In Between Pictures. Photographs 1979-1986

Fin Serck-Hanssen, In Between Pictures. Photographs 1979-1986
Hardcover, 256 pp., offset 2/1, 210 x 270 mm
English and Norwegian
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-82-997894-5-5
Published by Teknisk Industri AS

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In Between Pictures. Photographs 1979-1986 documents Fin Serck-Hanssens work as a photographer for Norwegian music magazines. From the early years of Norwegian Punk and underground music scene to English bands playing in Derby and London. New Order, Bauhaus, and the Clash are captured in the very start of their career. Through more than 150 photographs essential music culture: the bands, the crowd and the scenes, are documented. The book features new essays by Ole Robert Sunde, Christian Refsum, Paola Cortes-Rocca and Peter J. Amdam

Bauhaus, Christian Refsum, Culture, Depeche Mode, Distribution, Divine, Echo & The Bunnymen, Fin Serck-Hanssen, Iggy Pop, Joey Ramone, Martin Kraetke, Music, New Order, Ole Robert Sunde, Paolo Cortes-Rocca, Peter Hook, Peter J Amdam, Peter Murphy, Petter Snare, Photography, Ramones, Teknisk Industri AS, The Cramps, The Cure, The Cut, The Fall, The Specials, Till Gathmann

Normalizing Judgement

Fin Serck-Hanssen, Normalizing Judgement
Hardcover, 108 pp., offset 4/4, 320 x 230 mm
English and Norwegian
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-82-997894-0-0
Published by Teknisk Industri AS

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This series of work by Fin Serck-Hanssen looks at life inside the walls of eight Norwegian prisons of varying degrees of severity. From the open prison at Bastøy to the more harsh lock up conditions at Ullersmo. But inside is always inside.

— Michael Petry

Culture, Distribution, Fin Serck-Hanssen, Michael Petry, Petter Snare, Photography, Teknisk Industri AS

A Narrow Scene of Hypothetical Circumstances

Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson, A Narrow Scene of Hypothetical Circumstances
Hardcover, 84 pp., offset 4/4, 210 x 300 mm
English and Norwegian
Edition of 600
ISBN 978-82-997894-4-8
Published by Teknisk Industri AS

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In the book project A Narrow Scene of Hypothetical Circumstances we access a visual universe revolving around dismembered pieces of familiar objects. Sketches, pictures and materials are united into a steady flow of everyday examination, in which apparent contradictions — painstaking exactitude and violence, empathy and calculation — bubble away beneath the surface. Rearrangement, representation and repression melt together on the border between construction and collapse, with an elegant sense of seriousness. The works are supplemented with texts by Friedrich Tietjen, Caroline Ugelstad, Leif Magne Tangen and Christopher Muller.

Art, Caroline Ugelstad, Carsten Humme, Christopher Müller, Distribution, Friedrich Tietjen, Jorg Schutze, Leif Magne Tangen, Martin Kraetke, Photography, Sculpture, Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson, Teknisk Industri AS, Till Gathmann

Kaleidoscope Magazine 14

Kaleidoscope Magazine 14 — Spring 2012
Softcover, 168 pp., offset 4/4, 220 x 287 mm
ISSN 2038-4807
Published by Kaleidoscope Press

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At the core of a platform that includes an exhibition space and an independent publishing house, Kaleidoscope is an international quarterly of contemporary art and culture founded in 2009 in Milan. Distributed worldwide on a seasonal basis, it has gained widespread recognition as a trusted and timely guide to the present (but also to the past and possible futures), unique in its interdisciplinary and unconventional approach.

HIGHLIGHTS
Will Benedict by Alex Kitnick; Alexandra Bachzetsis by Catherine Wood; 155 Freeman by Chris Wiley; The Resurgence of R&B by Tim Small; Sanya Kantarovsky by Joanna Fiduccia.

MAIN THEME — Preliminary Materials for a Theory of a New Male Camp + Dandyism = Neo-Camp? by Chris Sharp; Domenico Gnoli by Giorgio Verzotti; Marc Camille Chaimowicz Partial Eclipse; A Fantastic, Single, Mad Man by Alessio Ascari and Cristina Travaglini.

MONO — Cathy Wilkes
Essay by Rebecca Geldard; Essay by Amy Budd; Special Project by Cathy Wilkes; Focus by Isobel Harbison.

REGULARS
Pioneers: Monir S. Farmanfarmaian by Simone Menegoi; Futura: Adrian Villar Rojas by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Panorama: Mexico City by Magnolia de la Garza; Souvenir d’Italie: Alighiero Boetti by Luca Cerizza; Producers: Gavin Brown by Carson Chan.

Adrian Villar Rojas, Alessio Ascari, Alex Kitnick, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Alighiero Boetti, Amy Budd, Art, Carson Chan, Catherine Wood, Cathy Wilkes, Chris Sharp, Chris Wiley, Cristina Travaglini, Culture, Distribution, Domenico Gnoli, Gavin Brown, Giorgio Verzotti, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Isobel Harbison, Joanna Fiduccia, Kaleidoscope Press, Luca Cerizza, Magnolia de la Garza, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Monir S. Farmanfarmaian, Rebecca Geldard, Sanya Kantarovsky, Simone Menegoi, Tim Small, Will Benedict

fillip 16

fillip 16
Softcover, 136 pp., offset [split fountain], 170 x 245 mm
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 1/1, 140 x 210 mm [Ariella Azoulay booklet]
Edition of 2500
ISSN 1715-3212
ISBN 978-0-9868326-6-6
ISBN 979-0-9868326-8-0 [Ariella Azoulay booklet]
Published by Fillip

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Fillip is a publication of art, culture, and ideas released three times a year.

Fillip 16 continues the ongoing series of texts entitled Apparatus, Capture, Trace, and includes a booklet by Ariella Azoulay, Different Ways Not to Say Deportation.

The issue also continues essays from the Intangible Economies series, and focuses on the multifarious forms of exchange fueled by affect and desire. Intangible Economies speculatively investigates the fundamental role these affective transactions play in modes of representation and, accordingly, in cultural production.

1. Patricia Reed, Co-autonomous Ethics and the Production of Misunderstanding
2. Ola El-Khalidi and Diala Khasawnih, Gastronomica Makan
3. Christopher Cozier and Clair Tancons, No More than a Backyard on a Small Island
4. Vincent Bonin, Here, Bad News Always Arrives Too Late
5. Jon Davies, The Masculine Mystique
6. Philip Monk, Crises (and Coping) in the Work of General Idea
7. David Horvitz and Adam Katz, Occupy Wall Street Life Drawing

AA Bronson, Adam Katz, Alice Yard, Andrea Rossetti, Antonia Hirsch, Ariella Azoulay, Art, Christian Phillip Muller, Christopher Cozier, Clair Tancons, Criticism, David Horvitz, Diala Khasawnih, Distribution, Elle Flanders, Esther Schipper, Fillip, General Idea, Georgia Popplewell, Jon Davies, Kate Steinmann, Kristina Lee Podesva, Ola El-Khalidi, Olaf Nicolai, Patricia Reed, Paul Ekman, Philip Monk, Robert Filliou, Ryan Brewer, Tamira Sawatzky, Theory, Vincent Bonin, Wallace Friesen

Z-Girl and the Snake Charmer

Doniella Davy, Z-Girl and the Snake Charmer
Edited and Designed by Daniel Wagner
Softcover, 44 pp. with inserts, mimeograph 2/2, 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Edition of 100, numbered
Published by The Kingsboro Press

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A semi-follow-up to Hippie Photos and Surfer Man, Los Angeles-based photographer Doniella Davy’s imprint Z-Girl and the Snake Charmer returns to the voyeuristic photo-based narrative format to weave a two part story of a woman in trouble and the mysterious “snake charmer”.

Art, Culture, Daniel Wagner, Distribution, Doniella Davy, Photography, The Kingsboro Press

Joanne Oldham

Good Morning 1, Joanne Oldham
Edited by Sammy Harkham
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/1, 6.5 x 9 inches
Edition of 500
Published by Family

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Joanne Oldham has quietly been making art in a range of mediums for several decades. Though mostly known for a scattering of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy releases, including the iconic cover for I See a Darkness, the vast majority of this prolific artist and writer’s work has never been seen outside of her circle of family and friends. Intensely personal, warm, and often terrifying, her art is playful and mysterious, existing in a space of constant conflict. The debut issue of Good Morning dedicates the entire issue to a selection of work done over the last 25 years showcasing Oldham’s unique vision. Collages, paintings, drawings, as well as excerpts from Oldham’s memoir of growing up in the south in the 1950s are included, as well as biographical notes written by the artist herself.

Aron Conway, Culture, Distribution, Family, Good Morning, Illustration, Joanne Oldham, Joe Oldham, Sammy Harkham, Will Oldham

Joan

P & Co., Joan
Newspaper, 16 pp., web offset 1/1, 11 x 17 inches [17 x 22 inches unfolded]
Edition of 500
Published by P & Co.

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*free copy with each order

P & Co. is a community broadsheet published biannually and co-edited by Aram Moshayedi, Carter Mull, and Jesse Willenbring.

A. L. Steiner, Alex Israel, Aram Moshayedi, Art, Carlos Callejo, Carol Bove, Carter Mull, Chris Cechin, Darren Bader, Distribution, Erika Vogt, Fabian Marti, Florian Maier-Aichen, Gabriela Jauregui, Jesse Willenbring, Joan Didion, Joan Miro, John C Van Dyke, John C Welchman, John Divola, Jonas Wood, Kate Fowle, Katy Siegel, Math Bass, Meghan Weinstein, Michael Ned Holte, Michal Wolinski, MIke Zahn, Nathan Hylden, Sandra de la Loza, Steven Rodriguez, Susan Morgan, Tony Cokes, Travis Diehl, Walter Benjamin Smith

A Book About Some People And Time

Myung Feyen, A Book About Some People And Time
Softcover, 126 pp., offset 2/2, 170 x 240 mm
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-90-77713-48-8
Published by Myung Feyen

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When you meet Myung Feyen, you are never quite sure at what point everyday life spills over into art. Her letters arrive in archaic envelopes, handwritten or typed on an old fashioned typewriter on paper salvaged from an archive or a bankrupt stationery store. Such a letter becomes a unique ‘object’, a piece of graphic design. Her texts, however intentionally mundane, are meticulously crafted, often with an unexpected poetical twist. A correspondence regarding an upcoming appointment can easily turn into a small collection of poetry or visual art.

Such a correspondence cannot be distinguished from the projects, which she presents as works of art. She has a collection of passport photographs of people who have played an important role in her life in some way, accumulated since her early youth. She takes photographs of her parents on every occasion she meets them, keeping the photos in an archive along with the date they were taken. For years she has been making lists of everybody who has come over to visit her. She also creates diagrams of this information — strange calendars drawn on the walls of exhibition spaces. She collects water and sand of places she or her friends have visited. These samples are packed and kept in a standard uniform method and then documented. Bit by bit, an atlas containing the voyages of Myung Feyen and her friends comes into being.

Art, Carvalho Bernau, Design, Distribution, Guy Harries, Kai Bernau, Malcolm Sutton, Michael van Hoogenhuyze, Myung Feyen, Susana Carvalho

C Magazine 113

C Magazine 113, Memory
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 295 mm
Edition of 2200
ISSN 1480-5472
Published by C Magazine

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Issue 113, Memory, includes a feature interview with Toronto-based artist Derek Sullivan, by Saelan Twerdy; essays by writers including Carol Zemel, on Yael Bartana’s And Europe Will be Stunned…, Scott McLeod, on the 8th Mercosul Biennial, Michelle Kasprzak on Social Media and Art, Chloé Roubert on the Reflecting Absence memorial in New York, and Allison Collins and Eli Bornowsky on Pacific Standard Time; and exhibition reviews from Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Charlottetown, Waterloo, Venice, Rotterdam and Istanbul. The Noteworthy section by Benjamin Bruneau critically explores the phenomena art blogging. For the artist project in this issue, the collective CN Tower Liquidation dematerialized the first issue of C Magazine, published in the winter of 1983/84, and cast its destroyed remnants in a polymer resin cube that appears on the inside back cover. This issue also includes book reviews of Art Metropole’s new “…by Artists” anthology Commerce by Artists edited by Luis Jacob, and Grant Kester’s latest book, The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context.

Allison Collins, Art, Art Metropole, Benjamin Bruneau, C Magazine, Carol Zemel, Chloé Roubert, CN Tower Liquidation, Derek Sullivan, Distribution, Eli Bornowsky, Grant Kester, Luis Jacob, Mercosul Biennial, Michelle Kasprzak, Saelan Twerdy, Scott McLeod, Yael Bartana

Llano Community Bookstore

Llano Community Bookstore
CalArts Library and IKO IKO Space
Two-part temporary bookstore
April 5 — April 20, 2012
Organized by Textfield, Inc.

PART I
CalArts Library: Microfilm Room
24700 McBean Pkwy.
Valencia, CA 91355
Thursday, April 5, 1-6pm

PART II
IKO IKO Space
931 N. Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Friday, April 6 — Friday, April 20, 12-7pm (Closed Mondays)

Llano Community Bookstore is a two-part temporary bookstore, hosted for one day (Thursday, April 5, 1-6pm) at the CalArts Library, and for ﬁfteen days (Friday, April 6 to Friday, April 20) at IKO IKO in Los Angeles.

CalArts graduate students have selected titles from the Textfield Distribution Catalog, to be included in both parts, and will install/deinstall and work as Shopkeepers during PART I of the temporary bookstore, located in the CalArts Library Microfilm Room. PART II of the temporary bookstore will be hosted by IKO IKO in Los Angeles, and includes furniture, used for both parts, designed by WAKA WAKA.

The (fictional) bookstore is based upon, and takes its name from, Llano Del Rio, which was organized under the Llano Del Rio Company and was a corporate-run socialist Utopian society initiated by Job Harriman, following his narrow defeat in a runoff election for the mayorship of Los Angeles. Harriman believed that the success of socialism depended not only on politics, but also on the realization of socialist principles. Harriman did not attempt to reform all of society, but rather, he believed that by creating a functioning socialist community within the larger society of capitalism, the larger society would gradually convert to socialism.

100% Biz, Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Adam Michaels, Bücher & Hefte, CalArts, CCC, Cheap Art America, City of Quartz, Distribution, Ein Magazin über Orte, Fillip, FormContent, Glen Cummings, Iko Iko, Job Harriman, Jonathan Maghen, Kaleidoscope Press, Kristin Dickson, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Kunstverein, Llano Community Bookstore, Llano Del Rio, Manuel Raeder, Mark Owens, mediabus, Midway Contemporary Art, Mike Davis, Nieves, Occasional Papers, Peres Projects, Schnauzer, Shin Okuda, Slavs and Tatars, The Kingsboro Press, Waka Waka

Spring Cleaning (25% off)

25% off — March 21 to March 31, 2012

To make space for our Spring arrivals, and in celebration of the Vernal Equinox, we are offering a 25% discount (10 days only); please e-mail your order (or order online) and receive 25% off ALL books, catalogs, editions, magazines, objects, videos, et al., in our Distribution Catalog and Bookshop, between March 21 and March 31, 2012. If ordering online, we will refund 25% of the total via PayPal before your order ships. Free shipping on all (domestic) orders over 200 dollars.

Happy Vernal (Spring) Equinox!

Publishers
032c, 100% Biz, A&R Press, Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Aki Books, Amir Zaki, Anna Helwing Gallery, Area Sneaks, Art2102, Art & Seoul, Bas Morsch, Benzanoe, Boabooks, Book Works, Bücher & Hefte, Bypass, CalArts, Capricious, Carvalho Bernau, CCC, Charlie White, Cheap Art America, Christoph Keller, Christoph Keller Editions, CK Editions, C Magazine, Coins, Condiment, Cornerkiosk Press, David Kordansky Gallery, der:die:das, DM Art Books, Ein Magazin Uber Orte, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Fillip, FormContent, Four Corners Books, Glen Cummings, Adam Michaels, Harsh Patel, Hassla Books, HomeShop, Hunter and Cook, Hypen Press, IFS, Ltd., JRP|Ringier, Kaleidoscope Press, Karl Haendel, Keith Bormuth, Kingsboro Press, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Kunstverein, Laura Bartlett Gallery, Laura Palmer Foundation, LAXART, Manuel Raeder, mediabus, Midway Contemporary Art, Mono.Kultur, Morel Books, Museum Paper, n+1 Foundation, Nieves, Occasional Papers, OK-RM, onestar press, Outpost Journal, P & Co., Paperback, Paper Monument, Participant, Inc., Passenger Books, Peres Projects, Primary Information, Public Fiction, PWR Paper, Rainoff Books, Regency Arts Press, Roma Publications, Schnauzer, Seems, Semiotexte, Shane Campbell Gallery, Slavs and Tatars, Steidl, Teknisk Industri AS, Textfield, The Power Plant, They, Tramnesia, True True True, Turner, Unpiano Books, Veneer, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Vier5, Walker Art Center, Wallspace, Walther König, Wear, W/— Projects, and more.

Bookshop, Publishers, Sale

Book Affair

Book Affair
Saturday, February 11, 2012
10am-4pm
Organized by Fiona Connor & Co.

Various Small Fires
1212-B Abbot Kinney Blvd.
Venice, CA 90291
www.vsf.la

Book Affair will function as both a fair and a temporary library and will take place within the current installation, ‘Murals and Print’ by Fiona Connor.

While books will be offered for sale, the event will also be an opportunity for local publishers and artists to share titles and editions that are not always available to the Los Angeles community.

Along these lines, each participant will bring five books for either selling and/or sharing. A comprehensive bibliography with all participants and their titles will also be compiled and distributed. There will also be a xerox machine located on the premises for visitors to use.

Textfield, Inc. will display 5 books less than 10 inches, on a shelf provided by the organizers, and an Eduardo Sarabia vase/sculpture, placed on the seat of a chair/pedestal.

Book Affair will also display furniture made specifically for the event by Tahi Moore, Joshua Nathanson, Michael Ned Holte, and Fiona Connor among others.

Participants include: 2nd Cannons, A-Z video, Chinatown: the sequel, Dexter Sinister, Harsh Patel, Henry Glover, Kaleidoscope, Ooga Booga, Prism of Reality, Semiotexte, Textfield, Inc., Works Sited, and WorldFood Books.

2nd Cannons, A-Z video, Anthony Pearson, Antony Hudek, Athanasios Velios, Book Affair, Book Fairs, Bücher & Hefte, Chinatown: the sequel, Dexter Sinister, Distribution, Ed Ruscha, Eduardo Sarabia, Exhibitions, Fiona Connor, Harsh Patel, Henry Glover, John Latham, Jonathan Maghen, Joshua Nathanson, Kaleidoscope, Kunstverein, Michael Ned Holte, Midway Contemporary Art, Occasional Papers, Olivian Cha, Omar the Beggar, Ooga Booga, Paul Gerhard Diez, Payam Sharifi, Prism of Reality, Semiotexte, Slavs and Tatars, Tahi Moore, Various Small Fires, Works Sited, WorldFood Books

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