【GC-308】At Last Books

Area | GUEST COUNTRY

Country | DENMARK

Founded in Copenhagen in 2017 by Hans Munk, At Last Books is devoted to publishing a wide variety of projects involving art, photography, and writing, by a varied group of artists from around the world.

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Bob Nickas – Corrected Proofs. Previously Unpublished, Uncollected, Unwanted

Revenge publishing? A new genre? Or has it been around since writers first put pen to paper? Isn’t all writing to some degree a means to avenge an oversight or a rejection, intending to set the record straight? A number of pieces in this collection which were commissioned, accepted, and paid for, never appeared for one reason or another, whether devious or common: books don’t always cross the finish line. Years go by. Patience evaporates. Corrected Proofs aims to seek remedy.

In addition to previously unpublished pieces, a number of essays and interviews were written specially for this collection: on Lutz Bacher and Charles Ray, with Arnold J. Kemp. There are heroes and villains, from the assassins John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, to Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cady Noland and Steven Parrino. Here the reader encounters usual suspects in unexpected context—Marcel Duchamp, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol—and artists recently rediscovered—Bob Smith and Stephen Varble—alongside Lee Lozano, the January 6 insurrection, and The Fall.

Alex Da Corte – Rubber Pencil Devil

I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am. —Arthur Rimbaud, Night in Hell

Rubber Pencil Devil is the fourth book in an ongoing series of flipbooks cataloging Da Corte's fifty-seven part film, Rubber Pencil Devil (2018).The flipbook features an essay by Jamillah James for A Season in He’ll, curated by Jamillah James at Art + Practice, Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Hammer Museum, July 9 – September 16, 2016.

Francesca Gavin – Rough Version, The NTS Interviews With Francesca Gavin, 2016-2021

This book brings together open and frank conversations around art and music from the first five years of the ongoing radio show, Rough Version, on cult online station NTS Radio.Conceived and presented by writer and curator Francesca Gavin, the monthly show has captured the musical outputs and aural inspirations of some of the biggest and most interesting emerging names in contemporary art. Here music opens the door to each international artist’s practice, providing insight into who they are, what motivates them and what they love to listen to.

Artists included: Adam Pendleton, Alex Da Corte, Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom, Aria Dean, Bedwyr Williams, Celia Hempton, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Dozie Kanu, Eric N. Mack, Fiona Banner, Florence Peake, Franziska Lantz, Gaika, Georgina Starr, Graham Little, Hannah Perry, Haroon Mirza, Imran Perretta, Jeremy Deller, Jeremy Shaw, Katharina Grosse, Kaye Donachie, Larry Achiampong Lawrence Lek, Liam Gillick, Liz Johnson Artur, Madelynn Green, Marguerite Humeau, Marianna Simnett, Mark Leckey, Mark Titchner, Martine Syms, Metahaven, Michael Landy, Mike Nelson, Oscar Tuazon & Gardar Eide Einnarson, Otobong Nkanga, P. Staff, Paul Maheke, Paul McDevitt, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Paul Noble, Paul Purgas, Philippe Parreno, Prem Sahib, Rachel Maclean, Rhea Dillon, Rhys Coren, Scott King, Scott Treleaven, Seb Patane, Sebastian Jefford, Steve Claydon, Tai Shani, Tanoa Sasraku, Tenant of Culture, Tony Cokes, Trevor Paglen and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Peter Funch – When You Invent The Ship, You Also Invent The Shipwreck

When You Invent the Ship, You Also Invent the Shipwreck is a stream of images from the past 25 years of Peter Funch’s vast archive. Images created around the world, with different potentials, all motivated by a hungry curiosity. Images composed with an array of image capturing tools, digital and analogue, some heavily reworked, others straight from the negative. Interconnecting with images of passages of texts from an eclectic collection of writers. When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck is a visual odyssey that engages you in media res. Leaving behind the concept of traditional time; past – present – future – for a prevailing feeling of now. The work unfolds differently with each journey from eye through mind.

A sense of emancipation emanates from the book – images set free from restraining concepts and categories – born again into this world of endless images. This feeling of sustainable revolution is enhanced by the book production and title. The book is printed on dead stock left from other publications produced by the craftwomen and men at Narayana Press. A process that somehow sets the work free, as the look and feel of the book is released and left to chance.

The title is a recycled fragment of a Paul Virilio quote, in the present context a reminder of the cyclical nature of creation and destruction. Constant transformation.

Gardar Eide Einarsson — Conservator's Notes

The concerned defacement of an artist’s work. A black-and-white, behind the scenes look at twenty-six exhibited works by Gardar Eide Einarsson, with conservators notes highlighting the damages and concerns of Einarsson’s paintings and sculptures.