Book Release: Self-Organized @ Motto Charlottenborg

Wednesday May 15 at 5.30-8 pm

Open Editions (London) and Hordaland Art Centre (Bergen) are pleased to announce the publication of the third book in the Occasional Table Critical Series. ‘Self-Organised’, edited by Stine Hebert and Anne Szefer Karlsen, follows the critically acclaimed ‘Curating Subjects’ and ‘Curating and the Educational Turn’.

The current economic situation and society’s low confidence in its institutions demands that artists become more imaginative in their self-organisation. If labels such as ‘alternative’, ‘non-profit’ and ‘artist-run’ dominated the self-organised art scene of the late nineties, the separatist position implied by the use of these terms has been moderated during the intervening years. This new anthology of accounts from the frontline includes contributions by artist practitioners as well as their institutional counterparts that provide a fascinating account of the art world as a matrix of positions where the balance of power and productivity constantly shifts. Artists, curators and critics discuss empirical and theoretical approaches from Europe, Africa and South and North America on how self-organisation today oscillates between the self and the group, self-imposed bureaucratisation and flexibility, aestheticisation and activism.

“LA SOURCE DE L’INCENDIE”

Ambitions, motivations and frustrations –  a book launch performance

Presentation of Bernd Kleinheisterkamps recent publication “Pirenópolis” – a surralistic city portrait.

“Pirenópolis is small town in the inland of Brazil. During the week Pirenópolis is a quiet, unhasty place. Most inhabitants still live on farming. Its historical center, the rural atmosphere and the countryside with a number of beautiful waterfalls around, attract people from all over, mainly from the nearby capital Brasilia. Especially on weekends and holidays. Why there is still such a remarkable number of Volkswagen Beetle all around, I don’t know exactly.”

“No, it’s not about cars, its about a city, I simply put a Beetle on your blind spot”

Pirenópolis: (greek) polis=town and pirinas = la source de l’incedie/du feu

Bernd Kleinheisterkamps (*1973) lives since 2007 in Brussels

http://bkl.de.be/

“Pirenpolis” – a surralistic city portrait, 2013, artist book, 15 x 19,5 cm, colour, 55 pages, 100 copies

22.05.2013, 19:00
WIELS
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354,
1190 Bruxelles-Brussel

Wild Things Are Going To Happen. Henrik Schrat. Eastside Projects.

Henrik Schrat’s Wild Things Are Going To Happen captures a hallucinatory journey in the life of Dan Graham, the iconic artist of ‘Rock my Religion’ fame.
Exploring the Digbeth and Eastside areas of Birmingham, Dan is joined by Eastside Projects Directors Gavin Wade and Celine Condorelli, curator Maurizio Bortolotti, and architect Joe Hollyoak.
The group fall through the looking glass and are confronted by the polymorpheus utopia and dystopia of present time, the historical, and the ‘just passed’. They travel from Birmingham’s Bull Ring to Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion via Dan’s sculptures and are transformed and transported to a submerged world, where Jaques Lacan sells the group tickets to theHall of Mirrors in Versailles!
Explore the complex web of theories, FACTS AND FICTIONS between Dan Flavin, the 19th Century American Hudson River School of Painting, science fiction and Cedric Price. And just who is Sverre Fehn?
Henrik Schrat’s graphic novel is a violent splash into the inner workings of one of the most influential artists on the planet.

ISBN: 9781906753269
132 pages
Language English

15 €
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Fivehundred places is a new poetry press established in Berlin by Jason Dodge in an attempt to introduce volumes of contemporary poetry to an art context. Fivehundred places and Motto Books will host a reading by Matthew Dickman on May 10th. (reading 8pm sharp)

Matthew Dickman’s first book, All-American Poem, was winner of the 2008 American Poetry Review/ Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry, published by American Poetry Review. He was also the winner of the 2009 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for that book, and the inaugural May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His second full collection of poetry, Mayakovsky’s Revolver, was published by Norton, 2012.

http://www.fivehundredplaces.com/

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The Burning Sands magazine is a new art publication from Glasgow, designed by Sophie Dyer and Maeve Redmond. In the first issue the contributors are a mix of emergent and established artists: Giles Bailey (London), Rob Churm (Glasgow), Romany Dear (Glasgow), Mark Hamilton (Leipzig), Ashanti Harris (Glasgow), Chris Johanson (Los Angeles), Tom Worthington (Glasgow), Richard Wright (Glasgow), and working collaboratively, Katy Edelsten (London) & Annie Hazelwood (London), Barry Burns (Glasgow) & Louise Shelley (London) and Laura Smith (London) & Rebecca Wilcox (Glasgow). It is 48 pages, black and white throughout, with a colour cover.

Editor: Sarah Lowndes
Language: English
Pages: 48
Binding: Softcover

Price: €4.70
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Ein neues Magazin aus der Schweiz, das sich theoretisch mit Gegenwart beschäftigt. Denn Vergangenheit ist nicht mehr und Zukunft gibt es nicht, «bis man sie als etwas Gegenwärtiges erlebt», so die Experimentalmusikerin Laurel Halo, die in der ersten Ausgabe im Kontext der Denkrichtung des Magazins zitiert wurde. Praktisch geht es vorrangig um die gegenwärtige Clubkultur in und um Luzern.

Language: Deutsch
Binding: Softcover

Price: €8.00
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“The lunatics are on the loose …” EUROPEAN FLUXUS FESTIVALS 1962-1977. Down With Art.

Publication in English on the occasion of the exhibition “The lunatics are on the loose …” EUROPEAN FLUXUS FESTIVALS 1962-1977

Extensive documentation of 32 selected European Fluxus events in Aachen, Aberystwyth, Amsterdam, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, London, Madrid, Nizza, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Poznan, Rotterdam, Scheveningen, Stockholm, Vilnius, Wiesbaden, Wuppertal

Contributions by Jennifer Burkard, Myriam Kroll, Peter van der Meijden, Susanne Rennert, Henar Rivière Ríos, Heike Roms, Vanja Sisek, Petra Stegmann, Caroline Ugelstad

Artistic contributions by Eric Andersen, Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, Jarosław Kozłowski, Larry Miller, Ann Noël, Ben Patterson, Tamas St.Turba

ISBN : 978-3-9815579-0-9
592 pages
Language : English

Price : 42 €
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http://www.overgaden.org/

Control Order House. Edmund Clark. Here Press.

Edmund Clark is the first artist to work and stay in a house in which a man suspected of involvement with terrorist-related activity was placed under a Control Order in the UK.
‘Control Order House’ explores this form of detention through photographs and architectural representations of the house, and the handwritten diary of the man known only as CE. The book includes redacted documents relating to CE’s case. Clark’s implication in the process is further revealed through his correspondence from the Home Office, which makes clear the control and censorship imposed on his work inside the house. Any material could become part of CE’s case.
Clark says: ‘This archetypal semi-detached house in a faceless suburb is the physical manifestation of a form of detention without trial in the UK. It represents the reaction of a government and society to the fear and chaos of terrorist attacks.’
‘Control Order House’ engages with ideas of control in photography by foregoing the normal process of editing and mediation to reproduce the images, unedited, in the order in which Clark took them, exploring the monotony and claustrophobia of a controlled person’s life. The inclusion of official documents and correspondence also illustrates the weight of state actors against the individual.

About Control Orders
Control Orders were introduced under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005. Between 2005 and 2011, 52 men suspected of involvement in terrorism were under Control Orders and subject to various constraints. These included the power to relocate them to a house anywhere in the country, to restrict communication electronically and in person, and to impose a curfew. ‘Controlled persons’ were not prosecuted for terrorist-related activity and the evidence against them remained secret. One man was subject to these controls for more than four years. Control Orders were replaced by Terrorist Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPIMs) in 2012. Nine men are currently subject to a TPIM.

ISBN : 978-0-9574724-0-2
128 pages
Language : English

Price : 57 €
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Double Book Reception and Reading: Per Aage Brandt @ Motto Charlottenborg 01.05.2013

Danish linguist and poet Per Aage Brandt presents two new releases on May 1. at Motto Charlottenborg: His newly revised translation of Georges Bataille’s Den Indre Erfaring, published by Billedkunstskolernes forlag and his own latest collection of poems Elegi.Poesi, published by Tiderne Skifter.

The event is part of May 1. at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, which also includes two exhibition openings; in Toves Salon as well as in the exhibition series POST, performances and a panel discussion on Leigh Ledare’s work and current exhibition in the Kunsthal.