How to Get Rid of Pimples is Cookie Mueller’s first and only fiction publication, where she spins short, strange tales of friends healed by her miraculous acne cure. Although the stories revolve around her description of others, Cookie herself outshines her characters, with an unmistakable voice that is astute, grotesque, and undeniably hers – as if Flannery O’Connor became a New York downtown diva. With photos by Peter Hujar, Nan Goldin, and David Armstrong, How to Get Rid of Pimples conjures a vision of the remarkable world of Cookie Mueller.
Mang Mang Magazine Vol. 1 is a Chinese-language independent magazine called “莽莽 Mang Mang” (meaning wild grass). The magazine includes articles, interviews, photos, and well-researched infographics documenting the recent wave of protests in China and in Chinese communities throughout the world that has led to the ending of the draconian Zero-Covid policy in China. Mang Mang Magazine Vol. 1 also deals with broader political and social issues (feminism, LGBTQ) and supports protests in Iran and Hong Kong, just to name a few.
“I’m interested in the resonances, the re-habitualizations, and the echoes of that historical moment in the contemporary.”
For more than three decades, Tony Cokes (b. 1956, Richmond, USA; lives and works in Providence, USA) has been exploring in his work the ideology and affect politics of media and popular culture as well as their social impact. Starting from a fundamental critique of the representation and visual commodification of African-American communities in film, television, advertising, and music videos, Cokes has developed a unique form of video essay that radically rejects representational imagery. These fast-paced works consist of found text and sound material from diverse sources such as critical theory, online journalism, literature, and popular music.
The US artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany also marks the first comprehensive collaboration between Kunstverein München and Haus der Kunst. The thematic starting point for Cokes’s new productions is the ideological and propagandistic entanglements of both exhibition venues during the Nazi era as well as their cultural-political role in the context of the 20th Olympic Games in Munich in 1972.
The publication Fragments, or just Moments accompanies the eponymous exhibition and translates stills from the newly produced video essays into a book format while examining the significance of Cokes’s work in terms of a contemporary approach to institutional critique. The essays are written by Tina M. Campt and Tom Holert, with an introduction by Emma Enderby and Elena Setzer (Haus der Kunst) as well as Maurin Dietrich, Gloria Hasnay, and Gina Merz (Kunstverein München).
Please join us for the book launch of ANSKA with author Agnė Juodvalkytė and a performance by Tania Elstermeyer.
Friday 17 February 2023 from 6 pm
Motto (im Hinterhaus) Skalitzer Str. 68 Berlin, 10997
Agnė Juodvalkytė (b. 1987, Vilnius, Lithuania) is a visual artist currently living in Berlin and Vilnius. Her practice is focused on abstract painting and textiles mostly. She received BA in Painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (2010) and studied Visual Arts in Spain at the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM, Cuenca) (2009). Her recent shows include solo exhibition Tools for the Future (ANSKA) at Galerie Bernau, Bernau bei Berlin (2022); Sweet Dreams Foundation at Nida Art Colony, Nida (2022); ‘Gathering’ at Atletika, Vilnius (2021); ANSKA at Blake & Vargas, Berlin (2021); group show Audra at Pamario gallery, Juodkrantė (2021); Terpė at (AV17) gallery, Vilnius (2020).
Tania Elstermeyers textual compositions bring registers of lyrical writing to mind, which are performed in alliance to a distinctive kind of music beyond established genres. During her performances, sceneries resemblant of theater backdrops are created, ultimately by operating with a vocabulary that is minimalism. Her work slivers traditional outlines of narrator and spectatorship by luring oneself into spaces of intimacy that attract interest and cause discomfort. (Text by Oliver Wellmann)
Authors: Agnė Juodvalkytė Publisher: Year: 2023 Pages: 224 Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm Language: English ISBN: 978-3-00-074288-0
Edited by Philippe Gerlach and Agnė Juodvalkytė Design by Marijn Degenaar Texts by Brad Feuerhelm, Juri Marian Gross, Marija Repšytė, and Nele Ruckelshausen
Through photographs of the studio process and visual sketches the first publication ANSKA by artist Agnė Juodvalkytė offers an overview of the artist’s studio practice from the past years while creating a sensory world of recollection. The book marks the conclusion of the ANSKA cycle in her work.
“In Agnė Juodvalkytė’s work, the weave that is bound by cloth, ash, dirt, and dye, invokes memory, utility, and hand-infused labor. The stains, folds, and strained fraying edges of her chosen material are also infused, caked, and distressed to provide new readings of production. There is something familiar in her use of textiles. Each fold of fabric is detailed by a weave birthed from the center spiraling out in an obstinate mosaic of emotion wrought from the plunder of self.” — Brad Feuerhelm
This special issue is the cataLog for ModelBehavior, a group exhibition of models, architectural and otherwise, curated by the Anyone Corporation and presented by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union in New York City. The exhibition, which ran October 4–November 18, 2022, questioned the role of the model in projecting or eliciting social behavior. In addition to documenting the 55 exhibited works with four-color images and project descriptions, the 160-page cataLog includes essays by curator Cynthia Davidson; by architecture theorists Jörg H. Gleiter, Kiel Moe, and Christophe Van Gerrewey; and by art historian Annabel Jane Wharton.
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MODEL BEHAVIOR
OCTOBER 4 – NOVEMBER 18, 2022
A GROUP EXHIBITION CURATED BY THE ANYONE CORPORATION AND PRESENTED BY THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE OF THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART
Models, whether physical or digital, are intrinsic to architecture. Just as science, mathematics, politics, economics, and other fields use models to visualize, reflect, and predict behaviors, so do architectural models. ModelBehavior, a group exhibition curated by Log editor Cynthia Davidson, designed by New Affiliates (Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb), considered how architectural models contribute to shaping social behaviors. Model Behavior featured 70 works and objects by 45 artists and architects including artists Olafur Eliasson, Isamu Noguchi, Ekow Nimako, and Thomas Demand, and architects Peter Eisenman, Darell Wayne Fields, Greg Lynn, Forensic Architects (Eyal Weizman), First Office (Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood), MALL (Jennifer Bonner), Ensamble (Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril), and Höweler and Yoon (Eric Höweler and Meejin Yoon).
Infinity Complex Landscape is a photography fanzine documenting Yoshie Itasaka’s journey through contemporary East Ukraine landscape, its complexities and its contradictions.
“(…) It is impossible for one nation to assimilate the culture of another nation completely. Life and development of culture has various patterns.
The Culture of a creator and the culture of a borrower will continue to develop, but in different directions. All of this is often complicated by differing conditions and types.
It is wrong to identify the merger of cultures with the assimilation of a foreign culture. As a general rule, only a mixture of cultures is possible. However, despite this impossibility, many nations exert immense effort in pursuit of such assimilation… (…)”
“Europe and Mankind” by Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy, Sofia, 1920
Yoshie Itasaka (b. 1984, Osaka) started her nomadic journey in 2010. From 2010 to 2013 the photographer traveled North America. From 2013 to 2020 she traveled the European Continent (including the Balkans, Caucasus, Russia), Israel, and Palestine.
Photos and art direction by Yoshie Itasaka Design by maho ohashi Edition of 300 copies Printed in Kyoto, Japan
ANITA STECKEL (A) Reconsidering Anita Steckel in the Age of Heteropessimism Wendy Vogel (B) Anita Being Anita Dodie Bellamy, Rachel Middleman, Betty Tompkins
MANHATTAN MARXIST: I’VE GOT PRINCIPLES, AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE THEM, I’VE GOT OTHERS Estelle Hoy
PRIMITIVE MAN Amy Gerstler
TIDBITS (PART I) Jordan/Martin Hell by Alex Bennett Scott Covert by Sabrina Tarasoff Erin Calla Watson by Jennifer Piejko Stéphane Mandelbaum by Krzysztof Kościuczuk
The Margins of Events: Bruno Serralongue Elisa R. Linn, Lennart Wolff
SEYNI AWA CAMARA: Tale of Tales Eva Barois De Caevel
MELIKE KARA: Being without Ego Sohrab Mohebbi
Books Jenna Sutela
TIDBITS (PART II) Abbas Zahedi by Alessandro Rabottini George Tourkovasilis by Nicolas Linnert B. Ingrid Olson by Brit Barton Dala Nasser by Amy Jones
Album is a short illustrated history of film in Tangier, and of Tangier on film, told through the stories and archives of the Cinémathèque de Tanger, North Africa’s first art house cinema.
With contributions by Philippe Azoury, Ahmed Boughaba, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Carles Guerra, Bouchra Khalili, Luc Sante
Music score for four toy pianos, revolving around four notes—A, B, C, and E. Inscribed in the minimalist aesthetic of contemporary music, the piece was inspired by the rhythm of traditional Moroccan ceremonial music. With an essay by video artist and writer Laëtitia Laguzet.
