1. History

2. Selected books and publications

3. Notable authors

4. Controversy

5. References

6. External links

Badlands Unlimited is a New York-based independent publisher founded by the artist Paul Chan (artist) in 2010, and consists of artists Micaela Durand (Director), Ian Cheng (Editor at Large), Parker Bruce, and Ambika Subramaniam. The press publishes texts by and with other artists in the form of paperbacks, ebooks, digital group exhibitions, a stone book, and other various media. The press also does consulting on projects related to digital publishing for art institutions.

History

Paul Chan founded Badlands Unlimited in 2010 with the goal of “creating books in an expanded field.” The company’s flagship publications, The Essential and Incomplete Sade for Sade’s Sake and Phaedrus Pron were authored by Chan himself and released as both paperback and e-books. With the publication of a book of poetry by choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, Badlands began its secondary mission of publishing “things no one knew existed.”^[1]

Badlands continued its departure from traditional paperback books with Mans in the Mirror (2011), a project that Badlands describes as a “first of its kind” 3D e-book.^[1] The staff of Badlands authored Mirror over the course of a single day while under the influence of mescaline.^[2] Existing solely in e-book format, publication would reinforce Badlands’ emphasis on digital publishing.

In 2012 Badlands published How to Download A Boyfriend, the “first-ever group show in the form of an e-book for the iPad.”^[3] The show featured contributions from over 50 different artists and included interactive multiple-choice questions for the reader.

Later in 2012 Badlands Unlimited became the NY Art Book Fair’s first primarily digital publisher.^[4] The press premiered Paul Chan’s short story Holiday as both a digital e-book and on a sandstone tablet with its own ISBN.

Badlands further diversified the content of its publications with the release of AD BOOK by the art collective [https://web.archive.org/web/20090312063010/http://www.bestfriendsbestfriendsbestfriendsbestfriends.com/ BFFA3AE] in 2013. AD BOOK is a book consisting solely of advertisements by artists and institutions.

In keeping with its secondary mission to publish work revealing heretofore unknown sides of public figures, Badlands published a collection of essays On Democracy by Saddam Hussein (2012), 22 years worth of never before collected diagrams and notes by curator and Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist in Think Like Clouds (2014), and never before published 1964 interviews with Marcel Duchamp by Calvin Tomkins in Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews (2013).^[5][6][7] Badlands’ most recent publication adhering to this pursuit is The Best Most Useless Dress (2014) by poet and New York Times critic Claudia La Rocco.^[8]

Selected books and publications

• 2014. The Best Most Useless Dress. Claudia La Rocco. Paperback, e-book. {{OCLC|880566898}}
• 2014. Think Like Clouds. Hans Ulrich Obrist. Paperback, e-book. {{OCLC|875462739}}
• 2014. Paul Chan: Selected Writings 2000–2014. Chan, Paul, George Baker, Eric Banks, Isabel Friedli, and Martina Venanzoni. Paperback, e-book. {{OCLC| 867604442}}
• 2013. AD BOOK. BFFA3AE. E-book.
• 2013. Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews Calvin Tomkins. Paperback, e-book. {{OCLC|822894777}}
• 2013. Fires of Siberia. Tréy Sager. E-book.
• 2012. On Democracy. Hussein, Saddam, Paul Chan, Jeff Severns Guntzel, Negar Azimi, and Nickolas Calabrese. Paperback, e-book. {{OCLC|794365121}}
• 2012. HELL_TREE Petra Cortright. E-book.
• 2012. How to Download a Boyfriend. E-book.
• 2011. Wht is? A series of unique hand-made zines, e-book series.
• 2011. Mans in the Mirrors (in 3D). 3-D e-book.
• 2011. Poems. poems by Yvonne Rainer. Print, e-book. {{OCLC|767726964}}

Notable authors

• Paul Chan (artist)
• Petra Cortright
• Yvonne Rainer
• Trey Sager
• Calvin Tomkins interviews Marcel Duchamp
• Hans Ulrich Obrist
• Claudia La Rocco
• Saddam Hussein

Controversy

Badlands Unlimited’s participation in the 2010 NY Art Book Fair as the event’s first publisher primarily focused on e-book publication ignited debate over whether the rise of e-books would mean the destruction of traditional paperback publications.^[9]

Apple temporarily removed How to Download a Boyfriend from its e-book store citing concerns over nudity in the book.^[10] The item has since been made available for purchase again.

References

External links

• {{cite web |url = http://www.artfagcity.com/2013/03/18/top-10-paul-chan-and-badlands-unlimited/ |title = STUFF: Paul Chan and Badlands Unlimited |publisher = Art F City |date = 18 March 2013 |website = Art F City}}
• {{cite web |url = http://www.believermag.com/issues/201211/?read=interview_chan |title = Paul Chan, Artist |last = Schwartz |first = Madeleine |publisher = Believer Magazine |date = November–December 2012 |website = Believer Magazine}}
• {{cite web |url = http://www.bookforum.com/index.php?pn=pubdates&id=10458 |title = On Democracy, by Saddam Hussein, edited by Paul Chan |last = Gilbert |first = Alan |publisher = Bookforum |date = 12 November 2012 |website = Bookforum}}
• {{cite web |url = http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/17414/1/the-humble-doodle |title = The Humble Doodle |last = Dolding |first = Sian |publisher = Dazed and Confused Magazine |date = September 2013 |website = Dazed Digital}}
• {{cite web |url = http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/off-the-page/ |title = Off the Page |last = Hromack |first = Sarah |publisher = Frieze Magazine |date = May 2011 |website = Frieze Magazine}}
• {{cite web |url = https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/books-in-an-expanded-field-the-story-of-badlands-unlimited |title = Books in an Expanded Field: The Story of Badlands Unlimited |last = Erickson |first = Matthew |publisher = LA Review of Books |date = 8 February 2013 |website = LA Review of Books}}
• {{cite web |url = http://observer.com/2010/11/break-all-your-ebooks-boundaries-blur-at-the-ny-art-book-fair/ |title = Break All Your E-Books: Boundaries Blur and the NY Art Book Fair |last = Jovanovic |first = Rozalia |publisher = Observer Magazine |date = 11 November 2010 |website = Observer Magazine}}
• {{cite web |url = http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/aug/25/a-thing-remade-conversation-paul-chan/ |title = A Thing Remade: A Conversation with Paul Chan |last = Hromack |first = Sarah |publisher = Rhizome |date = 25 August 2011 |website = Rhizome}}
• {{cite web |url = http://www.walkerart.org/magazine/2012/books-expanded-field-interview-badlands-unlim |title = Expanding the Book: An Interview with Badlands Unlimited |last = Latitudes |publisher = Walker Art Center |date = 18 December 2012 |website = Walker Art}}
• "Books in an Expanded Field: The Story of Badlands Unlimited." Matthew Erickson. LA Review of Books. Badlands Unlimited. February 8, 2013.

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