Mousse #37

Featuring:
Alexander Kluge, Farewell to Yesterday by Jens Hoffmann
Hito Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen by Ana Teixeira Pinto
Talking About, Techno-animism by Lauren Cornell
Pick Up – Lorraine Daston
Objects and (their) Time by Ana Ofak
Jan Švankmajer, Encyclopedia of an Alternative World by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Pick Up – Nicholas Mirzoeff
On Visuality by Chelsea Haines
Talking About Rococo Conceptualism by Jennifer Allen
Portfolio – Sarah Conaway, Black Box Magic by Linda Green
Pick Up, Where to Look, What to Say: Photography in the Next Few Years by Marvin Heiferman
Nice to Meet You – Edgardo Aragón, From the Ruins of the Present by Luigi Fassi
Nice to Meet You – Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli, Around Possible Mysteries by Simone Menegoi
Nice to Meet You – Shane McCarthy, Loop System by Maeve Connolly
Luke Fowler & Peter Hutton, Lived Experience
Philippe Parreno & Anri Sala, A Matter of Synchronization by Cyril Béghin
Pick Up – Robert Hullot-Kentor, On Education and the Prudery of Dissatisfaction by Bettina Funcke
New York – Loretta Fahrenholz, Autosabotage by David Lieske
Paris – Bertille Bak, The Unsubmitted Form by Ida Soulard
Berlin – Gerry Bibby & Natalie Häusler, Bierhimmel
London – Corin Sworn, The Second Hand by Laura McLean-Ferris
Los Angeles – Tender Doublings and Found Minimalism: Fiona Connor by Andrew Berardini
Mark Grotjahn & Jonathan Pylypchuk, Shame, Sociality and Success
Pick Up – Marion Von Osten, Problems of Endless Fruit by Brian Kuan Wood
K-HOLE, Hate Being Sober: the Friendship Experience called K-HOLE by Rachel Blatt
Pick Up – Jeffrey Schnapp, Digital Humanities by Barbara Casavecchia
Elizabeth Peyton & Alex Katz, Painting People
Pick Up – John Tresch, Another History of Science by Armen Avanessian

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Saturday February 16, 2013

Launch of SOUTH as a State of Mind winter / spring 2013 issue in Motto, Berlin!

The SOUTH team will be in Berlin to launch the new issue of SOUTH as a State of Mind. During the launch, there will be a brief visual presentation of the magazine, a special screening of a film by Annika Larsson shot in Anafi (Greek island) and a music performance by Augustin Maurs titled Child Blowing in a Scuba as a Hymn (conceived in Anafi as well). The artist Christina Dimitriadis who participates in this issue will also be present.

After the launch, follow us to a bar next door, where DJ Spyros Rennt will choose the music, including some specially selected Greek tunes!

‘The Lost Park’ is a project including film, music and poetry by Maria Barnas.

Side a is with music by Peter Lunow.
Side b is with sound and music by Nathalie Bruys.
Design: Felix Weigand

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Voices from the corridor part 1 or Everybody’s practice of exhibiting. Stefano Faoro.

Image 1: The Hochspannungshalle ‘Parabelhalle’ is a high voltage test hall in Spandau, Berlin. In the laboratories researchers can generate artificial lightning, thunders, rain and other weather conditions in order to test prototypes designated to different climates. It was designed in 1961 by architect Walter Henn.

Image 2: A film-still from ‘Shock Corrdior’, directed by Samuel Fuller in 1963.

Image 3: Walter Henn was, since the early 1950s, part of a group of German architects who developed the theory of Bürolandschaft, literally ‘office landscapes’. They predicted and applied the end of corridors in working and public buildings. They designed and built rooms where desks could float free and a non-hierarchical ambiance could increase collaboration and, therefore, production. The Osram offices were built by Walter Henn in 1965, in Munich.

Part of ‘Voices from the corridor part 1 or Everybody’s practice of exhibiting’.
A production by Stefano Faoro, Berlin 2013.

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The Shelf Journal #2. Shelf-Publishing.

In this issue:

Derek Birdsall, Interview. – Books which affected the career and life of the famous British book designer.

Stanley Morison & Maximilien Vox, A Frenchman’s view of British typography and vice-versa.

Patricia Belen & Grey D’Onofrio, Elaine Lustig Cohen: The Art of Modern Graphics.

The “club of clubs”, Culture Club – Discussion about French book clubs.

Sebastien Hayez, Four Aces. – Modernism development of graphic design through four design magazine’s issue number 1.

Hugo Hoppmann & Mirko Borsche, The Designing Art Director – Conversation.

The Shelf Journal, A fly on the wall in the printing shop. – Report on printing techniques, supported by examples.

About The Shelf:

“Why start a paper journal about books at a time when the internet is calling into question the average Westerner’s innate materialism, and at a time when the price of a book-as-object puts off devotees of free knowledge on the net? What is becoming of bound volumes today – that foundation of our society, those keepers of our history?

With the dematerialisation of editorial content, the practice of design within books is taking on an even more important dimension. Whether insignificant objects or works of art in their own right, books create through their different forms and stories a unique bond with those who read, consult and own them. This almost physical connection was the reason for creating The Shelf Journal.

 Part place of worship and reflection for paper lovers, part experimental platform for designers, typographers and other graphic designers, The Shelf Journal explores the essence of our libraries’ charm: the limitless variations in form of this unique object.”

122 pages
English and French
ISBN: 9782954065618

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Most Beautiful Books Australia & New Zealand. Call for entries 2013!

The Most Beautiful Books Australia & New Zealand (‘MBBANZ’) award program has been established to recognise innovation and excellence in book design and publishing in Australia and New Zealand. This biennial award program welcomes entries of all types, but the program seeks to emphasise the most innovative contemporary book design and publishing activity in Australia and New Zealand, including titles from independent and small press publishers. Importantly, the program seeks to minimise barriers to entry: there are no entry fees, and books may be nominated for consideration not only by designers and publishers, but also by readers and collectors.

MBBANZ2013 invites entries that have been published in the calendar years of 2011 and 2012, for review by an independent jury of local and international experts in the field –

Peter Corrigan
James Langdon
Warren Taylor
Layla Tweedie-Cullen
Denise Whitehouse

The awards program will be accompanied by talks and lectures by jury members at the State Library of Victoria, with the shortlisted publications announced and exhibited at MADA Gallery, a part of Monash Art Design and Architecture, Melbourne.

Download the entry form and guidelines here.

Entries close Friday 1 March, 2013.

I was happy then. Bureau For Open Culture

I was happy then is a book and film that unites the cinematic spaces of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1962 L’eclisse and the present-day reality of Siena, Italy. Through the framework of a tourist guide that focuses on topics of alienation, architecture, economy, love and urbanization, I was happy then is a critical reflection on cities that renounce the contemporary in exchange for a re-presentation of key historical periods. It expands possibilities for dissemination of written and visual content by bringing together complementary qualities of printed matter and film into a singular work.

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A series of photographs of amateur models captured by photographer Jan Hoek.
Jan Hoek’s subjects include a whole range of amateur models, from homeless fashionistas in Africa to a heroin addict looking for a career as a model and people who he met via adverts or on the internet.
The photo shoots rarely proceed as planned as the photographer and the model often have different expectations. When the model is seeking intimacy, Jan Hoek wants to take a photo of the dog. The model wants to be glamorous; Hoek wants to show the decay.

Jan Hoek, Me and My Models. APE#023

newspaper print
edition of 500
30 x 38 cm
56 pages
newspaper print
edition of 500
ISBN 9789490800086
D 10€
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Terribly awesome photobooks. Paul Kooiker, Erik Kessels. APE#024
Published by Art Paper Editions

For several years, Paul Kooiker and Erik Kessels have organized evenings for friends in which they share the strangest photo books in their collections. The books shown are rarely available in regular shops, but are picked up in thrift stores and from antiquaries. The group’s fascination for these pictorial non-fiction books comes from the need to find images that exist on the fringe of regular commercial photo books. It’s only in this area that it’s possible to find images with an uncontrived quality. What’s noticeable from these publications is that there’s a thin line between being terrible and being awesome. This constant tension makes the books interesting. It’s also worth noting that these tomes all fall within certain categories: the medical, instructional, scientific, sex, humour or propaganda. Paul Kooiker and Erik Kessels have made a selection of their finest books from within this questionable new genre.

30 x 37 cm
64 pages
edition 1000
ISBN 9789490800093
D 10€

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