*pre-order* Old Ice and Us

Author: Judith Neunhäuserer
Publisher: Ness Books
Language: Germand and English
Size: 13 x 19 cm, 544 pages
Printing: Offset
Cover: Soft cover with flaps + 2 postcards
Binding: Sewn
Edition: 400
Year: 2024
Price: 28€ (awr)

In April 2022, artist Judith Neunhäuserer sailed along Svalbard with The Arctic Circle  –  Artist & Scientist Residency Program. Two months before the trip, she started keeping a diary. There were twenty-five other artists on board the ship as well as eleven crew members. She interviewed one of them each day, following a fixed catalogue of questions. Old Ice and Us melts together weather situations, body sensations and primary emotions, gallery and archive visits, IPCC reports and therapy sessions.

The Consequences

Author: Max Brett
Publisher: Ness Books
Language: English
Size: 12 x 17 cm, 80 pages
Printing: Offset
Cover: Hard cover and hot foil
Binding: Sewn
Edition: 500
Year: 2024
Price: 13€ (awr)

The Consequences is a hybrid collection of prose and poetry; an autofictional examination of the pain of a transatlantic relocation from New York to the blanketing beige of Paris to rejoin a totemic muse. It also focuses on corgi attacks, Maryland, painful anxiety, the struggle to accept the things one cannot change, the third party and the past as adamantine shackles. The "towering sexual iconography of Mike Immerman" looms over the disorientation of a reluctant resident in “the City of Light.”

Gharīb Pocketbook

Editors: Andrius Arutiunian, Anne Davidian
Publisher: Ness Books
Language: English and Armenian
Size: 10 x 13.8 cm, 256 pages
Printing: Offset
Cover: No cover
Binding: Sewn glue bound
Edition: 1000
Year: 2022
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The Gharīb Pocketbook ֊ a portable companion to the Pavilion of Armenia at the 59th Venice Biennale ֊ gathers various sources that were important for Arutiunian’s research into sonic dissent, vernacular knowledges, and forms of peripheral thinking. Disparate excerpts of stories, essays, recipes, spells in multiple languages, tones and voices all went into this book, which acts as an alternate catalogue of the Pavilion.

The Book of Gharīb

Texts: Andrius Arutiunian, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Anna Della Subin
Publisher: Ness Books
Language: English and Armenian
Size: 13 x 18 cm, 104 pages
Printing: Offset
Cover: Silver foil on fabric
Binding: Hard cover, Perfect bound
Edition: 300
Year: 2022
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The Book of Gharīb is a limited-edition artist book published in collaboration with the Lucerne-based Hallow Ground label. The hardcover book contains essays by Andrius Arutiunian, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh and Anna Della Subin, together with monochrome photos connected to the notion of Gharīb.

U, kill’d me First (Melody)

Author: David Douard
Artworks: David Douard
Texts: Devrim Bayar and David Douard (in collaboration with Justine Dorion)
Publisher: Ness Books
Language: English
Size: 21 x 29,7 cm, 52 pages
Printing: Offset
Cover: Glossy softcover
Binding: Glue bound
Edition: 500
Year: 2022
Price: 10€ (awr)

This publication constitutes a continuation of “Melody”, the installation created by David Douard for the 2022 edition of Sculpture Garden (Geneva), which was subsequently vandalized. This last point is at the heart of the book, which presents a graphic section bringing together reproductions of preparatory works for the piece, plates of images of the work in situ, and a discussion between the artist and the curator Devrim Bayar dealing with the status of this work during and after degradation.

Veganarchist pamphlets

Authors: Élisée Reclus, Brian A. Dominick
Publisher: TheAnarchistLibrary.org
Languages: French and English
Size: 21 x 29.7 cm, 4 to 16 pages
Printing: Office laser
Binding: Folded A3
Edition: Print on demand
Note: This pamphlet is @nti-copyright.
Year: 2023
Price: Donation to don/L214.com or TheAnarchistLibrary.org

Anarchist pamphlets emphasizing the interdependence of anti-specism ideas / veganism within the context of liberation struggles.

The Convent of Pleasure

Author: Margaret Cavendish
Publisher: Ness Books
Language: English
Size: 10 x 15 cm, 76 pages
Printing: Offset
Binding: Perfect bound
Edition: 200
Year: 2020
Price: 9€

The Convent of Pleasure is a play written by Margaret Cavendish in 1668. The play is a comedy about noblewomen who choose to retreat to a convent to create their own community in order to avoid the constraints and pains of marriage and men. Lady Happy, the main protagonist, ponders the question of a radical alternative to marriage: “But why may not I love a woman with the same affection I could a man?” This book is a close reproduction of the first printed edition of the play, which was supervised and edited by hand by Cavendish.

La Paresse

Texts and artworks: Salomé Burstein, Margot Delalande, Charles Dubois, Julie Héneault, Paul Heintz, Claire Peressotti, Nolwenn Salaün, Benoît Vidal
Publisher: Résidence la Verrerie
Language: French
Size: 18.5 x 26 cm, 128 pages
Printing: Offset
Cover: Pantone Black 3U
Binding: Soft cover, Perfect bound
Edition: 150
Year: 2020
Price: 15€ (awr)

La Paresse gathers the researches and creations of the artists in residency during the third edition of La Verrerie. The body of the book is constituted by texts gathered and written by the artists, and the back part by images documenting the works and activities during this month of group research around the notions of boredom, resistance, revolution and laziness as a form of activism.

La Magie

Texts and artworks: Margot Delalande, Kazuki Fujita, Maud Gourdon, Camille Lamy, Jean Lesca, Marion Molle, Aurélien Potier
Publisher: Résidence la Verrerie
Language: French
Size: 18.5 x 26 cm, 68 pages
Printing: Offset
Cover: Pantone and lamination
Binding: Perfect bound
Edition: 150
Year: 2020
Price: 12€ (awr)

La Magie gathers the researches and creations of the artists in residency during the second edition of La Verrerie. The body of the book is constituted by texts written by the artists and the back part by images documenting the works and activities during this month of group research around the fields of believes, language, translation, transformation and magic.

L’Amour

Texts and artworks: Adel Cersaque, Constance Sorel, Kevin Desbouis, Laurent Isnard, Margot Delalande, The Fine Art Collection
Publisher: Résidence la Verrerie
Language: French
Size: 18.5 x 26 cm, 86 pages
Printing: Risography
Cover: Laser printing
Binding: Perfect bound
Edition: 100
Year: 2019
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L'Amour gathers the researches and creations of the artists in residency during the first edition of La Verrerie. The body of the book is constituted by texts written by the artists and the back part by images documenting the works and activities during this month of group research around the fields of care, romanticism, transmission, sexuality and love.

Computers at Work

Author: Sophie Rentien Lando
Publisher: Ness Books
Language: English
Size: 8 x 12 cm, 140 pages
Printing: Black laser
Cover: Black laser
Binding: Perfect bound
Edition: 260
Year: 2019
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Computers at Work presents an overview of the role women played in the building and shaping of the computing field from the 18th century to the present day. It aims to articulate in what way women’s systematic erasure from history has transformed computing from being perceived as “women’s work” to an industry that is largely hostile to them.

Le Pâtissier Pittoresque

Author: Antonin Carême, colourised by Robin Bantigny and Jérémie Rentien Lando
Publisher: Jan Van Eyck Academie and Ness Books
Language: French and English
Size: 26,5 x 35 cm, 136 pages
Printing: Risograph printing
Cover: Black and green silkscreen soft-cover
Binding: Hand glue bound
Edition: 150
Year: 2022
Price: 50€

This book is a colourised version of the 1828 “Pâtissier Pittoresque”. First published by french pastry chef Antonin Carême, it gathers more than a hundred sugar sculptures, all served on the buffet table of Emperor Napoleon I and king Louis XVIII.  Known in the cooking world for their elegant sobriety, the blueprints of these sculptures were, as of today, always published in black and white. Yet, the author refers to more than thirty of them in his introduction, instructing how the sugar paste and biscuit should be coloured to create the desired effect. Thinking himself more as an artist than as an artisan, this new colourised version is a testament to Carême’s effervescent creativity.

Song of Songs

Texts and artworks: Kevin Desbouis
Publisher: Palais de Tokyo, Ness Books
Language: English / French
Size: 10 pages + additional random content
Printing: Riso, Laser, Offset
Binding: Eyelets, Wax seal
Edition: 100 (Silver Edition) / 10 (Mizutamashi Edition)
Year: 2020
Price: 15€ (Silver Edition) Order here
Price: 70€ (Mizutamashi Edition) Order here

An artist edition conceived as an ensemble of sculptures. Edited in 182 + 8 copies divided in 6 different collections (Silver, Public, Devotion, Scarecrow, Mizutamashi, Boys), Song of Songs is a work that started at the occasion of the exhibition Anticorps at the Palais de Tokyo in fall 2020. Since this period, the work is sold and dealt in various fashion by 6 different persons. Espace Ness is selling the Silver edition (100 copies) and few copies from the Mizutamashi series. Each copy contains a 10 pages elegy, as some additional random elements inserted by the artist. Each copy is unique, hand-crafted, punched, wax sealed

Vice Versa

Author: Lisa Ben
Publisher: Ness Books
Language: English
Size: 20x25.8 cm, 140 pages
Printing: Laser
Binding: Hand glue bound
First re-edition: 20
Second edition: 20
Original year: 1945
Republishing year: 2017
Price: 20€

Vice Versa is the first known lesbian magazine in the world. Lisa Ben wrote, edited, printed and distributed the magazine for nine months in Los Angeles in the late 1940s. This publication gathers the nine issues she has published.

Enlevés à Bougie

Publisher: Ness Books
Language: French
Size: 15.2 x 22.9 cm, 170 pages
Printing: Digital
Cover: Silver silkscreen jacket on black laminated cover
Binding: Perfect bound
Edition: 40
Year: 2020
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Enlevés à Bougie is a visual archive compiling documents from the kidnapping of a French state employee during the War of Independence, in 1960, Bougie, Algeria.

The Great Blueness

Author: Arnold Lobel
Artworks: Louise Moins
Publisher: Ness Books
Language: French and English
Size: 35.5 x 50 cm, 8 pages
Printing: Digital print
Binding: Loose
Edition: 50
Reprint: 50
Year: 2018
Price: 6€

Newspaper produced on the occasion of the exhibition "The Great Blueness" by artist and ceramist Louise Moins at l'espace Ness (December 2018). The title of the show was borrowed from the eponymous tale written in 1968 by American author Arnold Lobel which the artist used as a starting point for the creation of her works and republished in the form of a bilingual newspaper. The edition displays work in progress compositions made by the artist as part of her process for making the mural installations.

RUSTIQUE

Author: Nicola Godman
Publisher: Ness Books
Language: English
Size: 17,5 x 24 cm, 64 pages
Printing: Offset
Cover: Hard-cover
Binding: Sewn glue bound
Edition: 250
Year: 2022
Price: 20€ (awr)

“RUSTIQUE” is an artist book created by Nicola Godman. This book is sprung out of a residency in September 2021 at Hôtel Chevillon, a former Scandinavian artist colony in Grez-sur-Loing, France. Barbizon, the village where the painter Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) lived and died, is located 20 km away from there. The book interweaves the life and work of Millet with Godman’s photographs, drawings and personal anecdotes. “RUSTIQUE” wishes to put forward the artistic gaze towards rural life by artists who themselves are born peasants. Nicola Godman (b. 1989, Rute) is an artist working with photography, video, books and stories, currently based in Stockholm, Sweden. Having grown up on an organic dairy farm, she is researching depictions of rural life in art history and contemporary culture.

AP0KRYFERNA — NATTB0K

Author: Alexander Sand
Publisher: Ness Books
Language: Swedish
Size: 18 x 11 cm, 170 pages
Printing: Risography
Cover: Illustrations by Paul Bernhard
Binding: Perfect bound
Edition: 70
Year: 2018
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AP0KRYFERNA – NATTB0K is a collection of poems written between 2014 and 2018 by artist Alexander Sand. The book consists of two parts AP0KRYFERNA and NATTB0K, put together as one publication. The book is accompanied by a bookmark with the url for its translation.

The Paint by Number Museum

Authors: Stephen Knott and Michel de Certeau
Language: English
Size: 21 x 29.7 cm, 12 pages
Printing: Risography
Binding: Loose bound
Edition: 200
Year: 2016
Price: Sold out

This reader was published at the occasion of The Paint by Number Museum, a project conceived in collaboration with Francois Girard-Meunier in the context of the 27th edition of the Brno Biennial’s OFF Program. The Paint by Number Museum was an installation which is the result of an investigation and speculations within this field. Its intention is also to stress the possibility of subversive painting by numbers practices. It is a negotiation between “authentic” objects of documentation and fictional artifacts.

A Long List Of Safe Words (A.L.L.O.S.W)

Author: Kevin Desbouis
Publisher: Tombolo Presses
Language: French
Size: 13 x 18 cm, 120 pages
Printing: Offset
Cover: HUV print
Binding: Inverted Swiss binding
Edition: 350
Year: 2019
Price: 12€ (awr)
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A Long List Of Safe Words is the first book by artist and author Kevin Desbouis. It is a compilation of texts, poems and stories, some of which have appeared in various exhibitions, as well as in a more personal fashion during the past few years. Its title is borrowed from an internet page dedicated to BDSM practices. These practices often feature a safe word, meant to be used by one of the participants to call action to an end, or to modify the act, allowing them to withdraw from the submissive situation they find themselves in.

For An Investigation of Fictional Futurities

Author: Nelson Beer
Publisher: Ness Books
Language: English
Size: 21 x 29.7 cm, 200 pages
Printing: Risography
Cover: Sticker on coated board
Binding: Spiral bound, loose ticket insert
Edition: 60
Year: 2018
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This publication is the result of a one-year research project focusing on the structures and speculative narratives that emerged from the Jungle camp in Calais, developed by researcher and artist Nelson Beer at the Center for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London.

The Artificial Kid

Participants: Olivier Aïm, Ethan Assouline, Thalie Barnier, Nelson Beer, Mia Brion, Eve Gabriel Chabanon, Anaïs-Tohé Commaret, Teddy Coste, Chloé Delarue, Chloé Delchini, Guillaume Dénervaud, Natacha Donzé, Lazza Gio, Béatrice Guillier, Tarek Lakhrissi, Colin Larsonneur, Elise Legal, Melody Lu, Tommy Moisi, Léna Monnier, Rafael Moreno, Lamya Moussa, Elsa Prudent, Rosanna Puyol, Harilay Rabenjamina, Rubie, Julie Sas, Julia Scher, Maxime Selin, Thelia, Sandar Tun Tun, Elsa Vettier, Mawena Yehouessi, Rehana Zaman & Liverpool Black Women Filmmakers, 93s0n
Publisher: Maison populaire and Tombolo Presses
Language: French
Size: 15 x 21 cm, 192 pages
Printing: Offset
Binding: Glue bound
Edition: 400
Year: 2022
Price: 12€
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Publication based on a series of exhibitions and events conceived by curator Elsa Vettier at the Maison Populaire de Montreuil, inspired by the story arc of Bruce Sterling's eponymous science fiction novel, questioning visibility, artificiality, control, surveillance, seduction and disappearance.

Issy Wood, Study for No

Authors: Barry Schwabsky, Kaitlin Phillips, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel and Issy Wood
Forwords: Guillaume Houzé and Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel
Publisher: Lafayette Anticipations
Languages: French and English
Size: 21 x 25,5 cm, 190 pages
Printing: Offset
Cover: Red hot foil on latex and recycled plastic
Binding: Otabind
Edition: 900
Year: 2023
Price: 35€
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The body of work presented in the catalogue speaks of a refusal to accept a certain order, and expresses unease at the systems of oppression, both conscious and unconscious, that govern human beings, especially the most vulnerable. The exhibition catalogue includes an essay by art critic Barry Schwabsky, a portrait of the artist by Kaitlin Phillips, and an interview between Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel and Issy Wood.

Tekeli-li

Texts and artworks: Judith Neunhäuserer, with many contributions by various authors and artists
Publisher: Textem Verlag, Hamburg
Language: English and German
Size: 30.5 x 23 cm, 192 pages
Printing: Offset (colour & bw)
Cover: Black foil on textured paper
Binding: Soft cover with flap, Sewn bound
Edition: 300
Year: 2021
Price: 28€ (awr)

TEKELI-LI in "Mountains of Madness" (1936) by H. P. Lovecraft is a scream that frightens polar explorers upon their arrival in a hidden city at the South Pole. An online bibliography listing Antarctic fictions is called the same. Taking the shape of an encyclopedia and an adventure book, "Tekeli-li" is the first catalogue of artist Judith Neunhäuserer, mapping the various elements constituting her œuvre and research. This book includes a special ephemera: a handmade recycled A4 made from the publications used during her research. 

Piero Heliczer: Poems & Documents

Poems: Piero Heliczer
Editors: Benjamin Thorel, Sophie Vinet
Translation: Rachel Valinsky
Publisher: After 8 Books
Language: English / French
Size: 21.6 x 29.9 cm, 256 pages
Printing: Offset
Cover: White silkscreen, pink foil on textured paper
Binding: Perfect bound
Edition: 1000
Year: 2021
Price: 24€ (awr)
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Poet, editor, filmmaker, actor, child star in Mussolini’s Italy, founder of The Dead Language Press and of the Paris Filmmakers Cooperative, Piero Heliczer (1937–1993) was an essential yet secret agent of the 1960s and ’70s counterculture. The present volume gathers a significant number of Heliczer’s poetic works through facsimile reproduction of his contributions to more than thirty periodicals—mostly stemming from poets’ presses or universities—published between 1958 and 1979. This collection isn’t “complete”—but it makes available again poems that, in some cases, never circulated after their initial publication.

Vagabondi Efficaci

Author: Costanza Candeloro
Publisher: Prospect Miranda
Language: English
Size: 12.5 x 18 cm, 180 pages
Printing: Black offset
Cover: Plastic cover, silkscreen
Binding: Sewn bound
Edition: 250
Year: 2019
Price: Out of stock

The words collected in the book form a constellation of texts in which the theme of walking becomes a mode of being, a poetic disposition, to redefine one’s relationship with space-time. With words by Kathy E. Ferguson, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Carlo Ginzburg, Fernand Deligny, John Ruskin, Susan Leigh Star & Geoffrey C. Bowke, Usrula K. Le Guin, Arthur Rimbaud, Jack Eliott Cardno, Costanza Candeloro, Axelle Stiefel, Giulia Essyad, Gianmaria Andreetta, Arnaud Wohlhauser.

Modigliani, deux pierres retrouvées

Author: Christophe Lemaitre
Publisher: Tombolo Presses
Language: French
Size: 13.6 x 18 cm, 96 pages
Printing: Black offset, 1 PMS
Cover: Flaps, rich black offset, lamination
Binding: Sewn bound
Edition: 350
Year: 2019
Price: 19€ (awr)

Local legend has it that in 1909, painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani threw several sculptures into the canal of his hometown in Livorno, Italy. In 1984, on what would have been the artist’s 100th birthday, an underwater search was organized and proved to be successful. Deux pierres retrouvées d’Amedeo Modigliani is a reading and reinterpretation of Due pietre ritrovate di Amedeo Modigliani, a catalog published in 1984. The story reveals how the elegant Italian publication, quickly banned for sale, became the uchronia of an event that never actually took place.

De l’Ennui au Spectacle

Author: Salomé Burstein
Publisher: Ness Books
Language: French
Size: 10.5 x 14.85 cm, 144 pages
Printing: Laser
Cover: Black laser
Binding: Wire-O
Edition: 20
Year: 2019
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De l’Ennui au Spectacle is the result of a three-year research conducted by Salomé Burstein in the context of her Master’s thesis at EHESS (École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris. At the crossroads of philosophy, social sciences and visual studies, it addresses the subject of boredom in regard to capitalism and entertainment culture and within an analysis of attention and spectatorship.

Deborah Bowmann catalogue

Language: English
Size: 21 x 28,5 cm, 104 pages
Printing: Riso bichromie
Cover: Silkscreen on linoleum
Binding: Spiral bound
Edition: 40, reprint of 30
Year: 2015, reprint 2019
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Catalogue retracing the artists' run space, launched at the occasion of the Sandberg Instittut Graduation Show.

Collection Hoorn

Author: Mahony
Texts: Irene de Craen
Language: English
Size: 12 x 16.5 cm, 128 pages
Printing: Offset color print
Cover: Pantone and lamination
Binding: Sewn bound
Edition: 250
Year: 2016
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In the summer of 2015 artist collective Mahony resided at Hotel Maria Kapel (HMK) in Hoorn, the Netherlands in order to research the town’s celebrations of ‘400 years Cape Horn’. The research focused on the creation of identity in relation to history and its representation, and how these are reflected in current discussions in the Netherlands, especially concerning Dutch colonial history. Collection Hoorn is an account of that research in the form of a list of objects found on the shores of Hoorn.

Finissage

Author: Physical Culture
Text contributions: Paul Bernhard, Raoul Audouin, Jérémie Rentien Lando and Robin Bantigny
Language: English
Size: 13.5 x 20.5 cm, 128 pages
Printing: Offset print
Cover: Silkscreen
Binding: Sewn bound
Edition: 250
Year: 2016
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Finissage was edited from and after a residency of the collective Physical Culture at De Tetterode, Amsterdam and functions as the third and last event. Its first part compiles excerpts of found and written texts. The image part documents the wall-to-wall carpet presented during the first event (1. The opening, 17th Dec 2015) and a re-enactment of the series of exercises performed during the second event (2. The reception, 31st Dec 2015).

Naïve Gossip Theory

Author: Gianmaria Andreetta
Language: English
Size: 13 x 18 cm, 80 pages
Printing: Riso and offset, with laser inserts
Cover: Silkscreen
Binding: Perfect bound
Edition: 80
Year: 2016
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Naïve Gossip Theory is an essay by Gianmaria Andreetta as part of the Critical Studies program, Sandberg Instituut.