Grey But Not Grey
Algirdas Šeškus
Published by Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas, 2013, 128 pp. (b/w ill.), 25 × 25 cm, Lithuanian, English, French
Price: €30

Algirdas Šeškus found photography in 1975 when he learned that he would need to bring ten photographs to a job interview for the position of cameraman at the only television channel in Soviet Lithuania. Nobody looked at the pictures, but the camera he bought for the purpose showed him the world anew, and he continued photographing for the next decade.

#2013 #algirdasseskus #photography
Expedition Polaire
Pieter Laurens Mol
Published by Haags Centrum voor Aktuele Kunst, Den Haag, 1994, sachet of salt and sugar, 6.5 × 10.5 cm, French
Price: €80

Produced on the occasion of Pieter Laurens Mol’s inclusion in the exhibition Passages at the Haags Centrum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag, 1994. A sachet that contains 4 grams of a mixture of salt and sugar.

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

#1994 #ephemera #haagsgemeentemuseum #pieterlaurensmol
The Worm and the Epitaph (exhibition pamphlet)
Ed Atkins
Published by the Hartwig Art Foundation & Holland Festival, Amsterdam, 2023, unpaginated, 14.7 × 21 cm, English/Dutch
Price: €8 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Ed Atkins’ The worm, 1 June – 1 July, 2023 at Parnassusweg 220, Amsterdam as part of the Holland Festival. Atkins presented a telephone call with his mother. “[She] is heard but not seen, while Atkins is rendered, by way of performance-capture technology, as a digital avatar who listens attentively, mumbling in agreement, sympathy, or surprise, asking a question only when her narrative falters.”

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

#2023 #edatkins #ephemera
Ed Atkins
Published by MoMA PS1, New York, 2013, unpaginated, 12.7 × 20.2 cm, English
Price: €13

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Ed Atkins at MoMA PS1, New York, 20 January – 14 April, 2013.

Known for his high-definition videos that defy narrative conventions, Ed Atkins works with filmic and text-based forms in technological transition. The artist considers HD technology deathlike because of how it intensifies the visibility of the filmed subject, creating an image that prioritises its own representation over the language, character, and emotions of the figures it depicts. Often creating installations that include collage, drawing, and other mediums, the artist deploys this bodiless movie format to highlight the conflicting intimacies that today’s mechanisms of cultural production represent and allow us to achieve.

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

#2013 #edatkins #ephemera
3 x Jan Dibbets
Published by Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen, 2011, 100 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22.5 × 28.5 cm, English/Dutch
Price: €23

Produced on the occasion of exhibitions at De Garage, Mechelen, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek & White-Out-Studio, Knokke-Heist, 15 April – 5 June, 2011. With texts by Yves Aupetitallot, Sven Beckstette, Luk Lambrecht.

#2011 #jandibbets
Yayoi Kusama:
De Nederlandse jaren, 1965-1970
Published by nai010 Publishers, Rotterdam & Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, 2023, 208 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21.1 × 26 cm, Dutch
Price: €30

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: De Nederlandse jaren, 1965-1970 at the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, 23 September, 2023 – 25 February, 2024.

This publication describes Kusama’s formative but underexposed Dutch period through essays by various art specialists, numerous previously unpublished photos, newspaper reports and personal recollections by eyewitnesses, from Phil Bloom to Henk Peeters.

#2023 #yayoikusama