September 18-20, 2015, join ISSUE Project Room at the tenth-annual New York Art Book Fair. Occupying the entirety of MoMA PS1, Printed Matter’s NYABF is the world’s premiere event for artists’ books and publishing. ISSUE Project Room’s imprint Distributed Objects will be present all weekend, sharing a table with friends Unseen Worlds Records and Audio Visual Arts. Two new Distributed Objects LPS will be released on September 18th to coincide with the fair, Pete Swanson & Yarn/Wire: Eliminated Artist (DO03), as well as Susan Howe & David Grubbs: Thiefth. Limited to 100 copies, Thiefth includes a special edition letterpress print by Susan Howe, created with Grenfell Press.
A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 17.
Pete Swanson & Yarn/Wire: Eliminated Artist
DO03 - LP & Digital
Edition of 500
Released September 18, 2015
Side A: Corrections (20:35)
Side B: Eliminated Artist (22:00)
Yarn Wire: Ning Yu, Laura Barger: piano; Russell Greenberg, Ian Antonio: percussion.
Pete Swanson: EMS VCS3, Electronics and Tape.
Corrections recorded live at ISSUE Project Room 5/1/2014; EMS VCS3 tracks recorded at WORM Studios, Rotterdam 12/2013; Eliminated Artist recorded live at ISSUE Project Room 3/22/2012. Mastered by Rashad Becker.
Susan Howe & David Grubbs: Thiefth
DO04 - Special Edition LP & Letterpress Print (12x12", signed and numbered)
Edition of 100
Released September 18, 2015
Side A: Thorow (15:08)
Side B: Melville's Marginalia (19:46)
Susan Howe: reader
David Grubbs: piano and computer
Mats Gustafsson: baritone saxophone and fluteophone on Thorow
Nikos Veliotis: cello on Thorow
Recorded by Ross Bonadonna at Wombat Recording Company, Brooklyn, with additional recording by Tim Iseler at Soma, Chicago, and Mats Gustafsson in Gustavsberg, Sweden. Mixed by David Grubbs at Black Faurest. Initial mastering by Doug Henderson at micro-moose. Mastered by Rashad Becker.
ISSUE Project Room Distributed Objects is a new publishing imprint featuring recorded and written documents focused on emerging artistic practices. Releases draw primarily from work and writings of participants in ISSUE Project Room’s Artist-in-Residence program, alongside previously unreleased historical materials forthcoming, published in tandem to create a broader contextual framework. Distributed Objects seeks to expand the discourse around the time-based performances developed at ISSUE Project Room by disseminating artists’ writings, interviews, and unique recorded materials, offering new perspectives into the contemporary creative community local to New York City.
The release of double LPs by former Artists-in-Residence Sabisha Friedberg and Sergei Tcherepnin in February, 2015, inaugurated the imprint.
