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La Norda Specialo

Number Eight

Czech Cubism! Naomi Hume: “Czech Cubism: Modernist Spirituality?”, Gretchen Bennett: “There is a crack in everything”, Pavel Janák: “The usefulness of artistic industry (1911-12)”, Klara Glosova: “Czech Cubism from a vantage point of a blind spot”, Matthew Offenbacher: “Why you should care about Czech Cubism”, and Prizmism by Zara, Nina and Joe Park. ⋆ With 16 photo illustrations. March, 2012. 4 - 8.5 x 14" double-sided pages on purple paper, purple ink, 333 copies. Printed in Seattle, Wasington, USA.  ⋆ Free copies at these places around the Northwest or by mail.

Number Seven

D.W. Burnam on ‘subjective detumescence,’ Jo Baer: “Radical attitudes to the gallery (1977-1996)”, Matthew Offenbacher: “Power in the Gift Shop”, Brian Murphy talks about masculinity with Leo Berk, Claudia Fitch, Jeffry Mitchell, and Joey Veltkamp, and five haiku by Ilvs Strauss.  ⋆ With illustrations by Brian, D.W., Matt, and Kimberly Trowbridge. October 15, 2010. 4 - 8.5 x 14" double-sided pages on white paper, purple and black ink, 450 copies. Printed in Seattle, Wasington, USA.  ⋆ Free copies by mail or download the pdf.

Special Issue

Margot Quan Knight: “If art falls in a field and no one hears it”, Davidson Burnam and Dawn Cerny: “More. Hall. Annex.”, Claude Zervas: “Noumenism”, Philip Miner: “Missed encounters”, plus an email from Vic Haven and a story by Jenny Zwick.  ⋆ With illustrations by Margot, Dawn, Philip, Vic and Jenny. April 1, 2010. 3 - 8.5 x 14" double-sided pages on grey paper, 333 copies. Printed in Seattle, Washington, USA.  ⋆ Free copies by mail or download the pdf.

Number Six

Gretchen Bennett and Shaw Osha: “Conversations”, Hollis Frampton: “A Stipulation of Terms from Maternal Hopi”, Nicholas Nyland with Saya Moriyasu, Akio Takamori and Maki Tamura: “A Day in Cathay”, Rebar Niemi: “Heathen Screams into the Fire Punishes Self Moves On”, D.W. Burnam: “Unmediated Melancholy: Debra Baxter’s “point of zero preconception”.”  ⋆ With illustrations by Nicholas, Rebar, Shaw, Gretchen, Dan Carrillo, and Matt Browning. February 26, 2010. 4 - 8.5 x 14" double-sided pages on pink paper, 500 copies. Printed in Seattle, Wasington, USA.  ⋆ Free copies by mail or download the pdf.

Number Five

Erik Peterson: “In Defense of Painting”, León Ferrari: “Written Painting (1963)”, Leo Saul Berk and Claire Cowie take time to talk, Jenny Heishman: “Do you believe in heaven above, do you believe in love?”, Mary Ann Peters: “The Split (notes on fear and subliminal forces run amuck or tamed)”.  ⋆ With illustrations by Erik, Jenny, León, and Maki Tamura. October 22, 2009. Printed in Seattle, Washington, USA. 3 - 8.5 x 14" double-sided pages on purple paper, 500 copies.  ⋆ Free copies by mail or download the pdf.

Number Four

Greg Lundgren: “The Waiting Room”, Matthew Offenbacher: “Green Gothic”, Elise Richman: “Nicholas Nyland’s Fall into Color”, Martha Rosler: “Untitled Statement 1971”, Whiting Tennis: “This Head Mechanism”.  ⋆ With illustrations by Matt, Elise, and Dawn Cerny. June 2009. Printed in Seattle, Washington, USA. 3 - 8.5 x 14" double-sided pages on blue paper, 500 copies.  ⋆ Free copies by mail or download the pdf.

Number Three

Debra Baxter: “Neutral Nude Part Two”, Jeffry Mitchell: “Thoughts on Roy McMakin’s Purplish”, Joey Veltkamp: “It Began with a Chair ...”, Susan Robb: “Socialites, Scientists, and Big Leather Handbags”, Emily Pothast: “Fleeting Moments in an Infinite Flux”, Jean Tinguely: “Untitled Statement 1961”.  ⋆ With illustrations by Jeffry, Joey, Emily, and Nicholas Nyland. February 2009. Printed in Seattle, Washington, USA. 3 - 8.5 x 14" double-sided pages on green paper, 500 copies.  ⋆ Free copies by mail or download the pdf.

Number Two

Dan Webb: “I Heart Public Art”, Heide Hinrichs: “Only There”, Debra Baxter: “Neutral Nude Part One”, Adrian Piper: “Cheap Art Utopia”, Matthew Offenbacher: “Black Fu Dogs”.  ⋆ With illustrations by Dan, Matt, and Heide. September 2008. Printed in Seattle, Washington, USA. 3 - 8.5 x 14" double-sided pages on yellow paper, 333 copies.  ⋆ Free copies by mail or download the pdf.

Number One

Gretchen Bennett: “You and I Have Memories ... / A Philosophy of Street Art”, Robert Smithson: “Cultural Confinement”, Joseph Park: “Spokane Interview”, Matthew Offenbacher: “The Underground Tour”, and Eli Hansen on architecture and pornography.  ⋆ With illustrations by Gretchen, Robert, and Matt. April 2008. Printed in Seattle, Washington, USA. 2 - 8.5 x 14" double-sided pages on brown paper, 333 copies.  ⋆ Free copies by mail or download the pdf.

About

La Norda Specialo features writing by visual artists and their friends in the Pacific Northwest. Critical, theoretical, narrative, essay, review, interview, manifesto, speculative, visionary, practical, short or long, or somewhere in between. Published four times a year. Edited by Matthew Offenbacher. Distributed free around Seattle, Washington.

Contributors

Jo BaerDebra BaxterGretchen BennettLeo Saul BerkMatt BrowningD.W. BurnamDan CarrilloDawn CernyClaire CowieLeón FerrariClaudia FitchHollis FramptonKlara Glosova Eli HansenVictoria HavenJenny HeishmanHeide HinrichsNaomi HumePavel JanákMargot Quan KnightGreg Lundgren Philip MinerJeffry MitchellSaya MoriyasuBrian MurphyRebar NiemiNicholas NylandMatthew OffenbacherShaw OshaJoseph ParkMary Ann PetersErik PetersonAdrian PiperEmily PothastElise RichmanMartha RoslerSusan RobbRobert SmithsonIlvs StraussAkio TakamoriMaki TamuraWhiting TennisJean TinguelyKimberly TrowbridgeJoey VeltkampDan WebbClaude Zervas, and Jenny Zwick.

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Index

Alaskan Way viaduct, #1 p.2
and/or (Seattle), #4 p.2, #7 p.6
Anderson, Guy, #4 p.3
Andrews, Richard, #1 pp.1,4
Angelico, il Beato, #3 p.3
Antonioni, Michelangelo, #6 p.1
Apple Computer Inc., #6 p.5
archeology, fictional, #6 pp.1,6-7
architecture
   authority, #1 p.3, #7 pp.4
   shelter, #1 pp.1
   desire, #1 pp.1,4
   proto-American, #6 p.6
art collectors, in Seattle, #2 p.4
art critics, #2 p.2
art dealers, #2 p.2
art galleries
   alternatives, #7 p.3
   audience, #2 p.4, #7 pp.2-3
   constraints, #5 p.4, #7 p.3
   free agency, #7 p.3
   neutrality, #2 p.2, #7 p.3
   as prisons, #1 p.1
   as studio, #5 p.5
art museums
   authority, #7 pp.4-6
   as graveyards, #1 p.2
   as hosts, #7 p.6
   history, #2 p.3
art
   accessibility, #2 pp.1-2, #5 p.2
   ambivalence, #7 p.3
   audience, #2 pp.2,3, #5 pp.2,4, #7 pp.2,4-6
   commodity, #2 p.2,5, #4 p.2, #6 p.1, #7 p.3
   biology, #4 p.6, #5 p.5, #7 p.3
   elitism, #2 pp.3-4, #7 p.3
   emotion, #5 pp.1-2, #6 p.3
   everyday life, #4, pp.1-2, #5 p.6, #6 pp.1-2, #7 pp.2-3
   excrement, #1 pp.1,3
   intuition, #4 p.5, #5 p.2
   irony, #5 p.2
   narcissism, #7 pp.3,7
   narrative, #4 p.2
   ornament, #6 pp.1,7
   process, #3 pp.1,4-5, #5 pp.5-6, #7 pp.2-3
   quality, #2 p.2, #5 p.6, #6 p.1
   religion, #5 pp.1,2,5
   remediation, #4 pp.1-4
Arthur, Bea, #6 p.1
artists
   community, #5 p.1,4-5, #7 pp.4-6
   economic status, #2 p.2, #7 p.5
   education, #5 pp.1,2,5
   fear, #5 pp.1,4, #6 p.2
   freedom, #5 p.6
   and influence, #6, p.7
   as intellectuals, #4.p1,6
   masculinity, #7 pp.1-7,8
   performance, #7 p.4
   power, #5 p.5, #7 pp.1,4-6
   process, #3 p.3, #4 p.5, #5 pp.3-4,6, #6 pp.1, 4-5, #7 pp.4-6
   romance between, #5 pp.1,5-6
   shame, #3 p.4, #5 p.3,6
   social responsibility, #2 p.2, #5.p.4
   vulnerability, #4 p.4, #5 pp.1,3,5-6, #7 p.4-6
   working class, #3 p.1, #4 p.2
Attia, Kader, #2 p.1
Baer, Jo, “Radical Attitudes to the Gallery”, #7 pp.1,3
Bainbridge Island, #5 p.1
baldness, #7 p.8
Bataille, Georges, informe, #1 p.3
Batchelor, David, Chromophobia, #4 p.1
Baxter, Deb, #6 pp.1,3-4
  “Neutral Nude Part One”, #2 pp.1-2
  “Neutral Nude Part Two”, #3 pp.1,4
   False Hope, #6 p.1 (ill.)
   Launching Pad, #6 p.4
   Sweetness, video, #3 p.4
   Howard House exhibition, #6 pp.1,3-4
   Or Gallery exhibition, #6 p.3
Beaumont, Linda, #7 p.7
beauty, #5 p.2, #7 p.7
   process, #3 p.3
Beauty and the Beast (fairytale), #4 p.2
Bennett, Gretchen
  “Conversations...”, #6 pp.1,4-5
  “You and I Have Memories Longer Than the Road: a philosophy of street art”, #1 pp.1-2
   Dead Christmas Tree, #1 p.1 (ill.)
   End This Night If It Be Your Will, #5 p.6 (ill.)
   Have a Hangover, #4 p.4 (ill.)
   Hello, exhibition at Howard House, #4 p.4
   Lamp Ball, #5 p.6 (ill.)
   Nirvana (Skid Row, Ted Ed Fred, Pen Cap Chew, Bliss), #5 p.6 (ill.)
   Work Song (exhibition), #7 pp.4-5
   Nirvana, #4 p.4, #5 p.6
   remediation, #4 p.4
Berger, John, #2 pp.1-2, #3 pp.1,4
Berk, Leo Saul, #5 p.4
  “One couple makes time to talk”, #5 pp.1,5-6
  “Masculinity Conversation”, #7 pp.1,7
   Spider Hole, #7 p.8
   Work Song (exhibition), #7 pp.4-5
bioremediation, #3 p.3
Black Panther Party, #3 p.1
Blouin, Louise #3 pp.1,6
Bourgeois, Louise, #1 p.4, #7 p.7
Bowman, Midge, #1 p.4
Brâncusi, Constantin, Endless Column, #6 p.5
Brakhage, Jane, #6 p.7
Brakhage, Stan, #6 p.7
Brendon, Nicholas, #6 p.5
Brooklyn (New York), #1 p.1, #6 p.1
Browning, Matt
   masthead (ill.), #6 p.1,
   Tradition as Adaptive Strategy (exhibition), #7 pp.1-3 (ill.)
Bruce, Chris, #1 pp.1,4
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, (television show), #4 p.4, #6 p.5
Burden, Chris, #1 p.4
Burger, John
   Ways of Seeing, #2 p.1
   and women, #2 p.2
Burnam, D.W.
  “Unmediated Melancholy: Debra Baxter’s ’point of zero preconception’”, #6 pp.1,3-4
   untitled essay, #7 pp.1-3
Burroughs, William, #6 p.3
Caillois, Roger, #7 p.3
camouflage, #7 p.3
camp, #6 p.7
capitalism, #4 p.2
Carr, Emily
   Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky, #4 p.3 (ill.)
   logging, #4 p.3
Cathay, #6 pp.1,7-8
cats, #5 p.4
Celmins, Vija, #1 p.2
chamomile flowers, #5 p.3
Chase, William Merritt, #1 p.4
Chatterjee, Raj, #6 p.6
Chickadel, Ben,Work Song (exhibition), #7 pp.4-5
chinoiserie, #6 pp.1,7-8
cinematic technology, fictional, #6 p.6
civics, #6 p.4
Cobain, Kurt, #1 p.2,#4 p.4 (ill.),#5 p.5, #6 p.5
Codrington, Andrea, #6 p.3
color
   contingency, #4 p.5
   painting, #5 p.1, 3
Cornish College of the Arts, #5 p.4
Cowie, Claire, #5 p.4
   The Gift Shop Presents Presents (exhibition), #7 pp.5-6
  “One couple makes time to talk”, 5# pp.1,5-6
craft, eradication by capitalism, #4 p.2
Craigslist, #3 p.6
creativity
   censorship, #3 p.5
   control, #5 p.6, #6 pp.1-2
   faith, #5 pp.1-3,5
   mysticism, #3 p.5
   neurology, #3 p.5
   process, #6 p.4
   the repressed, #5 p.4,6, #6 pp.1-2
Cufley, Tyler, Work Song (exhibition), #7 pp.4-5
curators
   audience, #1 p.4
   limitations, #1 p.2
   trust, #1 p.4
Cure, The (musical group), #7 p.8
Daly, Drew, #3 pp.1,3
   Division: Adirondack Chair, #3 p.1 (ill.)
   Mirror Merge, #3 p.3
   Subject: Remnant, #3 p.3 (ill.)
dancing, and vulnerabiliy, #5 p.5
Darling, Michael, #5 p.2
Darth Vader, #2 p.1
David, Larry, #5 p.1
de Beer, Sue
   Hans und Gretel Filmstill (pipebomb), #5 p.5
death, #6 pp.5, 8
   meditation, #3 p.2
   movement, #3 p.2
   the undead, #4 pp.1-4
decay
   symbolism, #3 p.3, #4 p.3
   vegetables, #4 p.3
deconstruction, #5 p.2
desire
   and color, #4 pp.1,5
   poetry, #4 p.5
Dion, Mark, Neukom Vivarium, #4 p.2
Donovan, Tara, #3 p.3
Duchamp, Marcel, #1 p.3, #2 p.4
Elliot, Eric, #1 p.3
Elliot, T.S., #3 p.4
Elsen, Albert, #6 p.3
Eno, Brian, #2 p.5
erosion, #3 p.3
excrement, #1 pp.1,3
exoticism, #6 pp.1,7-8
fact vs fiction, #5 pp.4-6, #6 pp.1,6-7
femininity, #7 p.7
feminism, #3 p.4, #4 p.6, #7 p.7
fermentation, #4 p.3
Ferrari, León
  “Written painting (1963)”, #5 pp.1,3
   Cuadro Escrito, #5 p.3 (ill.)
Fitch, Claudia, #6 p.7
  “Masculinity Conversation”, #7 pp.1,7
Flickr, #3 p.6
Fluxus, #6 p.5
Focke, Anne, “A Pragmatic Response to Real Circumstances”, #7 p.6
Fontana, Lucio, #5 pp.3
Fotuhi, Majid, #3 p.6
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, #6 p.8
Fredericksen, Eric, Work Song (exhibition), #7 pp.4-5
Freize Fair, the, #3 p.6
French Revolution, the, #2 p.3
Freud, Sigmund, #1 p.1
Friends, (television show), #6 p.5
Frye Art Museum, history of, #1 p.4
Fu Dogs, #2 p.1, #2 p.6 (ill.), #6 p.7 (ill.)
furniture, and class, #3 p.2, #6 p.3
Galbraith, John Kenneth, The Anatomy of Power, #7, pp.1, 4-6
Gas Works Park, #1 p.3, #4 pp.2-3
genocide, #1 p.3
geodesic map, #6 p.5
gift exchange, #7 pp.5-6
Global Creative Leadership Conference, the
   anecdotes, #3 pp.1,6
Goldberg, Rube, #6 p.1
Gonzalez-Torres, Felix
   Untitled (Perfect Lovers), #2 pp.5-6 (ill.)
Grade, John, #4 p.3
graduate school, #7 p.7
Graves, Morris #4 p.3
   Bird Sensing the Essential Insanities, (1944), #4 p.4
   Bird Experiencing Light, (1969), #4 p.4
   Wounded Gull, (1945), #4 p.4
Greenwood, Wynne, New Report, #3 p.4
Greer, Mandy, Phoenix, #2 p.4 (ill.)
Guangyi, Wang, Cold War Aesthetics, #3 p.6
Guinness Book of World Records, #7 p.2
Guston, Philip, #5 p.1
Haacke, Hans, #1 p.4
Haag, Richard
   Blodel Reserve, #4 p.3
   Gas Works Park, #1 p.3, #4 pp.2-3
   and ruins, #4 pp.2-3
Hamilton, Ann, #1 p.4
Hamilton, Charles, #6 p.2
Hansen, Eli
   on architecture and pornography, #1 pp.1,4
   exhibition at the Helm gallery, #4 p.3
Harbison, Robert, #6 p.3
Hardy, K8
   Burning Mud Women Mud Wrestling, #3 p.4
   Fashionfashion, #3 p.4
   queer politics, #3 p.4
Harries, Karsten, #2 p.5
Harris, James, see James Harris Gallery
Hashemi, Jason, The Gift Shop Presents Presents (exhibition), #7 pp.5-6
Hasting, Lord Michael, #3 p.6
Heishman, Jenny
  “Do you believe in heaven above, do you believe in love?”, #5 pp.1,5
   Mud Thing, #1 p.3 (ill.)
   skepticism of romanticism, #1 p.3
Held, Robin, #1 p.4
Hello Kitty, #6 p.8
Helm Gallery, #4 p.3
Henry Art Gallery, #7, pp.4-6
   history of, #1 p.4
Herzog, Werner
   Encounters at the End of the World, #6 p.5
Hewitt, Corin
   exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum, #4 p.3
Hill, Gary, #1 p.4
Hinrichs, Heide
  “Only There”, #2 pp.1,5
   masthead, #2 p.1 (ill.)
Hirata, Jason #7 p.6 (ill.)
   The Gift Shop Presents Presents (exhibition), #7 pp.5-6
homosexuality, #6 p.7
   and the Northwest school, #4 p.3-4
honesty, #4 p.6, #5 pp.1,2
horses
   symbolism, #5 pp.1,3,5
   physiology and psychology, #5 p.5
Howard House, #1 p.3, #4 p.4, #5 pp.4-6, #6 p.3
hunting, #7 p.7
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique, #3 p.4
institutional critique, #6 p.4, #7 p.6
intution, #4 p.5
Ishigami, Junya, #6 p.5
Jackson, Michael, #6 p.1
James Harris Gallery, #3 p.1, #6 p.8
Judd, Donald, #3 p.1
kabbala, #3 p.5
Kangas, Matthew, #4 p.4
Kapoor, Anish, Cloud Gate, #2 p.4 (ill.)
KAWS, #1 p.1
Keinholtz, Ed and Nancy, #1 p.4
Kelley, Mike, #6 p.3
Khartoum, #6 p.5
kitsch, #7 p.3