KOKIN (…) SLENDRO. Julien Grossmann

Six minimalist electro-acoustic songs based on six different musical scales:
Rumanikos, Kokin, Myxolidian, Kourd Atar Todi, Pigmy and Slendro.

These also constitute the soundtrack for an installation by Julien Grossmann, where they each are played from a different turntable, while intricately modelled islands revolve in cycle, placed at the middle of the corresponding records.

With a text by James Beckett and a sleeve designed by Boy Vereecken.

http://juliengrossmann.com/

D 25€

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The Final Truth of Burnaby and other unsolved miracles of natural deception. Donwood Bricks & Max Stocklosa.

This book contains a collection of completed and ongoing investigations and the relevant detritus of those investigations. Its contents has been compiled over a period of five years by Donwood Bricks and Max Stocklosa with the help of Members of Strong Interest, Aerial Arrows Association and Man made Fields and Finds Co-op. The collected materials are anecdotal facts and fiction and take the forms of fragmental research and sources. The application of rule of thumb methods and the execution of experimental nettings of information examine the collected material and the displacement of its locations . The publication is intended to work as a source book containing microlinks, finds and also a paradigm of an archeological tool, which processes the disposed narratives that emanate from millions of machines every day.

Published by AKV Berlin Publishing Production
English texts
Softcover
32 x 24 cm
104 pages
Sewn-bound
Offset print

D 30 €

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Never Odd Or Even, volume II. Mariana Castillo Deball.

An anthology of 30 dust jackets of non-existing books. A compilation of 30 titles in one single publication! Join us in this literary journey throughout different topics and subject matters ranging from: unpublished memories, tropical manifestations, intragenealogy, Why the letter E is everywhere?, the taste of truth, the aroma of existence, contemporary ruins, conversations between a cardinal and a roadrunner bird, and more!

Never odd or Even is a project by Mariana Castillo Deball with contributions by Mario Bellatin, Koen Brams, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Santiago da Silva, Tim Etchells, Carla Faesler, Dario Gamboni, Dora García, Moosje Goosen, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Pascale Montandon, Irene Kopelman, Adriana Lara, Pablo León de la Barra, Jesse Lerner, Juana Lomeli, Valeria Luiselli, Raimundas Malašauskas, Antoni Muntadas, Sophie Nys, Manuel Raeder, Eran Schaerf and Eva Meyer, Sergio Taborda and Heriberto Yépez

Published on the occasion of the exhibition
Never Odd or Even at Grimmuseum, Berlin
and Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde
curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen and
co-produced by Grimmuseum, Berlin

Published by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Size varies, max. 170 × 240 mm
30 Covers, 24 b/w, 6 color
English/Spanish/Portuguese/French
ISBN 978-3-00-035970-5

D 24€

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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€

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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€

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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€

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Everybody’s Card. Martine Derks & Xavier Fernandez

http://www.martinederks.com/
http://xavierfernandez.info/

Published by Centerfold 2011
ISBN 9789081758406
D 21€

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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€

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