september 2011

Architecture, although we often don't realize it, always played a central role in our culture and life: in our homes, places of worship, offices, and shops.

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Von Herbst 2003 bis Sommer 2004 wurde das Kunsthaus Zürich erstmals in seiner Geschichte vollständig saniert. Der junge Schweizer Künstler Ingo Giezendanner hielt diesen Prozess im Auftrag des Kunsthauses zeichnerisch fest.

Only Graphic Designers Can See-Magazine, Issue 1.

For Le Coin du Diable Desamory created a surreal picture book about desires between dream and awakening.

Autuum Winter 2009/2010
Adherents of Discordianism believe in the power of chaos. They deny that the kosmos has order or, even less so, harmony. They will claim: "We believe this! And its contrary as well!". They define their cult as a religion, disguised as a joke, disguised as a religion.

„Durch“ ist eine Zeitschrift, die von 1986 bis 1993 im Auftrag des Grazer Kunstvereins herausgegeben wurde.

Die Ausgabe handelt von komplexen Verhältnissen zwischen afrikanischer und westlicher Kultur.
(Germ./Engl.)

Ausgehend von der Offenen Bibliothek, die die israelisch/amerikanischen Künstler Clegg & Guttmann 1991 in Graz installierten, wurde über einen längeren Zeitraum das vorliegende Heft, „Durch 10“ sowie eine Ausstellung entwickelt.
(Germ./Engl.)

Die Ausgabe „Durch 3/4“ erschien 1987 und wurde von Albert Oehlen konzipiert und redaktionell betreut. In einer Sonderausgabe von 30 Exemplaren sind zwölf Leerseiten von Georg Herold mit Originalzeichnungen versehen.
(Germ./Engl.)

Beyond the view that multiple, globally dispersed conceptual art practices provide a heterogeneity of cultural references, Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions propose much more: other dimensions altogether, other spatiotemporal politics, other timescales, other understandings of matter, other forms of life—not only as works, but as a basic condition for being able to perceive artworks in the first place. (engl.)

oral music history and interesting interviews

Gespräch mit Martin Kippenberger

A collection of texts from the first 4 Starship issues in english translation, together with illustrations and images from this period.

theoral no.2
oral music history and interesting interviews

oral music history and interesting interviews

"Wohlwollen und Umsicht, gell! Wohlwollen ist unbedingt nötig, das kommt noch vor dem Vertrauen"

two conversations with paul lovens (in german) about the three bass players, friendship, Nickelsdorf, Aachen, USA, listening and playing.

"I can travel and if I'm open, things can happen better, way better than that I can plan them out. When I think about what artistry is and what's the highest level of artistic human expression that I aspire to live, it's Jazz."

(Engl.)

It has always been very strange for me, this thing with ideas, where ideas come from and especially when you want to be an artist you alwys ask yourself: Where did he take this idea from?

We see the Earth changing, we monitor its development, and we react.

In the rare realm of people who have mastered art and music as blended elements, Carsten Nicolai continues to drive creative processes into new directions.

Disclaimer: You might find yourself approaching some kind of fit, choking on your own laughter and chuckling away happily forever after when first encountering the disturbingly sinister and truly enchanting work of Glasgow based artist David Shrigley. You might also want to follow the advice given by the master himself: ‘Feel Free to Howl.’

mono.kultur is an interview magazine in full length and depth, extensive and unfiltered.
One interview per issue. Quarterly.

#11 features David LaChappelle
Interview by Magdalena Magiera and Kai von Rabenau
Photography by David LaChapelle

Ai Weiwei grew up under horrible conditions, living literally underground in a burrow in the Chinese regions of Manchuria and Xinjiang. Born in 1957 in Beijing, Ai Weiwei was the son of Ai Qing, a renowned poet denounced by the Chinese Communist Party and during the Cultural Revolution forced into exile in a labour camp. Under strong political control, his father had to clean public toilets (Quelle: Mono.Kultur).

"As time doesn't stop, we are proud to devote this second edition of BEK to EVIL's newest project: his alter-ego SUPER A. EVIL will be in Langenhagen (Germany) in March and April to give us guys an insight into his personal well being.

PANEL is an artist magazine from Vienna. Each issue forms around the idea of finding a common theme, a red line, a form of serendipity, without revolving around a "topic". See it as a group exhibition on paper.

EIKON richtet seinen Inhalt schwerpunktmäßig auf das aktuelle Kunstgeschehen, sowie intermediale Bezüge in diesem Zusammenhang.

BLACK PAGES is a monthly releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 pieces.
BLACK PAGES comes in the format A5, including 20 pages, printed in black&white.
BLACK PAGES invites one artist to collaborate and renames after his/her forename.

Eric L. Santner hat mit »Zur Psychotheologie des Alltagslebens« ein inhaltlich wie methodisch maßgebendes Buch geschrieben. Es präsentiert eine vorbildliche Verbindung freudscher Texte mit philosophischen Grundfragen der Moderne, die Santner am Leitfaden des Sterns der Erlösung von Franz Rosenzweig entwickelt.

BLACK PAGES is a monthly releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 pieces.
BLACK PAGES comes in the format A5, including 20 pages, printed in black&white.
BLACK PAGES invites one artist to collaborate and renames after his/her forename.

Black Pages is a monthly releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 pieces.

Black Pages is a monthly releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 pieces.

Black Pages is a monthly releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 pieces.

Black Pages is a monthly releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 pieces.

Black Pages is a monthly releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 pieces.

Black Pages is a monthly releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 pieces.

Black Pages is a monthly releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 pieces.

1/2 is a biannual original self-published hand-made zine.

1/2 is a biannual original self-published hand-made zine.

BLACK PAGES is a monthly releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 pieces.
BLACK PAGES comes in the format A5, including 20 pages, printed in black&white.
BLACK PAGES invites one artist to collaborate and renames after his/her forename.

BLACK PAGES is a monthly releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 pieces.
BLACK PAGES comes in the format A5, including 20 pages, printed in black&white.
BLACK PAGES invites one artist to collaborate and renames after his/her forename.

BLACK PAGES is a monthly releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 pieces.
BLACK PAGES comes in the format A5, including 20 pages, printed in black&white.
BLACK PAGES invites one artist to collaborate and renames after his/her forename.

BLACK PAGES is a monthly releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 pieces.
BLACK PAGES comes in the format A5, including 20 pages, printed in black&white.
BLACK PAGES invites one artist to collaborate and renames after his/her forename.

BLACK PAGES is a monthly releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 pieces.
BLACK PAGES comes in the format A5, including 20 pages, printed in black&white.
BLACK PAGES invites one artist to collaborate and renames after his/her forename.

The book collects writings and images from participants and presenters in the June 2008 Drift. The book is designed by Mike Koppa.

1/2 is a biannual original self-published hand-made zine.

Implicasphere is an occasional mini-publication that seeks to unearth and revive compelling, illuminating and curious ideas in the form of image and text fragments taken unadulterated from fields as diverse as folk craft, nuclear physics, metaphysical poetry, pulp novels, linguistics, criminology, film noir and astrology. Each issue takes the form of a single printed broadsheet and has as its theme an everyday word that seems direct and concrete: mice, string, the nose.

Implicasphere is an occasional mini-publication that seeks to unearth and revive compelling, illuminating and curious ideas in the form of image and text fragments taken unadulterated from fields as diverse as folk craft, nuclear physics, metaphysical poetry, pulp novels, linguistics, criminology, film noir and astrology. Each issue takes the form of a single printed broadsheet and has as its theme an everyday word that seems direct and concrete: mice, string, the nose.

Auf den Schau- und Tiefenrausch folgt mit Höhenrausch der letzte Teil der Trilogie: Nach den Schaufenstern und Stollen werden nunmehr die Dächer der Stadt bespielt.

Michael Turnheim unternimmt anhand klassischer Texte von Freud über Trauer und Melancholie, Krieg und Tod sowie über den Witz den anspruchsvollen Versucht einer kritischen Selbstthematisierung der Psychoanalyse. (zit. vom Umschlag).

Each one of us has Giga-grams of things, souvenirs and gifts at home. Gigabytes of photos and videos. Non-sensical things, but apparently they're kept as a memory of something. But these things only tend to catch dust, and the stronger individuals among us tend to get rid of them at the earliest opportunity. Most of the remembrance material usually only evokes a strange sense of inappropriateness, least of all a recollection of what-the-hell-the-name-of-that-place-was.

(Foreword)

The perception of the human body has changed somewhat. In the past, skinny and wiry people were usually poor souls who would toil on their masters' soil from dawn till dusk, while the rich, fat and immobile feudal lords would clog their arteries with sugar and fats. Today the tables have turned, and it is lean curves that indicate sufficient funds for healthy food and enough time for leisure centres, while the poor are usually on the verge of dying as victims of television paralysis and junk food.

I'm on the trail of several people. I observe their digital lives in social networks; I know that they're watching mine, and, to be honest, it suits me fine.
I'm not good at asking questions, so I prefer to check the profiles of my ex-girlfriends once in a while to see if they're doing OK and to believe that they actually are. Even the petty lying suits me - the race for success comforts me and I feel better. After all, everything's an illusion, so why should people suffer in it?

What are these ways? Why are you wet?

"... to vsechno hovori pro to, abych se holil do hladka, asi zvolim planzetovy strojek, sice je pry o malinko hlucnesjsi, nez rotacni frezka, ale zase nevim, jak bych si mezi pulky nacpal ten objemny valec od philipsu... chci si totiz holit vsechno ;-)"

daymon, 02.12.2004, 16:26

Hello you fool I love you
C'mon join the joyride

Roxette - Joyride, 1991

But when those men opened her legs, they were shocked and made the Sign of the Cross. Her feminine organ had disappeared. She had nothing between her legs: it was like an elbow. Nothing.

Sarita Colonia (1914-1940)

(Booklet)

Während des diesjährigen Gallery Weekend in Berlin ließ sich erneut beobachten, wie sich die Kunstwelt strukturell immer mehr den Bedingungen der Modewelt annähert – jede Menge vip-Limousinen kamen zum Einsatz, wie um den Einbruch des Celebrity-Prinzips in den Bereich der Gegenwartskunst zu illustrieren.

Als Texte zur Kunst das Fach "Kunstgeschichte" im Sommer 1994 erstmals zum Thema einer Ausgabe machte, stand die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den Methoden und Gegenstandsbereichen der Disziplin noch ganz im Zeichen des Theorieimports aus dem angloamerikanischen Kontext, wo Dekonstruktion, Psychoanalyse, Queer und Cultural Studies die traditionell -dominierenden Ansätze und Lektüreverfahren von Historiografie und Ikonografie neu konfigurierten oder sogar als bevorzugte Interpretationsmodelle- abzulösen begannen.

Architecture is scary. It is not just difficult to deny this; it is impossible. Architecture involves something oppressive.