here & now

So, of course next to Miss Read at Kunstwerke, our friends at Motto bookstore and Chert gallery will host the second round of Unter dem Motto book fair, with a focus on slightly more edgy and alternative magazines and art publications. Or, in their own words: ‘More than 70 publishers from about 17 countries will present their works and show an eclectic overview of contemporary art publishing, ranging from home-printed zines to publications by established institutions. Unter dem Motto provides a professional look into the newest developments of the international artistic publishing scene. New this year is not only the extension of the fair to a full weekend, but also the participation of a selection of art galleries and exhibition spaces engaged in publishing, and a program of events.’

Find out here why a magazine from Budapest would be called innen, if True True True is too good to be true and what’s the story behind Zulu from Los Angeles. Or just come to visit us at our stand, and even better: join us for our design talk on Sunday at 16h; but more on this later today.

Unter dem Motto 2010
Friday, September 03, 15–19h
Saturday, September 04, 12–20h plus evening program
Sunday, September 05, 12–19h
Admission is free

Motto/Chert
Skalitzer Strasse 68
10997 Berlin

Attending Publishers:
032c, Berlin, DE | 100%, New York, USA | Atlas Projectos, Lisbon, PT | Bedford Press, London, UK | Bernhard Cella, Vienna, AU | BöhmKobayashi, Düsseldorf, DE | Cneai=, Chatou, FR | der:die:das, Zürich, CH | Dynasty Zine, Athens, GR | edition fink, Zürich, CH | Ein Magazine über Orte, Berlin, DE | Faund, Lausanne, CH | Fillip, Vancouver, CA | For Further Information, London, UK | Für Immer, Zürich, DE | Fukt, Berlin, DE | FW:, Rotterdam / Amsterdam, NL | Himaa, Tokyo, JP | innen, Budapest, HU | J&L Books, New York, USA | Kodoji Press, Baden, CH | Larry’s, Berlin, DE / Vancouver, CA | Le Edizioni Della China, Berlin, DE | Lubok Verlag, Leipzig, DE | mono.kultur, Berlin, DE | Nieves, Zürich, CH | Occasional Papers, London, UK | Peperoni Books, Berlin, DE | Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL | Rollo Press, Zürich, CH | Serps Press, Melbourne, AUS | Starship, Berlin, DE | Super Labo, Tokyo, JP | True True True, Amsterdam, NL | Werkplaats Typografie, | Werkplaats, NL | Westphalie, Vienna, AU / Berlin, DE | Wilde Horses, Buenos Aires, ARG | Zulu, Los Angeles, USA

Galleries and Exhibition Spaces:
De Appel, Amsterdam, NL | Artspeak, Vancouver, CA | BQ, Berlin / Cologne, DE | Daniel Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne, DE | Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE | Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, UK | Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK | FormContent, London, UK | Kominek, Berlin, DE | Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, NL | Massimo De Carlo, Milan, IT | Montgomery, Berlin, DE | Neu, Berlin, DE | Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, IT | Or Gallery, Vancouver, CA | Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL

Collective Booths and Special Display of Publications by:
38th Street Publishers, New York, USA | 4478 Zine, Natal, BR | Dent de Leone, London, UK | Agma, Vienna, AU | Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, DE | Casco | Office For Art, Design And Theory, Utrecht, NL | Criticism, Paris, FR | e-flux Journal, New York, USA / Berlin, DE | Éditions B42, Paris, FR | Four Corners Books, London, UK | The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris, FR | Morava Books, Poznan, PL | Mousse Publishing, Milan, IT | Noritake, Tokyo, JP | Paraguay Press, Paris, FR | PROVENCE, Lacoste, FR | Specter Press, Seoul, Korea | Hiraku Suzuki, Tokyo, JP

Special Projects:
Abäke, London, UK | Asterisk*, Tallinn, EE | Ooga Booga, Los Angeles, USA | Occasional Papers, London, UK | Hanne Lippard & Elisabeth Klement NOR/EE | Sam de Groot & Paul Haworth, NL/UK

On the occasion of the event, a postcard set will be produced, with contributions from:
Asher Penn | Bardhi Haliti | Bart de Baets | Erik Van Der Weijde | Florian Ludwig | Frank Koolen | Harsh Patel & Stefan Marx | Josh Smith | Julia Born & Laurenz Brunner | Julien Carreyn | Karl Holmqvist | Mark Manders | Maxwell Simmer | Olaf Nicolai | Renato Zülli | Sam de Groot & Paul Haworth | Sulki & Min Choi | Trinn Tamm | Zack Sternwalker

Program:

– Friday 3 September

16 / 17 / 18 / 19h: Åbäke: A Restricted View of Fox and His Friends, 2010
In a discussion about graphic design practices with critic Benjamin Thorel we deplored that graphic design sometimes seemed obsessed with frivolous preoccupations of style over content. We joked: “it’s like watching Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends but just through the sequences happening in the printing/binding factory scenes”. A little later we thought exciting to actually recut the movie and were surprised to see that the story still held. Rainer, what a star

16.30 / 17.30 / 18.30h: Hanne Lippard
Beige, 2010: This film is about a colour, and the impact it can have on its surroundings. It is about the paler shade of pale and its variety of monotony
Reflection, 2010: A reflection can not be made until some time has passed. In this reflection you can see yourself. This reflection requires that you take one step back. Two is one too much– there is only one of you. Throw a stone in the water, and it disappears. Throw a stone at the mirror, and it breaks.

18-19h: Jody Barton: Black Masters. book launch and signing, Nieves booth

– Saturday 4 September

13 / 15 / 17h (open mic at 20h): Eva Weinmayr with Occasional Papers — (pause) 21 scenes concerning the silence of Art in Ruins
At regular intervals throughout the afternoon on Saturday 4 September, friends and passers-by will read passages from Eva Weinmayr’s play (pause), recently published by Occasional Papers. The collective reading – in the Chino room at Motto, and broadcast live in the courtyard between Motto and Chert – forms part of a series of interventions by Weinmayr around the (temporary?) disappearance of the English art collective Art in Ruins. To date, the series includes the film “I Wonder What the Silence Was About” (concurrently presented at ‘MISSREAD’, KW Institute for Contemporary Art) and the publication Art in Ruins and Unknown Stranger (also published by Occasional Papers)

14 / 16 / 19h: Elisabeth Klement and Hanne Lippard: “Scenery”

18h: Åbäke: A Restricted View of Fox and His Friends, 2010

20.30h: Civic City Cahiers 1:
Margit Mayer: Social Movements in the (Post-)Neoliberal City
Talk with Jesko Fezer, Matthias Görlich and Zak Kyes
The Civic City Cahiers series intends to provide material for a critical discussion about the role of design for a new social city. It publishes short monographic texts by authors who specialize in urban and design theory and practice
Series Editors: Design2context, Jesko Fezer, Matthias Görlich
Publisher: Bedford Press, London 2010

21h: Paul Haworth & Sam de Groot: The Last of the Great Romantics

22h: Christian Naujoks (live)

– Sunday 5 September

16h: mono.klub #27: Design Talk
with Bureau Mario Lombardo | NODE Berlin Oslo | mono.kultur
The Design Talk will highlight different approaches to editorial design, featuring a short presentation of mono.kultur’s practice of flexible art direction by inviting different designers to guest-produce individual issues, and introductions to and by previous contributors Mario Lombardo (former art director for Spex, Liebling) and NODE Berlin Oslo (former art directors for 032c, Monopol)

15 / 17h: Elisabeth Klement and Hanne Lippard: “Scenery”

14 / 18h: Åbäke: A Restricted View of Fox and His Friends, 2010