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“The lunatics are on the loose …” EUROPEAN FLUXUS FESTIVALS...

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:18:30 +1000

“The lunatics are on the loose …” EUROPEAN FLUXUS FESTIVALS 1962-1977

Author: -

Publisher: Down With Art

Language: English

Pages: 592

Weight: 1.4250 kg

Price: $60.00

Product Description

Publication in English on the occasion of the exhibition “The lunatics are on the loose …” EUROPEAN FLUXUS FESTIVALS 1962-1977

Extensive documentation of 32 selected European Fluxus events in Aachen, Aberystwyth, Amsterdam, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, London, Madrid, Nizza, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Poznan, Rotterdam, Scheveningen, Stockholm, Vilnius, Wiesbaden, Wuppertal

Contributions by Jennifer Burkard, Myriam Kroll, Peter van der Meijden, Susanne Rennert, Henar Rivière Ríos, Heike Roms, Vanja Sisek, Petra Stegmann, Caroline Ugelstad

Artistic contributions by Eric Andersen, Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, Jarosław Kozłowski, Larry Miller, Ann Noël, Ben Patterson, Tamas St.Turba

ABCDCAP Author: CAP (Crew Against People) Publisher: Bigg...

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:43:32 +1000

ABCDCAP

Author: CAP (Crew Against People)

Publisher: Bigg Boss

Pages: 290

Price: $45.00

Product Description

CAP (Crew Against People) is a Czech collective comprised of Graffiti artists Blez, Mosd, Masker, Dize, Key, and Crap. Since 2005, their tags have appeared on the walls of abandoned buildings and old factories throughout Eastern Europe, where they have established themselves as anti-graffiti graffiti artists, working in a raw, spontaneous style that relies on simplicity of form and ironic detachment. This book provides a survey of CAP’s work from 2005-2007, including over 200 color photographs with a separate index of dates and locations, an essay by Václav Magid printed in both Czech and English, and a dust jacket that folds out into a pink and black poster designed by CAP.

For Lal, or Henry Author: Sean Edwards Publisher: The...

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:34:18 +1000

For Lal, or Henry

Author: Sean Edwards

Publisher: The Block

Language: English

Price: $25.00

Product Description

Six booklets that fold out into posters.

Contents:

Cabinet Making and the Kit of Tools
On the Life of Forms - Anne McQuay
The Moments Before the Banal Became Something You Could No Longer Believe In
Context for Reading - Sara MacKillop
I Saw Something Else (CBS)
Maybe Something Like the Way It Should Have Been - Ryan Gander

Published in London 2012
Designed by Wolfram Wiedner studio

Dossier Fernand Baudin Author: Coline Sunier, Charles Mazé...

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:01:20 +1000

Dossier Fernand Baudin

Author: Coline Sunier, Charles Mazé (Ed.)

Publisher: Prix Fernand Baudin Prijs.

Language: French, English, Dutch

Price: $28.00

Product Description

Drawing from Fernand Baudin’s collection kept in the rare books and manuscripts section at the Université libre de Bruxelles, the DOSSIER FERNAND BAUDIN gathers texts written or translated by Baudin, previously unreleased or published in various journals, or read in conferences, covering a period going from 1958 to 1998. Presented in a chronological order, this selection of texts conveys a panorama of his various activities, the ideas he developed and advocated, and gives a glimpse on the network of friendly and professional relationships Baudin established during his entire career.

NOTES FROM A REVOLUTION: COM/CO, THE DIGGERS & THE...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:42:54 +1000

NOTES FROM A REVOLUTION: COM/CO, THE DIGGERS & THE HAIGHT

Author: David Hollander, Kristine McKenna (Eds.)

Publisher: Fulton Ryder & Foggy Notion

Language: English

Price: $60.00

Product Description

The social upheaval of the sixties gave rise to many fascinating coalitions and communes, but the Diggers, a little-known and short-lived group, stand apart from them all. Formed in Haight-Ashbury in 1966 by members of R. G. Davis’s subversive theater company, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Diggers took their name from the English Diggers, a seventeenth century agrarian collective devoted to creating a utopian society free of ownership and commerce.

The San Francisco Diggers – under the leadership of Peter Berg, Emmett Grogan, Peter Coyote, and Billy Murcott – were true anarchists, with roots in the Theater of the Absurd, Existentialism, and strategies of direct action. They coined slogans designed to prod people into participating and staged art happenings, public interventions, and street theater infused with wicked humor. The Diggers also provided free food, clothing, medical care and lodging to anyone in need as part of their effort to create a unified and mutually supportive community.

A critically important part of their methodology were the hundreds of broadsides that they regularly produced and distributed throughout the Haight, printed by the Communication Company, a maverick, short-lived publishing outfit founded by Chester Anderson and Claude Hayward. A selection of these graphically inventive, lacerating and sometimes funny broadsides are gathered together for the first time in Notes From a Revolution, which offers a fascinating and oddly moving record of the counterculture in its early bloom.

Le catalogue et ses hybrides / The Catalog’s...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:18:00 +1000

Le catalogue et ses hybrides / The Catalog’s Mongrels

Author: Charlotte Cheetham

Publisher: Charlotte Cheetham

Language: French / English

Price: $25.00

Product Description

Le catalogue et ses hybrides / The Catalog’s Mongrels is a proposal of one possible way to document/trace the same name exhibition.

The exhibitions The Catalog and its hybrids - curated by Charlotte Cheetham - introduced publishing projects reflecting the diversity of publications that are associated with the exhibition context… The catalog of the project, designed by officeabc, tries to embody its own statement…

These printed sites of encounter – a format of interaction between an art space (art center, gallery, museum…), a curator, an artist, a graphic designer, a theorist… – question, particularly, the potential of the book object to be an alternative to the exhibition space.

From a documental object – the catalogue – to a composite printed form – the artist book - some of these publications offer a more complex treatment of the documentation of artistic production and curatorial practices.

A source, trace or extension of the ephemeral, each of these printed experiences, which are reactivated at each new reading, constitute an alternative space of living memory, a new context for the existence of a work of art.

Content:
- Introduction & Promenade (Charlotte Cheetham)
- A kind of bibliography The Catalog and its hybrids
- An extract of the The Catalog and its hybrids collection
- Seth Siegelaub: to exhibit, to publish… (Jérôme Dupeyrat)
- A case of tic, tac, toe et Notes about a flyer (officeabc)

Extra
• a tumblr bookmark
• sticker Museum of Museum
• cards “teaser/clue to a catalogue”

Design: officeabc
Typography: Devanture par Sarah Kremer
Translation: Mafalda Dâmaso & officeabc
Print: Print it

A project supported by Toulous’up, label et bourse de la ville de Toulouse.

Glotzt Nicht so Romantisch! Author: Dubravka...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:28:39 +1100

Glotzt Nicht so Romantisch!

Author: Dubravka Sekulic

Publisher: Jan van Eyck Academie

Language: English

Binding: Softcover

Price: $20.00

Product Description

In the extra-territory of the Belgrade roof extensions, things are not quite what they appear to be at first glance. This book, which starts from the enigmatic extensions of the so-called Russian Pavilions, scrutinizes this extra-territory. Not only are the pavilions not Russian, but more importantly the act of extending them in the 2000s follows particular shady negotiations between inhabitants, developers and municipal authorities, which placed the extensions beyond simple (il)legality.
“Glotzt Nicht so Romantisch!” delves into the political and legal origins of this extra-territory, through which the housing policy of socialist Yugoslavia is traced, during the 1990s with property turning from “ours” into “mine”, and the 2000s when the attitude of transgressing urban regulations became the norm, which explains much of the vast extra-legal urban interventions that shape the city today.

Edited by Dubravka Sekulic, designed by Žiga Testen with photographs by Luka Knežević – Strika, Marko Marović and Andreja Mirić and illustrations by Walter Warton (Karl Nawrot).

EP Author: Lace Curtain Publisher: DFA...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:02:00 +1100

Author: Lace Curtain

Publisher: DFA Records

Design: Maximage

Price: $15.00

Product Description

Lace Curtain is James, David & Mikey from Total Control, Rat Columns, Rank/Xerox, Eddy Current Suppression Ring et al, exploring an electronic world of pleasure, frustration and sadness. Bedroom dancers, synthetic singers, basement kicks in a romantic void. Influenced by the Germans, the Italians, pale British button pushers, glamorous alien pop futurists, Mid-Western sweat, NYC disco dreamers, undercover kings and queens escaping a dull grey world with rhythm and noise, sound and vision. Courtesy of Motto’s own James Vinciguerra.

Billowing Author: Lisa...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:41:52 +1100

Billowing

Author: Lisa Oppenheim

Publisher: argobooks

Binding: Hardcover

Price: $20.00

Product Description

For their exhibition Everyones Camera in Kunstverein Göttingen Lisa Oppenheim explores the history of photography. The artist’s book shows Billowing smoke natural phenomena alongside developments in demonstrations and events of the war. Here, the images are created without a camera but, for example, created from negatives or Solarisiationen created. . Photograms of protests, among volcanic eruptions, silver gelatin prints by bombing in World War II alongside harmless cloud formations
means of artistic appropriation, visual reduction and serial arrangement, the artist tried subtly disputes that, until today, the photograph: the conflicts between the documentary and the symbolic , between representation and abstraction. (Laura Schleussner)

A Circular #2 Author: Pedro Cid Proenca (Ed.) Publisher: A...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:38:11 +1100

A Circular #2

Author: Pedro Cid Proenca (Ed.)

Publisher: A Circular

Language: English

Binding: Softcover

Price: $20.00

Product Description

Contents
Real Estate
by David Antin
Empty Words (Part III) (1.18–1.28)
by David Morris
Flags, Stars and Signs
by Richard Hollis
1972
by Pedro Neves Marques
Dieter Roth’s Trophies Rotated
by James Langdon
The poet is a fake fancying feigner who feign and conceal is a faker pretender a feigner a forger a forger pretender are liars inventor pretending a feigner pretend is a faker
by Patrick Coyle
Out in the Streets (0.00–0.10)
by David Morris
Extract from ‘Fugue’, a Biography
by Roger Laporte
Positioning the Residual
Wayne Daly in conversation with Sean Lynch
To Art (Reg. Intrans. V.)
by Adrian Piper
Middle of Nowhere
by Will Holder
Happily Ever After (2.06–2.16)
by David Morris

Sounds Like Silence. John Cage - 4’33” – Silence...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:05:06 +1100

Sounds Like Silence. John Cage - 4’33” – Silence Today

Author: Dieter Daniels / Inke Arns (ed.)

Publisher: Spector Books

Language: English

Binding: Softcover

Price: €28.00

Product Description

The title of this book and the exhibition it documents—Sounds Like Silence—is ambiguous. On the one hand, silence effectively “sounds”—or as Cage put it, “There is no such thing as silence.” On the other hand, sound needs silence in order to be heard. Even if complete silence does not exist, every sound implicitly conveys the notion of silence: there is no presence without absence. The double meaning of Sounds Like Silence therefore touches upon the central issues at stake in this project: what do we hear when there is nothing to hear; to what extent do we long for silence; and how much silence can we cope with—provided it even exists?

John Cage’s 4’33” (four minutes, thirty-three seconds) premiered on August 29, 1952. This book presents new theoretical writings and artistic works referring to this groundbreaking work, together with original scores and the composer’s own variations, derivatives, and sequels of the “silent piece” in the years from 1962 to 1992.

Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:14:00 +1100

Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard

Author: Nicola Simpson (Ed.)

Publisher: Occasional Papers

Language: English

Binding: Softcover

Price: $37.50

Product Description

This book is the first since the early 1970s devoted to the extraordinary British Benedictine monk, scholar, translator, concrete poet and artist Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924–92). Edited by Nicola Simpson, with new essays by Gustavo Grandal Montero, Rick Poynor, David Toop and Charles Verey, ‘Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter’ offers a broad and richly illustrated introduction to this major artistic and theological figure.

Triin Tamm: Bookcatalogtest Author: Triin Tamm Publisher: Rollo...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:02:31 +1100

Triin Tamm: Bookcatalogtest

Author: Triin Tamm

Publisher: Rollo Press

Language: English

Binding: Ringbound

Price: $35.00

Product Description

Based on Swiss psychiatrist Moritz Tramer’s “Bücherkatalogtest” from the 1950s, this personality test “tries to evoke different interests that lie buried deep down in each of us” using 432 book titles as a method of examination. An comprehensive user’s manual is included. — This book was published as an edition for the Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference during the New York Art Book Fair 2012, in order to help keep their two-day symposium free to the public.

Black Mirrors Author: Julien Langendorff Publisher: Shelter...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:33:35 +1100

Black Mirrors

Author: Julien Langendorff

Publisher: Shelter Press

Language: English/ French

Binding: Hardcover

Price: $35.00

Product Description

Black Mirrors is the first monography dedicated to Julien Langendorff’s works.
His work combines collage, pen and ink drawings and paper cut-outs of 1970’s erotic imagery and often conjures up dark, dream-like visions influenced by gothic and hippie cultures, Black Sabbath, spiritism and diary-art. Langendorff’s work is both minimal and psychedelic with a free, stream of conscious sensibility. Included in the show are three collaborative pieces with artist and band-mate, Jason Glasser. The title of the series ‘Goddess Fuzz Fantasy’ originated from a line of one of Langendorff’s poems.
Published in conjunction with his solo show at Agnès B New York, the book includes texts by Agnes B, Sinziana Ravini, Peter Sutherland.

Part one Author: Robin Waart Publisher: Robin...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:39:00 +1100

Part one

Author: Robin Waart

Publisher: Robin Waart

Binding: Softcover

Price: Please enquire

Product Description

The first in a series of works looking into what beginning (and ending) means – Part one is a collection of pages from English books and (mostly) novels, featuring only the words Part one/Part I/Part etc.

Technique/medium: Torn out book pages, dimensions variable (paper size between 10.3 x 16.5 and 13.9 x 21.5 cm).

A book publication bringing together 101 of these Part ones, printed in an edition 101 copies, each containing one original Part one was issued in July 2010 (book design by Jonas Wandeler).

Part one was awarded one of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books/Schönste Schweizer Bücher of 2010. A (second) “market” edition of the book, printed in 202 copies and 22 slipcased copies (containing an original Part one), was issued for sale from June 2011.

Baldessari sings LeWitt Author: Toom Tragel Publisher: Rollo...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:57:44 +1100

Baldessari sings LeWitt

Author: Toom Tragel

Publisher: Rollo Press

Binding: Softcover

Price: €16.00

Product Description

In 1972, John Baldessari made a film of himself singing some of Sol LeWitt’s more notable statements on the subject of conceptual art. With this slim volume, Estonian graphic designer Toom Tragel presents a complete transcription of Baldessari’s introduction as well as each of his musical scores with LeWitt’s words printed as lyrics underneath the notes.

Fourth Edition

Modes of Practice Author: Gregor Huber & Ivan...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:36:00 +1100

Modes of Practice

Author: Gregor Huber & Ivan Sterzinger

Publisher: Fabrikzeitung

Language: -

Binding: -

Price: $30.00

Product Description

A special series of the «Fabrikzeitung» magazine dedicated to modes of artistic practice; methods and strategies for creation, reflection and criticism in cultural production. The first edition of the series contains six issues with text, interviews and theoretical essays by more than 30 authors from literature, art, history, philosophy and media theory. Each issue analyses a specific artistic practice. From William S. Burroughs cut-up method, Jean-Luc Godards composition technique, David Lynchs use of the subconscious, Laura Alberts alter ego JT Le Roy, Gustav Metzgers autodestructive art to the end- less extensions of the void by John Carpenter.

Dawn Hills E.P (cassette) Author: Klaar Publisher: Russian...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:02:32 +1100

Dawn Hills E.P (cassette)

Author: Klaar

Publisher: Russian Leisure

Language: -

Binding: -

Price: $10.00

Product Description

Limited cassette edition of Klaar’s Dawn Hills E.P

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Author: Mary...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:56:25 +1100

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

Author: Mary Shelley

Publisher: Lubok

Language: German / English

Binding: Softcover

Price: $45.00

Product Description

“He would hope that, left to itself, the slight spark of life which he had communicated would fade; that this thing, which had received such imperfect animation, would subside into dead matter; and he might sleep in the belief that the silence of the grave would quench for ever the transient existence of the hideous corpse which he had looked upon as the cradle of life. He sleeps; but he is awakened; he opens his eyes; behold the horrid thing stands at his bedside, opening his curtains, and looking on him with yellow, watery, but speculative eyes.”

Designed by jungundwenig, Berlin

lubok solo 5 Author: Josh Smith Publisher: Lubok...

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:08:20 +1100

lubok solo 5

Author: Josh Smith

Publisher: Lubok Verlag

Language: -

Binding: Softcover

Price: $35.00

Product Description

20 original, black and white linocuts by Josh Smith
Josh Smith was born 1976 in Tennessee, and lives and works in New York