Cyanotypes – Ruth Erdt & Eva Vuillemin

Self Portraits Ruth Erdt 16-22 years.
Self Portraits Eva Vuillemin 16-22 years.
Eva is Ruth’s daughter.
Cyanotype is one of the earliest photographic printing processes.
The specific blue colouring of the print is called “Berliner Blau”.
The images were made through exposure to sunlight on the street.

Idea: Ruth Erdt
Editing: Ruth Erdt, Eva Vuillemin, Benedikt Reichenbach
Graphic Design: Benedikt Reichenbach
Thanks to Urs Küenzi (Substitut Berlin) and Landis & Gyr (Kulturstiftung Zug)
Berlin 2011

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Tobias Zielony: Trona. Armpit of America

Tobias Zielony (*1973, lives in Berlin) has for many years been photographing young people in their given environments, mainly in the public space. He is attracted to the fringe areas of urban reality: the banlieues of French metropolises, the cities of Saxony-Anhalt that have gained a reputation as shrinking cities, or the desert city Trona outside Los Angeles. In such places social tensions, the lack of alternatives and prospects are strongly in evidence.

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Architecture Words 7 – Modernity Unbound, Other Histories of Architectural Modernity. Detlef Mertins. AA Publications

For almost 20 years, Detlef Mertins has been a critical voice in renewing our understanding of architectural modernity. Architect, historian, professor, his essays have often taken up familiar themes in order to redress inaccuracies and release energies that we were unaware of.

These essays elaborate on such key modernist tropes as transparency, glass architecture, organicism, life and event, sameness and difference. Previously published in a variety of different venues, from journals to anthologies – including such noted books as Lars Spuybroek’s NOX: Machining Architecture and FOA’s Phylogenesis – they are now assembled for the first time in this volume.

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Kilobase Bucharest A-H, Ioana Nemes and Dragos Olea (Eds.), Mousse Publishing

A-H is part of a project connected to “Image to be projected until it vanishes,” a group show curated by Mihnea Mircan. This book, published by Kilobase Bucharest, a fictitious art gallery dreamed up by Dragos Olea and Ioana Nemes (the exhibition is dedicated to the latter, who passed away suddenly last April), is the first of three publications aimed at describing Bucharest through a sort of experimental primer: for each letter, eight artists and collectives have chosen a key term that represents a sliver of the Romanian capital.

The resulting portrait conveys the essence of Bucharest from a subjective standpoint that captures the infinite facets of the city’s life and culture.

Edited by Ioana Nemes and Dragos Olea
Published by Mousse Publishing

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SAN ROCCO #2 / The Even Covering of the Field

San Rocco was the product of the collaboration of two young architects. San Rocco did not contribute to the later fame of its two designers. It is neither “standard Grassi” nor “standard Rossi”. Somehow it remains between the two, strangely hybrid, open and uncertain, multiple and enigmatic.

The purity and radicalism of the design does not involve any intolerance. San Rocco suggests an entirely new set of possibilities. It seems to be the beginning of a new type of architecture, or the first application of a new type of architecture, or the first application of a new – and happy – design method that has not been developed further.

San Rocco proposes the possibility of reusing architectural traditions that lie outside of private memory (contrary to Rossi’s usual approach) without erasing personal contributions (contrary to Grassi’s usual approach). In San Rocco, common does not mean dry, and personal does not mean egomaniacal. San Rocco seems to suggest the possibility of an architecture that is both open and personal, both monumental and fragile, both rational and questioning.

Editor: Matteo Ghidoni
Contributors SAN ROCCO #2: Simon de Dreuille & Sam Jacob, Giovanni Piovene, Freek Persyn, Oliver Thill & Bas Princen, Mathias Gunz, Giorgio Talocci, Ignacio Uriarte, Giovan Battista Salerno, Michele Bonino and Subhash Mukerjee, Jonathan Sergison, Andrea Zanderigo, Erica Overmeer, Luca Trevisani, Florian Beigel and Philip Christou, Ioanna Angelidou, Virginia Chiappa Nunes and Pietro Pezzani, Joseph Grima, Yellowoffice, Anton Ginzburg, Kersten Geers, Eric Troussicot, Matilde Cassani, Pier Vittorio Aureli, 2A+P/A, Andrea Branzi, Nicholas de Monchaux, Francesca Pellicciari and Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Vittorio Gregotti, Rolf Jenni, Christian Muller Inderbitzin and Milica Topalovic, Stefano Grazian

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Between Art and Life – Andrea Zittel. Mousse Publishing

For Andrea Zittel’s first solo exhibition in an Italian museum – “Between Art and Life” curated by Alberto Salvadori – Mousse published a monographic catalogue dedicated to this American artist, one of the most interesting, original figures on the contemporary art scene.

Published by Mousse Publishing, 2011

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How to Merrily Roll Over An Exterior Emptiness, André Guedes & Miguel Loureiro

Script and images of the eponymous play directed by visual artist André Guedes and theatre-maker/actor Miguel Loureiro. The script reworks historical texts on the events of the Paris Commune with high and lowbrow contemporary references, in a comic-tragic effect.

Includes archive images of the 1871 Paris Commune.
Text in English and Portuguese.
116 pages.

D 6€

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Mousse #29

Mousse magazine number 29 including texts by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Dieter Roelstraete, Jens Hoffmann, Jennifer Allen and Will Holder amongst others. Also including The 6th Monumentum Biennial Reader and Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating: What is The Public?

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Long hand, Sue Tompkins

The book can be seen as a script for a performance, in which the reader becomes the performer of Sue Tompkin’s words assisted by the size and weight of the book and page, the movement of turning the pages, the position of the text on the page, the thickness of her pen stroke and the size and speed of her writing.

74 pages, 29.7 x 42 cm, softcover
Numbered limited edition of 250 copies

D 28.5 €

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Born in Flames. Lizzie Borden

Born in Flames, the publication, is an illustrated transcript of Lizzie Borden’s 1983 film ‘Born in Flames’, edited and designed by Kaisa Lassinaro. It includes an interview with Borden conducted in L.A. by Lassinaro, as well as the lyrics of Undercover Nation by The Bloods and Born in Flames by Red Crayola, kindly supplied by Adele Bertei and Mayo Thompson.

Size 21 x 29.7cm, 32 p, soft cover, full colour throughout

D 12 €

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