We’re excited to announce three events in NYC this week relating to two books: Siglio’s recent and highly acclaimed release Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson, 1954–1994 and our forthcoming, much-anticipated title Dorothy Iannone: You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends.
Both books—along with more new titles and recent Siglio favorites such as Sophie Calle’s The Address Book and Karen Green’s Bough Down—will be available at a discount to NY Art Book Fair goers at Siglio’s table (Room O-01). All NY Art Book Fair events are free, open to the public, and take place at MoMA PS1.
“Ray Johnson: Nothing vs. Nothing” on Sunday, September 28, noon–1pm in The Classroom at the NY Art Book Fair
Editor/writer Elizabeth Zuba and multi-media artist Mark Bloch bring together their distinct literary and visual perspectives to explore Ray Johnson’s innovative interpretations of “the book” and its relationship to his concept-practice of Nothing.
About Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson, 1954–1994
“Because Johnson’s mail art is epistolary, and likely considered more of a reading than a looking experience, its visibility in museums is fairly low, which makes the arrival of Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson, 1954-1994, from Siglio Press, a real boon. But more than filling a gap, the book crackles with intellectual energy, with enough drawings and mini-collages embedded in its reproduced texts to hold even a nonreader’s attention. Most important, it fills out the picture of what and who Johnson was: a brilliant, uncontainable polymath, an artist-poet, the genuine item.”
–Holland Cotter, The New York Times
A conversation about Dorothy Iannone: You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends on Friday, September 26, 6–7pm in The Classroom at the NYABF
The often-censored, self-taught octogenarian American artist Dorothy Iannone has been making exuberantly sexual, joyfully transgressive image+text works for over five decades. Siglio publisher Lisa Pearson will talk with writer Trinie Dalton about Iannone’s provocative and pioneering work.
Dorothy Iannone exhibition in The Dome at the NYABF, September 25–28
Printed Matter presents an exhibition showcasing artist’s books and printed ephemera by Dorothy Iannone. The American-born, Berlin-based artist is famous for her vibrant, taboo-shattering and explicit depictions of female sexuality.
About Dorothy Iannone: You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends
Beginning with An Icelandic Saga in which Iannone narrates her journey to Iceland (where she meets artist Dieter Roth and leaves her husband to live with him), this singular volume traces Iannone’s search for “ecstatic unity” from its carnal beginnings in her relationships with Roth and other men into its spiritual incarnation as she becomes a practicing Buddhist. Iannone’s work—exploring sexual liberation and self-realization in a different but no less radical way than her feminist contemporaries—is rich with inversions of muse and maker, sacred and profane, male and female, submission and dominance. A fertile confluence of art and life, Iannone’s work is inflected in surprising ways with equal parts Tantric metaphysics and Fluxus avant-garde.
About Siglio Press
Siglio is an independent press dedicated to publishing uncommon books and editions that live at the intersection of art & literature: inimitable, visionary works by renowned as well as little known artists and writers that defy categories and thoroughly engage a reader’s intellect and imagination.
