‘Heaven is Real’ John Maus and the Truth of Pop by Adam Harper

Posted in music, writing on August 3rd, 2011
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‘Heaven is Real’ John Maus and the Truth of Pop by Adam Harper

John Maus is one of the most intriguing artists in the millennial wave of lo-fi pop, assembling his unique and intimate language from synth pop, disco, baroque classical and church music. Yet Maus’s work is much more than another exercise in retroist hybridity, and his overtures on truth and love are, upon further listening, no mere ironic posturing. Does Maus have something to teach us about arriving at the truth through personal musical expression, or is he on a doomed Romantic adventure? Has he really discovered Heaven – and can he take us there?

ISBN: 978-0-9569524-0-0
174.5 x 108 mm
64 pp, b&w, perfect bound

Design by Wayne Daly

Published 28 July 2011 by Precinct

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Forest Coast by Ben Grieme & Clarke Tolton

Posted in newsprint, photography on August 2nd, 2011
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Forest Coast by Ben Grieme & Clarke Tolton

Dueling series of b/w images documenting the forests and coasts by Ben Grieme (forest) and Clarke Tolton (coast).

Edition of 1,000
Printing: Offset Newsprint / Cardstock Cover

D 9€

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The Passed Note. Conor O’Brien. Rainoff Books

Posted in photography on August 2nd, 2011
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The Passed Note. Conor O’Brien. Rainoff Books

The Passed Note
Photographs by Conor O’Brien
Short story by Amanda Maxwell

First Edition 2010
Full Colour Offset
Hardcover with Dust Jacket
68 pages

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The How Not to Cookbook: Lessons learned the hard way – Aleksandra Mir

Posted in illustration on August 1st, 2011
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The How Not to Cookbook: Lessons learned the hard way – Aleksandra Mir

While the typical cookbook format gives you a recipe for obvious success it does not take into account the many ways in which its execution can fail due to the cook’s lack of experience. Based on Aleksandra’s personal history of cooking disasters, the project invites 1000 people from all around the world to give their advice of how NOT to cook. With this volume, any reader will be more than well equipped to avoid making the same mistakes in their kitchen.

Aleksandra is interested in how we are taught or teach ourselves through trial and error. By making our guilty failures public we may even be creating an original and subversive form of art, rather than simply be aspiring to obvious and repetitive results.

—Kate Gray, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

320 Pages / English
Revolver Publishing / Collective Gallery

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The Short and the Long of It. Uriel Orlow. Mousse Publishing

Posted in Exhibitions, Film, photography, Zines on July 30th, 2011
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The Short and the Long of It. Uriel Orlow. Mousse Publishing

The fanzine, produced by La Rada in Locarno, CH,, is published to accompany and document the final chapter of a series of exhibitions of new work by Swiss artist Uriel Orlow. Taking as the starting point the failed passage of fourteen cargo ships through the Suez Canal in 1967, The Short and the Long of It is a modular installation, created over two years and conceived as an exploded film, which comprises video, photography, text and drawing.

Edition of 800 numbered copies
40 pages
English
21 x 15 cm

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Theatre of Thought – Snejanka Mihaylova – Critique & Humanism

Posted in theatre, Theory, typography on July 28th, 2011
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Theatre of Thought – Snejanka Mihaylova – Critique & Humanism

“Theatre of Thought ” measures the possibility of a theatre based on languages in state of trans, from which emerges its own paradox of representation and the opening to a language-in-between. The author is a philosopher in her background and a performing artist. She proposes this highly original work as a performance-in-a-form-of-a-book or as a-book-in-a-form-of-a-performance.

This is the first publication of the Critique & Humanism collection “One Day I Discovered To My Own Great Astonishement”, dedicated to the relation between theoretical thinking and performing arts. The name of the series is an homage to Sigmund Freud’s ‘Interpretation of Dreams’.

Design by Céline Wouters

Published by Critique & Humanism, Sofia

Edition of 1000

D 12.50€

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A Circular #1

Posted in Motto Berlin store, writing on July 27th, 2011
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A Circular #1

A Circular #1 – Summer 2011 was edited and designed by Pedro Cid Proença and Alfonso Martins.

It includes the following:

– The Chair of Decency by Stefan Themerson

– Never Odd or Even by Fay Nicolson

– Under the Counter-Culture by Robin Fior

– The Impostor by Nathanael West

– Open Letter to Monotype by Open Source Publishing

– A Knight in the White House, A Quarrel with a Post

Marxist by Mathew Whittington

– Middle of Nowhere (continued) by Will Holder

– Notes of intention for a letter to the film by Maël

Fournier- Comte

– Throwing A Rubber Band in the Air by Xavier Antin

English / 112 pages

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OK Talk: Helsinki/London

Posted in Theory on July 25th, 2011
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OK Talk: Helsinki/London

OK Talk brings together designers, artists and theorists operating in Finland and Britain to talk about emerging questions in design philosophy and strategic design. The series of events started at Helsinki Design Week on September 4.

Topics:

Making Places

Making Places takes a fresh view on spatial practice. It studies both existing and imaginary places, looking at their creation, evolution and essence. The speakers for the two Making Places talks, one in Helsinki and another one in London, range from architects that build, design systems or make music to researchers and designers who create places through cultural activities or visual identities. Using Helsinki and London as starting points, we will encourage the discussion to revolve freely around placemaking in relation to day and night, the natural and the human-made, infrastructure and spirit of spaces, cities and citizens, or planning and spontaneity.

Strategies of Participation

Strategies of Participation explores the design of encounters, interactions and collaborations. Having used tools and methods such as intuition, friends, different media, travelling, coffee and the paper that you are holding in making OK Talk, we are keen on learning new ways to design participation. The panelists include creative professionals in the fields of interaction design and cultural production specialised in events, online platforms or exhibitions. They are invited to share their skills and insights on creating constructive collisions between people.

Borderlands

Borderlands explores the crossing of boundaries between design, art and other fields with an emphasis on collaborative practices. The idea of this talk is to look at the role of the designer in the increasingly interconnected world where we see the ambiguity of professional identity, often connected with varied locations, people and modes of practice, as an asset. What can working in between disciplines offer for creative professionals and the world at large? How are design processes changing? The speakers will tackle these questions through their backgrounds that vary from architecture and music to critical and experimental design, publishing and curating.

Contributors:

Bryan Boyer, Hanna Harris, Amanda Levete, Shohei Shigematsu, Nene Tsuboi, Åbäke, Nene Tsuboi, Sarah Ichioka, Teemu Suviala, Tuomas Toivonen, Finn Williams, Celine Condorelli, Ulla-Maaria Engeström, HyperMarketo, Karen Mirza, Suvi Saloniemi, Revital Cohen, Martti Kalliala, Zak Kyes, Max Lamb, Designer, Aamu Song

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The Grand Domestic Revolution Goes On

Posted in Theory on July 24th, 2011
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The Grand Domestic Revolution Goes On

This publication is a reflection and MIDTERM MANUAL for ongoing artistic and design research and activities for User’s Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution. Features include surveys of contemporary cooperative and co-housing movements, an essay linking artistic and domestic labour and an interview with Dolores Hayden, author of the ‘original’ The Grand Domestic Revolution, a chronicle of 19th century material feminist design movement in the United States. With an overview of the project processed thus far and extracts offered from the evolving project library, this publication is a proposition for readers to engage with the collective research process of GDR.

Texts by Peter Bakker, Binna Choi, John Curl, Dolores Hayden, Maiko Tanaka, Marina Vishmidt

Designed by Scott Ponik

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Fleeting – Tuukka Kaila – Lugemik

Posted in photography on July 24th, 2011
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Fleeting by Tuukka Kaila

4/4 Offset print with 2/0 dust jacket, staple bound

Design: Indrek Sirkel & Jan Tomson

Published by Lugemik

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