Arc #15: The Impossible. Royal College of Art Students’ Union

Issue 15 of Arc, the art and design publication designed and produced by current postgraduate students at the Royal College of Art, is edited by Charmian Griffin and designed by Hannah Montague. The front cover illustration by V&A Student Illustration Award 2011 winner Mike Redmond, editorial contributions, as well as design, all explore ‘The Impossible’. David Morris, a student on the RCA’s new critical writing course, considers on the opportunity contained in the rhizome, artist Yelena Popova on a potential Mars landing and a studio visit by students to the realm of painter and RCA alumnus Sir Peter Blake, this latest issue captures the visual arts practice and thought of the moment. The issue also includes contributions from graphic novel legend Alan Moore, Paola Antonelli, Design Curator for New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Chad Hurley, the founder of YouTube.

68 pages
English

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10-24.09.2011: Manuel Raeder @ Motto Berlin
Publications, editions, furniture, display devices and some related matters

http://manuelraeder.co.uk/

Turtles. Marie Lund. Mousse Publishing

This monograph on the artist Marie Lund comprises a two-sided reflection – the first mute, iconographic; the second speculative, text-based – on how we approach sculpture when it is reproduced on paper, or rather, how we approach an image of three-dimensional reality when we are offered a single, flat vantage point. It is the very act of “paging through” sculpture after sculpture, in this publication, that powerfully accentuates the texture of the materials, ranging from alabaster to steatite. Materials that have been transubstantiated into images, conceived by the artist to make our gaze wander over the stone surfaces and our mind wander through the disorienting awareness of a disallowed spatiality.

Designed by Abäke
52 Pages
English

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Gagarin #23

GAGARIN #23

with contributions by: – Marc Nagtzaam – Title-Track / Second Version / Installation Views / A Hint of Articulation – Fabienne Audéoud – Everything should be said before one actually starts talking… – Christine Meisner – Ausuferung / 1 – Vaast Colson – Desperately trying to be a writer / Pursuing the Tanger tradition – Mekhitar Garabedian – I Remember Nora Karaguezian, May 2011 – Raymond Pettibon – No Title (Liking more the) – Javier Téllez – ARTAUD REMIX – Abraham Cruzvillegas – Autoconstruccion + Index of Artists’ Writings (part 23)

GAGARIN The Artists in their Own Words is a unique and international artists´ magazine that was launched in 2000. Since the exhibition in 2010 it has been an active part of S.M.A.K.´s living collection.

GAGARIN is fully committed to publishing specially written and unpublished texts by artists and is inspired by John Baldessari’s quote: “Talking about art is not art. Speaking can be art but it is not talking about art”.

151 pages
English / Spanish / Dutch

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Born in Flames: Screening and Talk @ Motto Vancouver
September 17, 5 – 8pm

Motto Vancouver and Fillip are pleased to present a special launch event in conjunction with the recent release of Born in Flames published by Occasional Papers, London. Based on Lizzie Borden’s 1983 film of the same name, the book investigates New York’s radical feminist and lesbian communities through an account of a fictional dystopia set ten years after a peaceful Socialist revolution.

Artist Kaisa Lassinaro and publishers Sara De Bondt and Antony Hudek will join us from London via Skype to introduce the project, followed by a screening of Borden’s film (running time: 80min).

The launch will occur alongside a special presentation of Occasional Papers’ back catalogue, on view at Motto Vancouver through October. Founded in 2008 by De Bondt and Hudek, Occasional Papers is a non-profit publisher devoted to the histories of architecture, art, design, film and literature.

For more information see: http://occasionalpapers.org/

Pater Noster Video Stories
Michal Pěchouček

Michal Pechoucek fits neither the label of a video-artist nor that of a film-maker; however, his moving images are among his most remarkable artistic achievements – next to his analogue photography and fabric artworks. Michal is a visual artists who analyses the language of various media through thorough observation of daily routine, from which he extracts his stories of moving images, sometimes slapstick, always funny.

The DVD comprises 12 short films made from 1999 to 2005:
– Magic Skyscraper
– Back to School
– Usual Hostage
– Gentle Mail
– Greetings from Prague
– Guard of Honour
– Collector
– Playtime
– Zrzavy Film
– Pram Room
– Passenger Train
– Pater Noster

Includes an interview with the artist by Martin Mazanec.

107min
Published by Jiri Svestka Gallery

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Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure)
Ioana Nemes

Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure) is an artistic project by late Romanian artist Ioana Nemes (1979-2011). The sculptures from the series can be a seen as a memorial for a particular day in the life of the artist, a project she led as a scientific experiment: “What this project creates is a Polaroid of time consumed in a standartised amount of time.” Systematically and precise the data describes the seemingly unimportant details of daily life and thus becomes – after the tragic death of the artist – powerful monuments of life.

Including the interview “I’m telling you stories, trust me” with Ioana Nemes by Stuart Aarsman and a introductory text by Romanian curator Alina Serban.

Published by Jiri Svestka Gallery 2009 in conjunction with the exhibition: Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure) at Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague (March 21 – April 5, 2008)
Graphic design: Anja Lutz / Book Design
Introduction text: Alina Serban

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Mluv s ni
Marketa Othova

Marketa Othovas photographs are captured moments of transit: The surface of reality, detected and frozen in the photographic image, gives Othova a rich base upon which to create seemingly subconscious but highly evocative snapshot reminders of a past which seems only just beyond the reach of personal memory. The leaflet Mluv si ni was published in 2005 by Jiri Svestka Gallery and affiliates black-and-white photographs from the series of thirty-one photographs of Björk entitled Talk to Her (Mluv si ni).

published by Jiri Svestka Gallery

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).

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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/