Join Shirin Neshat for the launch of DREAMERS, her new book published by Ivorypress. Neshat will be joined in conversation by Phong Bui, artist and Brooklyn Rail publisher.
SHIRIN NESHAT IN CONVERSATION WITH PHONG BUI
Thursday, December 20, from 6 pm to 8 pm.
Printed Matter
231 Eleventh Avenue, at 26th Street, New York City.
Shirin Neshat, Dreamers. Image courtesy Ivorypress.
Join Paul Mpagi Sepuya for a discussion about his edit of the artwork on display at LACMA’s Study Center, and how it relates to his practice.
ARTISTS ON ART—PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA
Saturday, December 8, at 2 pm.
LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.
Sepuya’s Darkroom Mirror with Roses at Night, a fundraising C-print (below) for Printed Matter, is now available.
See “Death Deluxe,” a portfolio by Item Idem, with photography by Brian Oldham and Paul Mpagi Sepuya, PARISLA 16 (2018).
From top:
All artwork by Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
Study with Two Figures, N.B. and J.T., after R.N.B. (1404), 2015, archival pigment print.
Study Reflecting Dureau, 2017, archival pigment print.
Darkroom Mirror with Roses at Night, 2018. C-print.
Study for a Self Portrait (1504), 2015, archival pigment print.
This week, Printed Matter will launch the new edition of 7 MILES A SECOND, the graphic novel by David Wojnarowicz depicting the artist’s life as an underage hustler, and an adult living with societal indifference to AIDS.
James Romberger (who drew the book) and Marguerite Van Cook (its colorist) will sign copies.
7 MILES A SECOND WITH JAMES ROMBERGER AND MARGUERITE VAN COOK
Thursday, December 6, from 6 pm to 8 pm.
Printed Matter St. Mark’s, 38 St. Mark’s Place, New York City.
7 Miles a Second. Image credit: Ground Zero.
“There are few art-world figures as influential—and as little known—as Dick Higgins (1938-1998), co-founder of Fluxus, poet, scholar, theorist, composer, performer, and publisher of the Something Else Press.
“In 1965 he restored the term ‘intermedia’ to the English language, giving it new dimension to recognize the dissolution of boundaries, the expansion of liminal spaces between traditional modes of art making, and the open field for new forms that cannot be compartmentalized.
“Higgins’ own contributions to intermedia are many—as a participant and instigator of Happenings, as writer and composer straddling traditional and vanguard forms, among others—but it was the Something Else Press (1963–1974) that redefined how ‘the book’ could inhabit that energized, in-between space.”*
This week, join curator and historian Alice Centamore, Higgins editor and Granary Books publisher Steve Clay, publisher Lisa Pearson, and Christian Xatrec for a celebration of Higgins and the publication of Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press—Selected Writings of Dick Higgins, edited by Clay and Fluxus artist Ken Friedman.
INTERMEDIA, FLUXUS, AND THE SOMETHING ELSE PRESS*
Thursday, November 8, from 6 pm to 8 pm.
Printed Matter, 231 Eleventh Avenue (at 26th Street), New York City.
From top:
Fluxus announcement.
Dick Higgins, Postface/Jefferson’s Birthday double-sided book cover. Image credit: Fondazione Bonotto.
Dick Higgins, Metapoetries.
Dick Higgins, creen print on Arches paper.
Printed Matter presents a survey of artist editions and publications produced by Shannon Michael Cane (1974-2017), the late Fairs and Editions Curator.
25% of Edition sales through September 2nd will be contributed to the Shannon Michael Cane Fund, supporting future projects carried out in Shannon’s name.
SHANZINI—SHANNON MICHAEL CANE AND PRINTED MATTER
Through October 14.
Printed Matter, 231 Eleventh Avenue (at 26th Street), New York City.
Above: L.A. and N.Y. Art Book Fair organizers Jordan Nassar (left) and Shannon Michael Cane.
