Die Wende by Ingrid Hora, mit Seniorenschwimmgruppe Treptow, Berlin

Die Wende (›the Turn‹ in German) is the story of a group of women from former East Germany who are training to perform a particular movement in synchronized swimming, called ›die Wende‹, in which the swimmer perform an underwater backwards loop. Thee women, most of them over 60, are part of a still active East German association (Verein) and have been training together for over 20 years now.

Artist book printed with RISO MZ 770e at Rocky P. Matters, Berlin.
With texts by Shumon Basar, Emanuele Guidi and Maxi Obexer.
Published and edited by Ingrid Hora

D 16 €

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Akaaka @ Motto Berlin. 23.11.2012

We are pleased to welcome japanese publisher Akaaka for a presentation of books.

http://www.akaaka.com/

(signed copies will be available)

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On the same occasion we will present various publications from other japanese publishers, such as:

Edition Nord
Between the books
Twelve Books
Misako and Rosen
Limart
Zen Photo Gallery
Booklet Library
Super Labo
(…)

(image courtesy: Eric/Akaaka)

Painting — The Implicit Horizon documents a symposium which took place at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The book presents essays and transcripts of discussions between European and American artists, art historians, and critics who have looked at some of the ways painting has been conceived of in the eras after Conceptual Art. Addressing ideas of production and consumption, critiques of the end of art, issues of age, accomplishment, and the myth of the painter, the book posits that painting, as a working practice as well as a historical referent, serves as an implicit horizon or limit condition for other media.
“Jimson lives in a ramshackle houseboat on the Thames river, where he reminisces about the days when the state collected his paintings, hides from the police (who pursue him for his minor infractions and debts) and schemes about how to extract money from various wealthy patrons. That is, his struggles are conceptual, material and financial and always involve a race against time and an acknowledgement of his own limitations even in light of his successes. After a series of roguish scrapes, he finally receives a retrospective at Tate Britain: a triumph that does little to alleviate his destitution. But the film’s dénouement comes when Jimson paints a “monument to England”: a giant mural representing “The last Judgment” on the side of a bombed-out church aided by a cadre of voluntary art student assistants who he keeps remunerated in cups of coffee. The film ends when Jimson — threatened by council developers looking to capitalize on the land — voluntarily bulldozes his mural in advance of the city bureaucrats and sails off down the Thames in search of a new horizon: perhaps another, larger wall (or a further expansion of painting as such).”

Contributors:
Carol Armstrong, Warren Carter, Helmut Draxler, Kerstin Stakemeier, Elisabeth Lebovici, Esther Leslie, Avigail Moss, Ulrike Müller, Dierk Schmidt, and Amy Sillman.

Published by Jan van Eyck Academie

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CONST Literary (P)review 2012. Editors: Maria Mårsell & Ida Therén

“CONST Literary (P)review began with a quick e-mail, sent from New York Public Library. ‘Why don’t we start a literary magazine, you and I?’ The reply came from a beer cafe in Copenhagen. ‘Let’s do it.’ The idea for CLP came in the shape of a question: Why are there no forums for interesting Swedish literature? Printing is cheaper than ever, historic amounts of books are sold every year, the writing schools are cramped. A brand new Swedish study tells us that the dream job for the regular Swede is to be a writer. At the same time there is no space for first-time authors, except the chosen few the publishers dare to give a shot each year. So where do all the good texts go? As literary-minded people we wanted to find out what’s going on with quality literature in Sweden. Is it doing ok – and if not, how can we get it to shape up and share it with the world?…”

CONST Literary (P)review är en litteraturtidskrift för utmanande skönlitteratur. CLP innehåller tidigare outgivna texter – noveller, poesi, work-in-progress – och erbjuder ett tvärsnitt av den, just nu, mest spännande skönlitteraturen skriven på svenska. Samtliga texter publiceras på svenska och engelska för att nå såväl nationell som internationell publik.

I det första numret, CLP 1/2012, publiceras nyskrivet material av bl.a Helena Granström, Viktor Johansson och Lidija Praizović.

Medverkar i CLP #1 gör/ with contributions by: Tone Brorsson, Olle Dyrander, Sara-Vide Ericson (konst), Tove Folkesson, Helena Granström, Viktor Johansson, Björn Kohlström (essä), Helena Lie, Daniél Lindström, Malte Persson, Lidija Praizović, Meriç Algün Ringborg (konst), Karolina Stenström

Language: Swedish / English
Pages: 196
Size: 22.5 x 17 cm
ISBN: 9789163713569

D 15 €

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Times is an annual publication concerned with memory and representation. The first edition of Times, The Puzzling Almanac, is a pictorial atlas arranged according to a calendrical structure.
365 photographs from the early 19th to the early 20th century were assembled to a book, enabling the reader to embark on time travels through unlikely associations between scientific inventions, ancient discoveries and past current affairs. The blatant staging of the photographs that have become constituents of our collective memory, reveal the futility of objectifiable, transhistorical systems of measurement and documentation. We are always dealing with genealogical, indexicalized representations, or in less fancy words, with storytelling.

The cyclical notion of the calendar installs the photographs in the realm of the clockwork of the skies, an ongoing movement that allows brief glimpses of time, yet as soon as we have realized, they have already escaped our grasp and disappeared into something scientists have described as an ever-expanding, strange spiral.

Times: The Puzzling Almanac
21,5 × 30 cm, open stitch binding
116 pages, softcover, limited edition of 500
published in November 2012 by Colorado House
25€

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This collection of never before published material from the archives of Alighiero Boetti includes small notes, photographs, invitation card designs, telegrams, post cards, letters, details and notes of his travels to Pakistan and various o ther ephemera. Included are contributions by Salman Ali, Caterina Boetti, Alessandra Bonomo, Giorgio Colombo, Mario Dellavedova, Guido Fuga, Randi Malkin Steinberger, Andrea Marescalchi, Giovanni Michelagnoli, Massimo Minini, Pierpaolo Pagano, and Rinaldo Rossi.
Pages: 432
Size: 21 × 30 cm
Weight: 1.7490 kg
55€

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“The future of” is a participatory book project initiated by Crap is good which tries to provide an insight into the future role of architecture. Realizing the problematic nature of the simple question ‘What is the future of Architecture?’ we feel it is still somehow relevant in describing the architectural practice of today.

D 20€

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“White Flowers” is Sayo Nagase’s third book. She focused on a weed which grows wild along roadsides in Sweden during her stay last summer.

Edition of 500. Signed and numbered by the artist.
Published by Twelve Books.

D 25€
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One + 1 by Daniel Eatock
OMP76

a database of One + 1’s
in images
in words
a text by Marie-Anne McQuay
a poster

Project manager: Freek Lomme
Editors: Daniel Eatock, Sebastian Campos, Marie-Anne McQuay, Freek Lomme
Text: Marie-AnneMcQuay
Graphic design publication: Sebastian Campos
Printed at Lecturis

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For lack of a better word, there is a profoundly magical moment in the works of Robert Montgomery: In the middle of the street, we might come across his words and realise that someone is speaking with us – through an anonymous poem between advertising billboards or as an unidentified page in a magazine, or a light installation illuminating the night. But while introducing poetry as sparkles of beauty into the public realm, presenting words as living part of our environment, Robert’s words and works have a tendency to linger in our memory for a long time as they slowly unfold. His poems are an archive of moments that poignantly capture the way it feels to live at this moment in time. They articulate, reprehend and simultaneously celebrate our shared experience of modern life. ‘Echoes of Voices in the High Towers’ is the first comprehensive publication of Robert Montgomery’s work. Referencing the scale of his public interventions, all images are presented in full colour in a momentous A2 format, folding out to A1.
The publication is divided into three separate booklets.

Every Morning Now: A selection of Robert Montgomery’s work between 2004 and 2012.
Echoes of Voices in the High Towers: A complete documentation of the eponymous project in Berlin, Summer 2012.
Alive in the Sunlight: Two conversations, in 2008 and 2012, with Robert Montgomery.

The booklets are delivered in a white cardboard envelope, with an additional postcard included.
45€

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