General Projects

General Projects: A Show for You - August 3, 9 & 17 - Insert Blanc HQ / Chris Niemi Studio

[image from Abercrombie and Fitch Quarterly, Back to School 2003 ($7) The Sex Ed Issue Text by Slavoj Žižek]


General Projects: A Show for You
Insert Blanc Press HQ / Chris Niemi Studio
Downtown Los Angeles
Email insertpress@gmail.com for address

Opening Reception and Performances
Saturday, August 3rd, 2013 at 8pm
Screenings and Performances
Friday, August 9th, 2013 at 8pm
Closing Reception and Performances
Saturday, August 17th, 2013 at 8pm

We would like to invite you to General Projects: A Show for You a summer show at Insert Blanc Press HQ / Chris Niemi Studio. 
The show will consist of artists on Insert Blanc Press alongside various other artists we've recently met, and some who are relatively new to Los Angeles. Work in the show will consist of sculpture, photography, painting, video, performance and etc... Besides the opening we have scheduled dates for events to make room for time based work such as readings, lectures, performances, screenings and etc with Friday August 9th focused slightly more on video screenings.
We're in Downtown LA in a warehouse and have a fair amount of open wall and floor space. We live here and are excited to have our living area also function as a gallery and performance space! You may see a list of artists below and we will be adding surprise performances to the list. 
We would love you to join us for General Projects: A Show for You

Artists:
Lauren Cherry & Max Springer
Andrew Choate
Greg Curtis
Christian Cummings
Andrew Durbin
Amy Garofano
Alexandra Grant
Doug Harvey
Katie Herzog
John Hogan
Janne Larsen
Jackie Laurita
Chris Niemi
Steve Roden
Ben Rodkin
Karin Stothart
Ben White 
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I WONDER ABOUT SHIT for WONDER by Mathew Timmons


 






Insert Blanc Press Editor & Publisher Mathew Timmons WONDERs about things for WONDER all through the month of April, the cruelest month, National Poetry Month. 
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PARROT 16 Pieces of Water by Michael Smoler



PARROT 16 Pieces of Water
by Michael Smoler
Now Out from Insert Blanc Press

“promise in a minefield”

again

once more

for the last time, I swear

I’ve come to know 
one day
I will

before long 

never 

again. 

...
The PARROT series was originally issued by Blanc Press (Los Angeles) from 2005-2010. Insert Blanc Press is reissuing facsimile editions of each title from the PARROT series and releasing a Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection at the end of the run. 
Titles in the PARROT series: Harold Abramowitz’s A House on A Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One), Amanda Ackerman’s I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck, Will Alexander’s On the Substance of Disorder, Brian Ang’s Pre-Symbolic, Stan Apps’ Politicized Pretty Picture, Amina Cain’s Tramps Everywhere, Teresa Carmody’s I Can Feel, Allison Carter’s All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions, Michelle Detorie’s Fur Birds, Kate Durbin’s Kept Women, K. Lorraine Graham’s My Little Neoliberal Pony, Jen Hofer’s The Missing Link, Maximus Kim’sBreak Bloom Burn, Janice Lee’s Fried Chicken Dinner, Joseph Mosconi’s But On Geometric, Vanessa Place’s Forcible Oral Copulation, Amarnath Ravva’s Airline Music, Stephanie Rioux’s My Beautiful Beds, Ara Shirinyan’s Erotic in Czech Republic, Michael Smoler’s Pieces of Water, Brian Kim Stefans’ Viva Miscegenation, Mathew Timmons’ Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation, and Allyssa Wolf’s Loquela.
Covers of Parrot were originally designed by the amazing printmaker, Maggie White. You can find out more about her work at Gray Area, methinks you'll like what you see.

Read some press on the PARROT series, including a review of PARROT 5, a review of PARROT 1 and an interview with editor Mathew Timmons. And check out the various ways Insert Blanc Press offers to become a subscribing member and to support the press. Visit the Subscription page at Insert Press for more details!

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Joseph Mosconi - The Next Big Thing


The Next Big Thing

I was tagged by Kate Durbin.

What is the working title of the book?


 

Where did the idea come from for the book?

In 2006 I entered a raffle and won an iPod programmed by Thurston Moore filled with black metal songs. He called the mixtape "Old Hate." The songs were great but what was even more interesting was the spreadsheet that accompanied it with all the band names and song titles. I started keeping my own spreadsheet of song titles and began collaging select phrases with my own (and others') adolescent poetry, language culled from World of Warcraft and occult forums and chatrooms, sentences from H.P. Lovecraft and Arthur Machen, and bits of art theory. I had been interested in slang and specialized vocabularies for some time...the language in my first book, Galvanized Iron on the Citizens' Band, was drawn from the somewhat eroticized slang of truckers and miltary personnel. I view Fright Catalog as a sequel of sorts to that book.

What genre does your book fall under?

Poetry

What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?

There are no characters in Fright Catalog. But if there were a books on tape version (and it would have to be tape, not digital, so that the sound would wear out and get a bit warbly) I could imagine Sean Connery as narrator. He would be dressed in his Zardoz costume and sip single malt Scotch and interrupt every now and then to ask, "Is this thing on?" By the end of the book he would be so irritated that he would curse with words only Scots know and throw his headphones on the ground and stalk out of the recording session.

What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?

Wouldn't you love a monsterman to repair the dimensional cluster?

How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?

2 years, 6 months and 3 days. Then it sat around on my hard drive for many years. Finally the design of the book took more than a year. 

Who or what inspired you to write this book?

Aram Saroyan, Robert Grenier, Barbara Kruger, Sister Corita Kent, Will Alexander, Colby Poster art, Euronymous, Mark E. Smith, Jenny Holzer, Allen Ruppersberg, H.P. Lovecraft, Lautréamont, Varg Vikernes, Hannah Weiner, Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron, Halloween costume catalogs, Friz Quadrata, Graham Harman, children's literature, Azeroth & Draenor (& its shattered remnants, known as Outland...)

What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?

I nearly always think about the physical form the book will take while I'm writing it (and sometimes even before I've written anything). In the case of Fright Catalog, the text and the form are inseparable. It's published in full color and every page has a different color combination of text and background. It's also published in the form of a semi-glossy magazine. 

Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?

Fright Catalog was published by Insert Blanc Press.

Writers I am tagging.

Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Sophie Sills

 
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Radio! Records! Books on Tape!


Insert Blanc Radio!

Insert Blanc Records!

Insert Blanc Books on Tape!

Insert Blanc Press steps into The Future of Radio and Records and Books on Tape! Listen Up! Do you sometimes just wanna sit back and listen to literature? Do you enjoy elaborate descriptions of complex visual art over the airwaves? Do you believe the radio would be the finest possible communication apparatus in public life, a vast network of pipes. This is an innovation, a suggestion that seems utopian and that I myself admit to be utopian.

Insert Blanc Press is proud to announce our new show, The People with Editor and Publisher Mathew Timmons and Insert Blanc Artist Ben White. The People features the voices and ideas of The People that make up the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, the west coast, and beyond on KCHUNG 1630AM every 3rd Sunday at 3pm. More & more The People simply choose, for whatever reason, Power to The People in the home of People Power on the Internet. A Radio Revolution offering comfort and cueing up Special Stuff. This is The Sound you love to listen to, The Power of The People to make atmospheric, psychedelic, and dance-oriented Conversation. Radio for The People featuring art, literature, talk, cultural criticism, visual culture, intelligent witticisms and so much more! The People is me, The People is you, The People is we, and You Can Too! … like a Broken Record magically repaired.



Listen this Sunday March 17th at 3pm as our guest Joseph Mosconi reads from his new book Fright Catalogfrom Insert Blanc Press. We'll also be joined by artist and gallerist Jay Erker to talk about her work.




by Christian Cummings
Full Album 55:07
13 tracks

While Insert Blanc isn't pressing vinyl yet, keep your eyes open for vinyl on the horizon. Meanwhile, we'd like to wet your ears with a digital download album available both as single songs or as a full album. Christian Cummings' album Slavebation will keep you aching for more, more, more!
 
"Alternating between elegiac despondency, apocalyptic vision, didactic discourse, and guided deprogramming exercise (often in the space of a single lyric), Cummings convincingly positions himself as a nerdish prophet of doom. Christian Cummings is facing our crazy life head on, in all its bewildering entropy and Gordian knottiness, and in doing so has produced the first great protest album of the 21st century.” -Doug Harvey, Artillery Art Magazine
 
“Lest we've forgotten, Cummings is reminding us what Uncle Frank (Zappa) told us back in 66. Plastic people in a plastic society living on a diet of plastic. And as we know, when they burn and melt they all start to stink. Slavebation is right up my street.” -Sexton Ming
 



Insert Blanc Press is also happy to announce our two new audiobooks, Stingray Clapping by Andrew Choate and Parrot 3 All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions by Allison Carter. Each book read in the artist's own voice, and while not actually a book on actual tape, we hope you'll enjoy an mp3 digital download.

 
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FRIGHT CATALOG by Joseph Mosconi


 

FRIGHT CATALOG by Joseph Mosconi is Here!
Saddle-Stitched magazine, full color
Uncoated, Matte finish, 70# text (100 gsm)
Dimensions: 9" x 12" x 0.25", 100 Pages
ISBN: 978-0-9814623-8-7


Black metal, death metal, blackened death metal—not to mention: deathcore; thrash; the melodic and technical; grinds and dooms and drones; pagan or bestial; progressive or deconstructivist; Norwegian versus Swedish (early Stockholm or later Gothenburg?) versus various Vikings and Scandinavians; first, second, nth wave….. the infinitely divisible subgenres of heavy metal music as discerned by its fans exhibit a mania for discrimination and taxonomy that approaches the monadic. Secrets, in these scenes, threaten to become singularities. Such, of course, is the reductio of all subcultures. And "Poetry," for "Culture," has become the ultimate and necessary subculture of them all.  Fright Catalog is thus in part a dissertation on the sublime terror of the poetry scene today — with all its partisan scholasticism and stupid undergrounds (as Paul Mann would say). But this catalogue is also attuned to the poetic possibilities of subcultural discourse, to the phonemic tensions and narrative frissons that arise when metal lyrics are mashed up with phrases taken variously from online gaming dialogues, occult forums, and the secret language of adolescence (by definition: misunderstood; mardy; uncommunicative and inscrutable). In the process, Joseph Mosconi forces the opaque argots and cants of isolated initiates to speak with indiscrete promiscuity. Here, accordingly, are the slogans of an infidel poetics (in every sense of Daniel Tiffany's resonant phrase).
—Craig Dworkin


Fright Catalog by Joseph Mosconi has arrived and will remain available for the Pre-Sale price of $20 until soon after we return from AWP. Fright Catalog is a 100 page, full color, large format magazine published by Insert Blanc Press. 

The Signed & Numbered Limited Edition (1-40) also comes with a zine by Joseph Mosconi, Fright Analog, and is available at the Pre-Sale price of $35.


Find us at AWP or get yours online today!

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Pattern Book & Object-Oriented Programming Pre-Sale Ending & Fright Catalog Pre-Sale Discount!




We've seen the proof copies and while we eagerly await the books going to print all you out there have an indeterminately short amount of time to get your copies at the Pre-Sale price of $45.00. The cover price for these new books in the Insert Blanc Monograph series will be $65.99. So Get Yours Now!


Fright Catalog by Joseph Mosconi is also coming very soon and is now available for Pre-Sale at $20. Fright Catalog is a 100 page, full color, large format magazine scheduled for release in early March from Insert Blanc Press. 

The Signed & Numbered Limited Edition (1-40) also comes with a zine by Joseph Mosconi, Fright Analog, and is available for Pre-Sale at a price of $35
    check out the front cover with printer's marks etc ...

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    Fright Catalog by Joseph Mosconi available for Pre-Sale



    Fright Catalog by Joseph Mosconi is now available for Pre-Sale at $25 (at a discount anticipating the official release). Fright Catalog is a 100 page, full color, large format magazine scheduled for release in Fall 2012 from Insert Blanc Press.





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    Rabble: Steve Roden



    upside down, the sky is ocean

    the buddha wears a cloak of geometric design:

    red, yellow, blue and black.

    ...
    the buddha’s hand forms the vitarka mudra, suggesting deep contemplation and indicative of a sage. although it is commonly formed with the right, the buddha forms this mudra with his left hand.

    the buddha’s right hand grasps a walking stick.

    on an 8th century statue from thailand, the buddha forms the vitarka mudra with two hands, looking strangely reminiscent of a 1909 photograph of mondrian, his theatrical hands pointing up and down like david bowie on the cover of heroes.


    Rabble, an imprint of Insert Blanc Press, is co-edited by Holly Myers and Mathew Timmons. Rabble prints single author issues of critical essays of about 1500 words on a subject of the author’s choosing. The subject will be an artwork (or series of artworks), but broadly defined: could be visual art, literature, music, architecture, film, design; could be contemporary or historical. The essay will be printed in pamphlet form, with room for a couple full color images, and distributed at a reasonable price.

    Rabble seeks to be a venue through which to interrogate the nature of criticism, a laboratory for prodding at the boundaries of criticism as a form. The idea is to begin with a framework that reduces criticism down to its two fundamental components—the thing that's been made and the person who responds to the thing that's been made (i.e., the art work and the critic)—and invite each writer to take it from there. We’re not looking for the average book or exhibition review, but something that tests out a new direction, whatever that means to the individual author.

     We have great confidence in the potential of Rabble to make a lasting contribution to the cultural discourse on the West Coast and beyond. It is our     hope that, in charting a path between the two prevailing poles of the genre—the ever-narrowing shutters of print journalism on the one hand and the ponderous obscurity of the academy on the other—Rabble will go some way in restoring the sheer excitement of criticism.

    ISSN 2168-7439
     
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    PARROT 13 Tramps Everywhere by Amina Cain & PARROT 14 Fur Birds by Michelle Detorie


     

    PARROT 13 Tramps Everywhere
    by Amina Cain
    Now Out from Insert Blanc Press

    EXT.  Morning.  Strong sun.  Short and long shots of a swamp.  A closeup of a frog.  It sits on the bank then jumps into the water, making circles on the surface.  The camera stays, looking at the swamp.  

    VOICEOVER:  I walked into the day.  

    ...


    PARROT 14 Fur Birds
    by Michelle Detorie
    Now Out from Insert Blanc Press

    I am 15. Female. Human (I think).    

    We lived in a burrow and ate grass. I licked my paw, tasting only the slightest remnants of ash. In one corner we piled sugar cubes – white and cold and sweet, and perfectly square. “Like a little igloo wall,” my sister cooed, twitching her tail. 

    ...


    The PARROT series was originally issued by Blanc Press (Los Angeles) from 2005-2010. Insert Blanc Press is reissuing facsimile editions of each title from the PARROT series and releasing a Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection at the end of the run. 
    Titles in the PARROT series: Harold Abramowitz’s A House on A Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One), Amanda Ackerman’s I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck, Will Alexander’s On the Substance of Disorder, Brian Ang’s Pre-Symbolic, Stan Apps’ Politicized Pretty Picture, Amina Cain’s Tramps Everywhere, Teresa Carmody’s I Can Feel, Allison Carter’s All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions, Michelle Detorie’s Fur Birds, Kate Durbin’s Kept Women, K. Lorraine Graham’s My Little Neoliberal Pony, Jen Hofer’s The Missing Link, Maximus Kim’sBreak Bloom Burn, Janice Lee’s Fried Chicken Dinner, Joseph Mosconi’s But On Geometric, Vanessa Place’s Forcible Oral Copulation, Amarnath Ravva’s Airline Music, Stephanie Rioux’s My Beautiful Beds, Ara Shirinyan’s Erotic in Czech Republic, Michael Smoler’s Pieces of Water, Brian Kim Stefans’ Viva Miscegenation, Mathew Timmons’ Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation, and Allyssa Wolf’s Loquela.
    Covers of Parrot were originally designed by the amazing printmaker, Maggie White. You can find out more about her work at Gray Area, methinks you'll like what you see.

    Read some press on the PARROT series, including a review of PARROT 5, a review of PARROT 1 and an interview with editor Mathew Timmons. And check out the various ways Insert Blanc Press offers to become a subscribing member and to support the press. Visit the Subscription page at Insert Press for more details!
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    Poetry Is Dead, I Killed It.





    Poetry Is Dead, I Killed It.
    Insert Blanc Press insertblancpress.net
    Movie by Nick Flavin, Ben Rodkin, & Mathew Timmons.
    Sound recorded by Sonia Parada.
    Featuring Vanessa Place & Ben White.
    Also appearing: Amanda Ackerman, Mashinka Firunts, Danny Snelson, Joy Decena, Teresa Carmody, Harold Abramowitz, Jackqueline Frost, Kim Calder, Andrea Quaid, Suzanne Adelman, Christopher Russell, Greg Curtis, & Stephen Van Dyck. 
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    Insert Blanc Press at The Last Bookstore


    Nick Adams, Rare Form 2010 

    Insert Blanc Press at The Last Bookstore
    Thursday, September 27 from 8 - 10 p.m.
    453 S. Spring St., Downtown Los Angeles

    Please join Insert Blanc Press at the Last Bookstore in downtown LA for a September celebration of all things new and forthcoming on the press. The night will include readings and performances from the wide and vibrant variety of Authors, Artists, Printers, Designers, Editors, Interns and Friends of Insert Blanc Press including: Harold Abramowitz, Byron Alexander Campbell, Teresa Carmody, Kate Durbin, Janice Lee, Joseph Mosconi, Vanessa Place, Christopher Russell, & Ben White. The evening will also possibly include the performance of an auction that will actually really be a real auction! This event is free and open to the public, yet a $10 donation to the press for such an evening of wild wonder and beyonsense is much appreciated. Insert Blanc Press will happily introduce the Rabble series and the new Knock-Out Editions with titles such as Stingray Clapping by Andrew Choate as well as new issues of PARROT and and number of titles forthcoming on the press and just generally celebrating all the Authors, Artists, Printers, Designers, Editors, Interns and Friends of Insert Blanc Press. And Yes, that means you too! Have a glass of champagne with us because we will be celebrating all of us together and you. Yes, you! 


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    Rabble: derek beaulieu



    Rabble: derek beaulieu

    All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy

    "In Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining, author Jack Torrance slowly loses his grip on sanity while ensconced in a winter-long residency as caretaker for the seasonally-closed Overlook Hotel. Over the season Jack, a struggling novelist, uses the solitude (interrupted only by his wife Wendy and son Danny) to attempt to construct his new novel. Only a few pages of Torrance’s efforts are revealed in The Shining, but every page consists wholly and entirely of the phrase “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” repeated ad infinitum over a presumably several-hundred-page manuscript. In the filmic reveal of Torrance’s creative masterpiece, Wendy emotionally collapses as she finally realizes the extent of her husband’s crumbling rationality. Under the mental anguish of this Sisyphean task of nonlinearity, Jack Torrance’s grip on reality is weakened, much as readers feel the strain of such a non-traditional manuscript."




    Rabble, an imprint of Insert Blanc Press, is co-edited by Holly Myers and Mathew Timmons. Rabble prints single author issues of critical essays of about 1500 words on a subject of the author’s choosing. The subject will be an artwork (or series of artworks), but broadly defined: could be visual art, literature, music, architecture, film, design; could be contemporary or historical. The essay will be printed in pamphlet form, with room for a couple full color images, and distributed at a reasonable price.

    Rabble seeks to be a venue through which to interrogate the nature of criticism, a laboratory for prodding at the boundaries of criticism as a form. The idea is to begin with a framework that reduces criticism down to its two fundamental components—the thing that's been made and the person who responds to the thing that's been made (i.e., the art work and the critic)—and then to invite a lot of smart people to take up that framework as they see fit. We’re not looking for the average book or exhibition review, but something that tests out a new direction, whatever that means to the individual author.
    We have great confidence in the potential of Rabble to make a lasting contribution to the cultural discourse on the West Coast and beyond. It is our hope that, in charting a path between the two prevailing poles of the genre—the ever-narrowing shutters of print journalism on the one hand and the ponderous obscurity of the academy on the other—Rabble will go some way in restoring the sheer excitement of criticism.

    ISSN 2168-7439





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    Triple H: California & Beyond: Halpern, Herbst & Herzog -- August 7 @ 8pm



    Triple H: California & Beyond:

    Halpern, Herbst & Herzog


    A Presentation of New Work and Ideas -- plus a book launch! -- Tuesday August 7 @ 8pm

    at Concord in the lovely neighborhood of Cypress Park
    1010 N San Fernando Road
    Los Angeles  CA  90065
    BYOB and please help spread the word!

    Rob Halpern is the author of several books of poetry including Rumored Place(Krupskaya), Disaster Suites (Palm Press) and most recently Music for Porn (Nightboat Books). Together with Taylor Brady he’s also the co-author of Snow Sensitive Skin(Displaced Press). A founding participant in the Nonsite Collective, he lives in San Francisco and Ypsilanti, Michigan. This reading is the Los Angeles book launch forMusic for Porn.

    Marc Herbst is a co-editor of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. He is holding the word "fierce" with kid gloves.

    Katie Herzog's recent exhibitions include "Object Oriented Programming" at the Palo Alto Research Center (exhibition catalog available through Insert Blanc Press), "Movement, Anomalies and Distractions," at the University of Oxford, and a forthcoming exhibition at the Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She currently serves as Director of the Molesworth Institute.
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    The Debut of Rabble and Parrot 12 by Janice Lee


     


    Banal Access to Transcendence, or Developing Telekinesis via Mattel’s EEG-based Game, Mindflex™

    "Like any scientist, theologian, shaman, or artist, I long to unlock the mysteries of consciousness. I lack the resources to pursue private research at my California ranch house, but the possibility for R&D is now within reach of citizen scientists with the Mattel game Mindflex™.  Soon, I will take my first toke on brainwaves." 

    Insert Blanc Press is very excited to announce the debut of a new imprint on the press, Rabble, co-edited by Holly Myers and Mathew Timmons. Rabble prints single author issues of critical essays on a subject of the author’s choosing. Rabble seeks to be a venue through which to interrogate the nature of criticism, a laboratory for prodding at the boundaries of criticism as a form. The idea is to begin with a framework that reduces criticism down to its two fundamental components—the thing that's been made and the person who responds to the thing that's been made (i.e., the art work and the critic)—and then to invite a lot of smart people to take up that framework as they see fit. 

    ISSN 2168-7439




    PARROT 12 Fried Chicken Dinner
    by Janice Lee
    Now Out from Insert Blanc Press!

    “In Soviet Russia Chicken Fries You!”
    This is a serious matter, seriously. Serious fried chicken. Mm mm mm! 

    The PARROT series was originally issued by Blanc Press (Los Angeles) from 2005-2010. Insert Blanc Press is reissuing facsimile editions of each title from the PARROT series and releasing a Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection at the end of the run. 

    Titles in the PARROT series: Harold Abramowitz’s A House on A Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One), Amanda Ackerman’s I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck, Will Alexander’s On the Substance of Disorder, Brian Ang’s Pre-Symbolic, Stan Apps’ Politicized Pretty Picture, Amina Cain’s Tramps Everywhere, Teresa Carmody’s I Can Feel, Allison Carter’s All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions, Michelle Detorie’s Fur Birds, Kate Durbin’s Kept Women, K. Lorraine Graham’s My Little Neoliberal Pony, Jen Hofer’s The Missing Link, Maximus Kim’sBreak Bloom Burn, Janice Lee’s Fried Chicken Dinner, Joseph Mosconi’s But On Geometric, Vanessa Place’s Forcible Oral Copulation, Amarnath Ravva’s Airline Music, Stephanie Rioux’s My Beautiful Beds, Ara Shirinyan’s Erotic in Czech Republic, Michael Smoler’s Pieces of Water, Brian Kim Stefans’ Viva Miscegenation, Mathew Timmons’ Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation, and Allyssa Wolf’s Loquela.

    Covers of Parrot were originally designed by the amazing printmaker, Maggie White. You can find out more about her work at Gray Area, methinks you'll like what you see.

    Read some press on the PARROT series, including a review of PARROT 5, a review of PARROT 1 and an interview with editor Mathew Timmons. And check out the various ways Insert Blanc Press offers to become a subscribing member and to support the press. Visit the Subscription page at Insert Press for more details!
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    Jackqueline Frost Amanda Ackerman Christopher Russell


    Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929), Accumulation, c. 1963. See below for more info.


    Jackqueline Frost Amanda Ackerman Christopher Russell
    House Reading
    Sunday, July 29 at 6 p.m.
    Insert Blanc Press HQ 
    (email insertpress [at] gmail [dot] com for exact address)

    6pm Reception - 7pm Reading - 8pm Party

    Insert Blanc Press is happy to welcome Jackqueline Frost from the Bay Area for a good old fashioned house reading at Insert Blanc Press HQ. We are also quite happy to welcome Amanda Ackerman and Christopher Russell to read alongside our visitor from the north, both accomplished artists and authors on Insert Blanc press. And we welcome you too! Come be a part of the history and tradition of the ever so cozy and wonderfully quaint house reading. We promise not to make it too quaint. Bring a little something to drink if you like, or even something to snack on and we will do the same. Insert Blanc Press books will all be for sale at special quaint and cozy house reading discount prices. Come at 6pm for an hour of chit chatting art and poetry talk (hey be nice!); and at 7pm we'll give our writers and artists time to wow you with their work; then at 8pm we'll have a good old fashioned party until we're all tired out from all the good old fashionedness of everything (in other words from 8pm until late).

    (parking can be tricky in the neighborhood so plan to arrive a little early and your best chance is above or north of 4th St and east of Coronado)


    Artists Bios:
    Jackqueline Frost is the author of When We Say Brutal (Berkeley Neo-Baroque) and The Soft Appeal: Sentiment in the Age of Cybernetic Disclosure (Nous-Zot Press). Her writing has appeared in Rethinking Marxism, Supermachine, La Fovea, Try!, The Poetic Labor Project, and Lana Turner. Her concerns include materialist feminism, theologico-political conceptions of poverty and animality, as well as those ‘derelict duties of self-preservation’ called crime.

    Amanda Ackerman is the author of four chapbooks: Sin is to Celebration (co-author, House Press), The Seasons Cemented (Hex Presse), I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck (Insert Press Parrot #8), and Short Stones (Dancing Girl Press). She is co-publisher and co-editor of the press eohippus labs. She also writes collaboratively as part of the projects SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS and UNFO. Her writing has been published in a variety of literary publications, including, most recently, TH.CE, Everyday Genius, WestWind Review, and Shearsman Magazine.  

    Christopher Russell received his BFA from California College of the Arts and Crafts in 1998 and his MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2004. From 2001 to 2005 Russell edited, designed, produced, and distributed the “destroy–to–enjoy” literary art zine Bedwetter. He was the subject of a 2009 Hammer Museum Projects solo exhibition and is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. He has also exhibited his work at Acuna Hansen, Samuel Freeman, Circus Gallery—all in Los Angeles; White Columns, New York; Van Harrison Gallery (Gallery 1R), Chicago; and other venues. His novel Sniper, edited by Amy Gestler, was published in 2011. Budget Decadence, a novella, was published by 2nd Cannons Publications and Landscape, a monograph on his work, was published by Kolapsomal Press. Russell edited and wrote an essay for the catalog that accompanied his curatorial debut, Against the Grain at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in 2008. Additionally, he has written more than two dozen articles and reviews about art in Los Angeles. Russell’s work is in various public collections, including the Hammer Museum/Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, J.P. Getty Museum Research Institute; New York University; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

    Image info: Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929), Accumulation, c. 1963. Sewn and stuffed fabric, wood chair frame, paint, 35 1/2 × 38 1/2 × 35 in. (90.2 × 97.8 × 88.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Photograph by Tom Powel. Yayoi Kusama's retrospective is currently on view at The Whitney in New York from July 12 - September 30, 2012. 
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    PARROT 11 Forcible Oral Copulation by Vanessa Place



    PARROT 11 Forcible Oral Copulation
    by Vanessa Place
    Now Out from Insert Blanc Press!

    With respect to the nature of the offenses, J.A. claims they “were not typical forcible oral copulations or sodomies[,]” or “typical kidnappings.” We agree they were not typical; they were particularly heinous. 
    People v. J.I.A. (2011) 196 Cal.App.4th 393.

    The PARROT series was originally issued by Blanc Press (Los Angeles) from 2005-2010. Insert Blanc Press is reissuing facsimile editions of each title from the PARROT series and releasing a Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection at the end of the run. 

    Titles in the PARROT series: Harold Abramowitz’s A House on A Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One), Amanda Ackerman’s I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck, Will Alexander’s On the Substance of Disorder, Brian Ang’s Pre-Symbolic, Stan Apps’ Politicized Pretty Picture, Amina Cain’s Tramps Everywhere, Teresa Carmody’s I Can Feel, Allison Carter’s All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions, Michelle Detorie’s Fur Birds, Kate Durbin’s Kept Women, K. Lorraine Graham’s My Little Neoliberal Pony, Jen Hofer’s The Missing Link, Maximus Kim’s Break Bloom Burn, Janice Lee’s Fried Chicken Dinner, Joseph Mosconi’s But On Geometric, Vanessa Place’s Forcible Oral Copulation, Amarnath Ravva’s Airline Music, Stephanie Rioux’s My Beautiful Beds, Ara Shirinyan’s Erotic in Czech Republic, Michael Smoler’s Pieces of Water, Brian Kim Stefans’ Viva Miscegenation, Mathew Timmons’ Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation, and Allyssa Wolf’s Loquela.

    Covers of Parrot were originally designed by the amazing printmaker, Maggie White. You can find out more about her work at Gray Area, methinks you'll like what you see.

    Read some press on the PARROT series, including a review of PARROT 5, a review of PARROT 1 and an interview with editor Mathew Timmons. And check out the various ways Insert Blanc Press offers to become a subscribing member and to support the press. Visit the Subscription page at Insert Press for more details!
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    PARROT SUMMER SALE!


    FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!
    I've always wanted to say that ...


    PARROT SUMMER SALE!

    We've been in the process of designing a whole slew of PARROTs all at once - the next 13 issues even - which will bring us up to PARROT 23!

    Would you like to know what's forthcoming in the PARROT series? Oh, I bet you would! Ohkay then: PARROT 11 Vanessa Place - Forcible Oral Copulation, PARROT 12 Janice Lee - Fried Chicken Dinner, PARROT 13 Amina Cain - Tramps Everywhere, PARROT 14 Michelle Detorie - Fur Birds, PARROT 15 Kate Durbin - Kept Women, PARROT 16 Michael Smoler - Pieces of Water, PARROT 17 Amarnath Ravva - Airline Music, PARROT 18 K. Lorraine Graham - My Little Neoliberal Pony, PARROT 19 Maximus Kim - Break Bloom Burn, PARROT 20 Jen Hofer - The Missing Link, PARROT 21 Brian Ang - Pre-Symbolic, PARROT 22 Ara Shirinyan - Erotic in Czech Republic, PARROT 23 Mathew Timmons - Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation.

    Yes! All that stupendous wonderfulness!

    You should probably subscribe to the series now, ohkay.


    If you're not yet all a twitter, how about this, Insert Blanc Press, FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY! has reprinted a small quantity of the first ten issues of PARROT and have made them once again available for sale and at a 10% discount! Just buy a bunch of PARROTs or even pick up the subscription to PARROT and use the discount code ParrotSummerSale during checkout. It's that easy!

     

    Hooray for Summer and the PARROT SUMMER SALE!

    Get your copies of PARROT 1-10 while supplies last! PARROT 1 Stephanie Rioux - My Beautiful Beds, PARROT 2 Harold Abramowitz - A House on a Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One), PARROT 3 Allison Carter - All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions, PARROT 4 Joseph Mosconi - But On Geometric, PARROT 5 Allyssa Wolf - Loquela, PARROT 6 Brain Kim Stephans - Viva Miscegenation, PARROT 7 Will Alexander - On the Substance of Disorder, PARROT 8 Amanda Ackerman - I Fell in Love With a Monster Truck, PARROT 9 Stan Apps - Politicized Pretty Picture, PARROT 10 Teresa Carmody - I Can Feel. So much good stuff. So Much Good Stuff!


    PARROT SUMMER SALE! It's on.
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    Insert Blanc Press MashUp Monster Contest


       

    In honor of the new Insert Blanc Press being a MashUp of both Insert Press and Blanc Press, we're having the second Insert Blanc Press MashUp Monster Contest. Of course, the first Insert Blanc Press MashUp Monster Contest which happened a couple years ago on the facebox had no entrants hence no winners but also no losers. The rules are to make me an awesome mashup of a song from 1974 and a song from 1984 - focus a little on the number 4 or the word for - if you want you can turn it all into noise but the word or number for/four - or forget the whole for four fore thing - just one song from 74 and one from 84 - I'm kinda into the number 4 right now - or whatever - have a little fun with it - and if you mashup the MashUp I like best - you will get lots of books - deadline is the end of July 2012.


    As per usual, the rules are to break the rules a little bit. 
    Looking forward to your mashups!
    Send them along to InsertPress at gmail dot com
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    Altered State Library, Blanc Press Series by Katie Herzog




    Altered State Library, Blanc Press Series by Katie Herzog Now Available! 
    Insert Blanc Monograph: Katie Herzog: Object Oriented Programming now available for Pre-Sale!

    Altered State Library, Blanc Press Series
    Katie Herzog
    various sizes
    various media on paper

    Altered State Library, Katie Herzog’s Blanc Press Series is a limited series of 11 new works to accompany Herzog’s forthcoming artist monograph, Katie Herzog: Object Oriented Programming, January 13, 2012 - March 30, 2012, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, a Xerox Company). Altered State Library was executed in the vein of German pharmacologist P.N. Witt’s research on the effect of psychoactive drugs on spiders. Instead of a web, the resulting works are a variety of representations of the Getty Research Institute Library. Each drawing will come with a signed copy of Katie Herzog's artist monograph, a large format, full color, hardbound edition of approximately 100 pages with essays by Amelia Acker and Andrew Choate.

    The Insert Blanc Monograph series will begin with artist monographs from Christopher Russell and Katie Herzog and each will be preceded by a Limited Series of 10 new works by the artist. Each of the Limited Series is an individual piece by the artist and comes with a signed copy of the accompanying artist monograph.

    Browse the series and choose the variant you'd like to purchase.

    The book is also now available for Pre-Sale at a special price of $45.
       

       Katie Herzog: Object Oriented Programming
       January 13, 2012 - March 30, 2012
       Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, a Xerox Company)
       Essays by Amelia Acker and Andrew Choate
       large format, full color, hardbound edition approx 100pgs

    Katie Herzog received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001 and a Master of Fine Arts at UC San Diego in 2005. She studied Library and Information Science at San Jose State University and currently serves as Director of the Molesworth Institute. Recent projects include a Dictionary of Textual Asylum in Basel, Switzerland, and a pop-up publishing platform for rejected research in the Quint Gallery restroom in La Jolla, CA.
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