Motto is coming to Melbourne as a temporary bookstore in collaboration with Neon Parc (and mono.kultur will be there in the mix!).

8 – 25th February 2012
12 – 7pm daily
6 Duckett Street
Brunswick
Melbourne VIC 3056
Australia

In the exhibition Solo for … Dan and Lia Perjovschi the ifa gallery Berlin presents two artistic positions that combine image and text in very different ways, respectively commenting upon current affairs from their own approaches.

Dan Perjovschi responds with his spontaneous, stylised, almost comic-like drawings to current socio-political conditions. Daily, Weekly, Monthly is a retrospective of Dan Perjovschi’s magazine works. His political, social and cultural news are always highly topical, depicting human society of the 20th and 21st century in a humorous and critical way.
Dan Perjovschi (born 1961) participated in the exhibition Erste Schritte – Rumänische Kunst der 90er Jahre (First Steps – Romanian art of the 90s), presented by the ifa galleries Berlin, Stuttgart, and Bonn in 1993.

Lia Perjovschi’s large-scale installation Knowledge Museum Kit is an imaginary project of ideas for an interdisciplinary museum, a base project for those who want to know what should be known. Creating imaginary contexts, the artist raises existential questions and reveals unexpected connections. The interplay of image and text evokes an endless mind map, where text fragments and image material are interwoven in associative structures.
Lia Perjovschi (born 1961) participated in the project Balt-Orient-Express presented by the ifa gallery Berlin in 1996 and subsequently shown at the Romanian National Gallery in Bucharest and the Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna.

Today the Bucharest-based artist couple participates together or individually in renown international exhibitions like the Venice Biennial or at the MoMA New York.

Solo for … Dan and Lia Perjovschi

Lia Perjovschi: Knowledge Museum Kit
Dan Perjiovschi: Daily, Weekly, Monthly
Dates. 03.02. – 15.04.2012
ifa Gallery Berlin
Linienstrasse 139/140, 10115 Berlin

In cooperation with the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee:
06.02.2012, 7 pm
Lia and Dan Perjovschi
Lecture: Double Experience – life and art from dictatorship to democracy
(Lecture in English)
Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz
Gustav-Adolf-Strasse 140, 13086 Berlin

Photo: My Yourope, 2010, Bucharest for project intervention at E.U. Parliament Strasbourg, France, and insert in Revista 22 Bucharest, Romania (detail), © Dan Perjovschi

Mathieu Wellner, our friend and interviewer of mono.kultur #22, will give an introduction to  Ai Weiwei’s work as an architect in Graz tonight. Don’t miss it!

Although Ai Weiwei had already successfully realized more than 60 different building projects, three years ago, he and his team Fake Design decided to take on no further commissions. They had come to find the process of official authorization and the waste of creative energy invested in unrealized projects to be too frustrating and disappointing. They have sometimes made an exception, but then they decided to accompany the undertaking in a different way – to curate it.
And indeed: As a showcase for democracy and diversity, architecture can also encourage debate. Especially in China.

6pm: commented walk through the exhibition Ai Weiwei with Mathieu Wellner, Kunsthaus Graz, meeting point in the lobby. The exhibition is open from 5-7pm with free admission.
7pm: lecture, Haus der Architektur Graz

A little teaser by our friend Kangding Ray, who will be performing material from his excellent album Or at Berghain tomorrow evening, as part of Club Transmediale’s Raster-Noton night, which are always a treat, featuring new lecker material from the likes of Byetone and more. Don’t say we didn’t tell you.

He achieved international recognition with the Singing Lesson (I) at the 2002 Frankfurt Manifesta and with Repetition at the 2005 Venice Biennale, a powerful metaphor of our regressive democracies in which the state of exception has become the rule, according to Benjamin’s terms, which Agamben has made famous. Artur Żmijewski is curating the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art which is to open soon (April 27 – July 1, 2012).

Artur Żmijewski continues the artist-talk series HUMBOLDT MEETINGS, to which Christoph Hochhäusler (12 December 2011), Angela Schanelec (10 January 2012), Anne Tismer (31 January 2012), Harun Farocki (NEW DATE:  7 February 2012), and Thomas Ostermeier (15 February 2012) have been invited to open discussions at the Department of Art and Visual History at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

The dialogue series is organized by Régis Michel (Rudolf Arnheim Visiting Professor 2011/12) and Katharina Lee Chichester

HUMBOLDT MEETINGS III
Invitation to an open discussion with Artur Żmijewski
Podium guests: Charlotte Klonk and Piotr Piotrowski
Tonight, January 23, 2012, 8 pm
Humboldt-University of Berlin
Dorotheenstraße 24, Room 1.101

With the kind support of Carolin Behrmann and the students of the seminars

HUMBOLDT MEETINGS is realized by the Department of Art and Visual History at the Humboldt-University of Berlin.

Firstly, it intends to promote a discussion on the possible political implications of a renewed idea of ‘humanity’ that goes beyond any simplistic antithesis between humanism and antihumanism.

Secondly, it aspires to foster a dialogue between philosophy and science, especially evolutionary biology and the neurosciences, which both refuses any form of experimental reductionism vowed to ground man on statistically objective criteria and theoretically acknowledges the fact that homo sapiens’s brain has become the privileged object of study of an increasing number of empirical sciences.

Thirdly, the present project proposes to scrutinise the central role of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and more specifically of the retroactive temporality with which it works, for a reconsideration of the problem of anthropogenesis that avoids falling back into naïve ‘anthropologisms’. It is our contention that, in formulating a truly materialist and desubstantialised anthropology based on the corporeal inscription of language, psychoanalysis overcomes the supposed dichotomy between the human and the natural sciences.

The Human Animal in Politics, Science, and Psychoanalysis
December 16–17, 2011
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69
10117 Berlin
Free entrance
Please find the full program of the conference here.

Organized by Mladen Dolar (Professor of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana; Advising Researcher, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht) and Lorenzo Chiesa (Reader in Modern European Thought, University of Kent).

Partner Institutions: University of Kent, KIASH, SECL; Jan van Eyck Academie; University of Ljubljana

2HB: What We Make With Words
Book Fair
Saturday 17 December 2011 / 12–17h
CCA
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow G2 3JD
UK

Legendary Koi Klub is back – we’re so pleased.