Camera Austria International #121.

What has been apparent for quite some time now, is a new exploration or a reappropriation of artistic practices, especially of the 1970s. Camera Austria International 121 does not only survey these positions as to their relevance within society in the present day, but also fosters tension between them and contemporary artistic practices. Joanna Warsza introduces the works of the Polish artist group Akademia Ruchu while the collective works of the Gorgona Group of Zagreb are at the heart of the essay by Sandra Križić Roban. The literary scholar Wendy Tronrud approximates the meta-referential works of South American artist Alejandro Cesarco. Austrian artists Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch take direct recourse to conceptual practices from the 1970s in creating an independent artistic contribution. According to the thematic emphasis of this issue, the Forum section is designed by the Open Class at the Academy of Fine Art, Vienna in a collaborative process. An extensive section offering reviews of international exhibitions and books supplements the main content of this issue.

Sandra Križić Roban: Gorgona / Miljenko Horvat
Joanna Warsza: Akademia Ruchu
Nicole Six / Paul Petritsch
Wendy Tronrud: Alejandro Cesarco
Kolumne / Column: T.J. Demos
Forum: Freie Klasse an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

English / German
22. März 2013

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White Zinfandel #3: Food Fights. W/—— Projects.

Issue No. 3 / FOOD FIGHTS
FW / 2012

Since our last issue, we’ve observed the convulsions in the Middle East from afar and witnessed up close the incantations against Wall Street. Paired with the explosion of food as culture, with the elevation of our most basic necessity to a luxury good, this issue reflects an idiosyncratic year of massive change.

Cover painting:
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
Sticky Fingers, 2012

Special Edition Print:
Olaf Breuning

Special thanks to Alexei Tylevich, Logan, Adam Katz & Dina Pugh, Cyril Duval / Item Idem, Leif Hedendal, Victoria Gondra, Laura Dressler, MacGregor Harp, NADA, Dominic & Chris Leong, Fahad AlHunaif

Table of Contents

RUB YOUR FACE HERE… / Davide Balula
WORLD WAR 420! / Leonard Greco
CHINATOWN / Anonymous
A WEDDING / Bless
LAST FEAST / Hunter Hunt Hendrix
TERATOMAS AMERICANOS / Josh Kline
DHEA TARTARE / Josh Kline
PEDRO GADANHO / Sean Lally
UNTITLED / Nick Van Woert
JUST JOKING / James Gaddy
RED BEANS & RICE / Tom Sachs
VADER FRIDGE / Tom Sachs
SPICEY PAINTING / Marlous Borm
TERRORIST TASTES / Pete Deevakul
DEMOISELLES / Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
KERAMIKOS2 / Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
HERITAGE CURED MEAT / Mimi Chun
CANAPÉS… / U. Grau & C. Goberna
LET ‘ER RIP / Maia Ruth Lee
GRAIN(S) of SALT / Ryland Wharton
PENITENTIARY / Erika Lade
BUTTERY COTTAGE / Elliott Green
BINARY SYSTEM / Darren Jones
FOURCHETTE / Daphne Fitzpatrick
PETTING HEAVY / Annie Choi
THOMAS DEMAND / Friend & Colleague
JUNIOR SUITE / Thomas Demand
UNTITLED… / D. McDonald & P. Beckwith
TOILET PAPER! / M. Cattelan & P. Ferrari
CATCH & RELEASE / Suzanne Rivecca

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a hole through speaking. Jason Dodge. Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg.

The artist book “Jason Dodge: a hole through speaking” was published on the occasion of Dodge’s 22 March to 9 June 2013 exhibition at the LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz.

The work represented in this book constitutes the last three years of exhibitions, projects, individual works and development. Dates and places are excluded to allow the works to exist in this book as its own place.

Produced in cooperation with the Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Society.

English
Approx. 256 pages, numerous color pictures
ISBN 978-3-6984-409-1

Price: €32.00

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mono.kultur #33 – KIM GORDON: DISSONATINE.

“I hope that it still retains a certain wrongness.”

Kim Gordon, of course, created a legacy of musical innovation. Thriving on the playgrounds of noise music for more than three decades, her band Sonic Youth stoically pursued their own particularly dirty blend of noise-punk experimental rock music, building along the way not only a league of dedicated followers, but also miraculously achieving mainstream success without ever ceding ground to mediocrity. If anything, Sonic Youth became a household name for integrity and that specific kind of cool in a genre where cool is firmly attached to youth – which certainly had a lot to do with the detached charisma of Kim Gordon.

While Sonic Youth’s influence on past and current generations of experimental and punk music is undisputed, Kim Gordon’s role as a female figurehead in music and also in the visual arts might be a more complex one, based on the highly personal pursuit of her diverse interests without, unlike so many of today’s pop stars, any discernible strategy or intentional provocation. Instead, it seems to be Gordon’s unfailing belief in subculture and staying true to herself that over the years gave her a voice that would be heard clearly even within mainstream culture.

While, for personal reasons, the future of Sonic Youth remains uncertain, Kim Gordon shows no signs of standing still, returning to her beginnings as a fine artist and pursuing her fascination with noise, in sound and on canvas.

With mono.kultur, Kim Gordon talked about the vulnerability of male rock stars, the myths of New York and why fine art was her first love.

True to Kim Gordon’s DIY philosphy, the issue is somewhat of a treasure chest filled with new and old artwork by Kim Gordon, coming in a set of loose sheets and cards in varying sizes and printed on no less than five different paper stocks, all held together by the most basic commodity of all: the good old rubber band.

Spring 2013
Interview by Fiona McGovern
Artwork by Kim Gordon
Design by Willem Stratmann / Studio Anti

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Spike #35: Materializing the Unthinkable / Das Undenkbare materialisieren.

Portrait Ed Atkins
The perfect surfaces of the digital take on a deathly sheen in the videos of the British artist, creating a fertile ground for zombies.

Artist’s Favourites
By Darren Bader: Gustave Courbet, Sandro Botticelli, Roe Ethridge, John Finneran, Clarice Lispector

Talk
Rita Vitorelli interviews Nicolaus Schafhausen about his curatorial vision, the value of discourse and causing a stir.

Curator’s Key
Chris Fitzpatrick on Serial Protest Signs by Frank Chu

Galleries
The young Tokyo-based gallery Take Ninagawa discovers a new generation of artists comfortable with incongruity. By Nick Currie

Institution
Clémentine Deliss re-imagines the collection of the World Cultures Museum in Frankfurt through collaborations with artists. By Jan-Philipp Possmann

Portrait Heinrich Dunst
His experience in conceptual practice with roots in 80s Vienna, has made the Austrian artist well versed in art’s discursive powers, and their limitations. By Hans-Jürgen Hafner

Hans-Jürgen Hafner
Portrait Cosima von Bonin
Oliver Basciano considers the impact of varying professional expectations, poses and ploys in the practice of the Cologne based artist.

21st Century Theory
The nature of objects, the role of science and the problematics of aesthetics are being approached by a new generation of thinkers. Our ongoing series of 21st century thought opens with Quentin Meillassoux’s proposal for a philosophical materialism. With an introduction by Armen Avanessian.

The body understood as an object
Swedish performer/choreographer Mårten Spångberg shares his thoughts on space, rhythm, expectation and embodiment with Filipa Ramos.

Acid in the Style of Carolyn Christov-Barkagiev
Digital composer Florian Hecker releases his documenta 13 sound work »Chimerization« on vinyl. By Christian Egger

Seduction
By Pablo Larios, Signe Ross, Anna Jermolaewa, Slavs and Tatars, Joanna Kamm

Reviews
»Amazing! Clever! Linguistic! An Adventure in Conceptual Art«, Vienna; »Fotos«, Vienna; »Zeichen, gefangen im Wunder«, Vienna; Rudolf Polanszky, Vienna; Kiluanji Kia Henda, Innsbruck; Tue Greenfort, Berlin; Barbara Hammer, Berlin; Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Berlin; Lutz Bacher, Frankfurt; David Hockney, Cologne; Daan van Golden, Zurich; Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Antwerp; Clément Rodzielski, Paris; BANK, London; Matisse, New York; »Blues for Smoke«, Los Angeles; Guy de Cointet, Mexico

Spring / Frühling 2013
English / German
146 Pages

Price: €9.50

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Book Release and Talk at Motto Charlottenborg Wednesday March 20. at 18-20 pm

Presentation of the publication and Jørgen Bukdahl’s work by Finn Slumstrup, Lars Bukdahl, Else Marie Bukdahl and Carsten Juhl.

For more information (in Danish), check out our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/MottoCharlottenborg

A Partial Eclipse. Martin Boyce. MACK

A Partial Eclipse brings together photographs from an on-going private library of images which feeds into Boyce’s work. The images adopt a sombre and darkened palette, as if the light has been stolen from each photograph creating the illusion of a mythical perma-dusk allowing us to see the world as Boyce sees it. Images of trees and foliage permeate the collection, ellipses and perforations reoccur, patterns of cracks, fractures and spider webs repeat and thresholds appear in the form of windows and doorways.

Hundreds of photographs were edited down until the shape of a book emerged. The series creates the feeling of stillness and distance between the viewer and photograph. Printed on double sided paper, the photographs reflect blurrily in the coated page opposite it’s matte brother. The book as an object extends the experience of distance through its design, keeping the darkened images enclosed and projected between the folds of paper.

Date of publishing: Feb 14, 2013
Pages: 60 pages 25 colour plates
ISBN: 9781907946325

Price: €60.00

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C Magazine #117: Translation. C The Visual Arts Foundation.

Featuring: Hito Steyerl, Feminism After Elles, Institutions by Artist, Feminist Art Gallery, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Kristiina Lahde, Tiziana La Melia, Leah Bowery, Vanessa Maltese, Roman Liska, Sean Alward, Kika Thorne, Hazel Meyer & Rick Leong

Spring 2013
60 Pages
English
ISSN 1480-5472

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Somatic Archaeology. Daniel Blumberg. Boiled Egg.

Drawings April – May 2012
Biro and Crayon on Paper
Edition of 100

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Fully Booked: Ink on Paper, Design and Concepts for New Publications. Die Gestalten Verlag.

Fully Booked: Ink on Paper is a showcase of innovative books and other print products at the vanguard of a new era for printed publications—one that is likely to be the most exciting in their entire history.

This book is structured into five chapters that each represent a key role that print plays today: The Storyteller, The Showmaster, The Teacher, The Businessman, and The Collector. From personal projects with the smallest print runs to premium artist books or brand publications, the selection of work presented here celebrates the tactile experience. Featuring innovative printing and binding techniques as well as radical editorial and design concepts, this work explores the distinctiveness of design, materials, workmanship, and production methods—and pushes their limits.

Editors: R. Klanten, M. Hübner, A. Losowsky
Release Date: February 2013
Credits: Preface and chapter introductions by Andrew Losowsky
Format: 24 × 30 cm
Features: 272 pages, full color, hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-464-9

Price: 44€

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