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The Internal Objects is a confession in the form of a catalogue. Through anecdotes and associations, it tells the story of a reclusive radiologist through the objects and images that accumulate around him. Ecstatic descriptions of the material properties of things transport him through deep time and his most formative memories. As a reader of x-ray images, with their transparency and coded evidence, he finds an antidote to the impenetrability of other people. The Internal Objects is conceived, written, and designed by Szu-Han Ho. Szu-Han Ho's work addresses the intersection of spatial practice, material culture, and affective knowledge. Her research interests have revolved around the shared metaphors of economics and ecology. After receiving a B.A. in Architecture from UC Berkeley, she launched a three-year collaborative project integrating art installation, architectural proposals, performance, and agricultural research on a 250-acre site in West Texas. She holds degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received an MA in Visual and Critical Studies and an MFA in Film, Video, and New Media. Recent projects include a mobile exhibition at the Center of the US (in conjunction with the Center for Land Use Interpretation), a performative property survey at Mildred's Lane Historical Society, and a traveling exhibition of analogue models to psyches and natural systems. Szu-Han is currently Assistant Professor in Art & Ecology in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

THE READER is a museum catalog in the form of a turn-of-the-century magazine. This publication was created as a part of the exhibition "Museum as Hub: Steffani Jemison and Jamal Cyrus: Alpha's Bet Is Not Over Yet" at The New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Truth and Greatness is a collaboration in the form of a nonfiction novella and two poems. In November 2009, Steffani Jemison commissioned a poem from Houston-based spoken word performers Michael "Truth" Graham and Khorey "Greatness" Smith. The novella is her transcription, in narrative form, of the creative process of the poets as they write, including their conversations about language, politics, street literature, the art world, and music. Two poems by Truth and Greatness, completed in 2010, describe their writing process and their collaboration with Steffani. About the authors: Michael ("Truth") Graham is a poet and emcee. For two years, he co-organized the Secret Word Poetry reading series in Houston, Texas, which brought dozens of nationally-recognized urban poets and musicians to Houston. Steffani Jemison is an artist whose work has been presented internationally. In 2010-2011, she was an Artist-in-Residence at Project Row Houses as well as a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Khorey ("Greatness") Smith is a writer and photographer. Since early 2009, he has worked as a freelance creative and commercial photographer serving clients throughout Texas. As a poet, he has performed individually and in collaboration with Michael Graham at poetry slams in Houston, Albuquerque, and Philadelphia. Truth and Greatness is published by Future Plan and Program, a provisional publishing project featuring newly-commissioned literary works by visual artists.

"Glorious prospect, but for the mist." Texts for Nothing is a fictional conversation in the form of a tragicomedy. Two characters, Braille Teeth (from a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat) and Nobody (from the film Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch), share a difficult journey across a landscape abstract and universal yet sharply particularized. With appropriations from Jean-Paul Sartre, TV on the Radio, Deadwood, Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, Shadi Abdel Salam, The Night of Counting the Years, Al-Mummia, Ralph Ellison, Stephen Wright, Cormac McCarthy, Kay Ryan, Jacques Lacan, Franz Kafka, Henry James, Albert Camus, Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, Edward Albee, Kobo Abe, W.G. Sebald, Arundhati Roy, and other sources. About the author: Harold Mendez is an artist based in Chicago whose interdisciplinary practice concerns landscape, visibility, politics, and memory. He earned his MFA in 2007 from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Contemporary Art Workshop, Mess Hall, Polvo, and Western Exhibitions, all in Chicago. Group exhibitions include The Drawing Center, New York; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; the London Biennale, UK; vuspace, Australia; the Hyde Park Art Center, and the Chicago Cultural Center. Harold has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois Chicago; he has delivered lectures at The University of North Umbria (UK), Ox-Bow (Michigan), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and the University of Houston (Texas). Texts for Nothing is published by Future Plan and Program, a provisional publishing project featuring newly-commissioned literary works by visual artists.

"Starring Eldridge Cleaver as Holden Caulfield." "Awkward Silence by D.W. Griffith." "Directed by James Brown." James Brown Is Dead is a series of poems that employ the language and look of the opening sequences of films. The poems feature a series of made-up films--starring and made by real figures from cinema and beyond--as well as real films inexplicably cast with unlikely characters. Jibade-Khalil Huffman is the author of "19 Names For Our Band" (Fence Books, 2008). In 2009 he curated "WRONG: A Program of Text and Image" at Eighth Veil in Los Angeles, as well as edited the accompanying anthology of art and writing, "After Stanley Donen." He has exhibited and performed works of art and writing at MoMA/P.S. 1, The Museum of Arts and Design, and the Tank in New York City. His awards include the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Jerome Foundation Travel Grant and fellowships from the Millay Colony for the Arts and the UCross Foundation. He was a 2010-2011 Workspace Artist-in-Residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York. Educated at Bard College and Brown University, he lives in Los Angeles. James Brown Is Dead is published by Future Plan and Program, a provisional publishing project featuring newly-commissioned literary works by visual artists.

Book Club is a reading group and think tank in Houston, Texas. Together, we investigate progressive, experimental, and provocative work by African American writers, with a particular focus on hard-to-find creative texts. The edited volume presents transcriptions, essays, e-mails, poems, polemics, fiction, questions, and concerns by: Regina Agu, Nathaniel Donnett, Quincy Flowers, Egie Ighile, Steffani Jemison, Otabenga Jones & Associates, Ayanna Jolivet McCloud, and Michael Kahlil Taylor. Additional contributions and conversation by: Lauren Kelley, Massa Lemu, Bert Long, Jesse Lott, Rick Lowe, Mo Roberts, Bert Samples, George Smith, Kaneem Smith, and M'kina Tapscott.

Implications and Distinctions: Format, Content and Context in Contemporary Race Film considers performances of blackness in contemporary cinema from 1990 to the present. By considering story lines, movie theaters and her own viewing patterns, Syms attempts to find the "color line" and trace its path through the distribution and exhibition of film. About the author: Martine Syms is an artist and curator based in Chicago, Illinois. Since 2007, she has been the director of Golden Age, a non-commercial project space dedicated to sharing ideas through exhibitions, performances and printed matter. Syms has programmed screenings at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Echo Park Film Center, Mess Hall and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited and screened at the Gene Siskel FIlm Center, Chicago, IL; Capricious Space, Brooklyn, NY; Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA; and other venues. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 in Film, Video, and New Media. Implications and Distinctions is published by Future Plan and Program, a provisional publishing project featuring newly-commissioned literary works by visual artists.

Ticket to the Unknown considers the schizophrenic texts of Aloïse Corbaz, an Art Brut artist better known for her drawing than her writing. Both a translation of texts and a commentary on dilemmas of reading and translation in artist's writing, this book explore the limits of the sayable and the visible as well as the corporeality of text itself. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jina Valentine has exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, including Steve Turner Gallery, Jack the Pelican Presents, The Drawing Center, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. She received the Joan Mitchell MFA Fellowship and has participated in residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Women's Studio Workshop, Sculpture Space, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She received her BA from Carnegie Mellon University and her MFA from Stanford University. She is represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco and Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia. She currently lives and works in Paris. Ticket to the Unknown is published by Future Plan and Program, a provisional publishing project featuring newly-commissioned literary works by visual artists.