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La Norda Specialo

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 at these places around the Northwest.

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 at these places around the Northwest.

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.

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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

Debra BaxterGretchen BennettLeo Saul BerkMatt BrowningD.W. BurnamDan CarrilloDawn CernyClaire CowieLeón FerrariHollis Frampton Eli HansenVictoria HavenJenny HeishmanHeide HinrichsMargot Quan KnightGreg Lundgren Philip MinerJeffry MitchellSaya MoriyasuRebar NiemiNicholas NylandMatthew OffenbacherShaw OshaJoseph ParkMary Ann PetersErik PetersonAdrian PiperEmily PothastElise RichmanMartha RoslerSusan RobbRobert SmithsonAkio TakamoriMaki TamuraWhiting TennisJean TinguelyJoey VeltkampDan WebbClaude Zervas, and Jenny Zwick.

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Index

Alaskan Way viaduct, #1 p.2
and/or (Seattle), #4 p.2
Anderson, Guy, #4 p.3
Andrews, Richard, #1 pp.1,4
Angelico, il Beato, #3 p.3
architecture
   as authority, #1 p.3
   as shelter, #1 pp.1
   and desire, #1 pp.1,4
art collectors
   in Seattle, #2 p.4
art critics, #2 p.2
art dealers, #2 p.2
art galleries
   audience for, #2 p.4
   constraints of, #5 p.4
   neutrality of, #2 p.2
   as prisons, #1 p.1
art museums
   as graveyards, #1 p.2
   history of, #2 p.3
art
   accessibility of, #2 pp.1-2, #5 p.2
   audience for, #2 pp.2,3, #5 p.2, #5 p.4
   as a commodity, #2 p.2,5, #4 p.2
   and biology, #4 p.6, #5 p.5
   and elitism, #2 pp.3-4
   and everyday life, #4, pp.1-2, #5 p.6
   and excrement, #1 pp.1,3
   and intuition, #4 p.5, #5 p.2
   and irony, #5 p.2
   and narrative, #4 p.2
   process, #3 pp.1,4-5, #5 pp.5-6
   and religion, #5 pp.1,2,5
   and remediation, #4 pp.1-4
   quality of, #2 p.2, #5 p.6
artists
   and community, #5 p.1,4-5
   economic status of, #2 p.2
   education, #5 pp.1,2,5
   and freedom, #5 p.6
   as intellectuals, #4.p1,6
   romance between, #5 pp.1,5-6
   and power, #5 p.5
   and process, #3 p.3, #4 p.5, #5 pp.3-4,6
   and shame, #3 p.4, #5 p.3,6
   social responsibility of, #2 p.2, #5.p.4
   and vulnerability, #4 p.4, #5 pp.1,3,5-6
   working class, #3 p.1, #4 p.2
Attia, Kader, #2 p.1
Bainbridge Island, #5 p.1
Bataille, Georges
   informe, #1 p.3
Batchelor, David
   Chromophobia, #4 p.1
Baxter, Deb
   “Neutral Nude Part One”, #2 pp.1-2
   “Neutral Nude Part Two”, #3 pp.1,4
   Sweetness, video, #3 p.4
beauty
   and process, #3 p.3
   and the beast, #4 p.2
Bennett, Gretchen
   “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.)
   Have a Hangover, #4 p.4 (ill.)
   Hello, (exhibition at Howard House), #4 p.4
   and Nirvana, #4 p.4
   and 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
bioremediation, #3 p.3
Black Panther Party, #3 p.1
Blouin, Louise #3 pp.1,6
Bourgeois, Louise, #1 p.4
Bowman, Midge, #1 p.4
Brooklyn (New York), #1 p.1
Bruce, Chris, #1 pp.1,4
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, (television show), #4 p.4
Burden, Chris, #1 p.4
Burger, John
   Ways of Seeing, #2 p.1
   and women, #2 p.2
capitalism, #4 p.2
Carr, Emily
   Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky, #4 p.3 (ill.)
   and logging, #4 p.3
cats, #5 p.4
Celmins, Vija, #1 p.2
chamomile flowers, #5 p.3
Chase, William Merritt, #1 p.4
Cobain, Kurt, #1 p.2,#4 p.4 (ill.)
color
   and contingency, #4 p.5
Cornish College of the Arts, #5 p.4
Cowie, Claire, #5 p.4
   “One couple makes time to talk”, #5 pp.1,5-6
craft
   eradication by capitalism, #4 p.2
Craigslist, #3 p.6
creativity
   and censorship, #3 p.5
   and control, #5 p.6
   and faith, #5 pp.1-3, 5
   and mysticism, #3 p.5
   and neurology, #3 p.5
   and the repressed, #5 p.4,6
curators
   limitations of, #1 p.2
   and audience, #1 p.4
   and trust, #1 p.4
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
   and meditation, #3 p.2
   and movement, #3 p.2
   and the undead, #4 pp.1-4
decay
   and symbolism, #3 p.3, #4 p.3
   and 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
Eno, Brian, #2 p.5
erosion, #3 p.3
excrement, #1 pp.1,3
feminism, #3 p.4, #4 p.6
fermentation, #4 p.3
Ferrari, León
   “Written painting (1963)”, #5 pp.1,3
   Cuadro Escrito, #5 p.3 (ill.)
Flickr, #3 p.6
Fontana, Lucio, #5 pp.3
Fotuhi, Majid, #3 p.6
Freize Fair, the, #3 p.6
French Revolution, the, #2 p.3
Freud, Sigmund, #1 p.1
Frye Art Museum, history of, #1 p.4
Fu Dogs, #2 p.1
Gas Works Park, #1 p.3, #4 pp.2-3
genocide, #1 p.3
Global Creative Leadership Conference, the
   anecdotes, #3 pp.1,6
Gonzalez-Torres, Felix
   Untitled (Perfect Lovers), #2 pp.5-6 (ill.)
Grade, John, #4 p.3
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
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
Hansen, Eli
   on architecture and pornography, #1 pp.1,4
   exhibition at the Helm gallery, #4 p.3
Hardy, K8
   Burning Mud Women Mud Wrestling, #3 p.4
   Fashionfashion, #3 p.4
   and queer politics, #3 p.4
Harries, Karsten, #2 p.5
Harris, Jim, #3 p.1
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
Helm Gallery, #4 p.3
Henry Art Gallery, history of, #1 p.4
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.)
homosexuality
   and the Northwest school, #4 p.3-4
honesty, #4 p.6
horses, symbolism of, #5 p.1,5
   physiology and psychology, #5 p.5
Howard House, #1 p.3, #4 p.4, #5 pp.4-6
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique, #3 p.4
intution, #4 p.5
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
Klein Yves, #5 pp.3
Lawrimore Projects, #1 p.3, #5 p.4
logging
   aesthetics of, #4 p.3