Stan Douglas
Television Talk
Toronto, Canada: Art Metropole, 1996
16 pp., 20 x 12.7 cm., staple-bound
Edition of 1000, 25 of which are signed
Television Talk was the first issue of the Little Cockroach Press, a series of 20 artist-designed pamphlets published by Art Metropole between April 1996 and July 2000. Other artists included
Emma Kay, Alfredo Jaar, Stephen Willats, Zoe Leonard, David Shrigley, Lucy Pullen & Sandy Plotnikoff, John Waters, Linda M. Montano, Maurizio Nannucci, AA Bronson & Matthias Herrmann, Sonic Youth and others.
Sample line: “For some reason on TV no one can leave a room without a joke. I don’t know how it is in your home, but in my home a lot of people will just go out, but here you cannot, you must deliver a joke and leave the room”.
They were produced in editions of 1000 copies, which were distributed free of charge to Art Metropole's mailing list. Copies now sell on the secondary market from between $20 and $200. Twenty-five copies were signed and set aside for a special edition, which was housed in a cardboard box designed by James Carl. This intially sold for $350, and is now unavailable.
An unsigned, unboxed set is available here, for £420.00.
A video of Television Talk can be found on Youtube, here.
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