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Surveying 30 years of Henry Taylor’s work in painting, sculpture and installation, this comprehensive monograph celebrates a Los Angeles artist widely appreciated for his unique aesthetic, social vision and freewheeling experimentation. Taken together, the various strands of Taylor’s practice display a deep observation of Black life in America at the turn of the century, while also inviting a humanist fellowship that pushes outward from the particular.Taylor’s portraits and allegorical tableaux – populated by friends, family members, strangers on the street, athletic stars and entertainers – display flashes of familiarity in their seemingly brash compositions, which nonetheless linger in the imagination with uncanny detail. In his paintings on cigarette packs, cereal boxes and other found supports, Taylor brings his primary medium into the realm of common culture. Similarly, the artist’s installations often recode the forms and symbolisms of found materials (bleach bottles, push brooms) to play upon art historical tropes and modernism’s appropriations of African or African American culture.240 pages191 colour illustrations28 x 23 cmManic Books

Assembling a Black Counter Culture is a general history of techno and adjacent electronic music genres, with a focus on Black experiences in industrialised labour systems. It confidently explores the development of on-the-ground culture in relation to a uniquely American art form.Revisiting Detroit’s techno roots through the 1980s, writer and musician DeForrest Brown, Jr. follows the extended thinking and techniques behind key early players and places them in conversation with the African-American working class in the historically emblematic Motor City. From The Belleville Three to today’s international club floor, 'Assembling a Black Counter Culture' illuminates the mechanics of American mainstream cultural production and reinstates electronic music from a Black theoretical perspective.A critical reconsideration emerges with references to Theodore Roszak’s Making of a Counter Culture, writings by African-American autoworker and political activist James Boggs, and the 'techno rebels' of Alvin Toffler’s Third Wave, among others, tracing parallels between movements in Black electronic music and attempts to evade and subvert the race and class-essentialist status quo established by American technocratic distribution of labor and capital.128 pages, 17.5 x 10.5 cm, softcover, Primary Information (New York).

The Chain Link Necklace in blue features glossy Italian cellulose acetate, accented with a complementary blue colour-coated stainless steel carabiner.The necklace measures 54cm in length, and comes with a logo metal tag detail and branded dust bag.

2019Originally crayon on paperDrum scanned and printed on archival Hahnmüle Photo Rag 308GSM42 x 59.4cm.Limited Edition of 5 in each formatCustom framing options avaialble - email hello@waitingroom.store to enquireMeanjin (Brisbane) based artist Des Skordilis has an innate ability to illustrate their feelings as a form of communication. Radiant compositions with bold primary colours and charming bulbous figures defy the rules of proportion. Working across a diverse range of mediums — from digital illustration to drawing, painting, sculpting and stop-motion animation — Skordilis crafts small and thoughtful worlds of intentional lines, block colour and joyful characters.

Following on from his epic 2016 book for Perimeter Editions, S-O-M-E-O-N-E, Laith McGregor’s latest publication forges a somewhat unlikely dialogue between the artist’s often divergent processes and aesthetic outcomes. Drawing on two very different but interlinked bodies of work – McGregor’s long-running Island Drawings and more recent Island Collages – the book juxtaposes the Australian artist’s meticulously rendered, monochromatic drawings with his spontaneous, colour-rich and playfully formal collages.Archipelago skirts a line between artist book and monograph, wrangling McGregor’s works in a loose, intuitive fashion, all the while affording them the critical attention they demand. Featuring an incisive text by prominent Brisbane-based curator and writer Hamish Sawyer, the book sees McGregor continue his at once lively, conceptual, idiosyncratic and methodical explorations of a wider premise that broaches travel, diarism, exoticism, representations of the Pacific and expanded notions of the portrait.Like much of McGregor’s work, Archipelago feels measured and precise one moment, easy and breezy the next.72 pages32 x 24 cmSection-sewn hardcoverPerimeter Editions (Naarm).

These 20-minute botanical candles are a great way to focus your attention and get you started towards greater equanimity, acceptance and joy.This Haze candle set includes:• Haze candles (20-minute) x 10Always use these candles with a candle stand (not included).Our Haze candles are handmade in Japan from 100% plant-based haze wax: all-natural and vegan-friendly.