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Alison Knowles
announcements@sararanchouse.comALISON KNOWLES PERFORMANCE AND BOOK RELEASE
PRINTED MATTER, INC.
195 Tenth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd), NYC
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009, 5-7PM
Please join Sara Ranchouse Publishing at Printed Matter, Inc.,
195 Tenth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd), NYC, on Friday,
November 6 from 5-7pm, for the publication release of "Plah
Plah Pli Plah" by artist Alison Knowles. Knowles will be present
to sign copies of her book.
"Plah Plah Pli Plah" documents the sounds, performance and
material of Knowles’ handmade paper and dried bean instrument
“Bean Turners.” It includes transcriptions of the instruments’
sounds, images of Knowles performing, scores, and a “bean page
instrument,” fabricated especially for this project at the Columbia
College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago.
Knowles and others of her Bean Turner Ensemble will perform her
instruments throughout the evening. Don’t miss this opportunity
to see and hear Alison’s amazing instruments live and to support
the publication of "Plah Plah Pli Plah."
If you won’t be in New York, you can purchase "Plah Plah Pli Plah"
and other of Knowles’ books online at: www.sararanchouse.com.
Shipping is free within the US (mention this email) if you place your
order before November 30, 2009.
ALISON KNOWLES is a visual artist known for her soundworks,
installations, performances, publications and association with Fluxus,
the experimental avant-garde group formally founded in 1962. Since
the early 1960s, she has traveled and performed throughout Europe,
Asia and United States. Some of her seminal book projects include
"Notations," a book of experimental composition that she designed
and co-edited with John Cage (1968, Something Else Press), and "The
Big Book" (1967), a walk-in book comprised of 8 ft. pages around a
center spine, permitting the spectator/reader to physically go inside
of the book. "Bean Rolls," a canned book, appeared in the Whitney
Museum exhibition The American Century (2000), and in 1968, "The
House of Dust," programmed with the help of composer Jim Tenney,
was recognized as the first computer poem on record, winning her a
Guggenheim Fellowship. For more information about Alison Knowles,
please visit: www.aknowles.com.
SARA RANCHOUSE PUBLISHING was founded in 1993 to promote printed
matter, especially the book, as a space in which to make and read visual
art and unconventional texts. We are interested in found, rearranged and
recontextualized texts, images and materials; in the significance of the
physical make-up and production requirements of a publication in relation
both to its content and to its subsequent functional and economic life; and
in the pursuit of collaborative projects, especially those that resuscitate
material that has been under acknowledged. Alison Knowles’ early score
and publication, "The Identical Lunch" (1969), is one of our favorite books
of all time and we are so pleased to be able to offer a Knowles title
ourselves, forty years later! For more information about Sara Ranchouse
Publishing, visit: www.sararanchouse.com or write info@sararanchouse.com.
PRINTED MATTER INC. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the
appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists’ books and other
artists’ publications. Printed Matter maintains a public reading room where
over 15,000 titles by 5,000 international artists are available for viewing
and purchase. For more information about Printed Matter, Inc., please
visit: http://printedmatter.org.
PRINTED MATTER, INC.
195 Tenth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd), NYC
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009, 5-7PM
Please join Sara Ranchouse Publishing at Printed Matter, Inc.,
195 Tenth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd), NYC, on Friday,
November 6 from 5-7pm, for the publication release of "Plah
Plah Pli Plah" by artist Alison Knowles. Knowles will be present
to sign copies of her book.
"Plah Plah Pli Plah" documents the sounds, performance and
material of Knowles’ handmade paper and dried bean instrument
“Bean Turners.” It includes transcriptions of the instruments’
sounds, images of Knowles performing, scores, and a “bean page
instrument,” fabricated especially for this project at the Columbia
College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago.
Knowles and others of her Bean Turner Ensemble will perform her
instruments throughout the evening. Don’t miss this opportunity
to see and hear Alison’s amazing instruments live and to support
the publication of "Plah Plah Pli Plah."
If you won’t be in New York, you can purchase "Plah Plah Pli Plah"
and other of Knowles’ books online at: www.sararanchouse.com.
Shipping is free within the US (mention this email) if you place your
order before November 30, 2009.
ALISON KNOWLES is a visual artist known for her soundworks,
installations, performances, publications and association with Fluxus,
the experimental avant-garde group formally founded in 1962. Since
the early 1960s, she has traveled and performed throughout Europe,
Asia and United States. Some of her seminal book projects include
"Notations," a book of experimental composition that she designed
and co-edited with John Cage (1968, Something Else Press), and "The
Big Book" (1967), a walk-in book comprised of 8 ft. pages around a
center spine, permitting the spectator/reader to physically go inside
of the book. "Bean Rolls," a canned book, appeared in the Whitney
Museum exhibition The American Century (2000), and in 1968, "The
House of Dust," programmed with the help of composer Jim Tenney,
was recognized as the first computer poem on record, winning her a
Guggenheim Fellowship. For more information about Alison Knowles,
please visit: www.aknowles.com.
SARA RANCHOUSE PUBLISHING was founded in 1993 to promote printed
matter, especially the book, as a space in which to make and read visual
art and unconventional texts. We are interested in found, rearranged and
recontextualized texts, images and materials; in the significance of the
physical make-up and production requirements of a publication in relation
both to its content and to its subsequent functional and economic life; and
in the pursuit of collaborative projects, especially those that resuscitate
material that has been under acknowledged. Alison Knowles’ early score
and publication, "The Identical Lunch" (1969), is one of our favorite books
of all time and we are so pleased to be able to offer a Knowles title
ourselves, forty years later! For more information about Sara Ranchouse
Publishing, visit: www.sararanchouse.com or write info@sararanchouse.com.
PRINTED MATTER INC. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the
appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists’ books and other
artists’ publications. Printed Matter maintains a public reading room where
over 15,000 titles by 5,000 international artists are available for viewing
and purchase. For more information about Printed Matter, Inc., please
visit: http://printedmatter.org.
26.10.09
25.10.09
Words of Light, artist book by Tarantino
Words of Light, 2009, box assemblage artist book, 12 x 16 x 16 cm., wood box with words, containing gold foil scroll with handwritten words, nestled in red tissue paper, signed and dated, Christine Tarantino 2009.Created for 2009 Artist Book Competition, CULTURAL ASSOCIATION PRESIDIUM VERBAMANENT_BOOK, Italia; additionally to be used for traveling exhibitions of books and to become part of Archive of Book Artists DROSOS.
24.10.09
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) presents John Cage and Ray Johnson, e-flux
Concert for Piano and Orchestra,1957-58Page 9 Print on paper 32.5 x 23 cm Copyright © 1960, 1988 by Henmar Press, Inc. Used by permission of C.F. Peters Corporation. All rights reserved
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)Plaça dels Àngels, 108001 Barcelonahttp://www.macba.cat MACBA forthcoming exhibitions:A major retrospective of the works, thoughts and influences of John Cage, as well as an extensive presentation of the work of Ray Johnson, are two major features of the autumn programme at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (MACBA). Cage and Johnson, both American artists, knew each other during their lifetimes. Although independently curated, the decision to show the two exhibitions in the Museum at the same time highlights the fact that both artists were concerned with inventing a language that addressed the ascendency of the contemporary versus the modern. They shared a common attempt to reconfigure the epistemological foundation of the modern project, that is, the ways in which we know what constitutes culture and what does not. Language cannot be reflected in the transparency of signs, therefore through their work we are forced to invent, to create new methods to recall the world.--e-flux
22.10.09
Lachplatte mono pol
"Lachplatte mono pol = Kleider machen Leute" - Inter...action between Gema & Nobody alias Litsa Spathi
21.10.09
20.10.09
Wood You Rock Me @ 3?
Sent to contributing artists Video, two versions; 25 minutes & 10 minute YouTube; artists' contributions
Documentation
MAURIZIO FOLLIN, Italia
JENNIFER ZOELLNER, USAWood Event for Christine Tarantino 1
simple paper envelope
secret object
fire
Wood Event for Christine Tarantino 2
The performance area is swept in ever diminishing concentric circles.
The sweepings are folded into a paper construction of the performers choice.
This may include a simple sheet of paper folded in two.
The paper is burned.
Wood Event for Christine Tarantino 3
Fire?
Fire.
Fire!
simple paper envelope
secret object
fire
Wood Event for Christine Tarantino 2
The performance area is swept in ever diminishing concentric circles.
The sweepings are folded into a paper construction of the performers choice.
This may include a simple sheet of paper folded in two.
The paper is burned.
Wood Event for Christine Tarantino 3
Fire?
Fire.
Fire!
ALAN BOWMAN, ITALIA
BILL EVERTSON, USA
MELISSA McCARTHY, USA 
DON BOYD, USA
BRUNO CHIARLONE, ITALIA
FRED WILDER, USA
ALFONSO CACCAVALE, ITALIA
YVES MARAUX, FRANCE
PIERPAOLO LIMONGELLI, ITALIA
WOLFGANG SKODD, GERMANY
ROLAND HALBRITTER, GERMANY
CHRISTINE TARANTINO, USA 
PETER DOWKER, CANADA
DOMENICO SEVERINO, ITALIA
JONATHAN STANGROOM, USA
MARCI KATZ, CANADA
JOHN M. BENNETT, USA 
BILL THOMSON, CANADA
KEITH BUCHHOLZ, USA
DAWSON, USA 
ELISA LINDSTEDT, FINLAND 
JONATHAN STANGROOM, USA
REID WOOD, USA 
What? Send a piece of wood by December 3rd, 2009Where? Christine Tarantino
P.O. Box 121
Wendell, MA 01379 USA
Why? I will create a structure from all the pieces of wood you send me.
Then I will build a totem using rocks with participants' initials.
The wooden structure will be burned and the ashes will be sent to you as part of the project documentation.
The rock totem will stand as long as it wants to.
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