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