Glass Urinary Devices
Patty Chang
Published by A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, 2024, 4 pp. (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English/Dutch
Price: €1

Produced on the occasion of Patty Chang: Glass Urinary Devices at A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, 14 September – 3 November, 2024. In 2015, American artist Patty Chang followed the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the longest aqueduct in the world, which brings water from southern to northern China. While walking, she collected her urine in discarded plastic bottles found along the way, drawing a connection between the large-scale infrastructural attempt to control the flow of water and the uncontrollable flows of her own body. Once back in Boston, Chang made a series of hand-blown glass sculptures modelled on the plastic bottles that she utilised during her journey. For Chang’s exhibition at A Tale of A Tub, a collection of these prosthetic-like sculptures will be presented on the ground floor, reflecting on the flow of water that once passed through the former washhouse alongside Chang’s own ruminations on water as a metaphorical point of departure for geopolitics, human excess and waste.

#2024 #ephemera #isabellesully #pattychang #saboday
Retrospective
Michael Snow
Published by Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2021, 44 pp., 13.8 × 21.4 cm, English
Price: €13

Published on the occasion of the Michael Snow retrospective, held at Anthology Film Archives, New York, 3 December–14 December, 2021. Including the full series texts, a filmography, a republished piece by P. Adams Sitney from 1976, and Raymond Foye’s 2021 interview with Snow.

#2021 #anthologyfilmarchives #experimentalfilm #film #michaelsnow #padamssitney
Selected Video Works (1970–1991)
Michel Auder
Published by Anthology Film Archives, New York, 1991, 96 pp. (b/w ill.), 13.8 × 21.2 cm, English
Price: €30 (Temporarily out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the screenings Selected Video Works (1970-1991) of Michel Auder’s work that took place at Anthology Film Archives, from 20 May–22 June, 1991. This publication includes an introduction by Jonas Mekas, and descriptions of the screenings, along with corresponding film stills.

#1991 #anthologyfilmarchives #experimentalfilm #film #michelauder
1952–1956, Tokyo
On Kawara
Published by Parco Co., Tokyo, 1991, unpaginated, hardcover in slipcase (colour & b/w ill.), 28 × 21.7 cm, Japanese/English
Price: €290

This publication focuses on On Kawara’s previously unstudied five-year stay in Tokyo, where he was part of influential avant-garde art student associations and wrote many pieces of art criticism. His violent and grotesque imagery from this period is in stark contrast to his streamlined conceptual date paintings.

Reproducing the complete Bathroom series (1953–54), Events in a Warehouse (1954), and a number of figurative paintings and drawings executed in Japan. The latter half of this book is a collection of newspaper headlines from 1952 to 1956 in both languages, printed on newsprint.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1991 #japaneseavantgarde #onkawara
Aanwezig/Afwezig
Barbara Bloom
Published by de Appel, Amsterdam, 1993, folded card in envelope with two aluminium tags, 15.3 × 10.7 cm, English
Price: €90 (Out of stock)

Memorial edition produced on the 10 year anniversary of the deaths of Wies Smals, Josine van Droffelaar, Gerhard von Graevenitz, Martin Barkhuis and Hendrik Smals in a plane crash.

“This is a facsimile of a small aluminum tag which reads ‘Aanwezig’ (Present) on one side, and ‘Afwezig’ (Absent) on the other. It was found at an airport for private planes in Holland in May of 1983. These tags hung on hooks under the names of pilots who frequented that airport, indicating their presence or absence. I was moved to take one, and have had it on my desk ever since.”

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1993 #barbarabloom #deappel #ephemera #wiessmals
Josef Dabernig
Published by Secession, Vienna, 1992, unpaginated (b/w ill.), 21 × 27 cm, German
Price: €15 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Josef Dabernig’s exhibition at Secession, Vienna, 30 September – 31 November, 1992. With texts from Josef Dabernig, Christian Kravagna and Adolf Krischanitz.

#1992 #josefdabernig #secession