Machiavelli 30
* Limited Edition 300 Copies + 16 Pages Booklet * Axis Axis is pleased to release the audio format of one of the most important oeuvres in the field of Italian art and experimental poetry: Machiavelli 30 by Vincenzo Agnetti. Putting the last piece starting from the original work, conceived as a book and published by Guanda in 1978, Agnetti decided to recite the whole text in front of a portable tape recorder, and the 17’ audio in this vinyl is the output hitherto unpublished. The edition is cura…
Resynthese FAVN
Resynthese FAVN is a ten-CD box set and publication presenting a new realization of Florian Hecker’s 2017 thirteen-channel installation of the same name. First exhibited at Kunsthalle Wien in the exhibition “Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese,” and elaborating upon ideas first presented in the 2016 project FAVN, the ten works that comprise Resynthese FAVN present iterations of synthetic timbre produced using “…spectral operators, moving between analysis and synthesis, between discriminative an…
Newton
** 30 collector's editions, each of which will be sent directly by the artist, as a work of mail art, in a unique packaging for each copy made specifically for this occasion **Xing presents the LP NEWTON by Cesare Pietroiusti, fourteenth release of the XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, together with a print run of 30 collector's editions, each of which will be sent directly by the artist, as a work of mail art, in a …
Word Events Performance, Utrecht 10/6/1976
Word Events Performance, Utrecht 10/6/1976. With Michael Gibbs, GJ de Rook and Ulises Carrion. An edition of 26 copies made for a soundpoetry event in The Hague.
Clinamen
Limited edition of 111 physical copies with handmade 12" cover, 16-page 8" booklet, "fake" 12" vinyl and download code. The concept of ‘clinamen’ comes from Lucretius’s ‘On the nature of the universe’, and describes the swerve of the atoms from their original straight course. Such deviation generates collisions, and allows changes in the relationship between elements. Using the metaphor of clinamen, the album recalls the idea of invention as the result of a diversion from consolidated methodolog…
Symphonie “Monoton-Silence”
Building on some incredible work over the years, plumbing historical depths of fine artists’ use of sound, Edition Bierammer returns with the first ever release of the artist Yves Klein’s groundbreaking conceptual symphony “Symphonie Monoton-Silence” (Monotone Silence Symphony), conceived during the late 1940s, and heralded for its use of silence and sustained tone in ways that foreshadowed both Minimalism and John Cage. Astoundingly seductive sonically, and creatively engrossing three quarters …
Xong Collection 2
This bundle offers a selection of the latest releases in the Xong series - and it includes the following:
Muna Mussie, Massimo Carozzi Curva Cieca Oblio ኩርቫ ዕውር ምርሳዕ Alessandro Bosetti FasFari Mattin Seize the Means of Complexity Mette Edvardsen, Iben Edvardsen Livre d'images Sans Images Valerio Tricoli A Circle of Grey Invernomuto Vernascacadabra Canedicoda, Renato Grieco Ehm
Contes de sons qui se prennent pour un autre
Surface noise is the inspiration for this recording by Anri Sala. “I wanted to compose a soundtrack that mostly sounds, when played on the vinyl, like one is only listening to the physical attributes of the medium itself: the sound of the static crackling of the vinyl played by the stylus. As if it was contact music. However, in the course of the composition…the crackling starts to evolve, gradually taking the shape of other sounds. One hears hints of percussion and sometimes even distant sounds…
Permutations (Book)
The first collection of the Beat mentor’s long-influential permutation poems—one of the earliest examples of computer-generated literature
Simultaneous Soloists (Book)
2024 stock. Simultaneous Soloists is an artist’s book emerging from the exhibition Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works and its accompanying performance series Four Simultaneous Soloists, organized by David Grubbs. It documents these ephemeral events through multiple means: an extensive conversation between McCall and Grubbs detailing a decade of working together, interviews with sixteen participating musicians, writings by art historians Branden W. Joseph and Swagato Chakravorty, and visual materi…
From Hell To Hell
2024 stock. In November 2008 Robert Eikmeyer and Thomas Knoefel made live recordings with Jake and Dinos Chapman in the run-up to their "Memento Moronika" show in Hanover. The theme, how could it be otherwise, the hell and its inmates. Its about Lucifer and his darksome paradise, tantalisation and perdition, the evil and the libido. The performance of human monstrosity, its prophets and subworkers, about perpetrators and victims, masters and slaves, but also about transgression, and a deepness o…
Avenue of the Living
Big Tip! * Edition of 100 copies including a 7" EP, 200 pages Hardback cover with poster * "Avenue of the Living" is a book that arrives as a parallel work to a film titled Aleph, by artist Iva Radivojević. It unfolds as a dreamscape guided by a prose poem that weaves through photographs, diary notes and found objects, all of which were collected during the travels and the making of Aleph. Aleph, inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, points to a hidden portal that contains the entire universe. When loo…
L'Orso allo Specchio (Book)
Italian only Pubblicato in Inglese nel 2018 da Vleeshal Middelburg e Koenig Books London, Kunstverein Publishing è lieta di annunciare l'uscita del libro nella lingua d'origine. Il libro d’artista raccoglie i ricordi d’infanzia trascorsa prevalentemente in Italia, alcune esperienze di vita e riflessioni personali sulle storie e relazioni famigliari e il loro intrecciarsi con diverse ubicazioni geografiche.
Ho accumulato così tanti libri (…) tutti riguardanti la famiglia. Tutto questo si riversa …
Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done (Book)
2024 stock. Taking its name from the Judson Memorial Church, a socially engaged Protestant congregation in New York's Greenwich Village, Judson Dance Theater was organized as a series of open workshops from which its participants developed performances. Redefining the kinds of movement that could count as dance, the Judson participants—Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Philip Corner, Bill Dixon, Judith Dunn, David Gordon, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Fred Herko, Robert Morris, Steve Paxton, Rudy Perez, Yv…
Writing by Artist
Filled with artworks, photos, and memorabilia, this epistolary portrait depicts Wojnarowicz's development as a writer and artist via his heartfelt letters to his Parisian lover.
Seize the Means of Complexity
Tip! *20 copies limited release* Xing presents the LP Seize the Means of Complexity by Mattin, ninth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited numbered edition of 150 copies. The collector's edition consists of 20 copies, each accompanied by a different polaroid - credit card size - portraying fragments from the social media universe.
Seize the Means of Complexity, the new record by Mattin is a call for all social media users of the world to unite: …
Anniversary issue by Gruenrekorder
Limited edition of 50 copies. Blank tape with nothing on it – just to free up your mind. Ready to record & listen in your own sound environment.
Fluxus Anthology 60 Years Anniversary, 1962-2022
** Last copies ** In (heavy and over-sized) wooden box of 80 copies, hand numbered. Ten audiotapes with interviews/statements, tape collages, electronic music, interview, live events with new and some old material. By Charlotte Moorman, David Tudor, Fernad Kriwet, Joe Jones, Robert Filliou, Carolee Schneemann, Allan Kaprow, Richard Maxfield, Emmett Williams, and many more.
What is Fluxus? Fluxus was launched in 1962 as an interdisciplinary, neo-avant-garde artist collective, whose organized act…
The Complete Posters Tadanori Yokoo (Book)
Large size book cm 23×27,5; pp. 460; hardcover Few artists of any medium have captured successfully in their work the visual inundation common to those living in large cosmopolitan cities such as Tokyo, New York, London or Hong Kong. We are bombarded on a daily basis with all types of visual information and images from print media, smartphones and even some forms of public transformation. This exhibition catalogue from the National Museum of Osaka (2010) shows Tadanori Yokoo’s considerable and …
A Something Else Reader (Book)
368 pages. A Something Else Reader is a previously-unpublished anthology edited by Dick Higgins in 1972 to celebrate Something Else Press, the publishing house he founded in 1963 to showcase Fluxus and other experimental artistic and literary forms. The publication features selections from Claes Oldenburg’s Store Days, John Cage’s Notations, An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, Breakthrough Fictioneers, Jackson Mac Low’s Stanzas for Iris Lezak, Gertrude Stein’s Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein, B…