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Fall books from Badlands Unlimited

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Yvonne Rainer: Poems

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Poems
by Yvonne Rainer

Limited paperback and unlimited enhanced e-book

80 pages
6 X 9 X .25 inches
ISBN: 978-1-936440-10-8
E-book ISBN: 978-1-936440-11-5

Poems is a collection of never before published poems by choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer. Full of wit and candor, they offer a window into the life and mind of one of America’s greatest living artists. Accompanying the poems is a selection of images curated by Rainer and an introduction by poet and critic Tim Griffin.

The enhanced e-book includes audio of Rainer reading five of the poems, an interview conducted by artist Paul Chan with Rainer about her process as an artist and poet, and a video excerpt of "Trio A" (1966), the legendary dance piece choreographed and performed by Rainer.

Poems is now available at all fine independent bookshops in New York and on the Badlands site. E-book available now on Apple iBooks and Amazon.

About Yvonne Rainer
Yvonne Rainer was born in San Francisco in 1934. She trained as a modern dancer in New York and began to choreograph her own work in l960. She was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in l962, a movement that proved to be a vital force in modern art and dance in the following decades. Since 1972, Rainer has completed seven feature-length films, beginning with Lives of Performers (1972) and more recently The Man Who Envied Women (1985), Privilege (1990), and MURDER and murder (1996). A memoir, Feelings are Facts: a Life, was published by MIT Press in 2006.

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Summer 2011 titles

Badlands is pleased to release these books for summer 2011
   
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U Catullus

$0.99



U Catullus
by Jean Paaulhan
(first in the U R__X series)

E-book with 14 hidden illustrations

80 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936440-15-3

U are Catullus, a young poet who loves Lesbia and hates Cicero. Being who U are, U also enjoy drinking, going to parties, and cursing at the gods. This is the simple premise behind U Catullus, Jean Paaulhan’s ingenious e-book. Based on the work of the scandalous Roman poet Catullus (87 B.C. - 57 B.C.), the reader is called upon to make decisions within the epic poem that lead to different storylines and outcomes. In lyrical poetic form, U Catullus unfolds like an ancient Roman version of TMZ, or a libertine novella for our interconnected age.

U Catullus is part of U R__X, a series of contemporary e-books published by Badlands Unlimited and written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist in the story, or poem, or experimental text, and making choices that determine the shape of the reading experience.

About the Author
Jean Paaulhan is a writer based in New York. Her essays and articles have appeared in High Society and the Psychopathia Sexualis Quarterly.
   
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Mans in the mirrors

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Mans in the mirrors (in 3D)
by Badlands Unlimited

Graphic e-book

30 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936440-16-0

The first of its kind, Mans in the Mirrors is a digital 3D ebook for the Apple iPad and other e-readers. A picture book composed of images made by the Badlands Unlimited staff under the influence of mescaline, Mans in the Mirror is loosely based on Henri Michaux's seminal book Miserable Miracle. This picture book reflects the visual preoccupations of a generation of artists and writers in touch with and out of mind of a certain reality.

Unfortunately, Badlands does not sell 3D glasses at this time. But you can buy them here.
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Spring Break
by Ian Cheng

Graphic e-book

49 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936440-12-2

An overlay of uniquely generated digital images that camouflage texts on the page from the likes of neo-conservative historians, drunken students cavorting on Miami's South Beach, and the author, Spring Break is an experimental e-book that weaves elements of design, poetry, and incantatory idioms into a digital book that unfolds like a flipbook moving at the speed of a mellifluous hallucination.

Spring Break is the first in a series of experimental e-books by new and emerging artists and writers.
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$0.99


Selected Anthumous Works Vol. 1
by Alphonse Allais
Translated by Gregoir Asia

E-book

49 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936440-13-9

Alphonse Allais is one of the great proto-pataphysicians of the late 19th century. Humorous, poetic and endlessly inventive, his art and writing inspired artists throughout the 20th century, among them Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, and the pioneering composers John Cage and Erwin Schulhoff.

Selected Anthumous Works is the beginning of a series that brings together Allais's best short stories. Freshly translated by noted scholar and translator Gregoir Asia, this collection includes "Georgette Killed Herself!" and "Poly-Type" as well as a number of texts that are neither stories nor essays, but rather like poems from another planet.
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Spring 2011 titles

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Sade cover

$9.99



Hardcover edition availabe at all fine independent bookshops

Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide
edited by Paul Chan

Enhanced e-book edition

(340 pages, 2011, Badlands Unlimited & Creative Time Books)
E-book ISBN: 978-1-936-44004-7

Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide features:

• Over 200 photographs, drawings, and illustrations.

• New essays and interviews by key project members, including Paul Chan, Christopher McElroen (Classical Theatre of Harlem) and Nato Thompson (Creative Time).

• Essays by Susan Sontag, Terry Eagleton, and Alain Badiou that illuminate the social and philosophical dimensions of Samuel Beckett’s work.

• Interviews with artists, collaborators, and community members from New Orleans offering insight into how the city responded to Godot.

• New audio compositions by Chan that accompanied the premiere of the Waiting for Godot in New Orleans archive at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in June 2010 (Apple version only).

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Books from Badlands Unlimited

Badlands is pleased to announce books by Paul Chan
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$25 (limited paperback)



$2.99 (e-book edition)





Phaedrus Pron

Limited paperback and unlimited e-book

424 pages
4.5 X 7 X .75 inches
Paperback ISBN: 9781936440009
E-book ISBN: 9781936440016

"Using his brilliant cache of dirty/sexy fonts, Paul Chan transforms Plato's 'Phaedrus' from a discussion of love and rhetoric into a wet, hot, pleading, begging, humping, squirting, moaning fuckfest between Socrates and the young Phaedrus.”-- Fleshbot


Published as a limited paperback and an unlimited e-book, Paul Chan’s Phaedrus Pron recasts Plato’s legendary dialogue on art, erotic love, and madness as unyielding sexual prose that stretches the limits of intelligibility and sense.

"Written" by typesetting the original text with computer fonts created by Chan that transform the conventional alphabet into an array of erotic idiolects, Phaedrus Pron unfolds as a relentless exchange of erotic verse between a philosopher and a young man in search of rhyme and reason.

Works of art in themselves, the fonts extend the possibilities of writing by rewriting what is written with a simple change of font in your computer: from Times new roman to...Phaedrus Pron.


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Phaedrus Pron on kindle

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Sade cover

$39.95 (limited soft cover)



$4.99 (e-book edition with multimedia content)



The essential and incomplete Sade for Sade’s sake

Limited soft cover edition and unlimited e-book

240 pages
Color cover with black / white art
Color cover, art and video clips (e-book only)
8.5 X 11 X .5 inches
Soft cover ISBN: 9781936440009
E-book ISBN: 9781936440016

This artist book, designed by Chan, brings together for the first time drawings, writings, and fonts he created for Sade for Sade’s sake, his monumental project that premiered at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

This unique media rich ebook includes video clips and never before seen drawings and images. It also features writings by Chan that explores the main ideas behind his project.

Using the work of the philosopher Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) as a departure point, Sade for Sade’s sake is a five-hour-and-forty-five-minute video projection as well as a constellation of other works that together evoke the spirit of Sade’s radical critique of freedom and reason for the 21st century.

The Sade e-book features:
- Including never before seen drawings and source materials.
- 4 video clips from sections of the video projection (iPad version only)
- Never before published poems and writings by Chan
- An interactive table of contents for easy browsing

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Sade on ipad

Sade e-book sample

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