Fools In Print is an artist-run press based in Scotland, edited by Lucy Keany. The press was established (in 2008) to show works by an international cast of artists and writers, working off the premise that each issue will shift both in brief and format.

 


image: Edward and Eloise Fornieles

Issue ONE: Practice and Improvisation in performance

The virtuoso, ad-lib, timing, humour, one-man shows, dancing strategies, desperation, wannabes, Live Art, music and new technologies, audience, glitches.
[Format: 1000 Colour Newspapers]
Design: Tommy Grace

The contributors were: Graham Parker (NYC), Ryan Gander (London), John Russell (London), Tony Pearson and Alexandr Pertrovsky (London), Edward and Eloise Fornieles (London), Luke Collins (Glasgow), Jamie Shovlin (London), Alex Hetherington (Glasgow), Anne Colvin (SF), Simon Bedwell (London), Matt Keegan (NYC), Sophia Lycouris (Edinburgh), Torsten Lauschmann (Glasgow), Tron Lennon (Newcastle), Plastique Fantastique (Simon O’Sullivan and David Burrows) (London), Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich (Edinburgh), Beagles and Ramsay (Glasgow), Tim Etchells (Sheffield), Vlatka Horvat (NYC), Gail Pickering (London) and Hayley Newman (London).

Issue 1 was available from Matts Gallery, London, Gasworks, London, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, GRV, Edinburgh, Edinburgh College or Art, Wienowski and Harbord, Berlin, and TART, San Francisco.

download PDF here (about 14MB)

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Issue TWO: Play and Pleasure

Sexiness, colour, entertainment, rhythm, ritual, fetish, surface, flirtation, jokes, fun and games.
[Format: 500 DVD’s of artist video and booklet]
Design: Benjamin Fallon

Artists:

Beagles and Ramsay (Glasgow)
Aline Bouvy and John Gillis (Brussels)
Jaygo Bloom (Glasgow)
Luke Collins (Glasgow)
Lucy Keany(Glasgow)
Shelly Nadashi (Glasgow)
Christian Newby (Glasgow)
Ewan Sinclair (Edinburgh)
Matilda Tristram (London)

Writers

Madame Nissifer (Bathgate)
Alex Hetherington (Glasgow)
Jennifer Lyon Bell (Amsterdam)

Download texts here (about 600KB)


Issue THREE: The Voice

Accent, vocabulary, non- human, breath, song, Max/ MSP, synthesizer, poetry, distortion, narration, the uncanny, eccentrics.
[Format: 500 CD’s of sound art and electronic music]
Design: Benjamin Fallon


01 Shiori Usui (Edinburgh)
02 Joan La Barbara (USA)
03 Martin Parker (Edinburgh)
04 Zoë Irvine (Edinburgh)
05 Paul Rooney (Liverpool)
06 Wounded Knee (Edinburgh)
07 Jordan Baseman (London)
Bonus interactive soundtoy by Jules Rawlinson (Edinburgh)

Download booklet here (about 1.7MB)


Commissioned by New Media Scotland. New Media Scotland is a national development agency fostering artist and audience engagement with all forms of new media practice.

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