Berlin Sampler – Le son de Berlin de 1904 à 2009, Théo Lessour

Sampler is a series of city music guides. It proposes new ways to see how music interacts with it’s suroundings, and new ways to discover a city. Berlin Sampler, the first of the series, was released in November 2009.

Music was an extremely important factor in the creation of the berlin identity. But it is strangely very often forgotten in many of the books about the city, and the knowledge of Berlin music history is most of the times way smaller than the one on art, movies, architecture… This book offers keys to listen to the city of expressionism, dada, silent movies, cabaret, Bauhaus, hyperinflation, nazi and communist dictatorship, cold war, Airlift, 68 riots and student protest, alternative movments, fall of the Wall and Love Parade. It helps discover music pieces that were often forgotten and put the famous ones in a new light, that shows the inner breathing of the city through history. : dada sound poetry, electronic music in the 30’s, german swing under the third Reich, free radical music from 68, DDR punk, the genius-dilettant movement of the 80’s, and the minimal techno…. there are many creatures in the berliner Zoo.

Ollendorff & Desseins Publishing

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Volume One: What Happened?

Including BLITZ by Derek Ridgers, Rosetta Brooks in ZG magazine, Zeitleiste: January 1980 and December 1981, The Beginning of the Green Party, William S. Burroughs and Andy Warhol at the Chelsea Hotel, Slavoj Žižek / Interview, Alain Badiou on Jacques Lacan, Eric B. Mitchell / Interview, Excerpt from René Ricard’s The Radiant Child, Robert Longo / Interview

D 19.50€

Volume Two: California über alles

Including Ear by Isa Genzken, Tatum O’Neal & family by Brad Elterman, Playlist by DJ Hell, two more films, Giorgio Moroder / Interview, Paul Schrader  / Interview, Timeline: February 1980, October Surprise, also by Gary Sick, Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr/ Interview, Hello America / The Presidents, JG Ballard, Timeline: November 1981

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Volume Three: Mao III

Including Triangle, Trois Femmes by Pierre Christin and Enki Bilal, Interview Don DeLillo, J.G. Ballard, My Father, and Me by Mei-Lun Xue, Timeline: March 1980 and October 1981

D 18€

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Volume Four: u² – 4u + 8 = 0

Including Wolfgang Pauli, Viktor Kortschnoi, Max Bill, Andy Warhol, CG Jung, Angela Bulloch, Robert Fludd, Charles and Ray Eames, Dan Graham, Bob Wilson, Alexander von Schlieffen, Richard Feynman, Samuel Beckett, Aylin Langreuter/Christophe de la Fontaine, Mario Juruna, Niels Bohr, Pope John Paul II, Kasimir Malevich, Oskar Schlemmer

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Edited by Georg Diez and Christopher Roth, Published by Edition Patrick Frey

All texts in English

Stolen Works of Art by  Olivier Lebrun

This Catalogue, is a compilation of 124 works of art collected on the Interpol website on may 21st, 2010. They’re classified by Interpol as “Recent Stolen Works of Art” and reproduced here with their administrative number as caption. The process of transformation from stolen artworks to low-file jpeg reproductions, means a dematerialization of the physical pieces which exist now as a data collection. The publication uses the replication of these datas, as a tool for reinterpretation of a collection and therefore, an exhibition in this 130×200mm space

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#9 Conversations in Luanda and Other Graphic Stories

#10 Futbol, Politricks & Ostentatious Cripples

#11 Conversations with poets who refuse to speak

Features a heady mix of words and images that give voice to silence. So much has been said about speech: speaking up, speaking for oneself, not being allowed to speak, speaking for the other who’d rather speak for self, but very little is said about the virtue of silence. So much said about making oneself visible, but little said about mining the rich depths of absence. This issue is about silence, disappearing oneself as act. Though it’s often one of abdication, could it be defiance, resistance even? – a challenging idea, in a culture where struggle about seeking exposure, giving voice, making visible and all that stuff…

#12&13 Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber

#12 : An all-faxion issue on black technologies no longer secret.
Featuring words and images by Allan “Botsotso” Kolsky, Koffi Kwahule, Joao Barreiros, Olufemi Terry, Doreen Baigaina, Stacy Hardy, Akin Adesokan, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, JG Ballard, Emmanuel Dongala, Blank du Blanc, Jean Malaquais, Liesl Jobson, Peter Kalu, Dominique Malaquais, Basim Magdy, Jean Lamore, Femi ?Rage? Dawkins, James Sey, Minette Vari, Teju Cole and Rana Dasgupta.

#13 : 13 documents the (un)making of: Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber (Louis Chude-Sokei; Victor Gama); Mannenberg (John Edwin Mason; Abdullah Ibrahim); The Last Angel of History (John Akomfrah and Edward George and BAFC); Les Saignates (Jean-Pierre Bekolo Obama); Les Saignantes 2 (Lionel Manga), SAPE (Baudouin Mouanda); a painting (Pume Bylex); Julumbu (Abu Bakarr Mansaray); Palestinian Walls (Eyal Weizman); Beaubourg (Luca Frei) and Slackers like Nkrumah and Sartre (Shirana Shahbazi, Tirdad Zolghadr and Faouzi Rouissi).

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On the Self-Reflexive Page, Louis Lüthi

The subject of this book is the page, and the pages reproduced in it are taken from works of literature (or, in some cases, art books that derive specifically from literature). Lüthi presents them thematically, resulting in a typology of self-reflexive pages: Black Pages, Blank Pages, Drawing Pages, Photography Pages, Text Pages, Number Pages, and Punctuation Pages. In literature, such devises are often used as a counterpoint to what has preceded or what will follow in the narrative.

Published by Roma Pulications.

Out of Print

A not B, Uta Eisenreich

Book with recent photographic work by Uta Eisenreich focussing on the shortcomings of our cognitive tool-kit. A NOT B walks us along the fine line between common sense and uncommon nonsense in a realm reminiscent of pre-school books, assessment tests and optical illusions.

Published by Roma Publications
(out of print)

Trinity – Andrew McClintock

Edition of 150 copies, published by Für immer

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Little Joe No. 1

Little Joe is a new biannual publication looking at film from a different perspective. It is a direct move away from the traditional method of reviewing all current and future releases towards a more selective and eclectic focus on films that inspire alternative discourse

Risograph printed

Edition of 500

D 12€
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Komfort Mag #4

Featuring photos by Jiří Thýn, Johana Pošová, Dušan Tománek, Jiří Karásek, Radeq Brousil, Petra Ondřejková, Romana Drdová, Jana Šprinclová and Megan Cullen. Ilustrations are from Petra Josefína Stibitzová and Yulie Yakushová. Memorable interviews were conducted with Petr Všetečka, the architect who reconstructed the National Monument in Vítkov in Prague (interviewed by Dušan Tománek), and with Tomáš Vojáček, a forensic surgeon (interviewed by Ondřej Formánek a Luděk Staněk).

This issue of Komfort is also completely bilingual, written in both Czech and English languages.

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1:1:1 # 1 Eylem Aladogan Niessen and de Vries Drukkerij Mart. Spruijt

1:1:1 is a series of publications in which printing matter converges with the subject matter, the image with the text, the reproduction with the original and the designer and the printer with the client. An artist, designer or musician is the point of departure for each of the numbers in this series, and the subject of conversation is the basis for investigating graphic design and printing as a form of expression.

Published by Uitgeverij Boek

Edition of 500

D 7,5 €

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