Erik Steinbrecher – New Paintings @ Motto Berlin
02-28.03.2013

BLUES. Erik Steinbrecher. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

BLUES by Erik Steinbrecher is made of two booklets consisting of four identical loose pages, which are folded and assembled in different orders, resulting in new spreads.

It was published on the occasion of Steinbrecher’s exhibition UBER ALLES at Berlin’s Kunstbibliothek, a Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, which ran from 8. Novermber 2012 to 17. February 2013.

Size: 30 x 22 cm

D 18€

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Setsuko Hara. Richard Bevan & Tamsin Clark. The Block.

Photos and film stills of the Japanese actress Setsuko Hara, who is known for performing in, among many other films, Yasujirō Ozu’s “Late Spring” and “Tokyo Story.”

Published in London 2013
Designed by Wolfram Wiedner Studio
96 Pages
ISBN 978 0 9566757 4 3

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For Lal, or Henry. Sean Edwards. The Block.

Six booklets that fold out into posters.

Contents:

Cabinet Making and the Kit of Tools
On the Life of Forms – Anne McQuay
The Moments Before the Banal Became Something You Could No Longer Believe In
Context for Reading – Sara MacKillop
I Saw Something Else (CBS)
Maybe Something Like the Way It Should Have Been – Ryan Gander

Published in London 2012
Designed by Wolfram Wiedner studio

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Jonny on a Chorizo. Paul Haworth. TRUE TRUE TRUE.

THE YEAR IS 2009. Gangs of children, some as young as ten, are slowly roasting puppies over bonfires. To be alive is unrelenting and grim. Pyramid schemesters, balloon boys, gender-row runners. Pop-up brothels in industrial units. Fish nibbling at feet. Facemasks on the street. Pandemic after pandemic. New and more deadly strains keep coming and a sneeze on the tube is now a potential death sentence.

ENOUGH. Because Alex ‘Abs’ Brenchley is back – and this is his last goodbye.

Picking up straight after Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere, he returns exhausted, rebarbative, defeated. And impotent. A pact is made: if life remains so desperately miserable, Abs will get off this melancholy-go-round once and for all. But his luck and his London are about to change, following a chance meeting with Ga—

No to spoilers: Jonny on a Chorizo is a book of surprise and adventure. Carrying the reader on a joyous ride through London – its pearly queens, crushed dreams, bashment, blue jeans, scenes of romance in Crowlands – towards a heartfelt climax. Une fin véritable to a trilogy which began with the publication of Silk Handkerchiefs in 2009.

So let’s bump uglies, dance about the Maypole and have one last night at the St Moritz, because this is it: Jonny on a Chorizo is the end for Abs.

Vivat Regina!

English Language
Pages 229 – 376 of Paul Haworth’s Trilogy
ISBN 978-94-90006-00-6

D 12.50€

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Silk Handkerchiefs Trilogy. Paul Haworth. TRUE TRUE TRUE.

Paul Haworth’s trilogy, including Silk Handkerchiefs (2009), Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere (2011) and Jonny on a Chorizo (2013) is also available as a set.

To recap: Our narrator is Alex ‘Abs’ Brenchley: seven feet of cherry-sweet loving. With each book taking place over one year, events from 2007 to 2009 energise the narrative as we follow Abs on a life-affirming adventure throughout London. There is Monarchy, dogging, Kahlúa, gangs, galleries, grime and LOVE. Tall, sinewy, statuesque and virile, she is sensualabsational. Her name is Trevoreesia.

LISTEN to Paul and Sam’s Goodbyes here.

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Polysingularity Letters Vol. 3. Dmitry Paranyushkin.

This journal documents the most recent proceedings in the field of polysingularity. This term has originally been used mainly by Russian mathematicians to describe a special class of integral equations with multiple simultaneous solutions (Simonenko, 1965; Boikov, 2000; Gabdulkhaev, 2005).

Integral equations, to put it simply, are used to discover the processes (or causes, rules, and motives) that underlie a certain behavior that can be observed. They are the reverse of differential equations (dx/dt so much loved by Deleuze) that are used to discover how a certain already known process behaves over time. Polysingularity is the condition where several distinct sets of interacting processes may lead to the same behavior or phenomena. That’s why we refer to it as a study of co-isolated multiplicities that nevertheless retain their singularity. In other words, we don’t look at a phenomenon trying to understand how it works. Instead, we look at and study all the different contexts that are creating the conditions for the phenomenon to emerge. It’s not about why you love, but what else happens while you love. It ‘s not about finding the structure, it’s about complete and total engagement with each singularity not losing the multiplicity out of sight.

Such approach allows us to go one step beyond the contingency and equalized distancing that any speculative post-practice necessarily produces for the sake of its own safety. Instead, we jump into the abyss of the unknown and indefinable with the renewed fervor even if we know that at the very end we might fall down (although in this case we hope to bounce back sideways up). Hence the journal format, I guess. The barcode is just there to help computers catalogue, categorize, and distribute the knowledge, which in the end is going to alter their binary rationale in ways that are not yet predictable, but that are several.

English Language
Produced by Nodus Labs

D 25€

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition of Julien Bismuth at CRAC Alsace in 2010.

Editor: Sophie Kaplan
Design: Jean-Pascal Flavien
Isbn: 9782940524013
70 pages
Edition: 850

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Judith Raum disestablish

Publication documenting Judith Raum’s solo exhibition at Pavillon, Lucca, Italy, May-September 2012.

During the Middle Ages in Europe, the city of Lucca in Tuscany was the most important center for the silk industry. Textile companies from Lucca were among the largest corporations in the region. Most of the family-owned companies were active both in the textile sector and in international banking activities. At the same time, it was in the Tuscany region that workers’ revolts took place, who, for the first time in world history, managed to have their demands documented in written form. Raum’s works analyze the close relationship between textile production and banking business and between the texture of fabric and political thinking, adopting imagery and gestures of the time to look for moments of how emancipation takes form.

Judith Raum (*1977) is a visual artist living in Berlin. In her work, she investigates qualities of subject-object relationship through painting, objects, performing, writing and interviewing. See also: www.judithraum.net

Publication, 2012
Pages: 24
Size: 42 x 29 cm
Language: English
Publisher: Verlag der Universität der Künste Berlin, December 2012
Text: Paolo Emilio Antognoli Viti
Design: HIT

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Erik Steinbrecher
NEW PAINTINGS
@ Motto Berlin
Opening reception 02.03.2013
from 7pm

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Workshop vom 20.9.-22.9. und 27.9.-29.2012. Dirk Bell. BQ.

Documentation of workshops held between 20.9.-22.9.2012 and 27.9.-29.2012

mit Dirk, Simone, Quirin Bäumler und Caroline, Lucas, Lupus, Lynn, Bo, Justin, Vicky, Amira, Merle, Esther, Vivian, Andrea, Nico, Judith, Jessica, Mila, Jule, Mara, Amalia, Nina, Cornelia, Dirk, Tal

D 3€

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