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Edited by Philip Davenport

This is a moment in time when poets and many artists share the same primary material: language. Conceptual art, vispo, text art, outsider art, conceptual poetry, flarf, concrete poetry, live art, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, sound scores… THE DARK WOULD is a compelling document of now, alchemising text into art into text.

THE DARK WOULD gathers work by over 100 contributors including some of the most noted artists and poets alive today.

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Ed Ruscha’s legendary artist books together with books and works of art by more than 100 contemporary artists that respond directly and diversely to Ruscha’s original project. Organized by Bob Monk, “Ed Ruscha Books & Co.” has been drawn from private collections, including Ruscha’s own. Most of the books are installed so that viewers can interact with them and browse their pages.

Publish and Be Damned 2013

The annual Publish and Be Damned self-publishers fair returns for its second collaboration with the ICA. The fair features 40 publishers with experimental editorial directions and distribution strategies operating outside the mainstream.

The Feverish Library
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January 19 - February 23, 2013
Opening Saturday, January 19
6-8.30pm

Schitterende afzondering (“Splendid Isolation”) biedt als tentoonstelling een scala van wonderlijke en visueel verleidelijke verzamelingen van werken op papier en in boekvorm.  Het verenigt kunstenaars die fragmenten uit de cultuur en natuur losweken van een vertrouwde context en via persoonlijke invalshoeken en regels van transformatie tot een hernieuwde waarneming uitnodigen.

GAZETTE SHOW

October 26 - November 10 2012
mzin
bookstore and project space for visual culture
paul-gruner-strasse 64, leipzig 04107, germany

The opening featured performances by

Robert Fitterman (7 pm) "I, too, am an artist."
Michalis Pichler (7.30 pm) "Statement of Intent", "MISSING SONNET", "narcissist poem"
Derek Beaulieu  (7.50 pm)
Christian Bök (8.10 pm)
Vanessa Place. (8.30 pm)   reading from "Statement of Facts"

Opening Reception

POSTSCRIPT: WRITING AFTER CONCEPTUAL ART

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, October 12, 2012–February 3, 2013

Co-curated by Andrea Andersson and Nora Burnett Abrams

The show will feature a real Pianola playing UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS NABOLIRA LE HASARD (MUSIQUE)
A big thank you goes to Dick Kroeckel, member of AMICA (Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association) for lending his Pianola for the whole duration of the show.

Postscript explores the intersection of conceptual writing and contemporary

art, presenting a collection of text-based works that reflect on the form and

function of language at the beginning of the 21st century.

Hosted by Project Space with presenting partner Fillip

THE GREEK PAVILLON -  PRE-PARADISE SORRY NOW
organized by OMMU Athens
- September 7 2012 till September 9 2012 
OPEN MUSEUM / Galerie der Gegenwart / Hamburger Kunsthalle
-September 27 2012 till October 3 2012 
PALAIS DE TOKYO, Paris