Robert Filliou | Petite histoire un peu sainte

Robert Filliou
Petite histoire un peu sainte
Vaucluse, France: Robert Morel Editions, 1969
[100] pp., 6 x 6 cm., ringbound
Edition of 500

Jenny Holzer | Messages

Jenny Holzer
Messages
London, UK: Artangel Trust, 1988
6 pp., 9.5 x 6", loose leave sticker sheets
Edition size unknown


MEN DON'T PROTECT YOU ANYMORE

THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR WILL BE A SECRET

WHAT COUNTRY SHOULD YOU ADOPT IF YOU HATE POOR PEOPLE?

SILLY HOLES IN PEOPLE ARE FOR BREEDING OR ARE FROM SHOOTING

IT IS EMBARRASSING TO BE CAUGHT AND KILLED FOR STUPID REASONS

IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY

HANDS ON YOUR BREASTS CAN KEEP YOU HEART BEATING

YOU ARE CAUGHT THINKING ABOUT ANYONE YOU WANT

PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT

THE FUTURE IS STUPID

BODIES LIE IN GRASS AND SOME ARE MURDERED AND SOME ARE PICKNICKING

ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE

LACK OF CHARISMA CAN BE FATAL

AWFUL PUNISHMENT AWAITS REALLY BAD PEOPLE

EXPIRING FOR LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL BUT STUPID

MONEY CREATES TASTE

PRIVATE PROPERTY CREATED CRIME

MOTHERS SHOULD NOT MAKE TOO MANY SACRIFICES

RAISE BOYS AND GIRLS THE SAME WAY

OUTER SPACE IS WHERE YOU DISCOVER WONDER, WHERE YOU FIGHT AND NEVER HURT EARTH. WHEN YOU STOP BELIEVING THIS YOUR MOOD TURNS UGLY.

FAT ON YOUR HIPS COMES WHEN YOU SIT AND LIE DOWN

WHAT URGE WILL SAVE US NOW THAT SEX WON'T?

IF YOU HAD BEHAVED NICELY THE COMMUNISTS WOULD NOT EXIST

Christian Boltanski | Reconstitution

Christian Boltanski
Reconstitution
Karlsruhe, Germany/Paris France: Badischer Kunstverein / Le Chêne, 1978
123 pp., 24.5 x 20.8 cm.,  softcover
Edition size unknown

The lunatics are on the loose …

[Fluxus]
The lunatics are on the loose … 
Postdam, Germany: Down With Art!, 2013
592 pp., 24 x 17 cm., softcover
Edition size unknown

This elaborate publication accompanies the exhibitions "European Fluxus Festivals, 1962-1977" in seven different venues curated by Petra Stegmann, with Peter van der Meijden, Henar Rivière Rìos, Heike Roms and Caroline Ugelstad (see exhibition poster, below).

Stegmann edits the volume which features texts by the above curators as well as Jennifer Burkard, Myriam Kroll, Susanne Rennert and Vanja Sisek.

"Artistic contributions" are made by Eric Andersen, Philip Corner, Alison Knowles,  Larry Miller, Ann Noël, Ben Patterson, Tamas St.Turba, and Jarosław Kozłowski (the red Errata, above). The cover of the title features an image of Emmett Williams and Willem de Ridder performing Robert Filliou’s “13 Ways of Using Emmett Williams’s Skull”.

The book can be ordered through ego@inarcadia.de for €42.00.

A youtube video, here, illustrates some of the finicky production, such as tipped-in and tied-in (often oversized) content, and pages that require folding to read (which feels somewhat more Mad Magazine than it does Fluxus).

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Johannes Wohnseifer | Récentes Reconstructions

Johannes Wohnseifer
Récentes Reconstructions
Paris, France: Christophe Daviet-Thery, 2009
[10] pp., 33.5 x 37 cm., accordion-fold
Edition of 15 (+ 8 AP) signed and numbered copies

A deluxe silkscreened edition documenting Wohnseifer's larger silkscreen images of Smiths LP jackets with the cover stars replaced.

The work is available, price upon request, from the publisher, here.

For more information about the artist, visit his website here.

For more accordion-fold projects, visit (as always) www.accordionpublications.blogspot.ca

For the original Smiths LP covers (and some rare promotional graphics) visit a gallery that the Guardian newspaper posted last year, here.

Marla Hlady | Unlevel 2

Marla Hlady
Unlevel 2 
Toronto, Canada: Self-published, 2009
2 1/2" in diameter
Edition of 8

2” painted wood balls with containing bullseye levels (unlike traditional levels, which check only one axis at a time, a bullseye level checks for level in all horizontal axes at once). An edition of eight, with each unique: the first contains a single level, the second two and so on.

Visit the artists' website, here.