Saturday, May 28 · 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Office Hours: Publications Launch

Larry’s se7en
Susanna Browne: Country War Songs
Dirk Wright: Taking Pictures

Motto Vancouver is pleased to present a reception for the release of three publications as part of the exhibition Office Hours

Susanna Browne: Country War Songs
Country War Songs compiles country songs produced in the wake of the events on 9/11 as an exposé into the poetics and politics of contemporary country music. Published by Publication Studio Vancouver. For more information see: www.publicationstudio.biz.

Dirk Wright: Taking Pictures
Taking Pictures is a collection of mobile phone photographs–images captured through a live streaming website over the course of a three hour window during which the the iPhone’s MMS encryption was hacked. Self published with an accompanying essay by Amy Zion.

Larry’s se7en
Published over the course of the Office Hours exhibition, the seventh edition of Larry’s will also be available. Larry’s se7en was produced by sending content from Berlin through Dropbox to a printer in Vancouver. This raw material, manipulated through a re-digitizationation process, was then edited to produce its final form specifically for the exhibition. Established in 2007 by Maxwell Simmer, Martin Thacker & Mathieu Malouf, Larry’s is a multi-platform publication and creative initiative of Art, Design & Lifestyle from Berlin, Germany. For more information see: www.larrys.eu.

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Ioana Nemes: Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure)

Published in conjunction with the eponymous solo exhibition of Ioana Nemes at Jiri Svestka Gallery in Prague, 2008.

Texts: Alina Serban, Stuart Aarsman
Art inside covers: Ion Grigorescu
Graphic Design: Anja Lutz

D 15€

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Gastronomica, The Journal of Food and Culture, Summer 2011 vol.11 #2

D 16€

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Expect Anything Fear Nothing, The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere, Mikkel Bolt & Jakob Jakobsen

This volume is the first English-language presentation of the Scandinavian Situationists and their role in the Situationist movement. The Situationist movement was an international movement of artists, writers and thinkers that in the 1950s and 1960s tried to revolutionize the world through rejecting bourgeois art and critiquing the post-World War Two capitalist consumer society.

The book contains articles, conversations and statements by former members of the Situationists’ organisations as well as contemporary artists, activists, scholars and writers. While previous publications about the Situationist movement almost exclusively have focused on the contribution of the French section and in particular on the role of the Guy Debord this book aims to shed light on the activities of the Situationists active in places like Denmark, Sweden and Holland. The themes and stories chronicled include: The anarchist undertakings of the Drakabygget movement led by the rebel artists Jørgen Nash, Hardy Strid and Jens Jørgen Thorsen, the exhibition by the Situationist International “Destruction of RSG-6” in 1963 in Odense organised by the painter J.V. Martin in collaboration with Guy Debord, the journal The Situationist Times edited by Jacqueline de Jong, Asger Jorn’s political critique of natural science and the films of the Drakabygget movement.

Contributors: Peter Laugesen, Carl Nørrested, Fabian Tompsett, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Jacqueline de Jong, Gordon Fazakerley, Hardy Strid, Karen Kurczynski, Stewart Home, Jakob Jakobsen.

The book was published in association with Autonomedia, New York.
288 pages + inserts
2011

D 25€
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The Responsive Subject: from OOOOOO to FFFFFF, FormContent.

With contributions by Guy Mees, Andrea Büttner, Michael Dean, Beatrice Gibson & Will Holder, Gyan Panchal, Ian Kiaer, João Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Andrew Renton, Nick Thurston, Nanni Balestrini, Ruth Höflich, Bridget Penney, Tom Benson, Simone Menegoi, Philomene Pirecki and Shaan Syed Published by FormContent 17 May 2011

PSYCHOPOMP COUNSEL, De Ateliers: Offspring 2011.

This book is published in the Offspring series to coincide with the exhibition PSYCHOPOMP COUNSEL at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, May 11 – May 22, 2011.

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L’ile de La Répétition, Benoît Maire (ed).
Published by Dent De Leone and designed by Åbake.

John Keats, Thomas Chatterton, Søren Kirkegaard, Emily Dickinson live their lives and die for ever on this Island. The concept of Cordelia takes physical shape and becomes the obsession of John. based on Benoît Maire’s film & exhibition:
L’Ile de La Répétition (Repetition Island) and L’Espace Nu.

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Christopher Williams – Program.
For Example: Dix-Huit Lecons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 10)

Published by: Bergen Kunsthall, 2010
Editors: Bergen Kunsthall, Christopher Williams
Texts: Solveig Øvstebø, Diedrich Diederichsen, John Kelsey, Christopher Williams
Design: Christopher Williams, Petra Hollenbach
Pages: 80, Illustrations: 34
Language: English / Norwegian

cura. #08

cura. is a magazine devoted to contemporary art, with texts in Italian and English. Inside issue #08, spring/summer 2011, you’ll find:

AROUND THE WORLD – Portraits in the Exhibition Space – Willem Sandberg and Lorenzo Benedetti; Talking to Walls. Momentum – 6th Nordic Biennial, June – October 2011, Marianne Zamecznik; Free Speech – Raimar Stange; London’s East End: Cultural and Economic Migration – In Conversation with Paul Sakoilsky, Mike Watson; PSJM. When the Brand Makes the Art Piece – José Luis Corazón Ardura; TALKING ABOUT – Aesthetics of Climate – Elena Giulia Rossi; NOW – Re-reading the Classic – Francesca Cavallo; FOCUS
Gregor Schneider Ten Years After. – Ulrich Loock; ANDROID® – Berlin – Paris – Riccardo Previdi; STORYTELLING – Bachelor Machines – Benedetta di Loretoand; SPOTLIGHT – An Interview with Per-Oskar Leu – Peter J. Amdam; and much more.

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The Travel Almanac #1: David Lynch

Issue 1 (Spring/Summer 2011) of The Travel Almanac explores the topics of traveling and temporary habitation from the personal perspectives of innovative figures in the fashion, music, art, and film worlds. Addressing an increasingly mobilized creative community, it is the first publication of its kind to speak to this sophisticated generation of travelers. The plurality of this community inspires the magazine to focus on individual’s personal experiences and the effects of travel on their lives and work.

The first issue features original interviews and conversations with director, David Lynch; Javier Peres, Los Angeles/Berlin-based gallerist, curator, and owner of Peres Projects; Andy McCluskey, lead signer of the legendary 80’s band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark; James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem; art-star Terence Koh, as well as many other cultural icons and innovators. The issue also contains a feature on Japanese Ryokans (ultra-traditional countryside hotels), as well as personal travel stories, and reviews of the most exceptional and interesting hotels worldwide.

D 10€

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