In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955 is a survey exhibition of the often-overlooked genre of serial publications produced by artists around the world from 1955 to the present day. From the rise of the small press in the 1960s, to the DIY zine culture in the 1980s and early 1990s, professional artists have always seized on the format of magazines and postcards as a site for a new kind of art production.
In Numbers is the first survey to define a neglected artform that is neither artists’ book nor ephemera, but is entirely its own unique object. The publications are by young artists operating at the peripheries of mainstream art cultures and established artists looking for an alternative to the marketplace. The publications are artworks, often idiosyncratic and produced in collaboration, and they do not feature news items, criticism, or reproductions of artworks.
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at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
through March 25, 2012
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Above – Dieter Roth, Gesamalte Werke, 1968–1990
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Vito Acconci & Bernadette Mayer, 0 to 9, 1967-1969
Vito Acconci & Bernadette Mayer, 0 to 9, 1967-1969
Eleanor Antin, 100 Boots, 1971-1973
Art For Um, Buster Cleveland, 1993-1998
Art For Um, Buster Cleveland, 1993-1998
Art Police, 1974-1994
Art Police, 1974-1994
Art-Language
Art-Language
Art-Language
Culture Hero
Culture Hero
Diagonal Cero
Die Schastrommel
Die Schastrommel
Die Schastrommel
File
File
File
Gesamalte Werke
Barbara Ess and Glenn Branca, Just Another Asshole
Landslide
Living&Loving
Material
Mela
Nutsy’s
Salvation Army
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Semina
Semina
The Situationist Times
Tripping Corpse
Tripping Corpse
Vile
Vile
Courtesy: ICA, London. Photo: Mark Blower
