Clouds is a small publishing house involved in the publication of art books in Aotearoa New Zealand.
We are primarily interested in increasing the supply of interesting tomes and slimmer volumes both about and by artists.
We are Warren Olds and Gwynneth Porter. Clouds has offices in Christchurch
PUBLISHED TITLES
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Kate Newby, Incredible Feeling
Michael Stevenson & Jan Verwoert, Animal Spirits
Nova Paul, Form Next to Form Next to Form
(with Dent-De-Leone)
Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Green with Envy
Daniel Malone, Black Market Next To My Name,
co-published with Hopkinson Cundy
Louise Menzies, Pursuit of an Ideal
Volume 2., a document-extension of the Artspace project, co-published with Artspace
025 Jan Bryant and Leonhard Emmerling,
PX: Thoughts on Painting
026 Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People: the Book of the Zine
020 Julian Dashper, This is not writing,
co-published with Michael Lett
023 Pūrākau / Myths and Legends / Mitos y Leyendas
022 Sean Kerr, Bruce is in the garden; so someone is in the garden
017 Peter Robinson’s Ack and other Abdications,
co-published with Artspace
018 Sriwhana Spong, Nijinsky,
co-published with Michael Lett
016 Bruce Russell Left-handed Blows: Writing on sound, 1993–2009
015 Daniel Knorr Pukapuka Tohunga Mahi Toi,
edition published with Artspace
014 Sean Kerr Pop, co-published with Michael Lett
012 The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, co-published with Aotearoa Digital Arts
011 Dan Arps' Sun Seeker, co-published with The Physics Room, Neon Parc and Michael Lett
010 Paul Winstanley Threshold: Paintings 1989–2007,
co-published with Artspace
009 Volume 1., a document-extension of the Artspace project, co-published with Artspace
008 Teststrip: a history of an artist-run space (1992-1997)
007 Meg Cranston, Hot Pants in a Cold Cold World,
co-published with Artspace
006 Ava Seymour, The White House Years
005 Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
004 Judy Darragh, Arts Society
003 Tessa Laird, Shards of the Jealous Potter
002 Sweet Punch: recent Nordic video
p001 Bruce Barber & Emma Bugden, Party Without Party
DISTRIBUTION TITLES
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All the Cunning Stunts, SO GAY!,
published by All the Cunning Stunts
Connect, published by Colophon
Ruth Buchanan Lying Freely, published by Jan van Eyck Acadamie and Casco
Louise Menzies & Warren Olds, Mushroom magazine poster
David Bennewith, Suggestions poster, Joseph Churchward's suggested designs for TV 2 logo
Speculation, NZ Venice Project 2007,
published by Artspace
UNDER DEVELOPMENT
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Peter Robinson: Modern Standards (essays by Francis Pound, Lauren Winstone and Luke Willis Thompson)
STOCKISTS
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Our publications are available from the following stockists:
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Pah Homestead/TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland
Unity Books, Auckland
University Bookshop, Auckland
Tivoli, Waiheke Island
Wheelers Books, Auckland
Gordon Harris, Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch
Unity Books, Wellington
Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington
Page and Blackmore Booksellers, Nelson
Please contact us if you are interested in becoming a stockist. We offer standard trade terms to retail partners.
INTERNATIONAL
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Our publications are distributed in the USA and Canada by RAM.
In Germany, Austria and Switzerland our publications are distributed by Vice Versa Vertrieb.
CONTACT
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PO Box 147-553
Ponsonby, Auckland 1144
Aotearoa New Zealand
+64 9 309 2604
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Daniel Knorr’s new artist’s book Pukapuka Tohunga Mahi Toi is the fifth in his series of limited edition artist’s books titled Carte de Artist. The process involves a mapping of the city in which Knorr collects pieces of rubbish on the street. This material is then interleaved into the blank pages of the books and pressed by a 200-ton press, embossing the objects into the paper itself.
Each book sets out to respond to local concerns and histories and, for this reason, the text for the New Zealand version is entirely in Maori. This simple appropriation could also be seen to remind us that the printed word and the book are introduced, colonising forms. The cover uses the typeface Churchward Maori, designed by New Zealand type designer Joseph Churchward. The book includes a video which documents the process of making the work.
Published on the occasion of Knorr’s Artspace Auckland project, Block.
Published by Clouds
November 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9582981-5-5
Softcover
240 pages plus DVD
Objects inserted and pressed by the artist
Maori
Edition: 168, individually numbered and signed
Dimensions: 161 x 230 mm, thickness varies (min. 25 mm)
Weight: 460 gm (approx)
Individually shrinkwrapped
NZD$200
Order online (via Paypal):
Also available as an Artspace edition.
Clouds publishing
PO Box 68-187
Newton, Auckland 1145
New Zealand
+64 9 309 2604
clouds.co.nz