Gastronomica #10:3, The Journal of Food and Culture.

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mono.kultur #24: Cyprien Gaillard – Dust Lines.
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Lying Freely, Ruth Buchanan

In her itinerant project ‘Lying Freely’, that has evolved in various locations since June 2009, Ruth Buchanan probes questions around the tension between private and public spheres by practicing a method that might be named after the project title, Lying Freely. This has involved Buchanan weaving stories by and about the public personas of three female writers Janet Frame, Virginia Woolf and Agatha Christie into her own speculative writings. The writing becomes scripts for manoeuvring through spaces of systemization and behavioural codification, such as an archive (The Hocken Collection), a hotel (Old Swan Hotel), a library (The British Library). These spaces, each associated with one of the authors, were reconfigured in a haptic choreography performed for and within different locations that hosted the project—a monumental house, a theatre, a gallery.

Co-published by Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht and Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht.

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Cape Town – South Africa, Marco Lachi

The exhibition “Cape Town – South Africa”, curated by 3/3 in Galleria Manzoni, narrates, through a selection of 20 pictures, the personal vision of Marco Lachi on the phenomenon of urban fear in Cape Town residential areas and in some other South African suburban areas. A vision that becomes more complex through an approach that goes from mainly analytical to more personal, revealing Marco Lachi’s relationship with the environment, always in search of that subtle tension that animates the world around him.

Published by Magnolia Edizioni

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Untitled, Adam Marnie, 2010.
“Special Berlin” edition of 20 copies.

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Full Metal Poem
Edited by Cralan Kelder and Mark Terill
Concept and graphic design Floortje Bouwkamp
Printed by Knust
edition of 250
D 15€

Issue #1 of tri-publications.

tri-dissonanz
The collected fragments will evolve into a book.

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Under one umbrella, Silberkuppe (Dominic Eichler and Michel Ziegler).
Published by Sternberg Press.
English. 144 pages.

Texts by Silberkuppe, Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann, Kaucyila Brooke, Vivian Rehberg, Jennifer Higgie, MAP magazine, Martin Ebner, basso, a.o.

Contributions by Anonymous, Endre Aalrust, Nairy Baghramian, Phyllida Barlow, basso, Dirk Bell, Gerry Bibby, Juliette Blightman, Kaucyila Brooke, Sabeth Buchmann, Anders Clausen, Maria Cruz, Alice Creischer, Enrico David, Etienne Descloux PE-P, Martin Ebner, Isa Genzken, Julian Göthe, Adrian Hermanides and Andrew Verster, Jennifer Higgie, Janette Laverrière, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Ryan McLaughlin, Motherland, Ariane Müller, Christian Philipp Müller, Sarah McCrory, Sean McNanney, Shahryar Nashat, Henrik Olesen, Kirsten Pieroth, Josephine Pryde, Rebecca Quaytman, Mathilde Rosier, André Rottmann, Andreas Siekmann, Nicolas Siepen, Starship, Oliver Tepel, Till by Turning, Danh Vo and Dr. Joseph Carrier, Stephen Willats, Susanne M. Winterling

This book is the first overall presentation of Silberkuppe. Since it’s founding in May 2008, Silberkuppe has become one of Berlin’s most outstanding independent spaces for contemporary art. Dominic Eichler and Michel Ziegler run the space from a twenty-five square metre room in a former concierge‘s office. Over the last two years they have initiated around twenty projects including exhibitions, lectures, presentations, film screenings, concerts and performances, which together have involved more than fifty cultural producers with diverse interests and backgrounds, including contemporary artists, architects, actors, dancers, designers, musicians and writers. This catalogue comes as a result of the exhibition “Under One Umbrella” (2010) in Bergen Kunsthall, a project that was the culmination of a series of institutional group exhibitions in which Silberkuppe extended their practice out from their own micro-space. It takes the form of a “photographic report” documenting all of Silberkuppe’s main exhibitions and events, as well as presenting several essays related to the projects.

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Inside the White Cube – Yann Sérandour. Overprinted Edition. By Yann Sérandour & Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié.
Published by JRP.
English. 84 pages.

This publication functions as a palimpsest: constructed on the reprint of the first French translation of Brian O’Doherty’s influential book “Inside the White Cube” (published by JRP|Ringier in the series Lectures Maison Rouge), it superimposes reproductions and commentaries of Yann Sérandour’s work.

Yann Sérandour’s interstitial and mimetic proposals stem from pre-existing works or publications, whose meaning and problematics are thus reactivated. Inscribing himself in a conceptual heritage, the artist is prolonging historical gestures or manifestations by infiltrating and parasiting them. This practice of “détournement” is a way of reviving the (sometimes latent) stakes and significations of appropriated elements, as well as a way to interrogate their historical, political, and aesthetic dimensions.

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BLESS. Retroperspective Home #30 – #41.

Edited by Désirée Heiss, Ines Kaag, Manuel Raeder, Katrin Bucher Trantow, Peter Pakesch
Texts by Andrea Lissoni, Peter Pakesch & Katrin Bucher Trantow, Adriano Sack
Published by Sternberg Press on the occasion of the exhibition “BLESS N° 41 Retroperspective Home,” Kunsthaus Graz – Universalmuseum Joanneum, May 22 – August 29, 2010.
English/German. 416 pages.

Heralded as one of fashion’s most innovative designers, the Paris- and Berlin-based duo BLESS (Désirée Heiss and Ines Kaag) refuse to capitalize on any one milieu, and instead explore the differences between and the mixing of the systems of art, fashion, and design. This book brings together visual and written documentation of BLESS’s last twelve collections (N° 30–N° 41), continually prompting and challenging the question of where a product begins and ends. Their latest project, N° 41 Retroperspective Home, culminates in an exhibition / intervention of the same title at the Kunsthaus Graz from May–August 2010. “The hybrid nature of [BLESS’s] output cries out to be tackled by an institution like ours,” state the curators of the exhibition, “but at the same time makes it very difficult to do so … This is precisely where the challenge of our exhibition lies, seeing art as design and fashion as architecture.”

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