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Tiffany· 02/14/12

Excursus I: Reference Library
Up On My Back, and I Will Take You Thither

Opening, Wednesday, September 14, 6:30pm
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

Excursus is a new series at ICA that invites the public to come together, converse, and peruse archival material in the context of the present. Designer Andy Beach, known for his blog and curatorial interventions under the name Reference Library, inaugurates the series with Up on My Back, and I Will Take You Thither, a project that takes inspiration from the Centaur Book Shop, Philadelphia’s own Prohibition-era radical press, record store, and bohemian meeting place.

On Wednesday, September 14 at 6:30pm come celebrate the opening with a talk about the Centaur by curator Lynne Farrington of Penn’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To be followed by an after hours reception on the ICA terrace.

Throughout the season return for a game of chess, roundtable discussions, workshops, and other free events. Find out more at: www.icaphila.org/excursus

Mark· 09/12/11

WAVE MANUAL - An Educator’s Micro FM Handbook

WAVE MANUAL will not be your standard, run-of-the-mill textbook. We intend to approach the book as a work of art that includes graffiti, paintings, flyers, broadcasts, and collaborative community projects that have taken place both within the Free Radio movement and in the construction of our text.

WAVE MANUAL will not simply be a theoretical exercise but a documentation of our complete immersion into the Micro-FM movement that includes travel to Mexico and around the U.S. to work with and interview participants of various Free Radio collectives.

Your donations go to travel expenses, the procurement of materials, and the publishing costs of WAVE MANUAL. We are extremely excited about the potentials of this project and we thank you for your donations.

Please visit the WAVE MANUAL Kickstarter page here to find more about and to support this project.

Kathryn· 07/03/11

Empowering People of Spaceship Earth

Jonathan· 05/19/11

IFS, Ltd. Futures Newsletter

Investment Futures Strategy, Ltd. (United States) in partnership with GRAPHIC magazine (Korea) is pleased to introduce Futures, a semi-official newsletter published as a stand-alone supplement to GRAPHIC #17 (”When Design Becomes Attitude”). In lieu of a traditional contribution, IFS, Ltd. has chosen to use the GRAPHIC platform to continue its experiments in trade and publishing.

The Book Trust Prospectus examined new possibilities for funding, trade value, and distribution by attaching a different kind of significance to the object, thus short-circuiting the expected monetary transaction. Production of the Prospectus, however, relied on labor-intensive methods that required hours of input for a relatively small output. With the Futures newsletter, IFS, Ltd. has hybridized the positive aspects of large-scale corporate publishing — economies of scale or large print-runs, distribution of labor, and maximum efficiency — with the dictatorial authorship afforded by self-publishing. This new model maximizes potential as authors and designers while minimizing the opportunity cost of production and distribution.

Within the logic of IFS, Ltd. Futures will also act as a form of currency: readers can use their copy of the newsletter to trade for a copy of the Book Trust Prospectus (see: the Prospectus, left). These recirculated copies of Futures will then be re-made available as a way to generate revenue for a future, freely distributed, as-yet-undefined project thus continuing the self-sustaining eco-system of publishing and distribution, one in which readers and producers collaborate to generate and circulate content outside of the cost-prohibitive channels of traditional publishing.

The IFS, Ltd. Futures Newsletter is, in non-equal parts: a corporate bulletin, a speculative trading instrument, an experiment in memetic and symbiotic publishing, an internal-external analysis of company performance (B. Critton, H. Gassel, B. Griffiths, Z. Klauck, M. Nguyen), a proposal for an allegorical Escape Act (S. Dockray), a bid for a series of six activities (D. Horvitz), an abridged catalogue of semi-fictional gemstones (L. Francescone), a profile of independent art book distributor (Textfield, Inc.), and a self-reflexive / -reflective cartoon caption contest (R. Rozendaal).

Jonathan· 03/01/11

CONTRA MUNDUM I-VII

CONTRA MUNDUM I-VII BOOK RELEASE

Sunday, Dec. 5, 7pm
Mandrake

Featuring music by Dallas Acid
and films by Matt Anderson.

Oslo Editions

Mark· 11/28/10

Book Sale (15% off)

e-mail your order (or order online) and receive 15% off ALL books, catalogs, editions, magazines, monographs, multiples, objects, and videos, in our Distribution Catalog and Bookshop, between November 26 and January 2, 2011. All orders placed by December 10, will be delivered by December 24. If ordering online, please include ‘book sale’ in the ‘add instructions’ field of the checkout (we will refund 15% of your total). Free shipping on all (domestic) orders over 200 dollars.

Happy Holidays!

Publishers
032c, A&R Press, Aki Books, Amir Zaki, Anna Helwing Gallery, Area Sneaks, Bas Morsch, Benzanoe, Boabooks, Book Works, Bypass, CalArts, Capricious, Charlie White, Christoph Keller, Christoph Keller Editions, CK Editions, C Magazine, Coins, Condiment, David Kordansky Gallery, der:die:das, Ein Magazin Uber Orte, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Fillip, FormContent, Four Corners Books, Glen Cummings, Adam Michaels, Harsh Patel, Hassla Books, HomeShop, Hunter and Cook, Hypen Press, JRP|Ringier, Karl Haendel, Keith Bormuth, Kingsboro Press, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Laura Bartlett Gallery, Laura Palmer Foundation, LAXART, Manuel Raeder, Midway Contemporary Art, Mono.Kultur, Morel Books, Museum Paper, n+1 Foundation, Nieves, Occasional Papers, OK-RM, onestar press, Paperback, Paper Monument, Participant, Inc., Passenger Books, Peres Projects, Seems, Primary Information, PWR Paper, Rainoff Books, Regency Arts Press, Roma Publications, Schnauzer, Seems, Semiotexte, Shane Campbell Gallery, Slavs and Tatars, Steidl, Textfield, The Power Plant, Tramnesia, True True True, Turner, Unpiano Books, Veneer, Vier5, Walker Art Center, Wallspace, Walther König, Wear, and more.

Textfield· 11/26/10

Weaverbird & Other Words

Marc Hundley book launch this Saturday at Ooga Booga; artist and publishers (Rainoff Books) in attendance. Saturday 20 November 5-7pm — also check out The City Proper from 3-5pm.

Ooga Booga
943 N Broadway
Los Angeles CA 90012

Distributed in North America by Textfield, Inc.

Textfield· 11/19/10

Treasures From a Lesbian Library

Treasures From a Lesbian Library by E. Fowler.

Jonathan· 10/15/10

The Farm Book

The Farm Book by Steven Gasking — also see Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin and The Farm.

via Reference Library.

Jonathan· 09/19/10

Four Over One Book Launch at LACMA / Art Catalogues: Sunday, May 23, 4-6pm

The Wallis Annenberg Photography Department is pleased to celebrate new and recent publications including Bananas for Moholy-Nagy by Patterson Beckwith, Four Over One by Phil Chang, the Aperture edition of Words Without Pictures edited by Alex Klein, and the limited edition of The Sun as Error by Shannon Ebner. A conversation moderated by Britt Salvesen, Curator, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, with artists Patterson Beckwith and Phil Chang will begin promptly at 4:20 pm. Reception to follow. Light refreshments will be served. Signed books will be available for purchase.

Wallis Annenberg Photography Department Book Launch
Reception and Conversation
Sunday, May 23, 4-6pm
Art Catalogues at LACMA

Art Catalogues at LACMA is located in the Ahmanson Building near the Tony Smith sculpture Smoke.

Phil Chang, Four Over One

Shannon Ebner, The Sun as Error

Alex Klein, Words Without Pictures

Jonathan· 05/21/10

Art in Ruins and Unknown Stranger, London 1994, an unpublished project for Frieze

Eva Weinmayr, Art in Ruins and Unknown Stranger, London 1994, an unpublished project for Frieze
Softcover, 16 pp., mimeograph/laser 1/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 300
ISBN 978-0-9562605-2-9
Published by Occasional Papers and FormContent

This booklet is published as part of I Wonder What The Silence is About, a body of work, speculating on the (temporary?) disappearance of Art In Ruins. This English collaborative art practice was formed in 1984 and created a radical stance towards the art world, based on critical post-modern thinking. They have been for a short period omnipresent in the London/Berlin art scene before they fell silent in 2001. I contacted Art In Ruins and asked for permission to reprint one of their publications as part of my project. This they rejected but suggested to publish this interview instead, which was initially written for Frieze Magazine in 1994. It has not been printed until today.

—Eva Weinmayr

Distributed in North America by Textfield, Inc.

Textfield· 04/30/10

Fillip 11

Fillip’s Spring 2010 issue, no. 11, features Lawrence Rinder on painting and politics, Keith Bormuth on Jean-Luc Godard’s 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle, and Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda in conversation with Danish curator Jacob Fabricius. Other long form reviews and essays are provided by Liz Park, Renato Rodrigues da Silva, and Arni Haraldsson, amongst others.

The issue also features Dear Silvia…July 2009, an artist pamphlet by Silvia Kolbowski that compliments the artist’s audio work of the same name commissioned by Fillip for the Living Clay Art Writing Readings series at Whitechapel, London, last Fall.

Launch Event:
Vancouver April 28, 7pm: Organized in conjunction with a talk on Paul McCarthy by John C. Welchman, Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego, co-presented with the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. The event is being held at 3092 Fraser Street at 7pm, with a reception to follow.

Fillip 11
120 pages
17 × 24.5cm
Paper: Munken Print White
Edition: 2000

Available at Textfield, Inc.

Keith· 04/26/10