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How to Start a Revolution: The Musical

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A manual and hardly an answer to the the question How To Start A Revolution. The publication is a script for the identically named musical in four parts and ongoing artistic project by Anna McCarthy. The musical deals with the romanticization and synaesthetic manipulation tactics entailed in depictions of revolution, rebellion and recent history acted out by an ever-same group of bored rebels. Facts are mixed with fiction, layers are built upon layers to create scenarios that manipulate a viewer’s perception of what was and is truly real.

The How To Start A Revolution project has thus far manifested itself in the form of arrests, archives, films, photographs, and songs. But now it is time for the ultimate grand romantic gesture: A MUSICAL – singing, dancing, screaming, and laughing at the question ‘what time is it’? It’s a prophecy; it’s a poetic pop spectacle.

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    • Manuals & Guides

    by gabrielle.jennings@artcenter.edu

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    • How to Start a Revolution: The Musical         Anna McCarthy        Books / Artists’ Books        $16.00
    • The Club Recluse Handbook        Baron Otto von Tu        Books / Artists’ Books        $10.00
    • A Small Guide to Homeownership        Alejandro Cartagena        Books / Artists’ Books        $45.00
    • User’s guide to (demanding) the impossible        microutopías | Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination        Books        $15.00
    • Pocket Guides        Hans Winkler        Books        $30.00
    • Two Boiler Suits and a Playlist : A Guide for Primates        Bill Burns        Books        $15.00
    • Le Guide Legrand        Augustin Legrand         / Zines        $5.00
    • Field Guide        Derek Stroup        Books / Signed        $24.00
    • Basix Operating Manual        Kevin Siwoff        Books / Artists’ Books        $30.00
    • The Island: Guide        Tom Sachs        Books        $500.00
    • DIY IKEA Booklet        Martijn in ‘t Veld         / Artists’ Books        $18.00
    • 0.800.0FAUNA0FLORA : A User’s Guide to the Flora and Fauna Information Service Interactive Voice Mail System        Bill Burns        Books / Signed        $15.00
    • Publishing Now: GenderFail’s Working Class Guide To Making A Living Off Self Publishing [Second Edition]        Be Oakley        Books / Source Books        $27.00
    • CUNY Disorientation Guide: Brokelyn College (Fall 2018)                Books / Zines        $3.00
    • The Green Witch’s Guide to Magical Plants & Flowers        Chris Young and Susan Ottaviano        Books        $22.00
    • Revolution & Us: A Pocket Guide to Direct Action        Allison Chan and Zainab Aliyu                OUT OF STOCK
    • Clay in Place; a field guide        E. Saffronia Downing        Books        $40.00
    • Outliars: A Discourse Guide to Fact Checking & Click Baiting        Angie Waller        Books / Artists’ Books        $20.00
    • Bookshop Guide        AAVV        Books / Source Books        $25.00
    • A Field Guide To Weeds        Kim Beck        Books        $25.00
    • A Hundred Flowers Have Bloomed : A Reader’s Guide to Erin Cosgrove’s The Baader Meinhof Affair        Erin Cosgrove        Books / Catalogs        $75.00
    • Grapefruit        Yoko Ono        Books / Artists’ Books        $150.00
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    1. Anna McCarthy
      How to Start a Revolution: The Musical
      Zürich, Switzerland: Edition Taube, 2017
      $16.00
    2. Baron Otto von Tu
      The Club Recluse Handbook
      New York, NY: Vaudevisuals Press
      100
      $10.00
    3. Kevin Siwoff
      Basix Operating Manual
      Brooklyn, NY: Drip Pitcher Press, 2018
      $30.00
    4. Tom Sachs
      The Island: Guide
      New York, NY: T. Sachs, 2006
      unknown
      $500.00
    5. Martijn in 't Veld
      DIY IKEA Booklet
      Germany: Happy Potato Press, 2022
      100
      $18.00
    6. Alejandro Cartagena
      A Small Guide to Homeownership
      Berlin, Germany: The Velvet Cell, 2020
      500
      Out of stock
    7. microutopías | Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
      User’s guide to (demanding) the impossible
      Montevideo, Uruguay: Microutopías, 2020
      150
      $15.00
    8. Bill Burns
      0.800.0FAUNA0FLORA : A User’s Guide to the Flora and Fauna Information Service Interactive Voice Mail System
      London, U.K.: Institute of Contemporary Art, 2008
      500
      $15.00
    9. Chris Young and Susan Ottaviano
      The Green Witch’s Guide to Magical Plants & Flowers
      United States: SkyHorse, 2023
      Out of stock
    10. Allison Chan and Zainab Aliyu
      Revolution & Us: A Pocket Guide to Direct Action
      New York, San Francisco, NY, CA: BUFU By Us For Us, 2020
    11. E. Saffronia Downing
      Clay in Place; a field guide
      Baltimore, United States: E. Saffronia Downing, 2023
      Out of stock
    12. Angie Waller
      Outliars: A Discourse Guide to Fact Checking & Click Baiting
      New York, NY: unknown UNKNOWNS, 2021
      $20.00
    13. Be Oakley
      Publishing Now: GenderFail’s Working Class Guide To Making A Living Off Self Publishing [Second Edition]
      Queens, NY: GenderFail Press, 2023
      $27.50

    14. CUNY Disorientation Guide: Brokelyn College (Fall 2018)
      New York, NY: CUNY Student Liberation Action Movement, 2018
      Out of stock
    15. AAVV
      Bookshop Guide
      Madrid, Spain: Paperside, 2023
      800
      Out of stock
    16. Kim Beck
      A Field Guide To Weeds
      New York, NY: Printed Matter Inc., 2014
      1500
      $25.00
    17. Erin Cosgrove
      A Hundred Flowers Have Bloomed : A Reader’s Guide to Erin Cosgrove’s The Baader Meinhof Affair
      Los Angeles, CA: Carl Berg Gallery, 2004
      20
      $75.00
    18. Hans Winkler
      Pocket Guides
      New York, NY: H. Winkler, 2012
      100
      $30.00
    19. Bill Burns
      Two Boiler Suits and a Playlist : A Guide for Primates
      Toronto, Canada: YYZ Unlimited, 2010
      450
      $15.00
    20. Augustin Legrand
      Le Guide Legrand
      Paris, France: La Bibliothèque Fantastique, 2010
      Unknown
      $5.00
    21. Derek Stroup
      Field Guide
      New York, NY: Derek Stroup, 2002
      size unknown
      $24.00
    22. Yoko Ono
      Grapefruit
      New York: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 2015
      500
      Out of stock
    Last updated 2/22/2024
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