As contribution to the event framework ’Survival Kit’ Egija Inzule (LV/CH) and Maja Wismer (CH) will curate an exhibition with and about books. Focusing on the double role of books within the field of art both as self-contained aesthetic entity and as a medium of information and discourse, a selection of exhibition catalogues, artists’ books and art theory publications will be displayed.
According to the concept of ’Survival Kit’ the books will be put on view in an empty shop in the city center of Riga, becoming a temporary bookshop, with most of the books also being for sale. Furthermore the exhibtion wishes to expand into a discursive platform: lectures, presentations and performances are scheduled. A special event will focus on the Latvian art book scene.
Among the invited guests are the curator and co-founder of the Berlin based art bookstore pro qm Axel John Wieder, the Stockholm based artists’ duo Goldin+Senneby, Alexis Zavialoff from Motto distribution, Flash Institut, estonian graphic designers Indrek Sirkel and Asterisk* – a mobile bookstore. In parallel to the exhibition Zürich based graphic designers Urs Lehni and Lex Trüb will hold a workshop with students of the graphic design department of the art school in Riga. The exhibition will also host ”The most beautiful Swiss Books 2008”.
In collaboration with the LCCA the exhibtion will host the book launch of the first Latvian translation of Theodor W. Adorno’s text ’Dialectic of Enlightenment’.

Exhibition evening program:
11.09. 18:30 Axel J. Wieder (Stuttgart/Berlin)
12.09. 19:00 – 01:00 Bookstore Asterisk* (Tallinn)
13.09. 14:00 – 18:00 Bookstore Asterisk* (Tallinn)
13.09. 18:30 Indrek Sirkel (Tallinn)
14.09. 18:30 Timothy Hall (London)
15.09. 18:30 Goldin + Senneby (Stockholm)
16.09. 18:30 Alexis Zavialoff, Motto Distribution (Berlin)
17.09. 18:30 Discussion: Giants’ fight
18.09. 18:30 Mirjam Wirz, Flash Institut (Zürich, Vilnius)
19.09. 18:30 Discussion: Publishing for a small audience – rules, market, potential

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Fantom magazine’s first issue is coming later this fall. More soon!

Chimurenga # 14, Everyone Has Their Indian features words and images on the Third World project and links, real and imagined, between Africa and South Asia.

Contributors include: M. Neelika Jayawardane, Emily Raboteau, Rasheed Araeen, Martin Kimani, Shailja Patel, Rustum Kozain, Kai Friese, Amitav Ghosh, Manu Herbstein, J.S. Saxena, Ranjith Kally, Vivek Narayanan, Achal Prabhala, Akin Adesokan, Neo Muyanga, Philippe Rekacewicz, Percy Zvomuya, Mahmood Mamdani, Binyavanga Wainaina, Raqs Media Collective, Pravasan Pillay, Rigo 23, Andile Mngxitama, Naeem Mohaiemen, Tsuba Ka 23, Girija Tropp, Robben Island Museum, Speculative Archive and many more.

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Encens Magazine # 24

The world of Dries van Noten:

Dries Van Noten – Jules François Crahay – Cinzia Ruggieri – Rick Owens – Per Spook – Véronique Leroy – Romeo Gigli – Alaia …

Now at Motto Berlin.

Sliding the Slow Split by Navid Nuur. Published by Onomatopee.

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During his working period at the Cacaofabriek, Navid developed an artistic signature that grabbed Onomatopee’s attention. Titles of works should function, according to Navid, both as a literary designation of meaning as of a visual addition to this conceptual stance. This was Navid’s working challenge. Navid figured out a way how he could play with the text’s ink by spraying water on the text, on the canvas. The ink of the text would flow downward, leaving layers of ink in different colours behind. Black ink, for example, contains multiple colours of witch some flow further down then others. A flowing colour radiance is what resides on the canvas.

The combination of both text and visual appearance make this publication suiting to Onomatopee. Besides this reason comes that Navid is a great guy.

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Artwork by Ariel Dill & Denise Schatz
Design by Miya Osaki

Images from Martha, 1973, Rainer Werner Fasbinder

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Der seit 1999 vom eidgenössischen Bundesamt für Kultur organisierte Wettbewerb wird jährlich durchgeführt. Die fünfköpfige Jury unter dem Vorsitz von Cornel Windlin prämierte im Januar 2009 insgesamt 33 Bücher des Buchjahrgangs 2008. Anlässlich von MISS READ, dem Artist Book Festival in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, werden die schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2008 bei do you read me?! (500 Meter von den KW entfernt) vom 4. bis zum 12. September 2009 zu entdecken sein.

Eröffnung: Freitag, 4. September 2009, um 18 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer: 4. – 12. September 2009
Öffnungszeiten: Montag–Samstag, 10 – 20:30 Uhr, Sonntag, 6. September 13 – 18 Uhr

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10117 Berlin-Mitte. Tel +49-30-695 49 695, www.doyoureadme.de

Motto is happy to stock a large selection from Hyphen Press.

Available in Berlin store:

Asleep in the afternoon, E.C. Large
Sugar in the air, E.C. Large
Paul Renner: the art of typography, Christopher Burke
God’s amateur: the writing of E.C. Large, Stuart Bailey and Robin Kinross
Detail in typography, Jost Hochuli
A view of early typography: up to about 1600, Harry Carter / Introduction by James Mosley
Anthony Froshaug: Typography & texts / Documents of a life, Robin Kinross
Fragments of utopia: collage reflections of heroic modernism, David Wild
Models & Constructs: margin notes to a design culture, Norman Potter
What is a designer: things, places, messages, Norman Potter
Active literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography, Christopher Burke
Typography papers 7 – Department of Typography, University of Reading
Typography papers 5 – Department of Typography, University of Reading
Designing books: practice and theory, Jost Hochuli & Robin Kinross
The transformer: principles of making Isotype charts, Marie Neurath and Robin Kinross
Type now: a manifesto, plus work so far, Fred Smeijers

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_(SIC) is an annual Belgian magazine adopting a specific art history approach to deal with modern and contemporary art.

A collection of texts devoted to modernity in photography.
Edited by Alexander Streitberger.
Texts by Alexander Streitberger, Marc-Emmanuel Mélon, Stephanie Diekmann, Carl Havelange, Michel Poivert, Danielle Leenaerts, Nathalie Boulouch, Hilde van Gelder, Victor Burgin.

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