A Part
Stepanka Peterka and Zachary Allen
52 colour pages
5.25″ x 6.75″
variable covers, hand bound and sewn
edition of 10
publication date: June 2012
Publisher’s Description:
A Part is inspired by a relationship experienced primarily through photography, crystals, and digital communication. Regardless of an uncertain future, two people battled to connect over space, time zones and sporadic meetings. Represented as a selection from an ongoing archive of text messages, photographs and screen grabs, this book aims to reconcile with the intra and interpersonal experiences of magic, time, change, expectations and the idea of being together.
(via Broken Editions)
• 30 June 2012
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Who Dares Wins
By Stephen Wooldridge
Digital Colour print
289mm x 380mm
Edition of 300
Newspaper
28PP
Project Description:
Who dares wins is a fictional portrayal of four young men preparing for a career with the British Army. The series is a comment on both the Armed Forces and society, politically and socially. Using these autonomous characters, the viewer is prompted to consider these young men as individuals and as a representation of the British Army today. The series is at times absurd, dull and melancholic. Such are the lives of these individuals.
www.stephenwooldridge.com
• 6 May 2012
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“In quiet rooms young girls are writing poetry”
David Rathman
12.75” x 17.25”
case bound archival pigment ink prints
20 pages
Publisher’s Description:
“In quiet rooms young girls are writing poetry” is an artist’s book that reproduces David Rathman’s recent war-themed watercolors. The paintings depict tanks, planes, warships and helicopters. As with Rathman’s cowboy and car pieces, the imagery is paired with hand-written texts and legends.
Using “language in a paradoxical way to confront the imagery,” Rathman avoids a head-on collision with the “heaviness” of his subject. According to the artist, “There’s a lot of indirection and evasion going on; to see these aggressive menacing subjects twisting with uncertainty struck me as humorous and—in a sideways, minor way—profound.”
Like a series of memento mori greeting cards, Rathman’s book is sometimes morose, sometimes playful, with the artist addressing “serious and ordinary issues: death, fracture, joy, compulsion, testosterone and deliverance.”
signed edition of 200
(via Location Books In quiet rooms young girls are writing poetry)
• 11 September 2011
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1/2: ZINE:
1/2 is a project of artistic exchange
between four french graphic
designers/illustrators, who live
in four european capitals.
1/2 is an online space to share
and discuss each others work.
1/2 is a biannual original
self-published hand-made zine.
1/2 is around the corner
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1/2 is Laure Boer, Anne-Pauline Mabire,
Lucie Pindat and Chloé Thomas.
1/2 lives in Amsterdam, Berlin,
Paris and Vienna.
1/2 is anywhere anyway
(found via Karamboo)
• 20 November 2010
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CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS’
BOOKS CONFERENCE
November 5-6
The NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1
Symposium on emerging practices and debates within art-book culture
Tickets begin at $20
www.nyartbookfair.com
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The Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference is a dynamic, two-day event focused on emerging practices and debates within art-book culture. Full conference tickets, which include a newly commissioned book by Emily Roysdon, are now available online (single-session tickets are also available).
The Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference is organized by Printed Matter, Inc. and The NY Art Book Fair, November 5–7 at MoMA PS1, featuring more than 280 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, museums, galleries, and artists from twenty-four countries, exhibiting the very best of contemporary art publishing. Admission to the NY Art Book Fair is free, including the preview, Thursday, November 4 from 6-9 p.m. Visit the NY Art Book Fair website and Facebook page for updates as well as a complete list of programs.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2010
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Furthering the Critical Dialogue
This session will further a key concern of last year’s Conference: the state of artists’ books criticism. Through myriad critical approaches, speakers will not discuss the “state of” artists books criticism per se, but instead directly engage in a critical evaluation of select works.
Participants include: Tate Shaw, director, Visual Studies Workshop; Karen Schiff, artist, New York; Susan Viguers, director, Book Arts/ Printmaking MFA program, University of the Arts; and Kathleen Walkup, professor and director of the Book Art program, Mills College. Moderated by Tony White, Indiana University Libraries.
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Typography and Writing
Without typography, the published word does not exist. How do contemporary writers engage with form? How have designers grappled with the concept of authorship? With the rise of digital publishing, writers have new opportunities to think about how their work is produced and distributed. This session will explore typography and design across a range of current publishing formats.
Participants include: Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt Museum and Maryland Institute College of Art; and Will Holder, artist, London.
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Keynote: Richard Hell, Josh Smith, and Christopher Wool
A conversation between three artists whose recent collaborations include such books as Psychopts (JMC & GHB Editions, 2008) and Can your monkey do the dog (MFC Michele Didier, 2007).
5:45 - 6:45 p.m.
Pecha Kucha: Artists’ Books, Zines, and Publishing
This pecha kucha (the Japanese word for “the sound of conversation”), will consist of ten presenters offering fifteen slides each, displayed twenty seconds at a time. Presenters will have five minutes to discuss each project based on interest, influence, or intrigue. The quick pace and strictly enforced time limit of this session format ensures a lively, engaging and entertaining discussion.
Participants include: Tony White, Indiana University Libraries; Jae Rossman, assistant director for Special Collections, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University; and Karen Schiff, artist, New York; and others.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2010
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Experimental Libraries and Reading Rooms
What constitutes an experimental library? What is the impetus to create such a library and what impact do such spaces have on our exchange of ideas, the conduct of research, or the creation of art? Does this impulse stem from a need to create an intellectual community outside of academia, address an underrepresented subject, articulate an intellectual curiosity, or is it simply nostalgia for printed books and libraries? These spaces share the common trait of presenting unique collections of research material to the public. Martha Wilson of Franklin Furnace will give an introductory presentation.
Participants include: Wendy Yao, Ooga Booga; Andrew Beccone, the Reanimation Library; Robin Cameron and Jason Polan, the Assembled Picture Library; and Tiffany Malakooti and Babok Radboy, Bidoun Library. Moderated by Renaud Proch, Independent Curators International (ICI).
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Riot Grrrl: Traces of a Movement
Riot Grrrl is a feminist movement that rose during the mid-1990s and is closely associated with punk rock, radical politics, and a DIY ethic. Its participants left behind a lengthy paper trail of film, photography, art, video, music, and zines, a selection of which have recently entered the Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University. This panel of artists, musicians, and writers will discuss the history and cultural artifacts of the movement.
Participants include: Lisa Darms, Fales Library, NYU; Jenna Freedman, Barnard College
Library; Sarah Marcus; and Molly Neuman. Moderated by Gretchen Wagner..
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
The Pedagogy of Artists’ Publications
Artists’ publications have a presence in academia beyond the usual bookmaking class. This session steps back from the technical aspects of publishing to survey the way in which this practice manifests within the classroom. How do conversations overlap or diverge from the DIY. ethos of artists’ zines? In what way might individuals and institutions continue to support the field of artists’ publications? By convening a group of practitioners from various backgrounds, including recent MFA-program graduates, this panel will explore the current climate of pedagogy surrounding artists’ publications.
Participants include: Kirby Gookin, department of Art and Art Professions, New York University; Duncan Hamilton, department of Communications Design, Pratt Institute; Megan Plunkett and Daniel Wagner, The Kingsboro Press; and Ruby Sky Stiler, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University. Moderated by Catherine Krudy, director, Printed Matter, Inc.
5:45 - 6:45 p.m.
Closing Reception, with Emily Roydson
Join us for a reception in celebration of the release of a specially commissioned book by Emily Roysdon, an interdisciplinary artist and writer who examines the intersections of choreography and politics. Roysdon’s book is a meditation on vintage photographs of the New York piers by queer photographer Alvin Baltrop.
Printed Matter, Inc. presents
The NY Art Book Fair, November 5–7, 2010
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave., Long Island City, NY
Free and open to the public:
Preview: November 4, 6-9 p.m.
Friday & Saturday, November 5 & 6, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday, November 7, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Image: Emily Roydson with photography by Alvin Baltrop, West Street, 2010. Forthcoming artists’ book, published on the occasion of the NY Art Book Fair and the Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference.
(via PrintedMatter.org)
• 31 October 2010
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My Grandma Was a Turtle.
Photographs by Cuny Janssen.
Snoeck, 2010. 84 pp., 85 color illustrations, 9½x12¾”.
Publisher’s Description
For this rhapsodic artist’s book, Dutch photographer Cuny Janssen visited that town of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to photograph children with Native American ancestors and their surroundings. Her motivation was curiosity about what traces of their origins could be seen in these modern Native American children; the title refers to the Turtle clan of the Delaware tribe in Oklahoma. The 85 elegiac photos in this book, some in beautifully reproduced color, were taken with Janssen’s large format camera, and include surprisingly anachronistic images of the prairie, complete with bison. Janssen’s unique combination of children and history results in a lyrical bridge across time. The hand-pasted reproductions make this book feel like early photograph albums or collector’s albums for cigarette cards. Limited edition of 1000 copies.
(via photo-eye Bookstore | Janssen Cuny: My Grandma Was a Turtle | photobooks)
• 16 October 2010
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Christian Marclay– Fourth of July
PJC, 2010. 128 pp., Illustrationed throughout, 7¼x9½”.
Publisher’s Description:
Christian Marclay has consistently devised ingenious strategies for merging conceptual brilliance with destructive gesture, from ‘Guitar Drag,’ his film of a guitar dragged along a dirt road, to his ‘Record Without a Cover’ (issued to be damaged and then played). On 4 July 2005, Marclay photographed a marching band at an Independence Day parade in Hyde Park, New York. He then produced eight photographs as large prints, and proceeded to tear them up into more than 40 pieces. The result is this artist’s book, which composes Marclay’s chaotic photo-fragments-a foot suspended in midair, cymbals about to crash, a drumstick vibrating, trumpets detached from their players-into a visual and narrative equivalent of a sound-art work. In a further analogy to the artist’s process, the book is printed in French folds that the reader must tear open to read.
(via photo-eye Bookstore | Christian Marclay: Fourth of July | photobooks)
There is also a corresponding exhibition at the Paula Cooper Gallery in NY. A review of the show can be found at the DLK Collection blog.
• 2 October 2010
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between 2 worlds: Final Version of Interior Relations Artist Book
Interior Relations
by Ian van Coller
- Contributor/s: Amy Thompson: Book binding and letterpress
- Date of publication: 2010
- Place of publication: Bozeman, Montana
- Dimensions: 17″x21″
- Edition size: 30 + 5AP’s
- Insert: Limited Edition 11”x14” C-Print
- Type of binding: Cloth, Noble
- Number of pages: 31
- Type of paper: Museum Rag
- Number of pictures: 27
- Type of printing: Inkjet
- Printer: Epson 9800 Pro Stylus
- Publisher: Doring Press
- Designer: Ian van Coller
- Language: English
- ISBN: 978-0-9845001-0-9
- Category: Artist Book
- Price: $900
Summary:
Interior Relations: Portraits of Domestic Workers in South Africa
This project focuses on the intersection of post-Apartheid black and white identities via photographic portraiture of black domestic workers who work in homes owned by white South Africans. Though separated by an enormous gulf of inequality, the domestics and their employers are wedded by an intensely intimate, personal, and awkward interdependence. Interior Relations explores the discrepancies between the country’s public democratic ideals and the ongoing racial and economic inequality that affects a large majority of black South Africans. The women were dressed in their favorite clothes and photographed in the homes of their employers.
• 23 September 2010
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