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Slow Season Mahony
With texts by John Holten and Sophie Kaplan Design: Dorothea Brunialti ISBN: 978-3-943196-24-5 January 2014
Mahony was founded 2001 in Vienna, Austria Stephan Kobatsch, *1975 Vienna, Austria Clemens Leuschner, *1976 Göttingen, Germany Jenny Wolka, *1978 Cologne, Germany
places like Yucatan (2011), Ushuaia (2009) and Brasil (by cargoship, 2009). Therefore works that emerge in public space or in the countryside are later continued in the studio and vice versa. The media and material that Mahony use are diverse, the group works with video, photo, print, collage, sculpture, performance, urban intervention and installation. (Victoria Dejaco, 2012 /Deutsche Übersetzung folgt) Most recently they have exhibited in Art Basel, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, La Criée, centre d’art contemporain, Rennes and in spring 2014 they have a solo show at Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna
Much of Mahony´s artistic production derives from well known and unknown historical facts. This kind of appropriation in Mahonyterms always means questioning, transforming, translating, re-associating and reactivating the chosen topic. With this process they form new rhizomatic nets making connections from past to present, paths that go across geographical and historical zones, social and political contexts. They alienate the viewer by translating found material from ancient times into ours or from one culture into another. At the beginning of a project oftentimes stands a journey to
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A Companion to The Enclave Richard Mosse
Design: FUK ISBN: 978-3-943196-25-2 Spring 2014
Richard Mosse represented Ireland with The Enclave at the 55th Venice Art Biennale. He is nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2014. His work has been exhibited at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Bass Museum, Miami; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Kunsthaus Munich; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Open Eye Liverpool; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Mosse is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts and a Visual Arts Bursary from the Irish Arts Council. He was recently a resident at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
Mosse holds an MFA in photography from Yale University and a postgraduate diploma in fine art from Goldsmiths College, London. He also holds a first-class BA in English literature from King’s College London and an MA in cultural studies from the London Consortium (ICA, AA, Tate, Birkbeck). Aperture Foundation and Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting co-published his first monograph, Infra. Mosse is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
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Suture Morten Sondegaard
Design: FUK ISBN: 978-3-943196-27-6 Spring 2014 Visual art, Poetry
suture | ˈso͞oCHər | noun
Morten Søndergaard has published the Wordpharmacy in English with Broken Dimanche Press. Born in 1964 he is a part of a generation of Danish poets that emerged in the early 1990s. Søndergaard‘s first collection of poetry, Sahara i mine hænder (Sahara In My Hands) was published in 1992. This debut collection has been followed by a succession of works which have won him both critical acclaim and a number of literary awards. Morten Søndergard‘s most recent publication is Processen og det halve kongerige (The Process and Half the Kingdom) (2010). His books have been translated into Arabic, English, German, French, Italian, Serbian and Swedish.
1 a stitch or row of stitches holding together the edges of a wound or surgical incision. • a thread or wire used for this. • the action of stitching together the edges of a wound or incision. 2 a seamlike immovable junction between two bones, such as those of the skull. • Zoology a similar junction, such as between the sclerites of an insect‘s body. • Geology a line of junction formed by two crustal plates that have collided. verb [ with obj.] stitch up (a wound or incision) with a suture: the small incision was sutured. DERIVATIVES sutural | -CHərəl | adjective ORIGIN late Middle English: from French, or from Latin sutura, from suere ‘sew.
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Oslo, Norway John Holten
Design: FUK ISBN: 978-3-943196-22-1 Autumn 2014 Fiction, Novel
Love. Fiction. Bridges. Being. Nothingness. Loki. Oil. Borderline personalities. Heroin. Coronal mass ejections. Triangles. Train journeys. Stages. Beginnings. Dance. Sandstone. Obsession. Boredom. Autumn. The Past. Beauty. Sex. Loneliness. Post-apocalypse. Images, ideas and words. Failed atlases. Opposites. Fifty-two introductions to nothing. Jealousy. Asperger’s. Them. Him. You. Me. Fiction. Love.
The Irish writer, artist and publisher, John Holten studied at University College Dublin and the Sorbonne-Paris IV before obtaining an MPhil from Trinity College Dublin. His novel The Readymades was published in 2011, and most recently he has written fictional or immersive texts for the artists Darri Lorenzen, Jani Ruscica, Lorenzo Sandoval and The LGB Group. His work has been included at MalmĂś konsthall (Toves Galleri), The White Building London (PYRAMID SCHEMES | a collective cityscape), David Zwirner Gallery New York (with Aengus Woods) and NGBK Berlin, amongst other places. In 2011 he received a Literature Bursary from the Irish Arts Council. His video commercials for Oslo, Norway have been exhibited in Plan B Gallery and Team Titanic, Berlin and an extract appeared in the first issue of the Irish journal Gorse in spring 2014. www.johnholten.com
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Office Party: Multidimensional Spectrum of Voices Edited by Lorenzo Sandoval John Holten, María Ptqk, Eirik Sørdal, and Anna-Sophie Springer
ISBN: 978-3-943196-10-8 Visual Art, Fiction
Office Party was a narrative experiment that unfolded in the form of multiple objects, texts and activities. The project stemmed from a series of images found in an unmarked Ilford photograph box. The box contained a series of black and white photographs taken at a party in an office in West Berlin in the late sixties. Or maybe the early seventies. The images were taken by the same person, probably the official photographer of the celebration. There are multiple prints of certain photographs, which were likely made to be sold or given to the employees of the office as a reminder of the event.
Four writers were selected to interpret the photographs narratively, and to install their texts within an architectural device that provided a discursive space to host them along with the original photos. The exhibition was developed in conjunction with a series of collective writing workshops and performances taking place at Gallery Rosa Santos in Valencia and Kinderhook & Caracas in Berlin. A limited number of editions will include a letterpress numbered poster entitled ‚en todo caso, nunca es una mano cualquiera‘, a line that came out of a workshop held in Gallery rosa. santos, Valencia
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Eric Ellingsen
Design: FUK ISBN: 978-3-943196-28-3 Summer 2014 Poetry, Visual Art, Theory
TWISTED FUTURES is a twisted history of rope and other twisted systems of constraints and conditions. TWISTED FUTURES is about rope walking. A line of thought. A knot philosophy. The book’s line of thought is twisted into a knot, supported by physical models and experiments, including theories of what knot to do, and other yes typologies. Slivers from many different things are twisted together, like our lives, like memory, like language, like glossolalia and surgical dictations, like our economies and ecologies, like beliefs in whatever death is. What does it means to turn things around over and over again and in that turning to twist into each other, often in opposite directions, and into things, with things, with the bacteria we are, co-structuring each other’s lives? One story line follows recycled ropes made in the Mercato in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. How each morning every box from China is delivered to Africa’s largest outdoor market tied together with plastic binding. That binding is discarded. Then collected from the ground by young girls. The young girls sell the binding as fibers to old men. A new market rises. It takes one man 9 days to twist the discarded things that hold everything together into a 40m yarn. It takes another man 2 days to twist that 40m yarn into a 14m rope. A yarn in ropemaking is said to wander. TWISTED FUTURES wanders. Some of the other twists in TWISTED FUTURES includes reminiscences of Rib, stories of heart and hearing, what it means to re-turn day after day to the patterns and rhythms which structure our ilves. Everything is twisted. Ilves, Lives, lines, lions, tales. From bridges, to bundled tube structures, to baskets, twisting is structural, a simple
system of organizing materials in relationship so those materials can perform in different ways and allow us to perform in different ways. Bring things closer. Connect. Hang. Hover. Twisted Futures is a philosophy in tension compressed, a collection of memories loose ends bound and hackled, a wandering yarn, a performance, a screen-play, a lyric essay about action-oriented perception twisting in how we move through spaces, self-organizing as species. Twisted Futures begins 28,000 years in the past, with the first clay-etched evidence of rope-making; here, an algorithmic epoch begins.
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Eric Ellingsen is co-directing the Institut für Raumexperimente at UDK Berlin since 2009. His practice includes art, architecture, writing and performance, all of which converge through spatial practices. Before moving to Berlin, Eric taught architecture and landscape architecture full time (studios, history, and theory) at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he also helped start a Masters of Landscape Architecture program, and served as its assistant director. He publishes creative and critical writing regularly, and gives performance/lectures (Serpentine Pavilion, Palais de Tokyo, WE LIVE HERE…). Some writing has appeared in Conjunctions, Beloit, Dear Sir, Landarēfa, Landscape Journal, Nimrod,PANK, Shampoo, and the Scientist, among others. From art institutions like the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) to architecture departments like the ETH (Zurich), Ellingsen combines lectures on ecology and the philosophy of nature with architectural/art-based performance and video. www.speciesofspace.com
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The Black Signs Lars Mørch Finborud
A gravel path stops at the doorstep of an extraordinary house. From cellar to attic the building is crammed with piles of what appear to be signs, memorial plaques dedicated to inconsequential, horrible or forgotten events – documentation of a hidden reality – a project no one has ever witnessed the likes of before. A solicitor who has been engaged to handle the estate comes across a protocol containing passionate letters to a dear friend. Stuck in between the letters he also finds remnants of a catalogue listing nigh on eight million items – relics and collectors’ objects from the history of modern art. Each item has been auctioned. The solicitor reads, and soon an incredible story starts to unfold.
Design: FUK ISBN: 978-3-943196-29-0 September 2014 Fiction, Novel
Lars Mørch Finborud was born in Oslo in 1980. His first novel was widely hailed as the best Norwegian debut novel in decades, winning much praise across the Norwegian cultural ladsHe has a degree in art history and works as a curator and musical director at Henie Onstad Art Centre. Finborud runs the record companies Plastic Strip Press and Prisma Records, and in recent years he has also written on a regular basis for the literary magazine Vinduet and Morgenbladet, a weekly newspaper. In addition, he hosts an NRK radio show.
“I praised Finborud‘s debut when it was published this spring, and I‘m still full of praise. Here we meet among others a fairly eccentric grandmother, two young men, millions of black signs, jutegnask from the history of art and a lawyer who tries to weave this mess into a story“ Thea Urdal, Books of the year 2013, Dagsavisen
“An unusually powerful first novel“ Morgenbladet
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Katie Holten
ISBN: 978-3-943196-30-6 Autumn 2014 Visual art
Katie Holten is an Irish-born, New Yorkbased artist exploring the inextricable relationship between humans and the natural world. Working across an array of disciplines her practice examines the human desire to understand and control nature, focusing on conflicts between ecology and politics – inviting people to reevaluate their relationship with their surroundings. Most recently she has had a solo exhibition at VAN HORN in Düsseldorf and public art projects in Venice and Belfast. In 2009, Holten was commissioned by the city of New York to create TREE MUSEUM, a public artwork celebrating the centennial of the Grand
Concourse in Bronx, NY. Holten represented Ireland at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and has had solo exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and Nevada Museum of Art, among other museums and cultural institutions in the United States and Europe. Holten was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for study at Cornell University (2004-2006), earned her B.A. in the History of Art and Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin (1998), and studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin (1997).
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New Work Shane Anderson
ISBN: 978-3-943196-32-0
Following his widely acclaimed debut Études des Gottnarrenmaschinen, Broken Dimanche Press are delighted to publish new work by BDP collaborator Shane Anderson.
Shane Anderson is a poet and translator living in Berlin. Books include Études des Gottnarrenmaschinen (Broken Dimanche Press) and the chapbook Stall (keepthisbagawayfromchildren, co-written with Elvia Wilk). Amongst other places, poems and translations are or will be in 6×6, The Berlin Quaterly, VLAK, Telephone, Asymptote, Hilda, and the playbill for Matthew Barney’s KHU. His translation of Ulf Stolterfoht is forthcoming with Triple Canopy.
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Kunst and Grammatik in the Present Tense Stine Marie Jacobsen
ISBN: 978-3-943196-31-3 Autumn 2014 Visual Art, Textbook
Kunst & Grammatik is a portable grammar picture book that contains an overview of basic present tense German grammar especially written for art people, who want to learn German or learn some practical sentences for possible situations or incidents at art openings, art communication & marketing. By using art context and famous contemporary artists in grammatical examples, the goal is to make German grammar easier to remember.
Stine Marie Jacobsen has exhibited and performed extensively internationally. Recently she has participated in group-shows like EitherOr, 2013, at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany and Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark, and shown work in exhibitions and projects such as Momentum Biennale, 2013, Moss, Norway, Turku Biennale, 2013, Finland, Working Voices, 2013, at Museo de Arte Contemporรกneo MAC, 2013, Bogota, Colombia, The 10th OPEN International Performance Festival, 2009, Beijing, China.
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Back Catalogue (selection)
Body Searches By Jon Ståle Ritland Translated by Ida Bencke, Eirik Sördal & John Holten Design: FUK Graphic Design Studio Isabel Carvalho plateau singers merge languages together Preface by Doval Holt Design by Nuno de Luz 128 pages, soft cover ISBN: 978-3-943196-17-7 I, Coleoptile Ann Cotten & Kerstin Cmelka 2010 English 127 x 184 mm, 88 pages, 25 b/w photos 2 ill., softcover with French Flaps ISBN:978-3-00-032627-1 Nuances of No Hanne Lippard 94 pages, softcover, 12,7 x 18,4 cm ISBN: 978-3-943196-13-9 Un Coup de 3 Dés Brian Larosche ISBN: 978-3-943196-06-1 Edition: 200 numbered 35 cm x 50 cm, 28 pages with 3D steroscopic spectacles Largescale limited edition in 3D of Mallarmé‘s landmark poem from 1897 € 20 The Readymades By John Holten With artwork by Darko Dragicević Book design by FUK Laboratories Berlin 127 x 184 mm 340 pages, 32 b&w ill., softcover dustjacket ISBN: 978-3-00-032627-1
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