Jonas Mekas / Adolfas Mekas / Pola Chapelle - 3 Journeys to Lithuania
Adolfas and Jonas Mekas arrived in New York in 1949, leaving Lithuania behind. The camera became their means of expression and cinema invaded their lives.
Label: Re:voir / barcode: 3493551101703
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Cinema, USA.
Benjamin Piekut - Henry Cow: The World is a Problem
British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits. Their open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spon..(read more)
Publisher: Duke University Press / ISBN: 9781478004660
Author: Benjamin Piekut
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: '70s, Avant-Garde, Avant-Rock, UK.
Tony Conrad - Writings
Tony Conrad (1940–2016) was a multidisciplinary artist known for his groundbreaking art, music, films, and videos, although his work doesn’t fit comfortably..(read more)
Publisher: Primary Information / ISBN: 9780991558513
Author: Tony Conrad
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: '60s, 1-of-a-Kinds, Avant-Garde, USA.
Alvin Lucier - Works For the Ever Present Orchestra
Pieces written for the thirteen-member Ever Present Orchestra, formed in 2016 exclusively to perform Lucier’s works.
Label: Black Truffle / 060CD
Artist: Alvin Lucier
Medium: 2CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, USA.
Maurice Lemaître - La Film est Déjà Commencé?
Le film est déjà commencé? (Has the Film Started Yet?) is one of the Lettrist movement’s most important films. It was originally conceived not as a film bu..(read more)
Label: Re:voir / barcode: 3493551101680
Artist: Maurice Lemaître
Medium: DVD+BluRay
Category: Films.
Tags: '50s, 16 mm, Avant-Garde, Cinema, France.
Maurice Lemaître - Films Imaginaires (Imaginary Films)
A major figure in the lettrist movement, Maurice Lemaître revolutionized cinema in 1951 with “Le Film est déjà commencé ?” (Has the Feature Started Yet?..(read more)
Label: Re:voir / barcode: 3493551101635
Artist: Maurice Lemaître
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: 16 mm, Avant-Garde, Cinema, France.
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.
