Saturday 28.04.2012 at 7pm
The Frigate record release + organ concert by Benjamin Saurer
Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtnis-Kirche Händelallee 22, Berlin-Tiergarten
free entrance
An afternoon conference on the structure, demands and implications of the book from the perspective of artistic practitioners. With lectures by Simon Hempel, Mette Edvardsen, Theo Cowley and Simon Thompson.
SIMON HEMPEL
Simon Hempel uses the artists’ book as an alternative structuring device analogous to his spatial installations where the emphasis is not on the singular photographic image, the tableaux – but on the notion of the table, the sequence linked to serial images. Photography is reviewed as medium emblematic for the division of subject and object that predominates western thinking.
Simon Hempel is an artist based in Hamburg, DE. He studied at Universität Hamburg, HAW Hamburg and Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. His work has been presented at Kunsthaus, Hamburg; Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg-Harburg; Goethe Institute, Madrid; and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. His artist’s book ‘Plants and soil – The visual development of a structure’ was published in 2009. A new artist’s book will be published in 2012 with the support of the Department for Culture, Hamburg.
METTE EDVARDSEN
Mette Edvardsen is a choreographer and dancer based in Brussels. Her work is situated within the performing arts field, also exploring other media or other formats such as video and writing.
Conceived as an integral part of a performance, the book ‘Every now and then’ is being read by the audience sitting in the theatre while the performance evolves on stage. The book is direct, tactile and persistent, giving the audience another access to the piece. How do we read the theatre space when we think of it as a page in a book? And the other way around, how do we experience the performance on the page? With every turning of a page a new space appears in layers on top of each other. How can we imagine such architecture? Pages after pages of spaces bound together in a complex architecture called ‘book’?
THEO COWLEY
Theo Cowley is an artist based in Brussels, working mostly in film, video, and performance. He recently published ‘Compo de rheto’ a book based on another book held in the national library of France, made in 1600/01 by an actor known for playing the role of Harlequin in the commedia dell’arte. Both these books, his own and the original, have a specific yet undefined relationship to performance, theatre and history. Certain problematics come to the fore regarding the changing status of these books.
SIMON THOMPSON
Simon Thompson is an artist who lives and works in Brussels. He will talk about Blanchot, the book to come and the non-relations of the work and of the book.
Organised by Theo Cowley.
Free entrance, in English
Part of the Wiels Artist-in-residency program
*Maurice Blanchot, Le livre à venir (The book to come)
Portland Los Angeles 3 piece who play low volume tunes through small amps and a drum set that consists of a hand drum, cymbal, pan lids, and electronic drum pad, all three singing, playing random cheap electronic keyboards maybe, and switching of instruments probably. Good to listen to if you are interested in the sun and tired of negativity. Sun Foot (Ron Burns [Smog, Hot Spit Dancers, Swell], Chris Johanson [the painter, The Deep Throats, Tina Age 13], and Brian Mumford [Dragging an Ox through Water, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Thicket, Jewelry Rash]) has a website with relevant information at http://j.mp/sunfootrbc.
Kasino Creative Annual – About The Internet
Contrary to popular belief, everything is not possible on the internet. Kasino Creative Annual About The Internet shows things that can’t be done online. Kasino Creative Studio’s third annual is a coffee-table-book-cum-analogue-tablet as well as the world’s best photo blog that doesn’t exist. World-class photographers contributing to the annual include Mikko Ryhänen, Knotan, Juliana Harkki, Sanna Charles, Sauli Sirviö, Matti Tanskanen, Pietari Hatanpää, Anya Schiller, Arsi Ikäheimonen and Jussi Puikkonen.
Edition of 400
D 15€
BUY
Slow Travel Berlin Lit Lounge @ Markthalle IX
Motto’s shop @ Markthalle IX (Eisenbahnstraße 42/43, Berlin) will be open on Sunday, April 22 from 12 to 6 p.m. during the Slow Travel Berlin Lit Lounge event, featuring:
Portable Book Fair w/ SAND journal & Kombinat Literatur Berlin
Berlin, Czech and German lit from Shakespeare & Sons
Children’s Books by Mondo Azul
Tea and Snacks from Hudsons
Readings by:
Fredrik Torisson (Swedish author of Berlin: Matter of Memory) 12.30pm
Eirik Sordal (Icelandic poet and short story writer) 1pm
John Holten (Irish founder of Broken Dimanche Press & author The Readymades) 1.30pm
Jan Wagner (German Poet and translator) 2pm
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€
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.
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 €
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€
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€