Künstlerhaus Stuttgart 1-30.10.2010
Opening on Thursday, September 30, 2010, 7pm

In the Middle of Affairs
Aesthetics of Distribution

Nairy Baghramian, Ulises Carrión, Nicolas Ceccaldi, IFP, Nina Könnemann, John Knight, Silvia Kolbowski, Louise Lawler, Hans-Christian Lotz, Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Bonny Poon, PROVENCE, Readymades Belong to Everyone/Philippe Thomas, Udio

Curated by Egija Inzule, Tobias Kaspar and Axel J. Wieder
Reader and showcases in collaboration with Maja Wismer

The exhibition “In the Middle of Affairs” presents works, projects and documents, which share an interest in forms of distribution and alternative fields of activities for artistic practice, and investigates them as an inherent part of the production of meaning and value. The works in the exhibition consciously relate to the language of design and advertising, operate in commercial media and adopt or reflect its methods and techniques.

A series of works from the last 30 years, by artist Louise Lawler and the agency Readymades Belong to Everyone for example, are presented as historical points of reference, as well as a collection of archival material from the Paris-based collector Ghislain Mollet-Viéville. New works, partially produced specifically for the exhibition, continue and re-adjust the investigation about distribution and self-positioning.

“In the Middle of Affairs” is not only the title of the exhibition, but also describes its working method, in which one’s own involvement determines the viewing direction to enable a research in proximity of its subject. The exhibition, which has been developed together with the curator Egija Inzule and the artist Tobias Kaspar, combines different approaches and documents into a fragmentary “narrative” with changing perspective.

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Events during the exhibition:

Thursday, September 30:
8.30pm: Presentness is Grace, Performance by Udio

Friday, October 1:
5pm: (Goodbye to) Manhattan (2010, 110 min.), film presentation by Ken Okiishi
7pm: Displaying footnotes, presentation by Maja Wismer
8pm: Cocktails
9pm: Bruno & Michael are smiling and Skipperrr, concert

Sunday, Oktober 31:
7pm: Lilia Prado Superstar Film Festival, Ulises Carrión 1984

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14. September 2010, 20.00 Uhr
BUCHPRÄSENTATION
MAYA SCHWEIZER: DIE SELBE GESCHICHTE AN EINEM ANDEREN ORT

Maya Schweizer im Gespräch mit Katja Schroeder und Jan Wenzel

MOTTO Berlin Store
Skalitzer Straße 68, 10997 Berlin

Die Publikation »Maya Schweizer: Die selbe Geschichte an einem anderen Ort, weitererzählt, verstreut, fragmentiert, täglich, rückwärts und wieder von vorn« gibt einen ersten Überblick über die Arbeiten der in Frankreich aufgewachsenen und heute in Berlin lebenden Künstlerin.

Maya Schweizer arbeitet an neuen audiovisuellen Erzählweisen, an Formen der Bild-Text-Montage, die YouTube näher stehen als dem Kino. Ausgangspunkt sind häufig alltägliche Situationen, die sie mit gefundenen und erfundenen Texten kombiniert. »Ich denke, dass in kleinen, oft auch persönlichen Handlungen auf der Straße gesellschaftliche Zustände ablesbar sind. Ich versuche, die Erzählungen in ihrer Divergenz ernst zu nehmen und mit meinen Projektionen abzugleichen«, beschreibt Maya Schweizer ihren künstlerischen Ansatz.

Sechs ihrer Videoarbeiten werden in »Die selbe Geschichte an einem anderen Ort« ausführlich kommentiert: Madleine Bernstorff, Margit Czenki, Joerg Franzbecker, Nanna Heidenreich, Marcel Odenbach und Ulrich Peltzer erzählen von ihren Eindrücken und Assoziationen und machen durch ihre Reflexionen die Bewegtbilder der Videos im Medium Buch nachvollziehbar.

»Maya Schweizer: Die selbe Geschichte an einem anderen Ort« erscheint anlässlich ihrer Ausstellung » La même histoire ailleurs« im Westfälischen Kunstverein, die vom 4. September bis 24. Oktober 2010 in Münster gezeigt wird.

Maya Schweizer:
Die selbe Geschichte an einem anderen Ort, weitererzählt, verstreut, fragmentiert, täglich, rückwärts und wieder von vorn.
The Same Story Elsewhere, continued, spread, fragmented, daily, backwards and all over again.
128 Seiten, dt./engl.
Gestaltet von HIT Berlin/London
ISBN: 978-3-940064-97-4
22 Euro

Book (2010)
edited and designed by James Langdon
Published by Eastside Projects
165 x 240 mm, 216 pp., softcover
ISBN 978-1-906753-22-1
D 20 €

Works by:
Åbäke, Vito Acconci, Tauba Auerbach, Bedford Press, Ulises Carrión, Melissa Dubbin + Aaron S. Davidson, Daniel Eatock, Will Holder, Jeremy Jansen, Kelly Large, Fraser Muggeridge Studio, OK/RM, Simon Starling, Werkplaats Typografie

‘Book’, functions as a mobile extension to the exhibition, ‘Book Show’. Including a facsimile reprint of Ulises Carrión’s ‘The New Art of Making Books’ as it originally appeared in the journal Kontexts; an illustrated text by James Langdon and additional works, both existing and newly commissioned.

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€
Buy: orders@mottodistribution.com

Available for distribution.

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€
Buy : orders@mottodistribution.com
Available for distribution

Jan Kempenaers, SPOMENIK

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

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

D 19€
Buy: orders@mottodistribution.com

Available for distribution.