The Federal #4

CONTENTS

Antanas Gerlikas introduces some of the words
An afternoon at Algirdas Šeskus and Milda Šeškuviene’s with Aurime Aleksandraviciute, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Raimundas Malašauskas, Elena Narbutaite and Jonas Žakaitis
Jonas Žakaitis talks with Ron Eglash
Chris Fitzpatrick talks with Francis Heylighen
Elena Narbutaite’s main idea

COLOPHON

Editors: Aurime Aleksandraviciute, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Jonas Žakaitis
Copy editor: Josephine Baker-Heaslip
Translations: Jurij Dobriakov
Editorial assistance: Ruta Juneviciute, Viktorija Rybakova
Published: May 2013
Cover: Transit (2012), an open file by Gintaras Didžiapetris
Designed by: Joseph Miceli & Lina Ozerkina (alfa60 / friends make books)
Format: 16 x 24 cm, 42 pages, soft cover, stapled, B&W offset printing
Printed by: Petro ofsetas, Vilnius, Lithuania
Number of copies: 300

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE:

Gintaras Didžiapetris is an artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Ron Eglash is a cyberneticist and ethno-mathematician based in New York, US.
Chris Fitzpatrick is a curator and director of Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium.
Antanas Gerlikas is an artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Francis Heylighen is a cyberneticist based in Brussels, Belgium.
Raimundas Malašauskas is a curator based in Brussels, Belgium.
Elena Narbutaite is an artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Algirdas Šeškus is an artist and bioenergetics practicioner based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Milda Šeškuviene is an art historian based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Viktoras Vaicikauskas is a physicist and engineer based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Jonas Žakaitis and Aurime Aleksandraviciute are currently in the middle of Oo, www.oo-oo.co

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Plethora Magazine Issue 1

Language : English
Pages : 51
Size : 50.5 x 70.5 cm

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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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The Burning Sands magazine is a new art publication from Glasgow, designed by Sophie Dyer and Maeve Redmond. In the first issue the contributors are a mix of emergent and established artists: Giles Bailey (London), Rob Churm (Glasgow), Romany Dear (Glasgow), Mark Hamilton (Leipzig), Ashanti Harris (Glasgow), Chris Johanson (Los Angeles), Tom Worthington (Glasgow), Richard Wright (Glasgow), and working collaboratively, Katy Edelsten (London) & Annie Hazelwood (London), Barry Burns (Glasgow) & Louise Shelley (London) and Laura Smith (London) & Rebecca Wilcox (Glasgow). It is 48 pages, black and white throughout, with a colour cover.

Editor: Sarah Lowndes
Language: English
Pages: 48
Binding: Softcover

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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

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Un Trou célèbre
Vie et mort de Bill Ronson

Mêlant les vies du traumatisé cérébral Phineas Gage et du sociopate excentrique John Samuelson, Jérémie Gindre compose une novella épique pleine d’espoirs déçus, de colères injustifiées et de lubies maniaques, au beau milieu du désert de Mojave.
Résultat d’une résidence aux Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives et Centre Interfacultaire en Neurosciences de Genève, ce livre est le dixième ouvrage d’une bibliographie remarquablement hétéroclite.

French – 60 pages. 9 illustrations.
edition 400

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Dérive #51. Christoph Laimer (Ed.).

Inhalt:

Editorial
Christoph Laimer

Verstädterung der Arten:
Verstädterung der Arten
Amir Fahim, Christina Linortner
1000 Tauben
Amir Fahim
Necropolis I
Amir Fahim, Christina Linortner
Necropolis II
Lukasz Nieradzik, Amir Fahim, Christina Linortner
We Have Never Been Earth
Ralo Mayer
So wie Natur ist, bleibt sie nicht
Isabella Amir
Animal Beauty
Alexander Nikolic
Literaturtipps zum Schwerpunkt
Christina Linortner, Amir Fahim

Kunstinserts:
The Games Are Open
Folke Köbberling, Martin Kaltwasser, Barbara Holub, Paul Rajakovics

Magazin:
Zürich bewohnen
André Bideau
Conentious Informalities
Christian Haid

Serie: Geschichte der Urbanität:
Postmoderne V – Vorboten der Postmoderne
Manfred Russo

Besprechungen:
Die selbstgemachte Stadt, Teil 2
Robert Temel
Rote Flora: »Autonomes Disneyland« oder »Basis der ›Intelligenz‹ der Autonomen«?
Bernd Hüttner
Moderne-Projekte, vollendet und unvollendet
Iris Meder
Großwohnsiedlungen in Bratislava und ihre versteckte Anmut
Marián Potocˇár
Gesellschaftsanalyse durch Ortsbegehungen
Mirjam Pot
Vom Glück des Experiments
Maxie Jost
Einladende Orte für soziale Aktivitäten – Wie öffentliche Räume entstehen…
Udo Häberlin
Wien um 1900. Wiener Kunstgewerbe 1890-1938
Noëmi Leemann

68 pages
Languages : Deutsch – English

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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

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A new art school? Statements by 30 artists, writers and architects.

Over the past two decades, Berlin’s growth into an international art metropolis has brought many people to the city. A number of these imports teach art – seemingly in all other cities but Berlin. The city’s two schools providing full-scale arts education – the Universität der Künste (UdK) and the Hochschule Berlin Weissensee – were established long before 1989.

Since 2006, if not before, discussions about the UdK’s organizational and administrative politics have flared up – generated, for one, by the stepping down of Stan Douglas and Daniel Richter as professors, a development the UdK attempted to atone for by appointing prominent professors such as Olafur Eliasson (whose assignment though ends March 2014). Weissensee has seen an outflow of professors with international profiles to teaching posts in other cities – Karin Sander has taught in Zurich since 2007, Katharina Grosse in Düsseldorf since 2010 – and the school has gone the way of appointing guest professors and lecturers.

Reputations, ratings and capacities for reform aside, the question still presents itself whether Berlin, given its manifold art scene, is in need of new models and directions for its art education. In 2006–7, the one-year temporary project unitednationsplaza underscorred the city’s desire for an informal art school mediating its larger, international art discourse.

Does the current situation suffice? If not, what form would a new institute ideally take? frieze d/e asked Monica BONVICINI, Helmut DRAXLER, Tom HOLERT and Robert KUDIELKA for extended responses to these questions. A set of additional artists and theorists also contributed shorter statements.

Finally, six artists and architects – Roger BUNDSCHUH, Eva GRUBINGER, Sabine HORNIG, Michelle HOWARD, KUEHN MALVEZZI, and Studio MIESSEN – were asked to submit concrete drafts for the design and structure of a new art academy.

And much more…

Editors: Matthew Slotover, Amanda Sharp
Language: German / English
Pages: 158

Price: €8.50
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Die Kurzfassung des Inhaltes:

- Timbuktu muss warten: Vier Karawanen, ein Tuareg und ein Schlangenei: Warum das Pulverfass Mali zwingend hochgehen musste.
Von Michael Stührenberg

- Zwischen zwei Müttern: Als Baby gestohlen und verschenkt, als Jugendlicher mit der Wahrheit konfrontiert: Ein argentinisches Schicksal.
Von Erwin Koch

- Singapurs Putzfrauen: Unter prekären Bedingungen gehalten, machen die Maids der Expats deren Erfolg erst möglich.
Von Milena Moser

- Die Zellen meiner Schwester: Wenn der eigene Körper zum Feind wird. Ein Selbsterfahrungsbericht.
Von Christian Schmidt

- Walsaison: Auf den Färöer-Inseln ist die Grindwaljagd der Höhepunkt des Jahres. Tierschutz und Tradition prallen dabei aufeinander.
Von Linus Reichlin

-Bayrisches Requiem: Eine Autobahn führt bald durch das idyllische Isental – Melkstuhlromantik und Grossstadtleben wachsen zusammen.
Von Sabine Riedel

-Hügel 875: Die historische Reportage – von 1930
Von Oriana Fallaci

-Autorin im Gespräch: Milena Moser

-Das Objekt: Am Anfang dieser kleinen Reportage steht die Welt. Genauer gesagt: ein 450-jähriger, über zwei Meter hoher Globus, der im Landesmuseum Zürich zu sehen ist. Unser Autor Urs Mannhart, der gerne musealen Gegenständen nachspürt, landete auf den Spuren dieser Erdkugel hinter dicken Klostermauern – und stiess auf einen zähen, interkantonalen Streit und eine handwerklich bestrickende Schöpfungsgeschichte.
Von Urs Mannhart

-Keine Geschichte: Er gilt als der Billigste der Stadt. 25 Franken kostet ein Haarschnitt, dazu gibt es Tee und Stille. Die Angestellten, die gerade keine Kundschaft haben, sitzen in Lederstühlen und blicken zum Flachbildschirm, der seit neun Jahren an der Decke hängt und das neuste Gerät ist in Coiffeur Salehs Laden an der Josefstrasse 141, Kreis 5, Zürich, 30 Quadratmeter Syrien, 3000 Kilometer von Syrien entfernt.
Von Florian Leu

-Claudio Calabrese: Am 3. März haben wir es der Welt wieder einmal gezeigt. Das Schweizer Stimmvolk hat die Abzocker aus den Chefetagen der Grosskonzerne in die Schranken gewiesen, sie Mores gelehrt. Die direkte Demokratie zeigte ihre Zähne. Fast jeder und jede dritte Stimmberechtigte stimmte für die Initiative von Mundwassermann Minder. Ex-Botschafter Borer attestierte den Schweizern danach im «Spiegel» ein «sehr grosses Gerechtigkeitsgefühl». Wir sind das einzig wahrlich souveräne Volk der Welt. Müsste man meinen.
Von Claudio Calabrese

Editor: Daniel Puntas Bernet
Language: German
Pages: 144

Price: €15.00
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