the johndory report

2012-01-07T19:03:00.001-08:00

****OUT NOW
(summer, 2012)

jdr 38
'the land of birds' - douglas reid

'land of birds is an evocative term that defines pre-human Aotearoa and figures as the opening chapter in the historic, scientific and imaginative true fable of these islands. The land of birds mythos draws on the integral importance of native bird life in Kiwi culture, appearing in mostly Pakeha literature of ornithologists, natural historians and conservationists as an epic cinemative tale of timeless Pacific Eden ...'

20pp
micrograph essay
$5 postpaid

jdr 37
'marking wilderness display' - hamish win

'what we need is a much more dynamic understanding of an urban ecology that stands out as the potentially hospitable terrain of and for nature. No longer are we to imagine the urban yard as the acculturated domain of an exclusionary humanistic world, but as the crucial and perhaps foundational platform upon which human's can play an interdependent role. How to celebrate this, given its mundane conceit, is though, an incredibly tricky proposition for a culture predicated on the sensational and recreational diversion of nature-as-scenery'

18pp
micrograph essay
$5 postpaid

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2011-10-02T11:52:00.000-07:00

JDr 36.

tender as the night, ben pierce, squirrel peanut butter, milkshakes, gallery displays, robert irwin, blue glyphs & dog parks in rotorua.

20pp
sold out

2011-09-05T13:16:00.000-07:00

jdr 35

beachcomber devolution

essay hawthorne fuller

drawings mark braunias

' don't their bellies show signs, or better yet, the continuity of morphing creatures _ at a time when, as Donna Haraway points out, it is widely acknowledged that only 10% of the human body is said to be unique to its subject, then surely the very notion of a human singularity is more and more suspect _ I mean, should we take this other 90% that is said to act symbiotically with "us" seriously _ could it be possible that this enmeshment of alert and lively prehensive life manifestly cobbled into both the enabled and enabling flesh of our well-being acts as a propeller that might help us to imagine the hyper fluid lives Braunias draws _____'

32 colour pages, one wrap around essay as cover -single tone variations ...
sold out

2011-04-06T13:51:00.000-07:00

JDR 34 : ACCORDION FOLDS

OLIVER PERKINS, PATRICK LUNDBERG, HAROLD GRIEVES

painting how discussion as part of perkin's show accordion at cell

PAPER VERSiON SOLD OUT

electronic version freely available

2011-02-08T00:41:00.000-08:00

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jdr 33

"400 %" by robert hood,

originally made in 2006, this zine adpats microfiche from the 1987 black monday issue of the wallstreet journal and suffers it to a number of implosions. a fractal composite of the economy in meltdown and at a time when leverage was running rife and 2008's gfc was only the slightest of rummours - ($5)

jdr 32

'the situation, the situation!' by harold grieves

"in every situation there is one line that stands out among all others, the line along which power grows. thought is the capacity for singling out and following this line. a form-of-life can be embraced only by following this line, meaning that: all thought is strategic" - tiqqun

slacker paper stock, odder binding - ($15)

2010-12-09T13:46:00.000-08:00

jDR31

"24 facts poor racer"

twenty four factual responses to thomas hirschhorn's poor racer

$5 post.

TWOTHOUSANDANDTEN

jdr 30: "lost rogue[s]"
48 pages of lost pet posters (dogs, cats, birds, rabbits and a turtle)
(sold out)

2010-11-21T18:54:00.000-08:00

jdr29(december 2010)

features

raised by wolves

william hsu

oscar enberg

john ward knox

outdoor features

rob hood

writing by

miranda parkes

maria walls

thomasin sleigh

harold grieves
andrea bell

jdr29(december 2010)

(sold out)

2010-08-23T22:03:00.000-07:00

jdr27 (august 2010)
maria walls "blow out!"

bright paradize
(sold out)

2010-08-22T16:13:00.001-07:00

jdr12 (august 2010)
t.i.e. fighter degustation menu - harold grieves on oliver perkins' show dinner party
(sold out).

2010-08-18T17:41:00.000-07:00

jdr28 (wallpapervideo)
microzine with essay by harold grieves on jenna shins artspace antechamber, simon lawrence's "music box chrysalis" video, and a painting by malcolm terry
(sold out)

2010-08-14T21:58:00.000-07:00

jdr26 (august 2009)
documents cellulite rose performance at artspace
(sold out)

2010-08-14T21:51:00.000-07:00

jdr 25 (january 2007)
nick harte monograph on kayne west
exerted from dory 5
(sold out)

2010-08-07T22:54:00.000-07:00

jdr 24 (winter 2010)
'the puppet orestia' by jack ross
'the kids are gone' by tao wells
reviews on celulitte rose and rob hood
comic by carlos wedde
(sold out)

2010-08-05T20:06:00.000-07:00

jdr23 (june 2010)
special issue on architecture, the open & the posthuman animal
(sold out).

2010-08-05T20:00:00.000-07:00

jdr 21 (november 2009)
nicht so schlimm catalogue
- documents the bad painting show at hsp in june of 2009.
(sold out)

2010-08-05T19:56:00.000-07:00

jdr 19 (spring 2009)
special issue by mark braunias, essay by harold greives
(sold out)

2010-08-05T19:54:00.000-07:00

jdr 18 (april 2009)
compilation dvd,
rob hood 'ufo' (2007) miranda parkes 'gloucester st' (2009) & dan arps 'psychosis' (2009) appox 40 mins.
(sold out)

2010-08-05T19:52:00.001-07:00

jdr 17 (february 2009)
bruce russell and richard francis bootleg cd
(sold out)

2010-08-05T19:48:00.000-07:00

jdr 15 (february 2009).
special issue by scott flanagan
(out of print)

2010-08-05T19:45:00.001-07:00

jdr 14 (February 2009).
marsupial catalogue for peter trevelyan show
essay by harold grieves
(sold out)

2010-08-05T19:43:00.001-07:00

jdr 13 (december 2008)
special issue by nathan pohio
(sold out)

2010-08-05T19:35:00.000-07:00

jdr 11 (november 2008)
photographs by miranda parks, drawings by james oram, page works by ben webb and erica van zon, articles on rob hood, justin kerr, black boned angel and tim coster, fiction by johnny moore
(sold out)

2010-08-05T19:30:00.000-07:00

jdr 10 (may 2007).
essays by, amy howden-chapman, kate montgomery, marnie slater and harold grieves, fiction by hamish low, comic by carlos wedde, page works by louise menzies, lynton denovan, peter trevelyan, arie hellendorn, rachel o'neil and courtney lucas.
($80)

2010-08-05T19:25:00.001-07:00

jdr9 (january, 2007)
zina swanson drawing portfolio (on butcher stock), page works by gerard donaldson, erica van zon, justin kerr, chris clements, plus sections: 'talking love with all eyes on the budget' by susie pratt, 'art lovers' by mark braunias & 'hypothetical interview' by rob hood and harold grieves.
(out of print)

consolation pdf

2010-08-05T19:16:00.000-07:00

jdr 6 (winter 2006)
review on "mallover" performance, fiction by harold grieves, page works by andy wright, judith carnaby and jim dodge.
(out of print)

2010-08-05T19:06:00.000-07:00

jdr5 (december 2005)
reviews on: louise menzies, greg malcolm, kayne west, simon lawrence, halen calder, sam eng. page works by mark bruanias, sam eng, amelia bywater, anton mogridge, maree henry, ben web, jeff docherty & simon denny. fiction by johnny moore, tristen deschain & harold grieves.
(out of print)
consolation pdf

2010-08-05T19:04:00.000-07:00

jdr 3&4 (double issue) (winter, 2005)
contributions from, nathan pohio, scott flanagan, miranda parkes, nick harte, mark braunias, tim coster, harold grieves, lynton denovan, louise palmer, greg malcolm, johnny moore, elbar, andy wright, henry hargreaves, james robinson, kate montgomery, harriet elworthy, regan gentry, peter trevelyan, malcolm terry, & mike boulden.
(out of print)

2010-08-05T18:59:00.001-07:00

jdr2 (December 2004)
reviews on: jo langford, kit lawrence, static mansion, liam hayes & "public art" page works by james oram, zina swanson, & scott flanagan.
(out of print)

2010-08-05T18:46:00.000-07:00

jdr 1 (november, 2004)
reviews on: simon lawrence, scott flanagan, max gimblett, clare noonan, golden axe, arcade fire, judy millar, space dust, kerry greenwood, josephine baker, john nixon page works by belinda harrow & oli perkins
(out of print)