‘The Neglected Interviews’ is now on sale in Artwords Bookshop on Broadway Market, which many of you will know as London’s benchmark arts bookshop. So those of you who have been asking where you can see it in the flesh can now get hold of your copy here:
We are very pleased to announce the publication of the second book by ‘The nth Convention’ testing, among other things, just how different a second edition can be from the first.
This book is another manifestation of the work ‘The nth Convention’ have been undertaking since a collaboration in Leipzig in 2005. Conversations held at the time that encompassed science, literature, conspiracy theories, the Cold War, and architecture led to sculpture making, photo taking, film making, psychic drawing experiments… The latter became a metaphor for making work ‘as one mind’, making a truly shared body of work. This time the focus is on unravelling the CMYK printing process. Operating like the distinct dots that merge optically to form a full colour picture, the artists have worked together on this test-card-like volume of screenprint experiments and transcripts to create a truly confusing architecture.
Not every page is accessible without the use of a knife.
The book is covered with thin card, wrapped in a poster-print, and comes in a hard blue cloth covered slipcase with ribbon. The silkscreen CMYK prints are divided into three sections with transparent architect’s mylar paper.
We will hear more from The nth Convention in 2010.
We just recieved these shots from the show in Indianapolis. Looks like a great space and it’s great that people were given gloves to handle the books.
The Harrison Center for the Arts in Indianapolis have put some of our work on show during their current month-long exhibition, and it is receiving praise and interest. And we’ve been informed of a strange co-incidence in that John Ringhofer, our latest collaboratee, has also played a show there in the past. The Center sounds very astutely run, and what we’ve heard about Indianapolis paints it as a very interesting place, a proper post-industrial playground. Big flats, big studios, faded grandeur…
The show has been a huge success, we’re told, with over 600 visitors on Friday and 250 on Sunday, and we’re looking forward to seeing some images of the show.
On the 2nd June, 7.30pm, we’ll be having a reading from our new book upstairs at the Reliance pub in Shoreditch. It’s called “the Erroneous Disposition of the People” and it was written by David Barnes, David Henningham, and Wade Bradshaw. We took the chapter headings from Thomas Brownes ‘Pseudodoxia Epidemica’ {’common misconceptions’} and used them as titles for new poems and prose. We will also be cracking out the sneaker speakers for the night!
To make absolutely sure you can get in {the room is small} RSVP through our email, which you can find on our homepage, to me or ping and we’ll put you on our guestlist.
Thanks to everyone who came to the Foundry last night. It was a great evening for us and we were really pleased that all the hard work culminated well.
We constructed a 6′ black cube on which all 100 copies of the edition could sit, leaving a space when one was sold. The circle underneath is a rotating plate; if we turned it really fast, copies began to fall off the shelves. This didn’t worry us, though, knocking things off a shop display is an everyday but rather entertaining episode. I’ll be following this evening up by joining some other guests of the Foundry on Friday between 12-1pm on Resonance radio.
This video accompanies the release of ‘The 20th Century’, by Michael James Jones and the Henningham Family Press. We will be celebrating its release at the Foundry, 86 Great Eastern Street, from 7pm on 29th April 2008. You are welcome to come and have a drink and a look.
Very soon we’ll be celebrating our latest release, a print by a Canadian Artist, Michael James Jones. Everyone is welcome to come along and take a look at the work with us at the Foundry, and this will also be a chance to see some of our previous titles.
Two things happened during the making of ‘the 20th Century’ that seemed appropriate. Firstly the paper we chose was discontinued, we got the last 100 sheets in London, and secondly the original artwork destroyed itself during the printing process; there will only ever be 100 prints in ‘the 20th Century’. Michael’s print attracts this feeling of obsolescence like a magnet; like a prop from a silent movie set.
It is a silkscreen print on what looks like a vinyl record sleeve, under a layer of shrinkwrap that is a constituent part of the work. We weren’t sure whether to call it a print, a multiple, or a sculpture. We don’t know what it means for it if someone unwraps it. This is probably because artists like Michael aren’t here to solve problems, but to create more of them.
Michael was a fellow student of mine at the Slade Master’s programme, graduated in 2006, where he usually worked in film. His superb idiosyncratic style made him the perfect artist to choose to make the first solo work at our Press {i.e. we’d just screw it up if we intervened}. We asked him to come up with an idea for a ‘thing’ that we would facilitate. We are proud to present ‘the 20th Century’.
Some of the Henningham Family Press publications can now be perused and bought at bookartbookshop in Hoxton, a really great shop with loads of beautiful books and prints. We’re really excited to be stocked there, it’s really the best place for artists’ books in London, recommended to us by the Oulipo artist Stanley Chapman when he did Rational Rec a while back. For those of you in Berlin, you can also go to a similar shop called Neurotitan. And of course you can always come over to our house to have a look at our books. If you do that you get the added benefit of a cup of tea. Just email…
For the first half of September we’ll be in Berlin as part of the Illustrative 07 art fair. I’ll be doing a lecture there that I’ll be repeating here in a little while. The lecture will be about us, but I’ll be talking about Danielson and Eric Gill mostly. We don’t know what to expect, but we’re very excited about it. If you’re in Berlin…
