Cmagazine #111: Libraries. C The Visual Arts Foundation

C Magazine is an international art periodical devoted to promoting critical discussion about contemporary art through in-depth essays, interviews, artist projects and reviews. Based in Toronto, with contributors from around the world, C keeps contemporary art professionals and enthusiasts informed of significant ideas and trends in art and culture.

Issue 111 includes features by Adam Lauder on Performing the Library; Jen Hutton on Dexter Sinister; David Senior on the Whole Earth Library; Randy Lee Cutler on Reading; Pandora Syperek on ILLUMINnations: the 54th Venice Biennale, and artist projects by Read-in and Thilo Folkerts with Rodney LaTourelle; Reviews of exhibitions by Song Dong, Gina Badger, Adel Abdessemed, Chris Curreri, Wim Botha, Frances Stark and others.

Published by C The Visual Arts Foundation
Autumn 2011

D 5€

New bookstore in Amsterdam!
Opening: 22th September, 5–10 pm

San Serriffe will be open weekly on Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 12–8 pm.

San Serriffe
Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 240
Amsterdam

Uncanny Magazine #3: Publication As Process. Uncanny Editions.

The aim of this issue is to document and archive an essentially visual account of ‘publication as process’. The idea of making several publications during the illustration/ design process is a way of creating a platform for critical awareness. Not only does it generate space for discussion with other people, but promotes a big variety of solutions and alternatives to the work being produced, thus increasing the possibility of making a more considered and reflected decision through the act of publishing.

Issue 3 of Uncanny Magazine is divided into two sections:
1) a reproduction of a publication produced as part of the image-making process for an illustration project for the English Touring Opera, in its original size and form;
2) a selection of 11 of the 23 publications produced whilst making illustrations for the aforementioned design project.

Published by Uncanny Editions
Winter 2011
29.7 x 21 cm, 52pp.
Numbered edition of 100

D 17€

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Plagiate. Claudio Pogo. Darling Publications

Plagiate is a collaboration between the publisher Claudio Pfeifer and artist Claudio Pogo released by Andy Lim and his Darling Publications imprint. The book is part of the “Edition 20/50” series. Plagiate shows reenactments of a double spread page of all PogoBooks #01 through #22. Reenacted by Claudio Pogo and photographed by Claudio Pfeifer.

Printed in June 2011
Edition of 500
Published by Andy Lim (Darling Publications)
Printed by Asmuth Druck, Köln
64 Pages
Munken Print 150gr
Black & White Offset

D 10€

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Nobody Lost. Dana Lauren Goldstein. Pogo Books

Dana Lauren Goldstein was born in Louisville, Kentucky but spent most of her life traveling and living in different cities. In the summer of 2007 she received her BFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design and returned to New York City where she spent a year interning and assisting fashion photographer Kenneth Cappello.

Dana’s work is documentary style photography influenced by theosophical and neo-plasticist principles. It has religious and metaphysical undertones and explores themes like fate, chance and free will.

First Edition of 500
August, 2011
PogoBooks #031
14.8 x 21 cm
32 pages, Full Color Offset
ISBN 978-3-942547-11-6

D 8€

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Shadowboxing. Royal College of Art

Shadowboxing is a set of four booklets published on the occasion of the Royal College of Art exhibition, also titled Shadowboxing, to make visible the processes of discussion, collaboration and production between artists and curators at different moments between February and June 2011. Contributions take the form of artists’ commissions, interviews and conversations with relevant people from the cultural and political field, as well as essays by the curators.

Issue 1
The dialogue prompted by Giorgio Agamben’s text ‘What is an Apparatus?’ has been central to the development of SHADOWBOXING. Issue 1 reproduces this text including questions posed to the four artists as part of the invitation to collaborate with the CCA students and Marysia Lewandowska’s annotations, which reflect her reading of the text in response to the invitation.

Issue 2
SHADOWBOXING has developed as conversations have unfolded between the artists and curators. What has transpired from this approach over the past months is an exploration of the different ways in which artists enact critique within certain parameters, and an awareness of the paradox: how can one challenge forces that have become so internalised that they are indistinguishable from one’s own shadow? Issue 2 reflects through images and texts the research and the production process of SHADOWBOXING. It also includes the exhibition guide and the programme of events and film screenings.

Issue 3
The act of publication, as defined by the writer Matthew Stadler, constitutes a deliberate political strategy, which enables the formation of a public space through an ongoing circulation of ideas, texts and conversations. Much in line with his thinking, Publication is conceived as a snapshot of the unfolding dialogues that have shaped and continue to inform SHADOWBOXING. The contributions in this issue reflect upon the boundaries between private and public spaces, and how these can be tested or made contingent.

Issue 4/5
A Structure that Wants and To be Another Structure has been conceived as a double issue, where the content of the publications run in parallel. As a whole it both reflects, and confronts the terms used throughout SHADOWBOXING. It includes a text by Wendelien van Oldenborgh and interviews with Lis Rhodes and Rainer Ganahl.

Issue Four/Five is edited by the graduating students on the MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, 2011 and is designed by James Langdon.

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Everybody’s Card. Martine Derks & Xavier Fernandez

http://www.martinederks.com/
http://xavierfernandez.info/

Published by Centerfold 2011
ISBN 9789081758406
D 21€

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Eagle Rock Playground House. Sasha Pirker Andreas Fogarasi

Text: Andreas Neumeister
Design: Andreas Fogarasi, Sasha Pirker und HIT
Bildbearbeitung: Thomas Kussin, Carsten Humme
Auflage: 500 Exemplare

Published by Spector Books 2011
ISBN 9783940064257
German / English

D 26€
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Album, Magazin Für Fotografie #2

The forthcoming second issue examines the question of the singularity of photo­graphs: how new and unseen can pictures still be today? Which artistic possibi­lities lie in the doubling of motifs? Which concepts play with repetition and recognition?

A large amount of image data circulates in the internet and is becoming vast: Every street is photographed and able to be found using a search engine, every birthday, and every vacation is documented and uploaded for viewing. With this amount of material, there is no shortage of similarity and doubling so it is natural to use databanks, the fringe and chance products in the web for your own work: New design and curation, sampling and re-enactment are considered to be artistic approaches for the image worlds in the web. Upon closer examination, while it still seems possible to produce a unique photo, it is that much more fascinating to actively handle and play with photographic doppelgangers: Histo­rical shots, amateur photos and other image material all become the basis for artistic concepts, which Album #2 selects as its topic. This concerns model and replica, copying and simulation, re-contextualization and recognition. And ulti­mately it is concerned with the fear of encountering one’s own pictorial ideas, motifs and concepts as well as the conscious, self-ironic way of hand ling it.

September 2011
ISSN 21924139
D 10€

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Last days of Motto’s Temporary Shop in Helsinki

open on:
Saturday 17
11 – 8 pm
& Sunday 18
11 – 4 pm

Address:
Museum of Finnish Architecture’s villa in Kaivopuisto
Puistokatu 4, Helsinki

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COMING UP!
MNF Reading Circle II: The Climate of Public Space
Saturday 17, September
12 – 3 pm

Join us in reading aloud texts from the Museum of the Near Future book collection, including a preview from a forthcoming title, and discussing public space today and tomorrow.

How can we define public space today? More precisely, what does it mean in Helsinki, a city of long winters and respectively cold and dark agoras? While the privatisation of public space – as illustrated by the rise of warm and brightly illuminated malls – is not only a local phenomenon, Helsinki faces a challenge to invent new models of spaces for year-round free assembly in its expanding urban core, taking over former harbour and industrial areas by the sea. Will the future of our public space be enclosed, or perhaps virtual?

Drawing from philosopher Boris Groys’ ideas about weather as a defining element in the collective sensibility of a city, The Climate of Public Space reading circle explores different ways of leading a public life inside. Based on the forthcoming ‘Solution Finland: The Welfare Game’ book (Sternberg Press, 2011), the event includes a presentation by its editor, architect Martti Kalliala, together with one of the co-writers Jenna Sutela (OK Do), leading into a reading and discussion about the weather, city and media, joined by Toronto-based curator Cheyanne Turions.
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Previously at MNF: Reading Circle I: City of Matters of Concern

The City of Matters of Concern reading circle explored how to make our concerns and interests manifest in Helsinki, mixing the private with the public and the individual with the collective.

OK Do drew from (or bastardized) sociologist Bruno Latour’s notion of ‘matters of concern’ in mapping out what it means to care for a city. Hosted by OK Do together with Toronto-based curator Cheyanne Turions, the readings included extracts from ‘OK Talk Helsinki/London’ book (2011).
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Museum of the Near Future is created by OK Do, the creative practice of designers, writers and curators Anni Puolakka and Jenna Sutela, and carried out in collaboration with organisations and individuals of different stripes. The project team for MNF I includes designer and curator Anna Mikkola, bookshop representative Matilda Tjäder (Motto), curator Cheyanne Turions and designer Tommi Vasko.