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Collector's Shit : Detachment from the Collection
Todd Alden
New York, NY: Ted Donald Editions. 1993
In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni collected his own excrement in tins which he sold for the price of gold on the day of the sale. Beginning in 1993, Todd Alden embarked on a project in response to Manzoni, in which he invited some 750 contemporary art collectors to conserve their own feces for canning and collection. A total of 81 collectors participated in this consideration of abjection, market relations, scatological taboos, and authenticity. Alden situates the collector as artist creator, while his own role becomes that of collector fetishist. Bound in a file folder, this publication consists of meticulously organized copies of correspondence with an anonymous collector, support materials, and essays by Alden and Ted Donald.
Category: Book
$75.00
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La Berceuse de Broadway
Pierre Alferi
Paris, France: Onestar Press. 2001
La Berceuse de Broadway is based on a twelve-minute film in which the artist appropriated and altered a scene from a subtitled version of the Busby Berkeley musical "Gold Diggers of 1935". In the book, the "found" image and text combinations of the film stills tell their own story.
Category: Book
$55.00
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Bootleg 4 : Song Drawings / Paintings 1996 - 2005
Dave Allen
Toronto, Canada: Art Metropole. 2005
Dave Allen, an artist whose work is concerned with the myths and realities of popular music as they relate to personal identity, culture and creativity, has compiled a book of his "song drawings/ paintings." Each drawing consists of a page of idiosyncratic chord annotations and lyrics : essential instructions for how a guitarist is to play a particular popular song in his particular style. A section of the book consists of song drawings by friends and the public which he requested over the course of his 2005 exhibition at Art Metropole.
Category: Book
$25.00
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From Partial Portrait
Pamphlet #7 of Wedge #3/4/5
Roberta Allen
New York, NY: Mariani & Wallis. 1983
Pamphlet of Roberta Allen's poetry about a relationship.
Category: Book
$5.00
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Pointless Arrows : 12 Situations or Any Sequence From 1-10 Therein
Roberta Allen
New York, NY: R. Allen. 1976
Highlights include "20 Pointless Arrows Cancelled Out By Directional Conflict" and "26 Pointless Arrows Fuse in An Ascending Formation." References: Franklin Furnace Archive Artists Book Bibliography, 1977-1979.
Category: Book
$10.00
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China Night
Terry Allen
. 1985
The texts in China Night were drawn directly from individual pieces in Youth in Asia, a body of work Terry Allen began in 1982. This provocative multi-dimensional project takes events dealing with the aftermath of the Vietnam War as a starting point for a new narrative. The China Night installation featured spoken narrations (transcribed here) accompanied by music from the Vietnam era - 60's rock n roll, Mexican, and Vietnamese - and an installation of sculpures reproduced here in color photographs.
Category: Book
$25.00
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"India Song,"
Özlem, Altin
Berlin, Germany: Orient Press. 2008
"India Song," documents the performance of the same name, initiated by Katarina Zdjelar as part of the If I can't dance... festival in the Netherlands. It is a mimeograph-printed script cobbled together from pieces of Marguerite Duras' 1973 play India Song, with certain passages underlined and others crossed out. Each book comes with a fold-out newsprint insert showing the artists/performers reading and marking the script.
Category: Zine
$10.00
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Erstarrte Unruhe
Özlem Altin
Berlin, Germany: Orient Press. 2009
Published on the occasion of the 2009 exhibition "Source Material" at TENT Rotterdam, this stencil-printed book compiles a variety of photographs, illustrations, and drawings, some of which were made very recently and some at the turn of the last century. All images are rendered in a dark blue ink that accentuates surface texture and gives them an aesthetic unity, despite their various origins. Each book comes with a green stencil-printed fold-out poster by Özlem Altin and a CD entitled "Sahara FM" by Frau Sadowski.
Category: Book
$18.00
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The Primitive Mentality
Özlem Altin
Berlin, Germany: Orient Press. 2007
With The Primative Mentality, artist &3214;zlem Altin compiles explorations of the human form and customs, taking imagery from Western anthropological documentation of "other" cultures as well as its own, outsider art as well as insider art, and creating a booklet that subverts such outmoded dichotomies. With a black and white fold-out poster and CD "Persona" compiled by Pieter Kock. All text is in Dutch.
Category: Book + Audio
$10.00
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Zig Zag Lady
Özlem Altin
Berlin, Germany: Orient Press. 2008
Published on the occasion of Conlang 2 at Performance Lab in Amsterdam, Zig Zag Lady is collection of found photographs and illustrations mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries, when illusionists tried to transcend the corporal by gracefully levitating, entrancing, impaling, and decapitating their (female) subjects. Altin compiles etchings and photographs of such feats and includes images from his own life and work that mirror the aesthetic concerns of his magical forebears.
Category: Zine
$8.50
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