Auerbach Tauba | 50/50

Auerbach Tauba
50/50
New York City, USA: Deitch Projects, 2008
100 pp., 25.4 x 25.4 cm., hardcover
Edition size unknown

A square volume with one hundred pages, featuring one hundred images, which are 50% black and 50% white. Reversible die-cut covers.

Available on Ebay, here, for the next three days.

Per Kirkeby Flux Box

Per Kirkeby
Flux Box
New York City, USA: Fluxus, [circa 1967]
12 x 10 x 1.6 cm.
Edition size unknown

A black plastic box with a label designed by George Maciunas, containing a black plastic rectangle. The work is sometimes referred to as Solid Plastic in Plastic Box.

Maggie Groat Book Launch

Art Metropole launches its newest publication, Maggie Groat's The Lake, on Saturday March 22nd. The event is accompanied by a window display, called Drinking The Lake which will be installed from March 12th to April 5th.

"The Lake is an alternative body of research about the lake, including contributions from: James Algie, Gina Badger, Diane Borsato, Joseph Boyden, Jennifer Castle, Sarah Cullen, Dana Fountain, Maggie Groat, April Hickox, Elle Kurancid, Tiziana La Melia, Maryse Lariviere, Leisure (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley), Jimmy Limit, Duane Linklater, Tegan Moore, Julie Nagam, Parker Branch, Simon Pope, Sandra Recicho, Ann Sanderson, Simon Starling, cheyanne turions."

The title retails for $30 CDN.

The event takes place Saturday March 22, from 4 to 7pm, at Art Metropole (1490 Dundas St. W, at the intersection of Dufferin Street, Toronto).

For more information, visit Art Metropole, here.

Yoko Ono | Spots on the Wall

Yoko Ono
Spots on the Wall
Tokyo, Japan: Gallery 360°, 1994
White cardboard box containing cards
with artist's drawings, 15 x 10.5 cm.
Box: 11.8 x 2.5 x 12.5 cm.
Edition of 300 signed copies

Robert Ashley, RIP

Composer and sound artist Robert Ashley has died at the age of eighty-three.

Paul Dutton Tribute

Paul Dutton (far right), with Phil Minton, John Oswald and Michael Snow 

To celebrate Paul Dutton's 70th birthday, The Supermarket is hosting an event tonight featuring short performances (both live and taped) by Michael Snow, John Oswald, John Kamevaar, Phil Minton, Steve McCaffery, Christian Bök, Jaap Blonk, Nobuo Kubota, Jay MillAr, and W. Mark Sutherland.

Dutton is a Toronto-based poet, novelist, essayist, publisher and oral sound artist. He has collaborated with a wide range of musicians including Bob Ostertag, Phil Durrant, John Russell, Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay, Günter Christmann, Thomas Charmetant, Xavier Charles, and Jacques Di Donato. Dutton is perhaps best known for his membership in two of Toronto's most legendary sound art outfits: the sound poetry quartet The Four Horsemen (1970–1988), with Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Steve McCaffery, and the late bpNichol; and the free-improvisation band CCMC, alongside John Oswald and Michael Snow (1989 to the present).

The Wire magazine called his sound singing "fascinating, inventive, grippingly obsessive".

A  Career Tribute to Paul Dutton begins at 7pm at 268 Augusta Avenue, and admission is free. Dutton will join CCMC bandmates John Oswald and Michael Snow for a brief set to close the night.

Listen to Dutton interviewed by W. Mark Sutherland, here.

(vintage posters from the collection of jw curry)

Sound Pages: John Cage's Publications

Giorgio Maffei and Fabio Carboni [editors]
Sound Pages: John Cage's Publications
Mantua, Italy: Corraini Edizioni, 2014
76 pp.,  7.7 x 5.4 x 0.6", softcover
Edition size unknown

John Cage notoriously eschewed recorded music (he preferred to leave the window open and listen to the street) and therefore most of his recorded output was released by other performers. Conversely, his publications were produced with loving attention to detail. The printed scores and bookworks were carefully designed and typographically compelling. Arguably, his book Silence did more to advance his ideas than any of his concert performance.

Available four weeks from today (March 31st) on Amazon, this volume tracks the influence of his printed output with testimony from artists, composers and writers as to its personal impact on them.  It is divided into four sections: books, scores, records and miscellaneous documents such as posters and ephemera.

Pre-order it, here, for $27.50.