Skalitzer. 68
July 21 – August 25 2012
Saturdays only!

Skalitzer. 68 invites artists, editors, performers for a series of lectures, presentations, exhibitions and events which will take over the spaces of Chert, Motto and Silberkuppe each Saturday, between July 21 and August 25.

21.07.2012: Margaret Harrison, Petunia, Convolution Journal for critical experiment

Margaret Harrison – talk and screening presented by Silberkuppe, starts at 7 pm
Convolution Journal/Petunia Magazine – talk and screening, starts at 8.30 pm

For their joint presentation at Motto Berlin, Convolution, Journal for Critical Experiment and Petunia, developed a talk-screening performance.
The two magazines share a questioning about the status and ways of criticism, experimenting with new ways of communication through their magazines: in Petunia, there are no chapters or sections, but diverse textual forms, from theoretical texts to diary entries to pure fiction or comics, mostly concerning contemporary art.
Convolution journal seeks to promote a proliferation of the forms available for cultural critique, taken in the broadest sense. It ventures to publish short, experimental work that challenges prevailing divisions between creative writing and criticism, poetry and prose, image and text. Convolution brings together a shifting collectivity of scholars, artists, poets, musicians and critics to explore the fragmentary, the interdisciplinary, the visual, the unpublishable, and the miscellaneous.
Conversation about critical form will include readings by Convolution contributors Michael Baers and Christian Hawkey.
Their presentation ends with the screening of “Born in Flames” – starting at 10.00 pm
A 1983 documentary-style feminist science-fiction film by Lizzie Borden that explores racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism in an alternative United States Socialist Democracy.
Through the life of two different feminist groups of New York City, the film becomes a manifesto for direct activism, showing different points of view and discussions about it, culminating in the message that the action should inevitably come from the oppressed. 80 minutes, English.

http://www.chert-berlin.com/

http://www.silberkuppe.org/

http://petunia.eu/

http://convolutionjournal.com/

Chert & Motto @ Cneai=, as part of the Berlin-Paris exchange

“Tintenfish”
Jérémie Gindre, Kasia Fudakowski, Carla Scott Fullerton

CNEAI=
Maison Flottante
île des impressionnistes, 78400 Chatou

exhibition dates:
July 06 – 14. 2012

http://www.berlin-paris.fr/
http://cneai.com/
http://www.chert-berlin.com/

Chert & Motto @ Cneai=, as part of the Berlin-Paris exchange

“Tintenfish”
Jérémie Gindre, Kasia Fudakowski, Carla Scott Fullerton

Opening reception: Thursday, July 5th at 6.00 pm
at CNEAI=
Maison Flottante
île des impressionnistes, 78400 Chatou

exhibition dates:
July 06 – 14. 2012

http://www.berlin-paris.fr/
http://cneai.com/
http://www.chert-berlin.com/

Berlin-Paris. Un échange de galeries.

CNEAI= Paris at Chert & Motto Berlin: Yona Friedman, “handbuch”
Opening Friday June 29, 2012
from 4pm to 9pm

Invited by Chert and Motto, as part of the Berlin-Paris exchange 2012, CNEAI= proposes an exhibition of Yona Friedman, entitled “handbuch”. Designed as a staging of the visionary projects of Yona Friedman, “handbuch” is a double presentation of works of the architect and artist. This exhibition takes the form of an encyclopedia project, a public use of a personal and autonomous thought.

full programme: http://www.berlin-paris.fr/fr.html#berlin

http://cneai.com/

Tumi Magnússon: Works 2000 – 2011. Space Poetry. Book launch @ Motto Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
from 6pm

Tumi Magnússon was born in Iceland in 1957, and lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art 2005 – 2011.

”About Tumi Magnússon´s engagement with image, perception, meaning and a complexity to the history of painting. There is a materialistic conviction in Magnússon´s work. His practice arose from a conceptual art and fluxus basis but from the 1980s predominately concerned painting. And although he no longer uses that medium the work is still conversant with that idiom. Common across the work has been the pursuit of a form of abstraction of qualities; colour, form, and size. The word abstraction may be misleading if thought of as pertaining to colour field painting or abstract expressionism but Magnússon´s relationship to the term is more literal. he abstracts from reality, the work remains figurative, it depicts actual objects or qualities of objects but in ways in which isolates and intensifies.” – Gavin Morrison.

Space Poetry
Motto Charlottenborg

FISH&CHIPS SUMMER PARTY @ CURA.
FRIDAY, JUNE 22
FROM 8PM

WITH THE OPENING OF THE PERMANENT BOOKSHOP CURA. (with) MOTTO
(Books—Magazines—Artists’ Publications—Editions)

VIA NICOLA RICCIOTTI, 4
ROMA (PIAZZA MAZZINI)
ITALY

‘If you leave’. Book presentation. Motto Berlin. 07.06.2012
start 6pm

if you leave is a collection of contemporary photography. Snapshots of a journey made by wanderers who study the mysterious yet uncannily peaceful feeling of desolation and loneliness.
More concerned with the impact of a single image, rather than a body of work by an individual photographer, it is the representation of a silent idiom of faces, landscapes, subjects and objects, all in their most personal and intimate états d`être.
As a collection if you leave features the work of over a 250 different photographers from all over the world.

Photographer Laurence Von Thomas has been curating this collection online since november 2009.

http://if-you-leave.tumblr.com/

Fillip 16: Berlin Launch
May 30, 2012, from 7 pm

Fillip and Motto Berlin are pleased to present a special launch event for the sixteenth issue of Fillip magazine with contributing artist Olaf Nicolai, writer Patricia Reed, and Fillip Associate Editor Antonia Hirsch.

Colour is a major factor in a magazine’s “shelf appeal” and Fillip magazine, though a publication more aligned with academic journals, has more than a few times been advised to “go colour” in order to facilitate a larger sales volume. Olaf Nicolai’s project for our new issue, 2500 × Fillip 16, subverts this market pressure by causing the magazine to be printed in colour—yet this application of colour is undelineated and flows across the spectrum of the rainbow as well as across the page regardless of the printed content. The printing technique used to achieve this effect is called split fountain printing; with a history that stretches back to the inception of the art of printmaking, it gained renewed currency in the 1960s and ’70s as a method to introduce colour in printed material without having to go through the expensive four-plate colour process. With its evocative, quasi-psychedelic effect, the technique was particularly popular in a countercultural context.

Olaf Nicolai’s project for the Intangible Economies series extends the artist’s existing research interests, previously explored in such works as Warum frauen gerne stoffe kaufen, die sich gut anfuehlen (Why women like to buy fabric that feels good to the touch) (2011), and Considering a Multiplicity of Appearances in Light of a Particular Aspect of Relevance. Or: Can Art Be Concrete? (ongoing in varying formats since 2006). These works consider the role of colour as an agent to activate affect as a consumer incentive. Nicolai’s project for Fillip 16 also represents another instance of the artist’s ongoing infatuation with print media in general through which he consistently mobilizes production techniques in order to articulate conceptual concerns. The printing technique used in 2500 × Fillip 16 causes each single copy of Fillip magazine’s sixteenth issue to become a unique original as no printed copy is exactly like the other. Accordingly, the affective power of colour in relation to consumer behaviour is complicated by questions of value and circulation vis- à-vis the unique art object.

Copies of the new issue will be available at the launch, as will Olaf Nicolai’s new Irisdruck edition, Fillip Poster One and Two, produced in tandem with Fillip 16.

Participants

Olaf Nicolai is an artist who lives and works in Berlin. His work has been exhibited at documenta X, the Sydney Biennale, and the 51st Venice Biennale, as well as at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, among others.

Antonia Hirsch is Associate Editor at Fillip.

http://fillip.ca/

Motto Charlottenborg official opening, May 24th 2012

The official opening of Motto Charlottenborg bookshop acompanies the opening reception for Christina Mackie and Thomas Kilpper’s shows at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Motto @ Charlottenborg
Nyhavn 2
1051 Copenhagen K
Denmark
charlottenborg@mottodistribution.com

http://www.kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/