ISH#9

Launch of Fanzine – 03
19:00 May 8th 2010

Merlin Carpenter
– Social Aesthetics

Text Credits:
Pages 1-32, quoted from Juliane
Rebentisch, answers to a
“Questionnaire on ‘The Contemporary’”,
October 130, Fall 2009, pp.100-103.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/
pdf/10.1162/octo.2009.130.1.3
Back cover, dedication from
Georg Lukács, “Political Writings
1919-1929, The Question of
Parliamentarianism and Other Essays”,
New Left Books, London 1972.

Image Credits:
Pages 1-16, Merlin Carpenter,
David’s Soul, 1999/2007, edition of 3 (+1)
readymade Mercedes-Benz
mountain bikes, as installed in the show
“Élégance” at the Kölnischer Kunstverein,
Germany in November 2007.
Pages 17-32, untitled artwork
by Merlin Carpenter consisting of
a wrecked Mercedes-Benz S-Class as
installed outside “Zodiac 3000”
at the International Project Space,
Bournville, Birmingham, UK in April 2008.
Page 33, Sophie Politowicz,
Hanging in a Camden Studio (Vibe Pryde),
2010, jpeg.

Thanks:
Victor, hypocrite, Jo, hypocrite, Dan,
hypocrite, Alastair, hypocrite, Ben,
hypocrite, Rachel, hypocrite, Merlin,
hypocrite, Juliane, hypocrite, Ed,
hypocrite, Georgie, hypocrite, Richard,
hypocrite, Anja, hypocrite, Kathrin,
hypocrite, Sophie, hypocrite, Isabelle,
hypocrite, Michael, hypocrite, Cosima,
hypocrite, Jeremy, hypocrite, Alex,
hypocrite, Dumber and Dumber,
hypocrites, Nagel, hypocrite, Andy, hunt…
moron… thanks to Paris, New York,
Chanel, Andy Warhol, David Bowie
and the moon, Thanks to God, Satan
and Stephan, hypocrite.
Edition of 1000,
21 × 29,7 cm, 32 pages.

Concept:
Victor Boullet

All content:
Merlin Carpenter

Cover Design:
Hey Ho
Julien Hourcade & Thomas Petitjean

Publisher:
Lauren Monchar

Production:
Frenetic Happiness

Print:
Expressions 2

Rolf A Hoff / Signex have
made it possible for
The Institute of Social Hypocrisy
to offer Merlin Carpenter
a fanzine,
a eurostar ticket
and one night at a *** hotel
with breakfast included.

Copyright:
Merlin Carpenter, Juliane Rebentisch,
2010, All rights reserved.
No part of this publication
may be reproduced or distributed
in any form or by any means,
or stored in a database or retrieval system,
without the prior written permission
of the publisher and
The Institute of Social Hypocrisy.


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