Correspondencia Nr. 2

Correspondencia is a bi-annual literary and arts magazine published in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dossiers visuales:
Takashi Homma & Henry Roy.
Fragmentos visuales:
Henrik Grönvold, Susanna Howe, Gert Jonkers, Jeremy Liebman, Vava Ribeiro, Ana Armendariz, Ana Martinez Ramos, Alejandro Ros.
Textos:
Asli Cavosuglu, Erik Heywood, Carmen Iriondo, David Leda, Henry Roy, Amalia Sato, Mercedes Villalba, Philip Watts.
Extractos:
Roland Barthes, Peter Benchley, Albert Camus, Grillo Demo, Jean Genet, Matt Haynes, Katherine Mansfield, John Ruskin, Agnes Varda, Clare Wadd, Virgina Woolf.
Cartas:
Clyde Barrow, Charles Baudelaire, Rupert Brooke, Jean Cocteau, Bart de Baets, Henry Miller, Bonnie Parker, Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson, Francois Truffaut, Jacques Vaché.

14cm x 19,5cm 160 pages

D 18 €

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Status. Fotomuseum Winterthur.

24 Dokumente von heute / 24 Contemporary Documents

Hrg./Eds. Daniela Janser, Thomas Seelig
German/English
27.9 x 37 cm
105 pages

D 25€

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‘If you leave’. Book presentation. Motto Berlin. 07.06.2012
start 6pm

if you leave is a collection of contemporary photography. Snapshots of a journey made by wanderers who study the mysterious yet uncannily peaceful feeling of desolation and loneliness.
More concerned with the impact of a single image, rather than a body of work by an individual photographer, it is the representation of a silent idiom of faces, landscapes, subjects and objects, all in their most personal and intimate états d`être.
As a collection if you leave features the work of over a 250 different photographers from all over the world.

Photographer Laurence Von Thomas has been curating this collection online since november 2009.

http://if-you-leave.tumblr.com/

The Number and the Siren. Quentin Meillassoux. Urbanomic.

A meticulous literary study, a detective story à la Edgar Allan Poe, a treasure-hunt worthy of an adventure novel – such is the register in which can be deciphered the hidden secrets of a poem like no other. Quentin Meillassoux, author of After Finitude, continues his philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, infinity and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé’s poem Un Coup de Dés, patiently deciphering its enigmatic meaning on the basis of a dazzlingly simple and lucid insight with regard to that ‘unique Number that cannot be another’.
Un Coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard constitutes perhaps the most radical break in the history of modern poetry: the fractured lines spanning the double page, the typographical play borrowed from the poster form, the multiplication of interpolations disrupting reading. But the intrigue of this poem is still stranger, always resistant to full elucidation. We encounter a shipwreck, and a Master, himself almost submerged, who clasps in his hand the dice that, confronted by the furious waves, he hesitates to throw. The hero expects this throw, if it takes place, to be extraordinarily important: a Number said to be ‘unique’ and which ‘can be no other’.
The decisive point of the investigation proposed by Meillassoux comes with a discovery, unsettling and yet as simple as a child’s game. All the dimensions of the Number, understood progressively, articulate between them but one sole condition: that this Number should ultimately be delivered to us by a secret code, hidden in the Coup de dés like a key that finally unlocks every one of its poetic devices. Thus is also unveiled the meaning of that siren, emerging for a lightning-flash amongst the debris of the shipwreck: as the living heart of a drama that is still unfolding.
With this bold new interpretation of Mallarmé’s work, The Number and the Siren offers brilliant insights into modernity, poetics, secularism and religion, and opens a new chapter in Meillassoux’s philosophy of radical contingency.
The volume contains the entire text of the Coup de dés and three other poems, with new English translations.

D 21 €
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Was einem Heimat War. Peter Granser. Bücher und Hefte.

Peter Granser set off in search of traces of the town of Gruorn on the Swabian Alb, which was forcibly evacuated in 1939. He documents the eventful history of a landscape that was used for over 100 years as a training ground for the armed forces. In 2005, the terrain, still strongly contaminated with projectiles and unexploded ordnance, was declared a biosphere reserve.

Pages: 88
Size: 17 x 24 cm
Weight: 450 g
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783981453027

D 28€

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THE MAKING OF THE CHINESE NEW WORKING CLASS THIRTY YEARS OF MIGRATION Chinas neue Arbeiterklasse Dreißig Jahre Wanderarbeit. Ludlow 38. Spector Books.

Vor 30 Jahren wurde in China eine Reformpolitik eingeleitet, die sich der westlichen Globalisierung öffnete. Als Ergebnis entstand eine neue Arbeiterklasse: die Wanderarbeiter, die mittlerweile mehr als 200 Millionen zählt und den wirtschaftlichen Aufstieg Chinas im weltweiten Wettbewerb überhaupt erst ermöglichte.

D 14 €
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INWARD WORLD. Nadine Byrne. Moon Space Books.

A book by Swedish artist Nadine Byrne.

To capture a world within – rendering it trough the multifaceted features of a stone, a painted torso, the pale green of newly bloomed leaves, sun-stained water. Transferring the colors to fabric and burning clay made to resemble objects of an eternal current.

D 13 €
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frieze d/e #5 – Sommer / Summer 2012

Frieze d/e is a fully bilingual German/English magazine with its own editorial team and independent content. d/e stands for ‘Deutsch’ and ‘English.’ With editing and production based in Berlin, the new magazine offers in-depth coverage of contemporary art and culture throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland while closely following the international artist communities in this region.

Collaborators issue 5:
Jennifer Allen, Dominikus Müller, Jan Verwoert, Simon Rees, Barbara Preisig, Geeta Dayal, Kito Nedo, Carla Accardi, Metahaven, Andreas Schlaegel, Pablo Larios, Luca Cerizza, Michael Riedel, Raphael Gygax, Christy Lange

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San Rocco 04/ abstract
FUCK CONCEPTS! CONTEXT!

Contemporary architecture is generally presented with the phrase “My concept is . . . ”, in which the blank is filled in by some sort of notion: “My concept is freedom”, “My concept is the iPad”, “My concept is the Big Bang”, “My concept is democracy”, “My concept is panda bears”, “My concept
is M&M’s”. This statement is then followed by a PowerPoint presentation that begins with M&M’s and ends with round, pink bungalows on paradisiacal Malaysian beaches. According to concepts, to design is to find what buildings are: an ontology for dummies that turns banality into spectacle. Thus, the library is the books, the stadium is the muscles, the promenade is the beach, the aquarium is the fish, the swimming pool is the water and grandmother’s garage is grandmother.
Concepts protect us from running the risk of engaging with form. Why should we bother with form when we have an idea? Why waste time seeking beauty when we can claim that we are solving problems? Why think when we can happily sit around a table and do some brainstorming? Why take the pains to learn something when we can shout “Eureka!” in your face?
Anyhow, it is possible to escape from this selbstverschuldete Minderheit. Complexity exists, in re, in context. Cities and territories are here, and it is possible to understand them!

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CURA. No.11
SPRING — SUMMER 2012

Portraits in the Exhibition Space
Arnold Bode and the Perfect Combination of History,
Environment and Contemporary
by lorenzo benedetti

SPACES – Study Cases
Chapt. 2 – Emily Pethick / THE SHOWROOM London
by vincent honoré

MAKING AN EXHIBITION
On the Work and Role Play of Graphic Designers
by adam carr

AROUND
Asier Mendizábal and the Enigma of Ideology
by josé luis corazón ardura

Only Politically-Oriented
Pop Art Painting?
by raimar stange

FOCUS
THE ENDLESS HOUSE
Mark Manders
by maria barnas

LAB
Written Associative Performances
a project by DINA DANISH
curated by post brothers

ANDROID®
Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut.
by riccardo previdi

LAB
Jamie Shovlin: Artist’s Pages
text by martin holman

SPOTLIGHT
Fantasy or fear? In Conversation with Caroline Achaintre
by gavin wade

Possibilities and Fantasies of the
Forgotten and Fetish Object.
In Conversation with Anna Franceschini
by ilaria gianni

THE EXHIBITION ROOM
a project by
INVERNOMUTO

FASHION CURATING
In Conversation with VALERIE STEELE
by dobrila denegri

BOOKS
Avital Geva’s Conceptual
Experiment with Books and Space
by ory dessau

AGENDA
edited by sara feola

D 7€
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