A study and a guidance device, the first book on the Royal Book
Lodge (RBL) is the culmination of a three-year exploration by
renowned art historian John C. Welchman. It examines the
contribution of the RBL to an array of art, film and performance
practices including photography, ceramics, writing, and
publishing—centered on the creation of artist books and the
powerful and wide-ranging dialogue and material experimentations
they engender. The volume unfolds from various cultural and
political geographies, including in the Parisian suburb of
Montreuil which served as an HQ, beginning in 1989; and narratives
of migrations and travels, art-inflected or otherwise, in Iceland,
Paraguay, Eastern Europe, Los Angeles and on the Ligurian coast of
Italy. It unpacks questions caught up in constructs of
autobiography, fiction, ideas and images of remote control, and the
relation of RBL to the aftermath of the Situationist International,
concluding with the RBL’s socially urgent inquiry into
experiences—and culturally pharmacological contestations—of
violence. Royal Book Lodge The Royal Book Lodge emerged from a
collaboration between artists Juli Susin and Veronique Bourgoin in
mid-1980's expanding its Collection and Archive and other
activities after the turn of the millennium with the assistance of
Yasha Gofman. For more than three decades RBL’s projects have
been sparked by a porous but a distractedly nimble network of
artists from France, Germany, Russia, Iceland, Paraguay, and other
locations, working with painting, sculpture, photography, film,
installations, ceramics, writing, publishing, and curating. RBL
affiliates include: Raisa Aid, Kai Althoff, Abel Auer, Linda Bilda,
André Butzer, matali crasset, Les Schlag (Grems, Tex, Virassamy),
Gudny Guðmundsdóttir, Beate Günther, Tobias Hauser, Andy Hope
1930, Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir, Dorota Jurczak, Bruce Kalberg,
Armin Krämer, Alexandre Kalinkine, Lutz Krüger, Charlet Kugel,
Jean-Louis Leibovitch, Anne Lefebvre, Jochen Lempert, Jonathan
Meese, Birgit Mergele, Anna Parkina, Raymond Pettibon, Jason
Rhoades, Lucia Sotnikova, Julia Rublow, Ralph Rumney, Gianfranco
Sanguinetti.
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