Die Dornevögel
Hendrik Hegray @ Motto Berlin
Opening 15.9.2024 from 6pm

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Z.B. Aids a.k.a. Valerie Smith a.k.a H.H. = sounds from the incense burner, active since 1999, solo electronic angina from Paris, France.

Performance at 7pm sharp.

Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography
Staci Robinson
Crown

The authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a “touching, empathetic portrait” (The New York Times) of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more.

In Tupac Shakur, author and screenwriter Staci Robinson—who knew Tupac from their shared circle of high school friends in Marin City, California, and who was entrusted by his mother, Afeni Shakur, to share his story—unravels the myths and unpacks the complexities that have shadowed Tupac’s existence. Decades in the making, this book pulls back the curtain to reveal a powerful story of a life defined by politics and art—a man driven by equal parts brilliance and impulsiveness, steeped in the rich intellectual tradition of Black empowerment, and unafraid to utter raw truths about race in America.

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kunstenaar
ANN VERONICA JANSSENS
titel werk
VOORSTELLING VAN EEN RONDE VORM – REPRESENTATION D’UN CORPS ROND
tijdsduur
27 APRIL – 3 JUNI 1996
opening
26 APRIL 1996

FOTOGRAFIE KUNSTWERKEN: Leo van Kampen, D. Bedel,
PH. de Gobert
TEKST: Dirk Pültau
ONTWERP: gebr de Jong ontwerpen, Amsterdam (René Put, Pjotr de Jong)
DRUKWERK: Drukkerij Van den Eynde, Beerse, Belgie UITGAVE: © de Vleeshal Middelburg
OPLAGE: 500 ex.
ISBN: 90-72310-17-9

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ARTMargins Vol. 13.1 ; Socialism In Contemporary African Art

This introductory essay and accompanying special issue of ARTMargins explore the role of African socialisms in contemporary art. Artists looking at Africa’s radical history face the challenge of responding to a generalized amnesia about the continent’s protagonism on intellectual and political radicalism after 1945. Working with under-researched themes, scarce historical records, and apprehensive oral sources, these artists are often tasked to amplify forgotten pasts while simultaneously critiquing the political contingency of historical investigation in global contemporary art. Global contemporary art—largely shaped by the neoliberal transition that followed the very histories explored by these artists—is often shown in its limitation to engage with socialist history critically. Through the authors’ analyses, many artworks nuance discussion of the erasures, fixed narratives, and nostalgia for Africa’s socialist past. Looking to this past, artists attempt to reorganize contemporaneity and its typical disregard for history beyond romanticization. Talho (2014), a work by Mozambican photographer Filipe Branquinho, is analyzed as a case study raising central questions on contemporary artists’ engagement with Africa’s socialist past.

by Álvaro Luís Lima.

February 2024.

Introduction
Socialism in Contemporary African Art: Butchering the End of Time
Álvaro Luís Lima

Articles
“We Need a Lighthouse Philosopher”: Filipa César and Louis Henderson’s Sunstone (2018) and the Portuguese Genealogy of Lens-Based Media
Delinda Collier

Make Me a Picture of the Future: Massinissa Selmani’s 1000 Socialist Villages (2015)
Natasha Marie Llorens

The Mythography of Socialism in Contemporary Angolan Art
Nadine Siegert

The Politics and Aesthetics of Liberation: Revolution and Its Aftermath in Contemporary Artistic Practice from and about Lusophone Africa
Ana Balona de Oliveira

Abstract States: Modernism in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey
Gemma Sharpe

Artist Project
As the Nile Flows or the Camel Walks
Dawit L. Petros, Black Athena Collective

Document
Introduction to “Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes”
Polly Savage

Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes
Tempo, Polly Savage

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WARREN NEIDICH BOOK PRESENTATION @ MOTTO BERLIN, SUNDAY AUGUST 25th 2024

We have the pleasure to invite you to an improvisational performative reading event in which the audience chooses what is read and discussed.

Please join us from 4 to 7pm, food and drinks will be served.

(This is a kids friendly event)

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GLOSSARY OF COGNITIVE ACTIVISM (For a Not So-Distant Future)
By Warren Neidich
Eris Press; Columbia University Press (4th revised edition, February 2024)

A repository of vital knowledge and conceptual therapeutics, a toolbox
for the willing and the needy
—Anders Dunker, Los Angeles Review of Books

We are at one of those turning points that divide history into a ‘before’ and an ‘after.’ The ongoing transition from an information economy to an economy based in the workings of the brain and the mind has radical implications for human freedom and creativity, both of which are under threat from a rapacious, neurologically-oriented form of capitalism. Such moments require new languages in order for the unnamed, the unsayable, and the misunderstood to become known.

This is the task taken on by Warren Neidich’s Glossary of Cognitive Activism, now appearing in an expanded and fully revised fourth edition. Each of its entries—which range in topic from the central nervous system and brain-computer interfaces to ChatGPT and conceptual art—explicates a key term in contemporary culture. The cumulative effect is astonishing: while every entry can profitably be read in isolation, the Glossary as a whole amounts to a brilliant account of the material brain’s entanglement with its surrounding environment.

For Neidich the human brain is far more than grey matter encased in a skull: it is profoundly integrated with the social, political, and cultural phenomena that constitute the world in which we live. For this reason, human cognition is profoundly vulnerable to the new despotism that is seeking in various ways to reshape it, but it also has the capacity to serve as the site of potent acts of resistance.

Forging connections between such apparently disparate domains as neuroscience, ecology, political economy, and aesthetics, Neidich’s Glossary restores human cognition to its rightful status: not as the passive object of technological interventions or reductive theorizing, but as the starting point for any viable form of egalitarian and liberatory politics.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Warren Neidich Artist/Writer BIO (2022)

Trained in art, architecture, neuroscience, and medicine, Warren Neidich uses written texts and neon-light sculptures, written texts, photography and video to create cross-pollinating conceptual works that reflect upon situations at the border zones of art, critical neuroscience, and cognitive justice. He is founder and director of the Saas Fee Summer Institute of Art (2015-2024). Awards include Getty Research Institute award (2023), Stiftung Kunstfonds NEUSTART KULTUR (2020 and 2021), Hauptstadtkulturfonds (2021), and Katalogförderung des Berliner Senats (2017), Vilém Flusser Theory Award, Transmediale (2010), and a AHRB/ACE Arts and Science Research Fellowship (2004). Selected one-person and group exhibitions include the Venice Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1 MOMA, Walker Art Center, MIT, Museum Ludwig (Köln, Germany), Haus Der Kunst (Munich), Zentrum für Kunst and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, Germany), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,( Wolfsburg Germany) KAI10 (Dusseldorf) and  Kunsthalle Nuremburg, (Nuremberg, Germany).  He was a tutor in the Departments of Visual Art, Computer Science, and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2004–2008), Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Delft School of Design, TU Delft School of Architecture, 2006-2010 and Professor of Art at Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin (2016–2018). He has been a visiting lecturer in the Departments of Art at Brown University, GSD Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, the Sorbonne in Paris, France; and the University of Oxford and Cambridge University in the UK. His work has been the subject of over 150 magazine and newspaper articles, including The New York Times, Time Magazine, Artforum, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, Bomb Magazine,  Kunstforum International, Berlin Art Link, Der Tagesspiegel, 032C, The Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic, Artnet, GQ, Forbes, Vogue IT, Monopol, Performance Art Journal, and Frieze. Selected published books include American History Reinvented, 1989 (Aperture, NYC) Blow-Up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain, 2002,(DAP, NYC, NY and the University of California, Riverside, CA.) Cognitive Architecture: From Biopolitics to Noo-Politics, 2012, (001 Publishers, Rotterdam)  Neuromacht,2015 ( Merve, Leipzig),  The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (Archive Books, Berlin), 2013, 2015, 2017 and An Activist  Neuroaesthetic Reader,2022, (Archive Books, Berlin).

ISOLATED PARTS
Agnieszka Grodzińska
Opening 10th August
from 6pm

Motto Berlin
Skalitzerstr. 68
U1 Schlesisches Tor

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28.04.2024 – 30.06.2024 @ Motto Berlin

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WOLFSKO

Between 1977 and 1986, Andy Warhol created six series of paintings of various sizes, which even today are little known. Rather than featuring mass-produced photographic reproductions of well-known personalities, products, and events, these six series reveal a bent for painting in abstract patterns. Thirty-six examples of Warhol’s abstract paintings, together with a selection of stills from his early films, are presented for the first time.

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Fitzcarraldo Editions is an independent publisher specialising in contemporary fiction and long-form essays. Founded in 2014, it focuses on ambitious, imaginative and innovative writing, both in translation and in the English language. The series, designed by Ray O’Meara, are published as paperback originals with French flaps, using a custom serif typeface (called Fitzcarraldo). Fitzcarraldo Editions publishes, among other authors, the 2015, 2018, 2022 and 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature laureates Svetlana Alexievich, Olga Tokarczuk, Annie Ernaux and Jon Fosse.

The books are known for their minimalist design, with fiction titles deploying plain covers in International Klein Blue with white text and non-fiction using the reverse: white covers with text in International Klein Blue.

Autors: Alaa Abdul-Fattah, Matthieu Aikins, Bushra al-Maqtari, Svetlana Alexievich, Nuar Alsadir, Carlos Manuel Alvarez, Mario de Andrade, Mrs. Apostle, Ed Atkins, Jessica Au, Polly Barton, Simone de Beauvoir, Kirsty Bell, Claire-Louise Bennett, Eula Biss, José Henrique Bortoluci, Kate Briggs, Marianne Brooker, Jonathan Buckley, Elias Canetti, Joshua Cohen, Jeremy Cooper, Simon Critchley, Marie Darrieussecq, Moira Davey, Anne de Marken, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Virginie Despentes, Brian Dillon, Claudia Durastanti, Mathias Enard, Annie Ernaux, Jon Fosse, Dan Fox, Charlie Fox, Janet Frame, Keith Gessen, Rainald Goetz, Witold Gombrowicz, Camilla Grudova, Munir Hashemi, Alice Hattrick, Gregor Hens, Christina Hesselholdt, Sheila Immediately, Daisy Hildyard, Elfriede Jelinek, Mieko Kanai, Balsam Karam, John Keene, Esther Kinsky, Patrick Langley, Thea Lenarduzzi, Ben Lerner, Jonathan Littell and Antoine D’Agata, Agustín Fernández Mallo, Adam Mars-Jones, Laurent Mauvignier, Heather McCalden, Matthew McNaught, Kirill Medvedev, Fernanda Melchor, Clemens Meyer, Guadalupe Nettel, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Ian Penman, Joanna Pocock, Paul B. Preciado, Jacqueline Rose, Adania Shibli, Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams, Maria Stepanova, Olga Tokarczuk, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Dorothy Tse, Maria Tumarkin, Katharina Volckmer, John A. Williams.

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