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20/08/2023

Hana Miletić, The Molem Collective (vinyl)
Zakaria Haddou

Art Paper Editions

The Molem Collective gathers a collection of hip hop sneakers of the young Morocco-born Zakaria Haddou aka Zak from Molem. He was commissioned by the Croatian-Belgian artist Hana Miletić to portray his collection of 24 pairs of sneakers, bought during the last eighteen months. The succession of different sneakers can be regarded as a short historiography of the hip hop subculture.

The bold aesthetics, reflecting a rather objective approach, is very close to Miletić’s own artistic practice. Haddou is holding up every shoe against a slightly different background which consists of different walls of his bedroom; every close-up is shot from the same side angle.
A record of rap songs, selected by the youngster, reveals more about the remarkable collection and his owner. Here the rigour of the photographic series is played out against the personal tone of the project. Against the background of his favourite songs, Zak shares stories related to his collection that introduce the audience to some landmarks of the hip hop culture. But along the lines of dress codes and status symbols, a more personal story is told, related to the boy’s experience of ‘coming of age’.

23/07/2023

The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame – T.I.C.A.B. 2009

(Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial)

Hotel Dajti, 18 September - 22 October 2009

Edi Muka & Joa Ljungberg
Co-directors of T.I.C.A.B. 2009 | curators of Episode 1

We take this notion as a starting point to enter a
discussion about the complex and manifold nature of “the real” and its many “appearances”, and the various ways how we perceive reality and relate to our history. Independently from which angle we look or what methodology we employ – be it scientific, aesthetic, or philosophical — what interest us are the inherent gaps that manifest themselves in this constantly shifting process of perception. A “frame” or its notion is something we use in order to define, discern or cut off in order to highlight. In other words, a frame or the process of enframing is our way to relate to the ungraspable essence of the reality that surrounds us. The frame thus is not merely a physical construction, but most of all a mental one, a way that helps (or hinders) our perception of the world and the society.

Acknowledgements

TICAB Team
Edi MUKA, Joa LJUNGBERG — Co-directors and curators Episode 1
Ana DZOKIC, Marc NEELEN — curators Episode 2
Corinne Diserens — curator Episode 3

Front page: Jean-Luc Moulène, Faisceaux, Tirana, 2009-10-04.

23/07/2023

07/07/2023

032c #31
Joerg Koch (ed.)
032c Workshop

Issue #31 — Winter 2016/2017
HELMUT LANG

From 1986 to 2005, Helmut Lang systematically deconstructed every assumption about clothing and the way it is worn and communicated. As he himself once said, “I kept all the traditions and shades that were good — and then re-thought it all.” The Austrian designer’s lists of “firsts” is so long it could double as conceptual art. Lang was one of the first designers to collaborate with visual artists. The first to show clothing for men and women in a single presentation. The first to pioneer backstage photography as we know it today with Juergen Teller. The first to move a fashion house across the Atlantic… and the list goes on. In a 48-page dossier, 032c Issue 31 explores THE HELMUT LANG LEGACY and how his abrupt exit from the industry in 2005 has been felt like phantom limb in the world of fashion. The comprehensive study features essays by Ingeborg Harms and Ulf Poschardt, a roundtable with Tim Blanks, Olivier Saillard, and Neville Wakefield, an interview with Lang himself, as well as rare material from the Helmut Lang archive.

Is Calabasas the new Abu Dhabi? Are the Californian suburbs the perfect place for new energy experiments in modern apparel? In an editorial shot by MERT & MARCUS and conceptualized by KANYE WEST, 032c travels to the Los Angeles exurb of Calabasas to bathe in the dust of the Wests' under-construction home designed by Axel Vervoordt. The shoot features cameos by KIM KARDASHIAN WEST, KHLOÉ KARDASHIAN, AMINA BLUE, TRAVIS SCOTT, and others.

“At the time we started collaborating, everything in the world of art and fashion was polished. Everything was smooth, so we felt that Prada must be rough.” For the past decade, a windowless concrete hall at the PRADA headquarters has become an architectural gymnasium for REM KOOLHAAS and his firm OMA/AMO. Traveling from Rotterdam to Milan, architecture critic and 032c editor-at-large Jack Self examines the phenomenon of the firm’s catwalks for the Italian mega-house, exploring how Prada and OMA/AMO have teamed up to create the foundation of a new corpor

20/06/2023

Details from Works from the Last Twenty Years

Jason Dodge
Motto Books

Edition of 15+3AP, numbered and signed, 2016.

800€ (+tax)

03/06/2023

RMB City
Cao Fei, China Tracy
Vitamin Publications

RMB City is a virtual art community in the online world of Second Life, initiated by Beijing artist Cao Fei (SL: China Tracy) as a public platform for creativity.

Officially launched in late 2008 as a laboratory for experiments in art, design, architecture, literature, cinema, politics, economy, society, and beyond, RMB City is lately undergoing a new phase of rebirth and regeneration.

Constantly nourished by artistic projects and supported by leading international art institutions and networks, RMB City displays its ever-changing avant-garde urban planning and crosses the boundaries of different languages and new communication media. Offering itself to external contaminations and treading previously unexplored fields, from theatre to music, from traditional forms to new discourses, the city explores this further step of a new existence in the shape of China Tracy’s newly born avatar China Sun.

22/05/2023

Open by Chance & Appointment
Ben Kinmont
Un Certain Sens

An historical account of Ben Kinmont's bookstore, from the structure's origin, the events and publications it has generated. Kinmont also demonstrates how this activity has contributed to his independence as an artist vis-à-vis the commercial art circuit.

Published with Antinomian Press, Air de Paris, Cneai, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Printed Matter, Section 7 Books, Florence Loewy, JRP|Ringier, Art Metropole.

14/05/2023

Nuotraukos dokumentams / Photographs for Documents
Vytautas V. Stanionis
Kaunas Photography Gallery

Vytautas V. Stanionis (b. 1949) printed photographs from the film of his father, also Vytautas (1917–1966), which contained photographs of Seirijai and surrounding districts’ inhabitants created for documents, they were made in 1946, when the Soviet authorities changed passports to Soviet ones. There is no plot in shots, no acting, no other details, only static faces of people in neutral white background. Nameless faces lose their identity now and become certain allegories of people’s fates in the post-war years.

01/11/2022

journal de Bertille
Julien Carreyn
La Lionel Rose

J. Adam, R. Bacourt, M. Bernard, B. Boros-Turquin, A. Bournazeau, M. Bremer, M. Dorchies, C. Farina, S. Fiorucci, V. Foucher, A. Gayet, J. Jennifer, O. Jones, C. Leconte, J. Lempert, G. Morandi, M. Ogier, B. Porcher, A.Pyvka, C. Raimondi, E. Spalletti, N. Sutter-Shudo, S. Toulouse, S. Verastegui, V. Villard

Printed with Risograph.
Handmade numbered edition of 16.

30/10/2022

Description of San Marco by Michel Butor Redescribed by Giovanna Silva
Giovanna Silva
bruno .bruno

Michel Butor’s Description of San Marco (1963) is an unusual book; an unorthodox intermingling of overheard dialogue from the iconic Venetian square in question, thick descriptions of persons and buildings, along with sober historical information. In the original, each genre of information is assigned a distinct typography of its own, hence interacting like voices in a play.

Six decades later, the artist Giovanna Silva stumbled upon an English translation of the French essayist’s q***r text in an archive at the New York Public Library. Returning to Venice, she cast her eye to the square and its surrounds, an iconic space at once populated by signs of contemporary life, but also astonishingly unchanged.

27/10/2022

111 stanze
Giulia Casartelli
Edizioni postali tigre
(English / Italian)

Between 28 April 2020 and 3 September 2021, Giulia Casartelli painted and sent 111 watercolour postcards to as many selected recipients. Each postcard reproduced a fragment of the short story “Clementina Butterfingers” (Edizioni postali tigre, 2022), written by the artist from 2014 to 2020. On 26 September 2021, Giulia started a trip to visit the locations where the postcards are now displayed. She photographed (or has asked the addressees to photograph) these intimate spaces and reproduced them in watercolour. “111 stanze” is an archive of this journey.

Texts by Giulia Casartelli, Camilla Pietrabissa, Elena M. R. Rizzi
Translation: Johanna Bishop
Book design: Federico Antonini

24/10/2022

Modernism/Murderism: The Modern Art Debate in Kumar

Nihaal Faizal, Sarasija Subramanian (Eds.)
Reliable copy

Modernism/Murderism, translated by Vasvi Oza, brings together, for the first time in English, a forgotten debate on Modern Art that took place in the pages of the Gujarati-language periodical Kumar between 1959 and 1964. Published across various issues, the debate brings into conversation Pherozeshah Rustomji Mehta, a writer and art connoisseur from Karachi, and Jyoti Bhatt, a young artist who had just begun teaching at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda. While Mehta chose to defend what he believed were the timeless and traditional values of art, Bhatt proposed that Modern Art was no stranger to these values and in fact had much in common with them. Alongside the articles by Mehta and Bhatt, the publication also brings together responses to the debate from various readers who interjected in the 'Readers Write' column of the periodical, as well as notes from Kumar's editor, Bachubhai Ravat, waho informally acted as a mediator. Offering a vantage point from which to view the entry of Modernism and its affiliated discourses into the art practices of the region, this volume proposes itself as a reader to these histories and revisits this crucial moment.

23/10/2022

Repost • Dear hive, the next trip to Lviv is coming up and we are finalizing the shopping cart! We bought 3 generators, some winter equipment and meds as usual but would love to send more generators since they are urgently needed for cooking and electricity fallouts in the bomb shelters in Kyiv and other cities.
Help us to fill the car by sharing this call and donating!

Thanks to everyone who donated so far, you‘re all amazing ❤️‍🩹

Link in bio or directly to [email protected]

Report as usually after the trip (which btw I will not attend personally since Sophie will bring a family on the way back)

23/10/2022

Rispect the Boul!
Peter Fettich

Yet another memorable book comes at the tail end of 2019, quite the year for fans of the printed page, Peter Fettich's debut documenting the Slovenian DIY scene and community.

Self published and beautifully presented, “Rispect the Boul!” invites us to spend some time with the people and places of Peter's chosen scene, and share the good times and hard times that come with finding a piece of land that no one else wants and turning it into somewhere that means so much to so many. Cement burns, family, beers, nature hard work and life long bonds formed around concrete oases that may be fleeting or may be there for years to come for new generations and communities.

A book that reassures you that there is good in this world and that as skateboarders we are lucky enough to be reminded of the fact on a very regular basis.

Edition of 300, hardcover, every piece of fabric has been skateboarded on, making each copy unique.

Design by Hanna Juta Kozar, Peter Fettich
Edited by Peter Rauch, Peter Fettich
Texts by Rich Gilligan, Tibor Rep, Oli Buergin

22/10/2022

Mousse #81
Chiara Moioli, Antonio Scoccimarro (Eds.)
Mousse Magazine

A River
“The story here is that nothing happens. There is no resolution. Things disappear. People disappear. The earth changes. I wake up to write.” Lisa Robertson pens a narrative, part of an untitled novel in progress, about decline and invisibility as freedom. It centers on an aesthetics of decay, bodily and urban, through memories of water—specifically the flooding and ebbing of the Bièvre river.

The Depression Artist
Through a writing process that offers a fractal poetics of AI and a glimpse into the future of literature, K Allado-McDowell and GPT-3—the latter an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text—coauthor a satirical account of an artist who, having abandoned their brushes in favor of NFTs, finds themselves stuck in a reclusive and stale existence until an unidentified, rhythmic pulse rouses them.

Basement Jazz
In building an imaginary milieu for Dora Budor’s practice, Marina Vishmidt is drawn to the category of “infrastructure,” in the sense of both artists who poeticize or pattern voids into significant structure, and a transversal way of working that is attentive to the conditions of possibility in exhibition. In architectural, economic, linguistic, and organizational ways, Budor generates a transformation of gaps and absences.

20/10/2022

LAMPO FOLIO
Andrew Fenchel, Andrew Lampert (Eds.)

Published by

Design

The Lampo Folio is a collection of text-based scores from ten interdisciplinary artists who are all engaged on some level with sound and language. Each commissioned work is published in the form of instructions that can be used to enact a personal, possibly intimate performance at home. Taken together, these scores also suggest the prospect of repeatable, even synchronous performances by others.

The Lampo Folio creates new stages within domestic spaces, and is a means for thinking about the social conditions of performance, particularly at a time when home life and shared experiences have been upended.

Contributors represent a variety of creative practices, including music, sculpture, installation, film and video, dance, performance, and poetry.

With contributions by Nikita Gale Sarah Hennies Bonnie Jones Andrew Lampert Jessie Marino Nour Mobarak Gala Porras-Kim Elliot Reed Sergei Tcherepnin and Jennifer Walshe

The Lampo Folio is printed 1-color offset throughout on colored paper and consists of eleven loose leaves housed in a hardcover folder.

19/10/2022

As you go… the roads under your feet, towards the new future.
Biljana Ćirić
Mousse Publishing

As you go… the roads under your feet, towards the new future is a long-term research undertaking that reflects on the Belt and Road Initiative and how it will alter the aesthetics and practices of everyday life in different local contexts. The inquiry was conceived and initiated by Biljana Ciric in 2019 after conducting curatorial research in East Africa, Central Asia, and several Balkan countries, where the project is now situated. The three-year project has been conducted via cells, organizations, institutions, and individuals: What Could Should Curating Do (WC/SCD) (Belgrade), Zdenka Badovinac (Ljubljana), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), Times Museum (Guangzhou), Artcom (Astana), Robel Temesgen and Sinkneh Eshetu (Addis Ababa), and The Public Library (Bor). The project does not attempt yet another critical investigation into Chinese colonialism, but rather seeks to unpack the complexities certain regions are dealing with—their current connections to the Belt and Road Initiative also leading to their established commonalities. These include socialism, non-aligned legacies (as in the Non-Aligned Movement, but also the relationships between China and African and other Asian countries during the twentieth century), neo-geopolitical settings, economic influences—especially of the Chinese and Arab world within of similar patterns, that have even employed the same companies through different regions—being agents of their own cultures, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Zdenka Badovinac
Aziza Abdulfatah Busser
Robert Bobnič
Marija Glavaš
Sinkneh Eshetu
Chen Liang
Salem Mekuria
Aigerim Kapar
Dragan Stojmenovič
Larys Frogier
Nikita Yingqian Cai
Robel Temesgen
Jelica Javanovič
Alex Ulko
Kaja Kraner
Tara McDowell
Оasphy Zheng
Enanye Kibret
Gebeyehu Desalew
Manuel Borja-Villel
Mabel Tapia
Ocean & Wavz
Biljana Ćirić

18/10/2022

“The secrets of Lake Balkhash: community narratives, memories, and landscapes of past and futures” with author Aigerim Kapar.

21 October 2022 from 6.30 pm at Motto Berlin  Following the first launch in Bor, this event co-hosted by Slavs and Tatars will also serve as the Berlin launch of the publication As you go… the roads under your feet, towards the new future (Mousse/Rockbund Museum, 2022).  “The secrets of Lake Balkhash” focuses on the study of local values of Lake Balkhash in Kazakhstan and how these values impact the everyday lives of local communities. Lake Balkhash is one of the biggest endorheic water bodies in the world and has a millennia-long history of sociocultural life, ecological traditions, and seminomadic management methods. The region also represents the position of the Kazakh Steppe, where the interests of China and Russia intersect. Today, the industrialization and militarization of the colonial Soviet period continue to prevail and frame the basin as a zone of ecological and social crisis. Lake Balkhash may disappear in twenty years and faces a similar situation to the drainage of the Aral Sea by the Soviet government in the 1950s for the purposes of agricultural production.

17/10/2022

Seasonal Associate
Heike Geissler
Semiotext(e)

No longer able to live on the proceeds of her freelance writing and translating income, German novelist Heike Geissler takes a seasonal job at Amazon Order Fulfillment in Leipzig. But the job, intended as a stopgap measure, quickly becomes a descent into humiliation, and Geissler soon begins to internalize the dynamics and nature of the post-capitalist labor market and precarious work. Driven to work at Amazon by financial necessity rather than journalistic ambition, Heike Geissler has nonetheless written the first and only literary account of corporate flex-time employment that offers “freedom” to workers who have become an expendable resource. Shifting between the first and the second person, Seasonal Associate is a nuanced expose of the psychic damage that is an essential working condition with mega-corporations. Geissler has written a twenty-first-century account of how the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt.

15/10/2022

Matrice
Jacopo Benassibruno

This book is an anomalous and layered object. It is split into chapters, following the way the Matrice exhibition was developed and completed over many months of work. Some key phases in the construction of the project in fact took place in the period prior to its opening, in a form that straddles the private dimension of an artist's work and the public dimension of the exhibition. As also discussed in the critical text, Jacopo moved his studio to the spaces of the Fondazione Carispezia in the months preceding its opening. Here, within a triangular, uterine structure, the physical 'matrix' of the exhibition to be precise, he produced most of the works that would then be exhibited. And indeed many things took place inside it. The catalogue thus attempts to account for all of this. The colour photographs were taken by photographer Andrea Rossetti to document the two moments in which the project came into being. The first is made up of the so-called 'invisible exhibition': in order to understand the genesis of Matrice, we in fact need to understand how the exhibition is the final result of the 'real' exhibition that no one but the artist and very few others had the pleasure of seeing. All the works in this closed space, built in the very heart of the Foundation space, were in fact displayed on the walls, yet destined never to be seen by any visitor and then to be brutally dismembered. As the photos show, the works displayed are covered with a series of sheets to prevent them from being seen during Jacopo's performance a few days prior to the opening. Only the photographs installed horizontally above the sculptures are partially visible. In the centre of the room, on the other hand, we can still see the tools used in the creation of the works, and the musical instruments that would later be played during the performance. The second moment taken by Rossetti consists of the actual Matrice exhibition itself, which the public could then view during its opening months. Andrea is one of the world's leading exponents of that fine art which is the documentation of artworks and especially of contemporary art exhibitions.

15/10/2022

Sine~Plus+ (LP)
Radboud Mens
Staalplaat

Sine is one of the earlier works by renowned sound-artist, composer and sound designer, Radboud Mens. It was constructed in 1998 and released on CD by Staalplaat in 2000 who now reissue this on vinyl in 2021, featuring an entire side of new material. Having forged out a unique path in music for many years this is a means by which to view the genesis of what would become “Radboud Mens music”.

14/10/2022

Cabins
Matteo Ghidoni
bruno

12/10/2022

14 October 2022, from 6.30pm, Motto Berlin

Please join us for the presentation of Simulacrum Magazine’s thirtieth
anniversary issue het Reflectienummer with editors Mirna Vrdoljak and Kenneth
Geurts.

Simulacrum is an arts and culture magazine based in Amsterdam. Since thirty years, it functions as an accessible and high-quality platform for students and experts from various fields to publish together. Simulacrum is a quarterly thematic publishing project that aims at fostering transdisciplinary connections among contributions that explore both historical and contemporary perspectives of the European cultural landscape.
On 14 October, Simulacrum is coming to Motto Berlin to celebrate the magazine’s thirtieth anniversary issue titled het Reflectienummer. For this issue the editors delved into the full archive and asked contributors to reflect on their submissions. These reflections offer insight into how art, culture, and historiography have changed over the course of thirty years. However, the eleven reflections bundled together do not only refer to the past. Reflection is an exercise with an eye to the future; it is a moment of standing still and thinking about how it was, how it is, and how it could be.

Editors Mirna Vrdoljak and Kenneth Geurts will hold a discussion on the blurring of boundaries across disciplines in the humanities, and the magazine’s role in adequately responding to the reciprocal influence between academic and artistic spheres. Bearing in mind the magazine’s primary focus on art historical research thirty years ago, we will speak from our own experiences with the diverging range of submissions, as well as the questions that arise with the use of new media platforms and digital modes of archiving. There will also be a moment to introduce Simulacrum’s freshly printed autumnal newspaper on documenta fifteen, The documenta Issue.
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09/10/2022

Constantin Flondor. When Eye Touches Cloud
Alina Șerban (Ed.)
P+4 Publications

When Eye Touches Cloud is the first monograph dedicated to the manifold oeuvre of Romanian artist Constantin Flondor (born 1936, in Czernowitz), the leading protagonist of the art groups 111, Sigma and Prolog. This richly illustrated publication takes a closer look on the influential body of work he had produced in painting, kinetic & Op art, land art, action, experimental film & photography from the 1960s until today. It surveys the various steps of his practice: from the lyricism of the first pictorial constructs to the optical and kinetic art of the Group 111, from the study of form and land art characteristic of the Sigma Group, defined as the effort to connect within a single equation visual research and experiment, to the Prolog Group’s spirit of communion and conviviality.

The book offers a comprehensive overview of the principles that shape Constantin Flondor’s art, of reflecting and theorising starting from the inventory of terms, themes, and concepts that have guided him as an artist over seventy years of uninterrupted work and of restoring them to the international context of art through the contributions of invited authors, Dieter Roelstraete & Abigail Winograd, Rainer Fuchs, and Katarzyna Cytlak. Besides the commissioned essays, the book includes a selection from the artist writings and several archival materials which enlarge our view on artist’s singular mode of thinking.

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08/10/2022

What is a name? Why does everyone have a name? What purpose does it have? And for whom?
Alma Kim

I couldn’t stop thinking that people initially started to use names for convenience only, but that names morphed into something more significant. A destiny can be attached to a name. Some parents carefully check the meaning of a name and wish their child will live up to that. But a name can’t define that baby and also you will never know if the baby will grow up like that name, or will like the meaning or expectation that comes with that name. Then which name becomes the perfect name for someone or something?

06/10/2022

LOG 55
Cynthia Davidson (Ed.)

From a bridge to blockchain, Amazonian urbanism to artificial intelligence, Log 55 recognizes the vast concerns of architecture today. This 176-page open issue, which includes a 16-page color insert, compiles essays, building and exhibition reviews, and remarks by 25 architects, theorists, and artists from around the world. In Berlin, Tim Altenhof critiques the newly rebuilt Humboldt Forum; in Los Angeles, Victor J. Jones reviews Michael Maltzan’s Ribbon of Light Viaduct; in New York, Cynthia Davidson visits the late Virgil Abloh’s “social sculpture,” and Thomas de Monchaux views “Anthony Ames Fifty Paintings”; in Quito, Ana María Durán Calisto and Sanford Kwinter draw inspiration from Indigenous territorial intelligence; in Rotterdam, Christophe Van Gerrewey reflects on MVRDV’s Boijmans Depot; in Taipei, Kwang-Yu King compares two new cultural venues by OMA and RUR; and in Tokyo, Jan Vranoský pens a postmortem for Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower. Matthew Allen looks to computer science for a way out of the theory-practice divide; Simone Brott considers the ways NFTs will change architectural practice; Karel Klein draws parallels between memory and AI; and Marija Marič warns against digitized real estate fractions.

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