Tobias Zielony: Manitoba
Buchvorstellung mit Andrea Hiott und Tobias Zielony, moderiert von Astrid Mania

12. April 2012, ab 20.00 Uhr
MOTTO Berlin, Skalitzer Str. 68 HH

In Winnipeg, der Provinzhauptstadt des kanadischen Bundesstaates Manitoba, hat Tobias Zielony das Leben von jugendlichen Gangmitgliedern indigener Herkunft fotografisch festhalten. Die amerikanische Autorin Andrea Hiott fuhr ein Jahr nach dem Fotografen nach Winnipeg und traf einige der Jugendlichen wieder. Sie sind die Nachkommen mehrerer Generationen kanadischer Ureinwohner, die in staatliche und kirchliche Assimilierungsprogramme gezwungen und von ihrer indigenen Herkunft abgeschnitten wurden. Heute orientieren sich die »First Nations« wieder an alten, aber auch an neuen Mythen von Stammeskultur, Heldentum und indigenem Widerstand. Wiedergefundenes Familienwissen, Hollywoodfilme und die modernen Gangkulturen der amerikanischen Global Cities liefern dafür Stilvorlagen. Sie greifen nach Versatzstücken neuer Erzählungen über sich selbst, in denen sich Realität und Fiktion kaum unterscheiden lassen. Unsicher, zärtlich und auch stolz suchen sie vor der Kamera des Fotografen ihr eigenes Bild.

Spector Books verlegt mit »Manitoba« die Publikation zu Zielonys bislang umfangreistem Projekt. Dessen 50 Fotografien ergänzen ein Film sowie ein Hörspiel, das auf dem Reisebericht Andrea Hiotts basiert.

»Manitoba« ist noch bis zum 15. April bei KOW in der Brunnenstraße 9, Berlin, zu sehen.

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Perfect is my death word. James Lee Byars. CNEAI=Conception Guy Schraenen.

Textes en français de Guy Schraenen et Thomas Deecke.

En novembre 2009, Conny Purtill vient de Philadelphie en résidence sur la Maison Flottante du Cneai afin d’explorer la collection Fmra. Il intervient dans dix publications selon un même processus qui consiste à remplacer la page 11/12 par une page gravée et dessinée par lui. Les pages extraites de ces dix livres sont rassemblées dans un dossier et constituent l’oeuvre “10, 11, and 12”. En parallèle, Conny Purtill réalise des interventions à peine perceptibles au crayon dans une sélection d’ouvrages de la collection Fmra. Les livres sont réinsérés tels quels dans la collection, sans mention particulière. Des aiguilles dans une bottes de foin…

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An exhibition catalogue produced on the occasion of the exhibition Dagmar Heppner Hannah James Charlotte Moth at Cole Gallery London  2012. This publication archives a conversation that took place over a period of one month between Dagmar Heppner, Hannah James, Charlotte Moth and Allia Ali, as a response to the to the exhibition.

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Higher Atlas/Au-delà de l’Atlas
The Marrakech Biennale [4] in Context

Edited by Carson Chan and Nadim Samman

With texts by Carson Chan, Anthony Gardner, Kerryn Greenberg, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Beral Madra, Simon Njami, Katarzyna Pieprzak, Alice Planel, Holiday Powers, Véronique Rieffel, Nadim Samman, and Jessica Winegar

Higher Atlas: The Marrakech Biennale in Context [4] brings together a collection of texts that dilates on the social and historical context, history, and contemporary reality of exhibition making in North Africa and in particular, Morocco. For Chan and Samman, the exhibition is the primary locus of artistic information; firsthand experience of the work is the best way to understand it. The catalogue, published in English and French, with an Arabic online edition to follow, is intended to provide a context for the exhibition within preexisting and future frameworks for understanding some of the considerations that went into this edition of the Marrakech Biennale.

Further contributions by Aleksandra Domanović, Alex Schweder La & Khadija Carroll La, Alexander Ponomarev, Andrew Ranville, Anri Sala, Barkow Liebinger Architects, Centre des Arts Contemporains Marrakech, Le Cube and Collectif Island 6, Christopher Mayo, CocoRosie, Elín Hansdóttir, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Eva Grubinger, Faouzi Laatiris, Felix Kiessling, Finnbogi Pétursson, Florian & Michael Quistrebert, Hadley & Maxwell, Hassan Darsi, Joe Clark, Jon Nash, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Jürgen Mayer H., Karthik Pandian, Katarzyna Przezwańska, Katia Kameli, Leung Chi Wo, Luca Pozzi, Matthew Stone & Phoebe Collings-James, Megumi Matsubara, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Roger Hiorns, Sinta Werner, Sophie Erlund, Tue Greenfort, Younes Baba-Ali, and Jamaa.

Design by John McCusker and Sara Hartman

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TRA – Edge of Becoming. MER. Paper Kunsthalle

Exhibition catalogue for the exhibition TRA at Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
June 4 – November 27 – 2011

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Liam Gillick & Lawrence Weiner. A Syntax of Dependency:. Mousse Publishing.

This publication documents the monumental, collaborative work that Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner produced for the Antwerp museum of contemporary art MuHKA in the spring of 2011. Poignantly titled “A Syntax of Dependency:, the project could be viewed as the outcome of a twenty-year dialogue between the artists, their respective artistic practices and separate generations. This giant floor piece, consisting of an abstract linoleum pattern containing an array of phrases, took up the museum’s entire first floor – its site – and specifically meant that the end of the exhibition also entailed the work’s irreversible destruction. This photo novella – complete with fragments of a conversation between both artists and a short text by exhibition curator Dieter Roelstraete – captures the work in its unique desolate splendor.

56 pages
English

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Agma Magazine # 5

FEATURES
STUDIO Pino Pascali in his studio in Boccea, Rome, as never seen before
ARCHIVE Mark Rothko’s landmark exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1961
COLLECTION Gian Ferrari Collection in Villa Necchi Campiglio
ADVERTISE Dwan Gallery at its best
DEPICTION Maurizio Cattelan’s pigeons seen through Maurizio Cattelan’s eyes

EXHIBITIONS
SOL LEWITT A Wall Drawing Retrospective, MASS MoCA, Massachussetts
DAMIÁN ORTEGA, Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico City
JEFF WALL The Crooked Path, The Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
BILL BOLLINGER The Retrospective, ZKM, Karlsruhe
OLIVER LARIC Kopienkritik, Skulpturhalle Basel
IGNACIO URIARTE Works, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
SYSTEMS, ACTIONS AND PROCESSES 1965–75, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires
ROY LICHTENSTEIN Entablatures, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

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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

The Exhibitionist #4 – La Critique, Journal on Exhibition Making

The Exhibitionist, a journal made by curators, for curators, focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making.The objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns – encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating.

Editor: Jens Hoffmann

Editorial board: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Okwui Enwezor, Kate Fowle, Mary Jane Jacob, Constance Lewallen, Maria Lind, Chus Martínez, Jessica Morgan, Julian Myers, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul O’Neill, Adriano Pedrosa, Dieter Roelstraete, Dorothea von Hantelmann

Design: Jon Sueda and Jennifer Hennesy / Stripe, San Francisco

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Metropolis M #4

20X Protest
Domeniek Ruyters / Ann Goldstein / Koen Brams / Experimental Jetset / Dieter Roelstraete / Ann Demeester / Constant Dullaart / Bik Van der Pol / Moosje Goosen / Willem Oorebeek / Hito Steyerl / Elena Filipovic / Sara van der Heide / Lotte Geeven / Camiel van Winkel / Joost de Bloois / Jeremiah Day / Marcel van Eeden / Hans Ulrich Obrist / cover: Willem de Rooij

Falke Pisano interview
Academiespecial: 5 starters
Neil Beloufa
40 jaar Robert Smithson in Emmen

128 pages
Dutch/English
21 x 28 cm

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