The Fox #4. Mathew Whittington (Ed.) Werkplaats Typografie.

Posted in magazines, writing on February 11th, 2014
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The Fox #4. Mathew Whittington (Ed.) Werkplaats Typografie.

A Fox in a Trap: Charles Nodier
Animals Again: Esther Leslie & Ben Watson
Oliver Twist and the Werewolf of London: Bill Sikes, Bull’s Eye, and Biopolitics: Bill Hutchison
The Fox Helps: Kristen Gallerneaux Brooks
Heidegger the Fox: Hannah Arendt
Tame Beasts: on obedience: Federico Campagna
The Burrow: Franz Kafka
Foxface: Mabli Elliman
Monsters & Messiahs: Mike Davis
The Rustle of Language: Roland Barthes
A New Experimental Method for an Anthropology of Things (or, An Agony in Five Fits): Hermione Spriggs
The Last Chapter: P.-J. Stahl
And including contributions from Valentijn Goethals, Daniel Arsham, Melissa Pilon, Leonard van Munster, Tetsuo Mukai, and Paul Elliman.

Edited and Designed by Mathew Whittington
Contributing Editors: Paul Elliman, Hermione Spriggs
Publisher: Werkplaats Typografie
Language: English
Pages: 144

Price: €10.00

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Edit #63. Jörn Dege, Mathias Zeiske (Eds.). Edit Literaturzeitschrift.

Posted in magazines, poetry, writing on February 11th, 2014
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Edit #63. Jörn Dege, Mathias Zeiske (Eds.). Edit Literaturzeitschrift.

Edit Papier für neue Texte: Winter 2013/14

Editorial
Janko Marklein – Wir machen das
Andre Rudolph – erythema migrans
Kathrin Röggla – Der Lärmkrieg (Auszug)
Pascal Richmann – A Boy named Roy

Edit Essaypreis 2013
Noemi Schneider – Oh Boy, ich hasse Rot!
Sebastian Koth – Du berührst die Erde, dass sie deine Zeugin werde.
Lina Morawetz – Motten

Dossier Konzeptuelles Schreiben
Kenneth Goldsmith – Paragraphen zum Konzeptuellen Schreiben
Christian Bök – Eunoia
Robert Fitterman – Metropolis
Vanessa Place – Was ist Konzeptualismus?
Ara Shirinyan – Your Country is Great
Elisabeth Clark – Between Words
Swantje Lichtenstein – Vom Lesen, Schreiben und den Konzepten

Anne Waak – Wie ich einmal Ferien mit Claude Lanzmann machte
Danilo Scholz – Gläserne Jugend, gläserne Kämpfe:
Edward Snowden als militanter Bürokrat
Katharina Stooß – Kein einfacher Mensch

Bildteil: Edgar Leciejewski

Price: €5.00

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Show, Demonstrate, Exchange. Performance – Art – Academy, Discoteca Flaming Star and John Paul Raether (Eds.). State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, performance, writing on January 29th, 2014
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Show, Demonstrate, Exchange. Performance – Art – Academy, Discoteca Flaming Star and John Paul Raether (Eds.).  State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.

A publication by the department of Fine Arts / Intermedia Arts of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.

Edited by Discoteca Flaming Star and John Paul Raether.
Contributions: Jeremiah Day , Felix Ensslin, Sabrina Karl, Karolin Meunier, Yorgos Sapountzis, Ute Waldhausen, and others.

Johannes Paul Raether and Discoteca Flaming Star document the performances and discussions of the first two organised events in Berlin and Stuttgart. In addition, texts by the artists Karolin Meunier and Jeremiah Day, specially written for the publication, deepen the immediate impressions of the evenings and reflect from their own practice problems developed in the field of performance, art and academy.

Deutsche / English
164 pages, b/w illustrations

€10
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GIRL ON CANVAS. Pola Dwurnik, Izabela Kaszyńska (Eds.). Apolonia Dwurnik

Posted in painting, writing on January 29th, 2014
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GIRL ON CANVAS. Pola Dwurnik, Izabela Kaszyńska (Eds.).

GIRL ON CANVAS is an artbook project by Pola Dwurnik about painting and its reception. It will show a new life of Dwurnik’s paintings, one completely uncontorlled by the artist ? life born in minds and hearts of over 30 various personalities, who wrote texts for the publication. The book will be both openly personal and bravely intimate. Subversive, rascally and girlish. A subtle riot.

Painting is not dead. It is the viewers who are lifeless or stunned. Though not all and that is precisely what this book is about. It is about how a girl, painted on a canvas, can communicate with us.
I have long noticed that visitors to my studio discover interesting and surprising aspects and narratives in the paintings; often far from what I had intended. Motivated by a desire to preserve such unusual interpretations, I decided in December 2011 to create a collection of stories based on a selection of my works. I commissioned the texts from friends, artistic collaborators, people that think about the world much as I do, or simply those with whom I share a passion and respect for the art of painting. I deliberately chose not to invite other painters for their professional and technical perspective merits a separate publication. The various authors of Girl on Canvas hold different values and subscribe to a variety of worldviews, which means this book does not represent any single milieu. Rather, it brings together people from various walks of life through my paintings. Girl on Canvas is also a review of the first dozen or so years of my painting practice. Here, using the words of others, I am looking at my work from a distance so that I can continue developing as an artist in a conscious and responsible way. P.D.

Concept and graphic design: Dagny & Daniel Szwed (moonmadness.eu)
Print run: 1000 (100 numbered and signed)
356 pages
Paper: Panta Alto 130 G
Hardcover

€29
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Language to Cover a Page. Kristen Mueller. Motto Books / & So.

Posted in literature, poetry, typography, writing on January 15th, 2014
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Language to Cover a Page. Kristen Mueller. Motto Books / & So.

Working within a lineage which encompasses Joseph Kosuth’s Purloined (in which the author assembled a single novel from individual pages of different books), Tom Phillips’s A Humument (in which the author creates a new narrative by drawing on top of existing pages) and Ronald Johnson’s Radi Os (in which the author erases words from Milton’s Paradise Lost to create a stirring new poem), Mueller has done more than simply “compose the holes.” With Language to Cover a Page, Mueller has carefully aligned excerpts from disparate books—with differing typefaces intact—into two evolving pages. These pages crescendo before our very eyes, a flipbook of accumulating meaning, where with the passing of every page the narrative becomes aware of its own developing presence. —Derek Beaulieu (excerpt from text insert accompanying the book)

Language: English
Pages: 316
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-2-940524-09-9

www.andsobooks.com

Price: €22.00
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Making Worlds. Amelia Barikin & Helen Hughes (Eds.). Surpllus.

Posted in Film, literature, science, Theory, writing on January 7th, 2014
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Making Worlds. Amelia Barikin & Helen Hughes (Eds.). Surpllus.

Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction is an anthology of new texts by artists, curators, art historians and writers who are self-confessed science fiction fans. The linking point is the idea of science fiction as a platform for the building of alternate art histories. This collection is concerned with the ways in which science fiction might be performed, materialised or enacted within a contemporary context.

Edited by Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes, with contributions by: Adrian Martin, Amelia Barikin, Andrew Frost, Anthony White, Arlo Mountford, Brendan Lee, Charles Green, Chris McAuliffe, Chronox, Damiano Bertoli, Darren Jorgensen, Dylan Martorell, Edward Colless, Helen Hughes, Helen Johnson, Justin Clemens, Lauren Bliss, Matthew Shannon, Nathan Gray, Nick Selenitsch, OSW, Patrick Pound, Philip Brophy, Rex Butler, Ryan Johnston, and Soda_Jerk.

Design by Brad Haylock

Softcover, 320 pages.

15 €

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The White Review No. 9.

Posted in Journals, literature, poetry, writing on December 21st, 2013

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The White Review No. 9.

Contents:

Ordinary Voids by Patrick Langley (Essay)

Vladimir Sorokin (Interview)

Chess Review Storyboard by Marcel Dzama (Art)

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author James Murphy’s Notes on Nicola Morelli Berengo by Francesco Pacifico (tr. Livia Franchini) (Fiction)

Poems by Adam Fitzgerald, George Szirtes, Matthew Gregory (Poetry)

Dr Gaz by Jeff Keen (Art)

Even Pricks by Ed Atkins (Fiction)

Gustav Metzger (Interview)

Leaving Theories Behind by Enrique Vila-Matas (tr. Rahul Bery)

Poems by Gerður Kristný (tr. Victoria Cribb and Sigurður A. Magnússon) (Poetry)

Utopia Welcomes You!! by Mark Mulroney (Art)

The Drained Pool by Hunter Braithwaite (Essay)

Rebecca Solnit (Interview)

Eat My Heart Out (Fiction)

Cover art: The Secret Map by Raphaël Garnier

Editors: Benjamin Eastham, Jacques Testard
Language: English
Pages: 176
Size: 17 x 24
Binding: Softcover

16.99 €

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After Butler’s Wharf. Critical Writing, Royal College of Art.

Posted in Events, Exhibitions, history, writing on December 20th, 2013
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After Butler’s Wharf, Critical Writing RCA.

After Butler’s Wharf presents a series of critical perspectives on the economic, artistic and political histories of this landmark London building, including: a catwalk commentary on 1975’s Alternative Miss World with photographs by Richard Young; a fictional conversation between Sir Terence Conran and Mr Butler, the founder of the Wharf; an interview with artist Kevin Atherton; archival investigations into the rich, unwritten history of 2B Butler’s Wharf, a film and live art collective which included John Kippin and David Critchley; a letter to the late Stephen Cripps, pyrotechnic sculptor and Butler’s Wharf resident; and an excerpt from an unpublished interview with Derek Jarman.

Cloth bound hardback, 136 pages.

17.50€
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ARC #17

Posted in graphic design, Journals, literature, writing on December 20th, 2013
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Arc #17 compendium, Critical Writing RCA.

The Arc 17 compendium brings you the three editions of the journal made in 2012 and 2013.

17.1: RURAL takes on the interchange between rural and urban practice, with contributions from Ruth Beale, Brian Dillon, John Akomfrah and Ute Meta Bauer. 32 pages.

17:2 CROSSINGS tackles the idea of the polymath in contemporary culture, with texts by Chris Kraus, David Morris, Joe Kerr and many more. 36 pages.

17.3: ADAPTATION focuses on methods and processes relating to appropriation and adaptation in literature, art, design and architecture. It counts Yves Lomax and Teal Triggs among its contributors. 36 pages.

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An Anthology of Concrete Poetry (in braille). Rachel Simkover (ed.). Motto Books.

Posted in writing on December 14th, 2013
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An Anthology of Concrete Poetry (in braille). Rachel Simkover (Ed.). Motto Books.

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry was first edited and published by Emmett Williams and Something Else Press in 1967.

In 2013, artist Rachel Simkover chose a selection of poems from the anthology to have transcribed into braille.

Contents

Friedrich Achleitner, 1959
H.C. Artmann, 1954
Claus Bremer, 1964
Haroldo de Campos, 1958
Bob Cobbing, 1965
Bob Cobbing, 1966
Reinhard Döhl, 1966
Ian Hamilton Finlay, “The Horizon of Holland,” 1963
Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1964
Pierre Garnier, “Grains de Pollen,” 1962
Ilse and Pierre Garnier, 1965
Eugen Gomringer, 1954
Bohumila Grögerova and Josef Hiršal, “Iaska” (love), 1960- 62
José Lino Grünewald, 1959
José Lino Grünewald, 1959
Dom Sylvester Houédard, “for raoul hausmann”
Hansjörg Mayer, 1965
Franz Mon, 1966
Hans-Jørgen Nielsen, 1965
Hans-Jørgen Nielsen, 1965
Yüksel Pazarkaya, “the donkey cycle: 1”
Yüksel Pazarkaya, “the donkey cycle: 2”
Décio Pignatari, 1956
Décio Pignatari, 1957
Gerhard Rühm, 1954
Gerhard Rühm, 1954
Gerhard Rühm, 1955
Aram Saroyan, 1965-66
Adriano Spatola, 1966
Paul de Vree, 1966
Emmett Williams, 1954-55
Emmett Williams, 1965

30 €

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