Notes on Fundamental Joy; seeking the elimination of oppression...
Carmen Winant
Published by Printed Matter, New York, 2019, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 30.5 cm, English
Price: €32 (Out of stock)

Notes on Fundamental Joy; seeking the elimination of oppression through the social and political transformation of the patriarchy that otherwise threatens to bury us holds up the work of JEB, Clytia Fuller, Tee Corinne, Ruth Mountaingrove, Katie Niles, Carol Osmer, Honey Lee Cottrell, and others, documenting a community of women/womyn in their collective embrace of the ‘back to the land’ movement. Through the lens of pervasive image-making—women holding cameras, women taking pictures of women—the project considers the radical potential of social and political optimism predicated on the absence of men.

The book includes a personal essay by writer and artist Ariel Goldberg realized in two parts, understanding the photographs and wider cultural moment through a broader gender lexicon and in the context of trans-exclusionism.

Printed on Igeba IBO One 60gsm, a lightweight semi-transparent paper which allows for the show-through of images between page, creating an exchange and dialog between partially visible photographs.

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QUANTUM ART MANIFESTO
Yutaka Matsuzawa
Published by Yale Union, Portland, 2019, 112 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 25.5 cm, English
Price: €28 (Out of stock)

Yutaka Matsuzawa (1922–2006) was considered the father of Japanese conceptual art. In his pursuit of ways to express the invisible invisibly, Matsuzawa developed a unique understanding of conceptual art that both elevated and transcended the typical notions of conceptual art in the western, euro-centric art worlds.

A new edition of Yutaka Matsuzawa’s groundbreaking book, Quantum Art Manifesto was published on the occasion of the exhibition Yutaka Matsuzawa at Yale Union, curated by Alan Longino and Reiko Tomii. Including the original Japanese text, the original English translation (with minor edits), a foreword by Haruo Matsuzawa, and an essay by Reiko Tomii.

Offset printed by Gary Robbins at Container Corps with tipped-in color fields and Matsuzawa’s Psi stamp. Exposed spine Smyth-sewn binding. Dust jacket letterpressed by Aaron Flint Jamison. This new edition of the publication is now also out of print. Images of the exhibition can be seen here. And a text by Alan Longino on Yutaka Matsuzawa can be found here.

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Second Thoughts
Angie Keefer
Published by Kunstverein, Amsterdam, 2019, 512 pages (b/w ill.), 14 × 21 cm, English
Price: €25

Second Thoughts, co-published by Kunstverein, Amsterdam, and Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, follows Kunstverein’s earlier publication, Paper Exhibition: Selected Writings by Raimundas Malašauskas, as the second in a series featuring the work of an author whose writing has never before been collected in a dedicated, single object. This collection of essays spans multiple research disciplines, including Angie Keefer’s own biography, and runs parallel to her artistic practice. All of the texts were commissioned and published previously, but many have been rewritten for this book. Keefer deftly brings together technological inquiry with artistic production and quotidian human experience.

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keyon gaskin, NASHA
d.a. carter
Published by If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, Amsterdam, 2019, 12 pages, 10.5 × 15 cm, English
Price: €5

Produced on the occasion of NASHA, a work by keyon gaskin commissioned by If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution as part of VII–Social Movement (2017–18) curated by Frédérique Bergholtz and Susan Gibb. Performers Samiya Bashir, d.a. carter, keyon gaskin, sidony oneal, Adee Roberson, Raoni Muzho Saleh, and Joy Mariama Smith.

Designed by Will Holder.

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MYRIAM LEFKOWITZ, LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE
Susan Gibb
Published by If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, Amsterdam, date, 24 pages, 10.5 × 15 cm, English
Price: €5

Produced on the occasion of La Bibliothèque, a work by Myriam Lefkowitz commissioned by If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution as part of VII – Social Movement (2017–18) curated by Frédérique Bergholtz and Susan Gibb. Performers Lendl Barcelos, Alkis Hadjandreou, Annick Kleizen, Myriam Lefkowitz and Zoe Scoglio.

Designed by Will Holder.

#2019 #ificantdanceidontwanttobepartofyourrevolution #susangibb #willholder
Permanent Recession: a Handbook on Art, Labour and Circumstance
Channon Goodwin (ed.)
Published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven, 2019, 448 pages, 10.8 × 17.6 cm, English
Price: €17 (Out of stock)

Permanent Recession: a Handbook on Art, Labour and Circumstance is an enquiry into the capitals and currencies of experimental, radical and artist-run initiatives in Australia.

Excavating a shared history of independent practice stretching back to the 1980s, this publication situates new research within a rich continuum of debate about the Australian artmaking context.

Part research, part advocacy document, part literature review, part reader, part position paper, Permanent Recession is a living contribution to current thought. As a handbook, it is a compilation of useful information in a compact and handy form.

Designed by Paul Mylecharane and Kim Mumm Hansen of Public Office.

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