Henrik Schrat / Eastside Projects. Wild Things are Going to Happen @ Bar Babette. 10.04.2013

Posted in Events on April 8th, 2013

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Wild Things are Going to Happen

Eastside Projects, Birmingham
together with
MOTTO Bookstore / Distribution
at
Bar Babette
Karl-Marx-Allee 36 10178 Berlin
20.00 – 23.00, 10.04.2013

aus Anlaß /
on the occasion of the booklaunch
Henrik Schrat
Wild Things are Going to Happen

Dialoge mit Dan Graham zu Kunst, Architektur und Einkaufszentren
Dialogues with Dan Graham on art, architecture and shopping malls

Graphic Novel by Henrik Schrat
Published by Eastside Projects, edited by Gavin Wade

21.00 Introduction by Gavin Wade, Eastside Projects Director
20.00 – 22.00 A special book selection by MOTTO
danach: DJ Mosaike

MOTTO wird eine Auswahl von Büchern und Magazinen präsentieren. Eastside Projects, Birmingham präsentiert Souvenirs aus den Eastside-Ausstellungen, Publikationen und fixed position Fotos der Ausstellungen von Stuart Whipps.

Henrik Schrat’s Graphic Novel Wild Things are going to happen basiert auf Gesprächen mit Dan Graham. Um die Dialoge entwickelt er eine furiose Bildgeschichte, die sich aus den Inhalten der Gespräche entfaltet. In klassischem Stil gezeichnet, enthält sie unzählige Querverweise, visuelle Anmerkungen und quasididaktische Einschübe sowie einen Index am Ende des Buches. Das Format bewegt sich zwischen Comic und Katalog und gibt der mündlichen Qualität der Texte einen visuellen Raum.

Motto is going to present a special and hard to get selection of books and magazines in the context of drawing, visualisation and theory. Eastside Projects, Birmingham presents souvenirs from its exhibitions with publications and fixed position images by Stuart Whipps.

Henrik Schrat’s graphic novel Wild Things are Going to Happen is based on interviews with Dan Graham from 2011. Driven by the dialogues Schrat unfolds a violent visual story drawn in a classic style containing complex visual play, cross references and quasi-didactic inserts, plus a detailed index. The publication format is located somewhere between artwork, comic book and chronicle and offers a dynamic visual space for the oral qualities of speech.

http://www.barbabette.com/
http://www.eastsideprojects.org/
http://www.henrikschrat.de/

Objects as firends. Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys. Mu.ZEE

Posted in photography on April 8th, 2013

Objects as firends. Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys. Mu.ZEE.

Objects as Friends” – the collaborative work of Belgian artists Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys – consists of some 300 digital photographs of identical proportions depicting seemingly random, brightly lit assemblies of cheap, battered objects shot against a recurring gray background and standing or lying on a dust-stained floor. A tire, a stool, a rubber boot, a dismembered umbrella; many things appear broken, picked up from the street, or bought in one of those one-euro shops whose garish interior lighting is so successfully duplicated in these bleak, underwhelming stilllives. “Objects as Friends” – the collaborative work of Belgian artists Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys – consists of some 300 digital photographs of identical proportions depicting seemingly random, brightly lit assemblies of cheap, battered objects shot against a recurring gray background and standing or lying on a dust-stained floor. A tire, a stool, a rubber boot, a dismembered umbrella; many things appear broken, picked up from the street, or bought in one of those one-euro shops whose garish interior lighting is so successfully duplicated in these bleak, underwhelming stilllives.

Co-published with Culurgest, Lisabon, kestnergesellschaft, Hanover and Mu.ZEE Ostend

ISBN: 9783863352196
312 pages
Language: English

D 39.80 €
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Art Review #67

Posted in magazines on April 5th, 2013
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Art Review #67

April 2013

Berlin: The final installment of our three-part guide to the city’s art scene.

Wolfgang Tillmans: The World Through My Lens

Design: A special focus on the relationship between design and art, featuring Maurizio Cattelan, Karl Lagerfed, Konstantin Grcic and many more.

D 9.50€

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History of Animals: An Essay on Negativity, Immanence and Freedom. Oxana Timofeeva. Jan van Eyck Academie.

Posted in politics, Theory, writing on April 5th, 2013

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History of Animals: An Essay on Negativity, Immanence and Freedom. Oxana Timofeeva. Jan van Eyck Academie.

“The question of the animal is the question of subjectivity and power. It provokes a particular tension between philosophical ontology, politics and psychoanalysis, and it is interesting to track how in the unstable field of the ‘human’ animality produces itself in a radical way. Gainsaying the fact that animality has traditionally been consigned to non-historical nature, animals have a history. But the logic of this history does not conform to the optimism of the humanistic discourse of progressive liberation and emancipation of animals that would finally secure their rights. Quite the contrary; it seems rather that from ancient totemism, through the sequence of exclusions and inclusions, to the present tragedy and farce that combine slaughterhouses, pet shops and global touristic safaris, animals have had a bad ‘career’. Historically, they failed. But this point of failure
is at the same time a point of departure – for the new history of metaphysics, for the new materialist politics of nature, for the new horizon of the human animal.”

Foreword by Slavoj Žižek
Designed by Luisa Lorenza Corna

Pages: 168
ISBN: 978-90-72076-72-4

D 18€

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Über Peter Friedl. Dirk Snauwaert (Ed.). WIELS / Motto Books.

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Über Peter Friedl. Dirk Snauwaert (Ed.). WIELS / Motto Books.

Vielgestaltig, heterogen und schwer zu fassen erscheint das künstlerische Werk von Peter Friedl (geb. 1960), einem der wichtigsten Künstler seiner Generation. Als konzeptuelle Akte und ästhetische Modelle sind seine Arbeiten beschrieben worden, die sich aus dem Fundus unterschiedlicher Formen, Genres und Denkfiguren bedienen. Wie kaum ein anderer Gegenwartskünstler lädt er dazu ein, den darin verborgenen und wirksamen Bezügen aus der Ideen- und Kulturgeschichte sowie ihren globalen Gegengeschichten, offenen Enden und Anschlüssen nachzuspüren. Die zehn hier erstmals auf Deutsch versammelten Essays sind zwischen 2001 und 2012 entstanden, vier davon eigens für diesen Reader. In ihren interdisziplinären Deutungen verorten die Autorinnen und Autoren Friedls Arbeit in der Kunst- und Mediengeschichte, in Literaturwissenschaft, politischer Theorie, Philosophie und kuratorischer Praxis.

Mit Essays von:
Mieke Bal, Roger M. Buergel, Jean-François Chevrier, Norman M. Klein, Bartomeu Mari, Maria Muhle, Eva Schmidt, Marco Scotini, Dirk Snauwaert, Hilde Van Gelder, Leire Vergara

Language: German
ISBN: 9782940524044
Pages: 230

D 19.80€

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POST-STUDIO TALES – Documentation Launch @ Motto Berlin. 06.04.2013

Posted in Events on April 3rd, 2013

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With contributions from // Mit Beiträgen von: Bradley Alexander, John Beeson, Anatoly Belov, Mitya Churikov, Sarah Elliott, Ulrike Gerhardt, Lizaveta German, David Goodman, Friedemann Heckel, Susanne Husse, Thomas Jeppe, Tina Kämpe, Wilhelm Klotzek, Martin Kohout, Burk Koller, Wojciech Kosma, Florine Leoni, Raphael Linsi, Isabelle Lumpkin, Laura McLardy, Anna Möller, Konrad Mühe, Jenny Nachtigall, Jörn Schafaff, Flavia Spichtig, Something Fantastic, Alexandra Stähli, Pedro Wirz

Documentation Launch:
Saturday // Samstag, 06 April, 7pm // 19 Uhr
Motto, Skalitzer Straße 68, Berlin (U1 Schlesisches Tor)

POST-STUDIO TALES was a residency-as-exhibition, in which eighteen artists participated, that took place at District Kunst- und Kulturförderung Berlin in April 2012. Now, one year later, we will be releasing documentation of the project on the website of the Berlin-based bookstore Motto: http://www.mottodistribution.com/site/
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POST-STUDIO TALES war eine Residency-Ausstellung, die im April 2012 in der District Kunst- und Kulturförderung Berlin stattfand und an der achtzehn Künstlerinnen und Künstler teilgenommen haben. Jetzt, ein Jahr später, veröffentlichen wir die Dokumentation des Projektes auf der Webseite von Motto in Berlin: http://www.mottodistribution.com/site/

(Download link available soon!)

http://district-berlin.com/

New Stationery Department. Sara Mackillop. Motto Berlin. 30.03-19.04.2013

Posted in Exhibitions, Motto Berlin event on April 2nd, 2013
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New Stationery Department. Sara Mackillop.
Motto Berlin. 30.03-19.04.2013

La Città Infinita. Paolo Ventura. Gevaert Editions.

Posted in Editions on March 30th, 2013
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La Città Infinita. Paolo Ventura. Gevaert Editions.

Thirty prints in a cardboard box. Silkscreen printing on 700g Sirio Black paper. Each print: 15.7 x 12 cm, box: 24.8 x 16.1 x 2.5 cm. Printed by Serigrafia Kroma, Città di Castello.

Edition of 100 copies + 15 A.P.’s signed and numbered by the artist.

[2013]

D 180€

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New Stationery Department / Limited Edition Print. Sara MacKillop. Motto Books.

Posted in Editions on March 30th, 2013
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New Stationery Department. Sara MacKillop. Motto Books.

A book by Sara MacKillop.

Published by Motto 2013.

Edition of 500 copies.

D 10€

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New Stationary Department + Limited Edition Print.

By Sara MacKillop.

Edition of 30.

D 40€

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Dreaming the Mainstream. Mark von Schlegell. Merve Verlag Berlin.

Posted in Theory, writing on March 30th, 2013

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Dreaming the Mainstream. Mark von Schlegell. Merve Verlag Berlin.

»Wir, die wir im 21. Jahrhundert leben, sind nicht die ersten Generationen, die es mit einer veralteten Moderne zu tun haben. Unsere ehemals kritische Obsession für den Modernismus hat sich in ein Begehren verwandelt, denn als Moderne sehnen wir uns danach, modern zu sein, um das wiederherzustellen, was der Modernismus niemals war, aber doch endlich werden muss. Selbst darin sind wir noch Erben einer Tradition.« Mit dem Realometer (Berlin 2009) – als ästhetischem Instrument zur Erzeugung unwahrscheinlicher Wirklichkeiten – hat MVS eine amerikanische Fissur im Modernismus des 19. Jahrhunderts nachgezeichnet.

In Dreaming the Mainstream verfolgt er die Weiterentwicklung des Realometers im kulturellen Mainstream des 20. Jhs. Texte von Emily Dickinson, H.P. Lovecraft, Patricia Highsmith, Bob Dylan, Raymond Roussel und David Hume zeigen Anspruch und Scheitern des Mainstreams, seine fantastischen Versprechen einzulösen. Schlegells fiktiv-kritische Methode macht sich die Möglichkeitsformen zeitgenössischer Kunstkritik zu eigen, und erzeugt so einen futuristischen, textlichen Aktivismus, der die Schranken von Anstand, Plagiarismus, Genre, Gelehrsamkeit und Fantum weit hinter sich lässt.

Mark von Schlegell (*1967), schreibt Science-Fiction Romane (Mercury Station (2009) und Venusia (2005) bei Semiotext(e)), Essays und Kunstkritiken.
[www.sff.net/people/schlegell]

Mit Illustrationen von Manuel Gnam und Sergej Jensen.

Übersetzt von Petra Porsche.

IMD 345
2013
German / English
152 Seiten.
ISBN: 978-3-88396-283-2

D 14€

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