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.

http://www.spectorbooks.com/

Tomorrow, Friday 30 March 2012: Broken Dimanche Press @ Motto Berlin

Book presentation, in presence of the editors
Start 7pm

Mountainislandglaciar

By Carlos Fernåndez-Pello, Javier Fresneda, Eduardo Hurtado, Regina de Miguel, Antonio R. Montesinos, Lorenzo Sandoval (Eds.)

With Contributions from: Pavla Ascher, Santiago Eraso, Juan Freire, Emanuele Guidi, John Holten, Nicolas Malevé, Markus Miessen, Laurence Rassel, Alan Pauls, Maria Ptqk, Urzsula Wozniak

Artist’s catalogue / Anthology
Spanish/English dual editions
190 pages
ISBN: 978-3-943196-01-6

After a game-changing year when Europe, in all its tangible and intangible consequences reached far and wide, BDP are proud to announce one of our most ambitious compilations of art, writing and research on our contemporary’s troubled, shape-shifting realities. In a unique dual book publication (English/Spanish editions) edited by the group ‘Correspondence from Eyjafjallajökull’ the book contains the artistic results and research of the group, along with eleven probing and insightful carefully selected ‘collaborations’. These diverse entries take many forms, including fiction, essay, polemnic,

After working together as a research group centering around the event that was Eyjafjallajökull in May 2010, ‘Correspondence from Eyjafjallajökull’ went about re-examining the idea of Europe. With no air traffic possible, Europe found itself connected in a very physical way, a unity that is the opposite in many ways of how ‘Europe’ has been so recently conceived. Through various forms of artistic research and development new, kaleidoscopic perspectives of Europe came about, moving from peripheries such as Turkey and Iceland itself, inward to the imaginative world of European identity creation.

With a strong focus on the problematic nature of European discourse as it is currently offered, the recent rise of protests movements in Spain appear in contributions from Maria Ptqk, Emanuele Guidi, Juan Freire and Santiago Eraso: the 15th May Movement in Spain and The Arab Spring pre-dated but also foretold the wider Occupy movement of 2012, an incredible year in which protest and the right to protest swept the world in myriad forms. The playful use of fiction to create stories and identity is evident in contributions from Pavla Ascher, John Holten and Alan Pauls. Re-imagining the line of Europe’s borders opens the anthology with Urzsula Wozniak’s essay on Turkey’s relationship with Europe, while Markus Miesson offers an extension of the realm of what can be thought of as ‘Europe’ with an extract from his East Coast Europe project.

http://brokendimanche.eu/

Saturday March 10
“How it’s made vol.7.” Morava Books @ Motto Berlin
Start 8pm

Honza Zamojski in conversation with Alexis Zavialoff

The MORAVA Publishing House was established in early 2010 in Poznań, Poland by Honza Zamojski – visual artist, curator and publisher. Morava wishes to develop publishing projects in two directions: original ideas for books and limited editions of works.

http://moravabooks.com

Launch event for Linear Manual and Doubting publications by TLTRPreß at Motto bookstore in Berlin on February 23rd, 2012.

http://tltr.biz/
Video

http://www.littlejoemagazine.com/

Friday, February 17 @ Motto Berlin
Start 7pm

Apeirophobia is a new publication by artists Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry exploring the processes of translating an artwork into book format, an extension of a theme in Kihlberg and Henry’s work of things changing form through processes such as memory and recall, documentation and revisiting histories and possible futures.

At the Berlin launch Kihlberg and Henry will present a short video screening of three works (including a video of the launching and shooting of 30 copies of the book) which will be followed by an informal discussion by Kihlberg and Henry, designer and co-editor James Langdon, and Dominique Hurth from The Reading Room, concerning the issues of artists books and publishing.

Apeirophobia, by artists Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, designed and co-etided by James Langdon, includes texts by: Emma Cocker / Brian Dillon / Mladen Dolar / Eli Noé

Apeirophobia is a 128 pages paperback B/W
Priced £10/€13 with a special launch night price of £7.50/€10

Karin Kihlberg (SE) and Reuben Henry (UK) lead a collaborative artist practice and are based in London. They worked as researchers at the Jan van Eyck Academy between 2008-10 and initiated and led the international production residency, Springhill Institute between 2004-08. Their practice spans from video, performance to drawing and writing. They are the 2012 recipients of the Great North Run moving image commission in Newcastle.
More info on – www.karinkihlberg-reubenhenry.org

The Reading Room is a project based in private spaces in Berlin, with the aim to maintain, archive and represent products of contemporary art practices evolving within printed and published formats. The project presents a curated selection of over 60 artist’s publications (books, zines, magazines and newspapers) and related projects (such as fold-out posters or published audio projects), from a range of internationally based artists, both established and emerging.
The Reading Room is an initiative of artists Ciarán Walsh and Dominique Hurth.
www.thereadingroom-index.com

The evening will feature a discussion between Judith Raum and Suhail
Malik on international-financial-statehood and globalised trade as
seen through Raum’s textile and steel constructions based on
improvisation, and a discussion between Shannon Bool and Monika
Szewczyk regarding the complex position that feminism offers and how
this relates to an aesthetic ambivilance in Bool’s practice. The talks
will develop into a broader discussion that addresses the underlying
psychology and social-historical readings of Bool and Raum’s material
processes.

Judith Raum: even running
The publication translates Judith Raum’s lecture performance „harmless
entrepreneurs“ (2011) into a book format and documents recent
solo-exhibitions at uqbar Berlin and The Return, Dublin. For both
shows, Raum’s painting and installations focused on Deutsche Bank’s
economic engagement in the Ottoman Empire during the early 20th
century. Raum contrasts the entrepreneurs’ modus operandi as evidenced
in archival correspondences and photographs with the improvisational
nature of some of the production along the railway line constructed by
the bank, as well as with her own material interventions.

Texts by Jonathan Carroll, Suhail Malik and Judith Raum, design by HIT.

Shannon Bool: Inverted Harem
Bool’s first institutional solo exhibitons „Mind the Gap“ Crac Alsace,
Altkirch, „The Inverted Harem I“ GAK Bremen, and „The Inverted Harem
II“ Bonner Kunstverein culminated in this publication. Her paintings,
photograms, collages, carpets, wall paintings, and objects revolve
around displacements of context, transfers of meaning, and how
different cultures and periods articulate different ideas about one
and the same thing. Bool interweaves high art with less reputable
techniques to create works that revolve around displacements of the
meanings of materials, visual traditions, and ideas of femininity,
eroticism, or the oriental.

Texts by Janneke de Vries, Christina Vegh, and Monika Szewczyk, design
by Michael Pfrommer

Judith Raum “even running”

November 2011, German/English
21 x 29,7 cm, 72 pages, color, softcover
ISBN 978-3-89462-208-4
Edited by the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences of the Berlin
University of the Arts and Goethe-Institut Irland
published by Verlag der Universität der Künste Berlin

Shannon Bool „Inverted Harem“

EDITORS: CRAC Alsace Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain Altkirch, GAK
Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Bonner Kunstverein
LANGUAGE: German / English
FORMAT: 22 x 29,5 cm
FEATURE: 96 pages, approx. 30 color images, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-942405-61-4

LOVELAND Book Launch / Conversation with Mark von Schlegell + Charles Stankievech
8pm Friday, Dec 16th

Event includes a conversation touching on topics such as science fiction, art and unorthodox curating strategies between artist Charles Stankievech and writer Mark von Schlegell–mediated by editor Anna-Sophie Springer.

Signed books will be sold for a special price during the evening.

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LOVELAND

Concept + Design by Charles Stankievech

With Texts by:

M.P. Shiel, Mark von Schlegell, Mark Lanctôt + Anna-Sophie Springer

LOVELAND is an artist book conceptualised and designed by Canadian artist Charles Stankievech that collects primary sources, fiction and critical texts as part of the an artwork produced for the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) and the Sobey Art Award exhibition in the Fall of 2011. Typical of the artist’s research methodology, the book links a spectrum of fields across a broad span of history. Somewhere between the two poles of colour field painting and military colonisation in the Arctic, Stankievech has created a dense web that connects the birth of synthetic pigment and chemical warfare to the Romantic landscape and contemporary geopolitical issues. As curator Mark Lanctôt writes in his critical essay: “Stankievech’s work … directs us away from a-political modernist pictorial utopias towards something more telling: how the relationship between the narrative of history and the site it is connected to can veer into unsuspecting directions, escaping our perceived mastery over it.”

An exquisite edition of 300 with letterpress embossed cover, collation of unique paper stock for each section and 5 colour offset printing.

Texts are bilingual English/Deutsch

Project + Book website:
http://www.stankievech.net/projects/LOVELAND

http://k-verlag.com/

Tuesday, November 1st @ Motto Berlin
Start 7pm

A NEW RELEASE BY LODOWN MAGAZINE:
SPEED – THE ANNUAL ART EDITION 003
Featuring: Carsten Nicolai, Osang Gwon, Hunter Longe, Miya Ando, Samir Mougas, Arcangelo Sassolino, Jean Tinguely, Michael Sailstorfer, Bruno Rousseaud, Tim Taylor, Jane Stockdale, Takehito Koganezawa and Rammellzee and more you never dared to ask about Speed.

We have global time, belonging to the multimedia, to cyberspace, increasingly dominating the local time-frame of our cities, our neighborhoods. Nothing is ever obtained without a loss of something else. What will be gained from electronic information and electronic communication will necessarily result in a loss somewhere else. If we are not aware of this loss, and do not account for it, our gain will be of no value. This is the lesson to be had from the previous development of transport technologies. The realization of high velocity railway service has been possible only because engineers of the 19th century had invented the block system, that is a method to regulate traffic so that trains are speeded up without risk of railway catastrophes. But so far, traffic control engineering on the information (super)highways is conspicuous by its absence.

-Paul Virillo

People become avatars, usernames, trolls flitting in and out of various environments at a speed so fast that the world is transformed, made into the speed of light. It doesn’t matter how fast you run, whether or not you catch the first train or the last, or if you make it from here to point X in 20 minutes or less because that which is happening in worlds we cannot see; worlds where tiny information packets travel along encoded passageways, certain intelligence finds its way to high security databases, and encrypted messages carry vital details on just how the next transaction should take place… is where all the things that run this planet are truly happening… so for whatever it’s worth, go with godspeed.

English
EAN: 4194162-709003 20003
Softcover, 340 x 265 mm, 108 pages
Deutschland & Österreich € 9.00
Schweiz CHF 14.00 – Benelux/France € 12.00 – UK £ 10.00

www.lodownmagazine.com

28.10.2011
Start 7pm

1/
Edition presentation
Vanessa Safavi
`The best fisherman is not the one who catches the most fish but the one who enjoys fishing the most´
2011, neon, dimensions variable, edition of 30

Produced by Chert, Berlin and Motto
in collaboration with Creative Match Kreuzberg

http://www.creative-match-kreuzberg.de/?page_id=115

2/
Book presentation
Anne Schwalbe
Wiese

20 photographs
Print: Offset, Oktoberdruck
Paper: Circle Offset white 100g
Edition: 500 signed and numbered
Design: Birgit Vogel
Self Published and Printed in Berlin.

http://www.anneschwalbe.de/