Impulse Archaeology

["Dennis Moore" <clayboy56>]

Impulse Archaeology
White Box
Chelsea
525 West 26th Street
212-714-2347
February 8 - March 3, 2007

http://www.artcal.net/event/view/1/4090

Impulse Archaeology documents the seminal Toronto-based,
internationally oriented art and culture magazine Impulse, which
existed from 1971 through 1990.

Eldon Garnet, executive editor of Impulse, curates the exhibition that
features hundreds of original artworks, texts, videos, ephemera and
other published and non-published submissions to the magazine. The
selection of artworks and objects also reflects the various areas that
the magazine devoted its pages to, including visual art, music, film,
architecture, theory, literature, and gender discourse. Examples
include work by: by Boyd Webb, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Barbara Ess and
Komar and Melamid, Dennis Oppenheim, Christian Boltanski, as well as
portraits of music legends Jonathan Richman, Kraftwerk, Nina Hagen,
theorist Northrope Frye, and writer William S. Burroughs.

In conjunction with the exhibition the book Impulse Archaeology has
been published by the University of Toronto Press. This large format
coffee table volume is an eclectic collection of groundbreaking
interviews, articles and artworks, from pieces on punk rock to early
discussions on postmodernism. Important features include Aphorisms by
Jenny Holzer; drawings by Patti Smith; Tom Dean's Ramps; Chris
Burden's The Curse of Big Job; photographs by Joel Peter Witkin; Hans
Haacke's Voice Alcan; SITE by James Wines; and William Burroughs'
short story Blade Runner.

Impulse Archaeology is presented and circulated by the Museum of
Contemporary Canadian Art and Impulse, and is supported by the Canada
Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, BMO Financial Group
and International Trade Canada, and Canadian Foreign Affairs. The
exhibition at White Box has been coordinated by Janet Bellotto and
designed by Carolyn White.
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Impulse Archaeology
Edited by Eldon Garnet
University of Toronto Press (c) 2005

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Impulse was the premier Canadian art and culture magazine of the 1970s
and 80s, a visual and conceptual cornerstone in magazine publishing.
During its run, Impulse featured the writings and thought of some of
the world's most influential and provocative minds, including Jean
Baudrillard, William S. Burroughs, and Paul Virilio, and work by some
of the world's foremost artists, among them Patti Smith, Michael Snow,
and Joel Peter Witkin. The magazine was experimental, a work of art in
itself.

Eldon Garnet was the editor and publisher of Impulse from 1975 to
1990, when it ceased publication, and with Impulse Archaeology, he
brings the magazine's spirit back to life. The book is an eclectic
collection of original and groundbreaking interviews, articles, and
artwork that ranges in scope from pieces on Punk rock to early
discussions on postmodernism, and that includes contributions from
artists, architects, writers, and philosophers.

Impulse Archaeology honours this important period in Canadian art and
cultural history, recalling the early influence of like-minded
publications from New York and the import of French theorists and
European artists and writers into North America. Impulse brought the
world into Canada and Canada to the world.


Eldon Garnet is an international photographic artist and novelist
based in Toronto and a professor at the Ontario College of Art and
Design.


Table of Contents:

Introduction
No author/Special Transmission for Canadian Press
Patti Smith/ Drawings
Michael Snow/ Larry Dubin's Music
Lola Michael/Blondie: A Toronto Conversation
James Wines/Site
Eldon Garnet/Andy Warhol
Chris Burdon/The Curse of the Big Job
Rodney Werden/Baby Dolls
Tom Sherman and Robin Collyer/Once Living in a Healthy State of Paranoia
Shelagh Alexander/Mr. Leather
PL Noble/Devo
Buckminister Fuller/Interview: Michael Kieran
John Brown/Rich People
Krzystof Wodiczko/Vehicles
Philip Monk/Violence and Representation
Willoughby Sharp/Zero Time Data Hideout: Alain Robbe-Grillet Interviewed
Patrick Mata and Cece Cole/ Nina Hagen
Tom Dean/Ramps
Donna Lypchuk/Rebel Without a Car
Chris Dewdney/Case A-7
Matt Cohen/In Search of Inspiration
Gerard Malanga/Shark Bait
Russ Meyer/Interview
Judith Doyle/Transcript
Ander James Paterson/KRAFTWERK
Eduardo Galeano/ OF Virgins and Saints
Lynne Tillman/Diary of a Masochist
Lisa Baumgardner/Diary Excerpt
Eldon Garnet and James Dunn/Cronenberg
James Wines/Fear of the Albany Mall
John Bentley Mays/The Victim's Ball
Sylvere Lotringer/The New Alliance
David Lake/John Kenneth Galbraith
Terence Sellers/Correct Sadist
Jean Baudrillard/Nuclear Implosion
Roger Peyrefitte/Excepts from the Memoirs of Baron Wilhelm V. Gloeden
Joel Peter Witkin/Photographs
Donna Wyszomierski/More Time on His Hands
Maurice Blanchot/The Right Time
Hans Haacke/Voici Alcan
Sylvere Lotringer/Framing Death
General Idea/Self Portrait
Nancy Burson/WARHEAD 3rd Nuclear Powers Composite
Nancy Johnson/I saw on TV
Kathy Acker/Scenes of World War III
Jean Baudrillard/The Child in the Bubble
Pierre Guyota/Coma
Eldon Garnet/I Shot Mussolini
Brian Weil/Miami Police Force
Alexander Wilson/The Managed Landscape
Dot Tuer/An Encounter with Holocaust Resionism
David Burgess/The Orillia Opera
Pier-Luigi Tazzi/A Whole Story
Liliana Heker/Jocasta
Jeanne Randolph/Small Diary of Suppression
Jenny Holzer/Bodies Lie In...
Eldon Garnet/Tony Schwartz: Electronic Persuasion
Jenny Holzer/Let Your Hand...
Komar Melamid/Thank you Comrade Stalin for Our Happy Childhood
David Greenberger/The Duplex Planet
Chris Dercon/Speed-Space
Albert Russo/Tunsian Fever
Brian Boigon/Shopping for the Real
Nicole Brossard/Certain Words
Andrew James Paterson/Men who Don't Drive
Andrea Ward/Frederick Jameson
Barbara Ess/Photograph
Arthur Kroker/Panic God
Donna Lypchuk/John Waters
Marguerite Duras/The Slut of the Normandy Coast
Christian Boltanski/Three Months of Distance
Geoff Pevere/Conventional Warfare
Angela Carter/The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter
Slyvere Lotringer/I Talked About God
Impulse/J.G. Ballard
William Burroughs/Blade Runner
Michael Focault/Radio Interview
Leon Golub/Art
Doug Walker/William Gibson
Ron Geyshick/Cannibal Women
Carolyn White/Safe
Alexander Pilis/Cannibal
Simon Watney/Laocoon
Joyce Weiland/The Black Dog
Roger Caillois/Mimetism and Psychathenia
David Nash/Ash Dome
Francis Ponge/Of Natural Crystals
Susan Speigel/HA! HA!
Christopher Weber/Northrop Frye
Tom Dean/Hell
William Burroughs/Tiger Terry
Eldon Garnet/William Burroughs
Louise Lawless/Enough

Read and excerpt from this book:
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View select colour pages from this book:
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