Saturday June 14, from 4pm @ Motto Berlin
How to Read a Book
Robert Blatt
Books, voice, and miscellaneous musical instruments.
In a performance somewhere between concert and intervention by working continuously with books found on site at Motto Berlin bookstore, Robert Blatt performs scores by the artist experimentally treating books as material and instrument.
Zabo Chabiland – ANATOMS SONORES
Saturday May 17, from 7pm
Performance 8pm (sharp)
MOTTO BERLIN
Skalitzer Str. 68, im Hinterhof
10997 Berlin
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ANATOMS SONORES
During the Cold War in the Soviet Union, bootleg records pressed on discarded X-rays from hospitals were circulating illegally under the name “bones records” or “music on ribs” as an act of cultural resistance. They contained music from the West, in particular rock ‘n’ roll and jazz, but also Russian folk tunes, considered by the authorities to be “low culture”.
The edition “Anatoms Sonores” was inspired by this unique episode in the history of music and merges two essential mediums in my artistic practice: photography and sound performance.
In 1997, analog photography led me to medical imagery, I established a bridge between the two techniques and started using X-ray film as a main support and pursued an exploration that has continued to evolve ever since. For this project, I used analog X-ray films from my own production,pressed with an extract from the performance “Microsillon X” specially conceived to challenge the microgrooves.
The edition of 250 Anatoms Sonores is composed of 20 images, printed in an edition of 12 unique prints with a wide range of variations, depending on the type of X-ray film (for veterinary or hospital use) the brand and the expiration date (ranging from 1997 to 2024). A further 10 records were pressed on blank X-ray films.
As part of Vasco Cesaretti’s sculpture installation at Motto Paris, we’re hosting a live concert by the artist himself on April 10, from 8 pm. Please join!
more info about the sculpture
GELLI PRINT
BEGINNER WORKSHOP
With @unumprint
SATURDAYS from 2 – 6pm
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APRIL
MOTTO BERLIN
Skalitzer Str.
68
What is gelli printing?
Gelli printing is a unique (monotype) printing process that uses a gel plate as a matrix and inks that dry slowly, most often acrylic paint. The uniqueness of this technique lies in its flexible matrix, which allows for highly accurate imprinting and endless possibilities for creating texture. You can even do photo transfers! The variety of surfaces you can print on is also broader—since the matrix is flexible, you can easily print on everyday objects like clothing. Gelli printing is also very inexpensive compared to other printing techniques. The plates can be made at home using only food-grade gelatin and glycerin. Once the matrix is damaged, you just need to melt it down to reuse it.
Join us with your kids for Noise and Trolls in the Mountains, a puppet performance in a suitcase based on an Icelandic fairy tale. This dark story unfolds in a white landscape filled with lakes, glaciers, and mysterious creatures, accompanied by a soundtrack of electronic music. We start at 3 PM.
Duration: 16 minutes
About the Puppeteer:
Ana Nikolskaia is a puppeteer who collects random items from around the world to create her puppets and performances.
Motto Paris – 38 rue du Vertbois, 75003 Paris
This event is organized within the framework of the cinema club and the Film Association K1NO1.
21 March 8 PM – midnight – Motto Paris.
All dimension performance by the unfamous collective Après la Guerre: analogue 16mm sound installation.
Motto Paris – 38 rue du Vertbois 75003 Paris
This event is organized within the framework of the cinema club and the Film Association K1NO1.
The winter of our technomedieval era continues.
Join us this Saturday, February 8th at 7 PM as we delve into ontological narratives with Anya Tsirlina, Sid Yandovka, and their films.
Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina (both born in Novosibirsk, USSR) are an artist-duo whose practice extends across many different media, predominantly moving images. Though only selected works of theirs are co-authored in a traditional sense, as both have distinct interests and aesthetics, they have collaborated (on and off) for over twenty years – ultimately creating a joint, entirely independent, “homemade” production approach for their films. Their working methods are not products of any educational/professional institutions and their practice is not rooted in any state; it is immaterial and doesn’t benefit from any national/international funding, resources or structures. The artists prefer for their own histories and words to remain in the background – but it’s not essential to know the whys and hows of these works, since there’s an almost alchemical and mystical quality to them that supersedes their construction.
February 8 Motto 38 rue du Vertbois 75003 Paris
This post is related the upcoming film screening within the framework of the cinema club and Film Association K1NO1.
Scacchiere e Scacchisti is the new editorial project of Studio Tonnato, the collective composed of Federico Leoni and Giordano Magnani. The duo is present on the scene of recent contemporary art, particularly linked to art experienced and interpreted through the filter of digital, and operates through installations, performances, events, prints and the internet.
The magazine is described by its creators as “pages of pure enjoyment, lots of friends, lots of piles, lots of (mad) chess”.
Scacchiere e Scacchisti is the sexiest chess magazine around, don’t you believe it? Spread pages, the eye that falls and the mouths that dry. A hot program. Are you ready to enter its soft belly? A cultural product that reflects on the scabrous and often censored theme of “chessboards”. A hidden world to get lost in. Thanks to the cultural raid of Natasha Ottavi, strong muse and refined chess player, and to many collaborations, we are ready to present you a paper golem that moves in an “L” and loses blood. Chess as you’ve never seen it.
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Pictures of the moon, the ultimate topos in photography, have been given a new twist in Erik Steinbrecher’s MONDFOTOGRAFIE. The Swiss artist collects pictures of the moon and rephotographs them, placing a finger on the lens. In this way, images of the full moon are transformed into obscure crescents.
MONDFOTOGRAFIE is a dark and witty artist’s book that takes a subtle, yet illuminating approach not only to the discourse on the photographic image but also to the interpretation and reading of images in general.
Erik Steinbrecher (born 1963 in Basel, lives and works in Berlin) is known to a wide international audience particularly since his participation in documenta X (1997) as well as further major institutional presentations such as at Kunst-Werke in Berlin, MoMA PS1 in New York, the Kunsthalle Vienna, the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich or The Weserburg Museum of Modern Art in Bremen. His work as artist has developed in two main directions; the areas of sculpture and architecture as well as the realm of publication. Steinbrecher released numerous books and printed matters, which always expose a strong conceptual idea and function as independent artworks.
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This Sunday, January 12 at 7:00 PM, we will discuss hauntological narratives, nostalgia for places we have never been, and we will show two films:
Ewan Golder – Binary Love A retrofuturistic dystopia about aging lovers and dating apps in dreams.
Txema Novelo – Déjalo Ser A shamanic journey of poets in the Oaxaca desert, filmed on 8mm.
January 12 Motto 38 rue du Vertbois 75003 Paris
This post is related the upcoming film screening within the framework of the cinema club and Film Association K1NO1.