Report from the Gutenberg Galaxy (Blaker), 1-2 (2015) [English/Norwegian]
Filed under booklet | Tags: · archive, art, artists book, book
A series of two publications released in connection with the exhibition project The Gutenberg Galaxy at Blaker
(2013–2015) which takes as its point of departure the archive of the artist Guttorm Guttormsgaard, a collection of tens of thousands of objects he has collected with the intention of “documenting necessary impulses to keep one’s spirits up.” The archive is located in a former dairy in Blaker, a village 40 km northeast of Oslo. Guttormsgaard has referred to the printed book as a model for his own artistic practice. The project aims to reimagine the book today.
With texts by Wolfgang Ernst, Constant, Guttorm Guttormsgaard, et al. (1), Adrian Johns, Johanna Drucker, Constant, Ina Blom, Jørn H. Sværen, José de Almada Negreiros (2).
Edited by Karin Nygård and Ellef Prestsæter
Publisher Rett Kopi, Blaker, 2015
38 & 90 pages (EN)
via Ellef Prestsæter
Exhibition review: Stian Gabrielsen (Kunstkritikk, 2014, NO).
Interview (Kunstkritikk, NO)
No. 1 (English, 11 MB, PDF)
No. 2 (English, 32 MB, PDF)
No. 1 (Norwegian, 7 MB, PDF)
No. 2 (Norwegian, 19 MB, PDF)
See also third volume.
John Cage: How To Get Started (2010)
Filed under booklet | Tags: · creativity, improvisation, performance
“John Cage’s first and only performance of How to Get Started on 31 Aug 1989 was conceived of almost as an afterthought–a performance substituting for another that had been previously planned. In his performance, delivered at a sound design conference in Nicasio, California, Cage talks about the difficulty of initiating the creative process, and about improvisation, a subject about which he had long been deeply ambivalent. He proposes a collaborative framework in which sound engineers capture and subsequently layer his extemporized monologue, which consisted of ten brief commentaries on topics then of interest. This amounted to an experiment having to do with thinking in public before a live audience.”
The publication also features commentaries by Laura Kuhn, Aaron Levy and Arthur J. Sabatini.
Publisher Slought Books, Philadelphia, and John Cage Trust, 2010
Open access
ISBN 0981540961, 9780981540962
19 pages
Sezgin Boynik: Still Stealing Steel: Historical-Materialist Study of Zaum (2014)
Filed under booklet | Tags: · futurism, language, poetry, zaum
An artistic research on Zaum language conducted in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Publisher Rab-Rab, Tbilisi, 2014
Photography by Minna Henriksson
Open access
[58] pages