So I’m giving away the past,

24 sets of randomly grouped photographs from the last year
If you would like one set please paypal:
mylinh.mylinh@gmail.com $4 for shipping

Fillip is please to present a talk with Brooklyn-based artist David Horvitz this Saturday, April 25, at 1pm. A prolific, and incredibly diverse artist, Horvitz’s practice incorporates photography, publishing, performance, and mail art. His talk will address recent work as well as his work ASDF. Formed with Mylinh Trieu Nguyen in 2007, ASDF often use digital forms and curatorial strategies to facilitate projects by other artists. Recent collaborations have included The Wikipedia Reader, One Hundred $1 Grants, and For a Brief Time Only….

This talk is presented in conjunction with the group exhibition The Wild So Close, opening this Friday, April 24, 8pm at Or Gallery. The exhibition presents photographic and video works by Tacita Dean, Leslie Grant and Al Bersch, Jason Hendrickson, David Horvitz, and Donald Lawrence, and is curated by Jennifer Cane.

Admission is free, but given space limitations, visitors are encouraged to arrive early to guarantee a seat. Please buzz or call 604.781.4417 for access.

• Fillip

• 305 Cambie Street

• Vancouver, British Columbia

• V6E 2N4 Canada

• 604.781.4417

• www.fillip.ca :: fillip@fillip.ca

that tear you apart

Blow away the dreams

that break your heart

Blow away the lies

that leave you

nothing but lost and

brokenhearted

Bruce Springsteen

(left to right, top to bottom) iMac G4; The James Diamond Collection of Home Movies WAC 9.5 16mm BW; Eric Luken 13 JonBenéts; Nov 10 1991 1/8”=1”– 0”; Cho—Fro; Canon AP200; Hanging Out; Elizabeth Peyton Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008 2008; Galleries 4, 5, 6; Pantone Cool Gray 10C; John Baldessari I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art; telluridefilmfestival.org; Hella Jongerius Polder Sofa 2005; x 7601; La Ex; TELEVISION ASSASSINATION Bruce Conner Estar Base Print: NEG.1; Silky Furry Fleece Pillows; Norman Vincent Peale Enthusiasm Makes the Difference; Press Department Files Jan 84—May 86; Roasted Vegetable Panini D’Amico’s.

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Click here to see a selection of work from the studio
For information on how to apply: 2009/2010 Walker Art Center Design Fellowship

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There is also an opening for the Senior Graphic Designer position.
For information on how to apply: http://info.walkerart.org/jobs/detail.wac?id=5006

www.asdfmakes.com/inrealtime

www.letsmeetinreallife.com

www.capriciousspace.com

repost if you’d like ;]

IN REAL TIME ASDF Saturday 28 March 4–8pm

With Mylinh Nguyen sitting in Capricious and David Horvitz chatting live from Golden Age in Chicago, ASDF will make available an ephemeral show of 48 artists existing for only 4 hours. Each art work will be available, one at a time, for only 5 minutes. The works will be sized to print and available for download (also including instructions so that viewers may print the works using basic consumer technologies). After the 4 hours are up all the original files will be deleted. The list of artists will be made available shortly! Be there in person & online!

www.letsmeetinreallife.com

www.capriciousspace.com

www.asdfmakes.com

The Walker design studio worked on a zine together. Go here to read more about it:

blogs.walkerart.org/design/

No matter how close we get to each other
there is always air between us.

It’s also nice that we share the air.
No matter how far apart we are,
the air links us.

Yoko Ono, from Lisson Gallery brochure ‘67

I just wrote a blog about the Fluxus Issue of the Tulane Drama Review on the Walker design blog. Check it out!

http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/

Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous
(and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable
list!), but one of these days there’ll be nothing left with
which to venture forth.

Why should I share you? Why don’t you get rid of someone else
for a change?

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too,
don’t I? I’m just like a pile of leaves.

However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of
pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of
perverted acts in pastures. No. One need never leave the
confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes–I can’t
even enjoy a blade of grass unless i know there’s a subway
handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not
totally _regret_ life. It is more important to affirm the
least sincere; the clouds get enough attention as it is and
even they continue to pass. Do they know what they’re missing?
Uh huh.

My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time;
they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and
disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away.
Or again at something after it has given me up. It makes me
restless and that makes me unhappy, but I cannot keep them
still. If only i had grey, green, black, brown, yellow eyes; I
would stay at home and do something. It’s not that I’m
curious. On the contrary, I am bored but it’s my duty to be
attentive, I am needed by things as the sky must be above the
earth. And lately, so great has _their_ anxiety become, I can
spare myself little sleep.

Now there is only one man I like to kiss when he is unshaven.
Heterosexuality! you are inexorably approaching. (How best
discourage her?)

St. Serapion, I wrap myself in the robes of your whiteness
which is like midnight in Dostoevsky. How I am to become a
legend, my dear? I’ve tried love, but that holds you in the
bosom of another and I’m always springing forth from it like
the lotus–the ecstasy of always bursting forth! (but one must
not be distracted by it!) or like a hyacinth, “to keep the
filth of life away,” yes, even in the heart, where the filth is
pumped in and slanders and pollutes and determines. I will my
will, though I may become famous for a mysterious vacancy in
that department, that greenhouse.

Destroy yourself, if you don’t know!

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I
admire you, beloved, for the trap you’ve set. It’s like a
final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.

“Fanny Brown is run away–scampered off with a Cornet of Horse;
I do love that little Minx, & hope She may be happy, tho’ She
has vexed me by this exploit a little too.–Poor silly
Cecchina! or F:B: as we used to call her.–I wish She had a
good Whipping and 10,000 pounds.”–Mrs. Thrale

I’ve got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my
dirtiest suntans. I’ll be back, I’ll re-emerge, defeated, from
the valley; you don’t want me to go where you go, so I go where
you don’t want me to. It’s only afternoon, there’s a lot
ahead. There won’t be any mail downstairs. Turning, I spit in
the lock and the knob turns.

my heart is breaking,

this album is so good!

every

single

moment

makes

me

!!

Determine the limits more precisely.

Repeat, until further precision is impossible.

George Brecht

We are now spectators of the latest - and perhaps penultimate - chapter of the 60 year old conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people.  About the complexities of this tragic conflict billions of words have been pronounced, defending one side or the other.

Today, in face of the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the essential calculation, which was always covertly there,  behind this conflict, has been blatantly revealed.  The death of one Israeli victim justifies the killing of a hundred Palestinians.  One Israeli life is worth a hundred Palestinian lives.

This is what the Israeli State and the world media more or less - with marginal questioning - mindlessly repeat.  And this claim, which has accompanied and justified the longest Occupation of foreign territories in 20th C. European history, is viscerally racist. That the Jewish people should accept this, that the world should concur, that the Palestinians should submit to it - is one of history’s ironic jokes.  There’s no laughter anywhere.  We can, however, refute it, more and more vocally.

Let’s do so.

John Berger

“Books have historically been an important arena for artistic endeavor. Early in the 20th century, artists often illustrated existing texts, creating deluxe publications released in limited editions. By mid-century, many were beginning to see books as a more democratic way to present visual information. The rush of underground publishing in the 1960s and rise in widely distributed leaflets, posters, and magazines set the stage for an unprecedented exploration into the book as an art form, often reflecting contemporary movements such as Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and feminism. Since then, newer modes of commercial printing and experimentations with handmade papers, unconventional methods of binding, and unexpected materials have vastly expanded the book’s potential.

Over the past 30 years, the Walker Art Center Library has amassed a significant holding of artists’ books and illustrated volumes that numbers some 1,600 objects. Usually accessible to the public only by appointment, these works, supplemented with pieces from the museum’s permanent collection, are now on view in the galleries for the first time in two decades.

Co-organized by Walker librarian Rosemary Furtak and Walker curator Siri Engberg, the show highlights this important trove of material and showcases examples from a broad range of artistic movements. The books and book-based works on view come from some of the most recognizable names in contemporary art as well as lesser known artists. The process of selecting the works in Text/Messages: Books by Artists was a fascinating endeavor for the curators, who found the premise of the exhibition to be an ideal opportunity to explore many areas within the Walker’s collections. Even in today’s digital age, artists’ continued engagement with books—as medium, material, and subject—is evidence, say Engberg and Furtak, that this is an area of artistic invention alive with ideas and possibilities.”

Text/Messages opens today, December 18, 2008 at the Walker Art Center and will be up until April 19, 2009. Don’t miss your opportunity to see this rare and extensive collection in person!

For more information please visit:
http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2008/12/17/textmessages-books-by-artists/

beautiful bags from stand up comedy & werkplaats typografie for reference library’s show at kiosk!

i converted mine to work as a backpack too!

Stand Up Comedy & Werkplaats Typografie
Reference Library at KIOSK

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We are accepting applications on a rolling basis.

Projects should be completed one month of receiving the grant.

We will review each application.

http://www.asdfmakes.com/onehundredgrants.html

enjoy!

For a Brief Time Only… is a purchasable exhibition of 24 artists available at a photo developer near you. You can find it at any store that allows file uploading via the internet (including most major US drug-stores). The image files will be sent to the closest location near you, and within minutes you will be able to walk in and pick them up as prints.

This exhibition contains 24 small 4×6 photographic prints contained within the packaging provided by each store. Also included are a contact sheet with all the artists’ information, and a letter to the store employee reassuring that there is nothing wrong with the order.

24 Artists:
Ken Ehrlich, John Sisley, Martin John Callanan, Miranda Lichtenstein, Lucky Dragons, eteam, Jim Skuldt, Mira O’Brien, Joshua Kit Clayton, Matt Keegan, Emily Mast, Brian Kennon, Lukas Geronimas, Amy Lam, Paul Pieroni, Moyra Davey, Graham Parker, Paul Branca, Penelope Umbrico, Lucy Raven, Bik Van der Pol, Emilie Halpern, Tim Ridlen, and Vlatka Horvat.

Visit http://www.asdfmakes.com/nearyou/ to learn how you can view the show at a location near you.

Enjoy!

Mylinh & David

Pin-Ups Magazine

File Magazine Release Party

Saturday, October 25, 2008
5:00pm - 6:00pm
NY Art Book Fair at Phillips de Pury & Company
450 West 15th Street, 3rd floor

OOGA BOOGA! BOOTH Y3!

+Saturday at 5:30pm:
Artist Terence Koh will be writing “secret love poems” for sale at the Ooga Booga booth,
you can buy one for $10 each!

+Sunday at 2:00pm:
B’L'ing video trading! B’L’ing is a traveling trading post that screens and
exchanges bootleg video art and rare media. Everyone is encouraged to
bring videos and participate in the exchange. Dig deep and bring your best.

Popcorn McJack will be present to sign fanzines & posters!

Nieves

APARTAMENTO #2 LAUNCH!!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Matter

405 Broome Street

I will be in New York till Monday morning for the New York Art Book Fair. If you are in town and would like to have a bite to eat, you know who to call.

SEE YOU THERE!

The past few weeks have been really beautiful here. I’ve been experiencing my first fall, when all of the trees turn into a radiant red to yellow gradient. Every part of the city starts to feel incredibly warm, even amidst the approaching winter.