Publishing as (part-time) Practice
Copenhagen

Wednesday February 20. 17.00 – 20.00 pm.
Admission Free

“Publishing as (part-time) Practice” highlight graphic designers
who are also publishers, and pursue a discussion of the designer’s
changing professional role as both author and publisher.
It started as a one-day seminar in Stockholm, May 2012, initiated
and organized by designers / small-scale publishers Matilda Plöjel
(Sailor Press) and Mattias Jakobsson & Peter Ström (Konst & Teknik
/ Andperseand) and Iaspis.

At Motto Charlottenborg there will be an exhibition of a fine
collection of books from Danish and Swedish small scalepublishers,
the Swedish ones previously shown in Sweden and at the
New York Art Book Fair 2012.

Louise Sidenius (Internationalistisk Ideale, Monade), Matilda
Plöjel, Mattias Jakobsson & Peter Ström will talk about smallscale
publishing initiatives, as well as similarities between the
Danish and Swedish independent publishing scenes.

www.publishingasparttimepractice.se

The Onement label is inviting the audience in the hall of WIELS on Friday 8th March for a listening session of its newest release: a recording of English pianist John Tilbury performing a series of short pieces by Howard Skempton (« John Tilbury Plays Howard Skempton », Onement #5). Tilbury is well-known since the 1960s for his interpretations of the music of Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, John Cage, and for being one the key figures of free improvisation, notably with cult band AMM (pioneers of european improv).

But this recording is really special: like every release on Onement  it’s a one-copy vinyl record! The object is totally unique and will not be reproduced, which makes it a real collector item. Like for all the Onement records, the packaging has been created by graphic designer Nicolas Couturier.

The concept behind the label, founded in 2006 by musician Sylvain Chauveau, is inspired by the world of painting. The works are not reproduced and when a painting is sold, only the owner possesses it and even the painter himself has usually no access to to it. The uniqueness of the object is part of its strength.

The idea in Onement is to do the same with recorded music. Since their invention recordings have been meant to be reproduced. The time has come to try to use the recorded medium in different ways.

The name Onement comes from a series of pieces by American abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman. This series (Onement I, II, III, IV et V) shows a thin vertical line over a monochrome background.

The aesthetic choices of the Onement label go towards experimental musics such as modern composition, free improvisation, minimal drone, musique concrète, field recording, with releases by Keith Rowe, Robert Hampson, Yannick Franck and Antti Rannisto.

The label’s website: www.onement-label.com

Saturday February 16, 2013

Launch of SOUTH as a State of Mind winter / spring 2013 issue in Motto, Berlin!

The SOUTH team will be in Berlin to launch the new issue of SOUTH as a State of Mind. During the launch, there will be a brief visual presentation of the magazine, a special screening of a film by Annika Larsson shot in Anafi (Greek island) and a music performance by Augustin Maurs titled Child Blowing in a Scuba as a Hymn (conceived in Anafi as well). The artist Christina Dimitriadis who participates in this issue will also be present.

After the launch, follow us to a bar next door, where DJ Spyros Rennt will choose the music, including some specially selected Greek tunes!

Most Beautiful Books Australia & New Zealand. Call for entries 2013!

The Most Beautiful Books Australia & New Zealand (‘MBBANZ’) award program has been established to recognise innovation and excellence in book design and publishing in Australia and New Zealand. This biennial award program welcomes entries of all types, but the program seeks to emphasise the most innovative contemporary book design and publishing activity in Australia and New Zealand, including titles from independent and small press publishers. Importantly, the program seeks to minimise barriers to entry: there are no entry fees, and books may be nominated for consideration not only by designers and publishers, but also by readers and collectors.

MBBANZ2013 invites entries that have been published in the calendar years of 2011 and 2012, for review by an independent jury of local and international experts in the field –

Peter Corrigan
James Langdon
Warren Taylor
Layla Tweedie-Cullen
Denise Whitehouse

The awards program will be accompanied by talks and lectures by jury members at the State Library of Victoria, with the shortlisted publications announced and exhibited at MADA Gallery, a part of Monash Art Design and Architecture, Melbourne.

Download the entry form and guidelines here.

Entries close Friday 1 March, 2013.

Cosmic mental therapy
In the realm of the necessary decision

BOOK LAUNCH
February 7th, 2013
from 7pm

There was an empty room in the back of the Werkplaats Typografie. One day, that void has been pushed out of the two doors. In 2012 eighteen people had to find that space somewhere else.

During six separate excursions, throughout Arnhem and the Netherlands, they explored the potentialities of the destruction and construction of new lands, they travelled far in order to look back, they tried to escape to freedom in a dead-end, they cancelled a day, and they finally found nowhere-man in nowhere-land. They searched for the room that they had lost, or for the conditions and materials with which to rebuild it, and in doing so began to expand the walls of the school along a whole new set of trajectories and possibilities.

Cosmic mental therapy, In the realm of the necessary decision is a collection of texts that were gathered through the past year as the Werkplaats Typografie participants of Year 12 and Year 13 collectively attempted to identify, destroy or run from established sovereignty in an attempt to search for something new.

Edited by Noah Venezia and Stefano Faoro with support from Maxine Kopsa
Designed by Noah Venezia
Published by Werkplaats Typografie / ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem, 2013

www.werkplaatstypografie.org

Tuned City is a research platform from Berlin that creates a dialogue between the worlds of architecture, city planning and sound art, trying to use the possibilities of the spatial and communicative properties of sound as an instrument in artistic and urban practices. Q-O2, a workplace for experimental music and sound art, invites Tuned City to Brussels in 2013. The aim is studying the given urban and architectural situation, and experiencing and evaluating the city from an acoustic point of view.

On February 12th, Carsten Stabenow, founder of Tuned City, will briefly introduce the project and will give an outlook on the plans for Brussels. Dr. Lamberto Tronchin, Professor in Environmental Physics from the University of Bologna, recognised internationally as a leading authority on the subject of sound and acoustics and a pianist himself, will open the evening with a lecture about one of the most inspiring thinkers of sound and space in the 17th century, Athanasius Kircher. The Belgian architect and urban planner Luc Deleu, questions with his utopian projects the role of architecture and urbanism in the modern age, their position and duty in a global society and opens with his visions new perspectives of thinking architecture. Ariane Wilson, architect and art historian at the RWTH Aachen focussed her research on the role of sound in city and architecture and will give an overview about the current developments in that field.

A performance by Justin Bennett, who focusses in his work on the relationship between architecture and sound, will play with the elasticity of the concept of ‘space’.

F de C Reader #2. Launch at Motto Melbourne / Magic Johnston

380 pages. The F de C reader 2 showcases not work by ( in no particular order ): Yumiko Kikuchi, Spirit Komunika, Robert Cook, Ken Ngan, Arnaud Meuleman, Yu Cong, Shoichi Aoki, Joseph Keenan, Ren Hang, Anders Edström, Kawori Inbe, Alin Huma, Dan Hards, Keiichi Nitta, Dooling Jiang-Digest, Chiharu Ozaki, Jack Mauritsz, Erik Bernhardsson, Ann-Sofie Back, Daphne Mohajer, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Acquittal Report, Norihide Kose … Takashi Nishiyama … etc

Friday 1st February
5pm – 8pm

Motto Melbourne / Magic Johnston
27 – 29 Johnston Street
Collingwood, Melbourne
VIC 3066

Anne Schwalbe @ Motto Berlin
Book presentation

01.02.2013 from 7pm

Vulkan oder Stein

After “Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt” (2010) and “Wiese” (2011) this is Anne Schwalbe’s third self-published book. It’s about stones. More or less. – It is also about the sky and the earth, the fire, the river and the sea.

Self Published and Printed in Berlin.

http://www.anneschwalbe.de/