Metronome. Publication inter-culturelle des arts plastiques.Nos. 0 – 11. (All Published)
Metronome. Deliss, Clémentine (Editor)
Dakar / London / Berlin / Basel / Vienna / Frankfurt / Oslo / Copenhagen / Portland / Tokyo. Metronome Press. 1996–2007
A complete run of the innovative 'Metronome', with additional signed ephemera and the four novels published by the Metronome Press.
'Metronome is an interpretational tool rather than a vehicle for the promotion of artists' works.' (Clémentine Deliss).
'Metronome', founded in 1996 by Clémentine Deliss, acted as an alternative form of art publishing, having no fixed location or editorial team. The issues were regarded more as artworks than publications due to its collective and research-based methodology. Fiction was always a central component of 'Metronome', leading to the foundation in 2005 of the Metronome Press.
The first issue of 'Metronome', dated 1996, was an edition of 2,000 copies and published in Dakar. This first editorial read: 'Metronome is the first edition of a new series of intercultural publications produced in Dakar and London. It proposes a debate from within the visual arts, interpolating artists, critics, philosophers, historians, aestheticians, curators, patrons and art enthusiasts.'
Clémentine Deliss (the journal's editor), had previously worked as a museum director and curator (Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt; Whitechapel Gallery, London) before realising that 'exhibitions were not [her] medium.' Nevertheless, she bought to the role an acute understanding of how to bring together new ideas by artists working in diverse locations: each issue of 'Metronome' was produced in a different place, Deliss taking over an artist's studio and working with them on a one-to-one basis.
The contributors to each issue are as follows:
– Metronome No 0, - Pilot Issue. Dakar, 1996.
Artists & writers: Joshua Compston; Catherine David; Clémentine Deliss; Joy Gregory; Elizabeth Harney; Laboratoire Agit'Art; Rut Blees Luxemburg; Issa Samb; Penny Siopis; Djibril Sy; El Sy; Paul Virilio.
– Metronome No. 1, London, 1997.
Artists & writers: Bili Bidjocka; Rut Blees Luxemburg; Guy Brett; Ery Camara; Andrew Cross; Clémentine Deliss; Tracey Emin; Carl Freedman; Tom Gidley; Edouard Glissant; Susan Hiller; Gary Hume; Jaki Irvine; Greg James; Atta Kwami; Zoe Leonard; Langlands & Bell; Fred Mann; Cathy de Monchaux; Michelle Naismith; Alistair Raphael; Issa Samb; Djibril Sy; Mark Aerial Waller.
Metronome No. 2 - Berlin, 1997 (published for documenta X).
Artists & writers: Franz Ackermann; Gamal Al-Ghitani; Andrea & Philippe; May Ayim; Sabeth Buchmann; Matthew Collings; Clémentine Deliss; Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani; Durs Grünbein; Abdoulaye Guissé; Judith Hopf; Rebecca Horn; Johannes Kahrs; Ulrike Kuschel; Via Lewandowsky; Rémy Markowitsch; Carsten Nicolai; Olaf Nicolai; Mohamed Magani; Jakob Mattner; Wairimu Mwangi Thamaini; Frank Thiel; Anatoli Shuravlev; Julian Stallabrass; Annelies Strba; Mamadou Touré dit Béhan; Gavin Turk; Emmett Williams; Slavoj Zizek.
Metronome No. 3 - Basel, 1998.
Artists & writers: Rasna Bhushan; Ursula Biemann; Peter Brandlmayr; Clémentine Deliss; Marianne Eigenheer; Charles Esche; Ewa Esterhazy; Jean-Paul Felley; Izeta Gradevic; Eric Hattan; Rummana Hussain; Olivier Kaeser; Birgit Kempker; Jörg Lenzlinger; Renée Levi; Via Lewandowsky; Heinrich Lüber; Muda Mathis; Claudia & Julia Müller; Marianne Müller; Tim Neuger; Olaf Nicolai; Peter Pakesch; Dan Peterman; Maria & Michelangelo Pistoletto; Stephan Prina; Martin Prinzhorn; Progetto Arte; Tobias Rehberger; Leila Sadeghee; Issa Samb; Nicolaus Schafhausen; Andrew Shields; Kan-Si; Martina Siegwolf; Gerda Steiner; Reinhard Storz; Peter Suter; Wawrzyniec Tokarski; Annette Ungar; Cyril Verrier; Nebojsa Vilic; Sus Zwick.
Metronome No. 4 / 5 / 6 - Edinburgh, Bordeaux, Frankfurt, Vienna, Biella, 1999.
Artists & writers: Unai Goieaskoetxea Arronategi; Axford, Dale, Löwenstein & Young; Miriam Bajtala; Yassine Balbzioui; Thomas Baumann; Thomas Bayrle; Stefan Beck; Lutz Braun; Ernst Caramelle; Hsia-Fei Chang; Sunah Choi; Arnaud Dejeammes; Clémentine Deliss; Jean-:Luc Desmond; P.K. Dick; John Douglas; Irene Düring; Steve Duval; Gardar Eide Einarsson; Ewa Einhorn; Charles Esche; Andreas Exner; Roman Fehr; Dirk Fleischmann; Parastou Forouhar; Sophie Fougy; Luca Frei; Hamish Fulton; Gerhard Geiger; Yann Géraud; Simon Girault; Marcus Graf & A.T. Kelemen; Tamara Grcic; Gerald Gerstenberger; Fritz Grohs; Steffi Hartel; Kathrin Höhne; Laura Horelli; Sergei Jensen; Alan Johnston; Franz Kapfer; Anne Kaminsky; Kan-Si; Phyllis Kiehl; Udo Koch; Peter Kogler; Kasper König; Timo Kopomaa; Suwan Laimanee; Elanit Leder; Marko Lehanka; Achim Lengerer; Kerstin Lichtblau; Karen Loughridge; Lyn Löwenstein; Fiona Macalister; Jan Machacek & Radostina Patulova; Pierre Molinier; Joshua Moon; Claudia & Julia Müller; Olaf Nicolai; Angelika Nollert; Christos Papoulias; Andrew Patrizio; Edith Payer; Manfred Peckl; Michael Pfrommer; Kiersten Pieroth; Lisa Pock; Stephan Potengowski; Alan Rankin; Anna Ray; Tobias Rehberger; Mandla Reuter; Michael S. Riedel; Tanja Ristovski; Monika Ruckstuhl; Nicole Schatt; Eva Schlegel; Christian C. Schweitzer; Thomas Seidemann; Anya Sheade; Constant Siméon-Reinhard; Sean Snyder; Andreas Spiegl; Wolfgang Stengel; Misha Stroj; Superflex; Markus Szikszay; Jean-Paul Thibeau; Armin B. Wagner; Mark Aerial Waller; Naomi West; Alexander Wolff; Ekrem Yalcindag; Haegue Yang.
Metronome No. 7 - Oslo, Cophenhagen, Stockholm, Bergen, Malmo 2001 (designed by Liam Gillick)
Artists & writers: Norris Adoro; Kristoffer Akselbo; Guy Bar Amotz; Anonymous; Theodor Barth; Rikke Benborg; Johannes Bergmark; Bili Bidjocka; Greta Blok; Ina Blom; Karlotta Blöndal; Kaspar Bonnén; Liv Bugge; Maria Candéa; Benson Chiremba; Jacques Demarcq; Alexander García Düttmann; Ewa Einhorn; Annika Eriksson; Alma Erlich; Unn Fahlstrøm; Jo Torkjel Fenne; Luca Frei; William Furlong; Kendell Geers; Liam Gillick; Pierre Giquel; Raymond Hains; Lise Harlev; Molly Haslund; Gad Hollander; Saskia Holmkvist; Karl Holmqvist; Leif Holmstrand; Jun Iseyama; Frans Jacobi; Alan Johnston; Phyllis Kiehl; Björn Kjelltoft; Ferdinand Ahm Krag; Cees Krijnen; Pierre Leguillon; Oskar Lindvall; Håkon Liu; a Love Laboratory; Ingrid Luche; Bernard Marcadé; Bjarne Melgaard; Mary-Annick Morel; Simon Njami; Douglas Park; Rabia; Hans Hamid Rasmussen; Øyvind Renberg; Emil Røyrvik; Joanna Rytel; Thomas Saenger; Issa Samb; ManfreDu Schu; Åsa Sonjasdotter; Misha Stroj; Hiroshi Sunairi; Adam Szymczyk; Samon Takahashi; Jean-Paul Thibeau; Johan Tirén; Linn Cecilie Ulvin; Salomé Voegelin; Haegue Yang.
Metronome No. 8A and 8B, London, 2002.
Artists & writers: Michael Archer; Dave Beech; Rut Blees Luxemburg; Colin Cina; Neil Cummings; R. Nick Evans; Rose Finn-Kelcey; Ben Fitton; Anna Fasshauer; Kendell Geers; Babak Ghazi; Liam Gillick; Felicity Greenland; Alan Johnston; Annis Joslin; Stephen Klee; Langlands and Bell; John Latham; Douglas Park; Barbara Steveni; Gavin Turk; Hans Weigand; Cerith Wyn Evans.
Metronome No. 9 - Paris, 2005.
Artists & writers: John Akomfrah & Edward George, Marc Atlas, Olivier Babin, Paul Baruch, Diamantis, Ewa Einhorn, Charles Henri Ford & Parker Tyler, Craig Garrett, Tom Gidley, Claire Guezengar, Judith Ickowicz, Phyllis Kiehl, Lefevre Jean Claude, Susannah Mabitt, Rev. Boyd MacDonald, Tom McCarthy, Bill Moan, Douglas Park, Abo Rasul, Nancy Strasbourg, Samon Takahashi, Boris Tiago, Oscar Tuazon, Bella Woodfield.
Metronome No. 10 - Oregon, 2006. (Special edition for documenta 12 magazines).
Artists & writers: Ibon Aranberri, Nico Dockx, Didier Fiuza Faustino, Richard Fischbeck, Yona Friedman, Jan Mast, Christos Papoulias, Douglas Park, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Matthew Stadler, and members of Future Academy in Edinburgh, Bangalore, and Dakar.
Metronome No. 11 - Toyko, 2007.
Artists & writers: Future Academy; Arts Initiative Tokyo; co-lab; Magnus Bärtås; Thomas Boutoux; Nico Dockx; Hu Fan; Boris Gobille; Yuko Hasegawa; Alan Johnston; Mami Kataoka; Roger McDonald; Masato Nakamura; Fumio Nanjo; Aomi Okabe; Tetsuya Ozaki; Yuko Ozawa; Christos Papoulias; Johannes Raether; Georg Schöllhammer; Stephanie Snyder; Matthew Stadler; Oscar Tuazon; Masahiro Wada; Takayuki Yamamoto and many others.
The four novels published by Metronome Press, also offered here, comprise:
– 'Remainder' by Tom McCarthy, (2005). The scarce first edition of this novel, this copy signed by the author to the title page.
– 'Stunning Lofts' by Tom Gidley, (2005).
– 'Fat Mountain, Scenes' by Phyllis Kiehl, (2005).
– 'The Young And Evil' by Charles Henri Ford & Parker Tyler (2005). Unlike the other three novels, which are by living artists, this was a reprint from the 1930s.
In addition, this Metronome collection contains a signed hardback of Tom McCarthy's 'Satin Island' (2015: Jonathan Cape).
'I am interested in experiments related to interpretation. 'Metronome' is an interpretational tool rather than a vehicle for the promotion of artists' works. Metronome Press has a similar attitude. It was not been set up within a literary field, but within the context of writing produced in relation to art production. Our challenge is the art world, and its discourse, not the literary world. We do not deny that visual artists can produce good literature, nor do we exclude the input of writers within our framework, but our main area of investigation is research and experimentation in art practice.' (Clémentine Deliss in 3AM magazine).
'...each issue of Metronome reflected past artists' and writers' publications: 'Documents'; the French brochure of Jean Jacques Pauvert's 1968 edition of 'Juliette' by D. A. F de Sade, with an introduction by Georges Bataille, and more recently, the 1870 'Edinburgh Review'.' (Clémentine Deliss).
'Metronome seems closer in spirit to artist's magazines like pen and Avalanche.' (Orit Gat, The White Review).
'Discontent with notions of context and the banality of criticism that accompanies the attitude of 'not knowing enough,' its propositions offer jump-plugs into an operational circuit between Africa and Europe.' (Issue 0).
'Metronome is an interpretational tool rather than a vehicle for the promotion of artists' works.' (Clémentine Deliss).
'Metronome', founded in 1996 by Clémentine Deliss, acted as an alternative form of art publishing, having no fixed location or editorial team. The issues were regarded more as artworks than publications due to its collective and research-based methodology. Fiction was always a central component of 'Metronome', leading to the foundation in 2005 of the Metronome Press.
The first issue of 'Metronome', dated 1996, was an edition of 2,000 copies and published in Dakar. This first editorial read: 'Metronome is the first edition of a new series of intercultural publications produced in Dakar and London. It proposes a debate from within the visual arts, interpolating artists, critics, philosophers, historians, aestheticians, curators, patrons and art enthusiasts.'
Clémentine Deliss (the journal's editor), had previously worked as a museum director and curator (Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt; Whitechapel Gallery, London) before realising that 'exhibitions were not [her] medium.' Nevertheless, she bought to the role an acute understanding of how to bring together new ideas by artists working in diverse locations: each issue of 'Metronome' was produced in a different place, Deliss taking over an artist's studio and working with them on a one-to-one basis.
The contributors to each issue are as follows:
– Metronome No 0, - Pilot Issue. Dakar, 1996.
Artists & writers: Joshua Compston; Catherine David; Clémentine Deliss; Joy Gregory; Elizabeth Harney; Laboratoire Agit'Art; Rut Blees Luxemburg; Issa Samb; Penny Siopis; Djibril Sy; El Sy; Paul Virilio.
– Metronome No. 1, London, 1997.
Artists & writers: Bili Bidjocka; Rut Blees Luxemburg; Guy Brett; Ery Camara; Andrew Cross; Clémentine Deliss; Tracey Emin; Carl Freedman; Tom Gidley; Edouard Glissant; Susan Hiller; Gary Hume; Jaki Irvine; Greg James; Atta Kwami; Zoe Leonard; Langlands & Bell; Fred Mann; Cathy de Monchaux; Michelle Naismith; Alistair Raphael; Issa Samb; Djibril Sy; Mark Aerial Waller.
Metronome No. 2 - Berlin, 1997 (published for documenta X).
Artists & writers: Franz Ackermann; Gamal Al-Ghitani; Andrea & Philippe; May Ayim; Sabeth Buchmann; Matthew Collings; Clémentine Deliss; Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani; Durs Grünbein; Abdoulaye Guissé; Judith Hopf; Rebecca Horn; Johannes Kahrs; Ulrike Kuschel; Via Lewandowsky; Rémy Markowitsch; Carsten Nicolai; Olaf Nicolai; Mohamed Magani; Jakob Mattner; Wairimu Mwangi Thamaini; Frank Thiel; Anatoli Shuravlev; Julian Stallabrass; Annelies Strba; Mamadou Touré dit Béhan; Gavin Turk; Emmett Williams; Slavoj Zizek.
Metronome No. 3 - Basel, 1998.
Artists & writers: Rasna Bhushan; Ursula Biemann; Peter Brandlmayr; Clémentine Deliss; Marianne Eigenheer; Charles Esche; Ewa Esterhazy; Jean-Paul Felley; Izeta Gradevic; Eric Hattan; Rummana Hussain; Olivier Kaeser; Birgit Kempker; Jörg Lenzlinger; Renée Levi; Via Lewandowsky; Heinrich Lüber; Muda Mathis; Claudia & Julia Müller; Marianne Müller; Tim Neuger; Olaf Nicolai; Peter Pakesch; Dan Peterman; Maria & Michelangelo Pistoletto; Stephan Prina; Martin Prinzhorn; Progetto Arte; Tobias Rehberger; Leila Sadeghee; Issa Samb; Nicolaus Schafhausen; Andrew Shields; Kan-Si; Martina Siegwolf; Gerda Steiner; Reinhard Storz; Peter Suter; Wawrzyniec Tokarski; Annette Ungar; Cyril Verrier; Nebojsa Vilic; Sus Zwick.
Metronome No. 4 / 5 / 6 - Edinburgh, Bordeaux, Frankfurt, Vienna, Biella, 1999.
Artists & writers: Unai Goieaskoetxea Arronategi; Axford, Dale, Löwenstein & Young; Miriam Bajtala; Yassine Balbzioui; Thomas Baumann; Thomas Bayrle; Stefan Beck; Lutz Braun; Ernst Caramelle; Hsia-Fei Chang; Sunah Choi; Arnaud Dejeammes; Clémentine Deliss; Jean-:Luc Desmond; P.K. Dick; John Douglas; Irene Düring; Steve Duval; Gardar Eide Einarsson; Ewa Einhorn; Charles Esche; Andreas Exner; Roman Fehr; Dirk Fleischmann; Parastou Forouhar; Sophie Fougy; Luca Frei; Hamish Fulton; Gerhard Geiger; Yann Géraud; Simon Girault; Marcus Graf & A.T. Kelemen; Tamara Grcic; Gerald Gerstenberger; Fritz Grohs; Steffi Hartel; Kathrin Höhne; Laura Horelli; Sergei Jensen; Alan Johnston; Franz Kapfer; Anne Kaminsky; Kan-Si; Phyllis Kiehl; Udo Koch; Peter Kogler; Kasper König; Timo Kopomaa; Suwan Laimanee; Elanit Leder; Marko Lehanka; Achim Lengerer; Kerstin Lichtblau; Karen Loughridge; Lyn Löwenstein; Fiona Macalister; Jan Machacek & Radostina Patulova; Pierre Molinier; Joshua Moon; Claudia & Julia Müller; Olaf Nicolai; Angelika Nollert; Christos Papoulias; Andrew Patrizio; Edith Payer; Manfred Peckl; Michael Pfrommer; Kiersten Pieroth; Lisa Pock; Stephan Potengowski; Alan Rankin; Anna Ray; Tobias Rehberger; Mandla Reuter; Michael S. Riedel; Tanja Ristovski; Monika Ruckstuhl; Nicole Schatt; Eva Schlegel; Christian C. Schweitzer; Thomas Seidemann; Anya Sheade; Constant Siméon-Reinhard; Sean Snyder; Andreas Spiegl; Wolfgang Stengel; Misha Stroj; Superflex; Markus Szikszay; Jean-Paul Thibeau; Armin B. Wagner; Mark Aerial Waller; Naomi West; Alexander Wolff; Ekrem Yalcindag; Haegue Yang.
Metronome No. 7 - Oslo, Cophenhagen, Stockholm, Bergen, Malmo 2001 (designed by Liam Gillick)
Artists & writers: Norris Adoro; Kristoffer Akselbo; Guy Bar Amotz; Anonymous; Theodor Barth; Rikke Benborg; Johannes Bergmark; Bili Bidjocka; Greta Blok; Ina Blom; Karlotta Blöndal; Kaspar Bonnén; Liv Bugge; Maria Candéa; Benson Chiremba; Jacques Demarcq; Alexander García Düttmann; Ewa Einhorn; Annika Eriksson; Alma Erlich; Unn Fahlstrøm; Jo Torkjel Fenne; Luca Frei; William Furlong; Kendell Geers; Liam Gillick; Pierre Giquel; Raymond Hains; Lise Harlev; Molly Haslund; Gad Hollander; Saskia Holmkvist; Karl Holmqvist; Leif Holmstrand; Jun Iseyama; Frans Jacobi; Alan Johnston; Phyllis Kiehl; Björn Kjelltoft; Ferdinand Ahm Krag; Cees Krijnen; Pierre Leguillon; Oskar Lindvall; Håkon Liu; a Love Laboratory; Ingrid Luche; Bernard Marcadé; Bjarne Melgaard; Mary-Annick Morel; Simon Njami; Douglas Park; Rabia; Hans Hamid Rasmussen; Øyvind Renberg; Emil Røyrvik; Joanna Rytel; Thomas Saenger; Issa Samb; ManfreDu Schu; Åsa Sonjasdotter; Misha Stroj; Hiroshi Sunairi; Adam Szymczyk; Samon Takahashi; Jean-Paul Thibeau; Johan Tirén; Linn Cecilie Ulvin; Salomé Voegelin; Haegue Yang.
Metronome No. 8A and 8B, London, 2002.
Artists & writers: Michael Archer; Dave Beech; Rut Blees Luxemburg; Colin Cina; Neil Cummings; R. Nick Evans; Rose Finn-Kelcey; Ben Fitton; Anna Fasshauer; Kendell Geers; Babak Ghazi; Liam Gillick; Felicity Greenland; Alan Johnston; Annis Joslin; Stephen Klee; Langlands and Bell; John Latham; Douglas Park; Barbara Steveni; Gavin Turk; Hans Weigand; Cerith Wyn Evans.
Metronome No. 9 - Paris, 2005.
Artists & writers: John Akomfrah & Edward George, Marc Atlas, Olivier Babin, Paul Baruch, Diamantis, Ewa Einhorn, Charles Henri Ford & Parker Tyler, Craig Garrett, Tom Gidley, Claire Guezengar, Judith Ickowicz, Phyllis Kiehl, Lefevre Jean Claude, Susannah Mabitt, Rev. Boyd MacDonald, Tom McCarthy, Bill Moan, Douglas Park, Abo Rasul, Nancy Strasbourg, Samon Takahashi, Boris Tiago, Oscar Tuazon, Bella Woodfield.
Metronome No. 10 - Oregon, 2006. (Special edition for documenta 12 magazines).
Artists & writers: Ibon Aranberri, Nico Dockx, Didier Fiuza Faustino, Richard Fischbeck, Yona Friedman, Jan Mast, Christos Papoulias, Douglas Park, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Matthew Stadler, and members of Future Academy in Edinburgh, Bangalore, and Dakar.
Metronome No. 11 - Toyko, 2007.
Artists & writers: Future Academy; Arts Initiative Tokyo; co-lab; Magnus Bärtås; Thomas Boutoux; Nico Dockx; Hu Fan; Boris Gobille; Yuko Hasegawa; Alan Johnston; Mami Kataoka; Roger McDonald; Masato Nakamura; Fumio Nanjo; Aomi Okabe; Tetsuya Ozaki; Yuko Ozawa; Christos Papoulias; Johannes Raether; Georg Schöllhammer; Stephanie Snyder; Matthew Stadler; Oscar Tuazon; Masahiro Wada; Takayuki Yamamoto and many others.
The four novels published by Metronome Press, also offered here, comprise:
– 'Remainder' by Tom McCarthy, (2005). The scarce first edition of this novel, this copy signed by the author to the title page.
– 'Stunning Lofts' by Tom Gidley, (2005).
– 'Fat Mountain, Scenes' by Phyllis Kiehl, (2005).
– 'The Young And Evil' by Charles Henri Ford & Parker Tyler (2005). Unlike the other three novels, which are by living artists, this was a reprint from the 1930s.
In addition, this Metronome collection contains a signed hardback of Tom McCarthy's 'Satin Island' (2015: Jonathan Cape).
'I am interested in experiments related to interpretation. 'Metronome' is an interpretational tool rather than a vehicle for the promotion of artists' works. Metronome Press has a similar attitude. It was not been set up within a literary field, but within the context of writing produced in relation to art production. Our challenge is the art world, and its discourse, not the literary world. We do not deny that visual artists can produce good literature, nor do we exclude the input of writers within our framework, but our main area of investigation is research and experimentation in art practice.' (Clémentine Deliss in 3AM magazine).
'...each issue of Metronome reflected past artists' and writers' publications: 'Documents'; the French brochure of Jean Jacques Pauvert's 1968 edition of 'Juliette' by D. A. F de Sade, with an introduction by Georges Bataille, and more recently, the 1870 'Edinburgh Review'.' (Clémentine Deliss).
'Metronome seems closer in spirit to artist's magazines like pen and Avalanche.' (Orit Gat, The White Review).
'Discontent with notions of context and the banality of criticism that accompanies the attitude of 'not knowing enough,' its propositions offer jump-plugs into an operational circuit between Africa and Europe.' (Issue 0).
12 vols. Various forms. Large folio (295 x 455 mm) to 8vo (125 x 160 mm). Richly illustrated, with text in French and English. Each issue in original publisher's wrappers.
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