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Friends with Books at Hamburger Bahnhof
From December 11 to 13 I’m participating in Friends with Books. My new work Song of Myself will be installed in the exhibition ‘I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library’ also featuring works by Susanne Bürner, Natalie Czech, Anita Di Bianco, Dominique Hurth, Ines Lechleitner, Jonathan Monk, Joachim Schmid, and Erik Steinbrecher.
On Saturday December 12 at 13.00 Dr. Michael Lailach, Kunstbibliothek Berlin, leads a panel discussion with Céline Duval, Joachim Schmid, Erik Steinbrecher and myself on the artist and author as publisher. Strategies of text and image collection, of arrangement and publishing are to be discussed.
I’m also participating in the book fair, you’ll find my table at the entrance to the main hall (table E4). Both the limited and the regular edition of Song of Myself will be available, as well as my other new title The Library.
Location:
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart
Invalidenstraße 50–51
10557 Berlin-Mitte
Offprint Paris
Next week I’ll be participating in Offprint Paris again. This year’s edition of the art-publishing fair showcases more than 125 publishers from over 20 countries. You’ll find me and my books at the table I share with Joachim Schmid. My new book The Library will be launched at the fair. Find a pdf catalogue of the books I will bring here.
Beaux Arts de Paris, 14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris
November 12–15, 2015
Exhibition RE: Follow-ed
My book Recounted is currently on view in Re: Follow-ed (after Hokusai), an exhibition curated by Tom Sowden and Michalis Pichler at the Cabinet du livre d’artiste in Rennes. The show runs from September 28 to December 3, 2015. You can find the invitation here.
Oceanus, new print
I’ve made a new print run of my book Oceanus which had gone out of availability. For this print run a few typographical changes were introduced, plus the cover is now in black and white and no longer laminated. The whole book is now also printed on a 100% recycled paper stock which gives a new expression to the work and moreover qualifies for both the ISO 9706 norm for longevity and the Blue Angel environmental label.
To celebrate, there is a new reduced price, you can purchase the book now at €35,- plus shipping. Note that due to travel orders will be sent out in the beginning of October. I’ll have a few copies of the book available at my table at the New York Art Book Fair next week.
Read more about the book here.
Let us read less
Let us go then, you and I made an appearance in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, in an article by Magnus Wieland on literary appropriation. The article can be read here.
List of available books at the New York Art Book Fair
I’ve made a pdf catalogue of the books and editions I’ll bring to this year’s New York Art Book Fair. It presents the books in alphabetical order and contains the current USD prices. Open by clicking this link.
The New York Art Book Fair
The tenth edition of the New York Art Book Fair will be held at MoMA PS1 from September 17-20. For the third year in a row I’m sharing a table with Joachim Schmid. We both published a number of books since last year and look forward to presenting them. New titles I’ll bring to the fair include: Wiederholungszwang, The Lovers, Husch!, Mein Buch and Tischblumenbilder. Find a pdf catalogue of what will be available here.
We’ll be in the big room on the 2nd floor this year, the table number is N42. For practicalities visit: http://nyartbookfair.com/about/
Discussion of four books
Johan Velter discusses my four recent publications on his sfcdt blog. The text is in Dutch and can be read here.
Talk at Picture Berlin
Next week I’ll give a presentation about my work in the context of Picture Berlin.
Time: July 22 at 8.30 pm.
Location: tête, Schönhauser Allee 161A, 10435 Berlin.
This talk is free and open to everyone.
Tischblumenbilder
Tischblumenbilder (‘Tableflowerpictures’) is the third and final of my recent publications in German. It reflects on the declension of adjectives in the German language (or as Mark Twain would say, ‘The Awful German Language’). The book consists of words found in an instruction table that presented declensions of three nouns with adjectives. I stamped these phrases by hand, thereby causing fluctuations from phrase to phrase and from booklet to booklet, mimicking the constant flow of word form variations that German presents due to the required identification of grammatical case, number and gender. The pairing of two phrases on each page also causes subtle shifts of meaning.
Realized at Künstlerhaus Bethanien during a residency awarded by the Mondriaan Fonds.
Stamped with archival black ink, booklet size 11 x 19 cm, 24 pages.
Edition limited to 50 numbered copies.
Priced at € 24,- plus shipping. See some images here.
Published in Berlin, 2015.
Elisabeth Tonnard 