ESTATE. Aleksander Komarov.
Edition of 500 copies.
Published by Torpedo Press.

ESTATE (2010) by Aleksander Komarov, is an artist book based on the film ESTATE from 2008. The idea of the
book was conceived following a discussion between Lena Prents and Aleksander Komarov in the run-up to the
exhibition FALL OUT –– ART, DESIRE and DISENGAGEMENT at Gl Holtegaard, Denmark and at Malmö Konsthall,
Sweden. The book ESTATE reflects on the means of evaluation of artistic production.
To an extent, ESTATE is a response to the current condition of contemporary art and its relation to broader economic contexts. The project focuses the viewer’s attention on basic resources and the movement between
material and immaterial types of labour, gathering along the way diverse statements on the migration of value.
In her essay, Lena Prents recalls the images and issues raised in Aleksander Komarov’s film ESTATE (2008),
and questions the current position of artists, oscillating between the demands of the market, the conditions of work
beyond the “cult of genius” and the immaterial value of artistic labour.
Boris Buden draws on the wider context of the material presented in ESTATE, that of rationalised labour, then focus
on projects by Aleksander Komarov which balance the issue of being an artist working under current economic
conditions against the artistic “soul at work”.
The conversation between Aleksander Komarov and Jule Reuter deals with questions about the coherence between
(migrated) identity, value production and the personal way in which one position oneself.

ESTATE (2010) by Aleksander Komarov, is an artist book based on the film ESTATE from 2008. The idea of the book was conceived following a discussion between Lena Prents and Aleksander Komarov in the run-up to the exhibition FALL OUT –– ART, DESIRE and DISENGAGEMENT at Gl Holtegaard, Denmark and at Malmö Konsthall, Sweden. The book ESTATE reflects on the means of evaluation of artistic production. To an extent, ESTATE is a response to the current condition of contemporary art and its relation to broader economic contexts. The project focuses the viewer’s attention on basic resources and the movement between material and immaterial types of labour, gathering along the way diverse statements on the migration of value. In her essay, Lena Prents recalls the images and issues raised in Aleksander Komarov’s film ESTATE (2008), and questions the current position of artists, oscillating between the demands of the market, the conditions of work beyond the “cult of genius” and the immaterial value of artistic labour. Boris Buden draws on the wider context of the material presented in ESTATE, that of rationalised labour, then focus on projects by Aleksander Komarov which balance the issue of being an artist working under current economic conditions against the artistic “soul at work”. The conversation between Aleksander Komarov and Jule Reuter deals with questions about the coherence between (migrated) identity, value production and the personal way in which one position oneself.

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(80*81 vol. 1-7 presentation @ Motto Zürich / Perla-Mode. Saturday 24.09.2010)

Fillip #12 on Critical Forms of Publicness with Lorna Brown, Jeff Derksen, Sean Dockray, Sven Lütticken, Julian Myers, Anne Pasternak, Keith Wallace.
Fall 2010.

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Cabinet #38 summer 2010 – ISLANDS.

Contents:

Columns

* Colors / Red
Maggie Nelson
Something dipped
* Ingestion / Table Manner
Anthony Grafton
The disposition of the Last Supper
* Inventory / An Anthology of Memories from Cabinet’s Published Past
Alejandro Cesarco
Working through our issues
* Leftovers / The Future of Neglect
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
Urban renewal and the politics of refusal

Main

* Radiantly Malevolent
Adam Jasper
Louis Wain’s psychotic cats
* Blue Notes
Brian Dillon
Selling the siren song of the medicine cabinet
* Scratch and Sniff
Gary Leggett
Diagnosing the allergic reaction
* If It’s Part Broke, Half Fix It
George Pendle
The sincere horse sense of Dr. George W. Crane
* Artist Project / Transmission
Maria Friberg
* Dry Mountain Water
Allen S. Weiss
Afloat on a sea of stones
* Cabinet v. Beşiktaş
Soccer as never before

Islands

* Lords of the Ring
Alistair Sponsel
Beneath the surface of the atoll
* Islands and the Law: An Interview with Christina Duffy Burnett
Sina Najafi and Christina Duffy Burnett
The juridical shape of America’s insular empire
* Artist Project / Pulau Pejantan
Institute of Critical Zoologists
* The Silence of the Dams: An Interview with Tetrapod No. 16-2-77
Mats Bigert, Sina Najafi and Tetrapod No. 16-2-77
* Isles of Safety
Tom Vanderbilt
Considering the traffic island
* A Topical Paradise
Hernán Díaz
Literary archipelagos since the great age of exploration
* Artist Projects / Washed Ashore
Keren Cytter, Jason Dodge and Annika Ström
* On the Monstrosity of Islands
D. Graham Burnett
Betrayal, solitude, madness, despair
* The Islanders
Andreas Hiepko
Castaways in a divided Berlin
* Artist Project / 65-Point Plan for Sustainable Living
Jeremy Drummond
* An Archipelago of Centers
Sandy Isenstadt
A modernist reinvention of the kitchen

And

* Postcard / Loss Accountability of Top-Down Ontologies
Mary Mattingly
* Bookmark / Napoleon, Penguins, and Beef Tea

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“The Lift & the Space/Object”
Author: Maria Jeglinska, Office for Design & Research
Designed by Olivier Lebrun featuring typefaces by Emmanuel Rey
Text by: EESTT (Eastern European Study Think Tank)
48 pages
210mm x 297mm
Colour offset printing
2010

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Motto is pleased to stock Metropolis M!

Metropolis M N.4 August- September

Featuring Monica Bonvicini on Power and Sexuality by Johannes Wendland, The Amsterdam Connection In Conversation with Jan Dibbets and Ger van Elk by Nathalie Zonnenberg, The Future of the Museum Part 1: Clémentine Deliss on the Museum der Weltkulturen by Marion Ritter and Artists on Doing Their Doctoral Research by Ilse van Rijn.

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The Climbing of Buildings, Fences and other Opportunities, Jeroen Jongeleen. MRV-03.
Published by MORAVA.
Edition of 100 copies.

“The Climbing of Buildings, Fences and other Opportunities” documents one of the projects which has for years been developed by Jeroen Jongeleen. A few dozen photographs, a great many of which have never been published before, make up a visual story about overcoming natural and architectural barriers, about courage and solitude, and about the joy of reaching ever new summits. Jeroen Jongeleen is equally enthusiastic when climbing trees at night and a few dozen metres’ smokestacks. He is most often by himself. Moreover, he makes pictures of himself in these situations. In the book, however, he is accompanied by a text by Peter Kazil, a Rotterdam-based theoretician and urban explorer.

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Reponse Floue, Jeremie Egry. MRV-04.
Published by MORAVA
Edition of 100 copies.

“Réponse Floue”, prepared in full by Jérémie Egry, is a booklet with a few reproductions of his photographs. Jérémie is a young French artist who is active primarily in photography but also in objects and videos, often blurring the borderline between individual so-called areas. Together with his three friends (Aurélien Arbet, Nicolas Poillot and Marco Barrera) he runs a publishing house JSBJ (www.jesuisunebandedejeunes.com), which issues zins and art books.

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DUST SNOW, curator Piotr Łakomy MRV-02.
Published by Morava.
Edition of 100 copies.

The booklet “DUST SNOW” is a record of the Winter Sculpture Park project taking place on a winter’s day in Wilson Park, Poznań. Piotr Łakomy, who conceived the idea of DUST SNOW, defines it as follows: “Imagine a white cube which is a sculpture park, an open space of a park which is a white cube. DUST SNOW is a project without a budget and opening and closing dates. The ephemeral nature of DUST SNOW will make it turn to dust before the snow melts.”
The photos documenting the project are accompanied by a text written by Sebastian Cichocki.
DUST SNOW participants are: Daniel Keller/Nik Kosmas (Aids-3D), Honza Zamojski, Jakub Czyszczoń, Juliette Bonneviot, Katarzyna Bura, Magdalena Starska, Magnus Clausen, Peter Larsen, Piotr Łakomy, Samuel François.

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Three New Books
Roma Publications, Amsterdam
with Uta Eisenreich, Jan Kempenaers, Louis Lüthi.

Opening : Wednesday 25th August, 6-10 pm
Perla-Mode, Langstrasse 84, 8004 Zurich

Exhibition: 26. August – 11. September 2010
Opening times: Thurs. & Fri. 12 – 7pm, Sat. 12 – 5 pm

Organized by Corner College and Motto Zürich.