#7: Minimal Domination
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Minimal Domination collects a selection of Justin Clemens’ art writings from the past decade. The title is drawn from contemporary mathematics: a minimally dominating set is the smallest set of points that neighbour all other points of a graph. A minimally dominating set is therefore a multiple and a structure which has privileged access to that which it is not. This is the secret of contemporary art: it creates discrete selections from which we can survey the whole.
Justin Clemens, former art critic for The Monthly, has written extensively on contemporary art. The essays in Minimal Domination discuss the work of Joseph Kosuth, Gordon Bennett, Juan Davila, Mike Parr, Ricky Swallow, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Christian Capurro, Philip Hunter, and others.
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Type: Book
Author: Justin Clemens
Design: Brad Haylock
Form: Book
Printing: Risograph (1-colour text, 2-colour cover)
Binding: Perfect
Dimensions: 130 x 190mm
Extent: 194pp
Edition: 500
ISBN: 978-0-9807536-8-4
Year of publication: 2011
Shipping weight: 222g
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#6: Forms for a public address
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Forms for a public address presents an exchange between the Berlin-based Swedish artist Jan Svenungsson and the Melbourne-based Australian artist Tom Nicholson, written over a two-year period spanning 2008–2010. Shifting between a discussion of their own work and that of other artists, as well as art history and contemporary events as they unfold in parallel to the exchange, the book addresses the possibilities of art-making, the relationship between public forms and private processes, and the question of how artists understand their work in the face of the world around them.
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Type: Book
Authors: Tom Nicholson & Jan Svenungsson
Design: Brad Haylock
Form: Book
Printing: Offset (4-colour text, 2-colour cover)
Binding: Section-sewn, softcover
Dimensions: 106 x 170mm
Extent: 96pp
Edition: 500
ISBN: 978-0-9807536-6-0
Year of publication: 2011
Shipping weight: 115g
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#5: Subtext: artists and writing
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Subtext: artists and writing was produced on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, presented by un Projects, at West Space, Melbourne, 4–19 February 2011. The project examinded the diversity of form and the significance of writing in art. Six artists were invited to participate, with works that suggest the wealth of ways in which text can be an integral part of the creative process. The exhibition featured works by Vernon Ah Kee, Pablo Helguera, Lily Hibberd, Helen Johnson, Darren Sylvester and Tris Vonna-Michell. The publication, co-published with un Projects, features newly commissioned essays by Justin Clemens and Rosemary Forde, as well as artists’ pages and documentation of the exhibition.
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Type: Catalogue
Design: Brad Haylock
Form: Book
Printing: Risograph 1-colour (text) and digital full-colour (image plates)
Binding: Perfect
Dimensions: 140 x 190mm
Extent: 110pp
Edition: 300
ISBN: 978-0-9807536-5-3
Year of publication: 2010
Shipping weight: 165g
Co-published by Surpllus and un Projects
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#4: From Zero Form to Absolute Commodity
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Brad Haylock’s From Zero Form to Absolute Commodity (ZF/AC) is the artist’s book form of an ongoing project of the same name. Much of Haylock’s work interrogates the commodification of critical and avant garde practices, both contemporary and historical — in this work, Suprematism is brought into dialogue with Vogue Living (a Malevich for every home!). The book comprises a series of partially redacted found images, printed using one-colour Risography throughout. ZF/AC was produced on the occasion of the exhibition Just what is it that makes today’s interiors so seductive, so alluring?, at Light Projects, Melbourne, 18 September – 10 October 2010, in which it was presented as a stack of multiples.
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Type: Artist's book
Artist: Brad Haylock
Form: Book
Printing: Risograph, 1-colour
Binding: Perfect
Dimensions: 192 x 260mm
Extent: 112pp (n.p.)
Edition: 50 + 5 APs
ISBN: 978-0-9807536-3-9
Year of publication: 2010
Shipping weight: 335g
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#3: After action for another library
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On 30 August 1999, East Timorese voted overwhelmingly to become an independent nation in a ballot sponsored by the UN. Following the announcement of the result, occupying Indonesian troops carried out systematic destruction throughout East Timor. Within two weeks, several thousand civilians were murdered (a precise number is unknown), 200,000 were forcibly transported to concentration camps in West Timor and other parts of Indonesia, and most significant infrastructure was destroyed.
Books were targeted for destruction. Libraries were systematically burned, amongst them the widely-used university library and the English library in Dili. Private collections of books were targeted, and in notable cases book collections of prominent intellectuals and independence activists were collected on the street, where they were publicly set alight. In villages, schools were systematically destroyed. Action for another library was established in Melbourne in response to these circumstances. Thousands of books were donated by bookstores, libraries, and individuals. They were shipped to Dili in containers, where they now form part of the nascent National University Library of East Timor. The title pages of some books were photographed before the books were sent to East Timor.
The artist’s book After action for another library, with text in English and German, was first produced to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at the Humboldt University, Berlin, 28 August – 3 October 2003. Subsequent editions have been produced for exhibitions in which they are presented as stacks of multiples. The second edition, in English and Italian, was produced for System Error: War is a force that gives us meaning, at Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena in 2007. The third edition (and first Surpllus edition), in English only, was published on the occasion of Art of War, at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, New York, in 2010. The fourth edition, available here, with text in English, Portugese, Timorese and Japanese, was published on the occasion of To the Arts, Citizens!, at Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, 20 November 2010 – 13 March 2011
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Type: Artist's book
Artist: Tom Nicholson
Design: Tom Nicholson and Brad Haylock
Form: Book
Printing: Offset, 1- and 2-colour
Cover: Unprinted, clear foil
Binding: Section-sewn
Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
Extent: 160pp (n.p.)
Edition: 5000
ISBN: 978-0-9807536-4-6
Year of publication: 2011
Shipping weight: 325g
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#2: A quarter turn on every screw
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A catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name. A quarter turn on every screw (Kings ARI, Melbourne, 9 April – 1 May 2010) was an exploration of finality, anxiety and compulsion in art practice. Curator Kel Glaister writes: ‘We find ourselves at various points in our art practices, and our lives, with a project completed or a situation played out. At these points we have nothing left to do but see what happens next, what the world may throw at us. Nothing, that is, except check each (metaphorical) screw again and again.’
A quarter turn on every screw was curated by Kel Glaister, and featured work by Brad Haylock, Anthony Johnson, Yvette King, Sanné Mestrom, Sanja Pahoki, Kiron Robinson, Jackson Slattery, Nedko Solakov and Lee Walton. This catalogue, comprised of unbound sheets contained in a clear sleeve, features essays by Kel Glaister and Tamsin Green, and documentation of the works.
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Type: Catalogue
Authors: Kel Glaister & Tamsin Green
Design: Brad Haylock
Form: Post-zine
Printing: Risograph, 2-colour
Binding: Unbound, in sleeve
Dimensions: 210 x 297mm
Extent: 8pp + cover
Edition: 200
ISBN: 978-0-9807536-1-5
Year of publication: 2010
Shipping weight: 50g
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#1: Drawings and correspondence
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Tom Nicholson’s Drawings and correspondence is an artist’s book which evolved in parallel to a set of his large charcoal drawings. These drawings were based on a single anonymous archival photograph, held in the collection of the State Library of Victoria, which captured the ‘native encampment’, a short-lived nineteenth-century ethnographic display in the Melbourne Zoo. The book consists of an imaginary email correspondence which responds to the nature of drawing as an activity, and to the meanings of the drawn surface.
Drawings and correspondence was developed during Nicholson’s Creative Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria in 2007–8. It was realised for the exhibition Animism (22 January – 2 May 2010), a collaboration between Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA), in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Bern, the Generali Foundation Vienna, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin and the Free University Berlin.
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Type: Artist's book
Artist: Tom Nicholson
Design: Brad Haylock
Form: Booklet with folded poster
Printing: Offset, 2-colour
Binding: Saddle-stitch
Dimensions: 148 x 200mm (booklet); 162.5 x 227.5mm (poster, folded); 650 x 910mm (poster, unfolded)
Extent: 46pp, self-cover + poster
Edition: 500
ISBN: 978-0-9807536-0-8
Year of publication: 2010
Shipping weight: 140g
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