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Temenos artist supporter Luke Fowler shortlisted for the 2012 Turner Prize!

Update #1 · May 7, 2012 · comment

Congratulations to Temenos friend Luke Fowler on being one of four artists shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize! We are thrilled that Luke is helping our Kickstarter campaign with a specially designed postcard edition. Here is the Tate's official announcement from last week.

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    20 backers

    One of a series of postcards created for the Temenos 2012 screenings with images by artists including Luke Fowler as well as a digital file of the Temenos 2012 program. Plus your name thanked on the Temenos website.

    Estimated delivery: Jul 2012
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    A complete set of a new series of postcards created for the Temenos 2012 screenings with images by artists including Luke Fowler as well as a digital file of the Temenos 2012 program. Plus your name thanked on the Temenos website.

    Estimated delivery: Sep 2012
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    35 backers

    A newly-designed t-shirt featuring the Temenos grasshopper as well as a digital file of the Temenos 2012 program. Plus your name thanked on the Temenos website.

    Estimated delivery: Sep 2012
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    9 backers

    A DVD copy of “A Place Set Apart”, a documentary about the Temenos by Noah and Livy Stout as well as a digital file of the Temenos 2012 program. Plus your name thanked on the Temenos website.

    Estimated delivery: Sep 2012
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    5 backers Limited (15 of 20 left)

    A one-year subscription to Artforum magazine, which can be shipped to US addresses only. Plus your name thanked on the Temenos website.

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    20 backers

    A copy of the large-format programs from the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Temenos screenings with texts by Markopoulos in Greek and English. The 2004 program contains the earliest texts by Markopoulos about the Temenos. The 2008 program contains a list of contents of the first five cycles of ENIAIOS. Plus your name thanked on the Temenos website.

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    One specially-made "tagaria" or small bag. These woven satchels of wool and cotton, measuring about 8 x 8 inches (20 x 20 cm) with a shoulder strap, will be made to order for us by a friend in Arcadia in the traditional textile handicraft of the region. These "tagaria" were once used by local farmers to carry their tools and lunch in the fields. Recent examples of her work can be viewed in update #3 in the Updates tab. Plus your name thanked on the Temenos website.

    Estimated delivery: Sep 2012
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    A newly produced small flashlight printed with Temenos 2012 and the Temenos grasshopper. Plus your name thanked on the Temenos website.

    Estimated delivery: Jul 2012
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    5 backers

    A copy of the 2002 edition of the book "Visionary Film" signed by and with a thank you inscription by the author P. Adams Sitney. Plus your name thanked on the Temenos website.

    Estimated delivery: Sep 2012
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    2 backers Limited (3 of 5 left)

    One copy of the first publication from the earliest screenings at the site in 1980 which includes four texts by Markopoulos in English and Greek. Plus your name thanked on the Temenos website.

    Estimated delivery: Sep 2012
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    A copy of the rare, out of print catalogue "Gregory J. Markopoulos: Mythic Themes, Portraiture, and Films of Place" from the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 1996 retrospective exhibition. Plus your name thanked on the Temenos website.

    Estimated delivery: Sep 2012
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    An invitation to a private thank-you event with Robert Beavers in New York City or Berlin after the June screenings PLUS a copy of the forthcoming publication of Markopoulos’s collected writings accompanied by a note of thanks from Robert Beavers. Plus your name thanked on the Temenos website.

    Estimated delivery: Sep 2012
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    An invitation to a private thank-you event with Robert Beavers in New York City or Berlin after the June screenings PLUS a red beanbag seat specially-designed and custom-made by a tailor in Athens for spectators to use at the Temenos screenings. Plus your name thanked on the Temenos website.

    Estimated delivery: Sep 2012
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    0 backers Limited (1 of 1 left)

    One copy of the rare, limited edition publication of Markopoulos’s poetic essay AIE KALON. SIGNED BY MARKOPOULOS. Printed in 1990 in colored inks by Christians Druckerei, Hamburg. Edition of 75. Plus an invitation to a private thank-you event with Robert Beavers in New York City or Berlin after the June screenings and your name thanked on the Temenos website.

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    4 backers Limited (6 of 10 left)

    An invitation to a private thank-you event with Robert Beavers in New York City or Berlin after the June screenings PLUS a new, limited edition frame enlargement from a film by Gregory Markopoulos. Plus your name thanked on the Temenos website.

    Estimated delivery: Sep 2012
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    An invitation to a private thank-you event with Robert Beavers in New York City or Berlin after the June screenings PLUS an exceedingly rare issue of Filmwise Magazine dedicated to Markopoulos' work published by Cinema 16 and the Filmmakers Cooperative in 1963. Good condition. Cover illustration by Jean Cocteau dedicated to Markopoulos. Edited by P. Adams Sitney. With texts by Sitney, Gregory Battcock, Stan Brakhage, Charles Boultenhouse, and others. 68 pages. SIGNED and numbered by Markopoulos. Additionally INSCRIBED by him in 1964. The texts in this journal are the first critical writings on Markopoulos' work, produced when Sitney was still a teenager.

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