A Smart Guide To Utopia – 111 inspiring ideas for a better city

Cities are the affirmation of civilisation and human inventiveness. They are at once fragile organisms in constant need of care and battlegrounds of conflicting interests. And above all, they’re ours. The smart guide to Utopia showcases 111 projects, initiatives and ideas from all over Europe that make our cities better places. Whether it be an underground waste disposal system in Barcelona or a public swimming pool converted into an arts centre in Berlin, a self-sufficient urban garden or a solar-powered pop-up restaurant traveling with the sun, a building printer or a zero-packaging supermarket, this book celebrates the energy and imagination of people who want to make their cities a little more fun, clean, friendly, green and above all, restore a sense of community. Our cities belong to us, and they depend on us. Only we can make them worth living in.

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Werker 2

Werker 2 addresses the museum by interrogating the relation of the ordinary man with History. From our collection of worker photographer publications and other documents depicting labour compiled in second-hand bookstores and antiquaries from Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and U.S.A, Werker 2 articulates a visual history of labour centered around the figure of the young worker.

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Interview #4 (DE). Mai 2012

Diesen Monat in INTERVIEW:

Die Schauspielerin Keira Knightley sieht für sich keine Chance, US-Präsidentin zu werden, und plädiert für Ahnungslosigkeit beim Kinobesuch. Im Gespräch mit David Cronenberg erzählt sie vom Dreh zu ihrem neuen Film „Anna Karenina“, was der Filmemacher sich mit wachsender Eifersucht anhört: „Ich kann die Vorstellung, dass du mit anderen Regisseuren arbeitest, nur schwer ertragen.“

Die neue Documenta-Leiterin Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev fordert im Gespräch mit der Hundetrainerin Maike Maja Nowak ein Wahlrecht für Hunde. Die Filmproduzentin Minu Barati spricht mit Katja Riemann über ihren Flötenunterricht auf der Waldorfschule. Und die Musikerin Lydia Lunch erklärt ihrem Kollegen Alec Empire, dass sie sich wie ein schwuler Trucker fühlt.

Der Rolling-Stones-Gitarrist Ronnie Wood erzählt Naomi Campbell, dass er erst im Entzug gelernt hat, wie man Wäsche wäscht. Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough berichtet seinem alten Freund Joey McIntyre von den New Kids On The Block, wie glücklich er war, als ihm ein Fan in den Schritt gegriffen habe – es sei der Rock’n’Roll-Moment seiner Karriere gewesen. Ein ganz anderes Erlebnis hatte beim Künstler Martin Eder schwer wiegende Folgen: Wie er dem Kurator Thomas Girst erklärt, schlug ein Meteorit in seinem Garten ein.

Die Jungs aus der MTV-Serie „Jersey Shore“ haben sich von Terry Richardson mit dem israelischen Supermodel Bar Refaeli fotografieren lassen. Schauspielerin Jessica Alba erzählt Regisseur Robert Rodriguez von ihrem neuen Leben als Chefin eines Vertriebs für umweltfreundliche Baby- und Haushaltsprodukte. Und die Sängerin Norah Jones erklärt, dass sie ihr Hit-Album „Come Away With Me“ gern vom Markt genommen hätte.

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Bookbook 2007-2011, Städelschule

The Mary Reynolds Collection

List of Contents
Anonymous Stage I Contribution
Primary/Secondary (Information) by Benjamin Lobko
Donald Duck Hitler and the Chocolate Factory – a work in progress by Dan Starling
Anonymous Stage I Contributions
Stage II Contributions
Anonymous Stage I Contributions
The Hermit & The Sea by Michael Stevenson
Stage II Contributions
Before This (An Afterword) by Simon Starling
Unlrelated Things Related by Patrick Keaveney

Published by the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunst – Städelschule

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Je n’ai rien à dire. Seulement à montrer. / Ich habe nichts zu sagen. Nur zu zeigen. / I have nothing to say. Only to show. Natalie Czech. Spector Books.

“Natalie Czech therefore accomplishes something completely unexpected, something rarely seen either in literature or the visual arts: her works are based on experimental designs that engender something new by subsequently amending found texts, while at the same time opening up known texts—by Apollinaire, O’Hara or Brinkmann—to new readings in a fascinating way, thus rediscovering these works in other contexts, through other media, as images, through the medium of photography, and hence allowing them to reemerge as new.” – Eckhard Schumacher

With texts by: Vanessa Joan Müller, Dorothea Zwirner und Eckhard Schumacher

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Rong-Wrong vol. 1

Content:

Editorial—

WHO HAS BEEN TAMPERING WITH THESE PIANOS

Kenneth Burke—
COUNTER STATEMENT

Avigail Moss—
TWO CENTS

Jerry Mander—
LIVING IN A TAPED REPLAY

Sarah Tripp—
BEFORE SHE SPEAKS

Owen Hatherley—
ANOTHER EFFORT COMRADES IF YOU WOULD BE MODERNISTS

Ohad Ben Shimon—
THE OSCILLATING ESCALATOR

Various Sources—
A LETTER TO AN INVISIBLE RECIPIENT

Kirsty Logan—
LOVE IN CENTRALIA

William H. Gass—
THE TEST OF TIME

A Picture Essay—
ENERGY & MATTER

Kodwo Eshun—
AMATUERS & AUTODIDACTS

Ewan Morrison—
MALL TEXTS ABOUT OBJECTS

Sarah Tripp—
HORSE IN A MIRROR

Julian Baker—
THE POCKET

Mick Peter—
CABBAGE SOUP

Adam De Neige—
003

Sarah Tripp—
OBJECTS OBSERVED BY CANDLELIGHT

Ellie Ga—
THE DECK OF TARA

Lee Rourke—
AMBER & THE GEOMETRY OF SHELLS

Will Ashon—
FUTILITY NAPKIN

Steven Connor—
THE DUST THAT MEASURES ALL OUR TIME

Andy and Peter Holden—
NESTING

Samuel Vriezen—
FAILURE TO FAIL

Ben Street—
THE PAPER CLIP

Dan Visel—
HOPSCOTCH-O-MATIC

Mick Peter—
IMAGIST POEM

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UNESCO succeeded in the transposition of the “International Convention on the Immunity for the Emigrant Artist” – regarding visa regime issues after the last state member of the UNESCO-General-Conference adapted the law relating to the free movement of artist. The decree was approved by UNESCO-General–Conference in the last meeting in 2011 in Paris.” The decrees’ special concern is to provide emigrant artists with a particular status of immunity. With the Artist Immunity implemented, the decree states that artists (irrespective of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic status or birth) will be free to travel across the borders of the Globe, will be provided with the working permits, will be enabled to produce art works and will be facilitated with a right to reside in the country of their choice. The privilege of the Artist Immunity will be granted to everyone (irrespective of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic status or birth) who can successfully verify and confirm their artistic status to the states authority of the residency in choice.

Publication details coming soon.

Perfect is my death word. James Lee Byars. CNEAI=Conception Guy Schraenen.

Textes en français de Guy Schraenen et Thomas Deecke.

En novembre 2009, Conny Purtill vient de Philadelphie en résidence sur la Maison Flottante du Cneai afin d’explorer la collection Fmra. Il intervient dans dix publications selon un même processus qui consiste à remplacer la page 11/12 par une page gravée et dessinée par lui. Les pages extraites de ces dix livres sont rassemblées dans un dossier et constituent l’oeuvre “10, 11, and 12”. En parallèle, Conny Purtill réalise des interventions à peine perceptibles au crayon dans une sélection d’ouvrages de la collection Fmra. Les livres sont réinsérés tels quels dans la collection, sans mention particulière. Des aiguilles dans une bottes de foin…

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Tales from the Crypt. Städelschule.

Tales from The Crypt – Pure Fiction.
Seminar of Mark Von Schlegell.
Städelschule 2011 – 2012.

Editors: Timothy Furey, Anna Susanna Woof-Dwight
Design: Clémentine Coupau

Mountainislandglacier 

After a game-changing year when Europe, in all its tangible and intangible consequences reached far and wide, BDP are proud to announce one of our most ambitious compilations of art, writing and investigation on our contemporary’s troubled, shape-shifting realities. In a unique dual book publication (English/Spanish editions) edited by the group ‘Correspondence from Eyjafjallajökull’ the book contains the artistic results and research of the group, along with eleven probing and insightful carefully selected ‘collaborations’. These diverse entries take many forms, including fiction, essay, polemnic,
After working together as a research group centering around the event that was Eyjafjallajökull in May 2010, ‘Correspondence from Eyjafjallajökull’ went about re-examining the idea of Europe. With no air traffic possible, Europe found itself connected in a very physical way, a unity that is the opposite in many ways of how ‘Europe’ has been so recently conceived. Through various forms of artistic research and development new, kaleidoscopic perspectives of Europe came about, moving from peripheries such as Turkey and Iceland itself, moving inward to the imaginative world of European identity creation.

With a strong focus on the problematic nature of European discourse as it currently is offered, the recent rise of protests movements in Spain appear in contributions from Maria Ptqk, Emanuele Guidi, Juan Freire and Santiago Eraso: the 15th May Movement in Spain and The Arab Spring pre-dated but also foretold the wider Occupy movement of 2012, an incredible year in which protest and the right to protest swept the world in myriad forms. The playful use of fiction to create stories and identity is evident in contributions from Pavla Ascher, John Holten and Alan Pauls. Re-imagining the line of Europe’s borders opens the anthology with Urzsula Wozniak’s essay on Turkey’s relationship with Europe, while Markus Miesson offers an extension of the realm of what can be thought of as ‘Europe’ with an extract from his East Coast Europe project.

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