Mario Pfeifer / Markus Weisbeck / Spector Books @ Motto Berlin.
TALK: 7:30 Sharp!

Mario Pfeifer’s publication “A Formal Film…” is a critical reader that is part of his film project of the eponymous title — an innovative expansion of the genre. The complex exploration of the intercultural, film-historic, political and urban issues that are discussed in Pfeifer’s film not only surface on the level of texts, they also become manifest in the materiality of the book itself and its production process. The artist’s book was produced in Mumbai in collaboration with local producers and created using six different local printing techniques on nine different, locally sourced paper stocks. In March 2012 Mario Pfeifer and designer Markus Weisbeck set out the formal aspects of the publication in collaboration with local manufacturers and the authors of the texts in Mumbai, India.

The publication was recently selected as one of the best 50 international artists book and will be presented at Kaleid 2013, London.

During the book launch a collector’s edition with hand-painted dust-jackets will be on view besides originally commissioned illustrations and print related materials from the production in Bombay.

Designer Markus Weisbeck and artist Mario Pfeifer will be present to introduce the conception, production and reception of the publication that served previously for panel discussions on issues of cross-cultural labor representation, collaborative strategies and knowledge production at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Artists Space New York, Studio X Mumbai and Khoj New Delhi.

Mario Pfeifer: A Formal Film in Nine Episodes, Prologue and Epilogue –
A Critical Reader

Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer, Bernd Reiß – MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan and KOW

Form by Markus Weisbeck in collaboration with Kurnal Rawat and Anand Tharanay of Grandmother India

With Contributions by Suprio Bhattacharjee, Kaushik Bhaumik, Amira Gad, Susanne Gaensheimer, Nikolaus Hirsch, Ranjit Hoskote, Shanay Jhaveri, Kurnal Rawat, Bernd Reiß, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Anand Tharanay, Ragunath Vasudevan, Markus Weisbeck and Mario Pfeifer
Hardcover, 300pages, numerous color illustrations w. Bookmark and Dust-jacket
Offset, Letterpress, Xerox, Silkscreen
Published in Hindi and English by Spector Books, 2013
ISBN 978-3-940064-60-8

Friday, July 12. 8pm

A panel discussion about art and publishing. Panelists include John Holten (Broken Dimanche Press), Hanne Lippard, Maxwell Simmer (Version House Digital Publications) and Alexis Zavialoff (Motto).

AGORA, Mittelweg 50, Berlin

http://agoracollective.org/

Salopp 5-8. Laura Breier (Ed.). Salopp Magazine.

Salopp ist ein freies Heft für junge Fotografie. Es schafft Raum für unbekanntes Neugesehenes.
Salopp erscheint so oft wie möglich.

Mit Arbeiten von :
Fritz Beck
Ina Schoenenburg
Gunnar Gustafsson
Tanja Kernweiss

Language: Deutsch
Size: 27.4 x 20.9 cm
Binding: Softcover

24 €
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Millions Magazine # 2. Tony Romano and Claire Greenshaw (Eds.).

Millions is an arts and culture magazine dedicated to celebrating and connecting likeminded contemporary art communities throughout Canada and abroad. Millions is designed, edited and published by artists Tony Romano and Claire Greenshaw. In addition to artist projects curated for each issue, Millions presents in depth articles and interviews with emerging and established contemporary artists.

Millions comes out three times a year and is carried by select Chapters/Indigo stores as well as many independent magazine and book retailers throughout Canada.

Language: English
Size: 17.7 x 27.9 cm
Binding: Softcover

10 €
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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/

Swimming On The Building. Saori Tao. Plancton.

Size: 27 x 25.7 cm
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-4-904635-60-5

38 €
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Motto x KesselsKramer @ KK Outlet. London. 05-27.07.2013

KK Outlet
42 Hoxton Square
London
N1 6PB

more info HERE

Selected Works 2004-2012 / Wybrane Prace. Wojciech Bąkowski. Fundacja Transmisja, Poznan.

With essays by Dominic Eichler, Julian Heynen, and Jennifer Teets.

Language: English / Polish
Pages: 226
Size: 17.5 x 23.6 cm
Weight: 680 g
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-83-92372-9-2

€25.00

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Kempens Informatieblad. Jef Geys. Jef Geys & WIELS.

2013

Paperback, 440 x 305 mm, 28 pages, ill. z/w.

Published by Jef Geys & WIELS

texts by Jef Geys, Nader Ardalan, Negar Azimi, Laleh Bakhtiar, Liesbeth Decan, Hans Ulrich Obrist & Dirk Snauwaert

Trilangual ( EN, FR, DU )

3€

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Furniture Kiosk. Claudia Wieser. Motto Books.

“This publication appears on the occasion of Claudia Wieser’s exhibition FURNITURE in KIOSK (6 October – 18 November 2012). The title refers directly at issues that lie at the very heart of Wieser’s work: what is the status of sculptures that were designed as objects? The artist’s body of work is built around this question and explores the boundaries between autonomous and applied art. FURNITURE brought together an ensemble of drawings, ceramic and wooden sculptures, and a spatial collage, instigating a dialogue between them and explicitly relating them to the architectural context of the exhibition space.” – Liene Aerts & Wim Waelput

Edited by Wim Waelput and Claudia Wieser
Authors include Liene Aerts, Alexander Garcia Düttmann, Zoë Gray, Wim Waelput

32 pages
English

13€

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