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This document summarizes a presentation about artists' recordworks in academic libraries. It discusses how artists have used record formats as an artistic medium, beginning in the avant-garde era. Examples are given of artists who designed album covers or published sound works. The document notes that artists' recordworks often have book-like qualities and include additional printed materials. It provides examples of contemporary artists continuing to use record formats and describes how some libraries incorporate artists' records into their collections and programming.
ARLIS2015Susanfinal
- 1. ARLIS/NA 43rd Annual Conference New Frontiers on the Old Frontier Beyond the Page: Wrangling Alternative Formats Contemporary Artists Recordworks in Academic Libraries Susan E. Thomas, Assistant Professor Coordinator of Reference Services Long Island University Brooklyn Library susan.thomas@liu.edu
- 2. Germano Celant The Record as Artwork: From Futurism to Conceptual Art. Fort Worth, USA: The Fort Worth Art Museum, 1977.
- 3. Subject of Records really is a New Frontier on the Old Frontier! http://www.statista.com/chart/1465/vinyl-lp-sales-in-the-us/
- 4. Historical Artists Recordworks and Sound Multiples Avant Garde: Artists as designers: Sol Lewitt, Ed Ruscha, Raymond Pettibon, Robert Rauschenberg Avant Garde: Artists Records: Yves Klein, Jack Goldstein, Yoko Ono published by galleries or record labels Popular Music: Artists as designers: Andy Warhols designs for Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers album with zipper; Velvet Undergrounds eponymous banana sticker album cover
- 6. C over Record covers, which are original works by visual artists, or which have been made after the design of a visual artist. O bject Records with object-character, sculptures which utilize records artistically, and sculptures in which records serve the function of a plastic material. P ublication Exhibition catalogues and books, which contain a record for additional information. S ound Records, which have sound produced by visual artists. Block, Ursula, and Michael Glasmeier. Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks. Berlin: Berliner K端nstlerprogramm des DAAD, 1989. Print.
- 7. Laurie Anderson, "Laurie Anderson Playing Viophonograph 1977 photograph by Bob Bielecki
- 9. print/paper materials prevaila book, booklet, or poster is often included gatefold sleeve itself opens up like a book Printmaking techniques: silkscreen, risograph, die cut, letterpress, stamped serial numbers, embossing ISBN numbers sometimes Bookishness of Artists Recordworks
- 13. Michael Rakowitzs Live in Jerusalem
- 14. Artists Multiple (L) and Artists Recordwork (R) by James Hoff Viruses, like art, need a host. Preferably a popular one.
- 18. Recordworks created on site at the Christian Marclay exhibition at White Cube in London.
- 19. The Vinyl Factory Press mobile vinyl manufacturing press
- 20. Offprint Paris is an art-publishing fair featuring discerning publishers on art, photography, design and experimental music labels.
- 22. The Sounds of Artists Recordworks experimental music, spoken word, documentation of a performance or event, film soundtrack, ambient, sound effects, or samples
- 23. Saturday, August 11, 2012 MOCA Grand Avenue
- 24. Larissa Beringer: Our artists books collection includes artists records, artists magazines, artists zines: all examples of artists practicing publishing and embracing the multiple, which is the historical premise of our collection, rooted in the avant-garde traditions of Fluxus, conceptualism, minimalism and performance.
- 25. Doro Boehme: We think of 'artists' publications' more in the sense of editioned art work, and less in the sense of print work. We have digital works, sound works, artists' stamps and mail art, ephemera, multiples (sculptural objects), etc. Records of artists are just one other form of expressing yourself in an attempt to circumvent established art audiences and venues.
- 28. Larissa Beringer: Artists records are part of our Artists Books Collection. The early works were donated to the library by Ian Wallace from his personal collection. They have become integral to how we reflect on the history and development of artists using the multiple as new way to produce and distribute inexpensive artworks outside of a formal gallery system. Doro Boehme: They augment the mix; they show our visitors (in the majority makers, students) that they never have to limit themselves to a particular medium, but that whatever works best for a given concept should be their format of choice.
- 30. Larissa Beringer: We have faculty that specifically teach from our artists records, e.g., Kathy Slades The Practice of Artists Publishing course plays artists records in class. Also, one of our Artistss Books researchers in residence, Arnaud Desjardin (The Everyday Press), played artists records for a month in his impromptu pop-up library space within the library.
- 37. Library for Performance Library for Collections Reflecting Contemporary Culture
Editor's Notes
- #2: Hi, thanks for coming to our session today! Ill be talking today about my recent research and ideas regarding what Im calling artists recordworks, a type of artists multiple, publication, and book.. Let me start by playing a few seconds from one.
- #3: First: Texas! This important book by Germano Celant (Jermano Che lent) was published in 1977 by The Fort Worth Art Museum (now the Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth-- 1987). It situates us here in TX with the record.
- #4: Some of us may be surprised to learn that the vinyl LP is back. In 2013 6.1 million vinyl units sold, and in 2014 9.2 million. Students may expect to see vinyl in the library, but even so they may not know about the history of artists records and sound multiples... (Billboard: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6422442/vinyl-album-sales-hit-historic-high-2014).
- #5: Its hard to believe that I have to put this Sonic Youth album cover under history! This is a Raymond Pettibon cover for Goo. Artists have designed many famous album covers over the decades for both popular and not so popular bands and musiciansartist as designer. Artists have also released their own recordsthe 1960s-1980s was a fertile period for what were then called artists records
- #6: In 1989, the exhibition catalog Broken Music: Artists Recordworks appearedits the source of the phrase I chose to use in my paper and for this presentation. According to the authors, a recordwork is any artists object that investigates or incorporates a record. The book itself could be considered a recordwork, with its flexidisc.
- #7: This is the classification system used in Broken Music: Cover, Object, Publication, Sound. [read out loud] Ive been investigating the Publication, Sound, and Cover categories and finding them in art libraries. Note In some cases a definite classification was difficult, because by the extension of the art concept, the art categories are no longer clearly defined. Most works falling under Object are acquired as sculptures by museums, not by libraries. The artists names in the catalog are marked with the initials of the appropriate criterion, often, several criteria were applicable.
- #8: An artists recordwork museum object: Laurie Andersons Viophonograph. (with a record mounted upon a violin body and a pickup in the bow.)
- #9: Here is the Cover and Sound recordwork GAZ HEART by Rita Ackermann. Record has recorded playable musicmade by Ackermann and others-- on one side and an unplayable etching on the other side. It is a Publication, too, since it has added printed materials. It is bookish.
- #10: The Beatles minimalist White Album, designed by pop artist Richard Hamilton, is a Cover recordwork and the recent subject of a art exhibition in which Rutherford Chang collected and displayed hundreds of used copies. Michael Glasmeier wrote in B.M. that conceptual album covers of the 60s and 70s were successful democratic multiples. The White Album is superlative, one encouraging activation and participation. Hamilton played with the subject of limited editions by embossing The Beatles and stamping a serial number on millions of copies.
- #11: many of the albums were written or drawn on, filling the empty space. Rutherford Chang displayed hundreds of used copies in his We Buy White Albums exhibition at the Recess Gallery in NYC in 2013. You cant see very well in this photo, butowners-as well as time and the environment-- made their own marks on the covers.
- #12: Chang made his own recordwork: here is the composite album cover, front cover on left, back cover on right, a combination of photographs of 100 covershe also made a layered recording of the 100 albums played simultaneouslytalk about meta. The distribution of most recordworks is limited to the art world. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-28776667 and http://www.recessart.org/activities/6753 (with audio file of Changs recording)
- #13: Indeed, most (but not all) recordworks are sold at art book fairs, art book stores, and art galleries. Others are sold via specialty music and art projects, often online.
- #14: On the subject of The Beatles. artist Michael Rakowitzs 2014 exhibition The Breakup included a recordwork, Live in Jerusalem. These are all the components of it displayed on a shelf. It is the total documentation of The Breakup: it includes a live recording of Arabic-inflected Beatles songs by the Palestinian group Sabreen, recorded on the roof of the Swedish Christian Study Centre in Jerusalem and pressed on sky-blue vinyl; a period-style poster for a never-realized Beatles concert in Libya in 1969; and a catalog for The Breakup with critical essays by and more, even. (Rhona Hoffman, Chicago)
- #15: Conceptual artist James Hoff produces a variety of sound multiples. On right is the recordwork Blaster. According to the PAN website, publisher of the work, Hoff used the Blaster virus to infect 808 beats and then utilized the mutated results for seven new compositions. The artwork was constructed using viral images from the artist. This is a Sound and Cover recordwork. On left is Hoffs slip mat multiplethe piece of felt that goes between the turntable and the record.
- #16: This is Purple and Orange Memorial Album by the band Sun Foot, featuring artist Chris Johanson. This recordwork includes a 12' vinyl record with various paper insertsIt also has an ISBN number. A Cover, Publication, and Sound recordwork.
- #17: From covers from Chris Duncans Silo: Sun/Luna. a 10 recordwork that falls under Cover, Publication, and Sound. It documents the artists performance in a grain silo
- #18: Back covers of the components of the recordwork
- #19: At the current Christian Marclay exhibition at White Cube gallery in London, Musicians stage new compositions in response to the artists works. The performances are recorded live and pressed to limited edition vinyl on site by The Vinyl Factory Press, and Coriander Studio create unique silk-screen sleeves on site, This is a true collaborative recordwork: Cover by Coriander and Sound by guest musicians. Both in response to Marclays exhibition.
- #20: Vinyl Factory says that this vintage hydraulic hand press is the worlds first mobile vinyl manufacturing press. Housed in a shipping container, it will soon travel to other institutions.
- #21: the art publishing fair Offprint Parisincluded experimental music labels in their selection of participants.
- #22: A little white space to breathe
- #23: Songs on Conceptual Art, a group of original songs by different artists based on Sol LeWitts Sentences on Conceptual Art, also references John Baldessaris famous singing of the Sentences. hand silk- screened jackets and comes with a letterpressed poster of Sentences. A Publication, Sound, Cover recordwork.
- #24: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I23lr_oDeYY. Contributors to the record performed at MOCA LA
- #25: Are you actively collecing artists recordworks in your library? Our artists books collection includes artists records, artists magazines, artists zines: all examples of artists practicing publishing and embracing the multiple, which is the historical premise of our collection, rooted in the avant-garde traditions of Fluxus, conceptualism, minimalism and performance.
- #26: Are you actively collecing artists recordworks in your library? We think of 'artists' publications' more in the sense of editioned art work, and less in the sense of print work. We have digital works, sound works, artists' stamps and mail art, ephemera, multiples (sculptural objects), etc. Records of artists are just one other form of expressing yourself in an attempt to circumvent established art audiences and venues.
- #27: From Emily Carr Institutes Pinterest Board, section Artists Books: Artists Records example of recent PR
- #28: Black Utopia, by Cauleen Smith, is a Cover and Publication recordwork about the artist Sun Ra. Its an exhibition catalog with a booklet and a newsprint poster. Both Emily Carr and JF own this.
- #29: How do you regard them in relation to your artists book collections? Larissa says Artists records are part of our Artists Books Collection. The early works were donated to the library by Ian Wallace from his personal collection. They have become integral to how we reflect on the history and development of artists using the multiple as new way to produce and distribute inexpensive artworks outside of a formal gallery system. Doro says They augment the mix; they show our visitors (in the majority makers, students) that they never have to limit themselves to a particular medium, but that whatever works best for a given concept should be their format of choice.
- #30: JFABC: Janet Cardiffs The Walk Book--A survey of walks including a site-specific walk through the book. Cloth book with CD-ROM in cover, plus inserts.
- #31: Larissa Beringer: We have faculty that specifically teach from our artists records, e.g., Kathy Slades The Practice of Artists Publishing course plays artists records in class. Also, one of our Artistss Books researchers in residence, Arnaud Desjardin (The Everyday Press), played artists records for a month in his impromptu pop-up library space within the library.
- #32: A scene at Emily Carr
- #33: DB: The collection brings in students from the Sound Department listen ed to items from the collection, curated a selection, made works in response, and then performed both in the library https://vimeo.com/channels/flaxmanlibrary/101560018. This is one of the posters advertising the event, the outcome of a suggestion by a sound department student working in joan flasch
- #34: The Flaxman Library is using vimeo to share the events
- #35: Marcel Dzama 7 single on the Emily Carr turntable! via Instagram post. They have over 700 followers.
- #36: Doro says that Sound department students are not the only users of the recordworks: The painters and drawers come for Raymond Pettibon
- #37: the art historians come for Fluxus and Beuys recordings (one depicted here) and the Conceptual Art fans listen to the "Art By Telephone record which was produced as the exhibition catalogue for the show Art by Telephone, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1969.
- #38: Artists recordworks may provide a favorable element of surprise in the library but also meet an expectation, due to the popularity of vinyl records in general, interdisciplinary curricula, and exhibitions of recordworks in art galleries and museums.