Benjamin Piekut - Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde And its Limits
The New York Philharmonic’s disastrous performance of John Cage’s Atlas Eclipticalis; Henry Flynt’s demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde; Charl..(read more)
Author: Benjamin Piekut
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: '60s, Avant-Garde, Experimental, Fluxus, USA.
Alexi Kukuljevic - Liquidation World – The Art Of Living Absently
Liquidation World examines a distinctive form of subjectivity animating the avant-garde: that of the dissolute figure that makes an art of its own vacancy, an o..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262534192
Author: Alexi Kukuljevic
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Humour, Surrealism.
David Toop - Flutter Echo: Living Within Sound
Brilliant new publication by the imprint of Thurston Moore and Eva Prinz. English musician and writer David Toop’s memoirs!
Publisher: Ecstatic Peace Library / 9781787601529
Author: David Toop
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Biography, Free Improvisation, UK.
Iannis Xenakis - Electronic Music
Reissue of a collection of Iannis Xenakis’s work titled Electronic Music, originally released in 1997. Some of the earliest works from a truly groundbreak..(read more)
Label: Jeanne Dielman / JD126
Artist: Iannis Xenakis
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '60s, Avant-Garde, Electronic, Vinyl.
Rolf Julius - “Lullaby For The Fishes”
Reissue of Rolf Julius’ first and only (and almost impossible to find) LP from 1985. Rolf Julius was the archetypal “sound artist”. He painted with sound,..(read more)
Label: Tochnit Aleph / TA133
Artist: Rolf Julius
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Germany, Sound Art, Vinyl.
Jonas Mekas - He Stands In A Desert Counting The Seconds Of His Life
124 sketches, each up to 2 minutes long. Portraits of people in Mekas’ life, places, seasons of the year, weather (storms, snow blizzards, etc.), many of ..(read more)
Label: Re:voir / 791
Artist: Jonas Mekas
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Cinema, USA.
Ross Lipman - NOTFILM
NOTFILM is the feature-length movie on the production of FILM by Samuel Beckett and its philosophical implications, utilizing additional outtakes, never before ..(read more)
Label: Milestone / Mile00150
Artist: Ross Lipman
Medium: DVD+CD
Category: Films.
Tags: '60s, Avant-Garde, Cinema, Documentary, Essay.
Samuel Beckett - FILM
Playwright Samuel Beckett’s lone work for projected cinema was entitled archetypally, Film, and grew from Berkeley’s pronouncement, essi et percipi: “..(read more)
Label: Milestone / Mile00149
Artist: Samuel Beckett
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: '60s, Avant-Garde, Cinema.
Boris Groys (editor) - Russian Cosmism
Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russi..(read more)
Publisher: MIT Press / ISBN: 9780262037433
Author: Boris Groys (editor)
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Art, Avant-Garde, Biopolitics, Russia, Science, Science Fiction.
