Mad Marginal—Cahier #2: The Inadequate – Dora Garcia – Sternberg Press

Mad Marginal is a project started by artist Dora García in November 2009. Mad Marginal wants to research a form of artistic practice, using the tradition of antipsychiatric and anti-institutional movements as a prism to look at the work of artists who have either consciously chosen to remain outsiders or been defined as outsiders by others.

The publication appears in the form of cahiers. Mad Marginal—Cahier #2: The Inadequate is the second cahier, presented as the publication for the Spanish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011.

English / Spanish
432 Pages

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Pétunia #3

Pétunia presents artists’ proposals and texts in French or English. Pétunia’s issues are organised around subjective emergencies. Pétunia avoids using author’s texts as illustrations of a main topic chosen by the chief editors. There is no editorial or publisher’s statement. Each issue will be autonomous, and does not connect with territorial issues and current matters or trends. There are no chapters or sections, but diverse textual forms, from theoretical texts to diary entries to pure fiction or comics, mostly concerning contemporary art. 
The layout of Pétunia will be an important part of each issue; its graphic design will be very present and proclaimed. Pétunia wants to bean unclassified object that paradoxically affirms a strong identity in focusing foremost on the work of women critics, curators, artists…


From this perspective, Pétunia is a feminist publication playing the game of affirmative action, as a response to the constant imbalance of the role and place of women in the art world. Pétunia also reactivates — hopefully with nostalgia and humour — the forms of ideological engagement of women regarding art and critical production, while enriching its view of three decades of “women studies”, “black studies”, post – colonial studies and, of course, post – feminist studies.

Contributors in #3: Katarina Burin, Frances Stark, Laetitia Paviani, Lina Viste Gronli, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Géraldine Gourbe, Dorothée Dupuis, Emmanuelle Lainé, Clara Meister, Kitty Kraus, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Kathy Acker, Fiona Jardine, bell hooks, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Sisters of Jam, Spartacus Chetwynd, Elizabeth Diller.

Design: Change is Good
Pages: 94

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Quick #3. Erik van der Weijde. Ourpress Publishing

Quick magazine #3, Theory of Ruins, features work by Erik van der Weijde and a quote printed in both German and English from Jaques Derrida’s “Memoires of the Blind,” which ends:

“Ruin is, rather, this memory open like an eye, or like the hole in a bone socket that lets you see without showing you anything at all, anything of the all. This, for showing you nothing at all, nothing of the all.”

Editor: Arno Auer
Design: Franziska Nast / Arno Auer
First edition of 250, June 2011
2 colour stencil print

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The Pier – Nils Petter Löfstedt – Pierre von Kleist Editions

“If we take the liberty of doing things out of the ordinary, we can catch something we didn’t know was there. Some kind of creative power. Usually this is hidden but once in a while we can find it. However, this can be done only if we work on our own terms not having to consider the conventions.

A lot can be accomplished with two pairs of hands, without the need of a boss or money. This is a story that took place under a pier on the outskirts of Malmö between January and May in 2009.”

Nils Petter Löfstedt, 29, lives and works as a photographer in Malmö, Sweden.

Softcover | 72 pages | color and b&w
ISBN 978-972-99825-6-9
Edition of 750

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The Ramallah Lecture – Jakob Jakobsen – Nebula

This book is based on a blog written by the visual artist and political activist Jakob Jakobsen during a six-week stay in Ramallah and the West Bank.

“In the summer of 2008 I visited Palestine. ArtSchool Palestine had invited me over for the purpose of meeting and working with local artists and other people in the occupied territories. As the theme of my visit was relatively open, my Palestinian host explained that my stay here could be understood as a type of artistic research. That suited me fine as I had worked with activist investigations and artistic research in The Copenhagen Free University for almost six years.

I’ve followed the situation in Palestine for many years and the Palestinian cause has persistently challenged my political sense of justice. Since September 11th 2001 the conflict has been spun more and more into the War against Terror and life for the Palestinians appears to have become even more troublesome. But what do you really know as an outsider and a media consumer in the West? In terms of the struggles over territory that go on in and around this small piece of land some call Palestine, what actually shapes the scenery that is produced in the public sphere? My stay in Palestine was an opportunity to get closer to the everyday conditions in the occupied territories, although I was constantly asking myself about my own role as an artist and a political person in this situation of conflict.” – From the introduction of ‘The Ramallah Lecture’

Jakob Jakobsen is an artist, organizer and activist. He ran the Copenhagen Free University, co-founded the artist run TV-station tvtv and has participated in exhibitions and projects all over the world. He has been visiting and working in Palestine at several occasions.

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The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2010 – Aude Lehmann, Tan Wälchi (Eds.) – Federal Office of Culture, Anisha Imhasly, Bern

At the competition ‘The Most Beautiful Swiss Books’ of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, the independent jury chose a total of 19 books as the most beautiful Swiss books of 2010.

391 books were entered into this year’s competition. The five-member jury, chaired by graphic designer Cornel Windlin, examined each entry, taking into account each book’s overall concept, graphic design and typography, and paid particular attention to innovation and originality. Further criteria include the quality of the printing and the cover, the binding and the materials used. The Federal Office of Culture thereby recognizes excellence in the field of book design and production, as well drawing attention to remarkable and contemporary books by Swiss designers, printers and publishers.

In ‘The Most Beautiful Swiss Books’ catalogue, designed by Aude Lehmann, the star of the catalogue is the book, and each of the nineteen award-winning titles is given the red-carpet treatment inside. An introduction by Anisha Imhasly, interview with the jury, text on the Jan Tschichold Award 2011, and the technical data pertaining each of the award-winning books are also inside.

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From A to B & Back Again – Jonathan Monk – Archive Books

‘From A to B & Back Again’ surveys Jonathan Monk’s relationship to Alighiero e Boetti, an artist whose seminal way of working imparts a conceptually unique, highly poetic yet casual approach to art making, which was always accomplished with a seemingly unforced incisiveness and poised elegance which is carried throughout Monk’s work and directly resonated and addressed in those works that this book features.

Monk on Boetti: «Boetti? I am not sure what I can add. Alighiero made Conceptual art more human and perhaps less complicated. It sounds simple, and might be — but it probably isn’t. His influence is as strong today as it has always been. He is like the fifth Beatle or even the sixth… his life seemed to follow a similar path? northern lad meets Asian mysticism in the late1960s. I think young artists find his humble and straight forward approach very appealing like navigating the thousand longest rivers in the world without a map but with the idea that there will be something magical around the next corner stop me»

Size: 16 x 23 cm
Text: Adam Carr
Editor: Julia Hölz
Design: Chiara Figone, Archive Appendix
Pages: 52

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The Institute of Social Hypocrisy – 05, Bjarne Melgaard – On my gravestone it’s gonna say: I am never coming back

Concept: Victor Boullet
All content: Bjarne Melgaard
Design: Hey Ho, An Art Service

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Stefan Kiełsznia: Ulica Nowa 3 – Ulrike Grossarth (Ed.) – Spector Books

This photography book is a fairly comprehensive collection of street photos that Stefan Kiełsznia took of the Jewish quarter of Lublin in the mid-1930s. Developed in cooperation with the Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN cultural centre in Lublin, the volume offers a survey of the photographic stock that has now been digitized as the Stefan Kiełsznia Digital Archive and will be accessible along with additional material at Teatr NN.

This publication was produced upon the initiative of its editor Ulrike Grossarth in the framework of the exhibtion ‘Fabrics from Lublin. Ulrike Grossarth: Contemporary Art and Stefan Kiełsznia: Historical Street Photography from Lublin’ at Kunsthaus Dresden from 11 June, 2010 to 19 September, 2010.

A cooperative project of Kunsthaus Dresden, Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst und Kunstfonds Sachsen / Dresden State Art Collections, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

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NEW DATE!
Saturday July 2, 2011. start 6:30pm
FUZI UV TPK @ Motto Berlin
2 new books, video projection, tattoo session

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FUZI UV TPK
Flash Tattoo Collection

Wild Life, Metro Terror, Shoplifter Memories, Nique ton père, Mort aux femmes infidèles – FUZI’s Flash Tattoo Collection is an exclusive collection of classic and new tattoo drawings all made by the artist between 2009 and 2011. The first handmade edition of 50 copies was spirit duplicated. Now the offset edition of the original book Flash Tattoo Collection is available for sale.

Softcover
145 pages, 73 b/w images
In an edition of 500
EUR 20 / CHF 25
ISBN: 978-3-90611-03-5

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Ma Ligne (Edition Patrick Frey)

The train line Paris St Lazare – Mantes La Jolie runs from the western suburbs into the French capital. FUZI and his group UV (Ultra Violent) used the “double étages” and “trains gris” for fifteen years as work basis and image carrier, as their territory and mistress. “FUZI,” “RAP,” “SALO,” “KISS,” and “VOYOU” drip down the smooth grey surfaces of the functionalist architecture. The leather on the benches is slashed; the windows smashed.

This book is a collection of photographs created between 1996 and 2001, an archive of vandalism, a contemporary document of “brutal insouciance” accompanied by the artist’s poems and texts. It wasn’t just about slamming, hammering and smearing one’s name everywhere to become known, it was about leaving behind a trace, both in the space and in the heads of the passengers.
This required a rigid approach: employing the surveillance methods of the rail police (SUGE) and conductors, only with reverse circumstances. A routine that was synchronized with the gaps in train schedules and intervals between security checks; rhythmized by station stops and coach compartments; locating, painting over and photographing—maintaining the line. Within the rules and regulations of society, they created Temporary Autonomous Zones for themselves, in which they could briefly experience absolute freedom, expressed through an archaic “aestheticism of chaos”. (Andreas Koller)

With a Text by FUZI UV TPK in French
Graphic Design: David Keshavjee, Jean Angelats, Simon Haenni
Hardcover, 134 pages
16.5 x 23 cm
2011, Edition Patrick Frey N° 98
ISBN: 978-3-905509-98-4

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