06.06.2011
Start: 19:00
Olaf Nicolai – Faites le travail qu’accomplit le Soleil –

Special guest: Ronald Lippok interpreting Zabriskie Point
Plus: screening of Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point

Participation of the artist, the book’s designers HIT (Lina Grumm + Annette Lux) and Kathrin Meyer (Curator kestnergesellschaft)

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Olaf Nicolai
Faites le travail qu’accomplit le soleil
published by Spector Books, Leipzig 2011
German or English version
48 Pages
D 28€

Saturday, May 28 @ Pro qm. Start 7pm

Prix Fernand Baudin Prijs

Exhibition: 30. May – 18. June 2011

Pro qm is pleased to announce an exhibition with the Prix Fernand Baudin for the most beautiful books from Brussels and Wallonia 2010, opening on Saturday, May 28, 7-9pm. For two weeks, Pro qm will present the prize-winning books and eleven special versions of the accompanying catalogue.

The prize is conceived as a platform for the discussion of experimental strategies in publishing with a focus on the specific coherence of the interactions between the various creators of books: authors, artists, publishers, designers, and printers. This year’s jury included Alexis Zavialoff, Roland Früh, Felix Weigand, Markus Dreßen, Georges Charlier, Goele Dewanckel, Etienne Wynants and Bernard Marcelis.

The Fernand Baudin Prize has been initiated by designers, artists and teachers who work in the book world. The prize is supported by Brussels-Export, Wallonia-Brussels International (WBI) and Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment Agency (AWEX).

http://www.prixfernandbaudinprijs.be/

Saturday, May 28 · 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Office Hours: Publications Launch

Larry’s se7en
Susanna Browne: Country War Songs
Dirk Wright: Taking Pictures

Motto Vancouver is pleased to present a reception for the release of three publications as part of the exhibition Office Hours

Susanna Browne: Country War Songs
Country War Songs compiles country songs produced in the wake of the events on 9/11 as an exposé into the poetics and politics of contemporary country music. Published by Publication Studio Vancouver. For more information see: www.publicationstudio.biz.

Dirk Wright: Taking Pictures
Taking Pictures is a collection of mobile phone photographs–images captured through a live streaming website over the course of a three hour window during which the the iPhone’s MMS encryption was hacked. Self published with an accompanying essay by Amy Zion.

Larry’s se7en
Published over the course of the Office Hours exhibition, the seventh edition of Larry’s will also be available. Larry’s se7en was produced by sending content from Berlin through Dropbox to a printer in Vancouver. This raw material, manipulated through a re-digitizationation process, was then edited to produce its final form specifically for the exhibition. Established in 2007 by Maxwell Simmer, Martin Thacker & Mathieu Malouf, Larry’s is a multi-platform publication and creative initiative of Art, Design & Lifestyle from Berlin, Germany. For more information see: www.larrys.eu.

Motto Vancouver
555 Hamilton Street
Vancouver, BC

Again, A Time Machine – A Book Works touring exhibition in five parts

Part two
Book Works archive in collaboration with Archive Books and Sternberg Press,
Simon Fujiwara, Maria Fusco, Stewart Home, Jonathan Monk, Katrina Palmer, Markus Weisbeck and Fons Hickmann

6 May to 2 June 2011 at Motto Berlin/Chert

Performance event
With Simon Fujiwara, Maria Fusco, Stewart Home, Jonathan Monk, Katrina Palmer, Markus Weisbeck and Fons Hickmann
Friday 13 May, start 6.30

music by: “Nat-Ala-Mat “

Forthcoming
The Showroom, London
14 June 2011 to 19 May 2012

Spike Island, Bristol
16 September to 9 October 2011

White Columns, New York
23 October to 19 November 2011

Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere
A novel by Paul Haworth
Published by TRUE TRUE TRUE

Berlin launch at Motto Berlin
Saturday 2 April 2011, 6–8pm
7.30pm: hip-hop performance by Paul Haworth & Sam de Groot, featuring special guest Kasia Fudakowski

Alex ‘Abs’ Brenchley is back. The seven-foot tragedy opens the sequel to Silk Handkerchiefs with the words “2008 was the worst year of my life.” This is the story of that year.

Her tongue – foraging a path through my skull – she’s lost in sweet Abstacy – all thine energy and concentration directed towards staying upright – tantalisingly she nibbles my chin – I rest, my consciousness falters – her naughty hands all over the shop – just need a little TO is all – but, oh my – feel numb and can’t fully appreciate – the sensations – past the belt-line – clutching my butt-cheeks – resting on her shoulder, drift off – come back around as I feel… – a sturdy finger penetrates my arse – the annulus is in my anus! – and two – frantically fingering my tradesman’s – I fall back to sleep – until – a massaging of my balls and P is still soft and doughy – what gives? – the diet pills have stolen my wood! – and her wide, excavating tongue returns to forage deep, deep, deep inside my throat and I can’t take it…bileous…no more…have to stop, I’m about to – puke! – I swing back – she gasps in ecstasy – puke! – I run—

Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere sweeps our hyper-emotional hero across England, into the depths of despair and deranged behaviour, towards a mythical destination – The Lady Field – a fabled area of Hampstead Heath where it isn’t just men who are cruising. Carnforth yobs,Sex and the City: The Movie, dogging fanatics, Christian Slater, Community Support Officers and the Page Street Gang – these are just some of the forces Alex is up against as he seeks to find the manhood, absolution and purpose in life that will empower him to win the love of Trevoreesia, his Absqueen.

All the while, the economy is collapsing – “My life had been in crisis for so long and now the world was catching up,” observes Alex – and the soundtrack to this far-gone era is Take That’s cruel taunt: THIS COULD BE THE GREATEST DAY OF OUR LIVES. Does that day come for Alex Brenchley or will he remain, always and forever, Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere?

Mixing Cockney, teen lingo, Victorian slang and inventive wordplay, Haworth’s colourful style makes for an exhilarating and addictive read. This is the second part in a trilogy of comedic novels about Alex Brenchley.

Paul Haworth (Lancaster, 1982) is the author of Silk Handkerchiefs and Andy de Fiets: Letter to Robin Kinross (written with Sam de Groot), both published in 2009 by TRUE TRUE TRUE, Amsterdam. Active also in hip-hop, painting and radio, Paul has recently participated in exhibitions and performances at the Barbican Art Gallery (London), Contemporary Art Center (Vilnius), SMBA (Amsterdam) and Motto (Berlin). He studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (Oxford) and De Ateliers (Amsterdam). www.homelovin.co.uk

Published February 2011 by TRUE TRUE TRUE
18 × 11 cm, 128 pages, €10
ISBN 978-94-90006-03-7
www.truetruetrue.org

Saturday, March 26, 2011
Start 6:30 pm

Paul Kooiker’s new book SUNDAY consists of a great diversity of images of one female model. Bright colours, porcelain skin, shiny shoes: turning the pages means moving a lightening sculpture in a natural way, almost in harmony but at unexpected moments bizarre and surrealistic.

http://www.paulkooiker.com/

It’s a Book, It’s a Stage, It’s a Public Place

Sonnabend 19. März 2011, 12.00 – 20.00 Uhr
Central-Theater Leipzig
Bosestraße 1

During last year’s Leipzig Book Fair, Spector Books organized a first meeting of independent publishers at the Centraltheater. The event combined trade fair and workshop: visitors could receive information about the programs of the 16 invited publishing projects or listen to talks given on the grand theatre stairs. »It’s a Book, It’s a Stage,It’s a Public Place« was greeted with lively resonance by guests and publishers alike.

That’s why this year, Spector Books would also like to invite more than 20 »Micro-éditeurs« from all over Europe during the book fair to present themselves and their programs on March 19th 2011 from 12.00 to 08.00 p.m. in the foyer of the Centraltheater in Leipzig. We are interested in an exchange on multiple levels: transfer of goods and thought, networking opportunities and debate should come together on the book fair’s Saturday at the theatre. The talks and presentations given on the theatre stairs will be dedicated to the conception and design of book series: participants include, among others, graphic designer Zak Kyes about »Architecture Words«, the AA School of London’s book series, and editor Jan Frederik Bandel about the history of the Fundus series.

A detailed programme with all participants and speakers will be announced by the end of February.

Mit AKV Berlin / Archive Books (Berlin/ Turin) / Argobooks (Berlin) / August Verlag (Berlin) / AA Books (London) / Bedford Press (London) / Eastside Projects (Birmingham) / Edit. Papier für neue Texte (Leipzig) / Edition Fink (Zürich) / Gagarin (Antwerpen) / The Green Box (Berlin) / Hellozine (Köln) / Institut für Buchkunst (Leipzig) / Journal of Aesthetics & Protest (Los Angeles) / Lubok Verlag (Leipzig) / MZIN (Leipzig) / Motto (Berlin) / Space Poetry (Kopenhagen) / Spector Books (Leipzig) / Wolfgang Fietkau Verlag (Kleinmachnow)

Motto Zürich Store @ Plattform 11

10. – 19. März
Opening: 9. März, 18 Uhr

EWZ Selnau, Zürich

Saturday the 19th of February 2011
Mousse Publishing invites you to an exhibit of their printed production

Torpedo Bookshop / Torpedo Press
Trelastgata 3, Oslo, Norway
from 6.00 pm

Music for the Videos of Lars Laumann.
Concert by Dan-Ola Persson. 8.00 pm