ZINE – SEAN DECKERT

Welcome to the ZINE Store

Each zine is designed, printed, saddle-stitched and trimmed in my studio by hand. I make these to share work and expand the ways it can function in different formats. These art booklets expand on the work through feature essays, installation views, peripheral information including the art. They also create a new format to organize the art into a precious tangible object that acts as an enjoyable book and an archive of works completed.

In Stock at the following locations in Phoenix and Los Angeles

Skylight Books – Los Feliz

Pop Hop Books – Eagle Rock

Small World Books – Venice

PHOENIX

Tilt Gallery – Scottsdale

BUTOH FU

1st Run, 2020

$10

4.5” x 6”

This hand-made saddle stitched photography book
contains thirty two full-color pages and eleven full spread photographs.
Special Edition cover available in small quantities.

Butoh Fu is a collaborative project with Butoh Dancer, Caroline Haydon, and myself. This style of interpretive dance coined “dance of darkness” was pioneered in Japan by masters Kasuo Ono and Tatsumi Hijikata and seeks to undermine streamline theater performance with slowed movements and a sense of decaying morbidity. The grotesque and gorgeous views of human physicality Butoh embodies feel spontaneous and unskilled, however Butoh Fu points at the camp of performance itself.

It is a beacon for a darker place to be seen.

We both wanted this exchange to create something that captured the tangibility trapped in the thickness of time. As if it could only be seen under a specific gaze, as if it was coming from inside the viewers head; something dark had been there all along, and we are given permission to see. Discussing Francis Bacon’s portraiture we added some expanded surrealism and repetitive distortion to discover new shapes and patterns of movement. I have been quite interested in using photography to record and compress incomprehensible amounts of time. After many years of photographing dance I decided to make my own art from a dance. This series is an homage to one of my favorite photographers Eadweard Muybridge.

INVERSE UNIVERSE

1st Run, 2016

$15

4.5” x 6”

This hand-made saddle stitched photography book
contains thirty two full-color pages and eleven full spread photographs.
Special Edition cover available in small quantities.

Inverse Universe is a visual narrative composed in volumes of photographs weaving a story about civilization through the eyes of ecotourism. Tapping into the ontological vibes of New Mexico, the first volume explore relationships of time, space and shadows where Sci-Fi collides with Spirituality. Inspired by filmic elements and the transformative power of photography, light and shadow are manipulated in camera to exaggerate naturally occurring elements.

This zine features White Sands, UFO’s, missile ranges, very large satellites, lava tubes, dinosaur graves, ancient bat caves and seemingly pristine environments.

Reflective Properties

1st Run, 2016

$25

5″ x 7″

This hand-made saddle stitched photography book
contains sixty four full-color pages, eight full spread photographs,
an essay by Grant Vetter, video still frames throughout and supporting illustrations.

While this small survey of Deckert’s video work focuses on a selection of pieces from 2011, the general development of his oeuvre is reflected in these video vignettes in any number of ways. As a meditation on transitory states and transformations in the environment, these documentary shorts act as a critical rejoinder to his photographic projects, making them an important contribution to his artistic program in their own right. But above all else, they have been brought together here for what they say about the present, and what kinds of insights they off er us into the larger spectrum of vision and visionary experiences.

-Grant Vetter, Director, Fine Art Complex 1101