White Fungus # 12

White Fungus is an experimental arts magazine based in Taichung City, Taiwan. Featuring writing on art, new music, history and politics, plus original artworks, poetry, fiction and comics, White Fungus is an ongoing experiment in community media art.

Often described as a work of art in itself, White Fungus is held in library collections including The Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Southbank Centre (London), Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Spain), National Library of Australia and Te Papa (National Museum of New Zealand).

Complimenting its publishing schedule, White Fungus holds interdisciplinary arts events at galleries around the world. Past events have been held at P.P.O.W (New York), Taipei Contemporary Art Center, ARTSPACE (Auckland) and Adam Art Gallery (Wellington).

WF, from their unique vantage, come across one minute as hardcore situationist anarchists yet offset with the economic nerdiness and steadfast verve of a William F. Buckley; it’s captivating to follow how the gears shift. – FANZINE, 2010

As the spores have been released its creators look forward to seeing which way the wind blows. The only thing more uncertain than its future is its past.

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It’s Nice That #7.

It’s Nice That No.7 features profiles of celebrated photographer Martin Parr and the brilliant Taryn Simon; interviews with i-D founder Terry Jones, Nieves editor-in-chief Benjamin Sommerhalder and hyper-cool duo Lernert & Sander; a free comic by the very talented illustrator Sophy Hollington, and much, much more. Out now.

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Wortwuchs #6.

Herbst 2011

Mit Beiträgen von Richard Duraj, Michael Friedrich, Clio Alyssa Voß, Stephan Reich, Uschi Schmidt, Andreas Henze, Peter Neumann, Andrea Miesenböck, Clemens Schittko, Yevgeniy Breyger und einem Interview mit Anke Heelemann.

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Kaleidoscope # 13

HIGHLIGHTS
Robert Heinecken by Kavior Moon; Ming Wong by Hu Fang; Kuehn Malvezzi by Hila Peleg; New Jerseyy by Quinn Latimer; Patrick Staff by Catherine Wood.

MAIN THEME – How Does Fashion Look at Art?
Prada by Nicholas Cullinan and Francesco Vezzoli; Adam Kimmel by Angelo Flaccavento; Comme des Garçons by Maria Luisa Frisa; Proenza Schouler by Michele D’Aurizio.

MONO – Pierre Huyghe
Essay by Éric Troncy; Interview by Barbara Casavecchia; Special Project: Study for Zoodram by Pierre Huyghe; Focus by Chris Wiley.

REGULARS
Pioneers: Bruce McLean by Simone Menegoi; Futura: Ed Atkins by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Panorama: Toronto by Amil Niazi; Souvenir d’Italie: Luigi Ghirri by Luca Cerizza; Producers: Ute Meta Bauer by Carson Chan.

KALEIDOSCOPE is an international quarterly of contemporary art and culture. Distributed worldwide on a seasonal basis, it offers a timely guide to the present (but also to the past and possible futures) with an interdisciplinary and unconventional approach.

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Pages #8: When Historical

Pages is a bilingual -English and Farsi- magazine that aims to function as a platform for exchange, dialogues and projects: a place for collaboration between artists and writers from Iran and elsewhere. The magazine’s interest lies in the socio-political flows within spaces of urban and everyday life.

The diversity of contributions expand and even transgress the geographically bound subjects and subjectivities, as they often develop, return, change and interact with one another from one issue of Pages to the other. It emphasizes on localities and it is the intricacy and dissonances within local currents that give way to chains of meanings, relations, differences and exchange.

Pages is a project initiated by Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi, both artists living in Rotterdam. However, activities regarding the magazine are organized from both Rotterdam and Tehran, platforms from which all communications and exchanges take shape and place.

In Issue #8:

What determines our place in history? If it is the past, there we also find the material support with which we reconstitute our historical place. Our relation to history remains retrospective, but also anticipatory.

Events begin with a break from history. But they soon are recaptured by it and fetishized as historical triumphs or failures. Still something remains of past events that, although conditioned by history, is irreducible to it: a surplus that finds way to our time, something out of time that forces us to actively anticipate a renewing in past events.

With contributions by:

– Dariush Moaven Doust / Machinic Life
– Alireza Rasoulinejad & Saleh Najafi / Minor/Major [conversation]
– Norman Klein / Imaginary Future and the Archive [interview]
– Gerald Raunig & Roberto Nigro / Molecular Revolution and Event
– Saleh Najafi / Hope Against Hope
– Sven Augustijnen / Coincidences of History: Reflections on E’mile Meurice’s ‘Sketch for a psychologial study of Leopold II’
– Jalil Ziapour, Houshang Irani, Gholam Hossein Gharib / Excerpt from Khoroos Jangi magazine, 1949-50
– Performance in Iran [conversation] with Neda Razavipour, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Shahab Fotouhi, Bavand Behpour, Amir Mobed and Mahmoud Bakhshi

128 Pages
English / Farsi
Graphic Design by LUST

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mono.kultur #30 – Chris Ware: A Sense of Thereness

“The one thing I don’t want to be is a storyteller.”

Interview by Urs Bellermann / Artwork by Chris Ware / Design by Studio8

Winter 2011/12 / English / 15 x 20 cm / 28 Pages & Concertina & Separate Dust Cover

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Tissue No. 1

“EVERYTHING SEXY – That’s our motto for all there is to come under the T I S S U E banner. From sexed-up to sex-ed, we are taking sexy to the unsexiest of places. Don’t get us wrong though: we don’t claim to be bringing sexy back. Why should we? It has always been there. We’re just looking for it in different places. Are we feminism gone wrong? We hope not. It’s just that to us, sex is always on. Sex is it. And so are we. Still oversexed.”

Contributors to Tissue #1:

Hanna Putz, Emmanuelle Tricoire, Narcissister, Julija Goyd, Lalla, Roeg Cohen, Lukas White Gansterer, Howard Chu, Corrado Dalco, Nettie R. Harris, Anne Waak, Nico Krijno, Hadley Hudson, Autumn Sonnichsen, Vassilis Karidis & Nicholas Georgiou, Straulino, Roy Stuart, and many more.

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Matter Magazine #1. A Modern Journal For Men That Matter. Digital Good Times.

Matter is a new biannual publication that records the ways in which new and developing technology affects culture, lifestyle, fashion, and the arts.

Created by the studio behind the acclaimed arts and culture magazine Kilimanjaro, Matter shares the former’s curatorial approach to design and content. Designed to appeal to a consumer eager to tap into an ever-changing and increasingly sophisticated world, with particular regard to the twin disciplines of high-end design and culture, its inaugural issue is covered by the iconic trip-hop artist Tricky, who talks exclusively to Matter about music, imperfection, and reinvention.

Matter’s unique selling point is the fact that it is the first art and style publication to examine these subjects through the lens of modern technology; in doing so, it brings together the creative and the rational in a way which is rarely seen in the realms of printed matter.

First issue includes: Dieter Rams, Ole Scheeren, Matthew Collings, Pierre Huyghe & William Gibson. / Google’s Creative Director of Data Arts, Aaron Koblin, on digital art. / Iconic fashion designer Rick Owens presents an Anthology Of Colour. / Editor Jennifer Higgie on twenty years of Frieze magazine. / Art & The Automobile, featuring the American artists Richard Prince and Erwin Wurm. / Tate Exhibitions Curator Tanya Barson on the Lyon Biennale. / Celebrated conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner, shot by NY underground photographer Ari Marcopolous. / Photographer – and former director of Dior Homme – Hedi Slimane’s best images of women.

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Komfort Mag #7: To Play With

Let’s play truth or dare. To start off, rather than having
to get naked or kiss the ugliest guy at the table, we’ll tell you
that the new Komfort issue will be big. Really big and thick.
Get ready for 250 pages in two separate volumes. A beautiful,
unspoilt pictorial leaf-through, with a booklet of condensed
reading inside. Pictures, photos and words will resound in their
undetracted wholeness. Your turn now.

Barbora Pivoňková I. – Altars of living rooms
Barbora Pivoňková II. – Locus Delicti
Barbora Pivoňková III. – Les Étrangers
Tereza Zelenková Some kind of night into your darkness
Petr Pawlowski – Country cousins
Václav Kopecký – Moment
Petr Bosák & Robert Jansa – On the piano
Radek Sidun – 9×13 cm
Teodorik Menšl – Sound
Adéla Marie Jirků – Just playing
Iveta Merglová – Getting closer
Nika Kupyrová – Mouse milk
Vendula Knopová – Natürlich
Strcprst skrzkrk – Taiwanese hit
Michal Drozen – Block of flats
Linda Friedmannová – To hell and back again

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Spike #30.

CONTENTS 30

ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
By Saâdane Afif: Katarina Burin, Natalie Czech, Jofroi Amaral, Nathan Peter, Lina Viste Grønli, Adrien Missika

ESSAY

Changes in the Economy of the kunstbetrieb, Part 3: The Freedom of the Curator
By Daniel Baumann

ARTISTS TALK

Markus Schinwald talks to David Cronenberg
 about cinematic sublimation and blank beginnings

CURATOR’S KEY

Fabrice Stroun, forthcoming director of the Kunsthalle Bern on O-ism by Jim Shaw

GALLERIES
Jennifer Teets on the new programmgalerie Marcelle Alix, Paris

INSTITUTION
David Roberts Art Foundation in London is
a new and innovative exhibition space by a private collector. By Adam Carr

COLLECTIONS

A secret history of art: Steven Leiber’s collection
of art ephemera in San Francisco. By Matthew Post

PORTRAIT TOM BURR

Camp, appropriation and politics meet in the work of
this American artist. An Interview by Gianni Jetzer

PORTRAIT MOYRA DAVEY
Fionn Meade finds an obsession with collecting, systematic listing and nostalgic resistance in the photographs of this Canadian artist

PORTRAIT PETER FRIEDL
This Austrian artist never fails to surprise with unexpected strategies that defy all trends. By Raimar Stange

ART & POLITICS

Adam E. Mendelsohn takes a look at Occupy Wall
Street and asks some players in the art world what 
they make of it

ARTIST’S READINGS

Annika von Hausswolff talks to Mika Hannula about Maurice Blanchot’s The Madness of the Day

ARCHITECTURE

Charles Moore’s Piazza d’Italia in New Orleans reveals the topicality of postmodernism. By Michele D’Aurizio

SEDUCTION
or the things we like

REVIEWS

Reviews of international exhibitions

THE PFAFF BROTHERS

A Child is Born on the Internet

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