NY Art Book Fair
Printed Matter, Inc. presents the fourth annual NY Art Book Fair, October 2-4 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens. The Fair previews on the evening of Thursday, October 1, followed by a Benefit. Admission to the fair is free.
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101
Friday/Saturday, October 2 and 3, 2009, 11am-7pm
Sunday, October 4, 2009, 11am-5pm
Neen World
Andreas Angelidakis, Neen World
Softcover, 150 pp., digital 4/1, 140 x 225 mm
Edition of 250
Published by onestar press
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Neen World is a private online community commissioned by the Electronic Orphanage. It operated on the Active Worlds platform between 2002-2003. Neen World consisted of public buildings for discussion and contemplation, and private buildings that housed the worlds’ inhabitants, the Neensters. Some of these buildings were conceived as portraits of the owners, based on their web work. Others were just architectural ideas waiting to become websites’s animations. The entire Neen world is gradually being printed using a 3D stereolithography printer.
China
Skip Arnold, China
Softcover, 150 pp., digital 4/1, 140 x 225 mm
Edition of 250
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This book is a compilation of images of my travels and explorations in a vast landscape culminating in my performance: “Cleaning in China”.
Coloriage
Claude Closky, Coloriage
Softcover, 150 pp., digital 4/1, 140 x 225 mm
Edition of 250
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Vous pouvez colorier ce livre avec des crayons de couleur, des aquarelles, des feutres, des pastels.
…A Not So Simple Case for Torture
Sam Durant, …A Not So Simple Case for Torture
Softcover, 150 pp., digital 4/1, 140 x 225 mm
Edition of 250
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This book is one result of a class we taught at the California Institute of the Arts in the Spring of 2007. We began discussing the idea of teaching a class together the prior year, to see how young artists would address the human rights abuses and illegal wars the U.S. Government was (and is) committing so openly and, thus far, with near impunity. As an initial focus, Nancy proposed that students up-date, re-make or somehow respond to Martha Rosler’s prescient 1983 video tape, A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night. Martha Rosler generously agreed to join us as a visiting artist, and to discuss strategies for making political art today. A Simple Case for Torture centers on Rosler’s analysis of a Newsweek opinion essay written by Michael Levin, Philosophy Professor at City University of New York. Levin’s arguments in favor of torture would seem to stand morality on its head. To support his argument he employs the “what if“ scenarios of the ticking time bomb and the kidnapped baby, hypothetical situations that virtually never happen in the real world. Rosler’s tape unpacks the arguments and questions about torture and demonstrates that history repeats itself as deadly farce; the issues of fear and ends justifying means have returned in recent years like terrible boomerangs. As we researched the subject of human rights we saw arguments for torture virtually identical to Levin’s being made almost daily in the mainstream media.
Stairway to heaven
Didier Fiuza Faustino, Stairway to heaven
Softcover, 150 pp., digital 1/1, 140 x 225 mm
Edition of 250
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STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, a public space for individual use. Building in process.Architecte : Didier Fiuza Faustino / BUREAU DES MESARCHITECTURES Creative team : Didier Fiuza Faustino, Pascal Mazoyer. Collaborators : Nicolas Hugoo, Xaver Marschalek, Philippe Smith. Construction : Lovarte Lda Client : Ministério da Cultura Three levels concrete staircase, leading to a 4m2 metal-latticed platform with a basketball. Located on Praça dos Arômas, Castelo Branco, Portugal.This project is an interrogative as much as asservative answer to the implicit request made by the municipality for a piece of urban art. Given the unacknowledged rejection of the big housing programme nearby, STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (re)calls (for) that close presence by reprising the motif of the stairway, a place of encounter and safety. Refusing to act as a totemic sculpture that transforms the site into a place of individual submision (to artistic prestes, to political demands), the project invites each person to appropriate it and gives them the chance to momentarily dominate the territory on their own. Like in act of communion, a sharing in isolation.Winner of the price for public contemporary art “Prémio da Tabaqueira 2001“, Portugal.
Septembre
Elein Fleiss, Septembre
Softcover, 150 pp., digital 1/1, 140 x 225 mm
Edition of 250
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Please, write your opinions on US politics
Rainer Ganahl, Please, write your opinions on US politics
Softcover, 150 pp., digital 4/1, 140 x 225 mm
Edition of 250
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For the Armory Art Fair in March 2003 I was invited by zingmagazine to make a wall drawing for their magazine booth. Political tensions and frustrations were running high over an immanent attack on Iraq. In response to this situation, I opted for an interactive graffiti wall that invited visitors to write down what they thought of US politics. During five days the white wall panels of the booth were filled with texts, commentaries, provocations, thoughts, suggestions, personal accounts, wishful and hateful thinking, and graphics. My photographs of the results of this experiment are presented in this publication.
Ass Peeping
Anna Jermolaewa, Ass Peeping
Softcover, 150 pp., digital 4/1, 140 x 225 mm
Edition of 250
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—Philippe Buschinger
Akademiekabel
Leopold Kessler, Akademiekabel
Softcover, 150 pp., digital 4/1, 140 x 225 mm
Edition of 250
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I installed an electric cable between my flat and my studio in the academy of fine arts in Vienna. The distance was 1200 metres, it was plugged in the academy. The book follows the cable page by page starting from inside my flat.
Arab portraits
Kolkoz, Arab portraits
Softcover, 152 pp., digital 1/1, 140 x 225 mm
Edition of 250
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Portraits getting drawn in the same way a piece of information circulates by word-ofmouth,through this imperfect medium the French call “Téléphone Arabe”: such is the proposal made by Kolkoz for their project. Progressively modifying the fundamental data given at the outset, the “Arab portraits” are being developed in the artists’ circle; for them, each encounter thus gives the chance to try this game. Each participant only has to respect one rule: to reproduce the given “version” of the portrait as faithfully as possible. This way, each participant becomes one link of a chain where the successive portraits become ever more distorted versions of the original.
Selected emails
Miltos Manetas, Selected emails
Softcover, 150 pp., digital 1/1, 140 x 225 mm
Edition of 250
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In May 2000, during a packed press conference at the Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan – and a panel of people like Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker ready to provide analysis of the term — Manetas unveiled a new word for an art movement. Actually, it was the squeaky, synthetic voice of a Sony Vaio that made the announcement. The word was “NEEN.”
105 selected details from the Sharpie drawings 2003-2006
Aleksandra Mir, 105 selected details from the Sharpie drawings 2003-2006
Softcover, 150 pp., digital 1/1, 140 x 225 mm
Edition of 250
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I like Sharpies for their intense blackness and sharp points when they are new, for how the paper absorbs their ink, and for how they become mushy and fade with extended use – allowing for a great richness in gray tone and variation of line. For years, I used them only for writing telephone notes, the occasional doodle and for cartoons. Then in 2003 I was hiking in Iceland, and I came back to my small Manhattan apartment with an intense physical sensation of having crossed vast territories and the desperate need to hold on to this feeling a bit longer, representing it in as carnal a way as possible. I started drawing from the memory in my legs, mimicking on large paper with my hand the resistance that gravity had held on my body while crossing the flow of the glacial rivers and lava. This all recreated the sensation of being wonderfully naïve and lost in a foreign landscape, combined with the challenge of having to navigate with only a few known coordinates and the joy of accomplishment when arriving at some sort of personal end, like an early explorer. A decorative border and a completely arbitrary reference to ‘scale’ produced the first ‘map’. The joke was on the pointlessness of an operation that takes place in a fully surveilled planet, in an era of GPS boredom, and the redundancy of geographical curiosity or any exploration at all. This book is a partial document, in honor of the Sharpie as the marker of my time and of drawing, as simply the trace of a frail act of performance, of both being lost and of finding one’s way.