I am beyond thrilled to announce a new publication:
Seth Siegelaub: “Better Read Than Dead,” Writings and Interviews 1964–2013
Edited by Marja Bloem, Lauren van Haaften-Schick, Sara Martinetti, Jo Melvin
Co-published by König Books and Stichting Egress Foundation
Available in the US through Art Book / DAP and your local art book shop
This collection contains numerous previously unpublished documents from Siegelaub’s archives giving insight into the development of exhibitions January 5-31, 1969, the Xerox Book, the Artist’s Contract. It also includes every piece of published writing by Siegelaub including his introductions to the two-volume Communcation and Class Struggle, and unpublished texts such as an excerpt from his unpublished memoir. Complementing these materials are interviews from 1969-2013 documenting as a whole his activities in conceptual art, political publishing and collecting books in Marxist theories of communication and the history of textiles. He truly was like no other!