World Food Books

Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle
Edited by Simon Ford

1999, English
Softcover, 300 pages, 17 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Black Dog Publishing Ltd / London

$220.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce first 1999 edition of this definitive resource on the work of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle.

"These people are the wreckers of civilisation", exclaimed the Conservative Member of Parliament Nicholas Fairbairn in 1976. His outburst was meant to describe four artists and musicians: Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter - members of the seminal band Throbbing Gristle. What "these people" had done to deserve such an epithet, and what they were about to do, is the subject of this book.

Throbbing Gristle are widely lauded as the band that invented industrial music, and their influence can be observed across today's musical landscape: from house and techno to industrial death metal. Wherever experimental electronic music is being made, Throbbing Gristle's influence can be felt.

"Wreckers of Civilisation recalls a time which despite volumes of print remains occluded, obdurate, even intimidating: that moment before the conservative reconstruction. To be awake in London in the late 1970s was to be plunged into turmoil: externally manifest in riot, internally within various forms of damage and depression and, if one felt brave or driven, extreme aesthetics. COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle mark the furthest reach of that impulse: even more so than Punk, they plunged into a technological and personal examination of the dark side - the forbidden, the taboo, the dystopian future on the doorstep. Today this might seem like science fiction or deliberate shock tactics, but then it seemed like reportage, front line dispatches from a convulsed country."

Heavily illustrated and complete with a chronological list of actions, concerts and exhibitions, discography, filmography, bibliography and much more, this heavy volume has become an invaluable and sought after resource on TG, COUM Transmissions, and Industrial Records.

Simon Ford is a freelance writer and art historian. He was previously Research Associate in Craft and Design and Curator of the Design Council Slide Collection at Manchester Metropolitan University, as well as being a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He received his PhD in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2000. He is the author of Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle (1999, 2017, Black Dog Publishing). His most recent book is The Situationist International: A User's Guide (2006, Black Dog).

Very Good copy.

File under: COUM Transmissions Cosey Fanni Tutti Genesis P-Orridge Throbbing Gristle William S. Burroughs Derek Jarman Chris Carter Foxtrot Echo Fizzy Paet Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson Simon Ford Black Dog Publishing Ltd / London Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Feminism Counterculture Film / Video Theory / Essay

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
NEKROPHILE (Archives & Documents)

2018, English
Hardcover, 152 pages, 32 x 25 cm
Ed. of 500,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Timeless Edition / Paris

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First 2018 regular hardcover edition of NEKROPHILE – “Archives & Documents” by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Culled from Genesis’s private, mostly unpublished archives, “Archives and Documents” presents 152 full color pages of crucial early art terrorism from h/er little seen Nekrophile zine, reproduced here in full. Nekrophile magazine was conceived in 1968 by GPO as a single issue. The collages, drawings, poems and texts gathered in it deal with the themes that later prevailed in the iconography of Industrial Music. This volume also displays ultra rare and previously unseen TG and PTV documents selected by GPO. Edited by Nicolas Ballet with personal explanations and insights added by GPO, this volume is an essential visual document of Gen’s contributions to art and culture from the mid 1960s onwards with a strong emphasis on that most controversial and rewarding period of the late ’70s and early ’80s.

Edition of 500 copies, out-of-print.

File under: Genesis P-Orridge COUM Transmissions Cosey Fanni Tutti Throbbing Gristle Industrial Records Psychic TV Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson Nicolas Ballet Timeless Edition / Paris Sound / Music Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Fetishism / BDSM

Fractured Eye: A Journal Of Subversive Film Arts Vol. 1
Edited by Stephen Barber and Jack Hunter

2012, English
Softcover, 120 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Creation Books / London

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FRACTURED EYE was a large-format annual film journal, edited by well-known authors Stephen Barber and Jack Hunter, who between them have produced around 50 books on global cinema and cultural history. FRACTURED EYE does not concern itself with either "mainstream" or "cult" cinema, but rather takes its cue from Amos Vogel's seminal 1974 study Film As A Subversive Art. Subjects covered by FRACTURED EYE Volume One include illegal film pornography in the 1970s, execution film documents of WW2, film documents of extreme performance art, subversive film documentaries, unfilmed surrealist film scenarios, revolutionary Japanese cinema of 1969, the origins of film projection technology, films of urban demolition, surgical films, and various works of renegade, politically prohibited or transgressive cinema. The book is heavily illustrated with unusual and often disquieting photographs, and is recommended for adult readers only. Subjects covered include Vienna Aktion Cinema, Tokyo 1969, Tatsumi Hijikata, Pierre Guyotat, Koji Wakamatsu, Jean Painlevé, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Jean Vigo, Luis Buñuel, Skladanowsky Brothers, Georges Franju, and much more. Only one volume was published.

File under: Tatsumi Hijikata Pierre Guyotat Koji Wakamatsu Cosey Fanni Tutti Skladanowsky Brothers Georges Franju Hermann Nitsch Jean Painlevé Luis Buñuel Jean Vigo Antonin Artaud Pierre Guyotat Stephen Barber Jack Hunter Antonin Artaud Creation Books / London Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Art Theory / Essay Periodicals

Genesis P-Orridge & Yves Adrien
In Steel Grey Armour

2022, English / French
Hardcover (clothbound), 96 pages, 30 x 22 cm
Published by Timeless Edition / Paris

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‘In Steel Grey Armour’ consistis of the complete reproduction of an infamous and mysterious collage book created by Genesis P-Orridge in 1979 and entrusted to his friend Yves Adrien,
a regular columnist of French music magazine ‘Rock’n’Folk’. It also explores the friendship between the 2 individuals with reproductions of some letters, photos and other artworks that Gen and Yves used to exchange. The book closes with a few words from the wise collector and current owner of the actual book, recounting his first encounter with the original Genesis collage book thanks to Jacques Noel, warden and smuggler-in-chief at Un Regard Moderne bookshop in Paris.

Artist, performer, musician and writer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson, 1950-2020), leader of COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, was a major, pioneering, radical and subversive figure in British industrial and experimental music.

Yves Adrien (born 1951) is a French writer, best known for his articles in Rock & Folk magazine from the early 1970s onwards, for his subsequent theorization of post-punk, and for his first book Novövision.

File under: Genesis P-Orridge Industrial Records Throbbing Gristle Cosey Fanni Tutti COUM Transmissions Psychic TV Genesis P-Orridge Yves Adrien Timeless Edition / Paris Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Occult / Esoterica Counterculture Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Eros Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art

Genesis P-Orridge and Jean-Pierre Turmel
THE LAST SLOGAN

2022, English
Hardcover (clothbound), 192 pages, 30 x 22 cm
Published by Timeless Edition / Paris

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Personal correspondence between Genesis P-Orridge and Jean-Pierre Turmel over a fifteen-year period.

This book pays tribute to one of counter-culture's single most iconic figures of the past fifty odd years, someone who has over the course of he/r career influenced countless fellow artists and theorists. Comprised of an exclusive unpublished interview with the artist conducted by Nicolas Ballet in 2016, theoretical texts on he/r work, and archival documents from the personal collection of Jean-Pierre Turmel.

Comprised theoretical texts on he/r work, and archival documents from the personal collection of Jean-Pierre Turmel. The Last Slogan offers a completely new perspective on the work of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.The book collects multiple letters sent by Genesis to Jean-Pierre Turmel from the mid-1970s till early 1990s. These unique personal archives provide an unequaled insight into Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's life-long journey via a deeply intimate correspondence with a close friend and associate, an intellectual sparring-partner of sorts, in which the artist discusses he/r inner thoughts, strategies, doubts and plans without any of the usual control filters.

Artist, performer, musician and writer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson, 1950-2020), leader of COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, was a major, pioneering, radical and subversive figure in British industrial and experimental music.

Jean-Pierre Turmel (born 1947 in Rouen, France) is co-founder of the legendary Sordide Sentimental label, which since 1978 has pioneered industrial, new wave and gothic music, producing Throbbing Gristle, Joy Division, Tuxedomoon, The Durutti Column, Savage Republic, Monte Cazazza, Davie Allan & The Arrows, etc.

Contributions by Genesis P-Orridge, Jean-Pierre Turmel, Nicolas Ballet.

File under: Genesis P-Orridge Throbbing Gristle Industrial Records Cosey Fanni Tutti COUM Transmissions Psychic TV Genesis P-Orridge Nicolas Ballet Jean-Pierre Turmel Timeless Edition / Paris Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Fetishism / BDSM Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Counterculture Occult / Esoterica Eros Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art

Tapeworks : Art & Design of 80s Experimental Electronic Music

2024, English
Softcover, 132 pages, 16 x 12 cm
Published by Resampled / UK

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Selected cassette tape and vinyl artwork from experimental electronic music of the 1980s. Touching on industrial, noise, new wave, minimal, drone, sound art, ambient and more. A visual archive of the xerox scanned imagery, disorderly type and hand illustration used to present the decade's boundary-pushing music and abstract compositions.

File under: SPK Coil Masonna Christina Kubisch John Duncan MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Maurizio Bianchi (M.B.) Maurizio Bianchi (MB) Pascal Comelade Bourbonese Qualk Conrad Schnitzler Minimal Man Diamanda Galas Chris and Cosey Cosey Fanni Tutti Nord Anne Gillis Antonin Artaud Pseudo Code Die Form P16.D4 Sleep Chamber Mnemonists Storm Bugs Psychic TV Pornosect City of Worms Rob Smit Biota Hunting Lodge Resampled / UK Sound / Music Counterculture Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Showboat: Punk / Sex / Bodies

2016, English
Softcover, 376 pages, 22 x 28.5 cm
Ed. of 1500,
Published by Cultural Traffic / London Dashwood Books / New York

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Foreword by Toby Mott
Designed by Jamie Andrew Reid
Edition of 1,500

Showboat: Punk / Sex / Bodies delves into the intersection of sex and punk, exploring how each influences and is influenced by the other. As a radical subculture, punk enjoyed the freedom to address sex openly, unencumbered by mainstream censorship. This uninhibited expression of sexuality imbued punk with its rawness and immediacy.

Spanning from 1972 to the present day, Showboat offers a chronological exploration of the dynamic relationship between punk and sex. Drawing from The Mott Collection, the exhibition features original posters, flyers, record covers, photographs, and ephemera. Additionally, contributions from notable figures such as Julie Burchill, Paul Cook, Vivien Goldman, Eve Libertine, Bruce LaBruce, Amos Poe, Richard Prince, and Will Self provide further insight into this captivating intersection.

File under: Jamie Reid Divine Cosey Fanni Tutti Toby Mott Cultural Traffic / London Dashwood Books / New York Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Counterculture Eros Fashion Sociology / Politics Out-of-print / Rare

Silvestar Club 6

1987, Japanese
Softcover, 176 pages, 22 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo

$120.00 - In stock -

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The 1987 "Noise" issue of cult Japanese underground magazine Silvestar Club, published and edited by Yuichi Konno and Atelier Peyotl (publishers of Night Vision/Yaso/Peyotl/Wave...). Features Zoviet France, H.N.A.S., Nurse with Wound, SPK, Etant Donnes, P16.D4, M.B. / Maurizio Bianchi, Sema / Robert Haigh, Coil, Whitehouse, Current 93, Chris & Cosey, Monte Cazazza, Throbbing Gristle, Genesis P-Orridge, Organum, Nocturnal Emissions, Tamia, Ramleh, Club Moral, Esplendor Geometico, Lustmord, Mnemonists, Die Tödliche Doris, The Hafler Trio, Cranioclast, Cabaret Voltaire, Zos-Kia, Test Department, Diamanda Galas, Z'ev, Danielle Dax, and much more. Articles on iconic live performances by Wire and Dome, plus essays by music critic, editor (Rock Magazine, Ego, et al) and Vanity label owner Yuzuru Agi; noise artist Merzbow's Masami Akita; experimental musician Keiji Haino; noise artist Toshiji Mikawa; experimental programmer Ryoichiro Debuchi; plus Tokyo Grand Guignol Theater group artists Norimizu Ameya and Kyusaku Shimada; theatre director Koharu Kisaragi; computer graphics artist for films Haruhiko Shono; visual artist Seiko Mikami; music critic Kuniharu Akiyama... ! Discographies, performance documentation, related artworks, record sleeves, flyers, and much more, printed across multiple raw paper stocks. A must! A perfect pre-cursor (and certainly as good as) Masami Akita's Noise War book of 1992. Texts in Japanese.

Very Good—Fine copy.

File under: Masami Akita (Merzbow) Norimizu Ameya Kyusaku Shimada Koharu Kisaragi Haruhiko Shono Seiko Mikami Keiji Haino Toshiji Mikawa Ryoichiro Debuchi Tokyo Grand Guignol Theater Group MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Maurizio Bianchi (MB) Sema (Robert Haigh) Zoviet France H.N.A.S. Nurse with Wound SPK Etant Donnes P16.D4 Genesis P-Orridge Coil Whitehouse Current 93 Throbbing Gristle Organum Nocturnal Emissions Tamia Ramleh Club Moral Monte Cazazza Chris and Cosey Cosey Fanni Tutti Lustmord Mnemonists Die Tödliche Doris The Hafler Trio Cranioclast Cabaret Voltaire Zos-Kia Test Department Diamanda Galas Z'ev Danielle Dax Masami Akita (Merzbow) Kuniharu Akiyama Yuzuru Agi Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Theory / Essay Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Violent Silence: Celebrating George Bataille
Edited by by Paul Buck

1984, English
Softcover, 112 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The George Bataille Event / London

$45.00 - Out of stock

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First, only edition of Violent Silence: Celebrating George Bataille edited by Paul Buck and published on the occasion of The George Bataille Event 1984, organised by Paul Buck and Roger Ely in London. Devoted entirely to the work of French philosopher and author George Bataille (1897—1962) whose influential works spanning philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art, which included essays, novels, and poetry, explored such subjects as eroticism, mysticism, surrealism, and transgression. This anthology of writings, illustrated by English poet, artist, anarchist and jazz musician, Jeff Nuttall, features an English translation of Bataille’s “The Dead Man,” a valuable chronology and bibliography of Bataille (in English and French), plus texts by Paul Buck, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Pierre Guyotat, Roger Ely, Mitsou Ronat, Laure, Roberta Graham and Ken Hollings, Bernard Noël, and others.

Very Good copy, light wear.

File under: Jeff Nuttall Pierre Guyotat Cosey Fanni Tutti Bernard Noel Paul Buck Cosey Fanni Tutti Roger Ely Mitsou Ronat Laure Roberta Graham Ken Hollings Jeff Nuttall Pierre Guyotat Pierre Duyotat The George Bataille Event / London Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Fiction / Poetry Eros Out-of-print / Rare Poetry Philosophy Occult / Esoterica Surrealism

Yaso No. 5
Special Feature : Corpse

1982/1992, Japanese
Softcover, 192 pages, 21 x 14.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo

$60.00 - Out of stock

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"Corpse" Special Feature Issue of cult Japanese underground magazine Yaso, first published in 1982, then re-printed in 1992, edited by Yuichi Konno and Atelier Peyotl (publishers of Night Vision/Yaso/Peyotl/Wave/Silvester Club...). Heavily illustrated with texts in Japanese that look at the theme of death and the dead in the arts, literature, occultism, ancient sciences, philosophy, mythology, poetry, film, crime, and much more. Features John Duncan, Tetsumi Kudo, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Masahisa Fukase, Franz Kafka, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Guillaume Apollinaire, Joe Potts (LAFMS), Takashi Ishii, Rudolf II — Holy Roman Emperor, Akinari Ueda, Marcel Duchamp, Chris Burden, Paul Celan, Alain Resnais, Gilyak Amagasaki, Shusaku Arakawa, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Shuji Terayama, Andy Warhol, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, Kyoko Endoh, Princess Yongtai, Salvador Dalí, Ono no Komachi, Kiyoshi Kasai, Caravaggio, Throbbing Gristle, Takizawa Bakin, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, Manson Family, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Wu Zetian, Genesis P-Orridge, Yusuke Nakahara, Ranpo Lagrange, Mitsusada Fukasaku, Nakai Hideo, Richard Wagner, and many more.

Very Good copy.

File under: Chris Burden Alain Resnais Gilyak Amagasaki Shusaku Arakawa Andy Warhol Brian Wilson Kyoko Endoh John Duncan Tetsumi Kudo Cosey Fanni Tutti Joe Potts (LAFMS) Takashi Ishii Salvador Dali Caravaggio Throbbing Gristle Marcel Duchamp Masahisa Fukase Shuji Terayama Franz Kafka Guillaume Apollinaire Ono no Komachi Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Akinari Ueda Kiyoshi Kasai Takizawa Bakin Paul Celan Yusuke Nakahara Fyodor Dostoevsky Ranpo Lagrange Mitsusada Fukasaku Nakai Hideo Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Crime / Violence Film / Video Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Art Counterculture Eros Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Surrealism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Theory / Essay

Richardson Issue A1
December 1998

1998, English / Japanese
Softcover, 128 pages, 30.5 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Little More / Tokyo

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Controversial inaugural (December 1998) issue of Richardson magazine, the short-lived cult 1990's art/sex magazine published by Little More in Japan, edited by Andrew Richardson (of Richardson label, fashion stylist w. Supreme, CK, Valentino, etc.) and art direction by Laura Genninger of STUDIO 191 (designer of AnOther Magazine, etc.). Navigating the murky boundaries between art and obscenity, an honourable pursuit in Japan, this first issue features the double-cover (censored and non-censored) of adult film star Jenna Jameson shot by Glen Luchford, along with J.J. photo feature and interview, Richard Prince’s “Spiritual America” text and photography/artworks inc. the infamous 11-year-old Brooke Shields piece, "Be Broken" erotic artwork gallery by Harmony Korine, "Love Letter to Amerika" from Takashi Homma, Terry Richardson photography, "Cunt" fiction by Stewart Home, photos by French cinematographer (Gummo, Ulysse, Boy Meets Girl, etc.) Jean-Yves Escoffier, Japanese V-Cinema and pink star Nao Saejima, Stewart Home on Cosey Fanni Tutti, many works of photography and text by American photojournalist and writer Erika Langley, erotic photography by skater Ed Templeton of photographer and wife Deanna Templeton, vintage erotica collection by photographer Bela Borsodi, poetry and more! Riddled with bans and confiscations due to explicit un-censored imagery by Japanese censorship standards.

Texts in both English and Japanese.

Very Good copy.

File under: Glen Luchford Jenna Jameson Erika Langley Richard Prince Harmony Korine Terry Richardson Stewart Home Cosey Fanni Tutti Nao Saejima Ed Templeton Deanna Templeton Bela Borsodi Andrew Richardson Laura Genninger Takashi Homma Erika Langley Richard Prince Stewart Home Little More / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Film / Video Photography Japanese Photography Eros Counterculture LGBTQ+ Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

This Is Supposed To Be A Record Label
Staalplaat: Eleven Years Of Distortion In The Independent Music Industry

2023, English
Softcover, 232 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Fourth expanded edition,
Published by Korm Plastics / Netherlands

$40.00 - Out of stock

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In 1992, Frans de Waard (of Kapotte Muziek, Beequeen and the Korm Plastics label) was asked to work for Staalplaat, then one of the biggest independent labels for experimental and electronic music. Staalplaat was the home for bands like Muslimgauze, :zoviet*france:, Rapoon, O Yuki Conjugate as well as Jaap Blonk, Normally Invisible and Kingdom Scum. With an average of three new releases every month, Staalplaat remained a major player for the next eleven years. Hired to set-up a database and to sell and buy new music, Frans de Waard over the years also assumed a role as (unofficial) business director and A&R man, and came to be regarded as the head honcho. In 2003 he’d had enough and decided to quit.
This book tells his story about those eleven years, the many high and as many lows of working for a small independent record label, which also functioned as a shop, mail order, radio programme, news outlet, and concert organiser. It’s about embarrassing confrontations with musicians, labels, distributors, and the endless spending on the most unique packaging CD-land ever saw.
The book includes an interview with Staalplaat founder Geert-Jan Hobijn, a transcript of a radio interview with Muslimgauze, a 1980’s account of Staalplaat’s activities, and a discography, among others. This might be a suitable reading for everyone with an interest in the experimental music scene, and anyone else who wants to read a crazy, funny and sad story about a small struggling record label.
The second edition is expanded with two more appendixes, one about John Cage and one about things found and lost, 2016-2019. Also, anyone who is interested in a manual of how (not) to run your record label might want to take notes.

"Before reading this, I had some doubts about Frans’ ability to write something so captivating and downright fucking funny. I’ve worked with him myself before, plus we have met a few times, and I always had this impression he was a somewhat sombre, serious type (an impression maintained by his reviews), but This is Supposed to be a Record Label shatters this completely. The man ought to put down his pipe long enough to get another book out because he certainly knows how to tell a story." - Adverse Effect

"Although familiar with his work in sound and music, I hadn’t had the chance to hear de Waard’s writer voice until I came across his long-running music review newsletter, Vital Weekly. The matter-of-factness reflects the brutal honesty of his assessments. A dry, wicked sense of humor is always close to the surface. De Waard’s keen observational eye made This Is Supposed to Be a Record Label a must-read for anybody interested in underground sounds." - Hyperallegric.com

File under: Kapotte Muziek Muslimgauze Zoviet France Zoviet:France O Yuki Conjugate Rapoon Jaap Blonk Normally Invisible Kingdom Scum Chris and Cosey Cosey Fanni Tutti Savage Republic Masami Akita (Merzbow) Merzbow Club Moral Sleep Chamber Laibach The Hafler Trio Nocturnal Emissions The Nocturnal Emissions Z'ev Etant Donnes The Legendary Pink Dots Controlled Bleeding Lustmord Le Syndicat Charlemagne Palestine Brume Richard Hell Lydia Lunch Genesis P-Orridge Ain Soph Arcane Device Toy Bizarre KK Nul Deutsch Nepal Illusion of Safety Jorge Reyes Henri Chopin NON Randy Greif Aube Survival Research Laboratories Oren Ambarchi Francisco Lopez Gen Ken Montgomery Ryoji Ikeda Maeror Tri Scanner Stilluppsteypa Pimmon Tim Hecker Pan Sonic Frans de Waard Geert-Jan Hobijn Korm Plastics / Netherlands Sound / Music Theory / Essay Counterculture

Auto Erotik

1986, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 18 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Auto Erotik / Wisconsin

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Extremely rare publication issued in a limited edition of 69 copies in (about) 1986 in Wisconsin, USA by Kathy Tinsley who was active in the Wisconsin punk and noise scene. Made up of art contributions from Sleep Chamber, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Slave State, K.Tinsley, Coup De Grace, Alain Neefe (Insane Music), Trinity Ov Thee, Lebensborn, Eden 67. As far as we know, no issues followed. Hand numbered in gold marker.

"AUTO EROTIK iz an organization dedicated to thee enhancement ov Eroticism. Our interests lie in thee obscure and thee extreme. AUTO EROTIK PUBLICATION #1 iz a collection ov Erotik Art / Erotik Graphic Images gathered from artists around thee world. Within this publication we have brought together a diverse collection ov Erotika. We find what each individual sees az being Erotik to be ov great interest and intrigue. We hope that thee following pages will arouse your inner passion. With our sincere thanx for your interest in our, for AUTO EROTIK, Kathee"

Very Good copy with some pinching and rubbing to toner on cover.

File under: Cosey Fanni Tutti Sleep Chamber Slave State Coup De Grace Alain Neefe Insane Music K.Tinsley Auto Erotik / Wisconsin Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Eros Periodicals Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM

Re-Sisters : Recordings of the Lives of Delia Derbyshire and Margery Kempe
by Cosey Fanni Tutti

2022, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 304 Pages, 23.4 x 15.3 cm
Published by Faber & Faber / London

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From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionary artists.

In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film about Delia Derbyshire, the pioneering electronic composer who influenced the likes of Aphex Twin and the Chemical Brothers. While researching Delia's life, Cosey became immersed in her story and uncovered some fascinating parallels with her own life. At the same time Cosey began reading about Margery Kempe, the 15th century mystic visionary who wrote the first English language autobiography.

Re-sisters is the story of three women consumed by their passion for life, a passion they expressed through music, art and lifestyle; they were undaunted by the consequences they faced in pursuit of expanding and enriching their lives, and unwilling to conform to the societal and cultural norms of their time.

File under: Cosey Fanni Tutti Delia Derbyshire Margery Kempe Cosey Fanni Tutti Faber & Faber / London Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Cosey Fanni Tutti
Art Sex Music

2017, English
Softcover, 512 pages, 15.3 x 23.4 cm
Published by Faber & Faber / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Art Sex Music is the wise, shocking and elegant autobiography of Cosey Fanni Tutti.

Art Sex Music is the autobiography of a musician who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group Throbbing Gristle and electronic pioneers Chris & Cosey, has consistently challenged the boundaries of music over the past four decades.

It is the account of an artist who, as part of COUM Transmissions, represented Britain at the IXth Biennale de Paris, whose Prostitution show at the ICA in 1976 caused the Conservative MP Nicholas Fairbairn to declare her, COUM and Throbbing Gristle 'Wreckers of Civilisation'...shortly before he was arrested for indecent exposure, and whose work continues to be held at the vanguard of contemporary art.

And it is the story of her work as a pornographic model and striptease artiste which challenged assumptions about morality, erotica and art.

File under: Chris Carter Cosey Fanni Tutti Genesis P-Orridge Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson Cosey Fanni Tutti Faber & Faber / London Art Eros Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music

Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
by Jörg Heiser

2020, English
Softcover, 350 pages, 15 x 23 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Exploring the relationship between art and pop music over the last fifty years.

Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what did the band expect to gain in return? What made Yoko Ono use the skills she developed in the artistic avant-garde in pop music, and what drew John Lennon, in turn, to visual art? Why, in 1982, did Joseph Beuys record the pop single “Sonne statt Reagan,” and why, around the same time did, West German artists such as Michaela Melián move into pop music?

In Double Lives in Art and Pop Music, Jörg Heiser argues that context shifting between art and pop music is an attempt to find solutions for contradictions faced in one field of cultural production. Heiser looks closely at the careers of artists and pop musicians who work in both fields professionally. The seeming acceptance and effortlessness today of current border crossings can be deceptive, since they might be serving vested economic or ideological interests. Exploring a pop and art history of more than fifty years, Heiser shows that those leading double lives in art and pop music may often be best able to detect these vested interests while he points toward radical alternatives.

File under: Yoko Ono Kai Althoff Andy Warhol Laurie Anderson Walter Dahn John Lennon COUM Transmissions Cosey Fanni Tutti Fatima Al Qadiri Carsten Nicolai Brian Eno Albert Oehlen Markus Oehlen Martin Kippenberger Adrian Piper Joseph Beuys Genesis P-Orridge Mike Kelley Charlotte Moorman The Velvet Underground Throbbing Gristle Michaela Melián Sex Pistols Kraftwerk Pink Floyd Nico Jörg Heiser Sternberg Press / Berlin Theory / Essay Sound / Music Art Painting Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater

The only performances that make it all the way ... / Yes, but is it performable?

2018, English / German
Softcover, 182 pages,
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien / Graz

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Edited by Sandro Droschl, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien
Texts by Christian Egger, Sabine Weier, Tanja Widmann

This catalogue is published on the occasion of the two group exhibitions “The only performances that make it all the way...“ and “Yes, but is it performable? Investigations on the Performative Paradox“ which were shown at Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien in 2013 and 2016.

Both exhibitions are united by an activating dialogical confrontation of recent, performative practices and performances dealing with the main works of historical forerunners. Throughout the respective exhibition, two to three works were added, while also parts and objects of the performances remained in the exhibition space, thus the exhibition set-up presented itself as transparent and could be experienced by the audience.

Artists included : Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Michael Clark + The Fall, Guy de Cointet, Carola Dertnig, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Liz Glynn, Jakob Lena Knebl + das_em, Thomas Kratz, Adam Linder, Michele di Menna, Gina Pane, Claus Richter, Barbara T. Smith

Design by Nik Thoenen and Maia Gusberti

File under: Michael Clark The Fall Guy de Cointet Carola Dertnig Cosey Fanni Tutti Liz Glynn Jakob Lena Knebl + das_em Thomas Kratz Adam Linder Michele di Menna Gina Pane Claus Richter Barbara T. Smith Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz Christian Egger Sabine Weier Tanja Widmann Sternberg Press / Berlin Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien / Graz Art Performance / Dance / Theater Group Shows / Collections SALE

Out of Actions
Aktionismus, Body Art und Performance 1949-1979

1998, German
Hardcover, 366 pages, 22.5 x 31 cm
1st German edition, Out of print title / used / very good,
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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The long out-of-print heavyweight "Out of Actions" book (First German hardcover edition) that was published to accompany the spectacular 1998 Paul Schimmel-curated travelling exhibition. "Out of Actions" surveyed the broad international history and influence of post-war Performance Art, and the objects that exist today as its documentation. It features significant texts by Schimmel, Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker, Shinichiro Osaki, Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stokes Sims, and Keiko Okamura.
This important and heavily researched document is lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, capturing the work and actions of the artists featured in the exhibition and essays: Marina Abramovic, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Vito Acconci, Genpei Akasegawa, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Rasheed Arseen, Mowry Baden, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, George Brecht, Stuart Brisley, Robert Delford Brown, Gunter Brus, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Lygia Clark, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Collective Action Group, Houston Conwill, Paul Cotton, COUM Transmissions, Guy de Cointet, Jim Dine, John Duncan, Felipe Ehrenberg, Roberto Evangelista, Valie Export, Robert Filliou, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Sherman Fleming, Lucio Fontana, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Gideon Gechtman, Gilbert & George, Alberto Greco, Ion Grigorescu, Victor Grippo, Red Grooms, Guerrilla Art Action Group, David Hammons, Al Hansen, Maren Hassinger, Lynn Hershman, Dick Higgins, Tatsumi Hijikata, Susan Hiller, Rebecca Horn, Tehching Hsieh, Joan Jonas, Kim Jones, Michel Journiac, Akira Kanayama, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Juergen Klauke, Yves Klein, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Komar & Melamid, Jannis Kounellis, Shigeko Kubota, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Lea Lublin, George Maciunas, Leopoldo Maier, Piero Manzoni, Tom Marioni, Georges Mathieu, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Bruce McLean, David Medalla, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Marta Minujin, Jan Micoch, Linda Montano, Robert Morris, Otto Muehl, Saburo Murakami, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Bruce Nauman, Paul Neagu, Senga Nengudi, Joshua Neustein, Hermann Nitsch, Helio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Lorenzo Pace, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Lygia Pape, Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, William Pope L., Robert Rauschenberg, Carlyle Reedy, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Zorka Saglova, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alfons Schilling, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Bonnie Sherk, Shozo Shimamoto, Ushio Shinohara, Kazuo Shiraga, Barbara T. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Petr Stembera, Wolfgang Stoerchle, Jiro Takamatsu, Atsuko Tanaka, Mark Thompson, Jean Tinguely, Rasa Todosijevic, Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Emmett Williams, and Zaj.
Scarce first German edition, published by Hatje Cantz.

File under: Niki de Saint-Phalle Cosey Fanni Tutti Vito Acconci Genpei Akasegawa Laurie Anderson Eleanor Antin Rasheed Arseen Mowry Baden Artur Barrio Joseph Beuys Mark Boyle Joan Hills George Brecht Stuart Brisley Robert Delford Brown Chris Burden James Lee Byars John Cage Marc Camille Chaimowicz Lygia Clark Pinchas Cohen Gan Collective Action Group Houston Conwill Paul Cotton COUM Transmissions Guy de Cointet Jim Dine John Duncan Felipe Ehrenberg Roberto Evangelista Valie Export Robert Filliou Rose Finn-Kelcey Sherman Fleming Lucio Fontana Terry Fox Howard Fried Gideon Gechtman Alberto Greco Ion Grigorescu Victor Grippo Red Grooms Guerrilla Art Action Group David Hammons Al Hansen Maren Hassinger Lynn Hershman Dick Higgins Tatsumi Hijikata Susan Hiller Rebecca Horn Tehching Hsieh Joan Jonas Kim Jones Michel Journiac Akira Kanayama Tadeusz Kantor Allan Kaprow Mike Kelley Yves Klein Milan Knizak Alison Knowles Komar & Melamid Jannis Kounellis Shigeko Kubota Tetsumi Kudo Yayoi Kusama Leslie Labowitz Suzanne Lacy John Latham Jean-Jacques Lebel Lea Lublin George Maciunas Leopoldo Maier Piero Manzoni Tom Marioni Georges Mathieu Gordon Matta-Clark Paul McCarthy Bruce McLean David Medalla Cildo Meireles Ana Mendieta Gustav Metzger Jan Micoch Linda Montano Robert Morris Otto Muehl Saburo Murakami Natsuyuki Nakanishi Bruce Nauman Paul Neagu Senga Nengudi Joshua Neustein Hermann Nitsch Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Orlan Raphael Montanez Ortiz Lorenzo Pace Nam June Paik Gina Pane Lygia Pape Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Jackson Pollock William Pope L. Robert Rauschenberg Carlyle Reedy Klaus Rinke Ulrike Rosenbach Dieter Roth Zorka Saglova Alfons Schilling Tomas Schmit Carolee Schneemann Rudolf Schwarzkogler Bonnie Sherk Shozo Shimamoto Ushio Shinohara Kazuo Shiraga Barbara T. Smith Daniel Spoerri Petr Stembera Wolfgang Stoerchle Jiro Takamatsu Atsuko Tanaka Mark Thompson Jean Tinguely Rasa Todosijevic Kerry Trengove Ulay Ben Vautier Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther Peter Weibel Franz West Hannah Wilke Emmett Williams Zaj Marina Abramovič Günter Brus Gilbert & George Jürgen Klauke Marta Minujín Hélio Oiticica Paul Schimmel Kristine Stiles Guy Brett Hubert Klocker Shinichiro Osaki Leslie King-Hammond Lowery Stokes Sims Keiko Okamura Hatje Cantz / Berlin Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting Arte Povera Minimal Art Feminism Art Dada Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Sound / Music Photography Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Cosey Complex

2012, English
Softcover, 148 pages, 215 x 280 mm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Rethinking the one day event Cosey Complex, which Maria Fusco devised and organised with Richard Birkett at the ICA in London in 2010, this new book will be the first major publication discussing and theorising Cosey as methodology. Contributors include: Martin Bax, Gerard Byrne, Daniela Cascella, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Diedrich Diederichsen, Graham Duff, Anthony Elms, Chris Kraus, Patricia MacCormack, Clunie Reid, Rob Stone, Corin Sworn and Cosey Fanni Tutti.

File under: Cosey Fanni Tutti Gerard Byrne Lili Reynaud-Dewar Anthony Elms Chris Kraus Clunie Reid Corin Sworn Cosey Fanni Tutti Daniela Cascella Diedrich Diederichsen Graham Duff Maria Fusco Martin Bax Patricia MacCormack Rob Stone Walther König / Köln Art