Wild Things Are Going To Happen. Henrik Schrat. Eastside Projects.

Henrik Schrat’s Wild Things Are Going To Happen captures a hallucinatory journey in the life of Dan Graham, the iconic artist of ‘Rock my Religion’ fame.
Exploring the Digbeth and Eastside areas of Birmingham, Dan is joined by Eastside Projects Directors Gavin Wade and Celine Condorelli, curator Maurizio Bortolotti, and architect Joe Hollyoak.
The group fall through the looking glass and are confronted by the polymorpheus utopia and dystopia of present time, the historical, and the ‘just passed’. They travel from Birmingham’s Bull Ring to Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion via Dan’s sculptures and are transformed and transported to a submerged world, where Jaques Lacan sells the group tickets to theHall of Mirrors in Versailles!
Explore the complex web of theories, FACTS AND FICTIONS between Dan Flavin, the 19th Century American Hudson River School of Painting, science fiction and Cedric Price. And just who is Sverre Fehn?
Henrik Schrat’s graphic novel is a violent splash into the inner workings of one of the most influential artists on the planet.

ISBN: 9781906753269
132 pages
Language English

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Control Order House. Edmund Clark. Here Press.

Edmund Clark is the first artist to work and stay in a house in which a man suspected of involvement with terrorist-related activity was placed under a Control Order in the UK.
‘Control Order House’ explores this form of detention through photographs and architectural representations of the house, and the handwritten diary of the man known only as CE. The book includes redacted documents relating to CE’s case. Clark’s implication in the process is further revealed through his correspondence from the Home Office, which makes clear the control and censorship imposed on his work inside the house. Any material could become part of CE’s case.
Clark says: ‘This archetypal semi-detached house in a faceless suburb is the physical manifestation of a form of detention without trial in the UK. It represents the reaction of a government and society to the fear and chaos of terrorist attacks.’
‘Control Order House’ engages with ideas of control in photography by foregoing the normal process of editing and mediation to reproduce the images, unedited, in the order in which Clark took them, exploring the monotony and claustrophobia of a controlled person’s life. The inclusion of official documents and correspondence also illustrates the weight of state actors against the individual.

About Control Orders
Control Orders were introduced under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005. Between 2005 and 2011, 52 men suspected of involvement in terrorism were under Control Orders and subject to various constraints. These included the power to relocate them to a house anywhere in the country, to restrict communication electronically and in person, and to impose a curfew. ‘Controlled persons’ were not prosecuted for terrorist-related activity and the evidence against them remained secret. One man was subject to these controls for more than four years. Control Orders were replaced by Terrorist Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPIMs) in 2012. Nine men are currently subject to a TPIM.

ISBN : 978-0-9574724-0-2
128 pages
Language : English

Price : 57 €
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“Architecture is a collective knowledge produced through the efforts of a multitude.within their multitude, two forms of collaboration unfold: a synchronic one, and a diachronic one, which connects all design attempts in a multifaceted Architectura Universalis.

The Possibility of collaboration now relies upon a broader “agreement with” all previous architecture.To put it another way, collaboration today is based on collaborations of the past. Indeed, it is possible to collaborate precisely because there is a shared body of knowledge that provides the basis for agreement. Collaboration is possible because architectural knowledge is one and given, and thus inevitably shared”

SAN ROCCO is a magazine about architecture.
SAN ROCCO does not solve problems. It is not a useful magazine.
SAN ROCCO is neither serious nor friendly.
SAN ROCCO is written by architects. As such, SAN ROCCO is not particularly intelligent, or philologically accurate. In SAN ROCCO, pictures are more important than texts.
SAN ROCCO is serious. It takes the risk of appearing naive.
SAN ROCCO will not last for ever. There will be no more than 20 SAN ROCCOs for the single five-year plan.
San Rocco is the name of a place in Monza, not a nice place. Giorgio Grassi and Aldo Rossi engaged in a design competition for this place in 1971. The project was not built; ordinary housing blocks were built instead.

Editor: Matteo Ghidoni
Language: English
Pages: 196

Price: €15.00
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Modern Matter’s fourth issue, Made In USA, is a collaboration with London’s ICA gallery, created on the eve of a major retrospective by the New York-based art collective, the Bernadette Corporation (making it the first independent magazine to act as an ICA partner). Its cover star is the iconic American actress, Chloë Sevigny; the issue’s content is themed, in part, around the dual ideals of Art and America, and includes an exploration of the New York art scene.

Editor: Olu Michael Odukoya
Language: English
Pages: 189
Size: 27.5 x 21 cm
Binding: Softcover

Price: €10.00
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Frog #12

Frog is a contemporary art and architecture magazine, published twice a year.

Issue 12 contains 17 exhibition reviews, 4 interviews, 10 exhibitions in pictures, artist’s special projects, and the chronicles.

Features: Paul Bernard, Thomas Bizien, Yves Brochard, Gaetan Brunet, Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff, Gregory Cardon, Yan Ceh, Pierre-Henri Chauveau, Camille de Chenay, Antoine Espinasseau, Pierre Even, Marina Faust, Franck Gautherot, Daniele Gibrat, Maria Del Greco, Alex Israel, Dominique Issermann, Catherine Laubier, Marjolaine Levy, Flavien Menu, Alexandra Midal, Vincent Normand, Paquita Paquin, Armelle Portelli, Fabien Pinaroli, Anne Pontegnie, Douglass Ross, Jesse Seegers, Ida Soulard, Jennifer Teets, Nicolas Trembley, Annie Troncy-Rosen, Virginie Vuillaume, Chloe Valadie, Benoit Viguier, Arnaud Viviant, Jordan Wolfson, Mei Lun Xue.

Edited by Eric Troncy and Stéphanie Moisdon, Frog is an international art and architecture magazine.
Graphic design: M/M (Paris).
English / French
23 x 30 cm

Price: €18.00

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Das Jubilaeums-Heft Nr. 50 widmet Dérive mit einem umfassenden Schwerpunkt der »Strasse«, gehoert sie doch zur Geschichte der Stadt wie die Rille zur Schallplatte und verlockte an ihren Kreuzungspunkten zu ersten urbanen Ansiedlungen. Strassen dien(t)en der politischen Macht zur Demonstration derselben ebenso wie der Opposition zum Protest. Sie stehen als oeffentlicher Raum im Mittelpunkt einer angeregten Debatte und werden leider immer noch in erster Linie als Verkehrsraum gesehen, der vorrangig dem motorisierten Individualverkehr zu dienen hat.

Author: Christoph Laimer
Publisher: Dérive
Language: German
Pages: 68
Size: 27.5 x 21 cm
Binding: Softcover

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Tuned City is a research platform from Berlin that creates a dialogue between the worlds of architecture, city planning and sound art, trying to use the possibilities of the spatial and communicative properties of sound as an instrument in artistic and urban practices. Q-O2, a workplace for experimental music and sound art, invites Tuned City to Brussels in 2013. The aim is studying the given urban and architectural situation, and experiencing and evaluating the city from an acoustic point of view.

On February 12th, Carsten Stabenow, founder of Tuned City, will briefly introduce the project and will give an outlook on the plans for Brussels. Dr. Lamberto Tronchin, Professor in Environmental Physics from the University of Bologna, recognised internationally as a leading authority on the subject of sound and acoustics and a pianist himself, will open the evening with a lecture about one of the most inspiring thinkers of sound and space in the 17th century, Athanasius Kircher. The Belgian architect and urban planner Luc Deleu, questions with his utopian projects the role of architecture and urbanism in the modern age, their position and duty in a global society and opens with his visions new perspectives of thinking architecture. Ariane Wilson, architect and art historian at the RWTH Aachen focussed her research on the role of sound in city and architecture and will give an overview about the current developments in that field.

A performance by Justin Bennett, who focusses in his work on the relationship between architecture and sound, will play with the elasticity of the concept of ‘space’.

Camenzind #10

Inhalt / Content (die eine Hälfte der Beiträge ist Deutsch, die andere Englisch):
- Die 80ies. Das Interview mit Bettina Köhler
- Jessica Bridger: Belief in massive failure – The Space Shuttle Challenger
- Krishna Bharathi: My Father’s Car
- Stephan Becker: Dreiundzwanzig Jahre später
- Laura J Gerlach: Pre-Facebook-Time / Memphis-Design
- Markus Podehl: “Weil er sich immerzu dreht, kehrt er zurück, der Wind”
- The Caretaker. Interview with Tom Emerson
- Sonja Malm: Kill your Landlord. Kreuzberg, die 80er und die Gegenwart
- Dennis Schep: Ghosts in the Machine. The Supernatural is/in Technology
- Leila Peacock: Megalithic Modernism and a Modern Megalith
- Aleksander Tokarz: “That’s just Rubbish”
- William Davis: Welcome to Foreign
- Christian Salewski on Scenarios
- Busters-Interview. Memory spielen mit Florian Graf

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In this issue: A 60 page diary of the Venice Architecture Biennale by Juergen Teller, an interview and visual essay with Luc Tuymans, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Asad Raza on art, Andy Murray & the U.S. Open, an interview with ARS’ Gerfried Stocker, an essay by Joe Fyfe, menswear from Jil Sander, Issey Miyake, Louis Vuitton and Dries Van Noten.

Editor: Olu Michael Odukoya
Language: English
Pages: 189
Size: 27.5 x 21 cm
Binding: Softcover

Price: €10.00
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Glotzt nicht so romantisch! On Extralegal Space in Belgrade. Dubravka Sekulic

In the extra-territory of the Belgrade roof extensions, things are not quite what they appear to be at first glance. This book, which starts from the enigmatic extensions of the so-called Russian Pavilions, scrutinizes this extra-territory. Not only are the pavilions not Russian, but more importantly the act of extending them in the 2000s follows particular shady negotiations between inhabitants, developers and municipal authorities, which placed the extensions beyond simple (il)legality.
“Glotzt Nicht so Romantisch!” delves into the political and legal origins of this extra-territory, through which the housing policy of socialist Yugoslavia is traced, during the 1990s with property turning from “ours” into “mine”, and the 2000s when the attitude of transgressing urban regulations became the norm, which explains much of the vast extra-legal urban interventions that shape the city today.

Laguage: English

Price: 13.00€

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