MAP #23 – Journeys in Contemporary art. Autumn 2010.
Edited by Alice Bain

Up Front:
REMARKS Yvonne Rainer, Ruth Höflich, New Work Scotland, Stephan Dillemuth, AHM project
REPORT The Art of Survival by Paddy Johnson and Jennifer Thatcher
RESPONSE by Sean Ashton
PRODUCTION Discoteca Flaming Star interviewed by Anita di Bianco
EMERGING Katarina Zdjelar by Aoife Rosenmeyer, Cara Tolmie by Will Holder
MAP Commission: Michael Fullerton

Features:
ANDREA BÜTTNER by Richard Birkett
PERFORMANCE, LAND ART, AND PHOTOGRAPHY by Francesco Gagliardi
JONATHAN HOROWITZ interviewed by Steven Cairns
SIMON DYBBROE MØLLER by Dorothée Brill
KELLY NIPPER by Joanna Fidducia
EMILY WARDILL interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist
THE DEVIL MAKES WORK by Fiona Jardine
ARTIST TEXT: MICK PETER New drawings and text by the Glasgow artist

Reviews:
FOCUS Edinburgh Art Festival, 6th Berlin Biennale
EXHIBITIONS Knut Åsdam, Jorge Santos, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Lila de Magalhaes / Michael White, The Potosí Principal, David Hominal, Francis Alÿs, Jack Pierson, The Long Dark, Dynasty
IN PRINT Sinister Resonance, Ashes and Broken Brickwork of a Logical Theory
EVENTS Ian White, Sharon Hayes
END NOTE Marc Camille Chaimowicz

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Wolfgang Tillmans – Serpentine Gallery

The Catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Wolfgang Tillmans at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 26 June – 19 September 2010.

Exhibition curated by Julia Peyton-Jones.

Three New Books
Roma Publications, Amsterdam
with Uta Eisenreich, Jan Kempenaers, Louis Lüthi.

Opening : Wednesday 25th August, 6-10 pm
Perla-Mode, Langstrasse 84, 8004 Zurich

Exhibition: 26. August – 11. September 2010
Opening times: Thurs. & Fri. 12 – 7pm, Sat. 12 – 5 pm

Organized by Corner College and Motto Zürich.

Keren Cytter, Magnus af Petersens.
Published by Sternberg Press.
English/Swedish. 160 pages.

This catalogue provides the reader with the opportunity to read six of Keren Cytter’s scripts for films that are being shown in the exhibition at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, May 8 – August 15, 2010.

Keren Cytter has rapidly established herself internationally as one of the most interesting and unique artists on the contemporary art scene. At the mere age of 33 (born 1977 in Tel Aviv, currently living and working in Berlin), in the last eight years she has produced more than 50 video works, written three novels and an opera libretto, started the dance and theatre company D.I.E. Now, won awards and is the darling of the art press. Last summer, she exhibited at the New Museum’s group show “Younger Than Jesus” and participated in the Venice Biennale. Cytter says: “I studied art because I wanted to go to New York and wash dishes.”

Keren Cytter’s topics often include love stories, violence, sex and murder. She applies a non-linear narrative, the stories often shot with a hand-held camera. The actors—amateurs and friends of the artist, but more recently professional actors—switch roles with each other, or read their stage directions out loud. Scenes are repeated, but with a different course of events, with voiceovers or alternative dialogues. The films are usually set in simply-furnished apartments, especially the kitchen regions, suggesting a connection to kitchen sink realism. The literary tone of the dialogue, however, is far from realistic, writes Magnus af Petersens in the catalogue, adding: “Instead the films are deliberate hybrids between seemingly incompatible genres, between home videos and auteur films in the spirit of the French nouvelle vague, between Dogme and docu-soap or sitcom. But her films are above all existential dramas about the human condition, about love and hate in our thoroughly medialised age.”

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Contro Vezzoli

Contributors : Michele Robecchi, Dieter Roelstraete, Martin Herbert, Jens Hoffmann and Stéphanie Moisdon

This publication was co-published with Kaleidoscope on the occasion of the exhibition “Civica 1989-2009: Celebration, Institution, Critique” at Fondazione Galleria Civica – Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità di Trento.

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Flat Folds – Mai Braun

Published to accompany the exhibition Flat Folds.

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The Witness by The GAM Underground Project. Torino.

A publication to accompany the exhibition All the Memory of the World at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Turin (The GAM). It aims to introduce the public to a selection of texts investigating the relationship between different historical methods, art and images. The book focuses on three main themes, which are divided into three different sections, each bringing forth a memory that has been ‘buried’ by a general aesthetic over-production. Images from the world’s history are observed through a ‘privileged moment in time’ in which the artist is identified as the only possible witnessto our present

Published by Archive Books

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Stolen Works of Art by  Olivier Lebrun

This Catalogue, is a compilation of 124 works of art collected on the Interpol website on may 21st, 2010. They’re classified by Interpol as “Recent Stolen Works of Art” and reproduced here with their administrative number as caption. The process of transformation from stolen artworks to low-file jpeg reproductions, means a dematerialization of the physical pieces which exist now as a data collection. The publication uses the replication of these datas, as a tool for reinterpretation of a collection and therefore, an exhibition in this 130×200mm space

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Noir Complex – City, Story, Destruction & Death.
Curated by Maik Schlüter and featuring Jerry Berndt (USA), Laura Bielau (GER), David Deutsch (USA), Charles Gaines (USA), Caroline Hake (GER), Andreas Schulze (GER), Clare Strand (GB), Amy Patton (USA) and Marco Poloni (CH).

This book was published by Spector Books (Leipzig) on occasion of the exhibition Noir Complex – City, Story, Destruction & Death, May 29 – August 22, 2010, at Magazin4 – Bregenzer Kunstverein, Potsdam.

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“Drinnen & Draussen”

a group exhibition with:
Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Lucy Coggle, Jérémie Gindre, Petrit Halilaj, Karin Hueber, Hannah James, Heike Kabisch, Valerie Krause, Roseline Rannoch, Heiko Räpple, Vanessa Safavi, Carla Scott Fullerton, John Spiteri, Philippe van Wolputte.

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 26, 2010
19.00 – 22.00

26 June – 26 August, 2010

Chert / Motto
Skalitzerstr. 68
10997 Berlin
www.chert-berlin.com
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The show invites 14 artists from various countries including Germany, Australia, Belgium, Switzerland, Great Britain, Mexico and Kosovo. The different works are situated both inside the gallery space and outside of it, using part of the courtyard where Chert and Motto are located. In this way, the attention is moving between the ideas of precariousness and delicacy, creating a different approach to the public in respect of the artwork, focusing on the differences between a traditional gallery context and an extemporaneous placement.