Bici Hendricks | 5 Seed Poem

Bici Hendricks
5 Seed Poem
New York City, USA: Backworks, 1970
14 x 9 cm.
Edition size unknown

Seeds in a plastic bag stapled to card which is titled, dated, initialed by the artist. Re-issued in 1974 by the Black Thumb Press.

Öyvind Fahlström | On The Air - Manipulating The World

Öyvind Fahlström
On The Air - Manipulating The World
Fylkingen, Stockholm: Sveringes Radios Förlag, 1999
338 pp., 16 x 29 cm., slipcover
Edition size unknown


Available here, for $227.00

Jeannie Meejin Yoon | Absence

Jeannie Meejin Yoon
Absence
New York City, USA: Printed Matter,
[unpaginated], 12.5 x 10 x 7 cm., board binding
Edition of 2000


Absence is a two-pound die-cut book sculpture memorial for the twin towers, by architect and designer Jeannie Meejin Yoon.

Julio Le Parc | Jeu Visuel formes en mouvement

Julio Le Parc
Jeu Visuel formes en mouvement
Paris, France: Edition Denise René, 1966
57 x 57 x 14 cm
Edition of 100

Subtitled Multiple No. 9, this electrical kinetic object is housed in a wooden box and accompanied by an "edition label".

Ian Hamilton Finlay | 1794/1994

Ian Hamilton Finlay
1794/1994
[no publisher listed], 1994
6 cm diameter
Edition size unknown

A plastic pin/button/badge.

Richard Hamilton | Carafe

Richard Hamilton
Carafe
Cadaqués, Spain: Galerie Cadaqués, 1978
19.7 x 9 x 6.4 cm.
Edition of 36 [+ 3 APs]


Glass opalex carafe with enamel paint. Incised signature. Recent auction price: £6,875.

Micah Lexier | This Box, This Piece of Paper

Micah Lexier
This Box, This Piece of Paper
Toronto, Canada: Nothing Else Press, 2012
foil stamped cardboard box & paper
6" x 9" x 1/2"
Edition of 25 signed and numbered copies


It was announced today that Lexier will be one of 8 recipients of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

Don DeLillo & Richard Prince | The Word for Snow

Don DeLillo & Richard Prince
The Word for Snow
New York City, USA: Karma, 2014
62 pp., 28 x 22 cm., softcover
Edition of 875


A previously unpublished one act play by Don DeLillo (White Noise, Underworld, etc), illustrated with photographs by Richard Prince. The title was also initially available in grey cloth bound version, signed by both DeLillo and Prince, in an edition of 125 copies.

Available from Tender Books, for £17.00, here.

Jess Dobkin | Newsstand at Chester Station

Last month artist Jess Dobkin asked me to join a loose collective of artists to assist with her brilliant plan to reactive a Gateway Newsstand at Chester subway station. The venue is built into the architecture of the station (meaning it can't realistically be torn down) but has been dormant for over six years.

Jess plans to operate it as a Gateway franchisee (without the the need to re-brand it as an 'artwork', which I think is an important distinction), and will sell confectionary, drinks, and magazines. But the curated displays will also sell artists' books, zines and multiples.  Additionally, the space will serve as a venue for any number of artists interventions, projects, performances, screenings, etc. The kiosk is at ground level and accessible 24 hours a day.

It will be manned by artists, providing them an additional source of income, and money raised through sales, grants and the below kickstarter campaign, will go towards artist fees and production costs for a variety of projects.

There's a rich history of artist-as-salesperson, including projects such as Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, Martha Rosler's Garage Sale, Jens Hanning's Super Discount, and David Hammons' Bliz-aard Ball Sale (in which the artist sold snowballs on the streets of New York City). Fluxus, General Idea, Tom Sachs, Bob & Roberta Smith, Ross Sinclair, and countless others have set up kiosks, portable displays, mail-order businesses and market stalls through which to hawk their wares.  

Dobkin's Newsstand, though, is not a pop-up shop or short-term intervention project - a lease has been signed for a full year. If viable, it will continue after this. This places the project into a continuum of longer-term artists' retail projects such as Claes Oldenburg's The Store, George Brecht and Robert Filliou's The Cédille, The Shop by Tracey Emin & Sarah Lucas, The Pop Shop by Keith Haring, etc. etc.

The stand will be open standard weekday business hours, with additional scheduled special events (book launches? performances? puppet shows? political protests?) on evenings and weekends. The newsstand opens for business with a May Day celebration on May 1, 2015.

Sometime this summer I will be be producing a broadsheet newspaper with a text about Lower Bay Station, accompanied by some photographs Lee Henderson and I took there last month. Lower Bay is an abandoned subway station that was operational for only 6 months, fifty years ago. Copies will be distributed free of charge to commuters at Chester. It's a continuation of the poster I made for C Magazine's Union Station Villa project in January, and a larger film I'm working on called Substitute City.

A number of the planned projects will "address issues of transit, accessibility, mobility and city life, and consider questions about media and how information is transmitted in our times".

To learn more about Newsstand or donate, visit kickstarter, here.

The above images were taken on a site visit a few weeks ago, on a particularly cold day (too cold to turn off the b&w filter that my phone was somehow set to).

Jad Fair | Beautiful Monsters

Jad Fair
Beautiful Monsters
Nijmegen, The Netherlands: Extrapool, 2010
32 pp., 19 x 28 cm., paperback
Edition size unknown


Risograph reproductions of the Half-Japanese singer's paper cuts.


Available from Ti Pi Tin, for £18.00, here. Visit the artist's website, here.

João Rocha & Marco Bohr | Kim Jong Il Looking at Things

João Rocha & Marco Bohr
Kim Jong Il Looking at Things
Paris, France: Jean Boîte Éditions, 2012
192 pp., 16.7 x 24 cm., hardcover
Edition size unknown

Now in it's third edition, this meme turned Artist Book is available from the publisher, here, for 24 euros. Or visit the tumblr site, here.

100 Karton

[various artists]
100 Karton
Köln, Germany: Edition Hundertmark, 1984/1986
42 x 32 x 12 cm.
Edition of 100 (150?)

A cardboard box containing works by 44 artists, including Eric Andersen, Monika Bartholomé, Claus Böhmler, Günther Brüs, Henri Chopin, Philip Corner, Robert Filliou, Jochen Gerz, Ludwig Gosewitz, Al Hansen, Anatol Herzfeld, Bernard Heidsieck, Antonius Höckelmann, Joe Jones, Dietmar Kirves, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Arthur Köpcke, Te Tsumi Kudo, Maria Lassnig, Boris Lurie, George Maciunas, Mario Merz, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, Paul Sharits, Takako Saito, Tomas Schmit, Dominik Steiger, Fritz Schwegler, Endre Tot, Jiri Valoch, Ben Vautier, Stefan Wewerka, Emmett Williams and others.