Lisa Oppenheim & Argobooks @ Motto Berlin. 11.04.2013

Motto and Argo Books are presenting the artist book “Billowing” by Lisa Oppenheim, which was published in conjunction with her solo exhibition at Kunstverein Göttingen (January 11 – February 24, 2013). The publication is the first of an artist book series designed for Kunstverein Göttingen by jungundwenig.

Lisa Oppenheim will discuss the project and recent work in conversation with Ana Teixeira Pinto at 7pm

http://www.lisaopp.net/
http://www.argobooks.de/

Wild Things are Going to Happen

Eastside Projects, Birmingham
together with
MOTTO Bookstore / Distribution
at
Bar Babette
Karl-Marx-Allee 36 10178 Berlin
20.00 – 23.00, 10.04.2013

aus Anlaß /
on the occasion of the booklaunch
Henrik Schrat
Wild Things are Going to Happen

Dialoge mit Dan Graham zu Kunst, Architektur und Einkaufszentren
Dialogues with Dan Graham on art, architecture and shopping malls

Graphic Novel by Henrik Schrat
Published by Eastside Projects, edited by Gavin Wade

21.00 Introduction by Gavin Wade, Eastside Projects Director
20.00 – 22.00 A special book selection by MOTTO
danach: DJ Mosaike

MOTTO wird eine Auswahl von Büchern und Magazinen präsentieren. Eastside Projects, Birmingham präsentiert Souvenirs aus den Eastside-Ausstellungen, Publikationen und fixed position Fotos der Ausstellungen von Stuart Whipps.

Henrik Schrat’s Graphic Novel Wild Things are going to happen basiert auf Gesprächen mit Dan Graham. Um die Dialoge entwickelt er eine furiose Bildgeschichte, die sich aus den Inhalten der Gespräche entfaltet. In klassischem Stil gezeichnet, enthält sie unzählige Querverweise, visuelle Anmerkungen und quasididaktische Einschübe sowie einen Index am Ende des Buches. Das Format bewegt sich zwischen Comic und Katalog und gibt der mündlichen Qualität der Texte einen visuellen Raum.

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Motto is going to present a special and hard to get selection of books and magazines in the context of drawing, visualisation and theory. Eastside Projects, Birmingham presents souvenirs from its exhibitions with publications and fixed position images by Stuart Whipps.

Henrik Schrat’s graphic novel Wild Things are Going to Happen is based on interviews with Dan Graham from 2011. Driven by the dialogues Schrat unfolds a violent visual story drawn in a classic style containing complex visual play, cross references and quasi-didactic inserts, plus a detailed index. The publication format is located somewhere between artwork, comic book and chronicle and offers a dynamic visual space for the oral qualities of speech.

http://www.barbabette.com/
http://www.eastsideprojects.org/
http://www.henrikschrat.de/

With contributions from // Mit Beiträgen von: Bradley Alexander, John Beeson, Anatoly Belov, Mitya Churikov, Sarah Elliott, Ulrike Gerhardt, Lizaveta German, David Goodman, Friedemann Heckel, Susanne Husse, Thomas Jeppe, Tina Kämpe, Wilhelm Klotzek, Martin Kohout, Burk Koller, Wojciech Kosma, Florine Leoni, Raphael Linsi, Isabelle Lumpkin, Laura McLardy, Anna Möller, Konrad Mühe, Jenny Nachtigall, Jörn Schafaff, Flavia Spichtig, Something Fantastic, Alexandra Stähli, Pedro Wirz

Documentation Launch:
Saturday // Samstag, 06 April, 7pm // 19 Uhr
Motto, Skalitzer Straße 68, Berlin (U1 Schlesisches Tor)

POST-STUDIO TALES was a residency-as-exhibition, in which eighteen artists participated, that took place at District Kunst- und Kulturförderung Berlin in April 2012. Now, one year later, we will be releasing documentation of the project on the website of the Berlin-based bookstore Motto: http://www.mottodistribution.com/site/
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POST-STUDIO TALES war eine Residency-Ausstellung, die im April 2012 in der District Kunst- und Kulturförderung Berlin stattfand und an der achtzehn Künstlerinnen und Künstler teilgenommen haben. Jetzt, ein Jahr später, veröffentlichen wir die Dokumentation des Projektes auf der Webseite von Motto in Berlin: http://www.mottodistribution.com/site/

(Download link available soon!)

http://district-berlin.com/

Sara Mackillop – New Stationery Department

Opening reception 29.03.2013

From 7pm

http://www.saramackillop.co.uk/

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New Stationery Department
32 pages
A4
Edition of 500
978-2-940524-02-0
Published by Motto Books

Saturday March 9, from 7pm @ Motto Berlin
Susanne Bürner
EUVILLE
Book release and screening of Pierre et Poussière (20 min, color, sound, 2012)

Both talk about the reconstruction of memory related to an abandoned subterranean limestone quarry in Lorraine, France.
While Euville focuses on the former workers’ drawings on the walls of the quarries as their voice in an environment which didn’t leave much space for personal expression, Pierre et Poussière brings together different levels of temporality all representing the same place.

http://www.captures-editions.com/livre-artiste-s-burner.php

Susanne Bürner, Euville
Format 22 x 28,5 cm, hardcover, color
french/english translation
2000 copies
ISBN : 978-2-9533912-4-4
special limited photographic edition available
Captures Éditions Valence 2012 in collaboration with le Vent des forêts – espace rural d’art contemporain and the Office de tourisme du Pays de Commercy

Price: 25€

Buy it

On the same evening at Porcino, Susanne Bürner presents ‘Versteck’

Erik Steinbrecher – New Paintings @ Motto Berlin
02-28.03.2013

Erik Steinbrecher
NEW PAINTINGS
@ Motto Berlin
Opening reception 02.03.2013
from 7pm

Rediviva – Ausgabe Nr. 23 @ Motto Berlin
Friday February 22

+ talk by Amy Patton & Mathilde ter Heijne
+ works by Johanna Abraham, Sebastian Hammwöhner
+ videos by Mark Briggs

Rediviva feat. contributions by Mathilde ter Heijne/Amy Patton, Johanna Abraham, Philippe Van Wolputte, Anita Leisz , Valentin Aigner,
Mark Briggs, Theo Prodromidis, Richard Hawkins, Marina Faust, Ariane Müller, Andy Weir, Gala Porras-Kim, Sebastian Hammwöhner

Rediviva is issue # 23 of the magazine series
Chicago, Times, Plotter, Helvetica, DIN, Techno, Löhfelm, RR_02, Univers, Tiffany, Circuit, Memphis, Gringo, Zeus, The Mix, Princess Lulu, Pigiarniq, Paper, Libertine, Trixie, Déjà Vu and Auto – published by Christian Egger, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Christian Mayer, Yves Mettler, Magda Tothova, Ruth Weismann, Alexander Wolff.

http://www.ztscrpt.net/

Tan Lin @ Motto Berlin. 19.02.2013
Talk 8pm (sharp)

The Powerpoint of Reading and other videos.

Tan Lin will be reading and screening selections from a number of videos and Powerpoint video works, including Bibliographic Sound Track, the Ph.D Sound, Dub Version, and Eleven Minute Painting. The various videos explore communications platforms such as Twitter, SMS, status updates, IM chats, programming languages, video game walk-throughs, the couplet, and the Powerpoint slide, as they affect reading, attention spans, and genre. The screening event performs an audience’s reading in an environment that has absorbed everything next to it in the room – from bibliographies to the smell of wet spanghum peat moss, the perfume Wet London Pavement, Glade Everglade Air Freshener and the music of New Order and Lucky Dragons.

Tan Lin is the author of over ten books, most recently, of Heath Course Pak, Bib. Rev. Ed, Insominia and the Aunt., and 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004 The Joy of Cooking. He is the recipient of a 2012 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, a Getty Distinguished Scholar Grant and a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writing Grant to complete a book on the writings of Andy Warhol. He is working on a sampled novel, Our Feelings Were Made By Hand. He is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at New Jersey City University.

http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Lin.php

A proposition from Jean-Pascal Flavien, Natalie Czech and Westphalie Verlag

(image courtesy Ludlow 38)