TAGBANGER | Libraries

Mark · 01/28/10

Textfield, Inc. is an independent publisher and distributor of artists books, catalogs, editions, monographs, multiples, and periodicals. We specialize in the distribution of quality publications from publishers in North America and Europe, to libraries, bookshops, galleries, and museums.

The focus of our publishing catalog involves the development of close working relationships with artists, galleries, museums, universities, and institutions to design and publish books and other printed matter.

Publishers: 032c, Capricious, Christoph Keller Editions, C Magazine, Coins, David Kordansky Gallery, Fillip, FormContent, Harsh Patel, Hassla Books, I-20 Gallery, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Laura Bartlett Gallery, Manuel Raeder, Mono.Kultur, Museum Paper, Nieves, OK-RM, onestar press, Paperback, Peres Projects, Seems, Slavs and Tatars, Textfield, True True True, Vier5, Wallspace, Wear.

Textfield · 09/02/09

Miss Read

MISS READ
International publishers and artist/authors show their Artist Books
September 4 to 6, 2009
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69 D-10117 Berlin

Opening: Friday, September 4, 2009, 3–7pm
Saturday, September 5 + Sunday, September 6, 2009, noon–7pm

Miss Read invites a number of international publishers and artists to present their artist books at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. An artist book is always an opportunity for an artist to create a very personal and direct artistic form. Artist books also represent the forefront of contemporary innovative publishing, addressing questions of presentation and circulation, and new distribution strategies. Together with KW and the Berlin publishers argobooks and Michalis Pichler, Miss Read has invited around 30 international publishers and independent projects to the first event of this kind in Berlin, which aims to highlight the diversity and innovation in contemporary publishing. Miss Read has organized an accompanying program of lectures and presentations with artists, publishers, and graphic designers. On Saturday, September 5, from 3 to 9 pm and on Sunday, September 6, from 3 to 7 pm there will be discussions every hour with Stuart Bailey (Dexter Sinister, New York), Antonia Hirsch (Fillip, Vancouver), Christoph Keller, Jonathan Monk, Stephan (Pronto) Müller, and others. The full list of participants will be posted at www.kw-berlin.de.

Project management at KW Institute for Contemporary Art: Anke Schleper
Tel.: ++49. 030. 24 34 59.93 - Fax: ++49. 030. 24 34 59.99 - Email: as@kw-berlin.de

In early September there are two further events on artistic publishing:
On September 3, 2009, at 7 pm the exhibition KIOSK – Modes of Multiplication will open in the Art Library Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. KIOSK is a travelling and continually expanding archive on the status of independent publishing in the field of contemporary art since the 1990s. This project was founded by Christoph Keller in 2001 and has been hosted by more than 20 international institutions – including KW in 2005. In 2007 the archive was purchased by the Art Library. www.kunstbibliothek-berlin.de

On September 5, 2009, the magazine store Motto will be staging the event UNTER DEM MOTTO. One Day Self Publishing Fair from noon to midnight. Nieves books, Rollo Pressand Motto have brought together 40 independent publishers who will present their publications at Motto and in the neighboring Chert Galerie. www.mottodistribution.com

Jonathan · 08/28/09

WALID RAAD @ REDCAT

Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History Of Modern and Contemporary Art In The Arab World / Part I_volume 1_chapter 1 (Beirut: 1992-2005)

A Project By Walid Raad

On view at REDCAT
April 10 - June 14, 2009

Mark · 05/12/09

Josh Callaghan at the LAPL

Josh Callaghan

“LOST&FOUND is the first in a series of displays which explore themes relating to the library and its collections and practices. Turning to a particularly inconspicuous collection - the library’s lost and found, artist Joshua Callaghan has created an archive of objects made entirely of wood and wire and based on pure conjecture. When denied access to the actual lost & found the artist embraced the speculative, generating a playful anthropological display of banal technological contrivances and personal effects. What’s lost, then, is not only “found” by the artist but recreated as pure object, neutral stand-ins for what may or may not exist. By rendering these items in wood they are given new substance and materiality but are stripped of their original use value — the cord does not generate electricity, the pen no longer writes, the iPod will never play. In lieu of functionality these pieces remain static and on display. They present gestures. Shapes and outlines are vague, details are added selectively and objects appear as generic suggestions rather than precise representations. This formal ambiguity places the viewer at the center of a unique process of identification - a kind of visual “lost and found,” activated by the object’s abstraction.”

Callaghan’s work also creates a distinct relationship between object and container. The crude materiality of wood surfaces, soft corners and blunt tips seems to beg for physical contact yet these objects cannot be touched, only seen. In this sense the glass vitrine functions as both frame and obstruction displacing expectations of the case’s transparency and questioning the roles of presentation and display.

Joshua Callaghan (b. 1969, Doylestown, PA) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Haas & Fischer Gallery, Zurich, Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, Galleria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, the UC Riverside Sweeney Gallery, the Guggenheim Gallery of Chapman University, and LA Louver in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Grant and holds a MFA in New Genres from UCLA. To accompany the work, Callaghan has shared the names of artists who have
influenced his work and artistic practice. A corresponding visual bibliography of books and periodicals is also on view. Located in the Los Angeles Central Library, Works Sited is a series of displays that considers the context of the public institution and explores themes relating to the library’s collections and practices. For further information please contact Olivian Cha at (213) 228-7246 or ocha(at)lapl.org

Central Library
630 W Fifth St
Los Angeles CA 90071
www.lapl.org

Jonathan · 05/08/09

suddenly: where we live now

suddenly

suddenly: where we live now
24 January — 12 April 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, 24 January, 5-7 pm

suddenly was born of German urban planner Thomas Sieverts’s observation that “the shaping of the landscape where we live can no longer be achieved by the traditional resources of town planning, urban design, and architecture. New ways must be explored, which are as yet unclear.”

In response to Sieverts’s observation, the exhibition—which is global in its scope and reach–seeks to imagine the possibilities of spaces and experiences that have an indigenous history (the parking lot, for instance), but that exist beyond historical definitions of city and countryside, and conventional material cycles of development and disuse. Through a myriad of representations, texts, and activities that offer far reaching symbolic and strategic alternatives to capitalism’s functionalist agendas, the artists and writers in this expansive global project are re-imagining the landscape where we live now as an independent identity to be reshaped in the hands and minds of its occupants.

suddenly includes a range of projects and media such as painting, photography, and video, and also includes community-based activities such as communal dinners, spontaneous public lectures, and a city-wide poster initiative. The exhibition will evolve as it tours the world through 2012.

The Pomona College Museum of Art iteration of suddenly includes the following artists: photographer Marc Joseph Berg, New York; photographer Zoe Crosher, Los Angeles; filmmaker Michael Damm, Oakland; painter Molly Dilworth, Brooklyn; architect, landscape designer, and social practice artist Fritz Haeg, Los Angeles; sculptor and glass artist Elias Hansen, Tacoma; social practice artist Michael Hebb, Seattle; sculptor and photographer Frank Heath, Brooklyn; conceptual artists Hadley+Maxwell, Berlin; new media artist Michael McManus, Portland; social practice artist Mike Merrill, Portland; the collective Mostlandian Citizens Lady O and Junior Ambassador, Portland; photographer Shawn Records, Portland; painter Storm Tharp, Portland; and sculptor and author Oscar Tuazon, Paris.

suddenly comprises a set of exhibitions curated by Stephanie Snyder, director of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, with an annotated reader edited by author Matthew Stadler, and a series of public events that attempt to re-imagine cityscapes with contemporary art, literature, and the conversations they spark. For more extensive project information, including event listings, audio recordings, and to order project publications, visit: www.suddenly.org.

suddenly

Jonathan · 03/17/09

DUC Program

The Distribution to Underserved Communities Library Program (DUC) distributes books on contemporary art and culture free of charge to rural and inner-city libraries, schools and alternative reading centers nationwide.

The program aims to actively further a more egalitarian access to contemporary art, and is committed to fostering partnerships between publishers, non-profit organizations, librarians and readers to enrich and diversify library collections. The program offers well over 490 titles by more than 90 different publishers. The program reaches readers in all 50 states and has placed over 200,000 free books in public libraries, schools, and alternative pedagogical venues.

The DUC is a program of Art Resources Transfer, Inc., a non profit organization founded in 1987, that is committed to documenting and supporting artists’ voices and work, and making these voices accessible to the broadest possible audience.

Textfield Distribution is proud to announce its participation in the DUC Program.

Textfield · 02/02/09

International Institute of Social History

The International Institute of Social History (Dutch: Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, abbreviation: IISG) is a historical research institute in Amsterdam. It was founded in 1935 by Nicolaas Posthumus. The IISG is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Tiffany · 01/08/09

Pasadena Casting Club

I want to join just to hang out in their clubhouse.

Jonathan · 10/09/08

Textfield, Inc

Textfield, Inc. is an independent publisher and distributor of art books, catalogues, editions, monographs and periodicals. We specialize in the distribution of quality publications from publishers in North America and Europe, to libraries, book shops, galleries and museums.

Publishers: 032c, Capricious, Christoph Keller Editions, David Kordansky Gallery, I-20 Gallery, Laura Bartlett Gallery, Nieves, Onestar Press, Peres Projects, Slavs and Tatars, Textfield, Vier5, and Wallspace.

Jonathan · 09/17/08

Distributed Art Publishers

Photography by Michael Wells. View all images here.

Municipal de Fútbol is a collaborative Edition about amateur soccer in Los Angeles — the everyday experience of playing in pick-up games, weekend and night park leagues. The Edition includes two books, one poster, nine artist lithographs and a fútbol jersey. Jennifer Doyle (Frieze) has contributed two essays to the books, both with Spanish translation. Edition design by Jonathan Maghen, with Photography by Michael Wells. Municipal de Fútbol is co-published by Christoph Keller Editions (DE) and Textfield (US), and Distributed by D.A.P. (www.dapinc.com).

Lithographs: As-Found, Roderick Buchanan, Mari Eastman, General Idea, Jakob Kolding, Jonathan Monk, Arthur Ou, Peter Piller, Michael Wells.

Published on the occasion of the European Championships: 7 June — 29 June, 2008.

Stocked at: Dexter Sinister, Family, Ooga Booga, Opening Ceremony, Peres Projects, Printed Matter, South Willard, YouWorkForThem. Additional locations to follow. To order for your shop, please contact Todd Bradway: tbradway(at)dapinc.com or visit D.A.P. (www.dapinc.com).

ISBN 978-0-9816325-0-6
ISBN 978-0-9816325-1-3
ISBN 978-0-9816325-2-0

Jonathan · 09/10/08

Municipal de Fútbol

Photography by Michael Wells. View all images here.

Lithographs: As-Found, Roderick Buchanan, Mari Eastman, General Idea, Jakob Kolding, Jonathan Monk, Arthur Ou, Peter Piller, Michael Wells.

Published on the occasion of the European Championships: 7 June — 29 June, 2008.
Made possible with the support of adidas.

Stocked at: Dexter Sinister, Family, Golden Age, Ooga Booga, Opening Ceremony, Peres Projects, Printed Matter, South Willard, YouWorkForThem. Additional locations to follow. To order for your shop, please contact Todd Bradway: tbradway(at)dapinc.com or visit D.A.P. (www.dapinc.com).

ISBN 978-0-9816325-0-6
ISBN 978-0-9816325-1-3
ISBN 978-0-9816325-2-0

Textfield · 06/23/08

Bibliobit

There is something for everyone here: Bibliobit.

Sun · 01/17/08