"AVENUE B—September 11, 2002. Enjoying my hot-off-the-press Daily on Avenue B with a cup of burned deli coffee. New York’s Hometown Newspaper was printed in an edition of 1,000 on the first anniversary of 9-11, to reclaim my birthday on the same day. The newspaper contains articles, poems, drawings, ads and all sorts of stupid beautiful shit solicited from over 100 physical artist friends and univocally accepted under the open editorial policy as birthday gifts. The back I BOMB NY logo is by the Bernadette Corporation. Looking back though, it is interesting how certain mainstream politicians have taken all our avant-garde strategies, DADA, Punk, Fiction, Surrealism, Performance, Wigs, even FAKE NEWS (homage: Yves Klein), squeezed the dear soul out of them and weaponized them for their delinquent purposes. If that is really the case of our times, then what is the role of an artist today? Discuss." — Aleksandra Mir
CONTRIBUTORS:
James Angus, Herman Asselberghs, Mireille Astore,
Andreas Angelidakis, Tasha Amini, Matthew Arnatt, Sheyla Baykal,
Jessica Ball, Ina Blom, Gavin Brown, Bonk, Claire Bishop, Bernadette
Corporation, Dave Beech, Mark Beasley, Bengala, Kathrin Boehm, Martin
Boyce, Jeremy Blake, Jennie Bornstein, Pablo Bronstein, Cecily Brown,
Jessica Craig Martin, ChanSchatz, Kaethe Cherney, Mauro Ceolin, Chris
Chapman, Cokierek, Minerva Cuevas, Claude Closky, Robert Cook, Anne
Collier, Verne Dawson, Anna Daneri, Barnaby Drabble, Jim Drain, Gardar
Eine Einarsson, Leif Elggren, Onome Ekeh, Alexandre Estrela, Aldous
Eveleigh, Chris Evans, Forcefield, Dara Friedman, Urs Fisher, Yvonne
Force, Brett Fletcher, Kate Fowfle, Gabriel Fowler, Sarah Gavlak, Liam
Gillick, Johnny Gato, Gity & Gary, Cornelia Grassi, Michelle Grabner,
Laura Genninger, Delia Gonzales, Johan Grimonprez, Emil Goh, Wade
Guyton, Ilana Halperin, Jane Harris, Rcahel Harrisson, Nancy Hagen,
Jennifer Higgie, Chris Holstad, Peter Hill, Ken Hollings, Laura
Hoffman, Emily Howard, Karl Holmkvist, Gustav Hellberg, Mary Horlock,
Mika Hannula, Neil Haddon, Jens Haaning, Hobbypop, Rachel Howard, It
Can Change, Icelandic Love Corporation, Elinor Jansz, Laura Jones,
Garrick Jones, Sissel Kardel, Anton Kern, Richard Kern, Shama Khanna,
Daniel Knorr, Brad Killam, Steve Lafrieniere, Joe Latimore, Matthieu
Laurette, Pam Lins, Cedar Lewinsohn, Melissa Longenecker, Antje
Majewski, Miltos Manetas, Nina Manandhar, Gurvan Madec, Daria Martin,
Starr McCaleb, Adam McEwen, Slink Moss, Michalef & Piers, Jarrett
Mitchell, Zoe Miller, Josephine Meckseper, Milhaus, Gianni Motti, Ingo
Niermann, Paul Noble, Dimitry O’Connor, Silke Otto Knapp, David
Ortega, Daniel Pinchbeck, Gregg William Perkins, Olivia Plender, Paola
Pivi, Henrik Plenge Jacobsen, pro q m, Fedrico Rahola, Scott Reader,
Daniel Reich, Carissa Rodriguez, Duncan Robinson, Andrew Roth, Anne
Ryan, Karin Ruggaber, Kirstine Roepsdorff, Gavin Russom, Smari +Nina,
Stefan Saffer, Cornelia Schbleek, Amy Saxe, Yoshiko Sato, Russel
Storer, Robert Cook, Raimar Stange, Caroline Schneider, Jonas Schul,
Harry Staple, Polly Staple, Cecilia Stenbom, Mike Stevens, Robin
Sellick, Annika Ström, Andy & Zoe Stillpass, Superflex, Ali Subotnick,
Eli Sudbrack, Mike Stanley
Artist's newspaper published by Greengrassi Gallery, London, and Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, 2002. Edition of 1,000.
