Unit : Design / Research 01

Posted in graphic design, Motto Berlin store, music on May 11th, 2010

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Unit: Design/Research 01 – Ronald Clyne at Folkways
An anthology of Folkways album cover art featuring the work of Ronald Clyne.

D 10€
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Spin #3 (restock)

Posted in magazines, Motto Berlin store, music on May 6th, 2010
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Spin #3 – Action Time Vision, a paper about punk 7″ singles, with essays by Malcolm Garrett and Russ Bestley.

Ultraviolet Magazine – The “And Justice for All” issue

Posted in magazines, Motto Berlin store, Motto Zürich store, music on April 28th, 2010
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Ultraviolet Magazine, The “And Justice for All” issue.
This magazine was compiled by Nessie De Witte.

D 8.50€

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foam #22 – Peeping

Posted in Events, magazines, music, online editorial, Uncategorized on April 13th, 2010
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Foam – international photography magazine
PEEPING issue spring 2010/ # 22

published by Foam Amsterdam

218 pages
texts in english

D 20€

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White Fungus – Issue 11

Posted in magazines, Motto Berlin store, music, writing on March 31st, 2010
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White Fungus #11

White Fungus is an experimental arts magazine based in Taichung City, Taiwan. Featuring writing on art, music, history and politics, plus original artworks, poetry, fiction and comics, White Fungus is an ongoing experiment in community media art. As the spores have been released its creators look forward to seeing which way the wind blows.
The only thing more uncertain than its future is its past.

D 7 €

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Control +C – Recession Catalogue – A Nonexistent Exhibition

Posted in Exhibitions, Motto Berlin store, music, photography on January 25th, 2010
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A project by Studio Blanco, in conjunction with Control+C Festival, Carpi (MO), Italy, december 2009.

Featuring: Rita Ackermann, Linus Bill, Boduf Songs, Melanie Bonajo, Mark Borthwick, Paul Boudens, Peter Broderick,
Christophe Brunnquell, Maxime Büchi and Slavs & Tatars, Sylvain Chauveau, Dirty Sound System, Erica Eyres,
Jason Evans, Goldmund, Nicholas Haggard, Dustin O’Halloran, Estelle Hanania, Tim Hecker, Item Idem, Julia Kent,
Richard Kern, Carlotta Manaigo, Ari Marcopoulos, Dylan Martorell, Jukka Reverberi, Ronin, Aaron Rose, Henry Roy,
Lina Scheynius, Alessandro Zuek Simonetti, Peter Sutherland, Ed Templeton, Camille Vivier, Lukas Wassman
and Rainer Ganahl, Alexis Zavialoff.

35 plates + audio cd compilation. 800 copies.
D 15€

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Johanna Billing – Apparent Extent

Posted in Motto Berlin event, Motto Berlin store, music, Zines on January 13th, 2010
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Records

“I’m Lost Without Your Rhythm”, Johanna Billing
“This Is How We Walk on the Moon”, Johanna Billing
“Original Film Soundtracks”, Johanna Billing
“Deseret Canyon”, The Paper Hats (aka William Tyler. Lambchop)

D 15€

Apparent Extent Fanzine

20 pages. Texts by Johanna Billing, Christian Nae, Christian Jendreiko, William Tyler, and James Merle Thomas. Photos by Jörg Koopmann. Collages by Martin Fengel

D 3€

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Christian Marclay’s Chrismas Tales – Adeena Mey

Posted in Motto Berlin store, music, Zines on January 13th, 2010
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Christian Marclay’s Chrismas Tales by Adeena Mey.
Edition of 250.

D 11€

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Apparent Extent/Johanna Billing record release @ Motto Berlin. 12.01.10.

Posted in Motto Berlin store, music, Uncategorized on January 11th, 2010
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Introducing Johanna Billing “I’m Lost Without Your Rhythm” LP @ Motto Berlin. 12.01.10

Working mainly with video and group performances, Johanna Billing (1973, lives and works in Stockholm) is known for her investigations into collaboration and collective experience. Hovering between staged fiction and documentary, her films are a record of untrained performers participating in artificial situations set up by the artist.

I’m Lost Without Your Rhythm is based on the recording of a live performance of dance ‘learned’ or performed by amateur Romanian dancers in Iaşi, Romania, during the Periferic 8 Biennial of Contemporary Art in Oct 2008. Film and soundtrack link several days’ activity inspired by the works of Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer into a continuous process, in which dancers were watched by an audience who were free to come and go as they pleased. There is no final performance as such and so the work is a result of collaboration between choreographer, musicians, dancers and audience.

A vinyl LP of the soundtrack to I’m Lost Without Your Rhythm will be released by Munich-based independent music label Apparent Extent. The presentation through Apparent Extent chief Volker Zander at Motto Bookstore incorporates a glimpse into Johanna Billings actual video work and photographic footage of the original Iaşi workshop as well as a display of her earlier soundtracks, the labels back catalogue and other AE printed matter.

Johanna Billing’s work This is How we Walk on the Moon, 2007, was included in Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany, 2007. Other recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions Forever Changes, Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Basel, 2007; Keep on Doing, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, 2007; and Magical World, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, 2007. She was also included in prominent group exhibitions such as Here We Dance, Tate Modern, London, 2008; Amateurs, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, 2008; Belief, Singapore Biennale, 2006; and Delays and Revolutions, in the Italian Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, 2003. Billing’s works explore the intricacies of group dynamics and are often cause for meditation on idealism and democracy within community settings. The video work I’m Lost Without Your Rhythm was produced in collaboration with Camden Arts Centre, London, Modern Art Oxford and Arnolfini, Bristol in 2009 as part of the 3 series: 3 artists, 3 spaces, 3 years.

http://www.apparent-extent.com/

Start 18h30.

ANP Quarterly Vol.2 Number 3 (repost!)

Posted in illustration, magazines, Motto Berlin store, music, photography on November 20th, 2009
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The latest ANP Quarterly is finally in stock !
It is including the features on Noah Davis, Miranda July, C.R. Stecyk III, Black Dice. (and a Motto itw that we posted before as well!).

9 Euros