Peter Coffin: Imaginary Concerts (Volume Two)

Peter Coffin

Hardcover | 22.6 x 1.6 x 31.2 cm | 168 pp

Anthology Editions | 2018 | 9781944860172

Artist Peter Coffin began his work with the iconic designs of LA’s Colby Poster Printing Company in 2008. Over the years, he solicited artists and friends to contribute their dream concerts―invented lineups for impossible gigs―and combined them with the colourful poster backgrounds. This effort resulted in 2017’s Imaginary Concerts, a collaborative monograph depicting show posters curated from the lineups of more than 75 contributors. The result was a stirring celebration of music’s vast conceptual universe.

Coffin’s roster of concert daydreamers includes Yoko Ono, Sasha Frere-Jones, Lydia Lunch, Quasimoto and many more. Featuring original typesetting by artist Adam Turnbull, Imaginary Concerts (Volume Two) transports the reader further into Coffin’s uncannily evocative, nostalgia-tinged and personally revealing realm of musical what-ifs.

Contributors:
Laura Albert, Tim Barnes, Hisham Baroocha, Julianna Barwick, Brian Belott, Sonic Boom, Nicolas Bourriaud, Joe Bradley, Sarah Braman and Phil Grauer, AA Bronson, Andrianna Campbell, Yann Chevallier, Cathy Cho, Larry Clark, Dan Colen, Ani Cordero and Chris Verene, Matthew Patterson Curry, Mike D, Josh Diamond, Andres Santo Domingo, Jim Drain and Kate McNamara, Josh Druckman, Ken Freedman, Sasha Frere-Jones, Delia Gonzales, Andrew Guenther, Tom Hall, Elizabeth Hart, Bob James, Chris Johanson & Jo Jackson, Pali Kashi and Sarah Elliot, Steve Lafreniere, Noah Lennox, JT LeRoy, Carol Lim and Humberto Leon, Arto Lindsay, Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman, Lydia Lunch, Paul Major, Carlo McCormick, Phil Manley, Christian Marclay, Martin Maugeais, Dave Muller, Hans-UIrich Obrist, Yoko Ono, Mike Osterhout, Tony Oursler, Peanut Butter Wolf, Michael Pestel, Ara Peterson, Mary Ping, Abby Portner, Stephen Prina, Rob Pruit, Quasimoto, Mariah Robertson and Jackie Klempay, Jeff Ryan, Ryan Schreiber, Peter Schumann / Bread & Puppet Theater, Martha and Richard Shaw with Alice Shaw, Josh Smith, Mike Sniper, Agathe Snow, Space Lady, D. Charles Speer, Haim Steinbach and Gwen Smith, Peter
Sutherland and Maia Ruth Lee, Matt Sweeney. Spencer Sweeney. Carter Thornton, Mikey Turner and Clark Griffin, Tunde Whitten, Michael Williams, Hyla Willis, Terry Winters, Rich Zerbo.