Terre Thaemlitz writings from between 1996 and 2015. The overall theme uniting the texts is a defense of pessimism and a critical rejection of the incessant optimism lurking at the core of virtually all media – even in the ‘critical fields’ themselves, where it reflects our conformity to those First World humanist and capitalist practices we wish to critique. Terre Thaemlitz explain why the texts sometimes still fraudulently use positive terminology, and break the linearity of the reading process – thus incorporating the theme of ‘nuisance’ throughout the book
NUISANCE. Terre Thaemlitz Writings on identity jamming & digital audio production
Vienna: Zaglossus, 2017 (2016). 2nd printing. Squarish 8vo in wraps as issued. 384 pages. Texts in English. Illustrated. New copy
From the Challenge Gender series, Volume 5
Fluxus Scores and Instructions. Detroit: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection & Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008. Edited by Marianne Bech & Media Farzin with Jon Hendricks. Tall 4to in publishers stiff wraps as issued. 230 pages. Richly illustrated, partly in color. Text in English. New copy. First edition.…
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Fine thorough introduction the work of Robert Ashley with introductory texts and interviews with Ashley and including Scores for “Dust” and “Celestial Excursions” and selection of other works from 1963 to 2008
The piece 4’33” premiered on August 29, 1952; four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence. Elegantly, provocatively, the piece asked: what does silence sound like? Cage’s questions about the nature of silence and sound continue to reverberate decades later; this volume-the most comprehensive on the piece to date-brings together…
