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The Stedelijk Museum´s annual proposal for municipal art acquisitions exhibition is devoted this year to photography. Guest curator is photographer and writer Hans Aarsman.

Participating artists: Theo Baart, Elly Baltus, Melanie Bonajo, Appie Bood, Hans Bouman, M.L. Busser, Maze de Boer, Rineke Dijkstra, Constant Dullaart, Martijn Engelbregt, Erik Fens, Maria Heijdendael, Maarten Heijkamp, Peter Hermanides, Frank Kouws, Frank Mandersloot, Paulien Oltheten, Jannie Regnerus, Don Sars, Frank Schallmaier, Diana Scherer, Marike Schuurman, Monique Scuric, Tanja Smit, Claudia Sola, Jan-Dirk van der Burg, Steve van den Bosch, Ad van Denderen, Ria van Dijk, Anne van de Pals, Kaj van Ek, Stefan van Weele and Roy Villevoye

Galería Tomás March,
Aparisi y Guijarro 7. 46003 Valencia, Spain
Tel. 0034 96 3922095.

Possibility of Action: the Life of the Score

Curators: Barbara Held and Pilar Subirà

Centre d'Estudis i Documentació, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

Exhibition on contemporary music connotation, in which are presented works of John Cage, Yoko Ono, Lee Ranaldo, Tanja Smit (the Dancing Master project -co-operation with Christopher Williams- and some books and textworks), and many others

140 pages, black and white offset, edition of 2000

designed by Serge Onnen & Jan Haux
publised in 2008
price $15 -12€
BUY online at artbook

ISBN-10: 0979918804
ISBN-13: 978-0979918803

Of all the words one uses in a day, the handw ritten ones are the most rare. Wri tten with a pen on a small piece of paper or carved with a knife in a tree. Physically made words. Most words are made with a machine such as a laptop or a phone -- words you've never really touched. One learns to make the words by hand as a child, but very soon after that, one starts using a machine. The handwriting years come more or less to an end with the first keyboard, and like drawing it b ecomes an ancient act. You draw it when you can't find a photo or camera, and you handwrite it when you can't find a keyboard. When it's unreadable to the other, it becomes some ki nd of drawing. Readability depends on codes and conventions -- just for one person or for billions, like Chinese. This book is a silent space where the signs and words have come to a rest. Where they don't have to act by what they mean.

The index of the book is only online

Drawings/text by: Robert Walser, Andre Masson, Vincent van Gogh, Marcus Raetz, Voebe de Gruyter, Charles Vreuls, Anneliese Coste, Daragh Reeves, Benoit Plateus, Graham Gillmore, Olav Westphalen, Napoleon Bonaparte, CIA, Max Ernst, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Toadhouse, Tanja Smit, Cornelius Cardew, Alexandre Estrela, Roland Topor, FBI, Altagor, Christian Dotremont, Henri Chopin, Lily van der Stokker , Roland Barthes, Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Elmer Brown, Shakers, Juli Gudehus, Kinke Kooi, Serge Onnen, Ascii-art... and more !

edited by Serge Onnen
100% text 99% illegible
Paper book with folded cardboard cover and elastic cord
140 pages, black and white offset, edition of 2,000

designed by Serge Onnen & Jan Haux
publised in 2008
>price $15 -12€
BUY
online at artbook
in Holland Shashin

ISBN-10: 0979918804
ISBN-13: 978-0979918803

Of all the words one uses in a day, the handwritten ones are the most rare. Written with a pen on a small piece of paper or carved with a knife in a tree. Physically made words. Most words are made with a machine such as a laptop or a phone -- words you've never really touched. One learns to make the words by hand as a child, but very soon after that, one starts using a machine. The handwriting years come more or less to an end with the first keyboard, and like drawing it becomes an ancient act. You draw it when you can't find a photo or camera, and you handwrite it when you can't find a keyboard. When it's unreadable to the other, it becomes some kind of drawing. Readability depends on codes and conventions -- just for one person or for billions, like Chinese. This book is a silent space where the signs and words have come to a rest. Where they don't have to act by what they mean.

The index of the book is only online

Drawings/text by: Robert Walser, Andre Masson, Vincent van Gogh, Marcus Raetz, Voebe de Gruyter, Charles Vreuls, Anneliese Coste, Daragh Reeves, Benoit Plateus, Graham Gillmore, Olav Westphalen, Napoleon Bonaparte, CIA, Max Ernst, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Toadhouse, Tanja Smit, Cornelius Cardew, Alexandre Estrela, Roland Topor, FBI, Altagor, Christian Dotremont, Henri Chopin, Lily van der Stokker , Roland Barthes, Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Elmer Brown, Shakers, Juli Gudehus, Kinke Kooi, Serge Onnen, Ascii-art... and more !