Casco Issues XII launch @ Motto Zürich/Corner College. 18.11.11
Start 7pm

Opening the evening with the film ‘Glory of the Garden’ (HD-Video, 14 min, 2009) by Marion von Osten, a slow-tempo satire of change in the art institutional structure over the last decades, this evening will focus on the bio-political aspect of an institutional operation. It will reference Katerina Seda’s practice, as well as the sociological approach in Mary Kelly, Margaret Harrison and Kay Hunt’s ‘Women and Work’ as both put emphasis on the “daily regimes” of villagers and workers. Deductively, we can draw from the daily regimes of different “institutions”, ranging from highly established ones to self-organised spaces, and groups, especially in light of Bob Black’s article ‘The Abolition of Work’ and the recent article ‘Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street’ by Judith Butler whereby she criticizes Hannah Arendt’s narrow concept of what action can be. The question then of course would be: what changes do we want and what can we do to the established daily regimes?

After the film screening we will launch the new issue of Casco Issues with the editors Binna Choi and Axel Wieder. Casco Issues is a magazine published by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, which explores recurring issues that emerge from Casco’s programme. It centres on artists’ and designers’ writings and other unconventional forms of publishing. The twelfth edition of Casco Issues, ’Generous Structures’, focuses on “playfulness” as a value in critical cultural practice. As a playful inquiry, it positions alternative notions of playing against the grain of neoliberal ideologies of “lifelong learning” and “work as play”.

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Casco Issues XII: Generous Structures
Edited by Binna Choi & Axel J. Wieder.

Contributions by Zayne Armstrong, Ei Arakawa, Bob Black, Augusto Boal, Ruth Buchanan, Binna Choi, common room, Paul Elliman, ifau & Jesko Fezer, Zachary Formwalt, Beatrice Gibson with Will Holder and John Tilbury, Kleines postfordistisches Drama, Mattin, Hwayeon Nam, Merijn Oudenampsen, Nam June Paik, Anne Querrien, David Reinfurt, Margit Rosen, Katerina Šedá, Axel Wieder

Co-published by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory and Sternberg Press.
Design by Julia Born and Laurenz Brunner, with Sam de Groot.
12.5 x 19.5 cm, 392 pages, 77 b/w ill., softcover
ISBN 978-1-934105-33-7
D €19.00

http://www.cascoprojects.org/
http://corner-college.com/

Motto presents a selection a publications from various European publishers and more, for 10 days, in Tokyo
Opening on Nov. 17, start 6pm

http://utrecht.jp/

Book launch & signing of ‘Catecismo – Paraíso Tropical’
A publication by Sophie Nys and Richard Venlet

Text by Dieter Roelstraete:
The Brazilian. Chapters from the Unwritten History of Lusotropical Sexuality.

Sunday, November 20, 4:00-6:00pm
WIELS, Av. Van Volxemlaan 354, 1190 Brussels

Published by Grotto

The book will be on show until November 27 at WIELS within the context of
Ricardo Basbaum’s participative project for the exhibition ‘A Rua’ in M HKA

—Not a day without a line. Artists’ words and writings

Programme:

Tuesday 8 November. School of Arts (KASK), University College Ghent. Belgium

9.00 registration, coffee

9.20 welcome by Steven Jacobs, head of Ghent University Association Research Unit “Creation, Context and Mediation in the Visual Arts” and professor at Ghent University (BE)

9.30 keynote address by Kristine Stiles, professor at Duke University, Durham (US)
“I’m ready.” Thinking about artist’s writings in a global context

10.20 Nanda Janssen, curator and writer (NL)
Artists’ correspondence

11.00 coffee break

11.20 Laurent Busine, director of MAC’s, Grand-Hornu (BE)
Conversations

11.50 Carson & Miller (Jonathan Carson and Rosie Miller), artists’ duo and lecturers at University of Salford (UK)
Textual dialogue: on game-playing and collaboration

12.20 discussion moderated by Johan Pas, lecturer at Artesis University College Antwerp (BE)

12.50 lunch break

14.00 Simon Deakin, doctoral researcher at University of Leeds (UK), interviews Wilfried Huet, editor and founder of GAGARIN magazine (BE)
Words are no help – is the artist’s text a genre or a concept?

14.50 Susan Jarosi, assistant professor at University of Louisville (US)
Keeping score: considering performance texts as artists’ writings

15.20 Eva Ehninger, assistant professor at Universität Bern (CH)
“The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths”. Aesthetic discourse as (and in) the artistic practice of Bruce Nauman

15.50 coffee break

16.10 Anouk De Clercq, artist and lecturer at University College Ghent (BE)
Correspondence

16.40 Mark Manders, artist and editor-in-chief of Roma Publications (NL)
Hallway with sentences / landmark with colours

17.10 discussion moderated by Johan Pas, lecturer at Artesis University College Antwerp (BE)

17.40 dinner break

19.30 video screening of Elmgreen & Dragset, Drama queens (2007)

Wednesday 9 November

9.00 coffee

9.20 welcome by Wim De Temmerman, dean of School of Arts, University College Ghent (BE)

9.30 Didier Semin, professor at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (FR)
Marcel Duchamp – should the artist go to college?

10.00 Helena De Preester, postdoctoral researcher at University College Ghent (BE), interviews Philip Huyghe, artist and doctoral researcher at University College Ghent (BE)
Ne dites pas que je ne l’ai pas dit

10.30 coffee break

10.50 Dorothee Wagner, doctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
Dissolution of the concrete. The writings of Robert Smithson and his contemporaries

11.20 Philippe Van Cauteren, director of S.M.A.K. (BE)
A letter to: …

11.50 discussion moderated by Hans Theys, lecturer at University College Ghent (BE)

12.20 lunch break

14.00 Philippe Van Cauteren, director of S.M.A.K. (BE)
Presentation of Marcel Broodthaers’ works on the relationship between image and language

More info, directions:
http://notadaywithoutaline.wordpress.com/

Tuesday, November 1st @ Motto Berlin
Start 7pm

A NEW RELEASE BY LODOWN MAGAZINE:
SPEED – THE ANNUAL ART EDITION 003
Featuring: Carsten Nicolai, Osang Gwon, Hunter Longe, Miya Ando, Samir Mougas, Arcangelo Sassolino, Jean Tinguely, Michael Sailstorfer, Bruno Rousseaud, Tim Taylor, Jane Stockdale, Takehito Koganezawa and Rammellzee and more you never dared to ask about Speed.

We have global time, belonging to the multimedia, to cyberspace, increasingly dominating the local time-frame of our cities, our neighborhoods. Nothing is ever obtained without a loss of something else. What will be gained from electronic information and electronic communication will necessarily result in a loss somewhere else. If we are not aware of this loss, and do not account for it, our gain will be of no value. This is the lesson to be had from the previous development of transport technologies. The realization of high velocity railway service has been possible only because engineers of the 19th century had invented the block system, that is a method to regulate traffic so that trains are speeded up without risk of railway catastrophes. But so far, traffic control engineering on the information (super)highways is conspicuous by its absence.

-Paul Virillo

People become avatars, usernames, trolls flitting in and out of various environments at a speed so fast that the world is transformed, made into the speed of light. It doesn’t matter how fast you run, whether or not you catch the first train or the last, or if you make it from here to point X in 20 minutes or less because that which is happening in worlds we cannot see; worlds where tiny information packets travel along encoded passageways, certain intelligence finds its way to high security databases, and encrypted messages carry vital details on just how the next transaction should take place… is where all the things that run this planet are truly happening… so for whatever it’s worth, go with godspeed.

English
EAN: 4194162-709003 20003
Softcover, 340 x 265 mm, 108 pages
Deutschland & Österreich € 9.00
Schweiz CHF 14.00 – Benelux/France € 12.00 – UK £ 10.00

www.lodownmagazine.com

28.10.2011
Start 7pm

1/
Edition presentation
Vanessa Safavi
`The best fisherman is not the one who catches the most fish but the one who enjoys fishing the most´
2011, neon, dimensions variable, edition of 30

Produced by Chert, Berlin and Motto
in collaboration with Creative Match Kreuzberg

http://www.creative-match-kreuzberg.de/?page_id=115

2/
Book presentation
Anne Schwalbe
Wiese

20 photographs
Print: Offset, Oktoberdruck
Paper: Circle Offset white 100g
Edition: 500 signed and numbered
Design: Birgit Vogel
Self Published and Printed in Berlin.

http://www.anneschwalbe.de/

http://collageculture.com/

Fillip&Motto at Kadist San Francisco

Temporary Motto Bookstore
October 12 to 16, 12 to 7 pm

Kadist hosts a week-long temporary store by Motto Books.

Events

Wednesday Oct 12, 6 pm
Opening Reception with a special launch event for Fillip’s upcoming Fall issue, available November 2011. Join Bay Area writers and curators participating in a University Challenge style discussion around the thematics presented in Fillip 15. Participants will include Joseph Del Pesco, Chris Fitzpatrick, Christina Linden, Christian Nagler, Post Brothers, and Peta Rake. Moderated by Kristina Lee Podesva.

October 13, 7 to 9 pm
Panel on artist’s publications in conjunction with the release of Gwen Allen’s book Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art. With Courtney Dailey, Chris Duncan, Eleanor Hanson, and Jeff Khonsary. Moderated by Steven Wolf at Southern Exposure, 3030 20th Street. Presented by SOEX and The Thing Quarterly.

Wednesday Oct 15, 12 pm
Q & A on Art Publications and their Distribution
Hosted by Fillip publisher Jeff Khonsary

http://www.kadist.org/

Alexander Streitberger, Shifting Places. Peter Downsbrough – the Photographs, Lieven Gevaert Series, Leuven University Press 2011.

Since the late 1960s Peter Downsbrough (1940) has been an important figure in contemporary art, associated with major international art movements such as minimal art, conceptual art, and visual poetry. In his artistic work he explores various fields including sculpture, architecture, books, film, and photography.

This book provides, for the first time, a profound insight into Downsbrough’s diverse and complex use of photography within his artistic work over the last 40 years. The author discusses the artist’s photographic work – which includes single prints, series, postcards, collages, and books – and relates it to fundamental issues of photographic practice and discourse such as the photograph as document, the representation of urban space, space-time relations, collage as an aesthetic and political means of expression, the relationship between still and moving image, and the context of presentation. The rich image material – some of which has never been published before – is arranged by the artist himself in order to create a fertile exchange between the topics of the text and his own intervention. Concluding with an exclusive interview with the artist, this book offers a real dialogue between artistic practice and theoretical reflection.

Alexander Streitberger will present the book and introduce in the Peter Downsbrough’s photographic work. Volkmar Mühleis will then act as a respondent to the issues raised in the book and the presentation.

Peter Downsbrough will be present and answer questions posed by the audience.

Alexander Streitberger is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) and director of the Lieven Gevaert Centre for Photography.

Volkmar Mühleis has a PhD in art history and is a lecturer of philosophy at the Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst, Sint Lucas, Gent.

Publication infos:
Shifting Places has been published by Leuven University Press, 2011
ISBN 9789058678720
 €34,50
Paperback · 188 pages, 
140 illustrations

New bookstore in Amsterdam!
Opening: 22th September, 5–10 pm

San Serriffe will be open weekly on Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 12–8 pm.

San Serriffe
Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 240
Amsterdam