Jesus Days: Slide show and publication presentation @ Motto Berlin. 22.11.2013.

Jesus Days, 1978 – 1983
Photographs by Greg Reynolds

“In the late 70s and early 80s, I was a closeted gay man in his 20s working as a campus minister for an evangelical Christian student organization called the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. I struggled with my homosexuality. I was overwhelmed by grief and saw no option other than to repress my desires for sex and love. In 1978, a missionary friend gave me a 35 mm Pentax K1000 that she didn’t use. I knew very little about photography, but I loved taking pictures. It wasn’t my intention to document the American evangelical movement, but rather to take photographs of the people and places that were important to me. Now I see that the camera allowed me to say in pictures what I could never say in words.” 

From 19.00, slide show begins at 19.45

Motto Berlin
im Hinterhof
Skalitzer Str. 64
Berlin 10997

The White Review No. 8. Benjamin Eastham, Jacques Testard (Eds.). The White Review.

July 2013

FEATURES:

Estate by China Miéville (Fiction)

Chris Kraus (Interview)

A Fictive Retrospective of the Bruce High Quality Foundation by Legacy Russell (Art)

Poems by John Ashbery, Jack Underwood and Sumana Roy (Poetry)

Claudia Wieser (Art)

The Croatian Fairy by Dubravka Ugrešić (tr. David Williams) (Essay)

Sophie Calle (Interview)

On Queensway Market, or How to Care about Things by Orlando Reade (Essay)

Untyping by Eley Williams (Fiction)

Deborah Levy (Interview)

Guy Gormley (Art)

The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi by Eugene Ostashevsky (Poetry)

Barking from the Margins: On Écriture Féminine by Lauren Elkin (Essay)

The Lady of the House by Claire-Louise Bennett (Fiction)

Cover art by Ben Berlow

Language: English
Softcover, 176 pages.

Price: €16.99

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Kotzmann.  Alena Kotzmannová. Kant Books.

The means of photography that Alena Kotzmannová uses is derived much more from a dialogue between the photographer and viewer. The difference between the creator and the later consumer of the photographic image is, to a large degree, blurred in such a concept of photography, which is not uncommon in contemporary art. This in fact results from the very process of creating these pictures. Kotzmannová does not make a preconceived work – first she looks. Before she becomes the photographer that pushes the shutter-release button, she is a person who sees something that she decides to take a picture of. The appeal of her photography does not lie in a photojournalistic boast: I have been to places that you have not. No matter where her pictures come from, they feature everyday things lying in the backdrop of spectacular photogenic events. These are situations that can happen anywhere in the world. Kotzmannová does not show exclusive shots from exotic countries to her viewers, but instead provides the viewer with instructions how the viewer himself should proceed in viewing the world and what can be seen in it. Yes, the final photographic image and its aesthetic quality is also essential. But its meaning is, above all, the aforementioned strategy for viewing the world.

English / Czech
Hardcover
308 pages

€60.00

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Pages #9: Sleep. Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi (Eds.). Pages Magazine.

Editorial Note:

This issue of Pages assumes seep as a post archival mode: in the Merriam-Webster dictionary the verb ‘seep’ is translated as follows: to flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings, to enter or penetrate slowly, to become diffused or spread.

The biology or politics of seeping is like that of raw petroleum oozing at natural oil seeps. Unlike refined oil which has sponsored modernization and its aligned archives, crude oil pours beyond historical purpose and defies structural elevations. It instead disfigures the ground through which it dubiously spreads.

Seeping is a posthumous affair. It is the gradual leaking of a long withdrawn interior. Like the bleeding of a punctured corpse, when the pumping of the heart has stopped, when the body is lifeless and apathetic to any ‘hail’, yet continuing to bleed. Seep as archive is an eternally post-apocalyptic expansion, retraction, deviation, subtraction, or simply the arrival of (non-)things.

CONTENTS
Geo-Archive
Mariam Motamedi Fraser
READ
Contemporary Hole
Editorial Note
Wounds of Archive
Saleh Najafi
The Artist Abstract #6
MARK VON SCHLEGELL
THE UNDERGROUND
Nima Parzham
Vanished Theories
Adam Kleinman
UNFILMABLE
Pages
Seep
Editorial Note
Algorithm
Suzanne Treister
The Dissolute Subject
Alexi Kukuljevic
Andy Warhol, Suicide (Purple Jumping Man), 1963
Matts Leiderstam
Black Infinity; or, Oil Discovers Humans
Eugene Thacker
Infrastructural Suspensions: Global Spanning, Atmospheric Seepage, and Measures of the Undecidable
Natasha Ginwala & Vivian Ziherl

English / Farsi
128 pages

Price: €10.00

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Disko. Andrew Miksys. Arök.

2013, 104 pages and 45 colour photographs with text by Andrew Miksys & Andrei Codrescu.

“The discos of Lithuania were once Soviet offices, detention centers, weapons storage, rare Lithuanian mushroom-packing plants… who knows? One can dream of their former incarnations and feel that, no matter how grim, they are being violently shoved into history by the hungry young bodies Andrew photographs.”

– Andrei Codrescu

Language: English
Hardcover.

Price: €39.00

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Cine Qua Non #7. Ana Luísa Valdeira da Silva (Director). University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies.

Contents:

Occupy your museum
Crisis theatre enjoys a boom
of golden hills, off the golden hill
The Elephant Man (1980) by David Lynch: from ‘freak’ and clinical case to allegory
Between Light and Shadow – Iberian Intermittences
Liquid Landscapes or Not
Poetry is the Net Result of a Perfect Economy of Words
Black Mirror and the singers of Grandola

Portugese / English
128 pages + two inserts

Price: €8.00

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Quick Magazine @ Motto Berlin. 16.11.2013.

A cordial invitation

ourpress publishing & MOTTO Distribution
Celebrate the 10th Quick Magazine and 3 years of Quick with an exhibition and book readings.

Samstag, 16.11.2013, 7 PM

Book reading schedule:

7.30 Fabian Reimann

8.00 Wofgang Plöger

8.30 Andreas Meyer reads Jonathan Monk

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Herzlich Einladung

ourpress publishing & MOTTO Distribution
feiern das 10te Quick und 3 Jahre Quick Magazine mit Ausstellung und Lesung!

Samstag, 16.11.2013, 19 Uhr

Zeitplan der Lesungen:

19.30 Fabian Reimann

20.00 Wolfgang Plöger

20.30 Andreas Meyer liest Jonathan Monk

View all ten issues of Quick here.

Motto Disco 11: Standish/Carlyon

Motto Mix 11: STANDISH/CARLYON by Mottobooks on Mixcloud

Standish/Carlyon are Conrad Standish and Tom Carlyon, formerly of The Devastations. The ‘futurist dub pop’ duo recently released their debut album, Deleted Scenes, and here they provide the eleventh installment of the Motto Disco series.

FÁBRICA. Daniel Blaufuks. Pierre von Kleist Editions.

“One cannot walk through an assembly factory
and not feel that one is in Hell.” – W.H. Auden

‘Fábrica’, a new book and film by photographer Daniel Blaufuks, is a collection of images composed into an expanded scenery of memory, a walk through the abandoned spaces of one of the largest factories in Europe in an once flourishing industrial region, that never recovered from the loss of the textile market to the Chinese exports.

Blaufuks worked the book and the film (which comes with this edition) as a documental piece, collecting different kinds of memories, crossing old photographs, manuscripts and objects with images of the present state of the building interiors and surroundings.

The result is a reflection not only on the idea of a ‘factory’ in itself, most generic and abstract, but also about forgetting and abandonment, thus creating a significant memento about labor and the disappearance of the working class in Europe in the last century, which is one of the reasons for the present crisis in the region.

* This title was co-published with Guimarães 2012.

More about the artist: www.danielblaufuks.com

Color, B&W, 172 pages, 2013
DVD + Postcard included.
Language: Portuguese and English.

Price: €28.00

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Wer braucht eine freundin, wenn er einen todesstrahl haben kann? Juliane Liebert. POPUP PRESS.

Monologues, photos and snapshots of Berlin.
Softcover.
A6, 96 pages.
Language: German

Price: €8.00

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