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Avalanche No. 6 (Fall 1972)
Vito Acconci Special Issue

1972, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 66 pages, 24 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kineticism Press / New York

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Special issue of the legendary New York quarterly periodical Avalanche focusing on the work of Vito Acconci. Includes performance descriptions written by artist and documentary photographs, biography, and bibliography. Interview between the artist and Liza Bear. Sections: "Introduction: Notes on Performing a Space"; "Early Work: Movement Over a Page"; "Early Work: Moving My Body into Place"; "Body as Place - Moving in on Myself, Performing Myself"; "Peopled Space - Performing Myself Though Another Agent"; "Occupied Zone - Moving in, Performing on Another Agent"; "Concentration - Container - Assimilation"; "Power Field - Exchange Points - Transformations"; "Excerpts from Tapes with Liza Bear"; "Biography"; "Bibliography"; "Index." Edited by Liza Bear, published by Willoughby Sharp, design by Boris Wall Gruphy, Henry Post, Richard Falk.

The short-lived New York based art magazine Avalanche, which existed between 1970 and 1976, captured a sense of its time, but also engaged critically with the relationship between printed matter (books, samizdat, etc.) and artwork. Founded by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp Avalanche pushed artistic ideas, focusing on new forms of art-making (of it’s day), providing a timely format for art’s movement away from galleries and museums and towards the printed page and emerging discourses surrounding Performance and Land art. The interviews, all conducted by Bear and Sharp, employ a loose but thoughtful approach. Often the articles ran as large as 16 pages. The featured artists were at the time relatively unknown, today they read like a Who’s Who of the avant-garde (in particular as defined by Dia:). The square covers of the early issues feature now iconic portraits of artists; Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci (who had the entire Issue of #6 dedicated to him) and Bruce Nauman.

Featured artists were Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Gilbert & George, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Grand Union, Hans Haacke, Jannis Kounellis, Meredith Monk, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Joel Shapiro, Jack Smith, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, George Trakas, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, the Western Front and Jackie Winsor.

Very Good copy with tanning and light wear.

File under: Vito Acconci Willoughby Sharp Elizabeth Béar Kineticism Press / New York Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera Fluxus Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Film / Video

Avalanche No. 7 (Winter / Spring 1973)
William Wegman Cover

1972, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 84 pages, 24 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kineticism Press / New York

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Issue number seven of the legendary New York quarterly periodical Avalanche, published Winter Spring 1973, featuring a William Wegman cover. Contents: "Rumbles," featuring Chris Burden, Jennifer Bartlett and Urs Lüthi; "The Gold-diggers of '84: An Interview with General Idea" by Willoughby Sharp, Ron Gabe, Jorge Saia, A.A. Bronson, Granada Gazelle, P.J., Noah Dakota, Marcel Idea, Ms. Paige, Myth Honey and Ms. Generality; "Different Strokes for Different Folks: An Interview with Van Schley," and includes a bound in portfolio of loose elements; "Shuck and Jive: An Interview with Lowell Darling" by Willoughby Sharp; "... a kind of Huh? A interview with Edward Ruscha" by Willoughby Sharp; "Man Ray, Do You Want To... An Interview with William Wegman". Edited by Liza Bear, published by Willoughby Sharp, designed by Boris Wall Gruphy.

The short-lived New York based art magazine Avalanche, which existed between 1970 and 1976, captured a sense of its time, but also engaged critically with the relationship between printed matter (books, samizdat, etc.) and artwork. Founded by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp Avalanche pushed artistic ideas, focusing on new forms of art-making (of it’s day), providing a timely format for art’s movement away from galleries and museums and towards the printed page and emerging discourses surrounding Performance and Land art. The interviews, all conducted by Bear and Sharp, employ a loose but thoughtful approach. Often the articles ran as large as 16 pages. The featured artists were at the time relatively unknown, today they read like a Who’s Who of the avant-garde (in particular as defined by Dia:). The square covers of the early issues feature now iconic portraits of artists; Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci (who had the entire Issue of #6 dedicated to him) and Bruce Nauman.

Featured artists were Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Gilbert & George, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Grand Union, Hans Haacke, Jannis Kounellis, Meredith Monk, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Joel Shapiro, Jack Smith, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, George Trakas, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, the Western Front and Jackie Winsor.

Very Good copy with tanning and light wear.

File under: General Idea William Wegman Edward Ruscha Van Schley Lowell Darling Willoughby Sharp Elizabeth Béar Kineticism Press / New York Art Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Arte Povera Periodicals Conceptual Art

Recent International Forms in Art
The 1976 Biennale of Sydney

1976, English
Hardcover (ring-bound), 86 pages + programme, 2.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney

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Beautiful and rare historical catalogue published on the occasion of the 1976 Biennale of Sydney, Recent International Forms in Art, held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Nov 13—Dec 18, 1976. With exceptional uncredited povera design, the catalogue is printed entirely on thick kraft paper and metal ring-bound between thick corrugated cardboard covers. An incredible second year of the Sydney biennale, heavy with international representation of conceptual, Art Povera, environmental, minimal, Mono-ha artists, includes the work of Ant Farm, Giovanni Anselmo, John Armstrong, Robert Arneson, Lynda Benglis, Joseph Beuys, Tony Coleing, Gianni Colombo, John Davis, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Koji Enokura, Robert Grosvenor, Marr Grounds, Noriyuki Haraguchi, Noel Hutchison, Robert Kinmont, Gloria Kisch, Kyubei Kyomizu, Lee U-Fan, John Lethbridge, Les Levine, Loren Madsen, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Michael McMillen, James Melchert, Kevin Mortensen, Clive Murray-White, Tsuneo Nakai, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Fujiko Nakaya, Ti Parks, Giuseppi Penone, Insik Quac, Terry Reid, Ron Robertson-Swann, Fred Sandback, Joel Shapiro, Moon-Seup Shim, Morio Shinoda, Robert Smithson, Stelarc, Kishio Suga, Noboru Takayama, Kakuzo Tatehata, William Tucker, Greer Twiss, Ken Unsworth, William T. Wiley, Gilberto Zorio, and many more... Organised with the guidance of people like John Stringer (New York, previously Australia, managed The Field at the NGV in 1968), Gerald Forty and Ian Barker (UK), Tommaso Trini (Italy), Joseph Love. S.J. (Korea, Japan), Philip Linhares (California), and many more under the direction of Thomas G. Cullough.

This copy includes a folded handbill programme for the Biennale, also on kraft paper and including information on performances, installations, lectures and other public works.

Very Good copy with some wear.

File under: Ant Farm Giovanni Anselmo John Armstrong Robert Arneson Lynda Benglis Joseph Beuys Tony Coleing Gianni Colombo John Davis Agnes Denes Jan Dibbets Koji Enokura Robert Grosvenor Marr Grounds Noriyuki Haraguchi Noel Hutchison Robert Kinmont Gloria Kisch Kyubei Kyomizu Lee U-Fan John Lethbridge Les Levine Loren Madsen Yutaka Matsuzawa Michael McMillen James Melchert Kevin Mortensen Clive Murray-White Tsuneo Nakai Natsuyuki Nakanishi Fujiko Nakaya Ti Parks Giuseppi Penone Insik Quac Terry Reid Ron Robertson-Swann Fred Sandback Joel Shapiro Moon-Seup Shim Morio Shinoda Robert Smithson Stelarc Kishio Suga Noboru Takayama Kakuzo Tatehata William Tucker Greer Twiss Ken Unsworth William T. Wiley Gilberto Zorio Thomas G. Cullough Philip Linhares Joseph Love. S.J. Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Arte Povera Dada Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Art

Up Your Ass : Or From the Cradle to the Boat Or The Big Suck Or Up from the Slime
by Valerie Solanas

2022, English
Softcover, 94 pages, 11.5 x 18 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

$32.00 - Out of stock

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Valerie Solanas’s rarely published, legendary play, Up Your Ass, explodes social and sexual mores and the hypocritical, patriarchal culture that produces them through her signature irreverence and wit, incisiveness and camp. The play, whose full title is Up Your Ass or From the Cradle to the Boat or The Big Suck or Up from the Slime, marches out a cast of screwy stereotypes: the unknowing john, the frothy career girl, the boring male narcissist, two catty drag queens, the sex-depraved housewife, and a pair of racialized pickup artists, among others. At the center is protagonist Bongi Perez—a thinly veiled Solanas—a sardonic, gender-bending hustler who escorts us through the back alleys of her street life. The fictionalized predecessor to SCUM Manifesto, the play shares the same grand, subversive, implicative language, equally spitting and winking, embracing the margins, the scum, and selling a trick along the way.

Edited by LEAH WHITMAN-SALKIN
With a contribution by PAUL B. PRECIADO

File under: Valerie Solanas Paul B. Preciado Leah Whitman-Salkin Sternberg Press / Berlin Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry

THE EMPEROR OF CHINA, THE MUTE CANARY & THE EXECUTIONER OF PERU
By Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes

2015, English
Softcover, 264 pages, 23 x 15 cm
Published by Wakefield Press / Cambridge

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Three savage plays from the man André Breton designated as one of the only “true Dadas” (alongside Tristan Tzara and Francis Picabia): The Emperor of China (1916), The Mute Canary (1920) and The Executioner of Peru (1928). The first two have long been acknowledged as highpoints in the Dada movement’s contribution to the theater, but in their brutal depictions of violent sexuality and nightmarish tyranny, and their casts of manipulative bureaucrats, murderous henchmen, insane dictators, lascivious virgins, Ubuesque cuckolds and nonsense-spewing enigmas, these plays also echo the work of such other dissident surrealists of the era as Georges Bataille and André Masson. These unsettling theatrical works were significant anticipations of Antonin Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty and the Theater of the Absurd of the 1960s.

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884–1974) was a French writer and artist, and one of the fiercest adherents of the Paris Dada movement, acting as the group’s secretary, and for which he authored some of its most vitriolic texts. Disenchanted with the Surrealist movement that followed, Ribemont-Dessaignes allied himself instead with such other Surrealist dissidents as René Daumal and the Grand Jeu. Throughout his long life, Ribemont-Dessaignes authored a sizable oeuvre of novels, plays, poetry, essays and memoirs, none of which has to date been translated into English.

“[The Emperor of China] is a powerful play that combines the elements of nonsense and violence which characterizes the Theater of the Absurd.”—Martin Esslin

Translated, with an introduction, by Christopher Butterfield

File under: Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes Christopher Butterfield Wakefield Press / Cambridge Fiction / Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater Dada

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 830 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

$80.00 - Out of stock

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First English edition of this monumental 830 page book for documenta X, the last documenta of the twentieth century and the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David, brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists in an extraordinary anthology of seminal texts and images of, on, and about the development of Western cultural and critical theory since 1945.

The book "seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopaedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavour which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity."—from the book jacket.

A comprehensive work in itself, rich with enmeshed texts and illustrations of artworks, film stills, historical documents throughout in colour and in black and white.

Writers include: Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Celan, Amílcar Cabral, Masao Miyoshi, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Tadao Sato, Youssef Ishaghpour, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rem Koolhaas, Sandra Álvarez de Toledo, Witold Gombrowicz, Herve Joubert-Laurencin, Jean-François Chevrier, Marguerite Duras, Edward Said, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Uwe Johnson, Jerzy Grotowski, James Clifford, Primo Levi, Pierre Clastres, Andrea Branzi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Gérard Chaliand, Stig Björkman, Daniel Defert, Saskia Sassen, Catherine David, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Virilio, Serge Daney, Étienne Balibar, Nadia Tazi, and many others.....

Artists include : Archigram, Martin Kippenberger, Archizoom Associati, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlström, Samuel Beckett, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, Nancy Spero, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Jörg Herold, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Robert Adams, Peter Friedl, Paweł Althamer, Liam Gillick, Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler & Diedrich Diederichsen, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Aldo van Eyck, Heiner Goebbels, William Kentridge, Ulrike Grossarth, Richard Hamilton, Vito Acconci, Raymond Hains, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Siobhán Hapaska, Ecke Bonk, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lois Weinberger, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Marc Pataut, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christian Philipp Müller, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reinhard Mucha, Álvaro Siza, Toyo Ito, John C. Portman Jr., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mariella Mosler, Josef Beuys, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean Dubuffet, Kerry James Marshall, Maria Lassnig, Rem Koolhaas, Joachim Koester, Suzanne Lafont, Sigalit Landau, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Brassaï, Le Corbusier, Antonin Artaud, and so many more...

Very Good coy, light wear. Good dust jacket with some creasing and edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Carsten Höller Rosemarie Trockel Archigram Martin Kippenberger Archizoom Associati Art & Language Hans Haacke Samuel Beckett Franz West Andrea Zittel Heimo Zobernig Jean-Luc Godard Marcel Broodthaers Lygia Clark Jörg Herold Fischli & Weiss Dan Graham Robert Adams Peter Friedl Öyvind Fahlström Paweł Althamer Liam Gillick Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Ed van der Elsken Walker Evans Aldo van Eyck Siobhán Hapaska Reinhard Mucha Mariella Mosler Steve McQueen Chris Marker Lothar Baumgarten Kerry James Marshall Maria Lassnig Rem Koolhaas Joachim Koester Suzanne Lafont Sigalit Landau Helen Levitt Garry Winogrand Jean-Luc Moulène Hélio Oiticica Thomas Schütte Christian Philip Muller Gabriel Orozco Olaf Nicolai Michelangelo Pistoletto Gerhard Richter Marc Pataut Gordon Matta-Clark Matt Mullican Antoni Muntadas Heiner Goebbels William Kentridge Ulrike Grossarth Richard Hamilton Vito Acconci Raymond Hains Ecke Bonk Carl Michael von Hausswolff Lois Weinberger Carsten Höller Pier Paolo Pasolini Joseph Beuys Nancy Spero Le Corbusier Brassaï Jean Dubuffet Alvaro Siza Toyo Ito Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paulo Mendes Da Rocha John C. Portman Jr. Antonin Artaud Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine David Yana Milev Klaus Biesenbach Nancy Spector Hans-Ulrich Obrist Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Celan Amílcar Cabral Masao Miyoshi Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Jacques Rancière Tadao Sato Youssef Ishaghpour Josef Beuys Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rem Koolhaas Sandra Álvarez de Toledo Witold Gombrowicz Herve Joubert-Laurencin Jean-François Chevrier Marguerite Duras Edward Said Henri Alleg Pierre Vidal-Naquet Uwe Johnson Jerzy Grotowski James Clifford Primo Levi Pierre Clastres Andrea Branzi Fabrizio Gallanti Gérard Chaliand Stig Björkman Daniel Defert Saskia Sassen Benjamin Buchloh Paul Virilio Serge Daney Étienne Balibar Nadia Tazi and many others documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Conceptual Art Film / Video Sound / Music Painting Photography Ecology

Post-Soviet Art And Architecture

1994, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by A.D. (Architectural Design) / London

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Published in 1994 and long out-of-print, this volume presents a view of recent developments in Russian art and architecture in the context of the critical debates of postmodernism and national cultures. The return to popular national sources in the 1960s through the 1980s was a means for Soviet artists in a multi-ethnic state to avoid submersion in the official ideology of "Socialist-Realism". The transition from totalitarianism to pluralism is evident in the diversity of work featured by both artists and architects from different regions of the former USSR. The essays presented here are by leading Russian and Western art and literary critics, including Charles Jencks, Alexander Rappaport, Alexei Tolstoy, and Nadezhda Yurasovskaya. They provide a critical, historical and personal context for a survey of the work produced in Russia since the fall of Communism.

Very Good copy, only light wear, small split to spine edge.

File under: Charles Jencks Alexander Rappaport Alexei Tolstoy Nadezhda Yurasovskaya A.D. (Architectural Design) / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Film / Video Theory / Essay Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

Fabio Mauri
The Past in Acts

2018, English / French
Softcover, 384 pages, 19 x 24 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

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Fabio Mauri (1926-2009) is the epitome of the artist-intellectual in Italy. His oeuvre, which spans the latter half of the 20th century, unclassifiable, stands apart from the principal movements of Italian contemporary art. It is a diverse and colossal work to which the archives preserved at the Studio Fabio Mauri in Rome bear witness. 'Fabio Mauri: The Past in Acts' is the first study dedicated to this artist's performative work, which began in the early 1970s, and continued up to the 2000s.

Fabio Mauri is one of the masters of the Italian avant-garde of the post-war period. In 1942 he founded the Il Setaccio magazine with writer/director/frequent collaborator Pier Paolo Pasolini. In the seventies, Mauri worked on installations, performances and art books, focusing on Italian social and political events. A profound connoisseur of the publishing world, he was president of two major publishing houses and in 1967 he founded the magazine Quindici with Umberto Eco, Edoardo Sanguineti and Angelo Guglielmi. Fabio Mauri weaves the dimension of performance, to the space of history. The use of the body as a screen in " The Gospel according to Matthew" by/on Pier Paolo Pasolini, at the Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna, remains an unforgettable work. In it the same Pasolini, seated on a chair with a white shirt, had his own film of 1964 projected on his chest The Gospel according to Matthew. For 20 years he taught Aesthetics of Experimentation at the Academy of Fine Arts in L'Aquila. He was invited to the Venice Biennale in 1954, 1974, 1978, 1993, 2003, 2013, 2015 and in 2012 at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel.

File under: Fabio Mauri Valerie Da Costa Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Art Film / Video

"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture"
by Antonin Artaud

2022, English
Softcover, 72 pages, 19 x 12.1 cm
Published by Diaphanes / Zürich

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Translated by Clayton Eshleman. Afterword by Stephen Barber.

"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture" collects two of Antonin Artaud's foremost poetic works from the last period of his life. He wrote both works soon after his release from the psychiatric hospital of Rodez and his return to Paris, and they were published during the flurry of intensive activity and protests against his work's censorship. The Indian Culture is the first and most ambitious work of Artaud's last period. It deals with his travels in Mexico in 1936 where Artaud sets aside his usual preoccupations with peyote and the Tarahumara people's sorcerers to directly anatomize his obsessions with gods, corporeality, and sexuality. Here Lies is Artaud's final declaration of autonomy for his own body from its birth to its imminent death, won at the cost of multiple battles against the infiltrating powers amassed to steal that birth and death away from him. Both works demonstrate Artaud's final poetry as a unique amalgam of delicate linguistic invention and ferociously obscene invective.

"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture" was translated by the award-winning translator Clayton Eshleman, widely seen as the preeminent translator into English of Artaud's work, with its profound intensity and multiply nuanced language. For the first time since its first publication, this bilingual edition presents the two works in one volume, as Artaud originally intended. This edition also features a contextual afterword by Stephen Barber as well as new material, previously untranslated into English.

File under: Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud Clayton Eshleman Stephen Barber Diaphanes / Zürich Art Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Surrealism

Aleks Danko
Zen Made in Australia

1994, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 36 pages, 27 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The University of Melbourne Museum of Art / Melbourne

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Catalogue published on the occasion of Australian artist Aleks Danko's exhibition at Ian Potter Gallery, 18 May-18 June 1994; volume #1 in "The Artist and the Museum" series curated by Merryn Gates. A timeline of works spanning the bottom half of each page throughout the catalogue traces Danko's history of works across sculpture, installation, video, performance, editions, books, etc. from 1970-1994, accompanied by texts by Charles Green, Jacqueline Thomas, Jackie Dunn, and Merryn Gates occupying the top half of each page. Also includes "Lafart" Manifesto - 18/3/1975 written by Danko and Mike Parr!

Aleks Danko (b. 1950) is an Australian performance artist and sculptor. The son of Ukrainian migrants, he was born in Adelaide, and educated at the South Australian School of Art and the Hawthorn Institute of Education. He started exhibiting in Adelaide in 1970. Aleks Danko’s career spans more than 5 decades and encompasses diverse media, from sculpture and installation to text and language-based works. Drawing actively on Australia’s political and cultural history, his work is infused with satirical humour and a subtle critique of contemporary social values.

Very Good copy.

File under: Aleks Danko Mike Parr Charles Green Jacqueline Thomas Merryn Gates Jackie Dunn The University of Melbourne Museum of Art / Melbourne Australian Art Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Aleks Danko
MY FELLOW AUS-TRA-ALIENS

2015, English
Softcover (w. french flaps), 176 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Published by Heide Museum of Modern Art / Victoria Museum of Contemporary Art / Sydney

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Major survey catalogue of Australian artist Aleks Danko, published by Hiede Museum of Modern Art and MCA in 2015. First held at Heide, 7 November 2015—21 February 2016, MY FELLOW AUS-TRA-ALIENS presented artworks spanning nearly five decades of the long career of Victorian-based, Adelaide-born artist Aleks Danko, from his earliest exhibitions in the late 1960s through to his recent installations. Profusely illustrated with accompanying texts by curators Lesley Harding and Glenn Barkley.

Aleks Danko (b. 1950) is an Australian performance artist and sculptor. The son of Ukrainian migrants, he was born in Adelaide, and educated at the South Australian School of Art and the Hawthorn Institute of Education. He started exhibiting in Adelaide in 1970. Aleks Danko’s career spans more than 5 decades and encompasses diverse media, from sculpture and installation to text and language-based works. Drawing actively on Australia’s political and cultural history, his work is infused with satirical humour and a subtle critique of contemporary social values.

File under: Aleks Danko Heide Museum of Modern Art / Victoria Museum of Contemporary Art / Sydney Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Aleks Danko
Songs of Australia Volume 16: Shhh, Go Back To Sleep (an un-Australian dob-in mix)

2004, English
Softcover, 30cm x 21cm. 48 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria

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Exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the major National Gallery of Victoria travelling exhibition Aleks Danko — Songs of Australia Volume 16: Shhh, Go Back To Sleep (an un-Australian dob-in mix) in 2004. Presenting "The Song Cycle Volumes 1—16" this profusely illustrated catalogue documents many of Danko's major installations in glossy colour, alongside texts, including those by the artist, exhibition history, bibliography.

Aleks Danko (b. 1950) is an Australian performance artist and sculptor. The son of Ukrainian migrants, he was born in Adelaide, and educated at the South Australian School of Art and the Hawthorn Institute of Education. He started exhibiting in Adelaide in 1970. Aleks Danko’s career spans more than 5 decades and encompasses diverse media, from sculpture and installation to text and language-based works. Drawing actively on Australia’s political and cultural history, his work is infused with satirical humour and a subtle critique of contemporary social values.

Very Good copy.

File under: Aleks Danko NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art

Sally Smart
Mad Woman In The Attic

1989, English
Softcover (single, double-sided card), 21 x 29.7 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Sally Smart — Mad Woman In The Attic, December, 1989. Illustrated offset printed double-sided card with artist C.V. on verso.

Sally Smart (b. 1960) is an Australian contemporary artist known for her large-scale assemblage installations that incorporate a range of media, including felt cut-outs, painted canvas, drawings, screen-printing, printed fabric and photography, performance and video. Her art addresses gender and identity politics and questions the relationships between body and culture, including trans-national ideas that shaped cultural history. She has exhibited widely throughout Australia and internationally, and her works are held in major galleries in Australia and around the world.

Fine copy.

File under: Sally Smart 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare

Social Dissonance
by Mattin

2022, English
Softcover, 256 pages, 17.5 x 11.5 cm
Published by Urbanomic / Cornwall

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An argument that by amplifying alienation in performance, we can shift the emphasis from the sonic to the social.

We are not what we think we are. Our self-image as natural individuated subjects is determined behind our backs—historically by political forces, cognitively by the language we use, and neurologically by sub-personal mechanisms, as revealed by scientific and philosophical analyses.

Under contemporary capitalism, as the gap between self-image and reality becomes an ever greater source of social and mental distress, these theoretical insights are potential dynamite. Shifting his explorations from the sonic to the social, amplifying alienation and playing with psychic noise, artist and performer Mattin finally lights the fuse.

In what is a handbook for practical transformation as much as a theoretical treatise, Mattin sets out the thinking behind his score Social Dissonance, in which the audience is the instrument.

The noise is here to stay. Alienation is a constitutive part of subjectivity and an enabling condition for exploring social dissonance—the territory upon which we already find ourselves, the condition we inhabit today.

File under: Mattin Ray Brassier Mattin Urbanomic / Cornwall Theory / Essay Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater

'Masterpieces' out of the Seventies
Peter Tyndall, Imants Tillers, Peter Cripps, John Nixon, Sam Schoenbaum

1983, English
Single-sheet (folded into 8-panels, double-sided), 64 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Monash University Exhibition Gallery / Victoria

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Excellent, rare, over-sized single sheet/poster catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition and lecture series, 'Masterpieces' out of the Seventies, at the Exhibition Gallery, Monash University Department of Visual Arts, curated and designed by artist Peter Cripps in 1983, featuring the work of Peter Tyndall, Imants Tillers, Peter Cripps, John Nixon, and Sam Schoenbaum. In what could easily be the precursor to Cripps' wonderful "Recession Art & Other Strategies" (1986), 'Masterpieces' out of the Seventies, as Cripps states in his catalogue text, "locates an approach which emerged in this period (but which has yet to be acknowledged) and attempts to show how it informs the new Australian Art of the Eighties. The essence of this new approach was in its reformulation of the idea of what could constitute the 'parts' of a work. "Masterpieces" is thus not only an exhibition composed of parts but also an exhibition about 'parts'. There are 5 artists in the exhibition and they are represented by works produced 7 to 10 years ago as well as by more recent works. The first 21 weeks of the 8-week exhibition are devoted to contemporary works, followed by 1 'historical' work by each artist per week for the remaining 5 weeks."

Illustrated with documentation of some of the works alongside texts by the artists, portraits, drawings, full exhibition catalogue, biographies...
First, only edition of this rare historical piece, As New copy with light tanning and wear.

File under: Peter Tyndall Imants Tillers Peter Cripps John Nixon Sam Schoenbaum Monash University Exhibition Gallery / Victoria Australian Art Conceptual Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Group Shows / Collections

Jack Smith / Antonius Höckelmann
Michael Krebber

2012, English / German
Softcover (silkscreened), 48 pages, 21.3 x 22.5 cm
Ed. of 800,
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln

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Wonderful publication documenting an exhibition that took place in 2010 in the window of Galerie Buchholz's antiquarian bookstore in Cologne, Germany. Michael Krebber presented here, in collaboration with Sebastian Höckelmann, works by artists Antonius Höckelmann and Jack Smith.

Produced in an edition of 800.

Antonius Höckelmann (1937 – 2000) was a German postwar artist. Höckelmann trained as a wood sculptor from 1951 to 1957 in his native city of Oelde, and studied from 1957 to 1961 at the College of Fine Arts in Berlin with Karl Hartung. In 1977 he participated in the documenta 6, and in 1982 at documenta 7 in Kassel. Many of his works combine sculpture and painting. Wooden sculptures and sculptures made of other materials (bronze, silver foil, straw) were often completely painted.

Jack Smith (1932 – 1989) was an American filmmaker, artist, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown. Apart from appearing in his own work, including the legendary Flaming Creatures (1963), Smith played the lead in Andy Warhol's unfinished film Batman Dracula, Ken Jacobs's Blonde Cobra, and appeared in several theater productions by Robert Wilson.

File under: Antonius Höckelmann Jack Smith Michael Krebber Michael Krebber Galerie Buchholz / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video

NEW AGE: STONEHENGE TO JUNGLE B2B 1973/2000

2022, English
Softcover, 376 pages, 31 x 22 cm
Published by Dashwood Books / New York Cultural Traffic / UK

$160.00 - Out of stock

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New Age: Stonehenge to Jungle is a comprehensive collection of iconic UK rave, jungle, sound system and warehouse party flyers dating from the early 1973s to 2000.

The book is sourced and curated from the Mott Collection – an extensive archive that gathers paper ephemera of British popular culture from punk to rave – curated by artist and collector Toby Mott.

Crammed full of 575 entries of flyers and other collectables, New Age is a visual feast that charts the origins and progress of a series of youth rebellions that were to last for a generation. The book looks beyond the music into the fantastical visual language that propelled this subculture, offering a global perspective on how British party culture shifted through the decades.

New Age opens with an extensive array of iconic flyers created for the early 1970s free festivals of Stonehenge and Windsor. It then moves into the 1980s, when the boom of illegal London warehouse parties gave birth to acid house – visually embodied by its iconic smiley face, then evolved into sound system and dub clashes. As rave culture takes over, the designs of the flyers become more complex, unveiling a craving for dystopian experiences and surrealistic universes forged by the vision of masters of flyer art, the likes of Pez and Junior Tomlin – also known as the Salvador Dalí of Rave.

The book traces the rise of jungle music and more widely the aesthetic of the 1990s, digging into its Jamaican roots and bringing together reggae, rave and sound system culture, giving insight into the profound, and yet often overlooked, impact of the Black British community on rave music.

Featuring interviews with influential flyer designers such as Pez, Kaos, Junior Tomlin, and Dave Little.

Published by Corina Manu, Cultural Traffic and Dashwood Books 2022
Art and Design Direction: Jamie Reid Studio

File under: Dashwood Books / New York Cultural Traffic / UK Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Counterculture Graphic Design / Typography

Marco Fusinato
DESASTRES

2022, English
Softcover, 408 pages, 21 x 28 cm
Published by Lenz Press / Milan

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This major new catalogue is published to accompany Marco Fusinato’s DESASTRES presentation at the Venice Biennale 2022, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, running from April 23 to November 27, 2022. DESASTRES is an experimental noise project that synchronises sound with image and takes the form of a durational solo performance as installation. The artist will be performing during the opening hours of the Biennale—a total of 200 days. The presentation will be the first time the Australian Pavilion, located in the historic Giardini della Biennale, has been the site for a live durational performance.

Originally from the Veneto region in Italy, Marco Fusinato’s parents migrated to Australia where he was born. He currently lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. Fusinato (b. 1964) is a contemporary artist and noise-musician whose work takes the form of installation, photographic reproduction, design, performance and recording. DESASTRES is a culmination of his interests in noise/experimental music, underground culture, mass media images and art history. He uses an electric guitar as a signal generator into mass amplification to improvise slabs of noise, saturated feedback and discordant intensities that trigger a deluge of images onto a freestanding floor-to-ceiling LED wall. The images are sourced via a stream of words that have been put into an open search across multiple online platforms. There is no theme as such, rather the immersion of sound and image is open for the audience to interpret and make sense of. The intent is to create some kind of hallucination, elation in disorientation and exhaustion from confusion. The work is an invitation for audiences to come together within a high-intensity concentration of energy. What can’t be seen, can be felt: sound as physical matter which creates a transformative experience.

This expansive publication features a new essay by Branden W. Joseph, professor of art history at Columbia University and an extensive interview by curator Alexie Glass-Kantor with Marco Fusinato. It also includes texts by critical theorist and filmmaker Elizabeth Povinelli, AI researcher and author Kate Crawford, writer and curator Chus Martínez, and musicians/outre-guitarists Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Stephen O’Malley (SUNN O)))) and Bruce Russell (Dead C).

Marco Fusinato (b. 1964) is an Australian contemporary artist and noise-musician based in Naarm/Melbourne whose work takes the form of installation, photographic reproduction, design, performance and recording.

As an artist, he conceives his work as a succession of interrelated projects, some of which continue across numerous iterations. Within these projects the works are almost always serial and use specific frameworks for experimentation, as if demonstrating a thesis. Working across disciplines and cultural fields, Fusinato explores the tensions and contradictions of opposing forces: underground culture/institutions, noise/silence, minimalism/maximalism, purity/contamination. He creates dynamic situations in which these energies are captured by combining allegorical appropriation with an interest in the intensity of a gesture or event.

Fusinato's work has been presented in many international exhibitions, including All the World's Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2015); The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennale (2012); SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018); and Australia: Antipodean Stories, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2019). His work was also included in Soundings: A Contemporary Score, the first ever exhibition of sound at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013) and Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix (2008–10), a European travelling exhibition of artists who have collaborated with the New York rock band, Sonic Youth.

File under: Marco Fusinato Thurston Moore Stephen O’malley Bruce Russell (Dead C) Alexie Glass-Kantor Chus Martinez Elizabeth Povinelli Branden W Joseph Thurston Moore Stephen O’malley Kate Crawford Bruce Russell (Dead C) Lenz Press / Milan Sound / Music Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Art Theory / Essay

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Texte (1962-64/69) Momente

1993, German / English
Softcover, 32 pages, 29 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Stockhausen-Verlag / Kürten

$80.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of Texte der MOMENTE : für Solosopran, 4 Chorgrupppen und 13 Instrumentalisten (for solo soprano, 4 choir groups and 13 instrumentalists); Europa Version 1972, published in 1993 by Stockhausen Verlag, Kürten, Germany. Introduction in English and German, score and original manuscript primarily in German, with some English words. Long out of print.

Momente (Moments) is a work by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, written between 1962 and 1969, scored for solo soprano, four mixed choirs, and thirteen instrumentalists (four trumpets, four trombones, three percussionists, and two electric keyboards). A "cantata with radiophonic and theatrical overtones", it is described by the composer as "practically an opera of Mother Earth surrounded by her chicks". It was Stockhausen's first piece composed on principles of modular transposability, and his first musical form to be determined from categories of sensation or perception rather than by numerical units of musical terminology, which marks a significant change in the composer's musical approach from the abstract forms of the 1950s.

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 – 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, for introducing controlled chance (aleatory techniques) into serial composition, and for musical spatialization.

Very Good-Fine copy.

File under: Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen Stockhausen-Verlag / Kürten Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Hymnen : Elektronische und Konkrete Musik Nr. 22

1977, English / German / French
Softcover, 72 pages, 31 x 23.4 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Universal Edition / Vienna

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare original published score accompaniment to Karlheinz Stockhausen's (1928—2007) Hymnen : Elektronische und Konkrete Musik, "intended to be read while listening to the tape or the record"—Introduction. First edition, second issue, published in 1977 by Viennese Universal Edition, and printed in Vienna from Stockhausen's manuscript — the transcription of the tape was made by Stockhausen using earphones, piano and a stopwatch. Texts in English, German, and French, including programme notes from the world premiere in Cologne in 1967, disposition, supplementary commentary for the DGG record, August 1968, and the complete score. English translations by Australian musicologist and a former teaching assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Toop. Long out of print.

Hymnen (German for "Anthems") is an electronic and concrete work, with optional live performers, by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in 1966–67, and elaborated in 1969. In the composer's catalog of works, it is No. 22. Hymnen is a massive tape soundscape based on samples of 40 national anthems, various field recordings of public events, a few dialogue "inserts", shortwave radio noise and synthesized sound (from sine and pulse generators) to create a kind of "portrait of humanity" as it melts together, bursts apart, and then is reborn as a new utopian entity.

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 – 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, for introducing controlled chance (aleatory techniques) into serial composition, and for musical spatialization.

Very Good copy.

File under: Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen Richard Toop Universal Edition / Vienna Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

Radio Works: 1946-48
By Antonin Artaud

2022, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 12.1 x 19.1 cm
Published by Diaphanes / Zürich

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Translated by Stephen Barber and Clayton Eshleman
With a foreword by Ros Murray

To end GOD’S JUDGEMENT

In the last two years of his life, following his release from the Rodez asylum, Antonin Artaud decided he wanted his new work to connect with a vast public audience, and chose to record radio broadcasts in order to carry through that aim. That determination led him to his most experimental and incendiary project, To have done with the judgement of god, 1947-48, in which he attempted to create a new language of texts, screams, and cacophonies: a language designed to be heard by millions, aimed, as Artaud said, for ‘road-menders’. In the broadcast, he interrogated corporeality and introduced the idea of the ‘body without organs’, crucial to the later work of Deleuze and Guattari. The broadcast, commissioned by the French national radio station, was banned shortly before its planned transmission, to Artaud’s fury.

This volume collects all of the texts for To have done with the judgement of god, together with several of the letters Artaud wrote to friends and enemies in the short period between his work’s censorship and his death. Also included is the text of an earlier broadcast from 1946, Madness and Black Magic, written as a manifesto prefiguring his subsequent broadcast. Clayton Eshleman’s extraordinary translations of the broadcasts activate these works in their extreme provocation.

File under: Antonin Artaud Stephen Barber Clayton Eshleman Ros Murray Antonin Artaud Diaphanes / Zürich Performance / Dance / Theater Art Sound / Music Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Surrealism

Artaud the Mômo
by Antonin Artaud

2020, English / French
Softcover, 136 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by Diaphanes / Zürich

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English translation of Artaud le Mômo, edited in the spatial format Artaud intended, for the first time since its original edition in 1947. Includes eight original drawings by the French poet.

Artaud the Mômo is Antonin Artaud's most extraordinary poetic work of the brief final phase of his life, from his return to Paris from a nine-year incarceration in France's psychiatric institutions in 1946 until his death in 1948. The work is an unprecedented anatomical excavation carried through in vocal language, envisioning new gestural futures for the human body in its splintered fragments, while also generating black-humor illuminations into Artaud's own status as the scorned Marseille-born child-fool, the “mômo” (a self-naming that fascinated Jacques Derrida in his writings on this work). Artaud moves between extreme irreligious obscenity and delicate evocations of his immediate corporeal perception and his sense of solitude. The book's five-part sequence ends with Artaud's caustic denunciation of psychiatric institutions and of the very conception of madness itself.

This edition, translated by Clayton Eshleman—the acclaimed foremost translator of Artaud's work—presents the work in the spatial format Artaud intended, for the first time since its original edition in 1947. It also incorporates the eight original drawings by Artaud—showing reconfigured bodies, weapons of resistance and assault—which he selected for that edition, having initially attempted to persuade Picasso to collaborate with him.

The editorial material draws on Artaud's previously unknown manuscript letters of 1946-48 to the book's publisher, Pierre Bordas, which give unique insights into the work from its origins to its publication.
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) was a French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theater director, widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theater and the European literary avant-garde.

File under: Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud Stephen Barber Diaphanes / Zürich Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Drawing Surrealism

Artaud 1937 Apocalypse – Letters from Ireland
by Antonin Artaud

2019, English
Softcover, 80 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by Diaphanes / Zürich

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First English translation of Antonin Artaud's writings from his apocalyptic journey to Ireland in 1937.

Antonin Artaud's 1937 apocalyptic journey to Ireland and his writings from that journey form an extraordinary moment of accumulating disintegration and tenacious creativity in his work. After publishing a manifesto prophecy about the catastrophic immediate—future entitled The New Revelations of Being, Artaud abruptly left Paris and travelled to Ireland, remaining there for six weeks and existing without money, travelling first to the isolated island of Inishmore off Ireland's western coast, then to Galway, and ﬁnally to Dublin, where he was arrested as an undesirable alien, beaten by the police, and summarily deported back to France. On his return, he spent nine years in lunatic asylums, including the entire span of the Second World War. During that journey to Ireland—on which he accumulated signs of his forthcoming apocalypse, and planned his own role in it as “THE REVEALED ONE”—Artaud wrote letters to friends in Paris and also created several magic spells, intended to curse his enemies and to protect his friends from Paris's forthcoming incineration and the Antichrist's appearance at the Deux Magots cafe. To André Breton, he wrote: “It's the Unbelievable—yes, the Unbelievable— it's the Unbelievable which is the truth.” Many of his writings from Ireland were lost, and this book collects all of his surviving letters, drawn together from archives and private collections, together with photographs of the locations he travelled through.

This edition, with an afterward and notes by the book's translator/editor, Stephen Barber, marks the seventieth anniversary of Artaud's death.

Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) was a French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theater director, widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theater and the European literary avant-garde.

File under: Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud Stephen Barber Diaphanes / Zürich Art Surrealism Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Drawing Theory / Essay

Dan Graham
Beyond

2009, English
Softcover, 348 pages, 23 x 31 cm
Published by MOCA / Los Angeles The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Dan Graham is one of the most significant figures to emerge from the 1960s moment of Conceptual art, with a practice that pioneered a range of art forms, modes, and ideas that are now fundamental to contemporary art. The thrust of his practice has always pointed beyond: beyond the art object, beyond the studio, beyond the medium, beyond the gallery, beyond the self. Beyond all these categories and into the realm of the social, the public, the democratic, the mass produced, the architectural, the anarchic, the humorous. Graham's early work, Homes for America--a series of snapshots of suburban New Jersey tract housing accompanied by short parodic texts, made as a page layout for Arts magazine--announced a critical art grounded in the everyday, and it merged the artist's interest in cultural commentary with art's most advanced visual modes. His 1984 "video-essay" Rock My Religion traced a continuum of separatism and collective ecstasy from the American religious sect the Shakers to hard-core punk music.

This volume, which accompanied a major retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, offers the first comprehensive survey of Graham's work. The book's design evokes magazine format and style, after Graham's important conceptual work from the 1960s in that medium. Generously illustrated in color and black and white, Dan Graham: Beyond features eight new essays, two new interviews with the artist, a section of reprints of Graham's own writing, and an animated manga-style "life of Dan Graham" narrative. It examines Graham's entire body of work, which includes designs for magazine pages, drawing, photographs, film and video, and architectural models and pavilions.

Essays : Chrissie Iles on Graham's performance work; Bennett Simpson on Graham's interest and works in rock music; Beatriz Colomina on Graham's architectural pavilions; Rhea Anastas on Graham's early formation and short-lived operation of the John Daniels Gallery; Mark von Schlegell on Graham's interest in science fiction; Mark Francis on Graham's Public Space/Two Audiences (1976); Alexandra Midal on Graham's conceptual works for magazine pages and magazine design; Philippe Vergne on Graham's puppet opera Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty (2004); Kim Gordon interview with Graham on their collaborations and music; Rodney Graham interview with Graham on jokes and humor in art.

File under: Dan Graham Kim Gordon Rodney Graham Alexandra Midal Beatriz Colomina Bennett Simpson Chrissie Iles Kim Gordon Mark Francis Mark Von Schlegell Philippe Vergne Rhea Anastas Rodney Graham MOCA / Los Angeles The MIT Press / Massachusetts Architecture / Interior Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation