World Food Books

Interviews With Sound Artists
Edited by René van Peer

1993, English
Softcover, 150 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Ed. of 750,
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare first edition of this wonderful collection of interviews with sound artists taking part in the festival ECHO, The Images of Sound II, in 1987, highlighting New Music and Sound Art, compiled by René van Peer. "This [accompanying] book has become an autonomous account of the personal histories of a number of sound artists, and thus it aims at providing an impression of the origins of Sound Art and New Music"—Paul Panhuysen, March 1993. Comprised entirely of in-depth interviews with Joe Jones, Richard Lerman, Jean Weinfeld, Martin Riches, Takehisa Kosugi, Horst Rickels, Johan Goedhart, Terry Fox, Christina Kubisch, Jim Pomeroy, Walter Fahndrich, Yoshi Wada, Paul Panhuysen.

Published in a limited edition of 750 copies. A valuable resource.

René van Peer is a journalist specializing in non-mainstream music.

Very Good copy.

File under: Joe Jones Richard Lerman Jean Weinfeld Martin Riches Takehisa Kosugi Horst Rickels Johan Goedhart Terry Fox Christina Kubisch Jim Pomeroy Walter Fahndrich Yoshi Wada Paul Panhuysen René van Peer Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Sound / Music Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater

Inventionen 2000: Berliner Festival Neuer Musik

2002, English / German
Softcover (spiral–bound), 76 pages + 2 x audio CD, 26.5 x 19.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD / Berlin

$25.00 - In stock -

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Spiral–bound book and double CD set published to accompany the exhibition, Inventionen 2000: Berliner Festival Neuer Musik, Klanginstallationen - Akusmatische Konzerte, 2000, organised by Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD and Technische Universität Berlin, lead by Ingrid Beirer, Folkmar Hein, Carsten Seiffarth. The publication comprises two CDs housed in a polyurethane sleeve inside a 76 page spiral-bound book in bi–lingual English/German containing liner notes, essays, biographies and full-colour photographs of the participants, installations and performances.

CDs feature: François Donato, Adrian Moore, David Prior, Mario Verandi, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila, Tom Johnson/Martin Riches, José Antonio Orts, Ed Osborn, Christina Kubisch, Wolfgang Mitterer

As New copy.

File under: François Donato Adrian Moore David Prior Mario Verandi Alvin Lucier Ron Kuivila Tom Johnson/Martin Riches José Antonio Orts Ed Osborn Christina Kubisch Wolfgang Mitterer Andreas Bernnat Frank Gertich George Goodman Herbert Velasquez Laurie Schwartz Silke Borgstedt Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD / Berlin Objects / Ephemera / A/V Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

Comic Stripping

1983, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 22 pages, 26.6 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by George Paton Gallery / Melbourne

$180.00 - In stock -

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Wonderful, exceptionally rare catalogue published on the occasion of the group exhibition Comic Stripping at George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, May 31—June 24 1983. Features the work of Howard Arkley, Julie Cunningham, Juliet Darling, Juan Davila, Linda Marrinon, Raymond X, Peter Tyndall, Christopher Van Der Craats, → ↑ →. Illustrated throughout with work and texts by the artists and an introduction by Denise McGrath.

Very Good copy with ex-libris 200 Gertrude St. archive stamps to contents and final page of catalogue. Small mark, soft surface tear from old sticker to bottom-left of cover, otherwise a lovely copy with only light wear.

File under: Maria Kozic Philip Brophy Howard Arkley Julie Cunningham Juliet Darling Juan Davila Linda Marrinon Raymond X Peter Tyndall Christopher Van Der Craats → ↑ → George Paton Gallery / Melbourne Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Pop Art Conceptual Art Art Painting Sound / Music

Het Apollohuis 1985-1990; 1990-1995; 1995-2001
(Lot of 3 books)

1985–2001, English
Softcover (3 volumes), 144 + 152 + 102 pages, 30.5 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven

$80.00 - In stock -

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Lot of 3 books. Each book is a five year compendium documenting the programme series at the legendary sound arts venue Het Apollohuis between the years 1985-1990; 1990-1995; 1995-2001. Founded by Remko Scha and Paul Panhuysen in 1980, Het Apollohuis was a unique space dedicated to experimental music and visual arts, "focused in particular on...sound art, new music, performance art and the new media," in Eindhoven, Netherlands, in a former nineteenth century cigar-factory. Between 1980 and 2001, Het Apollohuis organized 253 art exhibitions, 476 concerts and performances, 46 public lectures, symposia and several festivals (as "ECHO: images of sound II" in 1987 or FLEA Festival in 1997). Alongside an ambitious programme, Het Apollohuis also published prints, artist books, multiples, audio-cassette tapes, LPs, and CDs. This wasn't a museum or a traditional gallery. It was an independent space operating outside institutional structures, able to take risks and follow intuitions.

These books document all of these activities through profuse photo documentation, floor–plans, descriptions (in English), invites and biographies, all indexed. Includes accompanying essays. All in English.

For anyone interested in the history of experimental music and sound art in the 1980s–1990s, these books are essential. Not as nostalgia, but as documentation of a moment when possibilities were opening up, when artists were finding each other, when spaces like Het Apollohuis proved that independent platforms could operate at the highest level of ambition and seriousness. An indispensable reference.

Artists include: Éliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Merzbow, Jerry Hunt, Elliott Sharp, Alvin Lucier, Yoshi Wada, Christian Marclay, Terry Fox, Akio Suzuki, Junko Wada, Paul Panhuysen, Michael Parsons, Alvin Curran, Bernard Villers, Takashi Kazamaki, Iva Bittová, Borbetomagus, Jon Rose, Rhys Chatham, Junko Ueda, Paul Gees, Tibor Szemző, Richard Lerman, Joe Jones, Christina Kubisch, Pascal Comelade, Jon Gibson, Tari Ito, Jim O'Rourke, David Shea, Rolf Julius, Gordon Monahan, Warren Burt, Keiji Haino, Eugene Chadbourne, Goji Hamada, Rafael Toral, David Behrman, Zeena Parkins, Jaap Blonk, Roman Signer, Ikue Mori, Felix Hess, Pierre Bastien, Goji Hamada, Herman De Vries, Ellen Fullman, Hugh Davies, Jan Boerman, Esther Ferrer, Boris Nieslony, Arnold Dreyblatt, Phil Jürgen Olbrich, Remko Scha, Jackson MacLow, Anne Tardos, Paul Dutton, J.H. Kocman, Eric Andersen, Alison Knowles, the Maciunas Ensemble, Hideharu Matsueda, Tokihiro Sato, Trimpin... just the tip of the iceberg.

All Very Good copies with some light wear to boards, light knocking.

File under: Eliane Radigue Phill Niblock Pauline Oliveros Merzbow Jerry Hunt Elliott Sharp Alvin Lucier Yoshi Wada Christian Marclay Terry Fox Akio Suzuki Junko Wada Paul Panhuysen Michael Parsons Alvin Curran Bernard Villers Takashi Kazamaki Iva Bittová Borbetomagus Jon Rose Rhys Chatham Junko Ueda Paul Gees Tibor Szemző Richard Lerman Joe Jones Christina Kubisch Pascal Comelade Jon Gibson Tari Ito Jim O'Rourke David Shea Rolf Julius Gordon Monahan Warren Burt Keiji Haino Eugene Chadbourne Goji Hamada Rafael Toral David Behrman Zeena Parkins Jaap Blonk Roman Signer Ikue Mori Felix Hess Pierre Bastien Herman De Vries Ellen Fullman Hugh Davies Jan Boerman Esther Ferrer Boris Nieslony Arnold Dreyblatt Phil Jürgen Olbrich Remko Scha Jackson MacLow Anne Tardos Paul Dutton J.H. Kocman Eric Andersen Alison Knowles the Maciunas Ensemble Hideharu Matsueda Tokihiro Sato Trimpin Paul Panhuysen Het Apollohuis / Eindhoven Group Shows / Collections Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus

KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL UND II, 1999
Alien Productions, Thorsten Goldberg, Christina Kubisch, Akio Suzuki

1999, German
Softcover (w. corrugated folder, loose-leaf pages) + audio cd, 30 x 22 cm
Ed. of 100,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden

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Very rare limited edition folio and CD publication published on the occasion of one of the most significant Sound Art festivals in the world, the KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL, organised in the German city of Wiesbaden by Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg, Bellevue-Saal, 13 May — 4 July 1999, featuring the work of Alien Productions, Thorsten Goldberg, Christina Kubisch, Akio Suzuki. "An encounter between art and music, between sound and form. Installations will be shown by internationally known artists whose oeuvre has made a significant contribution to the development of sound art; The spectrum ranges from meditative sound spaces to sound sculptures and video installations to works of art that have sound and music as their theme." This elaborate catalogue was published in an edition of 100 copies. Housed in a corrugated envelope, this folio contains a folder of loose-leaf artist's page containing diagrams, drawings, photographs, writings and biographies to accompany each contributing artists, plus CD that reproduces the recordings by the artists involved.

Very Good copy, light wear only.

File under: Alien Productions Thorsten Goldberg Christina Kubisch Akio Suzuki Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Art Conceptual Art

KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL UND III, 2001
Ulrich Eller, Christoph Lahl, Robin Minard, Alexander R. Titz

2001, German
Softcover (w. corrugated folder, loose-leaf pages) + audio cd, 30 x 22 cm
Ed. of 250,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden

$70.00 - In stock -

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Very rare limited edition folio and CD publication published on the occasion of one of the most significant Sound Art festivals in the world, the KLANG-KUNST-FESTIVAL, organised in the German city of Wiesbaden by Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg, Bellevue-Saal, 10 May — 1 July 2001, featuring the work of Ulrich Eller, Christoph Lahl, Robin Minard, Alexander R. Titz. "An encounter between art and music, between sound and form. Installations will be shown by internationally known artists whose oeuvre has made a significant contribution to the development of sound art; The spectrum ranges from meditative sound spaces to sound sculptures and video installations to works of art that have sound and music as their theme." This elaborate catalogue was published in an edition of 250 copies. Housed in a corrugated envelope, this folio contains a folder of loose-leaf artist's page containing diagrams, drawings, photographs, writings and biographies to accompany each contributing artists, plus CD that reproduces the recordings by the artists involved.

Very Good copy, light wear only.

File under: Ulrich Eller Christoph Lahl Robin Minard Alexander R. Titz Helmut Schulze-Reichenberg Verein Zur Förderung Künstlerischer Konzepte Mit Gesellschaftlicher Relevanz / Wiesbaden Conceptual Art Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

Music, Language and Environment
Writings by David Dunn

c. 1989, English
Softcover (spiral bound), unpaginated, 28 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by David Dunn / California

$120.00 - In stock -

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Very rare, privately issued anthology of writings by pioneering experimental/environmental composer and researcher, Harry Partch's assistant, and Harry Partch Ensemble member, David Dunn. Around this time Dunn privately issued a series of 4 staple-bound publications that documented his pioneering work of electronic and acoustic, collected and reflected in his own words. This much larger anthology brings together a most vital compilation of his major technical and philosophical writings and sound research around human and non–human language, music, composition, and bio–acoustics that shaped his work and philosophy, opening with his 1984 essay Music, Language and Environment, followed by An Expository Journal of Extractions from Wilderness: Notes Toward an Environmental Language (1981), Speculations: On the Evolutionary Continuity of Music and Animal Communication Behavior (1983), Mappings and Entrainments (1984), Synchronisms: Toward a Phenomenological Science (1986), The Self-Referring Universe: Identity, Nonlocality and Evolution (Allyn B. Brodsky and David Dunn), Wilderness as Reentrant Form: Thoughts on the Future of Electronic Art and Nature, Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond, Environment, Consciousness, and Magic (An Interview with David Dunn, 1988).

Composer David Dunn was born in 1953 in San Diego, California. He was an assistant to the American composer Harry Partch and remained active as a performer in the Harry Partch Ensemble for over a decade. He has worked in a wide variety of audio media inclusive of traditional and experimental music, installations for public exhibitions, video and film soundtracks, radio broadcasts, and bioacoustic research. His compositions and soundscape recordings have appeared in many international forums, concerts, broadcasts, and exhibitions. In addition to his multiple books, recordings and soundtracks, he has been anthologized in over 50 books and journals. Much of his current work is focused upon the development of listening strategies and technologies for environmental sound monitoring in both aesthetic and scientific contexts. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Good–Very Good copy, light wear to cover pages.

File under: David Dunn Chris Mann David Dunn Chris Mann Allyn B. Brodsky David Dunn / California Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater Ecology / Earth

Interviews with David Rosenboom 1976–1983

c. 1980s, English
Softcover (spiral–bound), unpaginated, 28 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Self-Published

$65.00 - In stock -

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A privately–published, spiral–bound compilation of interviews with American experimental music pioneer, David Rosenboom, spanning 1976–1983. Includes extensive interviews by Larry Polansky, Eva Soltes, Richard Teitelbaum, Walter Zimmermann, Symposium on Computer Music Composition (questions from C. Roads), Recent Cybernetic Insights from Synapse magazine, and more. Compiled around the time Rosenboom toured Europe with Anthony Braxton Quartet and was teaching at Mills College, Oakland.

David Rosenboom (b. Fairfield, Iowa, in 1947) is an American composer and a pioneer in the use of neurofeedback: in the 1970s he built systems in which the brainwaves of performers shaped the music, documented on Brainwave Music (1976) and in his book Biofeedback and the Arts. He has also worked with cross-cultural collaborations and compositional algorithms, and has performed with the mridangam master Trichy Sankaran. He studied composition, performance and electronic music at the University of Illinois with Salvatore Martirano, Lejaren Hiller and Kenneth Gaburo among others, taught at Mills College and for three decades was dean of music at CalArts, where his students have included several generations of experimental composers.

VG with only very light age/wear.

File under: Larry Polansky David Rosenboom David Rosenboom Larry Polansky Richard Teitelbaum Walter Zimmermann Eva Soltes Self-Published Sound / Music Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Furnitures: The Magazine of North American Ideophonics (lot of 5 issues)

1989–1993, English
Softcover (staple–bound), various formats, unpaginated
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Mark Nowak / Minnesota

$90.00 - In stock -

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Rare, virtually undocumented issues of Mark Nowak's sound-art / poetry zine, Furnitures: The Magazine of North American Ideophonics, self-published in the late 1980's into the early 1990's. Issues 7, 8, 9, 11, & 12, c. 1989–1993. Photocopied and stapled, the issues feature visual scores, experimental/concrete/visual poetry, essays, mappings, performance pieces, reflections, reviews and research by experimental American poets, composers, artists, environmentalists, and anthropologists, bound in various formats and laid out to correspond with the contributors' work. A wonder of a publication from the world of American environmental sound and poetics.

No. 7: Stephen Ratcliffe, Pauline Oliveros, Ralph Knowles, Hugh Brody.
No. 8: Alan Drake, Philip Blackburn, David Dunn, Karl Young, Kenneth Gaburo.
No. 9: Rod Lohin.
No. 11: Joe Catalano, Elaine Equi, John Bradley, Lisa Jarnot, Maurice Kenny, Michelle Perez, Karl Kempton, Jim Barnes, George Albon, Kenneth Gaburo, Katie Yates, Dick Higgins, N. Sean Williams.
No. 12: Theodore Enslin, Diane Glancy, Elaine Barkin, R. Murray Schafer.

Mark Nowak is an American poet, as well as cultural critic, playwright and essayist, from Buffalo, New York.

All G-VG copies with light wear/age to extremities, neat previous postage folds to some, some marking. Not post–marked.

File under: Pauline Oliveros David Dunn Kenneth Gaburo Elaine Barkin Stephen Ratcliffe Pauline Oliveros Ralph Knowles Hugh Brody Alan Drake Philip Blackburn David Dunn Karl Young Kenneth Gaburo Rod Lohin Joe Catalano Elaine Equi John Bradley Lisa Jarnot Maurice Kenny Michelle Perez Karl Kempton Jim Barnes George Albon Katie Yates Dick Higgins N. Sean Williams Theodore Enslin Diane Glancy Elaine Barkin R. Murray Schafer Mark Nowak / Minnesota Periodicals Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Concrete Poetry Poetry Art Ecology / Earth Anthropology

Ossia: A Journal of Contemporary Music
Number 1, Winter 1989

1989, English
Softcover (staple–bound), 28 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fellowship of Australian Composers / Sydney

$70.00 - In stock -

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Extremely rare first 1989 issue of Ossia: A Journal of Contemporary Music, published in Sydney by the Fellowship of Australian Composers. Led by the Sydney–based Australian composer, pure mathematician, and chess problemist/chess composer, Ian Shanahan (1962–2021) with an editorial panel including fellow composers Paul Brown, Michael Whiticker and Justine Wilkinson, Ossia was an independent musical periodical founded in 1989 to serve as a forum for avant-garde music theory, compositional analysis, interviews with living composers, and aesthetic debates during the late 20th century in Australia. In musical terminology, "ossia" refers to an alternative passage of music that can be played instead of the original text—reflecting the publication's mission to highlight alternative, contemporary voices in classical music.

This inaugural issue's contents: Editorial, Paul Brown - After the Party: Australian Music in the Bicentennial Year, Michael Whiticker - Morton Feldman: Conversation without Cage, Justine Wilkinson - Ricardo Formosa's Domino, lan Shanahan - The Theory of Bitones, Liza Lim - ISCM World Music Days Festival 1988, Richard Toop - New Music on CD: Recent Releases, The Inaugural Fellowship of Australian Composers Award, and more.

VG copy with light wear. Includes hand written "with compliments" note from editor and president of the Fellowship of Australian Composers, lan Shanahan, to Australian avant–garde composer Warren Burt, whose work inspired his article on Bitones, plus a membership application to the Fellowship of Australian Composers.

File under: Morton Feldman John Cage Ric Formosa Larry Sitsky Paul Brown Michael Whiticker Justine Wilkinson lan Shanahan Paul Brown lan Shanahan Michael Whiticker Justine Wilkinson Fellowship of Australian Composers / Sydney Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Art Minimal Art Australian Art

Act 1
an exhibition of performance and participatory art

1978, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 64 pages, 29.5 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ANU Arts Centre / Canberra

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Rare catalogue published on the occasion of Act 1: an exhibition of performance and participatory art, 4—12 November 1978, spanning the ANU Arts Centre, Commonwealth Gardens and Civic Centre, Canberra. Organised by the ANU Arts Centre, Act I drew Australian artists to Canberra for the "first of a series of exhibitions directed towards specific aspects of recent and experimental art". Profusely illustrated artist pages throughout with photo documentation, collage, drawings, and artist's texts. Artists include Mike Parr, Ian Hamilton, Terry Smith and Media Action Group (Ian Burn, Nigel Lendon, Terry Smith, Michael Dolk, Kieren Finnane, Mary Kinney, Ian Milliss, Anne Sutherland...), Leigh Hobba, Kevin Mortensen, John Nixon, John Davis, Marr Grounds, Ken Unsworth, John Fisher, Liz Honybun, David Kerr, Richard and Pat Larter, Tony Twigg, Lesley Savage, Terry Smith, Tony Twigg, Bob Ramsay, Noel Sheridan, Arthur Wicks, Jillian Orr, Richard Tipping, Jim Cowley, Donald Walters... Includes critical essays by Paul McGillick and Terry Smith on performance art and private and public work, plus further texts by organisers Ingo Kleinert, Diana Ashcroft Johnson, Mildred Kirk. The catalogue also operates in as a document of the exchanges between the organisers and the artists, laying bare the operations and budget, reproducing the open letter to the invited artists along with a selection of the signed responses outlining the artistic concepts, all reproduced in full facsimile. Signatures and transcribed concept responses of contributing artists also make up the wrap-around cover design. Also of particular interest for the contribution by Terry Smith and Media Action Group, who formed in 1977 at Sydney University around the Australian members of the Art & Language group, who had recently returned to Australia. The group produced slide shows on the ideological bias in media treatment of advertising, uranium mining, new technology and the history of May Day. This work is stamped "withdrawn because titled 'performance'" in the contents.

Very Good copy with light wear to cover extremities/light spine pinching. Toned pages from age.

File under: Mike Parr Ian Hamilton Leigh Hobba Kevin Mortensen John Nixon John Davis Marr Grounds Ken Unsworth John Fisher Liz Honybun David Kerr Richard and Pat Larter Tony Twigg Lesley Savage Terry Smith Bob Ramsay Noel Sheridan Arthur Wicks Jillian Orr Richard Tipping Jim Cowley Donald Walters Pat Larter Richard Larter Media Action Group Ian Burn Nigel Lendon Michael Dolk Kieren Finnane Mary Kinney Ian Milliss Anne Sutherland Paul McGillick Terry Smith ANU Arts Centre / Canberra Performance / Dance / Theater Art Australian Art Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Sound / Music Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera

G-Modern Vol. 8
Spring '95 : PSYCHEDELIC, AVANT-GARDE, UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE

1995, Japanese
Softcover, 110 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by G-Modern / Tokyo

$90.00 - In stock -

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Vol. 8 issue of G-Modern, the scarcely seen cult underground music magazine published by the late Hideo Ikeezumi, founder of the legendary P.S.F. label and Modern Music record store, Tokyo’s home for underground, avant-garde and obscure musics. Published in Spring 1995, this early issue features Albert Ayler, Kenji Endo, AMM, Nihilist Spasm Band, Can / Holger Czukay, Stever Beresford, LAFMS, Miles Davis, Hawkwind, Butch Morris, The Pop Group, Television, Hiroshi Mikami, Q-65, unknown masterpieces, record reviews, and much more.

"The text is all in Japanese, but each issue is crammed with great photographs, weird artwork and ads, and lots of album reviews (the Japanese tradition of always reproducing every cover is helpful here). There's a big emphasis on older, ultra obscure stuff, so there's always a few repros of covers you'll definitely never see for the rest of your life. The accent is not only on the Tokyo underground as documented by PSF, but the entire history of worldwide psychedelic, avant-garde and underground music. Each issue is printed on nice book stock paper, in the 100 page range." - (Forced Exposure)

Very Good, cover wear.

File under: Albert Ayler Kenji Endo AMM Nihilist Spasm Band Can / Holger Czukay Stever Beresford LAFMS Miles Davis Hawkwind Butch Morris The Pop Group Television Hiroshi Mikami Q-65 Hideo Ikeezumi G-Modern / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Film / Video

G-Modern Vol. 17
Winter '97-'98 : PSYCHEDELIC, AVANT-GARDE, UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE

1997, Japanese
Softcover, 112 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by G-Modern / Tokyo

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Vol. 17 issue of G-Modern, the scarcely seen cult underground music magazine published by the late Hideo Ikeezumi, founder of the legendary P.S.F. label and Modern Music record store, Tokyo’s home for underground, avant-garde and obscure musics. Published in Winter '97-'98, this early issue features Jutok Kaneko, Congregation, Current 93, Arthur Doyle, Klaus Dinger, Kikuchi Kōji, Barre Phillips, Chu Ishikawa, Nelly Pouget, Screamin' Mee-Mees, Solmania, Mike Whilhelm, Sumegma, unknown psychedelia, record reviews, and much more.

"The text is all in Japanese, but each issue is crammed with great photographs, weird artwork and ads, and lots of album reviews (the Japanese tradition of always reproducing every cover is helpful here). There's a big emphasis on older, ultra obscure stuff, so there's always a few repros of covers you'll definitely never see for the rest of your life. The accent is not only on the Tokyo underground as documented by PSF, but the entire history of worldwide psychedelic, avant-garde and underground music. Each issue is printed on nice book stock paper, in the 100 page range." - (Forced Exposure)

Fine copy.

File under: Jutok Kaneko Congregation Current 93 Arthur Doyle Klaus Dinger Kikuchi Kōji Barre Phillips Chu Ishikawa Nelly Pouget Screamin' Mee-Mees Solmania Mike Whilhelm Sumegma Hideo Ikeezumi G-Modern / Tokyo Periodicals Sound / Music Film / Video Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

G-Modern Vol. 5
Winter '94 : PSYCHEDELIC, AVANT-GARDE, UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE

1994, Japanese
Softcover, 108 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by G-Modern / Tokyo

$90.00 - In stock -

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Vol. 5 issue of G-Modern, the scarcely seen cult underground music magazine published by the late Hideo Ikeezumi, founder of the legendary P.S.F. label and Modern Music record store, Tokyo’s home for underground, avant-garde and obscure musics. Published in Winter 1994, this early issue features Derek Bailey, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Captain Beefheart, George A. Romero, Keiji Haino, Smegma, Patti Smith, Jean-Luc Godard, Hawkwind, Pierre Henry, Shinro Ohtake, Shoichi Ozawa, Alvin Lucier, Frank Zappa, history/discography of Akifumi Nakajima's (Aube) G.R.O.S.S. label, articles on extremely obscure psych from around the world, record reviews, and much more.

"The text is all in Japanese, but each issue is crammed with great photographs, weird artwork and ads, and lots of album reviews (the Japanese tradition of always reproducing every cover is helpful here). There's a big emphasis on older, ultra obscure stuff, so there's always a few repros of covers you'll definitely never see for the rest of your life. The accent is not only on the Tokyo underground as documented by PSF, but the entire history of worldwide psychedelic, avant-garde and underground music. Each issue is printed on nice book stock paper, in the 100 page range." - (Forced Exposure)

Very Good, light cover wear.

File under: Derek Bailey Captain Beefheart George A. Romero Keiji Haino Smegma Patti Smith Jean-Luc Godard Hawkwind Pierre Henry Shinro Ohtake Shoichi Ozawa Alvin Lucier Frank Zappa Akifumi Nakajima (Aube) Aube Motoharu Yoshizawa Hideo Ikeezumi G-Modern / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Screensound
Organised by Rebecca Coyle

1995, English
Softcover (staple-bound), unpaginated, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Museum of Contemporary Art / Sydney

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Rare pocket publication issued on the occasion of Screensound, a program of screenings at the MCA, Sydney, July 1995. The program was part of the exhibition, Sound in Space: Adventures in Australian Sound Art, curated by Rebecca Coyle and Alessio Cavallaro, and brought the dimension of video and film into their exploration of sound and audio art practice in Australia. Illustrated with accompanying texts throughout, featuring the works of Philip Brophy, Rik Rue, Severed Heads, Derek Kreckler, Tom Ellard, Laurie Mc Innes, Fincher Trist, Noel Cunningham, Jane Campion, Itch-E and Scratch-E, Arf Arf, Battleship Potato, Melissa Juhanson, Sonia Leber, David Chesworth, and many more.

Good copy.

File under: Philip Brophy Rik Rue Severed Heads Sonia Leber David Chesworth ARF ARF Rebecca Coyle Museum of Contemporary Art / Sydney Australian Art Art Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections

AMC NEWS (Australian Music Centre Newsletter) No. 14
"Collaboration ?"

1987, English
Softcover (staple–bound), 24 pages + inserts, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Australian Music Centre / Melbourne

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January 1987 edition of the AMC NEWS (Australian Music Centre Newsletter), "Collaboration ?," guest edited by Corinne d'Aston. An important newsletter on the happenings around the AMC and Australian sound art in general, mailed out to members. Contents: Collaboration? – A Discussion Between Four Theatre Artists and Sarah de Jong; The Doll – Music Theatre Workshop, Caroline Wilkins; Creative Collaboration – Martin Wesley-Smith; Playing Around in Open Spaces – David Chesworth; Collaboration in Dance – Stephen Leek; Interdisciplinary Artistic Collaboration – A Survivor’s Account – Bruce Harper. Illustrated throughout.

Includes an inserted membership form and a listing of the scores received at the centre from December 1986 to January 1987.

Founded in 1974, the Australian Music Centre (AMC) is the national service organisation and archive dedicated to promoting and supporting Australian art music and its creators. Born out of the Whitlam era's cultural expansion, the centre champions a vast spectrum of creative expressions, including contemporary classical, jazz, experimental music, and sound art. It houses a living digital repository of tens of thousands of scores, recordings, and educational tools, while simultaneously facilitating professional development, distributing published music, and co-hosting the prestigious annual Art Music Awards.

G–VG copy with light wear to extremities.

File under: Sarah de Jong Caroline Wilkins Martin Wesley-Smith David Chesworth Stephen Leek Bruce Harper Sarah de Jong Corinne d'Aston Caroline Wilkins Martin Wesley-Smith David Chesworth Stephen Leek Bruce Harper Australian Music Centre / Melbourne Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Jazz No. 20, Autumn 1973
Sonny Rollins, Archie Shepp, Milford Graves, Don Cherry...

1973, Japanese
Softcover, 114 pages, 26 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Jazz People Sha / Tokyo

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Very rare copy of Tokyo's Jazz magazine, No. 20, Autumn 1973, with Don Cherry cover. At the forefront of the Jazz scene, edited by Japanese photojournalist and famous jazz critic Seiichi Sugita, Jazz is packed with rare gravure photography, interviews, scene reports, reviews, articles by leading artists, authors and critics, record labels and jazz coffee shop advertisements, this issue including special features on Sonny Rollins at the Village Vangaurd (photography by Seiichi Sugita), the Newport Jazz Festival New York — Archie Shepp, Milford Graves, Don Cherry, Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Ella Fitzgerald, Keith Jarrett, etc. (photography by Seiichi Sugita), Montreux Jazz Festival Summer 1973 (photography by Aoki), a message to Japanese music friends from Chick Corea (about Scientology!), articles on narcotics, improvisation, natural foods, extensive illustrated live and record reviews, and much more...

Very Good copy.

File under: Chick Corea Seiichi Sugita Archie Shepp Milford Graves Don Cherry Lester Bowie Joseph Jarman Roscoe Mitchell Ella Fitzgerald Keith Jarrett Jazz People Sha / Tokyo Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Performance / Dance / Theater Drugs / Psychedelia Japanese Photography

Jazz No. 24, August 1974
John Coltrane special issue

1974, Japanese
Softcover, 130 pages, 26 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Jazz People Sha / Tokyo

$120.00 - In stock -

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Very rare copy of Tokyo's Jazz magazine, No. 24, August 1974, a special John Coltrane issue. At the forefront of the Jazz scene, edited by Japanese photojournalist and famous jazz critic Seiichi Sugita, Jazz is packed with rare gravure photography, interviews, scene reports, reviews, articles by leading artists, authors and critics, record labels and jazz coffee shop advertisements, this issue including special feature and homage to John Coltrane with a huge Coltrane interview, rare photographs, articles, a complete illustrated discography, a photo-report and interview with Japanese saxophonist Kosuke Mine in New York (photography by Seiichi Sugita), Duke Ellington, Eric Dolphy, Celestial Music, extensive illustrated live and record reviews, and much more...

Very Good copy.

File under: John Coltrane Kosuke Mine Jazz People Sha / Tokyo Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Art

Jazz September 1974
Herbie Hancock special

1974, Japanese
Softcover, 130 pages, 26 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Jazz People Sha / Tokyo

$60.00 - In stock -

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Very rare copy of Tokyo's Jazz magazine, September 1974. At the forefront of the Jazz scene, edited by Japanese photojournalist and famous jazz critic Seiichi Sugita, Jazz is packed with rare gravure photography, interviews, scene reports, reviews, articles by leading artists, authors and critics, record labels and jazz coffee shop advertisements, this issue including special features on Herbie Hancock with a full chronology and discography, Montreux Jazz Festival 1974 w. Sonny Rollins, Johm McLaughlin, Gil Evans, Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Jean-Luc Ponty, Rufus Harley, Don Moyer, Alphonse Mouzon, etc. (photography by Seiichi Sugita), interview with jazz pianist Mikio Masuda, Duke Ellington, Eric Dolphy, Celestial Music, extensive illustrated live and record reviews, and much more...

Very Good copy.

File under: Seiichi Sugita Duke Ellington Eric Dolphy Herbie Hancock Miles Davis Mikio Masuda Sonny Rollins Johm McLaughlin Gil Evans Lester Bowie Joseph Jarman Roscoe Mitchell Jean-Luc Ponty Rufus Harley Don Moyer Alphonse Mouzon Jazz People Sha / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art

Jazz January 1975
Miles Davis Special

1975, Japanese
Softcover, 120 pages, 26 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Jazz People Sha / Tokyo

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Very rare copy of Tokyo's Jazz magazine, January 1975. At the forefront of the Jazz scene, edited by Japanese photojournalist and famous jazz critic Seiichi Sugita, Jazz is packed with rare gravure photography, interviews, scene reports, reviews, articles by leading artists, authors and critics, record labels and jazz coffee shop advertisements, this issue including special features on Miles Davis with loads of rare photographs (inc. Miles Davis at the Newport Festival 1969 shot by Seiichi Sugita), article on Miles, complete Mile Davis discography, Japanese jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in New York (photography by Seiichi Sugita), European Jazz report, Eric Dolphy, Celestial Music, extensive illustrated live and record reviews, and much more...

Very Good copy.

File under: Seiichi Sugita Eric Dolphy Miles Davis Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz People Sha / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art Japanese Photography

OUT OF ACTIONS: Between Performance and The Object, 1949-1979
by Paul Schimmel

1998, English
Softcover, 408 pages, 31 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

$55.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, edited by Paul Schimmel, published in 1998. with essays by Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker, Shinichiro Osaki, and Paul Schimmel.

Published to coincide with the first major museum exhibition to examine the complex relationship linking the creative process, action or performance, and works of art in the postwar period. Featuring nearly one hundred and fifty artists and collaboratives from approximately twenty countries in Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Japan, and North and South America—including figures associated with the New York School, Nouveaux Realistes, Fluxus, Viennese Actionists, Hi Red Center, Arte Povera, the Gutai group, happenings, process art, and performance art—the exhibition centered on how the possibilities and implications of using time and process as elements of art were realized by a number of international movements during this influential thirty-year period.

Covering three decades of significant and original art, this lavishly illustrated book features work by more than one hundred artists from across the world who have had a profound impact on the relationship between visual and performance art in the postwar era.

Includes the work of: Marina Abramović, Vito Acconci, Genpei Akasegawa, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Rasheed Araeen, Mowry Baden, Artur Barrio, Jerzy Beres, Joseph Beuys, Mark Boyle & Joan Hills, George Brecht, Stuart Brisley, Robert Delford Brown, Rhett Delford Brown, Günter Brus, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Lygia Clark, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Collective Action Group, Houston Conwill, Paul Cotton, COUM Transmissions, Guy de Cointet, Jim Dine, John Duncan, Felipe Ehrenberg, Roberto Evangelista, VALIE EXPORT, Robert Filliou, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Sherman Fleming, Lucio Fontana, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Gideon Gechtman, Jochen Gerz, Gilbert & George, Alberto Greco, Ion Grigorescu, Victor Grippo, Red Grooms, Guerrilla Art Action Group, David Hammons, Al Hansen, Maren Hassinger, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Dick Higgins, Tatsumi Hijikata, Susan Hiller, Hi Red Center, Rebecca Horn, Tehching Hsieh, Joan Jonas, Kim Jones, Michel Journiac, Akira Kanayama, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Jürgen Klauke, Yves Klein, Milan Knížák, Alison Knowles, Komar & Melamid, Jannis Kounellis, Shigeko Kubota, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Lea Lublin, George Maciunas, Leopoldo Maler, Piero Manzoni, Tom Marioni, Cusi Masuda, Georges Mathieu, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Bruce McLean, David Medalla, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Marta Minujín, Jan Mlčoch, Linda Montano, Charlotte Moorman, Robert Morris, Otto Muehl, Saburo Murakami, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Bruce Nauman, Paul Neagu, Senga Nengudi, Joshua Neustein, Hermann Nitsch, Hélio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Lorenzo Pace, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Lygia Pape, Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, William Pope.L, Robert Rauschenberg, Carlyle Reedy, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Zorka Ságlová, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alfons Schilling, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Shōzō Shimamoto, Ushio Shinohara, Kazuo Shiraga, Barbara T. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Petr Štembera, Wolfgang Stöerchle, Jirō Takamatsu, Atsuko Tanaka, Mark Thompson, Jean Tinguely, Rasa Todosijević, Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Emmett Williams, Zaj.

Their work encompasses sculpture, artists' publications, drawings, photographs, and the ephemera that arises from the performance, as well as documentary film and video stills.

Published in conjunction with a major touring exhibition organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Out of Actions illuminates the unique relationship between action, destruction, performance, and the creative process, in essays by acclaimed art historians. Covering an unprecedented range of material, the book offers the first critical comparisons of work that has previously been viewed as distinctly regional and unrelated.

With 450 illustrations, 200 in colour.

VG copy with light wear and "The Grid" written in red marker on the block side (?).

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

Give My Regards To Eighth Street : Collected Writings of Morton Feldman
by Morton Feldman

2004, English
Softcover, 221 pages, 15.2 x 20.3 cm
Published by Exact Change / Boston

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Morton Feldman wrote as he composed music, carefully placing one element after another, producing some of the avant-garde's most lucid considerations of what it means to make music

Morton Feldman (1926-87) is among the most influential American composers of the 20th century, a man whose music is known for its extreme quiet and delicate beauty (while Feldman himself was famously large and loud). Karlheinz Stockhausen once asked the composer what his secret was: I don't push the sounds around, Feldman replied. His writings resemble his music in their quiet steadiness, their oscillations between assertion and doubt. They are also funny and illuminating, not only about his own music but about the entire New York School of painters, poets and composers that coalesced in the 1950s, including Feldman's friends Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank O'Hara and John Cage. Give My Regards to Eighth Street is an authoritative collection of Feldman's writings, culled from published articles, program notes, LP liners, lectures, interviews and unpublished writings. It is one of those rare books from which anyone can draw inspiration, no matter what the vocation or discipline.

Edited by B H Friedman

File under: Morton Feldman Exact Change / Boston Art Sound / Music Theory / Essay Painting

Fluxus After Fluxus (Visible Language 40.1)
Edited by Ken Friedman and Owen F. Smith

2006, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 23 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Rhode Island (Rhode Island School of Design) / Providence

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Fluxus After Fluxus is a special 2006 issue (Volume 40, Number 1) of the peer-reviewed design and visual communication journal Visible Language, edited by notable Fluxus scholars Ken Friedman and Owen F. Smith.

Contents:
The Dialectics of Legacy - Ken Friedman and Owen Smith, What Has Fluxus Created? - Ann Klefstad, Introduction: Signatures, Music, Computers, Paranoia, Smells, Danger & the Sky - Lisa Moren, Artists’ Statements: Space, Process & Shakers... - David Cologgiovani, Fluxus & the far end of the Freeformfreakout Organization - Alan Bowman, A False History of Fluxus - Eryk Salvaggio, Networking Interaction - Ruud Janssen, Evolving Fluxus - Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Openness & Interaction - Litsa Spathi, Philosophical Poetics - Sol Nte, Thirty Years of Fluxing Around - Cecil Touchon, Invisible Fluxus - mIEKAL aND, (MY) FLUXUS EXPERIENCE (2005) - Walter Cianciusi, Technology Ephemera & Zen Forevers - David-Baptiste Chirot, Wink - MTAA, Games as Art: The Aesthetics of Play - Celia Pearce, The Literature of Fluxus - Ken Friedman, A Fluxus Bibliography - Ken Friedman and Owen Smith.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Ken Friedman Owen F. Smith David Cologgiovani David-Baptiste Chirot Celia Pearce Bibiana Padilla Maltos Litsa Spathi Walter Cianciusi Ruud Janssen Eryk Salvaggio Alan Bowman Ann Klefstad Lisa Moren Sol Nte Rhode Island (Rhode Island School of Design) / Providence Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fluxus Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater

Happenings and Other Acts
Edited By Mariellen Sandford

1995, English
Softcover, 398 pages, 23 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Routledge / London

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First 1995 edition.

Happenings and Other Acts collects seminal essays, interviews, and performance texts by and about Happenings and Fluxus artists. The anthology reprints, in its entirety, the 1965 Happenings issue of The Drama Review (TDR), which was co-edited by Michael Kirby and Richard Schechner, supplemented by articles from subsequent TDR numbers; Kirby's introduction to his own Happenings anthology; excerpts from Allan Kaprow's Assemblages, Environments & Happenings; sections from Carolee Schneemann's More Than Meat Joy; and the concluding essay, written for this volume by Günter Berghaus, which offers the first overview of European Happenings written in English.

Published at the height of the Happenings and Fluxus movements, these are invaluable documents from a period that radically changed our perception of the function of the artist, the role of the observer, and the relation between art and everyday life. All boundaries of conventional art genres were broken by artists such as John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Anna Halprin, Ken Dewey, George Maciunas, Alison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, La Monte Young, Yvonne Rainer, Dick Higgins, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Carolee Schneemann.

Mariellen R.Sandford has been Associate Editor of TDR since 1985.

VG copy with some wear to board extremities.

File under: John Cage Allan Kaprow Claes Oldenburg Anna Halprin Ken Dewey George Maciunas Alison Knowles Jackson Mac Low La Monte Young Yvonne Rainer Dick Higgins Jean-Jacques Lebel Carolee Schneemann Mariellen Sandford Günter Berghaus Michael Kirby Richard Schechner Routledge / London Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Dada