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Notable Days
Pavel Büchler
London, England: Book Works. 1990
“Notable Days” is the Czech expatriate’s response to recent events in Eastern Europe and their transformation into history. The book looks at the ways we measure time and, through this, how we form views of events and construct a memory of them in the form of history. Buchler extracts fragments of newspaper phrases and photographs, made abstract through enlargement, and places them into a new context within the pages of the book, endowing them with their own “history.” Compelling for both its underlying ideas as well as its graphic presentation of them.
Category: Book
$25.00
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The Blindings
Brian Catling
London, England: Book Works. 1995
Catling created a series of performances 1993-1994; this book documents both his process and the results. Catling says in the preface: “I hope to keep these pages clear from the unsanitary condition of autobiography.“ Includes photographs, writings, and entries.
Category: Book
$15.00
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Lost In Space
Andrew Dodds
London, England: Book Works. 2006
"The moment of the first lunar landing, 20 July 1969, has become a monument — the documents, images and recordings now accessible to millions. But the actual site — the scene of the event, the footprints, abandoned objects, the Landing Module — remains preserved for millennia, vacuum packed in non-existent atmosphere.
J.G. Ballard described Project Apollo as "the last great act undertaken by the United States out of a sense of optimism." In Lost in Space Andrew Dodds draws on information from NASA archives, correspondence with specialists in the field and personally gathered ephemera, to find the objects abandoned at Tranquillity Base; objects invested with dreams and aspirations, now succumbed to obsolescence."
From the publishers
Category: Book
$16.00
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Airdrop
Jennifer Gabrys
London, England: Book Works. 2004
"Like pennies from heaven, airdrops occur in many guises, from food to fleas, from prosthetic limbs to exploding decoy frogs, the ethos of the airdrop falls somewhere between destruction and creation. This topical new publication sketches the history of the airdrop; providing a creative survey and investigation into this very particular form of tactical weaponry. Presenting examples and information, this fascinating and personal overview demonstrates the unusual imagination and ingenuity involved in the design and dispersal of this critical medium." From the publisher
Category: Book
$15.00
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Literally No Place, Communes, Bars and Greenrooms
Liam Gillick
London, England: Book Works. 2002
Three characters return to a desert commune to tell three stories. Each one continuing until they reach a solution or a dilemma. Developing narratives that could be described as significant and marginal simultaneously. Addressing the urban/non-urban, the border zone and the locations of pre/post-presentation. Tin mining, Hotel California and throwing spoons across bars in Tokyo all contribute to a text that indicates the collapses inherent in any attempt to pin down the shifting state of our urban structures.
Literally No Place was outlined during a public presentation in Brussels for the exhibition Indiscipline in 2000. That improvised speech created the basis of this book which attempts to address how changes in concepts of conscience and ethics have left their trace in the built world.
Literally No Place is published to coincide with Liam Gillick’s major solo show "The Wood Way" at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, 3rd May to 23rd June 2002.
Category: Book
$22.00
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Der Planet
Stepan Grygar, Zdenek Primus
Prague, Czech Rep.: Umbrella Editions. 1993
Rolling through city streets and sidewalks, a large rubber ball picks up and deposits the detritus of the urban landscape. Nineteen black-and-white photographs document the shifting geographies of an earth surface comprised of that very detritus—leaves for its continents, rocks for it islands, blankness for it oceans. Viewing the microcosm as if the cosmos, this book speaks in the monumental language of outer-space photography and collapses an entire geographic history onto the surface of a rolling, rubber ball.
Category: Book
$22.00
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Head In The Railings
Siôn Parkinson
London, England: Book Works. 2006
“I try to get into spaces, ones I convince myself I can fit limbs in. I photograph myself doing it, camera on tripod, timer on camera. I explain each experience, building up a loose taxonomy of the places I’ve been in. From my pillowcase to the shifting shadow of a tree.”— Siôn Parkinson
Category: Book
$14.00
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Small Gold Medal
Elizabeth Price
London, UK: Book Works. 2001
Contributing artists include Dave Beech, Nathan Coley, Richard Hogg, Fergal Stapleton, Simon Starling, Matthew Thompson.
Category: Book
$20.00
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Progressive Disorder
