Rick Buckley @ Motto Berlin
Saturday, December 8th
Start 7pm

‘The Hard And The Fast’

The publication is in part an archival document to a Situationist Intervention that took place sometime during the summer months of 1997, an intervention with specific interior / exterior locations within the centre of London. This artistic / political gesture was carried out during a long running political debate, over the obtrusive and ever growing numbers of CCTV surveillance cameras being installed within public spaces within the capital, and of which were disputed as an infringement upon rights to privacy of the individual citizen.
These interventions were an endeavour to integrate an applied form that would over a period of time, become part of the structure it had been applied to. And by incorporating a mock prosthesis to such public spaces, would endeavour to claim part of a specific public space, of which would represent a specific moment frozen in time.

Texts: Rick Buckley, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Sally O’Reilly, Dagmar Reinhardt
Language: English
72 PP with 11 Colour 26 B &W
Format: 16,8 x 23,2 cm
Edition: 500, No’s. 1 – 20 with special Limited as framed photo edition
ISBN 978-3-89770-423-7
Published by Salon Verlag, Cologne, 2012.

20 €

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Palpable Language? Kasper Andreasen, Achim Lengerer & Annette Stahmer @ Motto Berlin. 3.12.2012
Start 7pm

An evening with presentations and talks by Kasper Andreasen, Achim Lengerer and Annette Stahmer on Monday, December 3rd, 2012, 19 hours at Motto Berlin. The evening will be centered around 3 publications that investigate authorship and the materiality of language:

“Parole #2: Phonetic Skin / Phonetische Haut” (edited by Annette Stahmer) is the second issue of a series of publications investigating the materiality of language. It is concerned with skin and its relation to language. The term “skin” is used here as a metaphor. It represents the surface, the protective sheath of not only the human but also of other “bodies” like the walls of a house, a product’s packaging, the earth’s surface, and so on. Skin describes the boundary between within and without, and is simultaneously a sensitive instrument for communication, directing external information inwards, as well as outwardly expressing inner states. “Phonetic Skin” is a poetic term serving as a starting point for a discussion on the connection between communication/language and skin.
With contributions by: Maria José Arjona, Janet Beizer, De Geuzen, Paul Dickinson, Mladen Dolar, Leif Elggren, Steven Feld, Leonardo Guelman, Anish Kapoor, Brandon LaBelle, André Lepecki, David Locke, Petra Maria Meyer, Jürgen Partenheimer, Naomi Segal, Annette Stahmer, Imogen Stidworthy, Trikoton, Allen S. Weiss.

“Hope to Hear From You” (edited by Kasper Andreasen) is an artists’ publication where the contributors made text-based drawings inspired by a collection of misleading emails. Using the specific qualities of waterless offset, these texts were etched directly into the printing plates that were used to produce the book. The pages show how the gesture writing is closely related to authorship, and that this position is an act of mimicry.
With contributions by: Geela Eden, Johannes Markus Frerichs, Martha Gloyer, Ada Grull, Alice Kuczminski, Alexander Kurzhöfer, Marc André Offenhammer, Gönül Salgin, Hagen Verleger, Marina Veselova.

“Scripting” is a publication series that collaborates with artists, writers, graphic-designers, performers as well as publishers – all of which are working with the formats of “script” and “text” within their processes of production. The latest issue #27 Fragile Exhibition (edited by Achim Lengerer) explores the tentative and poetic relationship of objects and their translation into the printed form.
With contributions by: Geela Eden, Katrin Grimm, Eva Hartmann, Alexandra Haase, Nadja Haase, Jonas Hasselmann, Catharina Hoops, Marleen Krallmann, Max Kühl, Charlotte Ladiges, Elina Martian, Omar Nicolas, André Offenhammer, Jakob Runge, Björn Schmidt, Selina Schnetger, Evelyn Solinski, Jan-Peter Thiemann.

Annette Stahmer (ed.): “Parole #2: Phonetic Skin / Phonetische Haut”
Salon Verlag (in collaboration with Errant Bodies Press), 2012
22 x 32,5 cm
112 pages + CD + postcard
ISBN: 978-3-89770-375-9
distributed by: Vice Versa (Germany), Les presses du réel (France), DAP (USA)

Kasper Andreasen (ed.): “Hope to Hear From You”
Artist’s book
Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design Kiel, 2011
Offset, 20 x 28 cm (outside), 17 x 24.8 cm (inside)
Waterless drypoint etchings
40 pages

Achim Lengerer (ed.): “Scriptings #27 Fragile Exhibition”
Scriptings and Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design Kiel, 2012
distributed by: Scriptings and Raum für Publikation (Germany)

Akaaka @ Motto Berlin. 23.11.2012

We are pleased to welcome japanese publisher Akaaka for a presentation of books.

http://www.akaaka.com/

(signed copies will be available)

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On the same occasion we will present various publications from other japanese publishers, such as:

Edition Nord
Between the books
Twelve Books
Misako and Rosen
Limart
Zen Photo Gallery
Booklet Library
Super Labo
(…)

(image courtesy: Eric/Akaaka)

Spectral Days – Book Release @ Motto Berlin
Thursday, Nov 1, 2012
from 7pm

An artist book by Setareh Shahbazi
with a text by Mirene Arsanios

Presentation in a casual conversation with Hanan Toukan

San Rocco presentation @ Motto Berlin
Monday, October 22
from 7pm

With guests:
Pier Paolo Tamburelli
Andrea Zanderigo
Francesca Benedetto
Wilfried Kuehn
Nikolaus Kuhnert
Simona Malvezzi

http://www.sanrocco.info/

Join us on Thursday evening at 7pm for a thesis presentation by Jamie Ferguson, who will discuss the new publication and the hunting works that make up it’s imagery.

“In The Hunting Field is a collection of encounters that uses the figure of the hunter-trapper as a figurative and literal approach for looking at contemporary understandings of animal, nature, and environment in an ecological age where entities collide at scales massively distributed in space and time.”

The figure of the hunter-trapper is used to draw attention to a significant intertwining with the biological world that shapes bodies and technology. It is not meant as an exhaustive signifier for a linear history but instead as an opportunity to survey encounters that shape these understandings and so inform our place in the world. Perhaps a reinterpretation of environmental aesthetics can provide openings for alternate shapes of future encounters…

MER.@MOTTO
Opening reception: September 14, 2012, from 7pm
Exhibition 15.09-06.10

MER. catalogue on display
New MER. edition by Pieter Vermeersch. Untitled (2012). (Dyptich lambda print)
audio MER. DJ session by Phillip Marshall (The Tapeworm)

http://www.merpaperkunsthalle.org/

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On the same evening, Erik van der Weijde ‘NIEMEYER AND MY WIFE’ exhibition opens @ Chert gallery (+ new 4478ZINE book)

Saturday August 25: Jérémie Gindre + Alvaro Urbano
Start 7pm

Jérémie Gindre, “Ric Rac & Sandwichsm” – an illustraded reading of two publications by the artist

Jérémie Gindre presents an illustrated reading of two of his last publications: “Ric Rac” (Chert+Motto) – a comic book adaptation of artworks about floods, landslides and swamps – and “Sandwichsm” (Rollo Press), an encyclopedic road trip that follows the tracks of whale watching, minimalism drawing, rock moving and lobster eating.
Multi-lingual compatible! (reading in French with German and English subtitles, plus many illustrations)

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On the same evening, presented by Chert: opening of the outdoor exhibition by Alvaro Urbano
“Utopias are for Birds”

Utopia is a non-place, a good-place. Utopia is defined as an idyllic society with a legal system and socio-political ideals, a society living in harmony, between geographical dislocation and intellectual positivism. Many have been and will be, the failed attempts to reach that model.
Utopias are for Birds is based on a collection of utopian projects: architectural ideas that could not be carried out because of financial or constructional unfeasibility, leaving only drawings and diagrams for posterity.

The different birds’ nests are reproductions of drawings by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Archigram, Superstudio, Yona Friedman and others. Placed amongst the architecture of the building where the gallery is located, the works create a path from the street outside to the courtyards.

August 25th / Until winter comes

http://www.chert-berlin.com/

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In the afternoon Motto will display items for sale in the courtyard, up to 60% off. Books, Magazines, back issues, display copies, back list titles. We need space to display new arrivals this fall and have worked a large selection of items that need to go! (START 2PM)

Skalitzer 68. 11.08.2012

PULL THE STOPS OUT, COME ON! THE BERLIN LAUNCH OF MATERIAL ISSUE 3

starts at 7.00 pm.

MATERIAL is a journal of writing by visual artists, a platform for divergent opinions, uses, and appropriations of language. Published in Los Angeles, and co-edited by artists Kim Schoen and Ginny Cook, Issue 3 features artists Farrah Karapetian, Paul Zelevansky, Renee Petropolous, Nate Harrison, James Welling, Natalie Häusler, Harold Abramowitz, Shana Lutker, Stephanie Taylor, Alice Könitz, Frank Chang, and Emily Mast’s English translation of Édouard Levé’s Œuvres. At the Motto launch, Stephanie Taylor and Alice Könitz will give a live, costumed performance of their piece from Issue 3: A Leash for Fritz and Kale for Stray Bunny (9PM SHARP!). The evening will also feature a special guest performance by artist David Raymond Conroy. Natalie Häusler will present the new installation For Ann (rising) in the showcases, which will remain on display for the occasion.

http://www.materialpress.org/motto/

Skalitzer. 68
July 21 – August 25 2012
Saturdays only!

Further Programme details here:

http://www.mottodistribution.com/site/?page_id=24742

Skalitzer 68. 04.08.2012
Camera Austria – Magazine presentation, drinks and BBQ
Natalie Czech – Book launch, presentation and Q&A
Starts at 7.00 pm.

The theme of Camera Austria’s new issue (#118) is “Photography_Text”, which ensues from the observation that contemporary photographic artists are increasingly associating text and image mediums; a practice at the base of German artist Natalie Czech.
At “Skalitzer. 68″ the magazine and the artist will plan a joint presentation, following the intense collaboration they had in the creation of this issue, where author Jens Asthoff discovers how Natalie Czech, through her photographs, investigates language as a space of contingency, probes boundaries of meaning, experiments with word-image relations, and encourages stratifications of intertextuality to intersect with and permeate one another. In his literary contribution, Barry Schwabsky poses exploratory questions about Czech’s work: “Is it possible to see her work as one enormous love letter: a billet-doux to poetry?” and notes that the last thing lovers want to give up is the possibility of gazing at the beloved: “Photographing poetry means gazing at it.”
In the same occasion, Natalie Czech’s recently published monography “Je n’ai rien à dire. Seulement à montrer. / Ich habe nichts zu sagen. Nur zu zeigen. / I have nothing to say. Only to show” (Spector Books, 2012) will be officially presented and open to discussion with the artist.

http://www.natalieczech.de/
http://www.camera-austria.at/
http://www.spectorbooks.com/

Further programme details