Issue number two of the periodical Shift. Edited by Kathy Brew and Jody Zellen. Contents include: "Shadow and Reflections: A Look at the Life and Work of Christian Boltanski," by Deborah Wise; "A Once and Future Museum: Some Thoughts on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art," by James Irwin; "Conversations:" John McCarron with Ross Bleckner, Bob Dix with David Bates, Wally Goodman with Salomé, John McCarron with Gary Indiana, Anne Walker with Joel-Peter Witkin; "Reviews," by Mark Durant, Mark Levy, Jody Zellen, and Kathy Brew; "Special Project: Ten Pages of super-juxtaposed phraseology (in a visual sense) without punctuation, conjugation or syntax, but, however, with inflection," by John deFazio and Gary Panter; and "Calendar. ... [details]
"David Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, the longing for love, and sexuality in the specter of AIDS in Memories that Smell like Gasoline. Memory drawings, ten cartoon/comic narratives; ink paintings of 3rd avenue movie houses (before health dep't closures 1988-1989), ten diaristic studies; and dream-like memoirs reenact episodes from the artist's life in a sometimes devastating, always sublime document about coming of age in America. ... [details]
Collaborative artist's book featuring art by John DeFazio and stories by Dave Hickey. "Stardumb is the astrology book for the art world at the millenium. Psychedelic artist John DeFazio and writer-critic Dave Hickey have created an up-scale divertissement at the intersection of star culture and art-star culture at the end of the century. ... [details]
"The outcome of a road trip to Las Vegas by artist Jack Pierson and author Jim Lewis, Real Gone is neither a travel guide nor a photo-essay. Instead, the collaborators have created a work which lies somewhere between fiction and fact. ... [details]
Collaborative artist's book featuring photographs by Nan Goldin of male prostitutes in southeast Asia alongside a work of fiction by Klaus Kertess. [details]
A collaboration of image and text featuring fiction by Heidi Julavits accompanied by photographs by Jenny Gage. [details]
Monograph of photographs by Lewis Baltz with essay by Gus Blaisdell. "During 1978 and 1979 Lewis Baltz, one of America's foremost contemporary photographers, undertook to document the building of a rapidly growing ski resort and second-home development east of Salt Lake City in Utah's Wasatch Mountains. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue / monograph published in conjunction with "Bruce Barber: Reading and Writing Room," held at Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney, November 14 - December 14, 2006 curated by Brad Buckley and Blair French; and "Bruce Barber: Reading and Writing Room," held at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Manukau. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with exhibition "The Pleasure of Obvious Problems: Meg Cranston 1987 - 2007," held at ARTSPACE, Auckland, New Zealand, August 4 - September 15, 2007 and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, December 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008. ... [details]
A work of fiction by Dennis Cooper with visual art elements by Nayland Blake. "Using puppets to act out various elements in the human psyche, Blake and Cooper enjoin in their works the exploration of the darker truths about human desire, ane the vertiginous proximity of the erotic with the horrific, and the humorous with the unthinkable. ... [details]
