / 2023, an amazing prawn print by Loule Lee created through the Japanese fish printing technique of gyotaku; an artwork accompanied by a postcard and a text, “Writing…
The first complete collection of Bob Flanagan’s poetry, edited by Sabrina Tarasoff and with contributions by Jack Skelley, Sheree Rose, Chiara Moioli, David Trinidad, Dodie Bellamy, and Dennis Cooper.
Cause…
Le désir homosexuel est partout, présent en chacun de nous : là où il n’est pas manifeste, il est latent. Un projet révolutionnaire global visant la réalisation de la communauté humaine ne peut ignorer l’importance fondamentale…
BACK IN STOCK – Image RIP, the first publication from Source Type, is centered around New York graphic designer Geoff Han’s investigation into the Shenzen-based printer Artron…
This lavishly illustrated volume explores the influence and significance of the Russian-born photographer, designer, and instructor Alexey Brodovitch (1898–1971), best known for his art directorship…
Before her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) had already garnered a cult following, with numerous creative people making the pilgrimage to meet her at her home in Mexico City. Since then, her…
Inspired by Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese mythology, queer world-building, and fantastical story telling, Vessels is a zine in 6 chapters: The vessel of the Moon (She Stays on Earth With me Under the Sun), Vessels…
This publication charts the history of the groundbreaking textile design portfolio created by the Argentine collective Buen Diseño para la Industria—formed by geometric abstract artists…
The 2nd in volume in the GenderFail, Anthology of Queer Typography ongoing series, this book centers on the open source uses of GenderFail fonts from 2018 (when the first font was made) to the present. It features 26 unique…
OMG From the acclaimed writer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar Candy Darling!!!!
Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she…
Dolce Stil Criollo’s fifth issue, “Extraordinarily Apotropaic,” aims to rethink reality in its current ordinary form by discovering and creating charms and rituals for changing it into one where there is less harm. The…
What we choose to idolize says a lot about who we are. Vol. 5 is an ode to divergent voices — artists who follow their gut even in the face of ridicule, who express passionate outcries of love despite opposition. We visit…
Salvation is a previously-unpublished artist book by Jimmy DeSana that he conceptualized shortly before his death in 1990. The publication contains 44 of the artist’s late photographic…
"Fragments come from a number of Barbara Ess’ notebooks dated 2014–2020. In the wake of her death in 2021, sorting through her archive, Barbara’s sisters Janet and Ellen spent time with these notebooks, reading…
Cactus erotica. Dykes taking T erotica. Handmade rope erotica. Tangentially alien erotica. Clit long like laffy taffy erotica. Death erotica.
In L.A. Warman's anti-sequel to her award-winning…
Perhaps Bernadette Mayer’s greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978 at 100 Main Street, in Lennox, Massachusetts. “Midwinter Day,” as Alice Notley noted, “is an epic poem about a daily routine.”…
What Studio 54 was for disco, the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge was for the alternative scene of 1980s downtown New York. Located at 101 Avenue A, the Pyramid offered a mixture of cultures: from groundbreaking, irreverent theater…
Published to accompany Dorothy Iannone's retrospective exhibition held at M KHA (Antwerp) in 2023–2024, this publication sheds new light on the legendary artist's practice by dealing specifically with her idiosyncratic…
“In Facing Blackness, Ashley Clark traces the contours of Bamboozled, guiding readers through Lee’s intricate representation of race, politics, and popular culture. Clark moves beyond straightforward…
From the first days of Maison Martin Margiela through to contemporary Balenciaga, Inge Grognard has spent her career as an integral part of fashion’s avant garde: this book features the formative work of one of the fashion…
Deer Black Out is a(n obsessional re) mediation of violence and trauma through the trans/coalescence of identities surfacing and resurfacing within a manuscript of serialized poetry, influenced by HD, Zukofsky,…
Notes sur le tragique prolétaire expérimental est un essai qui noue avec précision un geste politique et un geste poétique. Ce nouage se produit doublement : 1) par la thèse qui est soutenue dans le livre et 2)…
In Exit Interview, the prominent art critics and historians Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloh discuss their intellectual foundations and the projects they've worked on together, from October to Art…
The reason it’s never just once is the same reason money’s only a part of it. Most anyone can take or leave that, though they don't think they can. The cover story of all time, that’s what money is. The excuse of excuses…
Inspired initially by Jerome Rothenberg’s translation Flower World Variations, which Cecilia Vicuña first encountered in 1985, Cecilia Vicuña: Deer Book brings together nearly forty years of…
What is an artists’ life made of? From the home to the studio, from the studio to the gallery, from one exhibition to the next, from one place to another – a suite of moves and a list of addresses. Tobias Kaspar’s work…
Can critical thinking spring from both a fortune cookie and Jacques Lacan’s most obscure seminar footnote? Estelle Hoy says yes. In saké blue, overpriced cheesecakes are the starting point for an essay…
Dispersed Events brings together for the first time Nick Mauss’ essays from the last fifteen years. Shimmering with the urgency of a new generation of queer thinkers, Mauss’ writing refracts contemporary art through…
Écrivaine, traductrice et journaliste martiniquaise, Paulette Nardal œuvre à faire de Paris Clamart…
Si la vie du communard Eugène Vermersch ressemble à une suite d'échecs, c'est certainement la raison pour laquelle Thomas Dunoyer de Segonzac s'y intéresse. Il en dresse un portrait-poème, peu classique dans son genre.…
Ce livre raconte l’histoire des Santiago Boys, de jeunes ingénieurs qui ont tenté de construire leur propre Internet socialiste à la demande de Salvador Allende, fraîchement élu président du Chili. Recrutant au culot un…
Despite decades of notoriety as one of the "filthiest books in the world," Steve Cannon's first and only novel, Groove, Bang and Jive Around, has hardly been read since first being published by the Paris- based…
The fifth volume of the bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevich's fictional auto-biographical writings based on his one-year stay in Istanbul in 1921.
The publication contains the three final chapters of PhiloSophia,…
Sweathearts, a drama in nine acts by Martin Groch, is a book of cartoons drawn between 2021 and 2023, chronicling the misadventures of the characters from Sweathearts (the typeface), published by Abyme in 2022.
A…
In this essay Paul Wilson views The Fall through a typographic lens and explores their visual identity as propelled and produced by Mark E. Smith.
“Mark E. Smith’s handwriting became part of The Fall’s visual identity:…
Subcontinental Synthesis explores the history of India’s first electronic music studio, founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad with the support of the composer David Tudor. The essays…
This volume surveys Simon Denny's Metaverse Landscapes, his recent painting series that depict land plots in digital worlds. They unpack historical resonances between territory, abstraction and financialization…
Landwalks: Across Palestine and South Africa explores embodied ways of knowing land and the reclamation of the collective landscape of Palestine and South Africa. The objective of this cross-cultural publication…
Une chronique des transformations récentes des écoles d'art, depuis le point de vue d'une enseignante et à l'intention de ses pair·es et des étudiant·es, à un moment où ces espaces sont à la fois menacés par des gestions…
Oh la la so nice a new printing of this most beautiful and insightful monography on the magical work of artist, stage and costume designer Léon Bakst, who worked on many seminal mises-en scène of the Ballets Russes in…
This book of thirty-six poetic bulletins by the humiliation-advice-giver Wayne Koestenbaum will teach you how to cruise, how to dream, how to decode a crowded consciousness, how to find nuggets of satisfaction in unaccustomed…
When James Baldwin died in 1987 at the age of sixty-three, he left behind an extraordinary body of work. Novels, poems, film scripts, and, perhaps most indelibly, essays constituted the great artist’s writing, which was…
In the boom years of the 1920s, Japanese designers developed a radical new vision for their profession. Engaging modernist and avant-garde trends from abroad, refashioning local graphic and calligraphic forms, and using…
First published by Hanuman Books in 1986, Bread and Water is the debut short story collection by the renowned poet Eileen Myles, assembling six stories with an autobiographical flavor, of being a queer, working-class…
Garden of Ashes, Cookie Mueller's second entry into the Hanuman Books canon (following 1988's Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls) brings together ten stories, autobiographical accounts of her ascent…
Quel héritage les Jeux olympiques et paralympiques de Paris 2024 vont-ils laisser ? Au-delà de la compétition sportive, un grand spectacle commercial s’organise. En Seine-Saint-Denis, où se concentre la construction d’infrastructures…
tout corps assigné prend feu,
un feu qui n’a rien de la tendresse
dans un pays qui n’a rien de
baisable, moi je veux brûle
d’un soleil intérieur, je veux me
Otti Berger!! She created fabrics that fundamentally changed the understanding of what textiles could be and do. A core member of the experimental approach to textiles at the Bauhaus, she was also a female entrepreneur…
The official history of 20th-century avant-garde electronic music has been predominantly narrated from the point of view of Anglo-American and Western European experiences and largely remained focused on its male protagonists.…
From ass to architecture to ass architecture, this full-frontal issue of BUTT has plenty of queer ringleaders, free speech and cock. Yes, please.
BUTT no. 34 is made with the work, ideas and support of:…
Le premier tome de Brigade Cynophile paraît en 2019, à l'époque je vis et travaille à Lyon, j'ai un pied dans la musique, un autre dans le graphisme, et je sors plus d'une affiche par semaine.
Aujourd'hui…
Already a member of The Feminist Writers’ Guild and one of the principle founders/proponents of the New Narrative movement, Dodie Bellamy published her first book with Hanuman Books in 1991. Feminine Hijinks brings…
Le caché, l'invisibilisé, de Sofía Quintero Hernández Sofía traduit est une prise de parole de Julieta Paredes à la VIlème rencontre féministe d'Amerique Latine et des Caraibes (Chili, 1996), elle nous parle de…
Ian Burn has been described as many things: an activist, a trade-unionist, a journalist, an art critic, a curator and an art historian—and, as he once described himself in a moment of self-deprecating alienation, ‘an exConceptual…
Tes collègues lèvent les yeux au ciel en réunion dès que tu dis "sexisme" ou "racisme" ? Les blagues offensantes ne te font pas rire ? On te dit que tu es injuste quand tu signales une injustice ? L'atmosphère se tend…
Journal municipal traverse les différents états émotionnels de M dans la ville de B, du périphérique jusqu'à l'A86.
Il décrit une succession de rituels quotidiens qui mêlent le charme et l'ennui, le désir…
Nouvelle édition augmentée • Expanded edition!
Ouvrage essentiel sur la compositrice Éliane Radigue, pionnière de la musique éléctroacoustique. Dans la longue interview qui forme le corps de cette publication,…
La philosophe Sara Ahmed se présente parfois comme « une rabat-joie féministe, une alienne affective, une femme queer racisée en colère ». Depuis plus de dix ans, elle tient un blog, feministkilljoys.com, où elle publie…
Works by Martine Syms explore how mass media shapes and frames identities and cultures. Drawing from early cinema, television, the internet, social media, and ambient footage produced by phones and surveillance, Syms addresses…
Recently dumped and stuck with the mortgage, artist Esther Ray wants to burn the world, but instead, she reluctantly accepts a scrapbooking job from the deliriously wealthy Naomi Duncan. The scrapbooks, a secret birthday…
A book about the working method of the artist and exhibition maker Marion von Osten (1963-2020). Through the genesis of one of her major exhibitions, In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After, and…
This series of 27 double-sided cards depicts the life of Dieter Roth, Dorothy Iannone’s beloved and muse, in the early period of their relationship. During 1968–69, Iannone worked on the cards while they were living in…
A celebration of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s 2022 exhibition Alienarium 5 at Serpentine South, this book – in the form of an album – proposes a journey through this multisensory environment, made up of visions,…
“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…
To endow an object with a voice is to bestow upon it subjectivity, whether that object is a stone, a forgotten fictional character, a group of children, or spirits. To vocalize something we witness is to recognize…
*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…
Issue 002 of The Whitney Review is about desperation, excess, romance, and grief. It collects literary interviews, essays, reviews, and poetry featuring the sharpest contemporary voices. With contributions from…
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…