Books by Coco Gordon

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  • Hip-Hop Solarplexus        Coco Gordon        Audio & Video / Cassette        $12.00
  • Hip Hop Solarplexus : A Poemsequence        Coco Gordon        Books        $120.00
  • Things We Pay For        Coco Gordon        Books / Signed        $350.00
  • The Opaque Glass : A Poem by Barbara A. Roux in Collaboration with Coco Gordon        Coco Gordon and Barbara Roux        Books / Signed        $40.00
  • Patented : Il Pane Non Si Butta = Don’t Throw Out The Bread        Coco Gordon and Angelo Ricciardi        Books / Signed        $30.00
  • A Biomass Continuity : Coco Go Interactiv’ with John Grande’s Balance : Art & Nature        Coco Gordon        Books / Signed        $30.00
  • Sebastien Live Cat Chat Vive        Coco Gordon        Books / Signed        $125.00
  • Superskywoman : La Caduta : Things I Know You Should Know        Coco Gordon        Books / Signed        $160.00
  • Use is A Short Self Lit Fuse        Coco Gordon        Books / Signed        $28.00
  • The_____Reader : 160 Books To Be Read With Eyes Ears Mind Body Use [Small Version]        Coco Gordon        Books / Catalogs        $45.00
  • 6 Dances for Paper Piano        Coco Gordon        Books / Signed        $35.00
  • Une Autre Matisse Dance        Coco Gordon        Books / Signed        $28.00
  • It : A Poem / Play / Installation        Coco Gordon        Books / Signed        $125.00
  • TIKYSK : Superskywoman Dialogues With the People: Permaculture Getting To Know You        Coco Gordon        Books / Signed        $22.00

Coco Gordon (aka ‘SuperSkyWoman’) began as a paper-maker and independent publisher, going on to become a prolific book artist who made hundreds of unique works as well as several dozen editioned publications. Her books are largely produced with the manipulation of a photocopier, dense with images, poetry, and other text. As objects they feel thoroughly worked-over, often incorporating a range of materials at all once; various paper stocks (including hand-made sheets), assorted acetates, tipped-in photos, dyed linen yarn, ironed-on photo transfers and spontaneous elements like “surprise inserts” which vary throughout the edition. The resulting work is something that is both deliberately rendered, but chaotic and overgrown. As book artist Richard Kostelanetz has said of her publishing, she takes “total responsibility.” Gordon’s work as an artist and poet is often tied closely to her committed interest in ‘permaculture,’ an outlook by which ecological & ecosocial concerns (sustainable architecture, food-shed, regional policy) bear on how humans should live with the longterm health of the planet in mind. Inherently political, many of these publications revolve around the fraught relationship society shares with the land it uses. One work serves a manual for considering the “ills of this our blip culture”, and comes fastened to a small tree-branch and bound with twine. Her audio work ‘Hip-Hop Solarplexus’ brings together a collection of sounds of farmers, workers, and land. The intricate and impassioned works ask to be read with the eyes, as well as the “mind and body.”

Checklist
  1. Coco Gordon
    Sebastien Live Cat Chat Vive
    New York, NY: W Space Press, 1987
    size unknown
    $125.00
  2. Coco Gordon
    Use is A Short Self Lit Fuse
    New York, NY: Tikysk Press, 2004
    90
    $28.00
  3. Coco Gordon
    Superskywoman : La Caduta : Things I Know You Should Know
    New York, NY: W Space Press, 1995
    50
    $160.00
  4. Coco Gordon
    The_____Reader : 160 Books To Be Read With Eyes Ears Mind Body Use [Small Version]
    New York, NY: W Space Press, 1988
    300
    $45.00
  5. Coco Gordon
    Hip Hop Solarplexus : A Poemsequence
    New York, NY: W Space Press, 1993
    50
    $120.00
  6. Coco Gordon
    Things We Pay For
    New York, NY: W Space Press, 1988
    10
    $350.00
  7. Coco Gordon and Barbara Roux
    The Opaque Glass : A Poem by Barbara A. Roux in Collaboration with Coco Gordon
    New York, NY: Watermark Press, 1984
    50
    $40.00
  8. Coco Gordon
    Hip-Hop Solarplexus
    New York, NY: W Space Press, 1993
    size unknown
    Out of stock
  9. Coco Gordon and Angelo Ricciardi
    Patented : Il Pane Non Si Butta = Don’t Throw Out The Bread
    Napoli, Italy: Congelo Press, 2003
    30
    $30.00
  10. Coco Gordon
    6 Dances for Paper Piano
    New York, NY: W Space Press, 1987
    size unknown
    $35.00
  11. Coco Gordon
    Une Autre Matisse Dance
    New York, NY: Tikysk Press, 2003
    90
    $28.00
  12. Coco Gordon
    It : A Poem / Play / Installation
    New York, NY: W Space Press, 1987
    size unknown
    $125.00
Last updated 7/14/2015
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