Mousse 51 is a photo issue dedicated to exhibitions from 1985 to 1995, the last ten years or so before exhibitions went online, and possibly, before the exhibition view became a requisite genre.

Up to twenty years ago, galleries and museum, art magazines and schools had no websites; viewing a show would mean, quite simply, visiting it. A great number of seminal shows—from small but consequential artists’ debuts in private galleries, to the innovative biennial iterations in new territories and continents, to thematic and now historicized institutional exhibitions—were richly studied, avidly discussed, but poorly photographed, if at all.

This issue is an album of recommendations, for which we are very grateful to all the writers, artists, curators, dealers, and friends who accepted to share with us their favorite shows. We couldn’t find pictures for all of them, but many are here.
Thank you!

Includes:

– The Artist as Curator, issue #10

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Scrapbook of the Sixties is a collection of published and unpublished texts by Jonas Mekas, filmmaker, writer, poet, and cofounder of the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via Germany in 1949 and began shooting his first films there. Mekas developed a form of film diary in which he recorded moments of his daily life. He became the barometer of the New York art scene and a pioneer of American avant-garde cinema. Every week, starting in 1958, he published his legendary “Movie Journal” column in The Village Voice, writing on a range of subjects that were by no means restricted to the world of film. He conducted numerous interviews with artists like Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Erick Hawkins, and Nam June Paik. Some of these will now appear for the first time in his Scrapbook of the Sixties. Mekas’s writings reveal him as a thoughtful diarist and an unparalleled chronicler of the times—a practice that he has continued now for over fifty years.

Jonas Mekas (*1922, Semeniškiai / Lithuania), lives and works in New York. Film-maker, writer, poet and co-founder of the Anthology Film Archives one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde film. Mekas’s work has been exhibited in museums and festivals worldwide.

92 black-white images, adhesive bound softcover

Designed by Fabian Bremer and Pascal Storz

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The second issue of Rab-Rab is in two volumes, all together in 500 pages. The focus of the second issue is ‘noise against culture.’ The contributions deal with the formal theory of noise, politics of contradictions, the device of estrangement, materialist film, music and violence, Futurism, Russian avant-garde, improvisation, void, heterophonies, swearwords, communism, ideologies of marriage, class wars and electricity.

“Departing from our programme based on the understanding of art practice as a confrontation between formal and political inquiries, our aim in this issue is to use noise as the name for this difficult, disturbing, loud and coercive exploration. In many cases the formal and political aspects of noise are two separate things: the former is seen as an issue of information or perception, whereas the latter is usually reduced to a metaphor of spontaneity. But if we change these parameters of discussing the noise from measurable coefficients of failed communication, or from elusive metaphors of contingencies, towards the conceptual references related to ideology and class struggles, then what is understood as noise turns into something else. It can become a valid concept of inquiry, refusing to be pinpointed to conventional academic banalities silly phenomenological artistic fantasies immersed in .”

Contributors to the second issue are Aeron Bergman, Bruno Besana, Sezgin Boynik, Michel Chevalier, Christine Delphy, Antti ‘Eze’ Eskelinen, Giovanna Esposito-Yussif, Dror Feiler, Peter Gidal, Grupa za Politiku, Henrik Heinonen, Anthony Iles, Jaakko Karhunen, Mazen Kerbaj, Martin Krenn, Mattin, Jean-Claude Moineau, Ivana Momčilović, François Nicolas, Rahel Puffert, Ozren Pupovac, Gert Raeithel, Grégoire Rousseau, Max Ryynänen, Alejandra Salinas, Jyrki Siukonen, Darko Suvin, Milica Tomić, Taneli Viitahuhta, Ben Watson and Kari -Annala.

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[theatro] is a rhythmical reading experience, a 5,5 meters long transcript of a seminar performance, reflecting it’s original pulse and duration. [theatro] expands on the notion of ’view’ (‘thea’ in Greek, where the word ’theatre’ comes from). The word ‘view’ is also the root of the word ‘theory’ [coming from the junction of the words ’thea’(=view) and ‘oro’( =to perceive)]. Aiming towards theory as practice, [theatro] is a new work of Lalou in the form of a book written in two languages Greek and English.

Introduction by Alena Alexandrova

Graphic design : Yin Yin Wong / Werkplaats Typografie
Size closed 12 x 16 cm, open: 49.3 x 16 cm (leporello)

Edition of 500

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A debut monograph of Polaroid photographs taken 2005 – 2012 by Thora Dolven Balke.

Essay by Sam Thorne
Conversation with Tacita Dean, moderated by Gaby Hartel.
Designed by Young Professionals, NY
Self published

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DIDI Zine

In collaboration with GeoAIR Artist Residency Georgia, DIDI Zine is the result of a photography based workshop held by Moritz Freudenberg and Marius Land in Tbilisi, March 2015.

With works by: Tamara Bokuchava, Maroussia Ferry, Moritz Freudenberg, Qeta Gvinepadze, Lika Jalagania, Ana Jikia, Gvantsa Jishkariani, Marius Land, Lado Lomitashvili, Tika Nadareishvili

Thanks to: Nini Palavandishvili, Data Chigholashvili, Annie Daravashvili

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She Comes in Colors: a visual diary of love in thoughts

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In the summer of 2012 I met a girl. I took her picture.
We had a brief romance. She left home.
She Comes in Colors is a visual diary of love in thoughts.
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The first edition of 50 copies of my book was self published in 2013, it was part of my graduation at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands. The book has been nominated for the Unseen Dummy Award 2013 in Amsterdam and has been shown during the Photobook Show 2014 in Tokyo. The project has been exhibited in several
exhibitions across Europe.

The self published second edition of 500 copies has been a wonderful collaboration with Maciej Pestka from Magic Editions and Read That Image.

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Featuring:
Anne Collier
Helmut and Johanna Kandl
Ala Younis
Teresa Burga
Kolumne Column
Simon Baier
Matthias Reichelt
Guy Mannes-Abbott
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill
Cinenova Feminist

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E.R.O.S. Issue 7 – The Interior

Richard Wentworth | Ross Exo Adams | Carlo Mollino & Becky Beasley | Francis Haselden | Pier Vittorio Aureli | Mark Cousins | Adam Jasper | Joanna Walsh | Marlene Haring | Jamie Sutcliffe | Gillian Wylde | Melanie Bonajo | J.A. Harrington | Jeanne Randolph | Alessandra Spranzi | Timothy Brittain-Catlin | Associates (Sami Jalili & Emma Letizia Jones) | Nathalie Du Pasquier | Horrible Gif. | Charles Rice | Daniella Valz-Gen | Emma Talbot | Forbes Morlock | Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams | Jessie Makinson | Claudia Dutson | A. Jones | Kim Schoen | Ivonne Santoyo Orozco | Hannah Gregory | Christopher Alexander | Nemanja Zimonjic | Gabor Gyory | Jonathan Meades | Neil Chapman | Jaspar Joseph-Lester | Jacob Dreyer

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You and me and everybody. Erik Steinbrecher. rakete.co + Motto Books.

Everybody is busy this Tuesday.

Size: 19 x 12
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-2-940524-40-2

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