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Lost and Found Jessica Williams 6 x 8 in / 24pp / b&w photocopy ed. 30 / staple bound / $7 PURCHASE "The ninth installation of the 2011 Zine Subscription is a traditional photocopied zine of photographs. All images were taken by the artist since moving to Norway one month ago. Strange but familiar scenes in an unfamiliar place / the forest as a central theme. Jessica is an artist living and working in Oslo, Norway. She is currently pursing her MFA at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts." NSEW Press, 2011

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The Draftery fig 02: Narrative Exhortations Essay by Athanasiou Geolas; Drawings and writing by Dan Wood, Anasthasia Geolas, Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciou, Luke Pearson, Thomas Hillier

6 x 8 in / 88 pp. / color digital / staple bound / edition of 90 / $8  SOLD OUT

"The second issue of The Draftery frames works by architects, artists, and writers alike as alternative models of architectural production. These works are concerned with how architecture is manifested on non-physical sites—how architecture is represented as graphic object rather than as spatial artifact. The authors examine narrative, whether political, ideological, or simply serving to disclose meaning, as an organizing principle in works that function as public exhortations."

Booklet, 2012.

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Mind Games Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir Hjorvar, Noah Venezia (design)

4.7 x 6.7 in / 152 pp. / offset / paperback $10  SOLD OUT "Mindgames is constituted by four parts – ordered in alternating sequence – to form thirteen chapters in total. Each of the four sections holds a biographical account of its subject: Caligula, Henri Lefebvre, John Lennon and Halldór Laxness. The chapters can be read separately, as they have been conceived to be independent wholes, forming biographies that present portraits of associations rather than particular statements about individual lives. The text, however, is constructed to alternate rhythmically between the main motives. The motives in turn produce variations on particular themes as they modulate into different parts within the totality of the work as a whole. Mindgames was conceived as a way to enjoy information in the tradition of autodidacts of the past – but in a style which is commingled with a reverence towards traditional modes of archiving the world." Designed by Noah Venezia, Werkplaats Typographie, Arnhem / ArtEZ Institute of the Arts."

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PARIS 88/89 Daido Moriyama, interview by Jean-Kenta Gauthier

6 x 8 in / 64 pp. / offset / paperback edition of 1000 / $20  SOLD OUT

"In 1988 and 1989, without speaking a word of French or know anyone except a fellow fellow countrywoman, the photographer lived in Paris with the project a bit crazy to start a gallery apartment. Above all, the trip was the opportunity to live this dream from when his was a teenager and navigate the world of Eugène Atget he had discovered a few years later." - Rémi Coignet

PARIS 88/89 contains 21 of the Moriyama's Paris photographs accompanied by the translation of his memoiries chapter dedicated to Paris as well as an unpublished interview with Jean-Kenta Gauthier.

Poursuite Editions, 2012.

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The Order of Things Mikko Kuorinki

4 x 6.6 in / 432 pp.  perfect bound / $15  PURCHASE

All the words from Michel Foucault's The Order of Things: An Archaelogy of the Human Sciences in alphabetical order. Designed by Astrid Seme, Studio. 

Mark Pezinger Verlag, 2012.

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Perspecta 45: Agency Kurt Evans, Iben Falconer & Ian Mills (Eds.)

9 x 12 in / 208 pp. / softcover $22  PURCHASE

Architecture has always been intimately intertwined with its social, political, and economic contexts; major events in world history have had correspondingly dramatic effects on the discipline. The Great Depression, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Hurricane Katrina, for example, were all catalysts for architectural response and resulted in a diversification of the architect’s portfolio. Yet far too often, architects simply react to changes in the world, rather than serving as agents of change themselves.

Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal is a student-edited peer-reviewed academic journal published by the MIT Press and Yale School of Architecture, Yale University since 1952. This issue, Perspecta 45: Agency – edited by Kurt Evans, Iben Falconer & Ian Mills; designed by Zak Jensen & Mylinh Trieu Nguyen – takes a broader view, using the concept of agency to explore the future of architecture. The retreat from liability, the barricade of theory, and the silos of specialization have generated a field that is risk-averse and reactive, rather than bold and active. Instead of assuming that architects can only throw up their hands in despair, the editors of this issue of Perspecta invite them to roll up their sleeves and get to work. Prominent architects, scholars, and artists investigate how architects can become agents for change within their own discipline and in the world at large.

Contributors include Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Nader Tehrani, Ines Weizman, Jaime Lerner, Urban-Think Tank, Stefano Boeri, Peter Eisenman, Michael Osman, Darryl Collins, Vann Molyvann, Enrique Ramirez, Rania Ghosn, Victor van der Chijs, Bjarke Ingels, Jan Kempenaers, Andrew Shanken, Keller Easterling, Timur Galen, Perspecta 45 & Pierluigi Serraino, Thomas Auer, Joshua Vanwyck & Erik Olsen, Preston Scott Cohen, and Ariane Lourie Harrison."

The MIT Press, 2012.

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Log 26 Cynthia Davidson (Ed.)

6.4 x 9.3 in / 144 pp. / paperback $15  PURCHASE

"Log 26 draws together an array of writers who offer ideas for understanding, judging, inspiring, and making architecture. Exhibiting the countless roles and meanings conferred upon architecture concurrent with contemporary prognoses for design and theory, the Fall 2012 issue presents a discursively rich picture of the present, with critical looks at recent projects around the world, cautious and hopeful approaches to digital and open-source design, as well as abstractions, aphorisms, and literary treatments of architecture. - Brian Boigon, Wild Physics: Design at the Outskirts of Town - Simone Brott, Modernity's Opiate, or, The Crisis of Iconic Architecture - Mario Carpo, Digitial Darwinism: Mass Collaboration, Form-Finding, and the Dissolution of Authorship - Cynthia Davidson, Building Scenarios: Milstein Hall Dogma, Field of Walls - Dora Epstein Jones, The Nonsignificance of Columns - Marko Jobst, Abstracting the Text - Wes Jones, Three Aphorisms - William O'Brien Jr., Totems - Manuel Orazi, A Conversation with Yona Friedman - Christopher Pierce, Sleeper(s) - Bryony Roberts, Why There's No Postmodernism 2 - Ingeborg M. Rocker, Signs of Their Time: Calculated Formal Excesses of Digital Ornament, Part I - Massimo Scolari, Representations - Daniel Sherer, Critical and Palladian"

Any Corporation, Fall 2012.

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Untaken Photographs Photos by Paul Paper

5 x 7 in / 40 pp. / color digital staple bound / $8  PURCHASE

"For more than a year, instead of taking certain photographs Paul Paper wrote them down. Untaken Photographs is a book about seeing, photography and, ultimately, the (limits of) image. It is an artistic dialogue with the writings of Jacques Rancière, Roland Barthes and, especially, Vilém Flusser."

Booklet, 2012.

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Sr Dalton Zine No. 2 Adriá Cañameras

5.5 x 8.3 in / 24 pp. /monotone offset 2 posters - ea. 13.7 x 19.6 in / ed. 250 staple bound / $7  PURCHASE

Each issue of the Sr. Dalton series is a collection of images by the author, edited by the publisher. The work is printed in monotone and in honor of Sr. Dalton, an English chemist, who published the scientific paper on colorblindness. Adriá Cañameras manages to leave the viewer feeling anything but blue.

Fibra Casa Editora, 2011.

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Space Catalogue Hirayama Masanao

5 x 7 in / 40 pp. / b&w photocopy ed. 100 / staple bound / $8 $5  PURCHASE

The bodies of deep space and a list to keep the reader from falling into a black hole.

Hirayama Masanao, 2011.

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Dry Heat Emi Okabe

5 x 7 in / 36 pp. / b&w photocopy signed ed. 100 staple bound / $5  PURCHASE

A collection of photographs of a desert landscape. Varying scales of growth are thoughtfully paired.

E. Okabe, 2011.

emiokabe.com

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Circular Facts Mai Abu ElDahab

5.9 x 10.6 in / 96 pp. / paperback $15  SOLD OUT

"Circular Facts is a collaborative endeavor between three of Europe's most progressive contemporary art organizations: Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp; and The Showroom, London, in partnership with Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen and Electric Palm Tree. The project acted as an informal think tank to discuss the role of small contemporary art organizations in the cultural field and how they envision their future in today's changing times while creating mutually supportive structures for the dissemination of artistic initiatives. Aiming to gather a spectrum of perspectives to explore the roles of specific projects, the multi-cultural group of contributors have produced essays that speak to their experiences within arts institutions, collaborative curatorial initiatives, and research networks. Contributions by Mai Abu ElDahab, Binna Choi, Emily Pethick, Heejin Kim, Anthony Huberman, Will Bradley, Miren Jaio and Leire Veraga, Anna Colin and others."

Sternberg Press, 2012.

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Guy de Cointet Marie de Brugerolle, Guy de Cointet

6 x 9 in / 160 pp. / hardcover $34  PURCHASE

"Mentor to a generation of Californian Conceptualists and performance artists, Guy de Cointet (1934-1983) took language as a material from which to generate drawings, plays and performances. De Cointet collected phrases, words and even single letters culled from popular culture and literary sources, and scripted them as dialogues or props for plays inspired by the writings and homonymic compositional methods of Raymond Roussel: in the 1976 play At Sunrise... A Cry Was Heard, for example, a large painting depicting letters bisected by a white sash provides the dialogue of the lead actress, who recites its jumble of letters as if it were ordinary conversation. His drawings were often generated by geometric erasures of found text, leaving behind Concrete-style abstract patterns. A formative figure for Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy during his tenure at the Otis Art institute, de Cointet is today in the process of being rediscovered; this timely monograph is the first overview of his enigmatic and influential oeuvre."

Jrp Ringier, 2011.

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Critical Art Ensemble : 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: documenta(13) Critical Art Ensemble

5.8 x 8.2 in / 32 pp. / b&w offset staple bound / $8  PURCHASE

"Published in conjunction with the Documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, the Documenta notebook series "100 Notes,100 Thoughts" ranges from archival ephemera to conversations and commissioned essays. These notebooks express director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev's curatorial vision for Documenta 13."

Hatje Cantz, 2012.

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Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Group Material : 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: documenta(13) Doug Ashford, Julie Ault

7 x 10 in / 24 pp. / b&w offset staple bound / $8   PURCHASE

"In 1989, the members of Group Material-Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Karen Ramspacher-were invited by the Matrix Gallery to address the subject of AIDS. The artists assembled their research into this timeline of the epidemic's emergence as a national crisis."

Hatje Cantz, 2012.

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Kenneth Goldsmith: Letter to Bettina Funcke : 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: documenta(13) Kenneth Goldsmith

7 x 10 in / 32 pp. / b&w offset staple bound / $6 PURCHASE

"In a letter to Documenta 13's head of publications, poet Kenneth Goldsmith narrates the evolution of his career from the founding of UbuWeb in 1996 to his DJ activities on WFMU and the inception of 'uncreative writing' and conceptual poetry."

Hatje Cantz, 2011.