Gagosian Gallery presents: Design Office — Kim Gordon in collaboration with Feeding Tube Records; "Living on the Edge of Obscurity." Feeding Tube Records, which once moved off the main drag in Florence, Massachusetts due to too many people knowing its location, is iconic in its resistance to the status quo—it is a petri dish for the inversion of pop culture pathology. In a celebration of the righteously avant-garde, Kim Gordon and Feeding Tube Records are sponging the essence of the seminal shop and wringing it out over the Gagosian Gallery booth. In addition to a vinyl listening station, limited edition records, and print ephemera created specifically for the fair, the space will include top-shelf items curated from Feeding Tube's own inventory by the most discerning ears and eyes.

David Zwirner Books will present Perfect World, a reprint of a rare book of drawings by Jason Rhoades produced exclusively for the LAABF, along with a series of new limited-edition posters by Jordan Wolfson. David Zwirner Books will also feature a wide range of books and monographs related to the David Zwirner exhibition program.

Harper’s Books will present artwork and a special zine by Ross Simonini with Carroll Dunham, and new drawings by Harmony Korine.

From the Archive of Unknown Poetry and the gallery of Marc Selwyn Fine Art, comes a new edition of Allen Ruppersberg’s EL SEGUNDO RECORD CLUB! A selection of small treasures brought to new life from an archive of recorded American artifacts spanning multiple decades of the 20th Century. Another example of who remembers what.

Additional project rooms at this year’s LAABF will be presented by KARMA and Werkplaats Typografie.

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS
Alden Projects™ presents The Bus Is Back: Mason Williams in Los Angeles, a special exhibition exploring the far-flung legacy of artist, musician, writer, producer, screenwriter Mason Williams during his years in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Highlights include Bus (1967), the artist’s legendary but rarely seen icon of California Conceptualism: a 37 foot long screen print of a Greyhound bus, originally exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of Art in 1967 and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the following year. Accompanied by copious archival documentation, this exhibition also unpacks other off-the-beaten track vehicles by Mason Williams that were similarly destined for unconventional spaces, including billboards, advertisements, and an array of artist’s publications that were more numerous than the better known counterparts by his sometimes collaborator, sometimes roommate, and lifetime friend, Ed Ruscha. This exhibition is supported by Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Printed Matter, Inc., and Alden Projects™.

Arthur Fournier presents FER YOUz, a landmark exhibition of the Los Angeles hardcore punk photo fanzine published by Brian Tucker and Nikki Tucker from 1981 to 1983. For the first time ever, all sixteen of the original full-color FER YOUz publication maquettes will be on display alongside vintage black & white copies of the underground broadside. The installation will also include displays of the Tucker's hardcore-era manuscript, textile, and ephemera collections, as well as a carousel slide show curated from the monumental Kodachrome image bank at the heart of the FER YOUz archive. Instigated in 1980 as a scholarly research initiative under the tutelage of UCLA art historian Arnold Rubin, the Tuckers' expansive documentation of the L.A. hardcore scene both recorded and helped define one of the most explosively creative eras in the history of Southern California counterculture, with an indelible soundtrack provided by Fear, The Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Saccharine Trust, The Adolescents, and others.

Onestar press and OSMOS will feature a curated project of books and editions with artists. The special project for LAABF16 is conceived within the framework of Richard Bell's EMBASSY (2013 - 2016), a sculpture and platform reimagined to pay homage to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy protest first assembled by activists in 1972 on the lawn of Australia’s Parliament House, where it continues to this day.

AT THE PRINTED MATTER BOOTH (C01)
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 pm Following a screening of two short films in the Classroom, Printed Matter hosts a signing with Fiona Banner for her new artists' book Heart of Darkness, co-published by her imprint The Vanity Press and Four Corners Books. This new publication of Joseph Conrad’s novella takes the form of a luxury magazine, using newly commissioned images by Paolo Pellegrin that capture various conflicts in London.

Saturday, February 13, 1:00 pm
Signing and launch of Jason Polan’s new book Every Person in New York. Jason will be personalizing each book sold and inserting a special bootleg zine titled People I like in LA, Taco Bell refreshments will be served.