Agency. Steve Bishop

Posted in music, vinyl on July 14th, 2022
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‘Agency’ is a document of the hold music for a Canadian Government helpline, and a text about quantum mechanics and the notion of free will seen through the lens of Miles Davis’ 1959 album Kind of Blue.

Hand-numbered edition of 100

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Recorded live 22/05/18 on hold to the Canadian Government agency ‘Service Canada’ Social Insurance Registration Office.

Side A (20’22”)
Freddie Freeloader (part)
Blue in Green
All Blues (part)

Side B (18’16”)
All Blues (part)
Flamenco Sketches
Flamenco Sketches (alternate take)
Die Kleine Kneipe (part) *

All tracks by Miles Davis except * by André Rieu

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Start Over Every Morning. Steve Bishop. Kunstverein Braunschweig; Motto Books; Floating Opera Press

Posted in Motto Books on March 12th, 2021
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Catalogue of Steve Bishop’s solo exhibition ‘Start Over Every Morning’ (2019) at Kunstverein Braunschweig:

In his artistic practice Steve Bishop explores how mental states can be materialized and conveyed in space, through installations often involving personal belongings and mementos. By subtly distorting familiar, often intimate domestic scenarios, Bishop creates intermediate worlds in which concepts of time are suspended, and clear boundaries between private and public space, exhibition and non-exhibition are blurred.

In the exhibition, we encounter the remnants of a celebration recently passed. Constructed in the main room is a simple white kitchen, which surreally extends over the entire length of the space. Here the profoundly everyday nature of the counter meets the attempt to grasp abstract concepts of infinity. A blankness pervades the room which is punctuated by a few scattered objects: leftover cake is carefully stowed away in Tupperware boxes, recordings of jazz instrumentals drift out from a radio, and outside garden furniture is already tucked in under its plastic cover. A longing to preserve fleeting situations repeatedly arises, no matter how temporary the moment might be. In a second room, found photographs are framed together with pages of text taken from a largely forgotten self-help organization called Re-evaluation Counseling. Slogans call for self-empowerment and optimization, and one might also discern from the neat surroundings that a desire for structure, for inner and outer clarity, seems to be as desirable as it is acutely endangered.

Publishers: Kunstverein Braunschweig; Motto Books; Floating Opera Press

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¨Strangers’ Guide to Home Territories¨. Steve Bishop. Motto Books, Supportico Lopez

Posted in Motto Books on October 21st, 2016
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Steve Bishop
Strangers’ Guide to Home Territories
1st edition, 250 copies

Photos taken at the following exhibitions:
Standard Ballad (2015)
Carlos/Ishikawa, London

You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To (2016)
Supportico Lopez/6817 Los Angeles

Insulated by the Boundary (2016)
AND NOW, Dallas

1st edition, 250 copies
60 C-prints on Fuji Crystal Archive photo paper
Screen printed PVC jacket
ISBN: 9782940524518
Published by Motto Books, Supportico Lopez

35€
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