Fillip #14

Fillip is a publication of art, culture, and ideas released three times a year by the Projectile Publishing Society from Vancouver, British Columbia.

In This Issue:

Series: Intangible Economies, edited by Antonia Hirsch-
Broadening the notion of economy beyond its financial dimensions, this series focuses on the multifarious forms of exchange fueled by affect and desire. Intangible Economies speculatively investigates the fundamental role these affective transactions play in modes of representation and, accordingly, in cultural production.

Monika Szewczyk – Investing in the Blank
Hadley + Maxwell – Someone That Happens
Markus Miessen et al. – Architectural Space As Agent

Vector Association and Kristina Lee Podesva – Via Satellite
Diedrich Diederichsen – Living in the Loop
Michael Turner and Reid Shier – Upon Further Reflection
Amy Zion – Ascetic Desire
Kathy Mezei – Shadows and Blind Spots
Ahmet Ogut and Berin Golonu – Between the Scaffold and the Ruin
Commission: David Horvitz – Scotch Broom
Jeff Khonsary – The Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Edit

112 pages / English

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Komfort Mag #6

Komfort on the trail. A precisely executed deduction, direct evidence and the subsequent cross examination lead to a confession. The upcoming summer issue of the visual magazine Komfort will bring you a crime-themed photo series by Michal Šeba, the author of a successful exhibition at the Prague Rudolfinum; photos of confiscated objects by Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer; the trauma of Czech detectives, dealing with a real and unsolved mystery of the mass murderer Hubert Pilčík will be covered in a picture reconstruction by Michal Adamovský. The project Selection, where Dominik Hejtmánek and František Polák collect anonymous photographs from private archives and work with the nostalgic energy of this medium, will be presented in the curatorial selection of Václav Jirásek. Scenes from the Diary of the Maid will be provided by Petra Steinerová, and everything will be accompanied by prose from the tough school of Jan Čumlivský.

Language: English / Czech

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der:die:das – ausgabe e wie Eis, issue e like “Eis” (ice), Summer 2011

“der:die:das is a mono thematic magazine based in Zurich. It draws its inspiration from objects of everyday life. Our relationship with the mundane is put to question and deconstructed through the investigation of objects, ideas and stories. The familiar is staged in an unfamiliar way while the alien in the usual is discovered.”

der:die:das is published every sixth month in German with an English translation.
Contributors “der:die:das – ausgabe e wie Eis”:
Francis Alÿs, Florian Ammann, Nicole Bachmann, Big Zis, Michael Bodenmanna, Olafur Eliasson, Michael Etzensperger, Helve & Christian, Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch, Véronique Hoegger, Michael Hunziker, Stefan Jäggi, Alban Kakulya, Aleli Leal, Andreas Lutz, Jon Mathiey, Melanie Matthieu, Irving Penn, Hans-Ruedi Rohrer, Barbara Signer, Remo Stoller, Gabriela Weidmann

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It’s Nice That #6

It’s Nice That is a tri-annually published arts and culture magazine. Including in-depth interviews and articles focussing on, and written by, practitioners from all over the world, It’s Nice That publishes original content in a format that gives the work the respect it deserves.

The sixth issue of It’s Nice That includes interviews with George Lois, Lawrence Weiner, Asger Carlsen, Kate MacGarry, Martino Gamper and Francis Upritchard. Features on or by Marion Deuchars, Keith Haring, Carl Kleiner and Chaz Bundick among others alongside a selection of work recently featured on the blog.

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Güterzug # 4 – Summer/ 11

Similia similibus solvuntur.

Heat Haze! 64 pages of Taurus Sounds, Bench Prey, Heavy Metal, Track Ballast,
Worker Slaps, Nerd Talk and Campfire Tales from The Freight Depression.

Edition of 100

Published by Beerbird Press

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no skateboarding – Mathias Fennetaux

This is the story of a French skater and photographer who one day got it into his head to meet and make portraits of all the skateboarders that had influenced him and his generation. This is the story of over a decade of trips to the US to complete the project. The story of seventy encounters with men who shaped modern skateboarding in the 90’s; that is during the period when the sport, no longer confined to a small clique of aficionados, barged into youth culture influencing its aesthetics, its music, its fashion and its imagery. It is the story of seventy photos taken with the same square-format camera as an exercise in style on the portrait genre; seventy sittings that all followed the same basic principles and resulted in as many different portraits.

Mathias Fennetaux grew up in Paris in the 80’s. He has been an independent photographer for over 20 years. His work, which centers on the skate/surf culture, its lifestyle and its fashion, has been deeply influential in shaping the visual culture of the French and European scenes. Splitting his time between personal art projects and advertising campaigns for all the major board sports companies, he lives and works in Biarritz, France.

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Lotto Magazin und das Spiel ums Ganze – 1 aus 6

There is an idea. It says: human identity consists of six different zones which fit together as an entity. Every individual human being tries its best to keep these different areas of identity stable and firm. If one fails, the loss of identity is inevitable. The six zones mentioned consist of: a soundly relationship to other people, an emotional connection to different places, a mental association with objects and things, an integretion in certain organisations and communities, a well-balanced relation to power and obsession and last a dynamic definition of ideals: ideas in a value system. And this is what the first issue is all about. The „idea“ in a sense of a discourse about humanistic values is looked into by as many different angles, grades of abstraction and artistic interpretations as possible. Aspects like religion, philosophy, devotion and avocation, morality and ethics, science and politics are considered within this context as well. And each little part of the human constitution which is thereby explored and reckoned from another point of view helps us to find our complete identity and stability as an individual and within human society.

Editor-in-Chief: Matthias Straub
Art Direction: Wessinger und Peng
Photography Editor: David Späth

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Le Cercle – Benjamin Deberdt/ Mark Gonzales

In 2009, Mark Gonzales revisited his project the ‘Circle Board’ – a sequence of nine skateboards joined end to end to form a complete loop. Benjamin Deberdt photographed Mark riding his creation before dawn in front of the Eiffel Tower producing enigmatic grainy black and white prints. These photographs were then shipped to New York City and drawn directly upon by Mark in his idiosyncratic style. His poetry, familiar characters and some new themes can be seen, much of these inspired by the photos themselves and the city of Paris.
The publication is a limited run artist book conceived by the artists and Izrock Pressings. Including a mix of 4-colour cover and 2 colour Risograph printing throughout the printing is by bespoke press Blood and Thunder in Sydney, Australia.

200mm wide x 255mm high
Perfect bound with belly band around cover
4 colour cover and inside cover 200gsm
2 colour inside black + blue or fluro pink 140gsm paper
52 pages
Risograph print
Edition of 500

Published by Izrock Pressings

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Vancouver Anthology – Stan Douglas (Ed.) – Or Gallery/Talonbooks

The essays collected in the second edition of Vancouver Anthology were first presented in the autumn of 1990 as part of a lecture series entitled “Vancouver Anthology: Lectures on Art in British Columbia”, a forum in which each contributing writer could test his or her research on the question of art and politics in public, before their papers were sent to print. The papers documented a range of Vancouver cultural practice, including the emergence of artist-run centres, experimental performance and video, feminist activity, collaboration, sculpture, painting, art criticism, conceptual art and landscape, as well as critical reflections on perceptions of aboriginal cultures.

Vancouver Anthology has been out of print for several years and earlier attempts to reprint the book were thwarted due to the fact that design files and production films had been lost or destroyed. In the absence of a second printing, scarcity and high-demand drove prices for existing volumes as high as $300, making the book unaffordable to artists and students in particular. The new edition, which has been over two years in production, was recreated using early text files of the essays and by sourcing and re-scanning images from their original negatives and transparencies. A new design by Derek Barnett pays tribute to Douglas’s original 1991 book design, yet provided the opportunity to move to a larger hardcover format. Most significantly, the second edition features a new afterword by Douglas, reflecting on sociopolitical changes since the anthology’s beginnings in 1990.

Essays in the book include: A Particular History: Artist-Run Centres in Vancouver by Keith Wallace; Daring Documents: The Practical Aesthetics of Early Vancouver Video by Sara Diamond; Expanded Consciousness and Company Types: Collaboration Since Intermedia and the N.E. Thing Company by Nancy Shaw; Independent Film After Structuralism: Hybrid Experimental Narrative and Documentary by Maria Insell; Some Are Weather-Wise; Some Otherwise: Criticism and Vancouver by William Wood; A Working Chronology of Feminist Cultural Activities and Events in Vancouver: 1970–1990 by Carol Williams; Sculpture and the Sculptural in Halifax and Vancouver by Robin Peck; Painting and the Social History of British Columbia by Robert Linsley; Discovering the Defeatured Landscape by Scott Watson; and Construction of the Imaginary Indian by Marcia Crosby.

Vancouver Anthology is co-published by the Or Gallery and Talonbooks, Vancouver. Printing and production of the second edition project was generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Vancouver Cultural Olympiad, British Columbia Arts Council, and the Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts in British Columbia.

320 pages
English

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Nero No.26 – Spring/Summer 2011

NERO is a quarterly magazine dealing with contemporary culture. Created in 2004, it has a circulation of 60.000 copies and is distributed widely in Europe and the US. The team behind NERO also works in curating, art direction and production of contemporary art events and exhibitions. The publishing department, under the name Produzioni NERO, works in the production of artist’s editions, alongside catalogues and books commissioned by museums, foundations and private collections.

Content:
WIKI DIARY pt.2, POLITICS AND THE AVANT-GARDE, THE INFINITE CONVERSATION BETWEEN 2 HEAD-HUNTERS, TOPOLOGIES OF CULTURE(S) ON THE SEMIOTICS OF DRY STONE WALLS, TROVATELLI, A CLOCK THAT RUNS ON MUD, THE MEANING OF MY AVANT-GARDE HILLBILLY AND BLUES MUSIC, CHÈRE STURTEVANT, COMPOSITES, SEE YOU AT PART TWO, WORKS THAT COULD BE MINE & WORKS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO BE MIN…

Cover by Adou

Special Project by Josh Smith

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