List 001 — Autumn 2026

The archive is open. Thirty-one books, zines, invitations, posters and ephemera, in order of appearance in the film. Found, kept, listed, placed. Objects marked Placed have already found new shelves.

  • Helmut Lang, Selective Memory Series, Purple Book, Purple Institute 2007, red rabbit on grey ground, cream cover, janvier Helmut Lang, Selective Memory Series, Purple Institute HL-ART 2007, plain off-white, 82 Greene Street New York, back cover

    HELMUT LANG — Selective Memory Series: The Helmut Lang Purple Book, Purple Institute / HL-ART, 2007

    HELMUT LANG — Selective Memory Series: The Helmut Lang Purple Book, Purple Institute / HL-ART, 2007

  • 2017 Yayoi Kusama exhibition invitation card featuring a studio portrait of the artist seated at a table surrounded by vividly colored *My Eternal Soul* paintings. Kusama wears her signature bright red wig and an orange dress with black polka dots, visually blending into the dense field of reds, blues, dots, and biomorphic patterns surrounding her. Reverse side of a 2017 Yayoi Kusama exhibition invitation card from David Zwirner listing details for the concurrent exhibitions *Festival of Life* and *Infinity Nets* in New York. Black text on white card stock includes dates, gallery addresses, reception information, and exhibition titles.

    Yayoi Kusama — Festival of Life + Infinity Nets — Exhibition Announcement Card, David Zwirner, New York, 2017

    Placed

    Yayoi Kusama — Festival of Life + Infinity Nets — Exhibition Announcement Card, David Zwirner, New York, 2017

    Placed
  • Yves Klein, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Karl Flinker Paris 1973, IKB blue facsimile signature on cream, février–mars 1973 Yves Klein, Galerie Karl Flinker 1973, Anthropométrie, female torso in flesh tone against IKB blue sprayed ground, back cover

    YVES KLEIN — Exhibition Catalogue, Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1973

    YVES KLEIN — Exhibition Catalogue, Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1973

  • Siouxsie full-face studio portrait, Anabas AP146 postcard recto, 1986 Anabas AP146 postcard verso, publisher address, catalogue number, copyright 1986

    SIOUXSIE SIOUX — Anabas AP146 postcard, 1986

    SIOUXSIE SIOUX — Anabas AP146 postcard, 1986

  • Richard Prince, Naked Nurses, JMc & GHB 2006, Front cover, colour photograph, three figures in nurse costume, bedroom interior Richard Prince, Naked Nurses, 2006, title page signed in black marker by David LaChapelle, JMc & GHB New York 2006

    RICHARD PRINCE: Naked Nurses, JMc & GHB Editions, New York, 2006 — Signed by David LaChapelle

    Placed

    RICHARD PRINCE: Naked Nurses, JMc & GHB Editions, New York, 2006 — Signed by David LaChapelle

    Placed
  • Urs Lüthi exhibition invitation, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, 1975 — interior bifold showing bibliography page with typed text listing international art publications and catalogues Urs Lüthi exhibition invitation open bifold, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, 1975 — interior showing two black and white self-portrait photographs of the artist, vernissage 10 novembre 1975

    URS LÜTHI — Exhibition Invitation, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, 1975

    URS LÜTHI — Exhibition Invitation, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, 1975

  • Jenny Holzer, Kunst Heute Nr. 9, Noemi Smolik, Wilfried Dickhoff, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1993, front cover Jenny Holzer, Kunst Heute Nr. 9, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1993, interior spread, Lady Pink wearing Truisms T-shirt, Abuse of Power, Einleitung

    JENNY HOLZER — Kunst Heute Nr. 9, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, 1993

    Placed

    JENNY HOLZER — Kunst Heute Nr. 9, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, 1993

    Placed
  • Cover of Andrea Zittel, Selected Sleeping Arrangements: The A-Z Bed Book, 1995. A-Z Administrative Services / Transcript, University of Dundee. 21 × 26 cm, staple-bound softcover, 16 pp. Pale cream stock with reddish-brown typography. Title 'Andrea Zittel' in large serif type, subtitle 'Selected Sleeping Arrangements' in spaced capitals below. Centre: colour photograph of A-Z Sleeping Loft, 1994 — low rounded terracotta-coloured foam form on white ground. Lower centre: circular A-Z Administrative Services s Back cover of Andrea Zittel, Selected Sleeping Arrangements: The A-Z Bed Book, 1995. Pale cream stock with reddish-brown text. Upper left: A-Z Administrative Services circular stamp logo. Below: colophon text — 'Andrea Zittel / The A-Z Bed Book / Produced in coordination with Transcript (A Journal of Visual Culture), University of Dundee, Scotland.' Exhibition credits: Andrea Rosen Gallery New York, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NUTOPI: Rooseum Contemporary Art Malmö Sweden. Pho

    ANDREA ZITTEL — Selected Sleeping Arrangements: The A-Z Bed Book, 1995

    ANDREA ZITTEL — Selected Sleeping Arrangements: The A-Z Bed Book, 1995

  • Robert Gober's severed leg sculpture — wax, cloth, shoe — against Warhol Oxidation Painting surface. Title "Abject Art / Repulsion and Desire in American Art" and "Whitney Museum of American Art" in type. Claes Oldenburg, Soft Toilet, 1966, photographed left page; introduction text right page.

    ABJECT ART: Repulsion and Desire in American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1993

    Placed

    ABJECT ART: Repulsion and Desire in American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1993

    Placed
  • Felix Gonzalez-Torres, A.R.T. Press, 1993, front cover, garden photograph with red roses and dianthus, shrink-wrapped Felix Gonzalez-Torres, A.R.T. Press, 1993, rear cover, garden photograph with purple flowers and bare soil, shrink-wrapped

    FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, A.R.T. Press, New York, 1993

    Placed

    FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, A.R.T. Press, New York, 1993

    Placed
  • Duane Hanson, Housewife, Reihe Cantz, 2000, front cover, sculpture of woman under hairdryer, title on pink bars Duane Hanson, Housewife, 2000, pages 6–7, Jogger, 1983/84, seated figure beside German text

    DUANE HANSON, Housewife, Christine Breyhan, Reihe Cantz 001, Cantz, 2000

    DUANE HANSON, Housewife, Christine Breyhan, Reihe Cantz 001, Cantz, 2000

  • Thomas Ruff, Essor, 2001, exhibition catalogue, white cover with title in red lowercase type Thomas Ruff, Andere Porträts, passport-format portrait of young woman, red top, choker necklace, 2001

    THOMAS RUFF, Essor, Essor Gallery, London, 2001

    Placed

    THOMAS RUFF, Essor, Essor Gallery, London, 2001

    Placed
  • Corpus Delicti: London i 90'erne, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, 1995, front cover, blue photograph of woman lying inverted on leather sofa Corpus Delicti, Kunstforeningen, 1995, back cover, twelve artist names in spaced capitals, monogram and British Council logo

    SARAH LUCAS, JAKE & DINOS CHAPMAN, MAT COLLISHAW, ANGELA BULLOCH ET AL. — Corpus Delicti: London i 90'erne, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, 1995

    SARAH LUCAS, JAKE & DINOS CHAPMAN, MAT COLLISHAW, ANGELA BULLOCH ET AL. — Corpus Delicti: London i 90'erne, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, 1995

  • Original 2011 Janette Beckman El Hoyo Maravilla photobook, Dashwood Books, New York. Front cover showing near-blank white wrapper with small inset black-and-white photograph of a young man in a white t-shirt standing before a graffiti-covered wall, hands raised. Reverse of 2011 Janette Beckman El Hoyo Maravilla, Dashwood Books. Back cover showing near-blank white wrapper with small inset black-and-white photograph of a chopper motorcycle parked on a suburban street with a Kool cigarettes billboard visible behind.

    JANETTE BECKMAN — El Hoyo Maravilla, Dashwood Books, New York, 2011

    Placed

    JANETTE BECKMAN — El Hoyo Maravilla, Dashwood Books, New York, 2011

    Placed
  • Christopher Wool, HELTERSKLTER and HOUDINI, text works, White Walls #17, 1987 — stencilled black letters across double-page spread Christopher Wool, cover design for White Walls: A Magazine of Writings by Artists #17, Autumn 1987, White Walls, Inc., Chicago

    Christopher Wool / David Sedaris — White Walls: A Magazine of Writings by Artists #17

    Christopher Wool / David Sedaris — White Walls: A Magazine of Writings by Artists #17

  • Richard Prince, Spiritual America, exhibition announcement postcard recto. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2007. Colour reproduction of a nurse painting: a female figure in a white surgical mask and cap against a dark background, eyes visible above the mask, gazing directly forward. Partial text visible at top reads 'NURSE IN HOLLYWOOD' in embossed or relief lettering. Title 'RICHARD PRINCE / SPIRITUAL AMERICA' in orange sans-serif type below the image, with 'Guggenheim' museum logo in an orange band at foot. Richard Prince, Spiritual America, exhibition announcement postcard verso. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2007. Cream card with standard postcard layout: address lines and stamp area to right, GoCard Postcard Advertising logo upper right. Left column: 'RICHARD PRINCE / SPIRITUAL AMERICA' in bold caps; 'Through January 9' in small type. Sponsor credits: 'Made possible by Deutsche Bank' with Deutsche Bank logo; additional supporters listed including Barbara Gladstone, The Stephenson and Penn Bunn Foundation, Mi

    Richard Prince — Spiritual America

    Richard Prince — Spiritual America

  • Original 1984 Artscribe No. 47 July–August magazine cover featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat drawing, showing a large-format graphite and charcoal head with crown motif, heavily worked with layered scribbled lines, staring eyes, and open mouth, against cream ground, with masthead 'ARTSCRIBE' in large dark red block capitals at top, 'No.47' at lower left and '£1.50/$3' at lower right. Reverse of 1984 Artscribe No. 47 Jean-Michel Basquiat wraparound cover showing the back panel of the magazine with continuation of Basquiat's drawing: a fragmented figure with the word 'EYE' inscribed in an oval, a glass or vessel form, gestural marks and lines, and at lower left a pink rubber-stamp style circular logo reading 'TOBACCO / TRADE MARK' enclosing a grinning figure with ships, all on cream ground.

    Jean-Michel Basquiat — Artscribe No. 47, July–August 1984

    Jean-Michel Basquiat — Artscribe No. 47, July–August 1984

  • Dieter Roth, Art Is Life / Life Is Art, Univ. of Iowa Museum of Art 1999, front cover: yellow, wheeled shelving unit, bold type I Dieter Roth 1999, interior: Fig. 13, drawing from Blumenstücke & Tischmatten 1997, cat. no. 10 — gestural bouquet in ink, spiral binding visible

    DIETER ROTH — Art Is Life / Life Is Art: The Graphic Work of Dieter Roth, University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1999

    DIETER ROTH — Art Is Life / Life Is Art: The Graphic Work of Dieter Roth, University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1999

  • Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, New York, 1984. Front cover. Black ground with red border. Large red and white hand-lettered title: "BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL". Author name "KATHY ACKER" in white at top. Centre: oil painting illustration by Sue Coe — a dense, dark scene of figures, a cat-like creature in a suit, playing cards, a coffee cup, industrial machinery, and a crescent moon. Grove Press Evergreen logo upper right, price $7.95. Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, 1984 — interior page. Full-page line drawing of a multi-armed deity figure in the style of Indian iconography — Kali-like, with multiple heads arranged in a crown, necklace of skulls, weapons and objects in each hand, standing over a prone figure. Small figures and animals at the margins. Caption in a ruled box at base: "The Devil is an image. Imagine Hell. We grab the book, and run." Cream paper, black ink.

    Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, New York, 1984

    Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, New York, 1984

  • Wolfgang Tillmans, Soldiers: The Nineties, Walther König, 1999, front cover, yellow with duotone soldier photograph Wolfgang Tillmans, Soldiers: The Nineties, 1999, rear cover, plain yellow with four punctures at corners, Walther König

    WOLFGANG TILLMANS, Soldiers: The Nineties (Four-Hole Copy), Walther König, Cologne, 1999

    WOLFGANG TILLMANS, Soldiers: The Nineties (Four-Hole Copy), Walther König, Cologne, 1999

  • David Wojnarowicz, Rimbaud in New York 1978–79, PPP Editions, 2004, front cover, Rimbaud mask David Wojnarowicz, Rimbaud in New York 1978–79, PPP Editions, 2004, reverse, cut paper Rimbaud mask

    DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, Rimbaud in New York 1978–79, PPP Editions / Roth Horowitz, 2004

    DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, Rimbaud in New York 1978–79, PPP Editions / Roth Horowitz, 2004

  • KOriginal 1992 Kathy Acker hardcover, Blood and Guts in High School, Japanese edition, Hakusuisha, Tokyo. Front cover showing English title "Blood and Guts in High School" in blue capitals above Japanese title 血みどろ臓物ハイスクール, translator Sachie Watanabe, and author name Kathy Acker, with blue-toned textured photographic panels. Interior spread of 1992 Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School, Japanese edition, Hakusuisha, Tokyo. Page showing Acker's multilingual vocabulary lesson with Persian script, English handwriting, and Japanese translation: "father / see / my father is dead / my father is blue / body / cunt."

    KATHY ACKER — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992 (Japanese edition)

    KATHY ACKER — Blood and Guts in High School, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1992 (Japanese edition)

  • Exhibition catalogue cover, Impresario: Malcolm McLaren & The British New Wave, New Museum of Contemporary Art / The MIT Press, New York / Cambridge MA, 1988. Softcover with French flaps, 27 × 18 cm. Bright blue ground. Bold white and black sans-serif typography — 'IMPRESARIO:' upper left in white; 'MALCOLM / MCLAREN / & THE BRITISH / NEW / WAVE' in large black below. Inset colour photograph lower right — three figures in police uniforms, two in helmets, one in peaked cap; direct camera gaze. Rubbing and sc Exhibition catalogue back cover, Impresario: Malcolm McLaren & The British New Wave, New Museum of Contemporary Art / The MIT Press, New York / Cambridge MA, 1988. Bright blue ground. Centre: inset colour photograph within black film-strip border — blue-painted male figure holding yellow surfboard with yin-yang motif; seated male figure in black clothing on rocks; coastal landscape behind; 'KODAK EPR 6017' printed to film strip upper edge; 'EPR 11' and 'EPR 12' lower. Lower left: black sans-serif — 'THE NEW

    MALCOLM MCLAREN / PAUL TAYLOR — Impresario: Malcolm McLaren & The British New Wave, New Museum / MIT Press, 1988

    MALCOLM MCLAREN / PAUL TAYLOR — Impresario: Malcolm McLaren & The British New Wave, New Museum / MIT Press, 1988

  • Original 2012 Martin Kippenberger 67 Improved Papertigers Not Afraid of Repetition, Edition Julie Sylvester / Schirmer/Mosel. Front cover showing a colour photograph of a dishevelled hotel room interior: an unmade bed with a gold bedspread, a black office chair, and a portable television on a stand. Title in small serif type upper centre: 'Martin Kippenberger / 67 Improved Papertigers / Not Afraid of Repetition'. Publisher imprint 'Edition Julie Sylvester / Schirmer/Mosel' lower centre. Cream wrappers. Reverse of 2012 Martin Kippenberger 67 Improved Papertigers Not Afraid of Repetition, Schirmer/Mosel. Back cover showing a colour snapshot photograph of a bearded man in white underwear standing in a hotel room, looking down, with a television and wood-panelled wall behind him. ISBN barcode 9783829603508 lower right. Cream wrappers with handling wear.

    Martin Kippenberger — 67 Improved Papertigers Not Afraid of Repetition, Schirmer/Mosel, 2012

    Placed

    Martin Kippenberger — 67 Improved Papertigers Not Afraid of Repetition, Schirmer/Mosel, 2012

    Placed
  • Cover of Zoe Leonard, Secession, Wiener Secession, Vienna, 1997, showing a black-and-white photograph of bare winter trees in a forest with the title SECESSION in large pale yellow sans-serif capitals at upper left and ZOE LEONARD in the same type at lower right. Interior spread of Zoe Leonard, Secession, Wiener Secession, 1997, pages 6–7, left page showing a black-and-white photograph of bare winter trees captioned "Untitled" by Zoe Leonard, 1997, right page showing the introduction to "Zoe Leonard Interviewed by Anna Blume," describing their meeting through ACT UP in New York in the early 1990s.

    Zoe Leonard — Secession, Wiener Secession, Vienna, 1997

    Zoe Leonard — Secession, Wiener Secession, Vienna, 1997

  • KATHY ACKER — Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream, Paladin, London, 1986 The back cover of the book 'Can a Female Knight Defeat the Evil Enchanters of Modern America' by Kathy Acker, featuring a beige background with a small illustration and text.

    KATHY ACKER — Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream, Paladin, London, 1986

    KATHY ACKER — Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream, Paladin, London, 1986

  • Original 2006 Isa Genzken monograph, Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series. Front cover showing Rose II, a tall slender steel rose sculpture with a single bud, photographed against a pale sky in front of a modernist glass-and-steel institutional building. Title 'ISA GENZKEN' in black sans-serif type upper right, with author names Alex Farquharson, Diedrich Diederichsen, Sabine Breitwieser. Phaidon imprint lower left. Laminated ex-library copy. Two full-page close-up photographs of human ears against dark backgrounds, one plain, one with a small circular stud earring.

    Isa Genzken — Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series, 2006

    Isa Genzken — Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series, 2006

  • Original 1982 Kathy Acker Great Expectations paperback, Open Book Publications, San Francisco. Front cover with title in bold serif type above a black-and-white woodcut illustration of a hunched long-haired figure leaning over a bed with a cane. Printed wrappers with toning and wear to spine. Interior spread of 1982 Kathy Acker Great Expectations, Open Book Publications. Left page shows black-and-white woodcut of a hunched figure at a desk. Right page opens Chapter 1 titled Plagiarism, subsection I Recall My Childhood, with Dickens-derived opening paragraph. Page 5.

    Kathy Acker — Great Expectations (1982)

    Kathy Acker — Great Expectations (1982)

  • Jeremy Deller presents 2K — ***K The Millennium, Blast First 1997, cassette in clear case, black J-card, Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Jeremy Deller / 2K — ***K The Millennium, Blast First 1997, J-card unfolded reverse, track listing, Acid Brass credit, BFFP 146 K

    JEREMY DELLER / THE KLF (2K) — ***K The Millennium, Blast First / Mute Records, 1997

    JEREMY DELLER / THE KLF (2K) — ***K The Millennium, Blast First / Mute Records, 1997

  • Cover of Sherrie Levine, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, 1988, showing a plain cream-yellow softcover with SHERRIE LEVINE in small red serif capitals at upper centre and GALERIE NÄCHST ST. STEPHAN / ROSEMARIE SCHWARZWÄLDER in small black serif capitals at lower centre, with a faint vertical pencil mark at left. Interior spread from Sherrie Levine, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, 1988, left page blank, right page showing a black-and-white reproduction of Untitled (After Walker Evans), 1981, depicting an elderly man in a light suit standing before a clapboard wall, captioned "1. „Untitled" (After Walker Evans), 1981."

    Sherrie Levine — Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, 1988

    Sherrie Levine — Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, 1988

  • Original 2002 Nicolas Bourriaud Postproduction first edition, Lukas & Sternberg, New York. Front cover showing white wrappers with pale horizontal lines and partially obscured title text in green, designed by Surface. Interior spread of 2002 Nicolas Bourriaud Postproduction showing chapter on Deejaying and Contemporary Art with body text and footnotes.

    NICOLAS BOURRIAUD — Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World, Lukas & Sternberg, New York, 2002

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    NICOLAS BOURRIAUD — Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World, Lukas & Sternberg, New York, 2002

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