Badlands Unlimited, the artist Paul Chan's publishing initiative, will launch a new series of e-books by artists.
The series will include books by artists like Rachel Rose, whose contribution manipulates pages from children's books to create her own retelling of a Victorian tale, titled The Sandy Cat. Among other artists working on projects are Georgia Sagri, who was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
Expect things to get idiosyncratic: an e-book by the artist Howie Chen, who used to work at Lehman Brothers, is titled Transformers and revolves around photocopies of a single dollar bill. According to a release: "While at work between tasks, Chen photocopied a dollar bill everyday on the office copier, taking the previous day’s copy and feeding it back into the machine. Over months, the image of the dollar bill became distorted with each generation. Shrinking and blistering, the image started to escape the page and soon disappeared into abstraction."
Badlands, founded in 2010, is best known for its ubiquitous purple-covered erotica series, though has also published more prosaic works like Calvin Tomkins's interviews with Marcel Duchamp and Saddam Hussein's speeches on democracy. The new series will be available this month.
