SEE IT ALL AS PRODUCTS OF PRAGMATICS
Paul Elliman, Tom Lax and Jon Bywater
The first installment of The Social Life of the Record, a series of original texts by musicians, fans, critics, collectors, dealers, label owners etc. — reflecting on recording, releasing, listening to, filing, flipping and DJing records today.
Addressing questions parallel to those asked by Paraguay Press’s established The Social Life of the Book, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere plays off its format and inaugurates the new series The Social Life of the Record. It is published as a component of the exhibition of the same name held at castillo/corrales December 2012 – January 2013, and extends the project’s triangulation of the identity of New Zealand art and music. London-based artist Paul Elliman evokes relationships between sound and geography; Philadelphia label owner Tom Lax chronicles his involvement with New Zealand music as a fan from afar; New Zealand critic Jon Bywater reflects on vinyl records as a means to ‘physical thinking’; and french collectors Jedrzej Zagorski, François-Xavier Hubert, Sandra Reignoux, Jean-Louis Cayron and Fred Paquet contribute photographs of some of their New Zealand possessions; crossing Hans Christian Andersen with Wilkie Collins.
The Social Life of the Record #1, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, 2013
Edited by Jon Bywater, Julien Laugier and Louise Menzies
Designed by Louise Menzies and Julien Laugier
English
Edition of 300
24 pages. 14,8 × 21,5 cm
black & white
ISBN: 978-2-918252-20-7
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