Outpost Journal 4, Providence
Softcover, 64 pp. + insert, offset 4/4, 9 x 12 inches
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9836082-2-6
Published by Outpost Journal
$15.00 ·
Outpost is an annual print publication on art, design and community action from cities that have been traditionally underexposed beyond their local contexts. Each beautifully produced and visually engaging issue of Outpost focuses on a single urban location and comes packaged with a limited edition print by an artist from the featured city. Outpost is a journey into the creative heart of a place, and via features like “Secretly Famous” (profiles of the most infamous artsy locals), guerrilla engagements with tourist attractions, historical explorations, mapping projects, and deep dives into artist collectives and organizations, Outpost exposes the myriad ways in which unique local communities arise through creative collaboration and production.
Exploratory and playful, critical with a sense of levity, and inspired by hand-drawn maps, flags, totem poles, poorly pixelated iPhone photos, moody landscapes, and the spirit of adventure, Outpost is dedicated to strengthening ties between communities and spreading new ideas about how creative culture can change our world.
Aja Blanc, Alex Kwartler, Annie Fischer, Anusha Venkataraman, Architecture, Art, Brian Chippendale, Clay Rockefeller, Culture, Dale Gowen, Distribution, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Eric Shiner, Jay Peter Salvas, Jungil Hong, Luke Baker, Manya Rubinstein, Matthew Williams, Mike Taylor, Outpost Journal, Pete Oyler, Sheri Pasquarella, Victoria Kung
Outpost Journal 3, Kansas City
Softcover, 64 pp. + insert, offset 4/4, 9 x 12 inches
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9836082-2-6
Published by Outpost Journal
$15.00 ·
Outpost is an annual print publication on art, design and community action from cities that have been traditionally underexposed beyond their local contexts. Each beautifully produced and visually engaging issue of Outpost focuses on a single urban location and comes packaged with a limited edition print by an artist from the featured city. Outpost is a journey into the creative heart of a place, and via features like “Secretly Famous” (profiles of the most infamous artsy locals), guerrilla engagements with tourist attractions, historical explorations, mapping projects, and deep dives into artist collectives and organizations, Outpost exposes the myriad ways in which unique local communities arise through creative collaboration and production.
Exploratory and playful, critical with a sense of levity, and inspired by hand-drawn maps, flags, totem poles, poorly pixelated iPhone photos, moody landscapes, and the spirit of adventure, Outpost is dedicated to strengthening ties between communities and spreading new ideas about how creative culture can change our world.
Ahram Park, Aja Blanc, Alex Kwartler, Annie Fischer, Anusha Venkataraman, Archie Scott Gobber, Architecture, Art, Brandon R. Reynolds, Clay Rockefeller, Culture, Dan Maginn, Distribution, Hesse McGraw, Jay Peter Salvas, Kate Hackman, Luke T. Baker, Manya Rubinstein, Matthew Williams, Mike Sinclair, Mike Taylor, Outpost Journal, Pete Oyler, Photography
Luciano Fabro, From Contratto Sociale to Colonna di Genk
Hardcover, 56 pp. + DVD, offset 4/4, 170 x 220 mm
Edition of 800
ISBN 978-94-9069-362-6
Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle
$32.00 ·
Between 1990 and 2007, Italian artist Luciano Fabro (1936-2007) created sixteen publicly commissioned works. This book, along with an accompanying dvd, focuses on the life and works of this extraordinary artist, and brings homage to Fabro’s latest realization La Colonna di Genk. This intriguing work commissioned by the city of Genk (B) visibly illustrates Fabro’s way of thinking and creation process. The accompanying dvd reveals biographical elements as well as the making of and the festive inauguration of La Colonna during Labour Day on May the 1st 2008. The inauguration took place on the renewed Genk Stadsplein (B), just ten months prior to Fabro’s death.
Architecture, Art, Distribution, Kristof Reulens, Luc Derycke, Luciano Fabro, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Sculpture, Thérèse Legierse
Juliaan Lampens
Softcover, 152 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 275 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-94-6117-005-7
Published by ASA Publishers
$40.00 · out of stock
The architecture of the Belgian Modernist Juliaan Lampens (b. 1926) goes beyond designs for conventional living and instead suggests a utopian avant-garde of living without barriers. He experimented with the use of raw concrete and created sculpture-like exteriors leading onto open vistas. Edited by Angelique Campens. With contributions by Angelique Campens, Sara Noel Costa De Araujo, Joseph Grima, Jan Kempenaers, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Francis Strauven.
Angelique Campens, Architecture, ASA Publishers, Culture, Distribution, Francis Strauven, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jan Kempenaars, Joseph Grima, Juliaan Lampens, MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Thomas Desmet
Outpost Journal 2, Baltimore
Softcover, 64 pp. + insert, offset 4/4, 9 x 12 inches
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9836082-1-9
Published by Outpost Journal
$15.00 ·
Outpost is an annual print publication on art, design and community action from cities that have been traditionally underexposed beyond their local contexts. Each beautifully produced and visually engaging issue of Outpost focuses on a single urban location and comes packaged with a limited edition print by an artist from the featured city. Outpost is a journey into the creative heart of a place, and via features like “Secretly Famous” (profiles of the most infamous artsy locals), guerrilla engagements with tourist attractions, historical explorations, mapping projects, and deep dives into artist collectives and organizations, Outpost exposes the myriad ways in which unique local communities arise through creative collaboration and production.
Exploratory and playful, critical with a sense of levity, and inspired by hand-drawn maps, flags, totem poles, poorly pixelated iPhone photos, moody landscapes, and the spirit of adventure, Outpost is dedicated to strengthening ties between communities and spreading new ideas about how creative culture can change our world.
Aja Blanc, Alex Kwartler, Anusha Venkataraman, Architecture, Art, Boddan Mohora, Bogdan Mohora, Caitlin Cunningham, Carly Ptak, Clay Rockefeller, Culture, Dan Deacon, Design, Distribution, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Gary Kachadourian, Gillian Kiley, James Rieck, Jay Peter Salvas, Jeanne Vaccaro, John Bohl, Jori Ketten, Kyla Fullenwider, Laure Drogoul, Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez, Loring Cornish, Luke T. Baker, Maggie Lange, Manya Rubinstein, Matthew Williams, Mike Taylor, Outpost Journal, Patrick Casey O'Brien, Pete Oyler, Peter Blasser, Phoebe Jean, Phoebe Jean Dunne, Rachel Monroe, Seth Adelsberger, Shaun Flynn, Twig Harper
KALEIDOSCOPE Magazine 15, “A” is for Africa
Summer 2012 — Africa Special Edition
Softcover, 202 pp., offset 4/4, 220 x 287 mm
ISSN 2038-4807
Published by KALEIDOSCOPE Press
$12.00 · out of stock
Editor-in-Chief Alessio Ascari and art directors OK-RM are pleased to announce that KALEIDOSCOPE’s summer issue is a special edition entirely devoted to art produced in (or related to) the African continent today. In a time when the once-dominant western model is collapsing, the impressive growth of Africa’s economies looks likely to continue and its cultural offer is growing more and more vibrant, exposing the international audience to an incredible offering of art, music, architecture, film, design and fashion. This issue intends to be the most up-to-date and thorough exploration of the African scene of contemporary art and culture, from Egypt to South Africa via Ethiopia and Nigeria, conducted in collaboration with a dream team of both international contributors and influential thinkers and practitioners working in and around Africa today.
HIGHLIGHTS
Santu Mofokeng by Philippe Pirotte; Hassan Khan and Wael Shawky by Shahira Issa; Sci-Fi Narratives by Nav Haq and Al Cameron; Athi-Patra Ruga by Linda Stupart; Cinématèque de Tanger by Omar Berrada.
MAIN THEME — The Future of the Continent, Continent of the Future
Art by Nana Oforyatta-Ayim; Cinema by Olufemi Terry, Frances Bodomo, Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mahen Bonetti; Music by Benjamin Lebrave; and Urban Planning by Antoni Folkers.
MONO — Nicholas Hlobo
Interview by Sean O’Toole; Essay by Tracy Murinik; Focus by Liese van deer Watt.
REGULARS
Futura: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Panorama: Invisible Borders by Emmanuel Iduma; Souvenir d’Italie: Massimo Grimaldi by Luca Cerizza; On Exhibitions: “African Negro Art” by Paola Nicolin; Producers: Elvira Dyangani Ose by Carson Chan.
SPECIAL PORTFOLIOS
Viviane Sassen, Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Namsa Leuba.
Africa, Al Cameron, Antoni Folkers, Architecture, Art, Athi-Patra Ruga, Benjamin Lebrave, Carson Chan, Cinématèque de Tanger, Distribution, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Emmanuel Iduma, Film, Frances Bodomo, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hassan Khan, hen Bon, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, KALEIDOSCOPE Press, Liese van deer Watt, Linda Stupart, Luca Cerizza, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Mahen Bonetti, Massimo Grimaldi, Namsa Leuba, Nana Oforyatta-Ayim, Nav Haq, Nicholas Hlobo, OK-RM, Oliver Knight, Olufemi Terry, Omar Berrada, Paola Nicolin, Philippe Pirotte, Rory McGrath, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Santu Mofokeng, Sean O'Toole, Shahira Issa, Viviane Sassen, Wael Shawky
Contra Mundum I-VII
Softcover, 224 pp., offset 1/1, 140 x 220 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-9830773-0-5
Published by Oslo Editions
$18.00 · out of stock
The inaugural volume from
Oslo Editions,
Contra Mundum I-VII, documents a series of talks held at the Mandrake in Los Angeles on the theme of “contra mundum” or “against the world.” Taking its cue from Evelyn Waugh’s novel
Brideshead Revisited, Contra Mundum posits the world-making potential of (anti)sociality as a subject position and the value of a notion of collectivity grounded in “association without relation.” So doing, the book considers a diverse range of topics, including the furniture of Donald Judd, Private Issue New Age music, animal subjectivity, misanthropy and the trope of self-banishment in Shakespeare, apocalypticism and the zombie film, pirates from Blackbeard to Somalia, and the post-punk vocalist Mark E. Smith. Featuring contributions from artists Rupert Deese, Elad Lassry, Anthony Pearson, and Frances Stark, and critics Aaron Kunin, Matthew Taylor Raffety, and Evan Calder Williams.
Artforum 500 Words.
Aaron Kunin, Alex Klein, Animals, Anthony Pearson, Architecture, Art, Artforum, Aurele Sack, Dallas Acid, Donald Judd, Elad Lassry, Evan Calder Williams, Evelyn Waugh, Frances Stark, Furniture, Grigory Perelman, Jan Tumlir, Jon Pestoni, Mandrake, Mark E Smith, Mark Owens, Matt Anderson, Matthew Taylor Raffety, Michael Metzger, Music, New Age, Oslo Editions, Piper Wynn Severance, RAM, Rupert Deese, The Fall, Wendy Yao
Stewart Brand, The Last Whole Earth Catalog
Softcover, 452 pp., web offset 1/1, 10.75 x 14.25 inches
First edition (1971)
ISBN 0-394-70459-20
Published by Portola Institute
$55.00 · out of stock
condition:
good, edge wear, worn cover/spine, interior discolored, very good reference copy.
We can’t put it together. It is together.
The Whole Earth Catalog is an American counterculture catalog published by Stewart Brand between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. Although the WECs listed all sorts of products for sale (clothing, books, tools, machines, seeds — things useful for a creative or self-sustainable lifestyle), the Whole Earth Catalogs themselves did not sell any of the products. Instead the vendors and their prices were listed right alongside with the items.
The title Whole Earth Catalog came from a previous project of Stewart Brand. In 1966, he initiated a public campaign to have NASA release the then-rumored satellite photo of the sphere of Earth as seen from space, the first image of the “Whole Earth.” He thought the image might be a powerful symbol, evoking a sense of shared destiny and adaptive strategies from people. The Stanford-educated Brand, a biologist with strong artistic and social interests, believed that there was a groundswell of commitment to thoroughly renovating American industrial society along ecologically and socially just lines, whatever they might prove to be.
Function
The Whole Earth Catalog functions as an evaluation and access device. With it, the user should know better what is worth getting and where and how to do the getting. An item is listed in the Catalog if it is deemed:
1. Useful as a tool
2. Relevant to independent education
3. High quality or low cost
4. Not already common knowledge
5. Easily available by mail
Catalog listings are continually revised according to the experience and suggestions of Catalog users and staff.
Purpose
We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So far, remotely done power and glory — as via government, big business, formal education, church — has succeeded to the point where gross defects obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to these gains a realm of intimate, personal power is developing — power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by The Whole Earth Catalog.
Agriculture, Architecture, Art, California, Criticism, Culture, Don Gerrard, Earth, Education, Eleanor Watkins, Larry Kline, Les Rosen, Mitzi O'Dell, Nancy Wirth, NASA, Portola Institute, Richard Raymond, Stewart Brand, Survival, Used, Vern John, Whole Earth Catalogue
Erhard Wagner and Christoph Schubert-Weller, Earth and Cave Architecture of Peter Vetsch
Hardcover, 136 pp., offset 4/4, 305 x 225 mm
English and German
ISBN 3-7212-0282-1
Published by Verlag Niggli
$49.00 · out of stock
The architect Peter Vetsch of Dietikon, Switzerland is a controversial figure. No one is indifferent to him. His earth-covered-dwellings — often called “cave houses” — belong to the most highly individual, yet simplest and clearest design forms in modern architecture.
Foreword by Max Bill.
Anthroposophy, Architecture, Caves, Christoph Schubert-Weller, Erhard Wagner, Max Bill, Peter Vetsch, RAM, Rudolf Steiner, Verlag Niggli
Ingo Niermann, Solution 186-195: Dubai Democracy
Softcover, 128 pp., offset 3/1, 110 x 180 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-934105-17-7
Published by Sternberg Press
$19.00 · out of stock
Using Dubai as a sort of modernist blank slate for urban and social renewal, author Ingo Niermann — a relentlessly creative artist whose tongue is firmly jammed into his cheek — confronts today’s most relevant cultural and technological developments with elixirs that are as pertinent as they are unbelievable. In the fifth book in the Solution series, Niermann sees Dubai, a sparsely populated piece of desert, become specialized as housing the global center for treating diabetes, called
Sugar World. And the Gulf state will be Kumbaya-style universal, too, offering non-confrontational public spaces where both a state of total advertising and compulsive kindness, or what he calls a “personal humaneness account,” co-exist.
“Ingo Niermann is the author and brain behind some of the most intriguing and bizarre intellectual speculations of the last years.”
—Fabrizio Gallanti, Abitare
Architecture, Art, Criticism, Culture, Fabrizio Gallanti, Ingo Niermann, RAM, Solution, Sternberg Press, Theory, Zak Keyes
Bypass 2
Softcover, 352 pp., offset 4/1, 150 x 210 mm
English and Portuguese
Edition of 10,000
ISSN 1646-9011
Published by Bypass
$23.00 ·
Bypass is a multidisciplinary publication on creation and theory. It is edited by Álvaro Seiça Neves and Gaëlle Silva Marques. It is annual and bilingual: English and Portuguese. It contains 352 pages on a contemporary theme, which is appropriated by authors of different disciplines: architecture, art theory, design, literature, music, performance arts, philosophy, visual arts. Theme: The infinitely small and the infinitely large.
Adrian Hornsby, Álvaro Seiça Neves, Ana Cardim, André Sier, Architecture, Bjørn Andreassen, Bypass, Catarina Alfaro, Claudio Silva, Distribution, Edwin Pickstone, Federico Pedrini, Francesco Scavetta, Francisco M Laranjo, Gaëlle Silva Marques, Goncalo Viegas, Isidro Paiva, Jeffrey Ladd, João Farelo, Nathan Boyer, Neville Mars, Pedro Russo, Rafael Gouveia, Ricardo Cabaça, Rute Cebola, Seth Cluett, Taylor Ho Bynum, Theory, Vasco Gato
Kerry Brougher and Philippe Vergne, Yves Klein: With The Void, Full Powers
Hardcover, 352 pp., offset 4/4, 8 x 10 inches
Edition of 5000
ISBN 978-0-935640-94-6
Published by Walker Art Center
$65.00 ·
Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers is published to accompany the first major retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States in nearly 30 years. It includes examples from all of Klein’s major series, including his Anthropometries, Cosmogonies, fire paintings, planetary reliefs and blue monochromes, as well as selections of his lesser-known gold and pink monochromes, body and sponge reliefs, “air architecture” and immaterial works. Essays by curators Kerry Brougher and Philippe Vergne, Klein scholar Klaus Ottmann, art historian Kaira M. Cabañas and curatorial fellow Andria Hickey, as well as archival materials and translations of Klein’s published and unpublished writings, offer insights into the artist’s endeavors and process. Born in Nice, France, in 1928, Yves Klein created what he considered his first artwork when he signed the sky above Nice in 1947, making his earliest attempt to capture the immaterial. The artist carved out new aesthetic and theoretical territory based on his study of the mystical sect Rosicrucianism, philosophical and poetic investigations of space and science, and the practice of Judo, which he described as “the discovery of the human body in a spiritual space.”
Andrew Blauvelt, Andria Hickey, Architecture, Art, Dante Hong Carlos, DAP, Deborah Horowitz, Hatje Cantz, Hirshhorn Museum, Kaira M. Cabañas, Kerry Brougher, Klaus Ottmann, Lisa Middag, Philippe Vergne, Theory, Walker Art Center, Yves Klein
Heather and Ivan Morison, Falling Into Place
Softcover, 144 pp., offset 4/1, 155 x 215 mm
Edition of 1500
ISBN 978-1-906012-09-0
Published by Book Works
$30.00 ·
In this beautiful, limited-edition artist’s book, British artists Heather and Ivan Morison continue their inquiry into cultures of self-sufficiency and the topography of escape, bringing together sketches, drawings and an engrossing narrative: part science fiction, part history, part autobiography and part fairytale. The Morisons represented Wales at the 2007 Venice Biennale with their timber structures Pleasure Island and Fantasy Island, which were inspired by the hand-built shelters associated with the “back-to-the-land” movements of the ‘sixties and ‘seventies. As they write, “It got to the point where I just had to get out. That’s when I built my first escape vehicle.”
APFEL, Architecture, Art, Book Works, Fiction, Gerrie van Noord, Heather Morison, Ivan Morison, RAM
