Motto Berlin

Join me at in Berlin, Germany with on Tuesday Nov 12 from 7-9pm for a presentation of Truly Blessed, a powerful visual story about a community’s response to discrimination, both racial and religious.




Published by King Koala Press in Italy, the book features a forward by Jeffrey Q. McCune, PhD, Frederick Douglass Professor of African-American Literature and Culture at the University of Rochester, an extensive interview with Chris Suspect by Ibarionex Perello, host of The Candid Frame, and a testimonial by Maggie Steber, Guggenheim Fellow, National Geographic Woman of Vision, Leica Medal of Excellence Recipient, and a member of VII Foundation, Truly Blessed uses photography to forge a conversation between the sacred Black church and secular sexual/erotic spaces, capturing sites where the body, mind, and spirit converge. It is a recognition of all that the discourse of the “sacred” attempts to extract, as well as a reminder of all the ways that sexual-secular-sacred trinity lives in the Black q***r world without apology and without need for permission.



Color Inventory, Farbinventur
Bernhard Cella
Salon Für Kunstbuch

“Books not only describe their own contents but also the eras in which they were created.
Conceived as a color inventory, this publication gathers a selection of titles that I have dealt with, exhibited, and produced since the early 2000s. Many of these books came to me; I did not seek them out, but provided them a home. For me, books are an archive of ideas and their materialization, a mapping of my engagement with the material world.
I appreciate objects that can be held, traded, and hidden. They allow me to contemplate, negotiate, and share art without the need to seek out the fe**sh of the original.
The collection does not showcase the most beautiful or best books of their time. It consists art books on themes, colors, and production techniques, all of which have piqued my interest in one way or another.
The objects in this book were collected, exhibited, and re-contextualized in various forms within my long-term project Salon für Kunstbuch.
I have read some of them, while others served as models for new works. I have traced them, catalogued them, woven tapestries from their covers, and marked their ownership status.
Books are objects that lead their own unique lives.”

Culture and Imperialism
Edward W. Said
Vintage Publishing

Following his profoundly influential study Orientalism, Edward W. Said turned his attention to the Western world, tracing the connections between imperialism and European art, literature and music. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War, Culture and Imperialism initiates a dialogue between culture and the political and economic fabric of its time. Vast in its scope and stunning in its erudition, this collection of essays remains as urgent today as it was on first publication.

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Monstrous Anger of the Guns
Jeremy Corbyn
Pluto Press

We are seeing injustices caused by war and occupation unfold in real-time via social media, and we are speaking out in our millions against these horrors. Yet, from Gaza to Ukraine, the bombs continue to fall. We must understand why this is happening if we are to end it.

Monstrous Anger of the Guns lays bare the dark and deceitful world of the global arms trade, which, often funded in our name, is a business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives. Leading activists and campaigners connect the dots, showing how notions of citizenship, democracy and trust in governments are misguided, and how we can fight back by building mass movements, using direct action and legal justice to end the flow of weapons and the environmental and human devastation they bring.

soon in Berlin with a double feature. Meet and greet, book signing and photo exhibition. Germany 🇩🇪 ready for Truly Blessed and Path To Insurrection 🔥

Avalanche (cassette)
Mr. Setan; ThreadedDreams
Ayanrecords

Tape recorded at Setan Kitchen 28 July 2024. Bali, Indonesia.

Mr. Setan
Born and raised in Lampung, Sumatra Island, he moved to Bandung and has been involved in several bands, including Hardcore Punk, Grindcore, and EBM (Ravva Bvaya, Morossis, Asylum Uniform, and BLCKHWK). Creating music and visual art, and working as an illustrator and graphic designer, is how he has survived until now.
In 2021, he moved to Bali and started a project called MORBID SADDAM with Derian from Realism, DVSV, and Death Or**sm. He also created a one-man harsh noise project called MORBID. Additionally, he has a duo guitar project called SATANAISU with Pier from JG2X, Jaga2x, Just in Case, JAGAZAT, PEST ANARKOTECH, and BERRYMONO. Lately, he has been running Cap Setan Produktion. Through Cap Setan, he releases Bali local harsh noise/experimental music under SETAN REKORTS and documents their live shows with SETAN TV.

ThreadedDreams™ aka Romain C. Bertheau (b.1983)
Composer, pianist, organist, harpsichordist, no-input mixing board player.
Based in Berlin since 2020, he is serving @ “Organ sequences” and worked with cineast, dancers, video games makers and performers: Wei Lung (CN), Vincent Moon (FR), Su Dan (CN), Astali/Peirce (FR/GE)…
He also performed with other musicians from the experimental music scene: Utku Tavil (TUR), Jun Kawasaki (J*P), Emilio Gordoa (MEX), Wei Kan Beh (MA), Martina Schöne- Radunski (DE), Marcello Silvio Busato (IT), Margaret Unknown (A), Cedrik Fermont (COG/BE), Kamil Korolczik (PL), Jack Chmiel (POL), Paolo Possidente (IT)…

“body to book”
Bernhard Cella
opening and book launch
Saturday, November 9th, 3-9pm
(Conversation with Vít Havránek at 5pm)

“body to book” is an upcycling project that explores the relationship between the human body and books. It comprises six sculptures assembled from coat fragments and books, each covering a naked body. This arrangement invites explorations of sensuality and intimacy and encourages direct interaction with the subject. Through calling us to examine the subtle interactions between the body and the books, it offers new perspectives for artistic, philosophical and personal reflection on matter, media and the human condition.

ED4M
Zine presentation and Screening ‘Making of ED4M’. November 8th, 2024
(Screening starts 7 pm)

+ conversation with the artist.

The main character is the electric train type ED4M, one of the most common in Russia since the mid-90s. This small detective story unfolds on newsprint, featuring carriage vestibules, doors, handles, and wanted persons. It immerses the audience in the realm between the living and the dead, accompanied by the sound of wheels clattering, exploring space, ritual, collective recognition, and personal experience. The Tbilisi weekly sports newspaper served as the prototype for this book.

ED4M (Electric train Demikhovsky, type 4) is a series of Russian DC electric trains produced from 1996 to 2016 at the Demikhovsky Machine-Building Plant. The first batch with increased comfort was manufactured for the Moscow Railway between 1999 and 2000. During this period, ED4 and ED4M models became the most significant electric trains for local purposes.

Zine features photographs by Ivan Anisimov taken between 2019 and 2022 before he left Russia. Further shooting was continued by his son Danila, who took four rolls of 35mm film in winter 2023.

Screening is a documentation of the printing process of a zine in a print facility, Tbilisi.

Ivan Anisimov was born in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia, in 1988. For more than 10 years, he has been engaged in documentary film and photography, collecting archives from lost photographs and videos. He has carried out several photographic projects and is now based in Paris, France.

Motto - 38 rue du Vertbois - 75003 Paris

RATS
La Vieja T**a; Deskano.Eterno; Kantalapiedra; Svtvra (Eds.)
Sutura Svtvra

“The Berlin underground’s an infamous hole everyone’s trying to escape from. Sometimes a circus, sometimes a zoo. Mirages and walking freaks, guns and teenagers. Of course, rats.
Our zine is a collection of urbane hallucinations. 10 stories, 10 concrete postcards based in the u8 line, the stinkiest one in town. Black and white. Nostalgia zero. Get back to the dark side. Come and see!”

Collection Amplifiée
Les Disques En Rotin Réunis

Co-production with the Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart.
Comes with a booklet published at the end of the year celebrating the 25 years of the Departmental museum of contemporary Art of Rochechouart. This publication was conceived as a catalogue of the collection. The choice of this hybrid form between a catalogue, a record and an artistic project was also fuelled by artists’ works featured in the collection, or not.
Instead of relying on texts, a sonorous commentary of the collection has been chosen. A selection of works from this ensemble, chosen subjectively for their “musicality”, was entrusted to Arnaud Maguet, artist and founder of the record label Les Disques En Rotin Réunis, who brought together ten groups who would “sing” for the record.

A1 Vincent Epplay – Oaoa
A2 Jad Fair + Hifiklub+ Philippe Petit – Le Grenier Du Château
A3 Kid Congo Powers & Electronicat – Love Seat
A4 Splitt (4) – Mettere Al Mondo Il Mondo
A5 Stanlet D – Schädel
B1 The Marnies – Pierre De Lait
B2 NON! – Hysterical
B3 Beau Delay – Gordini Renault
B4 Super Reverb – Common Dream
B5 I Quit (2) – Sans Titre N°50

Edit #92/93
Kate Zambreno, Volha Hapeyeva, Daniela Seel, Ivana Sokola (Eds.)
Edit e.V.

Read Me Baby One More Time!
In der Literaturzeitschrift Edit lässt sich seit 1993 zwei- bis dreimal im Jahr Neues entdecken. Die Redaktion setzt sich neben deutschsprachiger Lyrik und Prosa auch für dramatische Formen und Erstübersetzungen ein. Im Herbst 2024 soll das Doppelheft Edit °92/93 mit Fokus auf den Essay erscheinen. Auf 200 Seiten widmen wir uns dieser im deutschsprachigen Raum eher randständigen Form mit Texten von Kate Zambreno, Volha Hapeyeva, Daniela Seel, Ivana Sokola und vielen mehr.

The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
The Dark Forest Collective
Dark Forest Collective

“The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet” is a 208-page book that documents five tumultuous years when we learned how to live, create, and conspire on an increasingly adversarial internet.

The original “Dark Forest Theory of the Internet” essay was published by Yancey Strickler in a private newsletter sent to 500 readers. The post struck a chord and became widely shared, with hundreds of thousands of readers in the following weeks. The concept of the Dark Forest captured a feeling and sense of danger online that an increasing number of people shared.

In the years following, some of the most influential voices on the web and in culture built on, argued with, and expanded the original Dark Forest concept. “The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet” brings those disparate pieces together into a canon of thought that defines a specific era of the internet.

Querformat-Fantasie
Erik Steinbrecher

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappe
Oneworld Publications

The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ‘Israel’s bravest historian’ (John Pilger)

Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe’s groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.

Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called “ethnic cleansing”. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.

Ocean Atmosphere
Alessandra Pace
King Koala Press

I always had a passion for the low quality, the choice to work on film it’s a strict renouncement to the high definition the digital photography allows you nowadays. I like undefined shapes, the oneiric atmosphere, underexposed photos, the blurred ones, toned colors, maybe if you reduce details you can catch the essence of the captured moments better. To get these effects in addition to my faithful Nikon f301 and Contax g2, I shot with different kind of Polaroid cameras, Chinese disposables, also expired ones, kodak disposables, in underwater version too, a 35mm underwater camera from 70’s used only to shoot out of the water, and then a camera that I particularly love, a charming little box with a pinhole that imprint on 35mm roll, the legendary Pinolina, designed and handmade in limited edition by my friend from Abruzzo Rolando Fidani.

Discussion: Filming the Body

25/10 at 19:00 @ Motto Paris


Is there such a thing as “body cinema”?

We’ll dive into how the body is represented in film today, from body horror to auteur cinema.

Can the body return to “auteur” films, or has modern cinema shifted toward the virtual?

Why does auteur cinema struggle with the body—are bodies too expensive, or is it a lack of boldness?

We’ll also discuss directors from French new extremity, and explore whether we can film the body without a totalitarian approach.

Join the conversation!

Friday, 25/10, 19:00
Motto
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

Ausmalheft
Erik Steinbrecher

Orientalism
Edward Said

“Orientalism” is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influence becomes if anything even greater. To mark its 25th anniversary, “Orientalism” rightfully takes its place as a Pengun Modern Classic.