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Opplesing av James Hoff

Inventory Arousal is an artists’ book by American artist and publisher
James Hoff with writer, editor, and archivist Danny Snelson. The book
reassembles a set of reference texts originally gathered during a live,
transnational editorial performance. An associative lecture given by Hoff
in Oslo, featuring hundreds of images and hours of artists’ video, was
mirrored by Danny Snelson in Tokyo, via Skype, who simultaneously extracted
and manipulated a massive body of previously compiled texts concerning key
avant-garde figures, publications, works, and movements that Hoff
discussed. These sources included artist interviews, book reviews, magazine
articles, memoirs, stock lists and blog posts. Acting as a quasi-transcript
of this joint performance, Inventory Arousal reveals an unpredictable
narrative formed along the predictable contours of collective history.

James Hoff is an artist and writer living and working in New York City. He
works in a variety of mediums including painting, performance, poetry, and
sound. Recent releases include How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks
Away (Pan Records, 2011) and Inventory Arousal (Bedford Press, 2011). He
is also the co-founder and editor of Primary Information, a non-profit
publisher devoted to printing artists’ books and multiples by artists.

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INVENTORY AROUSAL
James Hoff & Danny Snelson
Bedford Press 2011