Altruistic Nihilistic. Jaka Vatovec. Beli Sladoled.

Ljubljana – Postojna 2013
Numbered edition of 70
28 pages

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Notes From a Revolution: Com/Co, The Diggers & The Haight. David Hollander & Kristine McKenna. Foggy Notion Books & Fulton Ryder, Inc.

The social upheaval of the sixties gave rise to many fascinating coalitions and communes, but the Diggers, a little-known and short-lived group, stand apart from them all. Formed in Haight-Ashbury in 1966 by members of R. G. Davis’s subversive theater company, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Diggers took their name from the English Diggers, a seventeenth century agrarian collective devoted to creating a utopian society free of ownership and commerce.

The San Francisco Diggers – under the leadership of Peter Berg, Emmett Grogan, Peter Coyote, and Billy Murcott – were true anarchists, with roots in the Theater of the Absurd, Existentialism, and strategies of direct action. They coined slogans designed to prod people into participating and staged art happenings, public interventions, and street theater infused with wicked humor. The Diggers also provided free food, clothing, medical care and lodging to anyone in need as part of their effort to create a unified and mutually supportive community.

A critically important part of their methodology were the hundreds of broadsides that they regularly produced and distributed throughout the Haight, printed by the Communication Company, a maverick, short-lived publishing outfit founded by Chester Anderson and Claude Hayward. A selection of these graphically inventive, lacerating and sometimes funny broadsides are gathered together for the first time in Notes From a Revolution, which offers a fascinating and oddly moving record of the counterculture in its early bloom.

Edited by David Hollander
& Kristine McKenna
Introduction by Peter Coyote
Essay by Naomi Wolf
Conversation with Claude Hayward
by Kristine McKenna
Flexi-bound / 8 1/2 x 11″
/ 176 pages / 150 color images
ISBN 978-0-9835870-3-3

Published by Foggy Notion Books
in partnership with Fulton Ryder, Inc.

Price: €42.50

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Winter 2013
Cover by: Oliver Osborne

INSIDE THE COVER
Oliver Osborne
words by Isobel Harbison

PORTRAITS IN THE EXHIBITION SPACE
Alexander Dorner When Space Becomes Art
by Lorenzo Benedetti

SPACES — STUDY CASES
Anthony Huberman, The Artist’s Institute, NY
by Vincent Honoré

PANEL
Layering & Counter-Positioning
Designer James Langdon interviewed by Gavin Wade

TALKING ABOUT
Zoo–topia – Zoo Architecture as Taxonomies of National Representation
by Eszter Steierhoffer images by Candida Höfer

LAB
LUCA FRANCESCONI
A pumpkin is a pumpkin is a pumpkin
words by Giovanni Carmine

SHOW AND TELL
Bettina Buck – To Be Continued
by Cecilia Canziani

LAB
Re-productions
text and works by Mark Barrow

SPOTLIGHT
Aurélien Froment – De Debuilding
by Julien Fronsacq

LAB
The University at the Other of the Voice
a poem by Roger Van Voorhees

SPOTLIGHT
Laura Reeves – Back to Reality
by Adam Carr

THE EXHIBITION ROOM
Unhappy Readymade
Imaginary Show of Fictional Artworks. Vol. 1
by Valentinas Klimašauskas images by Virginija Januškevičiūtė

BOOKS
Committing today: Guerrilla Art Action Group
by Raimar Stange

THE FOX
Revisiting The Fox (1975-1976), part II
by Felix Vogel

Author: Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin (Eds.)
Publisher: CURA.
Language: English
Binding: Softcover

Price: €7.00

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Saturday March 9, from 7pm @ Motto Berlin
Susanne Bürner
EUVILLE
Book release and screening of Pierre et Poussière (20 min, color, sound, 2012)

Both talk about the reconstruction of memory related to an abandoned subterranean limestone quarry in Lorraine, France.
While Euville focuses on the former workers’ drawings on the walls of the quarries as their voice in an environment which didn’t leave much space for personal expression, Pierre et Poussière brings together different levels of temporality all representing the same place.

http://www.captures-editions.com/livre-artiste-s-burner.php

Susanne Bürner, Euville
Format 22 x 28,5 cm, hardcover, color
french/english translation
2000 copies
ISBN : 978-2-9533912-4-4
special limited photographic edition available
Captures Éditions Valence 2012 in collaboration with le Vent des forêts – espace rural d’art contemporain and the Office de tourisme du Pays de Commercy

Price: 25€

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On the same evening at Porcino, Susanne Bürner presents ‘Versteck’

Erik Steinbrecher – New Paintings @ Motto Berlin
02-28.03.2013

BLUES. Erik Steinbrecher. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

BLUES by Erik Steinbrecher is made of two booklets consisting of four identical loose pages, which are folded and assembled in different orders, resulting in new spreads.

It was published on the occasion of Steinbrecher’s exhibition UBER ALLES at Berlin’s Kunstbibliothek, a Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, which ran from 8. Novermber 2012 to 17. February 2013.

Size: 30 x 22 cm

D 18€

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Setsuko Hara. Richard Bevan & Tamsin Clark. The Block.

Photos and film stills of the Japanese actress Setsuko Hara, who is known for performing in, among many other films, Yasujirō Ozu’s “Late Spring” and “Tokyo Story.”

Published in London 2013
Designed by Wolfram Wiedner Studio
96 Pages
ISBN 978 0 9566757 4 3

D 9€

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For Lal, or Henry. Sean Edwards. The Block.

Six booklets that fold out into posters.

Contents:

Cabinet Making and the Kit of Tools
On the Life of Forms – Anne McQuay
The Moments Before the Banal Became Something You Could No Longer Believe In
Context for Reading – Sara MacKillop
I Saw Something Else (CBS)
Maybe Something Like the Way It Should Have Been – Ryan Gander

Published in London 2012
Designed by Wolfram Wiedner studio

D 15€

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Jonny on a Chorizo. Paul Haworth. TRUE TRUE TRUE.

THE YEAR IS 2009. Gangs of children, some as young as ten, are slowly roasting puppies over bonfires. To be alive is unrelenting and grim. Pyramid schemesters, balloon boys, gender-row runners. Pop-up brothels in industrial units. Fish nibbling at feet. Facemasks on the street. Pandemic after pandemic. New and more deadly strains keep coming and a sneeze on the tube is now a potential death sentence.

ENOUGH. Because Alex ‘Abs’ Brenchley is back – and this is his last goodbye.

Picking up straight after Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere, he returns exhausted, rebarbative, defeated. And impotent. A pact is made: if life remains so desperately miserable, Abs will get off this melancholy-go-round once and for all. But his luck and his London are about to change, following a chance meeting with Ga—

No to spoilers: Jonny on a Chorizo is a book of surprise and adventure. Carrying the reader on a joyous ride through London – its pearly queens, crushed dreams, bashment, blue jeans, scenes of romance in Crowlands – towards a heartfelt climax. Une fin véritable to a trilogy which began with the publication of Silk Handkerchiefs in 2009.

So let’s bump uglies, dance about the Maypole and have one last night at the St Moritz, because this is it: Jonny on a Chorizo is the end for Abs.

Vivat Regina!

English Language
Pages 229 – 376 of Paul Haworth’s Trilogy
ISBN 978-94-90006-00-6

D 12.50€

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Silk Handkerchiefs Trilogy. Paul Haworth. TRUE TRUE TRUE.

Paul Haworth’s trilogy, including Silk Handkerchiefs (2009), Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere (2011) and Jonny on a Chorizo (2013) is also available as a set.

To recap: Our narrator is Alex ‘Abs’ Brenchley: seven feet of cherry-sweet loving. With each book taking place over one year, events from 2007 to 2009 energise the narrative as we follow Abs on a life-affirming adventure throughout London. There is Monarchy, dogging, Kahlúa, gangs, galleries, grime and LOVE. Tall, sinewy, statuesque and virile, she is sensualabsational. Her name is Trevoreesia.

LISTEN to Paul and Sam’s Goodbyes here.

D 30€

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Polysingularity Letters Vol. 3. Dmitry Paranyushkin.

This journal documents the most recent proceedings in the field of polysingularity. This term has originally been used mainly by Russian mathematicians to describe a special class of integral equations with multiple simultaneous solutions (Simonenko, 1965; Boikov, 2000; Gabdulkhaev, 2005).

Integral equations, to put it simply, are used to discover the processes (or causes, rules, and motives) that underlie a certain behavior that can be observed. They are the reverse of differential equations (dx/dt so much loved by Deleuze) that are used to discover how a certain already known process behaves over time. Polysingularity is the condition where several distinct sets of interacting processes may lead to the same behavior or phenomena. That’s why we refer to it as a study of co-isolated multiplicities that nevertheless retain their singularity. In other words, we don’t look at a phenomenon trying to understand how it works. Instead, we look at and study all the different contexts that are creating the conditions for the phenomenon to emerge. It’s not about why you love, but what else happens while you love. It ‘s not about finding the structure, it’s about complete and total engagement with each singularity not losing the multiplicity out of sight.

Such approach allows us to go one step beyond the contingency and equalized distancing that any speculative post-practice necessarily produces for the sake of its own safety. Instead, we jump into the abyss of the unknown and indefinable with the renewed fervor even if we know that at the very end we might fall down (although in this case we hope to bounce back sideways up). Hence the journal format, I guess. The barcode is just there to help computers catalogue, categorize, and distribute the knowledge, which in the end is going to alter their binary rationale in ways that are not yet predictable, but that are several.

English Language
Produced by Nodus Labs

D 25€

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