7 improvisational pieces by Michael Morley (The Dead C, Gate, Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos). Intense and disruptive pieces varying from throbbing psychedelia to harsh industrial soundscapes to roughly cut field recordings, all beautifully mixed. The CD comes in a nice b/w fold-out sleeve. The Pavilion Of Fools was released by Gallery Dessford Vogel, Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1996. Limited stock available. The Pavilion Of Fools has a place just for YOU!
Eugenie Goldschmeding (1970) was trained as an artist in Amsterdam and Paris. A selection of her otherworldly works on paper and sculptures – carrying titles such as Rapunzel’s Delight, Found Forest or Mirror Mirror – has now been brought together in a handsome monograph published by California State University Fullerton.
In sensitive lines and in multi-layered paintings on paper (in which previously rejected works may return) Goldschmeding evokes an enchanted world full of appearing and disappearing creatures and shooting and withering growths. A delicate and unstable world that appears to be on the verge of disappearing itself, twisting and turning to the point of inducing vertigo. Get hold of a copy of this book before it spins out of this world.
A package of 3 recent artists’ zines by Italian artist Nico Vascellari (1970) is available from Sea Urchin. The zine NICO was published in 2013 in a print run of 300 by Black Pages, Vienna and contains 16 pages of b/w stills of a tragicomical video. CODALUNGA 11/12 is a compilation of collages by Nico Vascellari published by Heads Collective in 2012. And IL CORRIERE DEI PASSATEMPI is a 12-page zine that Nico Vascellari once put together as a kid and has now re-issued in an edition of 100 xeroxed and signed copies.
If requested NICO, CODALUNGA 11/12 and IL CORRIERE DEI PASSATEMPI can be bought separately.
Carl Weissner (1940-2012) was a German writer, translator, publisher, cut-up artist and musician. As a student of English Language and Literature he founded the literary magazine Klactoveedsedsteen, which introduced poets and writers such as Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Jeff Nuttall and William Burroughs to a German audience.
While still a student, Weissner went to the US in 1966 on a prestigious grant and recorded readings by Beat poets, which he released on vinyl a couple of years later in collaboration with Gerard Bellaart’s Cold Turkey Press. This Klacto/Cold Turkey LP (plus a number of additional recordings) was later re-issued on CD by Klacto/Cold Turkey/Sea Urchin. Carl Weissner translated works by William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Andy Warhol, J.G. Ballard, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa and others.
After Klactoveedsedsteen he founded the literary magazines UFO and Gasolin 23. Weissner collaborated with William Burroughs and was an inventive cut-up writer himself.
Death in Paris is one of Weissner’s last books, an experiment in ‘noir’ and a cut-up novel with roots in Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. Each copy of Death in Paris bought through Sea Urchin comes with a small print of one of Weissner’s collages (courtesy of Jan Herman).
First issue of art zine Iodine Pilz. 32 pages of “Good Hot Stuff” were brought together and edited by Cary Loren and published in a limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies by Omeggkkamann Press in 2012. Photos, writings, and artwork by Cary Loren, James Hoff, Elizabeth Sporleder and guest artist Cameron Jamie were photocopied in colour and b/w and staple bound. The images and text of this compiled lunacy are from conversations, travel journals and ephemera collected by the artists from 2009-2011. This collectible zine measures 207 x 135 x 2 mm and comes in a heavy acrylic photo protector.