Publication as Practice # 2: PHOTOBOOKS, with guest speaker Stephen Gill
A short course on concepts of artists’ publications
# 2: PHOTOBOOKS, with guest speaker Stephen Gill http://nobodybooks.com/shop/
The Erotic Book Club: Torture Garden
Thursday 28th January, 8pm
This month The Erotic Book Club will be reading ‘Torture Garden’ by Octave Mirbeau.
Launch of ‘Hold on to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992′
Saturday 23rd January, 6.30 – 9pm
Launch of ‘Before Things Change’ by Seth Fluker
Friday 22nd January, 6-9pm
Launch of ‘Before Things Change’ by Seth Fluker
Publication as Practice # 1: THE ARCHIVE, with guest speaker James Hoff from Primary Information
# 1: THE ARCHIVE, Introduced by Eleanor with guest speaker James Hoff from Primary Information http://primaryinformation.org/
Saturday 12th December, Borstal Space presents:
Saturday 12th December, 6 -9 pm
Borstal cordially invites you to ‘A Conversation between Oliver Laric, Wojciech Kosma and Paul O’Kane’
On Saturday 12th December 2009 the last work exhibited at Borstal Space will be
‘A Combination of Works by Wojciech Kosma and Oliver Laric’.
This piece has formed a focal point for Borstal to curate an event which will investigate the question of ‘the self’ in relation to technology and partnerships.
The event will be held at Donlon Books on the Saturday evening and will feature a Conversation between Wojciech Kosma, Oliver Laric and Paul O’Kane.
In relation to Kosma and Laric’s practice Paul will give a Bretonian reading of a literary text describing a technologised everyday environment and event accompanied by an interactive poetry recital.
This will lead to an open discussion between the artists and audience which will be intercepted throughout the evening by performances with the potential for audience participation.
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Wojciech Kosma is an artist and composer. His events could have been seen recently in the New Museum in New York, Goldsmiths University in London, Overgaden in Copenhagen , Boutique Monaco in Seoul, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, The Chilean Embassy in Paris, Image Music Text Gallery in London, or heard on Herbst Radio in Berlin.
Oliver Laric is Berlin based artist curator and cofounder of VVORK.com. His practice appears in a diverse range of media. Recent exhibitions include ‘I love the Horizon’, Le Magasin-Centre National d’art Contemporain, Grenoble, ‘Montage: Unmonumental Online’, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and ‘Becks Fusions’, ICA, London.
Paul O’Kane is an artist musician, writer, lecturer who continues to investigate a broad range of practices while keeping open the question of art and the subject at their center.
New Arrivals at Donlon Books
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| Stanleypickergallery: Public Lectures on Art Sex, Magik, Utopia, Finance |
Picpus |
A Season in Hell |
50 Envelope Windows |
Lagniappe
By Nick Santos-Pedro |
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The Coming Insurrection |
Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews By Penny Arcade
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Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton |
Arte Povera 1966-1980.
Libri E Documenti By Giorgio Maffei |
Sol Lewitt. Artist’s Books. |
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Chene De Weekend 2006-2009 |
Scenes |
Performance Nude
By Fiona Banner |
Joseph Churchwood |
Jack Goldstein
By Klaus Gorner, Chrissie Iles, Shepherd Steiner |
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| Sound Commitments: Avant Garde Music and the 60’s By Robert Adlington |
The Ballad of Britain
By Will Hodgkinson |
Cosmic Dreams at Play |
Sensational Fix Zine #1 – Silence¹ |
The Hacienda: How not to run a club By Peter Hook |
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A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982 by Nicholas Rombes
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Disband
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Les Evening Gowns Damnees Jack Smith
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Warp Box Set
Warp |
Cameron Jamie Poster
Destroy All Monsters |
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Love, Sex, Fear, Death, The Untold Story of The Process Church of the Final, By Timothy Wyllie
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Portraits of American Biker-
Life in the Sixties By Beverley V. Roberts |
Spacesuits. The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection
By Amanda Young |
Maison Martin Margiela,
Written by Maison Martin Margiela |
Hellen Van Meene
New Photographs |
Saturday 28th November, Launch party for issue #1 of Mono
Saturday 28th November | 6:30 – 9pm
Issue #1: Ubiquitous Embodiment. Selected by Steve Bishop
Featuring: Brian Griffiths, Paola Pivi, pizza portraits, Alessandro Dal Pont, Goshka Macuga, calculators, Claes Oldenburg, Jonathan Callan, nose art, Joe Bradley, shark costumes, Lara Favaretto, Michael Pybus and Jack Vickridge.
Mono is a free bi-monthly paper dedicated solely to publishing image essays.
Each issue is selected by invited artists and curators. Consisting purely of images,
Mono aims to provide a unique platform for the exploration of ideas without words.
Thursday 26th November, Erotic Book Club
Thursday 26th November, 8pm
Erotic Book Club
Reading: Memoirs of a Young Rakehell by Guillaume Apollinaire
Books avaliable from Donlon Books Now
Wednesday 25th November, A Prior Magazine Launch
A Prior is an art magazine based in Belgium.
This new issue is co-edited with Olivia Pender, Anna Colin and Kim Einarsson.
It is based on Gustave Flaubert’s 1881 satirical novel Bouvard et Pécuchet and is divides into chapters so that it mirrors the structure of the book. It involves a large and sprawling number of texts and projects by artists including Pablo Bronstein, Goldin+Senneby, Runo Lagomarsino, Melanie Gilligan, Unnar Orn and writers such as Marina Vishmidt, Vanessa Desclaux, Angus Cameron, Rudi Laermans amongst others. Bouvard and Pécuchet, the two eponymous heroes of Flaubert’s last unfinished book, are both middle-aged copy clerks who, at the start of the novel, are resident in Paris. After Bouvard inherits money they decide to retire to the countryside and pursue their intellectual interests.
In chapter one, as the two autodidacts design their newly purchased garden, they begin by considering the theories laid out in a book titled The Garden Architect. This manual divides gardens into an endless number of types ranging from “The Dreadful Type’ […] composed of hanging rocks, shattered trees, and burnt out shacks” to “the ‘Exotic type’ designed to inspire memories in a colonist or traveler.”” Buoyed up by their reading matter, a vast range of technical manuals, literature and magazines, in each chapter they adopt a series of different roles from gardeners, to farmers, chemists, anatomists, medical doctors, biologists, geologists, historians, archeologists, architects, curators of their own museum, literary critics, dramaturges, politicians, economists, lovers, utopian socialists, gymnasts, mystics, philosophers, educationalists (adopting two orphaned children), urban planners, until finally they argue with everyone around them and contemplate suicide. The book is a travel narrative of sorts, and there are parallels with earlier satirical/ utopian odysseys such as Voltaire’s Candide. However if Candide is an ‘everyman’ for the age of Enlightenment – expanding his knowledge of the world whilst participating in European colonial expansion – Bouvard and Pécuchet are firmly located in their own time. They are bourgeois men of the nineteenth century and subsequently their pursuit of the good life involves an attempt to educate themselves, according to all the principles and ideas already available in print. Confused by all the competing theories, the scope of Bouvard and Pécuchet’s reading is encyclopedic. However, the two men consistently fail to learn from experience being unable to recognise the value of knowledge that is not learnt from a book, such as that of the local farmer. Whereas Candide ends in defeat and subsequently returns to a simple life in the garden tilling the soil, for Bouvard and Pécuchet defeat means giving up the pursuit for knowledge and returning to their former life as copy clerks.
Chapter summary:
Chapter 1. Meeting, friendship, Bouvard’s inheritance
Chapter 2. Agriculture, landscape gardening, food preservation
Chapter 3. Chemistry, anatomy, medicine, biology, geology
Chapter 4. Archeology, architecture, history, museology, classification, the institution
Chapter 5. Literature, drama, performance, grammar, aesthetics
Chapter 6. Politics: 1848
Chapter 7. Love
Chapter 8. Gymnastics, occultism, theology, philosophy, suicide
Chapter 9. Religion
Chapter 10. Education, music, urban planning, arguments with everyone around them
