Xong Collection 2
This bundle offers a selection of the latest releases in the Xong series - and it includes the following:
Muna Mussie, Massimo Carozzi Curva Cieca Oblio ኩርቫ ዕውር ምርሳዕ Alessandro Bosetti FasFari Mattin Seize the Means of Complexity Mette Edvardsen, Iben Edvardsen Livre d'images Sans Images Valerio Tricoli A Circle of Grey Invernomuto Vernascacadabra Canedicoda, Renato Grieco Ehm
Contes de sons qui se prennent pour un autre
Surface noise is the inspiration for this recording by Anri Sala. “I wanted to compose a soundtrack that mostly sounds, when played on the vinyl, like one is only listening to the physical attributes of the medium itself: the sound of the static crackling of the vinyl played by the stylus. As if it was contact music. However, in the course of the composition…the crackling starts to evolve, gradually taking the shape of other sounds. One hears hints of percussion and sometimes even distant sounds…
Permutations (Book)
The first collection of the Beat mentor’s long-influential permutation poems—one of the earliest examples of computer-generated literature
Simultaneous Soloists (Book)
2024 stock. Simultaneous Soloists is an artist’s book emerging from the exhibition Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works and its accompanying performance series Four Simultaneous Soloists, organized by David Grubbs. It documents these ephemeral events through multiple means: an extensive conversation between McCall and Grubbs detailing a decade of working together, interviews with sixteen participating musicians, writings by art historians Branden W. Joseph and Swagato Chakravorty, and visual materi…
From Hell To Hell
2024 stock. In November 2008 Robert Eikmeyer and Thomas Knoefel made live recordings with Jake and Dinos Chapman in the run-up to their "Memento Moronika" show in Hanover. The theme, how could it be otherwise, the hell and its inmates. Its about Lucifer and his darksome paradise, tantalisation and perdition, the evil and the libido. The performance of human monstrosity, its prophets and subworkers, about perpetrators and victims, masters and slaves, but also about transgression, and a deepness o…
Avenue of the Living
Big Tip! * Edition of 100 copies including a 7" EP, 200 pages Hardback cover with poster * "Avenue of the Living" is a book that arrives as a parallel work to a film titled Aleph, by artist Iva Radivojević. It unfolds as a dreamscape guided by a prose poem that weaves through photographs, diary notes and found objects, all of which were collected during the travels and the making of Aleph. Aleph, inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, points to a hidden portal that contains the entire universe. When loo…
L'Orso allo Specchio (Book)
Italian only Pubblicato in Inglese nel 2018 da Vleeshal Middelburg e Koenig Books London, Kunstverein Publishing è lieta di annunciare l'uscita del libro nella lingua d'origine. Il libro d’artista raccoglie i ricordi d’infanzia trascorsa prevalentemente in Italia, alcune esperienze di vita e riflessioni personali sulle storie e relazioni famigliari e il loro intrecciarsi con diverse ubicazioni geografiche.
Ho accumulato così tanti libri (…) tutti riguardanti la famiglia. Tutto questo si riversa …
Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done (Book)
2024 stock. Taking its name from the Judson Memorial Church, a socially engaged Protestant congregation in New York's Greenwich Village, Judson Dance Theater was organized as a series of open workshops from which its participants developed performances. Redefining the kinds of movement that could count as dance, the Judson participants—Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Philip Corner, Bill Dixon, Judith Dunn, David Gordon, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Fred Herko, Robert Morris, Steve Paxton, Rudy Perez, Yv…
Writing by Artist
Filled with artworks, photos, and memorabilia, this epistolary portrait depicts Wojnarowicz's development as a writer and artist via his heartfelt letters to his Parisian lover.
Seize the Means of Complexity
Tip! *20 copies limited release* Xing presents the LP Seize the Means of Complexity by Mattin, ninth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited numbered edition of 150 copies. The collector's edition consists of 20 copies, each accompanied by a different polaroid - credit card size - portraying fragments from the social media universe.
Seize the Means of Complexity, the new record by Mattin is a call for all social media users of the world to unite: …
Anniversary issue by Gruenrekorder
Limited edition of 50 copies. Blank tape with nothing on it – just to free up your mind. Ready to record & listen in your own sound environment.
Fluxus Anthology 60 Years Anniversary, 1962-2022
** Last copies ** In (heavy and over-sized) wooden box of 80 copies, hand numbered. Ten audiotapes with interviews/statements, tape collages, electronic music, interview, live events with new and some old material. By Charlotte Moorman, David Tudor, Fernad Kriwet, Joe Jones, Robert Filliou, Carolee Schneemann, Allan Kaprow, Richard Maxfield, Emmett Williams, and many more.
What is Fluxus? Fluxus was launched in 1962 as an interdisciplinary, neo-avant-garde artist collective, whose organized act…
The Complete Posters Tadanori Yokoo (Book)
Large size book cm 23×27,5; pp. 460; hardcover Few artists of any medium have captured successfully in their work the visual inundation common to those living in large cosmopolitan cities such as Tokyo, New York, London or Hong Kong. We are bombarded on a daily basis with all types of visual information and images from print media, smartphones and even some forms of public transformation. This exhibition catalogue from the National Museum of Osaka (2010) shows Tadanori Yokoo’s considerable and …
A Something Else Reader (Book)
368 pages. A Something Else Reader is a previously-unpublished anthology edited by Dick Higgins in 1972 to celebrate Something Else Press, the publishing house he founded in 1963 to showcase Fluxus and other experimental artistic and literary forms. The publication features selections from Claes Oldenburg’s Store Days, John Cage’s Notations, An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, Breakthrough Fictioneers, Jackson Mac Low’s Stanzas for Iris Lezak, Gertrude Stein’s Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein, B…
The Listening Academy (Book+CD)
With Miguel Buenrostro, Giordano Cruciani, Daniela Gentile, Mathias Klenner, Brandon LaBelle, Maria Frederika Malmström, Elif Gülin Soğuksu, Shlomit Strutti, Sandra Volny, Matteo Zoccolo. A collective improvisation as part of a creative research academy on questions and practices of listening. Can listening be a tool? For care and concern? For possible worlds? How can a space support experiences of togetherness? How to challenge geometries of power by listening? Where is the border between quest…
Alien Phenomenology (Book+CD)
Listening as the basis for social, bodily and passionate movement and transformation. Are we not moved by the things we hear? These energetic intrusions and ambiences that touch the skin, vibrate the air, evoke relations. Is there an alien force intrinsic to sonic experience and the currents of sound? Currents that pass across subjects and objects, and that give way to a multiplicity of rhythms, vocalities, gestures, scrapings. The work circles around listening as the basis for movement and tran…
Cheap imitation
* 180Gr Purple Vinyl. edition of 500* Reissue of an LP originally on the Cramps Nova Musicha imprint. The music is a "cheap imitation" of Erik Satie. Nice meandering piano music played by John Cage himself. Registered at Center for Contemporary Music of Mills College in Oakland, California, Cheap Imitation is a piece for solo piano by John Cage, composed in 1969. It is an indeterminate piece created using the I Ching and based, rhythmically, on Socrate by Erik Satie; it consists almost exclusive…
Unsitely Aesthetics: Uncertain practices in contemporary art (Book)
*2022 stock* In the last 10 years we have experienced a seismic shift in media culture, as the social media revolution of the noughties has brought vastly expanded networking, mobility and connection. This shift has significantly altered the making of art as well as the ways that audiences engage with art. Unsitely Aesthetics seeks to describe and understand these changes in art production and its accompanying new aesthetics, coining the term “unsitely” to point to the dispersed way that many ar…
Night Run: Collected Sound Works 1992 - 1995 / Voices Fill My Head
Last copies...This bundle collects two incredible Kristin Oppenheim double LP sets, namely "Night Run: Collected Sound Works 1992 - 1995" and "Voices Fill My Head".Kristin Oppenheim "Night Run: Collected Sound Works 1992 - 1995" (2LP)INFO is pleased to announce Night Run, the first collection of early sound works of Kristin Oppenheim. This 2LP release features eight pieces recorded between 1992 and 1995 in her Brooklyn studio. In each recording, Oppenheim’s voice is the sole medium, forming repe…
John Cage
** 180Gr White Vinyl. edition of 500 ** One of the better realizations of John Cage's work, this was also the first “Nova Musicha” collection release. The LP contains five John Cage’s compositions for "prepared" piano, played and performed by various artists: Juan Hidalgo, Walter Marchetti, Gianni-Emilio Simonetti and Demetrio Stratos. In these perfomances, the sound of the piano was altered by placing objects (preparations) between or on the strings or on the hammers or dampers. Toy pianos and…