UPHA (Ukranian Photographic Alternative). Niice.

Set of printed photographs, each featuring the work of a different photographer, published by Niice.

Young independent publishing house Niice, based in Kiev, Ukraine, joined self-publishing community earlier this summer. A small team of two people, Arianna Khmelniuk and Taras Gimirovych, has organized more than 40 workshops and creative work meetings, took part in design contest and organizing of cultural festival since that time. That is interdisciplinary project, free lectures hall and discussion platform.
Professionals from typography, art coordinators, designers, artists, journalists are invited as the teachers. The project is aimed at supporting of young avant-garde Ukrainian art.

UPHA — Ukrainian Photographic Alternative is an independent group created to help and support development of contemporary Ukrainian photography. Our main goals are organizing and carrying solo and group exhibitions, providing help and holding educational programs and publishing along with integrating and expanding emerging Ukrainian photography further.

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Mental Beat #0

Mental Beat is an old-fashioned paper fanzine devoted to punk rock.

Content: Ginger Wildheart (english text)
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes (english text)
Iggy & the Stooges,
Punk Magazine…

Cover girl: Pepper, American Horror Story – Asylum

Language: Italian, English
Pages: 28
Size: 21 x 15 cm

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The White Review No. 9.

Contents:

Ordinary Voids by Patrick Langley (Essay)

Vladimir Sorokin (Interview)

Chess Review Storyboard by Marcel Dzama (Art)

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author James Murphy’s Notes on Nicola Morelli Berengo by Francesco Pacifico (tr. Livia Franchini) (Fiction)

Poems by Adam Fitzgerald, George Szirtes, Matthew Gregory (Poetry)

Dr Gaz by Jeff Keen (Art)

Even Pricks by Ed Atkins (Fiction)

Gustav Metzger (Interview)

Leaving Theories Behind by Enrique Vila-Matas (tr. Rahul Bery)

Poems by Gerður Kristný (tr. Victoria Cribb and Sigurður A. Magnússon) (Poetry)

Utopia Welcomes You!! by Mark Mulroney (Art)

The Drained Pool by Hunter Braithwaite (Essay)

Rebecca Solnit (Interview)

Eat My Heart Out (Fiction)

Cover art: The Secret Map by Raphaël Garnier

Editors: Benjamin Eastham, Jacques Testard
Language: English
Pages: 176
Size: 17 x 24
Binding: Softcover

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After Butler’s Wharf, Critical Writing RCA.

After Butler’s Wharf presents a series of critical perspectives on the economic, artistic and political histories of this landmark London building, including: a catwalk commentary on 1975’s Alternative Miss World with photographs by Richard Young; a fictional conversation between Sir Terence Conran and Mr Butler, the founder of the Wharf; an interview with artist Kevin Atherton; archival investigations into the rich, unwritten history of 2B Butler’s Wharf, a film and live art collective which included John Kippin and David Critchley; a letter to the late Stephen Cripps, pyrotechnic sculptor and Butler’s Wharf resident; and an excerpt from an unpublished interview with Derek Jarman.

Cloth bound hardback, 136 pages.

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Arc #17 compendium, Critical Writing RCA.

The Arc 17 compendium brings you the three editions of the journal made in 2012 and 2013.

17.1: RURAL takes on the interchange between rural and urban practice, with contributions from Ruth Beale, Brian Dillon, John Akomfrah and Ute Meta Bauer. 32 pages.

17:2 CROSSINGS tackles the idea of the polymath in contemporary culture, with texts by Chris Kraus, David Morris, Joe Kerr and many more. 36 pages.

17.3: ADAPTATION focuses on methods and processes relating to appropriation and adaptation in literature, art, design and architecture. It counts Yves Lomax and Teal Triggs among its contributors. 36 pages.

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Frog 13

MIKE KELLEY’s shows at The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris are discussed in this issue by JILL GASPARINA and NOELLIE ROUSSEL —both admiring KELLEY’s œuvre and sharing a rather critical point of view on the Paris venue. Not much more positive is the opinion of JONATHAN CHAUVEAU on French philosopher BERNARD-HENRI LEVY’s show “Les aventures de la vérité” at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, but admiration is back with MARIE DE BRUGEROLLE’s essay on ANDREA FRASER and her show in Cologne. PIERRE HUYGHE’s Pompidou Centre exhibition also leans Frog Editor in Chief ERIC TRONCY to express —one more time— his deep admiration for the very demanding relationship the French artist has with his own work.

In a rather long interview, German Art Dealer and Collector MICHAEL WERNER tells FABIAN STECH everything he has to say about the art world, collecting and selling art — and the meaning of a donation, after he decided to give 127 paintings and sculptures to the Musee d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris.

The 55th Venice Biennial is also discussed in this issue by ELISABETH LEBOVICI, BERNARD MARCADE, NICOLAS TREMBLEY, STEPHANIE MOISDON and ERIC TRONCY, and to say they did not like what they see is an understatement. But the quite intrepid remake of legendary exhibition “Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (Works — Concepts — Processes — Situations — Information)” at the Prada Foundation in Venice by starchitect REM KOOLHAAS ravishes everyone.

Talking about architecture, ANTOINE ESPINASSEAU interviewed Japanese architect HIDEYUKI NAKAYAMA, and photographed SOU FOUJIMOTO’s pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in London. Fashion Photographer PIERRE EVEN went to Le Roc, in the South of France, and photographed the extraordinary house built there by French architect FREDERIC MARTINET. He and EDOUARD ROPAS both wrote on legendary Haus III built by OSWALD MATHIAS UNGERS in Cologne, photographed for Frog by PHILIPPE JARRIGEON.

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 X Marks the Spot. Joachim Schmid

‘I don’t know why I felt the need to stand by the X but judging from everyone else, it would appear to be the thing to do’

Dallas, Texas, Dealey Plaza. The site where John F. Kennedy was assassinated is a major tourist magnet. White Xes on the pavement mark the spots where the president was fatally shot – in the middle of a freeway on-ramp. Visitors often wait for a gap in traffic, hurry to one of the Xes, get their photos taken and leave the road before the next cars arrive. Some of those photos end up in online photo sharing sites such as Flickr, with captions along these lines: “I don’t know why I felt the need to stand by the X but judging from everyone else, it would appear to be the thing to do.”
A webcam is positioned in a window on the sixth floor of the former Texas School Book Depository, the site where, on November 22, 1963, an assassin allegedly fired the shots that killed Kennedy as the presidential motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza. The camera’s perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this in real time.
The book combines snapshots taken by tourists at Dealey Plaza with footage from the webcam.
2013

digital print, colour
14.8 x 10.5 cm, 84 pages
softcover, sewn
100 copies

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Kunsthalle Roveredo / Edition Taube @ Motto Berlin
December 17, 2013, 7pm

Join us for the launch of “Kunsthalle Roveredo”, a collection of fictional tales written by 2013 residents Pauline Beaudemont, Jan Kiefer, Elise Lammer, Benjamin Orlow, Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes, Emanuel Rohss and Max Ruf.

The book was designed by Chan-Young Ramert, edited by Elise Lammer and Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes.

Edition Taube

Presentation of the first monograph on the multi-disciplinary practice of Heidi Voet, One in Many, which is characterized by her playful and transformative use of objects to make critical social commentary about everyday life.
The bilingual publication ONE IN MANY is published by MERpaperkunsthalle in English and Chinese.
An edition on paper, entitled ‘Stars & Constellations’ of 12 +3 AP’s published by MER will also be presented during the book launch.

22.12.2013
WIELS
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354,
1190 Bruxelles-Brussel

Verities N°3:The Class Issue

featuring: david Harvey, DIck Hobbs, Allan Sekula, Simon J. Charlesworth, Jonathan Olivares, Sut Jhally and many more

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