Bookstore – Open Call

A friend just clued me in to this…

Bookstore: March 2 – April 26, 2012

Opening: Friday, March 2  |  7:00-10:00pm

Open Call for Artist Books, Zines, and Other Publications

“Drift Station, an artist-run gallery and performance space in Lincoln, Nebraska, is calling for artist books, zines, comics, small presses, and other non-traditional publications. For the duration of the exhibition, Drift Station will become a bookstore/reading library where the public can look through, peruse, and purchase artworks.

You may send us as many copies of as many works as you want. Any and all publications will be included – our goal is to fill the gallery! Works will be displayed on tables and shelves and must be able to be handled by the public for the duration of the exhibition without gloves. Because of this work has the potential to get damaged, please do not send us elaborate or delicate books that are not meant to be handled by the general public.

All work must either be free or for sale for under $30. In cases where work is sold, Drift Station will take a 40% commission and deposit the remainder into the artist’s PayPal account. Unsold works may either be left at Drift Station for later purchase/given away or will be sent back to the artists (SASE required).”

WORKS MUST ARRIVE BY: February 18th, 2012

SUBMISSIONS MUST INCLUDE:
+ Submission form filled out, printed, and signed
+ Works to be included in the show
+ Self addressed, stamped envelope for return of works (optional)

SEND SUBMISSIONS TO:
Drift Station
Attn: Angeles Cossio
726 South 31st Street
Lincoln, Nebraska 68510
USA

Please direct any inquiries to: mail@driftstation.org

Archizines

“ARCHIZINES is a showcase of new architecture fanzines, journals and magazines from around the world that provide an alternative to the established architectural press. Launched by Elias Redstone, with art direction by Folch Studio, the project celebrates and promotes independent and alternative publishing as an arena for architectural commentary, criticism and research, and as a creative platform for new photography, illustration and design.“

The well designed website offers a comprehensive list of the magazines included in the exhibition, with images and descriptions of each. They also printed a nice catalog available here.

Millennium Magazines at MoMA

Veneer, No. 05. (Portland, OR: MPH, 2008). Photograph by Flint Jamison

Museum of Modern Art Bibliographer David Senior and myself are curating an exhibition of artists’ magazines published since 2000. The exhibition, Millennium Magazines, includes over 100 publications, and will be on view from February 21-May 14 in the mezzanine of the Cullman Education & Research building at MoMA.

As we gear up for the exhibition I will be posting information about some of the magazines included in the exhibition. Stay tuned for more information posted to this blog and on the MoMA website.

Mossless Issue 1 Release Party Tonight

“Printed Matter is pleased to launch Mossless Issue 1, an artist-made publication featuring four young contemporary photographers.Each artist is given a full-color, offset-printed book, with the four collected together in a screenprinted box. Please join us for a launch Thursday, January 19th, 6-8 PM. Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Ave, New York, at 22nd Street.

The four photographers in Issue 1 are Alana Celii, Bobby Doherty, Brea Souders and Sean Vegezzi. The work from the artists is diverse, but they share a common influence. As Susan Bright writes in the introductory essay, they are “four very different contemporary photographers who look at America with vivid and probing curiosity. Their looking is… a collective one with the Internet always at their side. This generation of image-makers are ‘alone together’ in a world of connectivity simultaneously tagging, reblogging, crowd sourcing, networking and tumblr-ing their vision.” 

Before this publication, Mossless was known as a blog that interviewed photographers–one every two days–with over 300 interviews posted to date. In that regard, Mossless has attempted to rethink the possibilities of format for contemporary photography and in doing so “represent a relative permanence and authenticity.” This boxset is a similar recontextualizing for Mossless itself. 

The four books are supplemented by a Risographed leaflet with an essay by Susan Bright, two posters, buttons and stickers, all inside a screenprinted box. 

Mossless retails for 43.00 and can be purchased at Printed Matter or online here.”

Lovely Daze Launch at Printed Matter on Friday

“Printed Matter is pleased to launch Lovely Daze, a curatorial journal of artist’s writings and artworks published by Taiwanese artist Charwei Tsai twice a year in limited editions. Join us Friday, December 9th, 6-8 PM, for a reception with Tsai and contributing artist Mark Borthwick. Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue, at 22nd Street.

Issue 8: Pilgrimage takes the reader through a journey of nature, death, and light, in search of what is beyond the Self. The collection of illuminating artworks ranges from oil painting of a row of Buddhist monks marching through unstable grounds by G.R. Iranna, images of a parade through death and torture by Chen Chieh-Jen, and a short film of a red balloon passing through the city of Paris by Annie Ratti.

Contributing editors include Kelly Carmena, Lesley Ma, and Sabrina Shaffer, with artwork from Hisham Bharoocha, Mark Borthwick, Chen Chieh-Jen, Peter Coffin, G.R. Iranna, Yukinori Maeda from Cosmic Wonder, Domingo Milella, Kyoko Murase, Wilfredo Prieto, Annie Ratti, Wu Chi-Tsung and Yuan Goang-Ming.

Cover image by G.G. Iranna, Bhiksu (detail), 52×132″, acrylic on tarpaulin, 2011.

Lovely Daze, Issue 8:Pilgrimage is published my Charwei Tsai in a signed and numbered edition of 500. Issue 8 retails for $18.00 and is available at the Printed Matter storefront or online here“

Conveyor Magazine Presents: One if by Wanderlust

Jenny Odell, 125 Swimming Pool

Conveyor Magazine Presents: One if by Wanderlust

November 16-23 at 25 Central Park West

Opening Reception Friday November 18, 7-10pm

“Conveyor Magazine is a semi-annual publication dedicated to eliminating the hierarchy between emerging and established artists. The magazine includes a series of new photography projects, interviews, articles and essays by writers and artists who strive to bring new ideas on photography to light.”

Make sure to check out this exhibition and launch party for issue 2 on Friday night! In addition to printing the magazine, Conveyor Arts hosts exhibitions, publishes artists books, offers opportunities for artists, and has a large print studio. Go to their website for more information.

_Quarterly Launch Thursday at Printed Matter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

_ Quarterly Triple Release

Issue 7: Peace*

Issue 8: No Music Is Swing

Issue 9: Administrative Comments from the Chicago Office

Musical performance by Kid Millions & Brian Chase

Thursday October 20th, 6 – 8PM

Printed Matter
195 10th Ave
NYC 10011

Will Holder speaking tonight at Artists Space

From the Artists Space Press Release:

Reading
Simon Amstell’s Do Nothing, read by Will Holder
Tonight, October 14, 7pm

Typographer Will Holder once read that oral tradition would lead us out of the post-modern condition, and has since become preoccupied with “publishing.” More often than not, the publications do not always take the form of ink and paper, and a large part of the preoccupation is spent in finding suitable “forms” for transmission. Holder is preoccupied with conversation as tool and model for a mutual and improvised set of publishing conditions – whereby the usual roles of commissioner, author, subject, editor, and designer are improvised and shared, as opposed to assigned and pre-determined.

Simon Amstell’s Do Nothing, is one of an ongoing series of “publications” by Will Holder, dedicated to single mothers. The piece channels the words of contemporary British comedian Simon Amstell. Previous editions have complicated Alice Notley’s Dr. Williams’ Heiresses, a conversation between Rachel Blau Duplessis and Charles Bernstein, and Adam Pendleton’s Black Dada Manifesto, in favor of an intensified reception of the gendered author positioned in them. Taking the responsibility to re-present these modernist writings, which – as a heterosexual voicing homosexual longing; or a man reading a woman’s words in relation to her body; or a British white citing a 20th century Afro-American canon; or an idiosyncratic minority finding its voice with regard to a grand narrative – “one can’t possibly say better [let alone wish to produce more] words to that effect”. The series depends on the duality of production and reproduction, him and her, publisher and author, text and body, writing and life, voice and typesetting.

Will Holder is editor of F.R.DAVID, a journal concerned with reading and writing in the arts (published by de Appel, Amsterdam, since 2006). In May 2009, he conceived and co-curated Talk Show at the ICA, London, an exhibition and season of events concerning speech and accountability. He is currently editing (together with Alex Waterman) and designing a biography of American composer Robert Ashley, for four or more voices (forthcoming, 2012); and serially publishing a rewriting of William Morris’ News from Nowhere (An epoch of rest) (1876) into a guide for design education and practice set in 2135.

The Plant Journal

I’m really looking forward to getting my hands on The Plant Journal!

Textfield at Creatures of Comfort

No More Reality

Phil Chang * Arthur Ou * Eduardo Sarabia * Anna Sew Hoy

Temporary bookshop and exhibition
July 21 — August 25, 2011
Reception: Thursday, July 21, 6-8pm
Organized by Textfield, Inc.

Creatures of Comfort
205 Mulberry St.
New York, NY 10012
www.creaturesofcomfort.us

Creatures of Comfort New York is pleased to present No More Reality, a temporary bookshop and exhibition organized by Textfield, Inc. The bookshop and exhibition will take place in Creatures of Comfort’s adjacent project space at 205 Mulberry St.In conjunction with the bookshop, which will feature current and archived titles from Textfield Distribution, there will be an exhibition of work by artists that Jonathan Maghen has collaborated with through Textfield to realize various publishing projects. The exhibition will feature the works of Phil Chang, Arthur Ou, Eduardo Sarabia, and Anna Sew Hoy.The bookshop and exhibition title have been appropriated from the Philippe Parreno work, No More Reality (the demonstration), 1991, which is a four-minute video of children demonstrating, and chanting the slogan and title (“No More Reality”). New York Times Tmagazine

Anna Sew Hoy – Magic Number Rattle Rock