1998
My History (The Intractable), an essay on photography illustrated with photographs by Babette Mangolte, October # 86 Fall 1998 published by MIT Press
Breaking Silence (Forty Years Later), synopsis of a film treatment about Robert Bresson’s film Pickpocket, published in an anthology on Robert Bresson edited by James Quandt, published by the Toronto International Festival Group, Toronto, Canada
1999
Breaking Silence (Forty Years Later), republished synopsis of a film treatment about Robert Bresson’s film Pickpocket, published in Brick, a Literary Journal # 61, Toronto, Canada
2002
A Matter of Time: Analog versus Digital, the perennial question of shifting technology and its implications for an experimental filmmaker’s odyssey Publishedin Camera Lucida, Camera Obscura, Essays for Annette Michelson, Amsterdam University Press 2003, translated in French in Traffic # 50 Spring 2004 (Paris, France) and in German in Frauen and Films Fall 2004 (Germany)
2003
On The Making of Water Motor, a Dance by Trisha Brown filmed by Babette Mangolte, website for Body on Screen Body of Work International, Art Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2004
A propos de La Chambre, Hangin’ Out Yonkers, Hotel Monterey et Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, films by Chantal Akerman In Chantal Akerman, Auto Portrait en Cineaste, published by Cahiers du Cinema & Centre George Pompidou, 2004 France
Living somewhere and how I made two of my films, Program Notes for a show at Ciné Lumière in London June 2004
Program Notes for the Retrospective at Anthology Films Archives
2007
Balancing act between instinct and reason or how to organize volumes on a flat surface in shooting photographs, films and videos of performance
Published in English:
After the Act: The (Re)Presentation of Performance Art
Edited by Barbara Clausen
Theorie Series Volume 03 MUMOK Vienna
Published by Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vieanna and
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2006
ISBN: 978-3-902490-28-5
Published in German:
After the Act: Die (Re)Präsentation der Performancekunst
(Hg.) Barbara Clausen
Reihe Theorie Band 03 MUMOK Wien
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien und
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2006
ISBN: 978-3-9338821-77-0
Reprinting of My History (The Intractable)
originally published in October magazine Fall 1998
After Words to My History (The Intractable) written in 2007 Handmade, a conversation between Alice Maude Roxby and Babette Mangolte (March 26, 2006) Text reworked in 2007
Published in:
Live Art On Camera, Performance and Photography edited by Alice Maude-Roxby
Catalog for show at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
2008
Life in Film: Babette Mangolte, Frieze, September 2008, London
2009
Stuart Sherman, Performer and Performance Artist, published in the catalog edited by John Hagen, John Matturi and Yolanda Hawkins for New York show on Stuart Sherman in fall 2009
2010
Movement, Motion, Velocity and Stillness in Filming Dance, Publication in German & English by Migros Museum (book out Basel Art Fair June 2010) page 327-335 in Between Zones On the Representation of the Performative and the Notation of Movement edited by Raphael Gygax and Heike Munder ISBN 978-3-03764-125-5
2011
THE LOUDNESS OF THE WORLD: Listening to What is Out There: Sound Strategies in Chantal Akerman’s Fiction and Documentary Films Published in German in Viennale catalog for the Chantal Akerman’s retrospective in October 2011
“Ode to the film Emulsion and the Cinematograph” in Tacita Dean Film Tate Publishing 2011
What does it mean to be contemporary?
Published in Performance Art Journal # 100 January 2012
Published by PAJ and MIT Press Journals – edited by Bonnie Marranca
2012
Trisha Brown: Portfolio short text introducing a portfolio of 16 images taken in the 1970s of Brown’s choreography October 140 Spring 2012
2013
“Black Box, White Cube, Installations and the film Experience”
Published in “Truth, Dare or Promise; Art and Documentary Revisited”
Edited by Gail Pearce, Jill Daniels, Cahal McLaughlin
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, UK, September 2013
2014
“Conceptualizing Time in Performance Art: A Filmmaker’s Perspective”
Published in “Recréer/Scripter” Mémoires et Transmissions des oeuvres performatives et chorégraphiques contemporaines” Editor Anne Benichou
Published by Les Presses du Réel, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Page 167-184
Text written in English and translated in French
“Installation and Spectator ‘s Interactivity“
Published in in brochure A Point in the Making written and edited by Fleur Van Muiswinkel that also includes an important interview with BM published in Amsterdam
“The Making of The Camera: Je, La Camera: I”
Published in “I see/La Camera:I” by Jacob Korczynski, page 5 –page 21
Publisher: If I Can’t Dance… in Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015
“Voir Autrement” (To Look Differently) text written in French only for La Revue documentaire edited by Thierry NOUEL and published in May 2016.
“Chantal Akerman, My Friend,” text written in 2015 and published in Artforum January 2016
2016
“Chantal Akerman and Music” excerpt published in Movement Research’s Performance Journal #48
2017
“Babette Mangolte: Selected Writings 1998-2015” edited by Luca Lo Pinto, published by Sternberg Press in 2017
2021
“Chantal Akerman and Music” Article revised and published in Decadrages Number 46-47, Lausanne in French translation by Serguei Margel & Eva Yanpolsky 2021-2022, page 191-205
“Chantal Akerman, Cinéaste du Présent” translated by Serge Margel & Eva Yampolsky for Décadrages no. 46-47 and published in 2021-2022, page 191-205.
2022
“The Daily Mirror 1976/2022” Published by Head Hi in 2022