"Norma Jeane – Body Proxy" (2004)

Zürich, Switzerland: JRP/Ringier Kunstverlag AG (book, monograph, exhibition catalogue), 2004.
9.75" x 7" x 1.125", 192 pages with fold-outs, hardcover without dust-jacket as issued, ISBN 2-940271-52-6.

Norma Jeane – Body Proxy, a monograph and exhibition catalogue for the art of Norma Jeane, as published in a padded pictorial hardcover without dust jacket as issued by JRP/Ringier Kunstverlag AG (Zürich, Switzerland) in 2004. The exhibition was at Halmhaus Zürich between 1 May and 20 June 2004, at SI Swiss Institute – Contemporary Art in New York City between January and February 2004, and at Kunstverein Freiburg between April and May 2005. The editors of this catalogue are Giovanni Carmine and Norma Jeane. Concept by Giovanni Carmine, Norma Jeane, and Cornel Windlin. Coordination by Manuela Altorfer, Lionel Bovier, and Simon Maurer. Design by Cornel Windlin. This book has texts in German and English.

William S. Burroughs contributes “Just to Pass the Time Away” from Port of Saints, pp. 113-121 (German) and 122-127 (English). This appears next to Norma Jeane’s “DIOMONA / Tribute to Federico Fellini”, a fold-out image of pharmaceuticals.

Burroughs is also mentioned multiple times in Alessandra Gelasso’s concluding essay, “Art as a Virus”.

Norma Jeane's t-shirt, designed for the City Gallery in Monfalcone for the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, is shown on page 171. This is a tribute to William S. Burroughs.

Shoaf II.464.

Contents:

• Simon Maurer, Dorothea Strauss, and Marc-Olivier Wahler: "Vorwort/Preface"
• Giovanni Carmine: "Feel Your Body!"
• Kristina Forslund: "Ethische Aspekte in der Fleisch- und Milchproduktion / Ethical Aspects of Meat and Milk Production"
• Norma Jeane: "Potlatch 6.1 / The Happy Surrenderer"
• Paul Virilio: "Ästhetik des Verschwindens / Aesthetics of Disappearance"
• Norma Jeane: "Everyday Sight/Hommage an Aldous Huxley / Everyday Sight/Tribute to Aldous Huxley"
• Federico Boni: "Der mediale Körper des Leaders / The Media Body of the Leader"
• Norma Jeane: "Ohne Titel (Body Fluid) / Untitled (Body Fluid)"
• Umberto Galimberti: "Der Körper und das Imaginäre der Begierden / The Body and the Imaginary of Disires"
• Norma Jeane: "To Die For"
• William S. Burroughs: "Port of Saintsˆ: Just to Pass the Time Away"
• Norma Jeane: "DIOMONA/Hommage an Federico Fellini / DIOMONA/Tribute to Federico Fellini"
• Pace, Boncinelli & Galimberti: "Und nun? / Now what?"
• Norma Jeane: "Potlatch 10.1/Ich bin das, was sich immer selber überwinden muss / Potlatch 10.1/I am that which must ever surpass itself"
• Chuck Palahniuk: "Auszug aus Fight Club / Excerpt from Fight Club"
• Norma Jeane: "RPM/In Abwesenheit ihrer Herrin holt sich das Luder schreiend einen runter / RPM/In the absence of her mistress the bitch jerks off screaming"
• Alessandra Galasso: "Kunst als Virus / Art as a Virus"
• Norma Jeane: "Loops of Fury/mono"
• Norma Jean: plates:
• Portrait of Norma Jeane, 1996
• Norma Jeane Baker incognito in the streets of Los Angeles
• POTLATCH 1.2/COOL UNDER PRESSURE, 1998
• P4 SKY, 1999
• DRUM MACHINE, 2000
• IKB COCKTAIL/REMIX, 1995
• Piero Manzoni
• Promolightbox, 1994
• ROMANCE?, 1995
• Hommage an/tribute to W. S. Burroughs, 2003
• POTLATCH 2.1, 1998
• POTLATCH 5.1/EYES WIDE SHUT, 2001
• Björk, Venus as a Boy, 1993
• RPM/IN THE ABSENCE OF HER MISTRESS THE BITCH JERKS OFF SCREAMING/ROUGH MIX, 1999
• RED HOT, 1997
• POTLATCH 9.1/ENTROPY DEPT. SUPPLY, 2002-03
• POTLATCH 8.1/SUSTAINABLE UNDERDEVELOPMENT, 2002
• POTLATCH 1.1, 1997
• POTLATCH 3.1/A BOUT DE SOUFFLE, 1998
• POTLATCH 2.2/THE HOT SPOT, 1999
• POTLATCH4.1/SLEEPING BEAUTY WILL NEVER WAKE UP, 2000
• RED SWEET CRUSH, 2001
• BLUE, 1999
• INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS, 2001
• INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT #4, 2001
• Series of 16 images for the book Beinen, Königinnen, Schwäne in Stücken by Tim Krohn