Full Disclosure

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Rebecca Lamarre
Full Disclosure

Published by:

Self-published

50 pages

spiral bound along top

15x21 cm

run of 400

100 limited edition foil stamped covers

Price: £8.00

I’m not even sure that what I’m doing is about expression or communication necessarily, as clearly this conversation I’m setting up is me talking with myself. Anything I say about this is in danger of being subsumed by Jaakko’s practice. I’m speaking, but I might disappear as I speak. As much as I’m investigating dialogue I need to acknowledge the competitive aspect of becoming visible, and becoming audible as a person that speaks.

In the summer of 2012 internet-based artist Jaakko Pallasvuo asked artist and writer Rebecca La Marre to create a video where she would claim that Jaakko was an invented persona and that she was responsible for all of his artistic output. The video was uploaded on Youtube on July 29th, and both artists embedded the video on their personal websites. The identical pages existed in tandem until August 23, 2012.

The trail of activity that followed has been documented in a publication titled Full Disclosure and consists of chat logs, reviews, interviews and e-mails, spanning the broad range of registers currently used to write about art. These have been collected in a way that preserves the complexity and sense of confusion generated by the project while asking questions about identity on the Internet and the value of so-called immaterial labour and artistic practice.

The book was designed by Joseph Waller and launched by Arcadia Missa in London on April 17th 2013.

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2 Steps Aside

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Stijn Cole
2 Steps Aside

Published by: Art Paper Editions

Colour Photographies and B&W Drawings
20x30 cm
Edition of 500
2013

Price: £13.00

Together with the landscape-architect Stefan Vidts, Stijn Cole went on a journey from the flat isle of Texel (NL) to the ancient woods of Bialowieza (Pl). Two extremes in the European landscape. The book “2 steps aside” tells the story of that trip and shows 6 pencil-drawings. As the base for these drawings, Cole took a picture at Branitz, a landscape-park in the geographical and conceptual middle of the traject, moved two steps aside and took a second picture of the same subject. The book has a “Concertina” format so the original movement of 180cm is kept.

With text contributions by Patrick Ronse and Stefan Vidts.

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Her Et Sted

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Katja Host
Her Et Sted

Published by: Teknisk Industri AS

Hardback Cover
Colour Offset
84 Pages
23x21 cm
2012/2013

Price: £34.00

Her et sted can be read as a personal exploration of place and belonging. Six different places where the artist has lived have been the subject of a photographic survey in which the artist sought to take possession of each place and make it her ”own”. The photographs thus represent the artist's attempt to understand, collect, categorize and relate to new places.

Each place possesses something distinct and specific, something that the artist has sought to grasp through the photographs. Collectively they become an image and representation of the fleeting moment, just like the traces we leave behind, lingering in our absence.”Thus they form an archaeology of the future; an archaeology of abandoned objects and landscapes, light plastic furniture, papers, construction sites and equipment. The people in the photographs are in a way already leaving situations that define our culture, entering the silence that will be when we are no longer.” (Janike Kampevold Larsen)

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Submerged

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Kjetil Kausland
Submerged

Published by: Teknisk Industri AS

Hardback Cover
Color Offset
Texts in Norwegian
136 Pages
27x22 cm
2012/2013

Price: £45.00

Submerged is a photography and book project exploring the performative aspects of Mixed Martial Arts. This form of martial arts exists outside of the regulated sport. On the one side it is seemingly violent, on the other it isstrictlyregulated and strict its self-policing. In this book Kjetil Kausland introduces us to photographs from Mixed Martial Arts fights. By taking part and contributing to this sport Kausland has been able to capture images no one else would.

“The object of this book is to explore the limits of performativity and the dialogue between the directed and spontaneous in photographic art.” Kausland says. “The starting point of this project is my own participation, in the scene surrounding the sport as well as one of its fighters.”

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Abstract speaking sharing uncertainty and collective acts

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Koki Tanaka
Abstract speaking sharing uncertainty and collective acts

Published by: Nero

15 x 21 cm 
256 Pages
English
 Edition of 2000 copies
2013

Price: £18.00

abstract speaking sharing uncertainty and collective acts is the publication released on the occasion of the Koki Tanaka’s exhibition at Japan Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale.

In recent years Koki Tanaka has employed a variety of methods to produce works on the relationality that arises between human beings. In Tanaka’s works, it is possible to see the process of people who have the same occupation, who employ a common language that only they understand, clashing with each other. As well as this, there are what Tanaka calls “collective acts”: experiments of various sorts which still lack a fixed destination.

On 11 March 2011, Japan experienced a massive earthquake and tsunami, as well as an accident at a nuclear power plant. The situation remains unresolved two years on. Tanaka attempts to address this issue in a uniquely abstract fashion. For example, a haircut carried out by 9 hairdressers at the same time (second attempt) (2010) was shot before the earthquake. But to those of us now in Japan, who have gone through such a definitive experience, it seems like a metaphor for working together to build a post-quake society. Thus the tasks and acts which Tanaka sets up can be read in different ways according to the viewer’s personal context. With the quality of allowing many different readings, Tanaka’s works will, at the geographically distant Venice venue, provide a platform for the overlaying of yet more, new readings.

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Sarah Lucas: Describe This Distance

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Quinn Latimer
Sarah Lucas: Describe This Distance

Published by: Mousse Publishing

Hardback Cover
B&W Offset
96 Pages
12.5x18.5
English

Price: £19.00

“Distance is far, nobody said. (Somebody, surely)” So begins Quinn Latimer’s strange, elleptical account of an exhibition and a body of work by Sarah Lucas that the poet and critc has never seen, made and installed in a city she has not yet visited. In the spring of 2012 the renowed English artist’s exhibition “NUDs” was mounted in Mexico City at Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli, the famed pyramid-like museum built by the muralist and architec Juan O’Gorman to house Rivera’s approximately 50,000 Mesoamerican artifacts and objects. In the summer of 2012 Latimer found herself in Elba, the island of Napoleon’s exile, where she embarked on this small, charged book. In four interconnected essays, the writer limns the myriad impressions, ideas, objects, personages, and histories relevant to Lucas fantastically transparent yet complicated “NUDs”, and their storied making and installation in Mexico. Exploring shame, passivity, paindromes and fertility statuary, as well as notables including Antonin Artaud, Napoleon, Susan Sontag and Mary Wollstonecraft, Describe This Distance is at once an adroit art-historical study and a poetic travelogue.

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Volume 2

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Odiseo
Volume 2

Published by: The Flames

128 pages

24 x 16.5 cm

Hardcover

2013

Price: £8.00

Volume 2 features Lina Scheynius' self portraits, Jo Schwab's 'Habitual Grace'. and Amy Hood as seen by the lens of Jonathon Leader. It also includes a critical study on hipsterism today by Eugenia Lapteva, a long-distance call with Yuri Suzuki, and Timo Mashiyi-Veikkola's view on collective identity in mass culture.

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Dare 2 Love Yourself / Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

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Power Ekroth and Eriend Hamme
Dare 2 Love Yourself / Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Published by: Audiatur

Softcover

English/Norwegian

2013

Price: £11.00

Curators Power Ekroth and Erlend Hammer has chosen to share Biennale between themselves and create their own exhibition with their own titles, divisional exhibition and artist lists. A total of 28 international artists exhibit. Biennale main arena Momentum arts hall. In addition, the work of Heilmann park and an outdoor area at the entrance to Mill City.

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APE#028 Route N16

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APE
APE#028 Route N16

Published by: Art Paper Editions

32 pages

26.5 x 20 cm

edition of 1000

2013

Price: £18.00

Art and architecture project alongside the N16 route. With projects by Tractor (Peter Aerts, Denis Dujardin, Honoré d’O, Lore Perneel, Luc Reuse, Frank Vande Veire, Hugo Vanneste, Dirk Zoete), Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Sarah & Charles, Office Kersten Geers en David Van Severen , Michaël Vanden Abeele, Uaps, Wesley Meuris, Architecten Robbrecht en Daem, Valérie Mannaerts, Philippe Vander Maren, Richard Venlet, Ann Veronica Janssens.

Text contributions by Joeri de Bruyn, Maarten Van Acker, Jeroen Boomgaard, Isabelle Makay and Oscar Van den Boogaard. Photograpy by Geert Goiris and Kristien Daem. Initiated by the cities Bornem, Puurs, Willebroek and Mechelen in collaboration with VAi, vlaamsarchitectuurinstituut.

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Helbling

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Guillaume Lebon
Helbling

Published by: Paraguay Press

144 pages

32.5 x 20 cm

Hardcover

English/French

2013

Price: £26.00

The book is organized around four recent solo exhibitions of Leblon at Culturgest in Porto, Mudam Luxembourg, Le Grand Café in Saint Nazaire and the Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard in Paris, and includes three texts, either specially written for (Grabner, Meisel), or recontextualized in (Bailey) this publication. The variety of writing genres and analytical approaches in the texts directly address what make one of the greatest strength and the extraordinary richness of the work that Leblon has been constructing for more than a dozen years now: its capacity to resist ad hoc facile explanation, its aptitude for only guaranteeing one single thing. None of the ways of fathoming his work and therefore of describing it comes closer than any other, none of them is therefore more “true”.

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Index

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Petra Feriancová
Index

Published by: Mousse Publishing

144 pages

Softcover

33.5 x 23.5 cm

English and Italian

2013

Price: £26.00

An integral part of the work of An Order of Things II, presented by Petra Feriancova in the 55th Venice Biennale, the catalogue An Order of Things I forms the prelude, memory, inventory, extension and, above all, systematic organisation of that tangible experience, those collections physically arrayed before our eyes, according to criteria the viewer slowly intuits beyond the mute nature of the images.

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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

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Konrad Smolenski
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

Published by: Mousse Publishing

250 pages

24 x 17cm

2013

Price: £18.00

Borrowing its evocative title from a fundamental essay by Alexei Yurchak on the last Soviet generation before the fall of the Eastern Block, Konrad Smolenski gives his installation Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More in the Polish Pavillion - a stereophonic system composed of two handmade bells flanked by two rows of broadband speakers and two walls of metal cases - the role of a sentinel of change and, in its foreboding character, that on an interpretation of anxieties and fears.

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Vice Versa

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Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
Vice Versa

Published by: Mousse Publishing

280 pages

24 x 20 cm

Italian and English

2013

Price: £26.00

Vice Versa, the catalogue of the Italian Pavillion at the 55th venice Biennale, explores the complexity that characterises Italian contemporary art. The book is divided into seven chapters, one for each pairing, that present the work of two artists with a critical text, a wide selection of images of the works, technical specifications and information on the artists' research.

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Monuments

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P. Bronstein, I. Issa, A. Mir, Y. Sapountzis, D. Vo
Monuments

Published by: Mousse Publishing

87 pages

19 x 13 cm

2013

Price: £20.00

This catalogue accompanies an exhibition held at Lismore Castle in Ireland in Summer 2013. The book records an extraordinary collection of monuments and follies, including paper monuments, dispersed or performative memorials, and various forms of unrealised or unrealisable structures.

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Tutti Frutti with Bompas & Parr and Friends

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Sam Bompas, Harry Parr et al.
Tutti Frutti with Bompas & Parr and Friends

Published by: Bompas & Parr

Softcover

Edition of 2500

Price: £12.00

Tutti Frutti with Bompas & Parr and friends explores the gustatory implications of fruit salad. This sensual book takes in architectural pineapples, the spaces of banana control, how blue became the international colour for raspberries and a luxurious host of fruity recipes.

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Interpretation

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Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Interpretation

Published by: Paraguay Press

128 pages

English and French

Price: £22.00

Texts by: DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN, ANTHONY ELMS, J. GRIFFITH ROLLEFSON, LILI REYNAUD DEWAR

Edited by: ADAM SZYMCZYK and BENJAMIN THOREL

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Say What You Mean: The n+1 Anthology

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Christian Lorentzen
Say What You Mean: The n+1 Anthology

Published by: Notting Hill Editions

Hardcover 266 Pages 12x19 cm 2012

£12.00

The n+1 Anthology is a selection from the best of n+1, a Brooklyn-based magazine of politics, literature and culture, founded in 2004 and published thrice yearly. Driven by a sense of bravado and grievance, n+1 is leading the generational struggle against laziness and cynicism, to raise once again the banners of creative enthusiasm and intellectual engagement.

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Night, Light

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Ola Rindal
Night, Light

Published by: Livraison

98 Pages 20x27 cm Silver monochrome printing Edition of 333 First edition 2012

£47.00

The visual territory we enter in Ola Rindal’s "Night, Light" brings to mind retrieved data from a black box. Washed out snapshots of potentially unsettling situations at night, captured with the scrupulous indifference of a machine. Rindal’s images appear to be saved from the archival night of an abandoned camera. It’s almost like found footage of undefined, dark corners of reality. Random and controlled in character, the images are riddled with an acute sense of danger. And they all display a recurrent pattern: the immediacy and surprise of encountering the unknown. They seem to be, quite literally, shots in the dark. No wonder the impression we get from the "Night, Light" series is of someone groping in the dark, guided by the occasional flash of the camera. These are images triggered by someone who’s anxiously anticipating what the camera will reveal.

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Dead Plates

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Hans Gedda
Dead Plates

Published by: Livraison

92 Pages 25x31.5 cm B&W Duo Color & Full Color Edition of 666 First Edition 2012

£68.00

The genre has been particularly important to photography. For reasons both practical and aesthetical, the very first photographs ever made show objects arranged to please the eye. The lengthy exposure times made static subjects a necessity, but it was also about finding an association to an established art form. Ever since, still life has been a lively photographic tradition. There is in Hans Gedda’s case, strong affinity, not least, to surrealism’s imagery and use of objects. In his works, things are combined and charged with meanings and expressions that they don’t have individually. Common objects are transformed when they perform on the stage where the still life takes place. For example, the scissors in Hans Gedda’s pictures are something completely different from those in the kitchen drawer. Frequently, the objects are characterised by an enigmatic charm and this is underlined further by unexpected encounters. Frequently, there is an interplay established between nature and culture. You could call his book a bestiary, but it is also reminiscent of a cabinet of curiosities. A collection of things, living and dead, that fascinate with their strangeness and beauty. These captivating characteristics may also be of the repulsive kind, which is often the case in these still lifes.

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Beekeeper

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Frode & Marcus
Beekeeper

Published by: Livraison

76 Pages 33x23 cm Full Fluorescent Color Edition of 333 First Edition 2012

£47.00

In the backwoods of a deserted landscape a man is busy conducting bizarre experiments on bees. He views himself as their protector and caretaker. But there’s something unnerving about his methods. His intentions are literally veiled as we never see his face. A faint post-apocalyptic aura hangs over it all. Everything is marked by slow decay. Between sudden fits of anger and excitement lethargy seems to come over him. Long lost in his own universe, the man goes about his business oblivious to the outside world. If such a world even exists.

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