“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…

Launch: I Myself Am Only A Receiving Apparatus
Joachim Koester has in collaboration with the Dutch association If I Can’ t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution and kestnergesellschaft – Institute of Contemporary Art in Hanover created a monographic publication, I Myself Am Only A Receiving Apparatus, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.The publication focuses on the performative and the human body in Koester’s work, which is based on intensive archival research and characterized by what he calls “narrative knots” ―the multitude of stories, facts and references that make up his notion of history.


Book Talk:
Joachim Koester has curated a selection of books that have been influential for his artistic practice, and will introduce his selection in a show-and-tell presentation.

http://www.ificantdance.org
http://www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de/
http://www.kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk

MER.@MOTTO
Opening reception: September 14, 2012, from 7pm
Exhibition 15.09-06.10

MER. catalogue on display
New MER. edition by Pieter Vermeersch. Untitled (2012). (Dyptich lambda print)
audio MER. DJ session by Phillip Marshall (The Tapeworm)

http://www.merpaperkunsthalle.org/

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On the same evening, Erik van der Weijde ‘NIEMEYER AND MY WIFE’ exhibition opens @ Chert gallery (+ new 4478ZINE book)

frieze d/e #6 launch @ Motto Berlin, starting at 7pm

Conversation between Phil Collins and Jennifer Allen, from 8pm in Chert Gallery.

A Conversation with Phil Collins about Love, Media and ‘Patho-Politics’ followed by refreshments, music and the first intense chats of the fall season

This sixth issue of frieze d/e features an essay by Mark Prince on painting space, an interview with Frank Stella and with Monika Baer, essays on the work of Latifa Echakhch, Seiichi Furuya and Phil Collins as well as reviews of documenta 13.

With an exhibition in Kabul, documenta 13 is the first major art exhibition to take place in a war zone. Yet long before the d13 artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev initiated lectures and projects in Afghanistan, Phil Collins worked in conflict zones, from Ramallah to Baghdad, and with the people impacted by them. Over the last decade, Collins has exploited mass media formats by recruiting participants from karaoke pop singers to former reality TV contestants for his work. Recent projects feature Marxist DDR teachers, Mexican soap stars or teleshoppers purchasing extreme experiences.

Is it possible to criticize the mass media while mimicking ist invasive techniques? To question the society of the spectacle with more spectacles? When artists work in conflict zones, are their works inherently political? Or are they part of a ‘patho-politics’ which marks not only the media coverage of wars but also humanitarian aid? Can contemporary art’s documentary turn be entertaining? Phil Collins – in conversation with frieze d/e editor Jennifer Allen – will explore how we have learned to regard the pain of others.