Vancouver Art/Book Fair this weekend!

October 4 and 5, 2014

at the Vancouver Art Gallery

Presented by Project Space

We're thrilled to be exhibiting this year at the Vancouver Art/Book Fair, presented by Project Space. Free and open to the public, the Vancouver Art/Book Fair is the only international art book fair in Canada, and one of only two on the West Coast. 

Thanks to Project Space contributor Ryan Ming for featuring us on their blog. We look forward to seeing you there! 

Summer Reading!

Here are three new titles and a vintage copy of  # 3 of the classic Foxfire series to round out your summer reading lists.

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Luminous Books with Owl Cave at UNIT/PITT Projects

We are so excited to be working with London-based artist-curated bookshop Luminous Books at Unit/Pitt Projects in Vancouver, opening on February 15. 

Luminous Books will be popping up as a temporary bookshop of second hand fiction, philosophy and cultural curiosities alongside reading lists and visual compositions exploring paths of reading and the creative intersections between disciplines.

Owl Cave will be sending extracts from our library of feminist literature and a selection of contemporary artists’ publications. The curated collection of books at Unit/Pitt will shift and alter with each sale, reorganizing itself to accommodate losses and gains, breathing.

A new publication by Luminous Books, ’TO RIDDLE, TO READ‘, will launch late March taking the form of a cumulative reading list around Vancouver’s artist-run culture with contributions from spaces and projects engaged in alternative activity around the book form and independent art publishing.

Opening Friday, February 15 2013, 8 pm – runs until March 30 at Unit/Pitt Projects, 15 E Pender St., Vancouver. Public hours, Wednesday – Saturday, noon – 5pm.

www.luminousbooks.co.uk

www.toriddletoread.tumblr.com

www.helenpittgallery.org 

NY Art Book Fair 2012

MoMa PS1

Owl Cave visited NYC this past September to attend Printed Matter's annual NY Art Book Fair at MoMa PS1. We had a great time seeing all the new publications, catching up with old friends and enjoying the city. Please reach out and support Printed Matter and everyone affected by Hurricane Sandy by volunteering or donating here. 

Headlands Center for the Arts, 30th Birthday Party

Blanket Fort, Bunnie Reiss

 On Saturday The Headlands Center for the Arts held a festival featuring outdoor artworks, artist led hikes, games, music and vendor stalls to celebrate their 30th anniversary. We had an amazing time and took a few pictures.

Martin Creed, Work No. 815

Martin Creed, Work no. 815, 2008

White Columns Records New York, USA / SmartGuy Records San Francisco, USA

Edition of 600, unsigned. Work no. 815 is three-song 7" pressed on white vinyl. Songs include "Ohh", "Fuck Off" and "Words". This is the second release in 'The Sound of White Columns' series. 

$25

SOLD OUT

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The Wild World of Jeff Turtletaub

While searching for videos featuring Michael Smith's ongoing performance project, Baby Ikki, we found a youtube channel called wildworldproductions. 
The videos are titled The Wild World of Jeff Turtletaub and according to the channel,
[were] conceived as a general interest talk show / showcase centered around a group of talented (and not so talented) New York artists in the late 1970s / early 80s. It aired on New York City's public access cable Television for a total of 4 shows between 1979 and 1982. 
Guests included Klaus Nomi, Michael Smith, Georgeanne Gillespie, Jenny Holzer, J.D.King, Andrea Kovacs, Ann Magnuson among others. 
It was produced by Mark Fischer, Jane Brettschneider, Marc Kehoe and Jeff Turtletaub, who hosted the show. Mary Clarke served as co-host. The artist Keith Haring was a cameraman for the first show.

The Meeting of Failures: Act 1, London

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
SOLD OUT

Yves Klein, The Foundations of Judo

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

SOLD OUT

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Ida, Gertrude Stein

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.

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

The Coelacanth Journal No 6

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
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NERO No. 24

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
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NERO No. 23

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.

$10
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Dark Spring

  

All images by Unica Zurn.

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

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

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.

Intellectual Colours, Ryan Gander

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

SOLD OUT

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More images after the jump,

Monsters of Crystal Palace

Iguanodons, c. 2001, photo by Owl Cave

Advertisements from Art In America, February,1985

Art Kelly

 




































Art Kelly, Sumocloud, 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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$10