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<\/a><\/p>\nDevonian Press:<\/p>\n
Devonian Press is an independent press founded by Julien Bismuth and Jean-Pascal Flavien in 2005, in Rio de Janeiro. Since then, they have published 21 books and 20 posters. Some of their publications are linked to collaborative projects, such as \u201cThe Announcement\u201d or \u201cPlouf!\u201d. In September 2006, Flavien and Bismuth collaborated with the musician and composer Giancarlo Vulcano, on a performance titled \u201cThe Announcement.\u201d\u00a0In August of that same year, Bismuth and Flavien did a performance with two boatsoff the coast of Rio de Janeiro. One boat, carrying the audience,\u00a0encountered another boat, carrying\u00a0Bismuth and Flavien. Upon meeting, the two artists communicated a text\u00a0to the audience, consisting\u00a0a written text, as well as its translation or illustration by a series of coded signals,\u00a0from semaphore\u00a0signals to Morse code and signal flag commands. The performance is described and\u00a0documented in\u00a0the related book, and was recreated on the Thames, for the Tate Modern, in 2009.
\nPosters were also\u00a0designed and produced by Devonian Press for both performances.
\nOther publications are linked to individual projects. \u201cForgotten Time and Moments\u201d and \u201cViewer,\u201d
\nfor example, described an architectural work, also titled \u201cViewer, which was built by Flavien near Rio de Janeiro in 2007. This building was both featured in the books and used as an office for the publishing house.
\n\u201cno drama house\u201d, and later “book furniture”, are linked to another architectural project of the same name, built in the exterior courtyard of the Giti Nourbakhsch Gallery in Berlin. \u201cMonologues for Minerals\u201d is both a collection of short stories by Bismuth, as well as the libretto for a 16-episode long audio work done in collaboration with Giancarlo Vulcano. \u201cThe error in the landscape\u201d was produced to accompany an exhibition of the same name at Bloomberg Space, in 2010. Other titles, such as \u201cA Hold!\u201d or \u201cStarts and Stops\u201d are autonomous works.
\nIn 2013, “dialogues” and “re- two persons house”\u00a0were published in the wake of the “two persons house”\u00a0built\u00a0in S\u00e3o Paulo in 2010. Another book is\u00a0compiling the contributions of all the people invited\u00a0to live in the breathing house since 2012. “Landscape house” puts together the architectural models of a house that\u00a0Flavien was planning to built\u00a0when he first came to Rio de Janeiro in 2002.<\/p>\n
Capacete\u00a0Entretenimentos:<\/p>\n
At the occasion of this exhibition, Flavien is presenting the complete printed matters of\u00a0Capacete Entretenimentos.
\nCapacete is an non-profit institution initiated by Helmut Batista in Rio de Janeiro in 1998. This is with the help of Capacete that Devonian Press could be imagined and started. Capacete was crucial in supporting and providing an occasion for Flavien’s “viewer” (2007) and “two persons house”(2010) to be built in Rio and Sa\u00f5 Paulo. Helmut Batista participated actively to the experimentation of each of these projects.
\nCapacete published numerous books, magazine, etc, accompanying its various activities which include artist residencies, summer school, exhibitions, production of projects, etc. Many times artist were asked to create a specific design for the publication. Capacete also supported artist publications, or promoted books it own book series: livro para… (book to …) ;\u00a0livro para ler (book to read), livro para morar (book to dwell), livro para responder (book to answer), …<\/p>\n
Between 1998 e 2013 CAPACETE worked with: Andrea Fraser, Pierre Huyghes, Arto Lindsay, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Chelpa Ferro, Joaquim Koester, Julia Rometti e Victor Costales, Harum Farocki, Nobuyushi Araki, Sharen Lockart, Marepe, Rodney Graham, Eija-Liisa Athila, Falke Pisano, Max Hinderer, Mariana Castillo-Deball, Fernanda Gomes, Leonor Antunes, Gabriel Lester, Raimundas Malasauskas, Runo Lagomarsino, Adriana Lara, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Julien Bismuth, Raymond Chaves y Gilda Mantilla, Elfi Turpin, Louidgi Beltrame, Bik van der Pol, Renata Lucas, Tamar Guimar\u00e3es, Kasper Akoj, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Christoph Keller, Manon de Boer, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Hans Christian Dany…<\/p>\n