Le Journal de Tokyo, 
Evangeline LafourcadeWednesday, July 9 — 7pm to 10pm

Motto Books, 38 rue du Vertbois, 75003 Paris
Installation / Performance / Short Film.

A long immersion in Tokyo gave rise to this project, which began as a diary, a space to record fleeting impressions of the city. From this written practice emerged an object, then an installation, and finally, a performance.
Through the lens of Barthes’ Le Neutre, a short film shot on Super 8 intertwines with the diary and a philosophical lexicon exploring described gestures of Japanese savoir-vivre. What started as a personal exploration evolved into a shared sensibility, intimate, collective. By entering the installation, the artist invites you to share a part of this experience and intimacy. 
The installation includes the prototype of a lamp, which marked the beginning of her experimentation with washi paper and its potential at the scale of space and lightweight architecture. 

Please join us for the vernissage and live performance on Wednesday evening. 

Performance at 8pm and 9pm

Eldon Garnet

Impulse Magazine

Saturday July 5 from 6 to 9 pm

Motto Paris

Eldon Garnet in conversation with Nina Živančević

The book and magazine work of artist
writer and editor of Impulse magazine
Eldon Garnet

Launching the novel This man, Adam
(Motto Books 2025)

In the basement screening room a selection of
Garnet’s films and videos:

Winning 10:21
Michael Snow 2:15
The Political Error 8:54
Category of Disappearance 67 11:54
Toiling 6:50
If Only for a Moment 1-3 9:58

Motto Paris

38 rue du Vertbois

75003 Paris



MICROINTERNATIONAL  
Book Release and panel discussion

with Diedrich Diederichsen, Jan Tumlir, Jonathan Kroll and Kevin Hanley
Hosted by MOTTO
Wednesday, July 2, from 7pm

 
Microinternational is a comprehensive catalogue documenting a performance project that emerged from the interactions of a shifting group of artists in Los Angeles. Active between 1993-1999 and organized by Kevin Hanley and Jonathan Kroll, Microinternational included Kai Althoff, Casey Cook, Francesca Gabbiani, Michael Krebber, Anja Medved, Carlos Mollura, Dave Muller, Frances Stark, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Cosima Von Bonin among its many participants. This book chronicles an otherwise forgotten “art group” and their projects within the nascent art scene of 1990s Los Angeles.

Includes historical texts by Kevin Hanley and Jonathan Kroll, complemented by new texts from Diedrich Diederichsen, Kevin Hanley, Frances Stark, and Jan Tumlir.
2nd Cannons Publications 037 2025, 1st printing, edition of 400

Motto Berlin
Skalitzer Str. 68
10997 Berlin

Eldon Garnet
Impulse Magazine
Saturday June 28 from 6 to 9 pm

Eldon Garnet in conversation with Olaf Nicolai and Alexis Z.

The book and magazine work of artist
writer and editor of Impulse magazine
Eldon Garnet

Launching the novel This man, Adam
(Motto Books 2025)

In the screening room a selection of
Garnet’s films and videos

Winning 10:21
Michael Snow 2:15
The Political Error 8:54
Category of Disappearance 67 11:54
Toiling 6:50
If Only for a Moment 1-3 9:58

Motto Berlin
Skalitzer Str. 68
10997 Berlin

Friday, June 20, at Motto Berlin, from 7pm

Book Launch: Naseej: Life-Weavings of Palestine

Pluto Press, 2025

Please join us for the launch of Naseej: Life-Weavings of Palestine—the first book project from Insaniyyat (the Society of Palestinian Anthropologists). Naseej, meaning “tapestry” in Arabic, is a book about diverse forms of life, communities, histories and continuities in Palestine. It compiles essays, short stories, poetry, interviews, and visual art to tell an aspect of the Palestinian story that has not been told: the severing of Palestinians from vast and ancient regional histories, and the stifling of its precious patchwork of languages, ethnicities, cultures, religions and practices.

Arriving at a moment of utter devastation – one of the most difficult in Palestinian history – this vibrant collection celebrates the diversity of life in Palestine. From the trajectories of Romani groups to the formations of religious communities like Ahmadiyya Muslims in Haifa, to the political experience of Black Palestinians and much more, Naseej asks what kind of threads remain of this tapestry after some 150 years of modernity and colonialism.

The evening will feature the editors of the book, Arpan Roy and Noura Salahaldeen. The discussion will be led by Refqa Abu-Remaileh and Alexandra Sophia Handal.

Motto Berlin, Skalitzerstr. 68, 10997 Berlin.

Saturday June 14, from 4pm @ Motto Berlin

How to Read a Book
Robert Blatt

Books, voice, and miscellaneous musical instruments.
In a performance somewhere between concert and intervention by working continuously with books found on site at Motto Berlin bookstore, Robert Blatt performs scores by the artist experimentally treating books as material and instrument.

05.06
márble dolphin hospital
OUEAIAIAIO presents SOUPMentasmicVariation#3
Le Mystérieux Orchestre

06.06
Przemyslaw
Sanecki tim six
church of hate
Psychédélique Punk Machine
agent fuse

Doors 7pm, start 8pm

@ Motto
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

COURS DE LITTÉRATURE GÉNÉRALE À LA LIBRAIRIE MOTTO PARIS
31 Mai 2025, 17h

Le Cours de littérature générale, organisé par Lic, accueille Christophe Fiat et Geneviève Fraisse lors de sa deuxième séance, à la librairie Motto, le 31 mai à 17h.

Le Cours de littérature générale invite des auteurs à nous intéresser à un texte ou à un extrait voire à un fragment d’une œuvre littéraire (de l’Antiquité à la fin du XXe siècle) en un format court (entre 15 et 20 minutes).

Dans le cours de Christophe Fiat sur Ainsi Parlait Zarathoustra de Nietzsche, il sera question du rire et de ses effets destructeurs (la satire, la raillerie) et créateurs (la bonne humeur, la fête).

Choderlos de Laclos, un an après Les Liaisons dangereuses, publie un bref texte se refusant à « perfectionner » l’éducation des femmes; car seule une révolution permettra de sortir de « l’esclavage ». En effet, la première qui consentit « forgea les chaînes de tout son sexe ». Restent alors stratégies et conquêtes, notamment celles du savoir. Ce que Geneviève Fraisse aime ici souligner, c’est la lucidité de l’auteur.

Christophe Fiat est écrivain, poète et performeur, coanimateur de la revue COCKPIT. Dernier livre publié : Nietzsche (Éditions les Pérégrines, coll. Icônes, 2024), Grand Prix SGDL de la Non-fiction.

Geneviève Fraisse est philosophe, directrice de recherche émérite au CNRS. Elle travaille sur l’épistémologie politique de la pensée féministe (généalogie de la démocratie, concepts de l’émancipation citoyenne et artistique, problématisation philosophique de l’objet sexe/genre). Elle a publié notamment: Muse de la raison, démocratie exclusive et différence des sexes (Folio, 2017),  Du consentement (Points, 2022), L’égalité sans retour (CNRS éditions, 2024)