Reportagen #8

Posted in magazines, politics, writing on December 19th, 2012

Reportagen #8.

Including:

8.1 Im Camp der Gerechten: In Guantánamo richten die USA über die Nummer zwei der al-Kaida. Der Augenzeugenbericht eines zensierten Prozesses. Von Mattathias Schwartz

8.2 High Heels am Hindukusch: Weniger Burkas, freiere Rede: Afghanistans Gratwanderung zwischen Taliban und Mädchenschulen. Von Roger Willemsen

8.3 Gefängnis der Liebe: Im kolumbianischen Gefängnis Casa Blanca sitzen Männer neben Frauen ein: Von der Liebe unter Verbrechern. Von José Alejandro Castaño

8.4 Team Ruanda:Hutu und Tutsi treten in der ruandischen Fahrradmannschaft gemeinsam gegen das Trauma des Genozids an. Von Philip Gourevitch

8.5 Anleitung für Fälscher: Wenn Händler, Sammler und Kunstfälscher zusammenarbeiten, gelingt der Coup: Ein Kurs in sechs Lektionen. Von Linus Reichlin

8.6 Schwerelos: Mit dem Wiener Literaten erleben wir die Aufhebung der Schwerkraft im Parabelflug: 23 Sekunden schweben! Von Clemens Berger.

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Publisher: Reportagen
Language: German
Pages: 134
Size: 23 x 16.5 cm
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-3833301490
Price: €15.00

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Homeland Security. Charles Stankievech

Posted in Exhibition catalogue, Exhibitions on December 19th, 2012

The electromagnetic installation HOMELAND SECURITY (It’s hard to find a good lamp) is the latest fieldwork and publication by artist Charles Stankievech. The project emerges from his time spent as a researcher-in-residence at the Fieldwork: Marfa residency in the southwest border town of Marfa, Texas.

This small book presents the artist’s typical associative matrix through his selection of images and texts from the related cultural field, ranging from archival letters to country music lyrics, from historic patents drawings to recent scientific studies.

Author: Charles Stankievech
Publisher: Marfa Book Company & Paper Pusher
Date of publishing: Sep 22, 2012
Language: English
Pages: 10
Size: 12.7×17.8cm
Weight: 30 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978-0-9865678-9-6
Price: €4.00

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A Circular 2

Posted in literature, magazines, Motto Berlin store, poetry, Theory, writing on December 18th, 2012
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A Circular 2 is edited by Pedro Cid Proença and features David Antin on Real Estate; a trio of short loops on song and sound by David Morris; Richard Hollis on Flags, Stars and Signs; Pedro Neves Marques on 1972; Dieter Roth’s Trophies Rotated by James Langdon; Patrick Coyle fake fancying, feigning, forging; an extract of Fugue by Roger Laporte; Wayne Daly and Sean Lynch in conversation; Adrian Piper’s To Art (Reg. Intrans. V.) and another instalment of Will Holder’s Middle of Nowhere.

Author: Pedro Cid Proenca (Ed.)
Publisher: A Circular
Date of publishing: Dec 18, 2012
Language: English
Pages: 96
Size: 21 × 26.5 cm
Weight: 266 g
Binding: Softcover
Price: €12.50

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Texte Zur Kunst 88 / December 2012 “The Question of Value”

Posted in magazines, Motto Berlin store, Theory on December 17th, 2012

 

Texte Zur Kunst stands for controversial discussions and contributions by internationally leading writers on contemporary art and culture. Alongside ground-breaking essays the quarterly magazine, founded in Cologne in 1990 by Stefan Germer (†) and Isabelle Graw and published in Berlin since 2000, offers interviews, roundtable discussions and extensive reviews on art, film, music, market and fashion as well as on art history, theory and cultural politics. Since 2006 the comprehensive main section section, each time devoted to a different topic, and selected reviews are published in both German and English. With every issue internationally renowned artists support the magazine with exclusive artists’ editions.

Author: Isabelle Graw (Ed.)
Publisher: Texte Zur Kunst
Date of publishing: Dec 16, 2012
Language: English / German
Pages: 240
Size: 23 x 17 cm
Weight: 750 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 3930628880

€15.00

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Sounds Like Silence. John Cage – 4’33” – Silence Today. Spector Books

Posted in music on December 15th, 2012
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Sounds Like Silence. John Cage – 4’33” – Silence Today. Spector Books

The title of this book and the exhibition it documents—Sounds Like Silence—is ambiguous. On the one hand, silence effectively “sounds”—or as Cage put it, “There is no such thing as silence.” On the other hand, sound needs silence in order to be heard. Even if complete silence does not exist, every sound implicitly conveys the notion of silence: there is no presence without absence. The double meaning of Sounds Like Silence therefore touches upon the central issues at stake in this project: what do we hear when there is nothing to hear; to what extent do we long for silence; and how much silence can we cope with—provided it even exists?

John Cage’s 4’33” (four minutes, thirty-three seconds) premiered on August 29, 1952. This book presents new theoretical writings and artistic works referring to this groundbreaking work, together with original scores and the composer’s own variations, derivatives, and sequels of the “silent piece” in the years from 1962 to 1992.

ISBN: 978-3-940064-41-7

28 €

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Yesterday’s Sun. Uri Gershuni. Sternthal Books.

Posted in history, photography on December 15th, 2012
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Yesterday’s Sun. Uri Gershuni. Sternthal Books.

Yesterday’s Sun is a book by photographer Uri Gershuni that returns to the origins of photography in order to meditate upon its future. Gershuni traveled to the home of photography’s inventor, William Henri Fox Talbot, in Lacock, England, where he photographed Talbot’s home and its environs. Gershuni used a digital pin-hole camera that he made by replacing the lens with a tiny hole. The long exposures that resulted re-capture a materiality eluded by the ‘reproducibility’ of digital photography. Gershuni’s frames capture elements of surprise – stains of light – amongst other motifs, that resemble the remains of some invisible ghost. Interspersed amongst these grainy epitaphs are a series of nude photographs featuring a young man posing in a stark room.

ISBN: 978-0-9864835-8-5

40€

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Still Damp. Gregory Jacobsen. Re:Surgo!

Posted in illustration, Zines on December 15th, 2012
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Still Damp

Silkscreen book, 24 pages incl. cover, 22 x 28,8 cm, edition of 130 ex, hand-bound, numbered and signed.

39€

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Monochrome. Dase Roman Sherbakov. Re:Surgo!

Posted in graphic design, illustration, Zines on December 15th, 2012
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Monochrome

DASE is an Ukrainian graphic designer, illustrator & character designer. Works & lives in Kiev.

1 colour silkscreen on heavy paper. 28 pages incl cover, 29,4 x 24 cm, edition of 120 ex, hand-bound, numbered & signed.

25€
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Ghosthunter. Vicente B. Ballestar. Re:Surgo!

Posted in illustration on December 15th, 2012
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Ghosthunter

Vicente B. Ballestar, born in Barcelona in 1929, is a Spanish illustrator known worldwide for his genre-defining dark pulp and supernatural realist illustrations. Throughout his long career, he has been beloved by aficionados of the genre worldwide, especially for his cover illustrations for Geisterjäger, John Sinclair (Ghosthunter, John Sinclair). From the beginning of the series in the 70s to his retirement in 2007, Ballestar created almost one thousand striking scenes in his preferred medium watercolour, giving the adventures of John Sinclair their unmistakable graphic character and certainly greatly contributing to its cult status. In the horror detective fiction series, published weekly since 1973, Scotland Yard chief inspector John Sinclair is the eponymous protagonist of the German pulp fiction written by Helmut Rellergerd under the pen name Jason Dark.

Full colour booklet, cover 300g paper, inside 170g paper
28 pages incl. cover, 20,8 x 14,5 cm
English text
Published by Re:Surgo ! 2012

5€
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Bauhaus Magazine #4

Posted in magazines, writing on December 14th, 2012
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Bauhaus Magazine #3
Die Bauhausfotografie steht im Mittelpunkt der vierten Ausgabe der Zeitschrift bauhaus, die von der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau herausgegeben wird. Parallel zur Ausstellung „Das Bauhaus im Bild. Die Fotosammlung Thomas Walther“, die vom 5. Dezember 2012 bis zum 24. Februar 2013 in Dessau zu sehen ist, widmet sich das Heft der lichtkünstlerischen Hinterlassenschaft des Bauhauses. Da sind die bildgebende Fotografie eines László Moholy-Nagy, für den die Arbeit mit der Kamera die Verbildlichung einer Idee war und eben nicht die Abbildung einer Wirklichkeit. Seinem Antipoden Walter Peterhans ging es hingegen um nichts anderes als die präzise Vermessung der Wirklichkeit. T- Lux Feininger wiederum interessierte sich für den sozialen Augenblick, Umbo für das Porträt und die Reportagefotografie. Das von Moholy ausgerufene Neue Sehen kannte viele Facetten, ungewöhnliche Blickwinkel und Perspektiven.

The fourth issue of the new Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s new journal is dedicated to photography at the Bauhaus and exclusively features twenty-six works from Thomas Walther’s collection that one day will expand the collection in Dessau. An interview with the collector Thomas Walther and an accompanying essay by Rolf Sachsse on the history of collecting Bauhaus photography open the issue. Wolfgang Thöner describes the Dessau masters’ home for László Moholy-Nagy and Lyonel Feininger as the nucleus of Bauhaus photography, and Torsten Blume devotes himself to the photo albums of students and teachers at the Bauhaus that have shaped its identity. Gottfried Jäger remembers Moholy-Nagy as the “Leonardo of the twentieth century,” and Franziska Brons writes about the early days of aerial photography. Plus a magazine section: Fifty years of Gropiusstadt, gleanings from documenta from the perspective of the Bauhaus, and Marcel Breuer and eroticism. Forthcoming

Ausgabe 4 Dezember 2012
160 Pages

8€
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