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X. Glen Cummings, Adam Michaels.

X documents the trajectory of the X symbol within (and without) underground
music culture. As the first step of an ongoing project, the exhibition
opening will launch a book presenting initial visual research. Building
upon the varied meanings and form of the X, the show presents experiments
in a range of media; attendees are encouraged to contribute materials to
future iterations of the project.
Glen Cummings & Adam Michaels.

With:
Michael Brenner, Jordan Carver, Jeremy Dean, Kathryn Holter, Kevin Wade Shaw,
Justin Michael Smith, Stewart Smith, and Chris Wu.

Published by W/————gallery

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Street Value: Shopping, Planning and Politics at Fulton Mall. Rosten Woo. Meredith TenHoor. Damon Rich.

Downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Mall is one of the most bustling public spaces in New York City. A colossus of commerce, itwelcomes over one hundred thousand shoppers daily and ranks among the most profitable commercial real estate in the entire country, and is also home to some of the city’s most recognized institutions, including cheesecake mecca Junior’s, that have been immortalized in song, film, and culture. Despite its historic link to Brooklyn’s past and its financial success as a shopping district, Fulton Street is rarely celebrated in New York. The street’s hand-painted signs, customized jewelry, rare sneakers, mega-church, and vendors offer a special sampling of noncorporate commerce, but many consider its sensorial and physical density a sign of blight. Misunderstandings about race, class, and profitability have led Fulton Street to be characterized as run-down, dangerous, or underutilized, and as a result it has been subject to nearly continuous renovation. Recently rezoned and becoming increasingly attractive to national chain stores, Fulton Street is once again poised for big changes.

Street Value is a challenge to creatively rethink the planning and urban design of Fulton Street and other urban shopping districts. Street Value explores the mall’s historical and contemporary conditions through original essays, oral histories, new and archival photographs, historic documents, and interviews with key planners, developers, city officials, historians, and activists from the 1960s to the present. Street Value probes the ideology of redevelopment and demonstrates how commercial, governmental, and activist forces have coalesced to produce one of Brooklyn’s most legendary public spaces.

Published by Inventory Books
Language: English
208 pages

D 16.50€

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Alice Cooper / Suzi Simpson. Brian Kennon.

A pocket-sized collection of images, mostly acquired through fan-based websites, of Alice Cooper, the 70’s shock-rock icon and 90’s Playboy model, Suzi Simpson.

Published by 2nd Cannons Publications 023
Edition of 500
84 pages

D 15€

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Believe You Me. Ry Rocklen.

Believe You Me is an artists’ book that corresponds with Rocklen’s 2011 exhibition of the same name. For the “book version of the exhibition,” Rocklen had photographer Lee Thompson photograph the raw materials he would then use to construct his sculptures (thrift store acquired trophies, posters, t-shirts, paintings and a found telephone book). Rocklen then used those photographs as the source material for the book. Essentially a series of hyper-detail images of the works in the exhibition, Believe You Me collages the photographs into full-bleed spreads that have been loosely organized around a set of scanned telephone book pages and which function as the book’s chapters (Hair-Handwriting, Ice-Immigration, Religious-Remodeling, etc).

Published by 2nd Cannons Publications 025
Edition of 500.
100 pages

D 24€

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Peter Langer. Volum I, 9/2011.

The first part of an American Trilogy.
Volume I deals with modern mass communication.

Published by Nightworks
240 x 170 mm
80 pages
b&w duplex offset, stitched, clothbound hardback
First edition of 500 copies.

D 34€

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Von Oben. Sany.

Von Oben consists of a series of drawings which, in their form, reference a tradition of semi-pornographic cartoons one could find in Scandinavia in the 70s and 80s, in magazines of a kind considered highly inappropriate today; in terms of sexism, racism and a ruthless prejudice against exposed social groups. Today this art form remains not much more than a marginalized rest of low-culture, while the subjects it deals with still flourish, repressed and hardened in our sub-conscious.

Von Oben (from above) is an idiomatic expression in German which means to have a superior attitude to others. In the book, those offenders are instantly and literally punished by heavy objects falling on them from the sky. In a secular world, where our great God has gone for vacation, there remains no greater punishment than our own arrogance.

Published by Bad Day Books
Softcover
48 pp.
risograph 1/1
5 × 9 inches
First edition of 100
ISBN 978-0-9869665-0-7

D 15€

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The Amnesia Pavilions. Nicholas Muellner.

The Amnesia Pavilions, Nicholas Muellner’s stunning new book of textual and visual autobiography, takes as its central narrative his return trip to a small city in Eastern Siberia after a seventeen-year absence. Traveling back to Ulan-Ude in the fall of 2009, Muellner set out to find a close friend whose trail had run cold. Guided (and haunted) by the extensive photographic and written material produced on his earlier journeys, as well as reflective chronicling of his futile retracings, this book considers the impossibility of tracking down and understanding one’s former self. Along the way, this autobiographical safari also serves as a framework for viewing the massive cultural and socio-economic change that has transformed provincial Russia.

The Amnesia Pavilions argues for the incommensurability of the past and the present, and examines photography’s personal, vernacular and historical role in both bridging and broadening the temporal chasm of understanding.

Published by A-Jump Books
220 pages
81 color illustration, 31 black & white
Perfect-bound softcover
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9777655-8-4

D 26€

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Mousse #30.

Mousse is a bimonthly magazine published in Italian and English . Established in 2006, Mousse contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism and curation, alternated with a series of distinctive columns in a unique tabloid format.

Mousse magazine number 30 including texts by Monika Szewczyk, Dieter Roelstraete, Nicholas Cullinan, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Jan Verwoert amongst others.

Editor In Chief: Edoardo Bonaspetti
Art Director: Francesco Valtolina

D 8€

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Quick #5: Haris Epaminonda.

Alle Bilder / All pictures: Haris Epaminonda
Herausgeber / Editor: Arno Auer
Gestaltung / Design: Franziska Nast / Arno Auer

D 7€

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