Behind the Yellow Wallpaper
Poems and short stories reading
6pm Friday August 15
@ Motto Paris
38 Rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris
With:
Hrefna Hörn Leifsdottír
Lauryn Youden
Tiziana La Melia
Margaret Haines
Miriam Stoney
Gaby Sahhar
Belle Santos
Arvida Bystrom
Chiara Siravo
& music by Hannah Maria Schmutterer
@a_r_w_y
2/8 @ Motto Berlin
Árwy is a storyteller who, through music, recreates the atmospheres and landscapes of dark fantasy, fairy noise, and science fiction voices and prayers.
Come experience this narrative gothic ambient this Saturday, August 2nd at 7:30 pm at Motto Books
Fotos x @ojo.limbico
Sunday, July 27 from 6pm
Antonia Klimenko and Nina Zivančevič
Poetry reading
Special guest Bernard Blondel on saxophone!
Motto Paris
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris
Le Journal de Tokyo,
Evangeline LafourcadeWednesday, July 9 — 7pm to 10pm
Motto Books, 38 rue du Vertbois, 75003 Paris
Installation / Performance / Short Film.
A long immersion in Tokyo gave rise to this project, which began as a diary, a space to record fleeting impressions of the city. From this written practice emerged an object, then an installation, and finally, a performance.
Through the lens of Barthes’ Le Neutre, a short film shot on Super 8 intertwines with the diary and a philosophical lexicon exploring described gestures of Japanese savoir-vivre. What started as a personal exploration evolved into a shared sensibility, intimate, collective. By entering the installation, the artist invites you to share a part of this experience and intimacy.
The installation includes the prototype of a lamp, which marked the beginning of her experimentation with washi paper and its potential at the scale of space and lightweight architecture.
Please join us for the vernissage and live performance on Wednesday evening.
Performance at 8pm and 9pm
Eldon Garnet
Impulse Magazine
Saturday July 5 from 6 to 9 pm
Motto Paris
Eldon Garnet in conversation with Nina Živančević
The book and magazine work of artist
writer and editor of Impulse magazine
Eldon Garnet
Launching the novel This man, Adam
(Motto Books 2025)
In the basement screening room a selection of
Garnet’s films and videos:
Winning 10:21
Michael Snow 2:15
The Political Error 8:54
Category of Disappearance 67 11:54
Toiling 6:50
If Only for a Moment 1-3 9:58
Motto Paris
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

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
Motto Berlin
Skalitzer Str. 68
10997 Berlin
Eldon Garnet
Impulse Magazine
Saturday June 28 from 6 to 9 pm
Eldon Garnet in conversation with Olaf Nicolai and Alexis Z.
The book and magazine work of artist
writer and editor of Impulse magazine
Eldon Garnet
Launching the novel This man, Adam
(Motto Books 2025)
In the screening room a selection of
Garnet’s films and videos
Winning 10:21
Michael Snow 2:15
The Political Error 8:54
Category of Disappearance 67 11:54
Toiling 6:50
If Only for a Moment 1-3 9:58
Motto Berlin
Skalitzer Str. 68
10997 Berlin
Friday, June 20, at Motto Berlin, from 7pm
Book Launch: Naseej: Life-Weavings of Palestine
Pluto Press, 2025
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.
Motto Berlin, Skalitzerstr. 68, 10997 Berlin.
