Borderline (Signed Copy)

Posted in Artist Book, photography on March 12th, 2024
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Borderline, Charles Paulicevich.
(Signed Copy)
Ceci est un essai, a collection run by François Bouchara.
Graphism Colin Junius.
Engraving and manufacture Gérard Issert.

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NUMB (pocket edition)

Posted in art, drawing, editions, poster on March 11th, 2024
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In Nazi Germany, at least 10,000 physically and mentally disabled children and adolescents, including orphans, misfits and other ethnic groups were murdered as part of an ideology based on Social Darwinism. For the first time in history, physicians, nurses and midwives killed by lethal injection, gas poisoning or starvation. It predated the genocide of European Jewry by approximately two years. A rehearsal for the planners of the ‘Final Solution’. “NUMB” is a study of the forgotten children of WWII.

Hand-made and hand-colored by the artists.

French artist duo, Wolfsko, use mediums of expression such as photography, text, drawing, painting and collage. Their work is a long study in the world of unhappy childhood, exploring themes such as love, fear, and survival. Wolfsko currently live and work in Berlin.

Author: Wolfsko

Publisher: Wolfsko Publications

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Il Gambero Cosmografico 1965, Il Granchiolino Immamorato 1967 1968-2018

Posted in poetry, Sound on March 10th, 2024
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Henri Chopin (18 June 1922 – 3 January 2008) was a French avant-garde poet and musician: he is widely considered to be a pioneer in the recognition and distribution of sound-poetry. Besides poetry and music, his practice includes paining, graphic design, typography, independant publishing and filmmaking; Chopin’s work is a barometer of the shifts in European media between the 1950s and the 1970s.
In 1964 he created OU, one of the most notable reviews of the second half of the 20th century, and he ran it until 1974. OU’s contributors included William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Gil J Wolman, François Dufrêne, Bernard Heidsieck, John Furnival, Tom Phillips, and the Austrian sculptor, writer and Dada pioneer Raoul Hausmann.

Chopin spent a lot of time in Naples from the beginning of the 1980s due to his collaborative projects with Peppe Morra, founder of Fondazione Morra, one of the most renowned spaces for contemporary art active within the city. Morra and Chopin worked closely together up until the final years of the French artist’s life. During this time they produced numerous publications, a large number of which were based on his stunning production of “typewriter poems”. Chopin found a new possibility for poetry both within sound and the written form; with a formal approach he constructed a new alphabetical narration that actually had no responsibility for communication.
His personal production — consisting of typewriter-poems and sound performances — is an inspired attempt to open the medium of poetry into a form described by Chopin as ‘a poetry of spaces’: demonstrating ‘the sensory superiority of sound as opposed to normal speech, and […] free man from the straightjacket of words and letters and from his obedience to didactics.’

This book contains a text by Stelio Maria Martini.

Author: Henri Chopin

Publisher: Edizioni Morra

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Playful subversion. Beni Bischof

Posted in Artist Book, photography on March 9th, 2024
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Playful Subversion from Swiss artist Beni Bischof is a wild journey through 945 black-and-white images taken from every available web portal in a crash of cultures, identity, humor and political comment a riotous paranoia about the world we live in and the billion of images that assault our senses every single day. It reads like an oversized flipbook except you will need one hell of a pocket to tuck this fat little monster into your coat pocket. Produced for his first Austrian solo exhibition at Fotohof Salzburg, it does exactly as the title suggests. A highly entertaining vade mecum, it blends together the great icons of the culture industry in a high-contrast panorama of our postmodern media culture. The contrast of black-and-white reproductions not only deconstructs and profanes the odd hero or two but also generates a subversive maelstrom, the pull of which is difficult to escape.

Author: Beni Bischof

Publisher: Fotohof edition and Laser Magazin

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veiled_eyes. Maryna Russo.

Posted in Artist Book, photography, writing on March 8th, 2024
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Veiled Eyes was founded in 2015, originally as an art project against Instagram and its hashtag culture. Having to adapt to the fast-growing social media and marketing platform, Veiled Eyes was born. The concept was to hide (or veil) the subject’s eyes and show no locations. At the time the project began, users were unable to have more than one account per registered email. Over time, after updates and several iPhones later, I was blocked and locked out of the Veiled Eyes account. After many attempts to regain access, I simply gave up. In collaboration with dtan Studio, I transformed the original concept into the analog form you currently hold in your hand.

Maryna Russo

edition of 58

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Une Idée du Temps – Eliane Radigue

Posted in music, photography on March 7th, 2024
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‘Une idée du temps’ rend hommage à Éliane Radigue, pionnière de la musique électronique à 92 ans. Avec son ARP 2500, elle a créé un son distinctif basé sur sa vision audacieuse et son sens unique de l’acoustique, du temps et de la durée. Le livre présente des portraits et des photos de son ARP 2500 prises entre 1955 et 1972, avec une introduction de Joseph Ghosn en anglais et français. Premier tirage limité à 300 exemplaires.

Author: Laia Bonastre (Ed.)

Publisher: Laia Selects

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Nazi Knife #8

Posted in Artist's book, illustration on March 6th, 2024
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with contributions by Jonas Delaborde, Leon Sadler, Tony Jeffrey (aka Tonetta), Hendrik Hegray, Guy Mercier, Jamie McNeill, Julien Carreyn, Denise Kupferschmidt, Jacques Noel, Lee Scratch Perry, Oblivia, Misha Hollenbach, Alexandre Jacquet, Spencer Clark, Dennis Tyfus, Melissa Brown, Captain Cavern, Brenna Murphy, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Heath Moerland, Jeff Hartford, Mathieu Malouf, Roope Eronen, Jarno Latva-Nikkola & Max Eisenberg

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T.O.1 (cassette special edition)

Posted in cassette, music, Tapes on March 5th, 2024
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Black Cassette Tape, handmade printed fabric case, riso printed
paper cover, DL code.
Limited to 40 copies.

1st self-released EP of Tot Onyx, T.O.1 is a collection of fragments of Onyx’s live performances from recent years (mainly 2023), recorded in her studio as part of her creative process during the preparations. While her albums are highly conceptual and revolve around specific subjects, this EP serves more as her annual report, in which she aims to share with the public how her thoughts are shaped by time through the practice of performing live.
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released February 2, 2024

Recorded and mixed by Tot Onyx in Berlin, DE.
Mastered by Koshiro Hino in Osaka, JP.
Artwork by Tot Onyx.

  1. (Ever Get The Feeling) You’ve Been Cheated? 03:44
  2. Naked Repugnance 03:24
  3. Mutilation pt.2 02:39
  4. Carnival of Anxiety 05:05
  5. Sasshobun, Shori 05:12
  6. Mutilation pt.1 02:00
  7. Karma 02:58
  8. Feeding The Enemy 04:33

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Toyota Corona (Vinyl)

Posted in art, music, Vinyl on March 4th, 2024
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Toyota Corona
3 LPs

was made during – and is the result of – confinement
it is a film without images, it is a home-made film,
and my home is Berlin,
it is the soundtrack of a period
during which some activities were stopped and in the silence left behind,
have given way to other sounds, other machines,
animals too,
many animals..
and then events, news,
in short a generalized feverishness.
And as it is written somewhere on the sleeve :
no story
no movie
no
credits
released May 30, 2023

master by rashad Becker
lacquer-mastercut by andreas (LUPO) Lubich
featurings: claudius, dorit Chrysler, thomas Jocher
label: Loud Loud

  1. intro/nitropeu 00:54
  2. restructured / part 1 01:28
  3. restructured / part 2 (he wants, she doesn’t) 02:04
  4. interlude – Martinville 1860 03:14
  5. une taille 40 une taille 41 c’est moderne 02:12
  6. snake Plissken 04:05
  7. A4 02:39
  8. underground nostalgia 05:45
  9. does music imitate or speak to wolves? 03:37
  10. [— _ _ [birds]] 02:48
  11. skipping billie 03:12
  12. exhale exhale 01:27
  13. polyuréthane 02 13:09
  14. polyuréthane 03 10:22
  15. the comet Rosetta is speaking loud and clear to some frogs in India 05:50
  16. A3 is twice a A4 05:18
  17. Indiana Creek was full of indians 05:25
  18. [— [birds]] 05:08
  19. plane and drone [master and slave] 02:57

Author: Franck David

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Screening Exercises – Quaderni (I-IV)

Posted in Cinema, film, research on March 3rd, 2024
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“Screening Exercises” is a cycle of screenings, meetings and seminars that looks at film projection as the focus of the research of some contemporary artists and as its specific and structural element, revealing the performative aspect of cinema. The first edition happened in Venice between October and December 2022.

“Screening Exercises – Quaderni (I-IV)” collects the proceedings of the meetings with the artists and essays on theoretical insights. The protagonists of the first four exercises are the artists Helga Fanderl, Sílvia Das Fadas, Jan Kulka and the scholar Rinaldo Censi.

“Screening Exercises” and their “Quaderni” are curated by Flavia Mazzarino and Filippo Perfetti.

“Screening Exercises” è un ciclo di proiezioni, incontri e seminari che guarda alla proiezione cinematografica come fulcro della ricerca di alcuni artisti contemporanei e come suo elemento specifico e strutturale, mostrando l’aspetto performativo del cinema. La prima edizione si è svolta a Venezia tra ottobre e dicembre 2022.

“Screening Exercises – Quaderni (I-IV)” raccoglie gli atti degli incontri con gli artisti e saggi di approfondimento teorico. I protagonisti dei primi quattro esercizi sono gli artisti Helga Fanderl, Sílvia Das Fadas, Jan Kulka e il ricercatore Rinaldo Censi.

“Screening Exercises” e i relativi “Quaderni” sono curati da Flavia Mazzarino e Filippo Perfetti.

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