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The Square in the Forest
Benoit Maire

Benoit 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.

English, paperback, 32 p., 120x200 mm.



The Trousers really fit excellent
Lisa Holzer

Die Hose paßt wirklich ausgezeichnet available in english!

English, paperback, 56 p., 155x218 mm., 6 colour and 6 b&w illustrations.


Pigpen nr1
Who am I to disturb History?
Edited by 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?
(In Peanuts, Sept. 15, 1954)
Following the Italian comics magazine Linus (1965...) and the French Charlie (1969..)–both named after Peanuts’ characters–, Pigpen will finally have his own one!!


English, paperback, 64 p., 197x269 mm., numerous illustrations.


Released

Medium nr3
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 eu


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 discussion.
lisaholzer.net


German, paperback, 56 p., 155x218 mm., 6 colour and 6 b&w illustrations. 150 ex.
ISBN 978-3-9502302-3-93

Price: 18 eu

Constanze Schweiger | Skee Ba Doobie Do Wah
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."
constanzeschweiger.com


Paperback, 32 p., 170x240 mm., 12 colour illustrations. 500 ex.
ISBN 978-3-9502302-5-3

Price: 15 eu

David Jourdan | Th' Life an' Opinions of Tristram Shan'y, Juntleman, as enny fool kin plainly see. Voloom I
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, 84 pp., 167x228 mm. 300 ex.
ISBN 978-3-9502302-0-8
Price: 15 eu


Westphalie Hors Collection

Seltener Stil
Seltener Stil*
Edited by Maria Holzer

With contributions by Edek Bartz, Erwin Bohatsch, Ernst Caramelle, Mary Ellen Carroll, Heinrich Dunst, Helmut Federle, Kim Finnilä, Norbert Fleischmann, Jakob Gasteiger, Daniela Gregori, Michael Höpfner, Lisa Holzer, David Jourdan, Helfried Kodré, Edelbert Köb, Christina Lackner, Frantisek Lesak, Jacqueline & Peter Lillie, Edward Lyndon-Stanford, Gabi Madeja, Elisabeth Madlener, Rainer Metzger, Laurent Nuss, Ingo Nussbaumer, Danica Phelps, Boris Podrecca, Christian Reder, Constanze Schweiger, Roman Signer, Michael Turnheim, Hubert Winter

*Ernst Caramelle, "Seltener Stil", 1990.


Hors Collection nr1
Clothbound, 96 p., 18 colour and 18 b&w illustrations, 165x225 mm. 500 ex.
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