All I Remember. Elisabetta Benassi.

Conceived as an artist’s book as well as a work of art, All I remember, is a collection of 477
backs of photos retrieved from the archives of the most important daily newspapers in the
world, collected and photographed by the artist over the last three years. Elisabetta Benassi
has selected the most significant photos of the 20th century in a backwards route through
personal and collective memories. Each page of the book corresponds to a single photo back
characterized by a data sheet with the dates, the photographers’ names and an objective
description of that which is represented in the image, as is usually done in image filing
systems. The result is an original history of our past, made of written images, of memorable
moments of the history of the 20th century.

Published by Nero 2011
484 p.
165×215 cm
Edition of 1’000
Language: Ita /Eng
ISBN 978-88-97503-00-2

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Everybody’s Card. Martine Derks & Xavier Fernandez

http://www.martinederks.com/
http://xavierfernandez.info/

Published by Centerfold 2011
ISBN 9789081758406
D 21€

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Last days of Motto’s Temporary Shop in Helsinki

open on:
Saturday 17
11 – 8 pm
& Sunday 18
11 – 4 pm

Address:
Museum of Finnish Architecture’s villa in Kaivopuisto
Puistokatu 4, Helsinki

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COMING UP!
MNF Reading Circle II: The Climate of Public Space
Saturday 17, September
12 – 3 pm

Join us in reading aloud texts from the Museum of the Near Future book collection, including a preview from a forthcoming title, and discussing public space today and tomorrow.

How can we define public space today? More precisely, what does it mean in Helsinki, a city of long winters and respectively cold and dark agoras? While the privatisation of public space – as illustrated by the rise of warm and brightly illuminated malls – is not only a local phenomenon, Helsinki faces a challenge to invent new models of spaces for year-round free assembly in its expanding urban core, taking over former harbour and industrial areas by the sea. Will the future of our public space be enclosed, or perhaps virtual?

Drawing from philosopher Boris Groys’ ideas about weather as a defining element in the collective sensibility of a city, The Climate of Public Space reading circle explores different ways of leading a public life inside. Based on the forthcoming ‘Solution Finland: The Welfare Game’ book (Sternberg Press, 2011), the event includes a presentation by its editor, architect Martti Kalliala, together with one of the co-writers Jenna Sutela (OK Do), leading into a reading and discussion about the weather, city and media, joined by Toronto-based curator Cheyanne Turions.
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Previously at MNF: Reading Circle I: City of Matters of Concern

The City of Matters of Concern reading circle explored how to make our concerns and interests manifest in Helsinki, mixing the private with the public and the individual with the collective.

OK Do drew from (or bastardized) sociologist Bruno Latour’s notion of ‘matters of concern’ in mapping out what it means to care for a city. Hosted by OK Do together with Toronto-based curator Cheyanne Turions, the readings included extracts from ‘OK Talk Helsinki/London’ book (2011).
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Museum of the Near Future is created by OK Do, the creative practice of designers, writers and curators Anni Puolakka and Jenna Sutela, and carried out in collaboration with organisations and individuals of different stripes. The project team for MNF I includes designer and curator Anna Mikkola, bookshop representative Matilda Tjäder (Motto), curator Cheyanne Turions and designer Tommi Vasko.

Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure)
Ioana Nemes

Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure) is an artistic project by late Romanian artist Ioana Nemes (1979-2011). The sculptures from the series can be a seen as a memorial for a particular day in the life of the artist, a project she led as a scientific experiment: “What this project creates is a Polaroid of time consumed in a standartised amount of time.” Systematically and precise the data describes the seemingly unimportant details of daily life and thus becomes – after the tragic death of the artist – powerful monuments of life.

Including the interview “I’m telling you stories, trust me” with Ioana Nemes by Stuart Aarsman and a introductory text by Romanian curator Alina Serban.

Published by Jiri Svestka Gallery 2009 in conjunction with the exhibition: Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure) at Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague (March 21 – April 5, 2008)
Graphic design: Anja Lutz / Book Design
Introduction text: Alina Serban

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Contemporary Brazilian Politics

Notes on political corruption are published in the press on a daily basis.
The annual cost of corruption in Brazil is estimated to amount to roughly USD 5 billion.
This publication shows a collection of excerpts from the press, gathered over the past few years.
Be prepared to be amazed…

All net proceeds will be donated to a project helping to provide a better future for kids in the poorest neighborhoods of Natal, Brazil, which is my wife´s hometown.

We are currently visiting and selecting these projects.
Guaranteed 0% money deviation.

Trying to make a difference.
-Erik van der Weijde

Contemporary Brazilian Politics
Erik van der Weijde
Published by 4478zine

Vol. I, 2011
20 pages
13×20 cm
offset printed in Brazil
€ 5,99

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Museum of the Near Future (MNF) is an apparatus for looking sideways at institutions, cities, time and space. In an attempt to challenge perceptions of what is possible, and desirable, between now and next, MNF produces places for imagination and discussion in site-specific, functional installations. They are set up in interaction with museum and other institutional contexts and contents, asking questions for and with their hosts.

The first MNF project manifests in a thematic book society and -shop, taking over the old space of Museum of Finnish Architecture in Kaivopuisto, Helsinki, as part of the museum’s attempts to revitalise it. It explores micro-political participation in a city undergoing grand urban projects, such as its rapid expansion to central harbour and industrial areas or the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 nomination. Using literature and related activities – like reading circles and performative publishing – as tools, MNF I experiments with the convergence of personal and public space, asking how value-based concerns of individuals could be turned into productive ways of living in Helsinki.

Museum of the Near Future is created by OK Do, the creative practice of designers, writers and curators Anni Puolakka and Jenna Sutela, and carried out in collaboration with organisations and individuals of different stripes. The project team for MNF I includes designer and curator Anna Mikkola, bookshop representative Matilda Tjäder (Motto), curator Cheyanne Turions and designer Tommi Vasko.

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Museum of the Near Future bookshop

9–18 September, 2011

Address:

Museum of Finnish Architecture’s villa in Kaivopuisto

Puistokatu 4, Helsinki

Open:

Tue, Thu, Fri 10–16

Wed 10–20

Sat, Sun 11–16

(Mon closed)

Programme:

Fri 9.9. Museum of the Near Future bookshop opens at 10 am

Sun 11.9. Museum of the Near Future morning party, including the Helsinki launch of OK Do’s OK Talk Helsinki/London book 9 am–noon (RSVP at hello@ok-do.eu)

Sun 11.9. Walk talk in Hernesaari, a Helsinki harbour area in development. Participants will be picked up by a water bus to Hernesaari at the Sea Harbour of Kaivopuisto (address: Merisatamanranta 10) at 1.30 pm and brought back by 4 pm (tickets 5 e, bookings at hello@ok-do.eu)

Tue 13.9. Reading circle I 6 pm–9 pm (free entrance, RSVP at helhello@ok-do.eu)

Fri 16.9. OK Do curates a film screening at Museum of Finnish Architecture’s backyard, Kasarmikatu 24, Helsinki 7 pm–9 pm (free entrance, to be announced at www.mfa.fi)

Sat 17.9. Reading circle II 12 am–3 pm (free entrance, RSVP at hello@ok-do.eu)

Sun 18.9. The bookshop closes at 4 pm

Coffee will be served by Café Aaltopelti!

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More information:

hello@ok-do.eu / +358 50 527 3123

www.ok-do.eu

www.mottodistribution.com

www.mfa.fi

www.helsinkidesignweek.com

Travelling Across the USA / Reise durch die USA by Paul Gerhard Diez

The photo book “Travelling Across the USA” shows photographs by passionate amateur photographer and then student of theology Paul Gerhard Diez which he took during a journey across the USA in 1954. The photographer wrote a short comment on each picture. “Travelling Across the USA” is published by Books & Booklets in a German and an English edition, with an accompanying essay by journalist Georg Diez, the photographer’s son.

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Das Fotobuch “Reise durch die USA” zeigt Bilder des Hobbyfotografen und damaligen Theologiestudenten Paul Gerhard Diez, die dieser während einer Reise quer durch die USA im Jahre 1954 aufgenommen hat. Die Bilder wurden vom Fotografen jeweils mit kurzen Kommentaren versehen. Entstanden ist ein Zeitdokument und ein besonderes Reisetagebuch zugleich. “Reise durch die USA” ist in einer deutsch- und einer englischsprachigen Version erschienen, mit einem begleitenden Essay des Journalisten Georg Diez, dem Sohn des Fotografen. Herausgegeben von Bücher & Hefte.

16.9 x 12 cm
176 pages

D 25€

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Drawing Room Confessions #3 / #4 – Mousse Publishing

Made of words and exchanges, with no images, Drawing Room Confessions is open to diverse practices and voices. It is named after a game played at the end of the nineteenth century in England and France, which consisted of a fixed questionnaire answered by players to reveal their tastes, aspirations and personalities. For every issue of the journal, we invite one artist to play the serious and playful game of conversation. Each section follows a set of rules, only the players change, as interviewers from a wide range of fields contribute to a portrait of the artist at a certain time.

DRC #3 stars:
Miriam Cahn as Miriam
Rene Pulfer as The Egoist
Griselda Pollock as The Blind Man
Andreas Osterwalder as Tango

DRC #4 stars:
David Lamelas as David
David Gothard as The Egoist
Robrecht Vanderbeeken as The Blind Man
Celine Condorelli as Tango
Gerard Hemsworth as The Double Dealer

D 11€

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It’s Nice That #6

It’s Nice That is a tri-annually published arts and culture magazine. Including in-depth interviews and articles focussing on, and written by, practitioners from all over the world, It’s Nice That publishes original content in a format that gives the work the respect it deserves.

The sixth issue of It’s Nice That includes interviews with George Lois, Lawrence Weiner, Asger Carlsen, Kate MacGarry, Martino Gamper and Francis Upritchard. Features on or by Marion Deuchars, Keith Haring, Carl Kleiner and Chaz Bundick among others alongside a selection of work recently featured on the blog.

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Vancouver Anthology – Stan Douglas (Ed.) – Or Gallery/Talonbooks

The essays collected in the second edition of Vancouver Anthology were first presented in the autumn of 1990 as part of a lecture series entitled “Vancouver Anthology: Lectures on Art in British Columbia”, a forum in which each contributing writer could test his or her research on the question of art and politics in public, before their papers were sent to print. The papers documented a range of Vancouver cultural practice, including the emergence of artist-run centres, experimental performance and video, feminist activity, collaboration, sculpture, painting, art criticism, conceptual art and landscape, as well as critical reflections on perceptions of aboriginal cultures.

Vancouver Anthology has been out of print for several years and earlier attempts to reprint the book were thwarted due to the fact that design files and production films had been lost or destroyed. In the absence of a second printing, scarcity and high-demand drove prices for existing volumes as high as $300, making the book unaffordable to artists and students in particular. The new edition, which has been over two years in production, was recreated using early text files of the essays and by sourcing and re-scanning images from their original negatives and transparencies. A new design by Derek Barnett pays tribute to Douglas’s original 1991 book design, yet provided the opportunity to move to a larger hardcover format. Most significantly, the second edition features a new afterword by Douglas, reflecting on sociopolitical changes since the anthology’s beginnings in 1990.

Essays in the book include: A Particular History: Artist-Run Centres in Vancouver by Keith Wallace; Daring Documents: The Practical Aesthetics of Early Vancouver Video by Sara Diamond; Expanded Consciousness and Company Types: Collaboration Since Intermedia and the N.E. Thing Company by Nancy Shaw; Independent Film After Structuralism: Hybrid Experimental Narrative and Documentary by Maria Insell; Some Are Weather-Wise; Some Otherwise: Criticism and Vancouver by William Wood; A Working Chronology of Feminist Cultural Activities and Events in Vancouver: 1970–1990 by Carol Williams; Sculpture and the Sculptural in Halifax and Vancouver by Robin Peck; Painting and the Social History of British Columbia by Robert Linsley; Discovering the Defeatured Landscape by Scott Watson; and Construction of the Imaginary Indian by Marcia Crosby.

Vancouver Anthology is co-published by the Or Gallery and Talonbooks, Vancouver. Printing and production of the second edition project was generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Vancouver Cultural Olympiad, British Columbia Arts Council, and the Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts in British Columbia.

320 pages
English

D 32€

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