PUBLISHING IS ALSO THE PRODUCTION OF A PUBLIC

 
2014

• Cinéclub with MARTIN BECK, about ARTHUR RUSSELL, by MATT WOLF
• Looking for Ana with ERIC BAUDELAIRE
• Transatlantic launch
• Slideshow reading with QUINN LATIMER
• A springtime booklaunch with THOMAS LAWSON
• Next episode with PETER BIL’AK
• Primary Information with JAMES HOFF

2013

• Not so natural selection with CORINA NEUENSCHWANDER and ROLAND FRÜH
• Afternoon cocktail! with ATLAS PROJECTOS, MARIE MURACCIOLE, and EVERYONE AGREES
• Launch of: “Making Art Global (Part 2): ‘Magiciens de la Terre’ 1989”
• Windowlicking with a view on history: POSTDOCUMENT #5
• Talking about Pleasure with JOHN BEESON
• Fishing News! WILL HOLDER presents F.R.DAVID #R

2012

• A peggysuesque evening with JON BYWATER for EREWHON CALLING
• Putting RICHARD KOSTELANETZ’s life on auction
• JESSICA WARBOYS, GODA BUDVYTYTE and MARGARETA VON OSWALD slip away from retiring home to present VANELEPHANT
• Under the gazebo with SHANA LUTKER of X-TRA
• When symposia could still go haywire: MARTIN BECK about THE ASPEN COMPLEX
• ∆⅄⎈ is no cursing explain the editorial team and BENJAMIN SEROR
• A crash-course in the history of graphic design by SARA DE BONDT and CATHERINE DE SMET
• Who wrote this? PETER WÄCHTLER reading from THE SET and other texts
• At last: Portlandia meets c/c for a PUBLICATION STUDIO PARTY
• The Last Days of Riso with EDITION TAUBE
• A sales-rep presentation of COMMERCE BY ARTISTS by LUIS JACOB

 

2011

• Gone for the holidays with HANNES LOICHINGER and TOBIAS KASPAR for the first PROVENCE CITY GUIDE: NICE
• A very tasty Saturday afternoon with ABAKE and AURELIEN FROMENT for PULMO MARINA, and for our in-house graphic design dept.
• Stripping of OWEN LAND: DIALOGUES with PHILIPPE PIROTTE and CHRIS SHARP
• GIRARD et GIROUD, WEST and MAGNUSSON: Lettrisme toujours
• A four seasons w/o pepperoni, with BACK COVER and RAPHAEL ZARKA

 

2010

• A krispy kreme reading of PARROT by KARL LARSSON
• The birthday party of MAY, and the first S7B BLOWOUT SALE
• Frenchmen at their best: JEAN-PHILIPPE ANTOINE, CHRISTOPHE GALLOIS and PIERRE LEGUILLON for THE SPACE OF WORDS
• No time for second thoughts with BRIAN KENNON of 2ND CANNONS BOOKS
• WILL HOLDER and FALKE PISANO sont dans un bateau with FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Changing our vision with books thanks to COCO FUSCO and MATHIEU K. ABONNENC
• Hello, Goodbye, Thank You, Again, Messieurs de BACK COVER
• A financial presentation of VENEER MAGAZINE by AARON FLINT JAMISON

 

2009

• A reading about inbetweenness by EILEEN MYLES from THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ICELAND
• A summer ride through the future with MARK VON SCHLEGELL
• A Generation X reading by JEFF RIAN for PURPLE YEARS
• The Baptism party of MAY
• A conversation not about the Painted Word between R.H. QUAYTMAN and AMY SILLMAN
• Playful self-historicization with VERONIQUE BACHETTA and BENJAMIN VALENZA for L’EFFET PAPILLON 1989 – 2007
• Some eye-opening tales of tomorrow by JASON SIMON

 

2008

• A budgie talk by MARIA FUSCO for THE HAPPY HYPOCRITE
• Hanging on with RAIMUNDAS MALASAUSKAS and WILL HOLDER for DOT DOT DOT #16 and F.R. DAVID #3
• What is a good or a poor match? With the team of BACK COVER and ALEJANDRO CESARCO from A.R.T PRESS
• Yet another masterwork from OEI presented by J.J. MAGNUSSON and KIM WEST
• Ett landskap av känslor med KARL HOLMQVIST

 

2007

• A founding conversation with CLEMENTINE DELISS about M11

 

Primary Information double book launch with James Hoff

Friday, February 7th, 7 PM
With–finally at Section 7 Books–James Hoff!

We’re very pleased to invite you – even if last minute, sort of – to an evening with the multi-talented, Brooklyn-based, artist and publisher James Hoff.

The co-founder, with Miriam Katzeff, of Primary Information, a non-for-profit arts organization focusing on publishing artists’ books and republishing documents, journals, zines, or experimental poetry—from Avalanche to Lutz Bacher, from Lee Lozano to Real Life Magazine— James Hoff will present the latest releases of PI: Aram Saroyan’s Complete Minimal Poems, and the reprint of the legendary Anthology of Concrete Poetry edited by Emmett Williams at Something Else Press in 1967.

We’ll talk with James Hoff about his approach to independent publishing, how he’s been granting his readers access to amazing archival treasures, the circulation of counter-culture in the age of the digital, underground writing technologies and the love of printed matter.

Learn more, read more, at primaryinformation.org