Llano Community Bookstore
CalArts Library and IKO IKO Space
Two-part temporary bookstore
April 5 — April 20, 2012
Organized by Textfield, Inc.
PART I
CalArts Library: Microfilm Room
24700 McBean Pkwy.
Valencia, CA 91355
Thursday, April 5, 1-6pm
PART II
IKO IKO Space
931 N. Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Friday, April 6 — Friday, April 20, 12-7pm (Closed Mondays)
Llano Community Bookstore is a two-part temporary bookstore, hosted for one day (Thursday, April 5, 1-6pm) at the
CalArts Library, and for fifteen days (Friday, April 6 to Friday, April 20) at
IKO IKO in Los Angeles.
CalArts graduate students have selected titles from the Textfield Distribution Catalog, to be included in both parts, and will install/deinstall and work as Shopkeepers during PART I of the temporary bookstore, located in the CalArts Library Microfilm Room. PART II of the temporary bookstore will be hosted by IKO IKO in Los Angeles, and includes furniture, used for both parts, designed by WAKA WAKA.
The (fictional) bookstore is based upon, and takes its name from, Llano Del Rio, which was organized under the Llano Del Rio Company and was a corporate-run socialist Utopian society initiated by Job Harriman, following his narrow defeat in a runoff election for the mayorship of Los Angeles. Harriman believed that the success of socialism depended not only on politics, but also on the realization of socialist principles. Harriman did not attempt to reform all of society, but rather, he believed that by creating a functioning socialist community within the larger society of capitalism, the larger society would gradually convert to socialism.
100% Biz, Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Adam Michaels, Bücher & Hefte, CalArts, CCC, Cheap Art America, City of Quartz, Distribution, Ein Magazin über Orte, Fillip, FormContent, Glen Cummings, IKO IKO, Job Harriman, Jonathan Maghen, KALEIDOSCOPE Press, Kristin Dickson, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Kunstverein, Llano Community Bookstore, Llano Del Rio, Manuel Raeder, Mark Owens, mediabus, Midway Contemporary Art, Mike Davis, Nieves, Occasional Papers, Peres Projects, Schnauzer, Shin Okuda, Slavs and Tatars, The Kingsboro Press, WAKA WAKA
Phil Chang
Arthur Ou
Eduardo Sarabia
Anna Sew Hoy
Temporary bookshop and exhibition
July 21 — August 25, 2011
Reception: Thursday, July 21, 6-8pm
Organized by Textfield, Inc.
Creatures of Comfort New York is pleased to present
No More Reality, a temporary bookshop and exhibition organized by Textfield, Inc. The bookshop and exhibition will take place in Creatures of Comfort’s adjacent project space at
205 Mulberry St.
In conjunction with the bookshop, which will feature current and archived titles from Textfield Distribution, there will be an exhibition of work by artists that Jonathan Maghen has collaborated with through Textfield to realize various publishing projects. The exhibition will feature the works of Phil Chang, Arthur Ou, Eduardo Sarabia, and Anna Sew Hoy.
The bookshop and exhibition title have been appropriated from the Philippe Parreno work, No More Reality (the demonstration), 1991, which is a four-minute video of children demonstrating, and chanting the slogan and title (“No More Reality”).
New York Times Tmagazine.
Aki Books, Amir Zaki, Anna Sew Hoy, ART2102, Arthur Ou, Ava Kaufman, Boabooks, C Magazine, Carvalho Bernau, Charlie White, Cheap Art America, Christoph Keller, Condiment, Cornerkiosk Press, Creatures of Comfort, der:die:das:, Distribution, Eduardo Sarabia, Ein Magazin über Orte, Exhibitions, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Fillip, FOCA, FormContent, Four Over One, IFS Ltd., Jade Lai, Jonathan Maghen, Karl Haendel, Keith Bormuth, Kunstverein, LACMA, Laura Bartlett Gallery, Laura Palmer Foundation, Manuel Raeder, Midway Contemporary Art, Mono.Kultur, New York, Nieves, Occasional Papers, OK-RM, Oslo Editions, Paper Monument, Participant Inc, Passenger Books, Phil Chang, Philippe Parreno, Project Projects, Rainoff Books, Regency Arts Press, Schnauzer, Shane Campbell Gallery, Slavs and Tatars, Teknisk Industri AS, Textfield, The Kingsboro Press, Tramnesia, VCFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Vier5
Manuel Raeder, Bom Dia, Boa Tarde, Boa Noite (
Manuel Raeder Agenda 2011)
Softcover, 128 pp. + 4/1 insert, offset 1/1, 140 x 160 mm
Edition of 1000
Agenda/calendar/notebook 2011
Published by Manuel Raeder
$29.00 ·
Agendas are an ongoing project that Manuel Raeder has been doing since 2003. The idea of this series of time storage devices, is to focus on questioning different methods of how we organize, in a personal or none personal way our time. Formats, sizes and distributions systems vary each year.
A whole year compiled in one book, with the following contributions: Manuel Raeder (January), Carla Zaccagnini (February), Mariana Castillo Deball (March), Daniel Steegmann (April), Manuel Raeder (May), Eran Schaerf (June), Bojan Sarcevic (July), Manuel Raeder (August), Rodolfo Samperio (September), Amanda Haas (October), Amalia Pica (November), Adriana Lara (December), Manuel Goller (January).
Adriana Lara, Agenda, Amalia Pica, Amanda Haas, Art, Bojan Sarcevic, Carla Zaccagnini, Daniel Steegmann, Distribution, Eran Schaerf, Manuel Goller, Manuel Raeder, Mariana Castillo Deball, Rodolfo Samperio
Florian Dombois and Eran Schaerf, palaver
Stapled, 80 pp., digital 4/1, 210 x 297 mm
English and German
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-033-02145-7
Published by Kunsthalle Bern
$15.00 ·
If artistic research is characterized by the fact that essential aspects of the research results manifest in the work of art, one can ask: What is a space that is discussed in the examples of artistic research results? In what constellation meet artists, experts, audiences and the work of art? How will the research be negotiated? The publication palaver documents and shares preliminary solutions to this problem of space and was released on as part of the test event, Long Night of the palaver at the Kunsthalle Bern. Concept by Florian Dombois and Eran Schaerf; Design by Manuel Raeder.
Distribution, Eran Schaerf, Eva Meyer, Florian Dombois, Gunnar Voss, Kunsthalle Bern, Manuel Raeder, Mirjam Thomann, Phillipe Pirotte
Bless, Retrospective Home Nº30 — Nº41
Softcover, 416 pp., offset 4/4, 185 x 250 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-934105-12-2
Published by Sternberg Press
$45.00 · out of stock
Heralded as one of fashion’s most innovative designers, the Paris and Berlin-based duo BLESS (Désirée Heiss and Ines Kaag) refuse to capitalize on any one milieu, and instead explore the differences between and the mixing of the systems of art, fashion, and design. This book brings together visual and written documentation of BLESS’s last twelve collections (N° 30-N° 41), continually prompting and challenging the question of where a product begins and ends. Their latest project, N° 41 Retroperspective Home, culminates in an exhibition / intervention of the same title at the Kunsthaus.” The hybrid nature of [BLESS’s] output cries out to be tackled by an institution like ours,” state the curators of the exhibition,” but at the same time makes it very difficult to do so … This is precisely where the challenge of our exhibition lies, seeing art as design and fashion as architecture.”
Art, Bless, Desiree Heiss, Fashion, Ines Kaag, Manuel Raeder, RAM, Sternberg Press
Christoph Keller, Cloudbuster Project Maroc
Softcover, 192 pp., offset 2/4, 110 x 170 mm
French, English, German, Arabic
Edition of 250 for each language
Published by Christoph Keller
$15.00 ·
In 2008, German artist Christoph Keller traveled through Morocco with his own version of Wilhelm Reich’s cloudbuster machine to engage local people in the age-old process of conjuring rainstorms. This artists book, which combines cinematic flip-book elements with more straightforward photo documentation, is a record of Keller’s project. Small color photographs depict the cloudbuster machine being built and used to make rain in four different locations. The only explanatory text appears on the book’s cover, which in this case is printed in English.
Africa, Art, Christoph Keller, Cloudbuster, Culture, Distribution, Manuel Raeder, Morocco, Wilhelm Reich
Christoph Keller and Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié, Double Page
Softcover, 256 pp., offset 4/3, 115 x 160 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-2917855-06-5
Published by Editions B42
$15.00 · out of stock
45 graphic designers, 90 photographs, 10 years of books on contemporary art.
This book is based on an invitation to graphic designers to choose two books on contemporary art from the past decade whose design they think is particularly pertinent to the content, to photograph one double-page spread from each book and, if they wish, to comment on their choices.
Double Page provides a selection of recent art publications as viewed by graphic designers who are internationally known for their contribution to that field, and offers a glimpse at the role of book design today in our knowledge and understanding of contemporary art.
Shedding light on this prevalent relationship between art and graphic design by means of photography, Double Page constitutes an unprecedented document of how graphic designers see the work of their peers and their own practices as an essential part of the editorial process.
Alberto Vieceli, Alex Rich, Alexandre Dimos, Alexia de Visscher, Armand Mevis, Art, Arthur Herrman, Aude Lehmann, Benjamin Sommerhalder, Caroline Fabès, Catherine de Smet, Change is Good, Christian Haas, Christoph Keller, Christoph Steinegger, Counterspace, Daniel Eatock, David Reinfurt, David Rust, deValence, Dexter Sinister, Dimitri Bruni, Dorothea Weishaupt, École régionale des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Editions B42, Erik Kessels, Frédéric Teschner, Gaël Étienne, Gail Swanlund, Gavillet & Rust, Georg Rutishauser, Gilles Gavillet, groenlandbasel, Interkool, Jean-Marc Ballée, Jean-Marie Courant, Jeroen Kummer, Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié, Jocelyn Cottencin, Jon Sueda, Jonathan Maghen, José Albergaria, Joseph Logan, Joséphine Guérin, Julia Born, KesselsKramer, Kummer & Herrman, Lehni-Trueb, Lex Trueb, Lieuxcommuns, Linda van Deursen, Ludovic Balland, Manuel Krebs, Manuel Raeder, Markus Dreßen, Markus Weisbeck, Maureen Mooren, Mevis & van Deursen, Michael Worthington, Mike Meire, Müller & Wesse, NORM, O-R-G, Peter Bilak, Philipp Arnold, Pierre Huyguebaert, Prill & Vieceli, Purtill Family Business, Raffinerie AG für Gestaltung, Regular, Rik Bas Backer, Roger Willems, Roma, Sara De Bondt, Secondary Modern, Simon Josebury, Spector, Speculoos, Stephan Müller, Stripe, Stuart Bailey, Studio Ahoy, Tania Prill, Textfield, Typography Cabinet, Typotheque, Urs Lehni, Warren Olds, Will Holder, Yvonne Quirmbach
Mariana Castillo Deball and Irene Kopelman, A for Alibi
Softcover + dust jacket, 240 pp., offset 2/2, 160 x 240 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-1-933128-33-7
Published by Sternberg Press
$29.00 · out of stock
A for Alibi explores the boundaries of scientific practice and art. The Uqbar Foundation invited a group of artists to perform research and develop projects using the impressive collection of historical instruments and optical devices. Fully illustrated, this book documents the artists’ projects as well as a symposium of the same name, where scientists and art historians lectured on the origins of modern visual culture.
Brian O’Connell, Irene Kopelman, James Beckett, Manuel Raeder, Maria Barnas, Mariana Castillo Deball, RAM, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Sternberg Press, Suchan Kinoshita, Tiemen Cocquyt, Tine Melzer, Uqbar Foundation
Mariana Castillo DeBall, These Ruins You See
Hardcover, 272 pp. + insert, offset 4/1, 155 x 225 mm
English and Spanish
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-933128-46-7
Published by Sternberg Press
$30.00 · out of stock
An amazing book containing a collection of found objects and exhumed artifacts, contemporary and historical illustrations along with thought provoking essays, all looking at the changing ways Mexico has told the story of its past. The various layers of Mexico’s archaeology are forever present, giving rise to continual interpretations, reconstructions, demolitions, and annexations. This volume, based on a number of exhibitions, publications and lectures, brings together the history of collections and exhibitions of pre-Columbian objects, as well as the manufacture of replicas, the shadowy world of forgers and the relocation of key objects, among related themes. This eclectic grouping of ideas brings into sharp relief the ideological baggage and the range of museographic practices that always and inevitably frame our perception of these objects and artifacts.
Hannes Gloor, Manuel Raeder, Mariana Castillo Deball, RAM, Sternberg Press
Textfield V
Softcover, 128 pp., offset 4/1, 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Edition of 2500
ISSN 1934-2446
Published by Textfield
$20.00 ·
Contributors; Darren Bader, Stuart Bailey, Nina Jan Beier, Chris Bolton, Rainer Borgemeister, Binna Choi, Ryan Conder, Chris Cullens, Jason DeLeón, Thomas Eberwein, Marco Fiedler, Steve Hanson, Danielle Kays, Robin Kinross, Marc Kremers, Marie Jan Lund, Yukinori Maeda, Miltos Manetas, Emily Mast, Slobodan Milosevic, Angelos Plessas, Manuel Raeder, Achim Reichert, Rafaël Rozendaal, Eduardo Sarabia, Artur Schmal, Nanette Sullano, Gerard Unger, Amy Yao, and Cosmic Wonder.
Achim Reichert, Amy Yao, Angelo Plessas, Angelos Plessas, Art, Artur Schmal, Binna Choi, Chris Bolton, Chris Cullens, Cosmic Wonder, Criticism, Danielle Kays, Darren Bader, Distribution, Eduardo Sarabia, Emily Mast, Fashion, Fiction, Gerard Unger, Jason DeLeón, Jonathan Maghen, Manuel Raeder, Marc Kremers, Marco Fiedler, Marie Jan Lund, Miltos Manetas, Nanette Sullano, Nina Jan Beier, Photography, Rafael Rozendaal, Rainer Borgemeister, Robin Kinross, Ryan Conder, Slobodan Milosevic, Steve Hanson, Stuart Bailey, Textfield, Theory, Thomas Eberwein, Typography, Yukinori Maeda
Textfield IV / Bless N˚27, Eased Up
Softcover, 112 pp., offset 4/1, 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Edition of 2500
Published by Textfield
$20.00 ·
Contributors; Becca Albee, Timothy Aubry, AUDC, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Nina Jan Beier, Mariana Castillo Deball, Fritz Haeg, Chace Hartman, Nakako Hayashi, Marco Fiedler, Johnny Freedom, Marc Kremers, Prem Krishnamurthy, Marie Jan Lund, Jonathan Maghen, Rob McKenzie, Francois Perrin, Angelo Plessas, Achim Reichert, Anna Sew Hoy, Jennifer Stratford, Nikola Tosic, and Michael Wells.
Achim Reichert, Angelo Plessas, Anna Sew Hoy, Architecture, Art, AUDC, Bless, cca Albee, Chace Hartman, Desiree Heiss, Distribution, Fashion, Francois Perrin, Fritz Haeg, Graphics, Ines Kaag, Jennifer Stratford, Johnny Freedom, Jonathan Maghen, Manuel Raeder, Marc Kremers, Marco Fiedler, Mariana Castillo Deball, Marie Jan Lund, Michael Wells, Nakako Hayashi, Nikola Tosic, Nina Jan Beier, Photography, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Prem Krishnamurthy, Rob McKenzie, Textfield, Timothy Aubry, Typography, Vier5
Bless, Celebrating 10 Years of Themelessness, Nº00 — Nº29
Softcover, 496 pp., offset 4/1 + fore-edge printing, 185 x 250 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-933128-15-3
Published by Sternberg Press
out of print
Bless came to fame in the winter of 97/98, when the models of a Martin Margiela fashion show wore Bless wigs made out of fur. Heralded as one of fashion’s most innovative designers, the Paris and Berlin-based duo (Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag) quickly refused to capitalize on one milieu. Constantly investigating the boundaries of style, Bless slides from fashion to beauty, interior decoration to art exhibition, collaboration with other brands to stylized advertising. Their production, which sits on the fine line between art object and design, high function and high fashion, is always unique and marked by the recycling and adaptation of unexpected items put to use in a totally new way.
Designed by Manuel Raeder, this fully illustrated book features for the first time the wide range of Bless’ activity and documents a unique mode of cultural production.
Bless have exhibited internationally at the 1st berlin biennale (1998/99), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999), Centre Pompidou (2000), Manifesta 4 (2002), Palais de Tokyo (2003), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004), and most recently at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006). Their collaborations with other brands range from Adidas to Levi’s, Nike, Mikli and Droog over to the jewellery designer Bucherer.
Adriano Sack, Art, Barbara Steiner, Bless, Culture, Desiree Heiss, Elein Fleiss, Fashion, Graphics, Ines Kaag, Manuel Raeder, Nakako Hayashi, Olivier Zahm, RAM, Stéphanie Moisdon, Sternberg Press, Thimo te Duits, Typography, Ulf Poschardt
Mariana Castillo Deball, Kaleidoscopic Eye
Softcover, 120 pp., offset 4/1, 12 x 18.5 cm
Edition of 500
Published by Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
$25.00 ·
Art, Culture, Distribution, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Manuel Raeder, Mariana Castillo Deball
