GASTRONOMICA, The Journal of Food and Culture. Summer 2011 vol.11 #2

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Gastronomica, The Journal of Food and Culture, Summer 2011 vol.11 #2

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Expect Anything Fear Nothing – The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere. Edited by Mikkel Bolt & Jakob Jakobsen. Published by Nebula.

Posted in history, Motto Berlin store, politics, Uncategorized, writing on May 23rd, 2011
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Expect Anything Fear Nothing, The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere, Mikkel Bolt & Jakob Jakobsen

This volume is the first English-language presentation of the Scandinavian Situationists and their role in the Situationist movement. The Situationist movement was an international movement of artists, writers and thinkers that in the 1950s and 1960s tried to revolutionize the world through rejecting bourgeois art and critiquing the post-World War Two capitalist consumer society.

The book contains articles, conversations and statements by former members of the Situationists’ organisations as well as contemporary artists, activists, scholars and writers. While previous publications about the Situationist movement almost exclusively have focused on the contribution of the French section and in particular on the role of the Guy Debord this book aims to shed light on the activities of the Situationists active in places like Denmark, Sweden and Holland. The themes and stories chronicled include: The anarchist undertakings of the Drakabygget movement led by the rebel artists Jørgen Nash, Hardy Strid and Jens Jørgen Thorsen, the exhibition by the Situationist International “Destruction of RSG-6” in 1963 in Odense organised by the painter J.V. Martin in collaboration with Guy Debord, the journal The Situationist Times edited by Jacqueline de Jong, Asger Jorn’s political critique of natural science and the films of the Drakabygget movement.

Contributors: Peter Laugesen, Carl Nørrested, Fabian Tompsett, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Jacqueline de Jong, Gordon Fazakerley, Hardy Strid, Karen Kurczynski, Stewart Home, Jakob Jakobsen.

The book was published in association with Autonomedia, New York.
288 pages + inserts
2011

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Frog #10

Posted in Exhibitions, Motto Berlin store, Uncategorized, writing on May 10th, 2011
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Frog Numero 10, été 2011

25 exhibitions reviews, 3 interviews, a dozen exhibitions in pictures, some artists special projects, and the chronicles.

This issue Featuring: Pierre Huyghe, Didier Marcel, Guy Debord, son art et son temps, Benoît-Marie Moriceau, Les psychonautes, Elmgreen & Dragset, John McCracken, Jean Veilhan, 8th Qwangju Biennale, Oscar Niemeyer, Allan McCollum, Olaf Nicolai, Herzog & de Meuron, Karen Kilimnik, Paul Winstanley, Sgrafo vs Fat Lava, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Marina Faust…

Edited by Eric Troncy and Stéphanie Moisdon, Frog is an international art and architecture magazine.
Graphic design: M/M (Paris).
Text only in French

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Davide Cascio – E.N. , Spector Books

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, Motto Berlin store, photography, Uncategorized, writing on May 6th, 2011
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Davide Cascio – E.N. , Spector Books

The idea for this catalogue came about in the spring of 2008 when Davide Cascio began planning a series of exhibitions to be held that fall at four locations: the art space FormContent in London, the gallery Agenzia04 in Bologna, The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in Riga, and at the Kunsthalle Basel. Each of the exhibitions came together by means of a unique process, presented a different perspective and originated from the same idea: to examine the ambivalence of esprit nouveau thinking within the different contexts of the individual institutions. The series of exhibitions serve as the backdrop for this catalogue. This book — a collection of texts and images brought together and discussed as the exhibitions were being prepared and after they concluded — is intended as a system of footnotes to the works by Davide Cascio.

Published by Spector Books
128 pages, English
Design: Pascal Storz
Edited by Egija Inzule
Leipzig 2011

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Renato Giusseppe Bertelli – ‘Profilo Continuo’ (Testa di Mussolini), 1933. Grotto publicatons

Posted in Motto Berlin store, sculpture, Uncategorized on May 5th, 2011
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‘Profilo Continuo’ (Testa di Mussolini), 1933

publication released by Grotto publications on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Looking for the border’
production: BKSM
Fernand Baudin Nomination 2008
17 x 24 cm, 150 copies, 80 p.

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OE Magazine #1, The All Together Now Issue

Posted in Fashion, magazines, Motto Berlin store, photography, Uncategorized on May 5th, 2011
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OE Magazine #1, The All Together Now Issue

OE Magazine acts as a platform for Berlin’s vivid fashion scene. In this first issue it reflects what is going on by focusing on pure images. Our contributors have total freedom to realize their ideas, they are not restrained by any editorial guidelines whatsoever.

Art Direction and Concept: MAVEN, Lisa Borges & Lucie Schibel
Fashion Director: Rainer Metz

Contributors OE #1:
Lars Borges, Amos Fricke, Jochen Arndt, Christoph Schemel, Andreas Lux, Clément Martz, Dirk Merten, Rachel de Joode, Rainer Metz, Christian Stemmler, Brenda Barr, Antje Gohlke, Christof Post, Åsa Lundström, Maven, Julia Zigerli, Henriette Höft, Alexander Soltermann, Manuella Kopp, Ina Cierniak, Miriam Jochims, Ajoh Chol

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Shifter17: Re___ing

Posted in illustration, magazines, Uncategorized, writing on April 30th, 2011

Shifter17: Re___ing

Re___ing, exists both within Rethinking Marxism’s upcoming issue (Vol. 23 No. 2) as well as a new issue of Shifter. This folding of one identity into another, a re within a Re and the resultant destabilization of both frames of reference, is precisely the nature of Re___ing.

Here, contributors engage a variety of gestures tied to reproducing by deploying palimpsestic archives culled from historical documents, proposing morphological relations as historic fact and ultimately forcing procedures of mimicry, translation and interpretation to their limit. This limit or threshold in many instances is defined here through the body and its traces, actions, delusions and dreams which may often remain utterly irreproducible.

Editors: Sreshta Rit Premnath, Matthew Metzger

Contributors: Thom Donovan, Tamar Guimarães, Patricia Esquivias, Susan Jahoda, Erik Wenzel, Patrizio Di Massimo, Alicja Kwade, Adrian Williams, Mike Schuh, Lisa Zaher, Zachary Cahill, Arnold Kemp, Jean Marc Superville Sovak, Corinna Kirsch

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Piktogram #15

Posted in magazines, photography, Uncategorized, writing on April 29th, 2011

Piktogram #15

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Dondoro, Estelle Hanania

Posted in Japan, Motto Berlin store, photography, Uncategorized, Zines on April 6th, 2011




Dondoro is a photographic work born from the collaboration between Estelle Hanania and the famous Japanese puppet master Hoichi Okamoto.
Enigmatic creator who lived alone in the Japanese countryside near Nagano, he created hundreds of puppets for his own performances. He archived all his puppets since the late 1970s. When Hoichi Okamoto used to slip behind one of its human-sized puppets to animate it, a confused game began between the master, the puppet and the photographer.
As usual with Estelle Hanania’s work, Dondoro leads the spectator in a world where human figures constantly appear and disappear, in the magical world of a magical storyteller.

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German Parliaments. Linda Pollack. Edition Solitude

Posted in Motto Berlin store, Motto Vancouver store, Motto Zürich store, photography, Uncategorized on March 31st, 2011
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German Parliaments. Linda Pollack
Edition Solitude, 1997.
(2 books)

D 10€