October 12 – 14, 2012. SFU, Vancouver
Motto runs a bookstore @ Institutions by Artists, a three day international event that evaluates and activates the performance and promise of contemporary artist-run centres and initiatives.
more information: http://fillip.ca/events/institutions-by-artists
Scrapbooks 1969-1985, Walter Pfeiffer (Ed.) published by Edition Patrick Frey.
Walter Pfeiffer’s Scrapbooks from 1969 to 1982 are a very unique Wunderkammer. Pfeiffer’s Polaroids and photographs alternate with miscellaneous objects – newspaper clippings, postcards, packaging, tickets – and brief punning notes. Pfeiffer assembles all of this into a large collage full of surprising references and comparisons that is both a visual diary and creative foundation of his artistic work. In his scrap books, Pfeiffer’s keen view of Eros, Zeitgeist and popular culture, his disrespectful humor as well as his appreciation for the poetry in the mundane and banal, are sharply revealed. They offer a view into Pfeiffer’s meandering and playful universe and are a contemporary document that captures the Zeitgeist of the 1970s and 1980s with ephemeral elegance.
D 88.15 €
ABCDLP002, for Short Big Yellow Drawing Machine, by Angela Bulloch and George van Dam.
ABCDLP002 – Short Big Drama, 2012 was written and composed by George van Dam. The music combines acoustic and electric string instruments with lush synthesized sound, directional rhythmic layers and electronic transformations in a symphonically flavoured five-movement format of 18 minutes and 19 seconds. This piece was specially commissioned by Angela Bulloch as the score which drives her work “Short Big Yellow Drawing Machine” to draw.
For more information on Angela Bulloch’s solo exhibition SHORT BIG DRAMA at Witte de With: www.wdw.nl
D 25 €
Rosette, Mauricette et Roby, Zoé Beausire, published by Kominek Books.
The photo book by Zoé Beausire (*1987) document in a very empathetic and personal way the artist’s preoccupation with the process of aging and the resulting bodily and mental changes within the artist‘s closest circle of family. The photos are posing questions about physical adjacency and the relation of life and death. In a symbolical as well as narrative way, she shows drastically and intensely the inevitable process of body changes, of alteration in social life and in social participation. Contentwise the works complement one another to a deeply touching construct of hard reality, gentle narrative sightings of details, fragmented memories and staged sequences of dreams. In this way a new, direct and at the same time very empathetic view is generated on the omnipresent topic of demographic changes in our society.
30 colour images/ thread stitching/ additional 20 pages LEPORELLO
Edition of 500 copies
2012
D 25 €
Join us on Thursday evening at 7pm for a thesis presentation by Jamie Ferguson, who will discuss the new publication and the hunting works that make up it’s imagery.
“In The Hunting Field is a collection of encounters that uses the figure of the hunter-trapper as a figurative and literal approach for looking at contemporary understandings of animal, nature, and environment in an ecological age where entities collide at scales massively distributed in space and time.”
The figure of the hunter-trapper is used to draw attention to a significant intertwining with the biological world that shapes bodies and technology. It is not meant as an exhaustive signifier for a linear history but instead as an opportunity to survey encounters that shape these understandings and so inform our place in the world. Perhaps a reinterpretation of environmental aesthetics can provide openings for alternate shapes of future encounters…
1:1:1 #5, Niessen & De Vries, published by Uitgeverij Boek.
This 1:1:1 publication #05 is about the work of Gabriel Lester.
Gabriel Lester is an artist and film maker. The films and installations of Gabriel Lester work from the inside out. They aim to provoke dramatic tension and direct the gaze inwardly as well as outwardly. These works, which occupy both time and space, are made up out of dramatic suggestions and are either implicitly narrative, explicitly visual or both at once. The frequent use of cinematographic devices, such as montage, sequences, cross-cuts and spatial edits, provide a tension span or at times a storyline. Subjects, such as psychology of space, constitution of memory, evocation of predicament, magic thought, set-up and pay-off, and destiny, surface frequently in his art works.
1:1:1 is a documentary series in print exploring reproduction and the rationale behind the works of artists and designers.
D 7.50 €
Indexnewspaper #3, edited by Amélia Brandão Costa and Rodrigo Costa Lima.
Indexnewspaper is a magazine of architecture printed in newspaper paper. It is a publication with a bilingual edition, English and Portuguese, and worldwide distribution.
The editorial contains an interview, a visit to an office, projects and works, and essays. The front cover has an ” artwork ” designed by an invited artist.
COVER / CAPA
Bãnziger Hug
INTERVIEW / ENTREVISTA
Christian Kerez
ATELIERS
Go Hasegawa
Raphael Zuber
PROJECTS / PROJECTOS
Adamo Faiden
Amunt
H Arquitectes
Miguel Marcelino
ESSAYS / ENSAIOS
Michal Martychowiec
Tito Mouraz
D 5€
frieze #150, Jennifer Higgie, Jörg Heiser (Eds.), published by Frieze Publishing.
Insightful, intelligent and exquisitely designed, frieze is the leading magazine in contemporary art and culture. frieze profiles emerging artists and highlights new currents in art practice as well as offering a fresh perspective on more established artists. Including exhibition reviews, interviews, city reports and worldwide listings, the magazine is essential reading for anyone interested in visual culture.
D 10€
Spike #33.
CONTENTS
ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
By Haegue Yang: Jimmie Durham, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Damián Ortega, Yiso Bahc, Beom Kim.
DOCUMENTA 13
French curator Nicolas Bourriaud and American critic Fionn Meade have different views on the most important exhibition in the world.
ESSAY
Tal Beery, member of Occupy Museums, on the artist as activist.
CURATOR’S KEY
Krist Gruijthuijsen on »On becoming something else« (2009) by Ben Kinmont.
INSTITUTION
Marina Fokidis founded Kunsthalle Athena with the goal of bringing the public arena into closer contact with art. A conversation with Filipa Ramos.
GALLERIES
47 Canal, the young gallery in Downtown Manhattan owned by artist Margaret Lee and ex-director of Alexander and Bonin, Oliver Newton. By Karen Archey.
PORTRAIT NICOLE EISENMAN
Between pathos and horseplay, dirty jokes and serious politics. Joanna Fiduccia on the work of the American painter.
FRANZ WEST
The Austrian artist passed away in July. Pier Luigi Tazzi, Stefan Ratibor, and Gelatin remember him.
PORTRAIT CHRISTIAN FALSNAES
The language and symbolism of demonstrations, powerful emotions, crowd surfing, karaoke, glam-rock costumes and 80s-style music videos. Carson Chan in conversation with the performance artist Christian Falsnaes.
PORTRAIT OSKAR FISCHINGER
The abstract animations of the German artist, an emigrant to LA, were long appreciated only by radical formalists and avant-garde visionaries. Fionn Meade on a rediscovery.
EMOTIONAL COMMUNISM
The spectre of communism is haunting the art biennials of Europe. By Nick Currie.
ARTHUR BOTO CONLEY’S MUSIC WORKSHOP
Two records by the elusive ethnomusicologist Arthur Boto Conley. By John Beeson.
SLOW FADING L.A.
By Jon Leon
SEDCUTION
By Patricia Ellis, Tenzing Barshee, Dani Gal, Eivind Furnesvik, Angela Stief.
REVIEWS
Reviews of international exhibitions
THE PFAFF BROTHERS
Soil happens
D 9.50€
The Gentlewoman #6, Penny Martin (Ed.), published by Fantastic Woman Ltd., Gert Jonkers & Jop van Bennekom.
The Gentlewoman proudly presents the universally adored legend of stage and screen Angela Lansbury as this season’s cover star. She leads a cast of the most remarkable and captivating women who are profiled in this edition; intrepid shopkeeper Leila McAlister, incomparable artist Tauba Auerbach, multi-talented singer-songwriter St Vincent, retail powerhouse Alannah Weston, hardworking actress Michelle Dockery and the xx’s charming Romy Madley Croft. Issue six is also brimming with fantastic fashions; marvellous models Lara Stone, Yasmin Le Bon and Malgosia Bela present ultrafeminine eveningwear, definitive tailoring and cosy jumpers, coats and capes, all selected for super glamorous living this autumn.
D 9 €