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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Book The Book

June 24^th 12:00 – 21:00
June 25^th 10:00 – 18:00

Communication Space
Školská 28
Prague
Free admission

A small Art Book Fair in Prague aims to map the Czech scene of art publications, which have been put out by smaller, independent publishers. At the same time, a space for presentation and the sale of authorial books of contemporary artists, photographers, illustrators and typographers will be created. Visitors will have the chance to view and buy books, fanzines and also smaller publications published in limited editions.

The two-day event will be accompanied by lectures and discussions adressing the present state of art publications, future perspectives, and the possibilities of electronic publishing.

From amongst Czech publishers, we will be presenting Tranzit, Divus, BiggBoss, Komfortmag, Fra, the Moravian Gallery, project Oldschool, Ausdruck Books and others + Motto. A selection of authorial books and zines of contemporary artists will be its own separate section.

http://book-the-book.com/

Saturday, June 25 at 8:00pm – July 31 at 12:00pm

Piktogram/BLAMińska 25 [Soho Factory]
Warsaw, Poland

With the participation of / Udział biorą:
AKV Berlin, Alexis Zavialoff, Archive Books, Ausdruck Books, Cezary Bodzianowski, Christopher L G Hill, David Horvitz, Dexter Sinister, Dynasty Zine, Éditions FP&CF, Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Jesper Fabricius/Space Poetry, JSBJ, Kingsboro Press, KLTB, Morava, Motto Distribution, Paraguay Press, Piktogram, Pinups, Rick Myers, Slavs and Tatars, TTC, etc.

Exhibition/bookstore curated by Honza Zamojski.

http://piktogram.org/

The Chinook: Book Launch @ Motto Vancouver, 18.6.2011

Motto Vancouver is pleased to present a reception for the release of The Chinook, an artist book by Antoni Wojtyra. The launch will be followed by an informal talk by artist and foehn wind expert, Monique R. Levesque at 3pm.

Wojtyra’s book inspects and breathes new life into The Chinook, a project that the artist produced in 2009. As an in situ project, Wojtyra invited viewers to a specific crystallized moment of art’s conception and life. Themed around the artist’s binationalism and the romance of nationalism at-large, The Chinook triangulated the relational mythos around the studio, gallery, and art history. An underlying ecological critique of art’s objecthood informs the third strand of The Chinook’s aesthetic and intellectual ambition.

In book form, The Chinook posthumously returns us to a long evaporated spacetime, creating a record that slinks onto the shelves of the art library.

Antoni Wojtyra: The Chinook
Text by Richard Ibghy
Youth Promotions, NYC/Vancouver
Edition of 100.

My Grandma’s Recipes – David Horvitz

“My Grandma’s Recipes” is a collection of 35 recipes that artist David Horvitz’s grandmother has collected throughout her life. Born in Northern California to Japanese Immigrants, and having spent time in the Amache Internment Camp during the Second World War, Kay Maruyama’s (Horvitz’s grandmother) collection of recipes reflect the second and third generation culture of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast.

Most of the recipes come out of sharing, similar to how digital information today is shared. Some are clipped out of newspapers, others given by friends or family, and some typed or hand written by Horvitz’s grandmother. The recipes are stored in a small box inside of his grandmother’s kitchen, in Los Angeles, California, where she has lived most her life. Many of these recipes Horvitz remembers eating at family events and holidays.

format: 135 x 90 x 22 mm, 35 loose sheets, offset printing, cardboard box
color: fullkolor + Pantone 185 (box)
edition: 200

D 8€

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Seeing with Eyes Closed – Association of Neuroesthetics

Seeing with Eyes Closed brings together contributions from the participants of the symposium organized by the Association of Neuroesthetics, Berlin, at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, on 2nd June 2011.

The symposium takes its title from an interdisciplinary project by artist Ivana Franke and neuroscientist Ida Momennejad, conceived through the support of Alexander Abbushi and the AoN. The project concerns the visual experience of flowing images induced by stroboscopic light behind closed eyes. Being aware that the seen images have no foundation in external reality, one experiences them as hallucinatory. This ‘conscious quasi-hallucinating’ challenges our sense of the real in its alternation and its permeability with the imaginary. Each person’s experience differs from that of others, and each ascribes different dimensions to the perceived space in constant transformation. Communicating the content of this ephemeral flux of unpredictable percepts stretches the limits of acquiring subjective report to extremes, and challenges the scientific aspiration to precisely measure the timing of conscious phenomena.
Edited by Elena Agudio and Ivana Franke.
Graphic Design by Sibilla Ferrara / Makingthinkshappen

Published by the Association of Neuroesthetics, Berlin.
89 pages.

D 15 €

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C Magazine #110 – Food

Issue 110 includes Mark Clintberg’s essay “Hungry Eyes: Feasting on Food Photography from elBulli and Beyond,” Nicole J. Caruth’s “Kitchen Studio: A Recipe for Disaster,” Leah Modigliani’s “Collaborating on Conceptual Art: An Aesthetics of the Impossible” and Swapnaa Tamhane’s “The Performative Space: Tracing the Roots of Performance-Based Work in India.” This issue also include an interview by Pandora Syperek with Fiona Kinsella and artist projects by Keesic Douglas and Aislinn Thomas. The reviews section includes writing about exhibitions by Karen Azoulay, Marcel Dzama, Jessica Eaton, Sean Martindale, John Monteith, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland and Diane Arbus, and Douglas Scholes.

56 pages, 29 x 21 cm.

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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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Zde Jsou Psi (Here Be Dogs) – Michal Nanoru (Ed.) – Yinachi

Zde Jsou Psi, translated into English as ‘Here Be Dogs’, is full of photos, drawings, graphics and articles about 32 Czech bands, compiled by dozens of contributors. Michal Nanoru edited the project from New York while Martina Overstreet produced it in Prague. The bands were selected by Nanoru, Overstreet and Marie Hladíková.

The bands covered include: Marius konvoj, Like She, Schwarzprior, 1a2v1, Midi Lidi, Kazety, Mateřídouška, Čokovoko, The Models, Poxxoxo, Indie Twins, Tvyks, Table, Eost, Prince of Tennis, Sporto, Magnetik, Dné, Fiordmoss, Dva, Please the Trees, Kill the Dandies!, Priessnitz, Scissorhands, Sunshine, Night, Root, Master’s Hammer, 518, Smack, WWW, Plastic People of the Universe.

262 pages
Czech / English text

D 23€

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