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Life Extreme – An Illustrated Guide to New Life
At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have ap…
Fire & Water
In 2012, Christian Marclay was invited to create an artwork for 'Mixed Bathing World', a contemporary art festival held in the town of Beppu, Japan, famous for its onsen (hot springs). It has eight major geothermal hot spots, sometimes referred to as…
Water days
The book and audio CD documents an exchange of pictures, texts, sounds and voices between multimedia artist Leah Singer and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo. WATER DAYS began as two texts each inspired by the contrast between wanderlust and the desire for h…
Jerk // Through their tears
Jerk is a collaborative artist's book and audio recording by director Gisele Vienne, author Dennis Cooper, musician Peter Rehberg and performer Jonathan Capdevielle, which translates a previous collaborative theater work into a violent multimedia …
Dataphonics
A star of minimalist electronica and sound art, Ryoji Ikeda (born 1966) focuses on the building blocks of sound and aural minutiae, often deploying frequencies at the very edges of human hearing—sound that, as he puts it, “the listener becomes aware …
To Petrarca
To Petrarca is a book and CD set, consisting of a sound diary, an original sound piece culled from Jonas Mekas' personal archives, originally broadcast on radio France Culture on June 29th, 2003. It is expanded in the accompanying book by his persona…
Sound and the visual arts
English version. Size: 6,5x8,5 inch. Format: paperback. Musician and musicologist Jean-Yves Bosseur explores the growing
relationship between the plastic arts and music in the world of
contemporary art. This trend is shown in its aesthetic and hist…
Nothing In My Pockets: Secret Diary
Nothing In My Pockets was originally a sound diary, conceived for the Atelier de Création Radiophonique de France Culture, that was kept between July 4th and October 4th, 2003. In that new and innovative experimentation, Laurie Anderson unfolded her …