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
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.
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.
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)
Zabo Chabiland – ANATOMS SONORES Saturday May 17, from 7pm Performance 8pm (sharp)
MOTTO BERLIN Skalitzer Str. 68, im Hinterhof 10997 Berlin
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ANATOMS SONORES
During the Cold War in the Soviet Union, bootleg records pressed on discarded X-rays from hospitals were circulating illegally under the name “bones records” or “music on ribs” as an act of cultural resistance. They contained music from the West, in particular rock ‘n’ roll and jazz, but also Russian folk tunes, considered by the authorities to be “low culture”.
The edition “Anatoms Sonores” was inspired by this unique episode in the history of music and merges two essential mediums in my artistic practice: photography and sound performance.
In 1997, analog photography led me to medical imagery, I established a bridge between the two techniques and started using X-ray film as a main support and pursued an exploration that has continued to evolve ever since. For this project, I used analog X-ray films from my own production,pressed with an extract from the performance “Microsillon X” specially conceived to challenge the microgrooves.
The edition of 250 Anatoms Sonores is composed of 20 images, printed in an edition of 12 unique prints with a wide range of variations, depending on the type of X-ray film (for veterinary or hospital use) the brand and the expiration date (ranging from 1997 to 2024). A further 10 records were pressed on blank X-ray films.
