mono.klub #27: Design Talk
with mono.kultur, Bureau Mario Lombardo and NODE Berlin Oslo
Sunday, September 05, 2010 / 16h
Free Admission

The Design Talk will highlight different approaches to editorial design, featuring a short presentation of mono.kultur’s practice of flexible art direction by inviting different designers to guest-produce individual issues, and introductions to and by previous contributors Mario Lombardo (former art director for Spex, Liebling) and NODE Berlin Oslo (former art directors for 032c, Monopol).

Unter Dem Motto
3-5.09.2010
Motto/Chert
Skalitzerstr. 68
10997 Berlin

The Body Event: Language is a Flawed Medium
David Toop and John Latham
September 3 - 18, 2010

September 5, 8pm: “John Latham Films 1960 - 1971″, film presentation with an
introduction by Antony Hudek

Pro qm, Almstadtstr. 48-50, 10119 Berlin
Fri. / Sat. 11- 8 pm
Sunday 5.9 2-10 pm

In the context of “Unter dem Motto 2010″, Pro qm presents an exhibition and
event about the work of the British artist John Latham. “The Body Event:
Language is a Flawed Medium” is the third iteration of David Toop’s sound
work for computer and voice made with John Latham in 2004, two years before
the artist’s death. The sound work will be presented together with a
selection of documents and books.

On Sunday, September 5th, 8pm, a program of films by John Latham will be
screened and introduced by Antony Hudek (co-editor with Athanasios Velios of
“The Portable John Latham”). The films are part of a newly-issued DVD of
John Latham’s films co-published by LUX and Lisson Gallery, which
includes all the artist’s completed films as well as previously un-seen
performance documentations. The exhibition and event is co-organized with
Occasional Papers, London.

“The Body Event” was first presented at John Latham’s exhibition “God is
Great” at Lisson Gallery, London, in 2005. In 2009, the composition was
re-configured at Flat Time House, the artist’s former home in Peckham, South
London. Musician, writer and curator David Toop has followed John Latham’s
practice closely, from his first encounter with the artist’s work in 1968 to
becoming a member of Artist Placement Group in the 1970s and a privileged
interlocutor in Latham’s later years. Toop recently curated with Tony
Herrington an exhibition at Flat Time House entitled “Blow Up: Exploding
Sound and Noise (London to Brighton 1959-1969)”, and will be performing the
premiere of his score based on Latham’s theories, ”FLAT TIME/sounding”, at
Whitechapel Gallery, London, on 5 September 2010.

John Latham (1921-2006) was one of the most significant British artists of
the second half of the twentieth-century - a pioneer in the fields of
experimental film, painting, sculpture, and performance. Most importantly in
his own eyes was the concept of Event Structures and Flat Time Theory, which
he saw as revolutionizing not merely art but science, philosophy and
governance.

photo: Walia; courtesy ‘Contemporary British Artists’, Bergstrom+Boyle Books
London, 1979

Occasional Papers

Reponse Floue, Jeremie Egry. MRV-04.
Published by MORAVA
Edition of 100 copies.

“Réponse Floue”, prepared in full by Jérémie Egry, is a booklet with a few reproductions of his photographs. Jérémie is a young French artist who is active primarily in photography but also in objects and videos, often blurring the borderline between individual so-called areas. Together with his three friends (Aurélien Arbet, Nicolas Poillot and Marco Barrera) he runs a publishing house JSBJ (www.jesuisunebandedejeunes.com), which issues zins and art books.

D 8€
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Gagarin 21/2010

Entirely dedicated to the publication of original texts of artists who are now working, anywhere in the world.
Published by GagaVZW for S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art Ghent, Belgium

D 17€
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Jan Kempenaers, SPOMENIK

Roma Publications
64 pp, hardcover
33 x 24 cm
€ 28,00
(Book launch on 25.08 @ Perla-Mode. Zürich)

Under one umbrella, Silberkuppe (Dominic Eichler and Michel Ziegler).
Published by Sternberg Press.
English. 144 pages.

Texts by Silberkuppe, Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann, Kaucyila Brooke, Vivian Rehberg, Jennifer Higgie, MAP magazine, Martin Ebner, basso, a.o.

Contributions by Anonymous, Endre Aalrust, Nairy Baghramian, Phyllida Barlow, basso, Dirk Bell, Gerry Bibby, Juliette Blightman, Kaucyila Brooke, Sabeth Buchmann, Anders Clausen, Maria Cruz, Alice Creischer, Enrico David, Etienne Descloux PE-P, Martin Ebner, Isa Genzken, Julian Göthe, Adrian Hermanides and Andrew Verster, Jennifer Higgie, Janette Laverrière, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Ryan McLaughlin, Motherland, Ariane Müller, Christian Philipp Müller, Sarah McCrory, Sean McNanney, Shahryar Nashat, Henrik Olesen, Kirsten Pieroth, Josephine Pryde, Rebecca Quaytman, Mathilde Rosier, André Rottmann, Andreas Siekmann, Nicolas Siepen, Starship, Oliver Tepel, Till by Turning, Danh Vo and Dr. Joseph Carrier, Stephen Willats, Susanne M. Winterling

This book is the first overall presentation of Silberkuppe. Since it’s founding in May 2008, Silberkuppe has become one of Berlin’s most outstanding independent spaces for contemporary art. Dominic Eichler and Michel Ziegler run the space from a twenty-five square metre room in a former concierge‘s office. Over the last two years they have initiated around twenty projects including exhibitions, lectures, presentations, film screenings, concerts and performances, which together have involved more than fifty cultural producers with diverse interests and backgrounds, including contemporary artists, architects, actors, dancers, designers, musicians and writers. This catalogue comes as a result of the exhibition “Under One Umbrella” (2010) in Bergen Kunsthall, a project that was the culmination of a series of institutional group exhibitions in which Silberkuppe extended their practice out from their own micro-space. It takes the form of a “photographic report” documenting all of Silberkuppe’s main exhibitions and events, as well as presenting several essays related to the projects.

D 23€
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Toufican Ruins?, Gilbert Hage.
Published by Underexposed Books.
30 x 47 cm.

D 19€
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Eleven views of Mount Ararat, Gilbert Hage.
Published by Underexposed Books.
30 x 47 cm.

D 25€
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Katinka Bock: Works Oeuvres Werke - Words Mots Worte. by Sabeth Buchmann, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Kim West.
Paraguay Press.
Texts in English, German and French
May 2010. Edition of 1200
152 pages.

Beautifully designed by Guillaume Mojon (Zurich) this book is the first monograph dedicated to the German artist Katinka Bock. Following a series of solo exhibitions of Bock in France, Germany and Holland since 2007, three authors were invited to write for this book: the art critics and historians Sabeth Buchmann and Kim West, and the artist Natascha Sadr Haghighian. Their three essays offer a variety of writing styles and approaches of art criticism, between empiricism, theory and fiction. But all pursue, in their own way, the very subject of Bock’s work, which is that thinking is a social conduct, maybe the most consequential of social acts.

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I can’t see. Oscar Tuazon., Edited by Oscar Tuazon, with Thomas Boutoux, Pierre-François Letué and Dorothée Perret
Texts in English, German and French
Paraguay Press
2010. Edition of 2000
272 pages

Produced in the aftermath of the solo exhibitions recently organized at the Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière (France); the Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland) and the Parc Saint Léger – Centre d’art contemporain (France), I CAN’T SEE stands as the first comprehensive monograph on the work developed by American artist Oscar Tuazon since 2002. It was co-published with Do.Pe Press and features more than 250 pages of images of works and documents, a series of short texts authored by Ariana Reines, Matthew Stadler, Cedar Sigo, Karl Holmqvist, Thomas Boutoux, Carissa Rodriguez, Eileen Myles and David Lewis as well as a long interview with the artist done by Chiara Parisi, Sandra Patron and Philippe Pirotte, the curators of his recent shows.

D 28€
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