The Onement label is inviting the audience in the hall of WIELS on Friday 8th March for a listening session of its newest release: a recording of English pianist John Tilbury performing a series of short pieces by Howard Skempton (« John Tilbury Plays Howard Skempton », Onement #5). Tilbury is well-known since the 1960s for his interpretations of the music of Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, John Cage, and for being one the key figures of free improvisation, notably with cult band AMM (pioneers of european improv).

But this recording is really special: like every release on Onement  it’s a one-copy vinyl record! The object is totally unique and will not be reproduced, which makes it a real collector item. Like for all the Onement records, the packaging has been created by graphic designer Nicolas Couturier.

The concept behind the label, founded in 2006 by musician Sylvain Chauveau, is inspired by the world of painting. The works are not reproduced and when a painting is sold, only the owner possesses it and even the painter himself has usually no access to to it. The uniqueness of the object is part of its strength.

The idea in Onement is to do the same with recorded music. Since their invention recordings have been meant to be reproduced. The time has come to try to use the recorded medium in different ways.

The name Onement comes from a series of pieces by American abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman. This series (Onement I, II, III, IV et V) shows a thin vertical line over a monochrome background.

The aesthetic choices of the Onement label go towards experimental musics such as modern composition, free improvisation, minimal drone, musique concrète, field recording, with releases by Keith Rowe, Robert Hampson, Yannick Franck and Antti Rannisto.

The label’s website: www.onement-label.com

Prisma #3. The Pleasure of Strolling under Coconuts. Esther Ernst.

Unter Kokospalmen ist die Kopf-explosion vorprogrammiert. Die Welt gerät aus den Fugen
und Esther Ernst illustriert das Chaos der sich auflösenden Kategorien. Eine neue Ordnung
beginnt mit dem Kopf und dessen Blickrichtung, mit der Wahrnehmung und ihren Kon-
sequenzen.

Under coconut trees a head explosion is bound to happen. In a world turning upside down, Esther Ernst is illustrating the chaos of dissolving categories. A new order begins in the mind and its direction of gaze, with the perception and its consequences.

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frieze d/e #8

Mythos Rheinland
Cologne & Düsseldorf: where are they now?

Michael Krebber
Thomas Schütte
Alexandra Bircken

Februar-März 2013
German / English
136 Pages

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Mousse #37

Featuring:
Alexander Kluge, Farewell to Yesterday by Jens Hoffmann
Hito Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen by Ana Teixeira Pinto
Talking About, Techno-animism by Lauren Cornell
Pick Up – Lorraine Daston
Objects and (their) Time by Ana Ofak
Jan Švankmajer, Encyclopedia of an Alternative World by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Pick Up – Nicholas Mirzoeff
On Visuality by Chelsea Haines
Talking About Rococo Conceptualism by Jennifer Allen
Portfolio – Sarah Conaway, Black Box Magic by Linda Green
Pick Up, Where to Look, What to Say: Photography in the Next Few Years by Marvin Heiferman
Nice to Meet You – Edgardo Aragón, From the Ruins of the Present by Luigi Fassi
Nice to Meet You – Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli, Around Possible Mysteries by Simone Menegoi
Nice to Meet You – Shane McCarthy, Loop System by Maeve Connolly
Luke Fowler & Peter Hutton, Lived Experience
Philippe Parreno & Anri Sala, A Matter of Synchronization by Cyril Béghin
Pick Up – Robert Hullot-Kentor, On Education and the Prudery of Dissatisfaction by Bettina Funcke
New York – Loretta Fahrenholz, Autosabotage by David Lieske
Paris – Bertille Bak, The Unsubmitted Form by Ida Soulard
Berlin – Gerry Bibby & Natalie Häusler, Bierhimmel
London – Corin Sworn, The Second Hand by Laura McLean-Ferris
Los Angeles – Tender Doublings and Found Minimalism: Fiona Connor by Andrew Berardini
Mark Grotjahn & Jonathan Pylypchuk, Shame, Sociality and Success
Pick Up – Marion Von Osten, Problems of Endless Fruit by Brian Kuan Wood
K-HOLE, Hate Being Sober: the Friendship Experience called K-HOLE by Rachel Blatt
Pick Up – Jeffrey Schnapp, Digital Humanities by Barbara Casavecchia
Elizabeth Peyton & Alex Katz, Painting People
Pick Up – John Tresch, Another History of Science by Armen Avanessian

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Saturday February 16, 2013

Launch of SOUTH as a State of Mind winter / spring 2013 issue in Motto, Berlin!

The SOUTH team will be in Berlin to launch the new issue of SOUTH as a State of Mind. During the launch, there will be a brief visual presentation of the magazine, a special screening of a film by Annika Larsson shot in Anafi (Greek island) and a music performance by Augustin Maurs titled Child Blowing in a Scuba as a Hymn (conceived in Anafi as well). The artist Christina Dimitriadis who participates in this issue will also be present.

After the launch, follow us to a bar next door, where DJ Spyros Rennt will choose the music, including some specially selected Greek tunes!

‘The Lost Park’ is a project including film, music and poetry by Maria Barnas.

Side a is with music by Peter Lunow.
Side b is with sound and music by Nathalie Bruys.
Design: Felix Weigand

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Voices from the corridor part 1 or Everybody’s practice of exhibiting. Stefano Faoro.

Image 1: The Hochspannungshalle ‘Parabelhalle’ is a high voltage test hall in Spandau, Berlin. In the laboratories researchers can generate artificial lightning, thunders, rain and other weather conditions in order to test prototypes designated to different climates. It was designed in 1961 by architect Walter Henn.

Image 2: A film-still from ‘Shock Corrdior’, directed by Samuel Fuller in 1963.

Image 3: Walter Henn was, since the early 1950s, part of a group of German architects who developed the theory of Bürolandschaft, literally ‘office landscapes’. They predicted and applied the end of corridors in working and public buildings. They designed and built rooms where desks could float free and a non-hierarchical ambiance could increase collaboration and, therefore, production. The Osram offices were built by Walter Henn in 1965, in Munich.

Part of ‘Voices from the corridor part 1 or Everybody’s practice of exhibiting’.
A production by Stefano Faoro, Berlin 2013.

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The Shelf Journal #2. Shelf-Publishing.

In this issue:

Derek Birdsall, Interview. – Books which affected the career and life of the famous British book designer.

Stanley Morison & Maximilien Vox, A Frenchman’s view of British typography and vice-versa.

Patricia Belen & Grey D’Onofrio, Elaine Lustig Cohen: The Art of Modern Graphics.

The “club of clubs”, Culture Club – Discussion about French book clubs.

Sebastien Hayez, Four Aces. – Modernism development of graphic design through four design magazine’s issue number 1.

Hugo Hoppmann & Mirko Borsche, The Designing Art Director – Conversation.

The Shelf Journal, A fly on the wall in the printing shop. – Report on printing techniques, supported by examples.

About The Shelf:

“Why start a paper journal about books at a time when the internet is calling into question the average Westerner’s innate materialism, and at a time when the price of a book-as-object puts off devotees of free knowledge on the net? What is becoming of bound volumes today – that foundation of our society, those keepers of our history?

With the dematerialisation of editorial content, the practice of design within books is taking on an even more important dimension. Whether insignificant objects or works of art in their own right, books create through their different forms and stories a unique bond with those who read, consult and own them. This almost physical connection was the reason for creating The Shelf Journal.

 Part place of worship and reflection for paper lovers, part experimental platform for designers, typographers and other graphic designers, The Shelf Journal explores the essence of our libraries’ charm: the limitless variations in form of this unique object.”

122 pages
English and French
ISBN: 9782954065618

D 20€

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