ALMANAC
This page offers our group publications (the Almanacs) for sale, alongside
other occasional publications by group members.
HOW TO ORDER:
By cheque
Please make cheques out to:
Black Dogs
C/o J Slight,
61 Mexborough St
Leeds
LS7 3EH
Black Dogs
Including
a note stating your order. Please add £1 postage per item.
By Paypal
Click the "buy now " button
next to the item you wish to purchase.
Checkout using a credit or debit card.
At our events
We usually take a small batch of books to our events, so you can pick one up there.
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"LARRY THROUGH THE PINT GLASS - A MAGICAL JOURNEY THROUGH ARTLAND"
(2007)
Comprises of fold-out poster, book and DVD.
£5
In December 2006 Black Dogs facilitated an evening
of stupidity and participation at the Brudenell Social Club in Hyde
Park, Leeds (see archive
entry here). Throughout the night all manner of horse-identifying,
trampoline sketching and pant-escaping were bullied into the call
and response framework of the Great British festive favourite - the
Pantomime. As part of the nights' goings on, audience members were
asked to contribute to collective books, the best of which were presented
on the 'big screen' as the grand finale to the Panto. Black Dogs promised
to publish the best of the books, Sue Ball's "The Long Wish of Xmas
Night", and subsequently their next publication, launched at the Bunker
art gallery in LS6, is their fulfilment of this debt.
The publication of "Larry Through The Pint Glass - a magical journey
through artland" is (through subversive ISBN rule-warping) an actual
DVD documentary of the night playable on your telly-set. It might
only last 10 minutes but its life affirming qualities are squared
by the inclusion of a replica of Sue Ball's winner-zine (as an elaborate
insert) and its ultimate scarcity of 100 copies making it simultaneously
eBay gold and art market speculative sensibleness. Go for it today
as tomorrow you might not be able to.
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BLACK DOGS ALMANAC - SECOND EDITION (2006)
£5
The
Second Black Dogs Almanac comes disguised as a harmless pack of playing
cards, but inside you'll find more of the entertaining and engaging
work from the group. Don't piss your life away on the Da Vinci Code
or some other blockbuster shite when you could be pouring over this
superb new micro-tome.
The pack is divided into three sections:
ARTWORKANDPLAY - three essays that combine to form a single treatise
on ideas of art, work, labour and creativity, by Andy Abbott, Jon Slight
and Dave Ronalds.
SACRIFICE FOR THE HACIENDA - Lawrence Molloy presents the tale
of a man searching for death. The lovechild of Orwell's Homage to
Catalonia and Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.
WORK/PLAY/ART/VALUE - contributions of short texts on these themes,
read one, tear it out and throw it away/eat it/stick on your wall/wipe
your arse with it (delete as appropriate). Illustrations by Eleanor
Johnson that frankly have to be seen to be believed.
Design by Daniel Carey & Eleanor Johnson.
BLACK DOGS ALMANAC - FIRST EDITION (2005)
(longlisted for the 2006 New Contemporaries)
£5
July 2005 saw the publication of The First Black Dogs Almanac, marking
the beginningof an irregular series of publications recording past
work and interactive events. 112 pages of glorious endeavour, including
Andy Abbott's Chimney Diaries (complete and unabridged), details of
each panel of How to put on an (art) show, and full-colour pictures
of Lawrence Molloy in various outlandish costumes. Read rousing manifestos,
see hard evidence of labour-intensive artworks, embark upon one of dozens
of suggested career paths, and win a jesters outfit to wear proudly
at social occasions.
Complete with your very own A5 slice of the Financial Times to cut into
increasingly tiny pieces until your eyes fail and you collapse, clutching
your hand in agony, knowing that the minute pink squares before you
stand as a record of how you have spent your time on this earth.
There are still some copies of the Almanac left to purchase; doing so
would be an extremely wise decision and shrewd investment.
The Almanac comes delivered in discreet packaging so as not to arouse
suspicion from neighbours or family.
The launch of The First Black Dogs Almanac took place in
OK Comics 19 Thorntons Arcade (off Briggate), Leeds LS1 6LQ,
and was sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.
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