Spike #35: Materializing the Unthinkable / Das Undenkbare materialisieren.

Portrait Ed Atkins
The perfect surfaces of the digital take on a deathly sheen in the videos of the British artist, creating a fertile ground for zombies.

Artist’s Favourites
By Darren Bader: Gustave Courbet, Sandro Botticelli, Roe Ethridge, John Finneran, Clarice Lispector

Talk
Rita Vitorelli interviews Nicolaus Schafhausen about his curatorial vision, the value of discourse and causing a stir.

Curator’s Key
Chris Fitzpatrick on Serial Protest Signs by Frank Chu

Galleries
The young Tokyo-based gallery Take Ninagawa discovers a new generation of artists comfortable with incongruity. By Nick Currie

Institution
Clémentine Deliss re-imagines the collection of the World Cultures Museum in Frankfurt through collaborations with artists. By Jan-Philipp Possmann

Portrait Heinrich Dunst
His experience in conceptual practice with roots in 80s Vienna, has made the Austrian artist well versed in art’s discursive powers, and their limitations. By Hans-Jürgen Hafner

Hans-Jürgen Hafner
Portrait Cosima von Bonin
Oliver Basciano considers the impact of varying professional expectations, poses and ploys in the practice of the Cologne based artist.

21st Century Theory
The nature of objects, the role of science and the problematics of aesthetics are being approached by a new generation of thinkers. Our ongoing series of 21st century thought opens with Quentin Meillassoux’s proposal for a philosophical materialism. With an introduction by Armen Avanessian.

The body understood as an object
Swedish performer/choreographer Mårten Spångberg shares his thoughts on space, rhythm, expectation and embodiment with Filipa Ramos.

Acid in the Style of Carolyn Christov-Barkagiev
Digital composer Florian Hecker releases his documenta 13 sound work »Chimerization« on vinyl. By Christian Egger

Seduction
By Pablo Larios, Signe Ross, Anna Jermolaewa, Slavs and Tatars, Joanna Kamm

Reviews
»Amazing! Clever! Linguistic! An Adventure in Conceptual Art«, Vienna; »Fotos«, Vienna; »Zeichen, gefangen im Wunder«, Vienna; Rudolf Polanszky, Vienna; Kiluanji Kia Henda, Innsbruck; Tue Greenfort, Berlin; Barbara Hammer, Berlin; Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Berlin; Lutz Bacher, Frankfurt; David Hockney, Cologne; Daan van Golden, Zurich; Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Antwerp; Clément Rodzielski, Paris; BANK, London; Matisse, New York; »Blues for Smoke«, Los Angeles; Guy de Cointet, Mexico

Spring / Frühling 2013
English / German
146 Pages

Price: €9.50

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Book Release and Talk at Motto Charlottenborg Wednesday March 20. at 18-20 pm

Presentation of the publication and Jørgen Bukdahl’s work by Finn Slumstrup, Lars Bukdahl, Else Marie Bukdahl and Carsten Juhl.

For more information (in Danish), check out our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/MottoCharlottenborg

A Partial Eclipse. Martin Boyce. MACK

A Partial Eclipse brings together photographs from an on-going private library of images which feeds into Boyce’s work. The images adopt a sombre and darkened palette, as if the light has been stolen from each photograph creating the illusion of a mythical perma-dusk allowing us to see the world as Boyce sees it. Images of trees and foliage permeate the collection, ellipses and perforations reoccur, patterns of cracks, fractures and spider webs repeat and thresholds appear in the form of windows and doorways.

Hundreds of photographs were edited down until the shape of a book emerged. The series creates the feeling of stillness and distance between the viewer and photograph. Printed on double sided paper, the photographs reflect blurrily in the coated page opposite it’s matte brother. The book as an object extends the experience of distance through its design, keeping the darkened images enclosed and projected between the folds of paper.

Date of publishing: Feb 14, 2013
Pages: 60 pages 25 colour plates
ISBN: 9781907946325

Price: €60.00

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C Magazine #117: Translation. C The Visual Arts Foundation.

Featuring: Hito Steyerl, Feminism After Elles, Institutions by Artist, Feminist Art Gallery, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Kristiina Lahde, Tiziana La Melia, Leah Bowery, Vanessa Maltese, Roman Liska, Sean Alward, Kika Thorne, Hazel Meyer & Rick Leong

Spring 2013
60 Pages
English
ISSN 1480-5472

Price: 5€

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Somatic Archaeology. Daniel Blumberg. Boiled Egg.

Drawings April – May 2012
Biro and Crayon on Paper
Edition of 100

Price: 10€

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Fully Booked: Ink on Paper, Design and Concepts for New Publications. Die Gestalten Verlag.

Fully Booked: Ink on Paper is a showcase of innovative books and other print products at the vanguard of a new era for printed publications—one that is likely to be the most exciting in their entire history.

This book is structured into five chapters that each represent a key role that print plays today: The Storyteller, The Showmaster, The Teacher, The Businessman, and The Collector. From personal projects with the smallest print runs to premium artist books or brand publications, the selection of work presented here celebrates the tactile experience. Featuring innovative printing and binding techniques as well as radical editorial and design concepts, this work explores the distinctiveness of design, materials, workmanship, and production methods—and pushes their limits.

Editors: R. Klanten, M. Hübner, A. Losowsky
Release Date: February 2013
Credits: Preface and chapter introductions by Andrew Losowsky
Format: 24 × 30 cm
Features: 272 pages, full color, hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-464-9

Price: 44€

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Altruistic Nihilistic. Jaka Vatovec. Beli Sladoled.

Ljubljana – Postojna 2013
Numbered edition of 70
28 pages

Price: 5€

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Notes From a Revolution: Com/Co, The Diggers & The Haight. David Hollander & Kristine McKenna. Foggy Notion Books & Fulton Ryder, Inc.

The social upheaval of the sixties gave rise to many fascinating coalitions and communes, but the Diggers, a little-known and short-lived group, stand apart from them all. Formed in Haight-Ashbury in 1966 by members of R. G. Davis’s subversive theater company, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Diggers took their name from the English Diggers, a seventeenth century agrarian collective devoted to creating a utopian society free of ownership and commerce.

The San Francisco Diggers – under the leadership of Peter Berg, Emmett Grogan, Peter Coyote, and Billy Murcott – were true anarchists, with roots in the Theater of the Absurd, Existentialism, and strategies of direct action. They coined slogans designed to prod people into participating and staged art happenings, public interventions, and street theater infused with wicked humor. The Diggers also provided free food, clothing, medical care and lodging to anyone in need as part of their effort to create a unified and mutually supportive community.

A critically important part of their methodology were the hundreds of broadsides that they regularly produced and distributed throughout the Haight, printed by the Communication Company, a maverick, short-lived publishing outfit founded by Chester Anderson and Claude Hayward. A selection of these graphically inventive, lacerating and sometimes funny broadsides are gathered together for the first time in Notes From a Revolution, which offers a fascinating and oddly moving record of the counterculture in its early bloom.

Edited by David Hollander
& Kristine McKenna
Introduction by Peter Coyote
Essay by Naomi Wolf
Conversation with Claude Hayward
by Kristine McKenna
Flexi-bound / 8 1/2 x 11″
/ 176 pages / 150 color images
ISBN 978-0-9835870-3-3

Published by Foggy Notion Books
in partnership with Fulton Ryder, Inc.

Price: €42.50

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Winter 2013
Cover by: Oliver Osborne

INSIDE THE COVER
Oliver Osborne
words by Isobel Harbison

PORTRAITS IN THE EXHIBITION SPACE
Alexander Dorner When Space Becomes Art
by Lorenzo Benedetti

SPACES — STUDY CASES
Anthony Huberman, The Artist’s Institute, NY
by Vincent Honoré

PANEL
Layering & Counter-Positioning
Designer James Langdon interviewed by Gavin Wade

TALKING ABOUT
Zoo–topia – Zoo Architecture as Taxonomies of National Representation
by Eszter Steierhoffer images by Candida Höfer

LAB
LUCA FRANCESCONI
A pumpkin is a pumpkin is a pumpkin
words by Giovanni Carmine

SHOW AND TELL
Bettina Buck – To Be Continued
by Cecilia Canziani

LAB
Re-productions
text and works by Mark Barrow

SPOTLIGHT
Aurélien Froment – De Debuilding
by Julien Fronsacq

LAB
The University at the Other of the Voice
a poem by Roger Van Voorhees

SPOTLIGHT
Laura Reeves – Back to Reality
by Adam Carr

THE EXHIBITION ROOM
Unhappy Readymade
Imaginary Show of Fictional Artworks. Vol. 1
by Valentinas Klimašauskas images by Virginija Januškevičiūtė

BOOKS
Committing today: Guerrilla Art Action Group
by Raimar Stange

THE FOX
Revisiting The Fox (1975-1976), part II
by Felix Vogel

Author: Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin (Eds.)
Publisher: CURA.
Language: English
Binding: Softcover

Price: €7.00

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Saturday March 9, from 7pm @ Motto Berlin
Susanne Bürner
EUVILLE
Book release and screening of Pierre et Poussière (20 min, color, sound, 2012)

Both talk about the reconstruction of memory related to an abandoned subterranean limestone quarry in Lorraine, France.
While Euville focuses on the former workers’ drawings on the walls of the quarries as their voice in an environment which didn’t leave much space for personal expression, Pierre et Poussière brings together different levels of temporality all representing the same place.

http://www.captures-editions.com/livre-artiste-s-burner.php

Susanne Bürner, Euville
Format 22 x 28,5 cm, hardcover, color
french/english translation
2000 copies
ISBN : 978-2-9533912-4-4
special limited photographic edition available
Captures Éditions Valence 2012 in collaboration with le Vent des forêts – espace rural d’art contemporain and the Office de tourisme du Pays de Commercy

Price: 25€

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On the same evening at Porcino, Susanne Bürner presents ‘Versteck’