NUDITY & ATROCITY, DAN BODAN’s second full-length album, is a gothic romance. The love he sings of is fraught and intense, trapped on a windswept and desolate plain, dreaming of warmer times. Its songs are lovesick, melancholic, and irresolute.
Their passion does not dissipate. Perhaps, because beyond it there is only the deceptively empty landscape: full of invisible radio waves, flying saucers, and survivalists in hidden cabins. Unlike Virginia, this is a place for lovers. Romance can only grow in the most hostile of environments.

The album’s tracks are built from this environment. As a result, NUDITY & ATROCITY feels thoroughly North American despite having been produced in Berlin. The paranoid reality, which peaks in and out of its tracks, prepares for the end of the world with tin-foil hats, not bomb shelters. Rolling thunder, barking dogs, and the ambient chatter of A.M. radio are layered over the tracks’ melodies, contrasted with the more mundane found audio and distorted to the point of being almost unidentifiable.

This sets a tempo and lends an intonation. DAN BODAN builds walls of sound around his melodies. The walls vary in their clarity and every once in a while become transparent enough to catch a glimpse of the irrational world beyond, where every weather balloon is a Reptilian spacecraft and every reggae song is an excuse to close your eyes and dream of the tropics. The tension between the paranoid environment and the amorous subject is what allows NUDITY & ATROCITY to achieve its considerable sophistication. It draws together its disparate influences as if it were absentmindedly scanning the radio. The tuner passes through the conspiracy theorists and the right-wing demagogues, the Top 40 channels and the greatest hits from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. The listener is only halflistening. His mind is somewhere else. With someone else.

NUDITY & ATROCITY is a limited edition of 250 vinyl records designed by artist SIMON
DENNY.

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Tissue No. 1

“EVERYTHING SEXY – That’s our motto for all there is to come under the T I S S U E banner. From sexed-up to sex-ed, we are taking sexy to the unsexiest of places. Don’t get us wrong though: we don’t claim to be bringing sexy back. Why should we? It has always been there. We’re just looking for it in different places. Are we feminism gone wrong? We hope not. It’s just that to us, sex is always on. Sex is it. And so are we. Still oversexed.”

Contributors to Tissue #1:

Hanna Putz, Emmanuelle Tricoire, Narcissister, Julija Goyd, Lalla, Roeg Cohen, Lukas White Gansterer, Howard Chu, Corrado Dalco, Nettie R. Harris, Anne Waak, Nico Krijno, Hadley Hudson, Autumn Sonnichsen, Vassilis Karidis & Nicholas Georgiou, Straulino, Roy Stuart, and many more.

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Roma Publications
presenting
Marc Nagtzaam – Reissue
Aglaia Konrad – Carrara

Talks by Bart Verschaffel, Kris Kimpe & Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Music by Marc Nagtzaam & Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Signing on request

www.romapublications.org

The New York Times. Clotilde Viannay.

Clotilde Viannay a conçu son projet en deux volets : un fac-similé fictif du New York Times et une exposition. Le journal porte la date du 12 octobre 1985, celle du début du récit d’une célèbre bande dessinée américaine d’Alan Moore intitulée Watchmen.

Constitués en confrérie, ces « gardiens » exercent le rôle de justiciers dans les années soixante. Ils se voient progressivement coupés de la société et de leurs appuis politiques. Après avoir gagné la guerre du Vietnam, évité le scandale du Watergate et bénéficié de la réélection de Nixon, le gouvernement américain, à l’aube des années quatre-vingt, abandonne le « gardien » qui lui est le plus dévoué, Jon Osterman. Devenu Dr Manhattan après un accident nucléaire, ce dernier est voué aux pires gémonies.

Pour réaliser ce New York Times fictif, Clotilde Viannay a commandé des articles uchroniques. Autant de textes qui révisent l’histoire sur le mode « et si » et qui, par la fiction, reviennent sur le contexte réel d’invention de ces super-héros. Parallèlement, l’exposition quasi ethnologique tente de faire exister les différents personnages pour analyser en profondeur leur personnalité.

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Petrit Halilaj

Published Kunstraum Innsbruck and Chert, on occasion of Petrit Halilaj’s solo exhibition at Kunstraum Innsbruck, Sept. 17 – Nov. 5, 2011

15€

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LOVELAND Book Launch / Conversation with Mark von Schlegell + Charles Stankievech
8pm Friday, Dec 16th

Event includes a conversation touching on topics such as science fiction, art and unorthodox curating strategies between artist Charles Stankievech and writer Mark von Schlegell–mediated by editor Anna-Sophie Springer.

Signed books will be sold for a special price during the evening.

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LOVELAND

Concept + Design by Charles Stankievech

With Texts by:

M.P. Shiel, Mark von Schlegell, Mark Lanctôt + Anna-Sophie Springer

LOVELAND is an artist book conceptualised and designed by Canadian artist Charles Stankievech that collects primary sources, fiction and critical texts as part of the an artwork produced for the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) and the Sobey Art Award exhibition in the Fall of 2011. Typical of the artist’s research methodology, the book links a spectrum of fields across a broad span of history. Somewhere between the two poles of colour field painting and military colonisation in the Arctic, Stankievech has created a dense web that connects the birth of synthetic pigment and chemical warfare to the Romantic landscape and contemporary geopolitical issues. As curator Mark Lanctôt writes in his critical essay: “Stankievech’s work … directs us away from a-political modernist pictorial utopias towards something more telling: how the relationship between the narrative of history and the site it is connected to can veer into unsuspecting directions, escaping our perceived mastery over it.”

An exquisite edition of 300 with letterpress embossed cover, collation of unique paper stock for each section and 5 colour offset printing.

Texts are bilingual English/Deutsch

Project + Book website:
http://www.stankievech.net/projects/LOVELAND

http://k-verlag.com/

Matter Magazine #1. A Modern Journal For Men That Matter. Digital Good Times.

Matter is a new biannual publication that records the ways in which new and developing technology affects culture, lifestyle, fashion, and the arts.

Created by the studio behind the acclaimed arts and culture magazine Kilimanjaro, Matter shares the former’s curatorial approach to design and content. Designed to appeal to a consumer eager to tap into an ever-changing and increasingly sophisticated world, with particular regard to the twin disciplines of high-end design and culture, its inaugural issue is covered by the iconic trip-hop artist Tricky, who talks exclusively to Matter about music, imperfection, and reinvention.

Matter’s unique selling point is the fact that it is the first art and style publication to examine these subjects through the lens of modern technology; in doing so, it brings together the creative and the rational in a way which is rarely seen in the realms of printed matter.

First issue includes: Dieter Rams, Ole Scheeren, Matthew Collings, Pierre Huyghe & William Gibson. / Google’s Creative Director of Data Arts, Aaron Koblin, on digital art. / Iconic fashion designer Rick Owens presents an Anthology Of Colour. / Editor Jennifer Higgie on twenty years of Frieze magazine. / Art & The Automobile, featuring the American artists Richard Prince and Erwin Wurm. / Tate Exhibitions Curator Tanya Barson on the Lyon Biennale. / Celebrated conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner, shot by NY underground photographer Ari Marcopolous. / Photographer – and former director of Dior Homme – Hedi Slimane’s best images of women.

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Komfort Mag #7: To Play With

Let’s play truth or dare. To start off, rather than having
to get naked or kiss the ugliest guy at the table, we’ll tell you
that the new Komfort issue will be big. Really big and thick.
Get ready for 250 pages in two separate volumes. A beautiful,
unspoilt pictorial leaf-through, with a booklet of condensed
reading inside. Pictures, photos and words will resound in their
undetracted wholeness. Your turn now.

Barbora Pivoňková I. – Altars of living rooms
Barbora Pivoňková II. – Locus Delicti
Barbora Pivoňková III. – Les Étrangers
Tereza Zelenková Some kind of night into your darkness
Petr Pawlowski – Country cousins
Václav Kopecký – Moment
Petr Bosák & Robert Jansa – On the piano
Radek Sidun – 9×13 cm
Teodorik Menšl – Sound
Adéla Marie Jirků – Just playing
Iveta Merglová – Getting closer
Nika Kupyrová – Mouse milk
Vendula Knopová – Natürlich
Strcprst skrzkrk – Taiwanese hit
Michal Drozen – Block of flats
Linda Friedmannová – To hell and back again

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Philippe Decrauzat. Trois Films Photographiés.

Trois films photographiés – A Change of Speed, a Change of Style, a Change of Scene – After Birds – Screen O Scope, Philippe DECRAUZAT.
Published by Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva.

This artist’s book is an edition of 400. Each copy is composed of 18 quires, bound together following a random repartition system. Each book is unique and numbered with an adjustable rubber stamp.

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Spike #30.

CONTENTS 30

ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
By Saâdane Afif: Katarina Burin, Natalie Czech, Jofroi Amaral, Nathan Peter, Lina Viste Grønli, Adrien Missika

ESSAY

Changes in the Economy of the kunstbetrieb, Part 3: The Freedom of the Curator
By Daniel Baumann

ARTISTS TALK

Markus Schinwald talks to David Cronenberg
 about cinematic sublimation and blank beginnings

CURATOR’S KEY

Fabrice Stroun, forthcoming director of the Kunsthalle Bern on O-ism by Jim Shaw

GALLERIES
Jennifer Teets on the new programmgalerie Marcelle Alix, Paris

INSTITUTION
David Roberts Art Foundation in London is
a new and innovative exhibition space by a private collector. By Adam Carr

COLLECTIONS

A secret history of art: Steven Leiber’s collection
of art ephemera in San Francisco. By Matthew Post

PORTRAIT TOM BURR

Camp, appropriation and politics meet in the work of
this American artist. An Interview by Gianni Jetzer

PORTRAIT MOYRA DAVEY
Fionn Meade finds an obsession with collecting, systematic listing and nostalgic resistance in the photographs of this Canadian artist

PORTRAIT PETER FRIEDL
This Austrian artist never fails to surprise with unexpected strategies that defy all trends. By Raimar Stange

ART & POLITICS

Adam E. Mendelsohn takes a look at Occupy Wall
Street and asks some players in the art world what 
they make of it

ARTIST’S READINGS

Annika von Hausswolff talks to Mika Hannula about Maurice Blanchot’s The Madness of the Day

ARCHITECTURE

Charles Moore’s Piazza d’Italia in New Orleans reveals the topicality of postmodernism. By Michele D’Aurizio

SEDUCTION
or the things we like

REVIEWS

Reviews of international exhibitions

THE PFAFF BROTHERS

A Child is Born on the Internet

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