MATERIAL 3

Ginny Cook and Kim Schoen, MATERIAL 3
Softcover, 96 pp. + insert, offset 2/1, 160 x 270 mm
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9801441-2-3
Published by MATERIAL Press

$15.00 ·

MATERIAL exists as a platform for the artist’s voice. Each issue brings together a different group of artists who write, as well as a new collaboration with a graphic designer. During the production of this third issue, our designer Zak Jensen put forth the idea of concatenation — the act of linking together, or the state of being joined (It was caused by an improbable concatenation of circumstances) (there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare)(the joining of hands around the table).

Concatenation (c.1600, from L.L. concatenatus, pp. of concatenare “to link together,” from com- “together”+ catenare, from catena “a chain”) seemed an appropriate word for our editorial method. An unlikely assemblage of texts becomes connected through this process; uncanny linkages emerge. Wyeth appears twice. Performances interact. In this issue: voices that duel, voices that parrot, voices that hypothesize, translate, and meditate, voices that speak simultaneously. As Roland Barthes writes, we have assembled these textual events, as “pleasure in pieces; language in pieces; culture in pieces,” to build upon one another into something new.*

*Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller (New York: Hill and Wang, 1975), p. 51

CONTRIBUTORS
Farrah Karapetian, Paul Zelevansky, Renee Petropoulous, Nate Harrison, James Welling, Natalie Häusler, Harold Abramowitz, Shana Lutker Stephanie Taylor, Alice Könitz, Frank Chang, and Emily Mast.

Alice Konitz, Andrew Wyeth, Art, Catherine Guiral, Concatenare, Criticism, Daniel Lucas, Design, Distribution, Dorit Cypis, Emily Mast, Farrah Karapetian, Frank Chang, Ginny Cook, Harold Abramowitz, James Welling, John Stezaker, Jonathan Miles, Kim Schoen, MATERIAL Press, Natalie Häusler, Nate Harrison, Olivier Richon, Paul Zelevansky, Quentin Walesch, Renee Petropoulous, Richard Miller, Roland Barthes, Shana Lutker, Stephanie Taylor, Theory, Thomas Lawson, Typecraft Wood & Jones, Typography, Wendy Schoen, Zak Jensen

Dispatches and Directions: On Artist-Run Organizations in Los Angeles

Dispatches and Directions: On Artist-Run Organizations in Los Angeles
Edited by Ronni Kimm and Jesse Aron Green
Softcover, 160 pp., offset 2/2, 9 x 9 inches [24 x 36 inches unfolded]
4 part book + poster
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-615-39970-6
Published by ART2102

$20.00 · out of stock

Over the past several years ART2102 has acted as a platform for artists and curators in Los Angeles to realize their projects and exhibitions. From its space in Boyle Heights, ART2102 hosted a vibrant program known for its open cultural discourse and flexibility of ideas, and for engaging both local and international artists at various stages in their careers. Gradually, ART2102 moved away from this physical site as its programming and initiatives engaged with the large network of other artists-run spaces across Los Angeles and Southern California.

Dispatches and Directions, the final publication and project of ART2102, does not simply document this history, but also emulates the organization’s role as a platform and a network by spotlighting a number of the artists-run collaborations that are currently active in Los Angeles, and that will continue to thrive as ART2102 recedes. The publication not only provides a space in which these organizations can describe their work, but will also look at the legacy of ART2102 in light of the diverse range of programming emulated by these groups.

The publication, edited by Ronni Kimm and Jesse Aron Green, features contributions from various artist-run projects, including, Artist Curated Project, ESL, Genesis Project, Los Angeles, MATERIAL, Monte Vista, Slab, Telic Arts Exchange, Wildness. Also included are thoughts and anecdotes from Kate Fowle, Rika Hiro, Songmi Huff, Thomas Lawson, Paul McCarthy, Yoshua Okon, Renaud Proch and Erlea Maneros Zabala; an essay by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer; a directory of over 60 artist-run and non profit organizations; and a specially commissioned “Star Chart” to help navigate the scene, by artist Jim Skuldt. The publication was designed in collaboration with Willem Henri Lucas.

Art, ART2102, Artist Curated Project, Distribution, Erlea Maneros Zabala, ESL, Genesis Project, Jesse Aron Green, Jim Skuldt, Kate Fowle, Los Angeles, MATERIAL, Monte Vista, Paul McCarthy, Renaud Proch, Rika Hiro, Ronni Kimm, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Slab, Songmi Huff, Telic Arts Exchange, Thomas Lawson, Wildness, Willem Henri Lucas, Yoshua Okon

Real Life Magazine: Selected Writing and Projects 1979-1994

Real Life Magazine: Selected Writing and Projects 1979-1994
Softcover, 320 pp., offset 1/1, 8.25 x 11 inches
Edition of 1000
ISBN 9780978869700
Published by Primary Information

$30.00 · out of stock

Real Life Magazine: Selected Writings and Projects 1979-1994 highlights a selection of writings and artists’ projects from Real Life magazine, which was originally edited by artist, writer, and curator, Thomas Lawson and writer, Susan Morgan. Published in twenty-three issues from 1979-1994 as an intermittent black and white magazine, Real Life featured artists and art historians writing on art, media and popular culture interspersed with pictorial contributions. The development of the magazine through its 15 year history, traces the influences, development and transitions of artists through the 80s.

The anthology features writings by and about Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Rhys Chatham, Mark Dion, Jack Goldstein, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Kim Gordon, Dan Graham, Thomas Lawson, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Allan McCollum, John Miller, Dave Muller, Matt Mullican, Adrian Piper, Richard Prince, David Robbins, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Michael Smith, John Stezaker, Bernard Tschumi, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, and James Welling among others.

Adrian Piper, Allan McCollum, Art, Bernard Tschumi, Cindy Sherman, Dan Graham, DAP, Dara Birnbaum, Dave Muller, David Robbins, Ed Ruscha, Eric Bogosian, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jack Goldstein, James Welling, Jeff Wall, John Miller, John Stezaker, Kim Gordon, Laurie Simmons, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Lawler, Mark Dion, Matt Mullican, Michael Smith, Miriam Katzeff, Primary Information, Rhys Chatham, Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine, Susan Morgan, Theory, Thomas Lawson

Afterall 13

Afterall 13
Softcover, 150 pp., offset 4/1, 190 x 297 cm
Edition of 2000
ISSN 1465-4254
ISBN 1-84638-024-3
Published by Central Saint Martins and CalArts

$16.00 ·

Afterall is a research and publishing organisation based in London and Los Angeles.

Founded in 1998, Afterall Journal offers surprising, thoughtful and in-depth analysis of artists’ work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. The journal focuses on contemporary art, always considering its relation to different artistic, social and political contexts. Afterall is co-published by Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London and the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, in collaboration with MuHKA, Antwerp.

A2/SW/HK, Afterall, CalArts, Central Saint Martins, Charles Esche, Dieter Roelstraete, Henrik Kubel, Mark Lewis, Melissa Gronlund, Pablo Lafuente, Sarah Kessler, Scott Williams, Stacey Allan, Thomas Lawson