COLLECTED WRITINGS 1966–1993
Ian Burn
Published by Power Publications, Sydney; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln, 2024, 776 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 16.5 × 23.4 cm, English
Price: €30

Ian Burn has been described as many things: an activist, a trade-unionist, a journalist, an art critic, a curator and an art historian—and, as he once described himself in a moment of self-deprecating alienation, ‘an ex-Conceptual artist’. This volume brings together a diverse collection of Burn’s writings that reveals a probing, analytical artist who turned to language to articulate the need for ‘looking at seeing and reading’, who pursued a Marxist politics in the face of neoliberalism and who sought to occupy and transform the margins of landscape painting. The publication includes previously unpublished material and offers a prescient rethinking of art in a decentered world through what Burn called ‘peripheral vision’.

Ian Burn: COLLECTED WRITINGS 1966–1993 is edited by Ann Stephen and designed by Robert Milne, with contributions by Art & Language, Adrian Piper, Paul Wood, Allan Sekula, and Mel Ramsden.

#2024 #adrianpiper #allansekula #annstephen #artamplanguage #ianburn #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #melramsden #paulwood #powerpublications #robertmilne #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Automatik
Margaret Raspé
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln & Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 2023, 224 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17.4 × 23.5 cm, English / German
Price: €30

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Margaret Raspé: Automatik at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition by the Berlin-based artist. Over the past five decades, Raspé has created a significant body of work in the immediate vicinity of the institution, developing an idiosyncratic artistic language that considers life and art, and their everyday conditions, in unison. In addition to her acclaimed film works from the 1970s and 80s, Raspé’s oeuvre consists of performances, photo series, sound works, and large-scale installations in both indoor and outdoor settings.

With contributions from Karolin Meunier, Kollektiv Florida, Ghislaine Leung, Kari Rittenbach, Emily LaBarge, Anna Gritz & Eva Wilson. Design by HIT & Veronika de Haas.

#annagritz #evawilson #ghislaineleung #hit #margaretraspe #veronikadehaas
Portable Document Format
Dexter Sinister
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2010, 200 pp. (b/w ill.), 11.3 × 17.5 cm, English
Price: €105

With contributions by Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Rob Giampietro, Anthony Huberman, J. Christopher Jones, Louis Kaplan, Edgar Allan Poe, Seth Price, David Reinfurt, David Senior and Giles Weaver.

Over the past few years, Dexter Sinister has been interested in exploring contemporary publishing in its broadest, most exploded sense. The first part of this book consists of pieces of writings written since the conception of their New York basement workshop and bookstore in the summer of 2006. These writings were previously published online as PDFs in the Library at www.dextersinister.org. They were primarily written by Dexter Sinister or by one of a circle of regular collaborators, often for their house journal Dot Dot Dot, or as supplements to other books or exhibitions.

#2010 #anthonyhuberman #davidreinfurt #davidsenior #dextersinister #dotdotdot #edgarallanpoe #robgiampietro #sethprice #sternbergpress #stuartbailey
World Without Objects (card)
Stephen Willats
Published by Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp, 2013, card (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 11.5 cm, English
Price: €15

Produced on the occasion of Stephen Willats’ exhibition World Without Objects at Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp 13 October–30 November, 2013.

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

#2013 #ephemera #stephenwillats
Passer-by
Atelier E.B.
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln and Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, 2019, 244 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 31 cm, English / French
Price: €28

Atelier E.B: Passer-by is edited Beca Lipscombe & Lucy McKenzie and examines an essential facet of the fashion industry: the world of mannequins and retail display. Since the Surrealists took them up in the early twentieth century, mannequin have been an enduring motif within fine art. Lipscombe and McKenzie un-pack the disciplines of window dressing, look to radical thinkers and makers who dissolved the dividing line between fine art and commercial display, and piece together a compelling narrative that encompasses ethnography, statuary, dolls, the world fairs and our digital future.

This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Passer-by, by Atelier E.B, at the Serpentine Galleries, London 3 October 2018–6 January 2019; Lafayette Anticipations-Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris, 21 February–28 April 2019; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow 31 January–10 May 2020.

#ateliereb #becalipscombe #fashion #lucymckenzie #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
The Social Life of the Record #1:
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Jon Bywater, Julien Laugier, Louise Menzies (Eds.)
Published by Paraguay Press, Paris, 2013, 24 pp., 14.8 × 21.5 cm, English
Price: €10

The first instalment of The Social Life of the Record, a series of original texts by musicians, fans, critics, collectors, dealers, label owners etc.—reflecting on recording, releasing, listening to, filing, flipping and DJing records today.

Addressing questions parallel to those asked by Paraguay Press’s established The Social Life of the Book, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere plays off its format and inaugurates the new series The Social Life of the Record. It is published as a component of the exhibition of the same name held at castillo/corrales December 2012–January 2013, and extends the project’s triangulation of the identity of New Zealand art and music. London-based artist Paul Elliman evokes relationships between sound and geography; Philadelphia label owner Tom Lax chronicles his involvement with New Zealand music as a fan from afar; New Zealand critic Jon Bywater reflects on vinyl records as a means to ‘physical thinking’; and french collectors Jedrzej Zagorski, François-Xavier Hubert, Sandra Reignoux, Jean-Louis Cayron and Fred Paquet contribute photographs of some of their New Zealand possessions; crossing Hans Christian Andersen with Wilkie Collins.

#2013 #jonbywater #julienlaugier #louisemenzies #paraguaypress #paulelliman