Prospectus – Forty-two works by Ben Kinmont

Published by Antinomian Press and JRP Ringier
Softcover, 140 x 216 mm, 108 pages, 16 color
ISBN: 978-3-03764-169-9
Price: $30 USD / BUY NOW

This publication reunites 22 years of project art descriptions by Ben Kinmont, including methods of handling his archive, catalytic texts and social actions, created in domestic spaces, in the street and venues such as the Centre Pompidou, in Paris and Documenta XI in Kassel.

The book is printed with lead type on acid-free paper and Smythe-sewn; the color illustrations are printed with polymer plates. The current monograph is sponsored by the Kunstverein Amsterdam and Kunstverein NY, the Kadist Art Foundation, Air de Paris, and the Fales Library at New York University.

Prompts by Ian Monk (OULIPO)

Designed by PLaAD,  organized and produced by Kunstverein NY.
Price: $30 USD / BUY NOW

Devised for The Prompt for Performa 09 in New York and the Transart Festival in Bolzano, poet and OULIPO member Ian Monk’s interrogative parlor game Prompts uses a deck of instructive cards to orchestrate interactions between participants around a variety of topics and behaviors. The direction of the interactions relies on the personality of those who deal and receive the cards.

Ian Monk (b. 1960) is a British writer, poet and translator based in Lille, France. He is also a member of the French writing and mathematics workshop, OULIPO (“Workshop of Potential Literature”), which has met since 1960 to develop constraints for generating text. He has translated numerous books, among them novels by Daniel Pennac and Georges Perec. He has published original works in French and English, including Family Archeology and Other Poems (2004), and Plouk Town (2007).

On View, Worldwide, for the Month Of…

With contributions from Art Club 2000, Mark Beasley, Todd Colby, Kathryn Garcia, Adam Kleinman, Sue Leponte, Josephine Meckseper, Aleksandra Mir, Nils Norman, Lisa Oppenheim, Michael Portnoy, Dana Sherwood, Alexandre Singh, Dexter Sinister, Michael Smith, Marianne Vitale, and Judi Werthein.
Designed by Hyo Kwon.
Price: $15 USD / SOLD OUT

In the context of, On View, Worldwide, for the Month Of…, a project devised by Kunstverein NY, artists are invited to insert an image of their work onto the pages of corporate and drugstore calendars. These artifacts are pasted onto an existing calendar, layering the images by way of montage to decode the office calendar through accumulation rather than deconstruction.

As part of a network of programming throughout the city of Amsterdam on Sunday, Febraury 6th, On View, World Wide, for the Month Of… will be presented alongside new publications from Kunstverein sister organizations in Amsterdam (with Ginger&Piss #2) and Milan (with I’m On Your Side) and followed by a performance by Nils Bech.

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