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Badlands Unlimited is a New York-based independent publisher founded by the artist Paul Chan (artist) in 2010, and consists of artists Ian Cheng, Micaela Durand, and Matthew So. The press publishes texts by and with other artists in the form of paperbacks, ebooks, digital group exhibitions, a stone book, and other various media. The press also does consulting on projects related to digital publishing for art institutions. ==History== Paul Chan founded Badlands Unlimited in 2010 with the goal of “creating books in an expanded field.” The company’s flagship publications, ''The Essential and Incomplete Sade for Sade’s Sake'' and ''Phaedrus Pron'' were authored by Chan himself and released as both paperback and e-books. With the publication of a book of poetry by choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, Badlands began its secondary mission of publishing “things no one knew existed.” Badlands continued its departure from traditional paperback books with ''Mans in the Mirror'' (2011), a project that Badlands describes as a “first of its kind” 3D e-book. The staff of Badlands authored ''Mirror'' over the course of a single day while under the influence of mescaline. Existing solely in e-book format, publication would reinforce Badlands’ emphasis on digital publishing. In 2012 Badlands published ''How to Download A Boyfriend'', the “first-ever group show in the form of an e-book for the iPad.” The show featured contributions from over 50 different artists and included interactive multiple-choice questions for the reader. Later in 2012 Badlands Unlimited became the NY Art Book Fair’s first primarily digital publisher. The press premiered Paul Chan’s short story ''Holiday'' as both a digital e-book and on a sandstone tablet with its own ISBN. Badlands further diversified the content of its publications with the release of ''AD BOOK'' by the art collective (BFFA3AE ) in 2013. ''AD BOOK'' is a book consisting solely of advertisements by artists and institutions. In keeping with its secondary mission to publish work revealing heretofore unknown sides of public figures, Badlands published a collection of essays ''On Democracy'' by Saddam Hussein (2012), 22 years worth of never before collected diagrams and notes by curator and Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist in ''Think Like Clouds'' (2014), and never before published 1964 interviews with Marcel Duchamp by Calvin Tomkins in ''Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews'' (2013). Badlands’ most recent publication adhering to this pursuit is ''The Best Most Useless Dress'' (2014) by poet and New York Times critic Claudia La Rocco. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Badlands Unlimited」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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