Published 2012 by Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
44 pages
210 x 148 mm, softcover, with black and white illustrations
With text by Laura Preston and Mark Williams
Featuring Campbell Kneale, Antony Milton, and Bruce Russell
Designed by The International Office
Printed by Freestyle
ISBN 978-1-877309-22-9

This catalogue was published in association with the exhibition Object Lessons: A Musical Fiction, August - October 2010. It includes a CD, Unlimited edition: Antony Milton and Campbell Kneale in conversation with Mark Williams.

'This project does not seek to offer an historical overview, nor does it claim to give an exhaustive account of independent music, nor present an archive of now-obsolete devices. Instead Object Lessons: A Musical Fiction considers the problems for the future of the record by asking: What is the relationship between the evolution of music and its dissemination? And furthermore, what has been and what continues to be the economic, social and aesthetic value of music's delivery mechanisms?'

'This exhibition project questions the different registers of value that are invested in the record, the object of music and the histories it symbolises. Each of the five installations by artists Fitts & Holderness, DJ $1 Record (aka Bryce Galloway), Caroline Johnston, Torben Tilly & Robin Watkins, and Ronnie Van Hout carefully negotiate what has been brought into frame, kept on record, and what will continue to 'remain off-the-record'. The music is not here.'

— Introducing Object Lessons: A Musical Fiction by Laura Preston and Mark Williams