Little & Large Editions @ Motto Berlin. 1.12.2011
Art Critics Orchestra live
Start 8pm

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W – artist songs volume 2
performed by the Art Critics Orchestra
Micz Flor (guitar, vocals), Laura Oldenbourg (keys), Judith Raum (vocals, guitar), Andreas Schlaegel (drums, vocals) und Raimar Stange (bass)

Mixing, mastering: Alexander Ott, Paul-Lincke-Studio
Cover artwork © 2011 Silke Wagner
Edition of 500
Published by Little & Large Editions, 2011

http://www.artcriticsorchestra.com/
http://littleandlargeeditions.com/

MISS READ
25. – 27.11.2011
Opening Party at Café Bravo: Friday, 25.11.2011, 9–12 pm
Dj set: Christian Naujoks

Opening hours
Friday, 25.11.2011, 3–9 pm
Saturday, 26.11.2011, 3–9 pm
Sunday, 27.11.2011, 12–7 pm

For the third time MISS READ has invited international publishers and artists to show their books at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. As a genre of its own, the artist book reflects contemporary ways of artistic production and publishing to a great extent and also addresses issues of presentation and circulation as well as new strategies of distribution. Presenting a selection of more than 80 of the most active contributors in this field, the festival provides the opportunity to encounter and explore the contemporary scene of independent publishing.

A Prior Magazine, Ghent | Afterall, London | AKV Berlin, Berlin | AND Publishing, London | Anita Di Bianco, New York/Berlin | Apparent Extent, Cologne | Archive Books, Berlin | argobooks, Berlin | Art Metropole, Toronto | Automatic Books, Venice | b_books, Berlin | ballabella papers, Berlin | Bartleby & Co., Brussels | Bedford Press, London | Boabooks, Geneva | BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, Berlin | Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin | Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin | Bücherbogen, Berlin | Bücher & Hefte, Berlin | Camera Austria, Graz | Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht | Dutch Art Institute/MFA ArtEZ, Arnhem | edition fink, Verlag für zeitgenössische Kunst, Zurich | Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich | Edition Taube, Stuttgart | EN/OF, Berlin/Kleve | Errant Bodies, Berlin | Fillip, Vancouver/Berlin | Fritz Balthaus, Berlin | FUKT magazine for Contemporary Drawing, Berlin | GAGARIN, Antwerp | GRAPHIC magazine, Seoul | hard copy (HEAD — Genève & Monospace Press), Amsterdam | information as material, York | Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht | Knust/Extrapool, Nijmegen | Kunstverein Publications, Amsterdam | LemonMelon, London | Lubok Verlag, Leipzig | Mathieu Copeland Presents, London | Maximage, Berlin | Merve Verlag, Berlin | Michael Baers, Berlin | Michalis Pichler, Berlin | mono.kultur, Berlin | Morava, Poznań | Mörel, London | Motto Books, Berlin | Mousse Publishing, Milan | Nebula Books, Copenhagen | Occasional Papers, London | OEI magazine, Stockholm | OMMU, Athens | Onomatopee, Eindhoven | Paraguay Press, a division of castillo/corrales, Paris | Passenger Books, Berlin | Piktogram & Bureau of Loose Associations, Warsaw | Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen | Precinct, London | Pro qm, Berlin | Provence, Berlin/Nice | Publication Studio, Portland | Rafaela Drazic & DeLVe, Zagreb | Revolver Publishing, Berlin | Rollo Press, Zurich | Roma Publications, Amsterdam | Sara MacKillop, London | Scriptings/Achim Lengerer, Berlin/Amsterdam | Space Poetry, Copenhagen | Spector Books, Leipzig | Starship, Berlin | Sternberg Press, Berlin | Studienzentrum für Künstlerpublikationen in der Weserburg, Bremen | THE GREEN BOX, Berlin | The Piracy Project, London | The Surplus Library | Ugly Duckling Presse, New York | umool umool, Amsterdam | urban art info, Berlin | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne | Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich | Westphalie, Vienna | Wiens Verlag, c/o Wien Lukatsch, Berlin | X Marks the Bökship, London | Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., Ljubljana

MISS READ. Event program
Friday, 25.11., 6–9 pm
Saturday, 26.11., 3–7 pm
Sunday, 27.11., 3–5 pm

Event program on contemporary ways of artistic publishing:
With a poetry talk by Jason Dodge and Dieter Roelstraete, lectures by David Robbins and Nick Thurston, presentations by Casco Issues, OEI magazine, Kunstverein Publications, a discussion with Triple Canopy and Project Projects, a performance-lecture by Kerstin Cmelka, a reading by Megan Francis Sullivan, and an open mike by The Piracy Project.

The event program takes place in English.

Friday, 25.11.2011, 7 pm
Cecilia Grönberg, Jonas (J) Magnusson: OEI – A Short Presentation (on Editorial Practices and the Magazine as a Montage Table and a Reading Machine)



Friday, 25.11.2011, 8 pm
Megan Francis Sullivan: For Phil Andros

Friday, 25.11.2011, 8.30 pm
Invocation, Empathy and Repetition
Mikrodramas by Kerstin Cmelka

Friday, 25.11.2011, 9.30 pm
‘A Cocktail Reception for the letters A, B & C’ by Raimundas Malasauskas

Saturday, 26.11.2011, 4 pm
‘information as material, or, some pirates of letters’
Talk by Nick Thurston

Saturday, 26.11.2011, 5 pm
The Piracy Project – I’m a pirate, are you?
Open Mike by Eva Weinmayr & Andrea Francke

Saturday, 26.11.2011, 6 pm
INVALID FORMAT

With Triple Canopy and Project Projects

Sunday, 27.11.2011, 2 pm
Casco Issues XII: Generous Structures – a film and a talk about improvisation

Bill Dietz and Micah Silver in conversation with Binna Choi and Axel Wieder
Film by Beatrice Gibson: Agatha (Rough Cut), 15 min., 2011

Sunday, 27.11.2011, 3 pm
Der Dichter Iwar von Lücken

Jason Dodge and Dieter Roelstraete Talk Poetry

Sunday, 27.11.2011, 4 pm
Alternatives to Art: High Entertainment and Concrete Comedy
Talk by David Robbins

MISS READ for children

MISS READ invites all children to visit the special reading and picture book area.

The reading and picture book area is made possible with the kind support of:
Aufbau Verlag, Berlin, Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim, Bloomsbury Verlag, Berlin, Bohem Press, Zurich, Boje Verlag, Cologne, Coppenrath Verlag, Münster, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, Kinderbuchverlag Wolff, Frankfurt am Main, Luftschacht Verlag, Wien, mixtvision Verlag, München, Moritz Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, NordSüd Verlag, Zurich, Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal, Revolver Publishing, Berlin, Sauerländer, Mannheim, Schlehdorn Verlag, Berlin, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich, Verlagshaus Jacoby & Stuart, Berlin.

Workshop for children from age 5
Sunday, 27.11.2011, 3–5 pm

„Self-made! My very first artist book“
Under the direction of Silke Feldhoff, children from age 5 get the opportunity to draw, print and make a collage in order to produce their very own artist book.
Bookings at: info@kw-berlin.de
Attendance: maximum of 15 children. Free admission to the workshop.

MISS READ. Projects

Art Metropole is pleased to introduce Luis Jacob’s most recent book at its booth, fresh off the press, Commerce by Artists: Commerce affects our lives in countless ways, connecting people and products in transactions spanning the globe. Commerce by Artists documents a sweeping range of artists’ projects produced since the 1950s by Canadian and international artists who have sought to engage, rather than merely represent, the commercial world of which they are a part. Includes contributions by over 50 artists and writers: Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge, Maria Eichhorn, Andrea Fraser, Felix Gonzalez Torres, Mary Kelly, Ben Kinmont, Yves Klein, Life of a Craphead, Lin Yilin, Keith Obadike, Martha Rosler, Reid Shier, Ron Terada, Toxic Titties, Goran Trbuljak, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and many more.

MISS READ and the accompanying event program are free of charge.

MISS READ is a collaboration with STADT LAND BUCH and is realized under the initiative of KW Institute for Contemporary Art, argobooks and Michalis Pichler.
Project management KW: Anke Schleper
The program is a collaboration of Anke Schleper, Axel John Wieder and Alexis Zavialoff.

Design: Matthias Friederich, Julian von Klier with Achim Lengerer, Reading The Aesthetics of Resistance

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

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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

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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/