OPENING SATURDAY 11.02.2012, 5 PM – 10 PM

LINUS BILL
TAIYO ONORATO & NICO KREBS
LUKAS WASSMANN

GRUNEWALDSTR.16
10823 BERLIN

http://tonk.ch/

MOTTO MELBOURNE. A temporary bookstore in collaboration with Neon Parc.

18 – 25th FEBRUARY 2012
12PM – 7PM DAILY

Address: 6 DUCKETT STREET, BRUNSWICK, MELBOURNE, VIC 3056 AUSTRALIA

For further information please contact: joe[at]mottodistribution[dot]com

Thursday 26.01.2012: Nico Krebs & Tayo Onorato @ Motto Berlin

AS LONG AS IT PHOTOGRAPHS
IT MUST BE A CAMERA

„As long as it photographs / It must be camera“ is a new double publication by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs.

It deals with thoughts on the endless (im)possibilities of the photographic picture making process and the problems and solutions of the DIY camera community.

http://tonk.ch/



I.T.U. – International Typographical Union
Wednesday Jan 18th
start 7pm

Paper Rehabilitation Project, Series 1
Detroit Blank Book

The blank books in this first series of the Paper Rehabilitation Project are made of stock found at a warehouse of excess, rejected and damaged paper. Each book contains four different sheets and three different stocks for the covers – blue and gray with a linen finish, and a plum, with a sort of faux -leather finish. They were bound by Janutol Printing
on Detroit’s East side.
The paper in these books was probably originally purchased by printers for their clients, but for one reason or another it was not used as intended. It ended up on the scrap market at a high-volume paper recycler, where there was a small chance it would be bought by another printer, or more likely it would be shredded and sold (by weight) to a paper mill where it would become the recycled content in a new sheet of paper.
It took us a long time to learn of the existence of this paper. Printers, paper distributors, and even many paper recyclers are reluctant to speak of this kind of surplus paper, perhaps because it threatens the commodity status of ‘clean’ paper. We had the feeling that by having it bound into a book we were causing a minor disruption in the circulation of paper. We captured these sheets at this particular moment in time, while they were available, and made 600 books that we will never again be able to reproduce.

I.T.U. – International Typographical Union
Danielle Aubert, Maia Asshaq, Lana Cavar
http://internationaltypographicalunion.org/

The evening will feature a discussion between Judith Raum and Suhail
Malik on international-financial-statehood and globalised trade as
seen through Raum’s textile and steel constructions based on
improvisation, and a discussion between Shannon Bool and Monika
Szewczyk regarding the complex position that feminism offers and how
this relates to an aesthetic ambivilance in Bool’s practice. The talks
will develop into a broader discussion that addresses the underlying
psychology and social-historical readings of Bool and Raum’s material
processes.

Judith Raum: even running
The publication translates Judith Raum’s lecture performance „harmless
entrepreneurs“ (2011) into a book format and documents recent
solo-exhibitions at uqbar Berlin and The Return, Dublin. For both
shows, Raum’s painting and installations focused on Deutsche Bank’s
economic engagement in the Ottoman Empire during the early 20th
century. Raum contrasts the entrepreneurs’ modus operandi as evidenced
in archival correspondences and photographs with the improvisational
nature of some of the production along the railway line constructed by
the bank, as well as with her own material interventions.

Texts by Jonathan Carroll, Suhail Malik and Judith Raum, design by HIT.

Shannon Bool: Inverted Harem
Bool’s first institutional solo exhibitons „Mind the Gap“ Crac Alsace,
Altkirch, „The Inverted Harem I“ GAK Bremen, and „The Inverted Harem
II“ Bonner Kunstverein culminated in this publication. Her paintings,
photograms, collages, carpets, wall paintings, and objects revolve
around displacements of context, transfers of meaning, and how
different cultures and periods articulate different ideas about one
and the same thing. Bool interweaves high art with less reputable
techniques to create works that revolve around displacements of the
meanings of materials, visual traditions, and ideas of femininity,
eroticism, or the oriental.

Texts by Janneke de Vries, Christina Vegh, and Monika Szewczyk, design
by Michael Pfrommer

Judith Raum “even running”

November 2011, German/English
21 x 29,7 cm, 72 pages, color, softcover
ISBN 978-3-89462-208-4
Edited by the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences of the Berlin
University of the Arts and Goethe-Institut Irland
published by Verlag der Universität der Künste Berlin

Shannon Bool „Inverted Harem“

EDITORS: CRAC Alsace Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain Altkirch, GAK
Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Bonner Kunstverein
LANGUAGE: German / English
FORMAT: 22 x 29,5 cm
FEATURE: 96 pages, approx. 30 color images, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-942405-61-4

Museum of the Near Future I

Publication launch
Sat 14 January, 2012, 2.30–4.30 pm
at Motto in Markthalle, Eisenbahnstraße 42/43, Berlin
by OK Do (Helsinki/Paris) with Anna Mikkola (Berlin)

Museum of the Near Future (MNF) is an apparatus for looking sideways at and intervening in cities and cultural systems. It presents itself as social installations—such as literary circles or other temporary communities—which are set up within institutional premises. Producing spaces for imagination and discourse, these parasitic arrangements attempt to destabilise perceptions of what is possible and desirable, between the now and the next, challenging traditional hierarchies and power relations.

The first iteration of Museum of the Near Future took place at the Museum of Finnish Architecture’s dormant villa in Helsinki during autumn 2011 and in collaboration with Motto Distribution. It explored micro-political participation in a city undergoing grand urban transformations, such as its rapid expansion to centrally located former harbour areas or the recent identity-defining missions. Setting up a thematic book society/shop in an underused institutional facility, and organising activities such as readings, a narrated field trip and publishing around it, the installation attempted to converge personal and public space, while proposing literature as a tool for making or shaping places.

www.ok-do.eu / www.mottodistribution.com / www.markthalle9.de

Where Do We Migrate To? is a book published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition of the same title, which explores diverging ways in which forms of migration, experiences of displacement, and questions of belonging have been addressed by artists in recent years. For the book, four prominent international writers were invited to reflect on the themes from the exhibition. Ranging from the playful to the theoretical, from the poetic to the philosophical, their essays call for an increasingly complex understanding of the contemporary migrant experience. The book also includes nineteen postcards by the artists participating in the exhibition, designed specifically for the publication and presenting multiple visual interpretations of migratory encounters.

Publication editor Niels Van Tomme invites essayist Aaron Schuster for his presentation The Atopia of Philosophy, in which he asks how the figure of the exile, outcast, and migrant has become such a powerful metaphor for subjectivity in the contemporary imagination.

Aaron Schuster is a writer based in Berlin, where he is a fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry. He has lectured and published widely on psychoanalysis and contemporary philosophy, and his writings on art have appeared in The Believer, Cabinet, Frieze, Frog, Metropolis M, and De Witte Raaf. He coauthored the libretto for Cellar Door: An Opera in Almost One Act (JRP Ringier, 2008), and his The Philosophy of Schizophrenia will appear as a book from M.I.T. Press in 2012.

Niels Van Tomme is a New York based curator, researcher, and critic. His exhibition Where Do We Migrate To? opened at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture in Baltimore in 2011and will travel to Parsons The New School of Design in New York, the CAC in New Orleans, and the Rubin Center for Visual Arts in El Paso in 2012 and 2013. He is a Contributing Editor of Art Papers and publishes internationally in journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogues. Van Tomme is currently co-editing the book Aesthetic Justice, forthcoming from Antennae Series by Valiz, Amsterdam, in 2012.

Where Do We Migrate To?

Edited by Niels Van Tomme

Contributions by Svetlana Boym, Amitava Kumar, Aaron Schuster, and Niels Van Tomme

Artworks by Acconci Studio, Svetlana Boym, Blane De St. Croix, Lara Dhondt, Brendan Fernandes, Claire Fontaine, Nicole Franchy, Andrea Geyer, Isola and Norzi, Kimsooja, Pedro Lasch, Adrian Piper, Raqs Media Collective, Société Réaliste, Julika Rudelius, Xaviera Simmons, Fereshteh Toosi, Philippe Vandenberg, and Eric Van Hove

Published by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, 2011

Available from D.A.P. | Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.

ISBN: 9781890761141

Friday, December 30: mono.kultur #30: Chris Ware launch @ Motto@MarkhalleIX, Kreuzberg
start 6pm

Ragtime!

Motto@MarkthalleIX
Eisenbahnstraße 42/43, Pücklerstraße 34
10997 Berlin

http://mono-kultur.com/
http://www.markthalleneun.com/

LOVELAND Book Launch / Conversation with Mark von Schlegell + Charles Stankievech
8pm Friday, Dec 16th

Event includes a conversation touching on topics such as science fiction, art and unorthodox curating strategies between artist Charles Stankievech and writer Mark von Schlegell–mediated by editor Anna-Sophie Springer.

Signed books will be sold for a special price during the evening.

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LOVELAND

Concept + Design by Charles Stankievech

With Texts by:

M.P. Shiel, Mark von Schlegell, Mark Lanctôt + Anna-Sophie Springer

LOVELAND is an artist book conceptualised and designed by Canadian artist Charles Stankievech that collects primary sources, fiction and critical texts as part of the an artwork produced for the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) and the Sobey Art Award exhibition in the Fall of 2011. Typical of the artist’s research methodology, the book links a spectrum of fields across a broad span of history. Somewhere between the two poles of colour field painting and military colonisation in the Arctic, Stankievech has created a dense web that connects the birth of synthetic pigment and chemical warfare to the Romantic landscape and contemporary geopolitical issues. As curator Mark Lanctôt writes in his critical essay: “Stankievech’s work … directs us away from a-political modernist pictorial utopias towards something more telling: how the relationship between the narrative of history and the site it is connected to can veer into unsuspecting directions, escaping our perceived mastery over it.”

An exquisite edition of 300 with letterpress embossed cover, collation of unique paper stock for each section and 5 colour offset printing.

Texts are bilingual English/Deutsch

Project + Book website:
http://www.stankievech.net/projects/LOVELAND

http://k-verlag.com/

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