This looks like a very interesting outfit and different from the run-of-the-mill “enhanced” ebook publisher. They describe themselves as:
a new ePress from new york founded by the visual artist Paul Chan in 2010. We are among the still very rare art publishers interested in creating quality eBooks and eCatalogues by artists, writers and philosophers, in the industry that is somehow showing the most resistance and skepticism towards the shift to e-reading. So far we’ve put out 3 artist books (paper and digital) by Paul Chan and a series of experimental eBooks all available on iTunes and Amazon, and we are preparing a the next season with primarily digital, exclusive titles by legendary American minimalist dancer Yvonne Rainer and 20th-century artist Marcel Duchamp. We think art catalogues can be interesting for everybody and that the shift to digital reading can help make that happen!
Their most recent project Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide, is $9.99 at Apple and Amazon. Here’s how they describe it:
In November 2007, artist Paul Chan collaborated with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and New York public arts group Creative Time to mount free performances of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot on the streets of New Orleans. Two years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleanians were still waiting for help to recover and rebuild. Godot rang with fierce immediacy, and thousands attended the play, which starred New Orleans native and television star Wendell Pierce (HBO’s acclaimed series The Wire and Treme).
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide, publishes for the first time the materials produced and gathered during the making of this multifaceted project, which included the free outdoor performances; theater workshops, educational seminars, conversations, and dinners; a Shadow Fund; and a short film.
Complete with staging diagrams, preparatory drawings, extensive photo documentation, essays and interviews with key project members, and audio recordings from the production, Waiting for Godot in New Orleans offers a first-hand account of a public project at the crossroads of contemporary art, performance, and social practice, and unfolds like an imaginative roadmap that details how art can respond to, and reflect upon, social landscapes large and small.
