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Song of Myself
I celebrate myself, and sing myself
My book Song of Myself: American Renaissance launches on December 11. The book consists of texts collected from the Facebook pages of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman.
It is available as a small pocket book priced at €15,- and as a special edition that can also be used for exhibition. The image above is taken of an installation of the latter at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin where the book will launch at Friends with Books.
The special edition consists of 58 inkjet printed sheets at A3 size in an archival folder. There are seven copies plus one artist proof. In the colophon each of the seven copies is associated with one of the poets that appear in the project, i.e. there is Edgar Allan Poe’s copy, Emily Dickinson’s, Henry David Thoreau’s, Herman Melville’s, etcetera. If you are ordering the edition you can choose which copy you’d like (check if it’s still available). The edition is priced at €745,-
More images and information can be found here.
Order the book through my webshop or by email.
Order the special edition through my webshop or by email.
The project will be exhibited at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam from January 24 – May 8 in the exhibition Quickscan.
Small press fair at Paradiso, Amsterdam
On Sunday December 13 a selection of my recent books will be available at the Beurs van Bijzondere Uitgevers, a fair for literature and artists’ books that takes place yearly at Paradiso in Amsterdam. You’ll find my table when you go left in the main room on the ground floor. See where exactly on the map here. I won’t be there personally this year but a lovely assistant is.
Location:
Paradiso,
Weteringschans 6-8, Amsterdam
Hours:
13 December 2015
13.00 – 17.00
Admission is €3,-
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.
Elisabeth Tonnard 