Tar No. 13 : Heat (Issue 13 - Spring Summer 2016)

32 x 24.5cm. Hardcover, unpaginated (approximately 200pp). In die-cut pictorial dustjacket. Lavishly produced fully-illustrated collectable fashion magazine. Issue thirteen of Tar Magazine, themed around 'heat', featuring thermal imaging "thermodynamic storytelling" and other photographic experiments by 'Reinhardt' (an Effimera Fondazione related entity known for its post-internet aesthetic outlook). Listed contributors include Frank Ghery, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Tania Bruguera, Nico Vascellari, Laurent Piemontesi, posthumous featured work of John Cage, Berkay Bugdanoglu, Bisan Abu Eisheh, Shadi Ghadirian, Abdulnasser Gharem, Sam Lewitt, Shirin Neshat, Lital Dotan / Eyal Perry (Glasshouse), and Matteo Casari. Notable features include artworks and texts by musicians David Byrne, Brian Eno, and Nico Vascellari, feature on Cuban artist Tania Bruguera's art activism, Sam Lewitt's hacked electrical lighting circuits, a sub-section featuring five interviews with performance artists "as a performance-for-magazine" (with Hector Canonge, Jill McDermid, Lital Dotan, Whitney Hunter, and Esther Neff) followed by a series of illustrated texts on performance art, features on Middle Eastern artists including Shadi Ghadirian's spectacular portrait photography of Iranian middle-class women, a rare performance score written by John Cage ('In Search of the Lost Silence'), a feature inspired by Yukio Mishima, etc. Rare. Very good condition.…