Dust #2: Roots

DUST is a new refreshing fashion & art magazine. With a biannual publishing frequency, Dust was born in early 2010 with the desire to provide a new and different point of view to the fashion magazine market.

We feel the need of filling the gaps that the rest of magazines leave, fighting in a certain way, against the increasingly stronger elitist spirit of the publishing world.

We bet and support artist’s collaborations, whether they are anonymous or upcoming ones, we’d like to search new talents, since we are interested on the real quality of their work, and not only on the name of the people who made it.
We want artists to feel completely free to develop and vent their own needs so they can create their works without any fear or vain censures. We will go deep into the artist’s world, interviewing and meeting them, in order to get a real knowledge of their creations and personality. We want fashion to become something much closer to an artistic point of view than to a commercial atmosphere, as we consider it as a path for creation and not the opposite.

That’s why we are not interested in the collection’s date, or the suitable time for promotion since we consider that art and fashion are always contemporary. DUST is a London based magazine, even if it’s made and produced in different cities around the world, such as New York, Madrid, Berlin, Milan and Paris by a specific team of creative minds that want to renew the current situation with this new thriving project.

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MOTTO MELBOURNE. A temporary bookstore in collaboration with Neon Parc.

18 – 25th FEBRUARY 2012
12PM – 7PM DAILY

Address: 6 DUCKETT STREET, BRUNSWICK, MELBOURNE, VIC 3056 AUSTRALIA

For further information please contact: joe[at]mottodistribution[dot]com

Performing the Institutional. Kunsthalle Lissabon / ATLAS PROJECTOS

Performing the Institutional documents Kunsthalle Lissabon’s first curatorial cycle, which happened between July 2009 and June 2010 and featured solo shows by Nuno Sousa Vieira, Mauro Cerqueira, Joana Bastos, André Romão, Carla Filipe and Stefan Brüggemann. The book, a collaboration with ATLAS PROJECTOS, a publisher of independent art projects in printed, audio/visual and exhibition formats, was edited by João Mourão and Luis Silva and includes new essays by Maria Lind (Contemporary Art and its institutional dilemmas) and Charles Esche (The deviant art institution), as well as the “words don’t come easy” series of interviews with the featured artists. Performing the Institution(al) inaugurates Kunsthalle Lissabon’s publishing activity.

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One Question, Nine Possible Answers, Three Rooms #1. Melanie Bonajo.

Room 1 – psychics:
Connie, Cynthia, Danny, Destiny, Elza, Gadesha, John, Linda and Lisette.

Room 2
9 posters by Melanie Bonajo

Room III
Özlem Altin, Bianca Casady, Simone Gilges, Sabina Maria van der Linden, Alexandra Leykauf, Kinga Kielczynska, Joseph Marzolla, Emmeline de Mooij, Shana Moulton.

This publication is part of the installation Afterlife – An Unexplored Continent shown at the exhibition Afterlife – art on the final destination, which takes place at Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover and is published on the occasion of Melanie Bonajo project space grant of the Mondrian Fonds, at the Künstlerhaus Behtanien, Berlin.

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Thursday 26.01.2012: Nico Krebs & Tayo Onorato @ Motto Berlin

AS LONG AS IT PHOTOGRAPHS
IT MUST BE A CAMERA

„As long as it photographs / It must be camera“ is a new double publication by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs.

It deals with thoughts on the endless (im)possibilities of the photographic picture making process and the problems and solutions of the DIY camera community.

http://tonk.ch/

Romka Magazine #6.

Some photographs are more important than others. Preserved memories of people you love and friends you have lost, places that shaped your understanding of the world and events that had a significant impact on your life. romka magazine is devoted to this one print that you keep in your wallet, on the desk at work or on your fridge door. Pictures of great sentimental value that gain their quality through the personal experiences they are connected to and not through form or content. It is not about your best pictures, but about your personal favorites.

In this issue of romka magazine, 69 professionals and amateurs from 33 countries share their photographic treasures and tell the stories behind them. For the first time, there are two special features as well: an illustrated short story by American author Paul Kwiatkowski and a collection of found photographs by London-based artist Steven Chandler. This issue’s heartwarming cover shot comes from Russian portrait photographer Evgeny Lebedev.

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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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Two New Books – ROMA Publications
With Marc Nagtzaam and Jan Kempenaers
And an exhibition of new drawings from Marc Nagtzaam and pictures from Jan Kempenaers’ book “Picturesque”.

Launch @ Motto Zürich on the 19th of January, 7pm.
The exhibition will be on from 19th to 21st of January 2012.
In collaboration with Corner College.

Where Do We Migrate To? is a book published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition of the same title, which explores diverging ways in which forms of migration, experiences of displacement, and questions of belonging have been addressed by artists in recent years. For the book, four prominent international writers were invited to reflect on the themes from the exhibition. Ranging from the playful to the theoretical, from the poetic to the philosophical, their essays call for an increasingly complex understanding of the contemporary migrant experience. The book also includes nineteen postcards by the artists participating in the exhibition, designed specifically for the publication and presenting multiple visual interpretations of migratory encounters.

Publication editor Niels Van Tomme invites essayist Aaron Schuster for his presentation The Atopia of Philosophy, in which he asks how the figure of the exile, outcast, and migrant has become such a powerful metaphor for subjectivity in the contemporary imagination.

Aaron Schuster is a writer based in Berlin, where he is a fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry. He has lectured and published widely on psychoanalysis and contemporary philosophy, and his writings on art have appeared in The Believer, Cabinet, Frieze, Frog, Metropolis M, and De Witte Raaf. He coauthored the libretto for Cellar Door: An Opera in Almost One Act (JRP Ringier, 2008), and his The Philosophy of Schizophrenia will appear as a book from M.I.T. Press in 2012.

Niels Van Tomme is a New York based curator, researcher, and critic. His exhibition Where Do We Migrate To? opened at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture in Baltimore in 2011and will travel to Parsons The New School of Design in New York, the CAC in New Orleans, and the Rubin Center for Visual Arts in El Paso in 2012 and 2013. He is a Contributing Editor of Art Papers and publishes internationally in journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogues. Van Tomme is currently co-editing the book Aesthetic Justice, forthcoming from Antennae Series by Valiz, Amsterdam, in 2012.

Where Do We Migrate To?

Edited by Niels Van Tomme

Contributions by Svetlana Boym, Amitava Kumar, Aaron Schuster, and Niels Van Tomme

Artworks by Acconci Studio, Svetlana Boym, Blane De St. Croix, Lara Dhondt, Brendan Fernandes, Claire Fontaine, Nicole Franchy, Andrea Geyer, Isola and Norzi, Kimsooja, Pedro Lasch, Adrian Piper, Raqs Media Collective, Société Réaliste, Julika Rudelius, Xaviera Simmons, Fereshteh Toosi, Philippe Vandenberg, and Eric Van Hove

Published by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, 2011

Available from D.A.P. | Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.

ISBN: 9781890761141

127th@StNick. Nadja Groux.

Stuck in New York for almost two years due to one of life’s accidents and often closeted in her home, Nadja Groux photographed practically everything in her apartment…including the view of the street, in particular from one of her windows looking out over the intersection of 127th Street and St Nicholas Terrace in Harlem. The pictures, presented in contact sheet format, document the nerve centre of a micro-society, in the likeness of a storyboard.

Edition of 300

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