Über Peter Friedl. Dirk Snauwaert (Ed.). WIELS / Motto Books.

Vielgestaltig, heterogen und schwer zu fassen erscheint das künstlerische Werk von Peter Friedl (geb. 1960), einem der wichtigsten Künstler seiner Generation. Als konzeptuelle Akte und ästhetische Modelle sind seine Arbeiten beschrieben worden, die sich aus dem Fundus unterschiedlicher Formen, Genres und Denkfiguren bedienen. Wie kaum ein anderer Gegenwartskünstler lädt er dazu ein, den darin verborgenen und wirksamen Bezügen aus der Ideen- und Kulturgeschichte sowie ihren globalen Gegengeschichten, offenen Enden und Anschlüssen nachzuspüren. Die zehn hier erstmals auf Deutsch versammelten Essays sind zwischen 2001 und 2012 entstanden, vier davon eigens für diesen Reader. In ihren interdisziplinären Deutungen verorten die Autorinnen und Autoren Friedls Arbeit in der Kunst- und Mediengeschichte, in Literaturwissenschaft, politischer Theorie, Philosophie und kuratorischer Praxis.

Mit Essays von:
Mieke Bal, Roger M. Buergel, Jean-François Chevrier, Norman M. Klein, Bartomeu Mari, Maria Muhle, Eva Schmidt, Marco Scotini, Dirk Snauwaert, Hilde Van Gelder, Leire Vergara

Language: German
ISBN: 9782940524044
Pages: 230

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Interpretation. Lili Reynaud Dewar. Paraguay Press, Kunsthalle Basel.

Texts by: DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN, ANTHONY ELMS, J. GRIFFITH ROLLEFSON, LILI REYNAUD DEWAR

Edited by: ADAM SZYMCZYK and BENJAMIN THOREL

French / English
128 Pages
ISBN: 978-2-918252-12-2

D 25€

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Somatic Archaeology. Daniel Blumberg. Boiled Egg.

Drawings April – May 2012
Biro and Crayon on Paper
Edition of 100

Price: 10€

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BLUES. Erik Steinbrecher. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

BLUES by Erik Steinbrecher is made of two booklets consisting of four identical loose pages, which are folded and assembled in different orders, resulting in new spreads.

It was published on the occasion of Steinbrecher’s exhibition UBER ALLES at Berlin’s Kunstbibliothek, a Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, which ran from 8. Novermber 2012 to 17. February 2013.

Size: 30 x 22 cm

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For Lal, or Henry. Sean Edwards. The Block.

Six booklets that fold out into posters.

Contents:

Cabinet Making and the Kit of Tools
On the Life of Forms – Anne McQuay
The Moments Before the Banal Became Something You Could No Longer Believe In
Context for Reading – Sara MacKillop
I Saw Something Else (CBS)
Maybe Something Like the Way It Should Have Been – Ryan Gander

Published in London 2012
Designed by Wolfram Wiedner studio

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Polysingularity Letters Vol. 3. Dmitry Paranyushkin.

This journal documents the most recent proceedings in the field of polysingularity. This term has originally been used mainly by Russian mathematicians to describe a special class of integral equations with multiple simultaneous solutions (Simonenko, 1965; Boikov, 2000; Gabdulkhaev, 2005).

Integral equations, to put it simply, are used to discover the processes (or causes, rules, and motives) that underlie a certain behavior that can be observed. They are the reverse of differential equations (dx/dt so much loved by Deleuze) that are used to discover how a certain already known process behaves over time. Polysingularity is the condition where several distinct sets of interacting processes may lead to the same behavior or phenomena. That’s why we refer to it as a study of co-isolated multiplicities that nevertheless retain their singularity. In other words, we don’t look at a phenomenon trying to understand how it works. Instead, we look at and study all the different contexts that are creating the conditions for the phenomenon to emerge. It’s not about why you love, but what else happens while you love. It ‘s not about finding the structure, it’s about complete and total engagement with each singularity not losing the multiplicity out of sight.

Such approach allows us to go one step beyond the contingency and equalized distancing that any speculative post-practice necessarily produces for the sake of its own safety. Instead, we jump into the abyss of the unknown and indefinable with the renewed fervor even if we know that at the very end we might fall down (although in this case we hope to bounce back sideways up). Hence the journal format, I guess. The barcode is just there to help computers catalogue, categorize, and distribute the knowledge, which in the end is going to alter their binary rationale in ways that are not yet predictable, but that are several.

English Language
Produced by Nodus Labs

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Ann Lislegaard’s monographic publication Spiral Book, contains a unique overview of her research and artistic work, as well as key influential texts.

Spiral Book is a survey of Lislegaard’s work. It is an inventory or special kind of catalogue raisonne, one that doesn’t look back but comes to life by mixing images and scrambling origins, and allows for influences to echo across the pages. It is as if the method of prevention suggested by the title hasn’t prevented the various sources that meet in the book to get into bed with one another and engender unexpected new liaisons and vistas into culture at large. Spiral Book is a text machine that breeds hybrids and bastards.

Ann Lislegaard was born in Norway 1962, she currently lives and works in Copenhagen and New York. Lislegaard represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale and the Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg in 2005, The Sao Paolo Biennale 2006, Busan Biennale 2010, Sharjah Biennale, 2003, Biennal of Moving Images, Geneva 2001, The Istanbul Biennale 1997. She will participate in the Lyon Biennale and The Montreal Biennale 2013. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Murray Guy Gallery New York, Paul Andriesse Gallery, Amsterdam, Museum Of Contemporary Art Detroit, The Henry Gallery Seattle, Marabouparken Kunsthall Stockholm, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Statens Museum for Kunst, Moderna Museet Project. Group exhibitions include Museum Of Contemporary Art San Diego, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, Museum Of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, MOMA Oxford, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Ann Lislegaard is the professor of the School of New Media at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (2004-2013).

The publication is made with support from the Danish Arts Council.

Pages: 290
Language: English
ISBN: 978-87-995287-0-7

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Publishing as (part-time) Practice
Copenhagen

Wednesday February 20. 17.00 – 20.00 pm.
Admission Free

“Publishing as (part-time) Practice” highlight graphic designers
who are also publishers, and pursue a discussion of the designer’s
changing professional role as both author and publisher.
It started as a one-day seminar in Stockholm, May 2012, initiated
and organized by designers / small-scale publishers Matilda Plöjel
(Sailor Press) and Mattias Jakobsson & Peter Ström (Konst & Teknik
/ Andperseand) and Iaspis.

At Motto Charlottenborg there will be an exhibition of a fine
collection of books from Danish and Swedish small scalepublishers,
the Swedish ones previously shown in Sweden and at the
New York Art Book Fair 2012.

Louise Sidenius (Internationalistisk Ideale, Monade), Matilda
Plöjel, Mattias Jakobsson & Peter Ström will talk about smallscale
publishing initiatives, as well as similarities between the
Danish and Swedish independent publishing scenes.

www.publishingasparttimepractice.se

Based on Swiss psychiatrist Moritz Tramer’s “Bücherkatalogtest” from the 1950s, this personality test “tries to evoke different interests that lie buried deep down in each of us” using 432 book titles as a method of examination. An comprehensive user’s manual is included. — This book was published as an edition for the Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference during the New York Art Book Fair 2012, in order to help keep their two-day symposium free to the public.

Author: Triin Tamm
Publisher: Rollo Press
Language: English
Pages: 144
Size: 21 × 29.7 cm

Price: €22.00
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In 2009 + 2010 Californian artist David Horvitz drove up the entire California coast with various friends. The trip started at the beach just north of the Mexican American border and ended in Oregon at Pelican State Beach. Along the way Horvitz made photographs of over 50 different state beaches. In each photograph he stood anonymously on the sand looking out at the ocean, reminiscent of Bas Jan Ader or Caspar David Friedrich. The photographs were then uploaded to each of the specific beach’s Wikipedia page to illustrate the articles. An example is Borderfield State Park. His intention was for these images to become the visual meta data for the specific beaches, and for the images to openly circulate as they are sourced and resourced online. At one point a discussion emerged on Wikipedia discussing the legitimacy of his photographs. This resulted with many of the photographs being deleted. This is the second book of the Public Access project. It contains photographs, scans of Wikipedia articles, and the complete conversation from Wikipedia discussing Horvitz’s image. It also contains various texts written by Horvitz about the project, as well as personal stories about the California coast. This project was originally commissioned by SF Camerawork for an exhibition with the writer Ed Steck (a close friend of Horvitz). A new version Steck’s text concludes the publication. This was designed by Miya Osaki. Read more about Public Access on Rhizome.

D 22€
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