Bookbook 2007-2011, Städelschule

The Mary Reynolds Collection

List of Contents
Anonymous Stage I Contribution
Primary/Secondary (Information) by Benjamin Lobko
Donald Duck Hitler and the Chocolate Factory – a work in progress by Dan Starling
Anonymous Stage I Contributions
Stage II Contributions
Anonymous Stage I Contributions
The Hermit & The Sea by Michael Stevenson
Stage II Contributions
Before This (An Afterword) by Simon Starling
Unlrelated Things Related by Patrick Keaveney

Published by the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunst – Städelschule

D 15€

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The White Review #4 @ Motto Berlin. 20.04.2012
Start 7pm

After a short presentation of The White Review by the editors, Swimming Home author and The White Review No.4 contributor Deborah Levy read from her latest novel. Artists Shorvon & Hunter will then be speaking to Ingar Dragset of conceptual duo Elmgreen & Dragset — the artists behind the current Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and the Memorial to Homosexuals persecuted under Nazism.

http://www.thewhitereview.org/
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Je n’ai rien à dire. Seulement à montrer. / Ich habe nichts zu sagen. Nur zu zeigen. / I have nothing to say. Only to show. Natalie Czech. Spector Books.

“Natalie Czech therefore accomplishes something completely unexpected, something rarely seen either in literature or the visual arts: her works are based on experimental designs that engender something new by subsequently amending found texts, while at the same time opening up known texts—by Apollinaire, O’Hara or Brinkmann—to new readings in a fascinating way, thus rediscovering these works in other contexts, through other media, as images, through the medium of photography, and hence allowing them to reemerge as new.” – Eckhard Schumacher

With texts by: Vanessa Joan Müller, Dorothea Zwirner und Eckhard Schumacher

D 26 €

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Lick Creek Line

Ron Jude’s new book, Lick Creek Line, extends and amplifies his ongoing fascination with the vagaries of photographic empiricism, and the gray area between documentation and fiction. In a sequential narrative punctuated by contrasting moments of violence and beauty, Jude follows the rambling journey of a fur trapper, methodically checking his trap line in a remote area of Idaho in the Western United States. Through converging pictures of landscapes, architecture, an encroaching resort community, and the solitary, secretive process of trapping pine marten for their pelts, Lick Creek Line underscores the murky and culturally arbitrary nature of moral critique.

With an undercurrent of mystery and melancholy that echoes Jude’s previous two books about his childhood home of Central Idaho, Lick Creek Line serves as the lynchpin in a multi-faceted, three-part look at the incomprehensibility of self and place through photographic narrative. While Alpine Star functioned as a fictitious sociological archive, and Emmett explored the muddy waters of memory and autobiography,Lick Creek Line finds its tenor through the sleight-of-hand structure of a traditional photo essay.

Published by Mack, 2012
With a newspaper booklet featuring an accompanying essay
by Nicholas Muellner entitled No Such Place

D 35€

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Perceiving Something Different After Something Significant Although Things Remain The Same.

Published by Lugemik, 2012.
Edition of 200.
Includes an essay by Miklos Gaál.
Designed by Indrek Sirkel.

D 15€

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In Vicinity

The photographic series In Vicinity depicts new suburban development areas near Tallinn, Estonia. Shot entirely within a 5-kilometer radius of where I grew up I have tried to document the results of the vast change from former agricultural farming lands to new housing developments in the 2000s. I believe that upon close inspection this deformed landscape can reveal something essential about the culture that produces the desire to live this way. The recent economic downfall has, of course, left some peoples’ desires unfulfilled.

Published by Lugemik, 2011.
Text by Mari Laanemets.
Designed by Indrek Sirkel.
Edition of 300.

D 15€

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Bookies is a seminar on artist- and designer -led publishing as a vehicle for artistic expression and mode of distribution of contemporary art today. By two month-long exhibitions and a weekend seminar of talks and discussions by key figures in the field, Bookies will consider the current shifts in independent art publishing and its design that are shaping the ways we experience contemporary art. The two exhibitions will set the discussed ideas into visual context in the practice of the participating artists.

Aimed at professionals, students and enthusiasts alike, both the two-day seminar and the two month-long exhibitions are free for all to attend. With Bookies we hope to help build bridges between art and its audience, the work and its representation through design.

Bookies seminar 14.-15.4.2012 at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art
Talks and discussions on the changing role of independent publishing in contemporary art.
Saturady 14.4. 1-5pm guests: Urs Lehni Säde (CH), Terhi Ekebom (FI), Indrek Sirkel (EE), Michael Swanye (CA) and Stephen Smith (UK)
Sunday 15.5. 11-3pm guests: Jenni Rope (FI), Alexis Zavialoff (D/CH), Linus Bill (CH), Erik van der Weijde (NL), Aurélien Arbet (F), Jérémie Egry (F), Joseph Allen Shea (AU), Kristoffer Albrecht (FI) and Tuomas Jääskeläinen (FI)

Temporary bookshop 14.-15.4. Kiasma lobby
Sat-Sun 11-5pm: Motto Distribution offers for sale a selection of publications related to the talks in the seminar and the artists in the exhibitions. Napa Books will have for sale a selection of books and zines from the publishers’ catalogue.

Bookies exhibition at Myymälä2 4.4-28.4.2012
Private view Sat 14.4. 6-8pm. Rollo Press launches Erik van der Weijde’s “This Is Not My Wife”; Arbet and Egry will launch their latest book.
Artists: Erik van der Weijde, Linus Bill, Jérémie Egry and Aurélien Arbet
The exhibiting artists approach the question of photography taking on different meanings along with varying contexts.
Myymälä2 Gallery, Uudenmaankatu 23 , 00100 Helsinki
Wed-Sat 12-18, Sun 12-17

www.myymala2.com

Bookies exhibition at Napa Gallery 3.-28.4.2012
Private view Fri 13.3. 6-8pm. Napa Books launches new book by Jenni Rope; Nieves launches a new zine by Michael Swaney.
Artists: Michael Swaney and Stephen Smith (Scrollster); Benjamin Sommerhalder (Nieves)
On display the Nieves Zine Library – a collection of some 150 zines published by the imprint during its years of operation. Swaney and Smith exhibit a selection of new works realized in long distance collaboration while the two artists have lived in different countries.
Napa Gallery, Eerikinkatu 18, 00100 Helsinki
Tue-Fri 12-18, Sat-Sun 12-16
www.napagalleria.com

Bookies is part of the official WDC Helsinki 2012 and Helsinki Photography Biennial2012 programs.
We thank for support: Arts Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region, Estonian Institute, FRAME, Goethe-Institut, Helsinki Photography Biennial, Kiasma, The Arts Council of Finland, The National Council for Photographic Art of Finland, The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and WDC Helsinki 2012.

www.bookies.fi

The Frigate. Erik Thys, Jos de Gruyter, Harald Thys. Grotto Publications.

Vinyl record with music composed by Erik Thys for the video ‘The Frigate’ by Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys 2008-2012

Mastering by Stef Van Alsenoy
Production: Gypex
© Gypex & Grotto Publications

D 20 €

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Tobias Zielony: Manitoba
Buchvorstellung mit Andrea Hiott und Tobias Zielony, moderiert von Astrid Mania

12. April 2012, ab 20.00 Uhr
MOTTO Berlin, Skalitzer Str. 68 HH

In Winnipeg, der Provinzhauptstadt des kanadischen Bundesstaates Manitoba, hat Tobias Zielony das Leben von jugendlichen Gangmitgliedern indigener Herkunft fotografisch festhalten. Die amerikanische Autorin Andrea Hiott fuhr ein Jahr nach dem Fotografen nach Winnipeg und traf einige der Jugendlichen wieder. Sie sind die Nachkommen mehrerer Generationen kanadischer Ureinwohner, die in staatliche und kirchliche Assimilierungsprogramme gezwungen und von ihrer indigenen Herkunft abgeschnitten wurden. Heute orientieren sich die »First Nations« wieder an alten, aber auch an neuen Mythen von Stammeskultur, Heldentum und indigenem Widerstand. Wiedergefundenes Familienwissen, Hollywoodfilme und die modernen Gangkulturen der amerikanischen Global Cities liefern dafür Stilvorlagen. Sie greifen nach Versatzstücken neuer Erzählungen über sich selbst, in denen sich Realität und Fiktion kaum unterscheiden lassen. Unsicher, zärtlich und auch stolz suchen sie vor der Kamera des Fotografen ihr eigenes Bild.

Spector Books verlegt mit »Manitoba« die Publikation zu Zielonys bislang umfangreistem Projekt. Dessen 50 Fotografien ergänzen ein Film sowie ein Hörspiel, das auf dem Reisebericht Andrea Hiotts basiert.

»Manitoba« ist noch bis zum 15. April bei KOW in der Brunnenstraße 9, Berlin, zu sehen.

http://www.spectorbooks.com/

Vernissage: 12. April 2012 um 18 Uhr
Lecture Christoph Schifferli um 17 Uhr
201, Sihlquai 125, 8005 Zürich

Ausstellungsdauer: 12.04.12 bis 20.04.12
Öffnungszeiten: Mi. bis Fr. 16 bis 20 Uhr

Die Books on Books Ausstellung präsentiert Künstlerbücher aus der Sammlung von Christoph Schifferli. Die Künstlerbücher stammen überwiegend aus den Bereichen der Konzept‐ und Minimalkunst sowie aus dem Kontext der Independent Publishing Bewegung seit den 90er Jahre. Unter dem gleichen Titel wurde im Jahre 2011 ein Teil der wertvollen Sammlung Schifferlis am Swiss Institute Contemporary Art in New York ausgestellt. In der aktuellen Ausstellung an der ZHdK wird das Konzept von Books on Books weitergeführt und erweitert: eine Reihe von Darstellungsmöglichkeiten der Künstlerbücher werden untersucht, die jeweils auf die Vielfältigkeit der Publikationen und Materialien hinweisen. Das Buch als Kunstobjekt, das Buch als Speicher von Dokumenten, das Bild des Buches als Grafik, das Buch als Objekt der Fotografie, das Buch als Element einer filmischen Darstellung.

Mit ausgewählten Publikationen von Rodney Graham, Barbara Bloom, Olaf Nicolai, Nina Beier und Marie Lund, Mariana Castillo Deball, Alejandro Cesarco, Continuous Project, Jonathan Monk, Derek Sullivan, Pierre Leguillon, Paul Chan, Melissa Dubbin / Aaron S. Davidson, Dani Gal, Amanda Andersen, Paul Noble, Wade Guyton, Nick Mauss und Ken Okiishi, Michael Riedel, Pablo Bronstein, Maria Eichhorn, Sherrie Levine, Allan Ruppersberg, Oscar Tuazon, Bruce Nauman, Richard Prince, Remy Markowitsch, Daniela Comani, Robin Waart, Kajsa Dahlberg,Yann Sérandour, Ramaya Tegegne, Ian Wallace, et al.

Im Rahmen der Ausstellung wird eine interaktive hybride Web‐Applikation zur Verfügung gestellt, die das virtuelle Durchblättern einzelner Künstlerpublikationen ermöglichen soll. Damit wird der spannende Inhalt ausgewählter vergriffener Künstlerbücher erneut zugänglich gemacht.

Books on Books ist ein Projekt von Christoph Schifferli in Zusammenarbeit mit Marc Asekhame, Paul Brunner, Tamara Janes, Daniele Kaehr, Maren Kraume, Christian Gross und Sofia Bempeza im Rahmen von importIexport.