Kultur & Gespenster – Ausgabe 12, Frühling 2011

Die 12. Ausgabe des Magazins Kultur & Gespenster ist fast ein bisschen zu schön geworden und widmet sich ausschließlich der Märchensammlung von Karl Müllenhoff, welche er 1845 veröffentlichte.

Kultur & Gespenster bringt einen Teil der Sagen, Märchen und Lieder der Herzogtümer Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg, ergänzt um ein Gespräch zwischen dem Mediävisten und Literaturwissenschaftler Hartmut Freytag und dem Künstler Alexander Rischer, welcher im Herbst vergangenen Jahres etliche Fahrradtouren durchs Holsteinische unternahm, um die Originalschauplätze der Märchen für dieses Heft zu fotografieren.

Wunderbarerweise waren fast alle Orte zu finden: Heidnische Kultstätten, Quellen, Bäume, Kirchen, Glocken, Plätze für Mirakel und Rechtshändel, auch versunkene Orte und solche, an denen der Teufel den Übermut strafte. Gespenster, Irrlichter, Zauberer, Werwölfe, Teufelspferde, Drachen, Zwerge und weiße Frauen gehörten zum Alltag. Nicht zu sprechen von den Seuchen, Vorzeichen und Weissagungen, den versunkenen Schlössern, Grabhügeln, schlafenden Helden und Heeren, verhängnisvollen Bäumen und natürlich den überall vergrabenen Schätzen.

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Versuch No. 1: Notes and Projects

Edited by Gil Leung, Notes and Projects is about making something because you love something else. In light of this, the first chapter of Versuch is on forms of notation that use preexisting things, for example quotes or other objects, to try to articulate, or just share, that indeterminate quality that can make something so important to us.

Contributors include:
Jesse Ash, Ed Atkins, Andrea Büttner, David Raymond Conroy, Jesse Aron Green, Pablo Lafuente, Liang & Liang, Bevis Martin & Charlie Youle, Charlotte Moth, Francesco Pedraglio, Colin Perry, Heather Phillipson, Paul Pieroni, Hannah Rickards, Alexandre Singh, Luke Skrebowski, Alexis Marguerite Teplin, Jesper List Thomsen

Published by VERSUCH, London in 2011
Designed by Bev Weaner
109 pages

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A Stack of Books, as well as it is A Book of Stacks, edited and designed by Triin Tamm.
Published by Rollo Press as a contribution to the exhibition “If it’s part broke, half fix it.” at the CAC Vilnius, January 28 – March 13, 2011.

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Zeitgesit.Variations & Repetitions contains contributions by Ignasi Aballí, Adicciones porquesí, Javier Aramburu, Martí Anson, David Bestué / Marc Vives, Rafel G. Bianchi, Luís Bisbe, Luz Broto, Anne Collier, Fito Conesa, Creatures, Folch Studio, Ryan Gander, Dora García, Alex Gifreu, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rubén Grilo, Lilli Hartmann, Daniel Jacoby, Jeletón, Tamara Kuselman, Juan López, Martí Manen, Fran Meana, Jordi Mitjà, Mariona Moncunill, Jonathan Monk, Julia Montilla, Carme Nogueira, Miguel Noguera, Antonio Ortega, Tania Pardo, Gabriel Pericàs, Jack Pierson, Carles Ponsí, Job Ramos, María Ramió, Tere Recarens, Alex Reynolds, Xavier Ristol, Francesc Ruiz, Saladestar, Joan Saló, Dean Sameshima, Jorge Satorre, Manuel Segade, Gail Thacker, Ignacio Uriarte, Andrea Valdés, Azucena Vieites, Oriol Vilanova, Martín Vitaliti and Alicia Yáñez.

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Translated By – Charles Arsène-Henry and Shumon Basar (Eds.)

Douglas Coupland, Rana Dasgupta, Hu Fang, Julien Gracq, Jonathan Letham, Tom McCarthy, Guy Mannes Abbott, Sophia Al Maria, Hisham Matar, Adania Shibli, Neal Stephenson

Translated By accompanies the exhibition at the AA, which gathers eleven literary writers and eleven literary-places and subjects these to an act of immaterial translation: via the voice. The stories run through Ramallah, recollect turn of the century Sofia, remember the space-ship looking-Sheraton Hotel in Doha, wander through the ‘Metaverse’ and end at the end of the world in West Vancouver. Each of the authors invent or interpret place. Mundane, marginal, infamous, impossible. Together, the texts create a strange and beautiful territory that traverses distance and time. Includes essays by Charles Arsène-Henry and Shumon Basar.

February 2011
10.5 x 17.5 cm, 144 pages, b/w, softcover
ISBN 978-1-907414-17-6
Published by Bedford Press

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Ruchomy Pamiętnik / Mobile diary

The last part of the Mobile Diary series. It is a book based on memories of people, who came to Slupsk in 1945-50 to live in a new land. The book includes double record cd/dvd with radio theater by Marcin Dymiter, and video work by Ludomir Franczak. Published in Polish and German languages.

Authors: Daniel Odija, Marcin Dymiter, Ludomir Franczak, Magdalena Franczak
Layout: Ludomir Franczak
Edition of 500, 112p., cd/dvd, hard cover, 2010
Published with the financial help of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and City of Slupsk

Rocznik 1934
First book of the Mobile Diary project – based on years 1945-51 in Pomerania, when Polish and German culture was coexisting in the territory. Published in Polish and Kaszebe.

Authors: Brzozaki Group, Weronika Fibich
Layout: Ludomir Franczak
Edition of 500, 16p., soft cover, 2010
Published with the financial help of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and City of Slupsk

Second book of the Mobile Diary project. Contemporary interpretation of the project’s idea made by 3 visual artists, and art historian. Published in Polish and German.

Authors: Adam Witkowski, Hubert Bilewicz, Paweł Kula/Maria Stafyniak
Layout: Ludomir Franczak
Edition of 500, 64p., soft cover, 2010
Published with the financial help of The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and City of Slupsk

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Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus- Mary Shelley

“He would hope that, left to itself, the slight spark of life which he had communicated would fade; that this thing, which had received such imperfect animation, would subside into dead matter; and he might sleep in the belief that the silence of the grave would quench for ever the transient existence of the hideous corpse which he had looked upon as the cradle of life. He sleeps; but he is awakened; he opens his eyes; behold the horrid thing stands at his bedside, opening his curtains, and looking on him with yellow, watery, but speculative eyes.”

Text in English and German

Designed by jungundwenig, Berlin
Published by Lubok Verlag, Leipzig

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Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere – Paul Haworth

Alex ‘Abs’ Brenchley is back. The seven-foot tragedy opens the sequel to Silk Handkerchiefs with the words “2008 was the worst year of my life.” This is the story of that year.

Neon and doors – I’m dead, hell, we’re being pumped in by the dozen – I don’t belong here! – yes you do, sex fiend – to a tight passage – bundles of us trying to get out – bottle-necked against a tunnel of lights – the triple-X, neon and doors, passages to perdition – I shuffle with the masses – nearly there – I notice…a woman – or she notices me – our eyes meet, skinny, late thirties, she is squatting in a doorway, eating a burger, she speaks: “Do you have trouble with the ladies, sir?”

Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere sweeps our hyper-emotional hero across England, into the depths of despair and deranged behaviour, towards a mythical destination – The Lady Field – a fabled area of Hampstead Heath where it isn’t just men who are cruising. Carnforth yobs, Sex and the City: The Movie, dogging fanatics, Christian Slater, Community Support Officers and the Page Street Gang – these are just some of the forces Alex is up against as he seeks to find the manhood, absolution and purpose in life that will empower him to win the love of Trevoreesia, his Absqueen.

All the while, the economy is collapsing – “My life had been in crisis for so long and now the world was catching up,” observes Alex – and the soundtrack to this far-gone era is Take That’s cruel taunt: THIS COULD BE THE GREATEST DAY OF OUR LIVES. Does that day come for Alex Brenchley or will he remain, always and forever, Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere?

Mixing Cockney, teen lingo, Victorian slang and inventive wordplay, Haworth’s colourful style makes for an exhilarating and addictive read. This is the second part in a trilogy of comedic novels about Alex Brenchley.

Published by True True True
Edition of 1000
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Komma (after Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun), Antonia Hirsh
Includes an accompanying pamphlet with essays by Maria Muhle and Kristina Lee Podesva.

The companion piece to a 16 mm film installation by the same title, Antonia Hirsch’s book is based on Hollywood scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo’s seminal anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun. As a modified facsimile of the original book’s first edition, the project re-imagines Trumbo’s novel through its syntactical idiosyncrasy, the omission of all commas.

The word “comma” is derived from the Greek komma, meaning “something cut off,” reflecting eerily on the plight of the fictional Johnny—a young American soldier who has been brutally mutilated as a result of combat.

Addressing issues of silencing, censorship, and instrumentalization, the project is refracted through the original novel’s historical context and Trumbo’s personal history. Komma proposes to represent the suppressed or “negative space” of the novel by isolating the text’s missing commas, rendering visible a subtext that the author made traceable only through an absence.

2011, English
14 x 20.3 cm, 316 + 16-page pamphlet
ISBN: 978-0-9738133-9-5
Published by Fillip Editions, an imprint of Fillip, Vancouver, specializing in books of critical writing and artists’ publications.

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Appear to me – Susan Phillipsz

¨Appear to Me¨ consists of a recording of a young woman singing to the tune of the Gregorian chant, ¨Salve Regina¨ . The haunting text, with its allusions to a voice rising like a bird in flight, …

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