South Magazine #1 . Summer 2012,

SOUTH magazine a new collaboration / co- publication of LifO and Kunsthalle Athena

SOUTH is an arts and culture magazine published in Athens and distributed internationally. Possessed by a spirit of absurd authority, we will try to contaminate the prevailing culture with ideas that derive from southern mythologies such as the “perfect climate”, “easy living”, “chaos”, “corruption”, and the “dramatic temperament”, among others. Through our twisted – and “southern” – attitude…, expressed through critical essays, artist projects, interviews and features, we would like to give form to the concept of the South as a “state of mind” rather than a set of fixed places on the map. People from different – literal or metaphorical – ‘Souths’ will renegotiate the southern attitude, partly to define it and partly to invent it, within the post-crisis world. Opening up an unexpected dialogue among neighbourhoods, cities, regions and approaches, SOUTH will be both a magazine and a meeting point for shared intensities.

Published by: Dyo Deka Ekdotiki SA, A collaboration of LIFO free press & Kunsthalle Athena
Editor-in-Chief: Marina Fokidis
Creative Director: Yannis Karlopoulos
Editorial Team: Daphne Mangalousi, Eleanna Papathanasiadi, Angeliki Roussou, Apostolos Vasilopoulos
Editorial Consultants: Dimitris Politakis, Pablo León de la Barra

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Tumi Magnússon: Works 2000 – 2011. Space Poetry. Book launch @ Motto Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
from 6pm

Tumi Magnússon was born in Iceland in 1957, and lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art 2005 – 2011.

”About Tumi Magnússon´s engagement with image, perception, meaning and a complexity to the history of painting. There is a materialistic conviction in Magnússon´s work. His practice arose from a conceptual art and fluxus basis but from the 1980s predominately concerned painting. And although he no longer uses that medium the work is still conversant with that idiom. Common across the work has been the pursuit of a form of abstraction of qualities; colour, form, and size. The word abstraction may be misleading if thought of as pertaining to colour field painting or abstract expressionism but Magnússon´s relationship to the term is more literal. he abstracts from reality, the work remains figurative, it depicts actual objects or qualities of objects but in ways in which isolates and intensifies.” – Gavin Morrison.

Space Poetry
Motto Charlottenborg

An Individual Note 03: Perhaps We Should Consider Further Back in Time (Appropriation of Obsolete Material Within Contemporary Practice)

– Performance by VDO

– Performative lecture by Masato Takasaka

– In conversation with Masato Takasaka, Joshua Petherick & Brad Haylock

3pm start, doors close at 5pm

Motto Melbourne / Pin Up Project Space
15-25 Keele St, Collingwood 3066
Australia

Please visit Motto Melbourne / The Daphne Oram Trust

Motto Mix

Long before the UK garage revival kicked in and “future” garage had even been dreamt up, Sully began finding a space between 2step’s swing, dubstep’s edge and breakstep’s drums, all underpinned by the rude spirit of jungle. While he has preferred to keep a relatively low profile and remain around the peripheries of the quick hype, quick decay climate of the burgeoning bass music scene, his music has found a sense of permanence, the longevity of which speaks volumes of his talent.

His debut album, Carrier, is out now on Martin Clark’s Keysound Recordings

The Moiré Effect. Lytle Shaw. Cabinet Books / Bookhorse.

Ernst Moiré was a mysterious Swiss photographer whose career has been obscured by silence, documentary voids, and misinformation. So much of his life is shrouded in speculation and half-truths that he sometimes seems more like a phantasm than the flesh-and-blood figure who will forever be remembered as the inadvertent inventor of the blur that bears his name. In 2002, Cabinet magazine dispatched literary scholar and detective Lytle Shaw to Zurich to investigate the reclusive figure‘s life and work. Shaw published his initial findings in Cabinet issue 7, but the puzzle of Moiré continued to vex him, and it is only now, a decade later, that the full story of his continuing investigation can finally be told. The Moiré Effect tracks the artist from his humble Alpine beginnings as the son of a postal clerk to his fateful founding of a Zurich photography studio in the 1890s and his subsequent role in the lives of a number of curious figures including the legendary Dutch architect Mer Awsümbildungs, the theosophist philosopher Rudolph Steiner, and several members of the old and fearsomely secretive Chadwick family. Hailed by Harry Mathews as a „complex“ and „excitingly“ written book bound to „delight“ and „entertain,“ Shaw‘s thriller takes readers on a journey through the elegant salons of Swiss palazzi and the dusty bowels of ancient archives, finally ascending to a mountainous conclusion as hair-raising as it is bedevilingly oblique.

Lytle Shaw is a New York based writer whose books include Cable Factory 20, The Lobe, Principles of the Emeryville Shellmound, and Frank O‘Hara: The Poetics of Coterie. His art writing has appeared in Cabinet, Artforum, and Parkett and in catalogues for Dia Art Foundation, the Drawing Center and the Reina Sofía. With Jimbo Blachly, Shaw oversees the Chadwick family archive, which has been exhibited widely and is represented by Winkleman Gallery in New York.

128 Pages, 11 x 18 cm
Paperback
First Edition, 2012
Edited by Lex Trüb, Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi
ISBN 978-3-9523391-3-8

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Leith Thomas & Mark Groves (An Individual Note 01)

An Individual Note 02: Their Amorous Journey ‘Home…Away…Home’ (The Nature of Field Recording)

– Performance and Talk by Philip Samartzis

Philip Samartzis is Coordinator of Sound in the School of Art at RMIT. He is a researcher in the areas of sound art, acoustic ecology and spatial sound practices. His PhD, Surround Sound in Installation Art, examined the place of sound in contemporary art practice through a range of site determined sound art projects. In 2010 Philip was awarded fellowships by the Australia Council for the Arts, and the Australian Antarctic Division to document the effects of extreme climate and weather events on the human condition in Antarctica. Since returning, Philip has presented this work at numerous festivals and galleries across the world.

3pm start, doors close at 5pm

Motto Melbourne / Pin Up Project Space
15-25 Keele St, Collingwood 3066
Australia

Please visit The Daphne Oram Trust

Index:
. An Image / Un’immagine: Notes Towards dOCUMENTA (13) by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
. About Brain: For When All That Was Read Was… so as Not to Be Unknown by Judith Barry
. Antoni Cumella, More Matter with Less Art by Chus Martínez
. Bactrian Princesses, Body Hands Open by Jan Verwoert
. Faivovich & Goldberg, Alreadymade by Alessandro Rabottini
. Karen Barad, Intra-actions by Adam Kleinman
. Documenta, Documenta Stationery by Julian Myers
. Hannah Ryggen, Art with a Purpose: Notes on Hannah Ryggen’s Tapestries by Maria Lind
. Lee Miller, Averting and Voiding: Lee Miller, Munich, April 1945 by Dieter Roelstraete
. Emily Jacir, Abandoned Property by Eva Scharrer
. Two Hundred Years of Mad Traveling by John Menick
. Breitenau, Breitenau – Long a Place of Imprisonment and Isolation by Gunnar richter
. Clemens Von Wedemeyer, The Site Creates Simultaneity by Bert Rebhandl
. Sanja Iveković, She – Me – We by Catherine Wood
. Dora García, The Work Is There by Anna Daneri
. Boris Groys and Franco Berardi Bifo, Art and the Social Sphere by Boris Groys and Franco Berardi Bifo
. Maurizio Lazzarato, We Are All Indebted by Jens Hoffmann
. Amy Balkin, Atmospheric Monument by Ana Teixeira Pinto
. Michael Hardt, Practices of Love by Jens Hoffmann
. Siege, Under Constant Surveillance by Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras
. Mario Garcia Torres,It by Juan Gaitán
. Francis Alÿs, From Collapse to Recovery by Francis Alÿs, Andrea Viliani, Ajmal Maiwandi
. When Is Now? by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Chus Martínez, Christoph Menke
. Lara Favaretto / Goshka Macuga, Momentary Monuments and Half-Truths by Andrea Viliani
. Afghan Films, To “Not Wait for the Archive”… by Shaina Anand & Ashok Sukumaran, Faiza Ahmad Khan, Mariam Ghani
. Kader Attia, Repairing, Rebirthing by Koyo Kouoh
. Abraham Cruzvillegas, A Fortuitous Encounter with Color in the Street: Interview with Abraham Cruzvillega by Andrew Berardini
. Alexander Tarakhovsky, Epigenetic Reset by Hans Ulrich Obrist
. Anton Zeilinger, The Beauty of Quantum Mechanics by Chus Martínez
. Retreat, Communality and Retreat by Ute Meta Bauer and Kitty Scott
. Francesco Matarrese, On Withdrawal by Cesare Pietroiusti
. Khaled Hourani, Picasso in Palestine by Jack Persekian
. Wael Shawky In History: From Translation to Linguistic Analysi by Sarah Rifky
. Monologues of Remembrance by Yasmine El Rashidi

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MAY #9

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, quaterly, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.

Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Arab Uprisings and Impersonal Images / From Montage to Détournement in the Situationist International / The Incredible Chronicle of OWS / Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith / Pacific Standard Time, Art, Art in Los Angeles, 1950-1980 / Judith Hopf / Isa Genzken / David Douard / Kenneth Goldsmith…

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Curating And The Educational Turn

In recent years there has been increased debate about the incorporation of pedagogy into art and curatorial practice – about what has been termed ‘the educational turn’. In this follow up volume to the critically acclaimed Curating Subjects, artists, curators, critics and academics respond to this widely recognised sense of art’s paradigmatic re-orientation towards the educational. Consisting primarily of newly commissioned texts, from interviews and position statements to performative texts and dialogues, Curating and the Educational Turn also includes a small number of previously published writings that have proved pivotal in the debate so far. This anthology presents an essential enquiry for anyone interested in the cultural politics of production at the intersection of art, curating, and education.

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Curating Subjects

This sleek and serious anthology of new curatorial writing features contributions from leading international curators, artists and critics including Julie Ault, Sören Andreasen & Lars Bang Larsen, Carlos Basualdo, Dave Beech & Mark Hutchinson, Irene Calderoni, Anshuman Das Gupta & Grant Watson, Clémentine Deliss, Eva Diaz, Claire Doherty, Okwui Enwezor, Annie Fletcher, Liam Gillick, Jens Hoffmann, Robert Nickas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sarah Pierce, Simon Sheikh, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Andrew Wilson and Mick Wilson. Put together by the curator-critic Paul O’Neill, Curating Subjects, documents the inter-dependent relationships between the curatorial past, present and speculative futures and, instead of following the convention of curators writing about themselves, invites the authors to provide a text about the curatorial work of others. The result is an eclectic volume of accessible responses that provides a pluralistic and dynamic curatorial discourse where critical essays, theoretical explorations, propositions, historical overviews, interviews, exhibition critiques and fictional accounts sit side by side. Essential reading for students and professionals alike.

D 20€

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