The Sound of Downloading Makes Me Want to Upload – The Institute of Social Hypocrisy

Edited by Victor Boullet, the resulting collection of essays, images and musings reveals the disparate perspectives of the various up and downloaders. It illustrates how the internet is used and manipulated as a creative tool and is a font of information and communication at every level.

Contributors include Peter J. Amdam, Markus Thor Andresson, Theodor Barth, Sophie Barth, Rasmus Thirup Beck, Victor Boullet, Merlin Carpenter, Lorenzo Cirrincione, Keren Cytter, Guy Debord, Bill Drummond, Paul Andreas Enger, Matias Faldbakken, Bentley Farrington, Ullrich Fichtner, Anna Franck, Gilbert & George, Evan Haning, Nate Harrison, Iselin Linstad Hauge, Karl Holmqvist, Jason Hwang, Marte Johnslien, Ray Johnson, Brian Kennon, Svein Kojan, Adam Kurdahl, Oliver Laric, Pablo Larios, Matthieu Laurette, David Lewis, Tobias Madison, Edie McKay, Bjarne Melgaard, Han Nefkens, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tommy Olsson, Matt Packer, Richard Parry, Dr Nina Pearlman, Thomas Petitjean, Joe Scanlan, Chris Sharp, Sutton Lane, Kristian Skylstad, Kristina Skylstad, Brad Troemel & Jonathon F. Williams.

Published by Lauren Monchar & The Institute of Social Hypocrisy
Designed by Hey Ho
352 Pages
14 x 21 cm
500 grams
B/W Offset
Text in English
Edition of 1000
2010

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SUP MAGAZINE issue 23

Featuring interviews & photo stories with:
Azari & III, Ben Frost, Blondes, Bo Ningen, Bridezilla, Connan Mockasin, DJ Nate, Etienne Jaumet, Holy Fuck, Kisses, Mystery Jets, Night Slugs, Oneohtrix Point Never, Penguin Prison, Prince Rama and Tensnake

+ Genre Feature:
Occult Rock: Blood Ceremony, The Devil’s Blood, Ghost & Sabbath Assembly

Photos and artwork from:
David Berezin, Coley Brown, Sanna Charles, Petra Collins, Bea Fremderman, Leonard Greco, Paul Herbst, Jói Kjartans, Andreas Lux, Mathieu Malouf & Hejji Shin, Asher Penn, Pedro Ramos, Ward Robinson, Dan Wilton & Milan Zrnic

Contributing Writers:
Marisa Brickman, Jeff Burch, Cameron Cook, Natalie Hardwick, Bryan Hood, Josh Jones, Laura Martin, Marek Steven, Ari Spool, Mitch Strashnov, Chau Tu

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Berlin – Paris 2011
Motto presents Olaf Nicolai, Blondies @ Librairie Yvon Lambert.
Opening Reception: Friday 28 January 2011. 6pm

On occasion of the third edition of Berlin-Paris, Motto has invited the German artist Olaf Nicolai with a carte blanche for an artist project.
Nicolai has chosen to present his project “BLOND” (and with it its corresponding artist’s book “The Blondes”), for the occasion rearranged in a new installation, “Blondies”, specifically for the situation at the bookstore, using the material that accompanied the originally project for the first time. With this arrangement Nicolai demonstrates in a playful way his conception of an artist’s book as a complex tool whose character oscillates between documentation, artwork and the starting point for new artistic inventions.

For the original project “BLOND” in the city centre of Tilburg / Netherlands and later in Amsterdam a barbershop was installed temporarily. The shop’s special offer – a professional hairdresser who dyed the customers’ hair blond free of charge – was made known by placing advertisements in the daily press. The free bleaching was subject to the condition that each customer agreed to be photographed before and after the bleaching and consented to further artistic use of this documentation.

Instead of featuring product advertisement, the wall and window displays of the salon functioned as display surfaces for an exhibition. In addition to photos of famous examples of the Mise-en-scène of “blondness”, pictures of performances or reproductions of art works (by Andy Warhol, Vanessa Beecroft, Karen Kilimnik, Douglas Gordon, Santiago Sierra, Olaf Breuning and many others) based on the trade mark “blond” were exhibited, transforming the shop into a mixture of a beauty parlour, art gallery and mantelpiece display.

42 of the photographs taken during the project “BLOND” were selected from the collection. They were compiled as an independent art series, “The Blondes”, (2003 / 2004). In the artist’s book “The Blondes” (2005) the photographs are reproduced in original size. The book’s design allows each image to be detached and used individually. The motifs of this series also provide the material for subsequent new works, in which they themselves may also become the screen for new projections. Thereby, the logic of simulation is perpetuated:

Two photographs of the series appeared in 2004 on concert tour posters and on the cover of the new album of the band F.S.K and in 2007, in a shopping street in a Southern German city, all 42 portraits were used as flag motifs.

A selection of books curated by Motto will also be on display.

Librairie Yvon Lambert
108, rue Vieille-du-Temple
75003 Paris
T. +33(0)142 710933
Mon – Sat. 10am – 7pm

www.yvon-lambert.com
www.mottodistribution.com
www.berlin-paris.fr

(image courtesy: Olaf Nicolai, Eigen+Art Leipzig/Berlin)

Olaf Nicolai – Innere Stimme

An autonomous text written by Jean-Luc Nancy on occasion of the work (Innere Stimme) by Olaf Nicolai, presented at the Vleeshal in Middelburg from November 11 – December 12 2010. ‘Innere Stimme’ is the title of a notation by Robert Schumann in his Humoreske, Op. 20, used by Nicolai as instruction for a sound performance. Design: Roger Willems. Text in French and English.

Artist: Olaf Nicolai / Jean-Luc Nancy
In collaboration with: De Vleeshal Middelburg
Published by Roma Publications
2010

D 11€

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The Renaming Machine / The Book

ed. by Suzana Milevska, various writers
book, hardcover, 420 pp, ill., colour
Ljubljana, Slovenia: P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute. 2010

The project The Renaming Machine looks at the complex entanglements involved in the political and cultural processes of renaming. Its main concept reflects the crucial need to question the way these processes have influenced the construction and destabilization of the memory of national, cultural andpersonal identities in the former Yugoslavia and South-Eastern Europe over the past two decades. Alongside the philosophical and theoretical implications of the “mystic writing pad” of historic renaming, the project examines clandestine ideological patterns of the “desiring renaming machine” at work behind the dominant and visible social machines. Particularly with the break-up of Yugoslavia, the renaming “apparatus” erased and overwrote most traces from the Tito era, including the Yugoslav leader’s own name, which had been attached to many places in the former country.
Participating writers and artists in the book are (among others):
Sanja Iveković, Tanja Ostojić/DavidRych, Tadej Pogačar, Dan Perjovschi, Lia Perjovschi, Irwin, Alexander Vaindorf, Sasha Huber, Kalle Hamm, Mladen Stilinović, Hristina Ivanoska, Zdenko Bužek, Barbara Borčić, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , James E. Faulconer, Suzana Milevska, Aldo Milohnić, Zhivka Valiavicharska.Valiavicharska.

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The Clandestine Histories of the OHO Group

Miško Šuvaković, The Clandestine Histories of the OHO Group
English edition, bw print, format: 15 cm x 23 cm, 149 pp., 2010
text by: Miško Šuvaković
Published by: Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E.
Ljubljana 2010

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GAGARIN 22/2010

Gagarin – the artists in their own words – is entirely dedicated to the publication of original texts of artists, who are now working, anywhere in the world. Gagarin wants to publish their words in an unfiltered way, in the form of autobiographical texts or interviews. Gagarin does not restrict itself to a particular period or import and runs through the codes that are applied in the world of art. Gagarin is aimed at those who do not tend to wait until everything is accepted and synthesized and those who ar prepared to leave the road to search for stimulating art and ideas while they are still fresh.

Contributors issue 22/2010:
Joseph Kosuth, Paolo Chiasera, Matej Krén, Tintin Wulia, Alicja Kwade, Roman Signer, Eulalia Valldosera

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Nikolas Gambaroff, Michael Krebber, R.H. Quaytman, Blake Rayne – Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen Kunsthall, Nov. 5- Dec. 22 2010

Exhibition catalogue

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Classifications of a Spit Stain – Ellie Ga

Classification of a Spit Stain is the result of Ellie Ga’s two-year project photographing and analyzing stains on city pavements throughout the world. Accompanying the photographs is a classification system which organizes the stains according to various qualities such as substance and longevity. A combination of urban flaneurie and garbology, Classification of a Spit Stain is a mysterious field guide to the landscape underneath the soles of our shoes. The original version of this artist book, made in an edition of twenty-five copies, is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, Yale University, Brown University, and UCLA’s Dickson Library, among others. This trade edition was produced in response to sustained interest.

This book was funded in part by grants from the NEA and from the Jerome Foundation (via CLMP).

Hardcover. 64 pp, 6.75 x 8.5 in.
Published by Ugly Duckling Presse

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n+1 research branch small book series: What was the Hipster? a sociological investigation

“Who was the turn-of-the-century hipster? Who is free enough of the hipster taint to write its history without contempt or nostalgia? A panel of writers invited the public to join an investigation into the rise and fall of the contemporary hipster. In addition to the panel transcript, the book includes essays and responses from critics.”

D 10€

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