Motto Disco 11: Standish/Carlyon
Motto Mix 11: STANDISH/CARLYON by Mottobooks on Mixcloud
Standish/Carlyon are Conrad Standish and Tom Carlyon, formerly of The Devastations. The ‘futurist dub pop’ duo recently released their debut album, Deleted Scenes, and here they provide the eleventh installment of the Motto Disco series.
FÁBRICA. Daniel Blaufuks. Pierre von Kleist Editions.
“One cannot walk through an assembly factory
and not feel that one is in Hell.” – W.H. Auden
‘Fábrica’, a new book and film by photographer Daniel Blaufuks, is a collection of images composed into an expanded scenery of memory, a walk through the abandoned spaces of one of the largest factories in Europe in an once flourishing industrial region, that never recovered from the loss of the textile market to the Chinese exports.
Blaufuks worked the book and the film (which comes with this edition) as a documental piece, collecting different kinds of memories, crossing old photographs, manuscripts and objects with images of the present state of the building interiors and surroundings.
The result is a reflection not only on the idea of a ‘factory’ in itself, most generic and abstract, but also about forgetting and abandonment, thus creating a significant memento about labor and the disappearance of the working class in Europe in the last century, which is one of the reasons for the present crisis in the region.
* This title was co-published with Guimarães 2012.
More about the artist: www.danielblaufuks.com
Color, B&W, 172 pages, 2013
DVD + Postcard included.
Language: Portuguese and English.
Price: €28.00
Wer braucht eine freundin, wenn er einen todesstrahl haben kann? Juliane Liebert. POPUP PRESS.
Monologues, photos and snapshots of Berlin.
Softcover.
A6, 96 pages.
Language: German
Price: €8.00
drawer-vitrine on display @ Motto Berlin
price on request
The White Review @ Motto Berlin. 14.11.2013.
The White Review will be returning to Motto Books, Berlin for an evening of performance poetry and prose on Thursday 14 November, beginning promptly at 7:30 p.m.
In line with The White Review’s principles we’ll be presenting an established talent alongside a new voice, both of them performing works that blur the boundaries of performance, art and poetry.
A short introduction by the editors will be followed by readings from Eugene Ostashevsky, Greg Baxter and Matt Lomas, about whom more below. There will be drinks before, during and after the performances.
The Russian-American poet EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY, who contributed an excerpt from ‘The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi’ (about the relationship between a pirate and his parrot) to The White Review 8. Famous for his physically animated, ventriloquistic performances, Ostashevksy’s books of poetry include ‘The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza’, published by Ugly Duckling Presse.
GREG BAXTER was born in Texas in 1974. He is the author of two books, A Preparation for Death and The Apartment. A third book, Munich Airport, will be published in 2014. He lives in Berlin.
MATT LOMAS, whose ‘A Letter That Never Reached England’ featured in The White Review 4, will read a new piece that ‘oscillates between English and German’, appropriately for an event organised by an English-language journal in Berlin.
Body Searches. Jon Ståle Ritland. Broken Dimanche Press
Several processes of communication are continuously happening in the cells and organs of the body. Human language can be seen as a further development of these. Genetic material or DNA is a prerequisite for this internal communication. The four bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T) constitute what you might call the codes or the letters in the language of the genes. The sequence and composition of the letters are decisive for the synthesis of proteins and signal substances. The poems in Body Searches are inspired by the grammar of the genes and the structure of the DNA-molecule and they endeavor to try and unravel, in a new way, the old question: what is a human?
Language: English
Softcover. 54 pages. 2013
Price: €17.00
The State Vol IV: Dubai. Rahel Aima, Ahmad Makia (Eds.). The State.
In Kerala, a term exists for people like my parents, bandied by neighbours and relatives – Gulf return. Always used in the singular, it is a term associated with privilege, a term for the once-insider who will die an outsider. It accentuates the success story, pretending to know and define those who, out of desperation, adventure or marriage, left their homes to seek work, and now return to expected social glory and envy.—Deepak Unnikrishnan, “Gulf Return,” Himal (December 2010)
A few months ago, we found ourselves sitting in a blush-walled room in the grey area between Mattancherry and Fort Kochi, Kerala. We were in a Gulf Return house on a Gulf Return street, in a town built with Gulf Return money. Just a short ferry ride away was a Dubai Ports World terminal; right on our doorstep, at the nearby Kunnumpuram Junction, was a UAE Xchange outpost, and an ice cream parlour selling Sharjah Shakes. We had left Dubai, with the intention of producing this issue looking at it from across the Arabian Sea, but everywhere we looked, Dubai was all around us.
Can you ever leave Dubai?
In the last year, we’ve produced THE STATE from Madagascar, Portugal, the US, India, and the UAE. Thus far, we’ve been thinking of this publication as placeless, rooted only in the nebulous printernet. Turns out we’ve been trying to figure out Dubai—this strange, wonderful, occasionally traumatic place we grew up in—all along. (Jury’s still out on whether that trauma was due to Dubai, or just the turbulence of adolescence.) The thing is, we are the children of Gulf Returnees ourselves. We didn’t leave our home countries to come here; Dubai’s the only home we’ve ever known. Yet most narratives of Dubai focus on its extremes—solar-sintered skyscrapers made from sun, sand and glass or the unknown labourers that built them; unbridled admiration for its visionary transformation or vitriolic, xenophobic schadenfreude; searing desert heat or lush, landscaped golf courses. As residents-but-not-citizens, we’re paradoxically privileged, yet invisible; our stories remain as yet untold.
Our first questions linger. How do you speak a place, or from a place? Can cultural production have terroir? What does it mean to be a publication from Dubai that has thus far evaded ever actually addressing its positionality head on? Consider this a first attempt.
Contents:
The State Shall Remain Nameless
Manan Ahmed Asif
An Arabikatha
Deepak Unnikrishnan
Teaching Moments in Dubai
Ayesha Mulla
Remembering My Narrow Veins
Maryam Wissam Al Dabbagh
Sharjah Smells Like Biscuits
Sophie Chamas
5,000 Kilometres of Evocations: Bombay – Dubai – Mumbai
Nilofar Ansher
Aesthetics of Disempowerment
Sheyma Buali
Memory Images from Dubai
Ben Thorp Brown
Speculations and Questions on Dubaization
Fadi Shayya
Indelible Marks: Africa’s Traces On Dubai
Jareh Das
A Drone’s Eye View of the Speculative Future
Manuel Schwab
The Brown Apple
Jaswinder Bolina
Language: English
Pages: 140
Price: €12.00
Points in Line #2: Gestural Objects. Laura McLardy (Ed.). Points in Line.
The second issue features contributions from:
Hanne Lippard
Dan Stockholm Henriksen
Julieta Aranda
Marion Coutts
Jeremias Holliger
Liz Magic Laser
Eric Ellingsen
Elise Eeraerts
Rodrigo Maltez Novaes
Emily Roysdon
Paul Schatz
Language: english
Pages: 30 + fold-out poster
Price: €8.00
The State Vol III: The Social Olfactory. Rahel Aima, Ahmad Makia (Eds.). The State.
THE STATE is a publishing practice based out of Dubai, U.A.E. It investigates South-South reorientations, alternative futurisms, transgressive cultural criticism, the transition from analogue to digital, and the sensuous architecture of this “printernet.”
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE:
Khairani Barokka—Can the Subaltern Smell: The Olfactory Other
Transnational olfactory stereotypes in Indonesia, India, South Africa, and the USA
Ali Boggs—The Corpse
A dead girl in Madagascar, an old pastis-soaked Belgian, and the loose skin of overripe peaches
Suzanne Fischer—Smell H-I-S-T-O-R-Y: A Guided Tour of the Smell Exhibition
In the coming age of olfactory archaeology, a speculative tour of the museum of tomorrow
Adam Flynn—Under the Iron Snout: a First Take on Olfactory Imperialism
Drug-sniffing dogs, fermented fish and mosquito repellent in Vietnam, the Stasi’s smell archives, People Sniffing, and strategies to survive smellveillance
Mary-Jo Gillian—Heap
A residency in a rural Irish landfill, the filamentine heat of rotting matter, the intimacy of olfactory community
Pavel Godfrey—Sensation, Memory, and Place in Delray, Detroit
Post-industrial detritus in Little Budapest, a carbonaceous cocktail of respiratory illnesses and mnemocide, exploding the neoliberal myth of recycling
Barbara Herman—An Ode To Bodies: Peau d’Espagne
The gendering of leather perfumes, and the hidden, abject animal body at its origin
Anne Elizabeth Moore—Fake Snake Oil
Smell, trickery, and xenophobia in Marfa, Texas
Kristine Ong Muslim—The Proustian Phenomenon
A missing dog, the assertive scratchiness of lemongrass, the stench of river water, the frowning fustiness of mothballs
Charles Reid—Nietzsche and the Electric Nose
The laziness of Nature, synaesthesia, and building an electric nose
Erika Renedo Illarregi—Smell Portraits
How might a smell be archived like a polaroid or instagram?
Adam Rothstein—The Olfactographic Capacities of the Human Brain
Smelling the traces of architecture and mapping odourous urban geographies
Francisco Salas Pérez—Impeccable Tenderness
Papayas in Xalapa, the displaced remembrances of diaspora, and escaping the Proustian straitjacket
Manuel Schwab—Petroleum, Frankincense, and Myrrh
A souk in Nyala, Sudan, a lake of petroleum, and the carnivorousness of the development-industrial complex
Mark West—The Smell of OCD
The insidiousness of burning toast, and the creeping doubt of OCD
Language: English
Cover available in one of four colors.
Printed in Dubai.
Price: €22.00
Diorama #06 LUCE @ bruno. 09.11.2013.
Magazine Launch @ bruno
November 9th
5 – 8 pm
bruno
Dorsoduro 1621/a
calle dell’Avogaria
30123 Venezia