Before you were forever
Mika Hayashi Ebbesen, Marianne Heier (Eds.)
Motto Books

Contributions by Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Mika Hayashi Ebbesen, Marianne Heier, Mercedes Mühleisen, and Maxi Wallenhorst

A discreet, yet unapologetic, feminist reading of the past and present with a particular focus on deconstructing inherited notions of identity and gender. It seeks to examine the impact these have had on contemporary relational modalities in order to find new capacities to dissect the resulting interpersonal dynamics. There is a wish to pause automatisms that suffocate the mind.

« From the dusty shafts of an ancient quarry to the transgressive reattunement in metramorphosis, this book is a revolt against false separation. Mika says: Will you stick around long enough for us to hum together? Marianne says: Like a gasp in slow motion. Swoosh. Falling into modernity. Maxi says: You stand for how I, crucially, do not even know who I am talking to. Mercedes says: An endless string of mouths has shaped the story again and again. Wash off those goosebumps and listen. Bracha says: The artist in the matrixial dimension is wit(h)ness in com-passionate hospitality. »

2024
Edition of 500
Edited by Mika Hayashi Ebbesen and Marianne Heier
Graphic design by Rafaela Dražić
Printed in Italy by Musumeci S.p.A.
English, Norwegian
Pages: 152
Size: 16 x 12 cm
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9782940672493
20€

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André Vida (live performance) @ Motto Berlin Saturday 22 June

At 6pm and 8pm

Plus drinks and snacks

vidatone.com

BIG ARCHIVE SALE

SATURDAY 22 JUNE12-8pm

Revisiting a 15 years old storage and displaying items sll day long, with discounts from 50 to 90% off.
(Items are added all day long, no need to show up too early)

Selected titles are also discounted on our website when you type ‘discount’ in the search on our online shop.

Listening session with Anne Gillis
Thursday 9 may, from 6-8pm

Anne Gillis
Aha (1984)
La scie dorée (repress 2024)

“For more than 40 years, Anne Gillis has discreetly unfolded her proper singular universe without any compromise. She playfully moves with determined restrictions, excavating contrasting forces; sensual and visceral, mechanical and organical, black and white. She extends this personal expression in her visuals using self-portrait photos, handwritten text and her theatrical performances are equally aligned. Her music can be considered as musique concrète using the tape machine as compositional tool, manipulating her recorded sources, mainly consisting of extended voice and different (instrumental) sounds with addition of electronics and treatments. In both her photography and her music, Anne Gillis works fully analog.”

In collaboration with NEITHER

The work of Lee Lozano (1930-1999) is one of the best-kept secrets in today’s contemporary art world. She was a woman artist who established herself and her work in New York in the 1960s in a world dominated by men and then decided to give it all up in the early 1970s and moved to Dallas. Lozano’s work, even in the short period she was active in New York, encompassed, and in many ways mastered, a wide range of styles from text works to abstract paintings, drawings to everyday activities declared art. She knew and collaborated with some of the most famous names of minimalism and conceptualism, but she always held herself a little apart. She fought for her own idealisms, matched it with her disillusionment and questioned feminism even as she made drawings of the absurdities of a patriarchal world where tools, machines, weapons and money dominate the imagination. Her later Language Pieces can now be understood as some of the most radical expressions of the conceptual movement at that time.

This publication assembles images from her work and archives to gether with a series of texts that outline her development as an artist from the 1950s and focus on particular activities or reminiscences. There is also the partial transcript of a unique recording of a lecture Lee Lozano gave at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1971 shortly before she left the art world.

In total, this book sheds light on a fascinating individual artist and also adds another point of view to the rich, complex story of the NewYork art scene in the 1960s and its continued resonance in our culture today.

Author: Adam Szymczyk (Ed.)

Publisher: Schawbe AG / Kunsthalle Basel

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Thank you:

Team Glassbox
Amelie Lucas-Gary
Mathilde Belouali-Dejean
Maximilien Pellet
Mylene Audibert-Lebon

Louis Gary, 2020

Signed by the artist

Author: Louis Gary

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Joëlle Tuerlinckx: A Stretch Museum Scale 1:1 – Invitation / Uitnodiging / Invitation to a stretched walk 1:1 in a compact museum. Une promenade à échelle 1:1 dans une arhitecture de Aldo Rossi

Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2001)

Author: Joëlle Tuerlinckx

Publisher: Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht

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Max Neuhaus began his career as a musician, a percus-sionist. He continues to use sound as his medium. Why. then, do we find his works in the world of art, in places dedicated to seeing, not to listening? Why, in other words, does so much of his work appear on sites, indoors and out, where we would expect to find painting and sculpture? I think answers to these general questions about Neuhaus entire oeuvre must precede the attempt to say anything in particular about specific pieces. We must account for what appears to be an immense, overarching anomaly before taking up the puzzles presented in turn by each of Neuhaus various works.

Autor: Max Neuhaus

Publisher: Kunsthalle Basel

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Dehors
par Amélie Lucas-Gary
Nus Fleurs Fleuristes
Nus Fleurs Fleuristes II
NFF III
Voyage au Pouliguen
Grasse en Avril
Les Anciennes Auberges de Jeunesse
Nu aux Pavillons-sous-Bois

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Rodina debut edition of its self-published zine, in direct response to censorship concerns in Russia. Consisting of a selection of contemporary literary works, Rodina delves into the complex backdrop of war and Russian censorship, all while exploring the ethical quandaries of our present reality. This inaugural release comprises a compilation of 12 engaging, heartfelt, and thought-provoking fictional texts.

Authors:

Leonid Kaganov
Kristian Gorski
Siniaya Krysa (Blue Rat)
Anton Botev
Regina
Marina Ivkina
Denis Esakov
Natasha Podlyzhnyak
Grigory Komlev
Inga Shepeleva
Olya Nikiforova
Ara Chalym

Language: Russian / Русский

Price: €20.00

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