> deutsche version   GEORG DIEZ / CHRISTOPHER ROTH. The 80*81 Book Collection   The 80*81 Book Collection, Vol. 1: What Happened? The 80*81 Book Collection, Vol. 2: California über alles The 80*81 Book Collection, Vol. 3: Mao III The 80*81 Book Collection, Vol. 4: u²4u+8=0 NEW: The 80*81 Book Collection, Vol. 5/6: Travelogue / Atrocity & Grace ALL INFORMATION ABOUT EVENTS: www.8081.biz   NEW: Vol. 5/6 "Travelogue / Atrocity & Grace" Double issue 80*81 is a retrovisionary research by Christopher Roth and Georg Diez. Roth and Diez explore in this year-long quest with the collaboration of artists, philosophers, writers, movie directors, actors, astrologists the central question: What happened? In 1980, when Ronald Reagan was elected, Pope John Paul II met Lech Walesa, Andy Warhol had dinnner with William Burroughs at the Chelsea Hotel and John Galliano was a Blitz Kid. And what happened 1981, when the hostages were released by Ajatollah Khomeini and Aids surfaced? Those were years that changed the way the world thought, felt, looked, worked, reacted. And in the eleven volumes that form the 80*81 Book Collection this change is restaged. Each month one volume will be published, each with a distinct timeline of the events of 1980 and 1981, with images, interviews, memories. The first one contains interviews with the Slowenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, the artist Robert Longo and the film maker Eric Mitchell, the Blitz Kids as seen by Derek Ridgers, the Green Party and Warhol plus Beuys plus Burroughs. The second will have interviews with the last President of Iran Abdol Hassan Bani Sadr, with the film maker Paul Schrader and the composer Giorgio Moroder. The third will feature the Chinese-American artist Mei-Lun Xue, the writer Don DeLillo and the French comic revolutionaries Pierre Christin and Enki Bilal. This is not the „stupid humanism“ that Slavoj Zizek detests. „I don’t believe in depth“, he says in the 80*81 interview. „I believe in surface. I think true metaphysics is the metaphysics of the surface.“ This is the story of one thing replacing another. Warhol? „It was kind of over“, says Eric Mitchell. Warhol, Studio 54, all that? „I hated that stuff“, says Robert Longo. „I hated that whole pretentious shit.“ This is the story of an era. It started then, it might end now. The big wheel. Monsters. And a few surprises. Georg Diez / Christopher Roth The 80*81 Book Collection Vol. 1: What Happened? Softcover, in plastic wrapping, 128 pages, color images throughout 17 x 24 cm / 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. EUR 18.00 / CHF 27.00 ISBN 978-3-905929-01-0 Vol. 2: California über alles Softcover, 128 pages, color images throughout 17 x 24 cm / 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. EUR 12.00 / CHF 18.00 ISBN 978-3-905929-02-7 Vol. 3: Mao III Softcover, 128 pages, color images throughout 12 x 19 cm / 4 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. EUR 12.00 / CHF 18.00 ISBN 978-3-905929-03-4 Vol. 4: u²4u+8=0 Softcover, in plastic wrapping, 128 pages, color images throughout 20 x 20 cm / 7 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. EUR 18.00 / CHF 27.00 ISBN 978-3-905929-04-1 Vol. 5/6: Travelogue / Atrocity & Grace Hardcover, double issue, 192 pages, color images throughout 17.5 x 24.8 cm / 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. EUR 23.00 / CHF 32.00 ISBN 978-3-905929-05-8   THOMAS KERN. A Drug Free Land.   With an essay by Gerhard Waldherr, in English and German   Thomas Kern lived and worked in America for eight years. He used this time to travel extensively and compile journalistic essays about a country that is already very thoroughly documented. Over seventy years after Walker Evans’s social documentary photographs and fifty years after Robert Frank’s The Americans he has successfully deployed his vividly laconic black-and-white pictures to convey a disparate image of present-day America. Nº 90 Graphic design: Hi, Megi Zumstein & Claudio Barandun Hardcover, 192 pages 61 b/w photographs 19 × 25 cm / 7 3/4 x 10 in. EUR 49.00 / CHF 48.00 ISBN 978-3-905509-90-8   OLIVIA HEUSSLER. Zürich, Sommer 1980.   With an essay by Stefan Zweifel, in German and English.   Zürich, Sommer 1980 (Zurich, Summer 1980) is all about barriers, barricades, police in riot gear, demonstrators, rubber bullets, water cannons and regular doses of tear gas. Clashes in public places between the establishment and the alternative scene were played out at levels of violence and readiness to use it that would be unimaginable today. As a photographer, Olivia Heussler was both an activist and a contemporary witness. Her pictures show a summer whose scenes of violence and joyful happenings changed and made a lasting impact on many people’s lives. Olivia Heussler Zürich, Sommer 1980 With an essay by Stefan Zweifel, in German and English N°89 Graphic design: Prill & Vieceli Softcover, 120 pages 104 b/w photographs 10 1/4 × 14 in. / 26 x 36 cm € 49.00 / CHF 78.00 ISBN 978-3-905509-89-2   NICOLE ZACHMANN. Fish of Hope   With a text by Susanne Zahnd in German and English.   Basel photographer Nicole Zachmann has made an intensive study of portrait photography over the last twenty years. In the mid 1980s she took photographs of activists from the music and art subculture in Basel, drawing on her extended circle of acquaintances and friends, some of whom have since achieved national and international fame. Nicole Zachmann Fish of Hope With a text in German and English by Suzanne Zahnd N°88 Graphic design: Prill & Vieceli Hardcover, 128 pages 41 b/w and 11 color photographs 8 ½ × 11 ½ in. € 49.00 / CHF 78.00 ISBN 978-3-905509-88-5   LILY'S STOMACH SUPPLY. I Grew up on the Back of a Water Ox   With a text in which Jintana Junhom (Lee) tells her story, written down by Esther Eppstein, in German, English and Thai   I Grew up on the Back of a Water Ox is an artistic project that uniquely juxtaposes the calculated pictorial language of advertising with the emotionally charged, unintentional beauty of private photography. The result is a book in which an extraordinary advertising campaign interwines with an immigrant’s oral history, laconically but breath-takingly told. Lily’s Stomach Supply I Grew up ont the Back of a Water Ox With a text in which Jintana Junhom (Lee) tells her story, written down by Esther Eppstein, in German, English and Thai N°87 Book design: A.C. Kupper Hardcover, 150 pages 40 b/w- and 65 color 22 x 33 cm / 8 1/2 x 13 in. € 49.00 / CHF 78.00 ISBN 978-3-905509-87-8