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The Meeting of Failures: Act 1, London

2011-09-04T22:45:00.001+01:00

The Meeting of Failures: Act 1 London, By Francis, 2011

Paperback, Everyone Agrees, 119 pages.
First edition of an unnumbered, unsigned, print run of 125 copies.

We are thrilled to have just gotten a very, very small number of copies of this amazing book!

The Meeting of Failures: Act I, London, is the first in a trilogy of novellas engaging with extended adolescence, misdirected ambition, authenticity, hipster politics and the politics of hipsters. It follows the narrator Francis as he seeks to escape the nihilistic bubble of contemporary East London by winning over the enigmatic Savannah Palace.

$ 9.00

Prices With Postage

Yves Klein, The Foundations of Judo

2011-08-07T21:02:00.000+01:00

The Foundations of Judo, Yves Klein

Paperback, 224 pages, The Everyday Press, 1st English Edition

Before his inclusion into the canon of 20th century modernism for his zen influenced, proto-minimalist works, Yves Klein traveled to Japan to study Judo. After becoming one of the few Europeans of the time to receive the 4th dan black belt, Klein returned to France and opened the Judo Academie de Paris. This book is the first English translation of Klein's 1954 Les Fondments du Jodo, published with the original images and typeface.

$ 25

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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, R. Buckminster Fuller

2011-07-03T01:42:00.001+01:00

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth: A bold blueprint for survival that diagnoses the causes of the environmental crisis

R. Buckminster Fuller

Paperback, 1970, 127 pages.

SOLD OUT

$ 8.00

Please note, this item is not new. There are visible folds and creases on the cover and writing on the inside cover, but the binding is intact.

Please feel free to contact us owlcavebooks@gmail.com if you have any questions about this item.

Ida, Gertrude Stein

2011-05-29T20:06:00.001+01:00

Ida, Gertrude Stein, 1941

1970's, paperback, 154 pages.

SOLD

Please note, this item is not new. There are visible folds and creases on the cover but the binding is intact.

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The Coelacanth Journal No 6

2011-04-23T20:12:00.003+01:00

The Coelacanth Journal No 6, It Came In The Night

Phoebe Blatton, Bonnie Camplin, Duncan Carson, Owl Cave, Margoh! Channing, Sally Cruikshank, Annie Guthrie, Neil McNally

Issue No 6 of this London based bi-annual journal explores the 'dark and lovely' void with experimental writing and criticism and features an exclusive interview with cult psychedelic animator Sally Cruikshank, Duncan Carson's analysis of the rise of computer generated images in film and a specially selected reading list by Owl Cave Books.

$ 5

NERO No. 24

2011-04-16T20:35:00.005+01:00

NERO No. 24

This issue of the Rome based quarterly features Carey Loren on the work of 1%er gang member/photographer Jim 'Flash' Miteff and works in print by Jeff Burton, Anne Collier, Matthias Connor, Eddie Peake, Ilaria Gianni and Ryan Gander, Francesco Stocchi, Michele Manfellotto Jimmy De Sana, Cary Loren, Francesco Pecoraro, Giulio Frigo,Michele Manfellotto,Carola Bonfili, Julia Frommel, Michael Rosenfeld, Luca Lo Pinto and Valerio
Mannucci.

In Itallian and English

$10

NERO No. 23

2011-03-26T21:30:00.003Z

Nero, No.23

This issue of the Rome based contemporary art magazine features work by Nicola Pecoraro, Paul Pieroni's survey of paintings included in the sets of the 1987 film Wall Street, and an exhibition in print of published interventions by artists, Dieter Roth, Alighiero Boetti, Gilbert & George, Robert Barry and Stephen Kaltenbach.

Text in Itallian and English.

Dark Spring

2011-01-23T03:13:00.000Z

All images by Unica Zurn.

OWL CAVE and 667 Video Archive opening July 31, 6-8pm

2010-07-22T03:02:00.000+01:00

Owl Cave Books & 667 Shotwell

Opening Saturday, July 31st, 2010 6-8pm

667 Shotwell St, between 20th and 21st

Owl Cave Books is excited to be included in an upcoming event at 667 Shotwell, featuring artist films from the 667 Shotwell archive, as well as the first west coast screening of Elliot Dodd and Brian Moran's 2008 film, Blue Acid City.

Owl Cave will be selling a selection of artist books including books by Chris Sollars, new titles by The Everyday Press, the latest issue of The Coelacanth Journal (hopefully!) and the latest issue of NERO magazine.

667 Shotwell is an experimental space for artists in the home of artist Chris Sollars.

Projects range from installations to performances and are then documented and posted on the web.

Click here for more info about 667 Shotwell projects.

Noise and Capitalism

2010-07-13T20:42:00.001+01:00

Noise and Capitalism, explores noise and improvisation in music, improvisation as a social activity, alienated language as noise, the conditions of the production of noise and its emancipatory possibilities.

'Noise’ not only designates the no-man’s-land between electro-acoustic investigation, free improvisation, avant-garde experiment, and sound art; more interestingly, it refers to anomalous zones of interference between genres: between post-punk and free jazz; between musique concrète and folk; between stochastic composition and art brut. – Ray Brassier

Contributions from Ray Brassier, Emma Hedditch, Matthew Hyland, Anthony Iles, Sara Kaaman, Mattin, Nina Power, Edwin Prevost, Bruce Russell, Matthieu Saladin, Howard Slater, Csaba Toth, Ben Watson.

Edited by Mattin & Anthony Iles

The book is available as a free PDF file from the Arteleku Audiolab website, and will be published in Spanish and Basque in 2010.

Click here to download Noise and Capitalism.

Mid-Season Sale!

2010-04-28T14:25:00.000+01:00

Mid-Season/Relocation Sale

6-10pm, Sunday 2nd of May

and 12-6pm on Monday 3rd of May

Above Camberwell Pet Supplies

176b Camberwell Road, Camberwell, SE5,

Owl Cave Books and Urara Tsuchiya are teaming up again for another event!

This time we are planning a two day sale, celebrating our upcoming relocation to San Francisco and Glasgow respectively.

There will be a wide range of items for sale including vintage clothing, a selection of LP's by Dean Kenning, books, fabric, household goods, objet d'art, and experimental fashions of tommorrow!

Owl Cave Books will have all the items listed on this website, and much more for sale, all at heavily discounted prices.

We're leaving London so Everything Must Go!!!

Snacks, cakes and other refreshments will also be on sale both days.

Anyone is welcome to participate, contact Owl Cave or Urara Tsuchiya if you are interested in setting up a stall of your own, we will do our best to accomodate.

Hope to see you all there!

Robotopia 2

2010-04-24T18:52:00.000+01:00

Playing 'Pong' with the blink of an eye, Could robots and smart devices help older people look after themselves?, Learning from the brain, Brain controlled cursor doubles as a neural workout, Dennis Hong: My 7 species of robot.

All links via science correspondent Holly Johns

Intellectual Colours, Ryan Gander

2010-04-13T15:34:00.006+01:00

Intellectual Colours, Ryan Gander, 2007

Silvana Editoriale and Dena Publishing, paperback, bound in leatherette, 144 pages

A documentation of Gander's project for the Pavilion de l'Esprit Nouveau, this book was published in association with the presentation of the Dena Foundation Art Award 2006.

$25

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Discovered Dances, Videos by Gwen Burton

2010-04-12T13:47:00.004+01:00

Cat and Mouse, Gwen Burton, 2008

There is quote that a friend of ours attributed to artist Jack Smith that goes, "If you have nothing to do, do it on film." The quote could be a hoax or wrongly attributed, and as far as we know Gwen Burton could also be a hoax, a bunch of wrongly attributed quotation or even a failed viral marketing experiment spinning out of control.

It is clear though, that whoever or whatever controls the screen persona of 'Gwen Burton' is a prolific uploader of video and sound recordings on user generated content sites, myspace and youtube and this persona is deftly tracking down people 'doing nothing' on film.

Some Owl Cave favorites are included in this post.

How Chicks Got Invented, Gwen Burton,2008

Most of Burton's videos are stuttering collages of found footage, remixed scenes from Hollywood movies, exercise videos, cartoons, vlog posts and home video.The resulting body of work shares some uncanny similarities to work made by videomontage makers, Martin Arnold, Bruce Connor or more recent work by Jackie Salloum.

Futureworld Dreams, Gwen Burton, 2009

Discovered Dances, Gwen Burton, 2008

Like these artists Burton seems to be looking for subliminal messages, the occasionally ugly truths concealed by video in its normal state.
While most user-generated video collages on youtube are critiques of external targets, mocking things 'out there' (the absurdity of mainstream media, public figures, or other internet users) Burton's videos often stare uneasily into the mirror.

Her videos are camouflaged, blending in with the countless other youtube confessionals and vlog posts, and play on this general tendency of the internet to enable oversharing and providing T.oo M.uch I.nformation.
In remixed clips of vloggers sitting in front of web cams and screens, family and friends hanging out, driving around, eating dinner etc, she hyper-extends incidental sounds and gestures, looping them into beats, drones and incantations, presenting a parallel text, a subliminal message.

Secrets Come Part Mentalized, Gwen Burton, 2009,

Voice Noise Beat, Gwen Burton, 2009
Like in Martin Arnold's films the actors in Burton's videos are literally on the verge of saying something the audience will never hear. But, unlike the Hollywood stars in Arnold's films, who reveal hidden truths in the unconscious affectations of acting and cinematography, Burton's pseudo-vloggers are stuttering towards truths concealed in the performance of everyday gestures and speech, the performance of 'self'.

Metavlog, Gwen Burton, 2008

All videos via gburton

American Minimal Music

2010-04-11T12:12:00.002+01:00

American Minimal Music, Wim Mertens,1983

Kahn & Averill, paperback, 128 pages, 2004 printing
The first in depth study of repetitive music, composer Wim Mertens explores the work of
La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

£6.00

Monsters of Crystal Palace

2010-04-10T17:27:00.000+01:00

Iguanodons, c. 2001, photo by Owl Cave

Iguanodons,

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins unveiled the first ever sculptures of prehistoric animals in 1854, as part of The Crystal Palace Exhibition . Waterhouses's original sculptures are one of the few surviving relics of the exhibition and remain on display in Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham, South London.

Lithograph of Crystal Palace by G. Baxter

Labyrinthodon, Plesiosaur and Ichthyosaur groups.

Hawkins' Sydenham Studio

All other images from,The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, Steve McCarthy & Mick Gilbert, 1994 ISBN 1897754 035, courtesy of Luminous Books.

Mosaic Scarves by Urara Tsuchiya

2010-04-09T12:26:00.005+01:00

Owl Cave Books now has a selection of reclaimed cashmere scarves by artist and designer Urara Tsuchiya.
Each scarf is a unique hand made mosaic of cashmere squares, made from used cashmere jumpers. Check back at this site for more Tsuchiya creations and Owl Cave collaborations.
For more information...

Small Mosaic Scarf

Cashmere, Angora, Wool, with unfinished edges,

approx 153x38cm

£35

Large Mosaic Scarf

Cashmere, Angora, Wool, with unfinished edges

approx 186x62cm

£40
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Bird & Monster Necklaces

2010-04-06T19:09:00.008+01:00

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Bird & Monster necklaces for Owl Cave Books!

We are happy to present a selection of jewelry by Bird & Monster custom made for Owl Cave.

Bird&Monster, based in Texas, creates handcrafted jewelry from a combination of found, vintage and modern objects. Each piece is a unique response to reclaimed materials so no two are alike.

For more information,

Three Owl Branch Necklace,

Reappropriated stones, modern brass three owl branch charm, on a modern chain.

Chain approx 20cm. Owl charm approx 2cm wide.

£23

Owl With Green Flowers In Her Hair,

Copper owl charm with vintage Chanel charm and chain.

Chain approx 22cm, Owl charm approx 2cm tall.

£23

Please feel free to contact us with any questions about these items.

Advertisements from Art In America, February,1985

2010-03-15T11:43:00.002Z

These images were found in the February 1985 issue of Art in America.

Art Kelly

2010-03-14T13:48:00.008Z

Art Kelly, Sumocloud, 2009
$10

Art Kelly, 2009

Sumocloud, screen printed cover with 28 black and white photocopied pages on yellow paper, bound with staples and multicolored yarn.

A Sumocloud zine, proposing an art movement centered around the work of recording artist R. Kelly.

$10

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Sylvia Plath Drawings

2010-03-12T14:18:00.002Z

The images above are taken from a 1981 paperback copy of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

ISBN 0-553-27835-5

Not So Too Much of Much of Everything, Naoko Takahashi

2010-03-12T13:56:00.004Z

Not So Too Much of Much of Everything, Naoko Takahashi, 2007

Book Works, Paperback 72 pages.

No7 in the Chap Books Series, offset printed in an edition of 1000.

An excellent, short novel based on Takahashi's experiences during an artist residency in The United Arab Emirates.
A 21st century, existentialist, travelogue in which the narrator's actions are continually misinterperated, and unexpectedly fraught with identity politics.

£7.00

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Casting Out Demons

2010-03-06T11:38:00.004Z

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Lina Bo Bardi Drawings

2010-03-05T09:28:00.001Z

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Drawings by architect Lina Bo Bardi.

Norman M. Klein, The History Of Forgetting

2010-03-04T12:06:00.005Z

The History Of Forgetting, Norman M. Klein, 2008

Verso, Paperback, 342 pages

The 2008 updated version of media/urban historian Norman M. Klien's 1997 book on 'The most photographed and least remembered city in the world'. The book examines the realities of city planning in Los Angeles alongside the mythologies of its celluliod image, from post war Film-Noir, to the 1990's gangster's paradise, to the dark futurism of Blade Runner.

£5.00

This is a second hand book with some damage to page 122. all pages are perfectly legible and the bindings and cover are intact. Please feel free to contact us with any questions about this item.

Natural History

2010-02-23T13:33:00.006Z

James Wilson Perry painting background for Western Pine Forestry Group,1956

Museum staff preparing Olympic Forest Scene exhibit, 1952

Taxidermist mounting eagle for bird group display, 1961

Smoothing surface of Whale model, Hall of Ocean Life, 1968

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Chomsky, John Lyons

2010-02-22T12:29:00.002Z

Chomsky, John Lyons, 1971

Fontanta, paperback, 120 pages.

In introductory text to Noam Chomsky's theories of linguistics.

From the Fontana Modern Masters series.

£3.00

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The Way Things Go

2010-02-10T14:53:00.012Z

Fischli and Weiss, The Way Things Go, Jeremy Millar, 2007

Afterall Books, Paperback 109 pages,

Jeremy Millar's analysis of the 1987 Fischli and Weiss work Lauf der Dinge, from the Afterall One Work book series.

Video excerpt via

Fischli and Weiss, The Way Things Go, Jeremy Millar, 2007

Afterall Books, Paperback 109 pages,
£5.00

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Pure Nature Worship

2010-01-31T16:02:00.006Z

Barrier Kult, Deerman Of the Dark Woods, pure nature worship, and blackend rituals of skateboarding.

January Sale 2010

2010-01-29T14:27:00.007Z

Thanks to everyone who came and made The January Sale so awesome!

for more images and video...

Owl Cave Books

January Sale Fashion Show, Urara Tsuchiya, 2010

Check back for updates on the next sale (planned for March 2010), and updates on your chance to buy creations by Urara Tsuchiya, on Owl Cave.

Horse Crazy

2010-01-29T12:30:00.004Z

Horse Crazy, Gary Indiana, 1989

Paladin, Paperback,189 pages

Gary Indiana's excellent first novel about falling in love with the wrong man, set in the 1980's Downtown Scene.

SOLD OUT

As should be visible from the images provided there is signifigant wear and creasing on the cover of this book, the binding and pages are intact.

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Bells of Atlantis

2010-01-29T11:23:00.002Z

Bells of Atlantis, Ian Hugo,1952.

With text from Anais Nin's House of Incest, and soundtrack by electroninc composers Louis and Bebe Barron

Via TzarabandaMechanica/ La Legendaria Tzarabanda Mechanica Blog

2010 January Sale

2010-01-21T12:38:00.017Z

Owl Cave will be participating in the 2010 January Sale above Camberwell Pet Supplies on Sunday January 24th and you are invited take part too!

Anyone is welcome to set up a stall of their own to sell or barter records, vintage clothing, books, bric-a-brac, fabrics and house hold goods, Voluntary DJs will also be very much appreciated!

The sale will include a sewing workshop by Urara from 12-3pm, (bring your sewing project! ) followed by a fashion show at 4:30, Works-on-paper, mail-art, posters, journals, by Cameron,
a gift from Philip Tonde(TPTPSpace), Adam Christensen screening 2010 The Year We Make Contact, food and hot alcoholic drinks for sale and an Owl Cave book stall.

2010 January Sale

January 24th 12-6pm

176 B Camberwell Road,

Camberwell, SE5
Looking forward to seeing you!

The Coelacanth Journal, NO. 4

2010-01-15T11:12:00.005Z

The Coelacanth Journal No.4 The Dream Has Gone But The Baby Is Real, 2009

In September 2009 The Coelacanth Press hosted an event at The South London Cultural Centre exploring socialist realism through 1960's kitchen sink drama. Their fourth biannual publication uses this as a departure point, but covers topics from crop circles to a psychedelic screenplay starring Yuri Gagarin.

Contributions by Phoebe Blatton, Justin Moore, Rebecca Bligh, Spartacus Chetwynd, Cushla Donaldsonm Susan Finlay, Steven Gontarski, Katie Horwichm Sara Kirkwood, Richard T. Jenkins, Dan Pasteiner, Liberty Rowley.

£3.00

Psychosomatic, Elizabeth A. Wilson

2010-01-06T11:44:00.003Z

Psychosomatic, Elizabeth A. Wilson, 2004

Duke University Press, Paperback, 126 pages

Deftly interperating theoretical connections between body, mind and emotional states; from Samuel La Vey's controversial study of sexual orientation, to Charles Darwin's accounts of blushing and trembling, Wilson explores neuroscience and feminist theories of the body.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions about this item.

£5.00

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Piranesi, The Imaginary Views

2010-01-04T11:00:00.003Z

Piranesi The Imaginary Views,Miranda Harvey,1979

Harmony Books, paperback 80 pages, 70+ illustrations.

A collection of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's drawings for imaginary prisons, altars, tombs and grottoes.

For more images or to purchase

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Piranesi The Imaginary Views,Miranda Harvey,1979

Harmony Books, paperback 80 pages, 70+ illustrations.

£3.00

As should be visible from the images provided there is some wear and discoloration on the cover of this book.

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Happy New Year!

2009-12-31T14:00:00.005Z

Owl Cave wishes you all a prosperous and happy 2010!

Nuclear Death

2009-12-30T14:22:00.004Z

Lori Bravo with Nuclear Death, live, early 1990's

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Torpor, Chris Kraus

2009-12-21T11:24:00.006Z

Torpor, Chris Kraus, 2006

Chris Kraus' third autobiographical novel interweaves the personal and political as she tours post Ceauşescu Romania, post MTV America and post May '68 France.

Semiotexte, Paperback, 285 pages,

£5.00

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Glenn Danzig's Books

2009-12-08T15:22:00.006Z

Glenn Danzig shares some of his favorite books.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

2009-12-08T15:09:00.002Z

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson,

Bantam, Paperback,120 pages, 1981 printing

Stevenson's 1886 proto-psychological, horror novel.

£1.00

SOLD OUT

As should be visible from the provided images, there is wear and creasing on the cover.

The binding and pages are still in good condition.

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Polska Szkola Dokuentu, Kazimierz Karabasz

2009-12-04T11:11:00.009Z

10 documentary films by Kazimierz Karabasz, part of a NInA series on directors from the Polska Szkola Dokuentu.

To view Karabasz's 1961 film Węzeł, or to purchase,

Węzeł / Railway Junction, Kazimierz Karabasz, 1961, via jacekmwwa

Polska Szkola Dokuentu, Kazimierz Karabasz

Polskie Wydawnictwo Audiowvizualine,

English and French subtitles

Region 2 DVD, 315 mins

DVD 1:
1. Jak co dzien..., 1955
2. Muzykanci, 1960
3. Ludzie w drodze, 1960
4. Wezel, 1961
5. Na progu, 1965
6. Rok Franka W., 1967
7. Krystyna M. Szkice do portretu, 1973

DVD 2:
1. Próba materii, 1981
2. Portret w kropli, 1997
3. Spotkania, 2004

£25.00

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The Re-Death of Psychedelia

2009-12-01T12:17:00.005Z

The Three Geniuses have had a public access television show in Los Angeles since the mid-ninties, this year they have released a DVD.
Video after the jump.

via 3G

from The Three Geniuses Website:

"The shows descend frequently into octuple exposure, “glitch-out,” or blow out the color spectrum far beyond the FCC allowances, often broadcasting illegal signals. Some episodes so exceed the technical conventions of video that they cannot even be recorded, much less digitized. The Geniuses 3 also created the first-ever 3-D public-access television show by taping a blue gel on one camera and a red gel on another, then putting the cameras next to each other and using the displaced double exposure to
create the illusion of a “third dimension.”

The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon

2009-11-30T11:13:00.006Z

The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon

There is a Thomas Pynchon wiki!

Penguin, Paperback,139 pages, 1974 printing.

£1.00

As should be visible from the image provided, there is wear, creasing, and discoloration on the cover.

The pages and binding are in good condition

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The Debt to Pleasure, John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester

2009-11-29T14:33:00.006Z

The Debt to Pleasure, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, John Adlard

Fyfield Books, Paperback , 141 pages,1974 printing

A collection of libelous, satirical, obscene, erotic poetry by the notorious Restoration era libertine, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.

£2.00

This book is used but in good condition.

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Sarah Moon, PHOTOFILE

2009-11-25T14:01:00.007Z

PHOTOFILE, Sarah Moon, 2009

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76 illustrations in Color and Duotone, Paperback, 144 pages, Thames and Hudson,

Photos by model turned surrealist fashion photogropher Sarah Moon.

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£ 7.00

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Aerobicide, Julie Ruin

2009-11-21T16:04:00.005Z

Aerobicide,Julie Ruin,1998, directed by Sadie Benning

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Kaleidoscope Pavillion, Expo 67

2009-11-17T14:46:00.010Z

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Morley Markson's Kaleidoscope Pavillion, for Expo 67, Montreal, 1967

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Sophie Carapetian, 7 Point Plan to Abolish Bourgeoisism in Art

2009-11-17T13:01:00.018Z

7 Point Plan to Abolish Bourgeosism in Art, Sophie Carapetian

Carapetian's conscise, practical plan for eliminating boring, bourgeois hierarchy among artists!

4 page, photocopied pamphlet, bound with red thread.

£1.00

Deliria

2009-11-11T14:50:00.013Z

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Deliria, Michele Soavi,1987
The clip is a little long, but it is really worth it.
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Hexentanz

2009-11-10T18:57:00.006Z

excerpt of Mary Wigman's Hexentanz

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Nina Hagen, Hexentanz, (demo, c 1976)

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Dough Warrior!

2009-11-10T13:40:00.018Z

from, The Dough Warrior Project!, Soren Dahlgaard, 2008

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The Dough Warrior Project!, Soren Dahlgaard,2008

We caught a Dough Warrior performance at SEQUENCES 09 in Reykjavik last Saturday, and managed to get a couple of these from Soren.

This book covers the first six years of Soren Dahlgaard's ongoing investigation of the links between action painting and performance, and the development of his alter ego,
The Dough Warrior!

Un-numbered edition of 1000,

Includes first edition paperback, with DVD, packed in a printed, brown paper bag.

This item is new and in good condition, as should be visible from the images there is wear and creasing on the paper bag.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions about this item.
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£8.00

Silk Handkerchiefs

2009-11-10T12:23:00.015Z

Silk Handkerchiefs, Paul Haworth, 2009

The first in a trilogy of tragi-comic novels by writer and artist Paul Haworth set in contemporary London.

True True True, paperback, 96 pages

£8.00

This Item is new, please feel free to contact us with any questions.

Owl Cave In Iceland

2009-10-29T15:14:00.002Z

Owl Cave staff will be in Iceland until November 8th. Any orders recieved in the meantime will be processed when we return.

Rotterdam, October 2009

2009-10-14T16:58:00.011+01:00

Robotopia

2009-10-05T20:21:00.003+01:00

Bionic brain chips , Quantum computers , Robots get smarter , 13 things that do not make sense , Back to nature , Cyborg insects , Locust flight simulator , Knife fish robot , Army heli-Weeble , Manchester science festival 24th October - 1st November 2009

All links via Science Correspondent Holly Johns

The Rest Is Silence

2009-09-30T14:03:00.014+01:00

The Rest Is Silence, Emanuel Almborg, with an essay by Jeff Kinkle

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The Rest Is Silence, Emanuel Almborg

Edited by Emanuel Almborg, and Jeff Kinkle
Photography by Emanuel Almborg, with an essay by Jeff Kinkle.

Published as part Emanuel Almborg's ongoing project,
The Rest Is Silence.

From the late 70's until it's destruction by property devlopers in January 2009, residents of East London collectively built a structure on a vacant lot.

They built continuously for over 30 years, without any specific utilitarian purpose, planning or permission and intended that the building never be finished.

This book is an investigation of that structure and the conditions that produced it.

You can also read more about this project on Dossier, here.

£6.00

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Between Beauty and the Beast, Limited Edition

2009-09-26T13:18:00.014+01:00

Between Beauty and the Beast, Paul Mc Carthy,

for more images or to purchase

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Paul Mc Carthy, Between Beauty and the Beast: Sculptures, Drawings and Photographs

A slim woodbound edition, packed in a black plastic envelope, with McCarthy pen drawings, and photo-documentation of performace sculptural works.

edited by Tim Nye with text by Sam Lipsyte

Published by Foundation 20/21, Hardback, 53 pages 2007
This item is edition number 2276 of an edition of 2500.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions about this item.

£10.00

Black Hole No.2

2009-09-25T12:48:00.011+01:00

Black Hole, No.2,Charles Burns,

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Charles Burns, Black Hole No.2,
Kitchen Sink Press, 1998
£3.00

Part two of Charles Burns' epic graphic novel. Black Hole is the story of a group of stoner teens from the Pacific Northwest and their experiences with a mysterious sexually transmitted disease that causes horrific mutations in its victims.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions about this item.

Owl Cave at SLCC, part 3

2009-09-22T11:39:00.006+01:00

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Here's a couple of photos from the SLCC event on Saturday night. Thanks to everyone who came!

For more on SLCC you can read Janina Pedan's interview with Spartacus Chetwynd and Adam Christensen on Dossier, here.

Owl Cave at SLCC

2009-09-18T10:18:00.010+01:00

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On Saturday the 19th The Ceolacanth Press has organzied an event at the SLCC including a performance by Alice Theobald.

Owl Cave will be there selling magazines, books and DVDs on Horror, Fashion and Art.
Hope to see you all there!

The Voodoo Gods

2009-09-16T11:09:00.013+01:00

In the 7 year period while filming her documentary,
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Hati, artist, choreographer, and film-maker, Maya Deren became deeply involved with Hatian practitioners of Voodu.

First published in 1953 this book contains her intimate study of Voudu ceremony and cosmology.
Includes illustrations by Deren and an introduction by Joseph Campbell.

Paladin Books,Paperback 318 pages, 1975 printing.

£4.00
SOLD OUT

AI

2009-09-13T18:36:00.005+01:00

Why AI is a dangerous dream

Six ways to build robots that do humans no harm

The sci-fi future of surgery

Instant experts: Robots

Plasmabot: the slime mould robot

All links via Science Correspondent Holly Johns

Owl Cave at SLCC

2009-09-12T19:18:00.005+01:00

Owl Cave book table at the Celebration of the Full Moon at SLCC on 4th September 2009

Casual Observer

2009-09-11T11:17:00.010+01:00

Andrew Moran, Casual Observer, 2009

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Sidewinder

2009-09-11T10:58:00.003+01:00

Morton Subotnick, Sidewinder, 1971

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Popper

2009-09-10T10:53:00.008+01:00

An introductory text on the work of Karl Popper, written by his friend and sometime collaborator Bryan Magee.

This book covers Popper's ideas on The Scientific Method, and The Open Society.

Fontana Modern Masters, Fontana 1973, Paperback 110 pages.

£3.00

SOLD OUT

This book is in used but good condition, please feel free to contact us with any questions about this item.

Brion Gysin, Live in London

2009-09-09T10:25:00.017+01:00

Brion Gysin Live in London 1982
Subrosa, 2007, digipak,

Tracklist:
Welcome 00:54, Minutes To Go 04:38, Cut-Ups(1959) 03:08

Teaching 25:10, Illusion 03:45, Minutes To Go #2 02:02

Adlib 07:14, Impro:1 08:13, Cut-Ups:1960(Bardo Hotel) 03:34

Ahead,Ahead:93 Million Miles Away: 03:27

£5.00

Surrealist painter, writer and proto-beatnik Brion Gysin, teaches, recites and rants backed by an ad hoc, post-punk band,featuring Tessa Pollit ( The Slits,) on cello.

This CD is new and unsealed, please feel free to contact us with any questions about this item

Scenes from Black Mountain College

2009-09-08T10:09:00.005+01:00

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Black Mountain College 1933-1957

The Conscious Withdrawal of Efficiency

2009-09-07T11:00:00.007+01:00

Excerpt from the documentaryThe Wobblies,
Directed by Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer, 1979
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I.W.W. symbol for sabotage, attributed to Ralph Chaplin

Happy Labor Day, USA!

Deleuze Dialogues II

2009-09-07T09:34:00.008+01:00

Gilles Deleuze in conversation with Claire Parnet circa 1977.

This is an excellent introductory text to Deleuze's work with Felix Guattari.

Deleuze and Parnet discuss the 1972 book Anti-Oedipus, and ideas that would eventually be more fully developed in A Thousand Plateaus.

Continuum Impacts, Paperback 124 pages, 2006 printing
£4.00

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This book is in used but good condition.
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Robotic Crayfish

2009-09-06T19:21:00.007+01:00

BBC News: Robotic Crayfish Could Save Lives

Video link via Science Correspondent Holly Johns.

Danse Macabre

2009-09-05T19:37:00.013+01:00

Danse Macabre, Hecate Enthroned

from Slaughter of Innocence (1997),

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Khanate Capture & Release

2009-09-04T15:25:00.009+01:00

Capture & Release Dead and Live Actions, Khanate
2006, Daymare Recordings, New, Unsealed

Japanese double disc release, digipak, gatefold sleeve
CD
1. Capture
2. Release
DVD
1.Dead
2.Commuted
3.Fields
4.Under A Rotting Sky
5.No Joy

£12.00

The Marvellous Aphorisms of Gavin Bryars

2009-09-04T13:52:00.013+01:00

The Marvellous Aphorisms of Gavin Bryars: The Early Years, Gavin Bryars

2007 Mode Records, New, Sealed

4 Recordings from 1970 and 1971, a period in which Bryars merges the influences of Fluxus and John Cage with free improvisation.

Includes a guitar piece written for Derek Bailey, to be played on two guitars simultaneously.

The 1971 track 1,2, 1-2-3-4 is the result of seven musicians responding to songs by The Beatles played simultaneously on separate cassette decks,through individual pairs of headphones.

Instead playing with the other musicians in they room they play along to the music playing through the headphones, and their interpolations of the songs phase and drift in and out of sync.

With liner notes by Christopher Fox and Gavin Bryers.

1.The Squirrel and the Rickety-Rackety Bridge,(1971) 10:48

for 2 guitars(1 player)
Seth Josel: electric guitars

2.Pre-Mediaeval Metrics, (1970) 15:16

Ulrich Krieger: soprano, tenor& controbass saxophones, tom tom
Seth Josel: electric guitar, 12 string guitar, electric bass

3. Made in Hong Kong,(1970) 10:32

Ulrich Krieger: diverse toys.

4. 1,2,1-2-3-4(1971) 32:49

Interpolating music by The Beatles: Help; Helter Skelter; Glass Onion;Fixing a Hole;I Want You; A Day in a Life; Sexy Sadie;Good Night.

Ulrich Krieger: tenor saxophone, recorder, tamborine, maracas
Seth Josel: electric guitar, acoustic & 12 string guitars
Eric Friedmann: electric guitar
Yayoi Ikawa:piano
John Davis:electric bass
Kenny Growhowski: drums

£6.00

Alejandro Jodorowsky- Tarot of Marseilles

2009-09-03T12:51:00.004+01:00

Film maker, mime and self styled mystic Alejandro Jodorowsky on the Tarot of Marseilles.

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Bootleg SpongeBobs!

2009-08-31T11:52:00.006+01:00

A selection of the bootleg 'Bobs' made at the Owl Cave stall, Street Stalls III at SLCC on the 29th August 2009.

Raining Blood

2009-08-29T11:57:00.006+01:00

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Peter Wollen, Raiding The Icebox

2009-08-26T09:43:00.012+01:00

Raiding The Icebox, Reflections On Twentieth-Century Culture,
Peter Wollen

"Beginning with an analysis of the role of Diagheilev and the Russian Ballet, Wollen argues that modernism has always had a hidden suppressed side which cannot be absorbed into the master narrative of modernity"

Verso, Paperback, 222 pages,1993,
2008 printing

£5.00

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Lillian Schwartz-The Artist and the Computer

2009-08-25T12:51:00.004+01:00

1976 documentary on the work of Lillian Schwartz
click here for more information on early computer visualiztion.

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Owl Cave Presents

2009-08-24T21:14:00.007+01:00

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Garbage Pail Kids, Cage and Cut-ups - Interview with John Pound

2009-08-24T10:36:00.008+01:00

Brian Moran interviews artist John Pound for Dossier.
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Wunderkammer

2009-08-23T14:39:00.008+01:00

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Bookshop Event in London September 4th

2009-08-22T12:51:00.018+01:00

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Owl Cave will be at The South London Cultural Center
on September 4th with a special selection of books,
and Owl Cave badges.
See you all there!

Wunderkammer

2009-08-21T12:14:00.007+01:00

"I'll lie still...and silent...strip my mind of earthly thoughts..."
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Brook Farm with Rainbow, by Josiah Wolcott

2009-08-20T10:40:00.007+01:00

Brook Farm with Rainbow, Josiah Wolcott,1845
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Antropomorphism and Sexuality

2009-08-19T11:56:00.008+01:00

Janina Pedan is writing a series of posts on anthropomorphism and sexuality for Dossier.

Her latest post profiles drawings by raatoons, can't wait for part three!

Click here for part one
Click here for part two

The Shakers

2009-08-18T10:54:00.008+01:00

from The Shakers, Tom Davenport & Frank DeCola, 1974
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Rock My Religion, Dan Graham, 1982-84
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Violin Tuned to D.E.A.D

2009-08-17T19:38:00.003+01:00

Violin Tuned to D.E.A.D., extract, 1968, Bruce Nauman
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Ideal City - Invisible Cities

2009-08-15T20:42:00.016+01:00

Ideal City - Invisible Cities

Catalogue edited by Sabrina van der Ley & Markus Richter, with a foreword by Anda Rottenberg

Catalogue for the 2006 exhibition held in Zamość, Poland and Potsdam, Germany,

Paperback, 318 pages, 160 large format colour illustrations

English/Polish Edition

£15.00

With work by

Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Archigram, Colin Ardley, Tim Ayres, Mirosław Bałka, Daniela Brahm, Pedro Cabrita Reis,Rui Calçada Bastos, Brian O’Connell, Constant, Jonas Dahlberg, Tacita Dean, Jarosław Fliciński, Carlos Garaicoa, Dan Graham, George Hadjimichalis, Rula Halawani, Franka Hörnschemeyer, Craigie Horsfield, Katarzyna Józefowicz, Jakob Kolding, Ola Kolehmainen, Lucas Lenglet, Sol LeWitt, Teresa Murak, David Maljković, Gerold Miller, Matthias Müller, Daniel Roth, Albrecht Schäfer, Kai Schiemenz, Les Schliesser, Melanie Smith, Monika Sosnowska, David Tremlett, Anton Vidokle, Lawrence Weiner, Krzysztof Zieliński,

Tilman Wendland.

SUPERSTUDIO

2009-08-14T21:25:00.011+01:00

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"In the beginning we designed objects for production, designs to be turned into wood and steel, glass and brick or plastic - then we produced neutral and usable designs, then finally negative utopias, forewarning images of the horrors which architecture was laying in store for us with its scientific methods for the perpetuation of existing models."
SUPERSTUDIO 1966-1978

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Objects of Desire

2009-08-14T13:58:00.010+01:00

Objects of Desire, Adrian Forty

A lucid, illustrated survey of modern design history, beginning in the early stages of the industrial revolution.

Forty examines the design of dress, branding, public transport, the home, the factory, and the office, the motives of the designers and the societal impact of their creations.

Thames and Hudson, Paperback, 245 pages, with 272 illustrations, 1992 printing
£6.00

This book is in used and fair condition.
As should be visible from the scans provided, there is discoloration and wear to the cover.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions about this item.
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1968 Copy, I Am Curious (yellow)

2009-08-13T10:03:00.014+01:00

I Am Curious (yellow),Vilgot Sjöman
The complete scenario, includes film and production stills.

Evergreen Black Cat/Grove Press, Paperback, 254 pages,
1968 printing
£5.00

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This book is in used but good condition, plese feel free to contact us with any questions about this item.

Monarch!

2009-08-12T19:37:00.001+01:00

Monarch!
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Mala/Insurgente Zine, Issue One

2009-08-11T11:11:00.018+01:00

Issue One, Mala/Insurgente, 2000??,

For more images or to purchase,

Issue One, Mala/Insurgente, 2000??

" Mala/Insurgente is two zines in one and has approx. 90 pages covering topics such as pathologized mexicana/latina bodies, analyzing colonized education, punk rock memoirs, pop culture, navigating relationships with white folks and with white as a concept, organizing, authenticity, desire, etc etc etc."

£1.50

This magazine is in used and poor condition, as should be visible from the scans provided, there is significant wear and discoloration on the cover and pages.

The New Genius

2009-08-10T17:34:00.001+01:00

The New Genius, Henry Flynt, 1993
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1990's Fangoria Magazine

2009-08-10T16:52:00.015+01:00

The August 1990 issue of Fangoria magazine, featuring the work of visual effects artist, and long-time Paul Verhoeven collaborator,

Rob Bottin.

Gross and awesome.

£3.00

This magazine is in used but good condition, please feel free to contact us with any questions about this item.

Strange and Amazing

2009-08-08T16:01:00.008+01:00

'Model Universe - Johannes Kepler worked out in miniature the spacing of the planets'

'Tombs That Tell the Time - As well as being burial chambers for the pharaohs, the Pyramids at Gizah were also designed as observatories - and giant calendars.'

'Going to Work on an Egg - Four stages in the process of getting a very small African egg-eating snake outside a very large egg. First, the snake sizes up the job. This snake, which lives solely on eggs, opens its flexible jaws. They will distend, if necessary, to four times the circumfrence of its body. The snake, only about 2 ft long, has engulfed an egg that is more than double its own diameter. Powerful muscles will now force the egg down. The snake is ready to start digesting its food. Internal backbone spines are worked back and forth to break the shell, which will be regurgitated.'

'New Life Ahead? Inside the capsule - a corpse, deep frozen. It may some day be brought back to life, perhaps rejuvenated and, if possible, cured of the disease that killed it.'

All images and texts from The Readers Digest Book of Strange Stories, Amazing Facts 1975
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The Archaeology of Knowledge

2009-08-07T12:40:00.008+01:00

The Archaeology of Knowledge, Michel Foucault

Routledge,Paperback 211 pages,1995 printing,
Foucault's 1969 analysis of the formation of statements, discourses and knowledge.
This book was written as a response to his earlier book The Order Of Things and to the resulting critiques of it.
£8.00

This book is in used but good condition, please feel free to contact us with any questions about this item.

OWL CAVE

The Meeting of Failures: Act 1, London

Yves Klein, The Foundations of Judo

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, R. Buckminster Fuller

Ida, Gertrude Stein

The Coelacanth Journal No 6

NERO No. 24

NERO No. 23

Dark Spring

OWL CAVE and 667 Video Archive opening July 31, 6-8pm

Noise and Capitalism

Mid-Season Sale!

Robotopia 2

Intellectual Colours, Ryan Gander

Discovered Dances, Videos by Gwen Burton

American Minimal Music

Monsters of Crystal Palace

Mosaic Scarves by Urara Tsuchiya

Bird & Monster Necklaces

Advertisements from Art In America, February,1985

Art Kelly

Sylvia Plath Drawings

Not So Too Much of Much of Everything, Naoko Takahashi

Casting Out Demons

Lina Bo Bardi Drawings

Norman M. Klein, The History Of Forgetting

Natural History

Chomsky, John Lyons

The Way Things Go

Pure Nature Worship

January Sale 2010

Horse Crazy

Bells of Atlantis

2010 January Sale

The Coelacanth Journal, NO. 4

Psychosomatic, Elizabeth A. Wilson

Piranesi, The Imaginary Views

Happy New Year!

Nuclear Death

Torpor, Chris Kraus

Glenn Danzig's Books

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

Polska Szkola Dokuentu, Kazimierz Karabasz

Węzeł / Railway Junction, Kazimierz Karabasz, 1961, via jacekmwwa

Polska Szkola Dokuentu, Kazimierz Karabasz

Polskie Wydawnictwo Audiowvizualine,

English and French subtitles

Region 2 DVD, 315 mins

The Re-Death of Psychedelia

The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon

The Debt to Pleasure, John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester

Sarah Moon, PHOTOFILE

Aerobicide, Julie Ruin

Kaleidoscope Pavillion, Expo 67

Sophie Carapetian, 7 Point Plan to Abolish Bourgeoisism in Art

Deliria

Hexentanz

Dough Warrior!

Silk Handkerchiefs

Owl Cave In Iceland

Rotterdam, October 2009

Robotopia

The Rest Is Silence

Between Beauty and the Beast, Limited Edition

Black Hole No.2

Owl Cave at SLCC, part 3

Owl Cave at SLCC

The Voodoo Gods

AI

Owl Cave at SLCC

Casual Observer

Sidewinder

Popper

Brion Gysin, Live in London

Scenes from Black Mountain College

The Conscious Withdrawal of Efficiency

Deleuze Dialogues II

Robotic Crayfish

Danse Macabre

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