ARTWORKS

Peter Lemmens
reverse engineering - a back-to-front scenario for Jean-Luc Godard’s “Alphaville”, 2023
book, soft cover, black & white, 2nd edition
138 pages, 13 x 20 cm
Edition of 5 + 1 A.P.

Price : EUR 20.00 (VAT excl.)
The complete scenario for the film "Reverse Engineering".

Peter Lemmens
exit strategies and a stand alone complex hard copy backup, 2021
book, hard cover, dust jacket, color, 1st edition
480 pages, 15 x 3 cm
Edition of 20 + 1 A.P.

Price : EUR 80.00 (VAT incl.)
The digital publication "exit strategies and a stand alone complex" is redesigned as a hard copy backup. All links and references are included.

Peter Lemmens
exit strategies and a stand alone complex, 2021
book, PDF, digital file, 1st edition
234 pages, 1.8 MB

Peter Lemmens, Karina Beumer
UHF TV guide, 2020
book, soft cover, color
12 x 20 cm, 48 pages
Edition of 20

Price : EUR 15.00 (VAT excl.)
UHF is a temporary artist-run initiative dedicated to video art and artists who question video in relevant ways. Located in the last video rental shop in Antwerp, UHF is dedicated to supporting, presenting and researching video art and the different ways through which it can be distributed. Through new devices moving images are more than ever omnipresent. UHF looks for art that formulates an attitude towards this. On an irregular basis, UHF takes on the task and responsibility to analyze video’s social, economic and technological developments with a multitude of perspectives. By placing itself outside of the cinema or exhibition space, it searches for a contextual experience and method that interferes with the works shown. In that sense, UHF has more in common with television than with cinema. Especially for Antwerp Art Weekend, UHF organizes the Straight-To-Video Film Fest. Also know as direct-to-video this term points out another distribution system. The usual theatrical release is deliberately bypassed, a peripheral audience is targeted while different conditions and relations are researched as markers for legitimacy. More than cinema, the terminology here points towards the carrier and home context. This genre defines itself through the way it is distributed and the wayward contexts in which it is seen. With this program UHF wants to support as well as question straight-to-video as an artistic position. “Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.” — Woody Allen

Kris Van Dessel, Peter Lemmens
sonica, 2018
book, soft cover, color, 1st edition
64 pages, 22 x 28,5 cm
Edition of 7

Price : EUR 15.00 (VAT excl.)
A basic catalogue for the project Sonica.

Peter Lemmens
In collaboration with Kris Van Dessel
thestockexchange annotated, 2018
book, soft cover, color, 1st edition
290 pages, 15 x 23 cm
Edition of 9 + 2 A.P.

Price : EUR 19.00 (VAT excl.)
All references for the book 'thestockexchange'.

Peter Lemmens, Kris Van Dessel
thestockexchange, 2018
book, soft cover, color, 1st edition
192 pages, 15 x 23 cm

Price : EUR 25.00 (VAT excl.)
A collection of texts and images made for the complete project 'thestockexchange'.

Peter Lemmens
hors series (a number of dingbats becoming a specific set), 2017
book, digital file, PDF, black & white, master file, 1st edition
17 x 11 cm, 40 pages
A text was made for an artist's edition of the book series ‘A Number Of Books Becoming A Specific Set’. It was written especially to function as a placeholder text for a single specific book, intended as an English singular Lorem Ipsum. However with the finalization of the original project, it was never used. Published here as a new autonomous book, the text is redesigned with a dingbat font, rendering it illegible to people. Simply in it's formatting it becomes a specific, but nonsensical text. The dingbat is a generic word, originally describing an unidentifiable or nameless object or tool. It's also used as printer signature marks. As such it's considered a placeholder font.

Peter Lemmens
hostile takeover, 2017
publishing house, USB flash drive, 47 digital files
dimensions variable, 3,02 GB
Unique

Price : EUR 47,000.00 (VAT excl.)
All books produced from 2005 - 2017 are collected for reprint under the new publishing house 'CONCAT BOOKS'. Also a single new book, especially made for this new publishing house is added. All print-ready PDF files are copied to a USB flash drive. The publishing house has the non-exclusive rights to reprint all publications as it sees fit.

Peter Lemmens, Kris Van Dessel
termination ghost writers, 2018
book, soft cover, color
28 x 22 cm, 44 pages
Edition of 2
An online essay generator was used to write an essay about ending up the rent of an art studio.

Peter Lemmens
casinos, 2017
book, soft cover, color, 1st edition
(4x) 27 x 22 cm, (4x) 256 pages
Edition of 10 + 1 A.P.

Price : EUR 250.00 (VAT excl.)
In 2001, ‘Casino’ was announced as the first quadriennale of Ghent. The exhibition came and went, a catalogue was made. There was however never a second edition. Here a set of unofficial catalogues is produced for each missing year, all replicating the original layout of the 2001 catalogue, New artworks are included, texts and captions are updated and all context images are replaced. For 2005, ‘A Group Show That Is Also a Soloshow’ contains one artwork and all contextual images are replaced by a series of everyday snapshots depicting a view from the artist’s apartment window at different times during that year. For 2009, ‘The Same Exhibition Twice’ contains the same artwork as the 2005 book and all contextual images are replaced by a new series of everyday snapshots depicting a view from the artist’s apartment window at different times during that year. For 2013, ‘Ante- & Outdated’ contains a newly selected artwork and all contextual images are replaced by a new series of snapshots depicting a completely blue sky at different times during that year. For 2017 and the forth and last book, ‘Finally A Crisis To Take Seriously’ contains again a new artwork, invites a second artist with a new work and all contextual images are replaced by a new series of images depicting screenshots from the artist’s computer at different times during that year. It’s a catalogue as an exhibition as an artwork as a book.