World Food Books

R. H. Quaytman
The Sun Does Not Move. Chapter 35

2020, English / Polish
Hardcover, 288 pages, 25.3 x 16 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art / Porto Muzeum Szluki / Lodz

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R.H. Quaytman (b.1961, Boston) is one of the most outstanding contemporary American artists attempting to revitalise and update the intellectual and emotional potential contained in the painting medium. The artist is best known for her paintings on wood panels, using abstract and photographic elements in site-specific ‘Chapters’.

The exhibition, prepared especially for the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, was a kind of conceptual retrospective, where the artist has re-read earlier ‘Chapters’ of the constantly developed project, and returned to its origins closely related to Lodz and the works by Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński. Apart from precisely selected works from her earlier ‘Chapters’ works, the exhibition has presented new paintings in which Quaytman continues her dialogue with the work of Polish artists and explores other aspects of her personal relationship with the Lodz museum.

This catalogue contains essays written by the artist, a curator of the show, Jarosław Suchan, and Marta Dziewańska who is an art critic and curator in Kunstmuseum Bern.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, R.H. Quaytman: The Sun Does Not Move. Chapter 35 at Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz (8 November 2019 – 23 February 2020), and at Fundação Serralves, Porto (16 October 2020 – 21 February 2021).

English and Polish text.

File under: R.H. Quaytman Marta Dziewańska R. H. Quaytman Jarosław Suchan Walther König / Köln Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art / Porto Muzeum Szluki / Lodz Painting Conceptual Art Art

Ray Johnson
c/o

2021, English
Softcover, 376 pages, 22.9 x 30.5 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven Art Institute of Chicago / Chicago

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Ray Johnson (1927–1995) was a renowned maker of meticulous collages whose works influenced movements including Pop Art, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Emerging from the interdisciplinary community of artists and poets at Black Mountain College, Johnson was extraordinarily adept at using social interaction as an artistic endeavor and founded a mail art network known as the New York Correspondence School.

Drawing on the vast collection of Johnson’s work at the Art Institute of Chicago, this oversized, beautifully designed volume gives new shape to our understanding of his artistic practice and features hundreds of pieces that include artist’s books, collages, drawings, mail art, and performance documentation. In keeping with Johnson’s democratic, rhizomatic, and antihierarchical ethos, this indispensable resource on the artist’s oeuvre contains 700 illustrations, many of them never before published, and twenty-one short essays by various contributors that allow readers to dip into and out of the book in a nonlinear manner.

Text by Jordan Carter, Colby Chamberlain, Jennifer R. Cohen, Johanna Gosse, Caitlin Haskell, Miriam Kienle, Brian T. Leahy, Ellen Levy, Solveig Nelson, Thea Liberty Nichols, Michael von Uchtrup

Caitlin Haskell is Gary C. and Frances Comer Curator of International Modern Art, and Jordan Carter is associate curator of modern and contemporary art, both at the Art Institute of Chicago.

File under: Ray Johnson Caitlin Haskell Jordan Carter Colby Chamberlain Jennifer R. Cohen Johanna Gosse Miriam Kienle Brian T. Leahy Ellen Levy Solveig Nelson Thea Liberty Nichols Michael von Uchtrup Yale University Press / New Haven Art Institute of Chicago / Chicago Art Fluxus Drawing Pop Art Conceptual Art

Question The Wall Itself
Fionn Meade (Ed.)

2017, English
Softcover (die-cut), 244 pages, 19 x 26 cm
Published by Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis

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Edited with text by Fionn Meade. Foreword by Olga Viso. Texts by Jordan Carter, Adrienne Edwards, Isla Leaver-Yap, Robert Wiesenberger.

Question the Wall Itself examines ways that interior spaces and décor can be fundamental to the understanding of cultural identity. It showcases 23 international artists who explore the political and social dimensions of interior architecture as well as its complicated relationship to history and their own backgrounds. The featured artists are Jonathas de Andrade, Uri Aran, Nina Beier, Marcel Broodthaers, Tom Burr, Alejandro Cesarco, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Theaster Gates, Ull Hohn, Janette Laverrière, Louise Lawler, Nick Mauss, Park McArthur, Lucy McKenzie, Shahryar Nashat, Walid Raad, Seth Siegelaub, Paul Sietsema, Florine Stettheimer, Rosemarie Trockel, Cerith Wyn Evans, Danh Vo and Akram Zaatari.
The book and the exhibition it accompanies take as its guiding principle what Marcel Broodthaers termed “esprit décor”: a critique of ideas of nationality, globalization and the space of the institution through constructed interior scenes. Recasting our conception of interior space and design, the featured works exist between art, prop, and set or stage. Espousing this mise-en-scène approach, Question the Wall Itself plugs readers into material that expands the show in the form of book-as-exhibition. It includes an extensive photographic walk-through of the installations, and essays by Jordan Carter, Adrienne Edwards, Isla Leaver-Yap, Fionn Meade, and Robert Wiesenberger, as well as contributions from participating artists.

File under: Akram Zaatari Alejandro Cesarco Cerith Wyn Evans Danh Vo Florine Stettheimer Janette Laverrière Jonathas de Andrade Louise Lawler Lucy Mckenzie Marc Camille Chaimowicz Marcel Broodthaers Nick Mauss Nina Beier Park McArthur Paul Sietsema Rosemarie Trockel Seth Siegelaub Shahryar Nashat Theaster Gates Tom Burr Ull Hohn Uri Aran Walid Raad Adrienne Edwards Fionn Meade Isla Leaver-Yap Jordan Carter Olga Viso Robert Wiesenberger Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis Art Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Painting Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections SALE

Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub
Michalis Pichler (Ed.)

2016, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Center for Book Arts / New York Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Contributions by Regine Ehleiter, Michalis Pichler, Seth Siegelaub

Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub spans an arc of tension between the works of Seth Siegelaub and contemporary cultural production. It features an interview with Seth Siegelaub, two essays by Regine Ehleiter and Michalis Pichler, and an extensively illustrated catalogue with bibliographic details.

In preparation for the project, Siegelaub and Pichler met twice in Amsterdam, where they had a long recorded conversation about books, living with books, being intimately connected with books, and producing books, and about the recent emergence of contemporary publications that show clear reference to books Siegelaub had produced, both piracies and homages, and not always to his delight.

Books by Siegelaub that are often paraphrased include the Xerox Book (1968), which was printed in offset and has since been xeroxed by various artists and publishers in many different ways, the catalogue exhibitions from 1969, as well as Lawrence Weiner’s Statements (1968). These publications are often taken as starting points for new projects, which are derivative and yet substantial artworks in their own right. Also, Siegelaub’s engagement with the Art Workers’ Coalition and subsequent draft of The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement has had wide reception and reaction in contemporary art and activism.

“The works presented in Michalis Pichler’s catalogue Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub reinvent Siegelaub’s renowned distinction between primary and secondary information.”
—Annette Gilbert, editor of Reprint: Appropriation (&) Literature and Publishing as Artistic Practice

“This anthology provides a welcome overview of the highly innovative exhibition and distribution practices developed by Seth Siegelaub in the late 1960s and the 1970s.”
—Alexander Alberro, author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity

“Seth Siegelaub was largely responsible for publicizing and promoting Conceptual art in the 1960s, but as Books and Ideas documents, he has continued to be a provocation and inspiration almost half a century after his abrupt exit from the art world he helped to create. Moreover, this book provides a context for Pichler’s own brand of conceptual practices. If part of Siegelaub’s genius was to reconceive exhibition as publication, Pichler gives us a catalogue of catalogues exhibiting the proliferation of mirrors which line the hall of Conceptual art’s legacy. In the pages of Books and Ideas, secondary information, accordingly, becomes primary.”
—Craig Dworkin, author of No Medium and Reading the Illegible

Copublished with the Center for Book Arts, New York
Design by Burak Yilmaz Kececiler

File under: Adrian Piper Art Workers' Coalition Carl Andre Douglas Huebler Jan Dibbets Jonathan Monk Joseph Kosuth Lawrence Weiner Maria Eichhorn Robert Barry Robert Morris Sol Lewitt Germano Celant Michalis Pichler Regine Ehleiter Seth Siegelaub Steven Leiber Lucy R. Lippard Center for Book Arts / New York Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Graphic Design / Typography Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections SALE

David Thomas
When a Still Painting Shows Us That We Are Moving, Impermanences and Other Projects 2010-2016

2016, English
Softcover, 116 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
Published by Surpllus / Melbourne

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When a still painting shows us that we are moving' presents Melbourne painter and installation artist David Thomas' latest body of work, Impermanences. Featuring contributions from Kit Wise, Professor of Fine Art and Director of the Tasmanian College of the Arts, University of Tasmania; Dr Michael Graeve, a visual and sound artist; and David Thomas.

David Thomas lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1951 and arrived in Australia in 1958. Thomas has exhibited internationally for the past four decades, including in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, and throughout Europe.

Thomas’ work is represented in public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Australian National Gallery, Art Bank, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, RMIT University, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Cripp’s Collection (Australia and UK); Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Canterbury University (New Zealand); Lim Lip Museum (South Korea); and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Theodor F. Leifeld Stiftung, and Kunstmuseum Ahlen (all Germany). He has received awards from the Australia Council, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Arts Victoria, and has participated in residencies at the Cité International des Arts (Paris), Two Rooms Gallery (Auckland), Centre for Drawing Research, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts (London), and Porthmeor Studios (St. Ives, UK).

Thomas has curated numerous exhibitions and written extensively on the subject of monochrome painting. He is a Professor of Fine Art at RMIT University in Melbourne where he has taught since 1992. Thomas holds an MA in Fine Art (Painting) and a PhD from RMIT University.

File under: David Thomas David Thomas Kit Wise Michael Graeve Surpllus / Melbourne Minimal Art Conceptual Art Painting Australian Art Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Dan Graham
Theatre

2021, English
Softcover, 52 pages, 15 x 21cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Theatre is an artist book that documents seven early performances by Dan Graham taking place from 1969 to 1977 with notes, transcripts, or photographs for each work. Originally published in 1978, and produced here in facsimile form, the publication focuses on several key works that interrogate or undermine the psychological and social space created by, or between, individuals inside the performance venue.

Like most of Graham’s work, they also serve as a critique of cultural norms, with many of the performances utilizing quotidian, social acts that are amplified over time. For example, in Lax/Relax (1969), Graham’s subversion of West Coast new ageism, the artist chants “relax” in sync with a recording of a woman saying “lax” in a meditative manner, which implicates the audience into a group breathing exercise or hypnosis over the course of 30 minutes.

Throughout the ’70s, the artist engaged in a series of works that subverted the prescribed roles of the audience and performer by creating conditions in which each simultaneously functions as both (creating a type of feedback loop). Remarking on another work form this period, Graham once stated, “It begins with Minimal Art, but it’s about spectators observing themselves as they’re observed by other people.”* This paradigm is extended even further in Performer/Audience Sequence (1975) and Performer/Audience Mirror (1977), in which the artist performs by describing the audience as well as himself, creating conditions whereby the audience is performing for the artist as well as themselves.

Like (1971), Past Future Split Attention (1972), and Identification Projection (1977) are also featured in the publication.

Dan Graham (b. 1942) is an artist based in New York. Since the 1960s, he has produced a wide range of work and writing that engages in a highly analytical discourse on the historical, social, and ideological functions of contemporary cultural systems. Architecture, popular music, video, and television are among the focuses of his investigations, which he articulates through essays, performances, installations, videotapes, and architectural/sculptural designs.

Managing Editor: James Hoff
Managing Designer: Rick Myers

File under: Dan Graham Primary Information / New York Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

HEALTH
Edited by Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz

2020, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 15.1 x 21.1 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

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Part of the acclaimed Documents of Contemporary Art series of anthologies which collect writing on major themes and ideas in contemporary art.

The ethical, aesthetic and political significance of practices, positions and theories connected to health in contemporary art.

In an era of fitness programs, increasing antidepressant usage, nutrition counseling and health-management apps, wellness is one of the defining issues of contemporary life, dictating every intimate aspect of our lives. Historically, art has been entwined with the values of medicine, beauty, and the productive body that have defined western scientific paradigms; contemporary artists are increasingly confronting and reshaping these ideologies, critically tackling illness and impairment in their practice while challenging ableist institutional dynamics. In this volume, artists, curators, writers, and thinkers engage with the ways the vulnerability of our bodies reveals structural aspects of our societies.

At a moment at which epidemics and global warming menace all forms of life, we see clearly how health intersects with sexuality, ethnicity, gender, class, and coloniality. By reclaiming other realities, beyond a state of health as a norm, this book questions the myths, stigmas, and cultural attitudes that shape normative perceptions, revealing the interdependence of our entangled existences. The book includes four newly commissioned texts: by artists Mahmoud Khaled and Patrick Staff, by curator Clare Barlow on disability in the museum, and by curator Portia Malatjie on the work of Dineo Seshee Bopape. It also features two texts on the current COVID-19 pandemic, by Anne Boyer and Filipa Ramos.

Artists surveyed include :
Oreet Ashery, Lucy Beech, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Lorenza Böttner, Canaries & Taraneh Fazeli, Grupo Chaclacayo, Anne Charlotte Robertson, Patricia Domínguez, Dora García, Felix González-Torres, Luke Fowler, Alice Hattrick, Tamar Guimarães, Joseph Grigely, Gran Fury, Johanna Hedva, Mahmoud Khaled, Mujeres Creando, Carolyn Lazard, Simone Leigh, Park McArthur, Pedro Neves Marques, Tabita Rezaire, Jo Spence, Patrick Staff, Christine Sun Kim, Pedro Reyes, David Wojnarowicz

Writers include :
Aimar Arriola & Nanci Garín, Clare Barlow, Khairani Barokka, Dodie Bellamy, Anne Boyer, Rizvana Bradley, Eli Clare, Taraneh Fazeli, Theodore (ted) Kerr & Alexandra Juhasz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, R.D. Laing, Miguel A. López, Catalina Lozano, Audre Lorde, Portia Malatjie, Margarida Mendes, Peter Pál Pelbart, Naomi Pearce, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Filipa Ramos, Susan Sontag, Paul B. Preciado, Mary Walling Blackburn, Simon Watney & Sunil Gupta

Copublish by MIT Press with Whitechapel Gallery, London

File under: Oreet Ashery Lucy Beech Dineo Seshee Bopape Lorenza Böttner Canaries & Taraneh Fazeli Grupo Chaclacayo Anne Charlotte Robertson Patricia Domínguez Dora García Felix González-Torres Luke Fowler Alice Hattrick Tamar Guimarães Joseph Grigely Gran Fury Johanna Hedva Mahmoud Khaled Mujeres Creando Carolyn Lazard Simone Leigh Park McArthur Pedro Neves Marques Tabita Rezaire Jo Spence Patrick Staff Christine Sun Kim Pedro Reyes David Wojnarowicz Clare Barlow Khairani Barokka Dodie Bellamy Aimar Arriola & Nanci Garín Anne Boyer Rizvana Bradley Eli Clare Taraneh Fazeli Theodore (ted) Kerr & Alexandra Juhasz Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick R.D. Laing Miguel A. López Peter Pál Pelbart Catalina Lozano Audre Lorde Portia Malatjie Margarida Mendes Simon Watney Sunil Gupta Naomi Pearce Filipa Ramos Susan Sontag Paul B. Preciado Mary Walling Blackburn María Puig de la Bellacasa The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater

SCIENCE FICTION
Edited by Dan Byrne-Smith

2020, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 14.9 x 21 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

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Part of the acclaimed Documents of Contemporary Art series of anthologies which collect writing on major themes and ideas in contemporary art.

The first major anthology to focus on relationships between science fiction and contemporary art, with topics ranging from accelerating technological change to global urbanization.

Over the past two decades, artists and writers have increasingly used science fiction as a lens through which to search for fragments of truth emerging from the past or the future. The proliferation of science fiction in contemporary art practice and discourse reflects an increased understanding of how this narrative field continues to grow in relevance. This book is the first major anthology to focus on relationships between science fiction and contemporary art, and offers an essential read for all those exploring this vital genre.

Organizing its contributions according to four distinct approaches—"estrangement,” “futures,” “posthumanism,” and “ecologies”—this unique collection gathers key examples of the influence of science fiction in recent cultural development. It considers topics that include the integration and acceleration of technological change, global urbanization and concepts of futurity, the boundaries of social structures and nonhuman life, and the threatening evidence of climate change.

Artists surveyed include :
Laylah Ali, Pawel Althamer, Ama Josephine Budge, Lee Bul, Ellen Gallagher, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Eduardo Kac, Patrick Keiller, Josh Kline, Lawrence Lek, Anne Lislegaard, Mariko Mori, Wangechi Mutu, The Otolith Group, Suzanne Treister

Writers include :
Peio Aguirre, Margaret Atwood, J.G. Ballard, Jean Baudrillard, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Rosi Braidotti, Rachel Carson, Dawn Chan, T.J. Demos, Donna J. Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Wanuri Kahiu, Tom McCarthy, David Musgrave, Alondra Nelson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Darko Suvin

File under: Laylah Ali Pawel Althamer Ama Josephine Budge Lee Bul Ellen Gallagher Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Eduardo Kac Patrick Keiller Josh Kline Lawrence Lek Anne Lislegaard Mariko Mori Wangechi Mutu The Otolith Group Suzanne Treister Peio Aguirre Margaret Atwood J.G. Ballard Jean Baudrillard Franco 'Bifo' Berardi Rosi Braidotti Rachel Carson Dawn Chan T.J. Demos Donna J. Haraway N. Katherine Hayles Wanuri Kahiu Tom McCarthy David Musgrave Alondra Nelson Kim Stanley Robinson Darko Suvin The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay Art Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the archive
by Yann Chateigné, Hila Peleg, and Kitty Scott

2020, English
Softcover, 248 pages, 31 x 24 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London CCA / Montreal

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Gordon Matta-Clark was born in 1943 in New York, son of American artist Anne Clark, and Chilean Surrealist painter Roberto Matta. He entered the architecture program at Cornell University in 1962 but left in 1963 and spent the following year in Paris living with his father and studying French Literature. He returned to Cornell 1964-1968, he did not, however, practice as a conventional architect; he worked on what he referred to as "Anarchitecture." In mid-1969, Matta-Clark moved to New York City and his architectural "Cuttings", as well as his large corpus of drawings made him a prominent figure among his colleagues, including close friends and collaborators such as Jan Dibbetts and Robert Smithson. His influence as "artist's artist" on future generations cannot be overstated. Matta-Clark died at the age of 35. Many of his works are destroyed.

In 2011, the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark handed over the entire archive – his library, manuscripts, films, correspondence, drawings, notes and works of art - to the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, where it now has been published annotated and edited in an exemplary way in this incredible volume. Only with this publication will his work become fully visible.

This book unpacks the comprehensive Gordon Matta-Clark collection at the CCA (CP138), opening it up to provisional readings from different points of view. Yann Chateigné reorganizes Matta-Clark’s library into areas of inquiry, from alchemy to psychoanalysis, as a framework for gathering traces⁠—written and drawn⁠—of his thinking. Hila Peleg reassembles hours of discarded film footage, challenging the notion of documentation and returning to view the physical and social contexts⁠—the relational space⁠—of Matta-Clark’s interventions. And from hundreds of travel photographs, Kitty Scott constructs a panorama of Matta-Clark’s visual notes on the world around him⁠—a foil to his artworks. In foregrounding seemingly incidental parts of the collection, these studies manifest an exploratory way of working with archives, by which selecting, presenting, and writing are processes of ongoing research. Rather than synthesize, CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the archive by Yann Chateigné, Hila Peleg, and Kitty Scott extends the scope of what constitutes Matta-Clark’s body of work and thus the physical and intellectual terrain within which to situate it.

File under: Gordon Matta-Clark Yann Chateigné Hila Peleg Kitty Scott Gordon Matta-Clark Koenig Books / London CCA / Montreal Sculpture / Installation Photography Conceptual Art Art Theory / Essay Drawing Architecture / Interior

Pierre Huyghe
At the Serpentine

2019, English
Softcover, 448 pages, 15 x 21cm
Published by Koenig Books / London Serpentine Gallery / London

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This already out-of-print major survey on renowned French artist Pierre Huyghe (born 1962) chronicles seminal works from the last decade, including his iconic Documenta 13 project "Untilled." An interview between Huyghe and Hans Ulrich Obrist and an essay by Dorothea von Hantelmann accompany drawings, diagrams, photographs, film stills and more.

As New with light cover wear (hence reduced price)

File under: Pierre Huyghe Melissa Larner Dorothea von Hantelmann Hans Ulrich Obrist Natalia Grabowska Rebecca Lewin Koenig Books / London Serpentine Gallery / London Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare SALE Film / Video Conceptual Art Ecology Ecology / Earth Occult / Esoterica Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Gay Semiotics
by Hal Fischer

2015, English
Softcover, 56 pages, 20 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Cherry and Martin / Los Angeles

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Hal Fischer's Gay Semiotics: A Photographic Study of Visual Coding Among Homosexual Men (1977) is one of the most important publications associated with California conceptual photography in the 1970s. This long out-of-print and collectible edition from Cherry and Martin perfectly reproduces the look and feel of the original volume, which reconfigured into a book format the 24 text-embedded images of Fischer's 1977 photographic series Gay Semiotics. The photographs in Gay Semiotics present the codes of sexual orientation and identification Fischer saw in San Francisco's Castro and Haight Ashbury districts, ranging from such sexual signifiers as handkerchiefs and keys to depictions of the gay fashion "types" of that era--from "basic-gay" to "hippie" and "jock." Gay Semiotics also features Fischer's critical essay, which is marked by the same wry, anthropological tone found in the image/text configurations. Fischer's book circulated widely, finding a worldwide audience in both the gay and conceptual art communities. Fischer's insistence on the visual equivalence of word and image is a hallmark of the loose photography and language group that included Fischer, Lutz Bacher, Lew Thomas and others working in the San Francisco Bay Area. First published as an artist's book in 1978 by NFS Press, at a time when gay people had been forced to both evaluate and defend their lifestyles, Gay Semiotics earned substantial critical and public recognition. Thirty-seven years later, the book remains a proactive statement from a voice within the gay community from a moment in history just before the devastation wrought by AIDS.

Hal Fischer (born 1950) grew up in Highland Park, Illinois. He arrived in San Francisco in 1975 to pursue an MA in photography at San Francisco State. Through his work as an art reviewer and photographer, he soon became embedded in the Bay Area's artistic and intellectual scene. He continues to live and work in San Francisco.

Out of Print. As New copy.

File under: Hal Fischer Cherry and Martin / Los Angeles Eros Out-of-print / Rare Photography Conceptual Art LGBTQ+

The Joke Book
Collected By Seth Siegelaub

2018, English
Softcover, 216 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Published by Kunstverein / Amsterdam

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'The Joke Book' is the first printed edition of the complete jokes & messages file that was found on the computer of famed American art dealer, curator, author, researcher and champion of conceptual art Seth Siegelaub (1941-2013) by his partner Marja Bloem. It contains jokes, quotes, and pieces of advice, that he collected since 1999 and regularly redistributed via email amongst his friends.

With contributions by Alex Alberto, John Baldessari, Marja Bloem, Myrna Bloom, Martin Browne, Alan Kennedy, David Kunzle, Joel Miller, Loren Miller, Kay Robertson, Laurent Sauerwein, Seth Siegelaub, Joan Simon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, Peter Sinclair, Steven Wright, and an introduction by Huan Hsu (written after a long conversation with Marja Bloem).

File under: John Baldessari Seth Siegelaub Kunstverein / Amsterdam Curatorial Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Art Fiction / Poetry

Bildwerke und Objekte : Neuzugänge seit 1965

1973, German
Softcover, 138 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Wallraf-Richartz-Museum / Cologne

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Lovely catalogue published by Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln, in 1973 to document the museums extensive collection of international contemporary sculpture. Profusely illustrated in black and white with the works of Jean Arp, Paul Thek, Nancy Graves, John Chamberlain, Larry Bell, Carl Andre, Christo, Eva Hesse, Joachim Bandau, Jacques Lipchitz, Louise Nevelson, Joseph Cornell, Jean Dubuffet, Germaine Richier, Schöffer, Bernard Schultze, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm), John Tweed, Franz Erhard Walther, Hanns Gasser, Merdardo Rosso, Joseph Beuys, Günter Haese, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Jesús Rafael Soto, Richard Tuttle, Helmut Moos, Bruce Nauman, Ansgar Nierhoff, Jim Dine, Gary Indiana, Karl Zeno Rudolf Schadow, Julio Le Parc, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, G. F. Ris, George Segal, Nicolas Schöffer, Anthony Caro, Eduardo Paolozzi, Jean Tinguely, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Arman, Claes Oldenburg, Marisol Escobar, Niki Saint-Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Günther Uecker, Heinz Mack, Wolf Vostell, Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Pol Bury, Erwin Heerich, Horst-Egon Kalinowski, Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff, Johann Gottfried Schadow, Honoré Daumier, Gasser, Adolf von Hildebrand, Max Klinger, Rosso, Aristide Maillol, Tweed, Julio González, Pablo Picasso, Henri Laurens, and many more... Texts in German.

Very Good copy.

File under: Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Paul Thek Nancy Graves John Chamberlain Larry Bell Carl Andre Christo Eva Hesse Joachim Bandau Jacques Lipchitz Louise Nevelson Joseph Cornell Jean Dubuffet Germaine Richier Schöffer Bernard Schultze Carlos Cruz-Diez Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm) John Tweed Franz Erhard Walther Hanns Gasser Merdardo Rosso Joseph Beuys Günter Haese Roy Lichtenstein Richard Serra Keith Sonnier Jesus Raphael Soto Richard Tuttle Helmut Moos Bruce Nauman Marisol Robert Rauschenberg Ansgar Nierhoff Karl Zeno Rudolf Schadow Julio Le Parc Jim Dine Gary Indiana Eduardo Paolozzi Arman Anthony Caro George Segal Man Ray Nicolas Schoffer Claes Oldenburg Jean Tinguely G. F. Ris Arnaldo Pomodoro Daniel Spoerri Heinz Mack Wolf Vostell Miguel Ortiz Berrocal Pol Bury Erwin Heerich Horst-Egon Kalinowski Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff Johann Gottfried Schadow Honoré Daumier Gasser Adolf von Hildebrand Max Klinger Rosso Aristide Maillol Pablo Picasso Henri Laurens Günter Uecker Niki de Saint-Phalle Julio Gonzalez Wallraf-Richartz-Museum / Cologne Art Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus Dada

Project Phalanstère at CAC Brétigny, or “Of museum orgy or mixed omnigamy in composite and harmonic order”
Edited by Pierre Bal-Blanc

2017, English / French
Softcover, 268 pages, 25 x 18.9 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin CAC / Brétigny

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Contributions by Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL), Robert Breer, Daniel Buren, Maurizio Cattelan, Nicolas Chardon, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Lionel Estève, Esther Ferrer, Cyprien Gaillard, Jens Haaning, David Lamelas, François Laroche-Valière (Cie Studio Laroche-Valière), Mathieu Lehanneur, Teresa Margolles, Dominique Mathieu, Hans Walter Müller, Rainer Oldendorf, Roman Ondák, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Gianni Pettena, Pratchaya Phinthong, R&Sie(n) (François Roche, Stéphanie Lavaux, Jean Navarro), Matthieu Saladin, Gabriel Sierra, Santiago Sierra, Xavier Veilhan, VIER5, Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan), Lois Weinberger

Organized by curator Pierre Bal-Blanc, the experimental architectural program “Project Phalanstère” consisted of a series of site-specific artworks in the Parisian suburbs. Taking place from 2003 to 2014, these projects developed a creative space extended in time. Here, in contrast with the duration of the work schedule, in which one task follows another, the simultaneity of life’s forces asserted its rhythm. Some works exceeded the conventional time and space of an exhibition: Lionel Estève’s myope et amnésique (2005), for example, was conceived to be larger than any one viewer can see; through the displacement of existing objects, both Cyprien Gaillard and Lois Weinberger reflected upon permanence and the monument; Christodolous Panayiotou and Jens Hanning made subtle alterations to existing architecture, playing with the material presence and experience of light; and so on.

This book proposes to adopt a new syntax. It does not simply call for a renewal of the terminology used in the field of contemporary art programming. Its syntax has taken shape by progressively building on the complex materiality of artworks in a specific context—an art center located in the Parisian suburbs—and not by contriving itself with the help of words and discourses uttered from an abstract perspective. The political aims of “Project Phalanstère” appear in the ungrammatical formulas that the works articulate and in the active resistance that they manifest against a normative authority that, although it accepts the play of words, continues to enforce the disciplinary activity of arts administration. Over one hundred pages of images of the installed works opens the volume, followed by the individual artworks according to a score that denotes use, nature, and location, annotated to place each work within a larger cultural context. A comprehensive timeline of the exhibitions concludes the volume.

Copublished with CAC Brétigny and Work Method, Paris
Design by VIER5

File under: Atelier Van Lieshout Robert Breer Daniel Buren Maurizio Cattelan Nicolas Chardon Marie Cool Fabio Balducci Lionel Estève Esther Ferrer Cyprien Gaillard Jens Haaning David Lamelas François Laroche-Valière Mathieu Lehanneur Teresa Margolles Dominique Mathieu Hans Walter Müller Rainer Oldendorf Roman Ondák Christodoulos Panayiotou Gianni Pettena Pratchaya Phinthong Matthieu Saladin Gabriel Sierra Santiago Sierra Xavier Veilhan Lois Weinberger Pierre Bal-Blanc Sternberg Press / Berlin CAC / Brétigny Group Shows / Collections Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Conceptual Art Curatorial Theory / Essay SALE

Jason Dodge
What we have done.

2014, English
Softcover, 2 volumes, 90 pages,16.8 x 23 cm
Published by Fivehundred Places / Berlin

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This two-volume set documents American-born, Berlin-based sculptor Jason Dodge's (born 1969) 2013 exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. The first volume is comprised of installation shots; the second includes an exchange between Dodge and poet Matthew Dickman.

With a simplicity that belies their conceptual nature, Jason Dodge’s (b. 1969) installations communicate powerful narratives propelled by exhibition titles such as, “I woke up. There was a note in my pocket that explained what had happened” (2009). That exhibition featured unexpected combinations of familiar objects—satellite dishes, light bulbs, bells, and baskets—taken out of context. Colorful blankets, for instance, commissioned from hand-weavers around the world, were placed in the gallery in juxtaposition with organ pipes; it was left to viewers to derive meaning from the work based on their own subjective associations to the objects. “Generally, it is the people, the subjects that are lacking in what I do,” Dodge explains. “I’m talking to you about them, but they’re not there. It’s as if I were using the feeling of loss as material.”

File under: Jason Dodge Jason Dodge Luis Croquer Matthew Dickman Sylvia Wolf Fivehundred Places / Berlin Art Fiction / Poetry Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

Sharon Hayes
Echo

2019, English
Paperback, 88 pages, 17 x 23.5 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London Moderna Museet / Stockholm

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In 1996, Sharon Hayes undertook her Lesbian Love Tour, during which she visited and photographed 45 "lesbian living rooms" in nearly as many cities. Hayes is interested in how political goals or desires can be manifested in concrete terms and, starting from individuals or smaller groups, can grow into larger movements. The trained journalist and anthropologist is currently one of the most influential politically and socially committed artists of the United States.

The exhibition, Echo at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, explores the gallery space as an echo chamber: with voices and materials reverberating between different historic events. It also references a feminist interpretation of the classical myth of Echo, the nymph who is cursed for her conversational skills. She is condemned to only repeat fragments said by others, sounds devoid of meaning.

The echo resonates as both material and form throughout the work, including a new work made for the exhibition as part of the artist’s ongoing Ricerche project, made in dialogue with Comizi d’amore (1965), Pier Paolo Pasolini’s interview on sex and relations.

Hayes video piece, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) (2003), is one example of what the artists calls anachronisms – where an unresolved issue or conflict from the past is approached from a different moment in time. In this instance Hayes reads messages to a live audience from the kidnapped Patty Hearst to her parents that were aired on the radio in 1974.

Other ‘oral translations’ of texts and acts of speech by Hayes are replicated in the gallery for a contemporary audience.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Sharon Hayes: Echo at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (13 April – 11 August 2019).
Co-published by Moderna Museet and Koenig Books.
English and Swedish text.

File under: Sharon Hayes Lena Essling Ann-Sofi Noring Koenig Books / London Moderna Museet / Stockholm Art Conceptual Art Feminism Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater

Disordering the Establishment : Participatory Art and Institutional Critique in France, 1958–1981
by Lily Woodruff

English, 2020
Softcover, 336 pages, 23.5 x 16 cm
Published by Duke University Press / North Carolina

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In the decades following World War II, France experienced both a period of affluence and a wave of political, artistic, and philosophical discontent that culminated in the countrywide protests of 1968. In Disordering the Establishment Lily Woodruff examines the development of artistic strategies of political resistance in France in this era. Drawing on interviews with artists, curators, and cultural figures of the time, Woodruff analyzes the formal and rhetorical methods that artists used to counter establishment ideology, appeal to direct political engagement, and grapple with French intellectuals' modeling of society. Artists and collectives such as Daniel Buren, André Cadere, the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel, and the Collectif d’Art Sociologique shared an opposition to institutional hegemony by adapting their works to unconventional spaces and audiences, asserting artistic autonomy from art institutions, and embracing interdisciplinarity. In showing how these artists used art to question what art should be and where it should be seen, Woodruff demonstrates how artists challenged and redefined the art establishment and their historical moment.

“Lily Woodruff's examination of conceptual painting in France is at once timely and long overdue. She offers a satisfying total narrative of the artworks situated in relation to the changing dynamics of both the state and the market as they came to determine culture without losing focus of the specificity of the aesthetic dimension of these interventions. She situates artwork as a vehicle for an intellectual and sensual proposition charged with capacity. I learned a tremendous amount from this book.” — Jaleh Mansoor, author of Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia

“This extraordinarily lucid book is required reading for anyone wondering how the 1960s—and even ‘democracy’ itself—still matters. As Lily Woodruff demonstrates, the top-down instrumentalization of participation was countered in that decade by an artistic landscape ranging from kinetic painting and wearable objects to handheld props and logos. In beautifully readable prose, she replaces French artistic practice in a geopolitical terrain that negotiates both Soviet and Maoist histories, making those practices once again urgently contemporary.” — Rachel Haidu, author of The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers, 1964–1976

File under: Daniel Buren André Cadere Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel Collectif d’Art Sociologique BMPT Olivier Mosset Michel Parmentier Niele Toroni Lily Woodruff Duke University Press / North Carolina Art Conceptual Art Anarchism Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Other Mechanisms

2018, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 22 x 21 cm
Published by Secession / Vienna

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This catalogue accompanies "Other Mechanisms", a major group show at Secession in Vienna, 2018, that continues on from the exhibition "Mechanisms", held at CCA Wattis in San Francisco.

"Other Mechanisms" points to a present moment when machines don't look much like machines. Many aren't even called machines. Heavy and greasy machinery is absent from the smooth surfaces of digital interfaces and the weightlessness of cloud computing. Tool, appliance, device, apparatus, instrument, computer, hardware, software, program, server, processor, microchip, setting, algorithm, infrastructure, system, logistic, protocol, parameter - the terms for today's machines accumulate, evolve, and overlap.

Machines are part of the air we breathe, overseeing our lives and our bodies, from the way we communicate and consume to the way we trade and travel. Some are made of metal, but many others are made of rules or algorithms, which are infinitely more fluid and flexible. Some are objects or devices, but others are systems and infrastructures - a machine can be a thing as well as a method for organizing things. Objects yield to infrastructure. Work turns to management. Machines become mechanisms.

The works in this exhibition reflect on what it could mean to contest the regime of the machine. They compromise its tools, misuse its technologies, reroute its engineering, complicate its measurements. These other mechanisms add detours or dead ends to circulation routes, or insert delinquent trajectories that create distortions over time. They are made of knots, blanks, and incompatible settings. They demand more from their "users," forgoing protocols of convenience and immediate intelligibility. They reinsert the awkwardness of the human body, with all of its irregularities and inefficiencies.

Art can't stop the machine - nothing can. The question is not whether or not to embrace the machine - it's too late for that - but how to complicate it by testing existing systems with impossible tools and elaborate protocols that misalign outputs from their inputs.

Texts by: Jennifer Alexander, Franco Berardi, Benjamin H. Bratton, Gilles Châtelet, Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, Keller Easterling, Vilém Flusser, Sigfried Gideon, Martin Heidegger, Anthony Huberman, K.G. Pontus Hultén, Maurizio Lazzarato, Pamela Lee, Les Levine, Jean-François Lyotard, Robert King Merton, Meredith Meredith, Lewis Mumford, Gerald Raunig, Nishant Shah, Robert Snowden, and Joseph Vogl.

With works by artists: Zarouhie Abdalian, Lutz Bacher, Nairy Baghramian, Eva Barto, Patricia L. Boyd, Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Jay DeFeo, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Howard Fried, Aaron Flint Jamison, Jacob Kassay, Garry Neill Kennedy, Frederick Kiesler, Pope.L, Louise Lawler, Sam Lewitt, Park McArthur, Jean-Luc Moulène, Cameron Rowland, Sturtevant, and Danh Vo.

File under: Zarouhie Abdalian Lutz Bacher Nairy Baghramian Eva Barto Patricia L. Boyd Nina Canell & Robin Watkins Jay DeFeo Trisha Donnelly Harun Farocki Howard Fried Jacob Kassay Garry Neill Kennedy Frederick Kiesler Louise Lawler Sam Lewitt Park McArthur Jean-Luc Moulène Cameron Rowland Sturtevant Danh Vo William Pope.L Jennifer Alexander Franco Berardi Benjamin H. Bratton Gilles Châtelet Keller Easterling Vilém Flusser Sigfried Gideon Martin Heidegger Anthony Huberman K.G. Pontus Hultén Maurizio Lazzarato Pamela Lee Les Levine Jean-François Lyotard Robert King Merton Meredith Meredith Lewis Mumford Gerald Raunig Nishant Shah Robert Snowden Joseph Vogl Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari Secession / Vienna Art Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

Mechanisms

2017, English
Paperback, 288 pages, 22 x 21 cm
Published by Roma / Amsterdam

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This catalogue accompanies a major group show at CCA Wattis in San Francisco, curated by Anthony Huberman. It reflects on ways the “machine” determines how we live and what we believe in. A machine is also a mechanism, not just a physical object but also an abstract ideology. The artworks point to the forms and instruments that make up our technological infrastructure, as well as to the values they are designed to enforce. Contesting a world that rewards efficiency, speed, and productivity, the participating artists test existing systems with inefficient machines, impossible tools, wasted time, and elaborate protocols that misalign outputs and inputs.

Artists: Zarouhie Abdalian, Terry Atkinson, Lutz Bacher, Eva Barto, Neïl Beloufa, Patricia L. Boyd, Jay DeFeo, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Richard Hamilton, Aaron Flint Jamison, Jacob Kassay, Garry Neill Kennedy, Louise Lawler, Park McArthur, Jean-Luc Moulène, Pope.L, Charlotte Posenenske, Cameron Rowland, Danh Vo

Designed by Julie Peeters and Scott Ponik this catalogue accompanies the exhibition and includes an essay by the curator as well as sections created by each artist. It is co-published with Roma Publications (Amsterdam).

File under: Zarouhie Abdalian Terry Atkinson Lutz Bacher Eva Barto Neïl Beloufa Patricia L. Boyd Jay DeFeo Trisha Donnelly Harun Farocki Richard Hamilton Aaron Flint Jamison Jacob Kassay Garry Neill Kennedy Louise Lawler Park McArthur Jean-Luc Moulène Charlotte Posenenske Cameron Rowland Danh Vo Julie Peeters Scott Ponik William Pope.L Anthony Huberman Roma / Amsterdam Group Shows / Collections Art Photography Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

Conceptual Art In A Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization And Documentation
by Nathalie Zonnenberg

2019, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Valiz / Amsterdam

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Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization and Documentation focuses on the curatorial practice of exhibiting conceptual art. The fact that conceptual works are not object-based, creates challenges in exhibiting or re-exhibiting them. This book offers various perspectives on how to handle conceptual art in the context of the museum, based on three detailed case studies and an extensive introduction in which the paradox of conceptual art is analyzed. It also elaborates on the history of exhibiting conceptual artworks, and on the influence of curators in their canonization.
The aim of the book is not to offer clear-cut practical solutions, but to raise awareness of the issue and the different ways of dealing with it within the traditional curatorial field. It is relevant for students of art and culture (particularly in museum and curatorial studies), art and museum professionals, and everyone interested in the art of the 1960s and 1970s.

Nathalie Zonnenberg is an art historian and curator. She holds a PhD in Art History from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (NL). Zonnenberg regularly writes on contemporary art, and she lectures at the post-graduate Curatorial Studies programme at KASK/the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (BE).

File under: Robert Morris Douglas Huebler Sol LeWitt Stanley Brouwn Markus Raetz Robert Ryman Adrian Piper Charlotte Posenenske Richard Tuttle Niele Toroni Michael Snow Sarkis Reiner Ruthenbeck Keith Sonnier Sherrie Levine John Latham El Lissitzky Richard Long Gordon Matta-Clark Piero Manzoni Brice Marden Bruce McLean Mario Merz Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Pino Pascali Barry Flanagan Dan Flavin Lucio Fontana Piero Gilardi Eva Hesse Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis Barbara Kruger Richard Prince On Kawara Jo Ann Kaplan Rem Koolhaas Robert Filliou Robert Barry Alighiero Boetti Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Joseph Beuys Hanne Darboven Maria Eichhorn Jan Dibbets Marcel Duchamp Lynda Benglis John Baldessari Bernd and Hilla Becher Gilbert & George László Moholy-Nagy Michelangelo Pistoletto Valiz / Amsterdam Theory / Essay Curatorial Conceptual Art Arte Povera Fluxus Dada Minimal Art Group Shows / Collections

Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial publication (Endless Lonely Planet 9)

2020, English
Softcover, 150 pages, 21 x 29.7
Ed. of 100,
Published by Endless Lonely Planet / Melbourne

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Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial publication by Melbourne artist Christopher LG Hill is both the ninth issue of his ongoing publishing imprint Endless Lonely Planet, and a major survey art book marking the end of his 12 year artist facilitated biennale project, spanning 2008-2020.

"Multiple sites and moments, artist facilitated biennials extending on structures and limitations set by Signs of life: Melbourne International Biennial 1999. Abstracting and bringing new meaning to the form of a biennial as a more casual and independent entity, the project has seen many participants and collaborators over the last 12 years. This book hopes to document some of these moments, but more so to be a catalyst for different modes and models that it may inspire." — publisher

Includes extensive photographic documentation of The (self initiated, Artist funded) second (fourth) Y2K Melbourne Biennial of Art (& Design), TCB art inc., 2008; The First & Final Y3K Second (third) Inaugural Melbourne Biennial of International Arts, Y3K, 2011 (curated by Joshua Petherick, James Deutsher, and Christopher L G Hill); Third/Fourth Melbourne Biennial, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 2013; 4th/5th Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2016 (as part of TarraWarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation curated by Victoria Lynn and Helen Hughes/Discipline); 5th/6th final Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial, Dec 2018 -Dec 2020 (co-facilitated by Virginia Overell and Christopher L G Hill in their apartment/ the ex-Telecom building that was the site of the Melbourne International Biennial 1999)

Includes the work of ACW, Liz Allen, Animal Charm, Dan Arps, Sean Bailey, Liv Barrett, Matthew Brown, Ruth Buchannan, Jon Campbell, Jane Caught, Xin Cheng, Fiona Connor, Ying Lan Dann, James Deutsher, Daniel du Bern, Ida Ekblad, ffiXXed, Pat Foster & Jen Berean, Justin K Fuller, Matt Griffin, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Bianca Hester, Christopher L G Hill, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Lisa Kelly, Devin Kenny, Taree Mackenzie, Simon McGlinn, Rob Mckenzie, Nick Mangan, Scott Mitchell, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby, Geoff Newton, John Nixon, OSW, Alexander Ouchtomsky, Damon Packard, Spiros Panigriakis, Sean Peoples/ Cheese Peoples, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Janneke Raaphorst, Nick Selenitsch, Christopher Schueler & Matthew Hopkins, Gregory P Sharp, Kate Smith, Sriwhana Spong, Dylan Statham, Masato Takasaka, Ben Tankard, Simon Taylor, Alex Vivian, Annie Wu, Hany Armanious, Andreas Banderas, Mikala Dwyer, Katherine Huang, Tobias Kaspar, Piotr Łakomy, Taree Mackenzie, Tahi Moore, Michael O’Connell, Ester Partegas, Natalie Rognsoy, John Spiteri, Dan Arps, Sean Bailey, Olivia Barrett, Matthew Benjamin, Jon Campbell, Trevelyan Clay, Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan, James Deutsher, DoubleFly, George Egerton-Warburton, Endless Lonely Planet, ffiXXed, Alicia Frankovich, Justin K Fuller, Marco Fusinato, Greatest Hits, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Christopher L G Hill, Matt Hinkley, David Homewood, Matthew Hopkins, Lou Hubbard, Renee Jaeger, Helen Johnson, Kenneth Biennale (curated by Kenny Pittock and Amy May Stuart: Chris Clarke, Christo Crocker, Christina Hayes, Chris L G Hill, Christine Pittock, Christopher Sciuto), Legendary Hearts (Kieran Hegarty and Andrew Cowie), S.T. Lore, Patrick Lundberg, Carrie McGrath, Rob McKenzie, Taree McKenzie, Nick Mangan, Gian Manik, Kate Meakin, Adelle Mills, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby, Elizabeth Newman, Virginia Overell, Sean Peoples, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Lisa Radford and Sam George, Nick Selenitsch, Kate Smith, Studio Masatotectures, Sydney (Esther Edquist), Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd, Ben Tankard, Alex Vivian, Nicki Wynnychuk, y3k, Lauren Burrow, Counterfeitnessfirst, James Deutsher, Laurel Doody, George Egerton-Warburton, ELP3 Vine, Endless Lonely Planet, Lewis Fidock, Aurelia Guo, Christopher L G Hill, Lou Hubbard, Lucina Lane, Kate Meakin, Tahi Moore, Elizabeth Newman, Liam Osborne, Virginia Overell, Joshua Petherick, Lisa Radford, Zac Segbedzi, Nick Selenitsch, Nicholas Tammens, Alex Vivian, Rudi Williams, Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn, Candida ((Gian Manik and Ricarda Bigolin) in collaboration with Agnieszka Chabros, Samuel Heatley and Jaala Jensen), Xin Cheng, Fiona Connor, Renee Cosgrave, Christo Crocker, Ying Lan Dann, Endless Lonely Planet, Richard Frater, Aurelia Guo, HB Peace, Hoggle, Lou Hubbard, Olivia Koh, Spencer Lai, Laurel Doody Library Supply, Patrick Lundberg, Kate Meakin, Olivia O’Donnell, Jason Willers, and more...

More info at http://www.christopherlghill.com

File under: ACW Liz Allen Animal Charm Dan Arps Sean Bailey Liv Barrett Matthew Brown Ruth Buchannan Jon Campbell Jane Caught Xin Cheng Fiona Connor Ying Lan Dann James Deutsher Daniel du Bern Ida Ekblad ffiXXed Pat Foster & Jen Berean Justin K Fuller Matt Griffin Ardi Gunawan Hao Guo Bianca Hester Christopher L G Hill Matt Hinkley Helen Johnson Lisa Kelly Devin Kenny Taree Mackenzie Simon McGlinn Rob Mckenzie Nick Mangan Scott Mitchell Tahi Moore Kate Newby Geoff Newton John Nixon OSW Alexander Ouchtomsky Damon Packard Spiros Panigriakis Sean Peoples/ Cheese Peoples Joshua Petherick Kain Picken Janneke Raaphorst Nick Selenitsch Christopher Schueler & Matthew Hopkins Gregory P Sharp Kate Smith Sriwhana Spong Dylan Statham Masato Takasaka Ben Tankard Simon Taylor Alex Vivian Annie Wu Hany Armanious Andreas Banderas Mikala Dwyer Katherine Huang Tobias Kaspar Piotr Łakomy Michael O’Connell Ester Partegas Natalie Rognsoy John Spiteri Olivia Barrett Matthew Benjamin Trevelyan Clay Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan DoubleFly George Egerton-Warburton Endless Lonely Planet Alicia Frankovich Marco Fusinato Greatest Hits David Homewood Matthew Hopkins Lou Hubbard Renee Jaeger Christo Crocker Christina Hayes Chris L G Hill Christine Pittock Christopher Sciuto) Legendary Hearts (Kieran Hegarty and Andrew Cowie) S.T. Lore Patrick Lundberg Carrie McGrath Rob McKenzie Taree McKenzie Gian Manik Kate Meakin Adelle Mills Elizabeth Newman Virginia Overell Sean Peoples Lisa Radford and Sam George Studio Masatotectures Sydney (Esther Edquist) Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd Nicki Wynnychuk y3k Lauren Burrow Counterfeitnessfirst Laurel Doody ELP3 Vine Lewis Fidock Aurelia Guo Lucina Lane Liam Osborne Lisa Radford Zac Segbedzi Nicholas Tammens Rudi Williams Gavin Bell Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn Renee Cosgrave Richard Frater HB Peace Hoggle Olivia Koh Spencer Lai Laurel Doody Library Supply Olivia O’Donnell Jason Willers Amy May Stuart Kenny Pittock Madeline Kidd A Constructed World Agnieszka Chabros Ricarda Bigolin Samuel Heatley and Jaala Jensen Chris Clarke Christopher Sciuto Candida Esther Edquist S.T. Lore Endless Lonely Planet / Melbourne Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Australian Photography Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Periodicals Sound / Music Textiles

Yves Klein
The Foundations of Judo

2009, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 22.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by The Everyday Press / London

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"In 1952 the 24-year-old Yves Klein left Paris for Japan to pursue his first love; not art but judo. After becoming one of very few Europeans to receive a coveted 4th dan black belt fro the Kodokan in Tokyo, Klein returned to France and opened the Judo Académie de Paris. In 1954 the prestigious firm of Grasset published his book Les Fondements du Judo, illustrated with hundreds of photographs of Klein and the leading Japanese teachers demonstrating the six major Kata of judo. Now this extraordinary work has finally been translated into English."

Yves Klein (1928 – 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art.

First and only English edition, published by The Everyday Press, now long out-of-print. Last copies.

File under: Yves Klein The Everyday Press / London Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Conceptual Art Painting Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Chambres d'Amis
Edited by Jan Hoet

1986, English / Dutch / German / French / Italian
Hardcover (cloth w. dust jacket, inc. ephemera, guide/ticket, prints), 366 pages, 27 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst / Gent

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First and only edition of this very special, scarce exhibition catalogue / photo-book published to document and accompany the innovative exhibition Chambres d'Amis (‘friends’ rooms’), organised by Jan Hoet in Ghent in 1986, awarding him an international reputation as a leading artistic figure in Belgium. Chambres d'Amis featured about 50 European and American artists invited by Hoet to create works for 50 private homes in Ghent, which were then opened to the public for several weeks between June 21 - September 21, 1986. Artists included are Carla Accardi, Christian Boltanski, Raf Buedts, Daniël Buren, Michaël Buthe, Jacques Charlier, Nicola de Maria, Luciano Fabro, Günther Förg, Jef Geys, Dan Graham, Milan Grygar, François Hers, Kazuo Katase, Niek Kemps, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Bertrand Lavier, Sol LeWitt, Danny Matthys, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Helmut Middendorf, Juan Muñoz, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Bruce Nauman, Maria Nordman, Oswald Oberhuber, Heike Pallanca, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Royden Rabinowitch, Norbert Radermacher, Roger Raveel, Wolfgang Robbe, Claude Rutault, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Remo Salvadori, Rob Scholte, Ettore Spalletti, Paul Thek, Niele Toroni, Charles Vandenhove, Philip van Isacker, Jan Vercruysse, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Martin Walde, Lawrence Weiner, Robin Winters, Gilberto Zorio.

The entire city-wide exhibition is comprehensively documented herein (from the domestic interior installations themselves to behind-the-scenes photography, social and working imagery of the artists installing and meeting, public events, etc.) in colour and b/w on various paper stocks with many fold-out panels and reproductions of artist's sketches, alongside extensive texts by Jan Hoet and statements accompanying the work of each artist all in Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian. Includes a list of all hosts/hostesses alongside the artists.

An incredible document of one the most important and unique contemporary art exhibitions in Belgium's history. Jan Hoet (23 June 1936 – 27 February 2014) was the Belgian founder and director of SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent (director from 1975 until 2003) and subsequently managed several important exhibitions all over the world including curating Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992, presenting several hundred works by 190 artists from nearly 40 countries.

“Intriguingly titled ‘Chambres d’Amis’ –-‘guest rooms’,” or, literally, ‘friends’ rooms’-– the show places art in 58 houses belonging to everyday townspeople, carrying the work outside the separate universe, the total institution, of the museum, to bring it within the private zone of the private home, an asocial place insofar as it is removed from the public arena. (...) His [Hoet’s] project takes the exhibition structure off its hinges, goes beyond the limits of the frame and spills over, whole, into an interior. Art here no longer offers a mirror or a window, nor constitutes the privileged sign of a choice, but is an actual, provocative presence, confirming its difference both from the museum space, which has lost its sanctity, and from the contextual frame in which the object serves as a fetish.”—Pier Luigi Tazzi, “Albrecht Dürer would have come too”, Artforum, September 1986

Very Good copy w. some wear/light spine fading to Good dust jacket, now preserved under mylar wrap. This special copy comes most complete, including exhibition guide/work checklist, Ghent map of exhibit locations, and a selection of 4 loose photographic press prints of featured installations.

File under: Carla Accardi Christian Boltanski Raf Buedts Daniël Buren Michaël Buthe Jacques Charlier Nicola de Maria Luciano Fabro Günther Förg Jef Geys Dan Graham Milan Grygar François Hers Kazuo Katase Niek Kemps Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis Bertrand Lavier Sol LeWitt Danny Matthys Gerhard Merz Mario Merz Marisa Merz Helmut Middendorf Juan Muñoz Hidetoshi Nagasawa Bruce Nauman Maria Nordman Oswald Oberhuber Heike Pallanca Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Royden Rabinowitch Norbert Radermacher Roger Raveel Wolfgang Robbe Claude Rutault Reiner Ruthenbeck Remo Salvadori Rob Scholte Ettore Spalletti Paul Thek Niele Toroni Charles Vandenhove Philip van Isacker Jan Vercruysse Jean-Luc Vilmouth Martin Walde Lawrence Weiner Robin Winters Gilberto Zorio Jan Hoet Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst / Gent Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Arte Povera Curatorial Painting Sculpture / Installation

Doug Ashford  : Writings and Conversations

2013, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 12 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Grazer Kunstverein / Graz Mousse / Milan

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This publication represents one of the many spaces Doug Ashford's work occupies. It is the fisrt collection of his writings and conversations and attempts to encompass the changing thoughts shared by the artist over the past twenty-five years.  Doug Ashford is a teacher, artist, and writer. He has taught design, sculpture, and theory at The Cooper Union, New York, since 1989. His principal art practice from 1982 to 1996 was as a member of Group Material and since that time he has gone on to make paintings, write, and produce other cross-disciplinary projects.

Co-published with Grazer Kunstverein
edited by Krist Gruijthuijsen

Last copies, out-of-print.

File under: Doug Ashford Group Material Doug Ashford Grazer Kunstverein / Graz Mousse / Milan Art Theory / Essay Painting Conceptual Art