Spectral Days by Setareh Shahbazi

“I am glad that things have changed. All efforts toward ridding oneself of the historical past and acquiring new family members have been rewarded. This new sequencing of verb tenses was the material expression of her private epiphanies. Now, photographs were just photographs: pieces of paper that could be pleated, replaced and slipped into a pocket.”

Setareh Shahbazi was born in Tehran in 1978. She moved to Germany in 1985, leaving behind a swimming pool, a garden and all family photographs. After studying Scenography and Media Art at the State University for Art and Design in Karlsruhe, she traveled to Beirut in 2003 with a scholarship from the DAAD to look through other peoples photographic archives at the Arab Image Foundation.
In 2009 Setareh Shahbazi moved to Beirut with a box of photographs from Tehran. There she got into a close conversation with her neighbor Mirene Arsanios, who is a writer based in Beirut.

Text: Mirene Arsanios
Design: Aude Lehmann
44 pages
20x15cm

D 18 €

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Tuesday Nov. 6. at 19-21 pm @ Motto Charlottenborg

Book Release: Mobile Phenomena

Half Letter Press

With introductions by editor Brett Bloom, book contributor Nils Norman – and a tasty treat from Bennys Mobile Pizza Oven!

MOBILE PHENOMENA: A NEW BOOK FROM TEMPORARY SERVICES

“Temporary Services [is] dedicated to erasing the distinction between professional and everyday acts of creativity through archives, exhibitions, publications, and public interventions.”

— Gregory Sholette writing about Temporary Services in Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, 2011

What do libraries built into airstream trailers, bar bikes, and giant windmill blades on wheels have to do with the bypassing traditional forms of social mobility? How can we use mobile projects to reimagine urban and rural spaces that are normally closed to creative gestures and public services?

Mobile Phenomena is a new collection of over eighty-five photographs and short interviews. It is the result of years of research on common instances of mobile phenomena that impact people and their uses of shared city and rural spaces. In this book you will find bookmobiles, mobile forms of commerce, inventive mobile art projects, mobile structures created for use during protest, and some strange applications of mobility that defy easy description, categorization, or whose function could not be readily discerned. Mobile Phenomena can unhinge the expected roles we take in shared city spaces. Mobile structures can become a new norm when they work. It is our hope that this book can be an inspiration to other citizens, artists, activists, nomads, and anyone who is interested in escaping the constraints of their location, culture, or other factors that make realizing one’s desires difficult.

.Mobile Phenomena includes contributions by: Courtney Dailey, Alexis Petroff, Joseph Robertson, Jen Hofer, Eric Steen, Christian Ettinger, Platform, Liberate Tate, The Center For Tactical Magic, and Nils Norman

The award-winning art group Temporary Services is a Chicago-Copenhagen-Philadelphia-based collaboration of three artists. Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, and Marc Fischer have been working together as the art group Temporary Services since 1998. Their group work has been exhibited in museums and exhibition spaces worldwide including MASS MoCA, Yerba Buena Center for Art, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kunst-Werke, and the Stedelijk Museum. They are winners of grants from Artadia, Art Matters, and CEC ArtsLink. Their project Prisoners’ Inventions resulted in a popular book and exhibition that has been presented all over the world, including the 2008 Athens Biennial in Greece.

Mobile Phenomena is the fourth book published by Half Letter Press, a publishing house and online store started by Temporary Services to build long-term support, and expand the audience for people that work creatively in experimental, political, and non-commercial ways.

sunday # 018, Gabriel Kuri’s (untitled) edition, takes its departure from a quote by David Hume. ‘All knowledge resolves itself into probability’.

Gabriel Kuri added  a variation to this quate;  ‘All probability resolves itself into form’.

Both sentences are applied to the use and manipulation of a sheet of standard millimetre paper.

The edition consists of a A1 print that is folded to A4. The grid that was formed through these folds open up different variations of these two sentences.

The images of the folded millimetre paper echo the actual folds of the edition-format.

By manipulating the edition  a variety of formal combinations is created.  Through this manipulation both sentences cover each other, becoming new variations on and among one another.

Forming different compositions between knowledge, probability and form.

 sunday # 018 is published in an edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered.

In addition, a limited ‘bootleg’ version will be presented. This version comprises a series of prints that have variable ways of folding.

Pictures by Tobias Madison
Edited by Andreas Koller
Designed by Marietta Eugster
Published by 978-3-906011.ch
D 32€
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Spectral Days – Book Release @ Motto Berlin
Thursday, Nov 1, 2012
from 7pm

An artist book by Setareh Shahbazi
with a text by Mirene Arsanios

Presentation in a casual conversation with Hanan Toukan

“Kiosk with art” is a project dedicated to Weglin district in Lublin (Poland) – an attempt to get into the space that had been deprived of regular contact with art. The whole event is centered around building of a kiosk that stands at the front of Weglin Cultural Centre. We present artists, whose work cross the disciplines, often mixed with science, music, or theater. We want to build a complex picture of contemporary art, showing its different faces.
Kiosk is also publishing space, that focus on phenomenon of artbooks. On 5’th of October, together with Motto from Berlin, we open Kiosk with artbooks, where we present books, zines, magazines and items related to selfpublishing. In addition, at the show one will also find Lublin publishers with NN Theatre and DDK “Weglin”, Hungarian with Roham, and Morava books from Poznan. We will also host founders of Printcontrol – the organization promoting best printed matter from Poland.

Curator: Ludomir Franczak
Organizer: Weglin Cultural Centre – Węglin Gallery
The project supported by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland

The Kiosk runs until November 8, 2012

http://kioskzesztuka.blogspot.de/

The Object Lessons – Nina Beier & Marie Lund by Francesco Pedraglio, published by Mousse Publishing.

The Object Lessons is an exhibition.

The Object Lessons is a story inspired by an exhibition, considered through three parallel accounts told in the first, second and third person.

The Object Lessons is an exhibition inspired by the narratives, characters and artworks features in a short story.

D 12 €

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Object Lessons. Joe Scanlan. Dexter Sinister / Mu. Zee.

Two Objects
Two objects that may or may not go together.
Two objects that are distinct, but related.
Two objects roaming the earth in search of each other, like mythic lovers navigating the global network of book distribution, tracking, and sales

Smaller Object
In this volume, artist Joe Scanlan’s magazine columns from the past fifteen years have been gathered as one long, picaresque narrative in which democracy plays the dishonest but amiable lead role, from the Lumière Brothers’ use of their employees in the making of the first film to Tino Sehgal’s use of museum visitors in the production of his art. As Scanlan writes: Once again we regress to the familiar, not on the basis of its merits but because it puts the most people at ease. However vexed we were by modernist ideology, the products resulting from the current consensus-based, consumer-driven service economy are really starting to depress me. I miss having to accept something whether I like it or not, if only for the bits of stunning genius that single-mindedness made possible. Consumer culture, where is thy victory? Product, where is thy sting?

Larger Object
Remember
Which begs the question
It all started 100 years ago when
On the one hand
On the other hand
Of course
Which reminds me
That is why
Speaking of stylists
Meanwhile
That being said
I choose
Once upon a time

SMALLER OBJECT
paperback, 4-color, perfect-bound
text with four BW illustrations
17.5 x 10.8 cm, 96 pages

D 33 €

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The Kingsboro Press, Issue 8.

INCLUDING WORKS BY:
BECCA ALBEE, DAVID ARMACOST, JORDAN AWAN, WALTER DE LA MER, DX, NOEL FRIEBERT, DMITRI HERTZ, CHIP HUGHES, GB JONES, CAT KRON, MELISSA LEVIN, GREIL MARCUS, NIK PLANCK, ZEPHYR PAVEY, ASHER PENN, JEREMY SIGLER, ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, WILLIAM WEGMAN, YAN YAN, SETH ZUCKER, AND MORE

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Komuna Fundamento. Kuehn Malvezzi. Mousse Publishing.

Esperanto’s failure to become a commonly spoken language is a fact, just as modern architecture has not become part of the mainstream: there are other kinds of lingua franca today. Like Esperanto, architecture intended to constitute a common ground appears instead to be sectarian in the midst of contemporary pluralism. Responding to David Chipperfield’s call for an exhibition of Common Ground at the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture, Kuehn Malvezzi built two interventions using grey stack-bond brickwork, at the entrance and in the Sala Chini of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, the central pavilion at the Giardini. The Berlin-based practice created two thresholds, two specific spaces that encourage people to meet and linger, to sit down and watch. Komuna Fundamento embraces the relationship between the architectural object and its physical construction.

Including contributions by Candida Höfer and Armin Linke – two artists who approach architecture from opposite directions, while both working in and with space – architecture is considered by Kuehn Malvezzi as part of a curatorial action in space that is neither foreground nor background, but a transformative medium of the in-between. Very much like the installation, the book follows the logic of translation, putting contrasting imagery from various other places into a relationship.

Pages: 208
Language: Esperanto / English

D 33€

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