Ein Magazin über Orte #9

Ein Magazin über Orte« (A Magazine about Places) is published twice a year. It deals with a different location in every issue. The magazine collects works of various authors in the form of photographs, drawings and texts.

Publishing and Design Elmar Bambach / Julia Marquardt / Birgit Vogel

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THE PROVENCE CITY GUIDE: NICE
This totally new full-colour guide offers masses a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location like Nice — the California of Europe — has to offer the art conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider’s checklist of all you need to know about France’s most intoxicating city. Whether you are staying for 24 hours or five days, visiting for business or pleasure, with THE PROVENCE CITY GUIDE: NICE you will find the best restaurants, bars and hotels, extraordinary stores and sites, and the most enticing architecture and design.

Released on the occasion of human Valley‘s third chapter «the Money Plot», at Kunsthalle Zurich, 11th November 2011.
Signed copies will be available during the opening.

THE PROVENCE CITY GUIDE: NICE
Edited by Tobias Kaspar and Hannes Loichinger
Published by Paraguay Press, Paris 2011
160 color pages, stitched binding
ISBN 978-2-918252-14-6

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PROVENCE
Paraguay Press

mono.klub #36
Launch & After Show Party
CANT DJ Gig
Release of mono.kultur #29: CHRIS TAYLOR

09 November 2011 / Wednesday / 22h
€3 [incl. mono.kultur #29]

L.U.X.
Schlesische Strasse 41
10997 Berlin / Kreuzberg

Mono.Kultur #29: Chris Taylor/Grizzly Bear

“Those times when your heart felt kind of warmed, like a glowing lightbulb was inside of you.”

It is a rare moment when a band or musician creates a sound that defies comparison – which is why American underground phenomenon Grizzly Bear have been on our wish list for some time. Creating a strange and strangely addictive sonic universe, the Brooklyn Quartet nonetheless and unexpectedly succeeded to attract not only a dedicated following, but also mainstream praise.

With bassist Chris Taylor having just released his first and irresistably groovy solo album as CANT, which turned out to be a grand surprise exercise in sloppy funk, all the more reason to make a wish come true and dedicate our latest issue #29 to the prolific and eclectic musician, producer and master cook, who was even kind enough to share the recipe for an entire dinner with us.

In a beautifully relaxed conversation, Chris Taylor talked with mono.kultur about the ,agic of making music, why perfect does not necessarily mean good and the meditative effect of motorcycling.

For this issue, Chris Taylor not only shared a dinner recipe with us, but also opened his archive of personal photographs for this issue. And since Taylor is a man of many talents, we thought it only appropriate to include a poster as cover to expand the world of Terrible into all directions.

Interview by Renko Heuer
Photography by Chris Taylor
A Dinner by Chris Taylor & Itchai Schori
Design by Pia Hartmann & Christina Taphorn

Autumn 2011
English
15 x 20 cm
28 Pages & Fold Out Poster

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Tuesday, November 1st @ Motto Berlin
Start 7pm

A NEW RELEASE BY LODOWN MAGAZINE:
SPEED – THE ANNUAL ART EDITION 003
Featuring: Carsten Nicolai, Osang Gwon, Hunter Longe, Miya Ando, Samir Mougas, Arcangelo Sassolino, Jean Tinguely, Michael Sailstorfer, Bruno Rousseaud, Tim Taylor, Jane Stockdale, Takehito Koganezawa and Rammellzee and more you never dared to ask about Speed.

We have global time, belonging to the multimedia, to cyberspace, increasingly dominating the local time-frame of our cities, our neighborhoods. Nothing is ever obtained without a loss of something else. What will be gained from electronic information and electronic communication will necessarily result in a loss somewhere else. If we are not aware of this loss, and do not account for it, our gain will be of no value. This is the lesson to be had from the previous development of transport technologies. The realization of high velocity railway service has been possible only because engineers of the 19th century had invented the block system, that is a method to regulate traffic so that trains are speeded up without risk of railway catastrophes. But so far, traffic control engineering on the information (super)highways is conspicuous by its absence.

-Paul Virillo

People become avatars, usernames, trolls flitting in and out of various environments at a speed so fast that the world is transformed, made into the speed of light. It doesn’t matter how fast you run, whether or not you catch the first train or the last, or if you make it from here to point X in 20 minutes or less because that which is happening in worlds we cannot see; worlds where tiny information packets travel along encoded passageways, certain intelligence finds its way to high security databases, and encrypted messages carry vital details on just how the next transaction should take place… is where all the things that run this planet are truly happening… so for whatever it’s worth, go with godspeed.

English
EAN: 4194162-709003 20003
Softcover, 340 x 265 mm, 108 pages
Deutschland & Österreich € 9.00
Schweiz CHF 14.00 – Benelux/France € 12.00 – UK £ 10.00

www.lodownmagazine.com

Horizonte #4 – Journal for Architecture: Building Matters

“HORIZONTE – Journal for Architectural Discourse” is an interdisciplinary and collaborative effort of students from the School of Architecture, the School of Design and the School of Media Studies and is an independent student organization.

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Spike #29

Spike is a quarterly magazine for contemporary art that was founded by the artist Rita Vitorelli in 2004, published in Vienna. The magazine offers new, illuminating, and unconventional perspectives on art and contemporary trends. The inclusion of many voices from the art world, subjective points of view and a first hand directness grant a new proximity to reality.
The heart of the magazine are major contributions on five artists whose work we consider decisive for current artistic debates. In essays, critics from various backgrounds write on contemporary art and analyze developments in contemporary culture.
The art world of Eastern Europe is highly present in Spike; the close interlinking between art and life, art and society, and the existential contribution made by Eastern European artists bear an affinity to the spirit of Spike.
Spike believes that the world can be transformed by art, not just through its mere existence, but by bringing its ideas to the most possible people.

Publishers: New Art Club
Editor in Chief: Rita Vitorelli
Managing Editor: Nora Dünser, Maximilian Geymüller
Art Direction: Christoph Steinegger, Interkool

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ANZA #1: Making Our City

Prologue to ANZA #1:

“Architecture, although we often don’t realize it, always played a central role in our culture and life: in our homes, places of worship, offices, and shops. The 21st century has brought much social-economic transformation to Africa, and it has been coined as the century of the cities. The African continent will most probably experience immense population growth – the United Nations estimates that Africa’s population may more than triple in the century. Most of this growth will take place in cities – and in architecture.

Therefore, both specialists and public need to openly discuss the urban and architectural issues connected with these growing cities. But there is no platform in the form of a magazine for such a discussion. ANZA is edited in Dar es Salaam, Africa’s fastest growing city. It is to be a vehicle for open criticism and a constructive exchange of opinions; a platform to launch innovation solutions; a place for the discussion of typical local phenomena, and as a source of information for decision makers.

To kick-start the magazine, a four-week workshop was setup by Camenzind Magazine, Zurich to train a group of young ambitious and vibrant university students and recent graduates to form a future editorial team for a magazine that will fill the void of an East-African architectural magazine. The workshop included training in text writing and editing, photography, art and production, and finally marketing and strategy to ensure the long-term existence of the magazine.

After a fun and loud discussion bouncing ideas back and forth, we finally came up with the magazine title: ANZA, a Swahili word meaning, “start.” We found this name suitable as it marks both the beginning journey of this East-African architectural magazine and the long journey of our hopeful East-African cities and their peoples. Aside from this name being subtly powerful, we all agreed that it was also typographically beautiful.

One may ask: “can a diverse multidisciplinary student-published magazine, dealing with issues concerning people and spaces, issued bi-annually, compete with newer, more interactive, and above all faster formats like blogs and online forums?” Answer: one can never know unless they ANZA!”

24 pages
Prologue / Editorial in Swahili and English
Articles in English

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