From 3D to paper – From ink to blood / Pierre Vanni
Exposition From 3D to paper – From ink to blood
de Pierre Vanni
du 18 février au 13 mars 2010
Vernissage le jeudi 18 février à partir de 18h
Lazy Dog, Paris
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there
For the blind man in the dark room
looking for the black cat that isn’t there
This group exhibition celebrates the experience of curiosity and speculation as a form of knowledge. In that spirit, the contributing artists each pursue a better understanding of the world, but also insist that an artwork isn’t an explanation and that art is not a code that has to be unlocked.
The title was taken from a remark attributed to Charles Darwin (1809- 1882), the father of the theory of evolution, who apparently compared mathematics to research by a blind man. In his scientific discipline Darwin attempted to categorise the natural world in a comprehensible way, while he maintained that mathematics was merely concerned with abstractions and was not related to reality in any way. In contrast with Darwin, this exhibition chose to take the part of the proverbial blind man who had the courage to seek in the dark for what may be unfindable. It is an argument for curiosity and speculation as a way of understanding the world and acquiring knowledge. Artists can help us with this. In contrast with science and philosophy, art teaches us that it can be productive to occasionally let go of the knowledge and certainty that have been acquired.
13 February – 28 March 2010
de Appel Boys’ School, Amsterdam
picture : For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there catalogue
USER’S MANUAL: THE GRAND DOMESTIC REVOLUTION
User’s Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution is a year-long project developed as Casco’s contribution to Utrecht Manifest – Biennial for Social Design. The project deals with the evolutionary and collaborative process of “living” research in the contemporary domestic and private sphere – particularly in relation to the spatial imagining (or the built environment). It aims at re-articulating while exercising the notions of the social, the public and, eventually, the commons. For this purpose, an apartment in the Casco’s neighborhood (Bemuurde Weerd oz 18 b, Utrecht) is rented to be both a symbolic and functional base of the project. The actual use and transformation of space and multiple forms of activities in and out of the apartment intertwine with cross-disciplinary research and imaginative practices.
Sulki & Min / More & Less
Sulki & Min / More & Less
Design Lecture
February 12, 5:30pm
Pratt Manhattan
144 W 14th St, New York, NY
Room 213
Journées professionnelles Spécial édition
Journées professionnelles de l’ÉSAMM, Spécial édition
Les rendez-vous: Etat des lieux du secteur professionnel de l’édition; Produire, éditer, diffuser en France et à l’international; Usages et nouvelles pratiques du droit d’auteur dans l’édition à l’heure du multimédia et d’internet; . . .
Avec Sylvie Boulanger (CNEAI), Christophe Jacquet dit Toffe, My Monkey, Nicolas Simonin (Rhinocéros), Stéphane Robert (Dasein éditions), etc . . .
Mercredi 24 février & Jeudi 25 février 2010 (entrée libre)
École Supérieure d’Art Metz Metropole, Metz
Junk Jet n°3: flux-us! flux-you!
Junk Jet is a fanzine, a collaborative format set up to discuss speculative works on topics of electronic media, aesthetics, and on architectures.
Slavs and Tatars Double Book Presentation
Double-book presentation for Kidnapping Mountains and Love Me, Love Me Not: Changed Names, two titles by the collective Slavs and Tatars.
Thursday, February 25, from 5-7pm
Printed Matter, New York
FW: / Motto Berlin
Motto invites FW: to present a selection of publications
from their catalogue, completed by other photography titles.
+ Talk with Hans Gremmen, Petra Stavast, Karin Krijgsman, Dieuwertje Komen
13 February 2010, Motto Berlin
SUZUKI ÅFFICE + Åbäke open studio day
SUZUKI ÅFFICE
an exhibition by Åbäke & Yuri Suzuki
13 February – 20 February 2010
Clear Edition & Gallery, Tokyo
Åbäke Japan residency open day
13 February 2010, Tokyo Wondersite
Coyotl Yournal – Archiving the Catalogue
Coyotl Yournal – Archiving the Catalogue
Lectures, interviews, projections and performances dealing with the importance of artistic research, critical graphic design and the need for archiving, documenting and collecting in the context of COYOTL Yournal.
With lectures by Nina Støttrup Larsen and Ben Laloua / Didier Pascal; an interview with Alexis Zavialoff (Motto distribution) ; a performance / video by Florian Feigl; Film screening: A Communications Primer (1953) by Ray & Charles Eames.
COYOTL is an artistic research publication series developed by Nicolas Y Galeazzi and Joël Verwimp. COYOTL aims to examine the performative action of space-production in collaboration with various artists and in different places and combinations. For this edition of the COYOTL workbook, graphic designer Manuela Porceddu has transformed her studio into an archive. She decomposed and indexed the previous COYOTL edition and added these findings into her archive. Together with six invited contributors, all visitors are invited to add, debate and discuss her archive or visit her temporarily studio where she will work on making the catalogue of this archive, which will form the new edition of COYOTL.
The Holster
The Holster is an archive and point of distribution for publishing-related projects initiated by Gary Fogelson, Phil Lubliner and Soner Ön
Center for the Study of Political Graphics
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics collects, preserves, and exhibits posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change. Through its varied programs, CSPG is reclaiming the power of art to educate and inspire people to action.
From March 10 to April 18 2010 (LACE , Los Angeles), Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II will showcase posters that document six decades of domestic and international opposition to U.S. interventions into the internal affairs of more than two dozen sovereign nations, including Korea, Viet Nam, the Philippines, Guatemala, Haiti, Cuba, Iran, and South Africa.
Support Structures / Book presentation
Support Structures is a manual for what bears, sustains, and props, for those things that encourage, care for, and assist; for that which advocates, articulates; for what stands behind, frames, and maintains: it is a manual for those things that give support. While the work of supporting might traditionally appear as subsequent, unessential, and lacking value in itself, this manual is an attempt to restore attention to one of the neglected, yet crucial modes through which we apprehend and shape the world . . .
UPCOMING BOOK LAUNCH: Thursday 18 February, 6.30pm
Pro qm, Berlin
Artist Book Database
Artist Book Database
An online database of artist books, zines, catalogues and independent publications