Books

Maxi Kim
2008
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…sexuality and textuality; it aims to be anti-metaphorical, to escape the logic of modernism and postmodernism and express a pre-modernist, post-human morphogenetic aesthetics in all its wild sacred expressivity. Cannibalising…

Sophia Al-Maria
2024
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…the coining and subsequent critique of ‘Gulf Futurism’, towards experiments in gathering, containing, welling up and sucking dry. Sophia Al-Maria is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker. Though her work…

Mason Leaver-Yap
2014
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…traverse and negotiate knowledge. This issue comprises a temporary assembly of individuals who are acutely and intelligently aware that what we choose to do with our bodies, how we express

David Shrigley
1999
Out of print

…an ‘untutored, rubbishy and scratchy aesthetic’ and delights in the ‘doodly thing as something that can sometimes express the things you can’t intellectually’. The Human Body is typical of Shrigley’s…

Edited by Maria Fusco
2009
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…writing and research-based projects, somewhere for artists, writers and theorists to express experimental ideas that might not otherwise be realised or published. In this issue new writing, text and images,…

Edited by Maria Fusco
2008
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…writing and research-based projects, somewhere for artists, writers and theorists to express experimental ideas that might not otherwise be realised or published. In this issue bodies of new writing present…

Edited by Maria Fusco
2008
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…writing and research-based projects, somewhere for artists, writers and theorists to express experimental ideas that might not otherwise be realised or published. In this, the first issue, an interview, a…

Jonathan Monk
2004
Out of print

…personal anecdotes together with art historical strategies and legacies to express a critical camaraderie in his subject. Cover Version features a selection of seminal publications from Monk’s extensive collection of…

Graham Harwood
1996
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…would express some of their life experiences. Patients at Ashworth are admitted on the authority of the British courts or from other prisons. Their crimes include murder, manslaughter, arson, kidnap,…

Sophia Al-Maria
2019
Out of print

…Djinn Falls in Love (Solaris, UK, 2017). In 2016 Al-Maria presented ‘Black Friday’, her first US solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and was nominated…

The Alternative School of Economics (Ruth Beale & Amy Feneck)
2024
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When we are silent we are still afraid is a phrase from ‘A Litany for Survival’, a poem by American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist Audre Lorde.  The image has been commissioned by Book…

Jarett Kobek
2010
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…practiced a Whitman-by-way-of-Kathy Acker-esque shamanistic exorcism of American culture, using the web as source material for sampled stupidity and adolescent angst, hitting a crescendo with HOE #999: The Madcap Laughs…

Various Contributors
1996
Out of print

…/ Author: Contemporary Artists’ Books, a touring exhibition organised by the American Federation of Arts. Itinerant Texts takes as its starting point the idea of the artist as itinerant worker,…

Heather and Ivan Morison
2009
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…and Fantasy Island (2007), took their starting points from the American house-truck movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the hand-built-shelters associated with the ‘back-to-the-land’ movements of the same period….

guest edited by Lynne Tillman
2013
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…previous novel, American Genius, A Comedy, was said to be, by The Millions, one of the best books of the new millennium. Other novels include Haunted Houses and No Lease on Life, a National Book…

Sophia Al-Maria
2015
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…Raja’a Khalid, Omar Kholeif, McKenzie Wark, Simon Sellars, Francesco Pedraglio and Lena Tutanjian. Sophia Al-Maria is a Qatari-American artist and writer based in London, UK. Her memoir, The Girl Who…

Various works for the artist created from existing copies of JET magazine referencing the role of black Americans in US history, and also referencing the work of Josef Albers. The…

Christian Barnes

A unique installation of books contained within a huge steel framed case. The secondhand books were collected by the artist with subject matter connected to American history. Each book was…

News

…Peter Maybury. Following the American sociologist C. Wright Mills’ suggested practice of filing the ideas that compel you, then periodically unpacking, shuffling and spreading out the contents in search of…