Printed Matter presents an exhibition, book launch, and signing with Jenny Holzer on the occasion of the Ivorypress publication of BELLIGERENT. The artist’s book contains seven folded-poster works by Holzer, each one taken from a redacted U.S. government document investigating abuse in military prisons.
JENNY HOLZER – BELLIGERENT LAUNCH, Saturday, April 28, from 5 pm to 7 pm.
PRINTED MATTER, 231 Eleventh Avenue, at 26th Street, New York City.
Jenny Holzer, Belligerent. Image credit: Ivorypress.
“FINALLY GOT THE NEWS, by Brad Duncan, uncovers the hidden legacy of the radical Left of the 1970s, a decade when vibrant social movements challenged racism, imperialism, patriarchy and capitalism itself. It combines written contributions from movement participants with original printed materials—from pamphlets to posters, flyers to newspapers—to tell this politically rich and little-known story.
“The dawn of the 1970s saw an absolute explosion of interest in revolutionary ideas and activism. Young people radicalized by the antiwar movement became anti-imperialists, veterans of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements increasingly identified with communism and Pan-Africanism, and women were organizing for autonomy and liberation. While these movements may have different roots, there was also an incredible overlapping and intermingling of activists and ideologies.
“These diverse movements used printed materials as organizing tools in every political activity, creating a sprawling and remarkable array of printing styles, techniques, and formats. Through the lens of printed materials we can see the real nuts and bolts of revolutionary organizing in an era when thousands of young revolutionaries were attempting to put their beliefs into practice in workplaces and neighborhoods across the U.S.” — InterferenceArchive*
BRAD DUNCAN, FINALLY GOT THE NEWS (Brooklyn: Common Notions, 2017).
Finally Got the News. Image credit: Common Notions.
The second iteration of the PARIS ASS BOOK FAIR lands at Palais de Tokyo this weekend.
Programs include a panel on collecting artist’s books, an exhibition of paintings by Jeffrey Cheung, a performance by Christopher Clary, a film—Canal Supérieur—by Philippe Roger, and a presentation by EEAPES, a queer science-fiction workshop organized by Clara Pacotte and Charlotte Houette.
AA Bronson, Aaron Krach, Anthony Malone (on the Everard Baths fire), Billy Serib, Carlos Vergara, Céline le Gouail, Derek Axton (People, Places, and Things), Jacopo Benassi, Konstantin Zhukov, Lia Pradal and Camille Tallent, Maïc Batmane, Marco Siciliano, Marine Peixoto and Clara Piroux, Marthe’ Oh, Michael Crowe, Nicolas Kuttler, Péixe Collardot, Sandra March, Scott Ramsay Kyle, Tom de Pekin (who’s working on a film based on Alfred Jarry’s Haldernablou), Sholem Krishtalka (A Berlin Diary), Sylvain Gaudenzi and Laurent Champoussin are among the participating artists.
PARIS ASS BOOK FAIR, Friday through Sunday, March 16, 17, and 18.
PALAIS DE TOKYO, 13 avenue du président Wilson, 16th, Paris.
From top: Philippe Roger, Canal Supérieur.
Billy Serib.
Céline le Gouail.
AA Bronson.
Fred Morin.
Péixe Collardot.
Scott Ramsay Kyle.
Tom de Pekin.
Maïc Batmane.
EEAPES.
“Conceived by General Idea’s AA Bronson, ZIGGURAT—GENERAL IDEA 1968 – 1994 is constructed around a conversation between Bronson and Hans Ulrich Obrist. The publication unravels the twenty-five year history of the artists’ group… providing an overview of their prodigious output of paintings, performances, installations, photographs, and publications.”*
This weekend, join AA Bronson for the ZIGGURAT book launch at Printed Matter. Bronson will be joined in conversation with art historian and critic Alex Kitnick.
Reception to follow.
AA BRONSON—ZIGGURAT, Saturday, March 10.
PRINTED MATTER, 231 Eleventh Avenue, at 26th Street, New York City.
Cover and inside images from Ziggurat. Image credit: Mitchell, Innes & Nash.
“On occasion of the exhibition IMPRINT 93, Printed Matter has released a second printing of Elizabeth Peyton’s untitled artists’ book from 1995. Originally published by Matthew Higgs‘ Imprint 93, the book was distributed at the opening reception for Peyton’s first solo UK exhibition, at Brixton’s Prince Albert public house. Comprised of a sequence of video stills showing a performance by Kurt Cobain two years prior, the work is xeroxed and hand-assembled in an edition of 100 copies, with staples, glassine wrap, and a custom-stamped envelope. Co-published with Imprint 93.”*
Elizabeth Peyton, UNTITLED. Imagery courtesy of of the artist; Gladstone Gallery, New York; Sadie Coles HQ, London; Neugerriemschneider, Berlin.
