Presentation of the book A Toast to the Ghost, the Host by artist Michael Van den Abeele, published by WIELS. For this occasion, the artist will give a public reading/performance rather than an explanatory presentation, based on the book. The lecture will be followed by a talk with Phillip Van den Bossche (Mu.ZEE director).
sunday # 018, Gabriel Kuri’s (untitled) edition, takes its departure from a quote by David Hume. ‘All knowledge resolves itself into probability’.
Gabriel Kuri added a variation to this quate; ‘All probability resolves itself into form’.
Both sentences are applied to the use and manipulation of a sheet of standard millimetre paper.
The edition consists of a A1 print that is folded to A4. The grid that was formed through these folds open up different variations of these two sentences.
The images of the folded millimetre paper echo the actual folds of the edition-format.
By manipulating the edition a variety of formal combinations is created. Through this manipulation both sentences cover each other, becoming new variations on and among one another.
Forming different compositions between knowledge, probability and form.
sunday # 018 is published in an edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered.
In addition, a limited ‘bootleg’ version will be presented. This version comprises a series of prints that have variable ways of folding.
Spectral Days – Book Release @ Motto Berlin
Thursday, Nov 1, 2012
from 7pm
An artist book by Setareh Shahbazi
with a text by Mirene Arsanios
Presentation in a casual conversation with Hanan Toukan
“Kiosk with art” is a project dedicated to Weglin district in Lublin (Poland) – an attempt to get into the space that had been deprived of regular contact with art. The whole event is centered around building of a kiosk that stands at the front of Weglin Cultural Centre. We present artists, whose work cross the disciplines, often mixed with science, music, or theater. We want to build a complex picture of contemporary art, showing its different faces.
Kiosk is also publishing space, that focus on phenomenon of artbooks. On 5’th of October, together with Motto from Berlin, we open Kiosk with artbooks, where we present books, zines, magazines and items related to selfpublishing. In addition, at the show one will also find Lublin publishers with NN Theatre and DDK “Weglin”, Hungarian with Roham, and Morava books from Poznan. We will also host founders of Printcontrol – the organization promoting best printed matter from Poland.
Curator: Ludomir Franczak
Organizer: Weglin Cultural Centre – Węglin Gallery
The project supported by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland
The Kiosk runs until November 8, 2012
http://kioskzesztuka.blogspot.de/
San Rocco presentation @ Motto Berlin
Monday, October 22
from 7pm
With guests:
Pier Paolo Tamburelli
Andrea Zanderigo
Francesca Benedetto
Wilfried Kuehn
Nikolaus Kuhnert
Simona Malvezzi
http://www.sanrocco.info/
Horizon Pages and Motto Melbourne present the launch of Horizon Pages’ third publication, Small Entry by Sydney based artist and musician Matthew P Hopkins.
Including performances by Matthew Hopkins and Peasant Genes (Christopher L G Hill and Alex Vivian).
Small Entry by Matthew P Hopkins
Broadsheet Poster and one sided flexi-disc
Edition of 250
5pm – 8pm
Motto Melbourne
15-25 Keele St.
Collingwood
VIC 3066
Australia
Performances start at 6pm.
Sydney Launch: November 6th at The AV Club, Leichardt with Hair Hochman (Yoni of Holy Balm) and Moffarfarrah (Christopher L G Hill)
Rick Bahto: Accretions @ Motto Vancouver. 15.10.2012
from 8pm
Accretions is a variable performance work drawing on an expanding collection of over one thousand 35mm slides. For this performance, a selection of slides will be projected in various configurations for an indeterminate duration.
Rick Bahto is an artist working primarily with film, photography, sound, and performance currently living in Los Angeles. He has exhibited his work at a variety of museums, galleries, microcinemas, film festivals, conferences, alternative spaces, and scenic locations, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles Filmforum, San Francisco Cinematheque, Jancar Jones Gallery (Los Angeles), the wulf. (Los Angeles), The 8 Fest (Toronto), Wolfart Projectspace (Rotterdam), Cinefamily (Los Angeles), solo shows at Millennium Film Workshop (New York) and RNG (Oakland), and a new work commission from Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles). He has collaborated on live performance works with Casey Anderson, Luciano Chessa, Julia Holter, and Mark So. He is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, and is a teacher/staff member at the Echo Park Film Center.
http://rickbahto.wordpress.com/
October 12 – 14, 2012. SFU, Vancouver
Motto runs a bookstore @ Institutions by Artists, a three day international event that evaluates and activates the performance and promise of contemporary artist-run centres and initiatives.
more information: http://fillip.ca/events/institutions-by-artists
Join us on Thursday evening at 7pm for a thesis presentation by Jamie Ferguson, who will discuss the new publication and the hunting works that make up it’s imagery.
“In The Hunting Field is a collection of encounters that uses the figure of the hunter-trapper as a figurative and literal approach for looking at contemporary understandings of animal, nature, and environment in an ecological age where entities collide at scales massively distributed in space and time.”
The figure of the hunter-trapper is used to draw attention to a significant intertwining with the biological world that shapes bodies and technology. It is not meant as an exhaustive signifier for a linear history but instead as an opportunity to survey encounters that shape these understandings and so inform our place in the world. Perhaps a reinterpretation of environmental aesthetics can provide openings for alternate shapes of future encounters…
