Goodwater Ephemera at Plumb Fundraiser

From John Goodwin’s Instagram account (a few weeks ago, and today):

"Tonight my friend Anthony Cooper dropped by to pick up the goodwater ephemera starter kit, 2024. The kit is being donated to the PLUMB for their upcoming fundraising auction. It’s an archival box containing all kinds of ephemera-like stuff including business cards, exhibition invites, stickers, bookplates, small publications, distribution catalogs, bookmarks, even a complete set of goodwater mailers – there’s a total of 85 items. Anyway, it was fun to “organize” this material and stuff it all in one box with a corresponding checklist and, of course, a magnifying glass. It will be on display for their upcoming auction."

"This is an installation shot of the goodwater ephemera starter kit - an archival box containing around 85 items selected from stuff I've accumulated over the years. It's installed at the PLUMB where there's going to be a preview on December 7-8. Then the auction takes place somehow via Instagram. The kit has all kinds of things, business cards, invitations, mailers, bookmarks, bar coasters, postcards, letterhead, concert ticket stubs, bookplates, buttons, even a fax of the membership list of Cold City Gallery. And one of the items is a complete set of goodwater mailers, like about 45 of them. Anyway, if you're into Kippenberger, Gober, Nannucci, Bloom, Holzer, Shearer, Davey, Group Material, Belcher, Dion, Feldmann, Kruger, Ono, Weiner, etc etc etc, then this BOX has your name on it! Bid baby bid! Oh, and it comes with a MAGNIFYING GLASS!"

Goodwin’s Goodwater Corktown project continues his love of producing compelling ephemera to announce exhibitions and projects (previously he was the director of both Printed Matter and Art Metropole, and published multiples under the banner of Shark Editions). 

The Plumb is great artists’ initiated gallery space in Toronto, ran by a collective of artists, writers, and curators that include Amanda Boulos, Laura Carusi, Anthony Cooper, Patrick Cruz, Laura Demers, Emma Green, Warren Harper, Daniel Griffin Hunt, Nadine Maher, Avalon Mott, Dainesha Nugent-Palache, John Nyman, Ciar O'Mahony, Emerald Repard-Denniston, Claudia Rick, Miles Rufelds, Callum Schuster, Blair Swann, and Emma Welch. 

To bid, visit https://theplumb.ca/ for more information. 

Sophie Calle | The Tie

Sophie Calle

The Tie

Zurich, Switzerland: Parkett Editions, 1993

79.7 x 21.2 cm.

Edition of 150 signed and numbered copies

Continuing Calle's voyeuristic engagement with strangers, this brown silk ties recounts a one-sided correspondence:

"I saw him for the first time in December 1985, at a lecture he was giving. I found him attractive but something bothered me: he was wearing an ugly tie. The next day I anonymously sent him a thin brown tie. Later I saw him in a restaurant; he was wearing it. Unfortunately, it clashed with his shirt. It was then I decided to take on the task of dressing him from head to toe: I would send him one article of clothing every year at Christmas. In 1986, he received a pair of silk grey socks; in 1987, a black alpaca sweater; in 1988, a white shirt; in 1989, a pair of gold-plated cuff links; in 1990, a pair of boxer shorts with a Christmas tree pattern; nothing in 1991; and in 1992, a pair of grey trousers. Some day, when he is fully dressed by me, I would like to be introduced to him.”

Produced for Parkette Magazine Volume 36 over thirty years ago, the work is still available from the publisher, for €1,200.00, here. 

“Like a sculptor of a past century, Sophie Calle in her art manipulates and reconfigures a commodity central to the economy of her time. This commodity does not happen to be bronze or marble, however, but information, the elusive stuff that circulates constantly between consciousness, document and cyberspace.”

- Lucy Sante, Parkett, 1993

Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner died on this day three years ago, at the age of 79. 

30% off at Phaidon

Phaidon Press - who celebrated their hundredth anniversary last year and have sold fifty million books worldwide - are now offering 30% off most titles, as well as free shipping to Canada, The US, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia.

The sale includes books on Marina Abramović, Vito Acconci, Francis Alÿs, Lynda Benglis, Christian Boltanski, Vija Celmins, Isa Genzken, Tacita Dean, Mark Dion, Fischli & Weiss, Theaster Gates, Tom Friedman, Hans Haacke, Mona Hatoum, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Alex Katz, On Kawara, Mike Kelley, Yayoi Kusama, Christian Marclay, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Lucy Orta, Raymond Pettibon, Nancy Spero, Stephen Shore, Roman Signer, Lorna Simpson, Sarah Sze, Wolfgang Tillmans, Lawrence Weiner, Ai Weiwei and a new title (released tomorrow) on Yoko Ono. 

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AIDS: The Public and Private Domains of the Miss General Idea Pavillion

General Idea

AIDS: The Public and Private Domains of the Miss General Idea Pavillion

San Francisco, USA: Art Space, 1988

[unpaginated], 12.8 × 12.7 × 0.3 cm., staple-bound

Edition of 1000

A small pamphlet produced to accompany the exhibition of the same name, at Artspace from the 12th of January to the 5th March, 1988.

Since that year, December 1st has been celebrated internationally as World AIDS Day, to raise awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection, and mourn those who have died of the disease.