The Tristans, Part 2.1. Lewis Chaplin. Fourteen-Nineteen Books.

The Tristans, Part 2.1 is part of Lewis Chaplin’s ongoing photographic and anthropological series of enquiries into the life of the islanders of Tristan Da Cunha – the most remote inhabited place in the world. Tristan Da Cunha is an active volcanic island no bigger than Manhattan, located in the middle of the Pacific ocean, a 14-day boat voyage away. The Tristans are British, using the pound sterling and the charming postcode of TDCU 1ZZ for the whole island – there are 250 of them, and seven surnames. Tristan Da Cunha now stands on the frontline in the battle against cultural hybridization and postmodernism, as they cling to the post-colonial remnant that is their island.

1st Edition of 200, July 2012.

D 11.50  €

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Useless: New Writing in Art and Design. Royal College of Art.

Graduating students from the Royal College of Art’s new Critical Writing in Art and Design MA programme present their first collaborative publication — a collection of essays that work to deconstruct the idea of uselessness within a diverse range of ideas, projects, interviews and stories. These works, which provide a multitude of perspectives on the theme, form an object that spans topics across art, product design, architecture, literature, radio, information technology and more.

Contributors
Freire Barnes | Anna Bates | Jigna Chauhan | Nicola Churchward | John Dummett | Jeanette Farrell | Natalie Ferris | Clo’e Floirat | Elizabeth Glickfield | Charmian Griffin | Christina Manning-Lebek | Peter Maxwell | Dora Mentzel | David Morris | Jonathan P. Watts

Paperback: 180 pages
Publisher: Royal College of Art
Language: English
Product dimensions: 210 x 130 x 15 mm
Design: Pedro Cid Proença
Cover illustration: Fabienne Hess.

D 10 €

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Sad, Depressed, People, David Horvitz, New Documents

David Horvitz’s Sad, Depressed, People looks at a set of images circulating within stock photography collections. These photographs, in which actors are photographed holding their heads in their hands, ostensibly depressed, are here shown to contain a bizarre tension between their status as stock images and their supposedly emotional content.

Language: English
Pages: 64

(Out of print)

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C.I.N.V. U: Tijdschrift over eenzaamheid. Christian van der Kaap. Medium / MER. Paperkunsthalle.

Een kunstwerk in de vorm van een tijdschrift over eenzaamheid, dat is C.I.N.V.U (spreek uit: See I envy you). Het begon met een open uitnodiging aan mensen met de vraag om bij te dragen aan het beeld van eenzaamheid middels teksten, beelden, liedjes en steunbetuigingen. Niet bedoeld als pleidooi voor of tegen eenzaamheid, maar eerder om een idee te krijgen wat eenzaamheid ons kan laten zien. De vorm van het tijdschrift zelf draagt hier ook aan bij. Het laat naast de actualiteit ook onze vergankelijkheid zien; een bij elkaar geniet hoopje papier dat inspeelt op ons intrinsiek verlangen. Echt opmerkelijk wordt het tijdschrift pas door de talloze bijdragen die na het plaatsen van de oproep binnen kwamen. Kunstenaars, fotografen, schrijvers, musici en schoonmakers; bij eenzaamheid leken mensen als vanzelfsprekend te begrijpen waar het om gaat. Sterker nog, de kloof van onbegrip die zo kenmerkend is voor eenzaamheid leek ineens overbrugbaar. Niet eerder was er zo sterk de behoefte om eenzaamheid met iedereen te delen.

Authors: Rory Pilgrim, Isabelle Andriessen, Gijs Frieling, Julika Rudelius, Chris van der Kaap, Jaap Scheeren, Ruben Jacobs, Jan Hoek, James Lee Byars, Dore van Duivenbode, Sands-Murray-Wassink, Willem Waterschoot, Robin Waart, Susan Kooi e.a.

Design: Christian van der Kaap, Samira Ben Laloua
Print: Veenman +, Rotterdam
Language: Dutch / English

D 6.95 €

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Tomorrow, Saturday July 14th. Berlin

from 12 – 6pm

Motto Billig!

Back list, display copies, (…)

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The Little Joe Clubhouse Reader, David Edgar & Sam Ashby, Ditto Press / Little Joe.

The Little Joe Clubhouse is a specially commissioned, crafted environment that draws on ideas of withdrawal, defiant separatism and delicious seclusion, at once a den, a commune and a cinema. An expanded, interactive version of the magazine, The Clubhouse incorporates an eclectic programme of films as part of Little Joe’s ongoing endeavour to (re)map the queer histories of film.

Specially published to accompany The Clubhouse, The Little Joe Clubhouse Reader includes contributions from the artists, filmmakers and writers who selected the unique programme of films.

Contributors include A.K. Burns, Ben Campkin, Stuart Comer, Jon Davies, Ron Gregg, Bruce Hainley, Ed Halter, R Justin Hunt, Shanay Jhaveri, William E Jones, Tom Kalin, Jonathan Kemp, Kevin Killian, Wayne Koestenbaum, James Mackay, Billy Miller, Bradford Nordeen, Jenni Olson, Liz Rosenfeld, Patrick Staff, A.L. Steiner, Edward Thomasson, Scott Treleaven, Mark Turner, Ed Webb-Ingall and Matt Wolf.

Risograph printed
Limited edition

D 6.50 €

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Lodown Magazine #82. July/August/September 2012.

Featuring Mauro Perucchetti, Danny Way, Animal Collective, Manuel Gottsching, Larry Clark, Gregg Segal, Bo Ningen, Florentijn Hofman and much more.

D 6.90 €

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Topmotiviert, Linus Bill, Rollo Press.

Artist’s Book by Linus Bill
Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Was nun?”
by Linus Bill, Patrick Hari and Timm Ulrichs
at the Photoforum Pasquart Biel, 9.10. – 27.11.2011

64 Pages, 17.5 × 25 cm, First Edition, 2011.

D 18 €

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Panel #4, Elisabeth Greinecker and Julian Turner (Eds.).

PANEL is an artist magazine from Vienna. Each issue forms around the idea of finding a common theme, a red line, a form of serendipity, without revolving around a “topic”. See it as a group exhibition on paper.

Each issue presents around 13 works, in an edition of 100 copies, printed in colour in A5. New releases are published 2 to 3 times a year.

This issue features work from Michael Brunner, Sophia Hatwagner, Nathalie Koger, Birgit Lesch, Emanuel Mauthe, Noele Ody, Mario Strk and Amelie Zadeh.

D 8 €

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LABYRINTH – Ein Buch in vier Vorträgen, Olaf Nicolai & Jan Wenzel, Spector Books & Rollo Press

“Warum tötete Theseus den Minotaurus?” – “Weshalb fand er den Ausgang des Labyrinths nur mit Hilfe des Ariadnefadens?” – “Erleichtert ein Mehr an Wissen die Orientierung? Oder wird es schwieriger, wenn wir verstanden haben, wie leicht es ist, sich zu verlaufen?” – “Wie kommt es, dass das Labyrinth uns im Handumdrehen zu Mitspielern macht? Warum kommen wir nicht los von diesem Gewirr aus Linien und Gängen?” – “Ist der Weg ins Zentrums des verwickelten Gängereichs leichter zu finden als der Weg zurück in die Freiheit?”

320 Seiten, Deutsch, Broschur mit ca. 280 Abbildungen
Gestaltung: Urs Lehni

D 12 €

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