Kitchen Women Knives2008
Kitchen Women Knives began with inspiration from the book "The Practice of Everyday Life" by Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard & Pierre Mayol and from our own practice of everyday cooking. The essays in this issue ask questions about the cultural status of the kitchen knife, the potential dangers of our mothers and developments in home economics.
Screen-printed on a tablecloth, this publication seats four.
Common Pantry Goods 2008 - 2009
The surfaces of household containers usually exhibit a narrow scope of information: product identification, company branding, and, in the small amount space left, mandatory consumer info. Common Pantry Goods explored the themes surrounding these disposable containers and their labels, in order to provide a deeper examination of these familiar items. This issue was printed on stickers specially formatted to fit common pantry goods.
Reformed Remade Rehabilitated 2009
For X-Initiative's No Soul for Sale we compiled a booklet with some research on the notion and methods of rehabilitation. The practice of rehabilitation is approached in a broad sense, beyond its application to a subject’s physical or mental state, but its interpretation in ecological and social contexts as well.
It's a tale of authority and autonomy, the imposition of goodwill and the pursuit of the past.
Copies of this hand-bound reader are available, $10, email us.
The Reader Reader 2010-2011
The Reader Reader is our fourth issue in the form of a contribution to the book Charley Independents. We haven't seen it published yet, but if you have - you know what to do.
Charley Independents is a resource compendium on the numerous international artist collectives and curatorial organizations that are initiating unusual strategies for the distribution of art and devising new modes of participation. Published as an installation of Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick's shapeshifting Charley series.
EPP is still accepting submissions, click to see how.
Wish You Were Here!2011
POSTCARDS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
OF ALL THE WRONG THINGS
Of the thousands of pictures from our vacations, most memorialize the sculptures, temples and other famous sights we travelled specially to see. In a handful of photos, we let our cameras slip and capture instead the local excavation workers, empty display cases, scaffolding, crowds, and other signs of the maintenance of culture. These postcards tell stories we’ve previously omitted from memory, but that are arguably more curious, perplexing and accurate souvenirs from our trips.
12 postcards by Marta Cuciurean-Zapan, Pamela Garber and Xenia Pachikov. If you have a postcard you’d like to include in the collection, email info@emptypursepub.com
Napkins for Sol LeWitt2010
"For LeWitt, the act of exchange seemed to be not only a personal gesture, but also an integral part of his conceptual practice...This kind of exchange was designed to stage an encounter between two minds, outside the familiar confines of friendship."
EPP has contributed to An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, viewable at the Cabinet Magazine space in Brooklyn, NY from January 20-February 19, 2011.
Info & CV
Empty Purse Publications started as an artist collaboration / act of friendship in New York City circa 2007. Each issue explores a recent topic of interest, usually something we found in the kitchen or near-there, and is printed on a thematically relevant medium. In defiance of the anachronism of print publishing, we ask for more than readership from our audience – physical engagement with the work. In some cases, you may have to wash and iron the issue; in others, you will remove sections of a book and return it to us with your responses.
Try it, it’s fun.
A project by Xenia Pachikov & Pamela Garber