mono.kultur #33 – KIM GORDON: DISSONATINE.

“I hope that it still retains a certain wrongness.”

Kim Gordon, of course, created a legacy of musical innovation. Thriving on the playgrounds of noise music for more than three decades, her band Sonic Youth stoically pursued their own particularly dirty blend of noise-punk experimental rock music, building along the way not only a league of dedicated followers, but also miraculously achieving mainstream success without ever ceding ground to mediocrity. If anything, Sonic Youth became a household name for integrity and that specific kind of cool in a genre where cool is firmly attached to youth – which certainly had a lot to do with the detached charisma of Kim Gordon.

While Sonic Youth’s influence on past and current generations of experimental and punk music is undisputed, Kim Gordon’s role as a female figurehead in music and also in the visual arts might be a more complex one, based on the highly personal pursuit of her diverse interests without, unlike so many of today’s pop stars, any discernible strategy or intentional provocation. Instead, it seems to be Gordon’s unfailing belief in subculture and staying true to herself that over the years gave her a voice that would be heard clearly even within mainstream culture.

While, for personal reasons, the future of Sonic Youth remains uncertain, Kim Gordon shows no signs of standing still, returning to her beginnings as a fine artist and pursuing her fascination with noise, in sound and on canvas.

With mono.kultur, Kim Gordon talked about the vulnerability of male rock stars, the myths of New York and why fine art was her first love.

True to Kim Gordon’s DIY philosphy, the issue is somewhat of a treasure chest filled with new and old artwork by Kim Gordon, coming in a set of loose sheets and cards in varying sizes and printed on no less than five different paper stocks, all held together by the most basic commodity of all: the good old rubber band.

Spring 2013
Interview by Fiona McGovern
Artwork by Kim Gordon
Design by Willem Stratmann / Studio Anti

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Spike #35: Materializing the Unthinkable / Das Undenkbare materialisieren.

Portrait Ed Atkins
The perfect surfaces of the digital take on a deathly sheen in the videos of the British artist, creating a fertile ground for zombies.

Artist’s Favourites
By Darren Bader: Gustave Courbet, Sandro Botticelli, Roe Ethridge, John Finneran, Clarice Lispector

Talk
Rita Vitorelli interviews Nicolaus Schafhausen about his curatorial vision, the value of discourse and causing a stir.

Curator’s Key
Chris Fitzpatrick on Serial Protest Signs by Frank Chu

Galleries
The young Tokyo-based gallery Take Ninagawa discovers a new generation of artists comfortable with incongruity. By Nick Currie

Institution
Clémentine Deliss re-imagines the collection of the World Cultures Museum in Frankfurt through collaborations with artists. By Jan-Philipp Possmann

Portrait Heinrich Dunst
His experience in conceptual practice with roots in 80s Vienna, has made the Austrian artist well versed in art’s discursive powers, and their limitations. By Hans-Jürgen Hafner

Hans-Jürgen Hafner
Portrait Cosima von Bonin
Oliver Basciano considers the impact of varying professional expectations, poses and ploys in the practice of the Cologne based artist.

21st Century Theory
The nature of objects, the role of science and the problematics of aesthetics are being approached by a new generation of thinkers. Our ongoing series of 21st century thought opens with Quentin Meillassoux’s proposal for a philosophical materialism. With an introduction by Armen Avanessian.

The body understood as an object
Swedish performer/choreographer Mårten Spångberg shares his thoughts on space, rhythm, expectation and embodiment with Filipa Ramos.

Acid in the Style of Carolyn Christov-Barkagiev
Digital composer Florian Hecker releases his documenta 13 sound work »Chimerization« on vinyl. By Christian Egger

Seduction
By Pablo Larios, Signe Ross, Anna Jermolaewa, Slavs and Tatars, Joanna Kamm

Reviews
»Amazing! Clever! Linguistic! An Adventure in Conceptual Art«, Vienna; »Fotos«, Vienna; »Zeichen, gefangen im Wunder«, Vienna; Rudolf Polanszky, Vienna; Kiluanji Kia Henda, Innsbruck; Tue Greenfort, Berlin; Barbara Hammer, Berlin; Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Berlin; Lutz Bacher, Frankfurt; David Hockney, Cologne; Daan van Golden, Zurich; Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Antwerp; Clément Rodzielski, Paris; BANK, London; Matisse, New York; »Blues for Smoke«, Los Angeles; Guy de Cointet, Mexico

Spring / Frühling 2013
English / German
146 Pages

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C Magazine #117: Translation. C The Visual Arts Foundation.

Featuring: Hito Steyerl, Feminism After Elles, Institutions by Artist, Feminist Art Gallery, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Kristiina Lahde, Tiziana La Melia, Leah Bowery, Vanessa Maltese, Roman Liska, Sean Alward, Kika Thorne, Hazel Meyer & Rick Leong

Spring 2013
60 Pages
English
ISSN 1480-5472

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Winter 2013
Cover by: Oliver Osborne

INSIDE THE COVER
Oliver Osborne
words by Isobel Harbison

PORTRAITS IN THE EXHIBITION SPACE
Alexander Dorner When Space Becomes Art
by Lorenzo Benedetti

SPACES — STUDY CASES
Anthony Huberman, The Artist’s Institute, NY
by Vincent Honoré

PANEL
Layering & Counter-Positioning
Designer James Langdon interviewed by Gavin Wade

TALKING ABOUT
Zoo–topia – Zoo Architecture as Taxonomies of National Representation
by Eszter Steierhoffer images by Candida Höfer

LAB
LUCA FRANCESCONI
A pumpkin is a pumpkin is a pumpkin
words by Giovanni Carmine

SHOW AND TELL
Bettina Buck – To Be Continued
by Cecilia Canziani

LAB
Re-productions
text and works by Mark Barrow

SPOTLIGHT
Aurélien Froment – De Debuilding
by Julien Fronsacq

LAB
The University at the Other of the Voice
a poem by Roger Van Voorhees

SPOTLIGHT
Laura Reeves – Back to Reality
by Adam Carr

THE EXHIBITION ROOM
Unhappy Readymade
Imaginary Show of Fictional Artworks. Vol. 1
by Valentinas Klimašauskas images by Virginija Januškevičiūtė

BOOKS
Committing today: Guerrilla Art Action Group
by Raimar Stange

THE FOX
Revisiting The Fox (1975-1976), part II
by Felix Vogel

Author: Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin (Eds.)
Publisher: CURA.
Language: English
Binding: Softcover

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frieze d/e #8

Mythos Rheinland
Cologne & Düsseldorf: where are they now?

Michael Krebber
Thomas Schütte
Alexandra Bircken

Februar-März 2013
German / English
136 Pages

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Mousse #37

Featuring:
Alexander Kluge, Farewell to Yesterday by Jens Hoffmann
Hito Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen by Ana Teixeira Pinto
Talking About, Techno-animism by Lauren Cornell
Pick Up – Lorraine Daston
Objects and (their) Time by Ana Ofak
Jan Švankmajer, Encyclopedia of an Alternative World by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Pick Up – Nicholas Mirzoeff
On Visuality by Chelsea Haines
Talking About Rococo Conceptualism by Jennifer Allen
Portfolio – Sarah Conaway, Black Box Magic by Linda Green
Pick Up, Where to Look, What to Say: Photography in the Next Few Years by Marvin Heiferman
Nice to Meet You – Edgardo Aragón, From the Ruins of the Present by Luigi Fassi
Nice to Meet You – Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli, Around Possible Mysteries by Simone Menegoi
Nice to Meet You – Shane McCarthy, Loop System by Maeve Connolly
Luke Fowler & Peter Hutton, Lived Experience
Philippe Parreno & Anri Sala, A Matter of Synchronization by Cyril Béghin
Pick Up – Robert Hullot-Kentor, On Education and the Prudery of Dissatisfaction by Bettina Funcke
New York – Loretta Fahrenholz, Autosabotage by David Lieske
Paris – Bertille Bak, The Unsubmitted Form by Ida Soulard
Berlin – Gerry Bibby & Natalie Häusler, Bierhimmel
London – Corin Sworn, The Second Hand by Laura McLean-Ferris
Los Angeles – Tender Doublings and Found Minimalism: Fiona Connor by Andrew Berardini
Mark Grotjahn & Jonathan Pylypchuk, Shame, Sociality and Success
Pick Up – Marion Von Osten, Problems of Endless Fruit by Brian Kuan Wood
K-HOLE, Hate Being Sober: the Friendship Experience called K-HOLE by Rachel Blatt
Pick Up – Jeffrey Schnapp, Digital Humanities by Barbara Casavecchia
Elizabeth Peyton & Alex Katz, Painting People
Pick Up – John Tresch, Another History of Science by Armen Avanessian

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The Shelf Journal #2. Shelf-Publishing.

In this issue:

Derek Birdsall, Interview. – Books which affected the career and life of the famous British book designer.

Stanley Morison & Maximilien Vox, A Frenchman’s view of British typography and vice-versa.

Patricia Belen & Grey D’Onofrio, Elaine Lustig Cohen: The Art of Modern Graphics.

The “club of clubs”, Culture Club – Discussion about French book clubs.

Sebastien Hayez, Four Aces. – Modernism development of graphic design through four design magazine’s issue number 1.

Hugo Hoppmann & Mirko Borsche, The Designing Art Director – Conversation.

The Shelf Journal, A fly on the wall in the printing shop. – Report on printing techniques, supported by examples.

About The Shelf:

“Why start a paper journal about books at a time when the internet is calling into question the average Westerner’s innate materialism, and at a time when the price of a book-as-object puts off devotees of free knowledge on the net? What is becoming of bound volumes today – that foundation of our society, those keepers of our history?

With the dematerialisation of editorial content, the practice of design within books is taking on an even more important dimension. Whether insignificant objects or works of art in their own right, books create through their different forms and stories a unique bond with those who read, consult and own them. This almost physical connection was the reason for creating The Shelf Journal.

 Part place of worship and reflection for paper lovers, part experimental platform for designers, typographers and other graphic designers, The Shelf Journal explores the essence of our libraries’ charm: the limitless variations in form of this unique object.”

122 pages
English and French
ISBN: 9782954065618

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Das Jubilaeums-Heft Nr. 50 widmet Dérive mit einem umfassenden Schwerpunkt der »Strasse«, gehoert sie doch zur Geschichte der Stadt wie die Rille zur Schallplatte und verlockte an ihren Kreuzungspunkten zu ersten urbanen Ansiedlungen. Strassen dien(t)en der politischen Macht zur Demonstration derselben ebenso wie der Opposition zum Protest. Sie stehen als oeffentlicher Raum im Mittelpunkt einer angeregten Debatte und werden leider immer noch in erster Linie als Verkehrsraum gesehen, der vorrangig dem motorisierten Individualverkehr zu dienen hat.

Author: Christoph Laimer
Publisher: Dérive
Language: German
Pages: 68
Size: 27.5 x 21 cm
Binding: Softcover

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SOUTH as a State of Mind grew up fast to become a bi-annual contemporary arts and culture magazine published by Epomenos Stathmos (Greece) and Phileleftheros Publishers (Cyprus) and distributed internationally. People from different -literal or metaphorical- Souths are renegotiating the southern attitude, partly to define it and partly to invent it. Possessed by a spirit of absurd authority, we are trying to contaminate the prevailing culture with ideas that derive from southern mythologies, such as the perfect climate, easy living, chaos and the dramatic temperament, to name but a few. Each 160-page issue includes a thematic section and columns inspired and named after key traits of southern life. Through our twisted – and southern – attitude, expressed through critical essays, artist projects, interviews and features, we would like to give form to the concept of the South as a state of mind rather than a set of fixed places on the map. Opening up an unexpected dialogue among neighbourhoods, cities, regions and approaches, SOUTH as a State of Mind is both a magazine and a meeting point for shared intensities.

This issue features: ARCADIA, Juergen Teller, Anafi, Martin Kippenberger, Temenos, and others

Author: Marina Fokidis (ed.)
Language: English
Pages: 160
Size: 23 x 32 cm

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The Wire’s crucial review of the last 12 months in underground sound and music, including the releases of the year, opinions and reflections from a host of musicians and critics, and analyses of 2012’s most significant audio culture trends.

Editor: Chris Bohn
Language: English
Pages: 100
Size: 28 x 23 cm
Binding: Softcover

Price: €8.00
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