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DADDY No.3 Fleur du Mal: Kirstine Roepstorff
Mon, Oct 15 2007
Daddy #3 coverMax Andrews contributes with an essay called "Hold the front page gizmo: Kirstine Roepstorff’s Where the world wander – the Road to Excelsior" to the inaugural issue of Fleur du Mal, produced under the auspices of DADDY magazine.
Kirstine Roepstorff's work integrates a variety of content ranging from daily newspapers, scientific journals, political weeklys and other found imagery. Fleur du Mal is a reference book for her source material co-opting the specific experience of reading a luxury women's magazine.
DADDY is available at Printed Matter, Inc. (New York), Art Metropole (Toronto), ICA Bookshop (London), Artwords Bookshop (London), a+m bookstore (Milan), The MOCA Store (Los Angeles), PRO QM (Berlin), and at Peres Projects, Los Angeles Berlin.
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9 June Update: Here is an-Issuu hosted version of the article
José Antonio Hernández-Díez at Galería Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
Mon, Oct 8 2007José Antonio Hernández-Díez
Max Andrews's review at Frieze.com
Review of the publication 'With/Without: Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East'
Tue, Oct 2 2007
Max Andrews's Frieze (Issue 110, October 2007) review of: 'With/Without: Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East' edited by Shumon Basar, Antonia Carver and Markus Miessen and published by Bidoun and Moutamarat, Dubai, 2007.Bidoun sub-site here.
Latitudes in the 'Out of Studio!' symposium
Tue, Oct 2 2007
The Out of the Studio! symposium is organised by Jan Debbaut and the Province of Limburg, in collaboration with Z33 Center for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium. More than twenty leading international artists, curators and scholars will present a variety of projects ranging from the Snow Show in Lapland to the Echigo Tsumari Triennial in Japan, from the make-over of Barcelona to the complexity of commissioning art in public space in New York City and addressing actual concerns and strategies.
When: Friday 26, Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 October 2007
Where: Hasselt, Belgium
The number of participants is limited. Booking in advance is necessary by returning a.s.a.p. the registration form.The registration fee of €200 includes documentation, receptions, lunches, dinner and transfer to Alden Biesen. For further information and assistance with travel arrangements please contact Monique Verhulst at [email protected]
Presentations and discussions will be in English. Proceedings will be published afterwards.
For a printable version of the programme and registration form, please go to: http://www.z33.be/outofthestudio
Tue Greenfort & Piotr Uklanski, Secession, Vienna
Fri, Sep 28 2007
Piotr Uklanski 'A Retrospective' (main space) and Tue Greenfort's 'Medusa' (upper and lower galleries) at the Secession, Vienna, 20 September–18 November 2007.
All images: Latitudes | www.lttds.org
Pyramid Power: Issue 3
Wed, Sep 26 2007
Issue 3 of the sharp-suited Vancouver-based Art/Design/Literature Pyramid Power has just come out with an extended version of Max Andrews's interview with Revolver founder Christoph Keller, originally published in the Latitudes-edited UOVO issue 14. Here it is titled "Still Not a Hippie: Interview with Christoph Keller on the Future of the Book & Life on a Farm"
http://www.pyramidpower.ca/
Unfortunately the mind-blowing products from Herr Keller's Stählemühle distillery can only be ordered within Germany.
The Bookmakers Ed. presents IN-SCAPE series
Sat, Sep 8 2007
Edited by Luca Andriolo
Authors: Lillian Davies, Mario Diacono, Kathy Grayson, Norma Mangione, Bob Nickas
Edition English
October 2007
ISBN 978-88-95702-00-1
Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm – 288 pages
On the 6th September, The Bookmakers Ed. presented 'Kent Henricksen: A season of delight', the first volume of IN-SCAPE, a series devoted to young talents emerging in the contemporary art world. The publication was launched in New York coinciding with 'Divine Deviltries', the artist's exhibition at John Connelly Presents gallery on view until October 6, 2007.
This monograph explores Kent Henricksen's imagery and art-practice: writer and gallerist Mario Diacono analyzes Henricksen's work in the context of contemporary art, whilst writer Lillian Davies offers the reader an essay about violence within the artist's imagery. To complete the volume are an in-depth interview with writer and curator Bob Nickas and a conversation between curator Kathy Grayson and the artist.
UOVO14 PRESENTATION NEW YORK
Thu, Aug 23 2007
Presentation in New York of UOVO's green issue
Where? 200Orchard, 200 Orchard Street, NY (@ Houston & Stanton)
When? 7 September 2007, 11 pm onwards
Upcoming UOVO parties and presentations:
06/09/07: NEW YORK –John Connelly Presents: Kent Henricksen Book Launch
07/09/07: 200 ORCHARD – NEW YORK
13/10/07: LONDON – FRIEZE
19/10/07: BERLIN – WATERGATE
10/11/07: TORINO – ARTISSIMA
08/12/07: MIAMI – ARTBASEL
More info: www.uovo.tv and http://uovomagazine.blogspot.com
UOVO14 'GREEN – Ecology, Luxury & Degradation' Available now!
Wed, Aug 22 2007
GUEST EDITED BY LATITUDES
JULY–SEPTEMBER 2007
Bruce Sterling's Sharjah Biennial keynote
Wed, Aug 22 2007We have uploaded Bruce Sterling's keynote paper 'Ecology and the Politics of Change' presented in the Sharjah Biennial 8 symposium on 5 April. You can download the document on the SB8 archive (pdf, 404 KB).
Author, futurist and critic Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) is based in Austin, Texas and Serbia. Best known for his eight science fiction novels, he has also written short stories, book reviews, design criticism, opinion columns, and introductions for books ranging from Ernst Juenger to Jules Verne. His non-fiction works include 'The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier' (1992), 'Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years' (2003) and 'Shaping Things' (2005). He is a contributing editor of WIRED magazine. He also writes a weblog and runs a website and Internet mailing list on the topic of environmental activism and postindustrial design. In 2005, he was the Visionary in Residence at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He has appeared on ABC’s Nightline, BBC’s The Late Show, CBC’s Morningside, on MTV and TechTV, and in publications including Time, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Nature, I.D., Metropolis, Technology Review, Der Spiegel and La Repubblica.
Bruce Sterling, Sharjah Biennial 8, symposium, United Arab Emirates
Author, futurist and critic Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) is based in Austin, Texas and Serbia. Best known for his eight science fiction novels, he has also written short stories, book reviews, design criticism, opinion columns, and introductions for books ranging from Ernst Juenger to Jules Verne. His non-fiction works include 'The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier' (1992), 'Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years' (2003) and 'Shaping Things' (2005). He is a contributing editor of WIRED magazine. He also writes a weblog and runs a website and Internet mailing list on the topic of environmental activism and postindustrial design. In 2005, he was the Visionary in Residence at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He has appeared on ABC’s Nightline, BBC’s The Late Show, CBC’s Morningside, on MTV and TechTV, and in publications including Time, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Nature, I.D., Metropolis, Technology Review, Der Spiegel and La Repubblica.