ANP Quarterly vol. 2 #5

Posted in magazines, Motto Berlin store, Motto Zürich store, music, painting, photography on January 10th, 2011
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ANP Quarterly vol. 2 #5
Published by RVCA
With contributions from Alexi Wasser, Weird Records, Susan Miller, Brian Roettinger, Elad Lasery and a bunch more.

D 9€
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SWILL CHILDREN

Posted in Editions, Motto Berlin store, music, photography on January 6th, 2011
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Penelope Umbrico – Desk Trajectories (As Is)

A new series by Penelope Umbrico, Desk Trajectories (As Is) includes found images of used office desks for sale on the Internet. This work serves as an answer to her continual interest in a certain optimism typically associated with fictions of unattainable lifestyles marketed for and lusted after by consumers.

These desks, once the definitive site of organization and productivity, now sit empty, dusty, and cumbersome ­ as awkward in their photographic frame as they are in the space in which they are pictured. The disorienting compositional space of the pictured flat planes inhibits the viewer to readily discern and give context to the objects presented. In these pictures, all efficiency, productivity, and elegance is in question ­ the mere fact that the desk is out of commission, being sold, points to an attendant deflation of these values.

Published by Swill Children
Edition of 100
B/W Offset on Newsprint
Saddle Stitched

D 5€

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Diwa Tamrong – Somebody Else’s Problem

Somebody Else’s Problem (SEP) is an ongoing series that explores the different ways an artist can loose control of their own work. Every new part to the series uses means of destruction, re-contextualization, collaboration and attempts of preservation in order to further investigate this notion. The work continues to grow with each version, but the artist’s control over the work dwindles as it falls into the hands of other people, disseminating through the internet and everything in between.

Published by Swill Children
Edition of 30

D 15€

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FirstPerson Magazine – Issue 4 – “Discomfort of Sculpture”

Posted in Editions, magazines, Motto Berlin store, music, photography, sculpture, writing on December 31st, 2010
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FirstPerson Magazine

Issue 4 “Discomfort of Sculpture”
Limited letterpress edition with hand-silkscreened poster

CONTRIBUTIONS: Daniel Arsham, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Lynda Benglis, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Maya Deren, Ryan McGinley, Yoko Ono

D 11 €
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the journal – entry no 29

Posted in Fashion, magazines, Motto Berlin store, music, painting, photography, Uncategorized, writing on December 16th, 2010
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the journal, entry no 29

Contributors issue 29:
Tim Barber Katherine Bernard Jonathan Black Joanne Blades David Blaine Joe Bradley Sarah Braman Coley Brown Christian Brylle Julia Burlingham Cody Chandler Irina Cocimarov Lily Cole Meghan Collison Eliza Cummings Lucia della Paolera Julia Dippelhofer Julia Frakes Oto Gillen Mark Gonzales Dennis Gots Phil Grauer Darius Greyson Alizée Guinochet Roni Horn Leigh Johnson Maciek Kobielski Harmony Korine Andrew Kuo Kathy Lo Nate Lowman Bill Saylor Peter Miles Keegan Monaghan Michael Nevin Kaoru Okubu Caroline Polacheck Naomi Preizler Jordan Robin Natasha Royt Jason Schwartzman Laura Selfridge, Romy Soleimani Juergen Teller Vanessa Traina Magnus Unnar Poppie van Herwerden Eugene Wasserman Martynka Wawzryniak Coco Young

D 16€
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Bad Day #9

Posted in Fashion, Film, magazines, Motto Berlin store, music, photography, poster, writing on December 16th, 2010
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Bad Day magazine, issue 9

Interviews with: Shary Boyle, No Age, Luis Jacob, Glenn O’ Brien, Karl Holmqvist, Gaspar Noé, Trembling Bells, Fred Armisen
Contributors: Asher Penn, Bruce la Bruce, Paul Kneale, Nick Flanagan, Jeremy R Jansen, Cathérine Hug

Extra: limited edition Karl Holmqvist poster inside

D 10€

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Rap History. Poster edition

Posted in Editions, Motto Berlin store, music, poster on November 20th, 2010
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Rap History: Block Seminar, poster edition

Black & white, silkscreen poster from the Hip Hop chronicle series, Rap History.

Size: 102 x 72 cm

D 37€

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Ormens Skitsebog – Vendt Og Drejet Af S. Dokkedal (vinyl, book, poster, sticker).

Posted in illustration, Motto Berlin store, music, poster on October 17th, 2010
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Ormens Skitsebog – Vendt Og Drejet Af S. Dokkedal
1 vinyl, 1 book, 1 poster, 1 sticker.
Fake Diamond Records. 2010

D 20€
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Little & Large Editions @ Motto Berlin. 09.10.2010

Posted in Events, magazines, Motto Berlin store, music, photography on October 6th, 2010
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Little & Large Editions was set up to produce and distribute little and large editions. Our plan is to offer artists the opportunity to work with us on fabricating their ideas. We want to work with both little and large artists, the hope is that the large artists will help pay for the little artists and occasionally vice versa. Our goal is to realise things and make these things available.
Our aim is to run this company as a non profit organisation.
We want to make money for artists who need money and some for those who do not.

We’d like to offer editions that we would like to own and ones that you will want to buy. Any profits, both little and large, will go directly back into running the company.

We are proud to present our first edition with Dave Allen –
It swung back and forth, back and forth until forever. Then it stopped and howled endlessly.
A 12″ vinyl record with printed sleeve will be played and for sale at Motto or through our website www.littleandlargeeditions.com

Drinks will be served – dress accordingly
start: 20pm

The Crystal Hypothesis

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, Motto Berlin store, music on August 17th, 2010
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Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition The Crystal Hypothesis (June 9th – July 25th 2010) at GAMeC – Spazio Zero, curated by Yoann Gourmel and Élodie Royer, winners of the 5th Edition of the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per l’Arte – EnterPrize.
With works from Ulla von Brandenburg, Isabelle Cornaro, Julien Crépieux, Ryan Gander, Mark Geffriaud, Adrian Ghenie, Benoît Maire, Bruno Persat, Clément Rodzielski and Bojan Šarcevic.
D 12€

A special edition of the catalogue comes with a 12″ LP vinyl edited and produced for the exhibition by Bruno Persat including songs, sounds and texts suggested by the artists in connection with the works on display.
D 35€

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Lying Freely, Ruth Buchanan

Posted in magazines, music on August 15th, 2010
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Lying Freely, Ruth Buchanan

In her itinerant project ‘Lying Freely’, that has evolved in various locations since June 2009, Ruth Buchanan probes questions around the tension between private and public spheres by practicing a method that might be named after the project title, Lying Freely. This has involved Buchanan weaving stories by and about the public personas of three female writers Janet Frame, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie into her own speculative writings. The writing becomes scripts for manoeuvring through spaces of systemization and behavioural codification, such as an archive (The Hocken Collection), a hotel (Old Swan Hotel), a library (The British Library). These spaces, each associated with one of the authors, were reconfigured in a haptic choreography performed for and within different locations that hosted the project—a monumental house, a theatre, a gallery.

Co-published by Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht and Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht.

D 18€
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