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Nioques  #32Avec:Zhiting Fu • Des morceaux métalliquesMichele Zaffarano • Vingt paragraphes sur l’harmonieTraduits en fr...
26/04/2025

Nioques #32

Avec:

Zhiting Fu • Des morceaux métalliques

Michele Zaffarano • Vingt paragraphes sur l’harmonie
Traduits en français par l’auteur

Benjamin Fouché • Cave, un roman d’amour

Katerina Gogou • Trois clics à gauche (1978)
Traduit par Barbara Dimopoulou & Demetra L. Nikolopoulou

Hughes Breton • L’œil blanc

Esther Salmona • Comme un bois entier

Grégoire Sourice • Trame verte et bleue

Maya Vitalia • Archimagie

Jean-Marie Gleize • A-t-il eu lieu?

Olga Theuriet • Abord
Technique au tricot. 2020-2024

27.4 5pm
25/04/2025

27.4 5pm

GELLI PRINT BEGINNER WORKSHOP With SATURDAYS from 2 - 6pm51226APRILMOTTO BERLINSkalitzer Str.68What is gelli printing? G...
25/04/2025

GELLI PRINT
BEGINNER WORKSHOP
With

SATURDAYS from 2 - 6pm
5
12
26
APRIL

MOTTO BERLIN
Skalitzer Str.
68

What is gelli printing?
Gelli printing is a unique (monotype) printing process that uses a gel plate as a matrix and inks that dry slowly, most often acrylic paint. The uniqueness of this technique lies in its flexible matrix, which allows for highly accurate imprinting and endless possibilities for creating texture. You can even do photo transfers! The variety of surfaces you can print on is also broader—since the matrix is flexible, you can easily print on everyday objects like clothing. Gelli printing is also very inexpensive compared to other printing techniques. The plates can be made at home using only food-grade gelatin and glycerin. Once the matrix is damaged, you just need to melt it down to reuse it.

Mercredi 23.04.2025 à 19h à ParisAlessandro De Francesco, Antoine Dufeu et Andrea Inglese Lecture performée « Re:vêtemen...
19/04/2025

Mercredi 23.04.2025 à 19h à Paris

Alessandro De Francesco, Antoine Dufeu et Andrea Inglese

Lecture performée « Re:vêtement »

Motto Paris, 38 rue du Vertbois, 75003 Paris
Métro: Temple, Arts & Métiers

Dans un monde multiple et multipolaire, les subjectivités varient. On écrit et réécrit une langue autrement au point de modifier peut-être son identité poétique habituelle. Alessandro De Francesco, Andrea Inglese et Antoine Dufeu proposent de lire, de dire ou de performer des textes dont l’autorité est ambiguë. S’agit-il d’un texte écrit séparément ou collectivement par les membres du triumvirat? d’un texte anonyme? d’un texte contemporain ou d’un texte ancien, redécouvert, d’une l’adaptation libre, d’un texte de métaphysique, d’une fiction poétique? Le genre change avec la subjectivité, l’identité du texte vacille en même temps que celles des auteurs, et le public participe, par son interprétation, à un jeu de travestissement.

New Arcades (Survival Club, Sensation Fair, and Cool Shanshui)Hu Fang, 胡昉MAP Book Publishers (Hong Kong)(Chinese - Engli...
18/04/2025

New Arcades (Survival Club, Sensation Fair, and Cool Shanshui)
Hu Fang, 胡昉
MAP Book Publishers (Hong Kong)
(Chinese - English)

Hu Fang’s writing is a juxtaposition of fiction and commentary about a variety of topics relevant to contemporary living, including authoritarian politics, office culture, market economy and personal experiences. These topics commingle in his series of texts with great lucidity and wit. His ambition seems to be embedded within the risky act of constant writing, such that he creates little seeds of texts that can be weaved into an encyclopaedia on contemporary society... At the same time, through the unique imaginative space that literature provides, he uses a gentle yet persistent form of violence to pe*****te typical constructions, thereby accentuating that which had previously been lacking - that is, a tension in reality between the classics and science fiction, dilemma and panic, ecstasy and despair.” - Jiang Jun, Chief Editor of Urban China

New Arcades (Survival Club, Sensation Fair and Cool Shanshui) was originally published as a column series in Art World from July to December, 2005, Shanghai Art & Literature Publishing House.

Sunday 20 April, 6pm sharp (1h)Easter Evening @ Motto BerlinWith puppet theater, sound, danceFeaturingAna Nikolskaia,Nik...
17/04/2025

Sunday 20 April, 6pm sharp (1h)

Easter Evening @ Motto Berlin

With puppet theater, sound, dance

Featuring
Ana Nikolskaia,
Nikita Proshkin, Anton, Andrey Karbonenko
And Malena Grilli

Miao Mouthorgans & Other Rare Instruments in Guizhou, Sichuan, China (LP)Kink GongSub RosaThe term MIAO is a very ancien...
16/04/2025

Miao Mouthorgans & Other Rare Instruments in Guizhou, Sichuan, China (LP)
Kink Gong
Sub Rosa

The term MIAO is a very ancient Chinese misleading pseudo ethnic categorisation, what we call the HMONG in western languages. Miao became a generic term which does not reveal the diversity of 38 subgroups or 9 millions people, mostly in southern China Guizhou province.

I have learned a lot from Stevan Harrell s book “Ways of being ethnic in southwest China”, the author is an american professor having very good knowledge of the Nuosu Yi in southern part of Sichuan.
A question came up: why are all those folks called the same name, by the Hans (the dominant ethnic group with 92 % of the population) and they identify themselves with a different name ?

Stevan Harrell is the man who could answer my questions, no Chinese I would ask had an answer, I mean a real answer, I was not satisfied with the general answer that those various ethnic groups had common ancestors, how did they know?

RestGöksu BaysalNumbered edition of 125
15/04/2025

Rest
Göksu Baysal

Numbered edition of 125

John Ashbery Live as Sanders Theatre, 1976 - 12” LP and 16-page liner notes bookletJohn AshberyFonograf EditionsIntroduc...
15/04/2025

John Ashbery Live as Sanders Theatre, 1976 - 12” LP and 16-page liner notes booklet
John Ashbery
Fonograf Editions

Introducing The Woodberry Sessions, a series of archival LPs released in collaboration with Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room.

In May of 1976, shortly after being awarded the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror—a triple crown which, to this day, only he has won—John Ashbery returned to his alma mater, Harvard University, to read new and selected poems. John Ashbery Live at Sanders Theatre, 1976 is forty-seven minutes of poetry from Houseboat Days, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, and The Double Dream of Spring.

The record includes a 16-page liner notes booklet with original essays by Douglas Crase, Dara Barrois/Dixon, and John Yau, along with archival material such as photographs of Ashbery’s annotated manuscripts and original artwork by R. B. Kitaj, Larry Rivers, and Ashbery himself.

Track List:

Side A: Street Musicians Pyrography Bird’s-Eye View of the Tool and Die Co. Collective Dawns The Couple in the Next Room Variant Daffy Duck in Hollywood

Side B: Melodic Trains Wet Casements The Wrong Kind of Insurance Business Personals Friends The Lament Upon the Waters Poem in Three Parts Oleum Misericordiae Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape

THIS IS ALL WRONG ( Cassette  #7)111RAural PrismSTORY OF AN INEVITABLE CATASTROPHE, THE END OF THE HUMAN WORLD AND ITS P...
13/04/2025

THIS IS ALL WRONG ( Cassette #7)
111R
Aural Prism

STORY OF AN INEVITABLE CATASTROPHE, THE END OF THE HUMAN WORLD AND ITS POSSIBLE AFTERMATH, AS TOLD BY MACHINES FROM THE FUTURE

AP #2
music: Maciej Ratajski instagram.com/111rmusic
cover and graphics: sisi lence instagram.com/sisi__lence
mastering: rs

1. Tears in the Rain Prelude 04:18
2. There Is No Time 02:52
3. This Is All Wrong 04:15
4. The Weather Machine Broke 05:52
5. The Exact Numbers 03:17
6. The Unknown 06:53
7. The Expanse 05:01

ncludes unlimited streaming of THIS IS ALL WRONG via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.

Peles Duo - PROCESSPUNCH PressThis artist book is published in celebration of Peles Duo’s twenty years of work.In 2005 P...
11/04/2025

Peles Duo - PROCESS
PUNCH Press

This artist book is published in celebration of Peles Duo’s twenty years of work.

In 2005 Peles Duo (formerly Peles Empire) began their collaboration by opening an illegal bar in Frankfurt’s red light district. The space featured wallpaper made of A3 colour copies reproducing, nearly to scale, a room of the 19th Century Peleș Castle, located in the foothills of Romania’s Carpathian Mountains. Peleș Castle is an historicist castle as each room is a copy of a different architectural style, which appears to anticipate postmodernism nearly one hundred and twenty years before it started. The same act of copying or translation that birthed Peleș Castle carries over to the artist’s own approach to studio production. What is realised in three-dimensions for one exhibition becomes the two-dimensional source material for the next period of production. The transition of material from 3D to 2D is simultaneously the content and material for their work. The process becomes, temporarily, the work. The act of copying is more important than the copy itself. Peles Duo dissect and reshuffle the supposedly original meaning of somewhere, something or someone, in order to question what time and culture has made of it.

PIOTR MACHATBHNTSOpening Sunday 13 April4 - 8 pmMotto BerlinSkalitzerstr. 6810997 Berlin
10/04/2025

PIOTR MACHA
TBHNTS

Opening Sunday 13 April
4 - 8 pm

Motto Berlin
Skalitzerstr. 68
10997 Berlin

Vasco CesarettiLive concertApril 10, 8pmMotto Paris38 rue du Vertbois75003 Paris
08/04/2025

Vasco Cesaretti

Live concert
April 10, 8pm

Motto Paris
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

Voyage, War, Exile: Three EssaysEtel AdnanLitmus PressWritten between 1984 and 1995, this new edition collects three ess...
07/04/2025

Voyage, War, Exile: Three Essays
Etel Adnan
Litmus Press

Written between 1984 and 1995, this new edition collects three essays by Etel Adnan meditating on a life lived in motion: intellectual, geographic, linguistic and artistic perpetual motion. Published in honor of Adnan’s centennial (2025), these essays are a beacon and remain a piercing and profound model for reckoning with and surviving our times of war and exile.

Voyage, War, Exile collects three essays by Etel Adnan that present a multilayered meditation on the author’s life within and without Beirut. Adnan reflects upon the intricacies of family, place, and language, asking what it means to be an Arab woman and writer in exile at the end of a century in which “Exile became the existential and metaphysical condition for every Arab.” At once deeply personal to the life of the author and yet ubiquitous in inquiry, Voyage, War, Exile pulls us into the shifting landscape of Lebanon and the United States in the 20th Century through a weaving of philosophical reflection and memory. This volume includes artwork by Simone Fattal.

Salzburg, Berlin 2018 - 2024Manuel Tozzi
06/04/2025

Salzburg, Berlin 2018 - 2024
Manuel Tozzi

TOMORROW FORGOT TO PLAN FOR YOU & dOe$ hE kNoW hE cAlL$ Me WhEn He $lEeP$Author: THE MODERN INSTITUTE & THE MODERN INSTI...
06/04/2025

TOMORROW FORGOT TO PLAN FOR YOU & dOe$ hE kNoW hE cAlL$ Me WhEn He $lEeP$
Author: THE MODERN INSTITUTE & THE MODERN INSTITUTE PRESENTS DJ TOPOONEX GLOBO

THE MODERN INSTITUTE

With this release they aim to return to the city in the wake of the blackout to explore the aftermath in the underground in what some describe as ‘psychogeography’, travelling back to scenes of their previous works and experiencing the city in a different light.

1926 / Live in Tallinn / Antifa / Mered-Pot / Inframundo / Interplanetary Dialogue – Prólogo y Rondo / KLAM – Iučatva / Torpedo Son / Diego Tiscali – Riposo / Lojban / Digital Fritz Klamer / Lojban / Zuar / Pauce / Asnat and Arte / The v.s. The Edge / Inframundo /

“This work highlights the diversity and creativity of modern artists, and is designed to attract and energise these artists. It is a powerful display from POONEX GLOBO’s collection, with images that we can share with our friends and families, who are interested in having the music available to play at their home and business venues for the first time.”

Released on TAKUROKO 2021

DE UNUL SINGUR - ALL ALONEMircea NicolaePUNCH Press - Salonul de ProiecteEdited by Alexandra Croitoru; Magda Radu; Ștefa...
04/04/2025

DE UNUL SINGUR - ALL ALONE
Mircea Nicolae
PUNCH Press - Salonul de Proiecte

Edited by Alexandra Croitoru; Magda Radu; Ștefan Sava.

The book provides an extensive survey of Ionuț Cioană’s artistic practice while also presenting a selection of texts he wrote over the years. These writings offer a glimpse into his mental laboratory, unveiling the psychological dimension inherent in the artistic process. Ionuț Cioană (1980–2020) worked under the pseudonym Mircea Nicolae, a figure who made a lasting impact on the Romanian cultural scene. His profile as an artist-intellectual was marked by a continuous process of self-reflection and self-positioning within the artistic system.

The volume comprises essays by Magda Radu, Alexandra Croitoru, Ștefan Sava, Anca Oroveanu, Jacob Mikanowski, Veda Popovici, Raluca Voinea & Sharon, Ștefan Tiron, and a selection of the artist’s own writings.

The book is available with four different covers, distributed randomly.

EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM - Viktoria SchabertViktoria Schabert (Ed.)RPTU Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaisersl...
04/04/2025

EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM - Viktoria Schabert
Viktoria Schabert (Ed.)
RPTU Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau

EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM is the summary of an unpublished series of concertina leaflets that deals with the life and work of the Irish architect, designer, and artist Eileen Gray.

The series was created as part of a seminar at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) during the winter term 2023/24.
It contains a total of seven different works:
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM OF LIFE
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM OF OBJECTS
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM OF SEATINGS
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM OF TABLES
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM OF CABINETS
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM OF INTERIOR DESIGN
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE
The publication comprises drawings of selected and realised projects by Eileen Gray as well as an outline of her life story. The following graphic illustrations serve to intuitively examine and analyse the selected works, detached from their context. Instead of explaining them in detail, they focus on the shape and the designer’s idea. The visualisation was kept deliberately restrained - the more reductive the drawing, the more scope for interpretation opens up to the recipient.
The sections ‘Interior design’ and ‘Architecture’ emphasise the interrelationship between furniture and architecture: Eileen Gray designed “Gesamtkunstwerke” (total artworks) by analysing, considering and finally combining both. In “E.1027” and “Tempe à Pailla” in particular, the interior design is inevitably linked
to the architecture and vice versa.
The works shown in this publication represent a selected part of the designer’s creative spectrum.
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM focuses on what mattered most to the artist – her work.

Mitwirkende Studierende:

Svenja Brehm, Hanna Brown, Joshua Deimling, Elissa Dregert, Nina Groß,
Merve Güngör, Helen Guisl, Hannah Hüttenberger, Kim Hussong, Fabienne
Jost, Pauline Klenner, Julia Kochendörfer, Noa Kornmayer, Selina
Krystofiak, Rebecca Mayer, Andres Pinzon, Johanna Saran, Almedina Softic,
Vanessa Wagner, Sina Walter

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