The Amnesia Pavilions. Nicholas Muellner.

The Amnesia Pavilions, Nicholas Muellner’s stunning new book of textual and visual autobiography, takes as its central narrative his return trip to a small city in Eastern Siberia after a seventeen-year absence. Traveling back to Ulan-Ude in the fall of 2009, Muellner set out to find a close friend whose trail had run cold. Guided (and haunted) by the extensive photographic and written material produced on his earlier journeys, as well as reflective chronicling of his futile retracings, this book considers the impossibility of tracking down and understanding one’s former self. Along the way, this autobiographical safari also serves as a framework for viewing the massive cultural and socio-economic change that has transformed provincial Russia.

The Amnesia Pavilions argues for the incommensurability of the past and the present, and examines photography’s personal, vernacular and historical role in both bridging and broadening the temporal chasm of understanding.

Published by A-Jump Books
220 pages
81 color illustration, 31 black & white
Perfect-bound softcover
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9777655-8-4

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Mousse #30.

Mousse is a bimonthly magazine published in Italian and English . Established in 2006, Mousse contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism and curation, alternated with a series of distinctive columns in a unique tabloid format.

Mousse magazine number 30 including texts by Monika Szewczyk, Dieter Roelstraete, Nicholas Cullinan, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Jan Verwoert amongst others.

Editor In Chief: Edoardo Bonaspetti
Art Director: Francesco Valtolina

D 8€

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Quick #5: Haris Epaminonda.

Alle Bilder / All pictures: Haris Epaminonda
Herausgeber / Editor: Arno Auer
Gestaltung / Design: Franziska Nast / Arno Auer

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Fillip&Motto at Kadist San Francisco

Temporary Motto Bookstore
October 12 to 16, 12 to 7 pm

Kadist hosts a week-long temporary store by Motto Books.

Events

Wednesday Oct 12, 6 pm
Opening Reception with a special launch event for Fillip’s upcoming Fall issue, available November 2011. Join Bay Area writers and curators participating in a University Challenge style discussion around the thematics presented in Fillip 15. Participants will include Joseph Del Pesco, Chris Fitzpatrick, Christina Linden, Christian Nagler, Post Brothers, and Peta Rake. Moderated by Kristina Lee Podesva.

October 13, 7 to 9 pm
Panel on artist’s publications in conjunction with the release of Gwen Allen’s book Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art. With Courtney Dailey, Chris Duncan, Eleanor Hanson, and Jeff Khonsary. Moderated by Steven Wolf at Southern Exposure, 3030 20th Street. Presented by SOEX and The Thing Quarterly.

Wednesday Oct 15, 12 pm
Q & A on Art Publications and their Distribution
Hosted by Fillip publisher Jeff Khonsary

http://www.kadist.org/

Martha Rosler, screening and talk with Martin Jaeggi
Wednesday 12th October 2011, 6 pm at Vortragssaal, ZHdK, Ausstellungsstrasse 69, 8031 Zurich.

Alexander Streitberger, Shifting Places. Peter Downsbrough – the Photographs, Lieven Gevaert Series, Leuven University Press 2011.

Since the late 1960s Peter Downsbrough (1940) has been an important figure in contemporary art, associated with major international art movements such as minimal art, conceptual art, and visual poetry. In his artistic work he explores various fields including sculpture, architecture, books, film, and photography.

This book provides, for the first time, a profound insight into Downsbrough’s diverse and complex use of photography within his artistic work over the last 40 years. The author discusses the artist’s photographic work – which includes single prints, series, postcards, collages, and books – and relates it to fundamental issues of photographic practice and discourse such as the photograph as document, the representation of urban space, space-time relations, collage as an aesthetic and political means of expression, the relationship between still and moving image, and the context of presentation. The rich image material – some of which has never been published before – is arranged by the artist himself in order to create a fertile exchange between the topics of the text and his own intervention. Concluding with an exclusive interview with the artist, this book offers a real dialogue between artistic practice and theoretical reflection.

Alexander Streitberger will present the book and introduce in the Peter Downsbrough’s photographic work. Volkmar Mühleis will then act as a respondent to the issues raised in the book and the presentation.

Peter Downsbrough will be present and answer questions posed by the audience.

Alexander Streitberger is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) and director of the Lieven Gevaert Centre for Photography.

Volkmar Mühleis has a PhD in art history and is a lecturer of philosophy at the Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst, Sint Lucas, Gent.

Publication infos:
Shifting Places has been published by Leuven University Press, 2011
ISBN 9789058678720
 €34,50
Paperback · 188 pages, 
140 illustrations

Again, A Time Machine ends with a bang as the galleries are taken over by purveyors of artists’ books, zines and other ephemera. Over thirty international publishers, artists’ projects and collectives working across the fields of art, design, illustration, literature, philosophy and politics descend on Bristol for this very special event.

A series of workshops, screenings, talks and impromptu reading groups punctuate the day and extend into the evening. These include The Happy Hypocrite: Miniature Essay, a series of collaborative performances co-hosted by Maria Fusco and Spike Associates. Carlisle/Bristol based record label Motive Sounds provides musical entertainment till late. Free posters, part of Jonathan Monk’s A Poster Project, are available to pick up for one day only, and you can contribute your own work to the day’s events: submissions of text and images are invited for publication through Steven Paige’s Bibliophile project.

12-5pm, Gallery 2
Artists’ Book and Zine Fair
Åbäke/Dent-De-Leone, AND Publishing, Banner Repeater, Bedford Press, Bibliophile/Steven Paige, Book Works, Cultural Democracy Editions, Eastside Projects, Francesco Pedraglio, Gagarin, G39/WARP, Invisible Books, Homeland, InterCity MainLine, LemonMelon, Malgras|Naudet/Magnus Quaife, Motive Sounds, Motto Berlin, Marbled Reams, Mute, Occasional Papers, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, The Piracy Project, Plenty Projects/Bridget Crone, Radical Philosophy, Spike Associates, Transmission Publications, Toby Huddlestone, Torpedo Press, Urbanomic, Zero Books, 2HB, and Jonathan Monk’s A Poster Project

Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX, UK

Rischi Minori. Giulia Piscitelli.

The catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition by Giulia Piscitelli Rischi Minori, January 25 – April 2, 2011 at Fondazione Giuliani per l’arte contemporanea. The catalogue includes a special project by Giulia Piscitelli and two critical texts by Stefano Chiodi and Salvatore Lacagnina. This is the first monograph dedicated to Giulia Piscitelli.

Published by Nero
Language: English / Italian
Designer: Francesco de Figueiredo
Photographer: Gilda Aloisi
19 x 27 cm
339 g
ISBN: 978-88-97503-01-9

D 20€

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Mono.Editionen #3: Taryn Simon

So here it comes: mono.editionen #03 with Taryn Simon. A pretty little package in those lovely photographers’ glassine envelopes, containing not only a reprint of our original issue #15 from 2008, which we might have already mentioned we feel to be a little jewel in magazine design; but also an interview addendum with Simon talking about her latest work A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, as well as ten plates thereof, printed as a set of separate cards.

containing
— mono.kultur #15: Taryn Simon
— Interview Addendum
— 10 Plates from ‘A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters’

D 12€

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Kaleidoscope #12 – Fall 2011

Kaleidoscope is an international quarterly of contemporary art and culture. Distributed worldwide on a seasonal basis, it offers a timely guide to the present (but also to the past and possible futures) with an interdisciplinary and unconventional approach.

HIGHLIGHTS: Public Movement interview by Alhena Katsof; RON NAGLE INTERVIEW BY STERLING RUBY; Lucie Stahl by Joanna Fiduccia; The Suburbs by Michele D’Aurizio; Uri Aran by Bartholomew Ryan.

MAIN THEME: STATE OF THE ART BOOK: EXPERIMENTAL COLLECTIBLE LIONEL BOVIER AND AA BRONSON IN CONVERSATION; Why the Book? by Chris Sharp; Special Project by Nina Beier; Secondary into Primary
‘c5bäke and Gavin Wade in conversation; Archive Fever Chris Decon interviewed by Florencia Serrot.

MONO: BERNADETTE CORPORATION: I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On words by Chris Wiley; Matter Expands Away by Vincenzo Latronico; IF EVERYTHING WORKS INTERVIEW BY ANNIE OCHMANEK; Special Project by Bernadette Corporation.

COLUMNS: PIONEERS: Hannah Wilke by Simone Menegoi; FUTURA: David Hominal interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist; MAPPING THE STUDIO: Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet by Luca Cerizza; ON EXHIBITION: “Carlo Mollino. Maniera Moderna” by Paola Nicolin; LAST QUESTION: What Is Going on out in the Street? answer by Ari Marcopoulos.

D 7.50€

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