First Person Mag #3 “Realness”
CONTRIBUTIONS: Billygoat, Crocodiles, DailyServing, Limi Feu, Sublime Frequencies / Omar Souleyman, Gemini Editons, Karl Haendel, William Kentridge, Sandy Kim, Magnolia Tapestries,Hitoshi Matsumoto, Agnes Montgomery, New High (M)art, Katja Rahlwes, Steven Shearer, Zoe Strauss, Wolfgang Tillmans
78pages
English
Cabin and Woods by Coley Brown
Published by 0_100 editions
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Erik Steinbrecher left Berlin for Switzerland, his suitcase packed with 1000 supermarket bought meatballs and a pair of baguettes cast in aluminum, for his exhibition ‘Schluss mit Öko’ (An End to Eco), 27th October to 22nd December 2007. The setting: a barn and a meadow in the mountain region Amden am Walensee. A hundred years earlier, ‘Lebensreformer’ from Berlin had undertaken the same journey. Their destination in Amden was the Grappenhof Colony founded by businessman and prophet Josua Klein (1867-1945), who was raised in Meran, and had made his fortune in the United States. The founders of the vegetarian settlement Monte Verità at Lake Maggiore observed the activities at Walensee with keen interest. The belief that it lies within an individual’s power to withdraw from the consequences of historical processes through their negation, or at least suppression, formed the core of the settlers’ self-reflection, and was widespread throughout the Grappenhof. This, together with the firm belief that the germ for a new and better world lies in every micro-society, is described by American cultural critic Greil Marcus as the myth of freedom in his book Lipstick Traces. Elements of this narrative turn up in the Chiliasmus of the middle ages as much as in modern totalitarianism’s internalized beliefs for a world solution, or the avant-garde movements’ striving towards the absolute. This belief was also in effect later in the artistic circle of the Bern painter Otto Meyer Amden (1885-1933), who came to the village in 1912 together with artist friends such as Oskar Schlemmer and Willi Baumeister, and stayed in Amden until 1928.
Erik Steinbrecher
Schluss mit Öko
ed. Roman Kurzmeyer, Basel
argobooks, 2010
ISBN: 978-3-941560-69-7
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Tell Mum Everything is OK #3 – ‘A Postmodern World’
Various Artists
A participative fanzine edited by Editions FP&CF. Each issue is based on a theme, and each photographer can participate in creation of the zine by sending his or her own contributions. It’s the opportunity to discover new authors and their works on a variety of different themes
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Zabriskie Point by Olaf Nicolai
Following on from an obsession with the film Zabriskie Point, Nicolai has produced a body of photographic work inspired by this Antonioni movie. A collection of amazing, meditative and obscure photos are included in the artist’s book, published on occasion of his exhibition opening and shot on location in the California Death Valley.
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Cf. by François Aubart, designed by Charles Mazé & Coline Sunier (catalogued.cc)
Original layout: M.H. Groenendaal, Kleur en Inkt, Amsterdam, 1968
Published in the event of the exhibition, Cf., curated by François Aubart at Art et Essai, Rennes, France. Featuring the works of Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, documentation céline duval, Aurélien Froment, Mark Geffriaud and The Infinite Library.
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The K. Protocol by Karl Holmqvist
Published by Akiyoshidai International Art Village and Karl Holmqvist.
