A Book About Some People And Time

Myung Feyen, A Book About Some People And Time
Softcover, 126 pp., offset 2/2, 170 x 240 mm
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-90-77713-48-8
Published by Myung Feyen

$33.00 ·

When you meet Myung Feyen, you are never quite sure at what point everyday life spills over into art. Her letters arrive in archaic envelopes, handwritten or typed on an old fashioned typewriter on paper salvaged from an archive or a bankrupt stationery store. Such a letter becomes a unique ‘object’, a piece of graphic design. Her texts, however intentionally mundane, are meticulously crafted, often with an unexpected poetical twist. A correspondence regarding an upcoming appointment can easily turn into a small collection of poetry or visual art.

Such a correspondence cannot be distinguished from the projects, which she presents as works of art. She has a collection of passport photographs of people who have played an important role in her life in some way, accumulated since her early youth. She takes photographs of her parents on every occasion she meets them, keeping the photos in an archive along with the date they were taken. For years she has been making lists of everybody who has come over to visit her. She also creates diagrams of this information — strange calendars drawn on the walls of exhibition spaces. She collects water and sand of places she or her friends have visited. These samples are packed and kept in a standard uniform method and then documented. Bit by bit, an atlas containing the voyages of Myung Feyen and her friends comes into being.

Art, Carvalho Bernau, Design, Distribution, Guy Harries, Kai Bernau, Malcolm Sutton, Michael van Hoogenhuyze, Myung Feyen, Susana Carvalho

Shit Karmas

David Armacost and Nik Planck, Shit Karmas
Stapled w/ clear poly sleeve*, 12 pp., mimeograph 1/1, 10.75 x 12 inches
Edition of 75
Published by The Kingsboro Press

$8.00 ·

A new collaborative artists book from Baltimore-based painters Armacost and Planck. Sourcing their longstanding and fervent correspondence, Shit Karmas scrutinizes all elements of artistic practice, from grandiose pursuits to foolhardy routine. Deeply rooted in painting, Armacost and Planck have etched out a collaborative process in which every element informs the next, and drawings and paintings are endlessly referenced and parodied in a seemingly-endless back and forth interchange between artists.

*Note: mimeograph printed on matte coated paper (ink may transfer during handling).

Art, David Armacost, Distribution, Nik Planck, Performance, The Kingsboro Press

Travelling Across the USA

Paul Gerhard Diez, Travelling Across the USA
Softcover/with flaps, 176 pp., offset 4/4, 120 x 170 mm
English and German
Edition of 400
ISBN 978-3-9814530-1-0
Published by Bücher & Hefte

$35.00 · out of stock

The photo book Travelling Across the USA shows photographs by passionate amateur photographer and then student of theology Paul Gerhard Diez which he took during a journey across the USA in 1954. The photographer wrote a short comment on each picture.

Travelling Across the USA is published in a German and an English edition, with an accompanying essay by journalist Georg Diez, the photographer’s son.

Birgit Vogel, Bücher & Hefte, Culture, Distribution, Ein Magazin über Orte, Elmar Bambach, Georg Diez, Julia Marquardt, Paul Gerhard Diez, Photography

In the Beginning it was Humid

Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard, In the Beginning it was Humid
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/4, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905999-03-7
Published by Nieves

$20.00 · out of stock

For several year, Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard have been making work inspired by outsider art or the applied arts like handcrafts or ceramics. It appears as if they both don’t think much of rules and that they just spontaneously adapt their ideas. That makes their work fresh and full of expression. In the Beginning it was Humid — their fourth publication with Nieves — features a broad selection of their ceramic works from the last few year, and concludes with a short story by A.C. Kupper.

Bastien Aubry (1974) and Dimitri Broquard (1969) established the two-man design studio Flag in 2002. They work for art and cultural institutions, producing catalogues, artists books, magazines and posters. FLAG also creates drawings, illustrations for editorials and private projects. Both Broquard and Aubry respectively teach at art schools in Switzerland.

A.C. Kupper, and Dimitri Broquard, Art, Bastien Aubry, Ceramics, Design, Distribution, Flag, Nieves

Sun Feels Honest Todae

Terence Koh, Sun Feels Honest Todae
Softcover, 40 pp., offset 1/1, 225 x 305 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-96-8
Published by Nieves

$24.00 ·

Issue #8 of THE international with Terence Koh features deep monochrome prints of his haunting photography layered with drawings that form collages evoking avant-garde Japanese underground scenes from the 1970s.

Art, Distribution, Nieves, Photography, Terence Koh, THE International

Cancelled

Brendan Fowler, Cancelled
Softcover, 60 pp., offset 4/1, 7 x 10 inches
Edition of 1000
Published by 100% Biz

$20.00 ·

Cancellation for me is this dynamic act: it is at once violent, an attack, an endgame to a struggle, but at the same time the mega opener. In the place of something cancelled there is only opportunity, only potential… For example, an event is cancelled, you have the night free; tour is cancelled, you have two weks to stay at home and work in your studio and sleep in your own bed and not lose money; exhibition is cancelled, now look at all of this time and material you have floating around… The bottom line is canceling as negating, as a way to remove to create potential, to create space. So after working for a while with the graphice of a literal “CANCELLED” stencil image, it was like, how do you cancel that? How does that get further negated?

— Brendan Fowler

100% Biz, Asher Penn, BARR, Brendan Fowler, Distribution, One Hundred Percent Biz, Rental Gallery

Temporary Storages

Joo Hwang, Temporary Storages
Softcover, 96 pp., offset 4/4, 180 x 240 mm
English and Korean
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-89-94027-17-3
Published by mediabus

$25.00 ·

Temporary Storage (2009-2010) is a record of buildings that appear in and disappear from our landscape. The project Temporary Storage asks “what do buildings mean to us?” Buildings are never merely tools; they themselves become the environment we live in having significant influences on the way we form relationships with our surroundings. The temporary storage has become a part of landscape and acts as more than the functions they serve. Often perceived as hostile intruders to the surrounding environment, through them we see perversion and severance of the relation between men and the structures. Such phenomena are caused by the intensification of the separation of man and nature, man and civilization, and man and his fellows that began with the industrial contest.

— Joo Hwang

In her latest work, Joo Hwang examines the prefabricated temporary storage facilities that cluster alongside fields or in the shadow of newly erected residential towers on the urban edges. As presented here, these are some of the most mysterious albeit unremarkable structures on the road of commodity circulation. Her methodology appears simple: a simple cataloging of structures and site. She uses photography’s capacity for sustained description and accumulation, however, to build, over time, a document with considerable analytic force.

— Robert Sember

Art, Distribution, Eun Jeong Lee, Hyoun Youl Joe, Joo Hwang, Joongdong Logistics, Ju Hui Judy Han, Lee Sun Ryong, mediabus, Photography, Robert Sember, The Book Society

MS Sans

MacGregor Harp and Victor Hu, MS Sans
Softcover, 84 pp., offset 1/1, 6 x 8 inches
Edition of 500
Published by Cheap Art America

$5.00 ·

A celebration of the mundane. MS Sans invites thirteen contributors to explore the potential of the typeface Microsoft Sans.

“Each glyph feels as if constructed from rigid individual bits expressing no empathy for the bows and straights of the other. Compare these letterforms to the negative spaces of its progenitor Helvetica; whence MS Sans borrowed its original file name, helv.tff. Inspect closely how the stems of the lowercase b, d, g, p, and q bend not to their respective bowls. O, daughters and sons of the New House what brother of Arial is this? What absent father’s nose is present in this numeral 1? And to whose crooked grandmother do we blame thine unspinely 8? Yet take no offense. Similar results manifest when a gaze is exercised on your humble narrator.”

— Stewart Smith

Anthony Salvador, Art, Cheap Art America, Chris Palazzo, Culture, Design, Distribution, GUNMAD, Jeremy Landman, Jiminie Ha, MacGregor Harp, Microsoft, MS Sans, Nicolas Borel, Project Projects, Sam Farfsing, Samuel Banziger, Stewart Smith, Typography, Victor Hu

Public Fiction 1

Public Fiction 1, The Church Issue
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 2/1, 8 x 10 inches
Night Papers insert: Newspaper, 12 pp., web offset 1/1, 11 x 17 inches
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-615-49712-9
Published by Public Fiction

$12.00 ·

Public Fiction is a quarterly based in Los Angeles and with Los Angeles as subject. This is the church issue.

Public Fiction takes form in print and space. The physical space, a storefront in Highland Park, gives a site to experiment with the topic at hand in real-time.

Adam Overton, Art, Chiara Giovando, Claire Cronin, Corey Fogel, Culture, Distribution, Diva Dompe, Erin Perry, Jeffrey Deitch, Jesse Fleming, Lauren Mackler, Los Angeles, Maja D'Aoust, Margaret Wappler, Owl Eyes, Public Fiction, Ron Rege Jr, Sophia Dixon Frydman, Trinie Dalton

Reference Work

Martine Syms and Marco Kane Braunschweiler, Reference Work
Softcover, 98 pp., mimeograph 2/1, 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Edition of 250, numbered
Published by Golden Age and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

$15.00 · out of stock

Reference Work is a conceptual business textbook.

As stated by Syms “Reference Work is the text I wish we had read prior to opening our business Golden Age. It contains original essays from Marco Kane Braunschweiler and I, the syllabus from the only business class we ever took, summaries from our favorite business books and a collection of resources that we’ve found helpful over the past four years. The book may be interpreted as sarcastic or irreverent, but I hope readers will notice our sincerity. It is difficult trying to enter the business world as a right brain thinker, not because those skills aren’t essential, but because that world is structured around hard metrics and art is difficult to quantify. Reference Work is intended to demystify some of the day-to-day operations of a cultural business and expand the definition of commercial success.”

The text was edited by Zachary Kaplan. The book was published with the assistance of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on the occasion of We Are Here: Art & Design Out of Context, an exhibition curated by James Goggin.

Alfredo Ruiz, Art, Bob Brodsky, Culture, Design, Golden Age, James Goggin, Marco Kane Braunschweiler, Martine Syms, MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Scott Reinhard, Zachary Kaplan

Born in Flames

Lizzie Borden, Born in Flames
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/4, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-9562605-9-8
Published by Occasional Papers

$18.00 · out of stock

Born in Flames, the publication, is an illustrated transcript of Lizzie Borden’s 1983 film ‘Born in Flames’, edited and designed by Kaisa Lassinaro. It includes an interview with Borden conducted in Los Angeles by Lassinaro, as well as the lyrics of Undercover Nation by The Bloods and Born in Flames by Red Crayola, kindly supplied by Adele Bertei and Mayo Thompson.

‘Born in Flames poses the question of whether oppression against women will be eliminated under any kind of social system. […] It is a fantasy presenting a group of women who, confronted with the very “ordinary” oppression women have been experiencing for decades, refuse to take it any longer and become armed fighters against the government. Their position is that oppression against women is not eliminated automatically with “socialism” — not only do political values have to change, cultural values must change and become embedded in practice.’

— Lizzie Borden in Heresies #16, 1983

In the spirit of Borden’s film, the publication was collectively funded by the following individuals and institutions:

Stuart Bailey, Heather Bradley, Eleanor Brown, Geoffrey Brusatto, Culturgest, Wayne Daly, Chris Evans, Beatrice Gibson, Nick Gordon, The Hawthorne Archive, Erna Hecey, Onno Hesselink, Will Holder, Jeff Khonsary, Koenig Books, Uriel Orlow, Falke Pisano, Philomene Pirecki, PrintRoom: Karin de Jong, Ewoud van Rijn, Pro QM, David Reinfurt, Jane Rolo, Catherine de Smet, Benjamin Thorel, Giulia Vallicelli, and Julia Zay.

Adele Bertei, Anarchy, Beatrice Gibson, Benjamin Thorel, Catherine de Smet, Chris Evans, Culture, Culturgest, David Reinfurt, Distribution, Eleanor Brown, Erna Hecey, Ewoud van Rijn, Falke Pisano, Feminism, Film, Geoffrey Brusatto, Giulia Vallicelli, Heather Bradley, Heresies, Jane Rolo, Jeff Khonsary, Julia Zay, Kaisa Lassinaro, Karin de Jong, Koenig Books, Lizzie Borden, Mayo Thompson, Nick Gordon, Occasional Papers, Onno Hesselink, Philomene Pirecki, PrintRoom, Pro QM, Red Crayola, Sandy Yang, Socialism, Stuart Bailey, The Hawthorne Archive, The Red Krayola, Uriel Orlow, Wayne Daly, Will Holder

The Artist as an Instigator of Changes in Social Cognition and Behaviour

Stephen Willats, The Artist as an Instigator of Changes in Social Cognition and Behaviour
Softcover, 96 pp., offset 2/1, 130 x 210 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-9562605-6-7
Published by Occasional Papers

$18.00 · out of stock

Stephen Willats’ major essay The Artist as an Instigator of Changes in Social Cognition and Behaviour is re-issued for the first time by Occasional Papers. Published in 1973 by Gallery House, London — where Willats was Director of the Centre for Behavioural Art — and long out of print, the paper includes rigorous analyses of social forms of artistic production and descriptions of a number of projects by the artist.

Art, Centre for Behavioural Art, Criticism, Culture, Distribution, Gallery House, Occasional Papers, Stephen Willats, Theory

Research Notes

Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich, Research Notes
Softcover, 20 pp., offset 1/1, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-3-905714-95-1
Published by Nieves

$14.00 ·

In an attempt to celebrate how we find ourselves doodling while on the phone, testing pens in stationery shops, our belief in folklore, the need to misuse technology or whose idea it was to fly aero planes in formation to write messages across our skies.

The research notes selected from the archive A Recent History of Writing & Drawing hopefully provide references to things old, new and maybe forgotten which together can offer an alternative understanding of our habit to document thoughts and ideas. Upending assumptions that any one kind of communication is more authentic, more direct or more valid that any other, A Recent History of Writing & Drawing finds meaning, texture and poetry in the most unlikely places.

Alex Rich, Art, Culture, Design, Distribution, Drawing, Jürg Lehni, Nieves, Science, Typography

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