Peep-Hole Sheet #13

Peep-Hole Sheet is a quarterly of writings by artists.
Each issue is dedicated solely to one artist, who is invited to contribute with an unpublished text whose content is completely free in terms both of subject and format.
The texts are published in their original language, with accompanying translations in English and Italian. All images are deliberately avoided. Peep-Hole Sheet is meant for those who believe artists are catalysts for ideas all around us, and who want to read their words without any filter.
Over time it aspires to build up an anthology of writings that might open new perspectives for interpreting and understanding our times.

The fourth Peep-Hole Sheet series starts with a contribution by Claire Fontaine on the concept of ‘human strike’. The essay investigates the central Marxian category of real abstraction, as the core defining the life under Capital, through the critical perspective of Alfred Sohn-Rethel. Deeply connected to the artists’ research, the text brings light to possible practices of re-appropriation of life, of time, of relations, that start within it. “Writing about the human strike is itself the experience of a double bind, it’s like walking on a suspended wire between making things possible and exorcising them through language… When we inhabit language we place ourselves on the permeable membrane between life and desires, where it clearly appears that life and desires are made of the same fabric. Desiring together makes things come true even when they are not technically true”

Peep-Hole Sheet is published by Mousse Publishing.

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Convolution Journal for Critical Experiment

contributions by: Giorgio Agamben and Alessandro Petti  Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri  Bruce Andrews  Alexander Barnett  Bob Brown  Tony Chakar  Sarah Crowner  Drew Daniel  Jeff Dolven  Melissa Dunn  Craig Dworkin  Jesko Fezer  Michael Golston  Robert Hardwick Weston  Christian Hawkey  Athena Kirk  Gareth Long  Rosalind Morris  Andrew Schelling  Eliza Slavet  Paul Stephens  Nancy Tewksbury  Jenelle Troxell  We Have Photoshop  Nie Zhenzhao and Charles Bernstein

Convolution began with the following brief statement to prospective contributors:

Subjects that have long been investigated and appropriated by scholars need to be emancipated from the forms in which such scholarly acquisition took place, if they are still to have any value.
Walter Benjamin, We Ought to Reexamine the Link Between Teaching and Research.

The journal whose plan we present here hopes to create confidence in its own content by giving an account of its form.
Walter Benjamin, Announcement of the Journal Angelus Novus.Form is inseparable from content, yet academic writing often suggests the contrary by ignoring its own form. The academic monograph, the 8,000 word expository essay, the book review, and the conference paper remain the predominant critical forms of the humanities and social sciences. This journal seeks to promote a proliferation of the forms available for cultural critique, taken in the broadest sense. We venture to publish short, experimental work that challenges prevailing divisions between creative writing and criticism, poetry and prose, image and text. Convolution brings together a shifting collectivity of scholars, artists, poets, musicians and critics to explore the fragmentary, the interdisciplinary, the visual, the unpublishable, and the miscellaneous. Our ambition is to promote modes of expression that are less academic without necessarily being less scholarly—and in the process, to make criticism more relevant.
Convolution begins not with a manifesto or apology, but with a simple conviction—that the forms available for criticism have not been exhausted, and that criticism can be made more germane, more interesting, and more current through continuing formal innovation.

Fittingly enough, the process of assembling the first issue was far more convoluted and drawn out than we anticipated. The following inaugural issue contains an eclectic range of responses to our initial provocation. Some of the writers and artists we contacted responded immediately; some equivocated; some sent us material that didn’t fit; some ignored us completely. Virtually the only constraint we imposed was a maximum of four thousand words. We could not have anticipated the wealth of material generously submitted for this issue.
The moment of the purported demise of print culture provides an ideal opportunity to rethink the nature of the critical journal as physical object. To say more at this point would be to pregame the proceedings, so to speak. For now, we respectfully stand back in the hope that the form and content of the journal speak together for themselves.

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20 exhibitions reviews, 8 interviews, 10 exhibitions in pictures, some artists special projects, and the chronicles.

Featuring: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Richard Phillips, Philippe Parreno, Peter Zumthor, John Martin, Willem de Rooij, Camille Henrot, Kirsten Everberg, Rosa Barba, Laurent Grasso, Davide Belula, Rob Pruitt, Fabrice Gygi, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, Frédéric Pardo, Sturtevant, Tatsumi Hijikata, Alexandra Midal, Joe Bradley, Joachim Koester, Peter Halley, Luigi Ontani, Andreas Gursky, Haim Steinbach, Sol LeWitt, Gerhard Richter, Guy Debord, Scott Bourne, Josh T. Pearson…

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

D : 18€

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Verities N°2: The Muse Issue

Contributors to The Muse issue include Harry Callahan, Nan Goldin, Gustav Metzger, James Ferraro & Paul Elliman.

Verities is an independent biannual publication of thought, observation and reflection, giving equal focus to visual arts and literature.

Verities explores new ways-of-seeing the most ordinary and overlooked situations, revealing the arresting and irrational in the everyday. The ability to disorient and estrange through a subjects illumination makes for a potentially explosive catalyst that sits at the heart of Verities.

Each issue artists and authors explore a new theme through artworks, photography, design, fashion, essays and short stories. Finding the new in the old and celebrating the old in the new, rescuing beauty from vulgarity, and pushing social issues to the fore. Verities makes intellectual content accessible, yet is not afraid to challenge its readers.

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C.I.N.V. U: Tijdschrift over eenzaamheid. Christian van der Kaap. Medium / MER. Paperkunsthalle.

Een kunstwerk in de vorm van een tijdschrift over eenzaamheid, dat is C.I.N.V.U (spreek uit: See I envy you). Het begon met een open uitnodiging aan mensen met de vraag om bij te dragen aan het beeld van eenzaamheid middels teksten, beelden, liedjes en steunbetuigingen. Niet bedoeld als pleidooi voor of tegen eenzaamheid, maar eerder om een idee te krijgen wat eenzaamheid ons kan laten zien. De vorm van het tijdschrift zelf draagt hier ook aan bij. Het laat naast de actualiteit ook onze vergankelijkheid zien; een bij elkaar geniet hoopje papier dat inspeelt op ons intrinsiek verlangen. Echt opmerkelijk wordt het tijdschrift pas door de talloze bijdragen die na het plaatsen van de oproep binnen kwamen. Kunstenaars, fotografen, schrijvers, musici en schoonmakers; bij eenzaamheid leken mensen als vanzelfsprekend te begrijpen waar het om gaat. Sterker nog, de kloof van onbegrip die zo kenmerkend is voor eenzaamheid leek ineens overbrugbaar. Niet eerder was er zo sterk de behoefte om eenzaamheid met iedereen te delen.

Authors: Rory Pilgrim, Isabelle Andriessen, Gijs Frieling, Julika Rudelius, Chris van der Kaap, Jaap Scheeren, Ruben Jacobs, Jan Hoek, James Lee Byars, Dore van Duivenbode, Sands-Murray-Wassink, Willem Waterschoot, Robin Waart, Susan Kooi e.a.

Design: Christian van der Kaap, Samira Ben Laloua
Print: Veenman +, Rotterdam
Language: Dutch / English

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Lodown Magazine #82. July/August/September 2012.

Featuring Mauro Perucchetti, Danny Way, Animal Collective, Manuel Gottsching, Larry Clark, Gregg Segal, Bo Ningen, Florentijn Hofman and much more.

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Panel #4, Elisabeth Greinecker and Julian Turner (Eds.).

PANEL is an artist magazine from Vienna. Each issue forms around the idea of finding a common theme, a red line, a form of serendipity, without revolving around a “topic”. See it as a group exhibition on paper.

Each issue presents around 13 works, in an edition of 100 copies, printed in colour in A5. New releases are published 2 to 3 times a year.

This issue features work from Michael Brunner, Sophia Hatwagner, Nathalie Koger, Birgit Lesch, Emanuel Mauthe, Noele Ody, Mario Strk and Amelie Zadeh.

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indexnewspaper #2, Amélia Brandão Costa and Rodrigo Costa Lima (Ed.).

Indexnewspaper is a trimonthly magazine of architecture printed in newspaper paper. It is a publication with a bilingual edition, English and Portuguese, and worldwide distribution. The editorial contains an interview, a visit to an office, projects and works, and essays. The front cover has an ” artwork ” designed by an invited artist.

Issue #2 (Apr-Jun 2012) includes:
INTERVIEW/Manuel Aires Mateus, ATELIER/Camilo Rebelo, PROJECTS/De Vylder Vinck Taillieu/Emilio Marin/Ensamble Studio/Tetsuo Kondo Unulaunu, ESSAYS/Eduardo Castillo/Moritz Agné

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Horizonte #5 – Journal for Architecture: Fetish

“Horizonte No.5 Fetisch combines key concepts, related terms and connotations of contemporary notions of fetishism. Blatant yet invisible, the elusive nature of fetish provoked our investigation. In this issue, we have tried to trace it as it appears in different phenomena, not only in reference to architecture but also in related domains. In all of its manifestations, the fetish appears to be in a persistent and enduring component of cre-ation, action and thought.
As evidenced by the overt heterogeneity among our above deliberations as well as the definitions which we have been confronted with while compiling this issue, we feel it is necessary to admit the difficulty of defining fetish in itself, as separate from some other discourse. Indeed, that which propelled our interest continues to evade us. Nevertheless, the fetish prevails, simultaneously prolific and devastating; it is a substitute for ideology.”

Authors of the fifth edition are Beatriz Colomina, Felix Burrichter, Eric de Broche des Comes, Mathias Mitteregger, Andreas Kalpakci, Holger Wilkens, Stefanie Muller, Diogo Pereira & Eric Stephany, Stefan Gregory, Christian Rothe & Markus Postrach, Bernhard Siegert and Ana-Maria Simionovici.

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Tissue No. 2

“TISSUE’s taking the step from underground fanzine to wannabe-highbrow art magazine:
· A 100 pages strong this time, 2/3 in full colour on coated paper,
1/3 b/w on uncoated beige paper plus a big supplement poster
· An interview and never seen before photographs from The Dark Lord Of Ass MARTIN EDER
· Another interview with and an exclusive story by ROY STUART,
the grandmaster of fetish photography
· Also featured: German art-Urgestein WALTER DAHN, MIKE MEIRÉ – artist and Germany’s most important Art Director, HANNA PUTZ – our biggest love, MAXIME BALLESTEROS featuring Helga Wretman dressed in DSTM, DEVIN BLAIR, fabulous MANZINE, YOUICHI SHIDOMOTO, BÈLA PABLO JANSSEN, ROSA RENDL and many more …”

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