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Spermatozoides II
Awesome book from this prolific author.
Bernard Heidsieck (November 28, 1928 – November 22, 2014)[1][2] was a French sound poet, associated with various movements throughout a long career: including Beat, American Fluxus, and minimalism. Heidsieck was born in Paris. In the course of his career, he served as vice-president of the Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur in Paris and as president of the Commission Poésie at the Centre National du Livre. He organised the first international festival …
Spermatozoides III
Awesome book from this prolific author.
Bernard Heidsieck (November 28, 1928 – November 22, 2014)[1][2] was a French sound poet, associated with various movements throughout a long career: including Beat, American Fluxus, and minimalism. Heidsieck was born in Paris. In the course of his career, he served as vice-president of the Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur in Paris and as president of the Commission Poésie at the Centre National du Livre. He organised the first international festival …
Postcard Theatre Book
"My first postcard theatre in the 70s was a comment on the outsider status of women in the music world. Branding Beethoven as a lesbian was a way of turning the tables on the music establishment. (...) this was a time about raising consciousness about women in music." Artist book edition of 100 copies.
Photos Imaginaires Médicales
Photos Imaginaires Médicales (partiellement) Néo-Nazis! Photos of medical tortures on Lemaître to be interpretated as an inifinitesimal artwork. A radical photobook by the most important lettrist photograph.
Lettrist painter, producer of Lettrist works since the 1940s. Lemaître (23 April 1926), Isidore Isou’s right-hand man for nearly half a century, began to distance himself from Lettrism in the 2000s. He still continues to pursue traditional Letterist techniques, but now in relative isolation…
Galipettes
Queste 6 fotografie delle coreografie lettriste avrebbero dovuto essere pubblicate in Paris Match nel maggio del 1965.
Lettrist painter, producer of Lettrist works since the 1940s. Lemaître (23 April 1926), Isidore Isou’s right-hand man for nearly half a century, began to distance himself from Lettrism in the 2000s. He still continues to pursue traditional Letterist techniques, but now in relative isolation from the main group.
Et des hommes
Editions AcquAvivA are publishing their 27th volume with an unpublished and genius work of comics collages on a piano score, at the occasion of Wolman’s exhibition at La Plaque Tournante, Berlin.
Biopoetry
The book presents the Biopoetry manifesto (2002) in its original English form translated to several languages. It features many images never published before, starting with the cover.
Pure de toute peur
While the institutions keep on celebrating dead artists, Editions AcquAvivA is publishing the very first catalog on the work of Aude Jessemin, the most significant feminine Lettrist artist of the Sixties (and Jacques Spacagna’s first wife). Aude Jessemin has accomplished a very important hypergraphic work that has been totally erased from the history of the Lettrist movement. For her 80th birthday, the book dealer Paul Veyssière will host Aude Jessemin and her publisher Frédéric Acquaviva…
Lettre aux grands de ce monde
For the 10th anniversary of Isou’s death (on July 28, 2007), the Editions AcquAvivA publishes the up-to-now unpublished “Letter to the Great Ones of the World”, which tells a lot about Isou’s strategies at a time when nearly no one was interested in his ideas. Before a flood of academic theses, books and catalogs on Isou (some of them related to the announced Isou retrospective at Centre Pompidou next year), this letter is a good occasion to remember Isou’s so special spirit of creation.
Zaj Concert for Voices
edition of 100 copies. Beautiful publication by performance artist Esther Ferrer and composer Tom Johnson.Esther Ferrer, born in San Sebastián, Spain, has been noted for her work in performance art as a solo artist and as a member of the seminal ZAJ group. Her work has always been oriented to ephemeral artistic action rather than to permanent artistic production. In the '60s in collaboration with the painter José Antonio Sistiaga, she created the first "Workshop for Free Expression," an activity…
The Book of Ephemerodes
edition of 100 copies. heretic composer, performer and conductor Mathius Shadow-Sky, pupil of Iannis Xenakis and Pierre Boulez and explorer of music. MSS reinvents musical systems, creates music instruments, electronic dispositives and new technics of playing. Being a multi instrumentist, he fights against the ghettoisation of musical styles and has created in 1996 the Trans-Cultural Syn-phônê Orchestra, with big multi cultural symphonic orchestras. Visionary of a music beyond segregation of tra…
Autumn's Sun
A small chapbook (50 pages) of writing by guitarist MazzaCane Connors. Autumn's Sunfeatures diary excerpts written in New Haven, CT in 1987. Presumably typeset to resemble his original typewritten document, with hand-written aisle comments left in. A six page piece on Loren's experiences standing outside John & Carolyn Kennedy Jr's loft in July 1999 is included at the end of the book.
The Collected Fanzines
Reproduces all the original pages, mostly hand-written or featuring primitive xerox art, that were published in small editions, 1992 thru 1999. You're excused if you've never seen or heard of these "fanzines". Influential line: "Janet Jackson thinks Christ is a Hoax." There are many other pages with similar sentiment, but dude, the vibe is a little scurrilous... "Going back through the years...it's so hard to remember, I was always tripping and falling over myself. These 'zines were written over…
Infinity Suite
In common parlance the term Infinity Suite refers to a luxury hotel apartment comprised of several adjoining rooms. But my usage of the term here invokes the notion of infinite realities as resonating through dream and memory. An interconnected suite of spaces populated with vivid sounds and images spanning across periods of one’s life. My experience here focuses on the Indian city of Varanasi, but this sense of reality drifting I found there could’ve taken place anywhere. I focused on Varanasi …
Stolen Symphony (Volume 1)
*Comes with a 72 page booklet including texts and pictures* All in all, there are more than 50 pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical and special instruments. Archivio Conz in Berlin provided access to their extensive Fluxus archives and Edizioni Conz provided coproduction. Ursula and René Block made possible the realisation of John Cage's historical composition Rozart Mix from the E…
Nahma : A Gulf Polyphony
**31,3 x 31,3 cm 240 pages ** Flee's new project focuses on the music of the pearl fishermen of the Persian Gulf and aims to honor the memory of the divers, their culture and their music. The pearls of the Gulf have stoked the imagination and desire of people around the world for centuries, their magnificence matched only by the courage of the divers who found them. This project aims to honor the memory of these valiant free-divers, their culture and their music by the means of a 2XLP compilatio…
Antibarbarus
A reissue of Antibarbarus, issued as a compact disc in 1998, was the first edition Walter Marchetti released on Alga Marghen. The Antibarbarus cycle of five pieces makes use of original tapes coming from the same recording sessions that originated some of Marchetti's major musical works realized in the '80s. This former series of works presented some homogeneous and untouched sound sources in the "concrete" status of their inner - and necessarily chaotic - level of entropy. Nevertheless this ope…
Ceramics
Following last year's presentation of Tori Kudo's ceramics at our Brooklyn gallery space, Blank Forms publishes the exhibition's accompanying limited-edition catalog. With images captured on film by musician and photographer Lary 7, Tori Kudo: Ceramics documents the work displayed in the artist's first exhibition in the United States. Designed by Alec Mapes-Frances and available exclusively at Blank Forms, this hardcover art book features thirty color photographs of the vessels with Kudo's comme…
Try Saying You're Alive!
A memoir by Kawasaki-based writer and musician Kazuki Tomokawa (b. 1950), Try Saying You're Alive! offers a semi-fictionalized account of the vibrant Tokyo underground that he has been at the center of since the 1970s. Recounting sixty years in the life of this "screaming philosopher." Try Saying You're Alive! traces Tomokawa's beginnings in the Akita Prefecture as a "runaway toddler," his adolescent basketball career, and his wanderings as a day laborer, gambler, painter, actor, drinker, and av…
The Music Finds a Way
In the post World War II era, dozens of young African Americans in South Central Los Angeles found their way to careers in music. In a community facing challenging social conditions and with little to no outside support, they would become artists, supported by the best that their community and culture had to offer, from neighborhood and family to schools and churches, private teachers, formal and informal spaces and institutions, and more than a few unsung heroes.
“The neighborhood was tough, b…