SWILL CHILDREN PRESENTS INDEPENDENCE DAY 2010
Swill Children is pleased to be announcing 3 physical releases today as well as the launch of a new internet project: PAPERWEIGHT.
A little about PAPERWEIGHT:
Throughout the past decade, the internet has presented us with an array of alternative information disseminators. The influx of these ubiquitous platforms has resulted in the replacement of prior methods of media distribution, a good deal of which dealt with ink on paper. Though these time tested forms, such as books, newspapers, and other printed ephemera are increasingly less commercially prevalent, there is yet an actively growing community of artists working in these seemingly antiquated realms of ink on paper.
PAPERWEIGHT is a blog attempting to highlight such valiant efforts using the very means of their obsolescence.
PAPERWEIGHT features a stunning list of contributors:
Milano Chow
Jesse Hlebo
Chelsea Hodson
Anne Lai
Megan Plunkett
Veronica Rafael
Diwa Tamrong
Grant Willing
Each month will feature a different guest contributor, the first being the lovely Rachael Morrison. Rachael works at the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York where she recently curated an exhibition on the work of Bern Porter. She is also an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and she is co-editor of the magazine f.ART.
Without further ado, images and information on the new releases after the jump.
BEACH CAMP by Chelsea Hodson
Edition of 300 / 8.5” x 11” Print - 4.25” x 4.25” Book / Printed on a Risograph RP 3105UI / $10
PRAISE FOR BEACH CAMP:
“Like the buffalo ‘left to their private multiplication’ after a film set is struck, the girls of BEACH CAMP are left at Camp Fox in a chaos of new freedom. In masterfully condensed sections, Hodson shows us how they grow publicly and privately, wanting to hide and to be seen. Her unassuming sentences cut to the quick.”
—Sarah Manguso, author of The Two Kinds of Decay
“Beach Camp is beautifully evoked—sad, funny, sweet, haunting—and vividly recalled, like ‘crumbled Cheez-Its’ in the sleeping bag of youth.”
—Davy Rothbart, creator of FOUND Magazine & frequent contributor to This American Life
“I don’t like writing that doesn’t rhyme, but I’m glad you’re doing something.” —Marcene Seitz, Chelsea’s grandma
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The Genesis by David Potes
Edition of 100 / 7”x8.5” / Printed on a Risograph RP 3105UI / $10
An exciting new piece of photographic ephemera from one of America’s premiere contemporary photographers. Presenting new images inspired by self-discovery, origins, and modes of formation.
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The YEAH Manual
Edition of 1000 / B/W Offset on newsprint / 22.5”x30” / $5
The YEAH Manual is a multi-lingual guide to YeahYeahYeahYeahYeah, an internet project conceived by Tyler Healy that allows anyone with a cell phone camera the ability to upload their pictures anonymously and globally. What has resulted, is an environment that Mashable states is “blurry, funny, ugly, sad, voyeuristic, boring and even mystifying; altogether, the collection can be described as fascinating and bizarre, an exercise for the culture of curation amid a mobile world.”
The publication, published through Brooklyn imprint Swill Children, provides interested parties with the information needed to utilize the site to its full potential.
For more info: YeahYeahYeahYeahYeah
