The Kingsboro Press 6

The Kingsboro Press 6The Kingsboro Press 6

The Kingsboro Press 6
Softcover, 52 pp., mimeograph 3/1, 8.5 x 11 inches
Edition of 350
Published by The Kingsboro Press

$20.00 ·

Issue 6 of The Kingsboro Press, mimeograph printed by The Kingsboro Press at The Uses of Literacy in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Contributors: Heather Anderson, Merlin Chowanyun, Paul Cowan, Brian Faucette, Brendan Fowler, Adam Marnie, Ethan Swan, Clare Wohlnick, Bobbi Woods, Yan Yan, Seth Zucker.

The Kingsboro Press 5

The Kingsboro Press 5Amy Yao curates for The Kingsboro Press

The Kingsboro Press 5
Softcover, 52 pp., mimeograph 3/1, 8.5 x 11 inches
supplement: Amy Yao Curates for The Kingsboro Press
Softcover, 44 pp., mimeograph 1/1, 8.5 x 11 inches
Edition of 350
Published by The Kingsboro Press

$20.00 ·

Issue 5 of The Kingsboro Press, mimeograph printed by The Kingsboro Press at The Uses of Literacy in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Contributors: Becca Albee, Jordan Awan, Dan Arps, The Changes, Mason Cooley, Chris Barton, Milano Chow, Dru Donovan, Jason Eberspeaker, Richard Elliot, Ryan Foerster, Alex Gartenfeld, Zoe Ghertner, Petrova Giberson, Bieanca Hester, Matthew Higgs, David Horovitz, Marie Jager, Thomas Jeppe, Josh Kline, Maxwell Krivitsky, Aude Levere, Mondo Mondo, Jeff Morgan, Dan Moynihan, Jason Park, Asher Penn, Megan Plunkett, Jacob Robichaux, Carissa Rodriguez, Joshua Ray Stephens, Ethan Swan, Oscar Tuazon, Alex Vivian, Daniel Wagner, Jessica WIlliams, Amy Yao, Doniella Davy.

Book Sale (15% off)

Amir Zaki, Eleven Minus One

e-mail your order (or order online) and receive 15% off ALL books, catalogs, editions, magazines, monographs, multiples, objects, and videos in our Distribution Catalog and Bookshop, between November 26 and January 2, 2011. All orders placed by December 10, will be delivered by December 24. If ordering online, please include ‘book sale’ in the ‘add instructions’ field of the checkout (we will refund 15% of your total). Free shipping on all (domestic) orders over 200 dollars.

Happy Holidays!

Weaverbird & Other Words

Marc Hundley, Weaverbird & Other Words

Marc Hundley, Weaverbird & Other Words
Hardcover, 68 pp., offset 4/4, 183 x 251 mm
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9806516-2-1
Published by Rainoff Books

$40.00 ·

First monograph by Canadian-born, New York-based artist Marc Hundley, traces a curated-selection of his divergent work from the beginning of the century until present.

The Passed Note

Conor OBrien, The Passed Note

Conor O’Brien, The Passed Note
Hardcover, 68 pp., offset 4/4, 203 x 251 mm
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9806516-1-4
Published by Rainoff Books

$50.00 ·

This meticulously produced volume of work by Conor O’Brien further expands on the young Australian photographer’s oblique, unadorned renderings of youth, friendship and the spaces we share. Includes a short story by Amanda Maxwell.

Bypass 2

Bypass 2

Bypass 2
Softcover, 352 pp., offset 4/1, 150 x 210 mm
English and Portuguese
Edition of 10,000
ISSN 1646-9011
Published by Bypass

$23.00 ·

Bypass is a multidisciplinary publication on creation and theory. It is edited by Álvaro Seiça Neves and Gaëlle Silva Marques. It is annual and bilingual: English and Portuguese. It contains 352 pages on a contemporary theme, which is appropriated by authors of different disciplines: architecture, art theory, design, literature, music, performance arts, philosophy, visual arts. Theme: The infinitely small and the infinitely large.

Round The Way

Maya Hayuk, Round The Way

Maya Hayuk, Round The Way
Softcover, 20 pp., offset 4/4, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-79-1
Published by Nieves

$14.00 ·

In the olden days — when Europeans still thought the earth was flat — the universe was sometimes compared to the inside of a human skull. This was our notion of the infinite that lies beyond the world we live in, as a reflection of the infinity of our powers of thought and perception. This comparison, and the discovery of the most far-flung corners of the universe using the Hubble Space Telescope, are the basis of Ultra, Ultra Deep Fields by Brooklyn artist Maya Hayuk.

Round the Way is a collection of paintings from the last two years leading up to Ultra, Ultra Deep Fields, Maya Hayuk’s exhibition at MU. Next to Round the Way Maya Hayuk also compiled the double CD soundtrack Inside Spaces, that will be available in a limited edition through MU.

Huge Supplement

Huge Supplement

Huge Supplement
Softcover, 24 pp., offset 4/4, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
Supplement to Huge Magazine No. 72
Published by Nieves

$12.00 ·

Huge Supplement (supplement to Huge Magazine No. 72) with Beni Bischof, Chris Johanson, Dimitri Broquard, Hendrik Hegray, Ingo Giezendanner, Johanna Jackson, Kim Gordon, Rita Ackermann, Stefan Marx, Warja Lavater, and Will Sweeney.

Memoranda

Raffi Kalenderian, Memoranda

Raffi Kalenderian, Memoranda
Softcover, 24 pp., offset 4/4, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-85-2
Published by Nieves

$18.00 ·

In Kalenderian’s works everything plays on the foreground. There are no horizons and no perspective. The artist reveals his world directly to us, showing us his friends, as if he had no secrets. His friends often seem melancholic while their environment is very colourful. Colourful details of clothes, materials or furniture seem to be striving to attract the spectator’s attention and distract from the figures. We often encounter the figure Shanti. Shanti is the artist´s brother. He is painted as a young man, sometimes almost androgynous, sometimes like a tough guy. It remains uncertain whether Kalenderian wants to reveal something to us about Shanti, Frankie or Elizabeth with his paintings. None of the figures look directly at us, but all of them seem to be in contact with us. We are the witnesses of their existence.

Memoranda, the title of the book and exhibition, can be likening portraiture to notes and memos kept for history, but not too specific to take away from someone’s own unique experience. In fact Kalenderian’s works are, as the artists himself states, a proof or better an evidence of existence.

Things to Say (Viktor)

 Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich, Things to Say

Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich, Things to Say (Viktor)
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 1/1, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-70-8
Published by Nieves

$14.00 ·

Before Viktor there was Hektor, a relatively simple spray-can output device driven by two motors. Invented in collaboration with the engineer Uli Franke, it made its debut as Jürg Lehni’s art-school graduation project at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2002 and has performed regularly ever since.

Far from being a closed mechanical device — a black box between creative impulse and output — the concern of Hektor (and now Viktor) is the nuanced interaction between the user and the technologies of communication. The drawing machine Viktor is an amalgam of digital and mechanical technologies. A collage of tools, all of which were invented for other general and specific uses.

In response to the position of such technologies, Lehni together with Alex Rich started an ongoing e-mail correspondence about various devices, systems and technologies with which their work had a resonance. Lehni and Rich constructed an archive, one that they came to call A Recent History of Writing & Drawing and which inspired their installation at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2008).

Upending assumptions that any one kind of communication is more authentic, more direct or more valid that any other, A Recent History of Writing & Drawing finds meaning, texture and poetry in the most unlikely places.

Things to Say (Viktor) is the first in a series of collected drawings produced in collaboration with invited guests to perform with Viktor every Thursday evening at the ICA throughout the duration of the exhibition, curated by Emily King.

Time Fears

Matt Lock, Time Fears

Matt Lock, Time Fears
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 4/4, 112 x 178 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-81-4
Published by Nieves

$8.00 ·

“Nearly all of the pieces featured in this little publication were created in 2009 or 2010: a highly transformative period of time in my life. I began 2009 full of anxiety over the collapse of industrial civilization, almost all of my thinking dealt in speculating on the future. I was drawing a lot of ruins; ruins of a once high level civilization, landscapes of twisted metal, abandoned buildings and scattered garbage. Throughout this world strode weary wanderers, paranoids, thieves and criminals. There’s a streak of danger running throughout much of my 2009/2010 work. In the past, many of my characters looked as if they were hanging out rather comfortably (for the most part). These current characters are a bit more skittish, on edge. The spaces they inhabit are often unsettling… about to crumble or implode.

I’m obviously projecting a lot of my own fears and unease onto these drawings. The world that I’ve portrayed here is a broken world, a variation of a world I feel I’m being rapidly pushed towards. I find myself taking much of what I find around me and throwing it out into the future; I draw it into the future. I believe that I do this because I spend so much time in the future, mentally speaking. Time is a merciless tyrant, an enemy with whom I’ve been mentally battling this past year. I’ve always had time fears but never have they been so intense. There’s a fear of growing older, a fear of losing my youth (decay). And therein arises an urgency to “do something with myself” before I’m old and stuck in some kind of debt-trap or miserable job.

There’s a fear of the future and the large calamities that hide within it (nearly everything feels so uncertain and fragile to me). And then there’s a tremendous fear of destitution, as I’m always just barely making it by with each passing week. This overarching theme of “time fear” binds my work together and reveals the fractured nature of my mind (so much of which still resides in the future).

I seem to live in two worlds: the present and the soon-to-be. This collection of artwork is very personal to me, as I’m sure you can understand. I hope that you who identify with my time-based worries will bond with these pieces, perhaps finding your own time fears in my drawings and paintings, and I hope those of you less inclined to worry about time will find something here to ponder on and smile about.”

— Matt Lock

Materialien (C)

Peter Piller, Materialien (C)

Peter Piller, Materialien (C)
Softcover, 62 pp., offset 4/4, 155 x 205 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-84-5
Published by Nieves

$20.00 ·

Photographic portrait of the near surroundings of Ruhrschnellweg, freeway 40 in Bochum, Dükerweg with allotments, car tuning, cemetery, Burger King, noise barrier and fire station.

Möhren in Athen

Erik Steinbrecher, Möhren in Athen

Erik Steinbrecher, Möhren in Athen
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 4/4, 112 x 178 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-83-8
Published by Nieves

$8.00 ·

For his show Wind in Athens/Möhren in Athen Erik Steinbrecher left Berlin for Athens, his suitcase packed with carrots. The artist’s art odyssee began. His chosen site for an intervention was the National Archaeological Museum. It is considered one of the great museums of the world and contains the richest collection of some of the most important artifacts from Greek antiquity worldwide. During his visit, Steinbrecher installed single carrots in the exhibition spaces; close to sculptures and artfacts, on bases and behind walls.

This sculptural and performative intervention has been photographed by the artist himself. For this publication Steinbrecher overworked these documents.