Westphalie Verlag: Bread-and-Butter, Ditsies and Dumb-dumb.

Westphalie Verlag publishes artist's books

NEW PUBLICATION & CURRENT EXHIBITIONS::

Trisha Baga & No Brow (Der Popper-Knigge)
Katharina Zimmer (Ed)
German, BW photocopy, stapled, 297 x 420 mm , 14 p., limited edition.

Available at Galerie Emanuel Layr

TRISHA BAGA
& NO BROW: Benjamin Hirte | Lisa Holzer | David Jourdan | Nick Parker | Philipp Timischl | Nicole Wermers | Westphalie
Curated by Katharina Zimmer
April 12 – June 1, 2013
Galerie Emanuel Layr, An der Hülben 2, 1010 Vienna

TS, ATTT
CEAAC
The Souls, a Twice-Told Tale
With Cécile Dauchez, Lisa Holzer, David Jourdan, Ciara Phillips, Nagisa Oshima, Denis Prisset, Chloé Quenum, Markus Schinwald, Westphalie, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Curated by Vincent Romagny
February 9 – May 19, 2013
CEAAC / 7, rue de l’Abreuvoir, 67000 Strasbourg


	Six Years... (POD version) Lisa Holzer and David Jourdan (eds) With Étienne Chambaud, Martin Ebner, Lisa Holzer, David Jourdan, Adam Kleinman, Tan Lin, Benoît Maire, Yves Mettler/Erin Olivia Weber/Alexander Wolff, Melanie Ohnemus, Johannes Porsch, Constanze Schweiger, Nik Thönen/Lorenzo le kou Meyr, Benjamin Thorel, Tanja Widmann, u.a. Westphalie's 6 years anniversary reader including everything since 2006: releases' excerpts, unpublished texts, primary material, things for which the first destination was not to be found in a book, email invites, press releases, scripts for performances, work documents,.. All material hardly edited.. and a six weeks' montage period as a self-constraint.. Six years, six weeks. English (German, French), paperback, perfect binding, U.S. Trade 152 x 228 mm., BW illustrations, 218 p., POD. Price: 16 euros


	EU R US Yves Mettler Erin Olivia Weber Alexander Wolff This book follows a series of performances by the three visual artists: Modern Heads Talking Europe, Club Kim, Berlin, 2008 Classics, Classical & Classic Rock, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin, 2009 And he Doesn’t Even Have the GOOD Robert Smithson book!, Bawag Foundation, Vienna, 2009 No Ladder, No Access, No Cover, Künstlerhaus Passagegalerie, Wien, 2009 The publication is not a documentation of these performances but rather a continuation of their content and approach in book format, gathering various documents and materials, scraps of interpretation, history and personal anecdotes, to investigate phenomena of adaptation and translation between European and American cultures and idiosyncrasies. The dimensions of the book (279,4 x 297 mm) are based on the long side of the standard American paper size US Letter and the European standard size DIN A4. The layout makes reference to these formats and combines images and text in a constructivist grid. English, paperback, open-thread stitching, 112 p., 280 x 297 mm., numerous BW illustrations, 400 ex. Price: 15 euros


	BIB., REV. ED. Tan Lin “The work aims to record nearly everything I read in the period(s) in question, detailing the time I read it, the place, sometimes a “tag” on the nature of the content, and sometimes an excerpt of the content itself. The work is a document of reading – not only what was read but the manner in which and the location of things read, which is to say it is a loose and non-systematic procedure for tagging or cataloging and digesting the elements that taken together constitute a reading process or reading environment. This environment of reading does not make it clear what the document itself is, which remains as blurry as reading, regarded as a practice or a system or an emerging genre: is it a catalog, a diary, a work of creative writing, a digest, an autobiography, a bit of typing, a cut and paste job, an example of data mining, an analog version of geo tagging?”– from the author BIB., REV. ED. is the third version of this ongoing text. The first version appeared as a series of blog entries on AMBIENT FICTION READING SYSTEM 01, and later as an online publication in the Ubu series, Publishing the Unpublishable, edited by Danny Snelson, Brian Kim Stefans and Kenneth Goldsmith. The initial blog runs to October 16, 2007. The Ubu edition runs to October 31, 2007. BIB., REV. ED. runs to July 21, 2008, and also includes an introduction, photographs taken the weekend before the project was sent to press (September 17-18, 2011), and a file history from September 8-12, 2011. English, paperback, perfect binding, 152 p., 215,9 x 279,4 mm., B&W illustrations. Edition limited to 150 ex. Price: 19 euros


	HEATH (PLAGIARISM/OUTSOURCE), NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE, UNTILTED HEATH LEDGER PROJECT, A HISTORY OF THE SEARCH ENGINE, DISCO OS (BOOTLEG VERSION) Tan Lin HEATH (PLAGIARISM/OUTSOURCE) exists somewhere between a Project Gutenberg version of Samul Pepys Diary and a minute-to-minute news feed and blog of Heath Ledger's death. Sad, appropriated, lyrical and confused, the book contains a brief history of recent performance art, a legal defense of plagiarism, the diary of a poetry workshop at the Asian American Writer's Workshop, an MP3 protest song, and an examination of SMS and GMS technologies as distribution networks for human sadness. Multi-authored, and with numerous text blocks and photos, HEATH (PLAGIARISM/OUTSOURCE), NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE, UNTITLED HEATH LEDGER PROJECT, A HISTORY OF THE SEARCH ENGINE, DISCO OS is in full color. This is a 2011 updated version of HEATH (Zaesterle, La Laguna, Canary Islands, 2007). English, paperback, perfect binding, 94 p., 120 x 200 mm., numerous illustrations. Edition limited to 100 ex. Price: 14 euros SOLD OUT!

Westphalie first edition !

Bettina Komenda
Untitled, 2011
2 paperweights, massive bronze
H 67 mm, ⌀ 46 mm, ca. 1 kg each.
Edition of 20
Available on request
Price: 375 euros excl. tax + shipping


	a like A Johannes Porsch Sekundäre Bearbeitung of Johannes Porsch's 2008 book, "Suche Bauplatz für Moschee". German, paperback, 336 p., 147 x 210 mm., numerous illustrations. ISBN 978-3-200-01269-1 Currently unavailable


	To Make Oneself Similar in this Sense Tanja Widmann Tanja Widmann's first and long awaited book. "Based on the approaches taken up until now, which have been characterized by mimetic actions and questions of appropriation in the sense of a translation of what’s there, by paradox, feeble humor and inertia, here text and movement are once again to be delayed, to be opened up and ultimately cheerfully usurped. Because the space is still open and the game must first be invented."– from the author English, paperback, stitched, 96 p., 210 x 297 mm., numerous illustrations, 300 ex. ISBN 978-3-9502302-4-6 Price: 22 euros


	Das Beiwerk Nik Thoenen, Lorenzo le kou Meyr "The book is object-like, white, reduced to its body, as if torn from its cover and apparently relieved of its content. The content remains imaginary, it is gleaned only through the remaining footnotes. It is these marginal notes that open the space for interpretation, incidental meanings, that act and tempt." – from the author "I was just thinking about the body thing of a page... armless with feet." – from the publisher German, paperback, open-thread stitching, 96 p., 148 x 210 mm., 300 ex. ISBN 978-3-9502302-7-7 Price: 14,50 euros


	Pigpen David Jourdan Remember Pig-Pen in the Peanuts cartoons? He was always covered with dirt and grime. He was a walking sludge heap, filthy and proud of it: Charlie Brown. — Pig-Pen why are you always so dirty? When in the world are you going to clean up? Pigpen. — I have affixed to me the dirt and dust of countless ages... Who am I to disturb History? Following the Italian comics magazine Linus, 1965 and the French Charlie, 1969–both named after Peanuts’ characters–, it might be time for Austria to have its Pigpen. German, 0 p., 199 x 269 mm. 500 ex. No ISBN Price: 3 euros


	The Square in a Forest Benoît Maire Benoît Maire’s publication includes the preface, introduction and an incomplete chapter I of a book to come, eventually. The Square in a Forest is the chronicle of a possible exhibition, inspired by the works of: Gabriel Orozco, Ryan Gander, Balthus, Seth Price, Liam Gillick, Marcel Duchamp, Donald Judd, John McCracken, Ian Wilson, Ugo Rondinone, Sturtevant, Lee Lozano, Dan Graham, Reena Spaulings, General Idea, Steven Parrino, Adam Pendleton, Brice Marden, Martha Rosler, Marcel Broodthaers, John Armleder, Phillipe Thomas, Pierre Joseph, Cercle Ramo Nash and Pierre Klossowski. The music is by Philip Glass. English, paperback, self-cover, saddle-stitching, 32 p., 135 x 210 mm., 250 ex. ISBN 978-3-9502302-6-0 Price: 16 euros


	Medium n°3 Adam Kleinman to Thomas Jefferson Edited by Etienne Chambaud Medium is a journal dedicated to dialogues with the dead. For each issue, one person is invited to write to another person who has passed away. Each text is a semi-interview–the dialogue a living person addresses to a dead person–whose answer remains pending, suspended. Medium is distributed as inserts within various magazines and journals. www.medium.li English, published as an insert in Gringo, die Zeitschrift, Ausgabe 13. 300 ex. www.theselection.net/zeitschrift ISBN 978-3-9502302-2-2 Price: 4 euros


	Die Hose paßt wirklich ausgezeichnet Lisa Holzer The book includes the revised version of the text of a performance which took place on the occasion of the openings of two exhibitions: "Die Hose paßt ausgezeichnet" (The trousers fit excellent), Salzburger Kunstverein, 2006 and "Die Hose paßt wirklich ausgezeichnet" (The trousers really fit excellent), Gallery Habres+Partner, Vienna, 2007. Both performed by Kristina Haider and Christian Egger. Lisa Holzer thinks of some of the pictures shown in the exhibitions as protagonists. "Die Hose paßt wirklich ausgezeichnet" is their dialog. www.lisaholzer.net German, self-cover, saddle-stitching, 56 p., 155 x 218 mm., 6 colour and 6 b&w illustrations. 150 ex. ISBN 978-3-9502302-3-9 Price: 18 euros


	Skee ba doobie do wah Constanze Schweiger "Returning from leaping, tap-dancing or pirouetting, Schweiger’s polka dots paintings prove to have legs in more ways than one." www.constanzeschweiger.com Paperback, self-cover, saddle-stitching, 32 p., 170 x 240 mm., 12 colour illustrations. 500 ex. ISBN 978-3-9502302-5-3 Price: 15 euros


	Th’ Life an’ Opinions of Tristram Shan’y, Juntleman, as enny fool kin plainly see. Voloom I David Jourdan The book is the dialectization of the unabridged text of Laurence Sterne's «The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman», Volume I (first published 1759) into redneck vernacular. The translation originates in early runs of Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner (1934-1977). Capp's characters speak in odd dialects. However, they do not talk like real hillbillies but as Capp feels a hillbilly would probably talk if he lived near Dogpatch all his life. Thanks to the Dialectizer, Samuel Stoddard's translation engine. Corrections and additional translations based on Al Capp, "Li'l Abner Dailies, Volume Two: 1936", Kitchen Sink Press, Princeton Wisconsin, 1988, and Al Capp, "Li'l Abner Dailies, Volume Seven: 1941, Introducing Moonbean McSwine", Kitchen Sink Press, Princeton Wisconsin, 1990. > Travis Lehtonen reads Chapper XII In "Shandyismus. Autorship as genre" Secession, Vienna. February 22. 2007 > Sean de Lear reads Chapper I-XI Recorded at the gelitin Institute. May 1. 2006 Paperback, perfect binding, 84 p., 167 x 228 mm., 300 ex. ISBN 978-3-9502302-0-8 Price: 15 euros


	Economie de l'abondance ou La courte vie et les jours heureux Etienne Chambaud / David Jourdan Where Denis Diderot's Jacques the Fatalist meets Al Capp's Shmoos.. French, soft cover, saddle-stitching, 52 p., 174 x 260 mm., colour centerfold. 5000 ex. No ISBN Price: 10 euros

Westphalie Hors Collection


	Seltener Stil* Edited by Maria Holzer With contributions by Erwin Bohatsch, Ernst Caramelle, Mary Ellen Carroll, Heinrich Dunst, Helmut Federle, Norbert Fleischmann, Jakob Gasteiger, Michael Höpfner, Lisa Holzer, David Jourdan, Helfried Kodré, Christina Lackner, Frantisek Lesak, Ingo Nussbaumer, Danica Phelps, Boris Podrecca, Christian Reder, Constanze Schweiger, Roman Signer, Michael Turnheim, Hubert Winter, u.a. *Ernst Caramelle, "Seltener Stil", 1990. Hors Collection nr.1 Hard cover, cloth bound, 96 p., 18 colour and 18 b&w illustrations, 165x225 mm. 500 ex. ISBN 978-3-9502302-1-5 Not for sale

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