Cubitt Guest Events: Dot Dot Dot / F.R David Issue Launch and Talk

Curated by Bart van der Heide

Monday 14 January 2008, 7:00PM to 9:00PM

Double Launch on invitation by Will Holder and Dexter Sinister

This was a simultaneous launch of F.R. DAVID “The Stuff and Nonsense Issue” and Dot Dot Dot Issue 15 in London and New York. Both publications were available for sale together for the special price of £12.50 or $25. and accompanied by a live lecture from the other location. Cubitt Gallery's London consisted of a live talk by Stuart Bailey, DDD editor, from New York, while Dexter Sinister in New York held a live talk at their 7pm GMT-5hrs with Will Holder, F.R. DAVID editor, from London.

The second issue of F.R. DAVID, “The Stuff and Nonsense Issue” is concerned with the thing-ness (das Ding) of words, the materiality of language and its non-linguistic or extra-linguistic qualities.

With contributions by Goethe, Stephen Bann, Eugen Gomringer, John & Yoko, Experimental Jetset, Matt Mullican, Steven Shearer, Martin Borman, Marc Nagtzaam, Scott Myles, Barry Johnston, Bertrand Russell, Samuel Nyholm, James Lee Byars, Robert Ashley, Enrico David, Sue Tompkins, Jonathan Meese, Matias Faldbakken, David Thorpe. (a.o)

– F.R. DAVID is a journal, published by de Appel, Amsterdam, which focuses on writing as the core material of a number of visual artists but equally as a mode that exists parallel to or in service of the visual.

Since its conception in 2000 DDD has immatured into a jocuserious fanzine-journal-orphanage based on true stories deeply concerned with art-design-music-language-literature-architecture and uptight optipessimistic stoppy/revelatory ghostwriting by friendly spirits mapping b-sides and out-takes pushing for a resolution in bleak midwinter through late summer with local and general aesthetics wound on an ever tightening coil.

– Dot Dot Dot 15, produced on location at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, between 24 October and 7 November 2007 by Mai Abu ElDahab, Stuart Bailey, Walead Beshty, Sarah Crowner, Joyce Guley, Will Holder, Anthony Huberman, Polona Kuzman, David Reinfurt, Joke Robaard, Jan Verwoert and Jan Dirk de Wilde on Ricoh TC2, Ricoh JP8500 and Riso V8000 stencil printing machines in an edition of 3000.