Monika Oechslers Installation »Am fernen und entferntesten Punkt« ermöglicht das Eintauchen in ein Sound-Environment, in dem die Erfahrung einer Art »moderner« Psychose simuliert wird. Durch das Betreten des geometrisch-verzerrten Innenraums, in dem Stimmen und Licht auf vielfältige Weise choreografiert sind, erfährt der Besucher eine räumliche und akustische Desorientierung. (Quelle: Verlag)
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[...] Ryan McGinley’s steep ascent within the world of photography appears almost as effortless as his images: Born in 1977 in New Jersey, he moved to New York in 1996 to study graphic design at Parsons School of Design, where almost by accident he discovered his love for photography. Incessantly shooting his friends and surroundings, McGinley inadvertently documented the microcosm of youth culture in New York at the turn of the millennium in a body of work that stood out for its energy and optimism, despite the grit and rawness of the images – a style that should later draw comparisons to the work of Nan Goldin, Larry Clark and Robert Frank. In the meantime, McGinley befriended a group of local artists and creative types – among them his close friends Dan Colen and the late Dash Snow – that would soon be hyped as a ‘new movement’ by the press, a label based more on the excessive lifestyle the three had in common than their actual and quite disparate work.[...] (Englisch)

Martino first attracted widespread attention in 2007 with the project 100 Chairs in 100 Days, for which he reworked elements of existing chairs into a collection of charismatic new pieces of furniture. Taking on the ultimate design object of the chair within severe self-imposed constraints in terms of time and material, the results were odd, to put it mildly – at times impractical, at times funny-looking, but always refreshingly unexpected. Martino returned to the idea of remaking several times, most notoriously when he dis- and reassembled furnishings by famed architect and designer Gio Ponti into new pieces, an act of homage that was misinterpreted by some as irreverence.[...] (Englisch)

[...] Cyprien Gaillard examines the buildings and landscapes as well as the people who inhabit them. In previous works, the modernist housing block was a recurring theme, a structure associated with the utopian aspirations of the architectural avant-garde in the early 20th century that became ubiquitous in the post-war era. As many of the buildings turned into failed experiments, municipalities in various regions decided to dismantle the structures. At times, the demolitions were turned into spectacular sound and light shows. Gaillard has examined these buildings from different vantage points: depicting them as monuments that conjure up associations with ancient ruins or medieval castles, as backdrops for fringe group behaviour, as sites for mega-spectacles, and once demolished, as massive installations. The digital video Desniansky Raion rehearses these aspects particularly vigorously but they find expression in a number of other works as well. Within these spaces, Gaillard occasionally turns his eye to the rituals of young men (binge-drinking students in Cancún, a gang member dancing, packs of young men meeting in a parking lot in St. Petersburg to fight each other) who appear briefly, like mirages, amidst tower blocks and ancient ruins. [...] (Englisch)

Michaël Borremans is an artist who is extremely focused, concentrated and refreshingly serious about what he does, with a very consistent vision that’s been apparent throughout all of his work from the mid-90s until today.

Sonic Youth, of course, created a legacy of musical innovation. Thriving on the playgrounds of noise music for more than three decades, they stoically pursued their own particularly dirty blend of noise-punk experimental rock music, building along the way not only a league of dedicated followers, but also miraculously achieving mainstream success without ever ceding ground to mediocrity. If anything, Sonic Youth became a household name for integrity and that specific kind of cool in a genre where cool is firmly attached to youth – which certainly had a lot to do with the unfailing detached charisma of Kim Gordon, who brought a certain glamour to her male counterparts, Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore. (Englisch)

Bless begins with a beautiful story: In 1996, the entirely unknown fashion label of sorts announced its existence to the world via an advertisement in the British style bible i-D, offering a – fur wig. Maybe naively expecting the world to take notice, the phone ended up ringing just once, but as it happens, it turned out to be a call from Paris. A few months later, all models for Maison Martin Margiela’s Autumn / Winter 1997 collection ended up wearing fur wigs on the catwalk. The fashion world took notice, and Bless got the attention it had hoped for, after all. [...] (Englisch)

Exhibition Booklet

Structured as a narrative, exhibition Prosperous Poison arranges the holdings of mumok’s collection from 1945 to the present into five chapters.

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.

Frank Leder is an odd character. Seemingly easy to pinpoint, yet at second glance surprisingly off-centre—it is like with a joke when you realize you have just laughed at the wrong place. One can never be quite sure.

Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor appeared out of Nowhere, USA, with his debut album, Pretty Hate Machine, in 1989. His tortured disco pop should prove a favourite on the college radio circuit

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

#4 features Zeruya Shalev, the most successful female writer in Israel today.
Interview by Shira Hadad
Photography by Uri Gershuni
Design by Gila Kaplan

At first glance, there really seem to be some parallels between Romain, the protagonist of François Ozon’s latest film, Time to Leave, and the director and screenwriter who invented him: Both are young artists in their thirties, brought up in a loving and supportive upper middle-class family in Paris and are self-conscious about their homosexuality.

Matias Faldbakken, born in 1973, lives and works as an artist and writer in Oslo. Son of the celebrated Norwegian author Knut Faldbakken, he published two novels,

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

#8 features Wolfgang Voigt
Interview by Andrew Cannon and Kai von Rabenau
Photography by Juergen Teller
Design by Laurent Benner

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

We are not who we think we are; and we need stories, just to remain intact.

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

#13 features GZA/WU-Tang Clan
Interview by Renko Heuer
Photography by Sue Kwon
Design by Kai von Rabenau

Poster, Einladung zum Fashion Event "Sand People".

The exhibition "Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies" focuses on diverse concepts and models for alternative economies and societies, which all have in common a rejection of the capitalist system of rule (further information: www.ressler.at).

I love utopia, but I’m deeply frightened of complete projects.

I ask myself all the big questions, every Sunday.

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

My path just seems to have gone
where others’ don’t.

I love to learn from things I can’t appreciate.

The view of translation as a second-rate, derivative form of writing, seems to prevail in Western discourse on the subject since sometime around the 17th century.

“The one thing I don’t want to be is a storyteller.” Detailing his stories in meticulous and carefully crafted artwork, Chris Ware lays out an irresistibly beautiful world of deficits and defects.

We have entered a post-post-studio age, and find ourselves with a new studio model: the transdisciplinary. Artists and designers are now defined not by their discipline but by the fluidity with which their practices move between the fields of architecture, art, and design (...) (Quelle: Verlag).

Although Marianne Heier abandons the traditional exhibition spaces in connection with her projects, Art with a capital A is still always measured against other social constructs. At this point of intersection, Heier looks at the typical features of the various economies or values of given fields and how they overlap and collide.
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80 color illustrations

F.R.DAVID is a typographical journal, dealing with the organisation of reading and writing in contemporary art practises. “Recognition” is the 14th issue, edited with Scott Rogers.

A note about the words in the book - where they come from and what has happened to them:

Eine subjektive Annäherung an die Flüsse Mississippi und Donau, durch das Prisma der Literaturgenres Science-Fiction, Fantasy und Horror. Das Buch wurde von Süßwasserökologin & bildende Künstlerin, Christina Gruber (AT) und Seefahrerin & Animationsfilmerin, Paula Cohen (FR) gefertigt und geschrieben. Von Amstetten in Österreich bis an den Strand Sulinas in Rumänien versucht From Mud To Outer Space herauszufinden, was die Identität eines Flusses ausmacht. Dafür werden die Bibliotheken an den Flussufern, die Musik die entlang ihres Weges verläuft und die Leute die sie auf ihrer Reise treffen zu den wichtigsten Indikatoren.

In June, 2005, while traveling in Vietnam, artist Harrell Fletcher visited The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.

Pixel-Art

Expanding from the exhibition 'Negative Space', this lateral publication of seven conversations and reprinted texts is a project in its own right to consider the space between and around subjects and objects.

Works on paper made during the construction and completion of one of Serra’s largest sculptural installations, a natural basalt column piece called »Afangar«, installed on an island off the Icelandic coast.

The Bells is the first publication in the SFU Galleries Critical Reader Series. A discursive forum, the series encourages critical writing and projects that run parallel to programming at SFU Galleries.

In 2013 I spend 88 lonely days in New York City. On every day that I am in town, I set up my camera in the studio and take two photos: one of the view from the window and one of my face. The obituaries that accompany the image pairs here are taken from the New York Times.

Bruce Naumanis one of the most innovative and influential contemporary artists. His pioneering installations have repeatedly challenged traditional artistic categories - be it performance, painting, video or installation - as well as negotiating the role of the artist himself. In crossing boundaries, Neuman embarks consistently on new avenues, questioning ossified societal and social positions and our perception. As such he inspires generations of artists and people engaged in the cultural sector.

Florian Fusco spent three months (Oct-Dec 2010) interviewing homerecording artists in their homes and bedrooms in Greater Manchester and Blackpool.

- comes with CD

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?

An introduction to the work of New York artist Cory Arcangel, this publication, produced in collaboration with leading design duo Dexter Sinister, is an accompaniment to Arcangel’s installation, ‘a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould’.

Videorama präsentiert aktuelle, österreichische Video- und Filmarbeiten aus dem ursula blickle videoarchiv.

With locations ranging from a murder scene outside a Covent Garden theatre to the Victorian explorer Sir John Franklin’s ship Terror frozen into the Arctic ice — and taking in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, a rural idyll in Somerset and an extraordinary Masonic ritual on the way - Index is a spellbinding novella that provokes curiosity and ultimately satisfies it with a poetics of mystery that transcends conventional narrative closure.

This book documents the X-Operative exhibition and extends the ideas broadly covering the multi operations of independent bookshop X Marks the Bökship: reading & writing, production, performance, distribution and exchange.

“Rare enough is literary criticism that allows a book to live, opens it up and invites its readers to set their own compass.

Auguste Orts: Correspondence is an exhibition catalogue accompanying the same-titled exhibition at M HKA, Antwerp (Summer 2010). Auguste Orts is a production platform set up by the Brussels-based artists Herman Asselberghs, Sven Augustijnen, Manon de Boer, and Anouk De Clercq. Indentifying themselves as visual artists, they work primarily with film and video.

One Break, A Thousand Blows! is a novel about Japan. The protagonist is a metaphor, wanting to negate Japan, but not by writing a novel about Japan, but by writing falsely about it, using Japan as a screen for the author’s innermost hopes and desires.

If one looks at the contemporary continental European art scene, blues, jazz, hip hop, drum & dass and dubstep, genres of music that one could label as 'black sound', are almost absent. To the contrary, forms of expression and languages of traditionally white musical scenes are unproblematically absorbed. One may think, e.g., of the female artists group Chicks on Speed, which situates itself within the Riot Girlz tradition, or of Daniel Richter's painterly punk attitudes, or of the 'Deutsche Welle' kitsch in the work of Jonathan Meese.

'Privacy: a programme of symposia' took place from 8–16 May 2004 in Edinburgh, initiated by the Henry Moore Foundation Contemporary Projects, with artist Olaf Nicolai in collaboration with Protoacademy.

With "turning the page" the turkish artist Ofset Yapimevi celebrates the act of reading a book.

Hurts so good is the catalogue of the exhibition of the same name which was held in the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, from 21 March to 4 May 2003.

Ahmet Ögüt, one of Turkey’s influential young artists, brings the diversity of specific local determinations, which appear to take place in a particular temporal and spatial relationship, to his work. Ögüt’s art, and its patent subjectivism, is anchored in the significant role that the media plays in constructing and manipulating reality. As result, he uses the images of events that appear in the daily digestive methodologies such as newspapers and television, recapturing those images in a totally different frame.

oral music history and interesting interviews

Many contemporary artworks evoke the human figure: consider the omnipresence of the mannequin in current installations of artists like John Miller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Heimo Zobernig, or David Lieske. Or consider the revival of a minimalist vocabulary...

Casco Issues is a magazine published by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, which explores recurring issues that emerge from Casco’s program. The twelfth edition of Casco Issues, Generous Structures, is a playful enquiry into "playfulness" as a value in critical cultural practice.

The Mechanical Copula is the first collection of short stories by Maria Fusco. Stripping bare the accord of culture and commodity, this sequence of stories tracks the slimy path of social mobility with serious playfulness and an eye for the absurd.