Mark Leckey ‘The Long Tail’ (2009)

Cyprien Gaillard, ‘Untitled’, 2009

Simon Denny, Deep Sea Vaudeo (2009)

Michaela Eichwald, Zeit ist angstgnade (2009)

Paul Chan, ‘Oh Stexts’, (2009)

Paul Chan, ‘Oh Stexts’ 2009

Nathan Hylden Material Photography (Mel Bochner 1966-1997) (2009), p.32-33

colophon

Novel Issue Two
Edited Alun Rowlands & Matt Williams//
Designed James Langdon//
Newspaper Publication
pp. 64

ISBN 9781906424091

Front Oscar Tuazon Last Try (2009)//
p.1-4 Karolin Meunier The Act of Corresponding (2009)//
p.5, 23, 28 & 29 Cyprien Gaillard Untitled (2009)//
p.6-9 Mark Leckey The Long Tail (2009)//
p.10-11 Barry MacGregor Johnston & Stephen G.Rhodes By and By (2009)//
p.12-17 Emily Wardill Split the screen in two (2009)//
p.18-22 Paul Chan Oh Stexts (2009)//
p.24-27 Anna Barham Return to Leptis Magna (2009)//
p.30-31 Melanie Gilligan Crisis in the credit system (2009)//
p.32-33 Nathan Hylden Material Photography (Mel Bochner 1966-1997) (2009)//
p.34-39 Karl Holmqvist Declare Independence (2009)//
p.40 & 58 Nichloas Byrne Barber; Hosier (2010)//
p.41 Ryan Gander In search of the perfect palindrome (third attempt); crossword featuring a newly invented word ‘Mitim’ - rendering it unsolveable - placed in a national newspaper (2006)//
p.42 Simon Denny Deep Sea Vaudeo (2009)//
p.43-44 Michaela Eichwald Zeit ist Angstgnade (2009)//
p.45-54 Oscar Tuazon Last Try (2009)//
p.55-56 Henri Chopin Masque & Bergamasque (P.Verlain) de profil. (1988); Pologue libre (1982)//
p.59-63 Ed Atkins The Radical Dilettante (2008)//

The randomly ripped out page(s) in this issue of Novel is Christoph Buchel’s contribution to this publication.

Novel issue 2

Novel issue 2

‘Call of the Wind’ by RH Quaytman read by Edwin Burdis (aka Laliq) 2008

BERNADETTE CORPORATION

‘Hell Frozen Over’
2000, 19:22 min, color, sound

Bernadette Corporation describes this work as “A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white.” Produced for the 2000 Walker Art Center exhibition Let’s Entertain, this short film employs a range of strategies to approach the idea of nothingness, emptiness, and vacuity, with an eye to how these notions relate to contemporary mass-cultural entertainment. Juxtaposing “documentary” takes on a fashion shoot with footage of semiologist Sylvère Lotringer giving an impromptu lecture on Mallarmé on a frozen lake, Hell Frozen Over maintains an ambiguous stance from which to both critique and celebrate the power of surface.

With: Sylvere Lotringer, Bianca (New York Models), Arielle (Next). Voice-overs: Liz Bougatsos, Colin DeLand. Hair: Rick Radone. Make-up: Yuko Mizuno. Clothes: Vikor & Rolf, Andre Walker, Seth Shapiro. Music: Ben Williams, The Beatles, Kippenberger, Mozart, Cat Stevens, Schubert. Video Editing Equipment/Software: The Bohen Foundation.

Novel Launch, a set on Flickr.

Donlon Books
210-3 Cambridge Heath Road London E2
www.donlonbooks.com

X marks the Bökship

NILS NORMAN / STEPHAN DILLEMUTH
“I’m short your house”, 2007 24 mins.

‘As the video I’m Short, Your House, 2007, closes, a voice tells us that today, “Not only do works of art end up as commodities, but there is also an overwhelming sense in which works of art start off as commodities.” The quote is from the Australian conceptual artist Ian Burn, but on-screen, the source of the voice seems to be a shadow in the shape of an animal head, made by a hand. Stephan Dillemuth and Nils Norman use simple means to create a caricatured realm akin to Karl Marx’s “inverted world where Mr. Capital and Madame Real Estate dance their macabre dance.’ More…

Melanie Gilligan Artforum December 2007

Luke Fowler

“The Way Out - A Portrait of Xentos Jones” 2003; DVD, 32:52mins

Luke Fowler/Kosten Koper’s film, THE WAY OUT, A Portrait of Xentos profiles one of the founding members of The Homosexuals, a band that lapsed into obscurity after self-releasing a number of groundbreaking records in the post-punk period. More…

DUNCAN CAMPBELL
“Bernadette”, 2008,
Video for projection
37 minutes 10 seconds
16mm transferred to DVD.

“Bernadette” presents an unravelling, open-ended story of the female Irish dissident and political activist, Bernadette Devlin. Duncan Campbell is interested in fusing documentary and fiction in order to assess both the subject matter and the mode of communicating it.Documentary is a peculiar form of fiction. It has the appearance of verity grounded in many of the same formal conventions of fiction––narrative drive, linear plot, and closure. More…

Norfolk_Thompson on Flickr.

Novel
AC Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung

Cheyney Thompson, Rupert Norfolk
Installation View, 2008

Novel
AC Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung
Berlin

Cheyney Thompson, Rupert Norfolk, Hanna Schwarz, Franz West
Installation View, 2008