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Places of a Present Past by Noah Simblist (Editor) Places of a Present Past brings together three exhibitions that were presented at the Pollock Gallery at Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts in 2014. These exhibitions addressed the traces of trauma left on particular sites; paying close attention to the scars left by the wounds of war. Jin-me Yoon's work invokes the colonial relationship between Japan and Korea in the first half of the twentieth century. The group exhibition Where Are You From? recounted the story of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, with works by artists Aissa Deebi, Kamal Aljafari, and Dor Guez. Finally, Sarah Morris's film 1972 points to the legacy of the Holocaust in Germany and beyond. The artworks in this book are bound together by historiographical impulse. In some sense, these artists act as historians. They are less interested in the truth than the way that we feel through the legacies of past traumas. They reveal the oblique ways that we repress historic trauma, burying it in the very sites of their origin. Places of a Present Past is filled with an archaeological ethic, metaphorically digging down, both spatially and psychologically into the depths of transnational grief.
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Postures by Grant Maierhofer #8 in Publication Studio's, Fellow Travelers series: $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Downeaster |
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When I Was a Tree by Dina Bursztyn The poems and images in When I Was a Tree have been gleaned from Dina Bursztyn's vast collection of sketch books, paintings, journals, artist's books and prints, created over years of steady studio practice in New York City and Catskill. Some are decades old, others more recent. Several of the poems included here were published in previous artist's books, art catalogues and journals. This full-color volume gathers together the elements of quiet delight, the transformative, and the alien that characterize Bursztyn's long and varied career. Dina Bursztyn began writing as a child and studied literature at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba in her native Argentina. Shortly after graduating from college, circumstances, rather than choice, brought her to New York, where she found herself literally lost for words. Displaced by a new culture and language and suddenly "alien," she was saved by one fateful free ceramics class. Since then she has been making objects, sculptures, public art and works on paper. With Julie Chase she operates Open Studio in Catskill, New York, now celebrating its tenth anniversary.
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Pillowtops & Beyond by Carly Mandel Pillowtops & Beyond is a collection of photos from a secret exhibition of select work by Carly Mandel. Featuring responding texts from contributors: Eileen Isagon Skyers, John Knight, Tony Chrenka, Lisa Radon, and Rebecca R Peel. Designed by HQ Objective. Carly Mandel is an artist living and working between Portland, Oregon and Brooklyn, New York. She has a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art and has exhibited locally in Portland with False/Front, Open Gallery, S1, and PLACE Gallery.
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ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE REFERENCE POINTS 2015 COMPILATION by Various This book is part of the Reference Points series published through Portland State University Art and Social Practice MFA Program. The series is an evolving pedagogical framework in which graduate students formulate and research a significant topic or practitioner(s) related to socially engaged art. Because the series is designed to shift and respond to the concerns of the program's current students and faculty, mode, structure, and content are open-ended. This book is a compilation of the 2014 and 2015 Reference Series which includes A Soft Spot in a Hard Place, Art and Education, Ben Kimmont & Mark Menjivar, Talk to the Gun, and Wendy Ewald.
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Handbook for Human Machines by Maximilian Goldfarb Max Goldfarb's Handbook for Human Machines is an artist's book comprising two aspects of visual research material instrumental in forming "Human Machine," a radio program produced by Goldfarb for the Wave Farm and broadcast from FM station WGXC.org in New York's Hudson Valley. Together, the Handbook and the program accumulate, organize and represent developments for the extension and evolution of humans, depicting an evolving anatomy and shifting constructs of personhood. Past episodes of the program are located in the Wave Farm transmission arts archive; wavefarm.org. $25 soft-cover This item originated from: Pilot Editions |
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Talking Walls: Casting Out the Post-Contact Stone-Wall-Building Myth by Matt Bua Catskill-based artist, sculptor and musician Matt Bua's encyclopedic new genre-breaking work lies at the intersection of artist's book, architectural theory and outsider historical investigation. Talking Walls scrutinizes the oft-repeated story of the origins of the Northeast's famed stone walls. Were 252,000 miles of stone walls—enough to reach the far side of the moon—in fact built by European colonists in a period of roughly 100 years, or are they perhaps much, much older? Employing a mountain of historical testimony from both archaeological and other sources, Bua's book drawns closer to a profound new reading of our shared landscape and its ancient past. Talking Walls includes a case study of a stone wall complex in Kiskatom, on the western edge of the town of Catskill. "The title and ostensible purpose of Talking Walls belie Bua's true accomplishments: firstly, to have written a subtle but awakening criticism of the study of history in the Americas and the methodology (or lack thereof) applied by its amateurish practitioners in the 18th and 19th centuries; and secondly, to have created a wild, unkempt path through a dense thicket of diverse material whose sui generis merit as a challenging and discursive reading experience nearly outweighs the depth and breadth of his research." – Andrew Siskind Each book comes with a 12x18 foldout map of the author's primary terrain, Kiskatom!
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#100DAYSOFSCULPTURE by Debra Baxter #100DAYSOFSCULPTURE is comprised of 100 sculptures that artist Debra Baxter created in 100 consecutive days and shared via social media. The book, intensely engaging and with a foil stamped cover by Iron Curtain Press, comes alive by being a movable and permanent site for these actions and objects beyond their digital presence. In the included essay "Knowable Things: 100 Sculptures from Debra Baxter," Nancy Zastudil writes: "Ambitious yet attainable, the exercise gave her permission and freedom to carve out necessary time and space for new ideas and experiments—to tap into her existing reasons for art-making as well as broaden her scope of what philosopher Immanuel Kant described as 'scibilia,' or knowable things." The book also includes an essay titled "Adjacent, Against, Upon: Creating Sculptural Form" by Elizabeth A. Brown.
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A Soft Spot in a Hard Place by ed. Zachary Gough with Thomas Gokey, Max Haiven, and Cassie Thornton A Soft Spot in a Hard Place, edited by Zachary Gough with Thomas Gokey, Max Haiven, and Cassie Thornton, is a small collection of texts and conversations that contributes to the project of understanding how creativity, art, and the imagination might help us refigure our relationship to money, debt, capitalism, and our economic lives as a whole. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Acknowledgements by Willy Smart & Brandon Wilner Acknowledgements is an attempt to work from personal gratitude toward more general expression. Employing a constraint in which the letters in loved ones' names serve as guide marks in the composition of aphorisms, the seeming truths generated encompass a wide range of topics including fashion, sexuality, politics, food, botanical observation, and more. The strictures determining this unlikely system of thought have provided a conflation of two voices, one capable of producing reflections that do not necessarily correspond to what either author thinks on their own (and a book that is indistinguishable from its acknowledgements section). $18 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Placing the Golden Spike: Landscapes of the Anthropocene by ed. by Dehlia Hannah & Sara Krajewski Placing the Golden Spike: Landscapes of the Anthropocene is an exhibition at the Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, co-curated by INOVA Director Sara Krajewski and Dehlia Hannah, Research Curator, Synthesis Center, Arizona State University. This exhibition catalogue was produced onsite during Publication Studio's week-long residency at INOVA in April 2015. For each geological epoch the International Union of Geological Sciences identifies an exemplary site and marks it by driving a golden spike into the rock layers. INOVA's exhibition brings together nine contemporary artists to explore distinct locations where we might consider driving the "golden spike" that would mark the beginning of the Anthropocene, including the surreal landscapes of oil fields (Marina Zurkow), petro-chemical production (Steve Rowell), Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site (Eve Andrée Laramée), and coastlines (Roderick Coover and Scott Rettberg). Other sites reflect more dispersed entities like the polluted atmosphere (Amy Balkin), rising sea levels (Eric Corriel), plastic refuse (Yevgeniya Kaganovich) and even digital space (Xavier Cha). Natalie Jeremijenko's urban agriculture project takes the exhibition out of the gallery and into the city, where participants are invited to explore the impacts of climate change on urban patterns of plant and animal life. Funding for the exhibition is provided by the Mary L. Nohl Fund of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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Currents 7: Elizabeth Atterbury by Elizabeth Atterbury For some time now artist Elizabeth Atterbury has been testing the
authority and autonomy of the photographic image; she exploits its twin
capacities for frankness and withholding. Indeed, many of her recent
photographic prints could not be more explicitly incoherent. How far can
one peel representation away from the thing it depicts without
detaching it altogether? Frequently drawn to pliable but precarious
materials such as paper and sand, Atterbury constructs ephemeral
tableaus specifically for the purpose of recording and, in so doing,
transfiguring them. For the seventh installment of the Museum’s currents
series, this Portland-based artist extends her analysis of the
photogenic properties of objects in new two- and three-dimensional work,
creating a site-specific installation. If Atterbury’s photographs pose
questions about the limits of pictorial literacy, her objects further
fray distinctions between artifact, prop, model, and sculpture. Within
the museum setting, these indistinctions antagonize traditional habits
of museological display, documentation, and reproduction. Elizabeth
Atterbury has participated in group exhibitions at Heaven Gallery in
Chicago, and KANSAS and Bodega in New York. She has been the subject of
recent solo exhibitions at Document in Chicago, and kijidome in Boston. In the Middle, An Oasis,
a monograph of her work, was published by Bodega Press in 2013.
Atterbury holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from
Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She lives and works in
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The New York School by Joseph Bradshaw The New York School, a new volume of poetry and prose by Joseph Bradshaw, contradicts and redeems, finds meaning in shame, references history (of art and poetics) but with a double-edged sword. Situated in a place of sharp wit and lucid doubt, it stands up both for failure and pleasure—and it will make you fall over with laughter. "The New York School is, like any book that's worth reading, written only for the dead. And we are so dead. Genet proposed that Giacometti's statues should be offered to the dead, that they be buried. This book too should be buried and we should never laugh again once we bury it. We should piss on it, and where we buried it we should join hands instead of grasping our dying hearts as we do it. This book gives good shame, like funeral fantasies. Even the most immovable among us will be moved by real demons, moved by and to both nonexistence and its total refusal, moved also to tell you I would die for you all and my death would be brought to you by this book." —Jane Gregory Download a free PDF of the chapbook of collected readings and writings from The New York School's 2015 tour by clicking HERE. Joseph Bradshaw was born in Idaho. He was a member of the Spare Room collective in Portland, Oregon as well as an editor for FO(A)RM Magazine. He graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2008 and has taught at Portland State University, Pacific Northwest College of Art, the School of Visual Arts, and Tulane University in New Orleans. In 2013 he curated the Lesley Flint Presents reading series at Berl's Poetry Shop, and in 2014 he was a writer-in-residence for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Process Space program. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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All Over The Map by Musagetes A scrappy zine that originates with the All Over The Map music tour in September 2013. This one day traveling music tour in four Guelph neighbourhoods was co-created by Kazoo!, the Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition, and Musagetes. This compact package contains an audio chronicle of the four concerts by local artist and musician Brian Schirk, with musicians Bry Webb, Noah23, Monsoon, Molly Gruesome, Patman, Matt Damon, the Furys, and Minotaurs. $5 softcover; $10 DRM-free e-book This item originated from: PS Guelph |
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Two Augusts In A Row In A Row by Shelley Marlow Two Augusts In A Row In A Row, Shelley Marlow's new novel and the seventh book in Publication Studio's Fellow Travelers Series, is a love letter between generations of queer women. Set in New York City in 2001, we follow Phillip—a gender subversive drag king in search of grace and magic—through rich, sad, humorous language that is singularly Shelley Marlow's. Kevin Killian writes, "I've been dying for something first rate and innovative and have found this in Marlow's writing. Her hero, Phillip/Philomena...is the most enchanting and elusive central character in a novel since Cassandra in Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle. While many have compared Marlow to the late Jane Bowles, I would agree if only there was a loving and empathetic Jane Bowles, and now there is and here is her book.
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Model Minority by Gendai Gallery Model Minority is an assemblage of the readings, articles, ephemera, and archives discovered and created from Gendai Gallery's year-long programming series issued under the same name. The book contests the self-pretence of a unified Canada build on a foundation of diversity and passive coexistence. Instead, Model Minority invites an unpacking of the construct of "Minority" outside of official state discourse to see if evidence of a more critical or even radical multiculturalism might emerge through conflict, contradiction, and solidarity, in the context of our settler-colonial legacies. With new texts by Liz Park, Jinhan Ko, Kerri Sakamoto, Tings Chak,Vincent Tao, Dan S. Wang, and Ryan Wong; artist projects by Alvis Choi, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, and Will Kwan; interviews with filmmakers Angad Bhallah, Christine Choy, and Min Sook Lee; reprinted texts by Mona Oikawa, Richard Day, and Gordon Pon; and a montage of historical "counter-models" about Yuri Kochiyama, The Chinese Laundry Alliance, Jesse Nishihata, and Grace Lee Boggs.
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94 by Joon Oluchi Lee 94 is a pocket sized book of a sweetly potent story set in 1994 filled with intimacy and young relationships. It is a cameo of a novel, a miniature portrait made in relief, existing daintily between the second and third dimensions. Who sat for the portrait: a 19-year old boy in 1994, going to college in the South, gay and Asian, who will become female by 2014. The Stuff into which the portrait was carved; the feelings aroused by boys he desired, the feelings he wanted to have; feelings that are historically specific, that are products of a specific moment in time, space, and cultural evolution, when those days of innocence were actually defined by more manipulation, heartlessness and cruelty than today. $14 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Of the Dawn of Freedom by W.E.B. Du Bois This pamphlet is one in a series titled On the Blackness of BLACKNUSS, initiated by the Moor's Head Press of BLACKNUSS: books + other relics and published by Publication Studio Hudson. The series is edited by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and was begun in the year of Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Cameron Tillman, VonDerrit Myers, Jr., Laquan McDonald, Carey Smith-Viramontes, Jeffrey Holden, Qusean Whitten, Miguel Benton, Dillon McGee, Levi Weaver, Karen Cifuentes, Sergio Ramos, Roshad McIntosh, Diana Showman, and Akai Gurley. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was among the most influential proponents of civil rights during a presence that covered five decades. A sociologist, historian, novelist and activist, Du Bois was the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. He went on to lead the Niagara Movement, a precursor of the N.A.A.C.P. For many years he edited that organization's journal, The Crisis. Du Bois later trained his attention on Pan-Africanism, anticolonialsim, socialism and world peace. He moved to Ghana and rescinded his United States citizenship a few months before his death.
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No Humans Involved by Sylvia Wynter This pamphlet is one in a series titled On the Blackness of BLACKNUSS, initiated by the Moor's Head Press of BLACKNUSS: books + other relics and published by Publication Studio Hudson. The series is edited by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and was begun in the year of Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Cameron Tillman, VonDerrit Myers, Jr., Laquan McDonald, Carey Smith-Viramontes, Jeffrey Holden, Qusean Whitten, Miguel Benton, Dillon McGee, Levi Weaver, Karen Cifuentes, Sergio Ramos, Roshad McIntosh, Diana Showman, and Akai Gurley. Sylvia Wynter was born in Cuba in 1928 to Jamaican parents who soon repatriated to their home country. A novelist, playwright, and cultural theorist, Wynter's work has focused on redefining what it means to be human in the face of Western thought. She is professor emerita at Stanford University.
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The Fact of Blackness by Frantz Fanon This pamphlet is one in a series titled On the Blackness of BLACKNUSS, initiated by the Moor's Head Press of BLACKNUSS: books + other relics and published by Publication Studio Hudson. The series is edited by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and was begun in the year of Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Cameron Tillman, VonDerrit Myers, Jr., Laquan McDonald, Carey Smith-Viramontes, Jeffrey Holden, Qusean Whitten, Miguel Benton, Dillon McGee, Levi Weaver, Karen Cifuentes, Sergio Ramos, Roshad McIntosh, Diana Showman, and Akai Gurley. Frantz Fanon was perhaps the seminal theoretician of postcolonial politics, culture, and identity; his two major books, Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), have been widely read and have provided an important inspiration for liberation movements around the world. Born in Martinique, Fanon studied medicine in Paris and became a psychiatrist in Algeria during its wars of liberation from France. "The Fact of Blackness" is Fanon's celebrated essay describing the consciousness of the "black" subject in a world of "white" power.
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My Black Death by Arthur Jafa This pamphlet is one in a series titled On the Blackness of BLACKNUSS, initiated by the Moor's Head Press of BLACKNUSS: books + other relics and published by Publication Studio Hudson. The series is edited by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and was begun in the year of Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Cameron Tillman, VonDerrit Myers, Jr., Laquan McDonald, Carey Smith-Viramontes, Jeffrey Holden, Qusean Whitten, Miguel Benton, Dillon McGee, Levi Weaver, Karen Cifuentes, Sergio Ramos, Roshad McIntosh, Diana Showman, and Akai Gurley. Arthur Jafa is a director, cinematographer, artist and critic who was born in Mississippi in 1960. He was the producer and cinematographer for Daughters of the Dust (1992), the cinematographer for Crooklyn (1994), and also worked on Eyes Wide Shut (1999). His 2014 film Dreams Are Colder Than Death premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and the New York Film Festival and won the award for Best Feature Documentary at the Black Star Film Festival. Along with Malik Sayeed and Elissa Blount-Moorehead, Jafa leads TNEG, a film studio based in Los Angeles. $8 staple-bound pamphlet; $10 DRM-free ebook; $25 set of four pamphlets This item originated from: Pilot Editions |
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Living the Blues by Jeremy Reed Living the Blues is Jeremy Reed's newest book of poetry. Nestled in the middle of the book is the essay And The Stars Were Shining: the Glitter and Menthol Cool of John Ashbery's Poetry, at the end are two prose pieces What I'm Doing and What I'm Giving. The color blue runs throughout the book with celebrities, pop song remixes, poppies, and diamonds. $18 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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RiRi (Re)Vision: a score for Rihanna's "S&M" by Tracy Rosenthal RiRi (Re)Vision is a work of wild theory and a score for Rihanna's 2011 music video, "S&M." In content, it dissects the mutually reinforcing logic of feminine representation and the commodity, fame and sadomasochism, navigating the pleasures and dangers attendant to the consumption of visual culture and the doublely-Othered masochist. In form, it collides poetry and criticism, mapping high theory onto "low" culture to produce an alternative discourse that is a tense, tenuous union of the two. Through this rambunctious, queer(ed) scholarship, the work mines the powerful affective interstices of race, gender, and pornography at work in the surfaces of pop. $18 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Getting Lost by Delaney Allen Getting Lost is Delaney Allen's newest photography book in his series with Publication Studio. Included are handwritten notes scrawled on solo road trips and certain reference points; all these comprise an ongoing investigation of the self in relation to a framed and manipulated nature—both the nature of this world and the nature of love and loss. $30 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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See I Saw by Keith Wilson Keith Wilson's newest Publication Studio title, See I Saw is a collection of photographs of museum patrons documenting famous artwork with digital cameras or smartphones. A cultural phenomenon of more recent years, the intent of such photographs could be seen as an attempt to prove to one's peers that the documenter is culturally savvy and relevant (#museumselfie, #artselfie); photographing the photographer lends a slightly eerie, voyeuristic "big brother" element to the strata of self-documenting one's experiences. This book comments on just how much we find it necessary to identify ourselves through the gaze of others, while still being a participant of it. The special edition of See I Saw comes with an original collage cover by Keith Wilson.
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Hyperzotica by Howard W. Robertson Hyperzotica is a collection of linked stories written after the fashion of a contemporary television serial. Each story is an episode featuring Keith and Phyllis Benson, much as each episode of As Time Goes By centers around Lionel and Jean Hardcastle. Keith is a professor specializing in ecological economics, and Phyllis is an architect who writes wildly successful bondage romances under a pseudonym. They live in the fictional city of New Geneva, Oregon, which greatly resembles the actual city of Eugene. The book focuses on themes of married love and biospheric sustainability. $22 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Cave System or Ear Canal by Halsey Rodman The book Cave System or Ear Canal isn't an extension of, or representation of, artist Halsey Rodman's art practice—it acts as an open exhibition space where Rodman's work explores and pushes the possibilities of creating transparent, functioning work within the book as an actual place. The book itself is structured as a repetitious outline. Cave System or Ear Canal includes an interview with Annette Wehrhahn and an index of images poster. The cover is Risograph printed.
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Eclogues by Peter Lamborn Wilson A loving parody of the Roman poet Virgil's pastoral verses, Eclogues is the latest from celebrated poet and anarcho-mystic Peter Lamborn Wilson. Based in Woodstock and long a chronicler of the Catskills region, Wilson's ten poems bring the classical antique form into a modern vernacular characterized by humor and vitality. This edition of 100 books is fully illustrated and hand-bound in marbled covers. $35 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Pilot Editions |
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For Want of a Nail by Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine On the occasion of the invitation to participate in SITElines: 2014, SITE Santa Fe's new biennial dedicated to contemporary art from the Americas, Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine of Futurefarmers made three nails. For Want of a Nail engages New Mexico's complex nuclear history as it relates to land use, resource extraction and the breadth of decisions that were made within the Manhattan Project. Two inter-office memoranda found at the Los Alamos Historical Museum guide the process and form. Sent from the office of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer (lead physicist of the Manhattan Project) office in 1943, these memoranda describe a table for his office and a nail to hang his hat. The persistence and specificity of a request for a nail for Mr. Oppenheimer's hat (mentioned in both memoranda) inspired Futurefarmers to hesitate in this peculiar moment -- to make, by hand, this nail. By forging, casting and fusing a range of materials a series of three nails emerged. The choice of materials used to make these nails mines the history of toolmaking from the pre-historic use of meteorites as tools to the material by products of such events as the testing of the atomic bomb. The process began by procuring a Meteorite found in Canyon Diablo, Arizona. Using fire and force, the first nail was forged -- one of a kind. A second nail was made through a process of casting 1943 steel pennies. These pennies, also known as "war pennies" were made of only stell, as the copper was needed for ammunition. These pennies were melted and poured into a graphite mold alluding to notions of mass production and the multiple. A third nail was made by re-fusing Trinitite, a material that was formed by the heat from the atomic bomb test whereby sand was drawn up inside the fireball itself and then rained down in a liquid form and resulted as a glassy residue left on the desert floor. Everything that grew on the earth's surface from this point forward was inscribed with what scientists call the isotopic fingerprint -- a permanent record of this event. These three nails provide an arc of inquiry into moments when humans have eclipsed their knowledge and power. This booklet was released at SITE Santa Fe on December 8. It is printed on manila paper and bound with a pamphlet stitch.
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Walter Benjamin: Sonnets by Carl Skoggard Walter Benjamin's sonnets written to mourn his friend Fritz Heinle constitute an important though little-known part of the German-Jewish philosopher's literary achievement and a unique contribution to the history of the German sonnet. Benjamin would add to their number for as much as a decade, having begun his project soon after the outbreak of World War I and the suicide of a special friend. Here, for the first time, readers of English are offered translations of all 73 "Heinle sonnets" along with the original German and line-by-line commentary. An introductory essay examines their biographical context as well as Benjamin's bold approach to sonnet writing. These poems weave the deeply personal together with his evolving religious and philosophical perspective in ways both mysterious and recongnizably Benjaminian—shedding new light on the emergence of the man and the thinker. $25 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Pilot Editions |
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Cinema Vernacular by Peter Nickowitz Cinema Vernacular is a stunning new collection of poetry by Peter Nickowitz. Using forms like screenplays and even films in his poetics, Cinema Vernacular is porous, deft, concerned with our relationship to the intangible and how desire filters through image and text. Mark Doty writes, "Ironic and vulnerable, full of longing but savvily independent, the speaker in Nickowitz's poems is a recognizable, alert, 21st century citizen, sustained and flummoxed by desire." These poems mark, with recognizable pathos and sharp turns of hilarity, the arrival of a major voice. Whether poems disguised as screenplays, or screenplays disguised as poems, Cinema Vernacular is characteristically elegant and full of surprises. "What's the difference between life and the movies?" Peter Nickowitz early on asks himself. Although his initial answer reads cooly deflective—"My goal...never to know"—Nickowitz, sometimes comically, other times terrifyingly, does know, which is why the family and sexual dramas of this book prove so propulsive, beguiling, and unforgettable. —Robert Polito Cinema—with its jump cuts, flashes of image, and potent juxtapositions—feels like a natural medium for representing urban life, and Peter Nickowitz makes fine use of this in Cinema Vernacular, writing a screenplay of love and eros in two great cities: Paris with its untarnishable romance and a New York so accurately observed that our speaker even collages accounts of his therapy sessions. Ironic and vulnerable, full of longing but savvily independent, the speaker in Nickowitz's poems is a recognizable, alert, 21st century citizen, sustained and flummoxed by desire. —Mark Doty
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ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE REFERENCE POINTS: Art and Education by ed. Betty Marin This book is part of the Reference Points series published through Portland State University Art and Social Practice MFA Program. The series is an evolving pedagogical framework in which graduate students formulate and research a significant topic or practitioner(s) related to socially engaged art. Because the series is designed to shift and respond to the concerns of the program's current students and faculty, mode, structure, and content are open-ended. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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All Fall by Travis Jeppesen All Fall contains two novellas by Travis Jeppesen and is the sixth book in Publication Studio's Fellow Travelers Series. "Written in the Sky" is a plane crashing in slow motion. It was written on a red-eye flight from Beijing to Vienna in the fall of 2012. "White Night" is a thoughtscape of Gilles Deleuze in the moments before he suicided by defenestration on November 4th, 1995. All Fall launches on November 4th, the anniversary of Deleuze's death. $16 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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E//O by Louis Jargow, Suzahn Ebrahimian & Lauren Moran E//O is a contemporary poetic retelling of the Eurydice and Orpheus myth — a memory of a memory of a memory. Following the classical story of love, death, and a trip to the beyond to rescue love, E//O takes on Eurydice's underexamined perspective. What motivates her to leave the world of the living and keeps her in Hades? E//O traces our own lives as we struggle to find meaning and love in a cold dark world. $17 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Pilot Editions |
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Strip Club Book For Leah Jolie by Olivia Coran Strip Club Book For Leah Jolie is a sexy, dark, black-on-black book of a series of twenty screen captures from a YouTube video of a stripper dancing at a go go bar. Accompanying the screen captures is Color in Darkness by Kevin Killian. "It was like tar melting in the hot August sun, and the bubbles rise rich and black and in the black the colors of the prism visible, faint pinks and greens and electric blues. 'Or are your eyes fooling you into thinking you're seeing color?' Ben argued..." —Kevin Killian, Color in Darkness
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The Social Life of Artistic Property by Pablo Helguera, Michael Mandiberg, William Powhida, Amy Whitaker, and Caroline Woolard What happens when twelve artists gather to discuss the relationship between art and property? In twenty meetings over two and a half years, the core group of Pablo Helguera, Michael Mandiberg, Amy Whitaker and Caroline Woolard birthed this provocative volume. The group produced three pieces of writing about experiments in group living and three proposals for the future of artistic property, including initiatives that reimagine studio space, living space, and artwork. The group is grateful for the contributions to this conversation by many others, some of which are published elsewhere. Bound together, here is a record of the group's research and an invitation to consider the forgotten histories and plausible futures of the social life of artistic property. $15 soft cover This item originated from: Pilot Editions |
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Portland Cement by Antonia Carrara Artist book. Contents include full color image plates by the author and fragments from: Xilatlan Taziol (1957), by Edward Silence. This text recalls Edward James's discovery of the town of Xilitla and las Pozas jungle, where he raised orchids and built a vast sculptural and architectural environment; A Proposed Approach for Stabilizing Verdant Concrete of Stairway to the Sky, Las Pozas, Mexico (2011) by Nicole Matchette. $20 soft cover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Lessons in Heterosexuality by John Bloomfield London-based film curators The Screenshadows Group presents a series of films, talks and collection of writing looking at the love that never bothers to speak its name. Lessons in Heterosexuality is the accompanying textbook by John Bloomfield for this series. This book is co-published by S1 and Arcadia Missa. $30 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE REFERENCE POINTS: Ben Kimmont & Mark Menjivar by Mark Menjivar This book is part of the Reference Points series published through Portland State University Art and Social Practice MFA Program. The series is an evolving pedagogical framework in which graduate students formulate and research a significant topic or practitioner(s) related to socially engaged art. Because the series is designed to shift and respond to the concerns of the program's current students and faculty, mode, structure, and content are open-ended. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE REFERENCE POINTS 2013 Compilation by Various This book is part of the Reference Points series published through Portland State University Art and Social Practice MFA Program. The series is an evolving pedagogical framework in which graduate students formulate and research a significant topic or practitioner(s) related to socially engaged art. Because the series is designed to shift and respond to the concerns of the program's current students and faculty, mode, structure, and content are open-ended. This book is a compilation of the 2013 Reference Series which includes Art and Social Practice Workbook, John Malpede with Dillon de Give, Temporary Services with Carmen Papalia, Harrell Fletcher with Adam Moser, and Center for Urban Pedagogy with Molly Sherman.
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Brand New Moon by Douglas W. Milliken Ritualized basketball mishaps, complicated sex-acts, and improvised means of getting high define the lives of the young men in Douglas W. Milliken's Brand New Moon. Set in the remote farmlands of northern Maine and told through the boisterously comic voice of Coleman, these three stories—much in the spirit of Jerry Moriarty's Jack Survives—document the hooligans' headlong drift through tragedy without a self-preserving flinch or wince, gleefully oblivious and giddy in the face of personal loss, maybe only fleetingly suspecting how deep their abounding trouble might run. $5 soft cover; $10 DRM-free book This item originated from: Pilot Editions |
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Talk to the Gun by Pedro Reyes Talk to the Gun is a collaboration between Pedro Reyes and students in the PSU Art and Social Practice MFA program exploring issues around gun control and violence. The book was used as a tool to stir conversation during a meme-athon, an interactive workshop addressing these issues at Assembly, a social practice get-together. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Wendy Ewald by ed. Nolan Calisch Wendy Ewald, edited by Nolan Calisch, offers a survey of the past and present work of photographer and conceptual artist Wendy Ewald, including insight into her collaborative process and inspiration, and a collection of thoughtful reflections from a collaborator, a colleague, and a contemporary artist who have been touched by her work. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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A Diary of Mysterious Difficulties by Laura Raicovich A Diary of Mysterious Difficulties was borne out of spam received over a period of several months. These emails circumvented spam filters by including odd texts beneath image-based ads for Viagra, Cialis and penis enlargement. As the same proper names continually surfaced, it seemed likely that these excerpts were taken from a longer text. In fact, they were lifted from Charles Dickens's David Copperfield. These bits of text, once a Dickens novel, are reworked, strung together, and augmented to create a spy-story/melodramatic romance novel. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Downeaster |
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Weekday (issue no. 4) by editors: Megan Stockton, Alex Felton, Patricia No Weekday is Publication Studio's occasional journal of new writing. Contributors to issue no. 4 include Caroline Lemak Brickman, Matthew Erickson, Melissa Constantine, Jo Stewart, Eileen Myles, Lauren Berlant, Crystal Willer, Lydia Davis, Clara Chapin, Anna De Filippi, Andrew Stout, Norah Emily, Katie Bradshaw, Brent Green, Kylie Gilchrist, Åbäke, Jordan Jacks, Oscar Oswald, and Scott Ponik. $14 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Every Second One Hundred Bolts of Lightning Strike the Earth by James Hoff A book that quietly measures its own reading experience through the time based statistics it lists, or rather all the things that happen while one reads “Every Second One Hundred Bolts of Lightning Strike the Earth”. The invocation of time in statistics is often meant to convey the urgency of a political or social cause, or at other times stun the reader with the temporal scale of a natural occurrence. Combined in this volume, the sequential incidents happening every second form a narrative that loops back from rhetoric to the everyday. This book was turned to the reading speed of Børre Sæthre. James Hoff is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His work encompasses sound, painting, writing, performance, and publishing. He is the co-founder of Primary Information (with Miriam Katzeff), a non-profit arts organization devoted to publishing artists' books and art-historical documents. He has lectured throughout Europe and the United States at venues such as the MCA (Denver, CO), the Pompidou (Paris, France), the Sorbonne (Paris, France), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Nova Scotia, Canada), and the National Academy of Art (Oslo, Norway).
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Improvising Freely: the ABCs of an Experience by Lê Quan Ninh Improvising Freely, written by classically trained French improviser Lê Quan Ninh, is a translation from French into English by the Canadian philosopher and poet Karen Houle. This PS Guelph edition contains new material not found in either of the previous two French editions. Containing nearly 80 short, lyrical reflections on all manner of experiences—psychological, material, political, social—this book emerges from Lê Quan's lifelong vocation as a cutting-edge improvisational sound artist. Lê Quan chose the organizational form of an "Abécédaire" (or what in English is called "An ABC of..") because it permitted him to construct a level of non-linearity in the subject matter, appropriately reflecting the nature of the work of making improvised music. As he writes, the form of the ABC arbitrarily set us up lovely echoes for the reader between ideas that happen to find themselves placed next to one another, like books on a shelf catalogued by colour, or size. Delightfully, the shift from French to English scrambled even that system ("pédagogie" is now found under E for "education", followed by "freedom" which used to be found under L for "liberté."). All the way from "abandon" to "zero", Improvising Freely digs poetically deeply into the experiences of improvisation.
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Lollie, Penny, Poems by Erin Jane Nelson Lollie, Penny, Poems is a book of writing and photography, tablet poems and Craigslist models. It features an extended interview with an anonymous artist, discussing art, ambition and personhood. Erin Jane Nelson is an artist and writer living in Oakland, CA. Lollie, Penny, Poems was published as part of The Possible, an exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. $17 soft-cover, $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: PS Oakland |
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A Book About— by Åbäke (Maki Suzuki and Kajsa Ståhl), Corinn Gerber, Laure Giletti, Jp King, Chris Lee, Patricia No, Anouk Pennel, & Benjamin Thorel Copublished by Paraguay Press, Art Metropole and Publication Studio, A Book About— is the publication resulting from the three day public seminar "There's more to life than books, but not much more" curated by Benjamin Thorel and held at Art Metropole, Toronto on May 9-11, 2013. Contributors to this book include Åbäke (Maki Suzuki and Kajsa Ståhl), Corinn Gerber, Laure Giletti, Jp King, Chris Lee, Patricia No, Anouk Pennel, and Benjamin Thorel. $22 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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To Sleep as Animals by Douglas W. Milliken A shadowy organization dispatches narcoleptic photographer Ben Nigra west to conduct an obscure research assignment. There, in the streets and casinos of Reno and the abandoned ghost towns of the surrounding Nevada Desert, reality begins to blur. Ben finds illicit romance with his cousin El and friendship with a host of prostitutes and homeless men while trying to keep his tenuous hold on waking consciousness. A botched errand, haunting childhood memories, relentless bodily hazard and an arcane African mask ritual take shape in Douglas W. Milliken's sensuous prose. To Sleep as Animals is an existential detective novel charting one man's slow belly-crawl from obsessive searching into near oblivion. $20 soft cover First edition; $16 soft cover "Medallion" edition; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Pilot Editions |
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How to Listen to and Understand Fake Music by Willy Smart In 2013, Willy Smart listened to 45-minute music history lectures titled How to Listen to and Understand Great Music (by Robert Greenberg) on his headphones while at work. In the following mornings, Smart paraphrased each lecture by memory into a Google Voice voicemail before transcribing them into the collection presented here in How to Listen to and Understand Fake Music. Each of these lectures have been filtered through several executions that are too personal to be called a Oulipo procedure, but results in revealing a poetics of specific processes and restraints. It is representative of a sudden, immediate response, tendered down by human memory and emotion, and a willingness to allow language to become new. Designed by Bryce Wilner.
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The Wolves by Jason R Jimenez The Wolves, Jason R Jimenez's debut novel, is the story of two men's obsession and possession of two women, separated by over 600 years of history. In San Francisco, an unnamed narrator comes under the spell of a mysterious and wildly violent young woman named Wolf. The two rampage through the city on a delirious journey, fueled by drugs and fasting, finally crashing and succumbing to the narrator's destructive fantasies. In medieval Italy, an elderly priest, Raymond of Capua, is sent to Siena by the Pope, where he quickly develops a fascination with the future Saint Catherine of Siena. Catherine defies Raymond's, the Pope's, and her city's path to the Lord, and in so doing, captivates Raymond to the point that he can only reach the Lord through Catherine's own spiritual power. The two tales mirror one another in their violence and sexual obsession. There is no escape from the wolves. $16 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Personal Libraries Library Reading No. 1 by Tom Prochaska Tom Prochaska's PLL Reading No. 1 is a personalized, visual retelling of Flaubert's Bouvard and Pécuchet. Different from a reader, a bound collection of related texts that aim to give either a comprehensive or particular view, this reading evidences a specific reading or journey through a collection of related texts: the Personal Libraries Library. The Personal Libraries Library is a subscription-based lending library located in Portland, Oregon. Currently, the PLL is creating mirror collections of the personal libraries of Maria Mitchell, Robert Smithson, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, and Anne Spencer. These PLL readings have been created on the occasion of Portland2014. $25 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Personal Libraries Library Reading No. 2 by Louis Schalk Louis Schalk's PLL Reading No. 2 takes the size of the shelves in the Personal Libraries Library and gives a personalized overview of the entire library. Different from a reader, a bound collection of related texts that aim to give either a comprehensive or particular view, this reading evidences a specific reading or journey through a collection of related texts: the Personal Libraries Library. The Personal Libraries Library is a subscription-based lending library located in Portland, Oregon. Currently, the PLL is creating mirror collections of the personal libraries of Maria Mitchell, Robert Smithson, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, and Anne Spencer. These readings have been created on the occasion of Portland2014.
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Personal Libraries Library Reading No. 3 by Diana Pembor Diana Pembor's PLL Reading No. 3 is compilation of reversed texts and is accompanied by a 3" mirror. Different from a reader, a bound collection of related texts that aim to give either a comprehensive or particular view, this reading evidences a specific reading or journey through a collection of related texts: the Personal Libraries Library. The Personal Libraries Library is a subscription-based lending library located in Portland, Oregon. Currently, the PLL is creating mirror collections of the personal libraries of Maria Mitchell, Robert Smithson, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, and Anne Spencer. These readings have been created on the occasion of Portland2014.
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Future Perfect by ed. Andrew Durbin & co-published by BGSQD A dense little red book of queer writing and art, Future Perfect is edited by Andrew Durbin and co-published by BGSQD with contributions from Juliana Huxtable, Trisha Low, Kevin Killian, Ed Halter, Bruce Hainley, Stephen Motika, Laurie Weeks, Tim Trace Peterson, BDGRMMR, Lonely Christopher, Penny Arcade, Ted Kerr, Rachel Levitsky, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Pamela Sneed, Wayne Koestenbaum, Stephen Boyer, Nicole Eisenman, Felix Bernstein, Max Steele, Luther Price, and Eileen Myles. $26 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Publication Studio Portland Biennial by Publication Studio The Publication Studio Portland Biennial book is a collaborative project between Publication Studio, the artists of Portland2014, and curator Amanda Hunt. A collection of notes, images, interviews, and conversations, the Publication Studio Portland Biennial book invites the reader into the artists' process of thinking and creating. The artists of Portland2014 are Abra Ancliffe (Personal Libraries Library), Zachary Davis, Modou Dieng, Alex Mackin Dolan, Travis Fitzgerald, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Evan La Londe, Ellen Lesperance, D.E. May, Christopher Michlig, Publication Studio, Ralph Pugay, Kelly Rauer, Blair Saxon-Hill, Richard Thompson, Devon A. VanHouten-Maldonado, and John Zerzan. This book is accompanied by a set of 16 Risograph prints that are rubberbanded to the book.
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16 Sculptures by Travis Jeppesen 16 Sculptures is a book of Travis Jeppesen's writings for the Whitney Biennial 2014. In his installation 16 Sculptures, visitors—sitting while blindfolded—listen to recordings of Jeppesen reading his object-oriented re-creations of sculptures. Depriving us of our usual faculties for experiencing works of art—sight and visual-spatial reasoning—Jeppesen's texts instead stage an encounter with objects through language that nonetheless retains the texture of embodied, physical experience, an imaginative realm in which he attempts to summon the autonomous essences and interior lives of objects themselves. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Omen by John Galt, ed. David J. Knight From John Galt, voluminous writer, first political novelist in the English language, father of a father of Confederation, relative of Edgar Allen Poe, buddy of Lord Byron, and founder of the fair city of Guelph comes a true gothic horror novel, The Omen. David J. Knight has transcribed the book, written a forward, added footnotes, and included two contemporary reviews including one by Sir Walter Scott. First published in 1825, this new edition features incredible linocut illustrations by Steph Yates. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: PS Guelph |
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The Hylaeus Project by Lisa Schonberg with illustrations by Aidan Koch Aidan Koch and Lisa Schonberg spent a month in Hawaii carrying out a multimedia documentation of the native Hylaeus bees at over 20 field sites on Kauai, Oahu and the Big Island. Hylaeus habitat is increasingly rare, and the 60-something known species have all suffered precipitous declines; several species have been petitioned to be listed as endangered. This book includes writing from both Koch and Schonberg, interviews with naturalists, and Koch's watercolors and drawings. Schonberg also composed new pieces of music based on the soundscapes and character of the field sites they visited. $30 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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In The Marble Of Your Animal Eyes by Nathan Hauke In The Marble Of Your Animal Eyes is Nathan Hauke's debut full length volume of poems. Born and raised in rural Michigan, Hauke's poems are occupied with that landscape—the pastoral and the dirty, the searching for big things (God?) and finding the little (empty beer cans). These poems were hand-edited and those edits appear in facsimile transcription, a transparent erasure of things past. His poems have been published in American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, New American Writing and many others. $16 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Fun Sponge by Alex Da Corte Alex Da Corte collects, scavenges, and buys materials from the street, thrift stores, grocery stores and dollar stores. He is a painter and a consummate collaborator who greys the lines between collecting, absorbing, and embedding. This catalog for his exhibition at the ICA @ MECA also functions as a 400 page flip-book. $60 soft cover; $20 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Downeaster |
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Notes: on Value by Anna de Filippi, Kylie Gilchrist & Megan Stockton (ed.) Notes: on Value, edited by Kylie Gilchrist, Anna de Filippi, and Megan Stockton, features a collection of notes, fragments, and ephemera surrounding the subject of Value. Contributors to the inaugural issue include Lauren Berlant, Caroline Brickman, Matthew Doyle, Anne Nora Fischer, Cooper Francis, Norah Hoover, David Horvitz, David Knowles, Chris Kraus, Eileen Myles, Nina Power, La Perversita, Alexander Provan, Patricia No, Julia Reagan, Amalia Ulman, and Osvaldo Valdes. $18 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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How To Shoplift Books by David Horvitz How To Shoplift Books by David Horvitz is a guide on how to steal books in both practical and imaginative ways. It is comprised of mostly black and white scans of the original hardcover book published by Automatic Books. This is a bootleg by request of the author. It was written in English and includes an Italian translation. The book that was scanned was mailed by Horvitz without an envelope from Europe to the United States (see back cover in preview page 1). $20 soft cover; $0.01 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Prick Queasy by Ronald Palmer Prick Queasy, Ronald Palmer's debut novel, is the story of Russ Wade, a man tormented by the ghost of Hart Crane and his own vigilante crusade of killing closeted gay men. Poetic, haunting and downright raunchy, Prick Queasy moves between the different facets of Russ Wade's life and psyche, not so much explaining his behaviors, but opening up the gaping chasm that torments our protagonist. We do not sympathize with Wade but we end up as a part of him, loving him and feeling everything he feels. It is a rare talent who can create such a world to fall into, happily and horrifically. "Russ Wade is Batman, Alice and Hannibal. His story begins in the frothy pink halo of a genre romp and moves forward by continually opening different registers, a surfeit of haunting, killing, fucking, existential riffing, thrilling frantic raving, profound suffering, and galactic ticking—and that is so gay! Prick Queasy must be the pinkest book in the world—is the novel itself a drastic throbbing prick? Ronald Palmer bursts through the traps of consciousness like an action hero in 300-D, and by that I mean he is a visionary." -Robert Glück 2013 LAMBDA Literary Awards finalist
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A Personal Nature by Delaney Allen A Personal Nature, the third installment in Delaney Allen's photo book series, is a collection of transparently manipulated photographs, staged still lifes, landscapes, self portraits, and writings. All the photographs and writings were completed in the summer of 2013 on a solitary cross country road trip. A selection of these works were also shown at Nationale. $28 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Repo Man by Dan Gilsdorf Dan Gilsdorf's REPO MAN is a personalized, scene-for-scene retelling of the film in the author's own voice. The book is completely yellow and is both an amusing and serious undertaking of a popular genre film. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Peculiar Pioneer by Howard W. Robertson PECULIAR PIONEER is a novel by Howard W. Robertson, set in the Columbia River area in the nineteenth century. This tightly plotted novel deals with the culture clash between the Native Americans of the area and the pioneers and is written in the style of autobiographical narratives of the time. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Left Behind by Chris Sollars Chris Sollars' new book, LEFT BEHIND, shows us work from his ongoing public sculpture series. Sollars' sculptures, made from discarded objects in the streets of San Francisco, reveal a playful sensibility. Included in LEFT BEHIND is an interview conducted by Jennifer González of the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. Chris Sollars is an artist based in San Francisco and received a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship. $22 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Lace Sick Bag by Joon Oluchi Lee With Lace Sick Bag, Joon Lee offers thirteen hard, delicate and sweet stories for you to wear close to your skin. Borne from a desire to embody femininity, these are stories that sound and feel like women. They traverse opposite coasts of bodily existence, as men turn into women, women turn into men, children become mothers, mothers become children. (And geographic coasts as well: New York and San Francisco turn into each other.) They burrow deep into the psyche and then spring out to teach how to glimmeringly show your insides on the outside. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Sound Guelph by David J. Knight Sound Guelph charts the alternative musics and sonic experimentations of Guelph in the last three decades. Hyper-local and exhaustively researched, author and archaeologist David J. Knight has mined the archives of Ed Video Media Arts Centre, CFRU 93.3 FM (Guelph's Campus and Community Radio Station), The Ontarion (The University of Guelph's student newspaper, as well as the private collections of Guelph musicians and fans now dispersed across the globe (Canada, U.S.A., Australia, Greece, UK, Montenegro). With its telephone-book heft and scrappy zinester style, Sound Guelph reflects on a rich creative community in a specific time and place. $35.00 soft cover This item originated from: PS Guelph |
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rag picker by Steve Roden RAG PICKER, the newest book by Steve Roden, is a collection of notes and notations, photographs and art, that also include writings and translations from the Walter Benjamin Archive. RAG PICKER is an intimate look at Roden's past and present work, culling sound, image and text to create not a documentation, but a working and living representation of Roden's practice. $35 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Pop Art Poem (with Advertising) by Jesse Harris POP ART POEM (with Advertising) is a chapbook by Toronto artist and University of Guelph graduate Jesse Harris. Originally published in issue three of Ideyeahs magazine, the book repurposes the WHAAM!s and CRASHes of pop art as poetry. Jesse Harris works in a variety of media such as sculpture, printmaking, vinyl-cutting, bookmaking, and animated GIFs (like this one here! or this other one here), and his work often incorporates text creations, such as his buttons and pins (sporting slogans like "Think or Thwim"). His work references punk, pop art, and conceptual art to recontextualize and reevaluate D.I.Y. aesthetics, often depicting the transformation of radical messages into collectible kitsch. $15 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: PS Guelph |
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Vertex by Tim Roth VERTEX is a collection of photographs by Tim Roth where he has thrown away the rules of traditional photography and has put the vertices in the middle of the visual plane. Tim Roth is a photographer from Portland, Oregon; see some more of his work here: Intrepider and This Rules. $22 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Watercolors by David Horvitz & Natalie Haeusler Watercolors chronicles one and a half years of watercolor correspondence between David Horvitz and Natalie Haeusler. This is a bootleg edition by request of David Horvitz and is a complete black & white scan of Watercolors with one color image (a polaroid of a cat that was taped to the inside cover of his copy of the book). $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Hang On To Your Hot Lights by Nick Paparone Rory Parks Hang On To Your Hot Lights is a collaboration between Nick Paparone and Rory Parks. "the title for the collaboration: "CONVICTION: EXPANDED AND REBRANDED" is the entry point for this dynamic, which would in some ways model itself on archetypal comedic duos like Laurel and Hardy, or Abbott and Costello. Certain installation works planned for the show would actively play out these comedic forms or action and reaction. For instance a video whose audio is an elaborate "Hypnosis Script" and whose visual is its counterpoint rebranding. $35 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Downeaster |
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Self Help by Michael Welsh SELF HELP by Michael Welsh represents the intersection of three discreet interests of the artist: abstraction in painting; self-help advice authored by Oprah Winfrey; and magic alchemy. For this publication, Welsh has appropriated advertisements, photo spreads and editorials from O Magazine, a periodical produced by Winfrey, and applied layers of paint to translate these popular media pieces into the language of abstract painting. Accompanying the images are original poems by Welsh—part manifesto, part existential crisis—that use appropriated text from Modern Alchemy and Occult Psychology by D. Lawrence Meredith and inspirational, life-affirming quotes from Oprah Winfrey. This is the second title to be co-published by Social Malpractice Publishing and Publication Studio.
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How It Hurts by Timothy Furstnau HOW IT HURTS is Timothy Furstnau's new book of pain and poetry. With direct quotes from medical pain tests and questionnaires with commentary by the author, HOW IT HURTS can be used as a primer to the subject of pain and prepare the reader to discuss his/her own pain and how much it hurts. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Dollar Store Quality Piece of Scrap by Kristin Lucas DOLLAR STORE QUALITY PIECE OF SCRAP is a pocket-sized book of elusive product reviews focusing on a product or products that are unidentifiable and seemingly strange. DOLLAR STORE QUALITY PIECE OF SCRAP is the first book co-published by Eyebeam and Publication Studio. Kristin Lucas is an interdisciplinary artist living in New York. $10 soft cover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE REFERENCE POINTS Art and Social Practice Workbook by ed. Erin Charpentier & Travis Neel The Art and Social Practice Workbook edited by Guestwork is a collection of resources, assignments, prompts, and other texts regarding socially engaged practices to be used in the classroom and beyond. $15 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE REFERENCE POINTS John Malpede with Dillon de Give by ed. Jen Delos Reyes John Malpede with Dillon de Give profiles Malpede's individual works as well as the long term activities of the Los Angeles Poverty Department, a theater group partly composed of homeless and transient residents of LA's Skid Row. The book is a formatted exchange between an established and an emerging artist. $15 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE REFERENCE POINTS Temporary Services with Carmen Papalia by ed. Jen Delos Reyes Temporary Services with Carmen Papalia explores the topic of accessibility as it relates to public space, the Art institution, and visual culture through an interview, an essay, and case studies. This book is part of the Reference Points series published through Portland State University Art and Social Practice MFA Program. The series is an evolving pedagogical framework in which graduate students formulate and research a significant topic or practitioner(s) related to socially engaged art. Because the series is designed to shift and respond to the concerns of the program's current students and faculty, mode, structure, and content are open-ended. $15 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE REFERENCE POINTS Harrell Fletcher with Adam Moser by ed. Jen Delos Reyes Harrell Fletcher with Adam Moser includes a conversation between the two and a series of project case studies: Learning About the world At the Grocery store, Interviews with children, the Knowledge walking tours, and Hammer yearbook, a collaborative project between Moser and Fletcher. $15 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE REFERENCE POINTS Center for Urban Pedagogy with Molly Sherman by ed. Jen Delos Reyes Center for Urban Pedagogy with Molly Sherman looks at the work of CUP, a nonprofit that creates collaborative art and design projects to increase civic engagement. The book includes an interview with Christine Gaspar, the Executive Director of CUP, and an essay by Daniel D'Oca, an urban planner at Interboro Partners. It also features case studies of the following CUP projects: Vendor Power, Bodega Down Bronx, What is Affordable Housing?, Field Guide to Federalism, and Old School, New School. $15 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Bottomless Shelf by Alex Felton The Bottomless Shelf, the new book from Alex Felton, begins with a series of false starts. A litany of potential titles, a browsing of possible subjects, the books stutters to life with a slew of title pages. Being facile, being curious, it takes this continuing search for content as its subject. Part catalog of the artist's recent work and part visual essay, Felton's new book explores how we manage to filter out all the rest and find what we were looking for. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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A Guide to the North American Obeast by Rachel Herrick This two-book set explores artist Rachel Herrick's cuttingly humorous obeast project from the inside out. $35 soft cover; $17.50 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Downeaster |
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Stars: Even The Sun With All It's Warmth Is Detached by Anthony Campuzano Anthony Campuzano is known for his use of found
language in his drawings, using text from newspaper headlines, Wikipedia
entries, paperback novel covers, and song lyrics. His new book, Stars: Even The Sun With All Its Warmth Is Detached, created
in collaboration and with support from the Institute of Contemporary
Art at Maine College of Art, is a collection of his collages that
incorporates images from supermarket tabloids and ruminates on the
simultaneous brilliance and self-destruction of many celebrity figures. $25 softcover; $12.50 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Downeaster |
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Things We Should Have Said by Danger Punch Danger Punch presents their first book, Things We Should Have Said. Within the book is a collection of letters written to lost loves, missed connections or hopeful crushes and an introductory essay by Steve Dean. Three of the four members of Danger Punch took different approaches to writing and creating artwork based upon the letters. The fourth member compiled and edited the materials for this book to prevent marital distress. Things We Should Have Said is in a limited edition of 100 copies. See more of Danger Punch's work HERE.
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Virility Rituals Of North American Teenage Boys by Matt Briggs Virility Rituals Of North American Teenage Boys tells stories set at the boundary between real men and boys in man drag. In the title story, a man tells the various myths associated with his manhood from the Breakfast Club inspired obsession with "Elephantitis of the nuts" to an unexpected bodily testing sequence executed under the florescent glare of middle school lights. The characters in the fourteen stories live in the shadow of a failed macho culture. These stories have appeared in Birkensnake, The Chicago Review, Filter Magazine, MonkeyBicycle, Roethke Readings, Spork, and TRNSF Magazine. The Review of Contemporary Fiction wrote of Briggs' stories, "As with the songs, the stories are all about life out of kilter, told with charm from the perspective of the odd as norm, not so much magical realism than delightfully pernicious absurdity."
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High Frontiers by Claire Evans High Frontiers is a new collection of essays revolved around science, space, art and the unknown. Previously disseminated and published through various means, these essays are brought together in High Frontiers. Claire L. Evans is a writer, artist and member of YACHT. "Art, science, poetry, technology: these all create models for reality, chance forecasts for the future, incant their vision to the public, and ultimately inform complex nesting sets of shared truth. Science fiction is shockingly predictive, while science itself often demands broad suspension of disbelief. Those who seek to understand the ultimate nature of the universe are not only creating testable, theoretical models; increasingly, it's the questions themselves which unite us. Where do we come from? How can something come from nothing?" —Claire L. Evans
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The Double E by Matt Briggs In the shadow of the Boeing plant where the first commercial jet liner was assembled, a family lives in a house in a rural landscape filled with stumps, streams chocked with the dead salmon, and no one who can help. The sixties in Renton, Washington were a mix of jet age technology and subsistence farming. Roger Carnation is an electrical engineer, or double e, is a stepfather who regards his new family as an acquisition. He has daughters to train to do what he needs. He has a wife to clean house and prepare food. He has a son to train as a replacement man. The novel is told through the five points of view as the story advances toward its inevitable end. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Model Turned Comedian by Heather Guertin This comical work of fiction, by New York-based painter and stand-up comedian Heather Guertin, traces the story from a first-person perspective of a young woman working as a "shopping model" in Los Angeles, CA. Over a period of several years, she transitions into a career stand-up comic who achieves a considerable amount of success while alienating many of those around her. This publication was originally published by Social Malpractice Publishing and is currently being co-published by Social Malpractice and Publication Studio Portland, Oregon. $15 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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ISBN: 978-1-62462-012-6 by David Knowles 978-1-62462-012-6 is a book comprised of a trimmed and bound copy of the New York Times dated from the day the book is ordered. The book is wrapped in a carbon paper dust jacket and is available in three sizes, each scaled to the dimensions of a specific product manufactured by Apple Computers. New book sizes will be made available as new products are released. In order to ensure correct and timely production, a home delivery subscription to the New York Times has been purchased for Publication Studio by the author. $15 iPhone 5 soft cover; $20 iPad mini soft cover; $20 iPad soft cover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Parasite by Stephen Boyer Parasite, Stephen Boyer's debut novel is about a young 17 year old boy, Joshua Boyer, who runs away from his unaccepting Christian parents. Josh finds himself in San Francisco as a sex slave to an older man, but quickly tires of the abuse. He turns to working in the sex industry and searches for true love as he tries to figure out his new life. "If you're looking for a raw and slightly surreal missive from the land of poetic hustlers (and, really, who isn't?) Parasite is your book. Josh, the protagonist, is a queer teen with tranny tendencies and a psychedelic sensibility." —Alvin Orloff
"Josh is the sort of boy who experiences nearly everything through his ass, so he's not your usual sort of narrator, but if you've ever sat on anything weird, or anything splendid, this book will get to you just as it got to me." —Kevin Killian Publication Studio's Fellow Travelers series extends the pioneering work of Paris-based Olympia Press's Traveller's Companion series of the 1950s and '60s, which published work that had been banned or censored through moralistic prohibition. Our series presents great new work that has been effectively "censored" by the market. In our day, the market is the definitive censor. The Fellow Travelers series proudly presents great work that the market has not endorsed, but that we believe in. $16 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Painting A Portrait by Delaney Allen Delaney Allen's second book published by Publication Studio, PAINTING A PORTRAIT, asks the question "by searching for the other do we find another?" Chronicling two years of being alone, the book features landscape photographs, self portraits and notes he has taken on lonely journeys. Allen's particular "alone-ness" is palpable on every page - the stark, highly contrasted landscapes recall Thoreau's determination of solitude; his self-portraits are often an attempt to prove an existence while simultaneously trying to disappear; and his notes, while private, are begging to be read. What is our response? Every person on earth has experienced pain and beauty. This shared experience allows us a communal empathy and PAINTING A PORTRAIT fiercely expresses that sentiment. This book finds another just by being and being read. And in that way, we find that none of us are really alone. It is a beautiful and brave offering and it burns off the page. $38 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Kawakasa by Alex Mackin Dolan Alex Mackin Dolan's Kawakasa is a book of twenty-one poems and one ASFR edit. Dolan's written work possesses a certain clean and mechanical feeling but still holds an emotional humanistic aspect, much like his visual work. These poems focus on androids, robots, processing units and mechanical emotions. See some of his other work here: alexmackindolan.com. $12 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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A Circular 2 by Pedro Cid Proença (ed.) A Circular and Publication Studio release a North American edition of A Circular 2. A Circular is a young art and design journal. Issue 2 features David Antin on Real Estate; a trio of short loops on song and sound by David Morris; Richard Hollis on Flags, Stars and Signs; Pedro Neves Marques on 1972; Dieter Roth's Trophies Rotated by James Langdon; Patrick Coyle fake fancying, feigning, forging; Wayne Daly and Sean Lynch in conversation; Adrian Piper's To Art (Reg. Intrans. V.) and another installment of Will Holder's Middle of Nowhere. A Circular 2 is edited by Pedro Cid Proença
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General Education by Carlos Gonzalez & Kyle Thompson General Education was published for the occasion of artists' Carlos Gonzalez's and Kyle Thompson's collaborative performance which took place on November 28, 2012 at White Box Gallery in Portland, Oregon. The book includes selections from a wide variety of encyclopedias specifically chosen by Carlos and Kyle, and the selections were read as part of the performance. The selections stand not just as a marker of a specific time and place but also represent a certain whimsy of character. $16 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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People I Used To Know by Stephen Slappe Stephen Slappe's book, People I Used To Know began as a file of archived pictures on Slappe's computer desktop. Slappe archived these photos since 2005, pulling them from social networking websites. He has manipulated these photos with algorithmically generated patterns to erase the faces and skin and leave only kitchens, yards, living rooms, clothes and a bit of mystery. Stephen Slappe has paired these photos with short phrases that describe his memories of these people. "The images and text in this book are an attempt at reclaiming mystery and subjectivity, recognizing that people I used to know have changed into other people but, just as importantly, my version of them is worth saving." —Stephen Slappe
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Lessons From A Lonely Italian by Sydney S. Kim Sydney S. Kim's tricolored green, cream and pink book offers Italian sentences originating from an Italian phrase-a-day email. In Rebecca Sacks' introduction, she says that the sentences are "dark, situational, and often silly, they seem to lament the banality of their task. Here they are rescued and reinstated which may situate this project in the realm of salvation far more than that of the 'found.'" These sentences are surprising and reveal more to us than just your average lonely Italian. $15 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Weekday (issue no. 3) by editors: Megan Stockton, Alex Felton, Sam Korman, Patricia No Weekday is Publication Studio's occasional journal of new writing. Contributors to issue no. 3 include Ashby Lee Collinson, Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Jessica Baran, Amy Bernstein, Travis Jeppesen, Neal Morgan, Jonathan Lethem, Molly Schaeffer, Kevin Sampsell, Zosia Wiatr, David Knowles, Kevin Champoux, Robin Cameron, Martine Bellen, Lisa Steinman, and David Senior. $14 soft cover: $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Lazer Hotel by The Art Department The Art Department is a nonprofit outsider art gallery, working studio, screening space and retail store for artists with intellectual and developmental uniqueness in downtown Portland. The front gallery at the ICA has been transformed into a magazine office for a new project called the Lazer Hotel Magazine, a print publication created and printed by artists of The Art Department. From start to finish, they will create their first edition, working on content, organizing layout, writing, drawing, typing, mapping out, photographing, interviewing, critiquing, predicting horoscopes, making crossword puzzles, comic strips, printing and reproducing. $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Downeaster |
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Welcome by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Natsu Oyobe's essay, "Welcome To Seoul Land," is the basis of WELCOME, designed by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI) in the vein and style of their text-based video work. YHCHI began in 1996, and since the beginning YHCHI has stuck with their particular aesthetic of quickly flashing black and white text paired with musical scores. To see their work click here: yhchang.com. YHCHI, the Seoul-based artist collaboration between Young-Hae Chang and Marc Voge, has put out this new work, WELCOME, with UMMA (University of Michigan Museum of Art) and Publication Studio. The covers of WELCOME were screen printed by The Tiny Spoon. $32 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Qs by Sarah Gottesdiener (ed. & designer) Sarah Gottesdiener has edited and designed Qs, a new book that covers a selection of work by queer writers and artists. Within it are photographs of artwork, snapshots of amazing personal stories, and other responses to Gottesdiener's call. $25 color soft cover; $20 b/w soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Lone Wolf by David Schulz Lone Wolf is a picture book whose name is derived from the provision of the USA Patriot act which seeks to create a legal framework that allows the government to surveil an individual not associated with any group or country believed to be engaged in terrorist activities, a.k.a. a Lone Wolf. Comprised of screenshots from American reality television shows depicting expressions of physical force, excerpts from congressional hearings of the 112th and 113th congresses on the Patriot Act, and a series of transcripts from the movie Let There Be Light (1946), by John Huston. $25 This item originated from: The Book Bakery |
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Backwards Metamorphosis Library by Hyung-Min Yoon Hyung-Min Yoon's Backwards Metamorphosis Library subverts the quintessential linear narrative to indicate a labyrinth of language.Taking Franz Kafka's novella Metamorphosis as a starting point, each text in this collection reverses the sentences of the original so that the story begins after the protagonist's death and ends with the famous opening sentence, matter-of-factly declaring that Gregor Samsa has changed into a giant bug. Backwards Metamorphosis Library includes 17 translations, in reverse sentence order, plus the original German, individually bound in black covers and packaged in a functional and handsome slipcover suitable for shelving. $85 boxed set of 18 softcover volumes This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Can These Antiques Ever Prove Dangerous Again? by Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen In Can These Antiques Ever Prove Dangerous Again? Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen present a precisely photocopied, slightly over-exposed collection of miniature protest signs. A staccato stream of proposals, phrases, and foreign ideas are set in the bezel of traditional forms; and they all ask the same co-opted question –– a question that genuinely approaches notions of obsolescence, ineffectiveness, smallness, slowness. We like these four things because they invite contemplation, allow for the circuitous re that occurs in re-cognition, re-configuration, re-making. The traditional picket works on us differently than a barrage of tweets. The remnant of hand lettering and the literal handle are important. A photocopy has a more committed presence than a re-blog, though they both remind us that someone believed in something enough to call for its multiplication and dissemination. The screen is not a page, scrolling is not pagination, ink is not the same as light or lack thereof. Photocopied texts circulate, their legibility decaying in teeming black and white spots, dog-eared and with increasing contrast. Signage, pickets, posters, these homegrown ideological adverts index a deep-seated desire to convey, to belong, and to be identified by a sense of belief. Feel free to request an unbound copy to experiment with the innumerable ways of reconfiguration. Shuffle and arrange through the future or codify a unique order by binding the pages according to your own internal melody.
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Odes To The Ki Of The Universe by Howard W. Robertson Odes To The Ki Of The Universe is a new book of poetry by Howard W. Robertson, author of Two Odes Of Quiddity And Nil. "This is the poetics of ποιημα, of the made thing in the most primordial and universal sense. These poems are written for the Spirit of the Universe. The poet crawls down subterranean passageways to a profound cavern where he daubs images of the Cosmos with earthen colors. These images there in that sacred space can be heard as strange song." --Howard W. Robertson $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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In Search of Lost Time by Shannon Oksanen, Valerie Sonnier, Myfanwy MacLeod In Search of Lost Time is a three-volume set, co-published with UNIT/PITT Projects, contained in a durable transparent case. Volume One, In Search of Lost Time, is a critical work by artist/curator Myfanwy MacLeod examining the relationship between memory and lost, or "wasted", time, with detours through surfing, bureaucracy, art, and play. Volume Two, Footsteps in the Snow, is an artist's book by French artist Valerie Sonnier, adapting her ghostly film of the same name into a fractured but evocative pictorial narrative. Volume Three, School's Out, is an artist's book by Vancouver-based artist Shannon Oksanen, a personal meditation on summer, beachcombing, surfing, and the music that goes with it all. With debossed covers, in a stylish, re-closeable case. This publication originally accompanied the exhibition Shannon Oksanen and Valerie Sonnier: In Search of Lost Time, curated by Myfanwy MacLeod, presented by UNIT/PITT in September 2012. $50 three softcover volumes in durable transparent box This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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The Green Force Of Spring by Howard W. Robertson The Green Force of Spring is Howard W. Robertson's newest book of poetry. In these structured poems Robertson explores the vicissitudes of a poet's life, his contemplations and family dealings. "In the beginning I acted reasonably I believe. My life as a single parent with a full-time job and two daughters to raise was being devoured daily by labor for money, by labor for my children, by labor for my art, and by what little labored sleep I could manage, and so after careful consideration I opted for the most rational remedy I could devise under the circumstances: I advertised." —The green force of spring, Howard W. Robertson
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Balloon Catcher Wanted by The Art Department $15 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Downeaster |
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Four Poets And A Play by Jeremy Reed A vigorous, decadent poet in the symbolist tradition, Jeremy Reed holds a unique place in the literary and musical counterculture of England. Edmund White sums him up as "Patti Smith meets Rimbaud at Graceland." But Reed's milieu and his sensibility reach even further across time, linking punk rock to the Elizabethans to Bowie, glam, and contemporary giants such as John Ashbery, Thom Gunn, and John Weiners, poets who are the subject of Reed's scrutiny in these essays. At the center of the book is a play only Jeremy Reed could have written, "Behind Closed Doors," set in the brutal underbelly of London's art and literary scene, a circle of hell Reed explores via the recorded conversations of the late painter, Francis Bacon. "Jeremy Reed's talent is almost extraterrestrial in its brilliance. He is Rimbaud reconfigured as the Man who fell to Earth, a visitor from deep space whose time machine was designed by Lautreamont and de Sade, and powered by the most exotic fuels the imagination has ever devised." -J.G. Ballard
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ME∑(s)A Project Space by James Papadopoulos ME∑(s)A Project Space chronicles the year long closet gallery space run by James Papadopoulos in Portland, Oregon. The closet is a 4' x 5' exhibition space in Papadolpoulos' now former apartment. The purpose of ME∑(s)A Project Space was to foster relationships between Chicago and Portland based artists, as Papadopoulos is originally from Chicago, and moved to Portland for graduate school. Over the course of the year that ME∑(s)A was open, there were nine participating artists. Each artist was given a question and answer survey conducted by James via email. This book shows the documentation of the artists' participation in ME∑(s)A. The participating artists are as follows: Michael Birk, Nan Curtis, Daniel J. Glendening, Arnold J. Kemp, Carl Klimt, John Knight, Jake Myers, Chris Smith, and Michael Welsh. Included in the first 37 copies of this book is an original rubbing by Daniel J. Glendening. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Latitudes and Longitudes of the Principal Ports, Harbours, Headlands, etc., in the World by Lyndl Hall Latitudes and Longitudes is a book that changes the world. Referencing a colonial, imperialist system of occupied lands, ports, naval strongholds, and shipping routes,, Lyndl Hall has produced a new geography that reconfigures the globe, and in particular the system of ocean navigation, by moving the zero meridian of global longitude to Vancouver; the result is an interpretation of space that is both personal and global. This volume, produced in the Slade Editions series of books from Publication Studio Vancouver, includes a ribbon marker for its practical application as a geographic reference text. 20.00 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Open Engagement: An Anthology by Jen Delos Reyes (ed.) Open Engagement: Art and Social Practice 2007-2011 is a collection of essays, lecture transcriptions, interviews, photographs, and project documentation focused on socially engaged art that has emerged from the Open Engagement conference directed and founded by Jen Delos Reyes. Open Engagement explores the questions surrounding why artists have now, more than ever, turned towards ideas of community and social connections for creating their work. This book is a document of a selection of three years of conference materials that includes internationally known artists, curators, and scholars such as: Mark Dion, Harrell Fletcher, Amy Franceschini, Julie Ault, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Fritz Haeg, Pablo Helguera, Nils Norman, and others.
This book wraps language around the burgeoning field, a critical text for those hoping to explore this subject. Each year this publication will be updated to include materials from the most recent conference. $40 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Face-ology by New Avenues for Youth and various artists After partnering with New Avenues for Youth, artists Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson set out to create a mural in downtown Portland, Ore that positively represented the diversity of human life. Working with local artists and youth in the program, Face-ology documents this process from beginning to end. With sketches, interviews and photographs, we are able to see the collaborative approach to this project that Chris and Johanna had intended. In collaboration with artists who painted portraits and some of whose sketches are included: Crystal Baxley, Dana Dart-McLean, Josh Kermiet, Stefan Ransom, Tom Greenwood, Arnold Kemp, Daniel Long, Harrell and Beatrice Fletcher, Eric Crespo, Midori Hirose, James Papadopoulos, Mike Jackson, Corey, Charlie, Riann, Rose, Scott, Rudy, Cookie, Nick, Jessica.
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Failed States by Jill Magid Failed States is an exploration of coincidence and poetics amid the barriers and bureaucracy of governmental power. While on a trip to research the history of snipers in Austin, Texas, artist Jill Magid witnesses a mysterious shooting on the steps of the State Capitol. Twenty-four year old Fausto Cardenas fires several rounds in the air before being arrested. The event becomes the background against which Magid, under the guidance of CT -- editor at the Texas Observer and former embedded war correspondent for AP -- starts her training to become an embedded journalist with the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Magid's non-fiction novel Failed States approaches the themes of transparency, secrecy and publicity through her personal desire to engage the war on terror and its media representation through becoming an eyewitness.
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Spreadeagle by Kevin Killian New Narrative pioneer Kevin Killian's novel, Spreadeagle, has been two decades in the making. Skating nimbly over the vast surface of pop history through a forest of movie stars, pop sensation, and dazzling social technologies, Killian undoes the ties that bind a half-dozen Californian men -- Daniel Isham, the powerful, popular gay novelist; Kit Kramer, his insecure activist boyfriend; Daniel's father, Ralph Isham, the world-renowned poet who haunts him in death; Eric Avery, the Duchamp-loving twink who wins Kit's heart; and the shadowy Radley brothers, Adam and Gary, who destroy them all. This is the great gay novel that America has been waiting for. Publication Studio's Fellow Travelers series extends the pioneering work of Paris-based Olympia Press's Traveller's Companion series of the 1950s and '60s, which published work that had been banned or censored through moralistic prohibition. Our series presents great new work that has been effectively "censored" by the market. In our day, the market is the definitive censor. The Fellow Travelers series proudly presents great work that the market has not endorsed, but that we believe in. 2012 LAMBDA Literary Awards finalist
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Path: A Generative Bookwork in Twelve Volumes by Kate Armstrong Path is a 12 volume book with text generated by the
physical movement of an anonymous individual living in the city of
Montreal between 2005 – 2007. Each time this individual accessed the
internet using public wi-fi over the course of this two year period they
were tagged with a textual passage exploring themes of visual,
personal, and spatial patterns as reflected in the lives of fictional
characters. Accumulating over time, these behavioural and technological
points of contact come to form a pattern of language that both reveals
and conceals a life lived in a city. This 12-volume, 7300-page box set
edition is co-published by PS Vancouver and UNIT/PITT Projects, and includes a 168-hour mp3 audiobook edition on SD card. Please allow two weeks plus shipping time for delivery. $280 softcover complete set This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Overboard by Lindsey Boldt Oakland, California poet Lindsey Boldt's OVERBOARD is a deeply personal and often laugh-out-loud prose poem in three parts. She takes on Goldie Hawn as her avatar in a revamp of the classic 80's movie as poparchetype from new poetic (and sometimes scientific) perspectives. The role of narrator swims between the voice of Lindsey and Goldie interchangeably, whether it's through correspondence with ex-boyfriends or a narrative in which Lindsey witnesses Goldie, taller than the tallest skyscrapers, take her revenge on San Francisco in an unforgettable B- horror movie-like climax. With a uniquely feminist humor, Lindsey is able to splash the roles of mother, girlfriend, woman into total absurdity inviting us to track as best we can what it means to be a golden blonde heiress once spoiled by riches, now an under-water, lower-class amnesiac house-wife, now a poet living in Oakland. $15 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Collected by Jacqueline Suskin This first collection of poems by Jacqueline Suskin grew from photographs the Arcata-based poet found "in Florida flea markets, on the side of the road, in junk shops, and mainly in the trash." The poems are presented opposite their companions photos in this full-color 54-page collection, printed, bound and published by Publication Studio. $20, paperback; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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CONTRARIAN by Gabriel Parniak CONTRARIAN re-samples daily news and draws new patterns. These are quotidian reflections poking pointed fun at politics. Tongue-in-cheek garden path diatribes, Stephen Harper’s Mickey Mouse pipeline ears: censored images, uncensored texts. Using artist Gabriel Parniak’s Toronto Star collages as a starting point, the project finds lateral connections between visual and textual forms of social commentary and critique, with poems, rants, and other thoughts by Elise Boudreau Graham, Mike Chaulk, Danica Evering, Kosta Gligorijevic, Hugh Mater, Dan O’Neill, Jagdeep Singh Raina, Ro Sabourin and @Known_Unknown_Soldier. Instead of the party line newsprint missives from HQ we’re used to, these texts are contradictory and scrambled and meant to be interrogated. Tumbling a captcha jumble of aliens, shalwar kameez, Princess Diana, Jesus, Osama Bin Laden, scrotal sweat, apple turnovers, friendly fire, these narratives are drawn in the stars of low culture politics. Hands point and gesture: I want you, I give up, I guess so, who cares, that is the point, it’s not my fault, okay, okay, okay. We’re making New News, uncovering unspoken conversations between makers, poets, critics, and commentators of all levels. We’re drawing from what we know, what is at hand: newspapers, hearsay, memory, family legends. Contrarian news in hopes of writing a different future. The first edition of 100 books was CMYK risographed at Colour Code in Toronto and has black-on-black covers letterpressed at All Sorts Press in Hamilton, ON.
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Aionios by Patrick Kelly Patrick Kelly's Aionios is a limited edition book with spiraling angular hand cut shapes. Kelly hand cut each page of all eight books to create a sculptural space that the viewer can look into and experience with the flipping through of Aionios. A translation of the word 'aionios' is everlasting and it is Plato's use of the word, "to denote that which has neither beginning nor end, that which is above time, but of which time is a moving image," that is at the core of these works. This series of books are designed to be viewed from either side with no true front of back and it is marked with time by the laborious hand cutting within each page. The book and hollowed out space are simultaneously the subject, a steady progression creating form and the absence that remains. Patrick Kelly is an artist working in Portland, OR. He has been showing works throughout Portland, Seattle, and New York. He received a BFA from East Carolina University and an MFA from The George Washington University. Whether in drawings or sculptures his works involve ways of representing time and employ the use of light to reveal changing images. More of his work can be seen at cargocollective.com/patrickkelly.
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Between Here And There by Delaney Allen Second edition of Delaney Allen's book Between Here And There, a semi-autobiographical account of the final year of a long distance relationship and its break-up. Combining photographic imagery and personal emails, the book depicts love in all its powerful and tragic nature. Awarded "best of" Photo-Eye Magazine's photography book list in 2010. $24 This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Night She Slept With A Bear by Holly Anderson Holly Anderson's The Night She Slept With A Bear is a collection of flash fictions and mesostic poems dealing with nature, longing, insomnia, sex, the unreliability of memory, and a touch of String Theory. Included in this book is a compact disc of music written and played by Chris Brokaw, which is available for a free listen here. The Night She Slept With A Bear is designed by Susan Archie. The Night She Slept With A Bear is now available as an app, here.
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Food And Watercolors by B Wurtz Food And Watercolors is a new artist's book by B Wurtz with an interview by Steel Stillman. The book is filled with watercolor collages by Wurtz along with silhouetted fruits and vegetables in stark contrast to the colorful paintings. The never before published interview by Stillman, his first interview, is woven throughout the book. Food And Watercolors was designed by David Knowles. $25 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Atlas Of The Conflict, Israel-Palestine by Malkit Shoshan Malkit Shoshan's Atlas Of The Conflict, Israel-Palestine is now available from Publication Studio in a unique Jank Edition. The book, which won the Leipzig Art Book Fair's Golden Letter award for "most beautiful book in the world," has been updated and adapted to take advantage of our one-copy-at-a-time artisanal production methods. Shoshan is an Amsterdam-based Israeli architect and founder/director of FAST (Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory). Atlas Of The Conflict, Israel-Palestine documents the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict since 1948, and the ways that urban planning and architecture have been used to carry out oppressive political agendas. This full-color book includes over 500 maps and a lexicon of analysis of contributing factors to the Middle East conflict. $45 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Dan Graham Drawings 1965-1969 by Dan Graham This book reproduces a selection of Dan Graham's grid drawings and typewriter pieces from the 1960s. Publication Studio is pleased to offer a new edition of Dan Graham Drawings, which has been out of print for many years, with the permission of the artist. 25.00 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Molasses by Leora Morinis and Aki Sasamoto Molasses is the booklet for the exhibition A LIKENESS HAS BLISTERS, curated by Leora Morinis and which features work by artist Aki Sasamoto and Agnes Martin. This booklet includes images by Aki Sasamoto and a correspondence between Sasamoto and Morinis between Spring and Winter of last year. The exhibition, open from April 29th to May 27th is on view at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Dream of the Cold War: Poems 1998 - 2008 by Grant Cogswell Grant Cogswell's poetic ode to progressive politics, The Dream of the Cold War, has its roots in the deep history of radical activism in Seattle and the NW. Pivoting around the tragic suicide of Congressman Marion Zioncheck, in 1936, a defenestration Cogswell has called "an assassination without a trigger man," the multi-part epic title poem moves dreamily across the 20th century and into the spectacle of Seattle's neoliberal transformation in the early 2000s. Lyrical, searching, crazy, Whitmanesque — these poems are the blood that runs through the body of a committed activist. READINGS: Portland: Powell's City of Books, Sunday July 1, 7:30 PM; Seattle: Elliott Bay Book Company, Monday July 2 7 PM; New York: McNally Jackson Books, Tuesday July 10, 6:30 PM; Los Angeles: The Last Bookstore, Saturday August 4, 3 PM. More details available on the "events" page (click "events" in left-side menu bar). $10 DRM-free ebook; $16 softcover (available after June 8) This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Golden Brothers by STS Golden Brothers is the debut novel of musician, 'zine writer ("Way Down Low," "The Gay Hotel," "Nightmare Girl") and Queercore activist, sts. It's a beautiful, utterly strange tale, a "gay alien sci fi pornographic love story," says sts. Eileen Myles says "Golden Brothers is made out of the strange uncommon beauty that fills the empty spaces outside of capitalism. Scenes change swiftly as music. Life and death are moments. The book is liquid. Read for yourself." Golden Brothers, for mature readers only, is the first book in our new Fellow Travelers series. It is co-published with Portland, OR-based Gay Bird Press. Publication Studio's Fellow Travelers series extends the pioneering work of Paris-based Olympia Press's Traveller's Companion series of the 1950s and '60s, which published work that had been banned or censored through moralistic prohibitions. Our series presents great new work that has been effectively "censored" by the market. In our day, the market is the definitive censor. The Fellow Travelers series proudly presents great work that the market has not endorsed, but that we believe in.
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Chère Alice/Three Lives by Cate Gable Chère Alice: Three Lives combines selections from an Alice Toklas interview (conducted in 1956 and residing at the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley) with sonnet-letters to Alice by poet Cate Gable. Gertrude, Hemingway, Picabia, and others share the stage with contemporary poets Marilyn Hacker, Margo Berdeshevsky, June Jordan, Monique Wittig, and friends in a literary romp through time. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Open Poem by Rachel Rose Alex Da Corte OPEN POEM is a new book of poems by Rachel Rose with images by Alex Da Corte. Plaster, fucking, and the Blackberry submerge into ten sestets. Elements transfer into one another: plaster, shampoo primitively bombarding the Blackberry, the ball. Materials clash into textual gradients, fluid over vast shifts in scale, statically singular as abstraction. $30 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Notebooks by Diana Balmori Notebooks is a record of sketches by Diana Balmori FASLA. Reflecting twenty years of thinking, drawing, and crafting, the book provides a window into the personal practice of landscape design. $29 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Cake Part by Stacy Doris Stacy Doris's The Cake Part is a fantastic redeployment of banned pamphlets from the time of the French Revolution in the form of a book-length poem. Long kept hidden because of their transgressive content, these pamphlets were stored in a secret archive at the Bibilothèque nationale called the enfer (hell). Highly pornographic and formally promiscuous, The Cake Part is an eruption of all the repressed joy and terror of that 18th century revolution, back into our time, into the 21st century. Set in the typography of Web 2.0, the design of this book searches for the modern day equivalents of these banned pamphlets in the virtual networks which aid and abet current revolutionary movements. $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Critic As Artist by Oscar Wilde A two-part meditation, this conversation-as-essay explores the significance of the audience, and critical reception of a work of art, to the meaning of the work itself. Key to this reception is the sensitive observer, in the familiar persona of the refined aesthete. 12.00 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Creative Elements by Michael Bell-Smith Modeled after the black and white clip art books used
by pre-digital graphic designers and commercial artists, Creative
Elements is a selection of Michael Bell-Smith's personal clip art
collection, categorized, stripped of color, and arranged in flat,
style-free compositions. $15 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Downeaster |
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F.W.P.C.Y. by Kristan Kennedy Portland-based artist Kristan Kennedy created F.W.P.C.Y. (meaning "For World Peace Castrate Yourself") with designer Rob Halverson for the 2009 Amsterdam Biennale. It presents her recent work in which newsprint is partially obscured under ink. $40, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Canadian Romantic by Robert Dayton The Canadian Romantic is a melodramatic figure of faded glamour who tries to bridge and explore the gap between Canada and romance with somewhat dubious results. This tenderly hand-drawn tome contains relationship advice, Canadian erotic facts, and will loom uncomfortably close in your personal space until you surrender to the moment. You will come alive with laughter feeling like you’ve woken up at an undisclosed time with makeup smeared across your face. 20.00 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Sentences on Sentences on Paragraphs on Paragraphs by Lisa Radon Lisa Radon's new book, Sentences on Sentences on Paragraphs on Paragraphs, interrogates the source of our compulsion to read and write. Densely layered text in Radon's own handwriting pushes the limits of legibility and meaning, simultaneously presenting the written word as object. The books launch corresponded with Radon's curated exhibition Reading.Writing. at Portland's galleryHOMELAND including work by Publication Studio authors Sam Korman, Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen, and Justin Bland along with many other artists and writers. $16 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Revolution: A Reader by Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler (eds.) Revolution: A Reader collects texts from across many cultures and times and organizes them roughly along a chronology of living, from "beginning," to "childhood," "education," "adulthood," and "death." The book brings the embodied fact of revolution into the lived present by engaging readers with language that takes us there, no matter where we are to begin with. We are all in revolution, now. Reading can make this fact primary and conscious and shared. Heavily annotated throughout, the book is, quite literally, a conversation. The annotations, by Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler — composed simultaneously and in response to one another — stitch a web of argument that links the book into a single thing, a reader. The book also features a narrative bibliography of revolution by David Brazil. The full table of contents, as well as current listings for dinners and other social gatherings that feature the reader can be found online at http://revolutionreader.com Revolution: A Reader is co-published by Paraguay Press, in France.
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Complex Subjects by Morgan Ritter Complex Subjects is a deep investigation of the philosophy of charged objects and Morgan Ritter's current art practice. Here is the new way of understanding the material world through tactile intelligence. What composite realities are contained in a clay ball? And what is revealed by placing the clay ball on a bookshelf? These experiments and more are contained within the covers of this book. Complex Subjects is available in color print with a one of a kind raku sculpture, and is also available in color without the sculpture, as well as in black and white print. $69 artist edition; $34 soft cover color; $24 soft cover b/w; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Sometimes They Sang by Helen Potrebenko
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Whole Lotta Love by Myfanwy MacLeod
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Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha by Matthew Stadler A murder mystery set in the storied mountain city of Guanajuato, Mexico, by the author of Allan Stein and Landscape: Memory. When a wealthy and respected woman of the people is found dead on a remote mountain hillside, an unlikely young photographer is thrust into the cross-hairs of American money and Mexican politics. Moving swiftly from lavish dinners to seedy bars, Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha brings the genre formalism and precision of a John Le Carré novel to bear on "the mongrel dynamism, the deluded optimism of 21st century neo-liberal politics." It is available in our hand-made Jank Edition by PS, in an attractive PSEBM edition (suitable for bookstores) designed and produced by Vladimir Verano of Third Place Press, Seattle, WA (with cover designed by David Knowles), or as an eBook. $19, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Frozen Moment by Colin Farstad (editor) The Frozen Moment: Contemporary Writers on the Choices That Change Our Lives is a new literary anthology edited by Colin Farstad. The anthology mixes fiction, poetry, essays, and narrative non-fiction by emerging and established writers exploring the pivotal moments that change the direction of our lives. Featuring twenty four pieces from authors such as novelist Tom Spanbauer, essayist Akhim Yuseff Cabey, short story writer Liz Prato, Pushcart-nominated poet Nora Robertson, Literary Arts Fellowship recipients David Hernandez and Margaret Malone, along with emerging writers such as Gigi Little and other writers from all over the United States, the collected stories map a broad terrain of the frozen moment. $25 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Looking Glass Book by Melody Owen Looking Glass Book is a series of hand cut collages by the artist Melody Owen inspired by two
books written by Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and
Through the Looking-Glass. Owen
illustrated the books, chapter by chapter, through the medium of hand
cut collage, drawing mostly on images from old copies of National Geographic. Owen treats these fragments as something more than pictorial illustrations, exposing the reverse of the collages en face. The result is a book which subtly oscillates between image and object, information and feeling. $23 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Walter Benjamin's "Berlin Chronicle" Notices by Carl Skoggard This book of new research and commentary by Carl Skoggard brings another volume of Walter Benjamin's work into a superb new translation. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) began to ruminate on his Berlin childhood not long before he fled Germany for good, in 1933. The resulting "Berlin Chronicle" notices––forty in all––explore the ways of memory in relation to place––in light of Benjamin's own memories and in relation to his native place. Rich in themselves, these "Chronicle" notices provide a unique key to the esoteric texts Benjamin would produce for his much-loved Berlin Childhood circa 1900. $22 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood circa 1900 by Carl Skoggard This book of new research and commentary by Carl Skoggard brings philosopher Walter Benjamin's engaging autobiographical text into a new translation that is faithful to Benjamin's voice. Berlin Childhood circa 1900, Skoggard writes, "conjures Benjamin's earliest years in a series of mysterious tableaux. But it also reflects an urgent moment in his adult life—one that posed challenges to everything he had thought and felt previously." Our Jank Edition is illustrated with thirty black & white photographs and includes a foldable, color map of Berlin, circa 1900, offset-printed by Container Corps, Portland, Ore. $22, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Regarding Head Shape: Acknowledgment Of The Haircut As Form by Ryann Bosetti Ryann Bosetti's Regarding Head Shape: Acknowledgment Of The Haircut As Form is a book of hairdressing and form. Ryann Bosetti, with a background in traditional mathematical hairdressing speaks of her realization of the importance of intuition and individuality in haircuts. Originally written as an essay during her time in Marfa, Texas Bosetti writes in her prologue, "Without dismissing the role of a fundamental structural standard in the architecture of the Haircut, it is my intent to review the subjective constructive consciousness and complex human dynamic that may replace the concept of mere replication as the backbone of this process....The variance between the mindset of the conventional Hairdresser and that of the progressive Hairdresser lies in their decision to accept or reject the cryptic challenge of this subjective artistic method." This book was typeset by Scott Ponik. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Astral Talk by Aidan Koch
Astral Talk is an anthology of
comics compiled by Portland artist and musician, Aidan
Koch. The
anthology features work by comic artists from around the world, including Clara
Bessijelle, Austin English, Dunja Jankovic, Blaise Larmee, Jason Overby, Jaakko
Pallasvuo, Ward Zwart, and Aidan Koch. $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Quilt and The Truck by Nancy Shaver Nancy Shaver is a visual artist living and working in Jefferson, New York. Her sculpture and photography celebrate the simple beauty of everyday utilitarian objects while simultaneously investigating the position of such materials within a greater aesthetic economy. Since 1994 Shaver has been the proprietor of the store Henry in Hudson, New York, a kind of laboratory retail space where Shaver collects and sells many of the objects that inspire or eventually make their way into her sculptural work. The Quilt and the Truck is a mediation on two such objects, handmade relics from a recent past. The book also contains documentation of Shaver's most recent body of sculptural work as well as an essay by Jean-Philippe Antoine, newly translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis. $40 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Weekday (issue no. 2) by editors: Megan Stockton, Patricia No, Alex Felton, Sam Korman, Jae Choi Weekday is Publication Studio's occasional journal of new writing. Contributors to issue no. 2 include Sarah Meadows, Diana George, Drew Scott Swenhaugen, Elizabeth Pusack, Don Antenen, Jordan Stempleman, Sara Jaffe, Ben Marcus, Edward Jeffrey Kirksciun, Jane Wong, Samuel Lang Budin, Zach Savitch, Katherine Perry, Valentine Freeman, Craig Epplin, Israel Lund, Melanie Noel, Michael LaPointe, Andrew Wilhite, Ossian Foley, and Tim Young $14 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Weekday (issue no. 1) by editors: Patricia No, Alex Felton, and Brett Heiney Weekday is Publication Studio's occasional journal of new writing. Contributors to issue no. 1 include Charles Boardman; Christine Hou; Jae Choi; Geoffrey Sanborn; Charles Bernstein; Jon Raymond + Todd Haynes; Arnold Kemp; Molly Young; Laura Jaramillo; Robert Kelly; Theodore Wheeler; Patrick Tesh; MacKenzie Courtney; Thomas Shepherd; Luc Sante; Jenny Hendrix; and Alex Felton. $14, softcover, $9 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Bad Printing Dumb Production by Antonia Pinter Antonia Pinter's Bad Printing Dumb Production is a book of Pinter's reproduced work that has been manipulated in the act of documentation. Included is an introduction by Sam Korman that touches on the question of indecipherable information in print form. "...why did I produce anything yesterday, when I reproduce it today. One way or another Pinter does not seem to answer this question and from the first page –– a rectangle of cropping the pink, de-saturated striations that subtly begin to reveal slight smudges toward the bottom of the image –– she offers a more oblique circumscription of the question..." -Sam Korman
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Hirsch E.P. Rothko by Hirsch E.P. Rothko Hirsch E.P. Rothko by Hirsch E.P. Rothko, a memoir of a year spent in the mountains living and working in a license plate shed, is a dramatized account of a lived experience. The nine-chapter narrative also contains a polemic about regional painting's relevance in a world in which the United Sates might be a regional, rather than international, power, and in an art world in which established methods of critical art—predicated on negation, subversion, parody and deconstruction—seem increasingly ineffective. Instead, it proposes a kind of creative critique based on invention and synthesis, the privileged form of which is fiction. In Rothko's own words: “Regionalism is not a style, but a mode of and model for making. It not so much suspends the viewer’s disbelief as it enables an artist to suspend his self-consciousness. The respite from criticality opens a fictive space where a conceptual artist can be a painter, a painter a writer, an art dealer a publisher.... Regionalism is the protective shell that allows us to be real artists again." $14, softcover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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the buddhist by Dodie Bellamy
While ending an affair with a Buddhist teacher, Dodie Bellamy wrote about it simultaneously on her blog. This experiment in writing in extremis explores
nuances of public shame, the vagaries of desire and rage, and Bellamy's
confusion over the authenticity of group and individual
spirituality. What is personal, what is public? In the electronic age,
can anybody tell the difference?
the buddhist celebrates marginalized
subjectivity as enacted in the work of female artists from Bessie Smith
to Eva Hesse and Carolee Schneeman, to Bhanu Kapil and Ariana Reines.
The Allone Co. Edition contains the essence of the blog, as well as more
extended narratives too explicit to post on line. Designed by Wayne
Smith.
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A River Story by Anna Odessa Linzer American Book Award-winner Anna Odessa Linzer's new novel tells the story of Fish Town, a self-invented community that took root along the banks of the north fork of the Skagit River, near La Conner, Washington. The story is told by a young woman named Rose, recollecting her childhood, and an older man, Leo, recalling his late-in-life romance with both the place and the people of Fish Town. Anna Odessa Linzer is a poet, prose-writer, and long-distance cold-water swimmer. Her first novel, Ghost Dancing was published by Picador USA.
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Letters to the Pacific by Aaron Peck Aaron Peck's second book quotes Gertrude Stein in its epigram: "Act so there is no use in a center." These eleven letters, sent by the author from New York back to "the Pacific" during a one-year study at City University of New York, articulate the complex traffic between the many geographical edges that shape a life. In this volume the letters have been annotated by artists Adam Harrison and Dominic Osterried, who also designed the book. The plain edition comes with 243 black & white illustrations. Letters to the Pacific is available in 36 limited edition copies, featuring five tipped-in color plates by Adam Harrison and Christopher Williams, hand-worked pages by Johannes Bendzulla, and a DVD with unique stamped and spray-painted case in a DHL-yellow spray-painted envelope. An artist edition of 12 books includes all the content of the limited edition plus 12 limited-edition prints by Adam Harrison and Dominic Osterried, and is signed by Johannes Bendzulla, Adam Harrison, Dominic Osterried, Aaron Peck, and Christopher Williams. Aaron Peck is also the author of The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis, published by Pedlar Press of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and bootlegged in 2009 (with the author's permission) by Publication Studio. $25, plain edition; $125, limited edition; $350 artist's edition; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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My Artistic Life is a Mobile State by Kristy Edmunds My Artistic Life is a Mobile State by Kristy Edmunds is an exploration of the reality of Edmunds' professional life as an artist. In her introduction she speaks of the difference between being a practicing artist and a being a project maker. In 2004 Kristy Edmunds received the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship and showed in the Bonnie Bronson Fellows: 20 Years exhibition at the Hoffman Gallery at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. The images within this book were taken with Edmunds' iPhone over the course of a month while she was traveling and curating in Australia and Los Angeles. $30 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Golems Waiting Redux by Daniel Duford M. F. McAuliffe Golems Waiting Redux is a book of documentation of Daniel Duford's golem sculptures from 2002. They had been installed in a vacant lot on SW 3rd and Taylor in Portland, Oregon, and were intended to stay for a month. The sculptures were almost immediately smashed, and in M. F. McAuliffe's introduction she speaks of her experience coming upon the sculptures to document them and witnessing their ruin. Following the introduction is a poem by Doug Spangle. Also included is a two-color woodblock print by Daniel Duford. $50 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The History of Junior Ambassadors Food Cart: A Mostlandian Venture by Rudy Speerschneider The History of Junior Ambassadors Food Cart: A Mostlandian Venture by Rudy Speerschneider is a book about the ice cream cart that inhabited a now empty lot in NE Portland, Oregon. The cart served a variety of unconventional flavors, hosted music shows, and was in all a social project. The book is a collection of documents that surrounded the food cart's existence. There are surveys, questionnaires, drawings, along with inserted color photographs of the cart. Each copy has a unique cover and flavor designed by Rudy Speerschneider. $30 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Template Files by D. E. May The Template Files: Works By D. E. May is a book of images of the artist's work that are interspersed with quotes from the artist. The book is fronted by an introduction written by Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen, who wrote A Classroom Reader. D. E. May's work is reminiscent of Agnes Martin, Donald Judd, Robert Mangold and Gordon Matta-Clark. "This work reflects the abstract climate and restraint that I've tried to keep true in my work over time. A number of years ago a musician was in my workroom holding one of my constructions in his hand and commented, 'it looks like it has always been this way.' I carry that observation with me like a compass." --D. E. May
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Elevator Mirror Displacements by Sebastian Black Sebastian Black's Elevator Mirror Displacements, mobilizes the form of the elevator safety mirror in a parody of Robert Smithson's 1969 work Yucatan Mirror Displacements. Black's work is installed in the faux-natural pockets of the urban environment and the expanded ocular space of Smithon's work is further dispersed by the convexity of the mirrors. According to Black, "the space of the elevator-with its chit chat requirements, its even and equalizing light, and its general trajectory toward the office, apartment complex, gym etc-is a space where our subjectivity and subjecthood are quite clearly exposed as inextricable. Its a volume of consensus, of parallel lines, not overlap, and least of all confrontation. The mirror carves out its own warped wedge of space where the overlap of bodies, and violence in general is perpetually immanent." $25 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Archive for a Mountain by Marc Handelman As massive as its subject matter at 740 pages, Archive For A Mountain by Marc Handelman is a catalog of images--screenshots, scans, microfilm, analog photos, and essays--of the German-Austrian mountain the Untersberg. Its overwhelming scale creates a rich playing field for different modes of viewing experience. One could certainly get lost in Archive For A Mountain as one could get lost in the mountains. $400 soft cover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Images Are Words / Las Imagenes Son Palabras by Matt Keegan Images Are Words/Las Imagenes Son Palabras by New York based artist Matt Keegan employs the same visual strategy as his A History of New York, but on a more massive scale. At 774 pages, the book is composed entirely of flash-cards that Keegan's mother hand-assembled over fifteen years to teach English as a Second Language to adults. The sequencing of the book is rhythmic and musical with recurring themes, motifs and geometries.
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Marks and Angles by Lucy Pullen With visual art, philosophy, quantum physics, and the help of engineers and astrophysicists Lucy Pullen created The Cloud Chamber and The Spark Chamber. When a cosmic ray enters The Cloud Chamber a contrail is created and when a cosmic ray enters The Spark Chamber a spark is ignited. Marks and Angles is Lucy Pullen's book created at the Henry Art Gallery with PS. It is bound in reflective mirror dust paper and there is a hole punched through the entire book. $40 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Wellspring by Daniel Duford Wellspring is a collection of poetry by Daniel Duford that spans the decade of 1993-2003. Duford is an artist and writer, professor at PNCA, as well as the co-owner of the print and design collective Cumbersome Multiples. This book includes four original woodblock prints that divide each section of poetry. Wellspring touches on the cyclical nature of life and is a reflection of Duford's past and present. $25 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Volume North & Volume South by David Horvitz Zach Houston Volume North & Volume South is a two volume collaboration between David Horvitz and Zach Houston. On their 2010 California coast road trip Horvitz took photos of the sea while Houston responded with poetry which has resulted in this publication. $30 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions |
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The Gift Shop by Matthew Offenbacher Matthew Offenbacher's The Gift Shop with orange risograph prints is layered on black and white images of work in the exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery's museum gift shop of Seattle. Matthew Offenbacher with these exhibitions asks the questions: What can an art exhibition do? How can artists work together? Who is the audience for an art exhibition? What responsibilities do artists have towards their audience? What responsibilites do audiences have? What is the relationship between artists and the institutions who support them? What can we learn from each other? "Museum gift shops are fabulously liminal places. They sit in the middle of a complex web of transitional space, shifting methods of discourse, utopian and practical considerations, different understandings and misunderstanding of the purpose and function of art."
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Where We Live Now by Thomas Sieverts and others Where We Live Now (an annotated reader) presents the work of urban planner Thomas Sieverts in a new English translation by Diana George together with selected
readings in urban theory and history. The readings collected here
inspect indigenous settlement patterns in North America for
pre-European examples of sustainable urbanism that is, in Sieverts’s
terms, “in-between” or decentered. Edited and annotated by Matthew
Stadler. $30, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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no. 1 by M Blash no. 1 is the first in a series of three books by film-maker M Blash. It combines writing, drawing, photography and film stills. M writes: "no. 1 is a diary of my first few days back in New York City after living in my hometown of Portland, Oregon, for four years. The book documents my emergence into a city I knew well at one time, but that now reads like a specter of my childhood" no. 2 and no. 3, also by M. Blash, are forthcoming from Publication Studio. $40, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Newspace Center for Photography Exhibitions 2002-2011 by Newspace NEWSPACE catalog features a selection of work exhibited at Newspace Center for Photography in the years 2002 - 2011. Published for the celebration of their anniversary, the catalog represents the large scope of work shown at Newspace, ranging from film to digital, abstract to representational. Newspace Center for Photography is a Portland based nonprofit providing gallery space, workshops and classes for photography. $40 soft cover This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Summer Goals by Anne Parker Christie Maclean Summer Goals began as a blog by Anne Parker and Christie MacLean chronicling theirs and their friends' summertime adventures through photography. This book contains a selection of those photos, from a variety of contributors, as well as written lists of goals for the hot weather months. $28 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Passengers from the Absolute to the Relative by Sanela Jahić Sanela Jahić, an emerging Slovenian artist, has documented her work in Passengers from the Absolute to the Relative and discusses the boundaries and dynamics of contemporary painting practices in relation to her mechanical image-making machines. Featuring essays by Urška Jurman, Ida Hiršenfelder and Alen Ožbolt. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Access To Tools: Publications From The Whole Earth Catalog by David Senior Access to Tools: Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog 1968-1974 is David Senior's compilation of images from the Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand accompanied with a new essay by Senior, Bibliographer at MoMA Library. "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." -Whole Earth Catalog $22, soft cover; $10, DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Wooden Leg Editions |
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The Salem Singers by Tom Greenwood The Salem Singers by artist and musician, Tom Greenwood, is an epic visual testimony that traces three generations of a family over the course of a century as they make their way from Russia to New York to California. Marion Curie helped Greenwood create the project and edit the film for The Salem Singers. Seven hundred fifty pages of images follow the clan of wandering troubadours through the great depression, suburbia, the American counterculture, love, divorce, murder and loneliness. A monumental account of lives caught in the currents of history. Greenwood says of The Salem Singers, "My work as a musician has been informed by abstraction, repetition and disintegration, ideas more common in visual mediums ... " $300 package including book, print, and dvd. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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SETUP #1 by SETUP Magazine *OUT OF STOCK* $12 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Stand On This Picnic Bench And Look North by Sam Lohmann Portland poet and editor of Peaches and Bats, Sam Lohmann, gives us a new book, Stand On This Picnic Bench and Look North. This collection of Lohmann's poetry delves into the language of landscapes – urban, rural, and domestic – that is unavoidably entangled in memory. "Americans think all landscape is narrative," and Lohmann indulges this cultural inclination with surprising effects and implications. $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Windfall Alphabet by Gretchen Bennett
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![A User's Guide to [Demanding] the Impossible](http://tatlin.com/psvancouver/user's%20guide%20cover.jpg "A User's Guide to [Demanding] the Impossible")
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A User's Guide to [Demanding] the Impossible by Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination A User's Guide to [Demanding] the Impossible is "a brief introduction to strategies and stories of art activism throughout history, from Sylvia Pankhurst to Dada, Gustav Courbet to Electric Disturbance Theatre." This small, attractively-illustrated volume was created by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a London-based collective, in an atmosphere of cuts to public programs and a resulting nationwide wave of protests. $7 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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The True Levellers Standard Advanced by Gerrard Winstanley The True Levellers Standard Advanced is the 1649 manifesto of a proto-anarchist group known as The Diggers, who occupied and cultivated waste land in Surrey as a protest against the accelerating enclosures and in an effort to feed some of the landless poor of England. This edition is set in a typeface appropriate to the period of its original publication, and is pleasingly pocket-sized for convenient transportation to the site of your next impromptu community garden. $5.00 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Natural Progress by Ben Jonson Natural Progress is a poem by English Renaissance poet Ben Jonson, in a new setting by PS Vancouver's Kate Noble. The original work is paired with archival photographs of department stores, grocery stores and other retailers around Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. By appearing in conjunction with these photographs, Jonson's poem is interpreted as thoughtful commentary on commodity fetishism.
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Leaf Litter no.3 by Signal Fire Leaf Litter no.3 is a collection of work of artists and writers who attended Signal Fire. Included are short stories by Amy Harwood, Peter Rock, Justin Hocking, Marisa Anderson and Nina Montenegro. Also featured is poetry by Elizabeth Pusack and Daniela Molnar, and visual art by Jillian Vento, Dan Gilsdorf, Eva Struble and Shaw Pong Liu. Signal Fire is a residency that provides opportunities for artists and activists to engage in the natural world. The projects instill self-reliance, catalyze creative energy, and invite interdisciplinary collaboration. We utilize public lands to advocate for the access to—and protection of—our remaining wild and open places in order to enrich and sustain society. Signal Fire was formed in 2008 and has brought together filmmakers, writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, and creative agitators.
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Re-Reading the Riot Act: Cycles One through Five by leannej This book is an extension of a performance by leannej, originally presented at the Waldorf Hotel on the night of Vancouver's 2011 Stanley Cup Riot. Five stories intertwine to present an account of protest and resistance on a personal, as well as historic scale. Co-published with UNIT/PITT Projects. $15 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Burnside: A Community by Kathleen Ryan Burnside: A Community is a "photographic history of Portland's skid row," published by Portland photographer, Kathleen Ryan, in 1979. This striking series of photographs, text, and maps reveals the stagnation and flux in Portland's Old Town Chinatown neighborhood. Ryan's photography encompasses the homeless, Chinese, Japanese, and Native-American communities that called downtown Burnside their home along with the shelters, strip clubs, bars, and businesses that comprised the skid row landscape. As part of the Dill Pickle Club's PDX Re-Print series, this edition includes a new introduction by Street Roots editor Israel Bayer. $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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It Must Be As Tall As a Lighthouse by Tabatha Southey & Will Alsop It Must Be As Tall As a Lighthouse is a valentine that writer Tabatha Southey wrote to her son when her son was a small boy. She first read it to him as part of a Valentine's Day celebration at his grade school. Since then, his son has grown up; and the valentine has become a book, with design and illustrations by architect Will Alsop. $20, softcover This item originated from: The Book Bakery |
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Selected Business Correspondence by Andrew Kaufman For years, writer Andrew Kaufman has been buying vintage business letters from antique fairs and liquidation auctions. Selected Business Correspondence collects the best and most bizarre of these letters. Kaufman swears that they are authentic, and that he has not simply typewritten short, smart stories onto blank business letterhead. He swears. TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
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Why We Fight > Quran Neck by Pasha Malla Why We Fight > Why Fight the War > Why the Fighting Force > Why Fight Fire > Why Fight the Firepower > Why Fight the Power of Fire > Why Beautiful Wants War > Why, is it a good war? > Because there is a Just War > Because it is Just a War > Because of this War > Because of her Neck > Neck of the Quran > Quran Neck.Between 1942 and 1945, filmmaker Frank Capra filmed Why We Fight, a series of propaganda films, for the United States Government. In 2011, writer Pasha Malla transcribed the final film of Capra's series. He fed the transcription into Google Translate, changing it from English into French, then from French into Arabic, then from Arabic into German. After many translations, he changed the transcription back into English, then edited it. Why We Fight > Quran Neck features the original transcription on the left page, and the cut-up translation on the right. The book is illustrated with pseudo-propaganda posters by artist Aaron Scholl. $20, softcover This item originated from: The Book Bakery |
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the still night air by Mitzi Pederson In collaboration with Seattle's Open Satellite Productions, Publication Studio presents the catalog for Mitzi Pederson's exhibition the still night air, which showed from February - March 2011 at Open Satellite. From the Open Satellite website: "Glitter is applied to the broken edges of concrete blocks. Scrap-ends of two-by-four rest rest on mirrored paper. Long square wood dowels coated with black paint, silver leaf and glittered black sand are suspended from the ceiling … On site, Pederson altered, combined, and situated the materials, letting the exploration of each component's inherent physical properties and the unique architectural elements of the gallery space influence the final form of the work." Mitzi Pederson is an artist living in Berlin. $35 softcover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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A Bachelor's Cupboard by A. Lyman Phillips #3 in the Everyday Library series. A Bachelor's Cupboard is the ultimate domestic guide for every independent bachelor, originally published in 1906. Includes many useful recipes, lists of essentials and housekeeping tips under a variety of chapter headings such as "Bachelor Etiquette," "A Chat on Cheese" and "How a Man May Valet Himself." Bound in unfinished chipboard covers. $15 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Pluto Square Pluto by Tara Jane ONeil Portland musician and artist Tara Jane ONeil compiled her drawings for Pluto Square Pluto, which much like her music, addresses the desire to transcend pedestrian experience through art and nature. Human figures spill into patterns of leaves, explode into rainbows, and tread the fuzzy line between the literal and the abstract. TJO is well known for her frequent collaborations with a variety of artists, musicians, dancers, and film-makers including Phil Elverum (The Microphones, Mount Eerie), Michael Hurley, Mirah, Tom Greenwood (Jackie-O Motherfucker), and many more. Her most recent album, A Ways Away, is available through the seminal Northwest record label, K Records. A limited tour-edition of Pluto Square Pluto includes a vellum book jacket with a stamp designed by TJO. $40 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Wanting is Easier Than Having by Debra Baxter Wanting is Easier Than Having is a collaboration between the artist Debra Baxter and a group of writers who explore visually and poetically the space between wanting and having. While much of Baxter's past work has addressed longing, her new work delves into how longing can become strangely comfortable. The work and the poetry in this book is about finding strength in uncomfortable moments and addressing the dichotomy of simultaneous success and failure, while also exploring Baxter's continued passion for rocks, minerals, and the seductive power of objects. $35 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Unstable Ground by UNIT/PITT Projects Unstable Ground is the work of six artists: Robin Cameron, Sarah Ciurysek, Kate Davis, Emily Jones, Dan Siney and artist-curator Andrea Pinheiro, addressing notions of instability through printed material. The book accompanied an exhibition at Vancouver's UNIT/PITT Projects. Through interviews, excerpts from Kafka, documents of earthquake and seismic activity, discussions of the upheaval in publishing, and descriptions of seizures, this book shows the potential of a book to be both bridge and rupture. $20 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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A River Story (PS/EBM Edition, Eli Hansen cover) by Anna Odessa Linzer This is a special Espresso Book Machine (EBM) edition of Anna Odessa Linzer's novel, A River Story. The cover art is by Eli Hansen, and the book is printed and bound on an EBM by Vladimir Verano at Third Place Press in Lake Forest Park, WA. American Book Award-winner Anna Odessa Linzer's new novel tells the story of Fish Town, a self-invented community that took root along the banks of the north fork of the Skagit River, near La Conner, Washington. The story is told by a young woman named Rose, recollecting her childhood, and an older man, Leo, recalling his late-in-life romance with both the place and the people of Fish Town. Anna Odessa Linzer is a poet, prose-writer, and long-distance cold-water swimmer. Her first novel, Ghost Dancing was published by Picador USA.
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Esophagus Now by Chris von Szombathy Esophagus Now is a personal, synaesthesiac journey through highly individual meanings attached to common objects: in this case, a burger, coke and hot dog linked through cathexis to mystical asceticism, Archie comics, and a Kraftwerk discography. Illustrated with the author's own paintings, this disarming book is the work of Vancouver-based artist and musician Chris von Szombathy, co-published with UNIT/PITT Projects. $15 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Hit the North by Victoria Haven Hit the North is Seattle artist Victoria Haven's first full book. As much an expansion of her studio practice as it is a document of her work, the heavily illustrated book features an essay by Claire Dederer. Hit the North is available in both a plain edition and a signed and numbered limited artist's edition. The book was designed by David Knowles and includes both B/W and color images. Production of this book was supported by Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, and PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Ore. Victoria Haven attended Goldsmith's College, London, and is a past winner of the Betty Bowen Award and the Stranger Genius Award. For each copy of the limited artist's edition she prepared five unique "gampi paper" pages and one unique Gortex assemblage, all perfect bound into each book.
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Coolsurf Vol. 1 by Collasus Collasus or the Office of Collaborative Sustainability is a collective of young architects, planners, sculptors, painters, web designers, graphic designers, and farmers. $22 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Strong Man by Matt Briggs Matt Briggs follows up his 2004 American Book Award-winning novel, Shoot the Buffalo, with the story of Ben Wallace, a hospital lab tech who joins the Army reserve as a way to slight his father, a Vietnam-era draft dodger. When Ben is called up for Operation Desert Shield, the first Gulf War, he realizes he wants to experience what his grandfather has called "the enlightenment of war." $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Hyde Park Apartments by Keith Wilson Hyde Park Apartments is a visual taxonomy of an Austin, Texas, neighborhood (Hyde Park) as seen through its apartment buildings. Composed of 95 full-color photographs by San Francisco- and Austin-based filmmaker Keith Wilson, this contrapuntal sequence juxtaposes the buildings' fanciful names with their quotidian appearance. $40, softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions |
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Catalogue of Variable Essence by Ashby Collinson and Dana Dart-McLean Catalogue of Variable Essence is a collaboration between Portland, Ore., artists Dana Dart-McLean and Ashby Lee Collinson.
A combination of prose fragments, poetry, and drawing, each copy in the
edition of 10 contains two original paintings by Dana Dart-McLean. $330, limited edition softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Round Up by Ari Marcopoulos Ari Marcopoulos assembled this suite of 99 photographs, an occasional record of the people and days in his life, circa 2006-2007. "This is my language," Marcopoulos says of these impulsive, frank, and deftly composed images. $40, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Lloyd Reynolds, A Life of Forms in Art by the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College Publication Studio is proud to present the catalog for the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery's exhibition Lloyd Reynolds, A Life of Forms in Art. On view from April 5 to June 12, 2011, this is the first comprehensive exhibition of the work of renowned Oregon calligrapher, visual artist, Reed College professor, and humanist Lloyd Reynolds (1902-1978). The exhibition includes the finest examples of Reynolds’ calligraphy, in addition to his etchings, wood block prints, drawings, puppets, books, graphic design, and hand-made studio implements. The exhibition also features rare films and photographs of Reynolds at work. For more info and gallery hours visit www.reed.edu/gallery $40 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Country War Songs by Susanna Browne Vancouver-based artist and country music fan Susanna Browne has compiled a collection of song lyrics written by the stars of contemporary country music since September 11, 2001. The thirty songs presented in this volume vary in theme from anger and retaliation, to sorrow and loss, to criticism and calls for peace. This collection provides a record and a unique view of a nation's artists processing a tragedy through popular culture and music, which is at one problematic and comforting, heartfelt and disturbing. $24 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Public Access: 1999 & Beyond by Weekend Leisure Public Access: 1999 & Beyond documents an artists' television project, curated by Weekend Leisure. Employing an overarching theme of "science fiction", the five participants (Angus Ferguson, Kaitlin Fontana & Nicole Passmore, Emmet Hall, Nicolas Sassoon and Hank Bull & Patrick Ready) were asked to produce works that considered the do-it-yourself aesthetic and lack of resources of public access television, responding to its limitations as a medium of democratic creative expression. The resulting video pieces - whose concepts arise from interests in found footage, community theatre, fan fiction, local news broadcasting, primitive computer animation and space travel - bring together individuals from backgrounds both in and out of the contemporary art world, extending their creative potential beyond their respective fields. Contains scripts, animation frames, interviews and colour photographs. For more information about the project, please see http://publicaccess.helenpittgallery.org. $25 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Public Access: 1999 & Beyond (VHS edition) by Weekend Leisure The Public Access: 1999 & Beyond VHS edition provides collectors with an attractively packaged media artifact, containing all of the video from the original project (which can be viewed online at http://publicaccess.helenpittgallery.org), bonus trailers and extras, AND the Public Access: 1999 & Beyond book, which is a valuable addition to any culturally sophisticated library. That's right - a VHS containing video that you can download for free, and bonus extras that will give you a great reason to drop in on your relatives or neighbours that still have a working VCR, along with the book, for only five dollars more than the book itself! This is an opportunity you can't pass up - take a step into the future and back to the 1990s all at once! $30 This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Public Access by David Horvitz and Ed Steck Public Access is an art project produced by David Horvitz in late December 2010 and early January 2011. For roughly two weeks, he drove along California's coast from the Mexican border up through the Oregon border. Along the way, he stopped and took pictures of himself looking out at the beach and other scenic vantage points, his stance recalling the iconic romantic painting Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich from 1818 and Bas Jan Ader's 1971 Farewell to Faraway Friends. He then uploaded these photographs to the Wikipedia entries for these locations, adding new images or replacing existent images. This action produced a flurry of discussion amongst the Wikipedia community, as its members tried to figure out his identity and the purpose of the photos. Many of the original photos were cropped or deleted entirely. Graphic designer Eric Nylund designed the publication, which includes a text written by Ed Steck. This was made for the exhibition "As Yet Untitled: Artists and Writers in Collaboration" at SF Camerawork in San Francisco. softcover $22; DRM-free ebook $10 This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions |
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Voices of Portland by Christine Ermenc In 1976, Christine Ermenc embarked on a mission to document Portland's oral history through extensive interviews with any ordinary Portlander willing to share their experience of the city with a eager young woman with a tape recorder. Voices of Portland contains candid tales of covered wagons, anecdotes from the rowdy prohibition-era waterfront, and micro-histories of Portland's many neighborhoods, all transcribed from hours of conversation on tape 35 years ago. These voices are given new breath in this edition, part of the Dill Pickle Club's PDX-Reprint series, and includes a new introduction by Rozzell Medina. $15 softcover;$10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Signs and Symbols by Justin Bland; photos by Chuen-Huei Yang The primary character in Vladimir Nabokov's 1946 short story, Signs and Symbols, suffers from a condition called referential mania, which causes him to believe that "everything happening around him is a veiled reference to his personality and existence." In much the same spirit, these photographs by young Taiwanese photographer, Chuen-Huei Yang, are presented to consider how ordinary objects communicate with us. OUT OF STOCK This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Twenty-Seven Installations by Portland Center for the Visual Arts Twenty-Seven Installations chronicles the history of Portland Center for the Visual Arts (PCVA), Portland’s first contemporary art center. From 1972-1987, PCVA hosted exhibitions, lectures, music performances and video screenings from artists with national standing, alongside a burgeoning Portland arts community. Many pioneering artists, including Richard Serra, Vito Acconci, Alice Aycock, Donald Judd and Sol Lewitt had some of their first shows at PCVA, helping launch their professional careers. PCVA was soon emulated by other centers around the country, providing a model of a multidisciplinary arts center focused on avant-garde, non-commercial and cutting edge work. Reprinted by Publication Studio, the new edition features a new cover and a preface by Lisa Radon. $35 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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California Film: 1996 by Carter California Film: 1996 is New York-based artist Carter's storyboard for an early film project featuring a "fake person," a "furry person." and a chocolate ice cream bar, among other things. Laid out in Polaroids and post-it notes, the storyboard is also captioned by Carter, who created this book in September, 2009, for the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's Time Based Art festival (TBA). Printed in digital color. $40, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Rolling Stones Trilogy: An Inadvertent Opera In Three Acts, At Once by Michael Turner This limited print edition is a re-interpretation of three films about the Rolling Stones -- Sympathy For The Devil, Gimme Shelter, and Cocksucker Blues -- as acts in a Wagnerian epic. Three text panels, as presented in the installation of the same name at the Waldorf Hotel and UNIT/PITT Projects in April 2011, are accompanied by two Publication Studio titles: Free Concert by Michael Turner and Rock Lore by Allison Collins. $300 This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Free Concert by Michael Turner This modest, densely illustrated volume is a narrative, using the voices of narrators who are not only unreliable but apparently unaware of the nature of events around them; the words spoken from the stage during the Rolling Stones' set at Altamont Speedway in 1969 are accompanied by a sequence of full-page images. Co-published with UNIT/PITT Projects, this book was published to accompany Michael Turner's curatorial project The Rolling Stones Trilogy: An Inadvertent Opera In Three Acts, At Once. $15 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Rock Lore: Acts Of Persuasion And Perversion by Allison Collins A companion volume of sorts to Michael Turner's Free Concert, this book is a critical essay with reproductions of Turner's The Rolling Stones Trilogy: An Inadvertent Opera In Three Acts, At Once, a curatorial project presented by UNIT/PITT at Vancouver's Waldorf Hotel in April 2011. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions of text panels, this critical essay is not only about the recontextualization of three films about the Rolling Stones (Sympathy For The Devil, Gimme Shelter and Cocksucker Blues), but a dissection of the underpinnings of rock and roll heroism. $10 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Rubbings from the Rose City by Christopher Gossett Rubbings from the Rose City documents Portland, OR, through one-of-a-kind handmade etchings of building façades, gravestones, street signs, manhole covers and more. Self published by Christopher Gossett in 1983, the book provides a unique snapshot of the city and its many landmarks. This edition, produced as part of the Portland-based Dill Pickle Club's PDX-Reprint series, contains a new introduction by Randy Gragg, editor of Portland Monthly. $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Special Effects: Advances in Neurology by Neil Marcus More than a document of the early days of the disability rights movement, Neil Marcus' collection Special Effects: Advances in Neurology is also a window into California zine culture of the 1980s. Art in revolution: social justice, the human growth movement, art in the everyday. From flourishing dystopia to speech storms, Neil documents living artfully in Berkeley, California, and in Disability Country. Publication Studio is proud to present this collection of reprinted documents with a new forward by Melanie Yergeau and an interview by Esther Ehrlich. $15 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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From the Golden West Notebook by Jason Morris, Jesse Schlessinger, and Jason Grabowski Inspired by the ACE Double books of the fifties, in which genre novels (especially Westerns and Science Fiction) were paired, From the Golden West Notebook brings together Jason Morris’ poetry and the first section of Thoreau's Walden, the chapter on “Economy.” Jason Morris’ serial poem (also called “From the Golden West Notebook”) follows a character named “I” through a hallucinogenic western landscape populated by the ghosts of Melville, Spicer, Thoreau, and the distressed magnetic reels of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes. Thoreau’s account begins on July 4th, 1845, when he moved into the cabin he built. In the “Economy” section, he details the building of the cabin and lists his costs. From the Golden West Notebook is bound so the two writings mirror one another, tête-bêche (head to toe), and features the artwork of Jason Grabowski and Jesse Schlessinger. $15 Softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions |
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How Other People See Me by Elizabeth Jaeger How Other People See Me is a book of close up portraits by artist Elizabeth Jaeger. It’s weighty sculptural form contains a collection of gazes expressing surprise, joy, anger, annoyance, and boredom; a catalog of
unperformed feelings. Post-Kodak-moment-candor captured in secret reveals the person behind the subject. $25 Softcover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Ballad of the Sad Young Men by Philip Charles Iosca This debut collection of poems by Philip Charles Iosca draws inspiration from Roberta Flack, among many others. In his introduction Matthew Dickman also finds echoes of Joe Brainard and Wallace Stevens. Ballad of the Sad Young Men will be launched at a special "all black lunch," our next Publisher's Lunch, February 15, 2011. For tickets see events. $17, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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A History of New York by Matt Keegan Artist Matt Keegan used Ric Burns's PBS documentary, New York, as the foundation for this dense visual history of New York City. The film was billed as a "seven-part, 14 ½ hour television event [that] explores New York City’s rich history as the premier laboratory of modern life. A sweeping narrative covering nearly 400 years and 400 square miles..." The same chronology and stories are found within Keegan's image-based iteration, but without Burns's omniscient narrator. Readers make their way though four centuries of New York City history with only themselves and their experience as guides. Printed in digital color and black-and-white. $35 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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This Is The Same Hillside by Shawn Creeden Part vision quest, part picture book, part poetry, This Is The Same Hillside is a document of Shawn Creeden's adventures while under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms. His highly personal graphic scrawl keeps the eye lingering on the page while suggesting a deeper psychological world just beneath the surface. With a forward by Joel Statz. $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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How to Look at a Vancouver Special by Keith Higgins In this slim, amply illustrated volume, Vancouver, BC, urbanist Keith Higgins provides a natural history and typology of the "Vancouver Special," a housing type that proliferated from the 1960s through the mid-1980s. Distilled from Higgins's vast online archive, the book ultimately recommends that we go outside and wander the streets of Vancouver to see these very special houses with our own eyes. With 24 black & white photographs. $9, softcover; $5, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Billy Budd, Sailor (Decktowel/PS Edition) by Herman Melville This unlikely collaboration between a textile company and a publishing house emerged from a shared love of reading on the beach. With a new introduction by Aaron Peck, Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor sits in a corner pocket of the most incredible towel you will ever use, large enough to accommodate several beach readers. $200, towel and book This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Lexicon (from Atlas of the Conflict) by Malkit Shoshan Israeli architect Malkit Shoshan restores lost histories by mapping the geography of conflicts in the Middle East since 1948. Her Atlas of the Conflict, to be published in Fall 2010 by 010 Uitgeverij (Rotterdam, Netherlands), documents the ways that urban planning and architecture have been used to carry out oppressive political agendas. In June 2010 Shoshan came to Portland, Ore., for a Publication Studio dinner and discussion of her work. On that occasion we printed a full-color limited edition of the "Lexicon" of her book, of which we have 10 copies remaining (edition of 24).
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Accumulations by Christine Shan Shan Hou Christine Shan Shan Hou is a poet and arts writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY. This collection of poems, her first, is accompanied by eight pen and ink-wash drawings by Hannah Rawe. Chinese poet Zhang Er says of this work, "East and West melt as these pages evolve. Indeed, 'Elasticity is delicious.'" $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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event statements by Joseph Redwood-Martinez In September of 2009 Joseph Redwood-Martinez began subscribing to e-flux, the art world email digest that reaches tens of thousands of institutions and individuals on a thrice daily basis. To make sense of the sudden deluge of information Redwood-Martinez began selectively reconfiguring pieces of each press release into a body of "sought poetry". From the author's introduction: "As a poetic intervention, event statements is an entirely subjective mapping of the archive by way of core samples and screen shots. The project is without beginning or end, it spills out from the milieu, acting poetically as a rhizome – ceaselessly establishing connections and complicating a worldview written by way of press release." $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Hello Now from Everywhere by Veronica De Jesus Hello Now from Everywhere is a book of memorial drawings selected from an ongoing series. Over the past four years Oakland visual artist, Veronica De Jesus, has been making memorial drawings of the recently deceased and installing them in the window of Dog-Eared Books in San Francisco. Her style is lively and eclectic and her subject choices are idiosyncratic: her own friends along with pop icons like Laura Branigan and Louise Bourgeois. Regardless of their fame, everyone is celebrated for their uniqueness. Also included is an intimate essay by Veronica's wife, Regina Clarkinia. $26, B/W softcover with color dust jacket. This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions |
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Stay Time: A Year of Writing with Fourteen30 Contemporary by John Motley Stay Time collects eight critical essays by arts writer John Motley in collaboration with the Portland, Oregon-based gallery Fourteen30 Contemporary, each of which corresponds to an exhibition from the gallery's 2009-2010 programming. Originally published as a series of limited edition broadsides, available only at the gallery, these essays examine the work of emerging artists from Portland, Los Angeles, and beyond, while enacting a strategy to enrich a community's discourse on contemporary art. With a forward by Stephanie Snyder, curator and director of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College. $22, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Fieldguided by Lisa Schonberg In this book, entomologist Lisa Schonberg presents her research from summer 2010, through drawings, text, and sound recordings. The book includes 9 tipped-in newsprint "plates" and a free download of eleven field recordings that is also available here. Lisa studied neotropical entomology at The Evergreen State University in Olympia, Washington. She is a drummer and played with the bands The Strangers, Kickball, Explode Into Colors, and STLS, among others. Her previous book, The DIY Guide to Drums, is available here. .
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Nature Study On Lonesome Island by Azsa West The nature that Portland, Ore., artist Azsa West studies in these detailed pencil drawings is equal parts line and erasure, observation and distraction, abstraction and figuration. It might be the nature of drawing, or of pencil and paper. Regardless, it is thoughtful, generous, and enchanting. $25, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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A Treatise On Domestic Economy by Catharine Beecher #2 in the Everyday Library series. This is a seminal work in the field of domestic economy and domestic labour from educational reformer Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe; it was intended to provide information essential to the operation of a household, covering subjects such as food, medicine, the organization of interior space, accounting, and the manufacturing of essentials such as lye for the benefit of young women. Bound in unfinished chipboard covers. $15, softcover. This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture by Lisa Robertson Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture is Canadian poet Lisa Robertson’s lyrical document of a decade or so of transformations in her then-home town of Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Originally published by Clear Cut Press in 2004, we offer it in an especially janky Jank Edition, chopped, cut, abraded, but with sturdy spine and every word legible, in bright yellow file-folder covers. $15, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Thrasher Fanzine by Sam Korman and Israel Lund Thrasher Fanzine is Israel Lund and Sam Korman's celebration of skateboarding culture and the renowned skating publication Thrasher Magazine. Mining old back issues from used bookstores and adolescent bedrooms, Korman and Lund assemble a greatest hits collection of Thrasher's prestigious thirty year publishing history. $10, softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Some, But Not All, of My Clothes (Artist Edition) by Israel Lund As a continuation of his book Some, But Not All, of My Clothes,
Israel Lund has made 3 unique, one color monoprints that are only on
sale through Publication Studio. Price includes signed print and a copy
of his book. Contact Publication Studio for higher res images. Please specify desired print when ordering. SOLD OUT
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Complicity (stories) by Sarah Lippek The stories in this debut collection by Sarah Lippek are disturbing and beautiful. Completely assured and idiosyncratic, Lippek's language compels her characters to actions that would otherwise be unthinkable. Sarah Lippek is a law student in Seattle, Wash. $18, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Tuleyome by Lawrence Rinder and Colter Jacobsen Tuleyome is Lawrence Rinder's new long fiction about two men, Quincy and Frodo, walking the railroad tracks from San Rafael, CA, to Ukiah, CA. Our Jank Edition, designed by David Knowles, features three dozen full color photographs taken along the route by Lawrence Rinder and artist Colter Jacobsen. The authors will donate their proceeds from the book to the Tuleyome ecological preservation and restoration project. $22, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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A Classroom Reader by Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen These essays are adapted from four lectures delivered inside Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen's exhibition, "The Classroom," at PDX Contemporary Art gallery, in Portland, Ore., during July of 2010. The exhibition featured a collection of pedagogical props which the lecturers — Anne Marie Oliver, Sean Regan, Helen Reed, and Barry Sanders — used, or not, in their talks. A Classroom Reader is the physical trace of those public events: a meditation on education through the subjects of mediology, metaphor, gift-giving, transmission, tradition, death, and the imagination. It features an introduction by the artists and a dozen B/W images of instructional illustrations drawn by each of the four speakers. $15, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Notes from a Young Curator by Sam Korman Car Hole was a gallery operated out of the curator, Sam Korman's garage. From December 2009 - December 2010, Car Hole presented twelve exhibitions with forty-two different artists. Accompanying each show, Korman distributed photocopied catalogs. In Notes from a Young Curator, Korman collects all of those texts together with a new introduction. The book maps topics from critical theory to skateboarding, video games and literature, the strands that connected a life lived in basements. $25, softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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El gato eficaz / Deathcats by Luisa Valenzuela This is the first full English translation of Luisa Valenzuela's early book, El gato eficaz, written across two continents, North and South America, over two tumultuous years, 1969 - 70. Richly allegorical and haunting, this important text (which the author has called her "breakout book") has been translated by Jonathan Tittler, a literature scholar at Rutgers University, and appears here en face with the original Spanish text in a Jank Edition co-published with the Gobshite Quarterly, LLC. $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Some, But Not All, of My Clothes by Israel Lund Some, But Not All, of My Clothes is Portland artist Israel Lund's
collection of Xeroxed laundry that he occasionally issues in the form
of a zine. He created this perfect-bound edition for inclusion in
Publication Studio's "Portland Pavilion" at the 2009 Amsterdam
Biennale. The book can be bound in either green legal file-folder stock
or manila file-folder stock (the image to the left is of an interior
page). You can view a short video of the book here. $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Spirit Of The Ghetto by Hutchins Hapgood #1 in the Everyday Library series, this often-neglected work examines life in the Jewish Quarter of Manhattan around 1900. Anarchist journalist Hutchins Hapgood chronicled, for an English-speaking non-Jewish readership, the cultural, social and economic life of a community mostly unknown outside of its own borders. This edition reproduces illustrations by Jacob Epstein from the original 1902 publication -- Epstein later emigrated to England, where he was a well-known sculptor in the Vorticist movement. Bound in a distinctive raw chipboard cover. 15.00 This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Business As Usual by Arnaud Desjardin Arnaud Desjardin has created a book suitable for both cynics and idealists. These graphically bold, rhetorically economical expressions of both outrage and resignation are ready for any occasion where "business as usual" prevails. 15.00 This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Revenge of the Decorated Pigs (limited edition) by Lawrence Rinder San Francisco artist, Colter Jacobsen, has made a limited edition series of covers for Lawrence Rinder’s Revenge of the Decorated Pigs.
Numbered and signed, these unique pieces (bound to the pages of
Rinder’s book), each come with a small tipped-in painting, also by Colter Jacobsen, also unique for each book. Copies are still available for $488. Your purchase is both an
investment in an accomplished young artist and a crucial investment in
our business, Publication Studio. Colter Jacobsen is represented by Corvi-Mora Gallery, London. OUT OF STOCK This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Revenge of the Decorated Pigs by Lawrence Rinder
If art is your obsession, please consider Jank Editions' original artists books from such leading lights as Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson, Ari Marcopoulos, Mina Totino, Ruby Sky Stiler, Walter Benjamin, and photographer Shawn Records. OUT OF STOCK This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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35 Images by Gil Blank / Book Eleven of The Odyssey translated by Matthew Stadler by Gil Blank and Matthew Stadler These 35 images from a remote webcam above the harbor of Portland, Maine, have been driven backwards through the history of photographic reproduction by artist Gil Blank. Blank laser-engraved the image data onto bricks of machined graphite, scanned the bricks, and then printed those files using ink jet. The ink jet prints were scanned and printed in silver gelatin; the silver gelatin prints were then followed by photogravure, and so on, proceeding backwards through historical photographic technologies. As each subsequent print is scanned from a previous generation, it reproduces all the material artifacts of its forebears and compounds them with its own, perpetuating the original image only at the cost of effacing it entirely. Asked to produce a suitable accompanying text, writer Matthew Stadler chose to translate parts of Book Eleven of The Odyssey, using a method developed by the artists Hadley + Maxwell. Taking seven English translations, from Alexander Pope to Richard Lattimore, he organized the books in chronological sequence and transcribed one word or phrase at a time from each, skipping words only when both word and exact grammatical placement were repeated.
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The Night Pharaoh by Rafael Oses
This epic poem by Rafael Oses
has been typeset by Cumbersome Multiples and illustrated with woodcuts by Portland
artist Daniel Duford. This limited edition of 100, printed and bound by
Publication Studio in August, 2010, includes an audio recording of Rafael Oses reading his poem and a limited-edition letterpress jacket by Tracy Schlapp of Cumbersome Multiples, who also designed the book. OUT OF STOCK This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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The Saddest Joke by Matteah Baim and Colter Jacobsen The Saddest Joke is a collection of correspondences (primarily through snail mail) between Matteah Baim and Colter Jacobsen over several years. Maybe they are sketches to help raise the spirits with a meditative chuckle. Or maybe its like if you found a sketchbook for a failed comic sketch, this would be that book. $25 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions |
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Weekend Leisure Karaoke: List by Artist and List by Song (two volumes) by Weekend Leisure Weekend Leisure Karaoke: List by Artist and List by Song is a two-volume collection of found karaokesongs compiled by Weekend Leisure. Part artist book, part functioning karaoke catalogue, the book represents WL’s growing list of songs and original karaoke videos. The list is continually put to use in WL’s performances and as the group acquires new songs and produces new videos, Publication Studio will publish updated editions and variations to reflectthese changes. Weekend Leisure is a Vancouver-based artist collective made up of Curtis Grahauer, Pietro Sammarco, Christy Nyiri, Erich Gerl and friends. Since 2006, WL has been crafting karaoke videos, performing live, DJing karaoke, and recently they began producing a local cable network television programme. $20, two-volume softcover. This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Touched by an Email by Alex Felton Alex Felton created Touched by an Email: Heartwarming Stories from the Internet in October, 2009, for the Amsterdam Biennale. It collects recent work by the artist, to which he "added some collages and quotes to give it some context, some train of thought. It's also laid out to direct the viewer through that strong of associations from our romance with the computer to the possibilities and follies of augmented perception and back to more attempts to represent the magic of current technology (with a break in the middle for a snack pizza and beer)." $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Inherited & Borrowed Types by Ruby Sky Stiler This book collects 22 photographic and textual mash-ups that fragment and reweave pages of text and images. Overlaid with ghostly profiles and other iconography, the resulting page-sized wall-hangings display the sort of multifarious, patterned relationships that obtain between word and image, past and present. All 22 are reproduced in full-size, front and back, in full-color images printed by Dynagraphic of Portland, Ore.. Ruby Sky Stiler is a Brooklyn, NY-based artist. Inherited & Borrowed Types was designed by Jiminie Ha and developed by Stiler and Publication Studio in collaboration with the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art for their exhibition "Human Being," curated by Kristan Kennedy.
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Owner of This World by Shawn Records Owner of This World is a book of photographs made by Shawn Records during the four months that his son, Max Records, spent working as an actor on the set of Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze's film adaptation of the Maurice Sendak classic. Max was nine-years old at the time, and neither he nor his family had been involved in the film industry before. Records, the elder, is convinced that the book will disappoint anyone looking for insight into the film or the filmmakers and offers it as a manifestation of his own anxieties; a collection of fears and reassurances, upon letting his son out into a world that is beyond his control. Interior page samples are: 1 (page 2), 2 (page 6), 3 (page 26), 4 (page 61)$40, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Shoot The Buffalo by Matt Briggs Shoot The Buffalo is Matt Briggs's American
Book Award-winning novel about the slow undoing of a working class
hippy family in the 1970s and '80s. Originally published by Clear Cut
Press, it is available now in a Jank Edition. $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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xyxx by Kimberly Warner and David McLaughlin xyxx is a book of iPhone photographs by Kimberly Warner and David McLaughlin, a "living visual, open ended love letter between two slightly twisted lovers who would rather take pictures with their phones than talk on them." xyxx is limited to images shot and manipulated with the iPhone and iPhone apps only. No computers. No photoshop. "We started playing ping pong with snaps throughout our days via email whether we were half a world apart or walking next to each other in our neighborhood...an ever evolving game of tag with no rules or expectations other than to simply be present." The 200 page full-color book was printed by Digicraft, Portland, Ore., and bound and trimmed by Publication Studio in a two-volume launch edition of 20, signed and numbered.
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Haptic by Tegan Moore, Elspeth Pratt, Lorna Brown Haptic is a visual, written and tactile document of the work and process of two Vancouver sculptors, Tegan Moore and Elspeth Pratt, with a complex and provocative written contribution by Lorna Brown, and book design by Working Format. The term "haptic", referring to the sense of touch and act of
touching, is now familiar in the description of devices like smartphones
and touch-screens; in other words, the act of manipulating imaginary
objects by touching a surface. The sensory knowledge of the textures of
surfaces and the conveyance of subtle variations of meaning in gestures
are only provisionally available in these interfaces, and the trace of a
touch is meant to disappear the moment the screen is cleared or the
hardware rebooted. $20, softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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I Look Up, Volume One, 1997 to 2000 by Mina Totino Edited by Kathy Slade $35, softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Alexander — Bell — Cooper — McCracken — Valentine (1971) by Edmonton Art Gallery In July 1971 the Edmonton Art Gallery (Edmonton, Alberta) and the Ace Gallery (Vancouver, BC, and Los Angeles, CA) published this catalog of new work offering "a close examination of the use of the colour black" by five Los Angelenos: Larry Bell, John McCracken, DeWain Valentine, Ron Cooper, and Peter Alexander. Publication Studio's facsimile edition was made with artist Stephen Lichty in June of 2010. $25, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Exhibition To Be Destroyed, Again by Helen Pitt Gallery This idiosyncratic but handsome volume, co-published with the Helen Pitt
Gallery in Vancouver, presents a collection of gig posters, exhibition
posters and other ephemera from the wild fusion of punk rock, new art,
performance and political activism that collided in the Helen Pitt/Unit
Pitt/P.I.G. gallery from 1979 to 1984. Many of the posters, which
include a U-J3RK5 gig poster and an advertisement for Attila Richard
Lukacs's first solo exhibition, are reproduced at their original size,
and lovingly bound for scholars and collectors alike.
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174 Birds by Sarah Meadows Portland artist Sarah Meadows found photographs of birds and hands. $25, softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Affidavit by Jamie Hilder In 2008, Jamie Hilder, a Vancouver, BC, artist and critic was trained as a "Downtown Ambassador" by Genesis Security, a firm hired by that city's downtown merchants to make downtown public space more accommodating for their commercial needs. Hilder soon quit the program and kept his uniform so that he could assist people downtown in ways more to his liking, giving tourists information that the Business Improvement Association wouldn't want them to have: histories of illegal evictions, spectacularized aboriginalities, and civic policies aimed at removing visible poverty from the downtown core. He was arrested during his performance, and was later called as an expert witness when Pivot Legal Society, United Native Nations, and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users filed a Human Rights Tribunal complaint against Genesis and the Downtown Ambassadors. This is his affidavit. $15, softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Scenes from a Hotel (volume one) by Joey Veltkamp Scenes From a Hotel is Seattle artist Joey Veltkamp's
ongoing series of ink and water drawings from Seattle's Sorrento Hotel.
Volume one focuses on some of the events in the hotel's new "Night
School" project, conceived and organized by Michael Hebb. $12, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Heather and Ivan Morison by Open Satellite Publications The second in Open Satellite's new publication series documents "Frost King," an original installation by Heather and Ivan Morison, curated by Eric Fredericksen at Open Satellite in Spring, 2010. This full-color catalog includes new fiction by Heather Morison, a photographic essay by Open Satellite director Yoko Ott, an essay by Eric Fredericksen, and an interview with the Morisons by Jen Graves, art critic at the weekly newspaper, The Stranger. The catalog is available from Open Satellite in a limited edition with an original frottage by the Morisons bound into the catalog (edition of 100, available here) or in a plain edition from Publication Studio. $30, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Four Books in July by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener Portland artist Sarah Faith Gottesdiener created this suite of four full-color books for an exhibition at Nationale. Gottesdiener writes, "I asked four inspirational women close to me/familiar with me/my art to give me instructions for living. I followed those instructions for one week, at four weeks, and as part of the display at Nationale I am making books inspired by their instructions..." The books comprise paintings, sketches, hand-written texts, and photographs of a ritual carried out by Gottesdiener and her friends in the woods of Oregon. (clockwise, from upper left): Outtakes from a Ritual, Freedom in Repetition, When there is No Map For the Mind, and Collection of Some Thoughts and Poses Pertaining to my Vulnerability/Collection of all Magic Objects Around or on My Person (this last book has two titles, one on front cover and one one on back). $65 softcover, set of four books. This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Blush by Philip Iosca Blush is a 400-page book by Portland, Ore., artist Philip Iosca, comprising shifting saturations of pink. It can be read or browsed like a book or flipped through, like a flip book. It is large and heavy, like sculpture, colorful and planar, like a painting, plot-driven, like a novel, and pleasant to touch. The pages selected here are in sequence, but they occur in widely scattered parts of the book. A short video file, here, shows the book in motion. Blush is printed on glossy paper and bound in manila file-folders. $125, softcover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Greatest Sips (launch edition) by Alex Brown and Evan George To celebrate the January 30, 2010 launch of our finest beer book ever, Greatest Sips, by Alex Brown and Evan George, Publication Studio printed, bound, and packed thirty unique copies in a sealed box that was shipped from Portland, Ore., to Los Angeles, Calif., and back again. To be unpacked under the watchful eye of registered guards in our Portland warehouse, these thirty copies will be stamped, numbered and signed by the Publication Studio printing and binding crew. Greatest Sips (launch edition) is limited to these thirty signed and numbered copies and is available for sale exclusively on this site. OUT OF STOCK This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Greatest Sips by Alex Brown and Evan George A lively and informed guide to buying fancy beer by the Los Angeles-based authors of the vegetarian food blog, Hot Knives. The book comes with a "radical Hot Knives bookmark," provided by the authors, with a URL for songs that "go well with the beers." $15, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Beachbummer // Francis by Houndstooth 7-inch record from the Portland band Houndstooth. Contains the songs "Beachbummer" and "Francis." $7 This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Joy and Reffry by Roy McMakin and Jeffry Mitchell Joy and Reffry is a two-volume, full-color catalog documenting an art exhibition of the same name by Roy McMakin and Jeffry Mitchell,
co-published with Pulliam Gallery, Portland, Ore. Roy McMakin is an
artist and furniture designer. Jeffry Mitchell is an artist living in
Seattle, Wash. Fifteen copies were made and sold during the exhibition. $90, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Two Odes of Quiddity and Nil by Howard W. Robertson Two new poems for the New Year by Howard W. Robertson, author of Ode to certain interstates And Other Poems. "I wake to the river at dawn, and I feel a few million years young." $9, softcover; $5 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Capitalism Inside an Organization by Pravin J. Jain Pravin J. Jain was an executive vice president at Enron International during the years of that company's greatest expansion and catastrophic collapse. In this long essay, first commissioned and published by Clear Cut Press in 2003, he offers a sobering and positive assessment of capitalism's destructive powers and suggests that progressive goals such as social equity, innovation, and better living standards are best pursued through an unsentimental embrace of capitalism, as it was theorized by Adam Smith in the 18th century. $9 softcover; $5 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Convivium by Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Tom Fisher Convivium is a collaboration between visual artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins (who was recently selected for the 2010 Whitney Biennial) and poet Tom Fisher, comprising photographs of Hutchins's sculpture, texts written by Fisher, and fragments of other texts selected by Fisher and Hutchins. The book changes occasionally, as Hutchins and Fisher feel moved or find time to change it. (Some of the interior page images, below, are partial.) $40, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Electric Aphorisms by John Roderick Electric Aphorisms is musician John Roderick's
narrative composed in 365 transmissions of 140 characters each. The
book (perfect-bound in distinctive sky blue, lavender, or rose file-folder stock) is
prefaced with an introduction by John Hodgman, composed similarly. John
Roderick also writes and plays music as The Long Winters. $15, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Meiro Koizumi by Open Satellite This is the first in a series of publications we are making with Open Satellite, a Bellevue, WA-based artist residency and gallery. Open Satellite hosts artists from around the world in one- to three-month residencies leading to exhibitions. The book documents Japanese artist Meiro Koizumi's exhibition, The Corner of Sweet and Bitter. With drawings from the artist's notebooks and new essays by Robin Held, chief curator and director of exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum, Jen Graves, visual art critic for The Stranger, and Yoko Ott, director of Open Satellite, the book also significantly expands the scholarship around Koizumi's work.
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Yoko + Moon by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener Yoko + Moon is Sarah Faith Gottesdiener's collection of ink and water drawings of Yoko Ono or of the moon. Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is an artist and musician who lives in Portland, Ore. $40, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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French Theory Today: An Introduction To Possible Futures by Alexander Galloway This set of five pamphlets documents a seminar given recently by Alexander R. Galloway at the Public School New York,
a self-organizing educational program where class ideas are generated
by the public. "French Theory Today" explores a new generation of French
voices—Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Quentin
Meillassoux, and François Laruelle—whose work has, to varying degrees,
only recently emerged in the English-speaking world. SOLD OUT This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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a pragmatic response to real circumstances by Anne Focke Anne Focke helped create Artist Trust, Bumbershoot, 1% for the arts, Arts Wire, and/or gallery, and myriad other tools for working artists. In this 2006 essay, originally commissioned and published by the back room, she recalls some of these projects and the habits of mind, mix of structure and openness, and rhythms of permanence and impermanence that mark the lives of artists and institutions. $9, softcover; $5, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Come/Closer by David Knowles Come/Closer is a double sided risograph print by David Knowles, printed by Jesse Hlebo and published by Peradam. The size of an iPad Mini, this print plays with newfound common gestures and our relationship to technology. Edition of 100
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What We Are Learning by What We Are Learning For two years, What We Are Learning issued a monthly compendium of brief reports from several dozen friends, telling what each of them had learned recently. This book gathers their reports into a uniquely compelling narrative that displaces the drama of the individual with the pleasures of the collective. What We Are Learning is one of the most provocative and successful experiments in dispersed authorship that we have seen.
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untitled by Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson painted a mural on the side of our North Portland neighborhood grocery store, The Cherry Sprout. This book collects original studies for the mural, which the artists made by letter-pressing small sketches at Lark Press, also in North Portland, and then hand coloring thirty-one sets that we have bound in dark green file folder covers. Edition limited to thirty-one copies. OUT OF STOCK This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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The Tropics Of Phenomenon by Dragging An Ox Through Water The Tropics Of Phenomenon is the Japanese release of one-man-band Brian Mumford's Dragging An Ox Through Water. This re-release includes an insert of paintings by Dana Dart-McLean and writings by Brian Mumford and Patricia No. The cover contains a two-toned screenprint. SOLD OUT
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Notes for an Art School by Florian Waldvogel, Anton Vidokle, and Mai Abu ElDahab (editors) A collection that was to appear in conjunction with projects alongside Manifesta6 before it was cancelled, Notes for an Art School was compiled and edited by Florian Waldvogel, Anton Vidokle, and Mai Abu ElDahabl; designed by David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey of Dexter Sinister.
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The Back Room - An Anthology by Matthew Stadler The back room is an occasional series of presentations/symposia/bacchanals in Portland, Oregon, replete with food, drink, music, and general boisterousness garlanding the central pleasure of bright intellects voicing their excellent texts, winging it in conversation, and screening or presenting various textual and visual delights. It is an "open source" social/cultural tool, developed and enacted by the various people who choose to use it.
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Leather Pencil Case by Goertzen Designs This leather pencil case was designed and assembled by Goertzen designs especially for Publication Studio. The case is made of the finest quality brown leather and is versatile enough to be used for its intended purpose as well as a multitude of other functions. OUT OF STOCK
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Tote by Alex Felton This charming tote bag was designed by Alex Felton and assembled by Goertzen designs on the occasion of Publication Studio's second anniversary. It is made of durable duck canvas with hand sewn leather straps and is large enough to hold a majority of the Publication Studio library. $35 This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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20 Drawings by Sebastian Black Twenty drawings of John Lennon by Sebastian Black. SOLD OUT
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Funny Or Die by Alex Felton In this book, Alex Felton mines the darker, stranger corners of his day job, the Multnomah County Library, to create subversive comedy in the form of digital collages. Using imagery and text from fine art, pop culture, literature, and journalism, Felton's juxtapositions explore the mechanisms of jokes while revealing the common threads that connect cultural highs and lows. $10 This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Elspeth Pratt by Kathy Slade (ed.) This is the first monograph published on the work of Canadian artist Elspeth Pratt that spans her career to date. For twenty-eight years Pratt has been producing sculptural work that negotiates the line between abstraction and representation to explore architecture and public space. Working with everyday “impoverished materials, the artist engages with ideas of doubt, the precarious, and the built environment. $40 This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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032c Magazine #22 by 032c Workshop 032c is a magazine of contemporary culture published twice yearly by 032c Workshop in Berlin. This issue contains a dossier on the Chermayeff family of designers, photography by Juergen Teller and an interview with Fritz J Raddatz by writer Georg Dietz. $20 This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Kaweco Pencil by Each aluminum pencil body features a top knock button that dispenses lead with every click. The Germany-made pencils reveal a Kaweco metal logo on the top of the button. Cap removes to expose lead tube, allowing you to insert refill lead pieces. SOLD OUT
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How To Sleep Faster #1 by Tom Clark The purpose of this journal is to provide a space in which we seek to understand the contradictions / complexities that define and form our experience, existence and participation in a contemporary digital-analogue creative environment.
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How To Sleep Faster #2 by Tom Clark The purpose of this journal is to provide a space in which we seek to understand the contradictions / complexities that define and form our experience, existence and participation in a contemporary digital-analogue creative environment.
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Apparent Waste Equity by Jewelry Rash $6 This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Washing The Face, Doing The Hair Of The Official by Thicket $6 This item originated from: |
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Much Of The Nuance Is Lost by Deeds $6 This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Nudity In Groups #1 by Nudity In Groups Nudity In Groups #1 featuring: Dana Dart-McLean, Rob Halverson, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Steve Jenkins, Kristan Kennedy, Israel Lund, Corey Lunn, Fletcher Meisenberg, Patricia No, and Seizure Palace. (offset; edition of 250; 20 x 28 inches) $8 This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Nudity In Groups #2 by Nudity In Groups Nudity in Groups #2 featuring: Adam Tullie, Aidan Koch, Arnold J Kemp, Josh Blackwell, Justin Bland, Josh Hughes, Krystal South, Midori Hirose, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Mike Pare, Nick Payne, Erich Pritchett, Rikki Rothenberg, and Tabor Robak. (offset; edition of 250; 20 x 28 inches) $8 This item originated from: |
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Nudity In groups #3 by Nudity In Groups Nudity in Groups #3 featuring: Sam Korman, Dylan Walker, Mimi Dutra, Tamar Monhait, Jeffrey Kriksciun, and Ashby Lee Collinson (offset; edition of 250; 20 x 28 inches) $8 This item originated from: |
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Nudity In Groups #4 by Nudity In Groups Nudity in Groups #4 featuring: Nick Raffel, Donald Morgan, Derek Franklin, Liam Drain, Charles Irvin, and Fletcher Meisenburg. Cover courtesy of Mark Philips (offset; edition of 250; 20 x 28 inches) $8 This item originated from: |
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