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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:58:10 -0500
From: New Observations <mail-AT-newobservations.org>
Subject: A Memory Palace


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:	April 10, 1999


New Observations Magazine
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NEW YORK, NY - New Observations is pleased to announce the publication
of A MEMORY PALACE edited by Charlie Citron.  SPRING 1999,  issue #121, 
$6.00

The first issue in a project on the Artist as Cultural Archeologist, A
MEMORY PALACE is guest edited by Charlie Citron, sculptor, performance
artist, photographer and curator, living in Amsterdam.  This issue
addresses the theme of art as memory. The title “A Memory Palace” is
based on the book, “The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci” by Johnathon
Spence.  Artists/contributors explore issues concerning: Image in
relation to location; identity and displacement; the nature of the art
object as memory; narrative and storytelling; cultural amnesia and
appropriation.  

Contributors include:  Sylvia de Swaan, Bernhard Geyer, Susanne Greven,
Daniel Dewaele, Odili Donald Odita, Ann Rosén, Jennie C. Jones, Sandi
Slone, David Lillington, Siobhan Davies, Leo, Douglas Allsop, Susanna
Harwood Rubin, Caro Bensca, Stefan Bohnenberger, Stephan Berg, Anna
Best, Martin Zet, Keiko Sei, David Mills, Jårg Geismar, Milos
Vojtêchovsky, Otis Laubert, Thomas Pospiszyl, Filip Turek, Eran Gratvol,
Peter Lelliott, Sharif Waked, Naomi Aviv, Tzibi Geva, Judith Fleishman,
M.S. Umesh, Edgar Harris, Peter Haffenden, Albertine Viegas, Monitien
Boonma, Richard Thomas, Franklin Sirmans, Lorraine O’Grady, Paul Tabak,
Binghui Hangfu, Wang Zhiyuan, Toshihiro Yashiro, Denise Carvalho, Miguel
Rio Bronco, Theo Schepens

Founded in 1981, New Observations, has published the art and writing of
international artists on topics that reach beyond the parameters of the
NY art scene.  New Observations has a unique mandate: to create a
quarterly publication, guest-edited by creative people from fields as
diverse as visual art, music, literature and craft. Each issue is
developed from proposals submitted to the magazine . The guest editors
then assemble texts and images to illuminate their theme.

Available now at at newsstands and art bookstores, The Dia
Foundation/Printed Matter Bookstore or by subscription by contacting our
office. Check the back cover for a selection of back issues.

New Observations is a non-profit, contemporary arts journal written,
edited and 
published by the arts community. Each issue has a guest editor and a
pertinent topic.

1 year/4 issues/$22.00 (USA)
2 years/8 issues/$38.00 (USA)
Overseas add $12.00 per year for postage.


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Contact: Erika Knerr, managing editor 
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