ARTIST BOOK FAIR (17.09-18.09.2010) and BLIND DATE CONVENTION (14.09-20.10.2010) @ Ljubljana.

* Ljubljana Artist Book Fair 2010 – the first fair of its kind in Ljubljana – which will take place at Jakopič Gallery (Slovenska cesta 9, Ljubljana) on Friday 17 September and Saturday 18 September 2010.

Participants (Publishers, institutions, artists):
AKV Berlin Publishing (Berlin), Alja Piry (Ljubljana), Argobooks (Berlin), Cvetka Hojnik (Lendava), Carmelo Cacciato (Monfalcone), Franco Vecchiet (Trst), Hubert Kretschmer (Munchen), Lubok Verlag (Leipzig), Vlado Martek (Zagreb), MER. Paper Kunsthalle (Gent), MGLC (Ljubljana), Motto (Berlin), Radio Cona (Ljubljana), Reloading Images (Berlin), Darko Simišić (Zagreb), Space Poetry (Kobenhaven), Mladen Stilinović (Zagreb), Ugly Duckling Press (New York), Undergrad (Beograd), Sašo Urukalo (Ljubljana), WHW (Zagreb), Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. (Ljubljana).

Opening hours: Friday, 17. 09. 2010, 3 pm–7 pm, Saturday, 18. 09. 2010, 11 am–6pm.
Entrance to all events, exhibitions and the fair is free.

PROGRAM:

Friday, 17. 09. 2010
4 pm Artist books workshop
5 pm Lecture by Darko Simišić, Photobooks

Saturday, 18. 09. 2010
12-2pm Children’s Artist Book Workshops
3 pm New artist edition: Teo Spiller; Radio CONA
4 pm In discussion: Vlado Martek with Branka Stipančić
5 pm -5 minutes, 3rd Video Biennial

* Blind Date Convention – First International Festival of the Artist’s Book. Ljubljana 2010, 14 September – 20 October 2010.

Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E./ P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute is pleased to announce the Blind Date Convention, the First International Festival of the Artist’s Book and Artist’s Publications, which will unfold in Ljubljana from 14 September to 20 October 2010. The Blind Date Convention is prepared with a number of local and international partners and is a component of the UNESCO project Ljubljana – World Book Capital 2010.
The festival comprises a rich exhibition program, educational workshops, presentations of newly released artist books, a cycle of experimental music concerts, public conversations, video projections, new magazine releases, etc.
The exhibition program kicks off with an anthological overview of Slovene artist books, The Artist Book in Slovenia 1966–2010, which will open 14 September 2010 at Kresija Gallery. The exhibition was prepared in collaboration with Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (MGLC) and numerous private partners. The exhibition is curated by Tadej Pogačar and assistant curator Sonja Zavrtanik.
On Wednesday, 15 September 2010, in KAPSULA, we present the program of independent distributor MOTTO Distribution which offers more than 3000 titles of independent artist publications and fanzines throughout bookstores in Berlin and Zürich.
On Thursday, 16 September 2010, follows the opening of the solo exhibition Book – Sculpture by Italian artist Pino Poggi in Jakopič Gallery. Pino Poggi is an important visual creator, active in a number of fields of contemporary visual creation. He is known for his social engagement in a series of works, performances and installations that he has been making since the 1970s. The exhibition is curated by Marko Košan and is a co-production with Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec.
On Friday, 17 September 2010 in P74 Center and Gallery we open the solo exhibition by Vlado Martek with the title Poetry in Action. The exhibition will be the first entire presentation of Martek’s artist books which he inventively and exceptionally fuses with philosophy and poetry. The exhibition is curated by Branka Stipančić, and created in collaboration with g-mk/Galerija Miroslav Kraljević in Zagreb.

For more information
Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.
P74 Center and Gallery, Prusnikova 74
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
www.zavod-parasite.si

umool umool vol.9 – the rejected, the recycled, the regenerated

What is the destiny of a failed communication? If a project was denied by commissioner or initiater or client or even by yourself, for any reasons, can you refer to it as a failure?
Anyone could have this experience—especially if you are a designer—but the actual reasons, processes and causes of refusal are diverse. This each unfertilized egg has its own hehind story. But here in this issue, we are not interested in ‘why’ or ‘how’ the rejection came out, but more in ‘what is the next step’.

Although rejection is largely caused by external factors, the situation concerns your own creation and the lost chance for the work to be shown in public and realised. Faced with this outcome, do you apply the unrealised project to other situations and allow the egg to finally hatch in another context? Or do you transform the body into a clever and aesthetic Frankenstein?

In this 9th issue of umool umool, 10 projects are invited to describe the hidden destiny of the rejected project. Some of them simply show documentation of a denied proposal and allow others create an alternative story in it. Some assertively suggest a second life for the rejected work, rather than an ephemeral destiny. For those who would like to transmit these ghost projects into their own interpretation, only images of work are presented in the printed book. The description of each project is announced on the web page.

Editions
250 copies

D 25 €

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A reconstruction of a printed sheet of Ken Garland and Robert Chapman’s game Connect, designed by Ken Garland and Associates for the James Galt Toy Company in 1969. Including an interview with Ken Garland conducted in 2006.

This publication combines a reconstruction of a printed sheet of the popular board game ‘Connect’ with an interview conducted at Ken Garland’s home studio in September 2006. During the interview Garland referred to an interesting detail regarding the design of the game:

“Now, I want to tell you something that a lot of people don’t know. The clue to this game is the template from which all these tiles are cut. When the game came out a lot of companies started to make copies, there was an Italian company, somebody in the United States, Japan – they never seemed to get it quite right. […] If they’d sat down long enough with the original and assembled it – worked out how it would have been layed up to be printed and cut – it wouldn’t have needed too much ingenuity to figure this out.”

Published by Colophon
1st. Edition 500 copies, 2010

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Daniel Gustav Cramer

Woodland D 15 €
Untitled (Farmer), 2002 / 2010 D 6 €
Forest D 5 €
Kahu D 8 €

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14. September 2010, 20.00 Uhr
BUCHPRÄSENTATION
MAYA SCHWEIZER: DIE SELBE GESCHICHTE AN EINEM ANDEREN ORT

Maya Schweizer im Gespräch mit Katja Schroeder und Jan Wenzel

MOTTO Berlin Store
Skalitzer Straße 68, 10997 Berlin

Die Publikation »Maya Schweizer: Die selbe Geschichte an einem anderen Ort, weitererzählt, verstreut, fragmentiert, täglich, rückwärts und wieder von vorn« gibt einen ersten Überblick über die Arbeiten der in Frankreich aufgewachsenen und heute in Berlin lebenden Künstlerin.

Maya Schweizer arbeitet an neuen audiovisuellen Erzählweisen, an Formen der Bild-Text-Montage, die YouTube näher stehen als dem Kino. Ausgangspunkt sind häufig alltägliche Situationen, die sie mit gefundenen und erfundenen Texten kombiniert. »Ich denke, dass in kleinen, oft auch persönlichen Handlungen auf der Straße gesellschaftliche Zustände ablesbar sind. Ich versuche, die Erzählungen in ihrer Divergenz ernst zu nehmen und mit meinen Projektionen abzugleichen«, beschreibt Maya Schweizer ihren künstlerischen Ansatz.

Sechs ihrer Videoarbeiten werden in »Die selbe Geschichte an einem anderen Ort« ausführlich kommentiert: Madleine Bernstorff, Margit Czenki, Joerg Franzbecker, Nanna Heidenreich, Marcel Odenbach und Ulrich Peltzer erzählen von ihren Eindrücken und Assoziationen und machen durch ihre Reflexionen die Bewegtbilder der Videos im Medium Buch nachvollziehbar.

»Maya Schweizer: Die selbe Geschichte an einem anderen Ort« erscheint anlässlich ihrer Ausstellung » La même histoire ailleurs« im Westfälischen Kunstverein, die vom 4. September bis 24. Oktober 2010 in Münster gezeigt wird.

Maya Schweizer:
Die selbe Geschichte an einem anderen Ort, weitererzählt, verstreut, fragmentiert, täglich, rückwärts und wieder von vorn.
The Same Story Elsewhere, continued, spread, fragmented, daily, backwards and all over again.
128 Seiten, dt./engl.
Gestaltet von HIT Berlin/London
ISBN: 978-3-940064-97-4
22 Euro

Book (2010)
edited and designed by James Langdon
Published by Eastside Projects
165 x 240 mm, 216 pp., softcover
ISBN 978-1-906753-22-1
D 20 €

Works by:
Åbäke, Vito Acconci, Tauba Auerbach, Bedford Press, Ulises Carrión, Melissa Dubbin + Aaron S. Davidson, Daniel Eatock, Will Holder, Jeremy Jansen, Kelly Large, Fraser Muggeridge Studio, OK/RM, Simon Starling, Werkplaats Typografie

‘Book’, functions as a mobile extension to the exhibition, ‘Book Show’. Including a facsimile reprint of Ulises Carrión’s ‘The New Art of Making Books’ as it originally appeared in the journal Kontexts; an illustrated text by James Langdon and additional works, both existing and newly commissioned.

We would like to say a big thanks to everybody who helped make this year’s fair such a success. Hope to see you all next year!

Living Well is the Best Revenge

This publication accompanies the exhibition ¨Living Well is the Best Revenge¨, Tobias Kaspar, Silberkuppe, Berlin.
Design: Tobias Kaspar with Lina Grumm
Edition of 100 copies

http://www.silberkuppe.org/

D 14 €