Dick Higgins Xmas Card

David Shrigley | This is a paper trinket for you to wear

David Shrigley
This is a paper trinket for you to wear (Special Edition)
Toronto, Canada: Bywater Bros Editions, 2006
64 pp., 16.5 x 12.5 cm., softcover
Edition of 100 numbered copies

The starburst sticker indicating a Special Edition of Shrigley's 28th (!) book is the only thing that distinguishes it from the trade edition of 2000 copies. Each sticker is hand scrawled.

Mark Leckey | Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore

Mark Leckey
Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore
Manchester, UK: The Death of Rave, 2012
12" vinyl LP
Edition of 500.

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore is a video collage of scenes of young people dancing, singing and partying. It begins with disco in the 1970s, moves to the Northern soul of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and climaxes with the rave scene of the 1990s. Released in 1999, it remains one of the artist's best-known works, alongside Sound System, 2002 (which was presented at Mercer Union in 2004) and Industrial Lights and Magic, for which Leckey was awarded the 2008 Turner Prize.

Thirteen years later the soundtrack is now available as the first (only?) release on the Boomkat in-house label The Death of Rave. It is backed with the soundtrack to GreenScreenRefrigerator, 2010.

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore can be viewed on Youtube, here.

FLUXUS etc. Addenda II

Jon Hendricks (editor)
FLUXUS etc. Addenda II
Pasadena, USA: Baxter Art Gallery, 1983,
439 pp., 47 x 21 cm., glue bound
Edition size unknown.

The second addenda to the Fluxus Etc catalogue, which was published in conjunction with an exhibition held September 28 - October 30, 1983 at the Baxter Art Gallery. Edited by Hendricks, who also curated the exhibition, the book is designed by Sara Seagull and contains an introduction by Jay Belloli. Includes b&w facsimile reproductions of instruction drawings for Fluxus works by Ay-O, George Brecht, John Cage, Jack Coke's Farmer's Coop, Ken Friedman, Dick Higgins, Milan Knizak, George Maciunas, Larry Miller, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, and Robert Watts.

Jonathan Monk | Grey/Gray

Jonathan Monk
Grey/Gray
San Francisco, USA: CCA Wattis, 2012
Two 7" 45 rpm vinyl records, signed certificate
Edition of 100.

A clear plastic sleeve with a printed sticker houses two 7" records (each visually unique) and a signed and fingerprinted certificate. Side A is the sound of black paint being mixed with white. Side B is the sound of white paint being mixed with black. One is in a black sleeve and the other in a white one.