Seth Siegelaub:
 
Exhibitions, Catalogues, Books & Projects
 
Interviews, Articles & Reviews
 
 
The following is a list of the 21 exhibitions, catalogues, books and projects organized and/or published by Seth Siegelaub from February 1968 through July 1971.  It also includes a more recent project realized in 1990.
 
 
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The section with documentation on interviews, articles and reviews is currently in preparation and will be published in the near future, hopefully in 2013.

 

Seth Siegelaub Contemporary Art
New York, September 1964 - Spring 1966.
An art gallery with miscellaneous gallery publications, posters & mailers
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Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Lawrence Weiner
Bradford Junior College, Bradford, Massachusetts, 4 February - 2 March 1968.
A 4-part printed announcement in an envelope.  20.1 x 20.1 cm.
An indoor group exhibition and a symposium.
 
 
Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Lawrence Weiner
Windham College, Putney, Vermont, 30 April - 31 May 1968
A poster announcement.  28 x 43.3 cm
An outdoor group exhibition in which each artist made one work, with a symposium moderated by Dan Graham.
 
 
Seth Siegelaub, editor
Benefit Exhibition for the Congressional election campaign for Edward Koch
New York, 4-7 October 1968
 
 
Douglas Huebler
New York: Seth Siegelaub, November 1968.
20p. 20.2 x 20.2 cm. Paper. 19 BW & line ill.
A one-person exhibition, held in a private apartment; the first exhibition in which the catalogue was the exhibition.

 

Lawrence Weiner.
"Statements"
New York: The Louis Kellner Foundation; Seth Siegelaub, December 1968.
64p. 10.1 x 17.8 cm. Paperback. 1000 edition.A one-person exhibition in the form of a book. The book consists of 25 works divided into 2 sections: General Statements (12) & Specific Statements (13). The first exhibition in which the book was the exhibition.

 

Seth Siegelaub, editor
"Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler,
Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner."
Also known as the "Xerox book".
New York: Siegelaub / Wendler, December 1968.186 Leaves. 21 x 27.5 cm. Paper; photocopied and printed. 1000 edition.A book exhibition in which each of the 7 artists were asked to make a 25-page work on 8 1/2" x 11" paper, which was then photocopied and printed.

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Seth Siegelaub, editor
"January 5-31, 1969"
New York: Seth Siegelaub, January 1969.

24p. 17.6 x 20.9. Boards; spiral bound. 9 BW ill.
A group exhibition of the work of Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner in which the exhibition was the guide to the catalogue. It was held for one month at a temporary space in the McLendon Building at 44 East 52nd Street, New York.

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Seth Siegelaub, editor
"March 1969"
New York: Seth Siegelaub, March 1969.
Also known as "One Month".
36 Leaves. Paper cover; stapled on top. 17.8 x 21.6.
A group exhibition of North American and European artists in which each artist was asked to make a work on an assigned day during the month of March 1969.  The participating artists were Terry Atkinson, Michael Baldwin, Robert Barry, Rick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., James Lee Byars, John Chamberlain, Ron Cooper, Barry Flanagan, Alex Hay, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Stephen Kaltenbach, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, Richard Long, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Alan Ruppersberg, Robert Smithson, De Wain Valentine, Lawrence Weiner, and Ian Wilson.
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Seth Siegelaub, editor
"Joseph Kosuth and Robert Morris"
Laura Knott Gallery, Bradford Junior College, Bradford, Massachusetts, March 1969
8p. 18.5 x 18.5 cm. Paper. 1 BW ill.
A two-person exhibition, catalogue and symposium held at the Bradford Junior College in March 1969.


Robert Barry.
"Inert Gas Series"
Los Angeles, California: Seth Siegelaub, April 1969.
Poster, 59 x 89.5 cm.A one-person exhibition in which the artist released inert gases into the atmosphere in the region of Los Angeles. A mailing address and telephone number in Los Angeles was rented for the duration of the exhibition, and the exhibition was announced by a poster mailing.

Jan Dibbets
"Jan Dibbets"

Amsterdam; New York: Seth Siegelaub, May 1969.
Postcard. 15.4 x 10.3 cm.
A one-person exhibition which took place in Amsterdam on 9, 12 and 30 May 1969 which was communicated by means of a printed postcard mailing from New York.

Seth Siegelaub, editor
"Catalogue for the Exhibition"
Burnaby, British Columbia: Centre for Communication and the Arts, Simon Fraser University, 19 May - 19 June 1969.
16p. 15.3 x 23 cm. Paper. 5 Line, 5 BW ill.
A group exhibition which took place in different parts of the University using the communication and other facilities between 19 May - 19 June 1969, and whose catalogue was only made available after the exhibition was over. As part of the exhibition a symposium was held by a "conference line" telephone hook-up between some of the participating artists in Burnaby, Ottawa and New York.  The participating artists were Terry Atkinson and Michael Baldwin, Robert Barry, Jan Dibbets, Douglas Huebler, Stephen Kaltenbach, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., and Lawrence Weiner.

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Seth Siegelaub, editor
"July, August, September 1969. Juillet, Août, Septembre 1969. Juli, August, September 1969"
New York: Seth Siegelaub, July 1969.
32p. 21.2 x 27.6 cm. Paper. 31 BW ill.
An exhibition in which 11 artists each made a work in a different part of the world between July - September 1969, and for which the trilingual catalogue (in English, French and German) served as the guide to the location and description of each work.  The participating artists were Carl Andre in The Hague, Robert Barry in Baltimore, Daniel Buren in Paris, Jan Dibbets in Amsterdam, Douglas Huebler in Los Angeles, Joseph Kosuth in New Mexico, Sol LeWitt in Düsseldorf, Richard Long in Bristol, N.E. Thing Co. Ltd. in Vancouver, Robert Smithson in Yucatan, and Lawrence Weiner in Niagara Falls.
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Seth Siegelaub, editor
"Prospekt '69"
Düsseldorf, September 1969.
The organization of the participation of Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner in the form of interviews which were published as part of the Prospekt '69 catalogue.

 
Carl Andre.
"Seven Books of Poetry"
New York: Dwan Gallery & Seth Siegelaub, October 1969.
7 Volumes. Looseleaf binders with plastic covers. A limited edition of 41 sets.
The publication of the artist's early poetry and journals, written between ca 1959 - 1964, in a limited edition of 41 sets.

 
Jan Dibbets
"Roodborst territorium/Sculptuur 1969. Robin Redbreast's Territory/Sculpture 1969. Domaine d’un rouge-gorge/Sculpture 1969. Rotkehlchenterritorium/Skulptur 1969"
New York and Cologne: Seth Siegelaub & Verlag Gebr. König, January 1970.
32p. 12 x 18.3 cm. Paper. 17 BW ill.
A book, with text in 4 languages (Dutch, English, French and German), consisting of the diary of the artist from April to June 1969, describing his attempt to change the ecological environment of a Robin Redbreast living in the Vondel Park in Amsterdam.

 
Michel Claura, editor
"18 PARIS IV.70"
New York: Seth Siegelaub, April 1970.
96p. 10.3 x 16.4 cm. Boards. 25 BW ill.
An exhibition and tri-lingual catalogue (French, English and German) selected, organized and edited by Michel Claura in Paris. The exhibition took place at a temporary space on the rue Mouffetard in Paris during the month of April 1970.  The participating artists were Ian Wilson, Lawrence Weiner, Niele Toroni, Robert Ryman, Edward Ruscha, Richard Long, Sol LeWitt, David Lamelas, On Kawara, Douglas Huebler, François Guinochet, Gilbert & George, Jean-Pierre Djian, Jan Dibbets, Daniel Buren, Stanley Brouwn, Marcel Broodthaers and Robert Barry.
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Seth Siegelaub, editor
Studio International (London), Volume 180, No. 924, July-August 1970.
(Shortly afterwards issued in a hardcover edition as the "July/August Exhibition Book. Juillet/Août Exposition Livre. Juli/August Ausstellung Buch".  London: Studio International and Seth Siegelaub, 1970).
52p. 25 x 31.5 cm. Cloth. Numerous BW ill.
A tri-lingual catalogue/exhibition edited by Seth Siegelaub, which first appeared as a section in the magazine Studio International in which he offered 6 art critics, David Antin, Germano Celant, Michel Claura, Charles Harrison, Lucy Lippard and Hans Strelow, each an 8-page section of the magazine to edit as they saw fit, and to select artists to use their section.  The participating artists were Dan Graham, Harold Cohen, John Baldesari, Richard Serra, Eleanor Antin, Fred Lonidier, George Nicolaidis, Keith Sonnier, Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Emilio Prini, Pistoletto, Gilberto Zorio, Daniel Buren, Keith Arnatt, Terry Aktinson, David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin, Harold Hurrell, Victor Burgin, Barry Flanagan, Joseph Kosuth, John Latham, Roelof Louw, Robert Barry, Stephen Kaltenbach, Lawrence Weiner, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Douglas Huebler, N.E. Thing Co., Frederick Barthelme, Jan Dibbets, and Hanne Darboven.

 
Seth Siegelaub, editor/organizer
"The Halifax Conference"
A mailer announcement. 10 x 22.7 cm.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 1970.
A 2-day international artist's symposium organized by Seth Siegelaub and held at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design on 5-6 October 1970.  The invited artists were Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Ronald Bladen, Daniel Buren, John Chamberlain, Gene Davis, Jan Dibbets, Al Held, Robert Irwin, Roy Lichtenstein, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Murray, N.E. Thing Co., Claes Oldenburg, Larry Poons, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Richard Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Jean Tinguely and Lawrence Weiner.

 
Seth Siegelaub; Robert Projansky
"The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement"
New York: Seth Siegelaub, February 1971.
A foldout-poster. 21.7 x 28 cm; opens to 43 x 55.5 cm. The poster was .
A project initiated by Seth Siegelaub with lawyer Robert Projanksy. The preparation, publication and distribution of the 8pp foldout poster, which was designed by Christos Gianokos, was underwritten by The School of Visual Arts, New York.The organization, preparation and publication of an artist's sale contract setting forth and protecting the artist's moral and economic rights, including their 15% participation in any profits made on the resale of their work. By 1972, the contract was re-worked, translated and published in a similar format in at least 4 other languages: French, German, Italian and Dutch, with many reprintings and variant editions since then.
For a free download of the artist's contract in English, French, German or Italianclick here.

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Seth Siegelaub, editor
"The United States Servicemen's Fund Art Collection"
New York: The United States Servicemen's Fund (USSF), July 1971.
18 Leaves. 13 x 21.5 cm. A card folder with 18 leaves bound with a metal clasp. 18 BW ill.
A fund-raising collection catalogue for the USSF, an organization set up to promote free speech within the US military, and which was especially engaged in anti-Vietnam War activity by means of the funding and support of G.I. newspapers and cultural actions.  The collection, in which each artist agreed to give 50% of the sale of an artwork to the USSF, included the work of Keith Sonnier, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Robert Murray, Robert Huot, David Diao, Gene Davis, Al Held, Robert Ryman, Alex Hay, Lawrence Weiner, Sol LeWitt, Alex Katz, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, De Wain Valentine, Carl Andre and Joseph Kosuth.
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Seth Siegelaub; Marion Fricke; Roswitha Fricke; editors
"The Context of Art / The Art of Context"
A project initiated by Seth Siegelaub and realized in close collaboration with Marion Fricke and Roswitha Fricke (Düsseldorf) in 1990 in which 115 artists who participated in 5 seminal art exhibitions in 1969 ("March 1969", organized by Seth Siegelaub in New York; "Op Losse Schroeven", organized by Wim Beeren in Amsterdam; "When Attitudes Become Form", organized by Harald Szeemann in Bern; "Prospekt '69", organized by Konrad Fischer and Hans Strelow in Düsseldorf, and "Konzeption/Conception" organized by Rolf Wedewer and Konrad Fischer in Leverkusen) were each asked three questions:
 
(1) How the art of the 1960s has come to be integrated --or not-- into the mainstream of art;
(2) More generally, how the production, distribution and consumption of art has changed since 1969; and,
(3) How did they, the artists, see themselves as part of this process between 1969 through the early 1990s.
 
The 75 artists who replied were Giovanni Anselmo, Art & Language (Michael Baldwin), Terry Atkinson, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, Alighiero e Boetti, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Eugenia P. Bulter, James Lee Byers, John Chamberlain, Ron Cooper, Paul Cotton, Jan Dibbets, Ger van Elk, Esther Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Giorgio Griffa, Bruno Gronen, Hans Haacke, Alex Hay, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Richard Jackson, Alan Jacquet, Neil Jenney, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Michael Kirby, Joseph Kosuth, Gary B. Kuehn, David Lamelas, Sol LeWitt, Bernd Lohaus, Brice Marden, David Medalla, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Doug Ohlson, Dennis Oppenheim, Eric Orr, Giuseppe Penone, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Markus Raetz, Charles Ross, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Robert Ryman, Alan Saret, Sarkis, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Richard Sladden, Keith Sonnier, Richard Tuttle, Timm Ulrichs, De Wain Valentine, Bernard Venet, Frank Lincoln Viner, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William T. Wiley, Ian Wilson.
The results were published in French by Art Press (Paris) as a special issue Hors-Série Numero 17, 1996 under the title "69/96, Avant-Gardes et Fin de Siècle: 75 Artistes Recontent Leur Parcours"; partly in Dutch and English in Kunst & Museumjournaal (Amsterdam), Volume 7, Number 1/2/3, 1996 as "The Context of Art / The Art of Context"; and most recently and completely in English and German by Navado Press, Trieste, in 2004 as "The Context of Art / The Art of Context: A Project Organized by Seth Siegelaub, Marion Fricke and Roswitha Fricke". (Click here for more information and to order a copy from the publisher.)

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