Editionshow. Raster, Chert, Motto. Berlin. 05.12.13-15.02.14
Posted in Exhibitions, Uncategorized on January 20th, 2014Tags: Chert, Raster Editions
Editionshow. Chert, Raster & Motto, @ Chert / Motto. 06.12.2013 – 15.02.2014
Tags: Chert, Raster Editions
Frozen Chicken Train Wreck. Laurence Hamburger. Chopped Liver Press / Ditto Press.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18th, 2014Tags: Chopped Liver Press, Ditto Press, Laurence Hamburger
These posters exist for a day. They are conceived in the newsrooms of our tabloid dailies – The Star, The Sun, The Times and others – in the late afternoon, as the paper is being put to bed. Just hours later they are visible along the roadside of every major arterial road in the city.
These tabloid posters – candid and often outrageous epigrams of news – have been displayed along this road since the First Anglo-Boer War. They live momentarily in the minds of passing drivers and pedestrians, and by midnight they are already defunct.
I began collecting South African tabloid posters in 2008 with no other purpose than to preserve them. I thought they were funny, clever and true. Composed in a local vernacular of shebeen English, these statements are part of the texture of our urban fabric; so familiar as to almost disappear. Loud and colourful, tough and sharp, replete with a droll wit and blunt gallows humour, their blatant iconoclasm and muscular use of language is invigorating and oddly reassuring. The newspapers themselves were not keeping an archive, and however ephemeral they might seem I thought there was a relevance in them that was not being recognised; something uniquely South African.
Driving down Louis Botha Avenue, the rhythmic flash of passing headlines reads like a journalistic version of the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse. It’s an alternative history of the city, a tabloid summary of our age. Constructed from political sound-bites, public innuendos, colloquial bon-mots and hard, bitter truths, they read like an everyman’s state of the nation address, full of comedy and antagonism.
“They are,” as one of the copy editors remarked, “the perfect marriage of a corrupt society and a progressive constitution.”
– Laurence Hamburger
Language: English
Pages: 208
Size: 19 x 27 cm
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780957161221
49€
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In-Between Things. Giacomo Santiago Rogado. Studio Rogado.
Posted in painting, photography on January 18th, 2014Tags: Giacomo Santiago Rogado
Language: English-Deutsch
Pages: 320
Size: 24,5 x 18,5cm
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9783033042261
Price: €38.00
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Language to Cover a Page. Kristen Mueller. Motto Books / & So.
Posted in literature, poetry, typography, writing on January 15th, 2014Tags: & So, Kristen Mueller, Motto Books
Language to Cover a Page. Kristen Mueller. Motto Books / & So.
Working within a lineage which encompasses Joseph Kosuth’s Purloined (in which the author assembled a single novel from individual pages of different books), Tom Phillips’s A Humument (in which the author creates a new narrative by drawing on top of existing pages) and Ronald Johnson’s Radi Os (in which the author erases words from Milton’s Paradise Lost to create a stirring new poem), Mueller has done more than simply “compose the holes.” With Language to Cover a Page, Mueller has carefully aligned excerpts from disparate books—with differing typefaces intact—into two evolving pages. These pages crescendo before our very eyes, a flipbook of accumulating meaning, where with the passing of every page the narrative becomes aware of its own developing presence. —Derek Beaulieu (excerpt from text insert accompanying the book)
Language: English
Pages: 316
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-2-940524-09-9
Price: €22.00
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Steven Warwick (Heatsick). Interiors. Publication launch @ Motto Berlin. 15.01.14.
Posted in Events, Motto Berlin event, music, newsprint on January 14th, 2014Tags: Heatsick, Motto Books, Steven Warwick
Steven Warwick (Heatsick) Interiors. Publication launch @ Motto Berlin.
Join us for the launch of ‘Interiors’ by Steven Warwick, published by Motto Books. Steven’s recent LP under his Heatsick alias, RE-ENGINEERING, alongside other releases from PAN and many other labels will also be available.
Wednesday 15th January
7pm
Motto Berlin
Skalitzer Str. 68
im Hinterhof
10997 Berlin
Zicatela Ding. Yann Gerstberger. éditions P.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 11th, 2014Tags: Adulte Adulte, Andre Nicatina, Daniel Ribeiro, éditions P, Florent Faurie, Ideal J, Julien Goniche, Le Rat Luciano, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Mobb Deep, Onyx, Rasco, Run-DMC, The Alchemist, Xmen, Yann Gerstberger
Zicatela Ding. Yann Gerstberger. éditions P.
Un projet de / a project by Yann Gerstberger
Photos de / by Julien Goniche
Textes de / texts by Laetitia Paviani et / and Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Conception graphique par / graphic design by Adulte Adulte
Florent Faurie & Daniel Ribeiro
Language: English / French
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-2-917768-35-8
15 €
n.paradoxa vol. 33: Religion. Katy Deepwell (Ed.). KT Press.
Posted in magazines on January 11th, 2014Tags: feminism
n.paradoxa vol. 33: Religion. Katy Deepwell (Ed.). KT Press.
vol 33 2014: Relgion
‘Editorial’ pp. 4
Ayelet Zohar
‘Yayoi Kusama: The Jewel, the Mirror and the String of Beads’ pp. 5-15
Lou Cabeen
‘Artists pages: ‘Public Display” pp. 16
Barbara Kutis
‘Confronting Catholic Ideals: Elzbieta Jablonska, Katarzyna Kozyra, Dorota Nieznalska’ pp. 17-25
Zehra Jumabhoy
‘Of Voyages and Vetiver: A Conversation with Zarina Hashmi’ pp. 26-31
Oreet Ashery
‘Artists Pages: ‘Party for Freedom” pp. 32-37
Mathilde ter Heijne
‘Artists Pages: ‘Experimental Archaeology: Goddess Worship” pp. 38-43
Paula Levine
‘Artists Pages: ‘as if the laws were malleable” pp. 44-47
Lieke Wijnia
‘The Last Supper: Marlene Dumas, Mary Beth Edelson and Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin’ pp. 48-56
Judy Batalion
‘Helene Aylon in conversation’ pp. 57-66
Mirjam Westen
‘Almagul Menlibayeva: ‘Women always bring problems to religions…’’ pp. 67-72
Michelle Moravec
‘Performing Prehistory: Would you rather be a goddess or a cyborg? Cheri Gaulke and Anne Gauldin’s ‘Malta Project” pp. 73-84
Julian Vigo
‘Sturtevant: On Religion/Sacrilege’ pp. 85-91
‘Female Power’ (Arnhem, MMK, 2013)’ pp. 92-93
”The Beginning is Always Today’ (Saarlandets Museum, 2013)’ pp. 94-95
Language: English
Size: 21 x 26 cm
Binding: Softcover
11 €
Making Worlds. Amelia Barikin & Helen Hughes (Eds.). Surpllus.
Posted in Film, literature, science, Theory, writing on January 7th, 2014Tags: Amelia Barikin, Brad Haylock, Helen Hughes, Surpllus
Making Worlds. Amelia Barikin & Helen Hughes (Eds.). Surpllus.
Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction is an anthology of new texts by artists, curators, art historians and writers who are self-confessed science fiction fans. The linking point is the idea of science fiction as a platform for the building of alternate art histories. This collection is concerned with the ways in which science fiction might be performed, materialised or enacted within a contemporary context.
Edited by Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes, with contributions by: Adrian Martin, Amelia Barikin, Andrew Frost, Anthony White, Arlo Mountford, Brendan Lee, Charles Green, Chris McAuliffe, Chronox, Damiano Bertoli, Darren Jorgensen, Dylan Martorell, Edward Colless, Helen Hughes, Helen Johnson, Justin Clemens, Lauren Bliss, Matthew Shannon, Nathan Gray, Nick Selenitsch, OSW, Patrick Pound, Philip Brophy, Rex Butler, Ryan Johnston, and Soda_Jerk.
Design by Brad Haylock
Softcover, 320 pages.
15 €
Flaneur #2: Georg-Schwarz Strasse, Leipzig
Posted in magazines on January 6th, 2014Tags: Fabian Saul, Flaneur Magazine, RIcarda Messner
Flaneur #2: Georg-Schwarz Strasse, Leipzig
11.50€
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‘Daniel Santiago, an invisible portrait’ @ Porcino, Berlin. 05.01.2014
Posted in Events, Exhibitions on January 4th, 2014Tags: Chert, Daniel Santiago, David Horvitz, Porcino
Daniel Santiago, an invisible portrait
opening tomorrow, Sunday January 5th from 7pm.
Porcino is pleased to announce the opening of its third exhibition, Daniel Santiago, an invisible portrait.
Porcino is a parasitic gallery located in a hole underneath the floorboards of Chert Gallery in Berlin. Actually, that is not true at all, not at all. Porcino is actually a mycorrhizal gallery located in a hole underneath the floorboards of Chert Gallery. Like the Boletus Edulis and the conifer tree, Porcino and Chert form a symbiotic relationship, their roots and mycelium intertwined with each other as gifts are exchanged for each organism’s continuous survival. It was founded in 2012 by David Horvitz during his first exhibition at the gallery.
Daniel Santiago (born 1939, Recife Brazil) is known for his association with Mail Art, and particularly for his collaborations with friend Paulo Brusky. His work is a playful and often humorous exploration of the poetics of the everyday, whether through capturing the cultural landscape of his surroundings in drawing, or by intervening in the public space of the city with performances and installations. Santiago’s work touches on philosophical questions about solitude, life and freedom, inventiveness as a strategy of survival and the potential of collaborating with others.