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

10-24.09.2011: Manuel Raeder @ Motto Berlin
Publications, editions, furniture, display devices and some related matters

http://manuelraeder.co.uk/

Born in Flames: Screening and Talk @ Motto Vancouver
September 17, 5 – 8pm

Motto Vancouver and Fillip are pleased to present a special launch event in conjunction with the recent release of Born in Flames published by Occasional Papers, London. Based on Lizzie Borden’s 1983 film of the same name, the book investigates New York’s radical feminist and lesbian communities through an account of a fictional dystopia set ten years after a peaceful Socialist revolution.

Artist Kaisa Lassinaro and publishers Sara De Bondt and Antony Hudek will join us from London via Skype to introduce the project, followed by a screening of Borden’s film (running time: 80min).

The launch will occur alongside a special presentation of Occasional Papers’ back catalogue, on view at Motto Vancouver through October. Founded in 2008 by De Bondt and Hudek, Occasional Papers is a non-profit publisher devoted to the histories of architecture, art, design, film and literature.

For more information see: http://occasionalpapers.org/

09.09.2011: Manuel Raeder @ Motto Berlin.
Publications, editions, furniture, display devices and some related matters
Start 7pm

Over the past ten years Manuel Raeder and his studio
have been exploring the boundaries between exhibitions, ephemera, books,
type design, publishing, textiles and furniture design.
The studio praxis conceives design as a tool to enable a dialogue by
Thinking with Eran Schaerf on blue
Drawing a Pastiche typeface with Mariana Castillo Deball
Inventing a folding system for a book with Haegue Yang
How to bring BLESS friends into a look-book and make the same images re-enter into the next seasons collection through a textile design
How Bojan Sarcevic Kisses the back of your hand and makes a sound like a wounded bird
Cooking a monstrous egg with Allora & Calzadilla
Convert one month of cultural magazines into a Doorstopper
Translating the border between science and art into a font for the Uqbar foundation
Casting Omer Fast into a book format
Herr Krebber über die Puppertät in der Lehre
Exploring different possibilities of a book being a time storage device, expanding into three dimensional space
Inventing printing machines with Nora Schultz
Designing furniture that makes Group Affinity a matter of participation and reaction to uncomfortable sitting and spacial devices
Busting clouds with Christoph Keller in Maroc
Making concrete spin and also cut through the documentation of Renata Lucas
Invent a toy for the librarians at the Göthe Institute Library in New York together with ifau architects
A cake table for eating your cake, storing books or filling your empty corners
Making old logos appear in a random order for the printed matter for Galerie Neu
Over-dimensional posters with the artists showing at MD72
Causing dizziness and nausea with a flashing triangle as the new identity for Artist Space
Combing things that Yasmine Gauster collected from all around the world through a Moustache for Elgarafi
Discussing with Abraham Cruzvillegas about two separate things coming together
How to write a beautiful colophon together with Heinz Peter Knes and Danh Vo
Wrapping papers that take the format of a book with Nick Mauss that then Ai Arakawa tears them apart in such a way that they appear much larger then they actually are
Sergej Jenson
Discussing with Anja and Kathrin how to make the stationary of the Kölnischer Kunstverein a publishing
medium for the past and the present
k.m website is now online jippeee
Translate the work of Tris Vonna-Michell into a book that keeps changing it’s written word
Playing with the collection of the Klosterfeldes
Finding the nicest Leonor Antunes leather string to bind the book
How Time is not linear but can be seen as a flexible tangle

At Motto Berlin books, ephemera and furniture will be for sale and rare items exhibited.

http://manuelraeder.co.uk/

Michal Pěchouček: Lessons in Art
Catalogue launch with a screening and talk at Motto Berlin, September 1st, 2011
Start 7pm

Czech artist Michal Pěchouček will present his latest catalogue, published on the occasion of a solo exhibition on two floors of The Stone Bell Gallery in Prague earlier this year, with two groups of works one could easily mistake as from two different authors. First being a romantic figural painter who changed paint for embroidery and fabrics. Second being a minimalist photographer, exploring the forms of his medium through routines, cycles, and it’s liminal narrations.

Pěchouček’s solo exhibition Virgin’s Lives will open at Jiri Svestka Gallery the following day on September 2nd in Berlin.

http://www.jirisvestka.com/

Saturday, August 27: Motto/Corner College/Lehni Trueb RE-OPENING.
Start 2pm:

“Selection Maison – Bring Dein Ding” exhibition.

Kueng Caputo design furniture auction led by Garrett Glen Mikael Nelson.

6:30pm: Artist talk between Susanne Kriemann and Axel John Wieder, about the book ‘Reading Susanne Kriemann’, published by Sternberg Press. 2011

http://www.susannekriemann.info/
http://www.sternberg-press.com/

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Sunday, August 28 2011, 1-5 pm

San Keller
DIGESTIV (WALKS) 1 – 5
Eine partizipative Lesung serviert mit Tee, Torten und Digestivs

Einen Verdauungsspaziergang nach dem Kunstgenuss bot San Keller den Besucher/innen der Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel an, nachdem diese sich die jeweils aktuellen Ausstellungen angesehen hatten. Im gemeinsamen Gespräch wurde das Gesehene kritisch reflektiert und Gedanken ausgetauscht. Die aufschlussreichen, teils kontroversen Unterhaltungen hat San Keller anschließend in insgesamt fünf Heften publiziert. Am Sonntag 28. August lesen San Keller und Rein Wolfs Auszüge aus den Gesprächen. Dabei ist aktive Beteiligung gefragt: Das Publikum darf sich in die Rolle der Ausstellungsbesucher/innen versetzen und Teile der Texte im Zwiegespräch mit San Keller rezitieren.

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http://mottozurich.com/
http://corner-college.com/
http://lehni-trueb.ch/

FUKT Magazine for contemporary drawing #10
Saturday 16.07.2011: Launch @ Based in Berlin – Motto/Pro qm, Atelierhaus Monbijoupark
Start 19h

The annual Berlin-based magazine was founded 1999 in Trondheim, Norway and focuses on drawing as an independent research and artistic practice. FUKT intends to uncover the potential forces of a medium such as drawing and its possibility to reach innumerable conceptual and expressive directions. The Norwegian/Swedish artist Björn Hegardt is the founder and editor of the magazine.

FUKT is an international magazine, inviting the most interesting artists and writers to present their views on contemporary drawing. The 10th issue of the magazine comprises works of 20 artists from 11 countries, as well as essays and interviews by 6 invited authors and curators.

Fukt is in constant transformation with all issues in different size and layout, made by the designer Ariane Spanier.

Find out more at: www.fukt.de | www.bjornhegardt.com | www.arianespanier.com |

FUKT #10
Contributors:

Adam Dant, Nanne Meyer, D-L Alvarez, Monika Grzymala, Steven Ketchum, Ralf Ziervogel, Kay Arne Kirkebø, Michael Schall, Björn Hegardt, Ola Åstrand, Rinus Van de Velde, Daniel Zeller, Tegneklubben, Yehudit Sasportas

Ane Graff (invited by Erlend Hammer) Daniel Nadaud (invited by Roven) Joan Linder (invited by Charmaine Wheatley) Astrid Köppe (invited by Christoph Tannert) Brendan Fernandes (invited by Elisabeth Byre) Motoko Dobashi (invited by Dina Renninger)
Essay by Erlend Hammer

Design by Ariane Spanier www.arianespanier.com
Design assistant: Maria Nogueira
Editor: Bjön Hegardt
www.fukt.de

128 pages in color
26 x 21.5 cm
softcover
ISBN 978-3-86895-169-1
Revolver Publishing by VVV

Larry’s/Petunia/mono.kultur triple launch, Tuesday 12 July @ Based in Berlin
start 6:30 pm
(+Djs)

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Larry’s se7en
with: Dena Yago, Morag Keil, Michele Di Menna, Natascha Goldenberg, Martin Thacker, Alex Turgeon, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Maxwell Simmer, Carson Chan, Heji Shin, Daytona Bleach, Mathieu Malouf, Juliette Bonneviot, Dan Bodan, Kayla Guthrie, Valentina Liernur

http://larrys.eu/

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PETUNIA #3

with : Katarina Burin, Frances Stark, Laetitia Paviani, Lina Viste Gronli, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Géraldine Gourbe, Dorothée Dupuis, Emmanuelle Lainé, Clara Meister, Kitty Kraus, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Kathy Acker, Fiona Jardine, bell hooks, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Sisters of Jam, Spartacus Chetwynd, Elizabeth Diller.

http://petunia.eu/

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mono.kultur #27
Ryan McGinley: Daydreaming
“I love the idea of the unexpected.”

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

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07.06-24.07.2011
Pro qm/Motto @ Based in Berlin
Atelierhaus Monbijoupark
Oranienburger Str. 77
10178 Berlin

Open daily from 12-9pm