h.arta: Everyday Fragments

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Booklet featuring new texts by h.arta, Marina Vishmidt and Liz Linden & Jen Kennedy. “h.arta group’s first US solo exhibition “Everyday Fragments” at MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38 in New York will be based on two projects – The Most Beautiful Day of My Life (2007–2009) and Inspired by life (2010–2011) – and on a… Read more »

Józef Robakowski

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“Engaging in dialogue with other artists while at the same time rendering this visible in and through art has been one of the key aspects in Józef Robakowski’s (*1939, Posen) oeuvre from the 1960s. With this as its point of departure, the book covers, above all, the wealth of Robakowski’s ideas and methods in his… Read more »

Implosion

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Based on a play by Kathy Acker, this thirty-minute film is an experiment in translation, not only between mediums and formats but between decades and bodies. IMPLOSION (2011) can be seen as a continuation or exacerbation of a literary gesture initiated by Acker, who set a drama about the French Revolution in late 1970s New… Read more »

The Inventors of Tradition Collection 2011

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“Atelier present their first fashion collection encompassing high quality wovens, knitwear, raincoats, workwear and accessories. The collection has been developed as part of the recent project ‘The Inventors of Tradition’ which was organised with the independent design office Panel (Lucy McEachan and Catriona Duffy). Presented through an exhibition, film screening and publication, the project took… Read more »

Waldemar Cordeiro and Franz Mon

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“The publication presents selected works from two pioneers of Concrete Art and Poetry, Waldemar Cordeiro (1925–1973) from Brazil and Franz Mon (1926) from Germany. The exhibited pieces reach from the mid-1960’s to the present and combine sculpture, collage, and computer printouts with typewriter text and sound work. With a mutual interest in the deconstruction of… Read more »

MINI / Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38

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Visual Identity design for Ludlow 38, the downtown satellite for contemporary art of the Goethe-Institut New York, was conceived in response to the newly designed exhibition space on New York’s Lower East Side. Devised by New York based artist Martin Beck and architect Ken Saylor, the new space design consists of a series of functional… Read more »