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BANI ABIDI
The Speech Writer
A fictional “documentary” presented in the form of ten flip books in a beautiful slipcase, this evocative artist’s book tells the story of a retired political speech writer. Surrounded by memories, his connection with the outside world takes the form of a daily broadcast from within his home. This is no podcast: passersby see a perplexing array of loudspeakers wired to the outside of his house, and perhaps stop to listen for a few moments each day. From Sri Lankan publisher Raking Leaves, this story addresses issues of repression and free expression, and how political power and human desires meet.
700 pp / full color
ISBN: 978-0-9556674-4-2
Retail Price: $65.00
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DAN ARPS
Affirmation Dungeon
A common man’s Jeff Koons, Dan Arps is a major world artist based in New Zealand, and this huge exhibition catalog is the most important book yet on his work. Arps is an installation artist known for making spaces – dystopic, uncomfortable, decrepit, paranoid, aspirational – that exist in their own reality. Influenced by James Joyce’s concept of the epiphany of daily life, Arps creates obsessively complete environments out of humble and rejected materials. Like Fluxus and Pop artists, he transforms these materials into installations like the “affirmation dungeon,” and other highly detailed, perceptive commentaries on social expectations and the alchemy of empty spaces. Also featured are insightful essays by Dan Arps, Jon Bywater, Matthew Hyland and Narelle Pathways.
9.25 x 8.25 inches / 340 pp / 320 b/w and 295 color
ISBN: 978-0-9864628-9-4
Retail Price: $59.95
MICHAEL LETT, NEW ZEALAND