Louise Giovanelli - Always Different, Always the Same

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Louise Giovanelli 'Always Different, Always the Same' is an artist's book that documents an
exhibition of site-specific paintings by one of the UK's most prominent young artists. The
publication takes British DJ John Peel's famous description of Manchester-band The Fall, images
of the eucharist and contemporary spiritual reverie as its starting point.

Although spiritual energy, sensation, art-history, repetition and difference anchor this project,
Giovanelli's recent works owe as much to her daily life in Manchester as they do her daily act of
painting in the city. Currently hailing from Prestwich - the area of Greater Manchester that The
Fall's late Mark E. Smith also called home - the artist cites red brick, gothic architecture, mythic
sprites, and local pubs as influences on her work, an example of which comes with the visual
vocabulary of Prestwich's The Church Inn, whose green tiles have led to the same tint in each
iteration of Entheogen.

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Pavel Buchler - Variable Pieces: Letterpress prints 2011-2023
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Pavel Buchler: Variable Pieces contains a collection of letterpress prints made by the artist
between 2011 and 2023. This is the first book to document such works from the conceptual and
language-based artist, and runs in a limited edition of 500.

'In 1988, a small proofing press with a bed measuring 15-25 inches that had belonged to my
friend, the painter, typographer and graphic artist, Edward Wright came into my hands. Twenty-
three years on, in 2011, the newspaper designer Edwin Taylor offered me several more-or-less
complete sets of wood type, alongside a number of other loose samples that had also belonged
to Edward. Some time later, another friend, the artist J. H. Kocman, gave me an assortment of
modern plastic letters from the Czech font Prazske Kamenne (Prague Stone Gothic) that had
been discarded as surplus from an art school in Brno. The imperfections, limitations, and obsolete
honesty of this equipment, with which I make most of my prints, make the works what they are.' -
Pavel Buchler.

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Jess Power – UFOs
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Jess Power UFOs is published to celebrate the culmination of the artist's Freelands Painting
Fellowship at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

The book includes essays on the artist's work by Jenny Eden and Douglas Violet and a
conversation between Jess Power and Barry Schwabsky.

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Rick Buckley - Under a grey blanket, Berlin, 9.-19.11.1984, Old World Apes
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'On the morning of 9 November 1984, at Gatwick Airport, together with a close friend, I boarded a
British Airways flight to Berlin Tegel. The images that appear in the pages of this publication were
taken over an eleven-day period in the divided city of Berlin. The batch of 35mm negatives from
which the images came, dating from November 1984, were presumed lost, only to re-emerge in
the autumn of 2019. In January 2020, using the same Olympus OM-1 SLR and Ilford FP4 film
stock, I set out to produce a photographic series documenting the interior office space of the last
guardhouse to stand at Checkpoint Charlie. Today, this relic of the Cold War is to be found on the
outskirts of Berlin within the grounds of the Allied Museum in Zehlendorf. I had made several
visits to the museum's archives over the following twelve months, which revealed artefacts dating
from Berlin's pre-unification period. During these visits, I had numerous conversations with the
museum's curator of the American collection, which led to an invitation to organise the institution's
next temporary exhibition that commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the
Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin. The resulting project, 'Berlin - City of Relevance', was
documented, again using the OM-1 SLR. Being an avid reader of the British music newspaper
New Musical Express throughout the 1980s and having forgone the 10 November 1984 issue due
to the early morning flight to Berlin, pages from a rescued back issue appear alongside images
from 'Berlin - City of Relevance' in the centre of this publication.' - Rick Buckley.

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James Fry - A Licence to Rock and Pop: An Inventory of Attitude
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'Imagine for one last time that you are a spectator. Read this book and it will be impossible for
you to imagine this again.' - James Fry.

'This "Inventory of Attitude" is McLuhan's successor as an analysis of pop that doubles as both an
interrogation and manual for comprehending pop's machinery as much as its capricious glamour.
Compelling, extremely clever and thought provoking throughout.' - Michael Bracewell.

Like no other book written with popular music at its central axis, A Licence to Rock and Pop
reflects the classic publication by communication theorist Marshall Mcluhan's The Medium is the
Massage as its model by exploring what it will take to be the perfect Pop Icon.

This book is: A Self-help Book that offers the reader an alternative to being a passive spectator
for the rest of his/her life. A Manual on how to embrace the courage required to become a first-
class spectacle. An Antenna that transmits popular culture and the visual language of Rock and
Pop music. This book ends with a questionnaire which the reader will be invited to fill out an apply
for their very own Licence to Rock and Pop. This Book is an Inventory of Attitude.

Includes an introduction by Bob Stanley and essays by Luke Haines and Baroque Rococo.

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Sudden Wealth with Roy Claire Potter
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Vinyl 30x30cm £25

Proposed by Chris Evans, Sudden Wealth is a collaboration with Morten Norbye Halvorsen,
Graham Kelly and invited poets and artists who use spoken word as their medium.

Sudden Wealth looks to how the flux of subjectivity in language can be shaped, agitated and re-
imagined through a triangulation between written composition, intonation, and extrinsic sound
composition. The latter spans analogue and digital instrumentation, foley recordings and
algorithmically derived musical patterns. Divergent methods of composition work on and into a
voice, modelling intonation, and affecting its sense and intent.

This first iteration has been made with Roy Claire Potter, an artist who tells stories from
fragmented, intense images that depict moving bodies or domestic scenes and architectural
settings. A rapid vocal delivery, a sense of restricted or partial views of space, complex social and
group dynamics and the aftermath of violent events are recurrent strands of Potter's writing,
which are often delivered with a dark and sometimes wilful humour.

Chris Evans was the bassist with the now defunct Life Without Buildings and has previously
produced musical compositions with Morten Norbye Halvorsen together with farmers and
accountants for his ongoing series 'Jingle'. Graham Kelly joins Evans and Halvorsen for this
present series, Sudden Wealth.

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Dirk Lebahn and Stefan Romer - All Go Rhythm - This is a Free Concert
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This publication documents the exhibition 'All Go Rhythm - This is a Free Concert', which took
place at Galerie Oqbo in Berlin between 24 September and 30 October 2021, and which
continues at a-Musik record store, Kleiner Griechenmarkt 28-30, 50676 Koln between 5 May and
31 July 2022 .

The project presents musical diagrams, conceptual scripts, manifestos, performance notes and
anti-scores by many contemporary musicians. It also shows sonic movements of thought and
instructions for action on computer screens, manuscripts, vinyl record covers, physical objects,
videos and technical inventions, markings on instruments for live concerts or studio use, and
contemporary digital instruments and machine displays, for which handwritten entries are often of
great importance.

In many respects, the exhibition and book aim for its audience to witness a diagrammatic
extension of analogue 'word scores', such as those developed by John Cage.

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Cedar Lewisohn - The Seven Plagues of Seven Angels
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The Seven Plagues of Seven Angels follows The Marduk Prophecy (2020) as Cedar Lewisohn's
second project for Slimvolume. If the publication's title is a direct reference to the Book of
Revelation - a biblical premonition of an end of time where numerous pestilences curse the earth
- then Lewisohn translates this story into an intense contemporary allegory where pandemics,
environmental catastrophe, an ongoing threat of nuclear Armageddon, and unmitigated multi-
faceted apocalypse prevail.

Fascinated with the absolute strangeness of the Bible's Bosch-like descriptions of characters
covered in loathsome soars, alien lifeforms such as beasts with seven-heads and events that
include those that describe the sea turning to blood, Lewisohn's 'primitive' images - taken from
reference points including African and Mesopotamian civilisations - are translated into an equally
eerie image-led wordless comic book through the use of handmade woodcuts and lino prints.
Depicted in red and white, the traditional colours of protest and anarchy, these oddities act as
provocative representations that blur the line between human and otherworldly creatures. In
essence, this work connects with contemporary culture and identity through depictions of people
in states of psychosis in present-day London.

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Nicol Allan – Collages
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Nicol Allan (1931-2019) is an important yet almost unknown artist who lived and worked in the
United States and Great Britain. Over more than half a century, Allan produced sumi, wood
reliefs, watercolours and occasionally oils. His primary medium, however, was paper collage.

Nicol Allan: Collages is the first book to examine the breadth of Allan's career. The works
reproduced in its pages are fragile and physically intimate. They allude to the natural world, to
landscape and to human life, and sometimes float playfully between figuration and abstraction.
The sense of scale can be disorientating; small works in paper that intimate dimensions of
experience quite out of proportion with their size. The collages also engage in subtle and original
ways with the major abstract art movements of the twentieth century, making them new.

For personal reasons and because of circumstance, Allan only ever produced around two
hundred collages and rarely exhibited his work. Many of the collages included in this book have
never been seen before. After decades of obscurity, they are finally given the attention and public
life they deserve.

The writer and art historian Rye Dag Holmboe, editor of Nicol Allan: Collages, has contributed an
essay that situates Allan's collages in his wider oeuvre and in its historical context. A biographical
essay by Sarah Allan, a noted scholar in the field of early China studies, relates how and where
these works were made and paints a picture of the man himself and the long and interesting life
they shared.

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Andy Holden - Collected Free Labour: Blog Interviews 2010-2021
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This publication contains selected extracts from interviews with artist Andy Holden undertaken
between 2010-2021. Previously existing online, central fragments of these Q&A blog's have been
rearranged thematically and intercut with a new conversation between the artist and the book's
editor Tyler Woolcott.

With virtual or electronic information famously offering an insecure and impermanent context for
knowledge - web pages disappear and are often deleted on a whim - one motivation for this
publication is to produce a lasting and stable location for Holden's ideas, as well as his written
and verbal exchanges in printed form. Another impetus is to create a conversation or extended
dialogue that operates as a critical artwork in its own right, one that has developed over an
eleven-year period with multiple participants, and contains an essence of Holden's work as it has
grown and advanced.

Speaking in 2021 on his ongoing self-reflective practice, Holden states that: 'It's urgent and
perhaps more acceptable to be sincere as a regular mode of being'. This is especially evident
within 'the climate of intense sincerity dominated by identity politics, moral certainty and climate
uncertainty'.

Collected Free Labour: Blog Interviews 2010-2021 has been published to coincide with British Art
Show 9, an exhibition that includes Holden's work and travels from Aberdeen to Wolverhampton,
Manchester and Plymouth during 2021 and 2022.

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Painting Funny Peculiar
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Painting Funny Peculiar contains the transcripts and edited papers from the symposium 'Funny
Peculiar', which took place at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
The event explored ideas in contemporary painting connected to shape, humour and
diagrammatic thought.

Speakers included Amy Sillman, Fionna Barber, Melissa Gordon, and Robert Garnett. The event
was moderated by Magnus Quaife and chaired by Andrew Hunt.

This book is part of the 'Slimvolume Synthesis' series, a sequence of publications that includes
texts by artists, critics, curators, poets and theorists to produce new creative disjunctions between
art and writing.

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Rebecca Fortnum - A Mind Weighted with Unpublished Matter
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Rebecca Fortnum's A Mind Weighted with Unpublished Matter marks a development in the
history of portraiture, raising questions about the relationship between sitter and painter, issues of
authority and control as well as social attitudes around gender.

Working from photographs of nineteenth century sculptures of women, Fortnum's source material
allows for continual extended returns to elusive objects, a type of close, careful looking that leads
the artist towards the depiction of every surface detail. This is a rumination on how representation
is mastered; on the 'accomplished', intrinsically feminine status of the copy of the work of art in
comparison to its 'inventive', 'ingenious' original, wrought by male hands: a critique of a value-
laden history that is inherently masculine, and copying as a submissive, secretive other.

Fortnum's transcriptions strive for a form of reduplication that creates a space for difference and
subtle deviations to ask what other singular likenesses might emerge through the task of copying
within the legacy of women artists' thwarted ambitions. In essence, Fortnum's works engage with
her female portraits' sources in a conversation across time and space, through the creation of
intimate and empathetic cross-temporal facsimiles that reflect the sexed connections between
reproduction, training and accomplishment.

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Emotionarama
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Emotionarama presents a range of artists' ideas that are described in an overtly emotional or
demonstrative manner through short pieces of creative writing.

Participants were invited to produce a text that defined their imaginative and mental processes
whilst creating an artwork. For example, some have chosen to record a method of thinking behind
the production of an existing piece, while others discuss a concept for an unmade artwork in a
reflective manner, and/or its materiality, texture, colour, shape, size, and content.

Performances of the contributions within Emotionarama will take place within environments in
which members of the audience will be free to lie down, relax and close their eyes to imagine
through listening. Through this process, it is hoped that potential new collaborators will have an
opportunity to engage with the book's range of creative processes and subsequently realise their
own ideas in multiple forms.

Artists include: Polly Apfelbaum, Abel Auer, Fiona Banner, Kerstin Bratsch, Confraternity of
Neoflagellants (Norman James Hogg and Neil Mulholland), David Raymond Conroy / Ghislaine
Leung / Cally Spooner / Jesper List Thomsen, Matt Copson, Liu Ding, Gerasimos Floratos, Andy
Holden, Anna K.E., Florian Meisenberg, Mike Nelson, Alicia Paz, Alexander James Pollard,
Lindsay Seers, Andro Semeiko, Yuko Shiraishi, Amy Sillman, Mark Titchner, Tris Vonna-Michell,
Yu-Chen Wang, and Vicky Wright.

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JocJonJosch - Almost One. Say Again!
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Pb 24x30cm 144pp col ills £20

As a monograph, artists' book and poetry edition, this publication combines three performative
roles to document the artist group JocJonJosch's recent work alongside their exhibition o o o ,
which took place at Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Switzerland in 2017.

Released in late 2019, the book contains a collection of essays on the expanded field of
performance indicative of JocJonJosch's work, and a wider critique of art practice and production
in contemporary culture by writers and curators including Rachael Allen, Rye Dag Holmboe,
Andrew Hunt, Anne Jean-Richard, Jo Melvin, Daniel Morgenthaler, Stefan Wagner. This title also
includes a book of painting and poetry formed by a conversation between poet Rachael Allen and
the artist collective.

This is an essential addition to the wider discussion around collaborative artistic groups,
performance art, photography and contemporary translations of the legacies of Conceptual Art
and Land Art.

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C. R. McBerny
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Hb 17x24cm 136pp col ills £16

C. R. McBerny is a collaborative project that explores how contemporary painting, performance

This limited-edition artists' book and its related exhibition (28 April to 13 May 2018 at Zinglistrasse
4, Moabit, Berlin) was produced with a relaxed, informal, easy aestheticism in and mind, one
conducive to the warm non-institutional semi-domestic nature of each venue.

Performances, lectures, workshops and concerts were also included in C. R. McBerny's activities,
with the publication launch in March 2019 at Yum Yum in Manchester.

Featuring the work of over sixty international artists, C. R. McBerny is a playful acronym of the
cities Berlin, Manchester and New York. Published after the exhibition, C. R. McBerny at
Manchester Central Library (5 December 2018 to 28 February 2019).

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Jeffrey Dennis – Ringbinder
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The publication of Jeffrey Dennis' Ringbinder in 2017 comes after a solo exhibition at Northern
Gallery of Contemporary Art in summer 2015. Both exhibition and book attempt to reflect on
Dennis' development since his initial profile in Britain and the US was formed during the early
1980s. This was a period that saw a significant international resurgence in painting in parallel with
the 'New Image Painting' in North America and the 'Jungen Wilden' (Young Wild Ones) in
Germany.

If during the 1980s and early 1990s, Dennis' work was included in major international exhibitions,
then his subsequent development has been typical of painting's wider expansion since the 2000s
through his unusual, divergent and contradictory subject matter. This monograph, the painter's
largest for thirty years, will prove to be significant for the wider international discourse currently
surrounding contemporary painting.

The book includes essays by Sue Hubbard, Sunil Manghani and Dan Smith, an interview with the
artist, and the thoughts of those that have known Dennis' painting since the late 1970s, including
artists, writers, curators and gallery directors, including Dr Stephen Bury, Jeffery Camp, Nigel
Cooke, Dan Coombs, Penelope Curtis, Dexter Dalwood, Stephen Farthing, Catherine Ferguson,
Rebecca Fortnum, Ian Giles, Martin Holman, Timothy Hyman, Elizabeth Magill, Jo Melvin,
Eleanor Moreton, Lynda Morris, Andrew Nairne, Mathew Sawyer, Barry Schwabsky, Sir Nicholas
Serota, Donald Smith, Damian Taylor, Rob Tufnell, Virginia Verran, Emrys Williams and Sam
Windett.

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Paul Buck - Disappearing Curtains
Slimvolume 2016 ISBN 9781910516034 Acqn 34371
Pb 21x30cm 180pp ills £25

This title sees the re-emergence of the seminal 1970s magazine Curtains edited by Paul Buck.
With its early promotion of French writers such as Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques
Derrida, Jean-Pierre Faye and Edmond Jabes, Curtains' re-appearance in 2016 arrives after an
exhibition at Focal Point Gallery in 2012 that was recreated from an earlier 1992 work at Cabinet
Gallery around the concept of 'disappearing'. The invited contributions come from thirteen artists
with whom the editor has engaged over the years. In addition, Buck has returned to pull threads
from the earlier editions of his magazine to explore ideas with writers encountered in the
intervening years, making all appear in a consolidated grouping as a final gesture, one that
refuses to disappear.

Contributions include those by: Kathy Acker, Anne-Marie Albiach, Mireille Andres, Stephen
Barber, David Barton, Diane Bataille, Georges Bataille, Mathieu Benezet, Jean-Pierre Bobillot,
Joe Bousquet, Michael Camus, Danielle Collobert, David Coxhead, John Cussans, Tatjana Doll,
Jerry Estrin, Ulli Freer, Margarita Gluzsberg, Paul Green, Anouchka Grose, Pierre Guyotat,
Susan Hiller, Andrew Hunt, Franz Kamin, Chris Kraus, Liane Lang, Roger Laporte, Francesca
Lisette, Lucy McKenzie, Bernard Noel, Hestia Peppe, Holly Pester, Perle Petit, Richard Prince,
Pascal Quignard, Clunie Reid, Mitsou Ronat, Claude Royet-Journoud, Eugene Savitzkaya, Will
Shutes, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, Miroslav Tichy, Colette Thomas, Simon Thompson, Sophie von
Hellermann, and Gabrielle Wittkop.

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Marisa J. Futernick - 13 Presidents
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Pb 15x21cm 304pp col ills £25

In 2014, Marisa J. Futernick drove nearly ten thousand miles across America, visiting all thirteen
of the nation's presidential libraries along the way. 13 Presidents is the result: an artist's book that
combines photographs from the journey with a suite of short stories. Mixing fact and fiction, each
President from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush is a protagonist in this collection of
unexpected portraits.

The photographs, shot on analogue film, depict the everyday details of the towns that these men
are from, including the homes where they were born, and their final resting places. 13 Presidents
weaves together personal narrative with wider cultural observation, forming a vision of America
that is both invented and true.

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Scott King - Public Art
Slimvolume 2016 ISBN 9781910516010 Acqn 34369
Pb 24x30cm 176pp col ills £18

Public Art by Scott King brings together a series of proposals inspired by the relationship between
contemporary art and urban regeneration. King's what-if? scenarios include A Balloon for Britain,
in which the artist devises a scheme to re-invigorate the country's ten poorest towns and cities,
Postcards from The Sculpture Park, printed ephemera from a holiday camp-cum-correctional
facility, and Infinite Monument, an audacious proposal to rebuild the Tower of Babel.

This publication includes three graphic novellas illustrated by Will Henry: Anish and Antony Take
Afghanistan, I Dream of Dalstonia and New York Rural, the second of which imagines pop-
up/independent coffee shop/microbrewery culture as a tool for fundamental urban renewal.

The political, cultural and economic issues that bind public art and urban regeneration are further
examined in texts by Owen Hatherley, Andrew Hunt, Tom Morton and Matthew Worley and in
interviews with Robert Hewison and Lynda Morris.

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Cally Spooner – Scripts
Slimvolume 2016 ISBN 9781910516027 Acqn 34368
Pb 17x24cm 208pp ills £16

Edited by Andrew Hunt and Cally Spooner with an introduction by Will Holder, this new title
contains Cally Spooner's complete scripts to date.

As an artist who writes neither from a confessional standpoint, nor from the position of
fragmented 'art writing', Spooner's prose makes the verbal visual, and focuses on a visceral use
of text as an invitation to act. Her narratives operate energetically in collective schisms through
being performed, and often collapse to attack the spectator, observer or reader. Importantly, the
artist appropriates historical voices as a mode of activity, and uses theory to ignite imaginative
scenarios.

Scripts comprises twelve works produced between 2009 and 2015, including: A Six Stage
Manifesto On Action (2011), Collapsing In Parts (2012), and And You Were Wonderful, On Stage
(film script) (2014-15). This book is the first in the 'Slimvolume Synthesis' series, a sequence of
publications that includes texts by artists, critics, curators, poets and theorists to produce new
creative disjunctions between art and writing.

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