La Norda Specialo

Number Five

with illustrations by Erik, Jenny, León, and Maki Tamura.
October 22, 2009. Printed in Seattle, Washington, USA.
6 - 8.5 x 14" pages on purple paper, 500 copies.

Free copies by mail or at these places around the Northwest.

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. download 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. download 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. download 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, 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. download 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

Debra BaxterGretchen BennettLeo Saul BerkDawn CernyLeón FerrariClaire Cowie Eli HansenJenny HeishmanHeide HinrichsGreg Lundgren Jeffry MitchellNicholas NylandMatthew OffenbacherJoseph ParkMary Ann PetersErik PetersonAdrian PiperEmily PothastElise RichmanMartha RoslerSusan RobbRobert SmithsonMaki TamuraWhiting TennisJean TinguelyJoey Veltkamp, and Dan Webb.

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Available free in Seattle: at the Frye Art Museum cafe,  Greg Kucera Gallery,  near the lockers at the Henry Art Gallery,  in women’s bathroom at The HideoutHoward HouseJames Harris GalleryLawrimore Projects,  outside the Seattle Art Museum’s auditoriums,  SOIL Cooperative Art Gallery, and Western Bridge; and in Portland, Oregon: at the Cooley Gallery at Reed College.

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Issues 4 - 7 have been supported by a grant generous from 4Culture. This website is made possible by the kind sponsorship of Jon Kvistad. The contributing artists have very generously donated their time and energy.

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Index

Alaskan Way viaduct, #1 p.2
Anderson, Guy, #4p.3
and/or (Seattle), #4p.2
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
   neutrality of, #2 p.2
   as prisions, #1 p.1
art museums
   as graveyards, #1 p.2
   history of, #2 p.3
art
   accessibility of, #2 pp.1-2
   audience for, #2 pp.2,3
   as a commodity, #2 p.2,5, #4 p.2
   and biology, #4 p.6
   and elitism, #2 pp.3-4
   and everyday life, #4, pp.1-2
   and excrement, #1 pp.1,3
   and intuition, #4 p.5
   and narrative, #4 p.2
   and process, #3 pp.1,4-5
   and remediation, #4 pp.1-4
   quality of, #2 p.2
artists
   economic status of, #2 p.2
   as intellectuals, #4.p1,6
   and process, #3 p.3, #4 p.5
   and shame, #3 p.4
   social responsibility of, #2 p.2
   and vulnerability, #4 p.4
   working class, #3 p.1, #4 p.2
Attia, Kader, #2 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
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
Celmins, Vija, #1 p.2
Chase, William Merritt, #1 p.4
Cobain, Kurt, #1 p.2, #4 p.4 (ill.)
color
   and contingency, #4 p.5
craft
   eradication by capitalism, #4 p.2
Craigslist, #3 p.6
creativity
   and censorship, #3 p.5
   and mysticism, #3 p.5
   and neurology, #3 p.5
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.)
Darth Vader, #2 p.1
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
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
Flickr, #3 p.6
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
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
   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
Howard House, #1 p.3, #4 p.4
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
Lawrimore Projects, #1 p.3
logging
   aesthetics of, #4 p.3
Louise Blouin Foundation, #3 pp.1,6
Lundgren, Greg
   “The Waiting Room”, #4 pp.1,6
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