{"id":30963,"date":"2013-07-10T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T13:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=30963"},"modified":"2013-07-12T14:15:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T13:15:40","slug":"mario-pfeifer-markus-weisbeck-spector-books-motto-berlin-13-07-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=30963","title":{"rendered":"Mario Pfeifer \/ Markus Weisbeck \/ Spector Books @ Motto Berlin. 13.07.2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mario_Pfeifer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mario_Pfeifer-682x971.jpg\" alt=\"120917_Taxi Art _ Book Dividers\" width=\"682\" height=\"971\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-30964\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mario_Pfeifer-682x971.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mario_Pfeifer-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mario Pfeifer \/ Markus Weisbeck \/ Spector Books @ Motto Berlin.<br \/>\nTALK: 7:30 Sharp!<\/p>\n<p>Mario Pfeifer\u2019s publication \u201cA Formal Film&#8230;\u201d is a critical reader that is part of his film project of the eponymous title \u2014 an innovative expansion of the genre. The complex exploration of the intercultural, film-historic, political and urban issues that are discussed in Pfeifer\u2019s film not only surface on the level of texts, they also become manifest in the materiality of the book itself and its production process. The artist\u2019s book was produced in Mumbai in collaboration with local producers and created using six different local printing techniques on nine different, locally sourced paper stocks. In March 2012 Mario Pfeifer and designer Markus Weisbeck set out the formal aspects of the publication in collaboration with local manufacturers and the authors of the texts in Mumbai, India.<\/p>\n<p>The publication was recently selected as one of the best 50 international artists book and will be presented at Kaleid 2013, London.<\/p>\n<p>During the book launch a collector&#8217;s edition with hand-painted dust-jackets will be on view besides originally commissioned illustrations and print related materials from the production in Bombay.<\/p>\n<p>Designer Markus Weisbeck and artist Mario Pfeifer will be present to introduce the conception, production and reception of the publication that served previously for panel discussions on issues of cross-cultural labor representation, collaborative strategies and knowledge production at MMK Museum f\u00fcr Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Artists Space New York, Studio X Mumbai and Khoj New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Pfeifer: A Formal Film in Nine Episodes, Prologue and Epilogue &#8211;<br \/>\nA Critical Reader<\/p>\n<p>Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer, Bernd Rei\u00df &#8211; MMK Museum f\u00fcr Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Goethe-Institut\/Max Mueller Bhavan and KOW<\/p>\n<p>Form by Markus Weisbeck in collaboration with Kurnal Rawat and Anand Tharanay of Grandmother India<\/p>\n<p>With Contributions by Suprio Bhattacharjee, Kaushik Bhaumik, Amira Gad, Susanne Gaensheimer, Nikolaus Hirsch, Ranjit Hoskote, Shanay Jhaveri, Kurnal Rawat, Bernd Rei\u00df, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Anand Tharanay, Ragunath Vasudevan, Markus Weisbeck and Mario Pfeifer<br \/>\nHardcover, 300pages, numerous color illustrations w. Bookmark and Dust-jacket<br \/>\nOffset, Letterpress, Xerox, Silkscreen<br \/>\nPublished in Hindi and English by Spector Books, 2013<br \/>\nISBN 978-3-940064-60-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Pfeifer \/ Markus Weisbeck \/ Spector Books @ Motto Berlin. TALK: 7:30 Sharp! Mario Pfeifer\u2019s publication \u201cA Formal Film&#8230;\u201d is a critical reader that is part of his film project of the eponymous title \u2014 an innovative expansion of the genre. The complex exploration of the intercultural, film-historic, political and urban issues that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[3628,1542,271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30997,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963\/revisions\/30997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}