ED4 (Electric train Demikhovsky, type 4) is a series of Russian DC electric trains produced from 1996 to 2016 at the Demikhovsky Machine-Building Plant for the railways of Russia and the states of the republics of the former USSR.
In the period from 1999 to 2000, the first batch of electric trains with an increased level of comfort were manufactured. This batch was by order of the Moscow Railway, and was necessary for the implementation of local flights. In 2000, the first set of AC electrical equipment for ED9M electric trains was supplied by Electrosila OJSC. It was from these deliveries that the active introduction of the equipment of this company into production began. During this period, trains of the ED4 and ED4M models were the most significant and widespread electric trains used for local purposes.

The book features photographs by Ivan Anisimov taken between 2019 and 2022 before he left Russia. Further shooting was continued by his son Danila in accordance with the list provided by his father. In total Danila took four rolls of 35mm film in winter 2023.

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“when you stop being yourself”
Rinat Bek

Screening 3-7pm, October 18,19,20 @ Motto Paris.

A series of memories that like an avalanche, covers a person at the moment of the ultimate human experience.

Video installation based on slit-scan technology and found-footage recordings of the unknown origin.

Part of the film “Gobelin”

supported by:
Valentina Bek
Maxim Kozlov
and our loved ones.

This post is related the upcoming film screening within the framework of the cinema club and Film Association K1NO1.

K1NO1 Associaton / MONOCINEMA project / Motto store

Motto
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

Geschichten & Skizzen (Book release)
Sat 19.10. / 18h
Motto / Vitrines 
Skalitzer Straße 68, Kreuzberg, 10997 Berlin, Germany

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Geschichten & Skizzen
Eine fortlaufende Sammlung von Bildern und Geschichten, die in verschiedenen Gesprächssituationen entfaltet und besprochen werden können.

Outlines & Scenarios
An ongoing collection of scenarios and sketches being rolled out and talked about in various conversations.

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Der Konzeptkünstler lebt und arbeitet zwischen Berlin und Athen. Seine künstlerische Tätigkeit ist performativ, poetisch und meist seriell. Schwerpunkte bilden dabei Eingriffe in bestehende Systeme sowie Konstruktionen sozialer Räume und interaktiver Ereignisformate. In seiner aktuellen Arbeit legt der Künstler seinen Namen ab.

http://un.titled.be/

SCREENING + Round Table
Friday, October 11, 2024 at Motto Paris
From 7:00 PM
Round Table starts at 8:00 PM

QUATERNITE
by Egor Shevchenko

Motto Paris is very happy to open its autumn/winter screening sessions with artist talks and round tables in collaboration with the K1N01 Association.

This video artwork was inspired by the I Ching 易經, an ancient Chinese divination system.

The work represents random combinations of 64 episodes, shot in France in 2018-2019. The story revolves around four characters lost in the narrative of the story itself.

Additionally, the work was created using the I Ching: the coins were thrown before filming each episode to determine the location, the actors, and the events to follow.

Soundtrack by Gela Lomaya

Round Table
THE CRISIS OF NARRATIVE IN CINEMA

Narrative – history haunts people. At some point, the narrative crisis touched literature and was marked by the works of J.Joyce, A.Bely and then S.Beckett. can we feel “again” necessity to discuss such modern movements in contemporary cinema, It’s crisis and ways out. will we rest everything in status quo and will continue to be the part of the narrative automatisms in life and in cinema.

We invite everyone concerned to join the conversation; those who wish can prepare a presentation on the topic.

If you’ve got an extra chair, bring it to the round table

Motto
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

This post is related the upcoming film screening within the framework of the cinema club and Film Association K1NO1.

Launch of “Chroniques Terriennes” by Mathieu Cesar, published by Mars Amusements and Motto Books, Thursday October 10 at 6pm.

“Chroniques Terriennes” is a look-at book from the perspective of men and women, based on the idea of space adventure.

Mathieu Cesar’s encounter with the Ariane group enabled him to bring together old and new friends for an epistolary journey aboard a real rocket, the beautiful Ariane, the 6th of its kind. Signatures and photographic portraits bear witness to the richness of each encounter in a book that offers a fascinating mosaic of fraternity and an exploration of its many facets.

Die Dornevögel
Hendrik Hegray @ Motto Berlin
Opening 15.9.2024 from 6pm

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Z.B. Aids a.k.a. Valerie Smith a.k.a H.H. = sounds from the incense burner, active since 1999, solo electronic angina from Paris, France.

Performance at 7pm sharp.

Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography
Staci Robinson
Crown

The authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a “touching, empathetic portrait” (The New York Times) of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more.

In Tupac Shakur, author and screenwriter Staci Robinson—who knew Tupac from their shared circle of high school friends in Marin City, California, and who was entrusted by his mother, Afeni Shakur, to share his story—unravels the myths and unpacks the complexities that have shadowed Tupac’s existence. Decades in the making, this book pulls back the curtain to reveal a powerful story of a life defined by politics and art—a man driven by equal parts brilliance and impulsiveness, steeped in the rich intellectual tradition of Black empowerment, and unafraid to utter raw truths about race in America.

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kunstenaar
ANN VERONICA JANSSENS
titel werk
VOORSTELLING VAN EEN RONDE VORM – REPRESENTATION D’UN CORPS ROND
tijdsduur
27 APRIL – 3 JUNI 1996
opening
26 APRIL 1996

FOTOGRAFIE KUNSTWERKEN: Leo van Kampen, D. Bedel,
PH. de Gobert
TEKST: Dirk Pültau
ONTWERP: gebr de Jong ontwerpen, Amsterdam (René Put, Pjotr de Jong)
DRUKWERK: Drukkerij Van den Eynde, Beerse, Belgie UITGAVE: © de Vleeshal Middelburg
OPLAGE: 500 ex.
ISBN: 90-72310-17-9

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ARTMargins Vol. 13.1 ; Socialism In Contemporary African Art

This introductory essay and accompanying special issue of ARTMargins explore the role of African socialisms in contemporary art. Artists looking at Africa’s radical history face the challenge of responding to a generalized amnesia about the continent’s protagonism on intellectual and political radicalism after 1945. Working with under-researched themes, scarce historical records, and apprehensive oral sources, these artists are often tasked to amplify forgotten pasts while simultaneously critiquing the political contingency of historical investigation in global contemporary art. Global contemporary art—largely shaped by the neoliberal transition that followed the very histories explored by these artists—is often shown in its limitation to engage with socialist history critically. Through the authors’ analyses, many artworks nuance discussion of the erasures, fixed narratives, and nostalgia for Africa’s socialist past. Looking to this past, artists attempt to reorganize contemporaneity and its typical disregard for history beyond romanticization. Talho (2014), a work by Mozambican photographer Filipe Branquinho, is analyzed as a case study raising central questions on contemporary artists’ engagement with Africa’s socialist past.

by Álvaro Luís Lima.

February 2024.

Introduction
Socialism in Contemporary African Art: Butchering the End of Time
Álvaro Luís Lima

Articles
“We Need a Lighthouse Philosopher”: Filipa César and Louis Henderson’s Sunstone (2018) and the Portuguese Genealogy of Lens-Based Media
Delinda Collier

Make Me a Picture of the Future: Massinissa Selmani’s 1000 Socialist Villages (2015)
Natasha Marie Llorens

The Mythography of Socialism in Contemporary Angolan Art
Nadine Siegert

The Politics and Aesthetics of Liberation: Revolution and Its Aftermath in Contemporary Artistic Practice from and about Lusophone Africa
Ana Balona de Oliveira

Abstract States: Modernism in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey
Gemma Sharpe

Artist Project
As the Nile Flows or the Camel Walks
Dawit L. Petros, Black Athena Collective

Document
Introduction to “Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes”
Polly Savage

Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes
Tempo, Polly Savage

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