Clouds is a small publishing house involved in the publication of art books in Aotearoa New Zealand.
We are primarily interested in increasing the supply of interesting tomes and slimmer volumes both about and by artists.
We are Warren Olds, Gwynneth Porter, Bryn Roberts,
Jack Hadley, Andrew Kennedy, Yuna Lee. Clouds is based in Newton, Auckland.
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Nova Paul, Form Next to Form Next to Form
(with Dent-De-Leone)
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Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Green with Envy
All the Cunning Stunts, SO GAY!,
published by All the Cunning Stunts
Daniel Malone, Black Market Next To My Name,
co-published with Hopkinson Cundy
Louise Menzies, Pursuit of an Ideal
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Volume 2., a document-extension of the Artspace project, co-published with Artspace
025 Jan Bryant and Leonhard Emmerling,
PX: Thoughts on Painting
026 Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People: the Book of the Zine
020 Julian Dashper, This is not writing,
co-published with Michael Lett
023 Pūrākau / Myths and Legends / Mitos y Leyendas
022 Sean Kerr, Bruce is in the garden; so someone is in the garden
017 Peter Robinson’s Ack and other Abdications,
co-published with Artspace
018 Sriwhana Spong, Nijinsky,
co-published with Michael Lett
016 Bruce Russell Left-handed Blows: Writing on sound, 1993–2009
015 Daniel Knorr Pukapuka Tohunga Mahi Toi,
edition published with Artspace
014 Sean Kerr Pop, co-published with Michael Lett
012 The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, co-published with Aotearoa Digital Arts
011 Dan Arps' Sun Seeker, co-published with The Physics Room, Neon Parc and Michael Lett
010 Paul Winstanley Threshold: Paintings 1989–2007,
co-published with Artspace
009 Volume 1., a document-extension of the Artspace project, co-published with Artspace
008 Teststrip: a history of an artist-run space (1992-1997)
007 Meg Cranston, Hot Pants in a Cold Cold World,
co-published with Artspace
006 Ava Seymour, The White House Years
005 Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
004 Judy Darragh, Arts Society
003 Tessa Laird, Shards of the Jealous Potter
002 Sweet Punch: recent Nordic video
p001 Bruce Barber & Emma Bugden, Party Without Party
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All the Cunning Stunts, SO GAY!,
published by All the Cunning Stunts
Connect, published by Colophon
Ruth Buchanan Lying Freely, published by Jan van Eyck Acadamie and Casco
Louise Menzies & Warren Olds, Mushroom magazine poster
David Bennewith, Suggestions poster, Joseph Churchward's suggested designs for TV 2 logo
Speculation, NZ Venice Project 2007,
published by Artspace
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Peter Robinson: Modern Standards (essays by Francis Pound, Lauren Winstone and Luke Willis Thompson)
Anne Noble, The End of the Earth (writing by Lloyd Jones, Richard Panek and Anne Noble)
A book of interviews with Jim Allen conducted by Tony Green and Phil Dadson
Michael Stevenson & Jan Verwoert, Animal Spirits
Daniel Malone's Muddy Footprints
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Our publications are available from the following stockists:
Artspace, Auckland
Parsons Bookshop, Auckland
Pah Homestead/TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland
s/f, Auckland
Unity Books, Auckland
University Bookshop, Auckland
Tivoli, Waiheke Island
Wheelers Books, Auckland
Gordon Harris, Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch
Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Pakuranga, Manukau
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Bruce McKenzie Booksellers, Palmerston North
City Gallery, Wellington
Unity Books, Wellington
Parsons Books & Music, Wellington
Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington
Page and Blackmore Booksellers, Nelson
Christchurch Art Gallery
Scorpio Books, Christchurch
The Physics Room, Christchurch
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
Please contact us if you are interested in becoming a stockist. We offer standard trade terms to retail partners.
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Our publications are distributed in the USA and Canada by RAM.
In Germany, Austria and Switzerland our publications are distributed by Vice Versa Vertrieb.
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PO Box 68-187
Newton, Auckland 1145
Aotearoa New Zealand
+64 9 309 2604
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Form Next to Form Next to Form is a book made from stills from Nova Paul’s experimental 16mm film This is not Dying (2010) that was made at the film-maker’s marae Maungarongo in the north of New Zealand’s North Island. Using an early cinematic optical printing process of three-colour separation Paul's films render the landscape in prismatic shards of technicolour. In this book stills are printed using RGB colours designed to echo the optical process of the three-colour separation film itself.
The traditional Maori love song ‘Whakarongo Mai,’ played by famed Maori show band figure and Kaumatua Ben Tawhiti is played on slide and steel guitar for Paul's film and reconfigured here by Karl Steven on 7" LP.
Two pieces of writing are included: Karl Steven’s liner notes on musician Ben Tawhiti; and Gwynneth Porter and Nova Paul's essay ‘The Virtues of Trees’ that grew from conversations over a year, spanning ideas of sovereignty, resistance, film analysis and art history, genealogy and care of self and the world around us.
The publication has been made possible with support from the Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, and the School of Art and Design Research Fund, AUT University.
Texts by Nova Paul, Gwynneth Porter and Dr Karl Steven
Published by Clouds and Dent-de-Leone
ISBN: 978-0-9864628-7-0
Softcover
68 pages + 7-inch vinyl (1:12 Records)
41 colour images
English
Edition: 1000
Dimensions: 180 x 300 x 16mm
Individually shrinkwrapped
NZD$35
BOOK LAUNCH & RECORD RELEASE:
SUNDAY 03 MARCH, 2—5PM
GOLDEN DAWN, 134 PONSONBY RD, AUCKLAND
Clouds publishing
PO Box 68-187
Newton, Auckland 1145
New Zealand
+64 9 309 2604
www.clouds.co.nz