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Print Review of small-circulation publications, distributed by Textfield, Inc., on 1.618, a blog on interesting objects in the field of design and contemporary art by Журнал Esquire Art Director, Maxim Nikanorov. Project curated by Textfield, Inc.

Publications: Ort (Bücher & Hefte); I Still See Communism Everywhere (Slavs and Tatars); Temporary Storages (The Book Society); A Book About Some People And Time (Myung Feyen); Four Over One (LACMA); Footnote to a Project* (Abraaj Capital Art Prize)

1.618, Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Birgit Vogel, Bücher & Hefte, Distribution, Elmar Bambach, Esquire Russia, Jonathan Maghen, Joo Hwang, Jörg Koopman, Julia Marquardt, LACMA, Martin Fengel, Maxim Nikanorov, mediabus, Myung Feyen, Nikolay Skavinski, Oliver Knight. Rory McGrath, Payam Sharifi, Phil Chang, Print Review, Sharmini Pereira, Slavs and Tatars, Textfield, The Book Society, Vira Biryukova

Llano Community Bookstore

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

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