West Los Angeles Suede Fan Club. Harsh Patel.

Posted in Motto Berlin store on May 4th, 2012
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Harsh, thank you for the letter and goodies! I’m not sure how you do it, but it seems somebody already asked us about your next grime youtube compilation

West Los Angeles Suede Fan Club
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FOOL FOR APRIL Kunst, Musik, Fool+Drinks — 5. + 6. Mai @ Perla-Mode

Posted in Fairs, Motto Zürich store on May 4th, 2012
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Kreislauf 4+5
FOOL FOR APRIL Kunst, Musik, Fool+Drinks

Motto will be at Perla Mode this week end (5–6th of May) from 11-23h (Sat.) and 11-17h (Sun.).
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YEAR 2012

Posted in writing on May 3rd, 2012
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YEAR 2012

This second YEAR is still an almanac, a choral book revealing behind the stage. Seasons are information. Hey, look at what has been done, should be or will be or never be. This issue is like talking with images. You can connect one page to another. Text can be spare, descriptive or exhaustingly disruptive. What have you done means what it will be. We asked people about what’s in their mind from the past or for the future and that creates an all present. Last time, we talked about no future, now we are no present. YEAR is still a chain reaction, organizing its content in the form of sequences. YEAR is still an experimental constellation.

The time of manifestos and propaganda is back! From the everyday or larger issues of sociability and historicity. It takes the shape of a collage of disparate sources in time and place. Advertisement, propaganda and manifestos are the ultimate forms for abstraction and engrained subjectivity like space from outer space. Porn and insults, unreal kind of novellas, advertisement as public space, again, opposed to archives, distinction opposed to evaluation, again, narrative to order, cool to distance, taste to energy, again, beauty to sense, sense to idea, idea to experience, experience to life and life to style and style to knowledge and knowledge to power and power to all perversive shit. Still.

As an author use your imagination to be radical, literal and obscene! As a reader use your intellect and senses to be radical, metaphorical and obscene!

With contributions by:
Damien Airault
The After Lucy Experiment
Jacques André
Danai Anesiadou
Etablissement d’en face
Heidi Ballet
Pierre Bellouin
Grégoire Bergeret
Gilles Berquet
Marco Bruzzone
Tiphaine Calmettes
Rafael Carneiro
Laurie Charles
Jacques Charlier
Jagna Ciuchta
François Curlet
Laurence Dujardyn & Matthias Wille
Dorothée Dupuis
Daniel Firman
Théodore Fivel
Michel François
Steinar Haga Kristenen
Kati Heck & Julia Wlodkowski
Mai Hofstad Gunnes
Eleni Kamma
Julia Kremer & Summer Lake
King Lee
Yann Leguay & Pacôme Beru
Jonas Locht
Mirka Lugosi
Charles Lum, Coco Capitán & Nico Grijalba
Oliver A. Martinez Kandt & Moris
Julien Meert
Jacopo Miliani
Padraic E. Moore
Nicolas Moulin
Shelly Nadashi
Joel Napolillo
Sophie Nys
Nikolay Oleynikov
Jurgen Ots
Douglas Park
Eddie Peak & Vincent Honoré
Mick Peter
Shanta Rao
Boris Rebetez
Azzedine Salek
Aura Seikkula
Alberta Sessa & Francisco Camacho
Caroline Soyez Petithomme
Pierre Tatu
David de Tscharner
Joelle Van Autreve
Filip Van Dingenen
Loic Vanderstichelen
Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans
Lauren VHS
Gilles Yvain

D 18 €

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A smart guide to Utopia presentation. Motto@MarkthalleIX. 04.05.2012

Posted in Events, Motto@MarkthalleIX event on May 1st, 2012

Friday, 4 May 2012
6pm – 22pm.
Motto and LECOOL cordially invite you to the launch of:

A smart guide to Utopia – 111 inspiring ideas for a better city.

Encapsulated within five different sections – Live, Work, Eat & Drink, Buy and Play – are 111 inspiring ideas from over 40 different European cities on how we can make life in our cities more appealing, more interesting and more sustainable. The projects are the brainchildren of over 30 writers and visionaries, making this a guide for urbanites from urbanites.

Author Kati Krause will host a conversation with:

Fliegender Kaffee – Maik Eimertenbrink
Prinzessinnengärten – Marco Clausen
Stattbad Wedding – Jochen Küpper

Le Cool
Kati Krause

Motto@MarkthalleIX, Eisenbahnstraße 42/43, Pücklerstraße 34, 10997 Berlin

DIA Issue Nr. 2 – bedrucktes Papier in Zeiten der Print-Krise. Launch @ Motto Zurich, 11.05.2012

Posted in magazines, Motto Zürich event, poster on May 1st, 2012
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DIA Issue Nr. 2: Launch @ Motto Zürich, May 11th, 7pm.

Das DIA-Issue ist eine Print-Publikation in kleiner Auflage, die viermal jährlich erscheint und im Kontrast zur herrschenden Online-Euphorie steht. Die Faltbroschüre ist einerseits als Zeitschrift zu lesen, andererseits soll es aber auch Artefakt-Charakter haben und als Poster aufhängbar sein – die Produzenten nennen die Form dieser Publikation Feuilleton-Poster. In jeder Ausgabe werden Essays zu einem Thema abgedruckt, die von einem offenen Redaktionsteam erarbeitet werden. Diese Texte werden von einer Selektion von Dias illustrativ begleitet, wobei die Aufnahmen so ausgewählt werden, dass diese zwar sehr wohl das Ausgabenthema bebildern, sich aber ein direkter Bezug zwischen Essay und Illustration nicht zwingend sofort aufdrängt.
Die Idee für DIA-Issue entstammt dem Verlangen den fotografischen Nachlass des Herrn Dr. Rudolf Becks würdigend zu verwerten. Herr Dr. Rudolf Beck war ab 1950 für das Unternehmen Shell tätig und bereiste in deren Auftrag die ganze Welt. Er hinterliess einen überaus umfangreichen Fundus von Fotografien und Dias, die während seinen Reisen entstanden.

Motto Disco 07: Total Control

Posted in Motto Disco, music on May 1st, 2012
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Total Control

Total Control is a band based in Melbourne, Australia that has existed since 2008 never as a full time engagement until 2010. Two American tours and one small European tour based around an appearance at ATP’S Nightmare Before Christmas have been undertaken. In 2012 a 12″ featuring some of their more vague electronic experiments is due to be released

Their album Henge Beat is out on Iron Lung Records

Band member James Vinciguerra also operates Horizon Pages

 

Adios #4.

Posted in illustration on April 30th, 2012
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Adios #4.

Presenting artworks from 10 Nordic artists:

Nadine Byrne (SWE), Troels Carlssen (DNK), Ragnar Jonasson (ISL), Janne Martola (FIN),Konsta Ojala (FIN), Danilo Stankovic (SWE), Erik Tidemann (NOR), Timo Vaittinen (FIN), Ville-Veikko Viikilä (FIN), Arvid Wretman (SWE)

Published by Konsta Ojala & Timo Vaittinen

D 35€

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A.A.A.A. An Argument Against Articulation. Lucy Coggle. Chert.

Posted in Exhibition catalogue on April 28th, 2012
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A.A.A.A. An Argument Against Articulation. Lucy Coggle. Chert.

Published on the occasion of Lucy Coggle’s exhibition at Chert in Berlin.

D 9 €

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Mousse #33

Posted in magazines, writing on April 28th, 2012
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Mousse #33

Starring
by Antonio Scoccimarro
Morgan Fisher
The Rewards of Self-Repression
by Christopher Williams
Pedro Costa
The Need to Be Dehypnotized
by Andrea Lissoni
Talking About
This Should Have Been: The Eighties
by Dieter Roelstraete
Talking About
Learning Modalities
by Nova Benway, Johanna Burton, Jens Hoffmann, Dane Jensen, Leora Morinis, Sarah Robayo Sheridan
Freeman Dyson
Be Prepared for Surprises
by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Raphael Hefti
Push It to the Max
by Alexis Vaillant
Talking About
On Art, Language and Consecutive Matters
by Julian Myers
Robert Barry
What Is Essential Is Invisible to the Eye: A Few Words on the Work of Robert Barry
by Andrew Berardini
Amy Gerstler
Like Sea Anemones at High Tide…
by Catherine Taft
Chadwick Rantanen
Holding Patterns
by Jonathan Griffin
Toril Johannessen
A Personal History with Science
by Adnan Yildiz
Hugh Scott-Douglas
Exposed Surfaces
by Ruba Katrib
Agenda & Focus on Michael Dean and Gillian Wearing
Books
by Stefano Cernuschi
New York – Matt Hoyt
A Feast of Friends
by Cecilia Alemani
Los Angeles – Dawn Kasper
Crash Course in Being Present
by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Berlin – Klaus Weber & Judith Hopf
Messages in Bottles
London – Anthea Hamilton & Alice Channer
Full Frontal: Because We Can’t Think in Three Dimensions
Maryam Jafri
Between History and Geography
by Luigi Fassi
Talking About
Inner Wealth
by Ana Teixeira Pinto
Portfolio – Michael E. Smith
The (Re)Shape of Things: Michael E. Smith
by Dominic Molon
Alex Israel
L.A. Man
by Gigiotto Del Vecchio
Liam Gillick
Spaces of Critical Exchange
by Fionn Meade
Lawrence Alloway
The Open Critic and his Enemies: Alloway and Material Culture
by Ulrich Lehmann
Lucas Blalock
Techniques in Marriage
by Clara Meister
What Is Alternative? Alternative to What? – Curated by Vincenzo de Bellis
Nevermind
by Nato Thompson

D 8 €

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YYY #1.

Posted in magazines, newsprint, photography on April 28th, 2012
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YYY #1.

YYY is an experimental photography zine.
For each issue two photographers are invited for a ride, to make a photographic conversation of sorts within the pages of a tabloid magazine. The printed publication is planned to be published on a biannual basis.
Issue 1 is made with Teemu Lehmusruusu and Shira Igell. YYY font and logo are made by Mikko Varakas.
YYY is curated, published and self-funded by Katri Naukkarinen.

D 5€

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