20 photographs
Print: Offset, Oktoberdruck
Paper: Circle Offset white 100g
Edition: 500 signed and numbered
Design: Birgit Vogel
Self Published and Printed in Berlin.
09 – 11 september 2011
Wiese is part of Publish it Yourself.
Une exposition de livres photos auto-publiés, à la Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur-Marne (Paris).
D 29€
09.09.2011: Manuel Raeder @ Motto Berlin.
Publications, editions, furniture, display devices and some related matters
Start 7pm
Over the past ten years Manuel Raeder and his studio
have been exploring the boundaries between exhibitions, ephemera, books,
type design, publishing, textiles and furniture design.
The studio praxis conceives design as a tool to enable a dialogue by
Thinking with Eran Schaerf on blue
Drawing a Pastiche typeface with Mariana Castillo Deball
Inventing a folding system for a book with Haegue Yang
How to bring BLESS friends into a look-book and make the same images re-enter into the next seasons collection through a textile design
How Bojan Sarcevic Kisses the back of your hand and makes a sound like a wounded bird
Cooking a monstrous egg with Allora & Calzadilla
Convert one month of cultural magazines into a Doorstopper
Translating the border between science and art into a font for the Uqbar foundation
Casting Omer Fast into a book format
Herr Krebber über die Puppertät in der Lehre
Exploring different possibilities of a book being a time storage device, expanding into three dimensional space
Inventing printing machines with Nora Schultz
Designing furniture that makes Group Affinity a matter of participation and reaction to uncomfortable sitting and spacial devices
Busting clouds with Christoph Keller in Maroc
Making concrete spin and also cut through the documentation of Renata Lucas
Invent a toy for the librarians at the Göthe Institute Library in New York together with ifau architects
A cake table for eating your cake, storing books or filling your empty corners
Making old logos appear in a random order for the printed matter for Galerie Neu
Over-dimensional posters with the artists showing at MD72
Causing dizziness and nausea with a flashing triangle as the new identity for Artist Space
Combing things that Yasmine Gauster collected from all around the world through a Moustache for Elgarafi
Discussing with Abraham Cruzvillegas about two separate things coming together
How to write a beautiful colophon together with Heinz Peter Knes and Danh Vo
Wrapping papers that take the format of a book with Nick Mauss that then Ai Arakawa tears them apart in such a way that they appear much larger then they actually are
Sergej Jenson
Discussing with Anja and Kathrin how to make the stationary of the Kölnischer Kunstverein a publishing
medium for the past and the present
k.m website is now online jippeee
Translate the work of Tris Vonna-Michell into a book that keeps changing it’s written word
Playing with the collection of the Klosterfeldes
Finding the nicest Leonor Antunes leather string to bind the book
How Time is not linear but can be seen as a flexible tangle
At Motto Berlin books, ephemera and furniture will be for sale and rare items exhibited.
http://manuelraeder.co.uk/
Abendsonne Misha de Ridder
“Sometimes natural phenomena can become so estranged and mysterious, that we are inclined to describe them as unreal realities. It might be the extraordinary shape of a tree, a mountain, a shadow, a cloud or the mirroring reflection of nature in a lake, but it is foremost the unfamiliarity of the natural aesthetics of reality. The photos in this book literally refer to such an unfamiliar natural phenomenon, a phenomenon that appears twice a year during the end of the autumn and the beginning of spring for the period of one week in an area in the Swiss Alps. During the winter season a village is permanently covered by the shadow of a high mountain in the west, which eliminates all direct sunlight. A week before darkness falls, the sun appears one more time after it has set every evening. A mysterious phenomenon known as ‘Abendsonne’.” (Foam)
HC, 30 x 36,5 cm
Ed. of 500 copies
Misha de Ridder 2011
D 60€
Marketa Othova Marketa Othova
Marketa Othovas installations of large black-and-white photographs, often using grids and linear sequences, combined with the occasional stand-alone photograph, destabilise and question traditional photography. Her juxtapositions of interiors, landscapes, and still lifes – edited from past and present photographs – create intriguing visual and temporal rhythms.
This catalogue is the first encompassing publication on her oeuvre. It was published 2010 in cooperation with Jiri Svestka Gallery in Prague and the Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König in Cologne.
With essays by Karel Cisar and Christina Vegh.
168 pages
250mm x 210mm
ISBN: 978-3-86560-711-9
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König 2010
Contemporary Brazilian Politics
Notes on political corruption are published in the press on a daily basis.
The annual cost of corruption in Brazil is estimated to amount to roughly USD 5 billion.
This publication shows a collection of excerpts from the press, gathered over the past few years.
Be prepared to be amazed…
All net proceeds will be donated to a project helping to provide a better future for kids in the poorest neighborhoods of Natal, Brazil, which is my wife´s hometown.
We are currently visiting and selecting these projects.
Guaranteed 0% money deviation.
Trying to make a difference.
-Erik van der Weijde
Contemporary Brazilian Politics
Erik van der Weijde
Published by 4478zine
Vol. I, 2011
20 pages
13×20 cm
offset printed in Brazil
€ 5,99
The Exhibitionist #4 – La Critique, Journal on Exhibition Making
The Exhibitionist, a journal made by curators, for curators, focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making.The objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns – encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating.
Editor: Jens Hoffmann
Editorial board: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Okwui Enwezor, Kate Fowle, Mary Jane Jacob, Constance Lewallen, Maria Lind, Chus Martínez, Jessica Morgan, Julian Myers, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul O’Neill, Adriano Pedrosa, Dieter Roelstraete, Dorothea von Hantelmann
Design: Jon Sueda and Jennifer Hennesy / Stripe, San Francisco
D 10€
Available for Distribution
No Order – Art in A Post-Fordist Society
No Order is a research, production and publication machine based in Milan, employing different tools to impact the social, semiotic and economical assemblages within the contemporary cultural industry.
Editor in chief: Marco Scotini
Editorial Board: Asef Bayat, Harun Farocki, Peter Friedl, Maurizio Lazzarato, Sylvère Lotringer, Christian Marazzi, Achille Mbembe, Angela Melitopolus, Nelly Richard, Florian Schneider, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Françoise Vergès
Publisher: Archive Books, Berlin
D 20€
Available for Distribution
Museum of the Near Future (MNF) is an apparatus for looking sideways at institutions, cities, time and space. In an attempt to challenge perceptions of what is possible, and desirable, between now and next, MNF produces places for imagination and discussion in site-specific, functional installations. They are set up in interaction with museum and other institutional contexts and contents, asking questions for and with their hosts.
The first MNF project manifests in a thematic book society and -shop, taking over the old space of Museum of Finnish Architecture in Kaivopuisto, Helsinki, as part of the museum’s attempts to revitalise it. It explores micro-political participation in a city undergoing grand urban projects, such as its rapid expansion to central harbour and industrial areas or the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 nomination. Using literature and related activities – like reading circles and performative publishing – as tools, MNF I experiments with the convergence of personal and public space, asking how value-based concerns of individuals could be turned into productive ways of living in Helsinki.
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.
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Museum of the Near Future bookshop
9–18 September, 2011
Address:
Museum of Finnish Architecture’s villa in Kaivopuisto
Puistokatu 4, Helsinki
Open:
Tue, Thu, Fri 10–16
Wed 10–20
Sat, Sun 11–16
(Mon closed)
Programme:
Fri 9.9. Museum of the Near Future bookshop opens at 10 am
Sun 11.9. Museum of the Near Future morning party, including the Helsinki launch of OK Do’s OK Talk Helsinki/London book 9 am–noon (RSVP at hello@ok-do.eu)
Sun 11.9. Walk talk in Hernesaari, a Helsinki harbour area in development. Participants will be picked up by a water bus to Hernesaari at the Sea Harbour of Kaivopuisto (address: Merisatamanranta 10) at 1.30 pm and brought back by 4 pm (tickets 5 e, bookings at hello@ok-do.eu)
Tue 13.9. Reading circle I 6 pm–9 pm (free entrance, RSVP at helhello@ok-do.eu)
Fri 16.9. OK Do curates a film screening at Museum of Finnish Architecture’s backyard, Kasarmikatu 24, Helsinki 7 pm–9 pm (free entrance, to be announced at www.mfa.fi)
Sat 17.9. Reading circle II 12 am–3 pm (free entrance, RSVP at hello@ok-do.eu)
Sun 18.9. The bookshop closes at 4 pm
Coffee will be served by Café Aaltopelti!
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More information:
hello@ok-do.eu / +358 50 527 3123
The Readymades. John Holten. Broken Dimanche Press
John Holten’s debut novel The Readymades uses and abuses a number of literary genres: found texts from the history of modern art, witness testimonies, press releases and the narrative style of art-historical accounts. The novel emerges from one of Félix Fénéon’s infamous three-sentence ‘novels’ – appropriated mini-stories from French newspapers – and from the starting point of Fénéon’s narrative readymade, Holten has extrapolated a whole missing art movement and their contemporary European picaresque saga.
The action begins during October 2008 in Paris, with John, a young Irish publisher, meeting the jaded Serbian artist Djordje Bojić. Bojić tells John about the manuscript he is writing: the history of the LGB Group – an Eastern European neo-avant-garde collective that arose in the turbulent environment of mid-1990s Belgrade, when Bojić and his friends, recently returned from the war in Bosnia, started to produce art in order to escape the hysterical nationalism all around them.
Bojić’s manuscript makes up the final part of the novel. Starting out as an academic attempt to document the LGB Group, the sober attitude of the art-historical account soon collapses, and the narrative gradually turns into a disclosing life-story of violence and existential decay. As the manuscript moves closer to the horrific truths of Bojić’s own war experiences, the testimony gradually fails, becomes full of mute lacunas in order to finally reach the ineffable climax of the testimony: the aphasia of trauma, the dumbness of loss, and the ultimate silence of Bojić’s own death.
By juxtaposing the experience of war, the urge for artistic creation and the act of narrating the past, The Readymades launches a double strategy in which the artistic gesture becomes an attempt to overcome war, while simultaneously forced to partake in it. Because art (at least since the original Dada gesture) has sought its own raison d’être in an ongoing dialectic of defiance, transgression and negation of the status quo, it must inevitably find its own dynamic intrinsically linked to acts of violence. With a unique book design, this mise-en-abyme presents a book-within-a-book that takes the reader on a journey to the darker corners of contemporary European history. In collaboration with the Serbian artist and filmmaker Darko Dragičević, Holten has produced a catalogue of LGB artworks and memorabilia, presented both in the book and in exhibition-spaces throughout Europe this coming autumn. In other words: The Readymades is not just a novel, but also an on-going ‘fictitious event’, pushing against any sedate conception of what the literary novel can achieve today, at once not afraid of today’s ‘reality hunger’, nor the legacy of postmodernism.
340 pp., 32 b&w ill.
18.5 x 13 cm
ISBN: 978-3-00-032627-1
D 18€
Available for Distribution
The Final Word. – RCA CA&D, edited by David Gibson, Livia Lima, Susanne Stahl, Jigna Chauhan, Vanessa Boni
This publication is a compilation of three books featuring work by Communication Art and Design students at the Royal College of Art. Guest artists, designers, illustrators, alumni and RCA tutors have all responded to three starter topics:
Book 1 – Fact and Fiction in a Digital Context. A text by Holly Francis that discusses the loss of authorship in the online environment, asking, who is the author? And what defines reality?
Book 2 – The Value of Things. An image of a postcard generated by Lola Halifa-Legrand exploring material artefacts in a digital environment, sent to RCA students by email.
Book 3 – New Models for Publishing. An online platform created by Pedro Cid Proença, where users can comment on the text as a whole, a section of it, or on a comment made by another user.
Contributors include Abäke, Europa, Julia, Stewart Smith, Adrian Shaughnessy and Sara de Bondt
D 13€
