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 611 Broadway #701 New York, New York 10012 (212) 677-8561, mail-AT-newobservations.org http//www.newobservations.org 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. We are developing our e-mail list. Please let us know if you want to be removed from our list or if you receive multiple messages. Contact: Erika Knerr, managing editor New Observations Magazine --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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