As contribution to the event framework ’Survival Kit’ Egija Inzule (LV/CH) and Maja Wismer (CH) will curate an exhibition with and about books. Focusing on the double role of books within the field of art both as self-contained aesthetic entity and as a medium of information and discourse, a selection of exhibition catalogues, artists’ books and art theory publications will be displayed.
According to the concept of ’Survival Kit’ the books will be put on view in an empty shop in the city center of Riga, becoming a temporary bookshop, with most of the books also being for sale. Furthermore the exhibtion wishes to expand into a discursive platform: lectures, presentations and performances are scheduled. A special event will focus on the Latvian art book scene.
Among the invited guests are the curator and co-founder of the Berlin based art bookstore pro qm Axel John Wieder, the Stockholm based artists’ duo Goldin+Senneby, Alexis Zavialoff from Motto distribution, Flash Institut, estonian graphic designers Indrek Sirkel and Asterisk* – a mobile bookstore. In parallel to the exhibition Zürich based graphic designers Urs Lehni and Lex Trüb will hold a workshop with students of the graphic design department of the art school in Riga. The exhibition will also host ”The most beautiful Swiss Books 2008”.
In collaboration with the LCCA the exhibtion will host the book launch of the first Latvian translation of Theodor W. Adorno’s text ’Dialectic of Enlightenment’.

Exhibition evening program:
11.09. 18:30 Axel J. Wieder (Stuttgart/Berlin)
12.09. 19:00 – 01:00 Bookstore Asterisk* (Tallinn)
13.09. 14:00 – 18:00 Bookstore Asterisk* (Tallinn)
13.09. 18:30 Indrek Sirkel (Tallinn)
14.09. 18:30 Timothy Hall (London)
15.09. 18:30 Goldin + Senneby (Stockholm)
16.09. 18:30 Alexis Zavialoff, Motto Distribution (Berlin)
17.09. 18:30 Discussion: Giants’ fight
18.09. 18:30 Mirjam Wirz, Flash Institut (Zürich, Vilnius)
19.09. 18:30 Discussion: Publishing for a small audience – rules, market, potential

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Archive books. Now available for distribution.

The Incest Museum. A Guide. Simon Fujiwara.

Home for lost ideas. Edited by Catherine Griffiths and Dan Rees.

Tokyo Edit is a new book published by ROCKET BOOKS.
This bulky 500 pages publication introduces you the very present of Tokyo in a non typical guide book style. Bi-lingual ( Japanese-English ).

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Unter Dem Motto. 5.9.09. Index
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Thank you everybody and see you next year!

Samstag, 5. September 2009 um 20 Uhr 30
Investigations into Graphic Design and Other Forms of Publicity
A Talk by Zak Kyes with Matthew Evans
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Zak Kyes will present three Investigations into Graphic Design and Other Forms of Publicity followed by a conversation with Matthew Evans. Through his specific and local practice this talk will focus on investigations that explore the multiple identities of contemporary graphic design: the editorial production of the AA Print Studio, first established in 1971 by Denis Crompton of Archigram; the publishing initiative Bedford Press; and the curatorial project Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design, an exhibition presenting a group of international graphic designers who base their work in critical investigation. Forms of Inquiry travelled to five institutions after originating in London in 2007 and related publications include Forms of Inquiry (AA Publications, 2007), Forms of Inquiry Annex (Bedford Press, 2009) and FOI Reader (Iaspis/Sternberg Press, 2010).
Bedford Press will be launching Forms of Inquiry Annex at Pro qm and at Unter dem Motto, a one day publishing fair in Berlin on September 5th 2009.
www.formsofinquiry.com / www.bedfordpress.org / www.aaschool.ac.uk
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