That’s Not Me – Nuri Koerfer

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That’s Not Me – Nuri Koerfer

“TThat’s Not Me presents snap­shots taken between 2001 and 2009 of the artist Nuri Koer­fer on hol­i­day and in her home coun­try, Switzer­land. While Koer­fer embod­ies the role of model, her friends and fam­ily act as pho­to­graph­ers, taking pictures of Koerfer posing with the dead animals, or the skeletons of dead animals, that she has found along her walks, playfully breathing life into each cada­ver.

The idea for That’s Not Me came about when Koerfer was in China, where she lived and worked for six months in con­junc­tion with a schol­ar­ship. It’s her first excur­sion into pho­to­graphy, and printed in an edition of 500 hand-numbered copies
28 pages

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Mousse #27

Posted in Exhibitions, magazines, Motto Berlin store, music, photography, writing on February 9th, 2011
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Mousse Magazine no. 27

In December, Ute Meta Bauer and Dan Graham met up in New York for a conversation whose scope was determined by their many shared interests and long friendship, as well as a passion for literature that, inevitably, is connected to an extraordinary storytelling ability. Hans Ulrich Obrist and Stuart Comer got together with William (Bill) Leavitt for a long conversation just a few months after his first retrospective at Los Angeles MOCA, an event that John Baldessari celebrates in his introductory portrait of the artist.

For PART OF THE PROCESS, Ronald Van de Sompel talked with Sven Augustijnen about the artist’s new film, Spectres, which focuses on the decolonization of the Belgian Congo, especially the circumstances surrounding the murder of Patrice Lumumba. A dark work that tracks the phantoms of history into their most hidden retreats.You need to read Chus Martínez’s text at samba rhythm. Samba is a movement of the body that reverberates in the movement of the social body. It is also a way to neutralize the system, as the author explains. The art world is flooded with printed matter. Dieter Roelstraete analyzes this phenomenon for PORTFOLIO in relation to the work of Zin Taylor, who is unquestionably an exquisite narrator. To Andrew Berardini, the greatest achievement of Brian Bress’s work is that it makes us keenly aware of how much television entertainment has shaped our mental processes. Yarn Man and his bizarre friends make this clear to us.Building houses out of nothing and against all odds. Abraham Cruzvillegas has translated the experience of autoconstruccion into several initiatives, which he talked about with Vincenzo de Bellis. Fiete Stolte lives in a parallel reality. Not a different world from ours, but the same one according to a different model of time. One where nights are not always dark, nor days always light. Jennifer Allen tried to synchronize herself with the artist’s new calendar, for HARK!

ARTIST PROJECT: Jeremy Deller, introduced by an interview with Peter Eleey.

TEN FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS OF CURATING, a project curated by Jens Hoffmann, sponsored by Fiorucci Art Trust and Mousse Publishing, explores the multifaceted physiognomy of the curator. The third of ten dossiers features João Ribas answering the question “What to do with the contemporary?” plus selected illustrations by Matthew Buckingham

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Dark and Stormy, Onomatopee 53.1

Posted in graphic design, Motto Berlin store, Zines on February 9th, 2011
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Dark and Stormy, Onomatopee 53.1.
Contributors: Bart de Baets, Remco Van Bladel, Richard Brautigan, Italo Calvino, Friedrich Jürgenson, Ilja Karilampi, Jens Lekman, Freek Lomme, Jack London, Wong Kar-wai, Henry Miller, Charles M. Schulz, Pruane2forever, Tom Schiller and Rustan Söderling.

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Orson’s Theme. 7” vinyl record. Morten Norbye Halvorsen

Posted in Motto Berlin store, music on February 9th, 2011
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Created on the occasion of the Clifford Irving Show in Antwerp by Morten Norbye Halvorsen. The record was made in an edition of 150. With a screen printed cover by Goda Budvytyte. The hands on the piano is that of Benjamin Esdraffo. The hands on the cover is that of Orson Welles.
The record contains a remake of Michel Legrand’s theme tune for the film F-for Fake by Orson Welles called Orson’s Theme.
It was written down from a jazz ensemble to two hands and a piano, which was performed by Benjamin Esdraffo on the occasion of the Paris edition of Clifford Irving Show that took place at Cine 13, Montmartre and Kadist Art Foundation.
Recorded during the introduction and entr’acte totalling 45 minutes, the original score is approx 4 minutes. The record contains a 4 minute extract from the Clifford Irving show that happened in Cine 13.
One side is the recording from the space (a microphone under the stage) the other side the recordings of the keystrokes and sustain pedals (midi signals). The same recording in two formats, a recording from a place and one without “space”.

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SHOOK Vol.1 #10 / Winter 2011

Posted in magazines, Motto Berlin store, music, writing on February 8th, 2011
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SHOOK Vol.1 #10 / Winter 2011 – The Great British issue: Entropy in the UK

In this issue, SHOOK tracks down the prodigal son, DJ Milo, who talks about the Wild Bunch sound system – the test laboratory for Massive Attack and ‘the Bristol Sound’; we celebrate the original pirate station turned legal Kiss FM, as we speak to many of the DJs from the station. We chat exclusively with Keith Mansfield whose music has been used by Dangermouse, Quentin Tarantino and Des Lynham. Bass is the place as we hear Mala reminisce about Metalheadz and DMZ, and we sit down with Sticky, the man who made Ms. Dynamite say Booo! We run down our survey of the UK’s record shops – from buying northern soul in Blackburn to reggae in Tottenham; and include stories on Queen of Lovers Rock, Carroll Thompson, Brit funkers Cymande and the very special United Vibrations; as well as teaching you how to run a record label, with Firecracker, RAMP Recordings and First Word. Plus we meet the new techno visionaries like Sei A and Wbeeza, and live it up in the Northern Quarter with Mr. Scruff, Graham Massey, Maddslinky and Hoya:Hoya

Editor: Jez Smadja

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Istanbul. Ludovic Bollo

Posted in graphic design, Motto Berlin store, photography on February 7th, 2011

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Istanbul. Ludovic Bollo
May 2002
Edition of 500
Tirages: Jean-Pascal Leaux
Maquette et conception graphique: Floriant Chevillard
D 28€

Stephen Willats. Art Society Feedback. VFMK

Posted in Motto Berlin store on February 5th, 2011
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Stephen Willats
Art Society Feedback
Anja Casser, Badischer Kunstverein, Philipp Ziegler (Eds.)
Verlag Für Moderne Kunst, 2010
576 pages

The publication can be seen as the first overriding, retrospective and until now comprehensive compilation of works and writings by Stephen Willats.
The first part contains numerous illustrations of works, including works not yet published by Willats and text contributions of renowned authors who have for years been closely involved with the artist, among others Ute Meta Bauer, Emily Pethik, Brigitte Franzen, Tom Holert und Andrew Wilson.
The second part collects important writings of Stephen Willats, which have been inspected in the archive of the artist, transcribed for the first time and now presented in combination with the accompanying black-and-white illustrations. This part opens up new and until now unpublished insights into the text works of Stephen Willats.

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Pyramid Power #8

Posted in Fashion, magazines, Motto Berlin store, photography on February 1st, 2011
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Twice a year Pyramid Power showcases the best in international contemporary art, fashion and literature, focusing on projects that show criticality and rigor, and placing emerging artists on an equal footing with their more established counterparts. Pyramid Power’s brazenly eccentric perspective on the art world is visually embodied in the balance it strikes between form and content, the magazine’s bold yet considered presentation accentuates the richness of its artwork and writing.

Pyramid Power
Issue #8
96 Pages
Edition of 1,600
Fall/Winter 2010

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Contributors :
Isabelle Pauwels & Rachelle Sawatsky
Peter Schuyff
Valentina Liernur
Tiziana La Melia
Neil Campbell
Kate Craig
& Molly Sigalet
Eileen Myles
Michael Turner
Michele Di Menna
Judith Hopf
& Ruairiadh O’Connell
Trevor Mahovsky
Jess Wiesner

Rear Window. Erik van der Weijde. Cafe royal

Posted in Editions, Motto Berlin store, photography on January 29th, 2011
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Rear Window – Erik van der Weijde

“The wife is at work, the son is at school and i’m stuck in the new apartment. With a cup of coffee and my video camera. Wow, those dogs are so cool…”

2010
24 Pages
14cm x 20cm
b/w digital
numbered 2nd edition of 100
Published by Café Royal Books

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Angst #2

Posted in magazines, Motto Berlin store, Motto Zürich store, photography on January 28th, 2011
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Angst #2

ANGST is the magazine from publisher/editor Fiona Bryson. The second issue of the A5-format magazine contains articles by Joseph Szabo, Hanayo, Hugh Holland, Marina Faust, Miles Standish, Hannes Schmidt, Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton, Leigh Ledare, Cat Stevenes and Mike Brodie.

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