bookish things & publications

Lagging behind somewhat but trying to catch up:

first of a double- death & destruction theme:

now available at this office and unibook ...

Here is a recent LJA - the extra inserted fifty-fity bus trip special.... after a lot of problems and technical headaches... but still acceptable

a rough version of the inteded one, which crashed blazing into the sea of oblivion and had to be reconstituted by memory or something akin... we're working on an alternative method and program to avoid these kinds of mishaps in future... and to facillitate more participation possibly? hé?

as always you can order it at unibook.com.... along with all the other stuff...

Nr. 3.2 infested with wrong-wrongs and miss takes and just plain silly slips...

shoddy workmanship and a lapse in editorial control... erratums & corrections in next issue...

also out & available: Deuxelles Mali report 'de boom spreekt' order with unibook.com or via gruzemayer

...with some dismay, constrenation but perhaps not entirely surproised to hear that the crew of

Het Andere Boek decide to call it a day after 33 years unsurpassed literary smorgasbord...

NIET MEER

( above an GvA article from 07, looking up with yers true..)

just a couple of years ago things were looking up again and a certain elan was to be felt... but not sustainable... too many changes in the landscape and

yes, time to slow down or shift gears for the tireless crew & their volunteers... 33 years is not nothing, and when you look at the pantheon of guests one may say

well deserved rest. - even so, it's with a slight tug of heart that we say goodbye...

(a bit of nostalgia: just found this in the archive- a poster produced by AK37 for HAB from 94...

something complete & different:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo7i9hskLQM

been off the boil for a while - busy with some geneological/archival collection , which is also quite an interesting part of the

general "recherches (e)aux submersibles" -

two workbooks produced early 2010 for development into an overview soon

Well, even though we're more or less still living in boxes, we had a stand at the thirty-third "Het Andere Boek" on October 3 & 4....(turned out to be the last)

poster, view of the stand - rep from amercian bookstore the haugue and M.Michiels (org HAB)....

Attempted to get another LJA/D out specially for the occasion but delivery was late, so the whole thing sort of got off to a bad start... it was a bit of a chancy affair to try and force through a new series before the time was ripe, and in fact the effort that went tinto it could have been spread more evenly and produced a better series - but then one has to keep on keeping on since ohterwise the continuation would be interruped and in fact the intention is to up the frequency rather than slow it down. Quality is an issue though under these circumstances. Due to the rather chaotic transition the plans for various 'review' publications are running late, there were two or even three projects that should have been completed by the end of the year, but will probably only be ready by the end of the year...

Rear View Review 3 as an insert if you like - a reworking of the 'icefishing' (abode) brochure (maybe a RVR#3bis will be made also)

as well as a co-prod-aside brochure to accompany the 'artdepot' project... (unibook)

The second series of LJA/D is underway, just out/in prod:

La Jeune Avrill /Due # 02.1 and LJA/D #02.2 (late for the fair)

what went on earlier this year -

managed to get the "La Jeune Avrill / Due # 01.2" (see also article below) out there by mid januari, and have begun distributing in a minor way, still not quite in the swing of things...

it can also be ordered direct from the printer-publisher at wwaow.com, or better now known as 'unibook' - just look for Bureau Gruzemayer

next (out march) is the first installment of the 'recherches (e)aux submersibles' (paris bleu 1) under the 'rear view review' title...

mention:

the 'tinhead' article in LJA/D #01.2 also appeared in the perf-publication by TEHDAS.ry for 0,00 euro:

also featuring frags by Dialogist-Kantor and a DDV-shot from 07 - furthermore an article by DM Mangelware in the catalogue

"La Moutarde de Kandinsky" (NOW is already gone) - Wout Vercammen / Van Lierde ed.

....... backtracks:

2008

(this following text prepared for/around Het Andere Boek - 4 & 5 october 2008)

Using the participation in the “Het Andere Boek”  book fair seemed like a good moment to offer an overview of what is happening on the publications-front. Though ‘Bureau Gruzemayer’ has not made much headway as of yet, the intention is to build on the tentative beginnings of various publication attempts in the past and to rationalize to some degree the chaotic approach which has defined these activities. “Bureau Gruzemayer” offered a mix of ‘fanmag’-type booklets, recent and relatively recent publications, the beginnings of new projects and multiple-type editions by associates…

above: DDV readying himself for the signing-session of the last remaining issues of the "Bastard Art Gruppe" overview, center Deuxelles and Dialogist Kantor-rep at the stand, right: Vered Ben-Kiki with the multilingual childeren's book...

  'editorial machinations....' march 08 - availible at de groene waterman & also at Posada & Passa Porta bxl

The main result of this year is the tentative chronology of the period 1986 to 1996, entitled “Redactionele Machinaties rondom een Inexistent revue Fifty-fifty tot en met AK-37” This is an attempt to create a subjective but useable view of the activities of the exhibition space ‘Inexistent’ and ‘AK-37’ by using the regular ‘editorial’ meetings and activities of the loose grouping called ‘fifty-fifty’… It is presented in the same format as the previous chronology (1996-2006) of the alternative artist-space ‘Factor 44’ from which ‘Bureau Gruzemayer’ emerged as a sort of spin-off…

The latter will also be available as well as the ‘fact-or’ production of “Memento Monica”, a collection of small reminders by friends for Monica Droste, who passed away now ten years hence.

 We will also be offering the last issues of a group-effort from late last year, the “Ultra Koninklijke Kusnt Revue” – a modified document from the former ICC (1970) which had been modified by thirty-odd artists and reconstituted as a ‘republication’ in the suite of ‘revisies’ undertaken by former F44 members. (there will also be a small selection of  ‘F44 imagazines’ still available)

the cover of the (re) modified icc brochure, some 31 artists, a multiple of 100 at 24 euros each.

We take this opportunity to also re-engage in a former activity concerning relatively regular publications. For this we have chosen to re-launch the former occasional paper called “La Jeune Avrill” which has had a varied existence since it’s inception at the first fifty-fifty-show in 1988… For the moment we shall keep it simple, much in the tradition of the original cut & paste booklets, but are planning to consider various possibilities including on-line publication…

the original cover of LJA,   the second cover, used occasionally now as a precusor 'due' issue

Speaking of which: we have, if all goes well, the first of a series called “Rear View Review”, also a resurrection of the former ‘fac simili’ and/or “revevue” – this series will in the first instance be busy with the re-packaging of handmade publications from the past that were available only as short-run brochures or pamphlets…

  the old and new "rear view review'

Further we will have some material presented by associates, as in the past they will be announced only shortly before the book fair, and will probably comprise handmade books, multiple and/or special editions…. More on that soon.

Deuxelles editions, including the most recent 'Engelenval'

there will be some additional material by associates, among whic DVV will come to present the last remaining issue of the

special Bastard-Art publication "Bastard Art Gruppe - Texte und Materialien zur Geschichte der BAG"

and also throwback-defunct issues from the files... all part of the review series

and lots more