Spesial Nord #02

Spesial Nord is an artist run, Nordic publication designed to function as a showroom for young newly established artists from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Island. Selected artist is invited to present themselves through work exclusively commissioned for the respective issue with focus on visual material and texts which refers to and reflects the artistic process.

This issue features Karlotta Blöndal, Victor boullet, Serina Erfjord, Andreas Gavell-Mohlin, Anna Rokka, Viktor Rosdahl, Ultra Grøn and Laura Wesamaa

Edited by Christina Leithe Hansen and Iselin Linstad Hauge

Designed by Victor Boullet / The Institute of Social Hypocrisy

D 12€
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Front Lines by Brendan Meadows and Matthew Robinson

Inspired by Robert Capa’s indelible scenes of the first ‘media war’, Front Lines is the result of a collaboration between photographer Brendan Meadows and Militaria collector Matthew Robinson that pays tribute to the soldiers who fought so bravely and encountered such tragedy in the Spanish Civil War. The project focuses on the camaraderie that emerged between these soldiers, giving a human face to their tragic misfortunes.

Published by Ikigai
D 10.5 €

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The Curse of Bigness (1) Coordinated by Dexter Sinister for an exhibition curated by Larissa Harris at the Queens Museum of Art

The Curse of Bigness exhibition book collects the reading material of curator Larissa Harris leading up to her exhibition of the same name at the Queens Museum of Art. Five texts, loosely gathered around the Progressive era in the United States and interrupted by summaries written by Dexter Sinister comprise this medium-sized publication.

Cover by Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin.

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Free Mumia, Nina Könnemann

This catalogue is published on occasion of the exhibition Nina Könneman, Free Mumia, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (March 28 – May 17, 2009).

Published by Spector Books

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A reconstruction of a printed sheet of Ken Garland and Robert Chapman’s game Connect, designed by Ken Garland and Associates for the James Galt Toy Company in 1969. Including an interview with Ken Garland conducted in 2006.

This publication combines a reconstruction of a printed sheet of the popular board game ‘Connect’ with an interview conducted at Ken Garland’s home studio in September 2006. During the interview Garland referred to an interesting detail regarding the design of the game:

“Now, I want to tell you something that a lot of people don’t know. The clue to this game is the template from which all these tiles are cut. When the game came out a lot of companies started to make copies, there was an Italian company, somebody in the United States, Japan – they never seemed to get it quite right. […] If they’d sat down long enough with the original and assembled it – worked out how it would have been layed up to be printed and cut – it wouldn’t have needed too much ingenuity to figure this out.”

Published by Colophon
1st. Edition 500 copies, 2010

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Daniel Gustav Cramer

Woodland D 15 €
Untitled (Farmer), 2002 / 2010 D 6 €
Forest D 5 €
Kahu D 8 €

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14. September 2010, 20.00 Uhr
BUCHPRÄSENTATION
MAYA SCHWEIZER: DIE SELBE GESCHICHTE AN EINEM ANDEREN ORT

Maya Schweizer im Gespräch mit Katja Schroeder und Jan Wenzel

MOTTO Berlin Store
Skalitzer Straße 68, 10997 Berlin

Die Publikation »Maya Schweizer: Die selbe Geschichte an einem anderen Ort, weitererzählt, verstreut, fragmentiert, täglich, rückwärts und wieder von vorn« gibt einen ersten Überblick über die Arbeiten der in Frankreich aufgewachsenen und heute in Berlin lebenden Künstlerin.

Maya Schweizer arbeitet an neuen audiovisuellen Erzählweisen, an Formen der Bild-Text-Montage, die YouTube näher stehen als dem Kino. Ausgangspunkt sind häufig alltägliche Situationen, die sie mit gefundenen und erfundenen Texten kombiniert. »Ich denke, dass in kleinen, oft auch persönlichen Handlungen auf der Straße gesellschaftliche Zustände ablesbar sind. Ich versuche, die Erzählungen in ihrer Divergenz ernst zu nehmen und mit meinen Projektionen abzugleichen«, beschreibt Maya Schweizer ihren künstlerischen Ansatz.

Sechs ihrer Videoarbeiten werden in »Die selbe Geschichte an einem anderen Ort« ausführlich kommentiert: Madleine Bernstorff, Margit Czenki, Joerg Franzbecker, Nanna Heidenreich, Marcel Odenbach und Ulrich Peltzer erzählen von ihren Eindrücken und Assoziationen und machen durch ihre Reflexionen die Bewegtbilder der Videos im Medium Buch nachvollziehbar.

»Maya Schweizer: Die selbe Geschichte an einem anderen Ort« erscheint anlässlich ihrer Ausstellung » La même histoire ailleurs« im Westfälischen Kunstverein, die vom 4. September bis 24. Oktober 2010 in Münster gezeigt wird.

Maya Schweizer:
Die selbe Geschichte an einem anderen Ort, weitererzählt, verstreut, fragmentiert, täglich, rückwärts und wieder von vorn.
The Same Story Elsewhere, continued, spread, fragmented, daily, backwards and all over again.
128 Seiten, dt./engl.
Gestaltet von HIT Berlin/London
ISBN: 978-3-940064-97-4
22 Euro

We would like to say a big thanks to everybody who helped make this year’s fair such a success. Hope to see you all next year!

Living Well is the Best Revenge

This publication accompanies the exhibition ¨Living Well is the Best Revenge¨, Tobias Kaspar, Silberkuppe, Berlin.
Design: Tobias Kaspar with Lina Grumm
Edition of 100 copies

http://www.silberkuppe.org/

D 14 €