Product Description: Parachute was founded in 1975 by Chantal Pontbriand and France Morin. Following the previous three Parachute volumes, this last title of the Parachute anthology focuses on painting, sculpture, installation and architecture. These topics are approached from several perspectives: from new theories of aesthetic production, especially painting, to the expansion of the art world to other artistic territories during the 1980s and 1990s (Russia and South America, for instance), from the "lessons" of postmodernism to the proliferation of installation art...read more

Product Description: Following two precious volumes of writings from the 1970s–90s Canadian magazine Parachute― Museums, Art History, and Theory and Performance & Performativity―the essays collected in this third volume focus on photography, film, video and new media...read more

Product Description: Brazilian artist Mauricio Dias (born 1964) and Swiss artist Walter Riedweg (born 1955) have worked in collaboration since 1993, exploring issues such as human subjectivity and otherness through video, performance and installation...read more

Product Description: In 1975, a small group of enterprising, discontented members of the international art community in Quebec posed the question: “What do we know of contemporary art outside of Quebec, in Canada or abroad? Do we even know what contemporary art exists in Montreal? How does information about art circulate?” By way of an answer, the artistically unconventional and theoretically cutting-edge magazine Parachute was launched, founded by Chantal Pontbriand and France Morin...read more

Product Description: In 1975, a small group of enterprising, discontented members of Quebec’s art community posed the question: “What do we know about contemporary art outside of Quebec, in Canada or abroad? Do we know what contemporary art exists in Montreal? How does information about art circulate?” By way of an answer, the artistically unconventional and theoretically cutting-edge magazine Parachute was launched, founded by Chantal Pontbriand and France Morin...read more

Product Description: MUTATIONS is the first in a series of books published annually on the occasion of Paris Photo, the world's leading photography fair. The book is designed to echo the events of the fair including public dialogues, round-table discussions and performances...read more