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New Window Display and Top 10 This Week

Look at our awesome window display, created by Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher of the Sonnenzimmer Studio! Don’t miss Nadine’s event here on Oct 29th!

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1. Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue $16.99

2. Bust Oct/Nov 09 $4.99

3. Proximity #5 The Photo Issue Fall 2009 $12.00

4. The Squirrel Machine by Hans Rickheit (Fantagraphics) $18.99

5. Monocle vol 3 #27 Oct 09 $10.00

6. Rainbow Connection Richard Hunt Gay Muppeteer by Jessica Max Stein $7.00

7. Achewood vol 2 Worst Song Played On Guitar by Chris Onstad (Dark Horse) $15.95

8. Comic Dirama by Grant Reynolds (Top Shelf) $5.00

9. In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek (Verso) $19.95

10. Dark Places by Filian Flynn (Shaye Areheart) $24.00

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Nadine Nakanishi of Sonnenzimmer Reads From Formal Additive Programs

Oct ’09
29
7:00 pm

This is not another portfolio book by an artist… or at least it’s trying not to be. Formal Additive Programs, Nadine Nakanishi’s first release is an attempt to provide insight into a daily art practice and process, while focusing on the commonalities of figurative and abstract images. Formal Additive Programs offers 18 simple instructions to help the reader expand upon a singular idea, a practice that aids Nakanishi in her art-making everyday.

This book release party will also feature Dakota Brown and Nick Butcher. Brown, who wrote the poetic preface to the book, will be reading from his work. Butcher (www.nickbutcher.net) is to follow with a musical set, interpreting the 18 steps of instruction that make up the books content. The audience is encouraged to draw along with the instructions and the music.

Can a set of instructions be so beautifully imbricated as to occlude their own identity as instructions? Can rules for drawing be expressed in a language that eschews the visual, a language more attuned to the patterns of acoustic space and kinesthetics? Nadine Nakanishi’s Formal Additive Programs answers these questions with an enthusiastic, quiet, unpretentious ‘yes’. The title indicates that these are programs for constructing patterns. With these programs, Nakanishi demonstrates how suggestions, rules, axioms, can allow emergent creative processes to thrive. The familiar paradox is that creativity can perhaps best be conceptualized in terms of limits. The particular can find its horizon in the infinite, as long as contingency is allowed to breathe life into the project. Formal Additive Programs builds bit-by-bit, but this is something very different from deductively-arranged building blocks.  These aren’t building blocks at all. To keep things aural: these are more like building tones.— Dave Park, Associate Professor of Communication, Lake Forest College

Formal Additive Programs
Format, 7” x 9.75”,
Cover and Interior, 2-pms colors / Interior, 28 pages
Hand-printed silk-screen dust jacket – First printing, limited Edition 250

For more info about the author go to: www.yoneko.net, or www.sonnenzimmer.com