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F.R. David: The "Keep it to Yourself" Issue 5
Spring 2009
With works by Agency, Jesse Ash, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Pierre Bismuth & Claire Fontaine, Italo Calvino, Donald L. Cleland, Dexter Sinister, Kodwo Eshun, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Hadley & Maxwell, Christine Kenneally, Kaisa Lassinaro, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others.
F.R. DAVID's fifth issue, "Keep it to Yourself" knows the value of nothing but not the prices of things. It focuses on the 'status' of writing in contemporary art pratice. Writing as a mode that informs and feeds, supports and describes, backs up and interprets, comments and reflects upon contemporary artistic production. Writing as 'the core material' of a number of artists but equally as a mode that exists parallel to or in service of the visual.
Softcover, 2009.
$15
 
F.R. David: "The Book of Intentions" Issue 4
Summer 2008
With works by Ricardo Cuevas, Charles Dickens, Noa Giniger, Július Koller, Cildo Meireles, Seth Price, The Faculty of Invisibility, Richard Zenith and writing of a number of other historical and contemporary authors.
For the fourth issue of this journal, the de Appel Curatorial Programme 07/08 hijacked the journal to encapsulate their intentions (shared, stolen or otherwise discovered), and published this on the occasion of their final project, "Master Humphrey's Clock": a project that explores intersections between storytelling and circulation through a series of art exhibitions, publications and events.
Softcover, 12cm x 19cm, b&w, 2008.
$15
 
F.R. David: "A is for 'orses" Issue 3
Autumn 2008
With contributions by Ackroyd, Andrade Tudela, Deball, de Cointet, Wiltold Gombrowicz, Yoko Ono, Roland Barthes, Ryan Gander, Cornelia Parker and Robert Indiana, and many others, F.R. David continues to explore the boundaries of writing in contemporary art practice. This issue insists on creating "in the mind of the reader, life which is not, and which is non-representational." The issue had its inception within a notion of idiolects and personal vocabularies, and later went on to encompass notions of the subjective editorial process of speech, abstractions of speech, and logic and mathematics as means of subjective categorisation.
Softcover, 216 pgs, 12cm x 19cm, b&w, 2008.
$15
 

F.R. David: The "Stuff and Nonsense" Issue 2
Winter 2008
Published twice-yearly, F.R. David magazine focuses on the status of language in contemporary art practice. With works by Matias Faldbakken, Margriet Schavemaker, Adam Avikainen, Adam Pendleton, Sue Tompkins, Paul Sietsema, Barry Johnston, Jonathan Meese, Scott Myles, Steven Shearer and others.
In the editorial is observed that today's art world is confronted with the tyranny of communication, although in the mean time, illegible and inaccessible images in art are accepted as a matter-of-course. On request the Norwegian artist Matias Faldbakken (1973) wrote the key-note essay. Faldbakken has, in addition to his visual oeuvre, also built up a reputation as fiction writer. In his text Faldbakken expands on the status, function and position of writing in his work. Jonathan Meese contributed a manifest about the dictatorship of art. The art historian Margriet Schavemaker links texts in the work of artists Robert Smthson, Mel Bochner and Marcel Broodthaers with the theory of philopsophers Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière. Included is also a visual text by artist/filmmaker Paul Sietsema that was originally devised as image for an exhibition space but was typographically converted as message in a bottle from an anonymous sender. A selection of James Lee Byars' unpublished letters to Wies Smals from de Appel archive gives access to his visual correspondence.
Softcover, 240 pgs, 12cm x 19cm, b&w, 2008.

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