Angst #1

Posted in magazines, Motto Berlin store, photography, writing on April 24th, 2010

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Angst #1

ANGST is the new magazine from publisher/editor Fiona Bryson. The first issue of the A5-format magazine contains articles about photographer Sibylle Bergemann, artist Cyprien Gaillard, designer Gosha Rubchinskiy and actor/musician River Phoenix as well as photo-stories from Anastasia Freygang, Alexandra Catiere and Atlanta Rascher, among others.

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Fantastic Man Spring / Summer 2010

Posted in Fashion, magazines, Motto Berlin store, photography, writing on April 24th, 2010
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Fantastic Man Spring / Summer 2010

featuring Wolfgang Tillmans, Fabio, Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip and more.

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Our Spot: New York

Posted in Motto Berlin store, photography, writing on April 6th, 2010
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Our Spot: New York By Sasa [44]

In March 2005, the artist Sasa [44] traveled New York City closely following instructions given by his friend Keh Sung Soo. This is a documentation of the project. The design appropriates Time Out New York, a travel guide that Sasa [44] used during his stay in the city. See also Sasa [44]’s Our Spot: Tokyo, 2010.

Published by Specter Press
Text in English
Sewn paperback 12,8 x 19,7 cm
80 pages
D 30€

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White Fungus – Issue 11

Posted in magazines, Motto Berlin store, music, writing on March 31st, 2010
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White Fungus #11

White Fungus is an experimental arts magazine based in Taichung City, Taiwan. Featuring writing on art, music, history and politics, plus original artworks, poetry, fiction and comics, White Fungus is an ongoing experiment in community media art. As the spores have been released its creators look forward to seeing which way the wind blows.
The only thing more uncertain than its future is its past.

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A Revised Inventory of Curating Degree Zero Archive. Specter Press.

Posted in graphic design, Motto Berlin store, photography, writing on March 23rd, 2010
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A Revised Inventory. Sasa [44] & MeeNa Park

This book was published as part of the project ‘Curating Degree Zero Archive’ at Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea, 20 December 2006 – 4 February 2007.

Text in English

Published by Specter Press, jointly with Arts Council Korea, Seoul.
ISBN 978-89-957810-5-0
Cased in cloth, 12,7 x 19,8 cm
720 pages
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Introduction to the project:

The present volume is published in conjunction with the project Curating Degree Zero Archive at Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea, Seoul, from 20 December 2006 through 4 February 2007.

Curating Degree Zero Archive is “an archive, touring exhibition and web-resource exploring critical and experimental approaches to curating contemporary art”. Initiated in 1988 as a symposium and an accompanying book by Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richter in Zurich, it has grown into a form of archive since 2003 and toured around the world to exhibit the materials. Currently, about a hundred independent curators, artist groups, new media curators and institutional curators are participating in the project – and the number is still growing as the tour continues.

Each time in a different place, Curating Degree Zero Archive is presented in a new way by inviting institutions and artists, along with various events, workshops and debates. In Seoul, it was organized by Insa Art Space and reinterpreted by Sasa [44] & MeeNa Park. The artists’ contribution to the project lies not only in their unique, visible presentation of the Archive, but in the behind-the-scene efforts to re-organize the materials in a meaningful way – including completely updating the Archive’s inventory.

This book is a document of this endeavour: an attempt to turn what is usually left invisible unmistakably tangible; to capture an aspect of the urge to collect, organize, and archive. The format is based on Georges Perec’s Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (London: Penguin, 1998), which contains “Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books” – an inspiration for this publication. (Yes, the original version of the essay was published in Penser/Classer [Paris: Hachette, 1985], and it would have been even better to use it as a model. But no one involved in this project had enough knowledge of French language to claim any intimacy with the edition.) The text is set in Walbaum, the same typeface as used in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces.

Whilst every effort has been made to establish the accuracy of the contents of this publication, anyone involved in this project cannot be hold responsible for accidental omissions or errors, which may be quite a few after all. Like any products of human endeavor, an archive is prone to err – and this one should not be an exception.

A Economia do Artista

Posted in Motto Berlin store, writing on March 21st, 2010
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A Economia do Artista
Edited by Isabel Carvalho, Lígia Paz, Pedro Nora
Contributors: Brendan Byrne, Clare Thornton, David Riff, Debra Savage, Dmitri Vilensky, Esther Leslie, Frederikke Hansen, Isabel Carvalho, João Alves Marrucho, João Sousa Cardoso, João Teixeira Lopes, Jorge Louraço, Katharina Schlieben, Kirsten Forkert, Lígia Paz, Marina Vishmidt, Mário Moura, Mark Hutchinson, Marta Bernardes, Paul Buck, Sønke Gau, Vitor Silva, W.A.G.E.

Portuguese and English
408 pages
16 x 22.5 cm
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How am I not myself? by Asher Penn and Wolfgang Tillmans

Posted in illustration, Motto Berlin store, photography, writing on March 18th, 2010
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How am I not myself?, by Asher Penn and Wolfgang Tillmans.
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This Is No Secret. Frank Koolen

Posted in Motto Berlin store, Uncategorized, writing on February 8th, 2010
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Dutch artist Frank Koolen (also see United Colors Of) goes rastafari! Poetry and collages, inspired by Mihlawdhd Faristzaddi’s Itations of Jamaica & I Rastafari.

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Ferdinand Kriwet

Posted in Motto Berlin store, writing on February 4th, 2010
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Sehtextkommentar by Ferdinand Kriwet, published by BQ.

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Four books by Zack Sternwalker

Posted in illustration, Motto Berlin store, writing on February 4th, 2010
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Please Let Me Help

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I Am Not a Bad Gorilla

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Where Cyberspace Meets Space for Cream

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Racist Cavemen Amputees

D €6 each

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