how a mosquito operates. Mahony. Broken Dimanche Press.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 11th, 2014

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how a mosquito operates. Mahony. Broken Dimanche Press.

With texts by John Holten and Sophie Kaplan
Design: Dorothea Brunialti

Mahony was founded 2001 in Vienna, Austria Stephan Kobatsch, *1975 Vienna, Austria Clemens Leuschner, *1976 Göttingen, Germany Jenny Wolka, *1978 Cologne, Germany
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Much of Mahony´s artistic production derives from well known and unknown historical facts. This kind of appropriation in Mahonyterms always means questioning, transforming, translating, re-associating and reactivating the chosen topic. With this process they form new rhizomatic nets making connections from past to present, paths that go across geographical and historical zones, social and political contexts. They alienate the viewer by translating found material from ancient times into ours or from one culture into another. At the beginning of a project oftentimes stands a journey to places like Yucatan (2011), Ushuaia (2009) and Brasil (by cargoship, 2009). Therefore works that emerge in public space or in the countryside are later continued in the studio and vice versa. The media and material that
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Mahony works with video, photo, print, collage, sculpture, performance, urban intervention and installation. (Victoria Dejaco, 2012 /Deutsche Übersetzung folgt) Most recently they have exhibited in Art Basel, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, La Criée, centre d’art contemporain, Rennes and in spring 2014 they have a solo show at Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna
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The Irish writer, artist and publisher, John Holten (b.1984) studied at University College Dublin and the Sorbonne-Paris IV before obtaining an MPhil from Trinity College Dublin. His novel The Readymades was published in 2011, and most recently he has written fictional or immersive texts for the artists Mahony, Natalie Czech, Darri Lorenzen, Jani Ruscica, Lorenzo Sandoval and The LGB Group. His work has been included at Center, Berlin, Malmö Konsthall, The White Building London, David Zwirner Gallery New York (with Aengus Woods) and NGBK Berlin, amongst other places. In 2011 he received a Literature Bursary from the Irish Arts Council. His video commercials for his next novel Oslo, Norway have been exhibited in Plan B Gallery and Team Titanic, Berlin and an extract appeared in the first issue of the journal Gorse in spring 2014. www.johnholten.com

Author: Mahony
Publisher: Broken Dimanche Press
Language: english
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-943196-24-5

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The Fox #4. Mathew Whittington (Ed.) Werkplaats Typografie.

Posted in magazines, writing on February 11th, 2014
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The Fox #4. Mathew Whittington (Ed.) Werkplaats Typografie.

A Fox in a Trap: Charles Nodier
Animals Again: Esther Leslie & Ben Watson
Oliver Twist and the Werewolf of London: Bill Sikes, Bull’s Eye, and Biopolitics: Bill Hutchison
The Fox Helps: Kristen Gallerneaux Brooks
Heidegger the Fox: Hannah Arendt
Tame Beasts: on obedience: Federico Campagna
The Burrow: Franz Kafka
Foxface: Mabli Elliman
Monsters & Messiahs: Mike Davis
The Rustle of Language: Roland Barthes
A New Experimental Method for an Anthropology of Things (or, An Agony in Five Fits): Hermione Spriggs
The Last Chapter: P.-J. Stahl
And including contributions from Valentijn Goethals, Daniel Arsham, Melissa Pilon, Leonard van Munster, Tetsuo Mukai, and Paul Elliman.

Edited and Designed by Mathew Whittington
Contributing Editors: Paul Elliman, Hermione Spriggs
Publisher: Werkplaats Typografie
Language: English
Pages: 144

Price: €10.00

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Edit #63. Jörn Dege, Mathias Zeiske (Eds.). Edit Literaturzeitschrift.

Posted in magazines, poetry, writing on February 11th, 2014
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Edit #63. Jörn Dege, Mathias Zeiske (Eds.). Edit Literaturzeitschrift.

Edit Papier für neue Texte: Winter 2013/14

Editorial
Janko Marklein – Wir machen das
Andre Rudolph – erythema migrans
Kathrin Röggla – Der Lärmkrieg (Auszug)
Pascal Richmann – A Boy named Roy

Edit Essaypreis 2013
Noemi Schneider – Oh Boy, ich hasse Rot!
Sebastian Koth – Du berührst die Erde, dass sie deine Zeugin werde.
Lina Morawetz – Motten

Dossier Konzeptuelles Schreiben
Kenneth Goldsmith – Paragraphen zum Konzeptuellen Schreiben
Christian Bök – Eunoia
Robert Fitterman – Metropolis
Vanessa Place – Was ist Konzeptualismus?
Ara Shirinyan – Your Country is Great
Elisabeth Clark – Between Words
Swantje Lichtenstein – Vom Lesen, Schreiben und den Konzepten

Anne Waak – Wie ich einmal Ferien mit Claude Lanzmann machte
Danilo Scholz – Gläserne Jugend, gläserne Kämpfe:
Edward Snowden als militanter Bürokrat
Katharina Stooß – Kein einfacher Mensch

Bildteil: Edgar Leciejewski

Price: €5.00

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Blame. Sister Iodine. Premier Sang.

Posted in music on February 11th, 2014
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Blame. Sister Iodine. Premier Sang.

French pioneer experimental rock band formed in the early 90’s by Lionel Fernandez, Erik Minkkinen and Nicolas Mazet, Sister Iodine is a rare band who with “Blame” is releasing only now their 5th studio album.

Edition of 400 copies.

Price: €16.00

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Of The Afternoon #4.

Posted in magazines, photography on February 7th, 2014

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Of The Afternoon

Of The Afternoon is distinguished by its unique design: the first half of the magazine is designed to share the work that we feature in one of our soon-to-be regular London exhibitions; the second half of the magazine features interviews with some of the most exciting names in contemporary photography at the moment, along with studio visits from young creatives from across the globe.

Of The Afternoon asks questions, exploring the creativity, passion and hard work that exists behind every body of work.

Featuring work from 30 of the photographers that were shown in our exhibition, plus interviews with:

Isabelle Wenzel
Lorenzo Vitturi
Christian Patterson
Peter Puklus
Fred Huning
Glen Erler
Kazuyoshi Usio
and studio visits from NYC

Language: English
Pages: 80
Binding: Softcover
ISSN: 2053-3594
€11.00

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Kushtetuta # 2 “Mums and Dads. Alvaro Urbano, Petrit Halilaj.

Posted in Zines on February 5th, 2014
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Kushtetuta # 2 “Mums and Dads

including contributions by:
Bruno. B, Carlos Motta, David Horvitz, Danh Vo, El Roto, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Eva Kotatkova, Francisca Benitez, Félix González-Torres, Franz Kafka, Gerry Bibby, HaveIt, Mark Wulfgar, Patrizio Di Massimo, Piero Pazzi, Slavs and Tatars, Wolfgang Tillmans, Yorgos Sapountzis, Alvaro Urbano and Petrit Halilaj.

Language: English
Binding: Softcover

€5.00
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In-Between Things, Giacomo Santiago Rogado. Book launch and screening @ Motto Berlin. 06.02.2014.

Posted in Events, Motto Berlin event, painting on February 4th, 2014
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Amanda Haas Design & Studio Rogado are happy to invite you to the book launch of:
 
Giacomo Santiago Rogado 
“In-Between Things”

Thursday, February 6th, 2014, 7-9pm, @ Motto Berlin, Skalitzer Str. 68, Berlin.
With drinks, video screening and selected works on display.

Texts by Christy Wampole
Design by Amanda Haas
Published by Studio Rogado, Berlin
ISBN 978-3-033-04226-1

€ 38.00

New York New York Book. Eli Bornowsky. Artspeak.

Posted in Uncategorized on February 1st, 2014
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New York New York Book. Eli Bornowsky. Artspeak.

Language: English
Pages: 54
Size: 10 × 18
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9780921394679

Price: €8.00

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Mémoires. Seiichi Furuya. Camera Austria.

Posted in photography on January 31st, 2014
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2ND EDITION

1984–1987
Graz, 2010
Hg. / Ed. Koko Okano und Christine Frisinghelli
IZU Photo Museum Shizuoka / Edition Camera Austria, Graz
Text: Einar Schleef

Unter dem gemeinsamen Titel “Mémoires” sind seit 1989 fünf Bücher von Seiichi Furuya erschienen, die dem Andenken an seine Frau gewidmet sind. Fotografien aus der Zeit in Ostdeutschland bilden den Schwerpunkt des vorliegenden Buches, mit dem Furuya seine “Mémoires” abschließt. Der Text “Schwarz Rot Gold” von Einar Schleef ist 1996/97 zu den Fotografien von Seiichi Furuya entstanden.

Language: German / English / Japanese
Pages: 352, 151 Color and 102 Black and White Images
Size: 19,8 x 24,5 cm
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-900508-80-7

Price: €49.00

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Cheap Method Edition – Struggling Bodies in Capitalist Societies (Democracies). Claudia Bosse (Ed.) theatercombinat / Motto Books.

Posted in magazines, performance, politics, theatre on January 31st, 2014
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Cheap Method Edition – Struggling Bodies in Capitalist Societies (Democracies). Claudia Bosse (Ed.) theatercombinat / Motto Books.

cheap method edition offers a collection of working material issues. the aim is to open up specific methodologies, which are the basis for the creation of performative work. It is not about documentation, it is about starting a discourse on performative praxis, about the approaches, the material, the historical and political contexts and transportation, as well as the (artistic) decisions, the specific knowledge and experiences which are resembled in different working processes. cheap method edition will publish examples to create a discourse on fading performative works. cheap method edition combines artistic research with scientific and experiential knowledge, connects both in thematic issues to open up bigger contexts which can be re-used, re-worked and re-discussed and compared.

struggling bodies
in capitalist societies
(democracies)

a publication series of political hybrids

03 editorial by claudia bosse
SELF-SUBVERSION AND ASCETICISM

08 gerald siegmund: to be or not to be:
towards a theatre of dis-identification
or the body as supplement

20 elke van campenhout: food and hunger

26 dialogue: gerald siegmund,
elke van campenhout, and others
THE BODY AND ITS CONSTRUCTIONS
BETWEEN SEXUAL AND POLITICAL
NORMATIVES

40 marina gržinić: struggling with the
performative body in the garbage dump
of history

54 dialogue: marina gržinić,
gerald siegmund, hrvoje jurić and others

62 snapshots of BOXEN,
performance by günther auer
THE BODY AS THE PLACE OF THE
POLITICAL

66 alice pechriggl: zu konstitution und
aisthêsis eines unumgänglich/en
demokratischen körpers.
ein textfragment.

74 hrvoje juric: scientific de(con)struction
and artistic (re)construction of the body

84 dialogue: alice pechriggl, hrvoje jurić,
and others

Language: English
Pages: 94
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9782940524136

Price: €9.00

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