Auto Ausgabe 22
Posted in Uncategorized on November 13th, 2012
Auto, Ausgabe 22, September 2012, contributors include: Yves Mettler, Natalie Czech, Stephanie Taylor and many more.
D 4€
Yvette Brackman: Systems and Scenarios @ Motto Charlottenborg.14.11.2012
Posted in Motto Charlottenborg event on November 12th, 2012
Book Release and Artist Talk
Yvette Brackman: Systems and Scenarios
Wednesday November 14th, 5pm
Motto Charlottenborg
Nyhavn 2
Copenhagen
Program:
17.00 Welcome by Motto Charlottenborg
17.10 Artist Talk with Yvette Brackman
17.30 Presentation of the publication with editor Helene Lundbye Petersen and the graphic designers, Peter Folkmar and Lars Bjørnstad from Kontrapunkt
Systems and Scenarios is the first monograph about the Copenhagen based American artist, Yvette Brackman’s work. Her complex and evocative work takes many forms such as installations, sculptures, performances, videos and text. She explores themes such as the interaction between origin and memory; trauma as a result of displacement and alienation in the community; cultural survival and adaptability; design objects and their changing functions, and political systems and their consequences.
The book contains a series of interviews with Brackman, conducted over several months in the fall of 2011 by the independent curator and writer Helene Lundbye Petersen, and a comprehensive essay by Heike Munder, director of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich. Both of these contributions illustrate Brackman’s visual and conceptual approach in detail and examines how she weaves together a wide range of works and topics, from the artist’s own family roots in the Soviet Union, to the indigenous communities in Siberia and how their culture is influenced by global trade .
The book is published by JRP Ringier, 2012.
Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
Price: 32 eur
Fotograf #20: Public Art
Posted in magazines, photography on November 10th, 2012Tags: Felix Gonzalez Torres, Public Art, Urban Interventions
Fotograf #20: Public Art
Fotograf is a magazine on photography and visual culture. The “Public Art” issue features Braco Dimitrijevic, Dennis Adams, Susan Meiselas, Silvina Arismendi, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Wendy Ewald, Susanne Bosch, Tomas Moravec, Jakub Cabalka & Jakub Cervenka, Sejla Kameric, Dora Dernerova, Lukas Hajek & Zdenek Porcal, kennardphillipps, Vladimir Turner, Voina Wanted, Jan Maly, Jiri Polacek, Ivan Lutterer, and more.
2012, Volume 11
Language: English
ISSN: 1213-9602
D 16 €
Quick #7. Jonathan Monk: Bin ich immer noch lustig? ourpress publishing.
Posted in magazines on November 10th, 2012Tags: jokes, Jonathan Monk, Quick
Quick #7. Jonathan Monk: Bin ich immer noch lustig? ourpress publishing.
September 2012
36 pages
1 colour stencil print
21 x 14,5 cm
D 7€
Alex Sturrock. Photographs of Boxing in London. Ally Capellino.
Posted in photography on November 8th, 2012Tags: Alex Sturrock, Ally Capellino
Photographs of Boxing In London by Alex Sturrock, published by Ally Capellino.
Commissioned by Ally Capellino this limited edition book catalogues a cross section of London’s diverse boxing community with a series of photographs and interviews. Ally Capellino have been based in East London for over 30 years and the 2012 Olympics spurred a naive curiosity to better understand boxing and how the sport touches lives within their neighbourhood.
Photographs by Alex Sturrock
Designed by Brickhouse
Interviews by The Gentle Author
Printed by Aldgate Press
D 20 €
Book launch: ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’ – A novel by David Evrard – MOTTO@WIELS ( 21/11/12 – 7pm )
Posted in Motto @ Wiels, music, performance on November 8th, 2012
With Anne Bossuroy, Jean-Daniel Bourgeois, Isabelle Copet, Jonathan Dewinter, Jenny Donnay, Lucie Ducenne, François Francescini, Jonas Locht, Xavier Mary, Gérard Meurant and Nicolas Verplaetse.
« ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’ is a novel that reads like a long acid trip in which places, epochs, characters and things, both imagined and real, all intermingle and where people wake up just to go and watch the sun rise. The book seems to be constructed of visions. It is pink, orange and purple and shimmering. It contains smoke, mind-blowing geometric forms, dance, sex and rhythm. There are uppercuts and swings. Its chronology is elusive, and you almost need a map to guide you through it. ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’ is a novel written by David Evrard that conveys his joyful experience of exhibitions. At the core of the story is a large exhibition, a crazy curator with copper teeth who, incidentally, doesn’t organise anything, and artists who talk, have fun, and who construct spaces and forms ».
Jill Gasparina.
Published by Komplot and Black Jack Editions.
Designed by Pierre Huyghebaert from Speculoos, with Aurélie Commerce.
Distributed by Les presses du réel and Motto.
Realised with the support of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.
Michael Van den Abeele – A Toast to the Ghost – MOTTO@WIELS 28/11/12 ( 7pm )
Posted in Events, Motto @ Wiels, performance, Uncategorized on November 8th, 2012Presentation of the book A Toast to the Ghost, the Host by artist Michael Van den Abeele, published by WIELS. For this occasion, the artist will give a public reading/performance rather than an explanatory presentation, based on the book. The lecture will be followed by a talk with Phillip Van den Bossche (Mu.ZEE director).
Setareh Shahbazi. Spectral Days.
Posted in photography on November 6th, 2012Tags: DAAD, mirene arsanios, Setareh Shahbazi
Spectral Days by Setareh Shahbazi
“I am glad that things have changed. All efforts toward ridding oneself of the historical past and acquiring new family members have been rewarded. This new sequencing of verb tenses was the material expression of her private epiphanies. Now, photographs were just photographs: pieces of paper that could be pleated, replaced and slipped into a pocket.”
Setareh Shahbazi was born in Tehran in 1978. She moved to Germany in 1985, leaving behind a swimming pool, a garden and all family photographs. After studying Scenography and Media Art at the State University for Art and Design in Karlsruhe, she traveled to Beirut in 2003 with a scholarship from the DAAD to look through other peoples photographic archives at the Arab Image Foundation.
In 2009 Setareh Shahbazi moved to Beirut with a box of photographs from Tehran. There she got into a close conversation with her neighbor Mirene Arsanios, who is a writer based in Beirut.
Text: Mirene Arsanios
Design: Aude Lehmann
44 pages
20x15cm
D 18 €
Temporary Services / Half Letter Press @ Motto Charlottenborg. 06.04.2012
Posted in Motto Charlottenborg event on November 4th, 2012
Tuesday Nov. 6. at 19-21 pm @ Motto Charlottenborg
Book Release: Mobile Phenomena
Half Letter Press
With introductions by editor Brett Bloom, book contributor Nils Norman – and a tasty treat from Bennys Mobile Pizza Oven!
MOBILE PHENOMENA: A NEW BOOK FROM TEMPORARY SERVICES
“Temporary Services [is] dedicated to erasing the distinction between professional and everyday acts of creativity through archives, exhibitions, publications, and public interventions.”
— Gregory Sholette writing about Temporary Services in Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, 2011
What do libraries built into airstream trailers, bar bikes, and giant windmill blades on wheels have to do with the bypassing traditional forms of social mobility? How can we use mobile projects to reimagine urban and rural spaces that are normally closed to creative gestures and public services?
Mobile Phenomena is a new collection of over eighty-five photographs and short interviews. It is the result of years of research on common instances of mobile phenomena that impact people and their uses of shared city and rural spaces. In this book you will find bookmobiles, mobile forms of commerce, inventive mobile art projects, mobile structures created for use during protest, and some strange applications of mobility that defy easy description, categorization, or whose function could not be readily discerned. Mobile Phenomena can unhinge the expected roles we take in shared city spaces. Mobile structures can become a new norm when they work. It is our hope that this book can be an inspiration to other citizens, artists, activists, nomads, and anyone who is interested in escaping the constraints of their location, culture, or other factors that make realizing one’s desires difficult.
.Mobile Phenomena includes contributions by: Courtney Dailey, Alexis Petroff, Joseph Robertson, Jen Hofer, Eric Steen, Christian Ettinger, Platform, Liberate Tate, The Center For Tactical Magic, and Nils Norman
The award-winning art group Temporary Services is a Chicago-Copenhagen-Philadelphia-based collaboration of three artists. Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, and Marc Fischer have been working together as the art group Temporary Services since 1998. Their group work has been exhibited in museums and exhibition spaces worldwide including MASS MoCA, Yerba Buena Center for Art, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kunst-Werke, and the Stedelijk Museum. They are winners of grants from Artadia, Art Matters, and CEC ArtsLink. Their project Prisoners’ Inventions resulted in a popular book and exhibition that has been presented all over the world, including the 2008 Athens Biennial in Greece.
Mobile Phenomena is the fourth book published by Half Letter Press, a publishing house and online store started by Temporary Services to build long-term support, and expand the audience for people that work creatively in experimental, political, and non-commercial ways.