Angelica Mesiti has been developing research into methods of communication, beyond speech or writing, to create new languages based on existing systems. In her video installations, she is interested in questions of translation of various cultural phenomena, through sound, music, or the body, spontaneous or choreographed gestures. The artist highlights, with sensitivity and delicacy, the grace and inventiveness of everyday life, while underlining the social and political outreach of music and performance. Book contents: - "Perhaps There Are More Things That Unite Us Than Separate Us," interview between Angelica Mesiti and Daria de Beauvais. - "What Bodies Say," by Mathilde Roman. About the authors: - Daria de Beauvais is Senior Curator at the Palais de Tokyo. She curated Angelica Mesiti's solo show. - Mathilde Roman is an art critic, curator and teacher. Book published on the occasion of Angelica Mesiti's solo show at the Palais de Tokyo, 20.02 - 12.05.2019

Comment la musique, le geste et le corps deviennent-ils des langages universels ? Angelica Mesiti explore, à travers des installations vidéo et des performances, la richesse des communications non verbales.

En 2015, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot transformait le Palais de Tokyo en un paysage lacustre immersif, mêlant art visuel, son et expérience sensorielle.

Entre art contemporain et escapade poétique, ce livre-monographie révèle l’univers décalé de Laure Prouvost, où installations immersives et récits visuels bousculent nos perceptions.

L’univers décalé et immersif de Mika Rottenberg se dévoile dans ce livre monographique, où installations, vidéos et sculptures interrogent notre rapport au travail, au corps et à la fiction.

Generous and full of humour, the work of Laure Prouvost examines the relationships between language, image and perception, placing the visitors in situations of doubt and incomprehension, but also a wonder which is both intellectual and sensorial. These situations become immersive installations, inviting escapism, in a dialogue between films, sculptures, paintings, tapestries, performances. Her exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, "Ring, Sing and Drink for Trespassing", operates as an ode to diagonal lines, the transcending of limits and the joy of slipping over a fence to discover a wasteland or, a now-abandoned garden. Book Contents - "Little Bees Behind": interview between Laure Prouvost and Daria de Beauvais. - "Laure Prouvost: Leaking Language", by Karen Archey. - "Organs Without a Body", by Emanuele Coccia. About the authors - Daria de Beauvais is a curator at the Palais de Tokyo. She curated Laure Prouvost's solo show. - Karen Archey is Curator of Contemporary Art, Time-based Media at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. - Emanuele Coccia is a lecturer at EHESS (Paris). He is the author of Sensible Life (2016), and Goods: Advertising, Urban Space and the Moral Law of the Image (2018). Forthcoming in English: The Life of Plants. A Metaphysics of Mixture. With Giorgio Agamben, he has edited an extensive anthology covering angels in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Angeli. Giudaismo, Cristianesimo, Islam (2009). A book published on the occasion of Laure Prouvost's solo show at the Palais de Tokyo, 22.06 - 09.09.2018

Mika Rottenberg's practice combines video, installations, drawings and sculptures. Many of her works portray absurd assembly-line situations in which work is often being carried out by women whose outsized, far from conventionally beautiful bodies are called into play both as tools and raw materials. Offering captivating narratives in which whimsicality and wit merge with weirdness, and reality morphs into fiction, Rottenberg's films are presented in the context of immersive installations that plunge the viewer into their world-a world beyond the screen-in a blurring of the borders between the imagined and the real. Book Contents - "Down the Rabbit Hole or Through the Looking Glass?": interview between Mika Rottenberg and Daria de Beauvais. - "Breaking the Bubble: Mika Rottenberg's Industrial Attractions": an essay by Amy Herzog. About the authors - Daria de Beauvais is a curator at the Palais de Tokyo. She curated Mika Rottenberg's solo show. - Amy Herzog is a media historian. She is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College and Coordinator of the Film Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film (2010) and co-editor, with Carol Vernallis and John Richardson, of The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (2013). A book published on the occasion of Mika Rottenberg's solo show at the Palais de Tokyo, 23.06 - 11.09 2016

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot produces systems from everyday situations and objects, as well as devices, of which he then extracts their musical and sound potential. In this way, the artist recon­figures both the rhythmic and melodic possibilities of his mate­rials, which he uses to generate sonic forms that he describes as being "living." Based on a close relationship with the architectural and spatial nature of the exhibition space, each system creates a framework favoring a multi-sensorial experience for the visitor. In 2015, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is representing France at the 56th Contemporary Art Biennial in Venice. For the Palais de Tokyo, he has conceived a lakeside landscape, leading visitors into a tactile, visual and sonic experience, thus changing their perception of the space. Visitors are drawn into a flow of images, creating doors leading into a hallucinatory journey. Book contents - "Zombie Choreography": Céleste Boursier-Mougenot in conversation with Daria de Beauvais, curator of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo - "Prepared universe": an essay by Frédérique Aït-Touati - Notes on a selection of the artist's works About the authors - Frédérique Aït-Touati is a stage director and researcher. She stages performances and plays that combine sciences, arts, and politics. She has published several studies on the relations between the arts and the sciences. - Daria de Beauvais is a curator at the Palais de Tokyo. Published on the occasion of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, "acquaalta," 24.06 2015 - 13.09 2015