Martha Rosler, screening and talk with Martin Jaeggi
Wednesday 12th October 2011, 6 pm at Vortragssaal, ZHdK, Ausstellungsstrasse 69, 8031 Zurich.
Rischi Minori. Giulia Piscitelli.
The catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition by Giulia Piscitelli Rischi Minori, January 25 – April 2, 2011 at Fondazione Giuliani per l’arte contemporanea. The catalogue includes a special project by Giulia Piscitelli and two critical texts by Stefano Chiodi and Salvatore Lacagnina. This is the first monograph dedicated to Giulia Piscitelli.
Published by Nero
Language: English / Italian
Designer: Francesco de Figueiredo
Photographer: Gilda Aloisi
19 x 27 cm
339 g
ISBN: 978-88-97503-01-9
D 20€
Street Talk: Amsterdam. Stephen Willats.
“Two people together is the basic unit for expressing society, and the complexity of expressions between two people is mirrored in the wider formal and informal networks of culture. The act of walking together, side by side, is fundamental to acts of sociability; it introduces fluidity and transience in the coding of language in a relationship when perceived by an external observer. (…)”
Stephen Willats
Sewn by hand with orange and blue thread,
Includes fold-out map
Supported by Cassochrome
Size 15 x 22cm
32 p
Soft cover
Full colour throughout
ISBN 978-0-9562605-8-1
D 12€
All I Remember. Elisabetta Benassi.
Conceived as an artist’s book as well as a work of art, All I remember, is a collection of 477
backs of photos retrieved from the archives of the most important daily newspapers in the
world, collected and photographed by the artist over the last three years. Elisabetta Benassi
has selected the most significant photos of the 20th century in a backwards route through
personal and collective memories. Each page of the book corresponds to a single photo back
characterized by a data sheet with the dates, the photographers’ names and an objective
description of that which is represented in the image, as is usually done in image filing
systems. The result is an original history of our past, made of written images, of memorable
moments of the history of the 20th century.
Published by Nero 2011
484 p.
165×215 cm
Edition of 1’000
Language: Ita /Eng
ISBN 978-88-97503-00-2
D 50€
Everybody’s Card. Martine Derks & Xavier Fernandez
http://www.martinederks.com/
http://xavierfernandez.info/
Published by Centerfold 2011
ISBN 9789081758406
D 21€
Last days of Motto’s Temporary Shop in Helsinki
open on:
Saturday 17
11 – 8 pm
& Sunday 18
11 – 4 pm
Address:
Museum of Finnish Architecture’s villa in Kaivopuisto
Puistokatu 4, Helsinki
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COMING UP!
MNF Reading Circle II: The Climate of Public Space
Saturday 17, September
12 – 3 pm
Join us in reading aloud texts from the Museum of the Near Future book collection, including a preview from a forthcoming title, and discussing public space today and tomorrow.
How can we define public space today? More precisely, what does it mean in Helsinki, a city of long winters and respectively cold and dark agoras? While the privatisation of public space – as illustrated by the rise of warm and brightly illuminated malls – is not only a local phenomenon, Helsinki faces a challenge to invent new models of spaces for year-round free assembly in its expanding urban core, taking over former harbour and industrial areas by the sea. Will the future of our public space be enclosed, or perhaps virtual?
Drawing from philosopher Boris Groys’ ideas about weather as a defining element in the collective sensibility of a city, The Climate of Public Space reading circle explores different ways of leading a public life inside. Based on the forthcoming ‘Solution Finland: The Welfare Game’ book (Sternberg Press, 2011), the event includes a presentation by its editor, architect Martti Kalliala, together with one of the co-writers Jenna Sutela (OK Do), leading into a reading and discussion about the weather, city and media, joined by Toronto-based curator Cheyanne Turions.
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Previously at MNF: Reading Circle I: City of Matters of Concern
The City of Matters of Concern reading circle explored how to make our concerns and interests manifest in Helsinki, mixing the private with the public and the individual with the collective.
OK Do drew from (or bastardized) sociologist Bruno Latour’s notion of ‘matters of concern’ in mapping out what it means to care for a city. Hosted by OK Do together with Toronto-based curator Cheyanne Turions, the readings included extracts from ‘OK Talk Helsinki/London’ book (2011).
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Museum of the Near Future is created by OK Do, the creative practice of designers, writers and curators Anni Puolakka and Jenna Sutela, and carried out in collaboration with organisations and individuals of different stripes. The project team for MNF I includes designer and curator Anna Mikkola, bookshop representative Matilda Tjäder (Motto), curator Cheyanne Turions and designer Tommi Vasko.
Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure)
Ioana Nemes
Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure) is an artistic project by late Romanian artist Ioana Nemes (1979-2011). The sculptures from the series can be a seen as a memorial for a particular day in the life of the artist, a project she led as a scientific experiment: “What this project creates is a Polaroid of time consumed in a standartised amount of time.” Systematically and precise the data describes the seemingly unimportant details of daily life and thus becomes – after the tragic death of the artist – powerful monuments of life.
Including the interview “I’m telling you stories, trust me” with Ioana Nemes by Stuart Aarsman and a introductory text by Romanian curator Alina Serban.
Published by Jiri Svestka Gallery 2009 in conjunction with the exhibition: Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure) at Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague (March 21 – April 5, 2008)
Graphic design: Anja Lutz / Book Design
Introduction text: Alina Serban
D 15€
Contemporary Brazilian Politics
Notes on political corruption are published in the press on a daily basis.
The annual cost of corruption in Brazil is estimated to amount to roughly USD 5 billion.
This publication shows a collection of excerpts from the press, gathered over the past few years.
Be prepared to be amazed…
All net proceeds will be donated to a project helping to provide a better future for kids in the poorest neighborhoods of Natal, Brazil, which is my wife´s hometown.
We are currently visiting and selecting these projects.
Guaranteed 0% money deviation.
Trying to make a difference.
-Erik van der Weijde
Contemporary Brazilian Politics
Erik van der Weijde
Published by 4478zine
Vol. I, 2011
20 pages
13×20 cm
offset printed in Brazil
€ 5,99
Museum of the Near Future (MNF) is an apparatus for looking sideways at institutions, cities, time and space. In an attempt to challenge perceptions of what is possible, and desirable, between now and next, MNF produces places for imagination and discussion in site-specific, functional installations. They are set up in interaction with museum and other institutional contexts and contents, asking questions for and with their hosts.
The first MNF project manifests in a thematic book society and -shop, taking over the old space of Museum of Finnish Architecture in Kaivopuisto, Helsinki, as part of the museum’s attempts to revitalise it. It explores micro-political participation in a city undergoing grand urban projects, such as its rapid expansion to central harbour and industrial areas or the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 nomination. Using literature and related activities – like reading circles and performative publishing – as tools, MNF I experiments with the convergence of personal and public space, asking how value-based concerns of individuals could be turned into productive ways of living in Helsinki.
Museum of the Near Future is created by OK Do, the creative practice of designers, writers and curators Anni Puolakka and Jenna Sutela, and carried out in collaboration with organisations and individuals of different stripes. The project team for MNF I includes designer and curator Anna Mikkola, bookshop representative Matilda Tjäder (Motto), curator Cheyanne Turions and designer Tommi Vasko.
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Museum of the Near Future bookshop
9–18 September, 2011
Address:
Museum of Finnish Architecture’s villa in Kaivopuisto
Puistokatu 4, Helsinki
Open:
Tue, Thu, Fri 10–16
Wed 10–20
Sat, Sun 11–16
(Mon closed)
Programme:
Fri 9.9. Museum of the Near Future bookshop opens at 10 am
Sun 11.9. Museum of the Near Future morning party, including the Helsinki launch of OK Do’s OK Talk Helsinki/London book 9 am–noon (RSVP at hello@ok-do.eu)
Sun 11.9. Walk talk in Hernesaari, a Helsinki harbour area in development. Participants will be picked up by a water bus to Hernesaari at the Sea Harbour of Kaivopuisto (address: Merisatamanranta 10) at 1.30 pm and brought back by 4 pm (tickets 5 e, bookings at hello@ok-do.eu)
Tue 13.9. Reading circle I 6 pm–9 pm (free entrance, RSVP at helhello@ok-do.eu)
Fri 16.9. OK Do curates a film screening at Museum of Finnish Architecture’s backyard, Kasarmikatu 24, Helsinki 7 pm–9 pm (free entrance, to be announced at www.mfa.fi)
Sat 17.9. Reading circle II 12 am–3 pm (free entrance, RSVP at hello@ok-do.eu)
Sun 18.9. The bookshop closes at 4 pm
Coffee will be served by Café Aaltopelti!
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More information:
hello@ok-do.eu / +358 50 527 3123
Travelling Across the USA / Reise durch die USA by Paul Gerhard Diez
The photo book “Travelling Across the USA” shows photographs by passionate amateur photographer and then student of theology Paul Gerhard Diez which he took during a journey across the USA in 1954. The photographer wrote a short comment on each picture. “Travelling Across the USA” is published by Books & Booklets in a German and an English edition, with an accompanying essay by journalist Georg Diez, the photographer’s son.
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Das Fotobuch “Reise durch die USA” zeigt Bilder des Hobbyfotografen und damaligen Theologiestudenten Paul Gerhard Diez, die dieser während einer Reise quer durch die USA im Jahre 1954 aufgenommen hat. Die Bilder wurden vom Fotografen jeweils mit kurzen Kommentaren versehen. Entstanden ist ein Zeitdokument und ein besonderes Reisetagebuch zugleich. “Reise durch die USA” ist in einer deutsch- und einer englischsprachigen Version erschienen, mit einem begleitenden Essay des Journalisten Georg Diez, dem Sohn des Fotografen. Herausgegeben von Bücher & Hefte.
16.9 x 12 cm
176 pages
D 25€
English Edition
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German Edition
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