The Burning Sand Vol. 2. Sarah Lowndes (Ed.).
The Burning Sand
prose, poetry and art magazine
Edited by Sarah Lowndes
Designed by Sophie Dyer & Maeve Redmond
Published twice yearly in Glasgow
Price: €4.70
Our Group Wourk, Ziga Testen, Peter Rauch, Cornelia Durka.
‘Work’, how does one spell it even? There is only one way to describe what we did during that time, which is ‘to make things ours’, to be upfront about the collectivity, about the conditions of our output.
It was our group, and hence what we announced to be presented in the exhibition at SKC in 1979 on that poster became part of our wourk. If you wish to argue that there is no meaning to be ascribed to that lapsus, so be it. But I was there, I saw our group wourk.
“Our Group Wourk” is an attempt to NOT write a biography of Yugoslavian graphic designer Dragan Stojanovski. Stojanovski was the in-house graphic designer at SKC Belgrade (student cultural centre), a state-funded cultural institution established after the 1968 student uprisings to contain, pacify and institutionalize student culture as an “organized alternative”. At the same time, it was a place of avant-garde experimentation and new forms of political activism and self-organization. Dunja Blazevic, a director of the visual arts department at the SKC in the 1970s refers to Stojanovski as Yugoslavia’s first conceptual designer.
This publication was prompted by conversations and encounters with Sasa Stojanovski, Biljana Tomic, Sklavko Timotijevic, Ljubinka Gavran, Milica Tomic, Slobodan Jovanovic and Dunja Blazevic with Ziga Testen, Peter Rauch and Cornelia Durka in Belgrade in April 2013.
Published by Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design.
If it wasn’t for the support of CuratorLab – Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, this publication would not have been possible.
Softcover, 80 pages.
Price: D €8
Sometimes I cannot smile, Piergiorgio Casotti.
Part of Casotti’s “Arctic Spleen project”, Sometimes I Cannot Smile is documentation on the problem of teen suicide in East Greenland. The book is a personal, intimate journey inside the Greenlandic juvenile world where nature, violence, boredom and a strong cultural legacy have been claiming for decades the highest and saddest “toll”. That of hundreds of young lives.
Hardcover, 168 pages.
Price: €37
Posture – Tactic #2: Brandon LaBelle, Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian.
Bruno & Metricubi presents: Brandon LaBelle (USA/DE)
Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian (book and performance)
Friday 27 September, 7 pm
Free entrance
Metricubi
Campiello delle Erbe 2003
San Polo 30125 Venezia
Pages Julien J. Bismuth.
Published on occasion of the exhibitions Le signe singe at the Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson in Noisiel, France; and L’ image dans le tapis at les Ateliers, des Arques, France.
Published by Motto Books
Language: English
Size: 21.5 x 22.5 cm
Weight: 155 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9782940524112
Edition: 750
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A feast is… Ida Marie Hede, Trine Friis Sørensen, and Ursula Nistrup (Eds.). Officin.
A Feast Is… a collection of texts and images that speak about processes of creating, accumulating, questioning and experiencing.
The book includes contributions by 26 international artists, curators, writers, art historians and scholars:
Aeron Bergman, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Alejandra Salinas, Cecilia Aldarondo, David Bell, David Shrigley, Francesco Pedraglio, Harald Voetman, Ida Marie Hede, Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Jeuno JE Kim, Jacob Lillemose, James Wilkes, Lene Asp, Linus Elmes, Lina Selander, Media Farzin, Mathias Kristersson, Mathias Kryger, Mikko Kuorinki, Miranda Trimmier, Nikolaj Recke, Paolo Plotegher, Sidsel Nelund, Trine Friis Sørensen, and Ursula Nistrup.
15.00 €
Fillip #18. Kristina Lee Podesva (Ed.). Jeff Khonsary.
Spring 2013
Martha Langford, Sven Lütticken, Hassan Khan, Bassam El Baroni, Matthew Buckingham, David Harvey, and Petra Stavast
Issue no. 18 also includes a booklet of images from Charlotte Cheetham’s Slide Shows: A Landscape of Contemporary Independent & Art Publishing.
10 €
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Bulletins Of The Serving Library #5. Stuart Bailey, Angie Keefer, David Reinfurt (Eds.). Sternberg Press.
Contributions by Michael Bracewell, Diedrich Diederichsen, Isla Leaver-Yap, Philip Ording, Leila Peacock, David Reinfurt, Mike Sperlinger, Jan Verwoert
Conceived while in residency at the library of the Goethe-Institut New York, this issue of Bulletins of The Serving Library used the context of the hosting institution as a thematic starting point.
Contemplating this theme as both foreigners and German citizens, many of the contributors present theses that reach deep into the realm of the personal. Jan Verwoert, for example, discusses the communication within his family as a lexicon “somewhere between speech and speechlessness”; while Leila Peacock, as a native English speaker learning German, explores the liminal space between language and translation. Diedrich Diederichsen, together with a list of editors and translators, co-translates his essay “Hören, Wiederhören, Zitieren,” published in the 1997 January issue of Spex. Diederichsen’s discussion of the pop quotation in music highlights the genre’s proximity to language, as the pop quotation “refers to what is absent in the present, and therefore points towards the semiotic nature of any music.”
Language: English
Pages: 152
ISBN: 978-3-943365-85-6
15 €
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Sonidero City. Mirjam Wirz. Mirjam Wirz & Buzz Maeschi (Eds.).
Sonidero City – Sound system and DJ Culture in Mexico and Colombia, by Mirjam Wirz
“DJs as messengers delivering greetings between friends and communiques between rival gangs: Cumbia-rhythms slowed down to accomodate traditional dance styles. Low tones and ludicrously distorted voices. The Sonidero-culture of Mexico’s neighbourhoods is impossible to ignore.” – Jonathan Fischer on Sonidero City, DU Magazine 819 / 2011
The long-term photographic reportage of Sonidero City is an homage to the Cumbia DJs / Sonideros of Mexico City, who from the 60s to today have stood behind their sound systems’ mics, sending music as well as greetings across the capital’s streets. While some stack loudspeakers into massive towers, others stick to a modest set-up, spinning their own LP collections on 70s-era record players. They go by names such as Sonido Sensación Tropical, Sonido África, Sonido La Conga.
In contrast, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, giant flourescent- painted speakers called “Picó” spill afro-colombian Champeta music through local communities, where the accompanying dance of choice is called “polishing the belt buckle.”
Over the course of three years Swiss photographer Mirjam Wirz visited the living rooms, courtyards and dance events of Mexico City, Monterrey and Barranquilla. The result is her book Sonidero City, a lively visual collection tracing the paths Mexico and Colombia’s sound system culture have forged.
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Sonidero City – Soundsystem und DJ-Kultur in Mexiko und Kolumbien
von Mirjam Wirz
“DJ’s als Vermittler von Liebesgrüssen und Botschaften für rivalisierende Gangs: Cumbia-
Rhythmen, die auf den landestypischen Tanzstil heruntergebremst sind. Tiefe Töne und
aberwitzig verzerrte Stimmen. Die Sonidero-Kultur ist aus den Nachbarschaften Mexikos
nicht mehr wegzudenken.”
Jonathan Fischer über Sonidero City, DU Magazin 819 / 2011
Die fotografische Langzeitreportage Sonidero City ist eine Hommage an die Cumbia DJ’s/
Sonideros von Mexico City, die seit den sechziger Jahren und bis heute am Mikrophon ihres
Soundsystems stehen und Musik sowie Grussbotschaften in die Strassen der Hauptstadt
hinaus senden.Einige bauen riesige Türme von Lautsprechern auf, andere spielen mit kleiner Anlage aus ihrer LP-Sammlung auf den Plattenspielern der siebziger Jahre. Sie tragen Namen wie Sonido
Sensación Tropical, Sonido África, Sonido La Conga.
An der Karibikküste Kolumbien hingegen dröhnt aus in fluoreszierenden Farben angemalten,
gigantischen Lautsprechern die afrokolumbianische Champeta-Musik durch die Nachbarschaften. Das Soundsystem heisst Picó und den Tanz dazu nennt man sich gegenseitig die Gürtelschnalle
polieren.
Die Schweizer Fotografin Mirjam Wirz hat während drei Jahren mit ihrer Kamera Wohnzimmer,
Innenhöfe und Tanzveranstaltungen in Mexico City, Monterrey und Barranquilla besucht, daraus ist das Buch Sonidero City entstanden, eine lebendige visuelle Sammlung, die den Spuren dieser Soundsystem Kultur folgt.
Language: Spanisch / English
Pages: 224
Size: 19.9 x 26.5 cm
31 €
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Returning to Berlin. Kim Schoen (Ed.). Material Press.
RETURNING TO BERLIN:
A PUBLICATION ON REPETITION AND PHOTOGRAPHY.
Becky Beasley
Zoe Crosher
Leslie Dick
Ulrich Gebert
Christian Hagemann
Marc KatzSarah
Lehrer-Graiwer
Olga Fernández-López
Rosell Meseguer
Rosalind Nashashibi
Vanessa Place
Jonathan Rée
Olivier Richon
Kim Schoen
Duncan Wooldridge
Edition of 50
Language: English
Pages: 14 booklets
Size: 14.9 x 21 cm
40 €
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