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Prospectus 1988-2002
Thirty-one works by Ben Kinmont
 This book is a first person account of Ben Kinmont's interactive projects of the past 14 years. The common concerns of these projects are the relationship of the artist to his audience and the question of authorship and ownership. Kinmont addresses these questions in a light hearted though by no means frivilous manner. The presentation of this book - modest and intimate - echoes his working process, which is both smart and sincere. With black and white photographs.
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In this tongue-in-cheek work, Kinmont has collected a variety of contractual agreements involving art stars like Marcel Broodthaers, Ed Kienholz, Yves Klein, Komar & Melamid, and others. Each contract is reproduced alongside commentary describing the original conceptual events.
 Promised Relations : Or, Thoughts Concerning a Few Artists' Contracts
   
The Materialization of Life
into alternative economies
 An exhibition catalogue showing different notions of economy and distribution. Featuring the work of Paula Hayes/Wild Friends for collaborative economy, Joseph Grigely for information economy, On Kawara for gift economy, Gordon Matta-Clark for business economy, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles for maintenance economy.
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"Sometimes a nicer sculpture is to be able to provide a living for your family." This motto was the founding principle of the antiquarian bookselling business Ben Kinmont started in1998. "Because the business specializes in books about food and wine before 1840, it also provides a broader context in which to see domestic activity as meaningful." This little pamphlet lists the four catalogs Kinmont has published so far and gives basic information about his shop.
 Sometimes
   
If you smile at me
In this introduction to an exhibition, Kinmont poses the question "can conversation be sculpture" to 11 passersby. Their responses were transcribed and printed alongside early examples of conversation as art.
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This menu-as-exhibition-catalog presents artist-written recipes that were prepared as a dinner at the opening reception of La Vie Devant Soi/Life Ahead of You at Le Centre Département D'art Contemporain in Montpellier France. Contributions from, Marcel Duchamp (Steak Tartare..."it can be prepared on horseback, at a swift gallop, if conditions make this a necessity."), Philip Corner (Fig Pervert), and Salvador Dali (Toffee Pine Cone) to name a few.
 An Exhibition in Your Mouth
By Ben Kinmont
   
Catalogue 6 Broadsheet
A broadsheet from Ben Kinmont, Bookseller, announcing "a list of fifty books and MSS for sale concerning gastronomy, perfume, beauty, domesticity and life in the country". This was part of his contribution to the exhibition La Vie Devant Soi/Life Ahead of You at Le Centre D'Art Contemporain in Montpelier, France.
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This T-shirt is the catalog to Ben Kinmont's exhibition Vietnam War Ads which was exhibited as part of Insertions, a conceptual art project conducted in 1998. His work consisted of re-presenting the Vietnam War protest work of artists in the seventies who took out advertising space in art publications and used it to broadcast anti-war mesages. The T-shirt lists all the original artists and publications in which their ads appeared and the contemporary publications in which Kinmont's project appeared.
Vietnam War Ads Exhibition Catalogue (T-shirt)
   
Vietnam War Ads : or, your bibliography is our sculpture
For the project entitled Insertions, Ben Kinmont re-presents the Vietnam War protest work of artists who, in the seventies, took out advertising space in art publications and used it to deliver anti-war mesages. Kinmont dislodges the now famous texts, such as John Lenon and Yoko Ono's "War Is Over! If You Want It" from recent art history and inserts them into the stream of contemporary art culture via ad space in 4 current journals.
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