Presentation of the book A Toast to the Ghost, the Host by artist Michael Van den Abeele, published by WIELS. For this occasion, the artist will give a public reading/performance rather than an explanatory presentation, based on the book. The lecture will be followed by a talk with Phillip Van den Bossche (Mu.ZEE director).

Spectral Days by Setareh Shahbazi

“I am glad that things have changed. All efforts toward ridding oneself of the historical past and acquiring new family members have been rewarded. This new sequencing of verb tenses was the material expression of her private epiphanies. Now, photographs were just photographs: pieces of paper that could be pleated, replaced and slipped into a pocket.”

Setareh Shahbazi was born in Tehran in 1978. She moved to Germany in 1985, leaving behind a swimming pool, a garden and all family photographs. After studying Scenography and Media Art at the State University for Art and Design in Karlsruhe, she traveled to Beirut in 2003 with a scholarship from the DAAD to look through other peoples photographic archives at the Arab Image Foundation.
In 2009 Setareh Shahbazi moved to Beirut with a box of photographs from Tehran. There she got into a close conversation with her neighbor Mirene Arsanios, who is a writer based in Beirut.

Text: Mirene Arsanios
Design: Aude Lehmann
44 pages
20x15cm

D 18 €

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Tuesday Nov. 6. at 19-21 pm @ Motto Charlottenborg

Book Release: Mobile Phenomena

Half Letter Press

With introductions by editor Brett Bloom, book contributor Nils Norman – and a tasty treat from Bennys Mobile Pizza Oven!

MOBILE PHENOMENA: A NEW BOOK FROM TEMPORARY SERVICES

“Temporary Services [is] dedicated to erasing the distinction between professional and everyday acts of creativity through archives, exhibitions, publications, and public interventions.”

— Gregory Sholette writing about Temporary Services in Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, 2011

What do libraries built into airstream trailers, bar bikes, and giant windmill blades on wheels have to do with the bypassing traditional forms of social mobility? How can we use mobile projects to reimagine urban and rural spaces that are normally closed to creative gestures and public services?

Mobile Phenomena is a new collection of over eighty-five photographs and short interviews. It is the result of years of research on common instances of mobile phenomena that impact people and their uses of shared city and rural spaces. In this book you will find bookmobiles, mobile forms of commerce, inventive mobile art projects, mobile structures created for use during protest, and some strange applications of mobility that defy easy description, categorization, or whose function could not be readily discerned. Mobile Phenomena can unhinge the expected roles we take in shared city spaces. Mobile structures can become a new norm when they work. It is our hope that this book can be an inspiration to other citizens, artists, activists, nomads, and anyone who is interested in escaping the constraints of their location, culture, or other factors that make realizing one’s desires difficult.

.Mobile Phenomena includes contributions by: Courtney Dailey, Alexis Petroff, Joseph Robertson, Jen Hofer, Eric Steen, Christian Ettinger, Platform, Liberate Tate, The Center For Tactical Magic, and Nils Norman

The award-winning art group Temporary Services is a Chicago-Copenhagen-Philadelphia-based collaboration of three artists. Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, and Marc Fischer have been working together as the art group Temporary Services since 1998. Their group work has been exhibited in museums and exhibition spaces worldwide including MASS MoCA, Yerba Buena Center for Art, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kunst-Werke, and the Stedelijk Museum. They are winners of grants from Artadia, Art Matters, and CEC ArtsLink. Their project Prisoners’ Inventions resulted in a popular book and exhibition that has been presented all over the world, including the 2008 Athens Biennial in Greece.

Mobile Phenomena is the fourth book published by Half Letter Press, a publishing house and online store started by Temporary Services to build long-term support, and expand the audience for people that work creatively in experimental, political, and non-commercial ways.

sunday # 018, Gabriel Kuri’s (untitled) edition, takes its departure from a quote by David Hume. ‘All knowledge resolves itself into probability’.

Gabriel Kuri added  a variation to this quate;  ‘All probability resolves itself into form’.

Both sentences are applied to the use and manipulation of a sheet of standard millimetre paper.

The edition consists of a A1 print that is folded to A4. The grid that was formed through these folds open up different variations of these two sentences.

The images of the folded millimetre paper echo the actual folds of the edition-format.

By manipulating the edition  a variety of formal combinations is created.  Through this manipulation both sentences cover each other, becoming new variations on and among one another.

Forming different compositions between knowledge, probability and form.

 sunday # 018 is published in an edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered.

In addition, a limited ‘bootleg’ version will be presented. This version comprises a series of prints that have variable ways of folding.