World Food Books

Notations 21
by Theresa Sauer

2009, English
Hardcover, 318 pages,‎ 22.5 x 28.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Mark Batty / US

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Exceptionally rare, collectible first edition hardcover volume of Notations 21, the anthology drawing inspiration from John Cage's Notations. Notations 21 features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 composers from every continent, all of whom are innovators in the art of notation. Each score is accompanied by written contributions from the artists, explaining how the music manifested visually, exploring every facet of their creative processes, from inspiration to execution. Contributors include the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Earle Brown, Halim El-Dabh, Joan La Barbara, and Yuji Takahashi, as well as emerging composers whose compositions are visually astounding and important. In the spirit of honuoring the 40th anniversary of Cage's seminal book, while furthering it in a 21st century context, a portion of the sales of this book were donated to the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts.

Includes: Victor Adan, Beth Anderson, Kerry John Andrews, Steve Antosca, Cecilia Arditto, Robert Ashley, Kevin Austin, Trevor Bača, Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, Steve Beck, Irene Becker, Cathy Berberian, David Berezan, Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Philip Blackburn, Benjamin Boretz, Sam Britton, Earle Brown, Herbert Brün, Ellen Burr, John Cage, Allison Cameron, Joe Catalano, Raven Chacon, Chris Chalfant, Jef Chippewa, Kyong Mee Choi, Henrik Colding-Jørgensen, Nick Collins, David Cope, Philip Corner, Brent Michael Davids, Tina Davidson, Mario Diaz de Leon and Jay King, Robert Denham, Halim El-Dabh, Robert Erickson, Pozzi Escot, Julio Estrada, Rajmil Fischman, Robert Fleisher, Christopher Fox, Bruce L. Friedman, Guillermo Galindo, Malcolm Goldstein, Daniel Goode, Guillermo Gregorio, Barry Guy, Barbara Heller, Brian Heller, William Hellermann, Mara Helmuth, Sven Hermann, Christoph Herndler, Alan Hilario, Robin Hoffmann, Peter Hölscher, Tsai-yun Huang, Christoph Illing, Lynn Dob, David Evan Jones, John Kannenberg, Suk-Dun Kim, Panayiotis Kokoras, Slavek Kwi, Joan La Barbara, John Lane, Mark Lanqford, Hope Lee, Cheryl E. Leonard, Charlotte Lindvang, Anestis Logothetis, Bent Lorentzen, Martin Sebastian Loyato, Michael Maierhor, Tyler Mains, Keeril Makan, Dan Marmorstein, Dimitris Maronidis, Tony Martin, Kate Maxwell, Cilia McQueen, Rajesh Mehta, Ann MiUikan, Rene Mogensen, Stephen Montague, Robert Morris, Gordon Mumma, Gaël Navard, Phill NibLock, Gary Noland, Makoto Nomura, Eoin O'Keeffe, Pauline Oliveros - Vagn E. Olsson, Paul Paccione, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Brice Pauset, Tommaso Perego, Joe Pignato, Jonathan Pitkin, Samuel Pluta, Larry Polansky, Alwynne Pritchard, Anthony J. Ptak, Takayuki Rai, Randy Raine-Reusch, Jon Raskin, Henrik Ehland Rasmussen, Herman Rechberger, Will Redman, Wendy Reid, Steve Roden, Dirk Rodney, Keren Rosenbaum, David Rosenboom, Marina Rosenfeld, Daniel Rothman, Theresa Sauer, R. Murray Schafer, León Schidlowsky, Catherine Schieve, Daniel Schnee, Brian Schorn, Barry Schrader, Phillip Schulze, Michael J. Schumacher, Elliott Sharp, Marilyn Shrude, Stuart Saunders Smith, Juan Maria Solare, Mathias Spahlinger, Jack W. Stamps, John Stead, Norbert Stein, Hans-Christoph Steiner, Peter Sterk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Stump, Chiyoko Szlavnics - Yuji Takahashi, Justinian Tamusuza, John Tchicai, James Tenney, Voya Tonecitch, Laura Toxvaerd, Jeffrey Trevino, Andrea Vaile, J. Simon van der Walt, Ivan Vincze, Stephen Vitiello, Douglas C. Wadle, Jennifer Walshe, Clive Wilkinson, Michael Winter, René Wohlhauser, Ge-Suk Yeo, David Young, Katherine Young and Jonathan Zorn, Judith Lang Zaimont, Edson Zampronha, Peter Zombola, Jonathan Zorn, Richard Carlyon, Philip and Gayle Neuman, Morgan O'Hara...

As New copy.

File under: Victor Adan Beth Anderson Kerry John Andrews Steve Antosca Cecilia Arditto Robert Ashley Kevin Austin Trevor Bača Dennis Báthory-Kitsz Steve Beck Irene Becker Cathy Berberian David Berezan Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen Philip Blackburn Benjamin Boretz Sam Britton Earle Brown Herbert Brün Ellen Burr John Cage Allison Cameron Joe Catalano Raven Chacon Chris Chalfant Jef Chippewa Kyong Mee Choi Henrik Colding-Jørgensen Nick Collins David Cope Philip Corner Brent Michael Davids Tina Davidson Mario Diaz de Leon and Jay King Robert Denham Halim El-Dabh Robert Erickson Pozzi Escot Julio Estrada Rajmil Fischman Robert Fleisher Christopher Fox Bruce L. Friedman Guillermo Galindo Malcolm Goldstein Daniel Goode Guillermo Gregorio Barry Guy Barbara Heller Brian Heller William Hellermann Mara Helmuth Sven Hermann Christoph Herndler Alan Hilario Robin Hoffmann Peter Hölscher Tsai-yun Huang Christoph Illing Lynn Dob David Evan Jones John Kannenberg Suk-Dun Kim Panayiotis Kokoras Slavek Kwi Joan La Barbara John Lane Mark Lanqford Hope Lee Cheryl E. Leonard Charlotte Lindvang Anestis Logothetis Bent Lorentzen Martin Sebastian Loyato Michael Maierhor Tyler Mains Keeril Makan Dan Marmorstein Dimitris Maronidis Tony Martin Kate Maxwell Cilia McQueen Rajesh Mehta Ann MiUikan Rene Mogensen Stephen Montague Robert Morris Gordon Mumma Gaël Navard Phill NibLock Gary Noland Makoto Nomura Eoin O'Keeffe Paul Paccione Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri Brice Pauset Tommaso Perego Joe Pignato Jonathan Pitkin Samuel Pluta Larry Polansky Alwynne Pritchard Anthony J. Ptak Takayuki Rai Randy Raine-Reusch Jon Raskin Henrik Ehland Rasmussen Herman Rechberger Will Redman Wendy Reid Steve Roden Dirk Rodney Keren Rosenbaum David Rosenboom Marina Rosenfeld Daniel Rothman Theresa Sauer R. Murray Schafer León Schidlowsky Catherine Schieve Daniel Schnee Brian Schorn Barry Schrader Phillip Schulze Michael J. Schumacher Elliott Sharp Marilyn Shrude Stuart Saunders Smith Juan Maria Solare Mathias Spahlinger Jack W. Stamps John Stead Norbert Stein Hans-Christoph Steiner Peter Sterk Karlheinz Stockhausen John Stump Chiyoko Szlavnics - Yuji Takahashi Justinian Tamusuza John Tchicai James Tenney Voya Tonecitch Laura Toxvaerd Jeffrey Trevino Andrea Vaile J. Simon van der Walt Ivan Vincze Stephen Vitiello Douglas C. Wadle Jennifer Walshe Clive Wilkinson Michael Winter René Wohlhauser Ge-Suk Yeo David Young Katherine Young and Jonathan Zorn Judith Lang Zaimont Edson Zampronha Peter Zombola Jonathan Zorn Richard Carlyon Philip and Gayle Neuman Morgan O'Hara Pauline Oliveros Theresa Sauer Mark Batty / US Sound / Music Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art Concrete Poetry

QUANTUM LISTENING
by Pauline Oliveros

2022, English
Softcover, 64 pages, 11 x 16 cm
Published by Ignota / UK

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In response to the anti-war movements of the 1960s, pioneering musician and composer Pauline Oliveros began to expand the way she made music, experimenting with meditation, movement and activism in her compositions. This title is a manifesto for listening as activism. Through simple yet profound exercises, Oliveros shows how Deep Listening is the foundation for a radically transformed social matrix: one in which compassion and peace form the basis for our actions in the world. Fascinated by the role that sound and consciousness play in our daily lives, Oliveros developed a series of Sonic Meditations that would eventually lead to the creation of Deep Listening – a practice for healing and transformation open to all, rooted in her musicianship. This timely edition brings Oliveros’ futuristic vision – blending technology and spirituality – together with a new Foreword and Introduction by Laurie Anderson and IONE.

File under: Pauline Oliveros Laurie Anderson Pauline Oliveros Laurie Anderson Ignota / UK Sound / Music Theory / Essay Art

A Something Else Reader

2022, English
Softcover, 368 pages, 15 x 23.5 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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A Something Else Reader is a previously-unpublished anthology edited by Dick Higgins in 1972 to celebrate Something Else Press, the publishing house he founded in 1963 to showcase Fluxus and other experimental artistic and literary forms. The publication features selections from Claes Oldenburg’s Store Days, John Cage’s Notations, An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, Breakthrough Fictioneers, Jackson Mac Low’s Stanzas for Iris Lezak, Gertrude Stein’s Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein, Bern Porter’s I’ve Left, Wolf Vostell’s Dé-coll/age Happenings, Al Hansen’s A Primer of Happenings & Time/Space Art, and other projects for the page by Robert Filliou, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Philip Corner, Daniel Spoerri, André Thomkins, and Richard Meltzer, among others. An annotated checklist assembled by Hugh Fox and Higgins’s unpublished introduction are also included.

Perhaps no other publisher in the 60s influenced artists’ books more than Something Else Press. Higgins had a firm vision that radical art could be housed in book form and distributed throughout the world and he worked endlessly to cultivate new works that challenged conventional notions of both contemporary art and books. While other presses created extraordinary publications, none were able to achieve the breadth of titles and artists like Higgins, who successfully ran Something Else Press until 1974 in a manner that resembled a more traditional paperback publisher. Oddly, Higgins hadn’t intended to publish A Something Else Reader himself. Instead, in 1972, he assembled the table of contents and an introduction into a proposal that he then pitched to Random House. They eventually rejected the title and encouraged Higgins to publish it, but before he could do that, Something Else Press went out of business, and the dreams of the anthology evaporated. From there, the proposal went into Higgins’s archive, where it was found by scholar and curator Alice Centamore, who compiled the works and assembled A Something Else Reader.

Eleanor Antin, George Brecht, Pol Bury, Augusto de Campos, Clark Coolidge, Philip Corner, William Brisbane Dick, Robert Filliou, Albert M. Fine, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hugh Fox, Buckminster Fuller, Eugen Gomringer, Brion Gysin, Richard Hamilton, Al Hansen, Jan J. Herman, Dick Higgins, Åke Hodell, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Kitasono Katue, Bengt af Klintberg, Alison Knowles, Richard Kostelanetz, Ruth Krauss, Jackson Mac Low, Robert K. Macadam, Toby MacLennan, Hansjörg Mayer, Charles McIlvaine, Richard Meltzer, Manfred Mohr, Claes Oldenburg, Pauline Oliveros, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Charles Platt, Bern Porter, Dieter Roth, Aram Saroyan, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Mary Ellen Solt, Daniel Spoerri, Gertrude Stein, André Thomkins, Wolf Vostell, and Emmett Williams are all included in A Something Else Reader.

Dick Higgins was an American artist, composer, theorist, poet, and publisher, as well as a co-founder of Fluxus. After attending Yale and Columbia Universities and receiving a BA in English, he graduated from the Manhattan School of Printing. He studied music composition with Henry Cowell, attended John Cage’s course in experimental music at The New School, and participated in the inaugural Fluxus activities in Europe from Fall 1962 to Summer 1963. He founded Something Else Press in 1963 and in 1972, he founded Unpublished Editions (later renamed Published Editions). Over the course of his life, Higgins wrote and edited forty-seven books.

File under: Claes Oldenburg John Cage Jackson Mac Low Bern Porter Wolf Vostell Al Hansen Robert Filliou Alison Knowles Nam June Paik Philip Corner Daniel Spoerri André Thomkins Richard Meltzer Eleanor Antin George Brecht Pol Bury William Brisbane Dick Albert M. Fine Ian Hamilton Finlay Hugh Fox Buckminster Fuller Eugen Gomringer Brion Gysin Richard Hamilton Jan J. Herman Dick Higgins Åke Hodell Ray Johnson Allan Kaprow Kitasono Katue Bengt af Klintberg Richard Kostelanetz Ruth Krauss Robert K. Macadam Toby MacLennan Hansjörg Mayer Charles McIlvaine Manfred Mohr Pauline Oliveros Benjamin Patterson Charles Platt Dieter Roth Tomas Schmit Carolee Schneemann Mary Ellen Solt Gertrude Stein Richard Meltzer Emmett Williams Clark Coolidge Augusto de Campos Aram Saroyan Albert M. Fine Primary Information / New York Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Art Conceptual Art Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Pop Art Sound / Music

Partners – A Biography of Jerry Hunt
by Stephen Housewright

2021, English
Softcover, 292 pages, 14 x 20 cm
Published by Blank Forms / New York

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The life and work of American experimental musician/composer/intermedia artist Jerry Hunt.
Jerry Hunt was among the most eccentric figures in the world of new music. A frenetic orator, occultist and engineering consultant, his works from the 1970s through the early '90s made use of readymade sculptures, medical technology, arcane talismans and all manner of homemade electronic implements to form confrontational recordings and enigmatic, powerful performances. Tracing Hunt's life across his home state's major cities to a self-built house in rural Van Zandt County, this memoir-cum-biography by Stephen Housewright, Hunt's partner of 35 years, offers illuminating depictions of Hunt's important installations and performances across North America and Europe.

Housewright narrates a lifetime spent together, beginning in high school as a closeted couple in an East Texas and ending with Hunt's battle with cancer and his eventual suicide, the subject of one of his most harrowing works of video art. This highly readable narrative contains many private correspondences with, and thrilling anecdotes about, Hunt's friends, family, and collaborators, including Joseph Celli, Arnold Dreyblatt, Michael Galbreth, Karen Finley, James and Mary Fulkerson, Guy Klucevsek, Pauline Oliveros, Paul Panhuysen, Annea Lockwood, and the S.E.M. Ensemble.
Stephen Housewright is a writer, librarian, and teacher.

Jerry Hunt (1943–1993) is often described as a shamanic figure with the look of a Central Texas meat inspector. One of the most compelling composers in the world of late-twentieth-century new music, he made work that combined video synthesis, installation art, and early computers with rough-hewn sculptures, scores drawn from celestial alphabets, and homemade electronics activated by his signature wands and impassioned gestures. Hunt lived his entire life in Texas, eventually settling in a house ("an interactive environment") he built with his partner, Stephen Housewright, in a rural area outside Canton; but his pataphysical, abrasive, and humorous performances took him across North America and Europe, where he amassed a small but dedicated following.

File under: Pauline Oliveros Paul Panhuysen Annea Lockwood Jerry Hunt Blank Forms / New York Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art Theory / Essay

Walking from Scores

2022, English / French
Softcover (w. folded poster dust jacket), 512 pages, 13 x 17 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

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An anthology of text and graphic scores to be used while walking, from Fluxus to the critical works of current artists, through the tradition of experimental music and performance, gathered and presented by Elena Biserna.

Walking from Scores is a hundred or so collection of non site-specific protocols, instructions and textual and graphic scores centred on walking, listening and playing sound in urban environment. It explores the relationship between art and the everyday, the dynamics of sound and listening in various environments and the (porous) frontiers between artists and audiences. It starts with two premises: an interest in walking envisaged as a relational practice and tactic enabling us to read and rewrite space; an interpretation of scores understood as open invitations and catalysers of action in the tradition of Fluxus event scores.

With scores and texts by Peter Ablinger, Milan Adamčiak, G. Douglas Barrett, Elena Biserna, Blank Noise, George Brecht, Cornelius Cardew, Stephen Chase, Giuseppe Chiari, Seth Cluett, Philip Corner, Viv Corringham, Bill Dietz, Amy Dignam, David Dunn, Haytham El-Wardany, Esther Ferrer, Simone Forti Francesco Gagliardi, Jérôme Giller, Oliver Ginger, Anna & Lawrence Halprin, David Helbich, Dick Higgins, Christopher Hobbs, Jérôme Joy, katrinem, Debbie Kent, Bengt af Klintberg, James Klopfleisch, Milan Knížák, Alison Knowles, Takehisa Kosugi, Jirí Kovanda, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, Bob Lens, Ligia Lewis, Alvin Lucier, Walter Marchetti, Larry Miller, iLAND/Jennifer Monson, Max Neuhaus, Alisa Oleva, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Open City & Emma Cocker, Nam June Paik, Michael Parsons, Ben Patterson, Cesare Pietroiusti, Mathias Poisson, Anna Raimondo, Pheobe riley Law, Jez riley French, Paul Sharits, Mieko Shiomi, Mark So, Standards, Nicolas Tardy, Davide Tidoni, Ultra-red, Isolde Venrooy, Carole Weber, Manfred Werder, Franziska Windisch, Ben Vautier, La Monte Young.

Elena Biserna is a scholar and independent curator based in Marseille, France. She is associate researcher at PRI SM (AMU / CNRS) and TEAMeD (Université Paris 8). Her interests are focused on listening and on contextual, "situated" art practices in relationship with urban dynamics, sociocultural processes, the public and political sphere. Her writings have appeared in several publications. As a curator, she has collaborated with different organisations and presented her projects internationally.

File under: Ben Vautier La Monte Young Nam June Paik Michael Parsons Ben Patterson Cesare Pietroiusti Mathias Poisson Anna Raimondo Pheobe riley Law Jez riley French Paul Sharits Mieko Shiomi Mark So Standards Nicolas Tardy Davide Tidoni Ultra-red Isolde Venrooy Carole Weber Manfred Werder Franziska Windisch Dick Higgins Peter Ablinger Milan Adamčiak G. Douglas Barrett Elena Biserna Blank Noise George Brecht Cornelius Cardew Stephen Chase Giuseppe Chiari Seth Cluett Philip Corner Viv Corringham Bill Dietz Amy Dignam David Dunn Haytham El-Wardany Esther Ferrer Simone Forti Francesco Gagliardi Jérôme Giller Oliver Ginger Anna & Lawrence Halprin David Helbich Milan Knížák Jiří Kovanda Jiri Kovanda Christopher Hobbs Jérôme Joy katrinem Debbie Kent Bengt af Klintberg James Klopfleisch Alison Knowles Takehisa Kosugi Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti Bob Lens Ligia Lewis Alvin Lucier Walter Marchetti Larry Miller iLAND/Jennifer Monson Max Neuhaus Alisa Oleva Pauline Oliveros Yoko Ono Open City & Emma Cocker Elena Biserna Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Art Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Fluxus

Scores: An Anthology of New Music

1981, English
Hardcover (library bound), 350 pages, 28 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Schirmer Books / New York

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Library hardbound copy of the rare Scores: An Anthology of New Music, edited by Roger Johnson and published in 1981. Wonderful, heavy 350 page collection of New Music scores from a wide cross-section of the most innovative "avant-garde" or "experimental" artists of the time, spanning various categories, schools and movements. Includes the work of Pauline Oliveros, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Lucier, Robert Ashley, Christian Wolff, Steve Reich, Harold Budd, Carole Weber, Philip Corner, Meredith Monk, Charlemagne Palestine, Michael Nyman, Joan La Barbara, Otto Luening, James Tenney, Dick Higgins, Marion Brown, Jana Haimsohn, Jon Gibson, Trevor Wishart, Alison Knowles, Daniel Lentz, Gordon Mumma, Laurie Anderson, Terry Riley, and many others. Expansive chapters of scores throughout the anthology include: "Exercises, Rituals, and Meditations"; "Music For Voices"; "Percussion Music"; "Piano Music"; Music for Instruments"; "Electronic Music"; "Music for Mixed Ensembles"; "Music/Theater/Dance Pieces"; accompanied by composer biographies, a directory of publishers, distributors and agents for New Music, Bibliography, and Index.

Nicely preserved library hardbound copy of this usually very fragile softcover book. Light associated library markings not effecting content pages, a generally very tight, clean copy.

File under: Pauline Oliveros Annea Lockwood Alvin Lucier Robert Ashley Christian Wolff Steve Reich Harold Budd Carole Weber Philip Corner Meredith Monk Charlemagne Palestine Michael Nyman Joan La Barbara Otto Luening James Tenney Dick Higgins Marion Brown Jana Haimsohn Jon Gibson Trevor Wishart Alison Knowles Daniel Lentz Gordon Mumma Laurie Anderson Terry Riley Schirmer Books / New York Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Deep Listening : A Composer's Sound Practice
by Pauline Oliveros

2005, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 15.2 x 22.9 cm
Published by iUniverse / US

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Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice offers an exciting guide to ways of listening and sounding. This book provides unique insights and perspectives for artists, students, teachers, mediators and anyone interested in how consciousness may be effected by profound attention to the sonic environment.

Deep Listening is a practice created by composer Pauline Oliveros in order to enhance her own as well as other's listening skills. She teaches this practice worldwide in workshops, retreats and in her ground breaking Deep Listening classes at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Mills College. Deep Listening practice is accessible to anyone with an interest in listening. Undergraduates with no musical training benefit from the practices and successfully engage in creative sound projects. Many report life changing effects from participating in the Deep Listening classes and retreats.

Oliveros is recognized as a pioneer in electronic music and a leader in contemporary music as composer, performer, educator and author. Her works are performed internationally and her improvisational performances are documented extensively on recordings, in the literature and on the worldwide web.

File under: Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros iUniverse / US Art Sound / Music Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater

Let's Have a Talk : Conversations with Women on Art and Culture
Interviews by Lauren O'Neill-Butler

2022, English
Softcover, 456 pages, 16.8 x 23.1 cm
Published by Karma / New York

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Conversations with leading women artists, composers and writers from Judy Chicago, Anohni and Lynne Tillman to Ellie Ga, Tauba Auerbach and Renee Green.

This massive volume comprises over 80 interviews published across a 13-year span of Lauren O’Neill-Butler’s career as a writer, educator, editor and cofounder of November magazine. The majority of the interviews first appeared on Artforum.com’s interviews column, which O’Neill-Butler edited for 11 years. The book is divided into two sections, “Q&A” and “As Told To”—the first comprising interviews in a traditional format and the second recast by O’Neill-Butler in the interviewee’s voice.

Interviewees include: Judy Chicago, Shannon Ebner, Carolee Schneemann, Lucy R. Lippard, Joan Semmel, Liz Deschenes, Eleanor Antin, Andrea Fraser, Anohni, Claudia Rankine, Lorrie Moore, Adrian Piper, fierce pussy, Nan Goldin, Nell Painter, Frances Stark, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Alex Bag, Agnès Varda, Lisi Raskin, Mary Mattingly, Carol Bove, Jennifer West, Aki Sasamoto, Mary Ellen Carroll, Rebecca Solnit, Rita McBride and Kim Schoenstadt, Karla Black, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Lynda Benglis, Sturtevant, Rachel Foullon, Ellie Ga, Lisa Tan, Mira Schor, Jo Baer, Ruby Sky Stiler, Suzanne Lacy, Rebecca Warren, Katy Siegel, Marlene McCarty, Rachel Mason, Mary Kelly, Dianna Molzan, Lynne Tillman, Polly Apfelbaum, Jesse Jones, Dorothea Rockburne, Sarah Crowner, Lucy Skaer, Sophie Calle, Mary Beth Edelson, W.A.G.E., Mary Heilmann, Pauline Oliveros, Kathryn Andrews, Jessamyn Fiore, Aura Rosenberg, Lucy McKenzie, Rhonda Lieberman, Lucy Dodd, Hong-Kai Wang, Sakiko Sugawa, Beverly Semmes, Virginia Dwan, Jeanine Oleson, Tauba Auerbach, Renee Green, Iman Issa, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Joan Jonas, Yoko Ono, Donna J. Haraway and more.

File under: Judy Chicago Shannon Ebner Carolee Schneemann Lucy R. Lippard Joan Semmel Liz Deschenes Eleanor Antin Andrea Fraser Anohni Claudia Rankine Lorrie Moore Adrian Piper fierce pussy Nan Goldin Nell Painter Frances Stark Sara Greenberger Rafferty Alex Bag Agnès Varda Lisi Raskin Mary Mattingly Carol Bove Jennifer West Aki Sasamoto Mary Ellen Carroll Rebecca Solnit Rita McBride and Kim Schoenstadt Karla Black Julia Bryan-Wilson Lynda Benglis Sturtevant Rachel Foullon Ellie Ga Lisa Tan Mira Schor Jo Baer Ruby Sky Stiler Suzanne Lacy Rebecca Warren Katy Siegel Marlene McCarty Rachel Mason Mary Kelly Dianna Molzan Lynne Tillman Polly Apfelbaum Jesse Jones Dorothea Rockburne Sarah Crowner Lucy Skaer Sophie Calle Mary Beth Edelson W.A.G.E. Mary Heilmann Pauline Oliveros Kathryn Andrews Jessamyn Fiore Aura Rosenberg Lucy McKenzie Rhonda Lieberman Lucy Dodd Hong-Kai Wang Sakiko Sugawa Beverly Semmes Virginia Dwan Jeanine Oleson Tauba Auerbach Renee Green Iman Issa Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian Joan Jonas Yoko Ono Lauren O'Neill-Butler Donna J. Haraway Karma / New York Art Sound / Music Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting

Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom Before 1970
by David Toop

2016, English
Softcover, 336 pages, 21.6 x 14 cm
Published by Bloomsbury Academic / London

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In this first instalment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context of the post-World War II era. Neither strictly chronological, or exclusively a history, Into the Maelstrom investigates a wide range of improvisational tendencies: from surrealist automatism to stream-of-consciousness in literature and vocalization; from the free music of Percy Grainger to the free improvising groups emerging out of the early 1960s (Group Ongaku, Nuova Consonanza, MEV, AMM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble); and from free jazz to the strands of free improvisation that sought to distance itself from jazz. In exploring the diverse ways in which spontaneity became a core value in the early twentieth century as well as free improvisation's connection to both 1960s rock (The Beatles, Cream, Pink Floyd) and the era of post-Cagean indeterminacy in composition, Toop provides a definitive and all-encompassing exploration of free improvisation up to 1970, ending with the late 1960s international developments of free music from Roscoe Mitchell in Chicago, Peter Brötzmann in Berlin and Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg in Amsterdam.

“Maelstrom indeed ... [This] is an encyclopedic vortex of musicology, memoir and speculative extemporisation on the nature of improvisation and freedom in music ... crammed with detail and fascinating observations ... A captivating reading experience that perfectly embodies its subject in form.” – The Wire

“Any discussion of free improvisation, as an essential (anti?)-discipline of creative music, is an amusing balance between considering an unruly child and a sacred cow. History has come into a wild favor towards a genre that perpetually defies definition and prediction. David Toop, with a critical facility informed by over forty years of activity on and off the bandstand, sets his ruminations in the service of the music. Essaying on free improvisation in the mode of composition can result in didactic chin scratch. Thankfully Toop engages the readers interest with a sentient breath of prose charged by academic insight where poetic space becomes the page. It's only the beginning.” – Thurston Moore

“David Toop has dived into the Maelstrom that is the genesis of improvised music and come up with a string of pearls. There is so much here that will be new to even those of us who thought we knew the subject. A remarkable piece of real scholarship that relies on painstaking research with a refreshing absence of jargon.” – Evan Parker

“Into the Maelstrom gives an astonishing, vivid history of improvised music across the 20th century before 1970, tracing its transnational criss-crossings, trans-arts contagions, the folds between Cream and AMM, 'musicking' and John Stevens' Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Nuova Consonanza and For a Few Dollars More. David Toop's panoramic account makes obvious how urgently we have needed this alternative history, attuned to musical sounds as they resonate with artistic, cultural and political currents. A landmark book, Into the Maelstrom re-centres those vast and auspicious margins deserted by previous music histories.” – Georgina Born, Professor of Music and Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK

File under: Percy Grainger Group Ongaku Nuova Consonanza MEV AMM Spontaneous Music Ensemble Roscoe Mitchell Peter Brötzmann Han Bennink Misha Mengelberg Sidney Bechet Ornette Coleman Luciano Berio John Cage Edgard Varèse Pink Floyd Pauline Oliveros David Toop Bloomsbury Academic / London Art Sound / Music Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater

Deux Soeurs
by Beatrice Gibson

2021, English
Softcover, 248 pages, 10.8 x 18 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited and with an introduction by Axel Wieder

Texts by Robert Glück, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, Eileen Myles, Alice Notley, Pauline Oliveros, Adrienne Rich

Contributions by Basma Alsharif, Erika Balsom, Caconrad, Adam Christensen, Beatrice Gibson, Mason Leaver-Yap, Eileen Myles, Irene Revell

From Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich to Basma Alsharif and Pauline Oliveros, Deux Soeurs brings together a chorus of voices that explore representations of parenthood, friendship, and disobedience. The book acts as a reader to artist Beatrice Gibson’s films, I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead (2018) and Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (2019), and includes material that informed Gibson’s working process, together with the artist’s texts and notes used in both films. Turning to the figure of the poet as a guide in times of chaos, Deux Soeurs presents a framework for an ethics of artistic and social collaboration.

File under: Pauline Oliveros Robert Glück Ursula K. Le Guin Audre Lorde Eileen Myles Alice Notley Pauline Oliveros Adrienne Rich Basma Alsharif Erika Balsom Caconrad Adam Christensen Beatrice Gibson Mason Leaver-Yap Irene Revell Axel Wieder Sternberg Press / Berlin Theory / Essay Art Fiction / Poetry

Women's Work
Edited by Alison Knowles and Anna Lockwood

2019, English
Softcover magazine in folder w. poster, 20 x 20 cm
Ed. of 1500,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Originally published in the mid-1970s, Womens Work was a magazine that sought to highlight the overlooked work of female artists working at the cusp of the visual arts, music, and performance. The magazine was edited by Alison Knowles and Annea Lockwood and featured text-based and instructional performance scores by the following 25 artists, composers, and choreographers:

Beth Anderon, Ruth Anderson, Jacki Apple, Barbara Benary, Sari Dienes, Nye Ffarrabas (participating as Bici Forbes), Simone Forti, Wendy Greenberg, Heidi Von Gunden, Françoise Janicot, Alison Knowles, Christina Kubisch, Carol Law, Annea Lockwood (also included as Anna Lockwood), Mary Lucier, Lisa Mikulchik, Ann Noël (included as Ann Williams), Pauline Oliveros, Takako Saito, Carolee Schneemann, Mieko Shiomi, Elaine Summers, Carole Weber, Julie Winter, and Marilyn Wood.

The magazine was designed by Alison Knowles, who deliberately chose off-white paper and brown inks as a contrast to the sterile, white-paged publications prevalent at the time. The works contained in the magazine range in scope and take on a multitude of forms, employing both typed and written text, often with visual elements such as diagrams, drawings, and photographic images. The editors were and remain adamant that the work should be performed; that they not remain static as an artifact.

We wanted to publish work which other people could pick up and do: that aspect of it was really important…this was not anecdotal, this was not archival material, it was live material. You look at a score, you do it. – Annea Lockwood

The first issue, published in 1975, took the form of a saddle-stitched magazine and the second, published in 1978, took the form of a fold-out poster. This facsimile edition reproduces both and houses them in a custom self-folding box. Womens Work is produced in an edition of 1,500 copies.

Alison Knowles (b. 1933) is a conceptual artist known for intermedia works in text, graphics, sound, installations, transvironments, performances, paperworks and publishing. She is a founding member of Fluxus, the experimental avant-garde group formally launched in 1962. Her most recent retrospective was at the Carnegie Museum of Art in 2016. In 2019 she debuted in Havana, Cuba.

Annea Lockwood (b. 1939) is an artist and composer whose lifelong fascination with timbre and new sound sources is reflected in her multidisciplinary work, which has incorporated chamber music, performance, electronic and environmental sound, and visual art. Recent works include commissions for the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Thomas Buckner and the S.E.M. Ensemble, and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. She is a recipient of the 2007 Henry Cowell Award.

File under: Beth Anderson Ruth Anderson Jackie Apple Barbara Benary Sari Dienes Nye Ffarrabas (Bici Forbes) Simone Forti Wendy Greenberg Heidi Von Gunden Françoise Janicot Alison Knowles Christina Kubisch Carol Law Mary Lucier Lisa Mikulchik Ann Noël (Ann Williams) Pauline Oliveros Takako Saito Carolee Schneemann Mieko Shiomi Elaine Summers Carole Weber Julie Winter Marilyn Wood Annea Lockwood Alison Knowles Anna Lockwood Primary Information / New York Theory / Essay Feminism Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art

Practice
Edited by Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine

2018, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21 x 23 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

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The first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads.

“Practice” is one of the key words of contemporary art, used in contexts ranging from artists' descriptions of their practice to curatorial practice, from social practice to practice-based research. This is the first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads.

Reframing the question of practice offers new ways of reading the history of art and of evaluating particular forms of practice-based art. Once used to denote “doing,” as distinct from thinking and making, today the term can convey associations of political action (praxis), professional activity, discipline, or rehearsal, and signal a shift away from the self-enclosed artwork or medium to open-ended actions, series, processes, and projects. Although the turn to practice might promise freedom from finality or eventfulness, it also reflects the neoliberal pressures to train oneself, to perform, and to rehearse a marketable set of skills. This book offers an indispensible guide to the art history and theoretical framework of art-as-practice, clarifying the complex issues at stake in thinking about and enacting practice.

Artists surveyed include Francis Alys, Arakawa, Rebecca Belmore, AA Bronson, Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Andrea Fraser, Madeline Gins, Tehching Hsieh, Mary Kelly, Henri Michaux, Linda M. Montano, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Raivo Puusemp, Rammellzee, Gerhard Richter, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Gregory Sholette, Aliza Shvarts, Situationist International, Jonas Staal, Stelarc, Fiona Tan, Min Tanaka, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Cecilia Vicuña

Writers include Kathy Acker, Giorgio Agamben, Louis Althusser, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, Lauren Berlant, Gregg Bordowitz, Pierre Bourdieu, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Judith Butler, Jennifer Doyle, Okwui Enwezor, Saidiya V. Hartman, Maulana Karenga, Julia Kristeva, Saba Mahmood, Viktor Misiano, Fred Moten, Paul B. Preciado, Lane Relyea, Suely Rolnik, Peter Sloterdijk, Isabelle Stengers, Winnie Won Yin Wong

Part of the Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art series

File under: Francis Alÿs Rebecca Belmore AA Bronson Judy Chicago Lygia Clark Andrea Fraser Madeline Gins Tehching Hsieh Mary Kelly Henri Michaux Pauline Oliveros Yoko Ono Adrian Piper Raivo Puusemp Rammellzee Gerhard Richter Miriam Schapiro Carolee Schneemann Gregory Sholette Aliza Shvarts Situationist International Jonas Staal Stelarc Fiona Tan Min Tanaka Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Cecilia Vicuña Shusaku Arakawa Linda Montano The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Feminism Theory / Essay Film / Video Sound / Music Fluxus Dada

Merce Cunningham

1975, English
Softcover, 220 pages, 27 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by E P Dutton / New York

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First 1975 edition of "Merce Cunningham", published by E P Dutton, New York.

Between 1967 and 1972, editor/photographer James Klosty traveled with and documented the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC). As the partner of dancer Carolyn Brown, he had unprecedented access to Cunningham, John Cage, and the Company as a whole, and his stunning photographs - first published here in his 1975 book - provide a unique, riveting, and intimate insight into both the work, and life on tour. Includes incredible documentation of the rehearsals, recitals and lives of Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Features contributions by Cunningham's close collaborators, dancers, composers, peers, including : Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber, Yvonne Rainer, Douglas Dunn, Paul Taylor, Richard Nelson, Lewis L Lloyd, John Cage, Gordon Mumma, Earle Brown, Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Lincoln Kirstein, and Edwin Denby. Introduction by James Klosty.

A Very Good - Fine copy of the first edition.

File under: Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown Viola Farber Yvonne Rainer Douglas Dunn Paul Taylor Richard Nelson Lewis L Lloyd John Cage Gordon Mumma Earle Brown Pauline Oliveros Christian Wolff Robert Rauschenberg Jasper Johns Lincoln Kirstein James Klosty E P Dutton / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art

F.R. David
Spring 2017 : Inverted Commas

2017, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Uh Books / Amsterdam

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F.R.DAVID is a typographical journal, edited by Will Holder, dealing with the organisation of reading and writing in contemporary art practises. This 13th issue of F.R.DAVID is edited with Riet Wijnen, and has its origins in her Registry of Pseudonyms, an online database which accounts for who is who and why who is who. ‘Inverted Commas’ follows ‘pseudonym’ through names, naming, bodies, brains, self, author, other, reader, labour.

Includes: Michael Asher, Joan Didion, Harun Farocki, Sven Lütticken, Lucy Lippard, Barbara Guest, A.H. Nijhoff, Will Holder, Pauline Oliveros, and many more.

File under: Harun Farocki Michael Asher Pauline Oliveros Will Holder A.H. Nijhoff Barbara Guest Harun Farocki Joan Didion Sven Lütticken Will Holder Lucy R. Lippard KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Uh Books / Amsterdam Art Graphic Design / Typography Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Periodicals Poetry Sound / Music Theory / Essay

WACK!
Art and the Feminist Revolution

2007, English
Hardcover, 400 pages, 235 x 263 mm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts The Museum of Contemporary Art / Los Angeles

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There had never been art like the art produced by women artists in the 1970s ;and there has never been a book with the ambition and scope of this one about that groundbreaking era. WACK! documents and illustrates the impact of the feminist revolution on art made between 1965 and 1980, featuring pioneering and influential works by artists who came of age during that period ;Chantal Akerman, Lynda Benglis, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Valie Export, Mary Heilmann, Sanja Ivekovič, Ana Mendieta, Annette Messager, and others ;as well as important works made in those years by artists whose whose careers were already well established, including Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Lucy Lippard, Alice Neel, and Yoko Ono.The art surveyed in WACK! includes work by more than 120 artists, in all media ;from painting and sculpture to photography, film, installation, and video ;arranged not by chronology but by theme: Abstraction, "Autophotography," Body as Medium, Family Stories, Gender Performance, Knowledge as Power, Making Art History, and others. WACK!, which accompanies the first international museum exhibition to showcase feminist art from this revolutionary era, contains more than 400 color images. Highlights include the figurative paintings of Joan Semmel; the performance and film collaborations of Sally Potter and Rose English; the untitled film stills of Cindy Sherman; and the large-scale, craft-based sculptures of Magdalena Abakanowicz. Written entries on each artist offer key biographical and descriptive information and accompanying essays by leading critics, art historians, and scholars offer new perspectives on feminist art practice. The topics ;including the relationship between American and European feminism, feminism and New York abstraction, and mapping a global feminism ;provide a broad social context for the artworks themselves. WACK! is both a definitive visual record and a long-awaited history of one of the most important artistic movements of the twentieth century.

Essays by: Cornelia Butler, Judith Russi Kirshner, Catherine Lord, Marsha Meskimmon, Richard Meyer, Helen Molesworth, Peggy Phelan, Nelly Richard, Valerie Smith, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Jenni Sorkin.

Artists include: Marina Abramovič, Chantal Akerman, Lynda Benglis, Dara Birnbaum, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Jay DeFeo, Mary Beth Edelson, Valie Export, Barbara Hammer, Susan Hiller, Joan Jonas, Mary Kelly, Maria Lassnig, Linda Montano, Alice Neel, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Howardena Pindell, Yvonne Rainer, Faith Ringgold, Ketty La Rocca, Ulrike Rosenbach, Martha Rosler, Betye Saar, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, and Hannah Wilke.

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File under: Alice Neel Barbara Hammer Betye Saar Carolee Schneemann Chantal Akerman Cindy Sherman Dara Birnbaum Faith Ringgold Hannah Wilke Howardena Pindell Jay DeFeo Joan Jonas Judy Chicago Ketty La Rocca Linda Montano Lorraine O'Grady Louise Bourgeois Lygia Clark Lynda Benglis Maria Lassnig Marina Abramovič Martha Rosler Mary Beth Edelson Mary Kelly Miriam Schapiro Orlan Pauline Oliveros Senga Nengudi Susan Hiller Ulrike Rosenbach Valie Export Yoko Ono Yvonne Rainer Abigail Solomon-Godeau Catherine Lord Cornelia Butler Helen Molesworth Jenni Sorkin Judith Russi Kirshner Marsha Meskimmon Nelly Richard Peggy Phelan Richard Meyer Valerie Smith The MIT Press / Massachusetts The Museum of Contemporary Art / Los Angeles Art Feminism Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay