Kriwet – Yester ‘n’ Today

Ferdinand Kriwet is regarded as a pioneer of media art. Ahead of his time, he already dealt in the 1960s with our way of seeing that has been influenced by the sensory overload of the mass media in exhibitions, stage appearances and radio plays, analysing the process the language of television, advertising and photography. Kriwet, whose work is rooted in concrete poetry, describes himself as a visual poet. Aside from his neon signs and wall paintings, the versatile Düsseldorf-born artist also worked in subsequent years on numerous art projects in conjunction with architecture. He furthermore produced a large number of texts for radio. Visitors to DuMont in Cologne encounter his works everywhere: he made the glass door motifs throughout the publishing company’s building.

Ferdinand Kriwet (born1942) already wrote “ROTAR,” his first book to be published by DuMont Buchverlag, at the age of 19. His oeuvre encompasses paintings, music, texts and mixed media works. He lives in Dresden.

Published by Dumont Buchverlag
288 pages
Hardcover

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C Magazine 109 – Knowledge, Spring 2011

Issue 109 includes feature essays by Jen Kennedy on contemporary art’s educational turn; and Sholem Krishtalka on collaborating with novelist Sheila Heti and painter and filmmaker Margaux Williamson; Mandy Ginson interviews Toril Johannessen; book reviews and exhibition reviews from Fredericton, Halifax, Hamilton, Ottawa, Toront, Vancouver, the 29th Bienal de São Paulo, and Manifesta 8; also two artist projects; Summerhill, Revised, by Helen Reed and Hannah Jickling with an accompanying text by Stephanie Springgay, and Studies for Possible Futures by Maggie Groat

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Fillip #13
Contributors: Antonia Hirsh, Jan Verwoert, Candice Hopkins, Carson Chan, Anthony Downey, Jeff Khonsary, Claire Tancons and Jesse McKee, Lisa Marshall, Haema Sivanesan, Ryan Trecartin and Kristina Lee Podesva.

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Peep Hole Sheet Issue 07, Winter 2011, PAVEL BÜCHLER

Pavel Büchler is an artist, lecturer and writer. He is committed to the catalytic nature of art – its potential to draw attention to the obvious and revealing it as
ultimately strange. Notes from the bottom of a bag is released in conjunction of his exhibition Working Title (in collaboration with Evangelia Spiliopoulou) at Peep-Hole.
In almost two years, this is the first time that the exhibition program and the contribution for the editiorial project overlap. It is not a coincidence, but a way to pay homage to an intellectual we think is one of the key figures on the art scene in Europe and around the world.
The text is composed of a series of notes gathered and collected. As Büchler says at the beginning of the text, they “are unresolved, undeveloped, unrehearsed and unrevised. They are left that way so that the writing can continue.” They are ‘useless’ notes that build a discussion around ‘nothing’ and (like art) acquire meaning by saying (doing) that which is meaningless in itself.

Published by Mousse Publishing
Text in English and Italian

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Linger On Your Pale Blue Eyes – Rachel Cattle & Steve Richards

Linger On Your Pale Blue Eyes uses the form of the book to create a narrative arc from the constructions, sounds and memories of mix tape tracks. Elongated lines of text interspersed with hand drawn images reveal the precious associations of the mixed tape to relationships, those between people and between the tracks themselves.

Published by AND
Designed by Eva Weinmayr

28€

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Drawing Room Confessions #1: Charles Avery

Made of words and exchanges, with no images, Drawing Room Confessions is open to diverse practices and voices. It is named after a game played at the end of the nineteenth century in England and France, which consisted of a fixed questionnaire answered by players to reveal their tastes, aspirations and personalities. For every issue of the journal, we invite one artist to play the serious and playful game of conversation. Each section follows a set of rules, only the players change, as interviewers from a wide range of fields contribute to a portrait of the artist at a certain time.

Edited by Manuela Ribadeneira and Vincent Honoré
Editorial board: Åbäke & Michèle Smith
Published by Drawing Room Confessions and Mousse Publishing

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Drawing Room Confessions #2: Jason Dodge

Edited by Manuela Ribadeneira and Vincent Honoré
Editorial board: Åbäke & Michèle Smith
Published by Drawing Room Confessions and Mousse Publishing

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Grafică Fără Computer / Graphics Without Computer

160 Pages
16.5 x 23.5 cm
Texts in English and Romanian

Viviana Iacob tells us about representation and its role in building society and Călin Torsan evokes personal experiences. Both texts are accompanied with quotes of Irina Nicolau, Iosif Cova, Marin Sorescu [important Romanian cultural personalities] etc. The book starts with a foreword of the editor and ends with a chronology of almost all publications of the period, gathered by Mihai Tudoroiu.

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Olaf Nicolai – Faites le travail qu’accomplit le soleil

48 Pages
Designed by HIT London/ Berlin
Leipzig 2011

The publication “fait le travail qu’accomplit le soleil” was published to accompany the exhibition from Olaf Nicolai in the kestnergesellschaft, Hanover. It translates the topics and the vocabulary of the exhibition in the space of the book: A tour of the exhibition as a comic. Essays on the work of Olaf Nicolai Anne von der Heiden, and Hans-Hagen Hildebrandt, Monika Szewczyk and Marc Ries.

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Hannah James Q & A

This Publication accompanies pots purr – a solo exhibition by artist Hannah James. Split over two locations, Part 1 will be exhibited in the Rhubaba Project Space, Edinburgh, with Part II following in Chert Gallery, Berlin.

Part I: RHUBABA
Preview 21.01.11
22.01.11 – 30.01.11
25 Arthur Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5DA

Part II: CHERT
Preview 26.02.11
27.02.11 – 26.03.11
Skalitzerstrasse 68
10997 Berlin