////////// PAPERBACK MAGAZINE • Issue 1, Autumn/Winter 2007

Excerpts & Texts Archive

Curated portfolio of published texts, visual monographs, and archival supplements.


A
Cover pages. Tal R (b.1967) — House of Prince paintings

“... from a set of just under 200 paintings collectively titled House of Prince produced on the side between 2002 and 2004 in a room next to the artist’s main studio in Copenhagen, the paintings are never to be separated. Mutually dependent on one another they are only ever exhibited as a group...”

4 pages • Tal R, Untitled, 2004 • Collage on panel, glass (75 × 81 cm) • Courtesy Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

B
Computer Graphics — Joan Amat (b.1947)

“... designs based on details from the book Computer Graphics published by Belvedere in 1989... a book of over 300 abstract designs and patterns created by Joan Amat (b.1947) on early art programs between 1985 and 1988... that would show readers how easy it is and encourage them to use their computers to create imagery themselves...”

5 pages • Digital graphics & early vector explorations

C
Drawings by Nicola Pecoraro (b.1978)

“... Singular and haunting, Pecoraro’s felt tip drawings invoke a vivid sense of recollected fragments. Spectral figures emerge from a vaporous prismatic miasma. Amongst these luminously chromatic visions, primitive visages denote an underlying stratum of menace in Pecoraro’s work...”

8 pages • Courtesy of the artist

D
Photo Essay by Benjamin Deberdt

Documenting the setup, ephemeral architecture, and underground skateboard & street art collectives in Paris. Featuring intimate portraits and candid visual documentation of studio practices.

Photography • Paris archive

E & F
Works from Gatax & Graphic Explorations

Experimental typographic arrangements, monochrome silkscreen compositions, and modular layout studies interrogating the tactile properties of printed publications.


G
Photo Essay by Ooki Jingu (b.1977) — The Public Project

Photographic study documenting Tokyo urban subcultures, temporary communal spaces, and social interventions throughout Shibuya and Shinjuku.

Tokyo photographic series • Courtesy of the artist

H
Interview with Brendan Fowler (front-man of talk-band BARR)

A wide-ranging dialogue on performance art, independent spoken-word music, West Coast experimental culture, and the ethics of DIY distribution across America and Europe.

6 pages • Monograph & transcription

I, J & K
Nina Jan Beier & The Play Series

Visual documentation from studio sessions examining performance residue, conceptual choreography, and photographic evidence of improvised artistic actions.


L & M
Chris Johanson (b.1968) — Untitled, 2000

Acrylic on paper (approx. 27.8 × 21.6 cm). Figurative observation of social consciousness, emotional geometry, and Bay Area Mission School ethos.

2 pages • Courtesy of the artist

ARCHIVE SUPPLEMENT
Trees Are So Special — Dissident Art Space (Tokyo)

“... gallery, publisher, fashion label and shop. Trees Are So Special, similar to the moments of fleeting beauty that Chikashi Suzuki’s photographs capture and like the shadows in his photos of blooming flowers there’s a depth one can’t see the bottom of. To capture the beauty of Trees are so Special in words is difficult and what’s harder is to describe it exactly without ruining the magic that surrounds its 3 year existence...”

4 pages • Complete past events listing & poster • Photos by Chikashi Suzuki & Hisham Bharoocha

THE REPORT SUPPLEMENT
Harrell Fletcher & Miranda July — The Report (Issue 9)

A four page zine-like periodical published by Portland-based artist Harrell Fletcher, of which 15 issues were published between 2002 and 2003. Included in Paperback Issue 1 is an authorized reprint of Issue 9, written and filled-in by Miranda July:

“... Well I watched an 8mm movie my Dad made in 1968. It had flowers, dandelions and bumblebees, cats mating, it was very fertile and psychedelic. Not that he was on drugs; he was just high on life. At one point I didn't know what I was looking at, it was obscured with purple paint and then gradually I realized it was my Dad's cock and then it cut to my mum's face with an expression I'd never seen before. She was nursing my brother...”

4 pages • Reprint edition • Courtesy Harrell Fletcher & Miranda July

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