Expothesis No2 – Waking Up From The Nightmare Of Participation

Waking Up from the Nightmare of Participation is an amalgam of thirty-seven contributions that constitute a true space of conflict, questioning, disproving, endorsing and taking further the critical participatory practice suggested in The Nightmare of Participation. It opens up a much wider field of discussion, including the question of the outsider, disciplinarity, democracy, political correctness, institutional critique and more. Waking Up from the Nightmare of Participation is the epilogue to Miessen’s trilogy on participation.

edited by Nina Valerie Kolowratnik & Markus Miessen

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The Great Subtraction.Gabriele Guercio. ASA Publishers

Since the 1960s artists from various countries have positioned themselves increasingly within a system of art that, although established in Western Europe and the United States, is now global in its reach. However, Italian artists in particular have, with some exceptions, resisted expressing a certain putative artistic “Italian-ness,” thus undermining the global system’s tendency to identify artists, artworks, and movements according to nationality. By the same token, Italian artists have rarely endorsed global styles or concerns, effectively subverting the system’s attempt to establish unifying criteria of form or content. This unusual volume, by turns theoretical treatise, catalogue raisonné, art-historical survey, and virtual exhibit, offers fresh insight into the dynamic of subtraction that characterizes a significant body of works by Italian artists such as Giovanni Anselmo, Elisabetta Benassi, Gino De Dominicis, Francesco Matarrese, Marisa Merz, Luigi Ontani, Cesare Pietroiusti, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Emilio Prini.

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Wandering # 1

Wandering is a bilangual publication – german and english – about hiking in cities and the countryside.

Over 50 artists, critics, poets, writers and other people were invited to talk about wandering. The outcome is an almost 250 page collection of interviews, chats and dialougues.

Contributions by Airen, Jean du Arc, David Aylers, Tenzing Barshee, Daniel Baumann, Bill Berkson, Bomec, Juliette Bonneviot, Max Brand, Stefan Buck, Caroline Busta, Kerstin Cmelka, Ann Cotten, Dari, Iris Därmann, Nikola Eschenbach, Fredi Fischli, Gregory Fong, Lars Erik Frank, Nina Franz, Dillon de Give, Lena Henke, Viggo Julsgard Jensen, Julia Jung, Nuri Koerfer, Wolf von Kries, Quinn Latimer, David Lieske, Ariane Müller, Silvio Do Nascimento, Eckhart Nickel, Niels Olsen, Aude Pariset, Danica Phelps, Sam Pulitzer, Roy Radich, Marta Riniker-Radich, Michele Robecchi, Jörg Harlan Rohleder, Sarah Colony Rose, Andreas Rosenfelder, Emanuel Rossetti, Vanessa Safavi, Emily Segal, Brandon Shimoda, Martin Schmitz, Chris Sharp, Queen of Sheba, Fabrice Stroun, Kate Sutton, Greg Parma Smith, Mark Soo, Julian Stalbohm, Rui Tenreiro, Uvid, Stewart Uoo, Hendrik Weber, Jean-Michel Wicker, Amelie von Wulffen, Adolf Wölfli, Dena Yago, Amy Yao, Anicka Yi.”

“Herausgeberin: Pierrette Schlettwein
Verleger: Tenzing Barshee, Dan Solbach

Redaktion: Tenzing Barshee
Grafik: Dan Solbach

Lektorat: Pippin Wigglesworth
Korrektorat: Michael Ladner, Patrick Schär

Druck: Druckerei Schwabe, Muttenz
Umschlagillustration: Rui Tenreiro, Stockholm
Schriften: New Fournier, Suisse Int’l, B+P Swiss Typefaces

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MOTTO MELBOURNE. A temporary bookstore in collaboration with Neon Parc.

18 – 25th FEBRUARY 2012
12PM – 7PM DAILY

Address: 6 DUCKETT STREET, BRUNSWICK, MELBOURNE, VIC 3056 AUSTRALIA

For further information please contact: joe[at]mottodistribution[dot]com

Performing the Institutional. Kunsthalle Lissabon / ATLAS PROJECTOS

Performing the Institutional documents Kunsthalle Lissabon’s first curatorial cycle, which happened between July 2009 and June 2010 and featured solo shows by Nuno Sousa Vieira, Mauro Cerqueira, Joana Bastos, André Romão, Carla Filipe and Stefan Brüggemann. The book, a collaboration with ATLAS PROJECTOS, a publisher of independent art projects in printed, audio/visual and exhibition formats, was edited by João Mourão and Luis Silva and includes new essays by Maria Lind (Contemporary Art and its institutional dilemmas) and Charles Esche (The deviant art institution), as well as the “words don’t come easy” series of interviews with the featured artists. Performing the Institution(al) inaugurates Kunsthalle Lissabon’s publishing activity.

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A proposito di Marisa Merz. Mousse Publishing.

A Proposito di Marisa Merz (Speaking of Marisa Merz) is the first volume of a new editorial project of MAXXI, edited by Carolina Italiano, that foresees the publication of a series of monographs dedicated to artists whose work will be acquired by the museum. This series wants to offer the most ample apparatus of historical and biographical notes in relation to the new acquisitions, while providing a deeper reading of the artist’s body of work. Speaking of Marisa Merz features an introduction to her practice by Anna Mattirolo, followed by two essays. The text by Luigia Lonardelli outlines the artist’s productions from the Sixties to today, and the contribution by American critic Christopher Bennet discusses Marisa Merz’s work in relation to its contemporary international context.

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The first 3 years of Ludlow 38. Spector Books / Goethe-Institut

Ludlow 38 is the downtown satellite for contemporary art
of the Goethe-Institut New York.

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One Question, Nine Possible Answers, Three Rooms #1. Melanie Bonajo.

Room 1 – psychics:
Connie, Cynthia, Danny, Destiny, Elza, Gadesha, John, Linda and Lisette.

Room 2
9 posters by Melanie Bonajo

Room III
Özlem Altin, Bianca Casady, Simone Gilges, Sabina Maria van der Linden, Alexandra Leykauf, Kinga Kielczynska, Joseph Marzolla, Emmeline de Mooij, Shana Moulton.

This publication is part of the installation Afterlife – An Unexplored Continent shown at the exhibition Afterlife – art on the final destination, which takes place at Nederlands Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover and is published on the occasion of Melanie Bonajo project space grant of the Mondrian Fonds, at the Künstlerhaus Behtanien, Berlin.

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Design Act. Sternberg Press

Edited by Magnus Ericson, Ramia Mazé
Contributions by Magnus Ericson, Natasha Marie Llorens, Ramia Mazé Interviews with Ana Betancour, Otto von Busch, Mauricio Corbalan, Pelin Dervis, Anthony Dunne, Joseph Grima, Peter Lang, Yanki Lee, Tor Lindstrand, Helena Mattsson, Ou Ning, Doina Petrescu, Fiona Raby, Meike Schalk, Christina Zetterlund

Design Act: Socially and Politically Engaged Design Today—Critical Roles and Emerging Tactics is a project that presents and discusses contemporary design practices that engage with political and societal issues. Since 2009, the Iaspis project Design Act has been highlighting and discussing practices in which designers have been engaging critically as well as practically in such issues. Itself an example of applied critical thinking and experimental tactics, the process behind the Design Act project is considered as a curatorial, participatory and open-ended activity. Design Act has developed through an online archive, public events, and an international network.

Co-published with Iaspis
Design by Johanna Lewengard

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Bulletins of The Serving Library #2. Sternberg Press.

Contributions by Dimmi Davidoff, Július Koller, David Fischli & Peter Weiss, Rob Giampietro, Anthony Huberman, Junior Aspirin Records, Perri MacKenzie, David Senior, Jan Verwoert

Bulletins of The Serving Library #2 continues the trajectory begun by DOT DOT DOT, Dexter Sinister’s previous house journal which ran for ten years and twenty issues. This issue grew out of two physical incarnations of The Serving Library in 2011. The first took place from July 4–August 10 in the Walter Phillips Gallery of the Visual Arts department at The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada. Here they set up a model of the library’s projected interior to house a six-week summer school titled From the Toolbox of a Serving Library. The school comprised daily morning seminars, supplemented by a few evening events. Each week was based on a specific component from a (Photoshop-proxy) digital software toolbox, in order to reconsider what a contemporary (Bauhaus-proxy) Foundation Course might most usefully comprise. The second opened on October 29 and at the time of writing remains installed at Artists Space, New York. Here the same model serves more as a mini-expo in view of an eventual fixed home, alongside a parallel three-screen projection concerned with “Identity.”

D 10 €

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