Clouds is a new publishing imprint involved in the publication of art books in Aotearoa New Zealand.
We are primarily interested in increasing the supply of interesting (beyond PR) artists' books, documents and essays.
Clouds also provides publication production assistance to artists and organisations planning interesting projects and requiring design and sub-editing support.
NEW
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Ruth Buchanan Lying Freely, published by Jan van Eyck Acadamie and Casco
PUBLISHED TITLES
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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
DISTRIBUTION TITLES
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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
UNDER DEVELOPMENT
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Peter Robinson’s Ack and other Abdications, co-published with Artspace
Melbourne artist Chris Hill’s Never werk!, a long essay addressing installation practice, co-published with Evergreen Terrace, Melbourne
Julian Dashper, This is not writing
Michael Stevenson & Jan Verwoert, Animal Spirits
STOCKISTS
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Our publications are available from the following stockists:
Artspace, Auckland
Parsons Bookshop, 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.
INTERNATIONAL
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Our publications are distributed in Germany, Austria and Switzerland by Vice Versa Vertrieb.
In Australia our publications are distributed by Modern Journal.
CONTACT
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PO Box 68-187
Newton, Auckland 1145
Aotearoa New Zealand
+64 9 309 2604
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Nijinsky relates to a series of Sriwhana Spong films that are a re-imagining of a George Balanchine ballet, The Song of the Nightingale, originally choreographed in 1925 for the itinerant Ballet Russes. Based on the only fragments remaining of the original (the Stravinsky score and documentation of the Matisse designs for set and costumes, and some of the costumes themselves) Spong’s films and the book’s contents exhort the Balanchine maxim, “Before is over. Performance is now”.
Nijinsky channels the presence of the famous chimeric dancer for whom the book is named, and involves stills from the films along with collage works that overlay geometric forms onto ballet photographs cut from picture books. It also features writing by Sarah Hopkinson, Gwynneth Porter, ballet photographer and author Keith Money, and the artist herself.
This book project has been supported by Creative New Zealand, and was co-published with the Auckland gallery Michael Lett on the occasion of the screening of Spong’s Lethe-wards at Art Basel in June 2010.
Texts by Sarah Hopkinson, Gwynneth Porter, Keith Money, Sriwhana Spong.
Published by Clouds and Michael Lett
June 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9582981-8-6
Softcover
112 pages
Colour & Black/white images
English
Edition: 800
Dimensions: 151 x 200 x 10 mm
Weight: 250 gm
Individually shrinkwrapped
NZD$45
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