26-28.11: Motto @ 28 November – An Independent Book Fair. Tirana, Albania

Posted in art, Artist Book, books, fairs, Motto Books on November 24th, 2022
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Motto is pleased to announce its participation to 28 November, from 26 to 28 November 2022.

28 November purveys texts (new, used, bootlegged) that relate to independence, anarchy, spaces of exception, desire, withdrawal, noncompliance, self-management, forms of identification, love.

by appointment
& by chance

@
Destil Creative Hub Tirana
Bulevardi Zogu 1
Tirana, Albania

Tirana Book Fair November 2022 Mix

A selection of music for the micro closed-circuit radio station broadcast during the Tirana Book Fair November 2022, this mix features sounds from:

Koray Kantarcıoğlu
Ferox Maw
Yannick Dauby
Canon singing from MIEN (YAO) hill tribes in China, Vietnam, and Laos, released on Sublime Frequencies
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Amelia Cuni
Cheba Wahida
Barney Wilen
Sugai Ken
Michel Redolfi
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Inoyama Land

Giselle Salon in Marseille | 18 & 19 December | 12-8PM

Posted in events, fairs on December 17th, 2021
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Dear friends,

We are very excited to participate to the very first edition of Giselle Salon in Marseille!

Giselle’s Books Library
28 Rue de Convalescents
Marseille

Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th of December
from 12 to 8pm

If you happen to be in Marseille please don’t lose the opportunity to partecipate to the event too! It will be an occasion to discover various practices, each representing their own approach to knowledge transmission through publishing and distribution.

Drawing conclusions on the book fair format, Giselle Salon seeks to engage with both the public and the guest participants on a more intimate scale. During Giselle Salon, all the books will be for sale and all the proceeds will go towards their organizations.

Looking forward to see you there!

*

Participants:

Apogee Graphics (Los Angeles, USA) 
Apogee Graphics is a design and publishing company founded by artists Laura Owens and Asha Schechter. From their office in the yellow tower of the Westin Bonaventure hotel in downtown Los Angeles they design material and virtual objects with writers, artists, chefs, organizers and others. Apogee approaches each project as content driven design.

BHKM (New York, USA – Hong Kong, HK)
BHKM is a conceptual publishing house run by Ho King Man.
“Outside my windows, there is a four-unlikeness: unlike loneliness, unlike crowdedness, unlike nostalgia, unlike to-be-ness, they are perhaps now-beings, or refer to the colored mirror in hearts, my imaginations.
Inside everyone, have been hidden: unaware, fermented substances. Everyone fails to know, only by every little bit, to touch, to feel.”

Circadian (Berlin, DE)
Circadian is a non-profit publishing house that call its readers to action through handbooks, poetical protocols, manuals, games, experiments and performances. It was founded in Berlin by Diego Agulló and Dmitry Paranyushkin.

Gufo with HOOT (Marseille, FR)
HOOT is a printed conversation, a transcribed verbal relationship with an art worker, a collective around the notion of work as activity, method, environment, field, symbol and necessity. Each month, between the 1st and the 31st, whether it is a Wednesday or a Sunday, HOOT offers to its readers a discussion that we hope will be passionate and open. Each issue will be transcribed according to the language used and shared in the conversation.

Isolarii (Alicudi, IT)
ISOLARII is a series of books by the global avant-garde to provide orientation and meaning in a deteriorating world. A new work is released every two months via subscription and mailed to a community of readers in 32 countries. ISOLARII takes its name from the Renaissance genre of ‘island books,’ which proposed that poems, stories, letters, and illustrations could be singular islands of thought, together forming an archipelago.

Motto (Berlin, DE)
Motto Distribution partners with a wide range of institutions with the aim of contextualising, enriching and diagraming art environments through the means of printed formats. Bridging international distribution, exhibitions and publishing, Motto continues to generate models and experimentation of circulation for visual and textual materials in the context of contemporary art. Recent developments are trying to focus on finding viable solutions to circulate books outside of identified distribution channels. Swaps with other independent stores enable books to be traded cover against cover price within a system that allows their collaborators to transform their books into currency.

Really Simple Syndication Press (Copenhagen, DK)
Really Simple Syndication Press focuses on publishing artistic and curatorial research as a project or part of an extended practice, by both emerging artists and curators and their established counterparts. The press is about developing new readerships in this post-social networked world through a ‘syndication’ model that makes room to support peers in the arts and publishing. To this end, it looks to represent fresh new literature, which reflects the research interests of writers, curators, and artists who are broadening the aesthetic, historical, political, and artistic concerns of our new century. The various active voices invited by RSS into its syndication model will find a new culture of intellectual hospitality that critically fosters their participation into the future.

The Funambulist (Paris, FR)
The Funambulist is a platform that engages with the politics of space and bodies. Their hope is to provide a useful platform where activist/academic/practitioner voices can meet and build solidarities across geographical scales. Through essays, interviews, artworks, and design projects, they assemble an ongoing archive for anticolonial, antiracist, queer, and feminist struggles. The print and online magazine is published every two months and operates in parallel with an open-access podcast and a blog.

Wendy’s Subway (Bushwick, Brooklyn, USA)
Wendy’s Subway is a reading room, writing space, and independent publisher in Bushwick, Brooklyn. They support emerging artists and writers in making experimental, urgent work and create alternative modes for learning and thinking in community. Wendy’s Subway is dedicated to encouraging creative, critical, and discursive engagement with arts and literature. Their interdisciplinary program includes free readings, talks, performances, and reading groups, as well as sliding-scale writing workshops and intensives. The non-circulating library holds a collection of over 3,000 titles, ranging from poetry and fiction, to criticism and art books.

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Mount Moon: the Basel Tour (2013). Saâdane Afif. Motto Books

Posted in art, Artist Book, books, distribution, drawing, fairs, performance on June 9th, 2015

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Original drawings by: Wesley Bryon, commissioned by Saâdane Afif for Mount Moon: the Basel Tour (2013), performed in the framework of LISTE 18 performance project, June 11 – June 16, Basel, Switzerland, 2013, curated by Fabian Schöneich.

The book comes with a dust jacket designed by Katharina Kritzler.

Edition of 1000

€20.00

Buy it

Multiple Art Days. Maison Rouge. Paris. 22-24.05.2015

Posted in events, fairs on May 13th, 2015

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Motto @ Papertrail book fair, Melbourne. Saturday 25th May.

Posted in books, fairs, Motto Melbourne event, zines on May 23rd, 2013
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Papertrail #2

The second installment of Papertrail events will be held this Saturday 25th May.

MOTTO
KNOWLEDGE EDITIONS
SURPLLUS
SMALLTIME BOOKS / HEAVYTIME
PERIMETER BOOKS
SERPS ZINE

10 – 16 hr

Magic Johnston
27 – 29 Johnston Street
Collingwood, Melbourne
3066 VIC

 

 

 

 

PA/PER VIEW Art Book Fair at WIELS. 23-24.03.2013 (11-6 pm)

Posted in books, events, fairs, Motto @ Wiels on February 14th, 2013
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COBRA/ MOTTO @ arteBA 2012. Buenos Aires. 18-22.05.2012

Posted in fairs on May 19th, 2012

Cobra/ Motto – Stand BJ2

18-22.05.2012
La Rural
Avenida Sarmiento 2704, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

www.cobralibros.com.ar
www.arteba.org

FOOL FOR APRIL Kunst, Musik, Fool+Drinks — 5. + 6. Mai @ Perla-Mode

Posted in fairs, Motto Zürich store on May 4th, 2012
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FOOL FOR APRIL Kunst, Musik, Fool+Drinks

Motto will be at Perla Mode this week end (5–6th of May) from 11-23h (Sat.) and 11-17h (Sun.).
More information below:

PA/PER VIEW Art Book Fair 23-25 March 2012 @ Wiels

Posted in books, calendar, editions, events, fairs, Motto @ Wiels on March 19th, 2012

Spike Island: Artists’ Books and Zine Fair, 8.10.2011

Posted in books, fairs on October 6th, 2011
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Again, A Time Machine ends with a bang as the galleries are taken over by purveyors of artists’ books, zines and other ephemera. Over thirty international publishers, artists’ projects and collectives working across the fields of art, design, illustration, literature, philosophy and politics descend on Bristol for this very special event.

A series of workshops, screenings, talks and impromptu reading groups punctuate the day and extend into the evening. These include The Happy Hypocrite: Miniature Essay, a series of collaborative performances co-hosted by Maria Fusco and Spike Associates. Carlisle/Bristol based record label Motive Sounds provides musical entertainment till late. Free posters, part of Jonathan Monk’s A Poster Project, are available to pick up for one day only, and you can contribute your own work to the day’s events: submissions of text and images are invited for publication through Steven Paige’s Bibliophile project.

12-5pm, Gallery 2
Artists’ Book and Zine Fair
Åbäke/Dent-De-Leone, AND Publishing, Banner Repeater, Bedford Press, Bibliophile/Steven Paige, Book Works, Cultural Democracy Editions, Eastside Projects, Francesco Pedraglio, Gagarin, G39/WARP, Invisible Books, Homeland, InterCity MainLine, LemonMelon, Malgras|Naudet/Magnus Quaife, Motive Sounds, Motto Berlin, Marbled Reams, Mute, Occasional Papers, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, The Piracy Project, Plenty Projects/Bridget Crone, Radical Philosophy, Spike Associates, Transmission Publications, Toby Huddlestone, Torpedo Press, Urbanomic, Zero Books, 2HB, and Jonathan Monk’s A Poster Project

Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX, UK