Sckonthis!!: The Essential Raymond Pettibon Twitter Compilation
Between February 2011 and February 2021, Raymond Pettibon turned Twitter into his sketchbook, soapbox, and verbal battleground-posting more than 18,000 unfiltered outbursts, aphorisms, rants, and revelations. SCKONTHIS collects these transmissions in full for the first time, capturing the essence of the project: an unfiltered, decade-long experiment in digital consciousness that charts the evolution of Pettibon's raw creative voice and tests the boundary between art and communication.
Pettibon abandons the gallery for the feed, composing a new kind of social-media literature in 280-character bursts-profane, funny, and unpredictable. The tweets span everything from golf and God to sex, politics, and punk, revealing the artist at his most candid: thinking out loud, questioning himself, and pushing language to its limits.
Through this stream of digital writing, Pettibon extends the work of Blake, Ruskin, and Daumier into the twenty-first century. SCKONTHIS presents Pettibon's tweets as art itself-alive, raw, and online.
Raymond Pettibon is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. He first rose to prominence in the early 1980s Southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art for SST Records, which was founded by his brother, Greg Ginn. Pettibon has since become a major figure in the contemporary art world, known for drawing upon American iconography-from literature, art history, and philosophy to politics, sport, and sexuality.
LG Williams is a Los Angeles-based artist whose positions have included Endowed University Instructor at the Academy of Art University, Robert Hughes Distinguished Visual Artist-in-Residence at The Lodge in Hollywood, and Emmy Hennings Distinguished Professor at D(D).DDDD University. His work has been shown internationally-including at the Internet Pavilion of La Biennale di Venezia-and has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times, The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, La Stampa, Purple Diary, Mousse Magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail.
PCP Press is an independent publisher of avant-garde books and insurgent authors. Founded in 1990 in San Francisco at a time when transgressive and sometimes esoteric international art books had a difficult time making their way into the wider American marketplace, over the past three decades PCP has grown into a consistent publisher of books, special editions and rare publications from an array of the world's most respected authors and cultural institutions - including Raymond Pettibon, Dave Hickey, Wayne Thiebaud, Bryan Reynolds, David Hawkes, Shepard Fairey, LG Williams, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, and Luscerne Kunstpanorama.Customer Reviews
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