Jesus Days, 1978 – 1983. Slide show and publication presentation by Greg Reynolds @ Motto Berlin. 22.11.2013.

Posted in Events, Motto Berlin event, photography, travel on November 19th, 2013
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Jesus Days: Slide show and publication presentation @ Motto Berlin. 22.11.2013.

Jesus Days, 1978 – 1983
Photographs by Greg Reynolds

“In the late 70s and early 80s, I was a closeted gay man in his 20s working as a campus minister for an evangelical Christian student organization called the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. I struggled with my homosexuality. I was overwhelmed by grief and saw no option other than to repress my desires for sex and love. In 1978, a missionary friend gave me a 35 mm Pentax K1000 that she didn’t use. I knew very little about photography, but I loved taking pictures. It wasn’t my intention to document the American evangelical movement, but rather to take photographs of the people and places that were important to me. Now I see that the camera allowed me to say in pictures what I could never say in words.” 

From 19.00, slide show begins at 19.45

Motto Berlin
im Hinterhof
Skalitzer Str. 64
Berlin 10997

Quick Magazine @ Motto Berlin. 16.11.2013.

Posted in magazines, Motto Berlin event on November 11th, 2013
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Quick Magazine @ Motto Berlin. 16.11.2013.

A cordial invitation

ourpress publishing & MOTTO Distribution
Celebrate the 10th Quick Magazine and 3 years of Quick with an exhibition and book readings.

Samstag, 16.11.2013, 7 PM

Book reading schedule:

7.30 Fabian Reimann

8.00 Wofgang Plöger

8.30 Andreas Meyer reads Jonathan Monk

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Herzlich Einladung

ourpress publishing & MOTTO Distribution
feiern das 10te Quick und 3 Jahre Quick Magazine mit Ausstellung und Lesung!

Samstag, 16.11.2013, 19 Uhr

Zeitplan der Lesungen:

19.30 Fabian Reimann

20.00 Wolfgang Plöger

20.30 Andreas Meyer liest Jonathan Monk

View all ten issues of Quick here.

The White Review @ Motto Berlin. 14.11.2013.

Posted in literature, Motto Berlin event, writing on November 9th, 2013

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The White Review @ Motto Berlin. 14.11.2013.

The White Review will be returning to Motto Books, Berlin for an evening of performance poetry and prose on Thursday 14 November, beginning promptly at 7:30 p.m.

In line with The White Review’s principles we’ll be presenting an established talent alongside a new voice, both of them performing works that blur the boundaries of performance, art and poetry.

A short introduction by the editors will be followed by readings from Eugene Ostashevsky, Greg Baxter and Matt Lomas, about whom more below. There will be drinks before, during and after the performances.

The Russian-American poet EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY, who contributed an excerpt from ‘The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi’ (about the relationship between a pirate and his parrot) to The White Review 8. Famous for his physically animated, ventriloquistic performances, Ostashevksy’s books of poetry include ‘The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza’, published by Ugly Duckling Presse.

GREG BAXTER was born in Texas in 1974. He is the author of two books, A Preparation for Death and The Apartment. A third book, Munich Airport, will be published in 2014. He lives in Berlin.

MATT LOMAS, whose ‘A Letter That Never Reached England’ featured in The White Review 4, will read a new piece that ‘oscillates between English and German’, appropriately for an event organised by an English-language journal in Berlin.

Opening Week: A Platform for Art/Theory/Design. Jan van Eyck Alumni Association e.V.

Posted in Motto Berlin event, Theory on July 9th, 2013
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17.07.2013. 19:00. Motto Berlin.

Opening Week: A Platform for Art/Theory/Design. Jan van Eyck Alumni Association e.V.

In times when norms of commerce and technology seem to pervade all activities, the example of the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht stands out. Until its recent entrepreneurial recasting under austerity programmes, the Academie had been a site of encounters which had surpassed the sterile confines of academia and the consensual norms of market-oriented work, as it welcomed examinations and radical critiques of the spaces of artistic creation, theoretical inquiry and design, while also questioning the relations and boundaries between these fields. Building upon this experience, while at the same time surpassing its institutional limitations, it is our intention to construct a platform for collaboration between theorists, designers and artists, by suspending the borders between their respective disciplines, by affirming the need for collective and experimental work, by engaging in projects which do not shy away from questioning the very possibilities of different domains, whether aesthetic, scientific or political. Within the framework of a three-day inaugural meeting, we will present and discuss works in design, art and theory by those formerly related to or supporting the Academie as well as others who are joining us. A series of lectures and performances, seminars and screenings, as well as displays of works and book presentations will serve us, in this sense, not only as materials for a broader discussion, but also as a nucleus for future collaborative work.

Organized by the Jan van Eyck Alumni Association e.V. in cooperation with the ICI Berlin Kulturlabor, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Motto Berlin and the Silberkuppe Gallery.

Full Programme:
http://www.ici-berlin.org/events-news/

Nina Kurtela, Leftovers of Endurance & Stef Heidhues, Trespassers Only @ Motto Berlin 12.06.2013

Posted in Motto Berlin event on June 8th, 2013

When: Wedn. June 12, 7 p.m.
Where: Motto Berlin

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Nina Kurtela, Leftovers of Endurance

Leftovers of endurance is a project that collects, archives, and discusses topics related to the durational performance / video work Transformance by Nina Kurtela made in Uferstudios, Berlin 2010.

The main focus of this project is to exchange and build the discourse of writing about artworks and/or the related subjects that are engaged. Seventeen authors reflect on the work from different perspectives, touching upon the questions that are set and probed in Transformance.

From their different backgrounds in theory, science, art criticism and art practice, they are looking at the work as well as the practice of writing from different perspectives.

Therefore the book serves as a platform for possible discussions, opening discursive thinking around performative practices within contemporary art.

Contributing authors: Branka Benčić, Rickard Borgström, Franz Anton Cramer, Eric Green, Boris Greiner, Igor
Koruga, Isabel Lewis, Andrej Mirčev, Carlos Manuel Oliveira, Kerstin Schroth, Jasna L. Vinovrški, Litó Walkey,
Kandis Wiliams, Jadwiga Zimpel, Marysia Zimpel.

Format: 16 x 22 cm
Pages: 240
Language: English
Colour: b/w, cover in full colour
Binding: softcover
Print run: 300
Design: Rafaela Drazic

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Stef Heidhues, Trespassers Only

Zwischen Vertrautem und Fremdem
Spannungsreiche Gegensätzlichkeiten bestimmen das Werk von Stef Heidhues (geb. 1975 in Washington D.C., lebt und arbeitet in Berlin), das von ihrem alltäglichen Umfeld inspiriert ist. Und so führt auch der Titel ihrer ersten Monografie “Trespassers Only” (dt. Nur für Unbefugte) mitten hinein in die Themen, mit denen sich die Künstlerin beschäftigt. In Heidhues’ Werk geht es um Grenzen und ihre Überschreitungen, um Markierungen und deren Missachtung sowie um Zuschreibung und Umschreibung. Dabei spielt der ungewöhnliche Einsatz des jeweiligen Materials eine besondere Rolle: Aus Fahrradketten werden Flaggen, Motorradhelme werden in Keramik modelliert, Stahl, Treibholz, Latexband, Stoff und Pappe bilden Zäune, Schranken und Barrikaden. Ihre Arbeiten handeln von unserer Gesellschaft, sind ein Statement gegen die allzu schnelle Zuschreibung und Wertung vermeintlich klarer Sachverhalte und ein Plädoyer für mehr Empathie.
Mit einem Vorwort von Reinhard Spieler, einer Einleitung von Barbara J. Scheuermann und einem Interview mit der Künstlerin von Hans-Jörg Clement.

Between the Familiar and the Foreign
Dynamic oppositions inform the work of Stef Heidhues (b. Washington, D.C., 1975; lives and works in Berlin), which is inspired by the everyday world around her. And so the title of her first monograph, “Trespassers Only,” leads right into the issues the artist explores. Heidhues’s art is about boundaries and their transgression, about demarcations and the disregard for them, about attributions and their redistribution. The unconventional use of her various materials plays a central role: bicycle chains become flags; motorcyclists’ helmets are actually ceramic models; steel, driftwood, latex tape, fabric, and cardboard form fences, barriers, and barricades. Her works speak of our society, taking a stance against the overly quick categorization and valuation of what seem to be unequivocal matters of fact and articulating a plea for more empathy.
With a preface by Reinhard Spieler, an introduction by Barbara J. Scheuermann, and an interview with the artist by Hans-Jörg Clement.

Format: 20 x 25,5cm
Features: 84 Pages, approx. 45 Color and b/w images, hardcover
Editors: Barbara J. Scheuermann, Reinhard Spieler
Graphic Design: Barbara Bättig, mischen, www.mischen-berlin.de
Publisher: DISTANZ Verlag
978-3-95476-021-3

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Powerpaola + libros de Colombia @ Motto Berlin. 18.04.2013.

Posted in illustration, Motto Berlin event, Zines on April 15th, 2013
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Powerpaola + libros de Colombia @ Motto Berlin. 18.04.2013.

WHERE: Motto Berlin
WHEN: Thursday April 18 at 19:00

Powerpaola will present her books, together with a selection of publications gathered during the Moto Móvil project in Bogotá, including titles from La Silueta, Matera, Jardin, Galeria Casas Riegner among others.

Powerpaola
La Silueta
Revista PMG
Revista Matera
Jardin Publicaciones
Half-Noise
Casas Riegner

New Stationery Department. Sara Mackillop. Motto Berlin. 30.03-19.04.2013

Posted in Exhibitions, Motto Berlin event on April 2nd, 2013
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New Stationery Department. Sara Mackillop.
Motto Berlin. 30.03-19.04.2013

Cosmic mental therapy. Werkplaats Typografie @ Motto Berlin. 07.02.2013

Posted in Events, Motto Berlin event on February 5th, 2013
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Cosmic mental therapy
In the realm of the necessary decision

BOOK LAUNCH
February 7th, 2013
from 7pm

There was an empty room in the back of the Werkplaats Typografie. One day, that void has been pushed out of the two doors. In 2012 eighteen people had to find that space somewhere else.

During six separate excursions, throughout Arnhem and the Netherlands, they explored the potentialities of the destruction and construction of new lands, they travelled far in order to look back, they tried to escape to freedom in a dead-end, they cancelled a day, and they finally found nowhere-man in nowhere-land. They searched for the room that they had lost, or for the conditions and materials with which to rebuild it, and in doing so began to expand the walls of the school along a whole new set of trajectories and possibilities.

Cosmic mental therapy, In the realm of the necessary decision is a collection of texts that were gathered through the past year as the Werkplaats Typografie participants of Year 12 and Year 13 collectively attempted to identify, destroy or run from established sovereignty in an attempt to search for something new.

Edited by Noah Venezia and Stefano Faoro with support from Maxine Kopsa
Designed by Noah Venezia
Published by Werkplaats Typografie / ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem, 2013

www.werkplaatstypografie.org

Natalie Häusler & David Horvitz @ Motto Berlin. 12.01.2013

Posted in Events, Motto Berlin event on January 9th, 2013

Natalie Häusler + David Horvitz. Watercolors Book launch
Saturday January 10, 2013.
Start 6pm

The book “Watercolors” is documenting a one and a half year long correspondence in form of watercolors sent via email between Natalie Häusler and David Horvitz.

npiece.com/natalie-haeusler
http://davidhorvitz.com/

On the same evening @ Chert: David Horvitz. AT NIGHT THEY LEAVE THEIR CENTURY.

Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir & Shame magazine presentations @ Motto Berlin. 13.12.2012

Posted in Events, Motto Berlin event on December 11th, 2012
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Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir & Shame magazine presentations @ Motto Berlin. 13.12.2012
start 7pm

A slideshow presentation addressing the sovereignty of the sign, and/or the independence of the phenomenon which had hitherto transported it, marks the official release of MINDGAMES – a publication conceived as abstract shapes, shrouded in words, to articulate a cross-dimensional plane of intrigue. The diagrams and images will describe the structures and concepts that occupied the mind of the author when creating the text. The presentation will include more than a hundred originally composed images and will be accompanied by a reading.

MINDGAMES incoporates metaphorical qualities depicting people and their relationships in an ongoing interchange between space, geometry, history, and meaning. This quadrangled story about shades and variations in co-dependence and sovereignty is inspired by a musician (John Lennon), a theorist (Henri Lefebvre), an author (Halldor Laxness), and a demented ruler of Rome (Caligula) – forming biographies that present portraits of associations rather than particular statements about individual lives. The publication was conceived as a way of enjoying information in the tradition of the autodidacts of the past – but in a style which is contingent to  a reverence towards traditional modes of archiving the world.

Published in collaboration with Werkplaats Typografie.
Designed by Noah Venezia, Werkplaats Typographie, Arnhem / ArtEZ Institute of the Arts.
Size: 12 x 17 cm
Pages: 152
Edition: 500
D 15€

“If shame emerges in the breach between you and me, between the private and the public, this magazine is a willfully idiosyncratic and multi-faced attempt to approach this breach, that is, to approach shame in its different registers from the sexual and personal to the political.“
Jenny Nachtigall
Shame is a recurring publication which observes and researches human feelings and the human body. Shame focuses on daily issues that easily pass by our attention and juxtaposes them to politics, design and art in printed form. This makes it look, at times, uncomfortable and embarrasing. Shame One was initiated and produced in the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL by visual artist Wolfgang Fuetterer and graphic designer Neda Firfova. As of 2012 Shame continues to be produced in Berlin.
Shame One contributors: Alexander, Nathaniel Boyd, Simon Denny, Nicholas Matranga, Shogo Matsushiro, Jenny Nachtigall, Wolfgang F. IX, Hinrich Sachs, Samo Tomsic

edition of: 200
pages: 52
published by: Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
D 15€