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Here Boekie Woekie announces events it hosts or takes part in:Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson will launch his new book The End Is Near with a variation on his performance "The Death Show".
Previous versions of this show were to be seen at W139 in Amsterdam and at Cricoteka as part of the exhibition "Radical Languages" in Krakow, Poland.
Come this Saturday, Feb.23rd, 2013 at 5 pm to Boekie Woekie!
Styrmir will
play with real
objects, made-up
stories and vivid
memories. His
book refers to
theories
by some
heavyweight
philosophers as
well as to thick
books on medical
and psychological
studies. However,
it is the objects
of the artist's
domestic sphere
that play the main
role in letting
him realize the
imminence of the
subject of his
book.
Styrmir
deals in his book
with several
reflections on
death for which he
uses different
ways of
storytelling. During
"The Death Show"
he will conduct a
tour through the
pages of the book
and demonstrate
how it wasn’t
until a
near-death-experience
through a leaking
gas-boiler, the
artist's only
source of water,
that he realized
that the end is
near.
We have a sad reason to have a good time: please join us Sunday Feb.17th, 2013 at 5 for a glass on Les Coleman.
Les is no more.
There will be 7
screen prints on the wall and 3
of his 4 latest books will be on
the table.
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Boekie Woekie will be present with new and old books and a selection of Icelandic titles
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Now on show at Boekie
Woekie
Martyn Last
with
the results of the
The Dieter Roth
Academy
Examination Corner
2009
Stuttgart Germany
&
The Dieter Roth
Academy
Examination Box 2012
Aarhus Denmark
Exhibition open:
02-11 until 25-11-2012
Jan Voss being
examined in Aarhus
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Boekie Woekie at the
New York Art Book Fair 2012
Boekie Woekie
participates again with new and old
publications
in the New York Art
Book Fair (www.nyartbookfair.com).
Come on Friday
September 28 between 12–7 pm,
or on Saturday,
September 29, between 11 am–9 pm,
or on Sunday, September
30, 11 am–7 pm
to MoMA PS1, 22-25
Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, NY.
Free entrance!
We are looking forward
to see you at the Boekie Woekie
table
(on the floor plan that
is K01)!
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Facebook of 99 New Friends
at Aðalheiður Eysteinsdóttir's new Galeri Kompan in AlÞ
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HEROES OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION
by Jesper Fabricius will open in Boekie Woekie on Saturday 9th of June, 2012 at 5 pm.
My show "Heroes of the Sexual Revolution" will be made of small cut-out portraits of people from Danish porn magazines from the seventies. All these portraits of anonymous people will be placed in Capsule Gallery in a long row. The liberation of picture pornography in Denmark 1969 was a part of the sexual revolution in North America and Europe. The invention of the pill moved events in this direction together with the rise of hippie culture. It became a revolt against bourgeois hypocrisy and sexual suppression. Part of the hippie movement went political in the seventies, like RAF in West Germany and Brigate Rosso in Italy. They also had their heroes. I think these movements are all rooted in older utopian ideas from the beginning of the century like the Esperanto movement, the vegetarians, the German Freikörper culture (nudists) etc. Communism/Marxism was such an utopian movement. The hole modern or modernist world is built on these ideas. Our minds are Modernism and that language is the house we live in.
This text is taken from the catalogue in Ljubljana.
Best wishes
Jesper
Together with the opening of the exhibition issue 22 of "Het Andre Behr Pamflet" will be launched: alliance between the images and their meaning. Jesper Fabricius has not only cut out more heads but also sentences.
rue de la Truite 4 bis
1205 Genève!
"Safnasafnið - The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum"
But if you visit there now, you'll also have the opportunity to see an exhibition of the 3 of Boekie Woekie: Henriëtte van Egten, Rúna Thorkelsdóttir and Jan Voss!
Safnasafnið | Svalbarðsströnd | 601 Akureyri | Sími/Tel: 461 4066 | www.safnasafid.is
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Blauwe Diamanten, Zwarte Zielen
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Rúna Thorkelsdóttir of Boekie Woekie exhibits at Galerie Kees van Gelder
"Changing Still
Lives"
Galerie Van Gelder
- Planciusstraat 7 - Amsterdam
18.2.-21.3.2012
open Tuesday till
Saturday from 1-6 pm
opening 18.2. from 5 to 7
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Writing
Lecture, performed by Toine Horvers on
Saturday 14.01.2012 5
pm
Toine Horvers wrote
a text in which he gave a detailed
description of the act of hand
writing: what happens exactly when
writing a text with a fountain pen,
how does the writing develop on the
sheet, what sounds arise from the
movements of the pen, and so on. It
resulted in 7 A4 sheets.
He performs this text for an audience:
while writing he pronounces the words
in an elongated way.
For a publication
of this work, an edition by Christoph
Daviet in Paris, the A4 sheets were
scanned and printed and brought
together in a folder in an edition of
75 copies.
On Saturday the
14th of January he will perform the
text in the back-space of Boekie
Woekie. Duration 40 minutes.
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Dear visitor,
have a happy New Year!
The waiter comes, with another New Beer!
Wasn’t the road long and dusty down here?
We gladly accept and accept again
to empty those glasses which form a chain.
They seam as milestones our long road,
Two thousand eleven, the latest quote.
And now one more, another New Beer!
Don’t ever we get enough down here?
This is the last one, but then one more?
Till we are drunk and thrown out the door!
Cheers from
Henriëtte van Egten, Rúna Thorkelsdóttir, Jan Voss
ps
At 5pm on Friday the 30th of Dec. 2011 Henriëtte van Egten opens on the last remaining white wall of Boekie Woekie’s backroom an exhibition of 24 collages she made earlier this and last year. Come if you can!
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Join us in Boekie Woekie on Tuesday, Dec. 6th, at 4 and help us prepare the launch of a cloud made in the form of a paper balloon!
This will complete the last chapter of the book Paper Clouds. The project started five years ago in Mexico. It has been
presented in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and comes now to Amsterdam's Boekie Woekie.
We need your collaboration with love poems, thoughts or drawings to fill up the paper cloud!
Adapted by Martha Hellion from The Cloud Messenger/Meghaduta, a lyric love poem by Kalidasa, the Indian Sanskrit poet
of the 5th century, the book will be formed by a photographic register of the events in all the places where they have been
performed, highlighting the imprint of the collective work of friends, some times even the failure of sending the cloud to
the sky because of weather conditions. Those remaining clouds will be shown at the presentation of the book in Buenos
Aires.
The book will be printed in polimer/photoetching on hand made paper in a limited edition of 30 copies, 25 bound in soft
cover/linen envelope and 5 numbered from I to V bound in natural leather envelope.
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It's time for the 2011 SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR London.
Trashtown Magazine
# 40
is out and will be presented on
Saturday Nov.5, 2011,
at 5 pm by its editor Nico
Lootsma with the
performance Parlare!
Free bank note for the first 7
visitors (Trashtown
$$!).
Exhibition till Nov. 12.
You wonder what it is you see here?
Look Boekie Woekie up at the New York Art Book Fair!
The NY Art Book Fair 2011 at MoMA
PS1 30 September - 2 October Preview
29 september
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Boekie
Woekie
spreads the announcement further and
encourages you to follow the
invitation of De Kring, one of
Amsterdam’s artists’ societies which
run a down town bar and restaurant.
Until
September
3rd 2011 thirty of our drawn-on,
photographically enlarged and
laminated beer mats will be on
display – and for sale – there. We
are looking forward to Cralan
Kelder’s opening words on Saturday,
July the 23rd at 6. If you can,
come. We can't imagine it to be
anything else but fun.
Henriëtte,
Rúna
(still in absentia) and Jan
UITNODIGING
placemats en bierviltjes
Henriëtte van Egten / Jan Voss / Rúna Thorkeldóttir
i.s.m. Boekie Woekie
opening expositie
zaterdag
23 juli 2011 om 18.00 uur
Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen
7-9
1017
rp Amsterdam
tel. 020 62
36 985/fax 020 62 32 777
info@kring.nl/ www.kring.nl
Beste,
In
de zomermaanden heeft de expositie
van Sociëteit De Kring een zomers
tintje: namelijk sterk uitvergrote
bierviltjes, betekend door
kunstenaars van naam in de
sociëteit en placemats, ontworpen
door diverse creatieve Kringleden
in het Kringrestaurant.
Kunstenaarsboekwinkel Boekie
Woekie wordt al jaren door
kunstenaars Henriëtte van
Egten, Rúna
Thorkeldóttir
en
Jan Voss gerund. De tafel achterin
is dan ook de startplek van vele
bierviltkunstwerken geweest.
De
groot gemaakte tekeningen op
bierviltjes tonen (doordat ze
groot gemaakt zijn nog
duidelijker) de moeite, of ook de
onhandigheid, van het
ontstaansproces van de originele,
kleine tekeningen op de originele,
kleine, bierviltjes. Het zijn
éénhandstekeningen, de andere hand
van de tekenaars is immers bezig
het bierglas omhoog te houden.
Omdat de kleine, lichte
bierviltjes onder het betekend
worden ook nog makkelijk heen en
weer schuiven, is er sprake van
een sterk verminderde kans dat de
tekeningen tonen, wat de tekenaar
bedoeld zou kunnen hebben. Ze
bieden de kijker dus alle denkbaar
mogelijke ruimte om er in te zien
wat men erin wil zien.
Voor de grote
Kring-placemat-voor-in-het-restaurant-expositie
nodigde de kunstcommissie alle
creatieve Kringleden uit om hun
idee voor de Kringplacemat in te
zenden. De ontwerpen worden door
vakjury en publiek beoordeeld. De
prijswinnaars worden op de
finissage, zaterdag 3 september,
bekend gemaakt.
De
Kringexpositie
is van zaterdag 23 juli- zaterdag
3 september
Niet-leden kunnen de
tentoonstelling bezoeken op
maandag t/m vrijdag
van 16.00 - 19.00 uur en op
afspraak.
Programmeur
en
relatiebeheer
Aanwezig op dinsdag-woensdag en
donderdag
sociëteit de kring
kleine
gartmanplantsoen
7-9
1017 rp
www.kring.nl
de clubup
korte
leidsedwarsstraat
26-I
1017
rc amsterdam
www.clubup.nl
We have the pleasure to have Rainer Pretzell among us. For many with an interest in art and literature the books of Rainer Verlag belong to the highlights of the years between 1966 and 1995. We have to thank him for beautiful books by Emmett Williams and Ann Noël, Friederike Mayröcker, Gerhard Rühm, Dominik Steiger, Joe Jones, Helmut Eisendle, H.C. Artmann, Gennadij Ajgi and certainly Dieter Roth to name just a few.
Rainer will be in Boekie Woekie on Saturday, July 9th 2011. From 5 pm on he'll tell his story in a conversation with Jan Voss and answer your possible questions. Please do come!
Hettie, Rúna (in absentia) and Jan
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Though what we do can hardly be called "we are coming" (haven't we arrived 25 years ago?) ,
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Environmental Recordings
- a collection of new
books by Brown Sierra -
Please come to Boekie Woekie on Saturday the 12th of March at 5 and listen to the performance of Pia Gambardella and Paddy Collins.
Pia Gambardella & Paddy Collins are a London based collective. Both are artists who have developed an interest and have worked in the field of sound art, artist books, performance and installation. Brown Sierra continue to map and record their environment in the form of collecting materials that can be bound into hard bound single edition books. The books developed from our work and interest with mapping and environmental recordings, collecting and reusing. Creating new approaches to making environmental recordings. Using found tape, parallax recording, (each making a mono recording simultaneously, varying our location through distance and movement.), using telephone boxes as fixed point microphones, and sound mapping. We are interested in the geography of a place, mapping areas, looking at local estates, parks, road networks, bus stops, park benches. towns, boroughs, wards. The structure of the area. from how government works to what chip shops sell. Collecting leaflets from libraries, hospitals, shops, general practitioners, picking up the local litter that we find on route. Collecting material in varying states of decay, finding paper sacks out side greengrocers or health advice in the chemist. This we collect, sort, collate, consider, categorise, sometimes paint, and then mix. The signatures are carefully arranged into sequential cut ups through the process of book binding, the way they relate to each other is controlled by how we categories the type of material going into the book. Books made from maps, cut up and rebound creating new geographies, sometimes mixing cities and countries, others towns and streets. Collections of menus or litter pertaining to a particular faith or in a particular language. Books of lost dog posters, or paper bags, instruction leaflets, public information sign, children's drawings. Other books are paper collected in one day, or in one place, or collected over a weekend or collected on one walk, between specific places made over several journeys. The books are documents or micro archives of how local environments are being used. These arrangements can create unexpected and poignant new meanings.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The show's title is "Leute, hängt die Bilder ab, sonst machen noch die Nägel schlapp!" (Hey folks, take the pictures down before the nails give up!) The photograph above is a shot from the exhibition and shows copies of two multiples: "Venus of Willendorf wears her mini-skirt" and "Erdnuss" which in this case translates only insufficiently into English as "peanut". On the occasion of this exhibition appears volume 13 of Het Andre Behr Pamflet. It contains, besides images which are and which are not on display in the show, a poem and two brief essays.
Jan Voss, Germany 1945, lives in Holland and is the editor of the growing series of Het Andre Behr Pamflet. He has exhibited widely and is one of the founding members of Boekie Woekie.
The show will be up from March 5th till April 15th 2003. You find the gallery at Zwinglistrasse 36 (backyard) in CH 8004 Zurich. Opening times: Tuesdays to Fridays from 12 to 6.30, Saturdays from 12 to 4. Go also to www.marlenefrei.com.
Simultaneously Galerie Marlene Frei shows an exhibition of works by Emmett Williams.
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Please join
us Saturday,
December 11 at 5
pm for a reading of
Andrew’s new
anagrams and – with
a little bit of luck
– for the
presentation of Het
Andre Behr
Pamflet 14
which will contain
these
texts.
 Photo: Marnie Blair Andrew McLaren
is a Canadian visual
and media artist, also
active in
self-publishing over
the past ten years.
Working mainly in the
area of maps, number
systems and language
games, his new work
for Boekie Woekie is a
series of anagrams,
written during a
recent visit to
London. Are Sponsible
Use of Language is #14
in the Andre Behr
Pamflet series.
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Amsterdam: as usual, seven days a week from 12 to 6
New York: temporarily (NYABF Nov. 5-7, 2010)
London: temporarily (Small Publisher's Fair, Nov. 12+13, 2010)
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Invited by and together with Fredie Beckmans, Roland Berning, Bülent Evren, Martyn Last, Joseph Semah, Yvonne Strang, Cigdem Turek, Elaine Vis and Henk Wijnen/Jockel Heenes, Jan Voss of Boekie Woekie will set up an art exhibition in Schijndel, southeast of s'Hertogenbosch. There is a theme, in Dutch "Samenbundelingen", probably "bundles" in English. This is how Jan Voss announces his contribution in the catalogue booklet for the show:
Here a shortened English version of the Dutch text: The new bundle by J.V. appears as a multiple. Since a well written sentence, wrongly read, turns to nonsense, there will take place at the exhibition opening a performance of the play "basket ball in the fabrication hall of the sentence (or should it be: sense?) factory" . The resulting waste paper basket, filled with written on but crumpled up A4 sheets, will be the first in a series.
The exhibition opens on Saturday, Sept. 11th, 2010 at 4 pm at the Cultureel Centrum 't Spectrum, Steeg 9, in 5482 Schijndel.
It stays open till Oct.23rd and can be visited from Monday till Friday from 10-20 and on Saturdays from 10-13.
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MISS READ
September 3 - 5,
2010
Opening hours:
Friday, September 3, 3 - 7
pm, Saturday, September 4,
noon - 7 pm, Sunday,
September 5, noon - 7 pm
KW Institute for
Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69
10117 Berlin
www.kw-berlin.de
MISS READ
invited international
publishers to show
their Artist Books.
documentation céline duval, Houlgate, Edie Fake, Chicago, Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich, Erik Steinbrecher, Berlin, Eva Weinmayr, London, Fucking Good Art, Rotterdam, GAGARIN, Antwerp, GRAPHIC, Seoul, Half Letter Press/Temporary Services, Chicago, mediabus, Seoul, Michael Baers, Berlin, Michalis Pichler/"greatest hits", Berlin, Mladen Stilinović, Zagreb, Mörel Books, London, no press/derek beaulieu, Calgary, Piktogram/Bureau of Loose Associations, Warsaw, Regency Arts Press Ltd., New York, Revolver Publishing, Berlin, Roma Publications, Amsterdam, Samandal, Beirut, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, Spector Books, Leipzig, Sternberg Press, Berlin/New York, The Green Box, Berlin, Torpedo Press, Oslo, Ugly Duckling Presse, New York, umool umool, Amsterdam/Seoul,
(un)limited store, Marseille, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, Weproductions, Yarrow, Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., Ljubljana, ZINE'S MATE, Tokyo
For the second time MISS
READ has invited
international publishers
and artists to show
their artist books at KW
Institute for
Contemporary Art in
Berlin. Presenting a
selection of more than
40 of the most active
contributors in this
field, the festival
provides the rare
opportunity to encounter
and explore the
contemporary scene of
independent publishing.
MISS READ will be
accompanied by a series
of lectures,
performances and talks
by artists, publishers,
and graphic designers
taking place on
September 4, 2 - 6 pm,
and September 5, 2 - 4
pm. All events run
hourly and take a
distinct artistic
practice or individual
approach towards
publishing as a starting
point to experience the
great diversity of
contemporary artist
books productions. Among
others, participants
include Brett
Bloom (Half Letter
Press/ Temporary
Services, Chicago),
Achim
Lengerer (Scriptings,
Amsterdam), Jeff
Khonsary
(Filip,
Vancouver),
Zak Kyes (London)
and Eva Weinmayr (London). The
program is
co-curated by
Christoph Keller.
MISS READ is a
collaboration
of KW
Institute for
Contemporary
Art and the
Berlin based
publishers argobooks
and Michalis
Pichler.
Project
management: Anke
Schleper.
The festival is
co-financed by
the European
Union (European
Fund for
Regional
Development.
Investing in
Your Future.)
Joint Event in
Berlin:
UNTER DEM MOTTO
2010
September
03 - 05, 2010
Organized
by MOTTO BERLIN &
CHERT GALLERY
Skalitzer Str. 68,
D-10997 Berlin
www.mottodistribution.com
www.chert-berlin.com
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Come
now and see them at work, but be
sure to be here Saturday the 14th
of August 2010, around 4!
Joanna
Adamczewska / Tomasz Wilmanski
“Mandala for
Boekie Woekie”
Mandala (sanskrit
Tibetan kyil khor, "circle"
"completion"); refers to sacred
geometric device commonly used in
the religious practice of Hinduism
and Tibetan Buddhism, which serves
several religious purposes including
establishing a sacred space and as
an aid to meditation and trance
induction, focusing attention of
aspirants and adepts, an abode of a
Buddha or bodhisattva, a symbolic
map of the universe and pathway to
liberation. Mandala has become a
generic term for any plan, chart or
geometric pattern that represents
the cosmos metaphysically or
symbolically, a microcosm of the
Universe from the human perspective.
Its symbolic nature can help one "to
access progressively deeper levels
of the unconscious, ultimately
assisting the meditator to
experience a mystical sense of
oneness with the ultimate unity from
which the cosmos in all its manifold
forms arises." The psychoanalyst
Carl Jung saw the mandala as "a
representation of the unconscious
self" and believed his paintings of
mandalas enabled him to identify
emotional disorders and work towards
wholeness in personality.
http://free.art.pl/at/pl/ang/art_adamczewska.htm
http://free.art.pl/wilmanski/
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Please join
us Friday July 9, 2010, at 4:00
PM for the book launch of Brad
Freeman’s new artist’s book
WRONG SIZE FITS ALL: a book of
miracles & mishaps.
Offset
printed in quad tones, CMYK, and
secret sauce by the artist –
also hand bound by BF. 90 copies
signed and numbered, EUR 175.-
// »Ein neuer Raum des Buches«, ging es ihr durch den Kopf. »Wie viele Buchläden es wohl gab in Amsterdam?« Der Gedanke faszinierte sie. Sie mochte es, durch Buchläden zu streifen – es reizte sie, diese Welten zu entdecken. Sie bewunderte die Unmenge an Geschichten, Ideen und Phantasien, die Menschen bedenken und zu Papier bringen konnten. Manchmal stellte sie sich dann vor, dass eine ihrer eigenen Geschichten zwischen all diesen Büchern stand.//
// ‘A new room
for books,’ she realised. ‘How
many bookstores were there already
in
Der
Raum des Buches- a project by
Thekla Ahrens
It is done!
You are dearly
invited to the presentation of my
new work Der Raum
des Buches
on Monday,
July 5, 2010
at 5pm
at BoekieWoekie,
Berenstraat
16,
followed by my
graduation
show at the
Hope to see
you there and celebrate!
Thekla
www.derraumdesbuches.blogspot.com
SUNDAY MAY 23RD 15.30 COME IF YOU CAN
***Cordial Invitation to
ALEKSANDAR KOLENC (München)
GÜNTHER ROST (Hamburg)
ANDREA TIPPEL (Berlin)
JAN VOSS (Amsterdam)
OHNE ZEICHNUNG IST NICHTS UND ZWAR FÜR KEINEN
Eröffnung am Freitag, den 09. April 2010 um 19 Uhr
Opening Friday, April 9th 2010, 19h
Am Freitag, den 9. April öffnen zudem elf weitere Galerien rund um das
Kontorhausviertel von 19 - 23 Uhr ihre Türen.
On this night collective spring-opening of the Kontorhaus Galleries 7 - 11pm.
Ausstellungsdauer: 10. April - 21. Mai 2010
Duration: April 10th - May 21st 2010
GALERIE MELIKE BILIR
Klosterwall 4
D-20095 Hamburg
Tel.: + 49.40.38665677
Mobil: + 49.172.7165776
Please come on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 around 5pm.
Tom Wasmuth is a writer and an artist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife Ann Patterson and his dog Jolie. Tom Bodean is a music maker who travels the world and hangs with his friends. He requires only a bed, table and chair (and strong nerves of the host). Hot showers and home cooking appreciated but not mandatory.
Free Jazz fans will enjoy his 4am pot and pan concerts when cooking.
For more information see the Tom Wasmuth web site or for Tom Bodean see Swampy Tonk Productions.
CERAMICS by NINI TANG.
The
exhibition will be up until Jan.
6th 2010.
If you happen to want to follow the activities Boekie Woekie is involved in on Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th and Sunday the 15th of November you'll have to begin with visiting our table in London at Conway Hall at the SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR on that Friday at 11 am when the fair opens and have Les and Jo show you what's new but don't spend too much time with them, hurry to Amsterdam and say hi and good bye to Hettie who'll take care that day of BOEKIE WOEKIE from were you'll speed without delay to Bremen to cast a glance into the ART SALON at Museum Weserburg, the Art Salon is the book market of the Research Centre for Artists' Publications where Marc and Claudia will be present in the name of your favorite bookshop that day, but don't loose yourself in what you see, just hurry on to Stuttgart, no, to Ostfildern, and be at 7 at OTTERBECK ARCHITEKTEN where you'll meet me and others of the Dieter Roth Academy who on the occasion of the 10th DRA conference will then be opening an exhibition of their works.
See that you find a bed because you'll have to come the next day, on Saturday the 14th, at 2, to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart where the "Dieter Roth Souvenirs"-exhibition will be opened which the DRA has instigated. Besides the exhibition that day: speeches (of which one by me) and films. And if you care to pause a little longer, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart will hold public talks on various aspects related to Dieter Roth on Sunday the 15th, parallel to their part of the "Dieter Roth Souvenirs" exhibition.
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TRASH TOWN MAGAZINE.
Don’t
miss
this and come to Boekie Woekie
Saturday, Oct. 17th 2009 at 5.
The
exhibition
will be up for one week.
NOËL
Published by Edizione
Francesco Conz in
288 pages, 24 x
Ann
Noël and Boekie Woekie are looking
forward to see you Saturday,
October 10th, around 5.
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Woekie
will drag itself to the New York Art Book Fair to
rejuvenate
by shedding the weight!
We expect to soon be back in
this:
Is your interest kindled? Please look up www.nyartbookfair.com. Come for a visit!
During the days of the Fair it will be business as
usual at
Boekie Woekie Amsterdam.
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Boekie Woekie
invites for a (short) solo
concert!
Anton Bruhin
will play the
Jew’s harp on Monday, September
28th, beginning at 5pm.
Anton Bruhin is a
painter and free-lance artist.
Rather by chance, he began playing
the Jew’s harp in the late
sixties. His interest in the
instrument caused him to travel
around the world to meet other
Jew’s harp players. He is in
contact with the Jew’s harp Centre
in Anton Bruhin,
author of several books, has
released more than 15 CDs as a
musician. To name a few,
UR-Musig, Terra Amphibia CD
(with Mani Neumeier) and
Electric Eel CD at John Zorn´s
Tzadik (with Koichi Makigami). Cinema movie: "Trümpi
- Anton Bruhin, der
Maultrommler" by Iwan Schumacher
70 min. Ventura Film.
Jan Voss of Boekie Woekie
will tell those interested all he can in half an hour beginning at 17:30 on Saturday Sept. 5th about our take on artists' books. This will happen in the context of the "Artist's Book Salon" at the International Centre of Graphic Arts, (Tivoli Mansion, Ljubljana).
Talks programme that Saturday: 4:00 p.m. Darko Šimčić: The Artists' Magazines Gorgona and Maj 75 4:30 p.m. the art group Chto Delat (Dmitry Vilensky), (from Russia) 5:00 p.m. the art group Bas/BENT (from Turkey) 5:30 p.m. Jan Voss: the (online) bookstore Boekie Woekie.
admission free
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Boekie Woekie invites for the opening of an exhibition by
Michael Gibbs
"Your library is your portrait"
- Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948), British journalist, writer, publisher and bibliophile
Please come this Saturday, August 15th, 2009 around 5pm. If you can't make it, the show will be up till the end of September.
In 1978 Michael Gibbs made a handwritten version of his entire library as it existed at the time, under the title "Ex Libris"
Coming Saturday, August 8th, 2009, at 5pm “Square One deluxe”, the new book by Jan Voss will be presented by Galerie und Edition Marlene Frei, Zwinglistr. 36, CH 8004 Zürich.
The book is the special edition of
Voss, Jan
Square One
the rhyming description of a(n imaginary) speedy journey: one line of a long poem in English on each page, soft cover, 228 not numbered pages, 14,5 x 10,5 cm, ed/160, Amsterdam 2008
EUR 15,00
and contains on each of its 246 pages one line of the rhyming text reporting a zigzag journey around the globe and through outer space. Forty footnotes (each with a picture) amend the text. An observant reader may recognize the footnotes as the text, now translated into English, J.V. wrote for last year's catalogue of his small retrospective exhibition “40 Jahre, 40 Arbeiten” (40 years, 40 works) held at Galerie Marlene Frei.
The hard cover book, produced and published by Boekie Woekie, is laser printed in a signed edition of 30 copies (plus 5 artist proofs). Its size is approximately Din A4, but each folded dust jacket is a different original signed paint work and measures unfolded 98 x 74 cm.
The book includes a DVD filmed and processed by Iwan Schumacher which documents that retrospective exhibition and renders the reading by J.V. of the earlier version of Square One.
This is how the book and its unfolded dust jackets look like. (The dust jacket is relatively more diminished in size than the book.) In Zürich it is for sale for CHF 600.- plus sales tax and in Amsterdam at Boekie Woekie for EUR 420.- (tax included).
Yvette Jansen
presents her collages with watches.
She will also
present her new book of (watch) collages:
the normal and the special edition of “Watch
It”
plus original
collages will be on display.
Watch
it!
13 reproduced collages,
hard cover, 16 pages, 10,5 x
If you can’t make
it for the opening, the exhibition will at
least be up till August 9th.
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Rick
Myers
presents his work at Boekie Woekie – please
come!
Make use of the
opportunity Saturday (June 13th around 4pm) to
see what else Rick has up his sleeve
besides his
(desperation born?) “bite marks in paper” we
know him for.
He says there will be 2
new print portfolios and other titles.
The one portfolio is Before and
After Breath
A suite of five prints, resulting
from pre 1908 carbon, and circa 2008 tungsten
filament light bulbs,
stamped on carbon paper, with a
fifty ton industrial press.
And the other portfolio
is Itself
A suite of eight digital prints,
documenting a removal of carbon black
xerographic toner,
then re-used for its reproduction.
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Come
to
the
Prague Revue extravaganza in
this
Saturday,
May
2nd at 4.
* this line is by Cralan Kelder
copies for sale as well as editors and contributors readings from Issue 8.
http://www.thepraguerevue.com
Editors:
Max Munson
Stephan Delbos
Contributor:
Mark Terrill
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Boekie
Woekie
invites you to be present at the opening of an
installation
by Guðrún Hrönn Ragnarsdóttir.
Please join us for this occasion
around 4pm on Saturday, February 21st, 2009!
If
you can’t make it for the opening, the exhibition
will be up till March 25th.
“... have through the times used the camera (photo and video) in order
to observe and sketch everyday man-made environments, that one
normally just sees out of the corner of one’s eye or doesn’t observe
at all. The commonplace things provoke my attention because of
nostalgia, colour, form or because they seem to be strange or even
funny. On my trips I take photos and use my video camera to document
the environment I am visiting. In recent years I have been travelling
in the Baltic Countries and Russia observing with my camera objects
catching my attention. Even though the things I am documenting may be
well known from our own environments, they are put out in a different
way and that’s why they make me wonder, and I want to have a closer
look.
They seem to me both strange and beautiful.”
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Boekie
Woekie
invites you to be present at the opening of an
exhibition of sheep head sculptures, a video and
drawings
by
Aðalheiður S. Eysteinsdóttir.
Please join us for this
occasion around 4pm on Saturday, January 24th,
2009!
If
you can't make it for the opening, the
exhibition will be up till February 18th.
Réttardagur
In
Boekie Woekie I exhibit a few sheep head
sculptures, a video and drawings. All in the
spirit of the tradition of the month of þorri
which is now and when we Icelanders eat smoked
and sour lamb meat.
Aðalheiður
S. Eysteinsdóttir
If you can, please join us on Saturday, December 13th around 5pm.
You ’ll be rewarded (if that is the right term) with a reading by Jan Voss of his rhyming text “Square One” directly broadcast to Boekie Woekie from his hiding place in the North of Iceland and beamed to the wall (technology permitting). Works of the authors will be on the walls.
If you can’t come, you still can order what may interest you.
Green, Malcolm
Must Illusions Always Give Birth To More Illusions?
these 7 images with text are a research into the paradoxical, spiral bound, 20 not numbered pages, 15 x 10,5 cm, numbered/75, (Heidelberg) 2006
EUR 11,00
Last, Martyn
Found & Lost
with text contributions by 14 losers found by M.L. and 22 drawings lost by M.L., the “losers” are Guy Brett, Max van Egmond, Bert Jansen, Joe, Lillian Lijn, Mike Martel, David Medalla, Jonathan Parsons, Alex Sainsbury, Richard Salmon, Joseph Semah, Ben Vautier, Jan Voss, Zor2many, soft cover, 84 pages, 20,5 x 15 cm, in an edition of “not too many copies”, Amsterdam 2008
EUR 18,00
(Roth, Dieter)
Dieter Roth’s Last Reading Die Letzte Lesung
published in 2003 as a German spoken video tape this DVD version has a remastered sound and can now be watched with either German or English subtitles, playing time about 45 min., the book with a foreword and notes on the poems and texts by Malcolm Green contains a transcription of the improvised as well as the read text, soft cover, 44 pages, 21 x 15 cm, Heidelberg Amsterdam 2008
EUR 35,00
Voss, Jan
Square One
the rhyming description of a(n imaginary) speedy journey: one line of a long poem in English on each page, soft cover, 228 not numbered pages, 14,5 x 10,5 cm, ed/160, Amsterdam 2008
EUR 15,00
Hope to see you at Boekie Woekie
for Perro Verlag’s Hell Passports book launch
and exhibition!
Please join us for the launch of
Perro Verlag's Hell Passport Project box set,
a 24 volume set of visual art chapbooks by 24
Canadian artists on Saturday
November
1st, around 4pm.
On the occasion of the launch at
Boekie Woekie the artists in the Hell Passport
Project will be exhibiting their work in the
Boekie Woekie back room Gallery. Artists in
the series: derek beaulieu, Lisa Cinar, Mark
Connery, Rebecca Dolen, Brandy Fedoruk, Julia
Feyrer, Emily Goodden, Roy Green, Sally
Ireland, Ben L. Jacques, Collin Johanson,
Donato Mancini, Billy Mavreas, Wesley Mulvin,
Robert Pedersen, Guinevere Pencarrick, Owen
Plummer, Terry Plummer, Fiona Smyth, Scheisse
Wives, Colin Upton, Ed Varney, Julie Voyce and
James Whitman.
The exhibition will be on display
till the 3rd of December.
Boekie Woekie goes to
Small Publishers Fair.
For readings and events programme and the other participants see: www.rgap.co.uk
The image above
depicts a moment of the fair at the Boekie Woekie
stall 2 years ago. The dog said he needed a few
books to chew them up und no, he wouldn't have the
time for a beer.
Boekie Woekie proudly lets everyone know that our own
RÚNA is just back from Paris
where she watched the presentation of
TAO of the fashion house COMME DES GARCONS.
It was their suggestion to those who care what they wear for the summer of next year.
And why did Rúna watch it?
13 of her flower images were used by Tao for her fashion show.
pictures from www.style.com
Most of the images which decorate the fabrics the girls above wear are from Rúna's book "Paperflowers", of which an altered reprint is available. Click on the left "BOOKS A-Z", then "T" and scroll to Thorkelsdóttir, Rúna Paperflowers Too .
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not noisy enough
for the police to come
by Kommissar Hjuler
und Frau from Flensburg
will take place in
Boekie Woekie’s back room on
Friday, September 19th, at
6pm!
Remko Scha and Jochem
van der Spek:
Drawing Machines /
Machine Drawings
Boekie Woekie
Berenstraat
16
NL
1016 GH Amsterdam
September
6 - October 8
You are cordially invited
for the opening reception
on Saturday September 6,
from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m.
This exhibition explores the gestural dimension of automatic image generation. Mechanical drawings created by Remko Scha's 1983 project "The Machines" are juxtaposed with output of Jochem van der Spek's recent computer simulations of 3D drawing motions.
Jochem van der Spek: http://dynamica.org
The Machines: http://iaaa.nl/machinedrawings.html
Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei,
40 works from 40 years by Jan Voss
On the occasion of "Tour de Trance: 40 Jahre 40 Arbeiten" a catalogue appears. It contains an introduction and brief (German) texts reflecting on each of the 40 exhibited pieces. Text and design by Jan Voss. The catalogue describes Boekie Woekie as the main work and the show features, as a substitute for the real thing, Boekie Woekie's visiting card. The catalogue, close to Din A5 in size, consists of 27 printed pages of which 12 with text and 14 with 45 reproductions of works in colour. There are 100 signed and numbered copies. They can be ordered from Marlene Frei's gallery or Boekie Woekie.
Jan Voss,
Simultaneously
Galerie Marlene Frei shows an exhibition of
photographs by Thomas Kapielski.
visits Boekie Woekie on Wednesday August 20th from 12 to 5!
( see also www.itinerantpoetrylibrarian.blogspot.com )
Boekie
Woekie invites you to be present at the opening of
an exhibition of 14 new pictures.
They
were collaged, drawn and painted during 8 nights
by
Henriëtte van Egten.
Please join us for this occasion around
4pm on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008!
If you
can’t make it, the exhibition will be up for about
one month.
Henriëtte van Egten is “one of us”, a
founding member of Boekie Woekie. Those who followed
her through the years know that nothing can be too
little or too grand for her, but she’ll cope with it
in her very special own way. A reproduction of one
of the 14 pictures is to be seen above.
Please join us for
the opening around 4pm on Saturday, May 31st.
The exhibition
will be on display till July 3rd 2008.
Books, and printed matter
at large, speak to us with their modest and finite
presence, their functions, and the warmth that is
unique to the material. They remember; they unfold. As
they age they gain some vague, yet profound meanings
that is both historical and personal.
"New Roles", organized by
Utrecht, features six artists who often employ books
and printed matter in their practices, with seeming
nonchalance. Appropriating these media destined to be
obsolete, the artists make them anew; encompass new
meanings, expand the media's function, betray the
expected function, or attempt to make them travel in
the air.
The works presented here
all focus on the uniqueness of paper as a medium.
Although the artists facilitate contemporary methods
--exposing the schizophrenic nature of history by
shuttering sentences, negating the history itself,
inserting her/his own personal anecdotes-- they never
hesitate to present this obsolete medium as it is,
revealing the unmistakable warmth and genuineness of
the aged paper and hand-wrote texts and lines. With
awkward silence the works speak to the viewers in a
strange and poignant manner.
A catalogue of the
exhibition will be published on site at Boekie Woekie,
using the store's off-set printer. Artists' books
published by Utrecht will also be on sale at the
store.
Futoshi Miyagi
Born 1981 in Okinawa. He
hand-wrote love song from traditional Okinawan folk
songs, which was made into a paper plane. He attempted
to fly it over the fence, to an US military base in
Okinawa, but the he fails to do so, fearing possible
disturbances. Since then he kept creating paper planes
loaded with love songs that have no recipient.
Masashi Kawamura
Born 1979. While working
for an advertising agency, he created "Rainbow in Your
Hand" which was awarded ADC Silver. "Black Cat" it a
book made of transparent sheets of paper on which text
of Edgar Allan Poe's "Black Cat is printed in an
irregular manner on the pages. The text, when bound,
creates silhouette of a black cat.
Mitsuru Koga
Born 1980. He is
known for works that employs neglected natural
materials which in turn he makes into sculptural
works: creating almost life-size model of dinosaur
skeleton-model with pieces of driftwood on the beach;
meticulously cutting fallen leaves, making trees out
of each of them; hollowing out stones to become bud
bases. For the exhibition he uses tape cassettes,
which are obsolete material themselves. A piece titled
"Super Star" is twined with, instead of black magnetic
tape, the lyrics of the well-known Carpenters' song,
printed on thin, yellowed strip of paper.
Tomoo Nishidate
Born 1978, lives and
works in Tokyo. He creates book of collages consisting
of garbages he picked up while traveling foreign
countries.
For Boox, he took old
music sheets and manuals into pieces then create boxes
out of them, making signs that lost its meanings into
somethings with a new function.
www.tomoonishidate.com/
Kotaro Inoue
His works which mimic
magazine layouts is immediately decipherable, yet they
do not contain words and images that is fundamental to
magazines. Questioning our own system of visual
perception.
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for Utrecht see
www.utrecht.jp
Skúta
Helgason presents
two series of prints
on the walls of Boekie Woekie.
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I N V I T A T I O N
Whether you will see
THE PHILOARS LIBRARY (basic
stock ca 745 titles) or
PROMISING BACKS is not yet
known. Anyway you will see
THE LANDLINE
– TELEPHONE BOOKS and other
BOOKS and PICTURES.
ANDREA TIPPEL at BOEKIE WOEKIE
OPENING 4pm Saturday April
5th 2008
last day Thursday May 1st
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Rúna Thorkelsdóttir, one of the 3 of Boekie Woekie and living since about 30 years in Holland, but of Icelandic origin, has opened under the title "Póstkort til Reykjavíkur" an exhibition on Saturday, February 23, 2008, at Grafíksafn Íslands, Tryggvagötu 17, Reykjavík, Iceland. The exhibition is open from 2 to 6 from Thursdays to Sundays.
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ONE PAGE MAGAZINE
at Boekie Woekie.
Please come for this occasion to Boekie Woekie around 4pm on Saturday, 26th of January 2008!
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Poetry reading/Performance by Joan Casellas in Boekie Woekie Saturday 24.11.07 between 4 and 6!
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On
their way to install the exhibition “Certain Trees” at the
library of the Van Abbemuseum in
Erica Van Horn and
Simon Cutts
will
honour Boekie Woekie with a visit next Sunday, the 28th of
October.
Please
come
around 5 pm that day for “A Few Cups” to Boekie Woekie!
If
you can’t make it then, the cups will be on the wall till
November 29th.
Rúna Thorkelsdóttir, one of the 3 of Boekie Woekie, opens under the title "Póstkort til Akureyrar" an exhibition on Saturday, October 27, 2007, at Galerie + in Akureyri at 4pm. The exhibition will be open from 2 to 5 at weekends. For other hours it is possible to make an appointment with Joris or Pálina, phoning Iceland 4627818. Last day of the exhibition is November 18th.
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On the occasion of the publication of the 20th issue of
its editor, Nico Lootsma, will install an exhibition of the new and earlier issues of this and his other magazines and of drawings in Boekie Woekie. Come to the opening on Saturday, Oct. 20th, 2007, at 4pm and witness a mini performance by Nico Lootsma or visit us till Oct 26th, the last day the exhibition will be on display.
this image is of the cover
of Trashtown Magazin 17: Money Please
visit Boekie Woekie at the Small Publishers Fair in London's
Conway Hall at Red Lion Square on Friday 12th or Saturday
the 13th of October. From 11 to 7, admission is free.
See www.rgap.co.uk
for details.
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Thanks to the air stream generated by the Dutch wind mills (see the lower right corner of the image above) we can participate also in the second NY Artbook Fair, organized by Printed Matter. It takes place Friday & Saturday & Sunday, September 28 - 30, 2007. Admission to the fair is free. Address: 548 West 22nd Street (between 10th & 11th Aves), New York City. For the opening times and to see who else participates click http://www.nyartbookfair.com .
Boekie Woekie looks forward to your visit!
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The
on-line MUSEUMANONYMUS
shows under the title "PICK CHAIR!" a selection by Jan Voss
of 9 of the 565 paintings in its possession. Please use the
link to have a look!
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on the occasion of the the
8th Dieter Roth Academy Conference
which this year takes
place in Amsterdam
Boekie Woekie announces
an exhibition of postcards
sent by academy members
and friends to the academy!
opening: Saturday
August 25th, 2007 from 2.30 to 5 pm
afterwards a meeting, call it a party,
who knows: performances, anyhow: drinks at the
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten!
the postcard exhibition is planned to be
on display till September 25th
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Jan Voss at Boekie Woekie
opening Saturday, the 14th of July 2007, at 4:30
pm
the exhibition will be on display till Sunday, August 19th
Since early this year, always on Mondays, Jan Voss has made a
prototype for a multiple, calling the resulting series "peanut
of a monday".
He planned this Monday business to last for a bit longer than a
whole year - for 54 Mondays and numbered the prototypes
accordingly. Now, after half the year is over, he fears he runs
out of ideas and wants the whole thing to be quickly over. But
as his life conditions are, he needs to earn money. Of some of
the exhibited prototypes, editions of 54 copies have been made.
They are for sale at very decent prices. The conditions for the
prototypes which include a German poem on a Din A4 sheet, a
little book, an altered toy globe, a brooch, a huge print
and a short film, as well as various peanuts in distress, - the
conditions for those prototypes will be the result of
negotiation.
For the time the exhibition lasts the attempt will be made to
punctually add a new "peanut" each Monday.
Boekie Woekie looks forward to see you.
"peanut of a monday" 24/54 9.7.2007 Jan Voss
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the
Worst Club goes Boekie Woekie
Come on Saturday, June 16th, 5pm!
Entrance is free, also
for members.
Beckmans' art sausages will be on display
till July 10th!
more information: www.worstclub.nl
Berenstraat
16
NL
1016 GH
The
open daily from 12 to 6
phone
+ fax:
+ 31 (0)20 6390507
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Martyn Last in Boekie Woekie
[with the work ”Sick Friend” and a sample of the edition which
coincides with the
new catalogue ”Concealingly Revealing” and other works]
The opening is on Sat., 17th of Feb. 2007, 5pm.
During the opening the poet Cralan Kelder will read.
The last day of the exhibition is the 15th of March.
For the opening hours of Boekie Woekie and to find out where
it is located, please see the Boekie Woekie
home page .
We have prolonged the exhibition of Gabi Rets till February the 14th!
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Lots of New Silkscreened Posters in Boekie Woekie!
Eline van Dam (NL) has put together an exhibition of works by Alexander Valentine (US), Mat Daly (US), Devon Varmega (US), Dennis Tyfus (B), Seripop (CA), Jelle Crama (B), Urban Inks (US), Gregory Pizzoli (US), Ron Liberti (US), Jesjit Gill (US), Drew Liverman (US), Tawaraya Tetsunori (US), Doug Barker (US), Keith Herzik (US), Zeloot (NL).
The opening begins on Saturday, November 18th, 4 pm. Last day of the exhibition: December 7th.
For the opening hours of Boekie Woekie and to find out where it is located, please see the Boekie Woekie home page .
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We participate in the first NY Artbook Fair, organized by Printed Matter. It takes place Friday & Saturday, November 17 - 18, 11am - 7pm & Sunday, November 19, 11am - 5pm. Admission to the fair is free. Address: 548 West 22nd Street (10th & 11th Aves), New York City.
Boekie Woekie is looking forward to your visit!
The first annual fair of contemporary art books, art catalogues, artists' books, art periodicals, and 'zines offered for sale by over 70 international publishers, booksellers, and antiquarian dealers.
The others are:
2nd Cannons Publications, 871 Fine Arts, A.R.T. Press (Art Resources Transfer, Inc.), ANARTIST, Andrew Roth, Inc., Art in America, Art Metropole, Art on Paper, ARTFORUM, ARTSPEAK, Banana Books, Book Works, Bose Pacia, Cabinet, Coracle, D.A.P/Distributed Art Publishers, Dia Art Foundation, ELK, Emily Carr Institute Press, FREIGHT + VOLUME, GAS, Granary Books, Inc., Imschoot uitgevers, J&L Books, John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, lightreading, inc., Marcus Campbell Art Books, Michael Lowe Gallery, Modern Painters, Nature Morte, Nieves, onestar press, Open City, Parkett, PictureBox, Pork Salad Press, powerHouse Books, Presentation House Gallery, Printed Matter, Inc., r.a.m. publications + distribution, inc., Revolver, RGAP (Research Group, for Artists Publications), Scott McCarney/Keith Smith Books, Space Poetry, Steven Leiber, stop over press, TASCHEN, TEXTE ZUR KUNST, The Fillip Review, The MIT Press, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner, Publishers of Artists' Books, Ugly Duckling Presse, USELESS, WAKO WORKS OF ART, Weproductions, White Columns, Zucker Art Books
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Dear those of you who are interested in Dieter Roth's works,
we wish to put to your consideration the possibility of buying his crazily beautiful piece of improvised music:
In 1977 Dieter Roth stepped into the studio of a south German radio station to play what would become his celebrated “R adio Sonata” – 45 minutes of improvised piano music, jokes, burps, and truly ingenious ways of killing time at the piano when he realized he still was only half way through his assigned time. But he was not completely alone: he had the sound engineer to talk to, and a nice bottle of schnapps. Although Roth had developed as he termed it “an alcoholic mode of piano playing” that sounded “funny, slightly sweet, pleasantly (for enviers) bad”, he had intended to play sober this time. As in much of Roth’s work, the true measure of his success is to be found in the depth of the failure that accompanied it!
The concert was released a year later in a small signed LP edition, and subsequently re-released as a CD – but almost the entire print run disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Now this much-sought highlight of Roth’s extensive musical oeuvre is available once more as a CD with an A5 book containing all of the texts the artist wrote for the various editions, both in German and his own English translations, and his own transcriptions of the chit-chat during the performances, likewise bilingual by Roth. With full details on the various publications and an extensive disc- & filmography.
This is the first publication in direct collaboration with Roths’ Verlag and the second work of Dieter Roth’s to be published by Seedy CDs, following the VHS tape of his last reading (“Die letzte Lesung”) which was also done together with Boekie Woekie, books by artists, Amsterdam. Further CDs and DVDs of his musical works and films are planned for the near future.
“Die R adio Sonate” – CD (approx. playing time 45 minutes) Dieter Roth, piano and speech. With a 36 page A5 book containing all of Roth’s texts and translations of his spoken words, plus a discography.
Till Saturday the 28th of Oct., 2006 EUR 25.-, after that EUR 30.-
Dieter Roth (1930-1998): an internationally acclaimed visual artist whose enormous productivity extended beyond groundbreaking prints, assemblages, sculptures, works with foodstuffs, collaborations etc. to embrace several hundred printed books, around a dozen films, and twice as many musical pieces on record and tape – representing just a part of his musical production.
Available from Boekie Woekie.
A sound sample is available at www.seedy.org.
For those of you who don't live too far away: Come next Saturday, October 28th, 2006 around 5 pm. Boekie Woekie invites to "squander a few more minutes".
Hetti, Rúna, Jan and in this case also Malcolm and Björn
p.s. We have delayed the closing date of the exhibition of g.j. de rook at Boekie Woekie: it will be up until November 9th.
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Boekie Woekie is also in 2006 among the exhibitors of the Small Publishers Fair in London!
Come to Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, nearest tube station Holborn. The fair takes place Friday the 20th and Saturday the 21st of October and is open on both days from 11am to 7pm. It includes readings, talks, events and book launches - see for full programme details www.rgap.co.uk.
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You are invited on the occasion of the publication of the
NEW AND BEAUTIFUL BOOK
BY EMMETT WILLIAMS:
A FLEXIBLE HISTORY OF FLUXUS FACTS & FICTIONS
to Boekie Woekie on Sunday, Oct. 15th, 2006 at 5 pm.
70 “Kunstfibel” collages digitally remastered by Ann Noël with commentaries by Emmett Williams, hard cover with dust jacket, 152 pages, 24,5 x 18 cm, London Bangkok 2006, EUR 40.-
If you can't come, you still can order the book!
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Chandra Brooks at Boekie Woekie:
an introduction to her work by herself.
Saturday, October 7, 2006, at 16:30 pm
La Rate Blanche is Chandra Brooks' retelling of the folklore, myths and the fairy tale aesthetic of Medieval France as chronicled by "the voice of Auvergne, Henri Pourrat" in his 1948 publication, 'Le trésor des contes'. Chandra Brooks has created an original collection of: folio, miniatures, calligraphy, Chinese & Japanese influenced cut-outs, paintings and video. The works in this collection have been created through painstaking use of many techniques such as: da Vinci and Michelangelo's Renaissance drafting techniques, Fibonnaci's golden geometry, Frances 14th century Boucicaut Master, Medieval Architecture, Josef Albers' colour theory, Chinese/Japanese/Indian paper cutting and medieval manuscript designs, The Carolingian Revolution, and the virtuoso calligraphy & mis en page seen in the court of Rudolph II. These theories and her interpretation of how each should fit together to harmoniously create a deceptively realistic story will be presented as a one hour lecture where she will display a selection of: folio, miniatures, calligraphy, alphabets, paintings and cut-outs.
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g.j. de rook at Boekie Woekie
opening Saturday, the 30th of September 2006, at 4:30 pm
the exhibition will be on display till Sunday, October 29th
photograph: John Liggins
Bread or circuses.
Early in 1977 I stopped my artistic activities because I got a job which demanded all my energy.
The last one-man show I had was in 1976 at Other Books and So in Amsterdam. Two of the works I showed then, are now - thirty years later - again on display.
The others are a number of works which I had already thought up in 1976 but which only now have found their form.
g.j. de rook
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On the occasion of the publication of his new book The Glittering Sea Donald Gardner is going to read from his poetry next Saturday, the 16th of September 2006, at 4 pm. Looking forward to see you at Boekie Woekie,
Hetti, Rúna, Jan
Gardner, Donald
The Glittering Sea
13 poems, most of them printed for the first time, stapled, 36 pages, 21 x 14,5 cm, London 2006
EUR 6.-
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The new book on the occasion of Boekie Woekie getting 20 years old is out!
Your favorite bookshop is back from being with one leg for three months in London. Now it operates again with full strength in dear old Amsterdam.
The first result is that finally that book got ready which we once hoped to give a launch party for on New Years Eve 2005.
The new date for this party is now next Saturday, September 9th, 2006, from 4 pm onwards till dinnertime.
Come and you'll find a sip or two to drink and the new book. Its title is "Twenty Years of Boekie Woekie". It contains 57 contributions made for the occasion - mostly in English, but there is also Dutch, German and Icelandic. Some contributions include pictures. You can also read what the three shopkeepers have to say on this occasion and there is an afterword. Many pages offer a glimpse into Boekie Woekie's unorderly archive of thousands of scrap paper notes. We have reproduced some of them. The book is perfect bound, with an attached dust jacket, has 260 pages of 20 x 14 cm. There are 135 copies. It costs until next Saturday, September 9th, 30 euros. After that the price will be 45 euros.
We hope to see you on Saturday!
Hetti, Rúna, Jan
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Boekie Woekie in London!Gallery Hauser & Wirth London has a very spacious branch office at Coppermill, 92-108 Cheshire Street. There it is about to stage from the end of May to the end of August 2006 a Dieter Roth and a Martin Kippenberger exhibition. Gallery Hauser & Wirth London has invited Boekie Woekie to open up on its part for this period a branch office at Coppermill. Yesterday, May 12th, the truck came to fetch a few thousand of our books. Boekie Woekie looks forward to seeing you in London!
The bookshop in London will be open from Tuesday to Sunday from 12 to 7pm and that from May 24th till August 27th 2006.
The Amsterdam Boekie Woekie will be open as usual.
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The Gulangyu Institute of 16 Bishan Road, Gulangyu Island - Xiamen, Fujian 361000, China, in cooperation with the Chinese European Art Center of Xiamen University has opened its premises for staff and students of the Dieter Roth Academy for the 7th annual conference and exhibition. The exhibition is to open on April 15th, 2006, the conference will take place the following day. From Boekie Woekie two members of the Dieter Roth Academy, Henriëtte van Egten and Rúna Thorkelsdóttir, took off yesterday, April 11th, to be present. Meanwhile, Boekie Woekie in Amsterdam will be open as usual.
Meanwhile, the poster to announce the Dieter Roth Academy event in China has arrived in Amsterdam - here it is to be seen hanging in the shop window of Boekie Woekie:
N.b., it is not true that Donald Gardner's book of poems with the title How To Get The Most Out Of Your Jet Lag, visible next to the lower right corner of the poster, was put there as an ironical commentary. The relation of the poster and the book are purely coincidental.
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P E R S B E R I C H T
Deze week verschijnen bij Boekie Woekie, books by artists, de bundels:
Een umlaut op de psyche. Verhalen, columns en verslagen
&
Scherp Dons. Gedichten, 1980-2005
van journaliste Petra Hunsche, in een oplage van 100 handgebonden exemplaren.
De verhalen in Een umlaut op de psyche vormen een kleine selectie uit de ‘poëtische bijproducten’ van 25 jaar stadsverslaggeving en journalistiek werk over de geestelijke gezondheidszorg (ggz).
Columns en verslagen verschenen vanaf 1990 in het Amsterdams Stadsblad, het Maandblad Geestelijke volksgezondheid (MGv) en andere vakbladen in de ggz.
De gedichten in Scherp dons zijn nergens eerder gepubliceerd, op enkelingen uit het hoofdstuk ‘Poëzie uit het gesticht’ na. Hunsche beschouwt de publicaties van beide bundels als een nieuw begin na de definitieve afsluiting van ‘een bewogen (werk)verleden’.
‘Ze gaf me het pilletje pas aan de rand van het ijzeren ledikant. Ik keek ernaar. Het lag op mijn open handpalm en zag er niet uit om op te eten. Het was intens blauw met een krijtachtige structuur; piepklein als het was had het een piramidevorm die me absoluut niet beviel. ‘Toe maar, drong de zuster aan.’ (…)
Petra Hunsche, Een umlaut op de psyche, uitgeverij Boekie Woekie, 109 pagina’s
ISBN-10: 90-78191-04-X
ISBN-13: 978-90-78191-04-9
Petra Hunsche, Scherp Dons, uitgeverij Boekie Woekie, 117 pagina’s
ISBN-10: 90-78191-03-1
ISBN-13: 978-90-78191-03-2
Beide boekjes zijn fraai vormgegeven in een bandje. Prijs: € 18,-
Losse exemplaren: € 10,- per stuk
Meer informatie en het aanvragen van een persexemplaar (beperkt) bij Boekie Woekie, zie onder.
Presentatie: zaterdag 17 december van 17 tot 19 uur.
BOEKIE WOEKIE, books by artists
Berenstraat 16
NL 1016 GH Amsterdam
The Netherlands
bookstore + gallery daily open from 12:00 - 18:00
T + F: - 31 - (0)20 - 6390507
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postgiro account: Boekie Woekie at Postbank N.V. Amsterdam,
BIC/Swift code: PSTBNL21
IBAN: NL13 PSTB 0001 7391 99
bank account: Boekie Woekie at ABN/AMRO,
BIC/Swift code: ABNANL2A
IBAN: NL05 ABNA 0453 0223 83
giro 1739199 of ABN/AMRO 453022383 (voor betalingen binnen Nederland)
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Rúna Thorkelsdóttir exhibits her "Postcards to Iceland" at Cultural Centre Skaftfell in Seyðisfjörður
Welcome to the exhibition "Postcards to Iceland" by Rúna Thorkelsdóttir at Skaftfell in Seyðisfjörður. The opening is at 16:00 on Nov. 26th. The exhibition will stay open till the end of December 2005.
The opening hours are Mon-Fri 13.00 - 16.00 and Sundays 15.00-18.00, and by arrangement (tel: 866-2967).
Above, you see a recent picture of the building Skaftfell. At the left end of the middle row of windows (to get there one would walk up the flight of stairs to the door on the right) one sees a bit of warm light and some colours. It is there where the exhibition hall is and where Rúna has put up her works. There her more than 50 picture postcards with the flower images are hanging, picture postcards enlarged on a colour laser copying machine to a size of about 1 m by 70 cm. (For images of some of the postcards as Boekie Woekie is offering them for sale from its Amsterdam premises click in the main menu of this web site on "Postcards" and then on "flowers".) The enlarged copies are laminated in transparent plastic. The ground floor door leads to the bistro. (You would be able to read "Bistro" on the sign above that door hadn't the sign painter run out of paint painting that other sign, higher up.) It was here that the Dieter Roth Academy had its annual meeting in May of 2002. Read the diary of this web site to learn more about that.
Below are views of the exhibition and some shots from the opening and the text of the opening speech by Rannveig Þórhallsdóttir. She and Snorri Emilsson took the pictures of this section of this page.
Speech of Rannveig Þórhallsdóttir on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition of works by Rúna Thorkelsdóttir in the Cultural Centre Skaftfell in Seyðisfjörður given in Icelandic on the 26th of November 2005:
May I welcome Rúna Thorkelsdóttir, the artist of the 2005 Advent exhibition in Skaftfell. Rúna is known for her visual art and for her running the bookshop Boekie Woekie in Amsterdam. There she deals with art books and book art, hers and those of other people, together with Jan Voss and Henriëtte van Egten. Boekie Woekie has existed for 20 years.
This is not the first time that Rúna exhibits in Seyðisfjörður. She has been a part of the art festival and Skaftfell from the beginning, Boekie Woekie exhibited here 1995 at the second “Áseyði” art festival.
It was then that the Skaftfell adventure began, it was the first exhibition in this building and the 10th anniversary of the bookshop/gallery.
The staff and the owners of Boekie Woekie, that are Rúna, Jan Voss and Henriëtte van Egten have worked for many years with Dieter Roth on his books as well as on their own.
During Dieter’s last years Boekie Woekie became part of Dieter’s traveling exhibitions. It should be mentioned that Rúna, Jan and Henriëtte are all professors at the Dieter Roth Academy in Skaftfell.
Rúna has exhibited often both in Iceland and abroad since 1979. The exhibition in Skaftfell consists of enlarged postcards which the artist printed in Amsterdam and sent to Iceland.
Since the beginning postcards were printed and designed in Boekie Woekie. The idea behind the exhibition was partly to use the cards both as invitation cards for the exhibition and as art works in the exhibition. The postcards are supposed to make people happy and bring good news. The flower design creates a nice contrast with the winter world outside. And at last Rúna hopes that the sending of postcards continues in the times of sms, telegrams and e-mails.
Please clap your hands for Rúna and herewith I declare the exhibition “Postcards to Iceland” to be open.
This is Rannveig holding her speech:
The redhaired one with the glass of - difficult to say - but looks like: coke in her hand is Rúna.
Art exhibition opening smalltalk: a visitor possibly showing how big the mouth of the fish was he spat into before throwing it back into the sea (because the size of the fish being too small for him to keep it?).
When the opening guests left Skaftfell what they saw of plants outside looked like this:
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Boekie Woekie, books by artists
Berenstraat 16, NL 1016 GH Amsterdam
bookstore and gallery daily open
from 12:00 – 18:00
phone + fax: -31-(0)20-6390507
e-mail: boewoe@xs4all.nl
http://www.boekiewoekie.com
Amsterdam, 15.11.2005
Come if you can to the opening of the exhibition
on Saturday, November 19th, between 16:00 and 18:00.
Magnús Pálsson will then have reinstalled the exhibition he had in 1996 in Boekie Woekie. We liked that exhibition and the sound which went with it so much that we asked Magnús to do it again and to allow us to accompany this exhibition with a publication. Boekie Woekie looks forward to present on this occasion the result, a book with a CD.
This is the way in which we'll list it on our web site:
Pálsson, Magnús
The Skinned Rabbit And Other Dreams
dreams told to M.P. by 25 people, soft cover, dust jacket, 52 pages, 20,5 x 14,5 cm, contains a CD with a recording of almost 41 minutes by M.P., sound processing: Steinþór Birgisson and Rod Summers, cover image for CD and book by Rod Summers, ed/250, Amsterdam 2005
EUR 28.-
In case you can't come you still might want to consider to order this item.
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Dear All,
come if you can to Boekie Woekie next Saturday,
July
2nd, around 17:00.
Cralan Kelder will read poems from his brand new book
Lemon Red.
Cralan has been writing / publishing poetry for some 15 years.
Lemon Red is his first collection. The poems are mostly shorter,
somewhat irreverent, and often humorous. The work spans a
period of 10 years, and extensive travels in the US, Europe
& Africa. The poems cover a range of subjects in
straight-forward voices; love, work, fear, walking, driving,
poetry, story-telling, breathing, stealing, anger, and mornings.
Cralan s family moved from California to Holland in 1985, and
he was made to come along against his will. He has since
discovered that he is quite fond of Holland.
Many of the poems have been published in small literary
magazines, and are now printed together in a beautiful,
skillfully made book published by Coracle, hand-sewn and
numbered in wraps.
The book will be available at the counter for EUR 8.-
Hettie (in absentia), Rúna, Jan
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Boekie Woekie is invited by Simon Cutts of Coracle Press to
contribute to:
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Since May 14th, 2005,
Boekie Woekie
has 2 addresses.
The old one as always in Amsterdam plus a new one in Reykjavík.
Until August 21st, 2005, we operate a branch office there.
It is in the entrance space of Hafnarhús, the down town City
Museum of Iceland's capital on Tryggvagata 17.
Telephone: +354-5901214. E-mail: hafnarhus@hotmail.com.
Daily open from 10:00 - 17:00.
The reason for our presence is the DIETER ROTH
exhibition TRAIN currently taking place there (as well as in
the National Gallery of Iceland plus in some other places).
The exhibition is for the first time entirely curated by Björn
Roth and very worthwhile to see. Come and see for yourself!
When you see this, you are almost there. (The truck maybe is gone but inside they have its number to call it back.)
A glimpse of Boekie Woekie, books by artists in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Anyhow, 2 shops keep the 3 of us quite busy.
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