MISS READ
25. – 27.11.2011
Opening Party at Café Bravo: Friday, 25.11.2011, 9–12 pm
Dj set: Christian Naujoks

Opening hours
Friday, 25.11.2011, 3–9 pm
Saturday, 26.11.2011, 3–9 pm
Sunday, 27.11.2011, 12–7 pm

For the third time MISS READ has invited international publishers and artists to show their books at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. As a genre of its own, the artist book reflects contemporary ways of artistic production and publishing to a great extent and also addresses issues of presentation and circulation as well as new strategies of distribution. Presenting a selection of more than 80 of the most active contributors in this field, the festival provides the opportunity to encounter and explore the contemporary scene of independent publishing.

A Prior Magazine, Ghent | Afterall, London | AKV Berlin, Berlin | AND Publishing, London | Anita Di Bianco, New York/Berlin | Apparent Extent, Cologne | Archive Books, Berlin | argobooks, Berlin | Art Metropole, Toronto | Automatic Books, Venice | b_books, Berlin | ballabella papers, Berlin | Bartleby & Co., Brussels | Bedford Press, London | Boabooks, Geneva | BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, Berlin | Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin | Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin | Bücherbogen, Berlin | Bücher & Hefte, Berlin | Camera Austria, Graz | Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht | Dutch Art Institute/MFA ArtEZ, Arnhem | edition fink, Verlag für zeitgenössische Kunst, Zurich | Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich | Edition Taube, Stuttgart | EN/OF, Berlin/Kleve | Errant Bodies, Berlin | Fillip, Vancouver/Berlin | Fritz Balthaus, Berlin | FUKT magazine for Contemporary Drawing, Berlin | GAGARIN, Antwerp | GRAPHIC magazine, Seoul | hard copy (HEAD — Genève & Monospace Press), Amsterdam | information as material, York | Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht | Knust/Extrapool, Nijmegen | Kunstverein Publications, Amsterdam | LemonMelon, London | Lubok Verlag, Leipzig | Mathieu Copeland Presents, London | Maximage, Berlin | Merve Verlag, Berlin | Michael Baers, Berlin | Michalis Pichler, Berlin | mono.kultur, Berlin | Morava, Poznań | Mörel, London | Motto Books, Berlin | Mousse Publishing, Milan | Nebula Books, Copenhagen | Occasional Papers, London | OEI magazine, Stockholm | OMMU, Athens | Onomatopee, Eindhoven | Paraguay Press, a division of castillo/corrales, Paris | Passenger Books, Berlin | Piktogram & Bureau of Loose Associations, Warsaw | Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen | Precinct, London | Pro qm, Berlin | Provence, Berlin/Nice | Publication Studio, Portland | Rafaela Drazic & DeLVe, Zagreb | Revolver Publishing, Berlin | Rollo Press, Zurich | Roma Publications, Amsterdam | Sara MacKillop, London | Scriptings/Achim Lengerer, Berlin/Amsterdam | Space Poetry, Copenhagen | Spector Books, Leipzig | Starship, Berlin | Sternberg Press, Berlin | Studienzentrum für Künstlerpublikationen in der Weserburg, Bremen | THE GREEN BOX, Berlin | The Piracy Project, London | The Surplus Library | Ugly Duckling Presse, New York | umool umool, Amsterdam | urban art info, Berlin | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne | Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich | Westphalie, Vienna | Wiens Verlag, c/o Wien Lukatsch, Berlin | X Marks the Bökship, London | Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., Ljubljana

MISS READ. Event program
Friday, 25.11., 6–9 pm
Saturday, 26.11., 3–7 pm
Sunday, 27.11., 3–5 pm

Event program on contemporary ways of artistic publishing:
With a poetry talk by Jason Dodge and Dieter Roelstraete, lectures by David Robbins and Nick Thurston, presentations by Casco Issues, OEI magazine, Kunstverein Publications, a discussion with Triple Canopy and Project Projects, a performance-lecture by Kerstin Cmelka, a reading by Megan Francis Sullivan, and an open mike by The Piracy Project.

The event program takes place in English.

Friday, 25.11.2011, 7 pm
Cecilia Grönberg, Jonas (J) Magnusson: OEI – A Short Presentation (on Editorial Practices and the Magazine as a Montage Table and a Reading Machine)



Friday, 25.11.2011, 8 pm
Megan Francis Sullivan: For Phil Andros

Friday, 25.11.2011, 8.30 pm
Invocation, Empathy and Repetition
Mikrodramas by Kerstin Cmelka

Friday, 25.11.2011, 9.30 pm
‘A Cocktail Reception for the letters A, B & C’ by Raimundas Malasauskas

Saturday, 26.11.2011, 4 pm
‘information as material, or, some pirates of letters’
Talk by Nick Thurston

Saturday, 26.11.2011, 5 pm
The Piracy Project – I’m a pirate, are you?
Open Mike by Eva Weinmayr & Andrea Francke

Saturday, 26.11.2011, 6 pm
INVALID FORMAT

With Triple Canopy and Project Projects

Sunday, 27.11.2011, 2 pm
Casco Issues XII: Generous Structures – a film and a talk about improvisation

Bill Dietz and Micah Silver in conversation with Binna Choi and Axel Wieder
Film by Beatrice Gibson: Agatha (Rough Cut), 15 min., 2011

Sunday, 27.11.2011, 3 pm
Der Dichter Iwar von Lücken

Jason Dodge and Dieter Roelstraete Talk Poetry

Sunday, 27.11.2011, 4 pm
Alternatives to Art: High Entertainment and Concrete Comedy
Talk by David Robbins

MISS READ for children

MISS READ invites all children to visit the special reading and picture book area.

The reading and picture book area is made possible with the kind support of:
Aufbau Verlag, Berlin, Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim, Bloomsbury Verlag, Berlin, Bohem Press, Zurich, Boje Verlag, Cologne, Coppenrath Verlag, Münster, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, Kinderbuchverlag Wolff, Frankfurt am Main, Luftschacht Verlag, Wien, mixtvision Verlag, München, Moritz Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, NordSüd Verlag, Zurich, Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal, Revolver Publishing, Berlin, Sauerländer, Mannheim, Schlehdorn Verlag, Berlin, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich, Verlagshaus Jacoby & Stuart, Berlin.

Workshop for children from age 5
Sunday, 27.11.2011, 3–5 pm

„Self-made! My very first artist book“
Under the direction of Silke Feldhoff, children from age 5 get the opportunity to draw, print and make a collage in order to produce their very own artist book.
Bookings at: info@kw-berlin.de
Attendance: maximum of 15 children. Free admission to the workshop.

MISS READ. Projects

Art Metropole is pleased to introduce Luis Jacob’s most recent book at its booth, fresh off the press, Commerce by Artists: Commerce affects our lives in countless ways, connecting people and products in transactions spanning the globe. Commerce by Artists documents a sweeping range of artists’ projects produced since the 1950s by Canadian and international artists who have sought to engage, rather than merely represent, the commercial world of which they are a part. Includes contributions by over 50 artists and writers: Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge, Maria Eichhorn, Andrea Fraser, Felix Gonzalez Torres, Mary Kelly, Ben Kinmont, Yves Klein, Life of a Craphead, Lin Yilin, Keith Obadike, Martha Rosler, Reid Shier, Ron Terada, Toxic Titties, Goran Trbuljak, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and many more.

MISS READ and the accompanying event program are free of charge.

MISS READ is a collaboration with STADT LAND BUCH and is realized under the initiative of KW Institute for Contemporary Art, argobooks and Michalis Pichler.
Project management KW: Anke Schleper
The program is a collaboration of Anke Schleper, Axel John Wieder and Alexis Zavialoff.

Design: Matthias Friederich, Julian von Klier with Achim Lengerer, Reading The Aesthetics of Resistance

PWR Paper #6. H-T Nilsson & Rasmus Svensson.

Winter 2011/2012

CONTRIBUTORS:
2029
Aaron Graham
Andreas Banderas
Anonymous
Ben Schumacher
Brad Troemel
Carson Fisk-Vittori
Deterretorial Support Group
Energy:Pangea
FAUX/real
Goodiepal
Ingo Niermann
Inka Lindergård &
Niclas Holmström
Jaakko Pallasvuo
Johannes Thumfart
Jon Rafman
Juliette Bonneviot
Kareem Lotfy
Katja Novitskova
Martin Kohout
Nathalie du Pasquier
Oregon Painting Society
Rachel de Joode
Sarah Hartnett
Shawn C. Smith
Travess Smalley

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Malkasten:Blätter. Revolutionary Sympathies. Das Ausmalbuch. Künstlerverein Malkasten Düsseldorf.

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Nicht Jetzt! Das Studentische Magazin Des Department Design Der HAW Hamburg

»Nicht Jetzt!« ist das studentische Magazin des Department Design der HAW Hamburg.
Nach den Ausgaben »Kinder« und »Geld« beschäftigt sich die dritte monothematische
Ausgabe mit dem Thema GESCHMACK.

Inhaltlich spannt sich der Bogen auf 176 Seiten von Geschmack als ästhetischem
Urteilsbegriff bei Kant über Verunstaltungsverbote in Bauordnungen bis hin zu Blümchen-
tapete – und von Trends im Design über Kleidung aus Barbiepuppen bis zum krankhaften
Verlust des Geschmackssinnes.

»Nicht Jetzt!« versteht sich als interdisziplinäres Projekt von Studierenden der Bereiche
Illustration, Fotografie und Grafikdesign und wurde betreut von Professor Stefan Stefanescu.
In der dritten Ausgabe sind, neben den Texten verschiedenster Autoren, Arbeiten von neun
Fotografen sowie zwölf Illustratoren veröffentlicht. Trotz aller Ernsthaftigkeit des Projekts
wird das Magazin von den Studenten als Raum für Spiel und Experiment verstanden – auch,
was Druck und Bindung des Heftes angeht. Die Kombination von Dünndruck-, offenem und
Hochglanzpapier, Irisdruck und offener Schweizer Broschur steht für diese Experimentier-
freudigkeit.

Redaktion & Gestaltung: Charlotte Bräuer, Lynn Dohrmann, Karina Donis, Franziska Ebert, Tillmann Engel, Marie Hochhaus, Louise Jessen, Cyrill Kuhlmann, Carsten Lerch, Benjamin Stracker

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OE Magazine #2: Oh, What A Colourful World

Πis an independent fashion magazine from Berlin. Twice a year, it acts as a platform for the German, and particularly the Berlin fashion scene.

Œ largely refrains from ‘describing’ current trends and ideas in fashion, but instead concentrates on showing fashion by purely focusing on images. In every issue, 10 photo editorials reveal what keeps designers, photographers, stylists and hair & make-up artists moving these days.

When it comes to production Πstrives to maximise the potential of printed matter. Different paper qualities and special production features make Πan item that people like to hold, keep and collect.

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3444. Masanao Hirayama (HIMAA). Edition Nord.

This impressive book is his first work under the name of his real name.

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Fellow Travelers. Christian Holstad. Edition Nord.

Fellow Travelers is a limited edition boxed set of 38 exquisitely reproduced found photographs chosen by Christian Holstad. The images span a number of decades and center around figures in costume, depicting children, adults, and even the occasional animal in guises that range from the simplistic to the bizarre. The size and format of each of the images is tailored to match the original photographs, and a number of pictures are framed by shabby photographic mats, scalloped edges, and Polaroid borders. The box cover features one of the reproduced photographs held in place by clear photo corners.

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032c Magazine #22

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Finding the new in the old and the old in the new, it is considered the “Berlin magazine that propagates an aesthetic of brutal elegance” by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, or simply as the “revue ultra-pointue” by Vogue Paris.

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A love letter to Roni Horn, 13# kilimanjaro

Issue 13 of Kilimanjaro is an unofficial catalogue of sorts, whose theme is A Love Letter To Roni Horn; it is the first edition of the magazine which has been created with a single artist, and is a kind of visual & textual retrospective.
Using the traditional format of a magazine publication, comprised of interviews, essays and art criticism, we have curated an overview both of the DNA of Horn’s work, and – through the words of our selection of her friends, collaborators and admirers – of Roni Horn herself. The issue features: JUERGEN TELLER, ADRIAN SEARLE, JOHN WATERS.

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Casco Issues XII launch @ Motto Zürich/Corner College. 18.11.11
Start 7pm

Opening the evening with the film ‘Glory of the Garden’ (HD-Video, 14 min, 2009) by Marion von Osten, a slow-tempo satire of change in the art institutional structure over the last decades, this evening will focus on the bio-political aspect of an institutional operation. It will reference Katerina Seda’s practice, as well as the sociological approach in Mary Kelly, Margaret Harrison and Kay Hunt’s ‘Women and Work’ as both put emphasis on the “daily regimes” of villagers and workers. Deductively, we can draw from the daily regimes of different “institutions”, ranging from highly established ones to self-organised spaces, and groups, especially in light of Bob Black’s article ‘The Abolition of Work’ and the recent article ‘Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street’ by Judith Butler whereby she criticizes Hannah Arendt’s narrow concept of what action can be. The question then of course would be: what changes do we want and what can we do to the established daily regimes?

After the film screening we will launch the new issue of Casco Issues with the editors Binna Choi and Axel Wieder. Casco Issues is a magazine published by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, which explores recurring issues that emerge from Casco’s programme. It centres on artists’ and designers’ writings and other unconventional forms of publishing. The twelfth edition of Casco Issues, ’Generous Structures’, focuses on “playfulness” as a value in critical cultural practice. As a playful inquiry, it positions alternative notions of playing against the grain of neoliberal ideologies of “lifelong learning” and “work as play”.

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Casco Issues XII: Generous Structures
Edited by Binna Choi & Axel J. Wieder.

Contributions by Zayne Armstrong, Ei Arakawa, Bob Black, Augusto Boal, Ruth Buchanan, Binna Choi, common room, Paul Elliman, ifau & Jesko Fezer, Zachary Formwalt, Beatrice Gibson with Will Holder and John Tilbury, Kleines postfordistisches Drama, Mattin, Hwayeon Nam, Merijn Oudenampsen, Nam June Paik, Anne Querrien, David Reinfurt, Margit Rosen, Katerina Šedá, Axel Wieder

Co-published by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory and Sternberg Press.
Design by Julia Born and Laurenz Brunner, with Sam de Groot.
12.5 x 19.5 cm, 392 pages, 77 b/w ill., softcover
ISBN 978-1-934105-33-7
D €19.00

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