Ginny Cook and Kim Schoen, MATERIAL 3
Softcover, 96 pp. + insert, offset 2/1, 160 x 270 mm
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9801441-2-3
Published by MATERIAL Press
$15.00 ·
MATERIAL exists as a platform for the artist’s voice. Each issue brings together a different group of artists who write, as well as a new collaboration with a graphic designer. During the production of this third issue, our designer Zak Jensen put forth the idea of concatenation — the act of linking together, or the state of being joined (
It was caused by an improbable concatenation of circumstances) (there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare)
(the joining of hands around the table).
Concatenation (c.1600, from L.L. concatenatus, pp. of concatenare “to link together,” from com- “together”+ catenare, from catena “a chain”) seemed an appropriate word for our editorial method. An unlikely assemblage of texts becomes connected through this process; uncanny linkages emerge. Wyeth appears twice. Performances interact. In this issue: voices that duel, voices that parrot, voices that hypothesize, translate, and meditate, voices that speak simultaneously. As Roland Barthes writes, we have assembled these textual events, as “pleasure in pieces; language in pieces; culture in pieces,” to build upon one another into something new.*
*Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller (New York: Hill and Wang, 1975), p. 51
CONTRIBUTORS
Farrah Karapetian, Paul Zelevansky, Renee Petropoulous, Nate Harrison, James Welling, Natalie Häusler, Harold Abramowitz, Shana Lutker Stephanie Taylor, Alice Könitz, Frank Chang, and Emily Mast.
Alice Konitz, Andrew Wyeth, Art, Catherine Guiral, Concatenare, Criticism, Daniel Lucas, Design, Distribution, Dorit Cypis, Emily Mast, Farrah Karapetian, Frank Chang, Ginny Cook, Harold Abramowitz, James Welling, John Stezaker, Jonathan Miles, Kim Schoen, MATERIAL Press, Natalie Häusler, Nate Harrison, Olivier Richon, Paul Zelevansky, Quentin Walesch, Renee Petropoulous, Richard Miller, Roland Barthes, Shana Lutker, Stephanie Taylor, Theory, Thomas Lawson, Typecraft Wood & Jones, Typography, Wendy Schoen, Zak Jensen
Alex Klein, Words Without Pictures
Softcover, 510 pp., offset 1/1, 5.75 x 8.25 inches
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-5971114-2-3
Published by Aperture/LACMA
$25.00 ·
Words Without Pictures was originally conceived by curator Charlotte Cotton and artist Alex Klein as a means of creating spaces for discourse around current issues in photography. Every month for a year, beginning in November 2007, an artist, educator, critic or curator was invited to contribute a short unillustrated essay about an aspect of emerging photography. Each piece was available on the Words Without Pictures
website for one month and was accompanied by a discussion forum focused on its specific topic. Over the course of its month-long “life,” each essay received both invited and unsolicited responses from a wide range of interested parties. All of these essays, responses and other provocations are gathered together here. Previously issued as a print-on-demand title, we are pleased to present
Words Without Pictures to the trade for the first time as part of the
Aperture Ideas series.
A. L. Steiner, Alex Klein, Alex Slade, Allan McCollum, Allen Ruppersberg, Amir Zaki, Amy Adler, Anthony Pearson, Aperture, Art, Arthur Ou, Carter Mull, Charlie White, Charlotte Cotton, Christopher Bedford, Criticism, DAP, Darius Himes, David Reinfurt, Dexter Sinister, George Baker, Harrell Fletcher, James Welling, Jason Evans, John Divola, Kevin Moore, LACMA, Leslie Hewitt, Marisa Olson, Mark Wyse, Michael Queenland, Miranda Lichtenstein, Paul Graham, Penelope Umbrico, Photography, Sarah Charlesworth, Shannon Ebner, Sharon Lockhart, Soo Kim, Sze Tsung Leong, Theory, Walead Beshty, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department
Real Life Magazine: Selected Writing and Projects 1979-1994
Softcover, 320 pp., offset 1/1, 8.25 x 11 inches
Edition of 1000
ISBN 9780978869700
Published by Primary Information
$30.00 · out of stock
Real Life Magazine: Selected Writings and Projects 1979-1994 highlights a selection of writings and artists’ projects from Real Life magazine, which was originally edited by artist, writer, and curator, Thomas Lawson and writer, Susan Morgan. Published in twenty-three issues from 1979-1994 as an intermittent black and white magazine, Real Life featured artists and art historians writing on art, media and popular culture interspersed with pictorial contributions. The development of the magazine through its 15 year history, traces the influences, development and transitions of artists through the 80s.
The anthology features writings by and about Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Rhys Chatham, Mark Dion, Jack Goldstein, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Kim Gordon, Dan Graham, Thomas Lawson, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Allan McCollum, John Miller, Dave Muller, Matt Mullican, Adrian Piper, Richard Prince, David Robbins, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Michael Smith, John Stezaker, Bernard Tschumi, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, and James Welling among others.
Adrian Piper, Allan McCollum, Art, Bernard Tschumi, Cindy Sherman, Dan Graham, DAP, Dara Birnbaum, Dave Muller, David Robbins, Ed Ruscha, Eric Bogosian, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jack Goldstein, James Welling, Jeff Wall, John Miller, John Stezaker, Kim Gordon, Laurie Simmons, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Lawler, Mark Dion, Matt Mullican, Michael Smith, Miriam Katzeff, Primary Information, Rhys Chatham, Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine, Susan Morgan, Theory, Thomas Lawson
