ESTATE. Aleksander Komarov.
Edition of 500 copies.
Published by Torpedo Press.

ESTATE (2010) by Aleksander Komarov, is an artist book based on the film ESTATE from 2008. The idea of the
book was conceived following a discussion between Lena Prents and Aleksander Komarov in the run-up to the
exhibition FALL OUT –– ART, DESIRE and DISENGAGEMENT at Gl Holtegaard, Denmark and at Malmö Konsthall,
Sweden. The book ESTATE reflects on the means of evaluation of artistic production.
To an extent, ESTATE is a response to the current condition of contemporary art and its relation to broader economic contexts. The project focuses the viewer’s attention on basic resources and the movement between
material and immaterial types of labour, gathering along the way diverse statements on the migration of value.
In her essay, Lena Prents recalls the images and issues raised in Aleksander Komarov’s film ESTATE (2008),
and questions the current position of artists, oscillating between the demands of the market, the conditions of work
beyond the “cult of genius” and the immaterial value of artistic labour.
Boris Buden draws on the wider context of the material presented in ESTATE, that of rationalised labour, then focus
on projects by Aleksander Komarov which balance the issue of being an artist working under current economic
conditions against the artistic “soul at work”.
The conversation between Aleksander Komarov and Jule Reuter deals with questions about the coherence between
(migrated) identity, value production and the personal way in which one position oneself.

ESTATE (2010) by Aleksander Komarov, is an artist book based on the film ESTATE from 2008. The idea of the book was conceived following a discussion between Lena Prents and Aleksander Komarov in the run-up to the exhibition FALL OUT –– ART, DESIRE and DISENGAGEMENT at Gl Holtegaard, Denmark and at Malmö Konsthall, Sweden. The book ESTATE reflects on the means of evaluation of artistic production. To an extent, ESTATE is a response to the current condition of contemporary art and its relation to broader economic contexts. The project focuses the viewer’s attention on basic resources and the movement between material and immaterial types of labour, gathering along the way diverse statements on the migration of value. In her essay, Lena Prents recalls the images and issues raised in Aleksander Komarov’s film ESTATE (2008), and questions the current position of artists, oscillating between the demands of the market, the conditions of work beyond the “cult of genius” and the immaterial value of artistic labour. Boris Buden draws on the wider context of the material presented in ESTATE, that of rationalised labour, then focus on projects by Aleksander Komarov which balance the issue of being an artist working under current economic conditions against the artistic “soul at work”. The conversation between Aleksander Komarov and Jule Reuter deals with questions about the coherence between (migrated) identity, value production and the personal way in which one position oneself.

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POSTER Unter Dem Motto 2010
Limited edition, traditionally made using letter press printing method.

84 x 59.4 cm

Various colours available.

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Anti-Catalogue # 01

Published by The Model on the occassion of Dorm, an exhibition curated by Séamus Kealy ( 1 May to 4 July 2010)
Editor: Amish Morrell
Design: The Future

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Cmagazine #107 – ANIMALS
Automn 2010.

EDITORIAL

Among Animals by Amish Morrell

FEATURES

-The Lives and Deaths of Carolee’s Cats by Carla Benzan
-Infinite, Indifferent Kinship by Karen Houle
-On Year of the Dog by Jon Davies
-Touching Animals by Helena Reckitt

ARTIST PROJECT

-Bill Burns: Bird Radio for Afghanistan, 2010
Accompanying text: Of Fauna and Manufactured Derivatives: Bill Burns and the Lucrative Didactics of Environmental Stewardship by Gentiane Bélanger

EXHIBITION REVIEWS

-Kristan Horton: The Echo Chamber by Dan Adler
-Adrian Blackwell: Model for a Public Space [knot] by Alex Snukal
-Carlos Garaicoa: Overlapping by Leah Modigliani
-Timeland: 2010 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art by Leah Turner
-David Hoffos: Scenes from a House Dream by Meredith Dault
-Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present by Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh
-Christian Boltanski: Personnes by Zoë Chan
-Marion Wagschal: Private Views and Paintings by James D. Campbell
-Stephen Kelly: Open Tuning (WaveUp) by Quyen Hoang
-Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever by Nadja Sayej
-Daryl Vocat: The Secret of the Midnight Shadow by Sally Frater

NOTEWORTHY

-by Jovana Jankovic and Maxine Proctor

BOOK REVIEWS

-Trash, Jon Davies by Jovana Jankovic
-Emergence: Contemporary Photography in Canada, edited by Sarah Parsons by Amish Morrell

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Der Baum
Erik van der Weijde

Opening reception @ Chert gallery. 2 October. 7pm

http://www.chert-berlin.com/

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Der Baum (book)

Der Baum shows 44 photographs of trees, taken by Van der Weijde over the past few years.

The list of places where the photographs were taken includes different locations in Europe and Brazil. Their descriptions range from specified historical sites, such as the elementary school Adolf Hitler attended, or the street where kidnap victim Natasha Kampusch was held, to unidentified places as for example ‘school’, ‘road’ or ‘park’.

First edition , 2010
ISBN 978-94-91047-01-5
48 pages
17×24 cm
offset printed in the Netherlands
€ 18,00

To Make Oneself Similar in this Sense by Tanja Widmann

“Based on the approaches taken up until now, which have been characterized by mimetic actions and questions of appropriation in the sense of a translation of what’s there, by paradox, feeble humor and inertia, here text and movement are once again to be delayed, to be opened up and ultimately cheerfully usurped. Because the space is still open and the game must first be invented.” TW

Published by Westphalie Verlag

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The Portable John Latham.
Edited and introduced by Antony Hudek and Athanasios Velios
Published by Occasional Papers.

Size 17 x 25cm, 112 p, soft cover

This book features a selection of documents from the personal archive of the late British artist John Latham, presently maintained in his last home and studio in Peckham, South London. Through reproductions of letters, invitation cards, exhibition reviews, performance scripts and images, the publication retraces Latham’s pioneering practice over six decades, from the late 1940s to his death in 2006. Published on the occasion of John Latham: Anarchive in association with Whitechapel Gallery, the book also includes an interview by Charles Harrison from 1968 and a glossary section.

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(80*81 vol. 1-7 presentation @ Motto Zürich / Perla-Mode. Saturday 24.09.2010)

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart 1-30.10.2010
Opening on Thursday, September 30, 2010, 7pm

In the Middle of Affairs
Aesthetics of Distribution

Nairy Baghramian, Ulises Carrión, Nicolas Ceccaldi, IFP, Nina Könnemann, John Knight, Silvia Kolbowski, Louise Lawler, Hans-Christian Lotz, Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Bonny Poon, PROVENCE, Readymades Belong to Everyone/Philippe Thomas, Udio

Curated by Egija Inzule, Tobias Kaspar and Axel J. Wieder
Reader and showcases in collaboration with Maja Wismer

The exhibition “In the Middle of Affairs” presents works, projects and documents, which share an interest in forms of distribution and alternative fields of activities for artistic practice, and investigates them as an inherent part of the production of meaning and value. The works in the exhibition consciously relate to the language of design and advertising, operate in commercial media and adopt or reflect its methods and techniques.

A series of works from the last 30 years, by artist Louise Lawler and the agency Readymades Belong to Everyone for example, are presented as historical points of reference, as well as a collection of archival material from the Paris-based collector Ghislain Mollet-Viéville. New works, partially produced specifically for the exhibition, continue and re-adjust the investigation about distribution and self-positioning.

“In the Middle of Affairs” is not only the title of the exhibition, but also describes its working method, in which one’s own involvement determines the viewing direction to enable a research in proximity of its subject. The exhibition, which has been developed together with the curator Egija Inzule and the artist Tobias Kaspar, combines different approaches and documents into a fragmentary “narrative” with changing perspective.

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Events during the exhibition:

Thursday, September 30:
8.30pm: Presentness is Grace, Performance by Udio

Friday, October 1:
5pm: (Goodbye to) Manhattan (2010, 110 min.), film presentation by Ken Okiishi
7pm: Displaying footnotes, presentation by Maja Wismer
8pm: Cocktails
9pm: Bruno & Michael are smiling and Skipperrr, concert

Sunday, Oktober 31:
7pm: Lilia Prado Superstar Film Festival, Ulises Carrión 1984

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Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Reuchlinstrasse 4b, D – 70178 Stuttgart
Phone: +49 (0)711 617652, fax: +49 (0)711 613165
http://www.kuenstlerhaus.de
Hours: Wed. – Sun. 3 – 7pm

Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off. Mariken Wessels.
Published by alauda publications.
80 pages full color (Dutch/Eng). 24 x 33 cm.
Including glassine envelope containing photos.

The photographs in this book are sourced from an existing person, a middle-aged woman wringing with her self-image in an endless stream of manipulated photographs of herself, making them into a true cabinet of curiosities. The authentic arrangement of the discovered material, with its strange mixture of old and new photographs, film material and collages is strikingly deceptive. In fact, both in Elisabeth – I want to eat – as well as in Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off, it is the hand of the fine craftswoman Mariken Wessels at work. The suggestive, intimate force of the ‘found’ photographic material and other personal documents, as well as the sequencing of the images as a whole, are both deliberately arranged with great precision. Wessels sensitively appropriates the photo and film material by newly photographing, editing, and re-organizing them, often incorporating other material in a complementary gesture. In doing so, she constructs a narrative, weaving together images in the medium of the book.

In Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off it is the unfolding of a melancholic narrative of a woman, whose life seems to be dominated by her obesity. Yet the reader is never turned into a voyeur. ‘Queen Ann’s’ peculiar and touching photo collages of herself, expressing a longing for another ‘being’, are fused with the image that the book evokes around her persona. In the contrast which the arrangement of the photos make all too evident, an uncomfortable incompatibility emerges between the present and the past life of Ann and the status of being beautiful. Wessels breathes new life into her protagonist, blurring the lines between fiction and reality, giving way in the process to a seemingly ‘higher’ reality.

D 35€

LIMITED EDITION

75 copies numbered and signed. With two unpublished photos on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
In handmade box.

€ 149

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